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Around the<br />
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“No Soldier Left Behind”:<br />
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The Bernstein<br />
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Woodmere<br />
Celebrates<br />
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Mitzvah with<br />
the IDF<br />
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Jews for Romney Demonstrate Outside<br />
Hofstra University Before the Presidential<br />
Debate<br />
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DRS Seniors<br />
Selected as<br />
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Scholarship<br />
Award<br />
THEJEWISHHOME<br />
A PUBLICATION OF THE FIVE TOWNS & QUEENS COMMUNITY october 18 - october 24, 2012 | DistributeD Wee Kin the Five toWns, Queens & brooKlyn<br />
Cover Story<br />
Hands On<br />
Shira Diamond<br />
Learning in<br />
BOBBY BoBBy JACOBS JacoBs<br />
Bais Yaakov<br />
of Queens<br />
Page 51<br />
Page 45<br />
Getting<br />
Back to<br />
“Normal”<br />
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is where the heart is” is<br />
a saying that rings true for<br />
“Home<br />
most people. And for those<br />
houses and such. At the time, Mr. Jacobs<br />
davened in Rabbi Oelbaum’s shul.<br />
The shul was in a small room behind<br />
not so expensive. The Italian worker<br />
assured Bobby that he would do something<br />
absolutely stunning, as he was<br />
we tell him we don’t like it and throw<br />
this thing out, it would break his heart.<br />
It’s not the right thing to do.” And so<br />
who have a passion for building like<br />
Bobby Jacobs, the heart lays in yeshivas<br />
the Rav’s house, and Mr. Jacobs was<br />
asked to build a building for the shul<br />
retiring after that job and wanted his it was. The railing and mechitzas were<br />
ROOFING SIDING SIDING GUTTERS GUTTERS Chezky Levovitz Ch<br />
last job to be something really special. installed, and for years and years there<br />
and shuls all over the city, buildings that in the Rav’s backyard. The shul started He told Bobby he would surprise him, were thick, heavy magen dovids to be<br />
bring diverse groups of people together off as one large room split in half, one and Bobby agreed, assuming the artist<br />
in the service of their Creator. When ISLAND we side being ISLAND for ROOFING<br />
men and ROOFING<br />
the other for would do a beautiful flower design or now as 7 the 6shul 6was 3 rebuilt many 7 years 6 6<br />
& E X &T E EX TR E IR OI O R S<br />
walk through our neighborhoods and women. Soon afterwards, as the shul something FULLY FULLY similar LICENSED to LICENSED that. & INSURED Weeks later & • COMMERCIAL INSURED later on the property & • RESIDENTIAL<br />
COMMERCIAL adjacent to Rav &<br />
admire the backdrop, most people are grew, a second floor was built. The shul it was completed and the Italian artist Oelbaum’s house, but this lesson show-<br />
not aware of the man behind these beau- continued to grow until they bought the came to the shul to deliver the railings. casing Rav Oelbaum’s greatness will<br />
tiful structures, but they certainly know property next door, and Bobby built the As soon as he brought it off the truck, remain with Bobby forever.<br />
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Contents<br />
>>Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
>>Community<br />
Community Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
>> News<br />
Global . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
National . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />
Political . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
Odd-but-True Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
>> Israel<br />
Israel News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
My Israel Home: Groundbreaking Innovations in<br />
Hydroelectricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62<br />
>> People<br />
Reaching Out To the Community:<br />
TJH interviews Hadassa Jacobowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />
Rochel Bat Turan z”l, A Tzadeikus in Our Times. . . 72<br />
R’ Zvi (Bjorn) Bamberger z”l: A Life of Purpose . . . 74<br />
Bobby Jacobs: Creating Edifices of Beauty and<br />
Sanctity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />
The Seabees: The Navy’s<br />
Goodwill Ambassadors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />
>>Parsha<br />
Parsha Parables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
>> Jewish Thought<br />
Ask the Rabbi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63<br />
A Clearer Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />
The Observant Jew—Getting Back to Normal . . . 69<br />
>>Health<br />
The 16 oz. Soda Ban: Are Smaller Choices Our Best<br />
Option?, by Dr. Bo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />
>> Parenting<br />
Social Smarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />
Handy Homework Habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />
Separation Anxiety Disorder by Dr. Benjie Stern . 71<br />
>> Food & Leisure<br />
Recipes: Fall Favorites with a Twist<br />
by Susie Fishbein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />
Restaurant Review: Ladino Tapas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />
Recipes: The Aussie Gourmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />
Travel: Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104<br />
>> Lifestyles<br />
Savvy Savta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />
Room for Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
Your Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />
Is There Life After the Holidays?<br />
by Rivki Rosenwald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />
>> Humor<br />
Centerfold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60<br />
>> Art<br />
From My Private Art Collection: There Is Nothing<br />
Routine About “ART” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
>> Political Crossfire<br />
Notable Quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82<br />
A Race Between Mind & Emotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84<br />
>> Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102<br />
Dear Readers,<br />
Although Succos ended just only a week ago, it seems as if so much time has passed. It’s hard to remember the<br />
time we spent preparing for the yom tovim…it seems so long ago. Certainly, the memories and inspiration of the<br />
holidays will hopefully remain with us for a while.<br />
It’s now “back to normal,” although as Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz explains this week, the word “normal” is truly<br />
a relative term. And “back to normal” is not something we should be doing after journeying through the<br />
yomim tovim. Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Succos are meant to change us. The inspiration we feel and the<br />
motivation to change are not just meant for Tishrei. Those transformations that we made should stay with us<br />
throughout the year. But still, we are all back to our routine; whether it be running for the train or running after<br />
the kids, reading the Wall Street Journal or reading Good Night Moon, grabbing a power bar or a power nap, we<br />
are all back to some semblance of structure in our lives.<br />
There are many beautiful shuls and yeshivas in our neighborhoods. So much goes into building them—they are<br />
houses of prayer and learning but are also meant as communal places where we can connect to each other and<br />
connect to G-d. Bobby Jacobs, a resident of Queens, is the man behind so many of these magnificent edifices.<br />
Shira Diamond spoke with Mr. Jacobs about the story behind his work. It is powerful to read about the thought<br />
that goes into the planning of our shuls and yeshivas. And it is enlightening to hear about the inspiration that’s<br />
required when building them.<br />
As always, there is so much for you to enjoy this week. The days are getting shorter and we hope that you will be<br />
able to spend some time over Shabbos and the week ahead to delve into the words of insight, inspiration and<br />
information that we prepared for you. This week, Nachum Soroka, our food critic, is back with his gustatory<br />
experience at Ladino Tapas in Manhattan. In our travel section, we’re headed to Arizona, the home of the Grand<br />
Canyon. And in our recipe section, Naomi Nachman and Susie Fishbein share with you some wonderful recipes,<br />
perfect for the fall. In fact, Ms. Fishbein is coming out with a new cookbook and we have included some recipes<br />
from there for you to enjoy.<br />
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Dear Editor,<br />
It was inspiring to read the article<br />
in The Jewish Home over Succos about<br />
the family of Christians who converted.<br />
Reading stories like this one makes one<br />
feel inspired and proud of our heritage.<br />
We were born into this beautiful and<br />
amazing nation, and we are lucky to<br />
have the Torah and mitzvos in our lives.<br />
I also have to point out that although<br />
they were not encouraged to convert,<br />
the “Cohens” (I forget their name) were<br />
never treated with malice or harshness.<br />
They were always told politely<br />
and firmly that conversion is not necessary.<br />
This too is a kiddush Hashem. We<br />
should always keep in mind when meeting<br />
with non-Jews (and amongst Jews<br />
as well!) that it is of utmost importance<br />
to speak and act in a way that is a glorification<br />
of Hashem and His people.<br />
Sharon Hawks<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
Now it’s back to work, back to<br />
school, back to our regular schedules.<br />
With the yom tovim behind us, many of<br />
us feel that it’s time to get back to our<br />
old routines.<br />
But please! Remember the close-<br />
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ness we felt to Hashem on Rosh Hashana<br />
and Yom Kippur, remember the<br />
closeness we felt towards Klal Yisroel<br />
at simchas beis hashoevah, remember<br />
the closeness we felt towards each other<br />
when sitting in the sukkah? Don’t let<br />
those wonderful feelings fly! Hold<br />
fast to them and make sure that they<br />
do change your life. Use them when<br />
you’re in a rush in the grocery store and<br />
the person in front of you is taking their<br />
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and better in the upcoming year.<br />
May this year be one filled with<br />
wonderful feelings amongst Klal Yisroel.<br />
Yisroel Hochner<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
I am not a psychologist or anything<br />
of the sort. I was wondering whether<br />
you can address the following topic in<br />
your publication. On Motzei Yom Tov,<br />
I happened to be on Central Avenue<br />
and was shocked at the long lines at the<br />
pizza shops. One pizza shop had a line<br />
out the door. I mean it is understandable<br />
that on Yom Tov we all eat a little more<br />
than we normally do, but it seems like<br />
many of us simply go overboard. We<br />
eat these massive meals and then three<br />
hours later we are chowing down pizza<br />
and who knows what else. I know that<br />
dieting is very prevalent in our society<br />
and I am not suggesting that anybody<br />
needs to be on a diet, but I do feel that it<br />
is not healthy the way we binge at certain<br />
times during the year. It’s almost<br />
like everyone says, “Okay, it’s Yom<br />
Tov, time to eat like a pig.” I know that<br />
this is a private and individual matter<br />
and not one that is necessarily meant<br />
to be addressed on a communal level,<br />
but as someone who comes from the<br />
West Coast, where people are overall<br />
more health conscious, I can tell you<br />
that there is a communal aspect to the<br />
way we approach food. When it comes<br />
to food, extremism in any form is bad<br />
and I think that if we all toned it down<br />
over Yomim Tovim it would be healthier<br />
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I want to explicate a topic which received<br />
a lot of attention a while back.<br />
I was driving down one of the main<br />
streets in Far Rockaway last night in<br />
the dark, looking for a particular house<br />
number, and there was not one single<br />
house number that was visible from the<br />
street. I had to pull over three times,<br />
get out of my car, and walk up to the<br />
houses to see the numbers. I just wanted<br />
to alert the public to the potential danger<br />
that this can cause, in the case of an<br />
emergency. It’s a chaval that an emergency<br />
responder should have to waste<br />
their time with this.<br />
Thank you,<br />
Shifra Schnair<br />
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Global<br />
Chavez Wins Re-election<br />
Hugo Chavez was re-elected as<br />
President of Venezuela last Sunday.<br />
There was a record breaking turnout<br />
at the polls of 81% and Chavez earned<br />
55% of votes against his opponent Henrique<br />
Capriles. The latest win extends<br />
the socialist leader’s rule to 20 years.<br />
Chavez isn’t the only one giddy over<br />
his victory. Allies of Venezuela who depend<br />
on Chavez’s cheap oil shipments<br />
and other aids are pretty relieved too.<br />
“Some media keep talking about<br />
Venezuela’s dictatorship, the tyrant<br />
Chavez,” Chavez told reporters. “Well,<br />
we have a democracy here that has<br />
again been reaffirmed and ratified, a<br />
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system…If you want to see a vigorous,<br />
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was a perfect day.”<br />
The opposing team depicted<br />
58-year-old Chavez as an autocrat, citing<br />
his style of government as aggressive<br />
rhetoric, tough treatment of critics<br />
at home, and friendships with authoritarian<br />
leaders around the world.<br />
Capriles managed to earn the other<br />
44 percent of the vote, a good portion<br />
for an opposing team, but still a disappointment<br />
to his supporters.<br />
“Where there is life, there is hope,”<br />
Capriles said on Twitter as he tried to<br />
cheer his distraught followers.<br />
Taliban Attempts<br />
to Murder<br />
14-Year-Old Activist<br />
A young champion for human rights<br />
has seen the cruel side of people.<br />
Malala Yousafzai is an innocent<br />
14-year-old Pakistani girl who is in critical<br />
condition due to the extreme rage<br />
of the Taliban. The young teen wrote a<br />
blog about day-to-day life in the wartorn<br />
Swat Valley and for that, the Taliban<br />
wanted her dead.<br />
Ms. Yousufzai was shot by a member<br />
of Taliban on her way home from<br />
school on October 9. The masked gunman<br />
boarded the bus that Malala was<br />
riding and shouted, “Which one of you<br />
is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will<br />
shoot you all.”<br />
When she was identified, the terrorist<br />
shot her twice, once in the head and<br />
once in the neck. Two other young girls<br />
were wounded in the attack but were<br />
stable enough to speak to reporters and<br />
provide details of the attack.<br />
Yousafzai was immediately airlifted<br />
to a military hospital in Peshawar,<br />
where doctors were forced to begin<br />
operating after the left portion of her<br />
brain, which had been damaged by the<br />
bullet, began to swell. After an intense<br />
three-hour operation, doctors were able<br />
to successfully remove the bullet that<br />
was lodged in her shoulder close to her<br />
spinal cord.<br />
A team of doctors and Yousafzai’s<br />
family made the decision to move the<br />
young teen to a hospital in the U.K. for<br />
further treatment. She is now in stable<br />
but critical condition and is recovering<br />
in Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.<br />
Ehsanullah Ehsan, chief spokesman<br />
for the Pakistani Taliban, claimed<br />
responsibility for the attack, saying that<br />
Yousafzai “is the symbol of the infidels<br />
and obscenity,” adding that if she survived<br />
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derworld of<br />
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drug lords<br />
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Mexican<br />
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The theft of the body adds a strange<br />
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paramilitary tactics helped define the<br />
devastating six-year war among Mexico’s<br />
drug gangs and authorities.<br />
Coahuila state Attorney General<br />
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killed outside a baseball game in the<br />
town of Progreso on Sunday in a gunfight<br />
with Mexican marines, the force<br />
that has carried most of the recent<br />
high-profile operations against drug<br />
lords. Many of those operations were<br />
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who see the marines as more reliable<br />
and competent than other military<br />
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The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City<br />
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seen reports of the possible death of<br />
Heriberto Lazcano. We are awaiting<br />
confirmation of those reports.”<br />
Coca Cola Says<br />
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Hello Switzerland<br />
Greece will be forced to bid farewell<br />
to its biggest company, Coca Cola.<br />
Coca Cola Hellenic (CCH) announced<br />
last Thursday that it will move to Switzerland<br />
and list its shares in London.<br />
This is a tremendous blow to the Greek<br />
economy that is deep in debt.<br />
The Greek plants will continue running<br />
so some jobs will be spared, and CCH<br />
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But analysts and economists quickly<br />
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The Ides of March<br />
Julius Caesar was the leader of the<br />
Roman Republic; he was stabbed to<br />
death by a group of rival Roman senators<br />
on March 15, 44 B.C., the ides of<br />
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Putin Turns 60<br />
Birthdays are very important in<br />
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long way in recent years to cover topics<br />
relevant to current times. However, this<br />
topic that was recently published in a<br />
popular magazine is sure to shock you.<br />
“Qawz Quzah,” a Tunisian magazine,<br />
published a how-to article about<br />
creating a Molotov cocktail. This publication<br />
is geared towards children<br />
between ages of five and fifteen. The<br />
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The feature included detailed instructions<br />
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stirred up by last year’s successful revolution,<br />
the first of the Arab Spring. The<br />
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English-language website Tunisia Live,<br />
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a stronger reaction abroad than it<br />
has within the country itself.<br />
“No one knows why such an article<br />
was published. It is a kids’ magazine,<br />
so I don’t think there are political intentions<br />
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especially if they are regular readers<br />
of the magazine,” Kalbous added.<br />
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On Tuesday, the magazine’s editorin-chief,<br />
Monji Chebbi, was forced to<br />
apologize on Tunisian television for<br />
what he described as a “professional<br />
mistake.”<br />
The Ministry for Women and Family<br />
Affairs said the article “encourages<br />
violent and terrorist thought’’ and it also<br />
endangers children’s lives by “encouraging<br />
the use of Molotov cocktails in<br />
acts of vandalism or terrorism.”<br />
Anti-Semitic Writer<br />
Killed in Syria<br />
Mohammed Nimr al-Madani was<br />
infamous for his virulent anti-Semitic<br />
writings. The 51-year old man was<br />
killed by state security services several<br />
days ago.<br />
He was arrested twice by state security<br />
since the revolt against the regime<br />
of President Bashar al-Assad broke<br />
out in March 2011. The Local Coordination<br />
Committees and other activist<br />
groups said Nimr had been working as a<br />
“secret correspondent” for foreign news<br />
channels.<br />
Nimr’s own Facebook page describes<br />
him as a “specialist” on religions<br />
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and the Holocaust, which he fiercely denied<br />
throughout his career.<br />
The Middle East Media Research<br />
Institute (MEMRI) translated a television<br />
debate on Holocaust denial that<br />
aired on August 8, 2010 on Al-Alam<br />
television in which al-Madani claims<br />
that he has “read everything that has<br />
been written about the Holocaust, both<br />
by those who deny is and by those who<br />
claim it occurred.”<br />
“First, those who claim that the<br />
Holocaust took place do not have any<br />
proof,” he says, adding that their claims<br />
are based “on nothing but a big lie.” “To<br />
be honest, in the West they do not dare<br />
speak freely…” he continues, at which<br />
point the interviewer chimes in saying,<br />
“or to conduct objective research.”<br />
“Right,” al-Madani says. “They<br />
don’t dare enjoy the same freedom as<br />
us.”<br />
I guess everyone has their own personal<br />
definition for freedom.<br />
Thieves Steal Seven<br />
Paintings in Clever Heist<br />
In an audacious and clever heist,<br />
thieves stole seven paintings by artists<br />
from a museum in Rotterdam in the<br />
early morning on Tuesday. They made<br />
off with paintings by Pablo Picasso and<br />
Claude Monet and seemed to have had<br />
specific works in mind when planning<br />
the theft.<br />
The heist took place at the Kunsthal<br />
museum where the private Triton Foundation<br />
collection was being exhibited<br />
publicly for the first time. The collection<br />
was on display as part of celebrations<br />
surrounding Kunsthal’s 20th anniversary.<br />
According to Chris Marinello, director<br />
of The Art Loss Register, these artworks<br />
could even be worth “hundreds<br />
of millions of euros”—if sold legally at<br />
auction. However, they have now been<br />
listed as stolen and the thieves will have<br />
a hard time demanding top dollar for<br />
their haul.<br />
The stolen paintings were Picasso’s<br />
1971 “Harlequin Head”; Monet’s 1901<br />
“Waterloo Bridge, London” and “Charing<br />
Cross Bridge, London”; Henri<br />
Matisse’s 1919 “Reading Girl in White<br />
and Yellow”; Paul Gauguin’s 1898 “Girl<br />
in Front of Open Window”; Meyer de<br />
Haan’s “Self-Portrait,” around 1890,<br />
and Lucian Freud’s 2002 work “Woman<br />
with Eyes Closed.”<br />
Israel<br />
Gilad Shalit Speaks Out<br />
Gilad Shalit gave his first interview<br />
since his release from Hamas captivity<br />
on Israeli television last Thursday.<br />
Shalit recalled that while being held<br />
captive he often drew a map of Israel<br />
and of the community of Mitzpe Hila
Eric Ulrich wants to give all Queens’ parents<br />
a fair deal.<br />
Joe Addabbo just wants to be a teachers’<br />
(union) pet.<br />
FUNDING<br />
FOR YESHIVAS<br />
TAXES ON<br />
OUR SCHOOLS<br />
TAXES<br />
Eric Ulrich<br />
Republican<br />
fighting for yeshiva parents.<br />
Says that funding should follow the<br />
students: Supports school choice,<br />
Tuition tax credits.<br />
Republicans repealed the MTA Payroll<br />
tax that our Yeshivas had to pay and<br />
brought Tuition Assistance Program<br />
(TAP) to Rabbinical Students.<br />
Will fight for property tax relief and<br />
to ease the tax burden on middle-class<br />
families.<br />
Joe Addabbo<br />
AS OUR NEXT REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR, WE CAN COUNT ON<br />
ERIC ULRICH TO DELIVER FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF:<br />
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Paid for by Ulrich for Senate.<br />
M. Ognibene, Treasurer.<br />
Tax & Spend Democrat.<br />
Puppet of the Teachers’ Union.<br />
Opposes vouchers and tuition tax credits<br />
for yeshiva parents. (Same as largest<br />
campaign donor – the Teachers’ Unions.)<br />
Voted to impose the MTA Payroll Tax<br />
which added thousands of dollars to your<br />
child’s yeshiva budget, while the public<br />
schools paid nothing!<br />
Voted numerous times to raise taxes,<br />
resulting in an increase of $2,400 a year<br />
in taxes for the middle class.<br />
VOTE for ERIC ULRICH<br />
REPUBLICAN for STATE SENATE<br />
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where he lives. “I would draw the map<br />
of the country, of Mitzpe Hila and of all<br />
the houses so I can remember and imagine<br />
the places,” he said.<br />
Shalit spoke of how he spent his<br />
time during the long days and endless<br />
nights of his captivity. He said, “During<br />
the day I would play all kinds of<br />
games with my Hamas captors. I played<br />
all kinds of games on my own. Weird<br />
games, especially sports-oriented<br />
games using a ball. I would make a ball<br />
out of socks or a shirt,” he added, “and<br />
then I’d throw it in all kinds of places,<br />
such as the trash. Occasionally I’d write<br />
things down.”<br />
Shalit explained that he was sometimes<br />
forced to hide the things he wrote<br />
because his captors suspected he was<br />
gathering information.<br />
Asked if he wrote a diary during his<br />
captivity, Shalit said he did not. “I had<br />
all kinds of lists, of things I did, things<br />
I wanted to remember, all kinds of records,”<br />
he said.<br />
Shalit also spoke of his feelings on<br />
the day of his release to Egypt. “During<br />
the trip I felt a lot of pressure. I didn’t<br />
know if something might happen, if<br />
someone may try to hurt us, if something<br />
will go wrong at the last minute.<br />
And as soon as I got out of the vehicle<br />
and entered Egypt I had a sense of relief.<br />
Suddenly I saw before me dozens, hundreds<br />
of people, after not having seen<br />
more than a few people all these years.<br />
The first night at home I slept well in<br />
my bed,” he added. “I went to bed at<br />
nine, I got up at 2 a.m. I started wandering<br />
around the house. I looked out the<br />
windows and I saw border guards walking<br />
around the yard.”<br />
Shalit discussed the controversial<br />
interview that he was forced to give to<br />
Egyptian anchorwoman Shahira Amin<br />
several minutes after his release. Shalit<br />
was overwhelmed, tired and confused,<br />
but Amin badgered him nonetheless.<br />
Netanyahu Calls<br />
for Early Election<br />
In a televised press conference, Israeli<br />
prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
called for his government to be<br />
dissolved in order to prepare for early<br />
elections.<br />
Given his government has been unable<br />
to agree to a national budget, Mr.<br />
Netanyahu announced, “I have therefore<br />
decided, for the benefit of Israel,<br />
to hold elections now and as quickly<br />
as possible.”<br />
The early election will probably<br />
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take place in late January or early February.<br />
Security will be a major topic in<br />
the upcoming campaign after Netanyahu<br />
drew a “red line” on the issue of<br />
Iran’s nuclear intentions at the United<br />
Nations General Assembly.<br />
According to a poll conducted by Israeli<br />
newspaper Ha’aretz and published<br />
on September 28, 35 percent of Israelis<br />
said they consider Mr. Netanyahu the<br />
country’s most suitable leader.<br />
Campaign for Rights for<br />
Jewish Refugees that<br />
Fled Arab Countries<br />
An Israeli Foreign Ministry campaign<br />
launched in September aimed at<br />
restoring “rights and justice” for Jewish<br />
refugees that fled Arab lands in the previous<br />
century elicited harsh criticism<br />
from Palestinian leaders like Hanan<br />
Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine<br />
Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive<br />
Committee, who referred to the<br />
initiative as a ploy.<br />
“Jews who came to Israel are not<br />
refugees, because they left their homes<br />
voluntarily and under pressure from Zionist<br />
groups and the Jewish Agency,”<br />
she was quoted by the Jerusalem Post<br />
as saying, suggesting that the Foreign<br />
Ministry’s move was really meant to<br />
distract from the suffering of the Palestinians<br />
and block their recent attempts<br />
to obtain a non-member-state status at<br />
the United Nations (UN).<br />
But there are those that disagree. “I<br />
don’t think it has anything to do with<br />
politics. Israel’s past governments<br />
didn’t value the educational power of<br />
this issue. Now they are changing this<br />
stance, primarily following the pressure<br />
of various Jewish-refugee organizations<br />
inside Israel,” said Dr. Yitschak<br />
Ben-Gad, a former Libyan refugee who<br />
served as Consul General of Israel in<br />
Florida, USA (2005-2007).<br />
Although political motivations<br />
could very likely be the reason for the<br />
ministry’s decision to launch the campaign,<br />
Ashrawi’s claims of voluntary<br />
Jewish exodus contradict basic historical<br />
facts.<br />
In the beginning of last century,<br />
there were around one million Jews living<br />
in what’s now known as the Middle<br />
East, Iran and North Africa. Today, their<br />
population (outside of Israel) stands at<br />
no more than three percent. Most experts<br />
agree that the migration was dictated<br />
by reasons of personal safety.<br />
“For Libyan Jewry the problems<br />
started in 1945 with the attacks on Jewish<br />
quarters in Tripoli and other cities,”<br />
said Dr. Haim Saadoun, Dean of<br />
Students at the Open University of Israel<br />
and Director of the Documentation<br />
Center for North African Jewry during<br />
World War II at the Ben Zvi Institute.<br />
Saadoun referenced atrocities that<br />
claimed the lives of 139 Libyan Jews,<br />
among them women and children.<br />
Tensions heightened following Libya’s<br />
independence in 1951, and more<br />
Jewish blood was shed. Recalling those<br />
events that pushed him and his family<br />
to flee, Ben-Gad said they had to leave<br />
everything behind. “The situation was<br />
difficult even before the eruption of the<br />
pogroms, but Jews didn’t have a choice.<br />
With the creation of the State of Israel<br />
in 1948, many decided to leave, taking<br />
the bare minimum of their belongings.”<br />
Hizbullah Takes<br />
Responsibility<br />
for Drone<br />
Last week a sophisticated unmanned<br />
drone passed over Israel. Hassan<br />
Nasrallah, head of the Hizbullah<br />
terror group, boasted that his group<br />
was responsible and that the device was<br />
built by Iran.<br />
The Israeli Air Force shot down the<br />
drone on Saturday morning after it entered<br />
the country’s airspace from the<br />
Mediterranean Sea.<br />
“A sophisticated reconnaissance<br />
aircraft was sent from Lebanese territory…and<br />
travelled hundreds of kilometers<br />
over the sea before crossing enemy<br />
lines and into occupied Palestine,”<br />
Nasrallah said on Hizbullah’s television<br />
station Al-Manar.<br />
“It overflew sensitive and impor-<br />
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tant installations for dozens of kilometers<br />
until the enemy spotted it near [the<br />
nuclear site] Dimona,” he added. Nasrallah<br />
insisted that “possession of such<br />
an aerial capacity is a first in the history<br />
of any resistance movement in Lebanon<br />
and the region.”<br />
“It’s not the first time [that a drone<br />
was sent] and it will not be the last. We<br />
can reach all the zones” of Israel, said<br />
Nasrallah, referring to a less sophisticated<br />
drone sent by Hizbullah during<br />
the Second Lebanon War in 2006.<br />
He said the latest drone was “Iranian<br />
built and assembled in Lebanon.”<br />
From the get-go, Prime Minister<br />
Binyamin Netanyahu blamed Hizbullah<br />
for orchestrating the incident and<br />
promised to defend his country against<br />
further “threats.”<br />
High Rate of<br />
Unemployment<br />
for Arabs<br />
The rate of unemployment amongst<br />
Arabs in Israel is high and on the rise.<br />
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Professor Eran Yashiv, chairman<br />
of the Economic Policy Program at<br />
Tel Aviv University’s Taub Center, has<br />
been analyzing the trend.<br />
By analyzing the latest figures collected<br />
by the Central Bureau of Statistics,<br />
Yashiv discovered that the employment<br />
situation in the Arab sector<br />
– which represents almost a fifth of the<br />
population – is much worse than had<br />
been originally reported.<br />
The share of Arabs among all unemployed<br />
Israelis is around 30 percent,<br />
twice that of earlier estimates.<br />
The discrepancy can be blamed on<br />
the fact that in the past, figures were<br />
collected quarterly but starting at the<br />
beginning of 2012, they were collected<br />
monthly. In addition, previous surveys<br />
were limited in scope, and didn’t reach<br />
a wide enough sample.<br />
“It’s not that they were doing something<br />
wrong, but the sampling framework<br />
was not big enough,” Yashiv told<br />
the Jerusalem Post. “They did not sample<br />
enough small places, such as Arab<br />
villages, and therefore<br />
they didn’t get as full<br />
of a picture as they’re<br />
getting now.”<br />
Many Arab citizens<br />
with university<br />
degrees are not finding<br />
work in their<br />
fields and there is a<br />
low participation rate<br />
of Arab women in the<br />
workforce.<br />
“There is still a<br />
lot of discrimination,<br />
unfortunately, against<br />
Israeli-Arabs. For example, if an Arab is<br />
a graduate of university, and doesn’t get<br />
a job in his field, the statistics say he’s<br />
unemployed, but we know that’s not the<br />
full story, and that 40 percent of Arab<br />
academic graduates don’t get work in<br />
their own professions,” Yashiv said.<br />
Recently, the government has taken<br />
the initiative to help Arab Israelis find<br />
work, particularly individuals with university<br />
degrees who have found it difficult<br />
to find work in their fields. For<br />
the first time in the state’s history, the<br />
government ran television and radio advertisements<br />
urging people in corporate<br />
positions to stop discriminating against<br />
Arabs when conducting interviews for<br />
potential employees.<br />
The ad warned: “It would be a<br />
shame to forgo the right employee for<br />
the wrong reasons.”<br />
Swedish Literature<br />
Compares Israel<br />
to Apartheid in<br />
South Africa<br />
The Swedish Arts Council is distributing<br />
a new book that compares Israel<br />
to apartheid in South Africa.<br />
The book was written by retired<br />
diplomat Ingmar Karlsson. A Swedish<br />
government agency offered grants<br />
towards the publishing and distributing<br />
of the book.<br />
The book draws ridiculous compari-<br />
sons to make its point. For example,<br />
“The fundamental difference between<br />
South African and Zionist colonialism<br />
is the former wanted land and people<br />
while the latter only wanted land” and<br />
“Hebrew has a special status, with no<br />
consideration” for the Arabic language,<br />
“the area’s original language.”<br />
A committee selected the book out<br />
of 1,600 applications for its “high quality<br />
in terms of content, from both a technical<br />
and editorial viewpoint” and “the<br />
reliability of the facts.”<br />
The book contains a quote attributed<br />
to Theodor Herzl which the Stockholmbased<br />
Swedish Israel Information Center<br />
claims is a forgery: “It is essential<br />
that the sufferings of Jews become<br />
worse. This will assist in the realization<br />
of our plans. I have an excellent idea.<br />
I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate<br />
Jewish wealth.”<br />
Leader of<br />
Gaza Militant<br />
Group is Killed<br />
The Israeli military killed the Palestinian<br />
leader of an al Qaeda-affiliated<br />
group in the Gaza Strip via an airstrike.<br />
Gaza medics claim a second militant<br />
was also killed in the strike. The afterdark<br />
attack targeted the two men who<br />
were riding a motorcycle in the northern<br />
town of Jabaliya.<br />
The interior ministry of Hamas, the<br />
Islamist group that controls Gaza, said<br />
one of the men killed was Hisham Al-<br />
Saedni, also known as Abu Al-Waleed<br />
Al-Maqdissi, believed to head the Jihadist<br />
Salafi group Tawhid and Jihad<br />
(One God and Holy War).<br />
The group, a rival to Hamas, has an<br />
Islamist ideology shared by al Qaeda<br />
and sources have said that Saedni joined<br />
al Qaeda in Iraq at the beginning of the<br />
U.S.-led invasion in 2003. In March<br />
2011, Hamas detained Saedni for 17<br />
months and had freed him in August.<br />
Last year, members identifying<br />
themselves with Tawhid and Jihad kidnapped<br />
and killed a pro-Palestinian Italian<br />
activist, Vittorio Arrigoni, in an apparent<br />
attempt to secure the release of<br />
Saedni.<br />
An Israeli military spokesman could<br />
not confirm Saedni was the target of the<br />
airstrike. A written military statement<br />
said the two men targeted were “terror<br />
operatives of the Shora Council of the<br />
Mujahideen, a Gaza-based Global Jihad<br />
affiliate.”
National<br />
Labor Department’s<br />
Big Mistake<br />
Last Thursday, the Labor Department<br />
said the number of people filing<br />
jobless claims last week dropped by a<br />
seasonally adjusted 30,000—a pretty<br />
sharp decline, and one that left the total<br />
number of filings at a four-year low of<br />
339,000.<br />
The government didn’t note any unusual<br />
factors in the release but a Labor<br />
Department official told news agencies<br />
covering the release about a fluke in the<br />
system which partly accounted for the<br />
larger-than-expected drop.<br />
As Dow Jones reported, “A Labor<br />
Department economist said one large<br />
state didn’t report additional quarterly<br />
figures as expected, accounting for a<br />
substantial part of the decrease.”<br />
Another conjecture as to what actually<br />
happened is that the state did report<br />
weekly jobless claims but did not<br />
process and report its quarterly claims<br />
number. As a result, there wasn’t the<br />
expected spike in claims that normally<br />
happens at the start of the quarter.<br />
That also means that the decline<br />
which usually follows the spike won’t<br />
be as pronounced this time around, so<br />
the headline tally of jobless claims is<br />
likely to rebound next week.<br />
This mishap is likely to cause many<br />
people to lose faith in future labor market<br />
figures.<br />
Carlos Slim Profiting<br />
from “Obamaphones”<br />
President Obama has won the affection<br />
of the world’s richest man, Carlos<br />
Slim. The Mexican telecom mogul is<br />
getting even richer from the U.S. government<br />
program that supplies so-called<br />
“Obamaphones” to the poor.<br />
Slim has an estimated net worth<br />
of $70 billion and owns a controlling<br />
stake in TracFone, which makes $10<br />
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per phone for each device it provides to<br />
poor Americans. The company, whose<br />
president and CEO is Frederick “F.J.”<br />
Pollak, also makes money from extra<br />
minutes and data plans it sells to subscribers<br />
who get phones and service<br />
through the government’s Lifeline program.<br />
The program, which began in the<br />
mid-1980s, has exploded in the past<br />
four years after being expanded from<br />
supplying landlines to the poor to providing<br />
cellular phones.<br />
The phones came into the national<br />
spotlight after a viral video surfaced<br />
on YouTube in which<br />
a Cleveland, Ohio<br />
woman commended<br />
the president, saying<br />
he should be re-elected<br />
because he gives out<br />
free phones.<br />
“Everybody in<br />
Cleveland, every minority,<br />
got an Obamaphone.<br />
Keep Obama as<br />
president. He gave us<br />
a phone. He gonna do<br />
more,” the woman said<br />
in the video.<br />
Slim’s Movil America<br />
owns TracFone and<br />
recently snapped up<br />
service provider Simple<br />
Mobile for $100<br />
million. TracFones and<br />
Simple Mobile service<br />
are huge players in<br />
the Lifeline program<br />
through the company’s<br />
“SafeLink Wireless”<br />
brand. TracFone had<br />
3.8 million subscribers<br />
through the federal program<br />
as of late 2011.<br />
U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin,<br />
(R-Ark.), who has<br />
been one of the biggest<br />
critics of the Lifeline<br />
program’s explosive<br />
growth, said he can’t<br />
blame Slim for doing<br />
lucrative business with<br />
the federal government.<br />
“I’m not against<br />
a company making a<br />
profit,” Griffin said.<br />
“If they are making<br />
money off the program,<br />
the blame goes to the<br />
federal government for<br />
creating the program.”<br />
Griffin recently introduced<br />
a bill on Capitol<br />
Hill to end the Life-<br />
line program, which cost $1.6 billion<br />
in 2011, up from $772 million in 2008.<br />
While not technically a tax, the program<br />
is funded by mandatory fees tacked on<br />
to consumers’ phone bills, then disbursed<br />
through the Federal Communications<br />
Commission and states.<br />
“This program is rife with waste<br />
and abuse,” Griffin said. “It’s set up in a<br />
way where people can receive multiple<br />
phones for free.” Griffin said he has<br />
seen cases in which single individuals<br />
obtained dozens of the phones, and said<br />
under the lax requirements, more than<br />
Twin (39”) or 33”<br />
Mattresses<br />
Starting at<br />
80 million Americans are eligible.<br />
The FCC announced in July that<br />
new reforms saved $43 million by<br />
eliminating duplicate subscriptions and<br />
outdated subsidies and claims that the<br />
agency is on track to recover $200 million<br />
for the year.<br />
Arlen Specter, 82, Dies<br />
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against the popular view. Specter was<br />
Pennsylvania’s longest serving U.S.<br />
senator and was a Republican although<br />
he was often at odds with the GOP leadership.<br />
In fact, he was one of the only<br />
three Republicans in Congress to vote<br />
for Obama’s economic stimulus.<br />
Specter came to prominence in the<br />
1960s as an assistant counsel to the<br />
Warren Commission, developing a<br />
single-bullet theory in the Kennedy assassination.<br />
He was a key voice in the<br />
Supreme Court hearings of both Bork<br />
and Clarence Thomas. His strong comments<br />
during the Anita Hill hearing<br />
made him an enemy of many females<br />
across the country.<br />
Although a Republican for most of<br />
his life, he stunned his party in 2009 by<br />
announcing his desire to join the Democratic<br />
Party. He said he was “increasingly<br />
at odds with the Republican philosophy,”<br />
though he said the Democrats<br />
could not count on him to be “an automatic<br />
60th vote” that would give them a<br />
filibuster-proof majority. He also concluded<br />
that he would not win his next<br />
election as a Republican, which led to<br />
series of attack ads that concluded, “Arlen<br />
Specter changed parties to save one<br />
job — his, not yours.”<br />
President Obama described him as<br />
a “fighter.” “Arlen was fiercely independent<br />
— never putting party or ideology<br />
ahead of the people he was chosen<br />
to serve. He brought that same toughness<br />
and determination to his personal<br />
struggles.”<br />
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas<br />
and worked on his father’s junkyard<br />
during the summers. He graduated<br />
from University of Pennsylvania and<br />
Yale law school. He also served in the<br />
Air Force from 1951 to 1953. The senator<br />
liked to perform standup comedy at<br />
clubs in Philadelphia and New York and<br />
played squash into his mid-70s.<br />
I Was Rejected<br />
Because I Am White<br />
The Supreme Court is taking up a<br />
challenge to a University of Texas program<br />
that considers race in some college<br />
admissions. The case could harvest<br />
new restrictions on affirmative action at<br />
universities.<br />
Abigail Fisher, the 22-year-old white<br />
Texan who sued the university, arrived<br />
at the high court Wednesday morning to<br />
hear the argument. Fisher was rejected<br />
from University of Texas and said that<br />
race played a key role in her rejection.<br />
She claims that because she is white,<br />
she was not given preferential consideration<br />
that other applicants of other races<br />
receive. “I’m hoping,” she said, “that<br />
they’ll completely take race out of the<br />
issue in terms of admissions and that<br />
everyone will be able to get into any<br />
school that they want no matter what<br />
race they are but solely based on their<br />
merit and if they work hard for it.”<br />
Hundreds of people also wanting<br />
seats in the courtroom waited in line<br />
on the court plaza. Rev. Jesse Jackson,<br />
a supporter of affirmative action, was<br />
among advocates on both sides of the<br />
issue who gathered outside the court.<br />
Several protestors held signs proclaiming<br />
their support or opposition<br />
to affirmative action. One man held<br />
an “End Affirmative Action Now,”<br />
while another women held a “Diversity<br />
(equals) Success” sign.<br />
The university’s program uses race<br />
to fill approximately 25 percent of its<br />
classes. They argue that this system is<br />
necessary in order to provide the kind<br />
of diverse educational experience the<br />
high court has previously endorsed. The<br />
remaining open slots are filled with students<br />
selected based on their class rank,<br />
without regard to race.<br />
Opponents of the program say the<br />
university is practicing illegal discrimination<br />
by considering race at all.
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Jewish Doctor<br />
Wins Nobel Prize<br />
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has<br />
been awarded to Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz<br />
for “groundbreaking discoveries”<br />
isolating important gene receptor.<br />
Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Jewish physician<br />
and path-breaking biochemist from<br />
New York, has won jointly with Brian<br />
K. Kobilka, a researcher at California’s<br />
Stanford University.<br />
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Lefkowitz works at the<br />
Howard Hughes Medical<br />
Institute of Duke University<br />
Medical Center in North<br />
Carolina. He worked together<br />
with Kobilka to isolate and<br />
analyze a gene which led<br />
them to discover that “the<br />
receptor was similar to one<br />
in the eye that captures light.<br />
They realized that there is<br />
a whole family of receptors<br />
that look alike and function in<br />
the same manner,” the Nobel<br />
Prize website said.<br />
Lefkowitz, 61, and Kobilka, 57, will<br />
share a $1.2 million grant from the Nobel<br />
Prize Committee.<br />
High Rates of<br />
Suicide Amongst<br />
Native Americans<br />
The rate of suicide amongst Native<br />
American teens and young adults<br />
is triple the rate of other young Americans,<br />
according to federal government<br />
figures.<br />
In parts of the United States, suicide<br />
among Native American youth<br />
is 9 to 19 times as frequent as among<br />
other youths, and rising. From Arizona<br />
to Alaska, tribes are declaring states of<br />
emergency and setting up crisis-intervention<br />
teams.<br />
“It feels like wartime,” said Diane<br />
Garreau, a child-welfare official on<br />
the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation,<br />
in South Dakota. “I’ll see one of<br />
our youngsters one day, then find out<br />
a couple of days later she’s gone. Our<br />
children are self-destructing.”<br />
So dire is the alarm that of 23 grants<br />
the U.S. federal government awarded<br />
nationally to prevent youth suicides in<br />
September, 10 went to Native American<br />
tribes or organizations, with most<br />
of them receiving nearly $500,000 per<br />
year for three years.<br />
NYC Highly Polluted Air<br />
One doesn’t need a microscope<br />
to detect the pollution in the air when<br />
walking through the streets of Manhattan.<br />
The Big Apple’s air is a recipe of<br />
bacteria, pollen, clothing fiber, fungus,<br />
tire rubber, dead skin cells, cooking fat,<br />
and carbon emissions. (Appetizing?)<br />
With each breath you take, which<br />
is about 33,000 a day, you may inhale<br />
spores, bacteria, pollens, tiny bits of<br />
glass, starch and fat.<br />
So what exactly are we thinking<br />
when we say that we are going out to<br />
get a breath of fresh air?<br />
School Forces Students<br />
to Wear ID with Tracker<br />
A school district in Texas announced<br />
earlier this year that it would require<br />
students to wear microchip-embedded<br />
ID cards at all times. Many students felt<br />
uncomfortable and refused to be monitored<br />
and now they are facing the repercussions<br />
for disobeying.<br />
Beginning October 1, students at<br />
John Jay High School and Anson Jones<br />
Middle School in San Antonio, Texas,<br />
have been asked to attend class with<br />
photo ID cards equipped with radiofrequency<br />
identification (RFID) chips<br />
to track every pupil’s location.<br />
Students who refuse to walk the<br />
school halls with the card in their pocket<br />
or around their neck claim they are<br />
being tormented by instructors, and<br />
are barred from participating in certain<br />
school functions. Some also reported<br />
that they were turned away from common<br />
areas like cafeterias and libraries.<br />
Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore at<br />
John Jay, said, “I had a teacher tell me<br />
I would not be allowed to vote because<br />
I did not have the proper voter ID. I<br />
had my old student ID card which they<br />
originally told us would be good for the<br />
entire four years we were in school. He<br />
said I needed the new ID with the chip<br />
in order to vote.”<br />
Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo<br />
issued a statement to the girl’s parents:<br />
“We are simply asking your daughter to<br />
wear an ID badge as every other student<br />
and adult on the Jay campus is asked<br />
to do.” If she is allowed to forego the<br />
tracking now, the repercussions will<br />
be harsher than just revoking voting<br />
rights for homecoming contests once<br />
the school makes location-monitoring<br />
mandatory, he argued.<br />
“I urge you to accept this solution so<br />
that your child’s instructional program<br />
will not be affected. As we discussed,<br />
there will be consequences for refusal<br />
to wear an ID card as we begin to move<br />
forward with full implementation,”<br />
Galindo wrote.<br />
Some feel that this device can be unsafe<br />
because if a predator gains access<br />
to the tracker they can use this information<br />
to harm minors.<br />
Obama Mails Mass<br />
Letter of Condolence<br />
C’mon, Mr. Obama, a little class
please…<br />
Tom Logan, father of Joseph D.<br />
Logan, a soldier killed in Afgahnistan,<br />
expressed his hurt and disappointment<br />
after learning that the condolence letter<br />
he her received from President Barack<br />
Obama was simply a mass letter sent to<br />
all parents.<br />
Logan, a Willis, Texas resident,<br />
called the note late, impersonal, and<br />
disrespectful. “It opened up a wound in<br />
our heart you can’t fix. You can’t send<br />
another letter. You can’t make it right,”<br />
Logan said.<br />
Logan’s 22-year old son, USMC<br />
Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, was killed Jan.<br />
19, 2012 along with five other men when<br />
the helicopter they were in crashed.<br />
“He would have been more mad<br />
about this than I am,” Tom Logan said.<br />
Tom Logan said he believes Obama<br />
did little more than sign his name to the<br />
document. He believes his son deserved<br />
more from the country he died for.<br />
With all that staff Obama couldn’t<br />
ask one of his employees to pen personal<br />
letters??<br />
Political<br />
Vegas Rivals Betting<br />
Against Obama<br />
They may be bitter rivals, but Steve<br />
Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, and Sheldon<br />
Adelson, CEO of the Las Vegas<br />
Sands Corporation, agree on one thing:<br />
Obama better be defeated.<br />
In an interview on a Nevada radio<br />
show, Wynn didn’t hold back any<br />
punches when talking about his disdain<br />
for President Obama. “I’ve created<br />
about 250,000 direct and indirect<br />
jobs according to the state of Nevada’s<br />
measurement. If the number is 250,000,<br />
that’s exactly 250,000 more than this<br />
President,” said Wynn. “I’m afraid of<br />
the President. I have no idea what goofy<br />
idea, what crazy, anti-business program<br />
this administration will come up. I have<br />
no idea. And I have to tell you, John,<br />
that every business guy I know in the<br />
country is frightened of Barack Obama<br />
and the way he thinks.”<br />
Whereas Wynn loathes President<br />
Obama’s economic policies, Sheldon<br />
Adelson is more concerned with<br />
his Middle East policies. Last week,<br />
Adelson, who in June gave the pro-<br />
Mitt Romney Super PAC $10 million,<br />
penned a blistering article attacking<br />
President Obama’s relationship with Is-<br />
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rael. “Time and again President Obama<br />
has signaled a lack of sympathy—or<br />
even outright hostility—toward Israel,”<br />
writes Adelson.<br />
Adelson warns that Israel supporters<br />
should keep in mind Obama’s open<br />
microphone comments—when he and<br />
former French president Nicholas Sarkozy<br />
were overheard talking about their<br />
mutual disdain for Prime Minister Netanyahu.<br />
Wynn and Adelson are not only wellknown<br />
figures with respected points of<br />
view, but they also employ hundreds of<br />
thousands of voters in Nevada, which is<br />
a key swing state.<br />
Electionomics—<br />
Unemployment<br />
Drops to 7.8%<br />
For the first 43 months of President<br />
Obama’s presidency, the unemployment<br />
rate has stubbornly stayed at 8% or<br />
above. This has been considered one of<br />
the key indicators that President Obama<br />
would not be reelected; after all, no<br />
president since Franklin D. Roosevelt<br />
has been elected with 8% employment.<br />
But now Obama doesn’t have to<br />
worry about that. With less than two<br />
months to go until election day, the Labor<br />
Department has reported October<br />
private sector job growth of 114, 000<br />
jobs, which they state brings the unemployment<br />
rate down to 7.8%. This unexpected<br />
drop in the unemployment rate<br />
has led to President Obama’s new reelection<br />
argument that “we’ve made too<br />
much progress to return to the policies<br />
that led to this crisis in the first place.”<br />
Romney argues, “If not for all the people<br />
who have simply dropped out of the<br />
labor force, the real unemployment rate<br />
would be closer to 11 percent.”<br />
The unexpected drop in unemployment<br />
has not yet produced a bounce<br />
for President Obama. This may due to<br />
the fact that people are still focused on<br />
Romney’s decisive first debate victory<br />
over Obama. It may also be due to the<br />
common belief that it takes six months<br />
of economic improvement before it<br />
sinks in with voters. But a more plausi-<br />
ble explanation is that in all likelihood,<br />
voters are simply skeptical of the sudden<br />
drop in the unemployment rate, less<br />
than two months before the election.<br />
Immediately upon the release of the<br />
October unemployment rate, many argued<br />
that it was simply a manipulated<br />
number, tweaked to make Obama look<br />
good. Jack Welch tweeted, “Unbelievable<br />
jobs numbers…these Chicago<br />
guys will do anything…can’t debate so<br />
change numbers.”<br />
But Labor Secretary Hilda Solis<br />
criticized the conspiracy theories and<br />
said, “This is a methodology that’s been<br />
used for decades. And it is insulting<br />
when you hear people just cavalierly<br />
say that somehow we’re manipulating<br />
numbers.”<br />
In an op-ed in in the Wall Street<br />
Journal, Welch defended his skepticism<br />
about the unemployment numbers.<br />
Debate II:<br />
Fight Night<br />
on Long<br />
Island<br />
After Mitt Romney scored a unanimous<br />
knockout in the first presidential<br />
debate, the stakes could not have<br />
been higher for the second debate,<br />
which took place at Hofstra University<br />
in Hempstead on Tuesday night.<br />
As soon as the debate got under way, it<br />
became clear that the candidates were<br />
not looking at this debate as merely a<br />
political boxing match, it more closely<br />
resembled a political mixed martial arts<br />
match—the candidates went for each<br />
other’s jugulars.<br />
“We have never seen anything like<br />
that in presidential history,” CBS News<br />
anchor Scott Pelley said following the<br />
debate. “They turned every question<br />
from the audience into an attack on the<br />
other.”<br />
Although Obama came out swinging—something<br />
he needed to do since<br />
being heavily criticized by his base for<br />
his lackluster performance in the first<br />
debate—Romney did not back down<br />
and was equally as feisty.<br />
When Obama attempted to interrupt<br />
Romney at one point, Romney said,<br />
“You’ll get your chance in a moment.<br />
I’m still speaking.” Although the format<br />
was a town-hall setting, with the candidates<br />
surrounded by supposedly undecided<br />
voters (who in appearance were<br />
“Let’s get real,” Welch said. “The unemployment<br />
data reported each month<br />
are gathered over a one-week period by<br />
census workers, by phone in 70% of the<br />
cases, and the rest through home visits.<br />
In sum, they try to contact 60,000<br />
households, asking a list of questions<br />
and recording the responses. Some<br />
questions allow for unambiguous answers,<br />
but others less so. For instance,<br />
the range for part-time work falls between<br />
one hour and 34 hours a week.<br />
So, if an out-of-work accountant tells<br />
a census worker, ‘I got one babysitting<br />
job this week just to cover my kid’s bus<br />
fare, but I haven’t been able to find anything<br />
else,’ that could be recorded as being<br />
employed part-time.”<br />
Anyone who believes that the October<br />
unemployment numbers are accurate<br />
can come work for me. What do I<br />
do? I sell bridges.<br />
the quintessential “Guess Who” game<br />
faces), the energy seemed more reminiscent<br />
of a Hamilton/Burr debate.<br />
At one point, even the moderator,<br />
Candy Crowley jumped into the fray on<br />
substance. During the most contentious<br />
moment of the debate, when the candidates<br />
were discussing the Benghazi incident,<br />
Romney pounced on Obama for<br />
not calling the incident an “act of terror”<br />
for 14 days. But Crowley jumped<br />
into the exchange and stated that President<br />
Obama had in fact called the attack<br />
a terror attack the following morning<br />
while making remarks about the incident.<br />
This prompted President Obama<br />
to yell out, “Can you say that a little<br />
louder Candy?”<br />
In the polling immediately after the<br />
debate, it appears as if Obama got a<br />
slight edge in the polls. According to an<br />
instant CNN poll, Obama won the second<br />
debate by a 7% margin. (A similar<br />
CNN instant poll found that Romney<br />
won the first debate by a 42% margin.)<br />
An instant poll by CBS News showed<br />
the same findings, that Obama won by<br />
a margin of 7%.<br />
All eyes will be on Florida on Monday,<br />
October 22nd for the third, final<br />
and perhaps the most important debate<br />
of the election season.<br />
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Big Bird Flops<br />
In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy<br />
Carter had one debate which the media<br />
immediately determined was a draw.<br />
At the debate, Carter made a seemingly<br />
innocuous statement that his daughter,<br />
Amy (age 13) considered the number<br />
one pressing issue in the election to be<br />
nuclear weapons. However, within a<br />
few days of the debate, the Republicans<br />
seized on Carter’s comments and began<br />
chanting “Ask Amy” at Reagan rallies.<br />
Soon enough, posters started popping<br />
up at Reagan rallies stating “Amy for<br />
Secretary of Defense.” Needless to say,<br />
Carter lost.<br />
Despite Romney’s unanimous victory<br />
in the first presidential debate, the<br />
Obama administration made a valiant<br />
effort to undercut Romney’s victory by<br />
focusing on Romney’s comments about<br />
Big Bird in an effort to make that comment<br />
the “takeaway” of the debate.<br />
During the debate, when asked to<br />
give an example of federal spending<br />
that he would cut, Romney said, “I’m<br />
going to stop the subsidy to PBS…I<br />
love Big Bird…but I’m not going to<br />
keep on spending money on things to<br />
borrow money from China to pay for.”<br />
Although during the debate President<br />
Obama didn’t immediately react to<br />
Romney’s comments, during campaign<br />
rallies the following day and days later,<br />
Obama quipped, “He’ll get rid of regulations<br />
on Wall Street, but he’s going to<br />
crack down on Sesame Street.”<br />
The Obama campaign also released<br />
an ad in which the narrator says “Big…<br />
Yellow…A menace to our economy…<br />
Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street<br />
you have to worry about, it’s Sesame<br />
Street.” The ad closes out by saying:<br />
“Mitt Romney—taking on our enemies,<br />
no matter where they nest.”<br />
However this strategy seems to<br />
have left Obama with egg on his face.<br />
Politico criticized the ad as small ball,<br />
NBC News described it as “absurd,”<br />
and ABC’s Rick Klein pointed out the<br />
“desperate smallness” of the strategy.<br />
“I’m not sure I understand why he is doing<br />
it,” said Bill Galston, a former Bill<br />
Clinton adviser.<br />
Furthermore, Romney seemed to be<br />
a step ahead and prevented the strategy<br />
from taking flight, by pointing out that<br />
“these are tough times with real serious<br />
issues. So you have to scratch your head<br />
when the President spends the last week<br />
talking about saving Big Bird.”<br />
The Obama campaign was forced to<br />
stop airing the ad when the organization<br />
that produces Sesame Street demanded<br />
that the Obama administration not use<br />
its Big Bird character in political ads.<br />
However, we have not heard the<br />
last of the Big Bird flap. Some diehard<br />
Obama supporters are planning The<br />
Million Muppet March, which will<br />
take place three days before the election<br />
in Washington D.C. on November<br />
3rd. Protesters are being encouraged to<br />
bring a puppet “for a morning of fun in<br />
the largest gathering of puppets to ever<br />
march on Washington in support of public<br />
broadcasting,” say the organizers.<br />
Perhaps the Obama campaign can<br />
hire some people to attend the rally<br />
dressed as Big Bird. This way they can<br />
further lower the unemployment rate.<br />
That’s Odd<br />
Keep on Dreaming<br />
the Dream<br />
Never give up!<br />
For over two decades, Willie<br />
McPherson, 74, and Christopher Manzi,<br />
44, dutifully put their cash together to<br />
purchase lottery tickets dreaming that<br />
one day one of their tickets would finally<br />
hit.<br />
Last month, the two old friends won<br />
a $14 million Mega Millions jackpot!<br />
Ironically this ticket they didn’t even<br />
have to pay for.<br />
After borrowing $20 from Manzi,<br />
McPherson bought the usual $40 worth<br />
of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets<br />
for the two men on September 18 at a<br />
coffee shop in Manhattan and was given<br />
two $1 Quick Picks for free as part of<br />
a promotion. One of those two was the<br />
jackpot winner, which McPherson de-
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HAFTR HIGH SCHOOL<br />
Ms. Naomi Lippman<br />
Principal, General Studies<br />
nalippman@haftr.org<br />
Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen<br />
Principal, Judaic Studies<br />
geoppen@haftr.org<br />
Open Open Open House House House<br />
November 11th<br />
10:00 AM<br />
Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School<br />
635 Central Avenue Cedarhurst, NY 11516<br />
516-569-3807 · haftrinfo@haftr.org<br />
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termined a day later.<br />
The owner of Kyu’s Coffee Shop,<br />
where McPherson bought the winning<br />
ticket, received $10,000 for selling the<br />
golden ticket.<br />
“Willie came in and said, ‘We hit the<br />
lottery! We’re going to Miami!’” Manzi<br />
said. “It’s just a great feeling…We are<br />
two lucky guys.”<br />
“We won $14 million on a free play<br />
ticket,” McPherson exclaimed. “[It<br />
feels] beautiful.”<br />
The two became friends in 1987<br />
when McPherson worked at Manzi’s<br />
print shop in Manhattan. McPherson<br />
retired eight years ago and Manzi is now<br />
seriously contemplating retirement.<br />
Was there was ever a clearer sign<br />
to retire than an unexpected extremely<br />
large deposit into your bank account?<br />
Painting Auctions<br />
For $34.2M<br />
An abstract painting by German<br />
artist Gerhard Richter has set a new record<br />
for the price paid at auction for the<br />
work of a living artist, after selling for<br />
$34.2 million, Sotheby’s auction house<br />
in London said.<br />
“Abstraktes Bild (809-4),” from the<br />
collection of rock guitarist Eric Clapton,<br />
was sold to an anonymous buyer<br />
after five minutes of bidding late on Friday,<br />
triggering a round of applause.<br />
The sale beat the previous 2010<br />
record of $28.6 million paid for Jasper<br />
Johns’ “Flag” at Christie’s auction<br />
house in New York in 2010.<br />
Richter’s red, yellow and black oil<br />
on canvas had been estimated to fetch<br />
$14-19 million.<br />
“The combination of outstanding<br />
provenance and gold-standard quality<br />
in this sublime work by this blue-chip<br />
artist made for an historic auction moment,”<br />
said Alex Branczik, senior direc-<br />
tor at Sotheby’s and head of the sale.<br />
The top end of the art market has<br />
performed strongly in recent years despite<br />
a faltering global economy.<br />
50 Feet of Bubbles<br />
This bubble bath would make any<br />
child shout with glee.<br />
A mass of soapy suds blanketed the<br />
water in Xintang, in China’s Guangdong<br />
province, leading to evacuations<br />
along the banks of the river.<br />
This wall of foam sparked widespread<br />
panic among locals as it rushed<br />
along a river in southern China. But<br />
officials have now said the tsunami of<br />
bubbles was harmless.<br />
The bizarre natural occurrence was<br />
caused by heavy rainfall that washed a<br />
non-toxic chemical deodorant from a<br />
household rubbish tip into the river.<br />
The bubbles were created when the<br />
chemical was swept over a waterfall,<br />
officials said.<br />
A spokesman said, “People are right<br />
to be cautious but it is harmless. It made<br />
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Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger New York State<br />
“I am asking for the support of everyone who believes that<br />
it is time to lower taxes, stop the out of control spending,<br />
and end the frivolous mandates so businesses can grow and<br />
families and seniors can afford to live in New York.”<br />
LOWER TAXES, MORE JOBS, BETTER QUALITY-OF-LIFE
very large bubbles when it went over<br />
a waterfall, but apart from one or two<br />
dead fish, it is harmless.”<br />
Cause of Death?<br />
Too Many Roaches<br />
Edward Archbold, 32, won a roach<br />
eating contest at Ben Siegel Reptile<br />
Store in Deerfield Beach. His reward<br />
was going to be a free python. However,<br />
the Florida man collapsed shortly after<br />
his victory and died.<br />
Broward County Sheriff’s Office<br />
reported that Archbold died after<br />
consuming “dozens of roaches and<br />
worms.” Investigators reported that<br />
Archbold “wasn’t feeling well and began<br />
to regurgitate” shortly after the contest’s<br />
conclusion.<br />
The roach-eating contest was part<br />
of the reptile store’s October 5 “Midnight<br />
Madness” sale. Contestants had<br />
four minutes to devour the most discoid<br />
roaches, which can grow up to three<br />
inches long. “Oh yeah, any vomiting is<br />
an automatic DQ,” the store cautioned<br />
in a Facebook post prior to the revolting<br />
competition.<br />
In a Facebook update yesterday, the<br />
store stated, “Although we just met Eddie<br />
the night of the sale, we all liked him<br />
right away. All of us here at Ben Siegel<br />
Reptiles are sad that we will not get to<br />
know Eddie better, for in the short time<br />
we knew him, he was very well liked<br />
by all.”<br />
Asked about the python won by<br />
Archbold, the store reported on its<br />
Facebook page, “The snake is being<br />
held in his name and is full property of<br />
his estate.”<br />
Funeral Thieves<br />
Investigators say Jeffrey Lanceman<br />
and John Contreras used newspaper<br />
obituaries to target homes of people<br />
who’d just died, breaking into their<br />
homes during their funeral.<br />
Minnesota authorities say it happened<br />
in three towns: Ramsey, St. Paul,<br />
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and possibly Edina.<br />
The two thieves stole everything<br />
from wedding rings to TVs, but it was<br />
a laptop that led police to them. It had<br />
an IP security tracker installed and using<br />
the tracker’s GPS, they were able to<br />
locate the burglars’ address.<br />
When they certainly are guilty of a<br />
grave sin.<br />
World’s Oldest<br />
Woman Dies<br />
Antisa Khvichava, who claimed to<br />
have been born on July 8, 1880, died on<br />
October 8, 2012, which would make<br />
her 132-year-old.<br />
She had a Soviet-era passport and<br />
documentation to that effect, but her<br />
age was contested and never officially<br />
proven. Her original birth certificate is<br />
said to have been lost during the years<br />
of revolutions and civil wars that ravaged<br />
Georgia following the fall of the<br />
USSR.<br />
Ms. Khvichava resided in the remote<br />
village of Sachino, in north-west<br />
Georgia, with her 42-year-old grandson<br />
and claimed to have retired from her job<br />
as a tea and corn picker in 1965 when<br />
she was 85.<br />
She had 12 grandchildren, 18 greatgrandchildren<br />
and four great-greatgrandchildren,<br />
and reportedly attributed<br />
her longevity and good health to drinking<br />
a small amount of local brandy every<br />
day.<br />
Khvichava would have been 31<br />
when the Titanic sunk in April 1912 and<br />
37 during Russia’s October Revolution<br />
in 1917. She would have been 61 when<br />
the Soviet Union entered the Second<br />
World War in 1941, and 111 when the<br />
Soviet Union formally came to an end<br />
in 1991.<br />
Local officials, friends, neighbors<br />
and descendants all back up the claim<br />
that she was 132 when she died.<br />
The oldest living person at the moment<br />
is 116-year-old Besse Cooper<br />
from the state of Georgia in the USA.<br />
Her birth can be officially proven to<br />
have been in August 1896.<br />
The oldest ever verified person was<br />
a French woman, Jeanne Calment, born<br />
in February 1875, who lived to 122<br />
years and 164 days before dying in August<br />
1997. She claimed to have met the<br />
artist Vincent Van Gogh when she was a<br />
young woman.<br />
Couple Sues For<br />
Son Being Rejected<br />
from Harvard<br />
A couple from Hong Kong has sued<br />
a U.S.-based college admissions consultant<br />
for failing to get their two sons<br />
into an Ivy League university as he had<br />
allegedly promised.<br />
Gerald and Lily Chow say in their<br />
suit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston<br />
that they gave Mark Zimny more<br />
than $2 million to get their sons into an<br />
elite American university, preferably<br />
Harvard.<br />
Zimny is a former Harvard professor<br />
who ran the education consultancy<br />
group IvyAdmit Consulting LLC.<br />
The Chows claim they gave $2.2<br />
million to Zimny, who said he had contacts<br />
at Harvard and would funnel dona-<br />
tions from the Chows to elite colleges.<br />
They charge Zimny with fraud and<br />
breach of contract. They want their<br />
money back.<br />
Well, I guess there are some things<br />
that money can’t buy.<br />
Nun Caught<br />
On Camera<br />
I’d bet one of the most shocking<br />
things to catch a nun doing is stealing,<br />
and I’d venture to say that you would<br />
find it pretty ironic if the items stolen<br />
were cans of beer.<br />
A surveillance video reveals an individual<br />
dressed in full nun garb opening<br />
a sliding glass freezer and grabbing<br />
a beer. Then the woman glances around<br />
and smoothly slips the beer underneath<br />
her black cloak. Moments later, the<br />
same person is caught on tape stealing a<br />
bottle of water and another can of beer.<br />
Then the person walks out of the store.<br />
Some skeptics are questioning the<br />
authenticity of the video. But one thing<br />
is for certain, the video has become a hit<br />
on YouTube with over 200,000 views<br />
over three days.<br />
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It Can Cost More to<br />
Dine in NYC During<br />
Rush Hour<br />
The next time you plan a lunch or<br />
dinner date in New York City you may<br />
want to factor in the time of your meal<br />
since that may affect the total of your<br />
tab.<br />
Soon, it could cost more just to be<br />
seated during high demand times. For<br />
most restaurants, prime time usually<br />
means dining between 7:30 and 8:30<br />
p.m. And it’s those customers who<br />
might soon see a surcharge on their bill.<br />
“The restaurant business is a new<br />
frontier for this and it’s more is the<br />
guest willing to pay to go to a prime<br />
restaurant at prime time and pay more?”<br />
said Stephen Zagor of the Institute for<br />
Culinary Education.<br />
There are mixed reactions amongst<br />
consumers.<br />
“I would pay more because Saturday<br />
night is a night out,” said Michel<br />
Parempe of Manhattan.<br />
“If they gave me more food and the<br />
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food tasted better than it did on a Monday<br />
or a Tuesday, maybe,” Westchester<br />
County resident Chris Nordland said.<br />
“It makes no sense to pay more for<br />
food to eat in a crowded restaurant,”<br />
James Roditi added.<br />
My grandma is right! Nothing is<br />
free anymore!<br />
Letters Come Home<br />
After 70 Years<br />
Marcel Heuzé, a French tool worker,<br />
was deported to a German work<br />
camp in 1942 during the war. He built<br />
engines, armored vehicles and tanks at<br />
the Daimler-Benz factory, from where<br />
he sent letters back home to his wife<br />
and three daughters.<br />
Many of the letters never made it to<br />
their intended recipients, probably intercepted<br />
by German censors.<br />
Carolyn Porter, an American graphic<br />
designer with a love of typography,<br />
spotted the French missives back in<br />
2002 in an antiques store in Minnesota.<br />
The elegant script caught her eye. She<br />
noted in an email to Yahoo, “The letters<br />
were written in French, and even though<br />
I couldn’t read them, it was obvious that<br />
they were written with care.”<br />
The first letter was translated during<br />
the summer of 2011. One by one all five<br />
letters were translated and Porter started<br />
putting together the pieces to the puzzle.<br />
The amateur sleuth, with the help of<br />
a genealogy researcher, tracked down<br />
Heuzé’s family, contacted them by letter<br />
and email, and turned over the letters to<br />
his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<br />
Heuzé, who was released from the<br />
camp in 1944 and returned to his family,<br />
died 20 years ago.<br />
A second batch of letters was uncovered<br />
in California, and Porter noted that<br />
this group will be shared with the family<br />
in person. Porter wrote, “It’s been a<br />
few months since the first five letters<br />
were shared with the family, and honestly,<br />
I still get emotional when I think<br />
about it.”<br />
Tiffanie Raux, 24, Heuzé’s greatgranddaughter,<br />
said that the family was<br />
grateful to Porter for her “altruistic”<br />
gesture. “It’s very American,” she said.<br />
“I’m not sure people in France would<br />
have gone to all that trouble.”<br />
BBQ Sauce<br />
Sells for $10K<br />
You know when you make a burger<br />
on the grill and you don’t have the right<br />
barbeque sauce, the taste is just not the<br />
same? Well, it seems like one person<br />
was hankering for a McJordan, a 1992<br />
burger from McDonalds that consisted<br />
of quarter-pound beef patty, cheese,<br />
mustard, onions, bacon and, of course,<br />
barbecue sauce. But he or she was<br />
missing the sauce.<br />
A circa-1992 plastic jug of McJordan<br />
barbeque sauce was recently sold<br />
on eBay for $9,995. The seller touted<br />
the “unused, unopened, undamaged<br />
item” as an once-in-a-lifetime chance to<br />
own the “rarest of rare Michael Jordan<br />
and McDonald’s collectible.”<br />
So someone put their money where<br />
their mouth is, but there’s no telling if<br />
the barbeque sauce is still fresh.<br />
Skydiver Breaks<br />
Sound Barrier<br />
Felix Baumgartner set a few records<br />
this week while skydiving from space.<br />
He stepped out of his space capsule at<br />
about 25 miles from earth, which is almost<br />
3 times the cruising altitude of jetliners.<br />
He reached a top speed of 833.9<br />
mph, a new record for a skydiver and<br />
successfully broke the sound barrier.<br />
And he broke the record for<br />
the highest manned balloon flight<br />
in a balloon that was the largest<br />
ever manned.<br />
The Austrian daredevil accomplished<br />
his goals 65 years<br />
to the day after Chuck Yeager<br />
broke the sound barrier flying in<br />
his X-1A. He said, though, that<br />
while in flight, he just wanted to<br />
get back to earth alive. “At that<br />
height you become so humble,<br />
you don’t think about breaking<br />
records anymore. You just want<br />
to come back.”<br />
The feat was part of the Red<br />
Bull Stratos project that was seven<br />
years in the making. The project’s<br />
goal was to test atmospheric and human<br />
limits with his free-fall from space.<br />
He certainly deserves high praise<br />
for his accomplishments.
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Community<br />
Resident of Woodmere,<br />
Jeff Bieder, to Be Inducted into the<br />
NYS Basketball Hall of Fame Rabbi Pesach Krohn kicked off<br />
Sunday morning learning at Yeshiva of<br />
Jeff Bieder, a resident of Woodmere<br />
for 34 years and one of the premier high<br />
school and college basketball coaches<br />
in the history of NYC sports, will be inducted<br />
into the New York State Basketball<br />
Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the<br />
Glens Falls, NY Civic Center & Sports<br />
Complex on March 17th, 2013. Jeff’s<br />
teams have won three NYC Public<br />
School Championships; he is the only<br />
NYC coach to win championships<br />
Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg<br />
Presents $5K for New Library Books<br />
at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island<br />
After visiting Yeshiva<br />
Ketana of Long Island in<br />
the spring and getting a<br />
tour of the first class education<br />
and facilities, Assemblyman<br />
Harvey Weisenberg<br />
returned a few short months<br />
later to present the Yeshiva<br />
with a check for five thousand<br />
dollars to purchase<br />
brand new library books to<br />
further enhance the education<br />
of all the students attending<br />
the yeshiva.<br />
with both boys and girls teams and he<br />
has won the NYC Coach of the Year<br />
award three times. In addition, he has<br />
won the prestigious Gatorade Coaches<br />
Care Award as one of the top scholastic<br />
coaches in the country and was named<br />
Man of the Year in 2002 by the NYC<br />
Coaches Association. He has won over<br />
500 games as a coach and has an incredible<br />
77% winning percentage.<br />
Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg presenting Mrs. Larissa Steele,<br />
Director of General Studies, with a signed copy of the book<br />
authored by Assemblyman Weisenberg about special children.<br />
Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg with R’ Zvi Bajnon, Menahel of YKLI, Assemblyman<br />
Phil Goldfeder and Mrs. Larissa Steele, Director of General Studies, outside the yeshiva after<br />
Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg presented $5k for new library books.<br />
Rabbi Krohn Kicks Off<br />
Sunday Learning at YCQ<br />
Central Queens, in Kew Gardens Hills,<br />
on October 14, 2012. He discussed the<br />
importance of passing on Torah from<br />
generation to generation. Rabbi Krohn<br />
spoke about how the luchos were in-<br />
scribed on “evan,” stone, which is an<br />
acronym for av, ben, neched – transmitting<br />
Torah from fathers to sons to<br />
grandsons. YCQ looks forward to a<br />
year of inspirational Sunday Morning<br />
Parent-Child learning.<br />
PHOTO CREDIT: DR. PAuL BRODY<br />
Left to right: Rabbis Ephraim Bernstein; Avraham Kovitz; Moshe Hamel, Assistant Principal; Pesach<br />
Krohn; Aloni Russek; Yaakov Finestone; Mark Landsman, Principal; Chaim Pearl; and Yaakov<br />
Lonner, Executive Director.<br />
A Dream Comes To Reality<br />
Breishis. New Beginnings.<br />
Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam has<br />
opened its doors with three classes,<br />
(nursery, kindergarten, and Pre 1A),<br />
a staff of talented and creative teachers,<br />
and most important, a select group<br />
of happy parents and children whose<br />
laughter and smiles light up the building<br />
on a daily basis.<br />
Under the direction of Rabbi Nosson<br />
Neuman, Menahel, and Mrs. Leah<br />
Zytman, Pre-School Director, the<br />
school offers their special brand of chinuch,<br />
where warmth and individualization<br />
play a key role in making a difference<br />
in the life of every child. Together,<br />
they can be seen greeting each child<br />
every morning as the talmidos embark<br />
on their journey of becoming true bnos<br />
Yisroel.<br />
Rabbi Neuman’s exuberance and<br />
positive nature creates a warm and<br />
caring environment where every child<br />
can flourish to the best of her ability.<br />
Whether it’s a wave in the hallway as<br />
the children pass, or a visit to the classroom<br />
to blow a shofar or build a sukkah,<br />
each child has the sense that he is<br />
watching out for them, to ensure that<br />
their time in school is a happy, joyful<br />
experience.<br />
Mrs. Leah Zytman is attentive to<br />
each child’s needs, while making sure<br />
that the curriculum is one of excellence<br />
and professionalism. Her goal is<br />
to help each child reach their potential<br />
by imparting knowledge and skills at<br />
their appropriate age level. Staff meetings<br />
occur weekly so that teachers can<br />
benefit from Mrs. Zytman’s advice and<br />
expertise.<br />
And parents are excited. They watch<br />
their children benefit from the years<br />
of experience that Rabbi Neuman and<br />
Mrs. Zytman bring to the table. They<br />
see their children excited about going to<br />
school and are reaping the nachas from<br />
their decision to join Rabbi Neuman<br />
and his dream of chinuch excellence.<br />
Registration has begun for Nursery,<br />
Kindergarten, Pre 1A and First grade.<br />
You too, can be a part of it.<br />
For an application or to arrange<br />
an interview, please see the ad in this<br />
week’s paper.<br />
To quote Rabbi Neuman, “Join us –<br />
you’ll be glad you did.”<br />
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On Sunday afternoon, October 14,<br />
2012, the Peninsula Public Library<br />
hosted its first “Meet and Greet” reception<br />
for all the residents of District 15,<br />
which includes Cedarhurst, Inwood,<br />
Lawrence, Woodmere and North Woodmere.<br />
The purpose of the reception<br />
was to introduce community members<br />
to meet the Library’s new director,<br />
Karen Porcella, and the Library Board<br />
of Trustees. Over 120 people attended<br />
the reception and enjoyed the refreshments<br />
while expressing their thoughts<br />
and opinions to the Director and the<br />
Trustees. In addition, several elected officials<br />
and prominent community members<br />
attended and had the opportunity to<br />
speak to the attendees. These included<br />
NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean<br />
Skelos, NYS Assemblyman Harvey<br />
Weisenberg, Nassau County Legislator<br />
Howard Koppel, President of the Inwood<br />
Republican Party Frank Mastero,<br />
District 15 School Board Member Dr.<br />
David Sussman, Village of Cedarhurst<br />
Trustee Ari Brown, Village of Lawrence<br />
Trustee Michael Fragin, and President<br />
LOCAL<br />
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Community<br />
Peninsula Public Library Hosts “Meet And Greet” Reception<br />
For Library Director and Board Of Trustees<br />
of the Lawrence Association, Ronald<br />
Goldman.<br />
Peninsula Public Library Treasurer<br />
Jeff Leb said, “I am very happy that we<br />
were able to put together this reception.<br />
We are merely stewards of the library<br />
and our responsibility is to act as the<br />
voice of the community with regards to<br />
matters concerning the library. It was<br />
encouraging hearing the many words of<br />
Mercy Medical Center<br />
Seeks Participants For<br />
Historic American Cancer<br />
Society Research Effort<br />
Mercy Medical Center is seeking local<br />
residents to participate in an historic<br />
study that has the potential to change<br />
the face of cancer for future generations.<br />
Men and women between the ages<br />
of 30 and 65, who have never been diagnosed<br />
with cancer, are needed to participate<br />
in the American Cancer Society’s<br />
Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3)<br />
that will enroll a diverse population of<br />
up to a half-million people across the<br />
United States and Puerto Rico to help<br />
researchers to better understand the lifestyle,<br />
environmental, and genetic factors<br />
that cause or prevent cancer.<br />
On Tuesday, November 13 from<br />
4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Mercy will be a local<br />
enrollment location at which participants<br />
can join the study. Those taking<br />
part will be asked to read and sign<br />
an informed consent form; complete a<br />
brief survey; have their waist circum-<br />
(L-R) PPL Trustee Joe Fuller, PPL Treasurer Jeff Leb, PPL Director Karen Porcella, PPL Vice President Sarah<br />
Yastrab, PPL President Joan Lepelstat, NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, PPL Trustee Joel Shiff<br />
ference measured; and give a small<br />
blood sample. Prior to the on-site enrollment,<br />
individuals will complete an<br />
online comprehensive survey that asks<br />
for information on lifestyle, behavioral,<br />
and other factors related to their health.<br />
Those interested in participating can<br />
pre-register on line at: www.cps3LongIsland.org.<br />
Participants will receive follow-up<br />
surveys to complete every few years.<br />
Researchers will use the data from<br />
CPS-3 to build on evidence from earlier<br />
American Cancer Society studies that<br />
played a major role in understanding<br />
cancer prevention and risk, and have<br />
contributed significantly to the scientific<br />
basis and development of public health<br />
guidelines and recommendations.<br />
For further information about enrolling<br />
at Mercy, call 516-62MERCY.<br />
praise for our library and was also enlightening<br />
to hear people’s suggestions<br />
of possible improvements to the library.”<br />
Leb continued, “The most prominent<br />
‘complaint’ was regarding the size<br />
limitations of the library’s physical facility.<br />
A majority of people expressed a<br />
desire for a new building for the library<br />
and that is something that we as a board<br />
will continue to investigate.”<br />
HAFTR Middle School opened<br />
up the Names Not Numbers Project©<br />
which will culminate in the spring with<br />
a Holocaust Memorial Documentary<br />
created by members of the eighth grade.<br />
Consistent with HAFTR’s mission to<br />
teach Holocaust history as well as Tolerance,<br />
representatives of the eighth<br />
grade of Lawrence Middle School will<br />
be actively participating in the program.<br />
Names Not Numbers<br />
Shani Klein, a community<br />
resident who<br />
attended the reception<br />
said, “I think that it’s really<br />
great that the Peninsula<br />
Public Library had<br />
this reception. As a resident<br />
to the district, this<br />
event gave me and my<br />
family the opportunity<br />
to meet the Director and<br />
Board of the library and<br />
allowed me to converse<br />
with them and share my<br />
ideas on what I want to<br />
see in the library.”<br />
The Peninsula Public<br />
Library services a majority<br />
of the Five Towns including Cedarhurst,<br />
Inwood, Lawrence, and parts<br />
of Woodmere and North Woodmere in<br />
addition to the entire village of Atlantic<br />
Beach.<br />
For questions or comments for the<br />
Library, please email comments@peninsulapubliclibrary.com.<br />
Justin Lish and Mikayla Fuchs, HAFTR 9 th graders and participants in last year’s program, speaking<br />
with HAFTR eighth grade and Lawrence Middle School eighth grade participants.<br />
With the strong support of District Superintendent<br />
Dr. Gary Shall, Lawrence<br />
Middle School and HAFTR Middle<br />
School eighth graders will be working<br />
together throughout the school year to<br />
learn the lessons of the Holocaust. Dr.<br />
Rochelle Brand, Principal, reiterated,<br />
“The lessons that we must learn and<br />
then must teach others are threefold—<br />
be strong, do good, stop evil!”
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On October 12,<br />
2012, 110 students<br />
from across the tri-state<br />
area, including six from<br />
the Stella K. Abraham<br />
High School for Girls<br />
and their advisor, Mrs.<br />
Sheila Leibtag, were<br />
privileged to partake in<br />
a unique program at Magen<br />
David High School<br />
in Brooklyn, featuring<br />
a panel with Gilad Shalit<br />
and his entire army<br />
unit equipped with posttraumatic<br />
psychologists.<br />
The purpose of the unit’s<br />
ten day trip to the United<br />
States was part of an intervention<br />
to aid the unit<br />
and administer closure after the trauma<br />
resulting from Gilad’s capture and the<br />
death of two soldiers who fell in the<br />
same battle. Additionally, the unit wanted<br />
to relay the importance of understanding<br />
what a soldier goes through,<br />
how the IDF functions and operates,<br />
and the ethics and morals that back the<br />
IDF. In order to achieve this goal, the<br />
panel of soldiers, commanders, and<br />
psychologists answered questions that<br />
addressed their personal perspectives<br />
and experiences regarding their intense<br />
position.<br />
On June 25, 2006, nine terrorists<br />
attacked the unit’s tank in the Gaza<br />
Strip, killing the commander as well<br />
as another soldier and capturing Gilad<br />
Shalit. Professionals were immediately<br />
sent to prevent the soldiers from falling<br />
apart with grief and to help them con-<br />
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tinue with their everyday tasks, some<br />
as minor as cleaning their guns. Several<br />
of the remaining soldiers, however,<br />
were wounded physically while the entire<br />
unit suffered emotional scars. They<br />
requested special permission from the<br />
Ramat Kal to stay in their location at the<br />
Gaza Strip at the outbreak of the Second<br />
Lebanon War, rather than transferring<br />
North, in order to remain close to<br />
Gilad. During the first week, they had<br />
to deal with the loss of three friends,<br />
however, companionship unified the<br />
soldiers and served as a continual motivation<br />
towards staying strong throughout<br />
the hardships they endured.<br />
When asked about the importance<br />
of serving in the IDF, one of the<br />
soldiers remarked: “No one else can do<br />
this. It’s our time and everyone will<br />
have their time. After three years, I<br />
know it will be good. I did it. Everyone<br />
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in Israel recognizes their responsibility<br />
and we grow up knowing it’s the routine.<br />
If we don’t do it, no one else will.”<br />
Another soldier, when asked about<br />
his motives, responded: “They’re grown<br />
up educated that this is their homeland<br />
and it’s like no other place in the world.<br />
It’s the Jewish Promised Land. After the<br />
Holocaust, this is the answer for those<br />
who think we can be the same amongst<br />
the other peoples. It makes you want to<br />
move forward and participate in the responsibilities<br />
of being a soldier.”<br />
The Mefaked and three other soldiers,<br />
two of whom were religious and<br />
two who were not, were together in one<br />
small tank for a short period of time carrying<br />
with them such different views,<br />
backgrounds, and perspectives. The intimate<br />
atmosphere of the tank allowed<br />
the soldiers to discuss issues that they<br />
were not previously exposed to.<br />
In an operation in the Gaza Strip,<br />
the commander instructed the soldiers<br />
to destroy the wall where several terrorists<br />
were hiding behind. The soldiers<br />
would normally have destroyed it immediately;<br />
however, there was a group<br />
of Arab children playing by near the<br />
wall. The IDF, sticking to their moral<br />
code of not harming children, took the<br />
risk and waited to destroy the wall, hoping<br />
the children would leave. Eventually<br />
the children left, and the IDF was<br />
successful in killing the terrorists.<br />
Newspapers and the media often<br />
portray Israel as an army with immoral<br />
values, while in reality, the army educational<br />
unit teaches every soldier to behave<br />
in a moral and ethical manner. The<br />
purpose of the army is not to hate, but<br />
to defend, as they are the<br />
Israeli Defense forces.<br />
It’s part of Tzahal’s<br />
obligation to bring all<br />
soldiers home—whether<br />
dead or alive—and to<br />
never leave a soldier behind.<br />
They understand<br />
the risks when going<br />
into the army but believe<br />
it is the government’s<br />
and army’s responsibility<br />
to do everything in<br />
their power to bring every<br />
soldier home. When<br />
the army was unable to<br />
free Gilad in a military<br />
operation, it became a<br />
question of how much<br />
the government should<br />
become involved. Ultimately, they<br />
came to a conclusion, and Gilad was released<br />
after being held in captivity for<br />
five long years.<br />
Gilad remarked that the most difficult<br />
part of his captivity was transitioning<br />
from being surrounded by family<br />
and friends to complete solitary confinement.<br />
He was originally unable to<br />
interact even with his captors but was<br />
eventually able to converse with them,<br />
although never about politics, or focus<br />
on sports via radio or television. During<br />
the first two years of his captivity, Gilad<br />
had little information of the efforts<br />
being pursued worldwide on his behalf.<br />
Afterwards, he was given a radio, and<br />
for his remaining time in captivity, was<br />
able to follow events.<br />
Dr. Levy, Gilad’s psychologist, explained<br />
the first steps to recovery: “In<br />
the beginning stages, it is crucial to stay<br />
physically close to where the trauma<br />
took place and it is important to move<br />
through the process slowly. Many soldiers<br />
don’t experience trauma until<br />
much later, so as a psychologist, I continue<br />
to help soldiers dating back from<br />
the War of Independence in 1948. This<br />
is very unique to the IDF.”<br />
Following the panel of soldiers, the<br />
students involved in the program were<br />
split into groups where they discussed<br />
some of the issues and perspectives that<br />
the soldiers brought to the forefront.<br />
The students left understating that while<br />
the IDF functions to physically protect<br />
Israel, we as Jews and supporters of<br />
Israel, must protect our country by enlightening<br />
the outside world.
Around the Community<br />
Dr. Tibian Abramovitz<br />
Joins Mercy Medical Center<br />
As Physician Advisor<br />
Tibian Abramovitz,<br />
M.D. has<br />
joined Mercy Medical<br />
Center as Physician<br />
Advisor.<br />
Dr. Abramovitz,<br />
who resides<br />
in Merrick, will<br />
serve as a liaison<br />
between treating physicians, case/utilization<br />
management and hospital administration<br />
to ensure both the quality of<br />
patient care and compliance with regulatory<br />
requirements.<br />
“Dr. Abramovitz comes to Mercy<br />
with a unique combination of both clin-<br />
ical experience and care management<br />
expertise,” noted Aaron E. Glatt, MD,<br />
the hospital’s Executive Vice President<br />
and Chief Administrative Officer.<br />
Dr. Abramovitz received his medical<br />
degree from the University of Medicine<br />
and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania<br />
and did postgraduate training in<br />
internal and pulmonary medicine at Interfaith<br />
Medical Center and Brookdale<br />
Medical Centers in Brooklyn.<br />
Prior to joining Mercy, he served as<br />
Physician Advisor at St. Francis Hospital<br />
in Roslyn and the Beth Israel Medical<br />
Center Kings Highway Division in<br />
Brooklyn.<br />
Brooklyn Jewish Xperience<br />
Hosts First Rosh Hashana Program<br />
Brooklyn Jewish Xperience (BJX),<br />
Brooklyn’s local Kiruv organization,<br />
works tirelessly, running innovative<br />
programs all week long. They’ve<br />
reached a new plateau, adding Yom Tov<br />
to their list of services. They hosted<br />
their first ever Rosh Hashanah program<br />
for Brooklyn’s unaffiliated and nonobservant<br />
Jews. With special explanatory<br />
davening, a beautiful Seudah in the<br />
stunning upper ballroom of the Agudah<br />
of Avenue L, and guest speaker Rabbi<br />
Zecharia Wallerstein, this was a Yom<br />
Tov not to be missed. Rosh Hashanah is<br />
when we coronate Hashem and accept<br />
His sovereignty. Can one imagine a king<br />
where multitudes of his subjects don’t<br />
coronate him? Not because they don’t<br />
respect him but simply because they<br />
aren’t aware of him. This is precisely<br />
what occurs in our neighborhood every<br />
Rosh Hashanah. 70% of our neighbors<br />
in Brooklyn are either unaffiliated<br />
or are from frum homes and are turned<br />
off from Yiddishkeit. This is why the<br />
BJX program, which was the only free<br />
Kiruv Rosh Hashanah program in the<br />
entire Brooklyn, is so critical.<br />
Jennifer is a secular attorney living<br />
in Brooklyn. She had absolutely no<br />
where to go. She found out about the<br />
program after Googling “Rosh Hashanah<br />
in Brooklyn” and had her first experience<br />
with Yiddishkeit! Michael, a<br />
young professional living in Brooklyn<br />
who was raised in a secular home, said,<br />
“This holiday program was a lifesaver<br />
for me. The inspiration will get me<br />
through the entire year!”<br />
Rabbi Fingerer led beautiful services<br />
and in his inimitable style kept the<br />
audience captivated with his words of<br />
Torah. Prior to the inspirational davening,<br />
he explained to everyone the basis<br />
of the Mechitza as this was the first time<br />
many students were attending a frum<br />
service. BJX students are grateful to<br />
Moshe and Rivky Caller for their super<br />
dedication and devotion throughout<br />
the year and for being such amazing<br />
hosts. Mr. Caller gave beautiful Divrei<br />
Torah and spent much time mentoring<br />
students. Mrs. Caller taught the young<br />
ladies the mitzvah of candle lighting.<br />
Rabbi Wallerstein spoke several times<br />
to the great joy of the students. Special<br />
thanks goes to Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin,<br />
Mr. Dachs, and Reb Yudi Derdik<br />
for their assistance. A special thank you<br />
is extended to HaRav Yudel Horowitz<br />
and his Kehilla for their help. Dr. Yaakov<br />
Moskovits and Dr. Faygie Zakheim<br />
were wonderful mentors.<br />
Each student received a beautiful<br />
Artscroll Interlinear Machzor as a<br />
special gift generously dedicated by<br />
the Greenfield family l’iluy Nishmas<br />
Chaim Yehuda ben Dovid Elimelech<br />
Pinter z”l.<br />
A donation to BJX brings Torah<br />
to non-frum Jews and offers a second<br />
chance to young adults from frum<br />
homes that are struggling with Yiddishkeit.<br />
For further information, call 646-<br />
397-1544 or visit www.thinkandcare.org.<br />
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Touro College’s School of Health<br />
Sciences distributed third generation<br />
iPads to more than 200 students for the<br />
fall 2012 semester, demonstrating Touro’s<br />
commitment to incorporate the best<br />
educational tools and latest technologies<br />
available for a powerful learning<br />
experience.<br />
The School of Health Sciences<br />
(SHS), under the leadership of Dean<br />
Louis Primavera, PhD, collaborated<br />
with the Academic Computing Department<br />
and Dean Issac Herskowitz, PhD,<br />
of the Graduate School of Technology,<br />
to conduct a semester-long pilot study<br />
last January to assess the educational<br />
value of the iPad.<br />
“A survey of faculty and students<br />
was conducted before and after the<br />
semester,” said Dr. Jill Horbacewicz,<br />
chair and director of the Physical Therapy<br />
Department. “The response was so<br />
positive that we decided to bring the<br />
iPad to all programs in the SHS.”<br />
The infrastructure support needed<br />
for a school-wide launch was facilitated<br />
by Touro’s Office of Information Technology<br />
(OIT). “The iPad will become<br />
vital to our students’ educational experience,”<br />
said Dean Primavera. “Touro is<br />
at the forefront of adopting mobile technology<br />
for educating its students.”<br />
Rivka Molinsky, chair/director of<br />
the Occupational Therapy Assistant Department<br />
and chair of the SHS Technology<br />
Steering Committee, was the lead<br />
faculty member who worked closely<br />
with Apple to realize this initiative.<br />
“Our students are being educated to become<br />
excellent allied health care practitioners,<br />
and will now be equipped with<br />
the latest technology used in hospitals<br />
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Touro’s Graduate School of Health<br />
Sciences Provides iPads to Students<br />
and clinics,” she said.<br />
The paperless iPad offers not only<br />
convenience but also allows students<br />
to connect with classmates and faculty;<br />
store and share files, assignments and<br />
access their student records; download<br />
digital books; do online research;<br />
and take notes in class, all through the<br />
use of cloud computing. This unprecedented<br />
flexibility was facilitated by<br />
the SHS Steering Committee, including<br />
the chairs of the SHS departments and<br />
leadership from the Academic Computing<br />
Department.<br />
Joshua Fingerman, a PT student,<br />
said the iPad—as well as apps purchased<br />
by the school—add value to his<br />
learning experience. “The anatomy app<br />
is equivalent to a 500-page textbook and<br />
it can even be used in the clinic to show<br />
patients what muscle has been injured.”<br />
iPad deployment is being rolled out<br />
in two phases. Incoming students at the<br />
Manhattan, Bay Shore and Brooklyn<br />
campuses received their devices the<br />
first week of September and students<br />
who were already enrolled will receive<br />
them at the beginning of the spring semester.<br />
The Apple team provided customized<br />
training for faculty and then<br />
worked with educators to identify those<br />
apps most relevant to the health sciences<br />
programs.<br />
“I am able to consolidate all my<br />
notes and a lot of my textbooks in one<br />
place,” said Duane Grell, also a PT student<br />
class of 2014. “There are also many<br />
helpful anatomy apps and programs that<br />
help whenever I need some images to<br />
complement what I’ve learned in class.”<br />
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Rabbi Yissocher Frand To Address<br />
Lomdei Hadaf Inaugural Siyum<br />
Lomdei Hadaf is a<br />
newly-founded resource<br />
and chizuk organization<br />
for young baalei batim who<br />
have recently committed<br />
to maintain the daf hayomi<br />
daily regimen. We’re in<br />
this together! The goal is to<br />
complete shas over seven<br />
and one half years.<br />
The voyage has begun—mazel<br />
tov! The seven<br />
and one half year trip on the Yam Shel<br />
Torah has reached its first port with the<br />
completion of Mesechta Berachos. The<br />
experienced daf yomi learner that has<br />
finished shas during the last daf yomi<br />
cycle knows the commitment involved<br />
– of the task ahead as one contemplates<br />
the mesechtas to follow. But for someone<br />
attempting it for the first time, the<br />
thought can be daunting.<br />
Lomdei Hadaf, which serves likeminded<br />
young baalei batim, would like<br />
to invite you to join us in making this<br />
journey more pleasant and rewarding.<br />
Lomdei Hadaf will co-sponsor group<br />
siyumim in multiple cities, throughout<br />
the year. The inaugural Siyum will be<br />
held in Brooklyn, NY. The goal is to<br />
build camaraderie amongst a network<br />
of encouraging rabbonim, chavrusas<br />
and supportive shiurim.<br />
Understanding the vagaries of daily<br />
life, the constancy of a set shiur presents<br />
unique demands that cannot always<br />
be met due to personal or business time<br />
constraints. Co-founder, Yisroel (Ira)<br />
Zlotowitz says, “While recognizing the<br />
importance of a live chavrusa and/or a<br />
group shiur, for those times when it becomes<br />
impractical to attend in person,<br />
we don’t want your dream to falter.”<br />
The Young Israel of New Hyde Park<br />
presents “A Son’s Murder: Memory and<br />
Memorial.” Nothing can prepare a parent<br />
for the news of a terror attack and<br />
the death of his child.<br />
Featuring Doctor Naftali Moses,<br />
author of “Mourning Under Glass—Reflections<br />
on a Son’s Murder.”<br />
Dr. Moses is the father of Avraham<br />
David Moses hy”d who was 16 years<br />
”Therefore, we seek to become a clearing<br />
house for online shiurim, call in live<br />
chavrusas, live video conferencing, and<br />
a list of all resources available for those<br />
learning the Daf. This will allow you to<br />
never miss a day – or feel that you are<br />
facing this challenge alone,” explained<br />
co-founder, Avrumi Bergman.<br />
The belated siyum on Mesechta Berachos<br />
and chizuk for Mesechta Shabbos<br />
is scheduled for the evening of October<br />
24th in Brooklyn, NY. The world-famous<br />
noted Rosh Yeshiva, writer and<br />
orator, Rabbi Yissocher Frand shlit”a<br />
will address the attendees of the inaugural<br />
siyum, along with Rabbi Bentzion<br />
Schiffenbauer shlit”a, a noted posek and<br />
the Rav of Khal Bnei Torah – Bais Naftali<br />
in Marine Park, Brooklyn, NY who<br />
will also give that day’s daf yomi shiur<br />
after the siyum.<br />
Your input is important to us, for<br />
more info go to our beta site www.LomdeiHadaf.org<br />
or email Daf@LomdeiHadaf.org.<br />
Lomdei Hadaf wishes a Mazel Tov<br />
to all those who completed Mesechta<br />
Berachos and encourages those who<br />
haven’t joined yet to begin their daf<br />
yomi cycle now with Mesechta Shabbos.<br />
Dr. Naftali Moses, Whose Son Was<br />
Killed in the Mercaz HaRav Terror<br />
Attack, to Speak in New Hyde Park<br />
old when he was murdered during a terror<br />
attack at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav<br />
Kook on March 6, 2008.<br />
The lecture will be held on Sunday<br />
November 4th, 2012 at7 PM at the<br />
Young Israel of New Hyde Park, 264-15<br />
77th Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY.<br />
Book signing and collation to follow<br />
the program.
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Mrs. Yafa Lamm, the new Science Coordinator at the<br />
Yeshiva of South Shore, is an exciting, inspiring, and fun<br />
teacher! Instead of bringing the outdoors into the stateof-the<br />
art lab, Mrs. Lamm brought the lab outdoors.<br />
Students from the University of Maryland Maimonides<br />
program visited the Hatzalah of the Rockaways &<br />
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of Jewish life and chessed organizations in NY<br />
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HANC Students Enjoy a Petting Zoo in Honor of Parshas Noach<br />
YCQ Celebrates Sukkos with<br />
its Sukkah Decorating Program<br />
In honor of learning Hilchos Succos, Rabbi Bernstein’s second grade class<br />
in Yeshiva of South Shore built the smallest possible succah al pi halachah.
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THE JEAN FISCHMAN<br />
CHABAD CENTER OF THE FIVE TOWNS<br />
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO JOIN OUR<br />
ANNUAL DINNER<br />
SUNDAY, CHESHVAN 19, 5773<br />
NOVEMBER 4, 2012<br />
BUFFET DINNER 6:00 PM<br />
AWARDS PRESENTATION 7:45 PM<br />
VIENNESE DESSERT & DANCING<br />
AT THE<br />
GRAND BALLROOM OF<br />
THE SEPHARDIC TEMPLE<br />
775 BRANCH BOULEVARD<br />
CEDARHURST, NY<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 516.295.2478<br />
www.chabad5towns.com/dinner<br />
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR<br />
Rabbi Shneur Z. Wolowik<br />
DINNER CHAIRMEN<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Binyomin & Leah Muller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Yosef & Penina Batsheva Popack<br />
JOURNAL CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Shalom & Sheri Hammer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Larry & Susan Sachs<br />
ASSOCIATE DINNER CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Aaron & Necha Fischman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Israel & Sharon Garber<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Suzanne Wallin<br />
GUESTS OF HONOR<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gidon & Alla Shema<br />
CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sholom & Pessy Jacobs<br />
Rabbeim for Life.<br />
Education for Life.<br />
Torah for Life.<br />
GUESTS OF HONOR<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ben & Sandy Gordon<br />
CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ely & Elisheva Baum<br />
GUESTS OF HONOR<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Larry & Esta Gordon<br />
CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Yochanan & Chani Gordon<br />
Dr. & Dr. Yakov & Rachel Lowinger<br />
CHAIRMEN<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Yair & Milka Keilson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Zack & Dovi Tomaszewski<br />
GAN CHAMESH PARENTS OF THE YEAR<br />
CHAIRMEN<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Avrumi & Shani Gerlitz<br />
GUESTS OF HONOR<br />
GUESTS OF HONOR
DRS Seniors selected as Semi-Finalists<br />
for National Merit Scholarship Award<br />
Pictured from Left to Right: Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum, Principal, Benny Aivazi, Alex Selesny, and<br />
DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky<br />
This year, two DRS Senior students,<br />
Alex Selensy and Benny Aivazi, have<br />
both qualified as semi-finalists for the<br />
National Merit Scholarship. Additionally,<br />
Senior Eitan Lipsky was chosen<br />
as a “commendee” for the scholarship,<br />
which means he scored within the top<br />
96th percentile of PSAT scorers in the<br />
country.<br />
These are extremely prestigious<br />
honors, and they reflect the high level<br />
of education that DRS strives to deliver<br />
to their students, as well as the level of<br />
commitment and work they expect from<br />
them. The National Merit Scholarship<br />
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Program is a United States academic<br />
scholarship competition for recognition<br />
and college scholarships administered<br />
by National Merit Scholarship Corporation,<br />
a privately funded, non-forprofit<br />
organization. Each year a total<br />
of approximately 10,500 scholarships<br />
are awarded through NMSC programs,<br />
which represents less than 1% of the initial<br />
pool of entrants.<br />
Students who qualify as a semifinalist<br />
have an outstanding academic<br />
record, are endorsed and recommended<br />
by school officials, and earn extremely<br />
high PSAT scores.<br />
The Bidding Goes to<br />
1400 Blatt and 1750 Hours of Learning<br />
in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway<br />
The Hanhala, rebbeim and talmidim<br />
of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway would like<br />
to wish mazel tov to the following two<br />
bochurim and their parents for bidding<br />
on Ata Hareisa.<br />
At night, the bids win towards<br />
learning blatt of gemara which Eliezer<br />
Brown, son of Chaim & Ariella Brown,<br />
bid to learn 1400 blatt.<br />
During the day, we bid on extra<br />
learning outside of seder hours<br />
which Yaakov Hillel Goodman, son of<br />
Bentzion & Nechama Goodman, won<br />
the bid to learn an extra 1750 hours.<br />
Shiur For Women by Women<br />
in Kew Gardens Hills<br />
Rabbi Israel D. Rosenberg Educational<br />
Institute of Congregation Etz<br />
Chaim presents Shiur Ha’chodesh For<br />
Women By Women, a monthly program<br />
of advanced shiurim, on Wednesday<br />
evenings at 7:45 PM.<br />
The first shiur will be held on<br />
Wednesday October 24, 2012 at 7:45<br />
PM at Congregation Etz Chaim, 147-19<br />
73 Avenue, Kew Gardens Hills. Prof.<br />
Smadar Rosensweig will be speaking<br />
on the topic of The Destiny Narrative in<br />
Sefer Bereishit.<br />
Suggested Donation: $5.00<br />
Etta Israel Center of Los Angeles<br />
Merges with OHEL Children’s<br />
Home and Family Services<br />
Merger Helps Those in Need and Enriches Communities<br />
Donny who lives in an OHEL Bais<br />
Ezra residence in New York and Chaim<br />
who lives in an Etta Israel Center residence<br />
in Los Angeles may be separated<br />
by a 5 hour flight, but the needs and<br />
aspirations of each and the concerns of<br />
their families are the same.<br />
OHEL and Etta share the mission<br />
of elevating the lives of individuals and<br />
families in need and integrating those<br />
challenged by disability.<br />
Etta was founded in 1993 in Los<br />
Angeles in memory of Mrs. Etta Israel<br />
who believed in the potential of<br />
every individual with special needs.<br />
Today Etta offers residential services,<br />
case management, independent living<br />
support, educational services, youth<br />
programs, and summer day camp programs.<br />
OHEL was founded in 1969 in New<br />
York City as a foster care agency for<br />
abused and neglected Jewish children.<br />
With over 1,200 dedicated staff OHEL<br />
serves thousands of children, adults and<br />
families every day through its divisions<br />
of OHEL Foster Care, OHEL Bais Ezra,<br />
OHEL Mental Health, OHEL Lifetime<br />
Care, OHEL Institute of Training and<br />
Camp Kaylie at OHEL.<br />
Sharon Levine and Kam Babaoff,<br />
President and Chairman respectively of<br />
Etta, state, “Given Etta’s and OHEL’s<br />
shared goals, service excellence, innovative<br />
programming and dedication<br />
to the individuals we serve, it was a<br />
perfect match. Our merger with OHEL<br />
will further Etta’s goals to meet the ever<br />
increasing needs of the Los Angeles<br />
community drawing on the welcome<br />
support of OHEL – a highly regarded,<br />
larger and secure partner that will help<br />
us with strategic planning, development<br />
and growth.”<br />
“OHEL has always sought to ad-<br />
Rabbi Mendel Kessin spoke<br />
for CHAZAQ in<br />
Kew Gardens Hills about<br />
“The Power of Speech:<br />
The Gate to Both Worlds.”<br />
dress the challenges in the community<br />
and these needs are universal,” say<br />
Moishe Hellman and Mel Zachter Co-<br />
Presidents of OHEL. “With 43 years of<br />
service to the community, our experience<br />
and expertise has enabled OHEL<br />
to leverage services beyond New York,<br />
including New Jersey, South Florida,<br />
and now Etta in Los Angeles, an organization<br />
that has been a trailblazer serving<br />
people with developmental disabilities<br />
and their families.“<br />
The merger will also importantly<br />
further the reach of Camp Kaylie at<br />
OHEL, the groundbreaking summer<br />
camp for kids of all abilities in Wurtsboro,<br />
N.Y. that in just two years attracts<br />
significant campers nationwide.<br />
The new Etta at OHEL Board of<br />
Directors will be led by Sharon Levine<br />
of Los Angeles and Moishe Hellman<br />
of New York serving as Co-Presidents.<br />
The Directors include: Kam Babaoff,<br />
Shloime Dachs, Ben Englander, Dave<br />
Garden, Jay Kestenbaum, Elly Kleinman,<br />
Irving Langer, Murray Lappe, Irving<br />
Lebovics, Chavee Lerer Mellon,<br />
Betty Ryzman, Rivka Wilamowsky and<br />
Mel Zachter.<br />
Mrs. Levine and Mr. Hellman are<br />
enthusiastic about the potential for<br />
growth and sharing this vision with<br />
the greater Los Angeles community at<br />
Etta’s 19th Annual Gala, November 14<br />
at the California Science Center.<br />
With this merger, OHEL and Etta<br />
will further strengthen the lives of the<br />
thousands of individuals and families<br />
served through a lifetime commitment<br />
of care.<br />
Moishe Hellman and Mel Zachter<br />
continue to serve as Co-Presidents of<br />
OHEL Children’s Home and Family<br />
Services.<br />
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On Sunday night, November 4,<br />
Cheshvan 19, The Jean Fischman<br />
Chabad Center of the Five Towns will<br />
be hosting its 18 th annual Dinner celebration<br />
at the Grand Ballroom of the<br />
Sephardic Temple, 775 Branch Blvd in<br />
Cedarhurst at 6:00 pm.<br />
This year’s theme is “Celebrating<br />
18 Years of Inspiration.” While we look<br />
with pride at the many accomplishments<br />
we have experienced in the past, we focus<br />
on the future with a vision of growth.<br />
We are thrilled to announce that<br />
this year’s deserving honorees are Mr.<br />
& Mrs. Ben and Sandy Gordon, Mr.<br />
& Mrs. Larry and Esta Gordon, Dr. &<br />
Dr. Yakov and Rachel Lowinger, Mr. &<br />
Mrs. Gidon and Alla Shema, and Mr. &<br />
Mrs. Zack and Dovi Tomaszewski. Each<br />
couple has been involved in Chabad’s<br />
efforts and are a vital part of our growth.<br />
The dinner chairmen are Dr. & Mrs.<br />
Binyomin and Leah Muller, and Mr. &<br />
Mrs. Yosef and Penina Batsheva Popack.<br />
Associate dinner chairmen are Mr.<br />
& Mrs. Aaron and Necha Fischman, Mr.<br />
& Mrs. Israel and Sharon Garber, and<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary and Suzanne Wallin.<br />
The dinner chairmen for the guests of<br />
honor are Mr. & Mrs. Ely and Elisheva<br />
Baum, Mr. & Mrs. Yochanan and Chani<br />
Gordon, Dr. & Mrs. Yair and Milka<br />
Keilson, Mr. & Mrs. Sholom and Pessy<br />
Jacobs, and Mr. & Mrs. Avrumi and<br />
Shani Gerlitz.<br />
The Journal Chairmen are Mr. Shalom<br />
and Sheri Hammer and Mr. Larry<br />
and Susan Sachs. We appreciate all the<br />
time and effort that they are putting in<br />
to help make this a highly successful<br />
evening.<br />
The dinner is our most important<br />
fundraiser of the year and it helps us<br />
continue and expand a lot of the programs<br />
and projects we offer throughout<br />
the year. And those who have attended<br />
the dinner in the past know that all attendees<br />
walk away with a great sense of<br />
community. And it’s a fun evening out!<br />
Meet our Honorees:<br />
BEN AND SANDY GORDON<br />
The very first Shabbat that the Rabbi<br />
and Chanie spent in the Five Towns was<br />
in Sandy and Ben’s home in Lawrence,<br />
where they have resided for over 23<br />
years. Sandy and Ben were there at the<br />
very beginning of our Chabad House,<br />
which they helped to establish into what<br />
it is today.<br />
Ben grew up in Crown Heights and<br />
attended the United Lubavitch Yeshiva,<br />
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which was then located on Bedford Avenue<br />
and Dean Street in Brooklyn. He<br />
went on to graduate Mesivta Chaim Berlin<br />
and earned a Master’s of Science de-<br />
gree from Long Island University. Ben<br />
is the owner of an independent insurance<br />
agency, which he established in 1981. In<br />
1995, the occasion of the fifth yahrtzeit<br />
of his father, Rabbi Nison Gordon Z”L,<br />
presented him and his brother with the<br />
customary obligation to lead the Shabbat<br />
services. However, the local big<br />
shul would not consider a lay person to<br />
lead the Shabbat Services, especially on<br />
Shabbat Chanukah, coupled with Rosh<br />
Chodesh. With the cooperation of Rabbi<br />
Tuvia Teldon, Regional Director of<br />
Chabad Lubavitch of Long Island, services<br />
were arranged in the storefront offices<br />
of the original Chabad of the Five<br />
Towns. Ben made sure that sufficient<br />
seats, siddurim, a Torah scroll, and a hot<br />
Kiddush were supplied. Shortly thereafter,<br />
services were held every Shabbat<br />
with barely a minyan. During the first<br />
three years of what was to become our<br />
shul, Ben served as a Co-Gabbai.<br />
Sandy was raised in East Flatbush,<br />
Brooklyn. She attended Beth Jacob<br />
Seminary High School in Williamsburg.<br />
She received her Bachelors and Masters<br />
Degrees in Education and School<br />
Guidance counseling from Brooklyn<br />
College and St. Johns University. She<br />
has worked for the NYC Department of<br />
Education as a teacher of adult education<br />
for over 25 years, helping her adult<br />
students obtain their high school equivalency<br />
diplomas. Sandy is one of our<br />
shul’s famous “Kiddush Ladies.” Every<br />
Shabbat, they help to set up Kiddush.<br />
Sandy really enjoys doing this because<br />
she knows how much everyone appreciates<br />
and looks forward to the delicious<br />
Kiddush.<br />
Sandy and Ben raised three amazing<br />
daughters, all of whom married accomplished<br />
B’nei Torah. Perel and her<br />
husband, Yosef Yitzchok Hodakov, are<br />
Chabad shluchim and educators. They<br />
live in New Haven, CT with their eight<br />
wonderful children. Naomi and Allan<br />
Milchman live in Kew Garden Hills<br />
with three adorable children. Naomi is<br />
an attorney and Allan works in finance.<br />
Malkie and Yossi Bennett live in Far<br />
Rockaway with their four delightful<br />
children. Malkie is a special education<br />
teacher and Yossi is the Assistant Menahal/<br />
Assistant Principal of Mesivta Ateres<br />
Yaakov in Lawrence.<br />
Sandy and Ben Gordon are proud to<br />
be part of the Chabad Family. They are<br />
thrilled to have been chosen as Guests<br />
of Honor at this year’s 18 th anniversary<br />
dinner.<br />
LARRY AND ESTA GORDON<br />
Larry (Arye Leib) and Esta Gordon<br />
were both born and raised in Brooklyn<br />
and are residents of Lawrence in the<br />
Five Towns since 1992. Larry is a veteran<br />
journalist, writing stories on Jewish<br />
life and related issues for thirty years.<br />
He is also the acknowledged creator of<br />
modern Jewish radio.<br />
This distinction is due, for Larry, in<br />
1977, pioneered the first weekday morning<br />
Jewish music and news program on<br />
FM radio—91.1 WFMU at New Jersey’s<br />
Upsala College. Larry’s program,<br />
the “Hebrew and Jewish program,” and<br />
the format he created, is the direct, originating<br />
predecessor of the world famous<br />
JM in the AM radio show hosted by Nachum<br />
Segal.<br />
Esta and Larry were married in 1979<br />
and he attributes his creative accomplishments<br />
and many of the ideas to the<br />
encouragement and fortitude of his wife<br />
and her creative innovations that she acquired<br />
in the fashion industry and transplanted<br />
to the journalistic arena.<br />
Larry’s interest in journalism is inspired<br />
by his father, Nison Gordon, a”h,<br />
who traveled from Poland when he was<br />
18-years-old to report on life in New<br />
York City as the American correspondent<br />
for a Polish newspaper. Larry’s<br />
father became a well-known Yiddish<br />
writer, writing for “The Day,” “The Day<br />
Morning Journal,” and “The Algemeiner<br />
Journal,” during a career that spanned<br />
over 45 years. Esta’s parents endured<br />
the Holocaust and are sole survivors of<br />
large extensive families. They have six<br />
children; four of whom are married and<br />
eleven grandchildren.<br />
Larry’s own foray in newspaper publishing<br />
began in 2000 with the founding<br />
of the 5 Towns Jewish Times.<br />
The Gordons were instrumental in<br />
the founding of Chabad of the 5 Towns<br />
when Larry and his brother, Binyomin,<br />
had yahrzeit for their father and wanted<br />
to recite kaddish and daven in a Nusach<br />
Ari minyan which at that point had not<br />
existed in the Five Towns until then.<br />
The rest is history.<br />
YAKOV AND RACHEL<br />
LOWINGER<br />
Yakov is from a family of nine siblings<br />
from Boro Park that has since<br />
settled in the Five Towns area. He obtained<br />
his doctoral degree in Sociology<br />
from John Hopkins University in<br />
Baltimore. For his dissertation, Yakov<br />
received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct<br />
research in the former Yugoslavia.<br />
After marrying Rachel in 2007 and<br />
spending a few months together traveling<br />
through Eastern Europe, Rachel and<br />
Yakov moved to Montreal, where Yakov<br />
was very involved in kiruv and chinuch<br />
at yeshiva Ohr Somayach. Today, he<br />
continues his efforts on behalf of Jewish<br />
youth in Lawrence and Far Rockaway<br />
through his involvement with various<br />
outreach organizations as well as his academic<br />
research, which aims to clarify<br />
some of the challenges of the new Jewish<br />
generation. He is a visiting professor<br />
at Yeshiva University and teaches many<br />
courses including several related to the<br />
sociology of medicine, mental health,<br />
and Judaism. Yakov is a committed<br />
learner and davener, and has lately added<br />
an accidental but successful stint with<br />
High Holidays Chazanus at our family<br />
shtibel. Although Yakov has many<br />
commitments and wears many hats, his<br />
most cherished and joyous occupation is<br />
spending time with his children.<br />
Rachel Lowinger was born in Romania,<br />
grew up in Raanana, Israel, and<br />
later completed her education in Toronto<br />
and Montreal, Canada. In Montreal, Rachel<br />
was very involved with the Chabad<br />
Community at both the Montreal Torah<br />
Center and Chabad of Queen Mary.
She is also much awed by the continued<br />
dedication Chabad has for loving,<br />
caring, and educating Jewish children<br />
all over the world, including her proud<br />
graduates of Gan Chamesh. Rachel<br />
obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology<br />
from Concordia University, Montreal in<br />
2011 and will iy”H be a licensed psychologist<br />
next fall. She works at a clinic<br />
in Manhattan and as a Mommy in Chief.<br />
In addition, when friends come along<br />
with chesed ideas, she is glad to participate<br />
in any way she can. Yakov and Rachel<br />
enjoy hosting and hope to use their<br />
home for chesed and hachnasat orchim<br />
for many years to come. Rachel and Yakov<br />
would like to express their sincere<br />
gratitude to the Wolowiks and the entire<br />
family of Chabad of the Five Towns for<br />
everything they do for our children and<br />
our community. They would like to send<br />
thanks to their Chabad friends all over<br />
the world who have always been there<br />
with every imaginable type of support,<br />
both spiritual and material.<br />
GIDON AND ALLA SHEMA<br />
Gidon was born in Naharia, Israel,<br />
and came to US in 1981. He moved to<br />
Crown Heights where he davened with<br />
the Rebbe on a fairly regular basis. Alla<br />
was born in Minsk, Russia and moved to<br />
Crown Heights in 1990 to join the rest<br />
of her family. She was only in the US for<br />
two weeks when she met Gidon, across<br />
the street from 770. The rest is history.<br />
Gidon and Alla moved to the Five<br />
Towns and established Jerusalem Florist<br />
in 1994 which serves the neighborhood<br />
and beautifies Chabad for all its occasions.<br />
At the time that they opened,<br />
they were the first and only florist in the<br />
neighborhood that was Shomer Shabbat.<br />
Rabbi Wolowik came into the store<br />
to introduce himself to the Shemas, and<br />
immediately invited them for a Shabbat<br />
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meal. Even after all these years, Gidon<br />
and Alla remember that first meal there<br />
as being amazing, warm, and inviting.<br />
The Shema’s three beautiful children,<br />
Morad, Ronnie, and Bella, have<br />
been educated at Gan Chamesh. The<br />
warmth and love that their children received<br />
at Gan Chamesh is virtually indescribable.<br />
Gidon and Alla did not have<br />
their families nearby to help raise their<br />
children and being part of the Chabad<br />
environment made them feel like they<br />
were part of a warm and extended family.<br />
They are still awed and amazed that<br />
Chanie greets every child in shul by<br />
name and the Wolowiks are involved in<br />
so many people’s lives in a positive way.<br />
The Shemas are grateful to the Rabbi<br />
and Chanie for always being there<br />
for the community, in times of Simcha<br />
and in times of sorrow. On a personal<br />
note, Gidon recalls when he needed the<br />
Rabbi’s help at 1:00 AM, without a moment’s<br />
hesitation, the Rabbi was there<br />
for him, 110%.<br />
So when the Rabbi asked them to be<br />
honored, there was no way they could<br />
say no. Gidon and Alla consider it a<br />
privilege to help Chabad in any way and<br />
do so with Simchat Halev.<br />
ZACK AND DOVI<br />
TOMASZEWSKI<br />
Zack and Dovi were married in June<br />
2002, and began their life together running<br />
a Spanish-speaking kiruv camp in<br />
Baltimore, where they met Mrs. Susy<br />
Adler, the director of Gan Chamesh.<br />
Once they settled Far Rockaway and<br />
started their beautiful family, it seemed<br />
natural for Levana to begin her education<br />
in the Pink Room. Since then, the<br />
Tomaszewskis have been hooked on<br />
Gan Gamesh, sending each subsequent<br />
child from Bagel Babies through the Orange<br />
Room. And they couldn’t be happier.<br />
Zack was born and raised in LA to<br />
Joe and Guerta Tomaszewski, where<br />
he attended YULA, followed by Ohr<br />
Yerushalayim, then Bais Yisrael, and<br />
finally Shor Yashuv, where he’s been<br />
learning ever since. His work in Camps<br />
HASC and Simcha inspired his career<br />
as a physical therapist. In more recent<br />
years, he has expanded professionally<br />
and become a licensed contractor, initially<br />
specializing in disability facilities,<br />
and eventually working in general local<br />
contracting as “Zack the Builder.” Two<br />
years ago, the family moved to Central<br />
Ave in Lawrence right across the street<br />
from Shaaray Tefila where they now enjoy<br />
a connection with Rav Dovid Weinberger.<br />
Dovi grew up in Boston, with her<br />
parents Rabbi David and Julie Abramchik,<br />
where she graduated Bais Yaakov<br />
of Boston and attended Darchei Bina,<br />
and then Stern College. She has her<br />
Masters in Social Work from Hunter<br />
College, and has been working for Chai<br />
Lifeline for ten years with children and<br />
families. More recently, she has become<br />
the school therapist at TAG elementary<br />
and opened a small private practice<br />
working with children.<br />
They are the loving and dedicated<br />
parents of Levana 9, (Pink Room); Atara,<br />
7 (Orange Room); Yitzchok Meir,<br />
5 (Red Room); Baily, 2 ½ (currently in<br />
Purple Room); and Batsheva (9 months).<br />
The girls currently attend Bnos Bais<br />
Yaakov, and Yitzchok Meir is in Pre 1A<br />
at Yeshiva Darchei Torah. They enjoy a<br />
variety of extracurricular and chessed<br />
activities such as weekly visits to the<br />
nursing home, tomchei Shabbos work,<br />
music lessons, and jumping on their<br />
couch.<br />
What makes Zack and Dovi such<br />
big Gan Chamesh fans is the warmth,<br />
personal attention, creativity, and love<br />
that they feel through their children’s<br />
chinuch. They were particularly touched<br />
that Moros take time to call and text<br />
pictures of toddlers enjoying their first<br />
days to put parents’ minds at ease. They<br />
have much hakaras hatov to Rabbi and<br />
Chanie Wolowik, Rabbi Meir and Morah<br />
Hadassah Geisinsky, Morah Susie<br />
Adler, and Morah Suzanne Wallin for<br />
always making room for their children<br />
and making them feel precious, as well<br />
as all the other phenomenal Moros<br />
their kids have enjoyed over the years.<br />
Batsheva is looking forward excitedly to<br />
her inaugural year at Bagel Babies 2013.<br />
For reservations and ad information<br />
please call our office at (516) 295-<br />
2478, email your ad and reservation<br />
to dinner@chabad5towns.com or visit<br />
our website www.chabad5towns.com/<br />
dinner.<br />
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How can one really discern a person’s<br />
deepest inner essence?<br />
We are all accustomed to say what<br />
we want. Especially when it comes to<br />
spiritual matters, we assure ourselves<br />
and others that we desire to learn Torah,<br />
we desire yiras shomayim, we desire<br />
mitzvos, we deeply long for the coming<br />
of Moshiach and the rebuilding of<br />
the Bais Hamikdash, we want to be<br />
close to Hashem. We are sure, in our<br />
heart of hearts, that those are our deepest,<br />
most heartfelt desires. Sometimes,<br />
though, a person is tested. He is placed<br />
in a situation of crisis when his true inner<br />
essence is revealed; when all the<br />
layers are stripped bare; when he has<br />
no chance to formulate beautiful poetic<br />
turns of phrase about his spiritual longing.<br />
It is such a story that I heard about<br />
the venerated Rosh Yeshiva of Lakewood,<br />
Maran Hagaon Harav Aharon<br />
Kotler, zt”l. I heard the story some 30<br />
years ago directly from Rav Sholom<br />
Schwadron, zt”l, who himself witnessed<br />
the story. There can’t be a more direct<br />
kli rishon than hearing it from the actual<br />
person who witnessed it and who, even<br />
30 years after the story transpired, still<br />
told it over with a quiver in his voice<br />
and a hot tear rolling down his cheek<br />
onto his snow-white beard.<br />
The story transpired in Yerushalayim<br />
in 1954. Rav Aharon had come<br />
to participate in the Knessiah Gedolah<br />
of Agudas Yisroel. There was a festive<br />
atmosphere in Yerushalayim. This was<br />
the first major gathering of leading ged-<br />
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What Was He Saying?<br />
olei Yisroel from across the entire world<br />
after the conflagration of the Holocaust.<br />
Without a doubt, it was Rav Aharon<br />
Kotler’s presence that most electrified<br />
the large assemblage. Wherever<br />
Rav Aharon went, a large entourage<br />
of people followed latching on to his<br />
every word. His opinions on the burning<br />
matters facing Klal Yisroel were<br />
sought with bated breath. From mouth<br />
to mouth stories were passed regarding<br />
what Rav Aharon did say, what he<br />
didn’t say. Some of them took on a life<br />
of their own.<br />
The most powerful story, Rav Sholom<br />
Schwadron related, transpired not<br />
at one of the Knessiah sessions but<br />
rather at a wedding that Rav Aharon<br />
was attending while there, at the Bnos<br />
Yerushalayim Hall.<br />
At that time, the Jordanians were in<br />
a state of bitter war with the fledgling<br />
State of Israel and there was much tension<br />
on the Jordanian border. There was<br />
fear that an attack was imminent and the<br />
country was on high alert.<br />
Suddenly, in the middle of wedding,<br />
the air raid siren began to wail. The<br />
shrill, disconcerting wail wreaked panic<br />
in the hall. Before anyone even had a<br />
chance to run to a bomb shelter, there<br />
was a massive thud followed by an explosion.<br />
A grenade or a bomb had fallen<br />
nearby, very nearby…<br />
The siren began to wail again. Fear<br />
gripped everyone present, terror pervaded<br />
the atmosphere. All at once, everyone,<br />
every single person in the room,<br />
dove to the floor as another grenade<br />
By Yosef Sosnow<br />
whistled through the<br />
sky, falling with a<br />
thud, shrapnel scattering<br />
all over the<br />
place.<br />
Rav Sholom<br />
related, “I was terrified.<br />
I was thinking<br />
about my wife,<br />
my children…I<br />
was wondering if<br />
I would ever see<br />
them again, I was<br />
in a panic, and the<br />
hallowed words of<br />
Shema Yisroel were<br />
on my lips.<br />
“Rav Aharon Kotler had also<br />
dropped to the floor and I found myself<br />
right next to him. I saw him in a<br />
state of agitation. The gadol hador was<br />
spread out on the floor, the Torah itself<br />
was on the ground…and then I heard<br />
a low voice, the low, distinct voice of<br />
Rav Aharon. He too realized that with<br />
bombs falling indiscriminately one after<br />
the other, his life was in grave danger.<br />
What, however, did Rav Aharon do? I<br />
heard him talking, talking to Hashem.<br />
Listen to what the Gaon Hador said!<br />
The words that I heard next have remained<br />
etched in my memory to this<br />
very day; they were words that echo<br />
in my mind with the lesson of what a<br />
true shtick Torah has on his mind during<br />
what might very possibly have been his<br />
last moments on this world.<br />
“What did I hear Rav Aharon whisper?!<br />
“I heard him begging Hashem, beseeching<br />
Him with every fiber of his being<br />
– ‘Please Ribono Shel Olam, lomer<br />
doch leben! Ich vil noch lernen dayn<br />
heiligeh Torah – please let me live! I<br />
still want to learn Your Holy Torah!’<br />
“He did not think about his family,<br />
his Rebbetzin, his children and grandchildren;<br />
he did not think about his beloved<br />
Yeshiva, he did not think about<br />
anything other than beseeching Hashem<br />
in what he thought might be his last moment<br />
on this earth, begging, ‘Ribono<br />
Shel Olam, lomer doch leben! Ich vil<br />
noch lernen dayn heiligeh Torah!’”<br />
It is in such moments that a person’s<br />
true essence is revealed – on the<br />
floor, bombs flying, when no one can<br />
hear. The most intimate conversation<br />
between a person and Hashem Yisborach<br />
in the most trying of circumstances,<br />
when most people are too panicked<br />
to think about anything but their own<br />
safety.<br />
Rav Aharon too was panicked, he<br />
was afraid, but what terrified him most<br />
was that he still had so much of Hashem’s<br />
heilige Torah to learn. Nothing<br />
else was on his mind in that moment of<br />
panic; only the most precious of things;<br />
Hashem’s heilige Torah.<br />
In Parshas Acharei Mos, the Torah<br />
teaches us, “V’chai bahem.” The simple<br />
explanation is that you should live by<br />
the mitzvos. The seforim hakedoshim<br />
offer an additional, slightly different<br />
explanation. They say, “V’chai bahem<br />
doesn’t just mean that you should live<br />
by them, but your entire life should<br />
just be them. Your life, your lifeblood<br />
should be Torah, nothing else.”<br />
Rav Sholom concluded, “At that<br />
moment, on the floor of Binyanei<br />
Haumah with Jordanian bombs flying<br />
overhead, as I lay on the floor in terror<br />
next to the Gaon Hador, Rav Aharon, I<br />
learned the real meaning of how Torah<br />
can be one’s lifeblood!”<br />
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DRS prides itself on the “Achdus”<br />
it tries to foster between its students.<br />
That’s why, in just the second week<br />
of school, DRS took its new freshman<br />
Grade to OHEL’s beautiful Camp Kay-<br />
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The new freshman class, DRS’s largest<br />
in its 16 year history, includes 93<br />
students from 15 different elementary<br />
schools, and 8 different communities.<br />
Leadership Shabbaton a Success for<br />
Ezra Academy Student Council<br />
Shabbat Bereishit, Far Rockaway,<br />
NY, were the time and place of the student<br />
council Shabbaton for Ezra Academy.<br />
Often referred to as the GO (General<br />
Organization), the group of nine<br />
students who have been elected by their<br />
classmates to the various offices available<br />
came to spend Shabbat together<br />
in an effort to create a positive working<br />
environment with ideas about how<br />
to generate excitement and achdus in a<br />
school where there are already so many<br />
wonderful activities and events.<br />
The particular challenges of being<br />
the student body government for a kiruv<br />
school make the work more difficult but<br />
also more rewarding. This committee<br />
consists of several students who themselves<br />
progressed through the mechina<br />
(beginner) program at Ezra.<br />
Although they are a tireless group<br />
that has prepared an exhilarating calendar<br />
for the 2012-2013 school year, they<br />
continue to look for ways to engender<br />
loyalty to Ezra and more importantly, a<br />
love for Yiddishkeit.<br />
Ezra has already enjoyed several<br />
events during the first month of school,<br />
planned by the GO, including a schoolwide<br />
bowling trip, a morning of brachot<br />
in the Succah, a chol hamoed trip to<br />
Ring Homestead and a BBQ in the Succah.<br />
With such an energetic crew it is<br />
promising to be a great year.<br />
New friendships were fostered immediately<br />
over the weekend, as student had<br />
the opportunity to play ball, learn, and<br />
experience a DRS Shabbaton together<br />
with new classmates and Rabbeim. The<br />
Great Neck residents joined the<br />
Republican Jewish Coalition at a demonstration<br />
at Hofstra University before<br />
the Presidential Debate on October<br />
16, 2012. (L-R) Dr. Paul Brody, Vice<br />
President, International Committee<br />
for the Land of Israel (ICLI), with his<br />
13-year-old son Joey, launched “Jewish<br />
Jews for Romney<br />
students all got a chance to taste the<br />
amazing ruach and spirit of DRS that<br />
the school is so famous for.<br />
PHOTO CREDIT: PAMELA HALL<br />
Democrats for Romney: It’s a MITT—<br />
ZVAH!” campaign. Donna Schwechter’s<br />
(at right) placard displayed Romney’s<br />
affection for Israel. Between<br />
them is Helen Freedman of NYC, Executive<br />
Director, Americans For A Safe<br />
Israel (AFSI), with her explicit placard<br />
against terrorism.<br />
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Mark and Felicia Bernstein of Woodmere,<br />
NY were looking for a unique<br />
way to celebrate their son Sammy’s Bar<br />
mitzvah. They<br />
wanted to make<br />
it a meaningful<br />
experience not<br />
only for Sammy,<br />
his family and<br />
friends but for<br />
others as well.<br />
They wanted it<br />
to represent the<br />
values that they<br />
wanted to transfer<br />
to Sammy<br />
on his entering<br />
“manhood” –<br />
love of the Torah<br />
of Israel, Land of Israel, State of Israel<br />
and the brave soldiers of Israel.<br />
They contacted Rabbi Pesach Lerner,<br />
Exec. VP Emeritus of the National<br />
Council of Young Israel, to inquire<br />
about the Young Israel movement’s Sifrei<br />
Torah for the IDF project (www.<br />
redeematorah.org) and what resulted<br />
was Sammy’s Bar mitzvah on the Zikkim<br />
base near Ashkelon, attended by<br />
100 family and friends and over 500<br />
soldiers.<br />
The Young Israel of Kew Gardens<br />
Hills is pleased to announce that Rabbi<br />
Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, will be Scholarin-Residence<br />
at the shul on Friday,<br />
November 16 and Shabbos, November<br />
17, 2012. He serves as a University<br />
Professor of Jewish History and<br />
Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar at<br />
the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva<br />
University and is a member of<br />
the faculty of The Wexner Foundation<br />
and The Wexner Heritage Foundation.<br />
Rabbi Schacter will speak at a Friday<br />
night oneg, deliver a sermon on Shabbos<br />
morning, and speak at a Seudah<br />
Shelishis on Shabbos afternoon. His<br />
topics will be: “Did Moshe Rabbeinu<br />
Know Everything? Printing and the<br />
Unfolding of Human Knowledge” and<br />
“The Nazi Who Wanted to Convert: Are<br />
There Limits to Forgiveness?”<br />
Dr. Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near<br />
Eastern Languages from Harvard University<br />
and received rabbinic ordination<br />
from Mesivta Torah V’daath. He<br />
graduated from Brooklyn College in<br />
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A Sukkot Bar Mitzva in the IDF<br />
Sammy read beautifully from the<br />
Torah on the synagogue on the base, the<br />
festive prayers accompanied by chazanim,<br />
followed<br />
by a celebratory<br />
breakfast. As<br />
Sammy, his family<br />
and guests left<br />
the Sukkah, they<br />
were greeted by<br />
some 500 soldiers<br />
standing at attention<br />
by the Sefer<br />
Torah adorned in<br />
a Torah cover in<br />
memory of Sammy’sgrandmother,<br />
Rosa Feder z”l.<br />
The music began<br />
and an hour of unrivaled and joyous<br />
dancing took place, with not only the<br />
Torah being held aloft ,but also Sammy<br />
and his father Mark. Honored with carrying<br />
the Torah after Sammy was his<br />
grandfather Moshe Feder.<br />
When the music finally softened<br />
and the dancing slowed, the base commander<br />
presented Sammy with a plaque<br />
of thanks from the unit, followed by Mr.<br />
Ceec Harrishburg (President, IYIM,<br />
International Young Israel Movement-<br />
1973, Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta<br />
Kappa with the Abraham S. Goodhartz<br />
Award for Excellence in Judaic Studies.<br />
Dr. Schacter was a Teaching Fellow<br />
at Harvard from 1978-1980, Director<br />
of Yeshiva University’s Torah<br />
U-Madda Project from 1986-1997, and<br />
an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Stern<br />
College for Women of Yeshiva University<br />
from 1993-1999. In 1995, he was<br />
Israel region ) who presented certificates<br />
to both Sammy and his parents<br />
to commemorate the special occasion.<br />
This was followed by speeches from<br />
Mark Bernstein and Rabbi Heshie Billet,<br />
Mora D’Atra of the Young Israel of<br />
Woodmere.<br />
The day was not done as the guests<br />
were treated by the officers and sol-<br />
awarded the prestigious Daniel Jeremy<br />
Silver Fellowship from the Department<br />
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations<br />
from Harvard University.<br />
From 2000-2005 Dr. Schacter<br />
served as Dean of the Rabbi Joseph B.<br />
Soloveitchik Institute in Boston. He<br />
was the first Rabbi of the Young Israel<br />
of Sharon, MA, from 1977-1981, creating<br />
a new, vibrant and committed community.<br />
From 1981-2000, he served as<br />
the Rabbi of The Jewish Center in New<br />
York City, moving the congregation<br />
from 180 to over 600 members over the<br />
course of his tenure, and also served as<br />
Rabbi of the Maimonides Minyan in<br />
Brookline, MA from 2000-2005.<br />
Rabbi Schacter holds a number of<br />
prominent Jewish communal positions.<br />
He served as Founding President of the<br />
Council of Orthodox Jewish Organizations<br />
(COJO) of the Upper West Side<br />
from 1994-2000, is a member of the<br />
Board of Governors of the Orthodox<br />
Union and is on the Editorial Boards of<br />
Tradition, Jewish Action, BDD (Bechal<br />
diers of the base to an explanation and<br />
demonstration of the search and rescue<br />
methods used by the IDF in times of civilian<br />
disaster and war. The day ended<br />
with a lunch in the base sukkah where<br />
the guests were addressed by Felicia<br />
Bernstein and of course Sammy, who<br />
will never forget his special day.<br />
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter at The Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills<br />
Derachecha Da’ehu) and Jewish Educational<br />
Leadership. He has been awarded<br />
several fellowships and grants to further<br />
his scholarly research. In November,<br />
2007, Rabbi Schacter was the Scholarin-Residence<br />
at the General Assembly<br />
of the United Jewish Communities in<br />
Nashville, TN.<br />
The Young Israel of Kew Gardens<br />
Hills was founded in 1951 by a group of<br />
15 young families. Led by Rabbi Fabian<br />
Schonfeld from its inception until 2011,<br />
its Morah d’Asra is Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld,<br />
who served as Assistant Rabbi for<br />
many years.<br />
This Scholar-in-Residence Shabbos<br />
is sponsored by Mrs. Shulamith Leibler<br />
in memory of her husband Harav Shlomo<br />
ben Chaim Nosson Hacohen, long<br />
time chazan of the shul and by Dr. and<br />
Mrs. Jeffrey Weintraub in memory of<br />
their parents Yonah ben Zev Halevi<br />
Cimbol and Yosef ben Yitzchok and<br />
Chaya bas Yitzchok Weintraub.<br />
All members of the community are<br />
invited to participate in this program.
Bais Yaakov of Queens incorporates<br />
best practices with every learning expe-<br />
rience!<br />
Educational researchers agree that<br />
young children learn best through authentic<br />
experiences. Knowing this, we<br />
invited a petting zoo to visit our Early<br />
Childhood Center to give the children<br />
the opportunity to see, touch, smell and<br />
feed real animals. This hands-on experience<br />
will enhance their understanding<br />
of Parshas Noach and will also help<br />
launch the children’s first research topic:<br />
animals.<br />
Following the petting zoo’s visit,<br />
each child will choose an animal of her<br />
choice to research. Children work independently,<br />
in small groups and one on<br />
one with a teacher, as their knowledge<br />
increases. All disciplines, literacy,<br />
math, science and art, will be integrated<br />
into the learning.<br />
Further into the unit, the children<br />
venture out and visit Petland, a local pet<br />
shop, across the street from BYQ. The<br />
young investigators are excited to invite<br />
“experts” to share their knowledge—<br />
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sometimes even their own classmates<br />
become experts as they talk about their<br />
own pets. Before the children make<br />
the local excursion or are visited by a<br />
‘guest speaker’ they prepare themselves<br />
for the additional learning experiences.<br />
Class discussions include questions<br />
they would like to ask the expert. They<br />
make predictions and then see if their<br />
predictions are correct. All this is recorded<br />
and used to conclude the unit<br />
with reflections of what they learned.<br />
The unit spans more than six weeks, and<br />
as it culminates one can see the depth of<br />
their learning and understanding about<br />
Hashem’s creations.<br />
Yeshiva University High School Senior Fellowship<br />
Offers Students College-Level Research Experience<br />
Akiva Schiff Of West Hempstead, NY Selected To Prestigious Program<br />
Five students from<br />
the Marsha Stern Talmudical<br />
Academy/Yeshiva<br />
University High School<br />
for Boys (YUHSB) have<br />
been named Senior Fellows<br />
for the 2012-13 academic<br />
year. Taking advantage<br />
of its physical<br />
and institutional proximity<br />
to Yeshiva University,<br />
the program—in existence<br />
since 2006—pairs competitivelyselected<br />
high school seniors with University<br />
faculty, to conduct thorough<br />
research in a variety of fields.<br />
“We wanted to make it a win-win for<br />
both the high school and YU,” said Dr.<br />
Ed Berliner, executive director of science<br />
management and clinical professor<br />
of physics at YU and director of the<br />
YUHSB Honors College. “For YU, it is<br />
an opportunity to expose our most impressive<br />
students to the high-caliber YU<br />
education, and in terms of the students,<br />
it is a truly unique opportunity<br />
to be paired with<br />
the best and brightest professors<br />
in their fields.”<br />
Akiva Schiff, Dovid<br />
Schwartz, Yonatan<br />
Schwartz, Joseph Sklar<br />
and Yisrael Snow will<br />
spend the upcoming year<br />
studying topics as diverse<br />
as bible, chemistry<br />
and economics with YU<br />
faculty members including Dr. James<br />
Kahn, Henry and Bertha Kressel University<br />
Professor of Economics; Rabbi<br />
Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor<br />
of Jewish History and Jewish<br />
Thought; Dr. Raji Viswanathan, professor<br />
of chemistry; and Rabbi Jeremy<br />
Wieder, the Gwendolyn and Joseph<br />
Straus Professor of Talmud at YU-affiliated<br />
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological<br />
Seminary.<br />
Schiff, of West Hempstead, NY, is<br />
looking forward to analyzing the differ-<br />
ent styles of traditional commentary on<br />
the Torah with Wieder. “I think it will<br />
be interesting to learn something from<br />
a different perspective, and in so doing,<br />
learn to rectify certain common mistakes<br />
that are made when these texts are<br />
read and discussed,” said Schiff. “This<br />
seems like a wonderful and unique opportunity<br />
to study something on the col-<br />
lege level with the guidance of an expert<br />
in the field, while still in high school.”<br />
“I have been very impressed with<br />
the sophistication and drive for intellectual<br />
advancement of the students I have<br />
mentored,” said Wieder, who, along<br />
with Viswanathan, has served as a mentor<br />
to previous fellows.<br />
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Laurie and Dr. Eli Bryk, residents<br />
of Lawrence, New York, and New York<br />
City, will be the Guests of Honor at the<br />
AMIT Annual Dinner, Sunday evening,<br />
November 4, 2012, at Pier Sixty-Chelsea<br />
Piers in New York City. More than<br />
400 AMIT supporters from throughout<br />
the tri-state area are expected to attend.<br />
The 2012 Annual Dinner is being<br />
chaired by Joyce and Daniel Straus who<br />
have residences in both Englewood and<br />
New York City. Co-Chairs are Harriet<br />
and Heshe Seif of Englewood, and Judy<br />
and David Lobel and Jillian and Daniel<br />
Miller, all New York City residents.<br />
Robyn Price Stonehill and David Stonehill<br />
are serving as New Generation Dinner<br />
Co-Chairs, Elizabeth and Daniel<br />
Strauss are the Young Leadership Dinner<br />
Co-Chairs and Elizabeth Markovitch<br />
is the AMIT Future Leaders Initiative<br />
Dinner Co-Chair. All make their<br />
home in New York City.<br />
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For further information and reservations,<br />
please call AMIT at 212-477-<br />
4725. Or visit AMIT at www.amitchildren.org.<br />
Laurie Bryk has been an active Life<br />
Member of AMIT since the 1980s. She<br />
was a founding member of the New<br />
Generation Board and served as its chair<br />
of leadership and development. She focused<br />
on events and involvement for<br />
the college and professional age group,<br />
which led to the formation of the AMIT<br />
Future Leaders Initiative (AFLI). She<br />
now serves on the AMIT Board of Directors.<br />
Laurie has also served on the<br />
Board of Directors of the United Way<br />
and the Salute to Israel Parade. She is<br />
a past sisterhood president of the Young<br />
Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst and was<br />
a member of the Board of Education<br />
and the Executive Board of the Hebrew<br />
Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway.<br />
HAFTR Middle School Unveils the<br />
Olweus Bully Prevention Program<br />
This year, HAFTR Middle School<br />
implemented the Olweus Bully Prevention<br />
Program. Last year, the HAFTR<br />
Olweus Bully Prevention Coordinating<br />
Committee, composed of administrators,<br />
support staff, teachers, and parents,<br />
underwent an intensive two-day workshop<br />
given by a certified Olweus trainer.<br />
This September, the Committee provided<br />
an intensive one-day training for<br />
all HAFTR Middle School Staff. Mrs.<br />
Yali Werzberger, HAFTR’s Director of<br />
Student Services and School Psychologist,<br />
is the Program Coordinator for the<br />
Olweus Bully Prevention Program. She<br />
provided a comprehensive explanation<br />
of what the Olweus Bully Prevention is,<br />
why it is so effective, and how it differs<br />
from other programs that schools use to<br />
prevent bullying. Mrs. Jennifer Toscano-Phillips,<br />
BOCES School Psychologist,<br />
presented next, and discussed characteristics<br />
of students who bully and are<br />
victimized, as well as those who simply<br />
observe the bullying. Mr. Yeshaya Lieber,<br />
Dean of Encouragement, spoke<br />
about the school-wide level aspects of<br />
the Olweus Program. He analyzed positive<br />
and negative consequences to address<br />
bullying, and presented HAFTR’s<br />
school rules against bullying. Ms. Rebecca<br />
Zweibon, HAFTR’s Social Studies<br />
Teacher discussed the classroomlevel<br />
components of the program. She<br />
later met with individual teachers who<br />
will hold classroom meetings with their<br />
students throughout the year, which<br />
is instrumental in creating a sense of<br />
community and cohesion among students.<br />
Rabbi Avi Weber, Judaic Studies<br />
teacher, meanwhile, taught teachers<br />
how to intervene with the individual<br />
students who bully or are bullied, and<br />
help teachers practice intervening on<br />
the spot when they witness bullying.<br />
Lastly, Mrs. Estee Herskovics, BOCES<br />
Social Worker, stressed the importance<br />
of partnering with community organizations<br />
to help prevent bullying. She also<br />
discussed working with parents whose<br />
children bully others or are victims of<br />
bullying. On Friday, October 12th,<br />
HAFTR Middle School held a kick-off<br />
event to introduce the program to its students.<br />
At this assembly, the four Olweus<br />
“School Rules Against Bullying” were<br />
introduced through videos that students<br />
created. The videos were both fun and<br />
informative. A fifth rule, Ve’ahavta<br />
Le’reacha Kamocha (love your neighbor<br />
as you love yourself), was added, to<br />
help students understand that combating<br />
bullying is an integral part of Jewish<br />
beliefs. Each student was provided with<br />
a “band against bullying bracelet” as the<br />
end of the program. Students are now<br />
looking forward to beginning classroom<br />
meetings on bully prevention!<br />
Laurie is a graduate of Barnard College<br />
and Brooklyn Law School. She<br />
is a practicing attorney and partner in<br />
the law firm of Stern, Bryk and Hoffman.<br />
She has served as an arbitrator<br />
for the American Arbitration Association<br />
and guardian ad litem for the Surrogates<br />
Court of Kings County. She has<br />
been treasurer of the Barnard College<br />
Alumni Association and a member of<br />
Barnard’s President Advisory Council.<br />
Dr. Eli Bryk’s family has been<br />
deeply involved with AMIT for several<br />
generations, where his mother, a”h,<br />
aunts and cousins have served in leadership<br />
positions. His aunt Norma Holzer<br />
was a past president of AMIT, as was<br />
Norma’s mother Dina Dyckman when<br />
the organization was known as Mizrahi<br />
Women.<br />
Eli is chairman of the Department<br />
of Orthopaedic Surgery at New York<br />
Downtown Hospital in Manhattan, an<br />
affiliate of New York Presbyterian Hospital,<br />
and is a professor of clinical orthopaedic<br />
surgery at Weill Cornell Medical<br />
College. He is a fellow of the American<br />
College of Surgeons, the American<br />
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and<br />
the American Orthopaedic Association.<br />
Eli also has served as chairman of the<br />
section on orthopaedic surgery of the<br />
New York Academy of Medicine. He is<br />
a graduate of Columbia College and the<br />
Columbia University College of Physicians<br />
and Surgeons and trained in both<br />
general surgery and orthopaedic sur-<br />
National Council<br />
of Young Israel<br />
and Young Israel of<br />
Jamaica Estates are<br />
proud to present the<br />
highly-acclaimed<br />
SHALOM WORK-<br />
SHOP: MAKING<br />
GOOD MAR-<br />
RIAGES GREAT!<br />
The program will take place Motzai<br />
Shabbat, October 20, 2012, 8:30 PM, at<br />
Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, 83-10<br />
188th Street, Jamaica, New York. It is<br />
an evening for couples – sushi will be<br />
served.<br />
Presenters will be Rabbi Daniel<br />
Schonbuch, MA, Executive Direc-<br />
gery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical<br />
Center. Eli served for nearly a decade<br />
as chairman of the Academic Affairs<br />
Committee of Columbia College and<br />
continues to serve as a member of Columbia’s<br />
Board of Visitors. He is also a<br />
member of the Board of Directors of the<br />
Ramaz School.<br />
Laurie and Eli are the parents of six<br />
children, all of whom have continued<br />
the family’s involvement with AMIT.<br />
AMIT enables Israel’s youth to realize<br />
their potential and strengthens<br />
Israeli society by educating and nurturing<br />
children from diverse backgrounds<br />
within a framework of academic excellence,<br />
religious values and Zionist ideals.<br />
Some 70 percent of AMIT students<br />
live in development towns or other “peripheral”<br />
areas of the country. AMIT<br />
approaches each child as an individual,<br />
maximizing his or her potential,<br />
and enabling our students to become<br />
vital, productive members of Israeli<br />
society. The AMIT schools promote<br />
religious tolerance, service to the state<br />
and the recognition that every child is<br />
blessed with unique talents and abilities.<br />
Founded in 1925, AMIT operates<br />
108 schools, youth villages, surrogate<br />
family residences and other programs,<br />
constituting Israel’s only governmentrecognized<br />
network of religious Jewish<br />
education incorporating academic and<br />
technological studies.<br />
Making Good Marriages Great<br />
at YI Jamaica Estates<br />
tor, Shalom Task<br />
Force, and Esther<br />
Friedman, MSW,<br />
Director, SHALOM<br />
Workshop.<br />
Pre-registration<br />
is required<br />
for this program,<br />
which is offered at<br />
no charge to members<br />
of Young Israel of Jamaica Estates;<br />
$15 per couple for non-members of the<br />
synagogue.<br />
For more information or to register,<br />
please contact 212-929-1525 x112 or<br />
email jsteinig@youngisrael.org. Online<br />
registration is available at www.<br />
youngisrael.org/marriage.
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Pursue your interests and broaden your horizons!<br />
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“It was unbelievable,”<br />
remarked Reb Tully Neuman<br />
as he walked through<br />
the corridor of The Lakewood<br />
Cheder Sunday evening.<br />
Reb Tully, a Lakewood<br />
contractor, had just<br />
completed his Dirshu Kinyan<br />
Torah test on the last<br />
30 blatt of Daf Yomi. He<br />
joined hundreds of members<br />
of his home community<br />
and approximately<br />
15,000 Yidden across the<br />
globe who took Dirshu’s<br />
second monthly test of<br />
this Daf Yomi cycle over<br />
the weekend. This was<br />
Rabbi Neuman’s first Kinyan Torah test<br />
and he expressed his desire to take it<br />
every month from here and on, b’ezras<br />
Hashem, continuing the journey of<br />
strengthening the Torah learning in his<br />
busy daily schedule.<br />
“This is the second time that I’m<br />
learning Shas through Daf Yomi and<br />
I felt the need to ‘step it up,’” he explains.<br />
“You simply can’t compare your<br />
learning when you’re being tested to<br />
when you’re not.”<br />
Scene of Accomplishment<br />
The scene at the Cheder closely<br />
resembled the scene in over 60 cities<br />
throughout the globe where the hand of<br />
Dirshu’s Torah revolution has reached.<br />
Yeshiva bochurim, kollel yungerleit,<br />
mechanchim, businessmen and white<br />
bearded Yidden kept on streaming into<br />
the testing hall, sitting side by side immersed<br />
in thought as they filled out their<br />
test papers. Chassidim with long peyos<br />
sat alongside clean shaven Yidden; Ashkenazim<br />
sat alongside Sefardim; all of<br />
these cultural lines were fully blurred.<br />
Whether in North America on Sunday,<br />
or most of the rest of the globe two<br />
days earlier, the picture of those taking<br />
the Dirshu tests bespoke the diverse<br />
cross section of klal Yisroel that values<br />
their Torah learning. Only our timeless<br />
heritage can seamlessly unite Yidden of<br />
all ages and backgrounds, from regions<br />
ranging from North America and Israel,<br />
to England, France, Gibraltar and Venezuela.<br />
Those being tested got to choose<br />
from a variety of Dirshu tests as they<br />
approached the proctor’s table at each<br />
testing location. The Kinyan Torah tests<br />
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given each month on Daf Yomi seemed<br />
to be the most popular, with two tracks<br />
available, one on Gemara-Rashi, and<br />
one also on Tosafos. Others took the<br />
Daf Yomi B’Halacha test on Mishna<br />
Berurah, and others added the Dirshu<br />
Mishnayos test as well. You can spot<br />
several of those in the room hovering<br />
over more than one test. Dirshu also<br />
offers a weekly Daf HaYomi chazara,<br />
which can be taken at home and selfgraded.<br />
Tests on 120 blatt every four<br />
months are offered to those taking the<br />
monthly tests and the premier Dirshu<br />
test remains the Kinyan HaShas test,<br />
which features cumulative tests every<br />
six months and a final test on all of Shas<br />
at the end of the cycle.<br />
Dirshu indeed offers a stipend for<br />
those tested, commensurate with the<br />
mark achieved, but it quickly becomes<br />
clear that money is the last thing on<br />
everyone’s mind. “The test is itself the<br />
best chazara to see how well you know<br />
what you learned,” remarks Reb Mordechai<br />
Herzog, a middle-aged real estate<br />
developer who took both the Kinyan<br />
Torah and Kinyan Halacha. His<br />
son Yossi, a young bachur learning in<br />
Yeshivas Ponovez in Bnei Brak, sat several<br />
tables down taking the same two<br />
tests. He remarks that he typically takes<br />
the tests during the zman in Eretz Yisroel<br />
and has a married brother living in<br />
Yerushalayim taking the same two tests<br />
as his father and brother.<br />
“Three cities, two continents, but<br />
we’re all on the same page,” Yossi quips<br />
about the family Dirshu connection, one<br />
of many such instances.<br />
Raising the Bar<br />
By: Shimmy Blum<br />
The breadth of the age groups and<br />
the diversity of background and occupation<br />
of those taking the Dirshu tests<br />
bespeaks to the fact that the tests are<br />
simple and straightforward, while at the<br />
same time thorough and comprehensive.<br />
Anyone who learns the material<br />
and gets himself to review it can master<br />
the questions and gain immensely from<br />
the Dirshu system.<br />
This is the second Daf Yomi cycle<br />
that Dirshu has been offering these tests,<br />
and the success of the first test cycle has<br />
clearly caught on. The thousands of<br />
Yidden who have reviewed their limudim<br />
and better retained them for posterity<br />
has been celebrated during the recent<br />
Siyum Hashas. A majestic Dirshu<br />
Siyum Hashas, graced by the foremost<br />
gedolei Yisroel, was held in Tel Aviv. A<br />
major North American “Shabbos Kinnus<br />
Olam HaTorah” featuring Dirshu<br />
learners and graced by Gedolei Yisroel<br />
will iy”H be held next month in New<br />
York. This historic inspirational accomplishment<br />
encouraged previous test<br />
takers to continue down that path and<br />
inspired many others to join.<br />
Numbers don’t lie and the spike in<br />
test taking for this cycle tells a most<br />
welcome story. As he distributes tests<br />
to eager takers, Lakewood Dirshu proctor<br />
Rabbi Meir Brodsky relates that he<br />
distributed nearly 300 tests the previous<br />
month–the first of this cycle—triple<br />
or more of Lakewood’s average last<br />
cycle. Final numbers for this test were<br />
not yet processed but the filled room<br />
and constant stream of test takers entering<br />
the Cheder suggested that this<br />
month’s numbers are close to the previ-<br />
ous month’s high. Dirshu<br />
askanim from across the<br />
globe related similar observations.<br />
In talks with various<br />
test takers after they completed<br />
this test, the word<br />
“mechayev” was uttered<br />
by just about every single<br />
one of them. Dirshu tests<br />
“obligate” one both to<br />
learn more thoroughly and<br />
review and this obligation<br />
remains for the long term.<br />
The satisfaction of attaining<br />
this Torah knowledge<br />
becomes an integral part of<br />
life—one that drives you<br />
to retain and build upon.<br />
Reb Shmuel Becker, a kollel<br />
yungerman in Bais Medrash Govoha,<br />
relates that he had begun attending a<br />
local Mishna Berurah shiur some time<br />
ago and began taking the Dirshu Daf<br />
Yomi B’Halacha tests when he reached<br />
Hilchos Eruvin. Half a year since taking<br />
his first Dirshu test, Reb Shmuel<br />
doesn’t mince any words on how he<br />
sees the difference. “It’s day and night;<br />
between knowing it and not knowing<br />
it,” he states.<br />
Several minutes later, Reb Shmuel<br />
Weiss, a kollel yungerman and askan,<br />
heads home after completing his test on<br />
Mishna Berurah, and relates that for him<br />
it was Dirshu that actually propelled<br />
him to learn a halacha program in the<br />
first place. “You know that you’ll end<br />
up having gone through every halacha<br />
in Mishna Berurah,” he explains as his<br />
motivation. “You end up learning and<br />
understanding complex halachos like<br />
Hilchos Eruvin, which people are often<br />
afraid to learn [without a program].”<br />
The transformational power of<br />
Dirshu was perhaps most evident in the<br />
repeated presence of seasoned talmidei<br />
chachamim. One white bearded Yid<br />
taking the test relates that he has been<br />
learning full time in Lakewood’s Bais<br />
Medrash Govoha for over four decades,<br />
and welcomes the incentive to learn and<br />
review Shas once again. A young local<br />
talmid chacham, who delivers a daily<br />
Daf Yomi Shiur and tested himself on<br />
all of Shas in last cycle’s Kinyan Shas<br />
test, is glad to be taking the monthly<br />
tests too, this time on Tosafos as well.<br />
“It is a challenge and a new dimension<br />
in my learning,” he says.<br />
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When Olivia Deutsch of Cedarhurst,<br />
NY, first met matchmaker Mindy<br />
Eisenman, the idea of an online dating<br />
site seemed intimidating and unconventional—but<br />
Eisenman convinced her to<br />
give it a try.<br />
“She [Eisenman] explained to me<br />
that YUConnects caters to people from<br />
many different backgrounds and helped<br />
me understand how trained connectors<br />
were able to search a large database to<br />
connect singles with the same goals and<br />
interests,” said Deutsch, who is a nursing<br />
student at Hunter College. “I was<br />
convinced that signing up for YUConnects<br />
would increase my opportunities<br />
to meet prospects.”<br />
Deutsch was right, and she wasn’t<br />
alone. With her recent engagement to<br />
West Hempstead native Brandon Jerome,<br />
a 2009 graduate of Yeshiva University’s<br />
Sy Syms School of Business<br />
and accountant at Billet Feit & Preis<br />
PC, YUConnects celebrated its 100th<br />
match. Eisenman set Deutsch up with<br />
Jerome after getting to know him at a<br />
YUConnects Shabbaton in Teaneck,<br />
New Jersey.<br />
In 2008, after conversations with<br />
YU President Richard M. Joel and Dr.<br />
David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and<br />
Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and<br />
Jewish Education at YU’s Azrieli Graduate<br />
School of Jewish Education and<br />
Administration, YU’s Center for the<br />
Jewish Future (CJF) pooled its unique<br />
resources to create a program with a<br />
LOCAL<br />
Around the NEWS<br />
Community<br />
multi-faceted approach to<br />
the age-old issue of meeting<br />
a mate. The result was<br />
YUConnects, a program<br />
that offers multiple opportunities<br />
for YU students<br />
and alumni to meet. The<br />
involvement of everyone<br />
from roshei yeshiva<br />
to mental health professionals<br />
to academics, all<br />
working on larger, broader<br />
communal issues affectingrelationship-building,<br />
makes YUConnects<br />
unique. Both small and<br />
large scale social events,<br />
educational forums, networking<br />
evenings and an<br />
extensive online state-ofthe-art<br />
search engine are<br />
all part of the program.<br />
“Our numbers demonstrate, not<br />
only our growth, but the confidence that<br />
people have in YUConnects,” said Dr.<br />
Efrat Sobolofsky, the program’s director.<br />
“The academic research performed<br />
at YUConnects through the University’s<br />
resources drives the program’s mission<br />
to expand and improvise meeting<br />
and networking venues available today.<br />
Professional training is also given to<br />
volunteer connectors, whose efforts are<br />
focused on helping their members build<br />
long-lasting, healthy relationships.”<br />
YUConnects is facilitated by more<br />
than 100 trained YU Connectors. These<br />
Oy Vey!: Had Enough?<br />
The Republican Jewish Coalition,<br />
headed by Greg Menken (back row left,<br />
holding sign), at the demonstration at<br />
YUConnects Makes Its 100 th Match!<br />
PHOTO CREDIT: ARIELLA RECHTHAND<br />
Hofstra University before the Presidential<br />
Debate on October 16, 2012.<br />
By: Perel Skier<br />
dedicated, often seasoned matchmakers,<br />
many of whom are also YU alumni,<br />
get to know the singles signed up to the<br />
site and suggest match ideas for them.<br />
To widen the network of available men<br />
and women, YUConnects—powered by<br />
SawYouatSinai, one of the Jewish community’s<br />
largest dating sites—opened<br />
registration to the public in 2011 and<br />
now has more than 2,200 members. In<br />
April 2012, YUConnects also launched<br />
the Jewish Matchmaking Alliance<br />
(JMA), which brings the leaders of 12<br />
major organizations serving singles<br />
around the world together to share resources,<br />
professionalize education and<br />
increase collaborative efforts to enhance<br />
opportunities for the Orthodox<br />
Jewish singles population.<br />
“Under the leadership of Rebbetzin<br />
Dr. Efrat Sobolofsky, YU Connects is<br />
able to convene the research arms of<br />
the University to explore issues surrounding<br />
dating and relationships,” said<br />
Rabbi Kenneth Brander, David Mitzner<br />
Dean of the CJF. “We are then able to<br />
use this research and collaborate with<br />
the leadership of yeshivot and seminaries<br />
in Israel to simultaneously interact<br />
with thousands of our students and<br />
alumni to help them through their personal<br />
dating journey. We have created<br />
a model that both the larger Jewish and<br />
Orthodox communities look to for guidance<br />
in the area of connecting singles to<br />
their future spouses.”<br />
Towards that goal, YUConnects<br />
also hosts an array of events designed<br />
to enable singles to meet and network<br />
with each other in a facilitated,<br />
low-key environment.<br />
That includes<br />
events like a Salad Wars<br />
Barbeque and Food<br />
Competition in Woodmere<br />
last May and a<br />
roundtable event for<br />
young professionals this<br />
summer that discussed<br />
the challenges of being<br />
Jewish in the workplace.<br />
The program also sponsors<br />
a monthly co-ed<br />
shiur with YU rabbeim<br />
in Washington Heights<br />
and opportunities for<br />
chessed.<br />
“What is especially<br />
wonderful about YUConnects<br />
is that it doesn’t<br />
simply make online matches,” said<br />
Marjorie Glatt, YUConnects’ special<br />
projects coordinator. “By bringing men<br />
and women together in comfortable<br />
social events in various communities,<br />
YUConnects is actually changing the<br />
methods and ways young people meet<br />
today. Perhaps we can swing the pendulum<br />
back and make the entire process<br />
easier once again.”<br />
For Deutsch and Jerome, that personal<br />
attention and care played a pivotal<br />
role in helping them navigate the<br />
twists and turns of a new relationship.<br />
“We really loved working with Mindy<br />
Eisenman,” said Jerome. “She has a<br />
lot of experience and we both felt very<br />
comfortable calling to ask her various<br />
questions while dating.”<br />
Now planning their November wedding,<br />
the two feel they have learned a<br />
lot from their experience. “The dating<br />
process was challenging for me, but exciting<br />
at the same time,” said Deutsch.<br />
“This is a major step in one’s life and it<br />
should be handled very carefully.” She<br />
added: “The YUConnects staff is there<br />
to increase meeting venues for singles.<br />
Brandon and I have a tremendous<br />
amount of hakarat hatov to them, and<br />
we look forward to hearing about more<br />
smachot that come from this wonderful<br />
organization.”<br />
For more information about YUConnects<br />
and for a schedule of upcoming<br />
events, please visit www.yuconnects.<br />
com.
TJH: Hadassa, thank you for your<br />
time. How did you get involved with the<br />
JCCRP?<br />
HJ: Mr. Richard Altabe, a JCCRP<br />
Board Chairman and a close family<br />
friend, asked me to consider joining the<br />
JCCRP staff. Along with all the services<br />
the JCCRP offers, they were looking to<br />
add in-house counseling for the members<br />
of the community.<br />
TJH: What is your position in the<br />
organization?<br />
HJ: As a certified social worker, I<br />
will be offering social counseling for<br />
adults and children in individual and<br />
group settings. I am also involved in<br />
community outreach through shuls and<br />
yeshivas. At the JCCRP we offer so<br />
much to the community, but many people<br />
are unaware of all the services they<br />
can come to us for. I am working on<br />
making the community aware of all that<br />
the JCCRP offers and how our services<br />
can benefit families and members of our<br />
community.<br />
TJH: You’ve been there for a short<br />
while. Can you share with us an example<br />
of an individual/client you have<br />
recently helped?<br />
HJ: Sure. Recently a young mother<br />
with a baby came to the office. She had<br />
just moved to the community and she<br />
did not have health insurance for her<br />
baby. Her husband was in the process<br />
of changing jobs, and she worked part<br />
time and was not eligible for health<br />
insurance from her employer. She had<br />
heard about us from a friend, but was<br />
unsure whether or not she would be<br />
eligible for Medicaid or Family Health<br />
Plus. She needed information, she<br />
needed answers, and she needed help.<br />
She met with Lisa from the Health Insurance<br />
Department who went over all<br />
the enrollment information with her and<br />
found that her baby was eligible for<br />
Child Health Plus. Together, they filled<br />
out the forms, made copies of the necessary<br />
documents, and finished the application<br />
process right then and there.<br />
TJH: Wow, that sounds really great.<br />
It must make you feel good knowing that<br />
you can help people right her in our<br />
community. But tell me, how does the<br />
JCCRP differ from other organizations<br />
in the community?<br />
Focus on People<br />
Reaching Out to the Community<br />
TJH Interviews Hadassa Jacobowitz, LMSW from the JCCRP<br />
HJ: The JCCRP is unique in its<br />
ability to help an individual or family<br />
in crisis stabilize their situation. There<br />
are other organizations in the community<br />
that are essential<br />
in times of crisis but do<br />
not necessarily provide<br />
long term help. We offer<br />
our clients various<br />
avenues of assistance<br />
to help them stand on<br />
their own. We do not<br />
just hand out packages<br />
and say “come back<br />
next month.” We work<br />
with each individual<br />
and give them the time<br />
and attention they need<br />
to tap into the resources available so<br />
they can become self-sufficient.<br />
TJH: Can you give us a bit of background<br />
about the JCCRP?<br />
HJ: The Jewish Community Council<br />
of the Rockaway Peninsula is a community<br />
organization that offers a wide<br />
range of social services to residents of<br />
the 5 Boroughs. The JCCRP was founded<br />
in 1973 and has helped thousands of<br />
Jewish families over the years.<br />
TJH: You told us a little bit about<br />
what the JCCRP offers. What is the full<br />
list of services that people come to the<br />
JCCRP for?<br />
HJ: The following is a list of services<br />
the JCCRP offers:<br />
• Medicaid and Family Health<br />
Plusinformation and enrollment<br />
• Child Health Plus information<br />
and enrollment (including Nassau residents)<br />
• Medicare advocacy and enrollment<br />
• Food Stamp information and<br />
enrollment<br />
• Information, referrals and assistance<br />
with Government Benefits, including:<br />
Immigration, Social Security,<br />
SSI, SCRIE, and Section 8 Housing<br />
• Kosher Food Pantry<br />
• HEAP information and enrollment<br />
(heat subsidy)<br />
• Camp Scholarships, through<br />
the Rabbi Michael Scholar Summer<br />
Camp Scholarship Fund<br />
• FREE In-house counseling (including<br />
Nassau residents)<br />
TJH: Are there any other community<br />
activities sponsored by the JCCRP<br />
that our readers should look out for in<br />
the coming months?<br />
HJ: This summer<br />
the JCCRP awarded<br />
camp scholarships<br />
through its Rabbi Michael<br />
Scholar Summer<br />
Camp Scholarship program<br />
to 130 children.<br />
On Labor Day, the JC-<br />
CRP, together with the<br />
White Shul Youth, cosponsored<br />
their Opening<br />
Day Carnival, a<br />
free carnival complete<br />
with rides, games, face<br />
painting and refreshments. October 15 th<br />
marks the beginning of the Open Enrollment<br />
period for Medicare Part D. Those<br />
interested in making changes to their<br />
Medicare prescriptionplans and Medi-<br />
Susan Schwamm<br />
care Advantage plans should contact us<br />
now. In the next couple of weeks we<br />
will begin our HEAP program, in which<br />
eligible residents can apply for subsidies<br />
towards their heating bills. This<br />
is available to both homeowners and<br />
renters. At the end of the year, in June,<br />
we have our annual free concert in Far<br />
Rockaway, marking the end of the year.<br />
TJH: Fantastic! How does someone<br />
get in touch with the JCCRP?<br />
HJ: Our office is open Monday-<br />
Thursday (9-5) and Fridays (9-2). We<br />
encourage everyone to contact us if they<br />
need information, if they are looking for<br />
answers, or if they are in need of help.<br />
Our staff is here to assist you, and we<br />
take the utmost care to protect the privacy<br />
of each individual. We are located at<br />
1525 Central Avenue in Far Rockaway<br />
and clients can call us at 718-327-7755.<br />
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9 10<br />
13<br />
you Gotta be<br />
kidding!<br />
Submitted by Carey Melohn<br />
The Italian says, “I’m tired<br />
and thirsty. I must have wine.”<br />
The Mexican says, “I’m tired<br />
and thirsty. I must have tequila.”<br />
The Scot says, “I’m tired and<br />
thirsty. I must have Scotch.”<br />
The Swede says, “I’m tired<br />
and thirsty. I must have aquavit.”<br />
The Japanese says, “I’m tired<br />
and thirsty. I must have sake.”<br />
The Russian says, “I’m tired and thirsty.<br />
I must have vodka.”<br />
The German says, “I’m tired and thirsty.<br />
I must have beer.”<br />
The Greek says, “I’m tired and thirsty.<br />
I must have ouzo.”<br />
The Jew says, “I’m tired and thirsty.<br />
I must have diabetes.”<br />
1 2<br />
11<br />
5<br />
12<br />
4<br />
6 7 8<br />
14<br />
15<br />
3<br />
Riddle<br />
Submitted by Chani Green<br />
A king has a treasure in a safe. He says<br />
to one of his advisors, if you figure out<br />
which key unlocks the safe in five minutes<br />
or less, you can have the treasure.<br />
The king then lays five colored keys<br />
in a row. One of them is a key to the<br />
safe. Using the clues, can you determine<br />
the order of the keys and which is the right<br />
key?<br />
Red: This key is somewhere to the left of the key<br />
to the safe.<br />
Blue: This key is not at one of the ends.<br />
Green: This key is three spaces away from the key to the<br />
safe (two between).<br />
Yellow: This key is next to the key to the safe.<br />
Orange: This key is in the middle.<br />
DOWN<br />
2. This hero once again<br />
becomes Prime Minister of<br />
England for a second time.<br />
3. This inventor figures out<br />
how to keep an electric<br />
incandescent lamp lit for<br />
over 13 hours.<br />
4. Couldn’t pick a better month<br />
to discover the Bahamas.<br />
7. Brooklyn loses its pride and<br />
joy.<br />
8. Egyptian president<br />
assassinated.<br />
9. Fall classic.<br />
11. Born in Malaga, Spain<br />
on October 25, 1881, he<br />
became a world renowned<br />
artist.<br />
12. A legendary NY Jets plays<br />
his last game in the NFL as<br />
QB.<br />
ACROSS<br />
ACROSS<br />
1. Groucho Marx<br />
5. Great Chicago Fire<br />
6. United Nations<br />
10. Acquit<br />
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger<br />
14. Mount Rushmore<br />
15. Babe Ruth<br />
Answer on next page<br />
1. Chico and Harpo’s brother<br />
celebrated his birthday in<br />
this month.<br />
5. The cow kicked over Ms.<br />
O’Leary’s lantern causing<br />
this fire in October.<br />
6. Founded after WWII as a<br />
replacement for the League<br />
of Nations.<br />
10. “If it don’t fit, you must<br />
_______.”<br />
13. The Terminator elected<br />
governor of California<br />
(good luck spelling his<br />
name).<br />
14. Presidential rocks.<br />
15. This baseball great<br />
makes his final pitching<br />
appearance and true to his<br />
name, also hits a home run<br />
in the game.<br />
DOWN<br />
2. Churchill<br />
3. Thomas Edison<br />
4. Christopher Columbus<br />
7. Dodgers<br />
8. Sadat<br />
9. World Series<br />
11. Picasso<br />
12. Joe Namath
Debate Trivia Answers<br />
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1. Which president is largely credited with<br />
coming up with the concept of political<br />
debates?<br />
a. Thomas Jefferson<br />
b. Abraham Lincoln<br />
c. Teddy Roosevelt<br />
d. Richard Nixon<br />
2. The first televised presidential debate<br />
was between:<br />
a. Franklin Roosevelt / Alf Landon<br />
b. Harry Truman / Thomas Dewey<br />
c. John F. Kennedy / Richard Nixon<br />
d. Gerald Ford / Jimmy Carter<br />
3. Who quoted his 13 year old daughter in a debate<br />
as support of what the most important election<br />
issue was?<br />
a. Jimmy Carter<br />
b. Bill Clinton<br />
c. Al Gore<br />
d. Walter Mondale<br />
4. What was the most watched debate of all time?<br />
a. 1960, JFK/Nixon debate<br />
b. 1992, Clinton/Bush/Perot<br />
c. 2004, 2nd debate Bush/Kerry<br />
d. 2012, 1st debate Obama/Romney<br />
5. What did<br />
Reagan<br />
respond<br />
when the<br />
moderator<br />
asked him<br />
about Walter<br />
Mondale’s<br />
allegations<br />
that Reagan<br />
was too old for the presidency?<br />
a. “ Age is just a number”<br />
b. “I can still beat him in a marathon”<br />
Seen on…<br />
Plumber’s truck - “I repair what your husband fixed.”<br />
Pizza shop - “Buy my pizza. I knead the dough.”<br />
Optometrist’s office - “If you don’t see what you’re<br />
looking for, you’ve come to the right place.”<br />
Podiatrist’s office - “Time wounds all heels.”<br />
Restaurant window - “Don’t stand there and be<br />
hungry. Come on in and get fed up.”<br />
Front yard of funeral home - “Drive carefully. I’ll wait.”<br />
c. “Too what? Let me turn my<br />
hearing aid up.”<br />
d. “I am not going to exploit,<br />
for political purposes, my<br />
opponent’s youth and<br />
inexperience.”<br />
6. The famous vice<br />
presidential debate line of<br />
“Jack Kennedy was a friend<br />
of mine. Senator, you’re no<br />
Jack Kennedy” was said by<br />
whom to whom?<br />
a. Lloyd Bentsen to Dan Quayle in 1988<br />
b. Dick<br />
Cheney to<br />
John Edwards<br />
in 2004<br />
c. Bob Dole<br />
to Walter<br />
Mondale in<br />
1976<br />
d. Hubert<br />
Humphrey to<br />
William Miller<br />
in 1964<br />
7. What did George H. W. Bush do during the 1992<br />
debate that is accredited with his loss in that<br />
debate?<br />
a. He repeatedly looked at his watch<br />
b. He dozed off<br />
c. He kept repeating himself<br />
d. He left in the middle to go to the restroom<br />
8. How many times did Joe Biden interrupt Paul<br />
Ryan in their vice presidential debate last week?<br />
a. 8<br />
b. 14<br />
c. 23<br />
d. 82<br />
1. B- The concept of political debates is largely<br />
credited to a senatorial debate between Abraham<br />
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858. This debate,<br />
with no moderator or panel, was the result of<br />
Lincoln following Douglas on his campaign trail<br />
around the state, goading him from the audience<br />
during campaign speeches. The pair eventually<br />
took the stage together for three hours to debate the<br />
moral and economic quandaries posed by slavery.<br />
2. C- The first debate between Nixon and Kennedy<br />
is credited with turning around the race.<br />
Close to 70 million people watched the debate.<br />
Although those listening on radio said that Nixon<br />
was the clear winner, those watching on TV overwhelmingly<br />
felt that Kennedy won. Due to a recent<br />
bout with the flu, Nixon looked tired and haggard.<br />
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley noted about Nixon’s<br />
appearance in the debate, “My G-d, they’ve<br />
embalmed him before he even died.”<br />
3. A- While discussing what the most pressing<br />
issue of the day was, Carter said, “I think to<br />
close out this discussion, it would be better to put<br />
into perspective what we’re talking about. I had a<br />
discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day,<br />
before I came here, to ask her what the most important<br />
issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry—and<br />
the control of nuclear arms.” Amy was<br />
13 years old at the time.<br />
4. B- 97 million people watched the 1992 presidential<br />
debate between Clinton, Bush and Perot.<br />
The least watched debate was in 1996 between<br />
Clinton and Bob Dole, with only 37 million tuning<br />
in.<br />
5. D<br />
6. A<br />
7. A- He later explained that he was doing so to<br />
signal to the moderator that Bill Clinton repeatedly<br />
exceeded the allotted time to answer questions.<br />
8. D- Joe, your mom would not be proud.<br />
Political wisdom key<br />
6-8 correct: You are a great politician! Now can<br />
you give me back that money you stole from me<br />
please?<br />
3-5 correct: If you were in a debate, you would<br />
definitely lose; you just are not quick on your feet.<br />
0-2 correct: You are—Mr. Biden, please don’t<br />
interrupt me—like Jimmy Carter—Mr. Biden, I<br />
said stop interrupting me—or Barack Obama, you<br />
really need to brush up on your debating skills.<br />
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The story<br />
of Israel’s<br />
burgeoning<br />
energy industry<br />
is absolutely<br />
fascinating as<br />
it reinforces the<br />
“can do” spirit of<br />
the Jewish nation.<br />
While its neighboring countries account<br />
for four of the top six oil producers in<br />
the world, Israel—ranked way down<br />
the list at number 98—is rising to<br />
the occasion by discovering creative<br />
alternative energy solutions.<br />
We have previously focused on (1)<br />
Better Place, the Israeli company providing<br />
a model for a worldwide electric<br />
car grid; (2) Israel’s recent discovery<br />
of significant gas fields; and (3) the<br />
country’s burgeoning oil shale industry.<br />
Let’s now focus on a creative hydroelectric<br />
development by an Israeli company<br />
called Leviathan Energy (hat tip to<br />
Israel in the 21 st century).<br />
Hydroelectricity is the term for converting<br />
the energy of running water into<br />
electricity. Hydroelectricity plays a major<br />
role in today’s<br />
energy landscape,<br />
as it accounts for<br />
almost 20% of the<br />
world’s electric<br />
consumption.<br />
Traditionally,<br />
hydropower has<br />
been produced<br />
through dams using<br />
the gravitational<br />
force generated by<br />
waterfalls or flowing<br />
water. In simple<br />
terms, the dam traps the water, and<br />
the water then flows with great pressure<br />
through channels, turning a large wheel<br />
called a turbine which, through a series<br />
of activities, generates electricity.<br />
A team of researchers at Leviathan<br />
Energy are turning the traditional model<br />
on its head, proving that you don’t need<br />
to build expensive dams to produce<br />
hydroelectricity. They have created a<br />
turbine which can operate using water<br />
flowing in a city’s existing water supply<br />
system, turning excess pressure into energy.<br />
This new turbine has been named<br />
Benkatina as a tribute to Benkatin, the<br />
high priest during the Second Temple<br />
who created twelve faucets for the laver<br />
– it originally had only two faucets – so<br />
My Israel home<br />
Gedaliah Borvick<br />
Groundbreaking Innovations<br />
in Hydroelectricity<br />
that all participants<br />
in the Temple’s<br />
daily sacrifices<br />
were able to purify<br />
themselves at once.<br />
The Benkatina<br />
turbine, which is<br />
currently undergoing<br />
pilot programs<br />
in Israel and the Philippines, has created<br />
tremendous excitement in the industry<br />
as it produces new energy without having<br />
to change the existing water infrastructure.<br />
In addition, it solves a major<br />
problem that has plagued water systems<br />
– leaks – which, according to some estimates,<br />
wastes up to $14 billion of water<br />
per year. The Benkatina turbine will be<br />
installed in locations of the piping system<br />
that have extra pressure, thereby<br />
decreasing the excess water pressure,<br />
which would otherwise lead to leaks.<br />
As the cost is relatively inexpensive<br />
to harvest this energy, the plan is that by<br />
next year to place hundreds, and possibly<br />
even thousands, of these turbines in<br />
Israel’s waterways to alleviate the stress<br />
on the country’s severely overextended<br />
electric grid.<br />
One final benefit<br />
of the of the<br />
Benkatina turbine<br />
system is its ecological<br />
advantage<br />
over traditional<br />
large dams. Dams<br />
have an adverse<br />
effect on the ecosystem,<br />
affecting<br />
many things, including<br />
species in<br />
the area as well as<br />
water quality. In contrast, the Benkatina<br />
turbine is more environmentally viable<br />
as it does not alter the surrounding environment.<br />
Between generating new electricity<br />
in a relatively inexpensive manner, limiting<br />
the traditional problem of water<br />
leaks, and being ecologically friendly,<br />
the Benkatina has all the makings of an<br />
industry-changing innovation.<br />
Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel<br />
Home, a real estate agency focused on helping<br />
people from abroad buy and sell homes<br />
in Israel. You may contact him at gborvick@<br />
gmail.com. To read previous articles, please<br />
visit his blog at www.myisraelhome.com.<br />
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You gotta believe. Day in, day out<br />
for 120 years, Noach built an ark.<br />
Naysayers and scoffers chided<br />
him, mocked him, and continued on<br />
their path to self-destruction. But<br />
Noach continued to build.<br />
It must have been terribly difficult<br />
for Noach. A man alone, predicting calamity.<br />
He was the only human doing<br />
something to save himself. Yet, despite<br />
10 years of outreach and cajoling to curious<br />
onlookers to mend their evil ways,<br />
he was not able to persuade one member<br />
of civilization to join him. Why?<br />
The Torah tells us that when Noach<br />
finally entered the ark for the journey of<br />
salvation amidst the world’s destruction<br />
he almost had to be forced. “And Noach<br />
entered the ark because of the flood<br />
waters” (Genesis 7:7). Rashi explains<br />
that even Noach himself was considered<br />
one of those with only modest<br />
faith. Noah did not enter the ark until<br />
the rains fell and he realized that disaster<br />
was imminent.<br />
Surely his failing was minute by our<br />
standards. After all, Noah was handpicked<br />
by G-d Almighty to save and<br />
perpetuate civilization. Yet his minor<br />
flaw is recorded. There must be a les-<br />
Dear Rabbi,<br />
If scientists were to successfully<br />
clone a human being and would artificially<br />
create a human in a laboratory,<br />
would the clone be considered human<br />
according to Halachah? If cloned from a<br />
Jew, would the clone be Jewish?<br />
The Rabbi Responds:<br />
Believe it or not, the question you<br />
ask is not theoretical and not even new.<br />
It was discussed by the Chacham Tzvi<br />
over 300 years ago! Not because scientists<br />
in the 17 th century were on the verge<br />
of creating artificial humans, but because<br />
the Talmud tells us that there were<br />
sages who successfully created artificial<br />
humans. One of the earliest and famous<br />
Kabbalistic works is the legendary Sefer<br />
Yetzirah (Book of Creation). The Talmud<br />
relates that Rav Chanina and Rav<br />
Oshia would have a weekly study session<br />
in the Sefer Yetzira and then would<br />
create an artificial calf and eat it on the<br />
Sabbath. Rava created a man and sent<br />
him to Rav Zerah (Tractate Sanhedrin<br />
Parsha Parables<br />
Ark D’Triumph<br />
son for all of us in the Torah’s documentation<br />
of it.<br />
British physician John Abernathy, in<br />
addition to being<br />
a renowned<br />
surgeon and<br />
teacher in the<br />
late 18th century,<br />
helped patients<br />
with an array of<br />
emotional problems.<br />
He once<br />
related the story<br />
of a patient who<br />
entered his clinic<br />
complaining of<br />
severe bouts of<br />
melancholy and<br />
depression. It seems that the artisan lost<br />
faith in his own abilities. He felt he was<br />
not living up to his normal standard.<br />
He was beginning to fail at his life’s<br />
work. After examining him, Dr. Abernathy<br />
made a simple suggestion.<br />
“Go see the famous comedian,<br />
Grimaldi. He is known to cheer those<br />
who are depressed and he would do<br />
wonders for your spirit. He will make<br />
you laugh and that would be better than<br />
any drug I should prescribe.”<br />
One can build great<br />
arks, but unless the<br />
passiOn Of his faith<br />
exudes frOm his<br />
sOul, it may never<br />
tOuch Others.<br />
The patient looked even glummer.<br />
“It won’t help me,” sighed the despondent<br />
patient. “I am Grimaldi.”<br />
N o a c h<br />
worked extremely<br />
hard to build<br />
the ark, but he<br />
could not rehabilitate<br />
one soul.<br />
Perhaps the Torah<br />
tells us this<br />
reason why he<br />
was unable to<br />
convince anyone<br />
to join him.<br />
Noach himself<br />
would not<br />
enter the ark<br />
until the rains forced him in. He did<br />
not run to the boat with a battle cry of<br />
unshaken faith. For whatever reason,<br />
perhaps he felt that G-d’s compassion<br />
would ultimately overcome His wrath,<br />
still, he did not show clear, unwavering<br />
belief that the flood would come.<br />
In order to bring Jews close to Torah,<br />
in order to build souls, one must<br />
be steeped in the faith so powerfully<br />
that he need not be pushed into his own<br />
ark of his own salvation. In addition<br />
Ask the Rabbi<br />
Can You Clone a Jew?<br />
65b). There are many legends of great<br />
rabbis who created artificial humans,<br />
most notably, Rabbi Yehuda Lowe, the<br />
Maharal of Prague (1520-1609), and the<br />
“golem” he made to protect the Jews of<br />
Prague from the persecution of gentile<br />
hoodlums. While the sources for these<br />
legends and their veracity are challenged,<br />
the accounts of the Talmud made<br />
the discussion of the Halachic status of<br />
such creatures possible.<br />
Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi (1656-1718),<br />
author of the Chacham Tzvi, was asked<br />
if a golem could be counted as the 10 th<br />
man for a minyan (quorum of men necessary<br />
for a public prayer service and the<br />
recitation of Kaddish). He responds by<br />
first saying that it was reported that his<br />
own grandfather once created a golem.<br />
(Rabbi Tzvi’s son, Rabbi Yaakov Emden,<br />
wrote that his father further related<br />
to him that when his great-grandfather<br />
saw that the golem was growing too<br />
powerful, he feared it would cause mass<br />
destruction, so he caused it to die by removing<br />
the piece of parchment which<br />
had the Name of G-d inscribed on it, but<br />
was wounded by the golem in the struggle.)<br />
He then continues by stating that<br />
to kill such a creature is not considered<br />
murder, for the verse that states (Gen.<br />
8:6) “Whoever shall shed the blood of a<br />
man, by man...” implying that the prohibition<br />
only applies to human born from<br />
a human, and not created artificially. He<br />
then continues quoting the above mentioned<br />
passage in the Talmud, where<br />
it adds that when Rav Zerah spoke to<br />
the “man” and received no response (a<br />
golem cannot talk), he exclaimed, “You<br />
are a creature of one of our colleagues.<br />
Return to your dust!” If such a being<br />
would count for a minyan, it would be<br />
a creature of value and forbidden to destroy<br />
it without just cause.<br />
If a human embryo was cloned and<br />
implanted in a Jewish woman’s womb,<br />
the child would be considered fully Jewish,<br />
regardless of who the person was<br />
cloned from. (According to most authorities,<br />
a host surrogate mother is considered<br />
the Halachik mother of the child.)<br />
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky<br />
to building it, he must breathe it, live it<br />
and be totally committed to it.<br />
One can build great arks, but unless<br />
the passion of his faith exudes from<br />
his soul, it may never touch others. He<br />
may save himself and his family, but no<br />
more.<br />
My grandfather, zt”l, once told me<br />
that if a certain secular writer would<br />
have seen the Chofetz Chaim, he would<br />
never have believed that man evolved<br />
from a monkey. The Chofetz Chaim’s<br />
radiance emanated a spirit which thundered<br />
the sanctity of his very essence.<br />
In order to promote true faith one<br />
must be unwavering in his own commitment.<br />
Any lack thereof, albeit well<br />
intentioned, may get lost in a large,<br />
doubting crowd. For without one’s own<br />
sense of absolute faith he will never<br />
lead others into his own ark d’triumph.<br />
Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky is the Rosh Yeshiva<br />
of Yeshiva Toras Chaim at South Shore,<br />
a weekly columnist for Yated Neeman and<br />
AMI magazine, and the author of the Parsha<br />
Parable series.<br />
Yehoshua Levi<br />
If science is ever able to invent a functional<br />
human incubator, and claimed<br />
to clone a fully developed human in a<br />
laboratory setting, it would make for<br />
sensational Halachik discussion, but the<br />
conclusion would probably be that an<br />
artificially created human is not Jewish<br />
and not human. But for now it’s science<br />
fiction and will most likely remain that<br />
way, for only G-d can breathe soul into<br />
the body of man.<br />
Yours truly,<br />
R’ Yehoshua Levi<br />
**The answers written herein are not<br />
intended to paskin any shailos. Please<br />
consult your rabbi for proper guidance.<br />
Yehoshua Levi, a teacher of Torah, is a writer<br />
and lecturer who dares to think outside the box<br />
to bring his thought-provoking insights and<br />
facts to his readers. He welcomes your comments<br />
and can be reached at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.<br />
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Someone once commented to me<br />
that when he bumps into his child’s<br />
Rebbi outside of the yeshiva setting<br />
he avoids discussing anything other than<br />
the most basic pleasantries. Just as we<br />
wouldn’t pester a doctor or lawyer with<br />
work-related matters at a social function,<br />
Rebbeim deserve to be afforded the<br />
same courtesy, and shouldn’t have to<br />
encounter a PTA conference every<br />
time they’re at a wedding. From a<br />
parent’s standpoint this is an important<br />
realization. Just because someone<br />
teaches your child doesn’t mean his day<br />
revolves around you. He (or she) has<br />
his own life and family to worry about,<br />
and if he’s like most mechanchim, he’s<br />
carrying a heavy burden doing side<br />
work to fill basic parnasah needs. He’s<br />
entitled to downtime just like the rest<br />
of us.<br />
But upon hearing this something<br />
troubled me. How can a Rebbi not be<br />
interested in discussing his talmidim at<br />
A Clearer Perspective<br />
Living Our Lives by Helping Others<br />
all times? Isn’t that what he’s devoted<br />
his life to? On the other hand, I often<br />
hear people opine about what Rebbeim<br />
should be doing to improve and think,<br />
“What gives you the right to criticize<br />
an experienced professional?” Here I<br />
am guilty of doing the same thing. After<br />
observing several remarkable people<br />
who are not in chinuch, I discovered the<br />
answer.<br />
There’s a frum, family-run grocery<br />
store in my community of Kew Gardens.<br />
It’s been there for decades, and the family<br />
who owns it is as generous and friendly<br />
as any I’ve ever met. Shopping there<br />
is mystifyingly enjoyable—it’s small,<br />
and yet they carry every product imaginable.<br />
If you can’t find what you’re looking<br />
for, the store owners appear instantly<br />
to find it for you. And it gets better. They<br />
know each family intimately, and have<br />
their personal shopping needs committed<br />
to memory. When I walk in I’m immediately<br />
greeted with my favorite cut<br />
of cholent meat. They literally care about<br />
each customer and treat them as part of<br />
their extended family.<br />
They’re exceedingly generous as<br />
well. They apologize if they’re forced<br />
to raise prices. Many customers have<br />
accounts, and those in serious financial<br />
need sometimes go months on end with<br />
unpaid balances, without a hint of discomfort.<br />
The storekeepers even arrange<br />
large amounts of tzedakah contributions<br />
to help these people pay their bills and<br />
do it graciously and discreetly.<br />
I also know a distinguished individual,<br />
an attorney, who is a pillar of his<br />
community. He’s involved in a wide variety<br />
of programs and organizations. He<br />
is literally bombarded with meshulachim<br />
on a constant basis. When total strangers<br />
come to his door he’d be more than justified<br />
to hand them a check and send them<br />
on their way. Yet, he welcomes them into<br />
his home and treats them with the utmost<br />
respect and dignity—again and again.<br />
I once had a legal question to ask<br />
him and was very apprehensive. I<br />
wasn’t even sure he knew my name. Yet<br />
he generously gave his valuable time<br />
to help me deal with the issue. More<br />
striking yet, he took a genuine interest<br />
in my problem and made me feel like I<br />
was a personal friend or family member<br />
in need of help. Walking away from that<br />
conversation, I was on a high of sorts,<br />
and tried to reflect on what exactly he<br />
had done to make me feel so good. The<br />
answer is he made me feel important.<br />
This esteemed individual truly cared<br />
about my well-being.<br />
We all know doctors who are available<br />
around the clock to let our children<br />
(and ourselves) into their homes<br />
and intrude upon their precious quality<br />
time with their families. These people<br />
are not doing it for money or kavod or<br />
because it helps them expand their business.<br />
They often do it at great personal<br />
expense. They simply care about their<br />
fellow human being.<br />
The impact this has on a community<br />
is immeasurable. Rashi explains in<br />
this week’s parsha that as great a tzaddik<br />
as Noach was, he’d have been that<br />
much greater had he lived in the time of<br />
Avraham Avinu. When people treat one<br />
another with true kindness and consideration<br />
it tends to spread throughout the<br />
community.<br />
This same phenomenon is true in a<br />
yeshiva. There is a certain elementary<br />
school Rebbi who devotes his life to his<br />
Rabbi Yaakov Margulies<br />
talmidim. His affection for them manifests<br />
itself in countless ways, and they<br />
and their parents feel mutually toward<br />
him. A colleague of his described the<br />
standard he sets for the other Rebbeim to<br />
live up to. His wife gave birth to a baby<br />
at 1 AM, and he was in yeshiva the following<br />
morning energized as always. It<br />
hadn’t occurred to him to not show up, to<br />
abandon his precious talmidim. The colleague<br />
explained that the other Rebbeim<br />
in the yeshiva feel pressure to live up to<br />
this precedent, along with many others<br />
he’s set.<br />
This means that when we go out of<br />
our way to help others the effect is increased<br />
exponentially. Not only are we<br />
caring for our fellow human beings,<br />
we’re also setting a standard by which<br />
others will judge what’s expected of<br />
them in their dealings with their friends<br />
and neighbors.<br />
In almost any profession, there are<br />
two types—those who do the bare minimum<br />
expected of them, and those who<br />
go far beyond the call of duty and use<br />
their occupation as a means of contributing<br />
to society. This is true of most careers,<br />
from grocers, to lawyers, to Rebbeim.<br />
We certainly cannot demand of<br />
any individual to extend himself beyond<br />
reasonable expectations, and we must respect<br />
their right to not be burdened with<br />
their jobs after hours.<br />
But when we decide which path is<br />
more rewarding in our own lives, the<br />
choice is clear. Being someone who goes<br />
out of his way to take care of people, to<br />
guide children on the right path, to ease<br />
the burden of those who are struggling,<br />
that is the measure of true success. In doing<br />
so, you’ll be a role model for your<br />
children, and a leader of your community.<br />
It may not be expected of every<br />
Rebbi, but it’s certainly the type of Rebbi<br />
I want for my children, and the type I’d<br />
like to strive to become.<br />
Rabbi Yaakov Margulies is an ordained rabbi,<br />
and teaches gemara in a Yeshiva high school.<br />
He also mentors and counsels people of all<br />
ages, focusing on personal growth, and emotional,<br />
spiritual, and intellectual development.<br />
To schedule a one-on-one session or a lecture,<br />
please call 917-841-5012 and leave a message,<br />
or email editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.<br />
Disclaimer: This column is not intended as<br />
a replacement for Daas Torah. Whenever necessary,<br />
a Rav should be consulted.
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Probably one of the most<br />
frequently used adjectives,<br />
which is intended to be very clear<br />
but actually conveys almost no actual<br />
information, is the word “normal.”<br />
In preparation for this article, my<br />
editor told me that many other writers<br />
are writing about “getting back to normal.”<br />
I assume the intention was that as<br />
we leave the “Holiday season” of Rosh<br />
HaShana through Sukkos, especially<br />
since we barely went three days without<br />
having to cook and eat large meals,<br />
take off of work, and wear our Shabbos<br />
and Yom Tov finery, people are looking<br />
forward to having a six-day workweek<br />
again and not having to cram anymore,<br />
be it meetings and work into reduced<br />
hours or challah and food into expanded<br />
bodies.<br />
In this case, the word normal would<br />
likely convey that we are going back<br />
to the routine we had before Yom Tov<br />
began, the typical rat race we’re all so<br />
used to. In truth, however, the word<br />
normal is entirely subjective and not descriptive<br />
at all, plus it’s very overrated.<br />
When asking a girl what kind of<br />
shidduch she wants, she will often answer,<br />
“frum, but normal.” That is really<br />
not helpful. Depending on the girl,<br />
that might mean that he is in Kollel but<br />
is willing to wear a short-sleeve white<br />
shirt when he’s sick at home just as<br />
easily as it could mean that he wears a<br />
yarmulke under his motorcycle helmet<br />
and enjoys extreme skydiving and African<br />
safaris. Normal is relative to the<br />
person using the word, the times, the<br />
peer groups, and basically resides in the<br />
realm of the unknown. Conveying your<br />
own idea of normal is as easy as trying<br />
to nail jello to the wall.<br />
“Getting back to normal,” on the<br />
other hand, is a bit easier to explain, as<br />
it means to have life proceed the way it<br />
had been proceeding until a recent upheaval<br />
or change. I wonder, though, if<br />
getting back to normal is automatically<br />
a good thing. Sure, it may put us in our<br />
comfort zone, but is it the best thing?<br />
I’ve mentioned before how after the<br />
September 11 th attacks I heard two people<br />
discussing the carnage and the loss,<br />
but ended the conversation by sighing<br />
and saying, “Well, life goes on.” I<br />
was incensed. Life isn’t supposed to<br />
just “go on.” You’re supposed to learn<br />
from the events that transpire and try to<br />
change. I think the same applies here.<br />
The Observant Jew<br />
Getting Back To Normal<br />
Over the summer, things were moving<br />
along as they tend to do: camp,<br />
trips, work, and then suddenly – ELUL.<br />
We started becoming a bit more serious,<br />
a bit more somber, and a bit more<br />
responsible. Maybe we cried over Rosh<br />
HaShana or Yom Kippur. Maybe we rejoiced<br />
over Sukkos. Should we ignore<br />
all those stimuli and go back to the way<br />
things were before? What happened to<br />
our ability to transform?<br />
Ahh…but that’s the actual beauty<br />
of the word normal. You see, once you<br />
change your routine for a while, the new<br />
behavior becomes the “norm.” Let’s<br />
say you decide to say good morning<br />
to people you meet, even if you don’t<br />
know them. At first it is awkward, but<br />
over time, it gets less so, until you find<br />
that if you DON’T say good morning to<br />
strangers, you feel uncomfortable. It’s<br />
simply not normal to ignore them!<br />
I, myself, used to force myself to<br />
listen to a Torah lecture for at least a<br />
little of my commute. Over time, if I<br />
got in the car and didn’t instantly put<br />
on a shiur, I felt like I couldn’t breathe.<br />
Now, you may say, “Well, for a tzaddik<br />
like you that makes sense,” but the difference<br />
is that I know me, even if you<br />
don’t, and I know what a big deal that<br />
was for me. If I can do it, anyone can.<br />
Have you ever heard the phrase<br />
“second nature?” It refers to something<br />
that wasn’t natural at first, but after repeated<br />
practice becomes as natural to<br />
someone as the instincts they were born<br />
with. If you learn the laws of Lashon<br />
Hara and work on heeding them, when<br />
someone uses negativity against another,<br />
it will get under your skin and make<br />
you very uncomfortable. Even if you<br />
yourself used to engage in gossip and<br />
defamation constantly, by repeatedly<br />
making a conscious effort to change,<br />
it will become easier and you will feel<br />
that you simply can’t besmirch another.<br />
By choosing to change your defini-<br />
tion of normal, which is entirely your<br />
prerogative to do, you can change your<br />
life. By not just reverting to old habits,<br />
instead of “getting back to normal,”<br />
you can update what normal is. That is<br />
power!<br />
by nOt just reverting tO Old habits,<br />
instead Of “getting back tO nOrmal,” yOu can<br />
update what nOrmal is. that is pOwer!<br />
So, as we head into winter, with the<br />
days of Elul and Tishrei fading into the<br />
horizon, let’s choose not to leave them<br />
behind, but rather to take the inspirations<br />
of those days and project them<br />
into each day, establishing ourselves on<br />
Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz<br />
a new plane with a loftier definition of<br />
“normal.”<br />
Don’t worry, in no time at all, we’ll<br />
be back in our comfort zones, doing<br />
what comes naturally; only this time<br />
we’ll be better, and better off, than before.<br />
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Does your child hover around you<br />
like a shadow? Does he or she<br />
refuse to let you go out without<br />
her? Does she get upset or refuse<br />
to go to school or a friend’s house<br />
without you? Your child may suffer<br />
from Separation Anxiety. Separation<br />
Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is the most<br />
common anxiety disorder among<br />
children and affects 2-3% of gradeschool<br />
children. It involves excessive<br />
distress over day-to-day separation<br />
from parents, home or other familiar<br />
situations, and unrealistic fears of<br />
harm to loved ones. Seventy-five to<br />
eighty percent of the children who<br />
refuse to go to school have separation<br />
anxiety. Whereas normal separation<br />
fears are outgrown by age 5 or 6, SAD<br />
usually begins between the ages of 7<br />
and 11. It often occurs fairly abruptly<br />
among children who previously had<br />
no problems with separation. SAD is<br />
diagnosed only if fears persist, with<br />
very extreme reactions, beyond that<br />
expected for the age of the child. A<br />
ten-year-old who cries and clings to<br />
a parent, refuses to go to school, or is<br />
afraid to stay at a friend’s house may be<br />
showing signs of SAD. Children with<br />
SAD may beg for reassurance when<br />
a parent is away even briefly, cower<br />
from any opportunity to be separated,<br />
and sometimes even follow them from<br />
Health & Fitness<br />
Separation Anxiety Disorder<br />
room to room. When<br />
questioned, they<br />
may disclose worries<br />
about parents<br />
or other family<br />
members getting<br />
hurt or killed, and<br />
may feel responsible<br />
for protecting them<br />
from harm.<br />
Signs and symptoms<br />
of Separation<br />
Anxiety Disorder:<br />
• Extreme, disproportionatedistress<br />
over separation from loved ones<br />
• Unwillingness to leave home, attend<br />
school, or go on outings<br />
• Unrealistic worry about harm to<br />
self or loved ones<br />
• Frequent seeking of reassurance<br />
regarding safety of self and loved ones<br />
• Crying, clinging, nausea, vomiting<br />
or tantrums in anticipation of separation<br />
• Reluctance to be alone, especially<br />
at night<br />
• Nightmares about harm and danger<br />
• Symptoms for at least four weeks<br />
SAD in School<br />
School refusal and tardiness are<br />
common indicators of SAD. Once in<br />
school, a child with SAD may be agitated,<br />
restless and nervous, and com-<br />
plain of stomachaches, headaches or<br />
nausea. The child may make frequent<br />
trips to the nurse’s office, and ask to call<br />
her parent or to go home. The child may<br />
not eat or drink in school, and may ask<br />
for repeated reassurance about safety.<br />
Phone calls to “check in” with parents<br />
may bring reprieve. Usually, the child<br />
experiences tremendous relief when the<br />
parent takes her home.<br />
Helping your child overcome Separation<br />
Anxiety<br />
• Remain calm, matter of fact and<br />
firm during routine separations.<br />
• Don’t hover, question or reassure<br />
excessively.<br />
• Limit reassurance to one or two<br />
times.<br />
• Use the Parent-Teacher Log<br />
Benjie Stern, PhD<br />
to communicate between home and<br />
school.<br />
• Limit check-in visits or phone<br />
calls when the child is in school.<br />
• Allow a transitional object for<br />
comfort until the child masters anxiety.<br />
• Limit the child’s ability to leave<br />
school and return home.<br />
• Remove the comforts of staying<br />
home or returning home from school.<br />
• Use the Feeling Thermometer<br />
as an index of intensity and change in<br />
emotions.<br />
• Teach calming self-talk when upset.<br />
• For the child who has been out of<br />
school, plan a gradual return to school.<br />
• Seek opportunities to separate<br />
from the child for increasing lengths of<br />
time.<br />
• Create opportunities for repetition<br />
and practice.<br />
• Encourage independent activities<br />
and self-reliance.<br />
• Reward independence and initiative.<br />
• Set a positive example; role model<br />
the behavior the child is expected to<br />
learn.<br />
• Make you and Me Alone (YAMA)<br />
time to increase positive interactions.<br />
• Praise any efforts in the direction<br />
of separation.<br />
• Use tangible rewards for any effort<br />
in the right direction.<br />
• Be consistent in the child management<br />
approach at home and at school.<br />
If your child’s separation fears<br />
persist despite your interventions, seek<br />
consultation with a qualified mental<br />
health professional.<br />
Resource:<br />
Wagner, Aureen Pinto; Worried No<br />
More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children;<br />
USA: Lighthouse Press, Inc., 2005.<br />
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In Memory<br />
Rochel Bat Turan z”l, A Tzadeikus in Our Times<br />
Thirty Days Since Her Passing<br />
I’m bursting. I’m overwhelmed. I<br />
feel such a deep sense of loss…<br />
yet such a tremendous feeling of<br />
inspiration. I’m not the only one.<br />
A thunderous downpour with lightning<br />
and flooding on Motzai Rosh Hashana<br />
couldn’t keep hundreds of men<br />
and women from racing to the standing-room-only,<br />
overcrowded levaya<br />
of Rochel Bat Turan. We couldn’t get<br />
there fast enough. We couldn’t believe<br />
where we were going. We never believed<br />
this day would come. And our<br />
hearts were overflowing with emotion.<br />
What was this spell she cast on all<br />
of us? What was her magic?<br />
Just look at her picture on the cover<br />
of The Five Town’s Jewish Home. It<br />
is right there. Her simchat hachayim,<br />
her warmth, her chayn, the twinkle in<br />
her eye.<br />
We all loved her so much because<br />
she loved us so much. Whoever we<br />
were. Whatever we were not. She<br />
loved all of us. She saw the good and<br />
the beauty in all of us. She brought out<br />
the best in us.<br />
She was giving, loving, caring,<br />
smiling. There was a feeling you wanted<br />
to confide in her because she could<br />
carry and guide you…and mostly because<br />
she really listened and cared.<br />
She was like a mother and best friend<br />
all wrapped up in one.<br />
She transcended pain, defied time<br />
and exuded kindness. She was the<br />
embodiment of love, acceptance, and<br />
patience. She was dignified yet down<br />
to earth, above stereotyping and openminded.<br />
She found a way to make<br />
everyone feel at ease and good about<br />
themselves.<br />
She was this way always…before<br />
the diagnosis. After Rochel’s passing,<br />
someone asked Hershel when Rochel<br />
had became the person she was,<br />
“What do you mean?” Hershel asked.<br />
“You know, the tremendous and giving<br />
person she had become…” Hershel<br />
laughed and said, “Rochel? She was always<br />
like that! She was like that when<br />
I met her… that’s why I asked her to<br />
marry me on our second date!”<br />
But her magnificence was even<br />
more magnified, inspiring and astonishing<br />
after the diagnosis.<br />
I never really believed she was<br />
sick. She couldn’t be. Sick people<br />
don’t smile incessantly. Sick people<br />
have the right to question, to doubt, to<br />
cry, to have self-pity, and perhaps even<br />
an underlying resentment to all the<br />
healthy people around them.<br />
Rochel didn’t fit the bill of a person<br />
with a life-threatening diagnosis hanging<br />
over her head. Smiling, laughing,<br />
joking, focusing on the other person’s<br />
needs, problems, concerns. Busy running<br />
around collecting tzedaka, making<br />
gatherings to sing and raise money for<br />
needy organizations, working on shidduchim,<br />
dropping off “special water”<br />
to your house because it helped boost<br />
the immune system for any illness.<br />
And then there was her beautiful<br />
singing…her group performance in<br />
Harmony, her amazing leading of Hallel<br />
at the Ohel Sara Amen Group. She<br />
personified the possuk, Kol Atzmotai<br />
Tehalel Kah, “with all of my bones I<br />
praise You, Hashem.” With her whole<br />
being she sang out to Hashem with her<br />
smiling, devoted loving mother, Turan,<br />
steadily by her side. (While Rochel’s<br />
mother was grieving after Rochel’s<br />
passing, she confided, “Rochel wanted<br />
me to be b’simcha, so I had to be<br />
b’simcha for her.”)<br />
Who can ever forget Rochel’s heartfelt<br />
rendition of “Ma ashiv laHashem<br />
kol Tagmulot alai”— how can I repay<br />
Hashem for all his kindness to me –<br />
while she was in the direst of health!<br />
With a smile of determination she gloriously<br />
sang out to Hashem, “Lo Amut<br />
Ki Echyeh VaAsaper Maaseh Ka”— I<br />
will not die, I will live and speak of the<br />
great deeds of Hashem.<br />
Not a tear, not a break in her voice,<br />
not even a pleading,but a steadfast<br />
bitachon and promise that as long as<br />
Hashem continued to give her breath,<br />
she would sing His praises and emulate<br />
His loving chessed.<br />
We all sobbed while she soared.<br />
Then we danced around her and<br />
she did her Sfardic yodel that is done<br />
at simchas. We all held hands, and the<br />
love and Achdus were palpable. A love<br />
for Rochel, a love for the G-d she loved<br />
so much in spite of her pain, and yes,<br />
a love for each other for our partnership<br />
in supporting Rochel’s celebration<br />
of life. While we danced around<br />
Rochel any walls of division melted<br />
we all lOved her sO much because she lOved us sO<br />
much. whOever we were. whatever we were nOt.<br />
away. There were no judgments, no<br />
comparisons, no envy, no type-casting.<br />
We were all one in our love and prayers<br />
for Rochel.<br />
There was no pain evident on her<br />
face, though she was surely in agonizing<br />
pain. There was no fear on<br />
her face—though she faced the most<br />
frightening prognosis. There was no<br />
sorrow or self-pity. There certainly<br />
was never a trace of defeat. Instead<br />
there was ecstasy and delight in having<br />
one more opportunity to sing and<br />
dance for her Creator for the many<br />
gifts He had bestowed on her.<br />
How could we have any self-pity,<br />
any complaints in the face of that celebration?<br />
We melted into her emunah.<br />
Once in a while, after Hallel, she<br />
would offer some gentle suggestions to<br />
help bring the Moshiach. We should<br />
help one another, love one another, try<br />
to make each other more comfortable.<br />
Try to take upon ourselves one more<br />
mitzvah because it has a ripple effect.<br />
She never admonished us. Never<br />
suggested we be more tzniut or talk<br />
less loshon hara or be less materialistic.<br />
She was never negative—all positive.<br />
Her mantra was “to be b’simcha”<br />
and she lived it through excruciating<br />
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pain and suffering. After even the last<br />
time she sang Hallel (with an oxygen<br />
tank by her side), she asked, “Was it<br />
OK? I tried to be b’simcha.” And she<br />
was!<br />
That was her message. That was<br />
her magic. That was her legacy and<br />
her mandate to us. Be b’simcha. Appreciate<br />
all that you have. Sing out to<br />
Hashem His praises. Care about each<br />
other and take care of one another.<br />
She showed us how a person who<br />
is b’simcha has no envy or jealousy and<br />
no need to put down or judge others<br />
because you are happy with yourself<br />
and your own lot. You “fargin” others<br />
and celebrate their good fortune. You<br />
go to dance with them at their simchas.<br />
Even when she could hardly stand anymore<br />
she tried to go to everyone’s weddings<br />
to bring them more happiness<br />
and celebrate with them, for them—<br />
this was her happiness.<br />
When you are b’simcha, as Rochel<br />
bat Turan was throughout all of her life<br />
and ordeals, you greet every person<br />
bisever panim yafot and focus on their<br />
needs and concerns. After Rochel’s<br />
passing, one of Rochel’s close friends<br />
gushed, “Rochel had all sorts of people<br />
always coming through her door—<br />
from the most distinguished Rabbayim<br />
to some ‘interesting’ characters. If you<br />
had a video of just her face, you would<br />
not be able to distinguish which type<br />
she was greeting. She greeted everyone<br />
with equal warmth and enthusiasm!”<br />
A person who is b’simcha can say<br />
as Rochel told me, “I have no tainos<br />
(complaints) to Hashem, I only want to<br />
keep living and try to do good things<br />
for as long as Hashem wants me here.”<br />
A person with such simcha is b’simcha<br />
because they have such rock-solid<br />
bitachon and emunah in Hashem. Rochel’s<br />
mother told me that Rochel had<br />
said, “Hashem chose me for this. Not<br />
everyone gets cancer. Hashem chose<br />
me. He wanted me.”<br />
Rochel’s close friends marveled<br />
at Rochel’s strength throughout her<br />
suffering, “She never complained.<br />
Not once! She never said ‘Why me?’<br />
Throughout her illness and until the<br />
very end, whenever she was asked,
“how are you feeling?” she answered<br />
pleasantly, with a smile on her face,<br />
“Baruch Hashem!” Rochel never despaired.<br />
After the doctors told her to go<br />
home because there was nothing more<br />
they can do for her, Rochel told them,<br />
“Don’t ever say that to me!” Because<br />
Rochel believed “Ain od Milvado,”<br />
there is no power other than Hashem<br />
and He can do anything.<br />
I asked Rochel’s devoted husband,<br />
Hershel, how she had such a strong desire<br />
to live, despite excruciating pain.<br />
He said, “She didn’t want to go. She<br />
tried everything…there was nothing<br />
she wouldn’t try.” When she was originally<br />
diagnosed, the doctor’s said the<br />
prognosis for Rochel’s stage 4 cancer<br />
was 3-4 years. She lived 8 years from<br />
then. Unheard of!<br />
Why were we all in shock when<br />
she passed, when the diagnosis was<br />
so real and imminent? Because we all<br />
experienced Rochel’s fierce refusal to<br />
succumb. It even seemed possible she<br />
could ward off the Malach Hamavet indefinitely<br />
with her sheer willpower and<br />
her close relationship and negotiating<br />
with Hakadosh Baruch Hu.<br />
With red-rimmed eyes, Hershel recalled<br />
how at the end, he would reduce<br />
Rochel’s morphine because despite<br />
the indescribable pain, she insisted on<br />
talking to all the people who came to<br />
visit her. She wanted to be there for<br />
them, to give them chizuk (strength)!<br />
He recalled, “I raised the dosage again<br />
so high when I couldn’t stand to see<br />
her in excruciating pain anymore. She<br />
would fall right back to sleep.”<br />
A week before her petira, when<br />
she was already “out of it” and the<br />
end was imminent, my sister went to<br />
visit her. She asked Rochel for a bracha.<br />
Incredibly, Rochel woke up, gave<br />
her a bracha, sang with her and even<br />
did her signature Yemenite yodel with<br />
her mother at her side! How could the<br />
Malach Hamavet win against that kind<br />
of willpower? She was extraordinary<br />
and seemed capable of extraordinary<br />
feats.<br />
How would we continue to live our<br />
ordinary lives devoid of her extraordinary<br />
enthusiasm, optimism, and good<br />
cheer? That sent shockwaves through<br />
all of us. How would the world be<br />
zocheh to keep turning without her<br />
incredible mesirut nefesh, and who<br />
would sing to Hashem on our behalf?<br />
Rochel’s last word was “Moshiach.”<br />
Rochel’s mother told me, “Rochel<br />
said she saw Moshiach coming.” Rochel<br />
tried singlehandedly to bring the<br />
moshiach through her simcha, tzedakah<br />
and maasim tovim. Her husband<br />
told me that even her decision to marry<br />
an American Ashkenaz while she was<br />
an Israeli Sephardi was deliberate. She<br />
thought this would help create achdus<br />
and help bring the Moshiach! She tried<br />
to rally us in her cause.<br />
Hashem took her back the eve of<br />
Rosh Hashana, the only new month<br />
during which we don’t sing Hallel to<br />
Hashem. Only the Celestial Beings<br />
sing Hallel to Hashem on Rosh Hashana.<br />
Surely Rochel Bat Turan led the<br />
singing of Hallel this past Rosh Hashana,<br />
and it was the most beautiful Hallel<br />
ever sung in the Heavens. Hashem<br />
also knew that we needed to be weaned<br />
away from Rochel’s uplifting Hallel.<br />
Although she was niftar on Erev<br />
Rosh Hashana, Rochel Bat Turan was<br />
still with us over Rosh Hashana. She<br />
was certainly a kappara for our community<br />
and Klal Yisroel because of her<br />
incredible tzidkut.<br />
I believe that she was also here with<br />
us this final Rosh Hashana as a reminder<br />
(zikaron) to us forever of Hashem’s<br />
original plan for how the world should<br />
be and how we were meant to serve<br />
Him…Chessed Olam Yibaneh.<br />
On this past Rosh Hashana, when<br />
Hashem judged the state of this world,<br />
He was able to look down and be comforted<br />
by the promise of Rochel Bat<br />
Turan—the hope and possibility of humanity<br />
living up to its potential. Rochel<br />
was a stunning example of how<br />
to live life the way Hashem intended<br />
it to be lived: by being “Oveid Hashem<br />
Bisimcha,” constantly giving to others<br />
with her gemilat chassadim, possessing<br />
unconditional love for others (ahavat<br />
chinam), having stolid bitachon in<br />
our Creator, and thanking and praising<br />
our King and Father through even the<br />
most difficult of times.<br />
We will always have her image<br />
etched in our minds and hearts. This<br />
awesome, yet modest woman will always<br />
be our inspiration—especially<br />
when we need it most—each year on<br />
the eve of the High Holydays.<br />
Imagine what this world would<br />
look like if we all followed her lofty<br />
example.<br />
Above all else, Rochel cherished<br />
her husband and children. Hershel said<br />
Rochel was so talented and capable in<br />
so many areas including playing classical<br />
music on the piano and journalism.<br />
When she lived in Israel, she held a<br />
high position assisting the Israeli army.<br />
As a reporter she helped infiltrate religious<br />
cults by becoming an undercover<br />
member of the cult. Shortly<br />
after she left the cults, they would be<br />
closed down due to her reporting. “But<br />
she was a wife and a mother first and<br />
foremost. Everything else was on the<br />
side.” Hirshel continued, “She was so<br />
brilliant and articulate…if there was<br />
ever an issue at school with any of the<br />
kids, Rochel would talk to the Rebbes<br />
and resolve it instantly. The Rebbes<br />
couldn’t keep up with her. I know I<br />
couldn’t!”<br />
that was her legacy and her mandate tO us.<br />
be b’simcha. appreciate all that yOu have.<br />
sing Out tO hashem his praises. care abOut<br />
each Other and take care Of One anOther.<br />
“Rochel Mevaka Al Baneha.” We<br />
know that Rochel bat Turan is crying<br />
out to Hashem on behalf of her beloved<br />
children and her extended family of<br />
Klal Yisroel. We, in turn, cry out because<br />
of the immeasurable loss of our<br />
Rochel. But we must do more than cry.<br />
We must follow her mantra and man-<br />
date to “be b’simcha” and do chessed<br />
for one another, so that we can complete<br />
the job she inspired us to do… to<br />
bring Moshiach.<br />
Hershel said Rochel requested to<br />
be buried in Israel. He bought all the<br />
brochures and they had chosen a place<br />
in Beit Shemesh. But after her petirah,<br />
a friend had insisted on giving them<br />
an exclusive burial plot for Rochel on<br />
Har Hazaisim. Hershel knew it was<br />
the right spot because during her kavura<br />
(burial), they heard singing from<br />
a new Yeshiva nearby. They know this<br />
singing was in Rochel’s zechut. Rochel<br />
loved to sing to Hashem.<br />
My family had the privilege of having<br />
the Barons over this Succos (after<br />
Rochel’s petirah) for a meal. When<br />
Hershel was in the Succah, I showed<br />
him the letter that Rochel had written<br />
which was printed in The Jewish<br />
Home. I had hung it up on the Succah<br />
wall. Above the letter was the charming,<br />
smiling photograph of Rochel<br />
Baron. Hershel looked at her picture<br />
lovingly and with tears in his eyes said,<br />
“I have 4,000 pictures of her. She’s<br />
smiling in every one of them.”<br />
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the Five Towns and one of Rochel’s countless<br />
friends and humble admirers.<br />
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In Memory<br />
R’ Zvi (Bjorn) Bamberger z”l<br />
A Life of Purpose<br />
My father, HaChover<br />
R’ Zvi Halevi (Bjorn)<br />
Bamberger, hareini<br />
kapparas mishkovo, was taken<br />
from us on the fourth day of<br />
Tishrei at the onset of this<br />
year. A man who possessed<br />
great charm, wit, wisdom, and<br />
leadership, my father may<br />
best be described as an Ish<br />
Matzliach, someone whose<br />
many activities on behalf of<br />
the Jewish people were blessed<br />
with Divine success. Allow me<br />
to describe some highlights of<br />
his important life and prolific<br />
endeavors on behalf of Klal<br />
Yisrael.<br />
My grandparents, Ha-<br />
Chover R’ Moshe and Chava<br />
(Clara) Bamberger had three<br />
boys and one girl; my father was the<br />
youngest, born on the second day of<br />
Chol HaMoed Pesach of 1931 in his<br />
ancestral city of Wurzburg, Germany.<br />
Descending from the royal lineage<br />
of Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Halevi Bamberger,<br />
the illustrious Wurzburger Rav<br />
(1807-1878), the Bamberger children<br />
were raised with the awareness that<br />
they were expected to uphold the highest<br />
Torah standards of their forebears,<br />
who was one of the leading gedolim of<br />
Germany and a world-renowned posek.<br />
Of the Wurzburger Rav’s many sons<br />
and students, who themselves became<br />
great rabbinic personalities throughout<br />
the European Continent, the son chosen<br />
to succeed him in the Wurzburger<br />
rabbinate was Rav Nosson, my father’s<br />
grandfather.<br />
In 1933, with the rise of Hitler<br />
By Rabbi Moshe Bamberger<br />
ym”s in Germany, my grandparents<br />
presciently decided to relocate to my<br />
grandmother’s native Denmark to raise<br />
their family in relative safety. In downtown<br />
Copenhagen they established their<br />
home, a large edifice containing living<br />
quarters which housed a 200-year-old<br />
family shul in which minyanim were<br />
conducted daily. My grandfather led<br />
these services, faithfully following the<br />
precious family minhagim.<br />
The Germans occupied Denmark in<br />
April of 1940, but acted with surprising<br />
restraint against the Jewish citizens<br />
for some time. Erev Rosh HaShanah<br />
of 1943, my grandmother was preparing<br />
for the Yom Tov, setting the ornate<br />
table in the dining room and peeling<br />
potatoes and dicing vegetables in the<br />
kitchen for the festival meals. Suddenly,<br />
word circulated throughout the
Jewish community of Copenhagen that<br />
the day they had long feared had arrived.<br />
Hitler was secretly planning to<br />
round up the roughly 8,000 Jews that<br />
evening, the first night of Rosh Hashanah.<br />
My father’s family, as well as<br />
most of the Jewish community, fled<br />
their homes immediately and went into<br />
hiding. Several days later, thanks to<br />
the heroic efforts of the Danish underground<br />
and the honorable non-Jewish<br />
citizens of Denmark, virtually all of<br />
the Danish Jews were smuggled across<br />
the sea on fishing boats to the safe<br />
shores of neutral Sweden. My father<br />
would recount this miraculous rescue<br />
innumerable times, but never as movingly<br />
and detailed as at the Pesach sedarim<br />
which he would regally lead in<br />
his white kittel. At the section of the<br />
Hagaddah V’hi she’amda la’avoseinu, in<br />
which we express gratitude to Hashem<br />
for His deliverance from the hands of<br />
our mortal enemies, his children and<br />
grandchildren sat spellbound year after<br />
year, absorbing every word of this remarkable<br />
story.<br />
The Bambergers lived in Malmo,<br />
Sweden throughout the duration of the<br />
war, until May 1945. Upon returning to<br />
Denmark, my grandparents were greeted<br />
with an additional miracle. Their<br />
home and synagogue, containing Sifrei<br />
Torah, ancient seforim, and priceless<br />
family heirlooms, were intact and unscathed.<br />
They discovered a table still<br />
set for Rosh Hashanah, and a forest of<br />
vegetation growing from the deserted<br />
potatoes and vegetables in the kitchen!<br />
My father would soon come to<br />
America to learn Torah, enrolling in Yeshivas<br />
Ner Yisrael in Baltimore, where<br />
his oldest brother, Rabbi Dr. Ib Nathan<br />
Bamberger, also studied diligently. He<br />
would become very close to the Mashgiach,<br />
Rav Dovid Kronglass, whose<br />
saintly demeanor and profound mussar<br />
made an indelible impression upon the<br />
mind and heart of this young man from<br />
Scandinavia. My father would clearly<br />
remember many of R’ Dovid’s mussar<br />
schmuessen over a half century later.<br />
Rav Shimon Schwab, who served as<br />
a rav in Baltimore at that time, would<br />
often invite my father for Shabbos seudos,<br />
discussing at the Shabbos table the<br />
sugyos being learned in yeshivah. Their<br />
close relationship continued when my<br />
father, along with his parents, moved<br />
to Washington Heights and became active<br />
members in Khal Adath Jeshurun,<br />
where Rav Schwab would later serve<br />
as spiritual leader of the Breuer’s community.<br />
When my parents, who married<br />
in 1965, moved from Washington<br />
Heights to Long Beach, N.Y. in 1971,<br />
the move was fortuitous both for them<br />
and the local Jewish community. For<br />
them, Long Beach was a beautiful oa-<br />
sis in which to reside; the climate and<br />
the neighborhood were most inviting.<br />
The rabbonim and lay leaders in Long<br />
Beach were names renowned in the annals<br />
of American Jewry, consisting of<br />
leading roshei yeshivah and rabbonim,<br />
a head of the Va’ad Hatzalah after the<br />
war, presidents of national Jewish organizations,<br />
and major philanthropists.<br />
All of these towering figures embraced<br />
my father and confided in him. The<br />
shuls and yeshivos in Long Beach<br />
were (and are) extraordinary. But my<br />
parents’ move to Long Beach would be<br />
extremely providential for the city as<br />
well, for my father, with my mother at<br />
his side, would play a leading role in<br />
presiding over the Hebrew Academy of<br />
Long Beach, rescuing it from financial<br />
peril at a critical period in its history;<br />
become a key supporter and friend of<br />
the Mesivta of Long Beach; and would<br />
build and maintain the beautiful Long<br />
Beach Mikvah. My father, despite being<br />
a man of great elegance and formality,<br />
would personally wash and<br />
dry the used towels of the mikvah, set<br />
the temperature and place the proper<br />
chemicals in the mikvah – this was his<br />
honor, to tend to the needs of the Jewish<br />
people. As the epitaph of the great<br />
Rabbi Akiva Eiger’s grave reads: A<br />
servant to the servants of Hashem.<br />
Among my father’s leadership positions<br />
was his presiding over the Hebrew<br />
Free Burial Association, a very<br />
old American organization whose<br />
mission is to bury indigent Jews free<br />
of charge. Under his tenure, every aspect<br />
of the management of the affairs<br />
of the tzeddakah, from fundraising to<br />
personally engaging in the details of<br />
individual cases of meis mitzvah, were<br />
provided for. The organization continues<br />
to do its vital and holy work until<br />
this day.<br />
The primary passion of my father’s<br />
life was the perpetuation of the German<br />
Jewish mesorah. The sacred Gedolim,<br />
minhagim, and traditions of Ashkenaz<br />
were of paramount import to my father,<br />
and he became one of the principle<br />
champions of preserving this heritage<br />
for future generations. He acquired and<br />
collected countless unpublished manuscripts<br />
of the Wurzburger Rav, and<br />
printed them in two massive volumes<br />
entitled Kisvei Rabbeinu Yitzchak Dov<br />
HaLevi Mi’Wurtzburg. The first volume<br />
is completely sold out, and the<br />
second is also in great demand. These<br />
works are a source of the Wurzburger<br />
Rav’s Chiddushim, minhagim, correspondences,<br />
as well as a fine biography<br />
of his life and times. Not only are these<br />
books pored over by Jews of Germanic<br />
heritage, but they are likewise studied<br />
in the finest yeshivos in the world, by<br />
scholars thirsty for the author’s chiddushim<br />
on all sections of Shas and<br />
Shulchan Aruch.<br />
In order to further proliferate Toras<br />
Ashkenaz, my father was an advocate<br />
and sponsor of a masterful, multi-volume<br />
work, Shorashei Minhagei Ashkenaz<br />
written by Rav Binyamin Shlomo<br />
Hamburger, a noted scholar from Bnei<br />
Brak, head of Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz.<br />
In these classic seforim are exhaustively<br />
detailed the sources for the<br />
precious minhagim of German Jewry,<br />
from the rishonim until today. A threevolume<br />
exceptional work by Rabbi<br />
Hamburger on the historic yeshivah of<br />
Fuerth, Germany, published three years<br />
ago, was the brainchild of my father,<br />
and was entirely commissioned by him.<br />
My father’s special chein, his<br />
generosity, and his friendship, was<br />
cherished by all who were fortunate<br />
to know him. He was disciplined, yet<br />
spontaneous; serious, yet humorous.<br />
He loved learning Torah, and had the<br />
same chavrusah for over three decades,<br />
Dr. Jacob Leibowitz. He had an awe<br />
and reverence for Talmidei Chachamim,<br />
and attended many shiurim of<br />
great lamdanim. A leading Rosh Yeshiva<br />
comforted the family by sadly<br />
repeating, over and over, “An emesse<br />
Yid,” a true, genuine Jew.<br />
The final 17 months of my father’s<br />
life were full of yisurim shel ahavah.<br />
His body was racked with pain from<br />
the dreaded disease. But what most<br />
distressed him was not the physical ailment,<br />
but his inability to serve Hashem<br />
and accomplish for Klal Yisrael as he<br />
was accustomed to. However, even<br />
during those final dark days, his radiance<br />
shone, as he encouraged and continued<br />
to lead his family in spite of his<br />
immense challenges.<br />
On the second night of Rosh Ha-<br />
Shanah, as I sat by his hospital bed, I<br />
sang the songs he would sing to me at<br />
bedtime, such as Levandovsky’s Shir<br />
Hama’alos. My father was slipping in<br />
and out of consciousness. Suddenly,<br />
he awoke and prayed to his Creator,<br />
“Hashem, you rescued me on the fishing<br />
boat to Sweden – please, rescue me<br />
again now! Ana Hashem Hoshia Na!”<br />
This would be the final statement of<br />
faith I would hear from my dear father,<br />
and it brought his life full circle. From<br />
Rosh Hashanah 1943 until Rosh Hashana<br />
of 2012, my father lived a life<br />
of unswerving emunah and love of<br />
Hashem. His name, Zvi, is an acronym<br />
of the apt words of Chabakuk, Tzaddik<br />
B’emunaso Yichyeh, the tzaddik lives<br />
by his faith.<br />
He is sorely missed by his family,<br />
community, and Klal Yisrael. Tehei<br />
Nishmaso Tzerurah B’Tzror HaChaim.<br />
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Last month, Mayor Bloomberg’s<br />
Big Soda Ban was approved by the<br />
New York City Board of Public<br />
Health. The new law prohibits street<br />
vendors, movie theaters and restaurants<br />
from selling any sugar-sweetened<br />
beverage larger than 16 ounces. The<br />
reactions to the ban, much like any<br />
other politically related regulations,<br />
have prompted both cheers and jeers<br />
for the Mayor. While I in no way speak<br />
to the legal merit of limiting a vendor’s<br />
rights or a consumer’s purchase choice,<br />
I can speak to the medical viability<br />
of limiting consumption of these<br />
beverages. So while its true that it<br />
may be one’s legal right to choose<br />
a beverage of any size, including 32<br />
ounces as many opponents of the ban<br />
have argued, the fact is that our brains<br />
may be sabotaging our waistlines and<br />
choosing the smaller option is not as<br />
simple as one might think.<br />
The average fast food meal in the<br />
United States has literally quadrupled<br />
in size since the 1950’s. Burgers have<br />
shifted from fewer than 4 ounces to an<br />
average of 12, and fries have increased<br />
from 2.4 oz. to 6.7 oz. Most shockingly,<br />
however, is that the 7 oz. of soda<br />
of yesteryear, with a caloric impact of<br />
just under 100 calories, has ballooned<br />
to a gigantic 32 oz. with a total caloric<br />
level exceeding 400! With these figures<br />
in place it should come as no surprise<br />
then that Americans are an average of<br />
26 pounds heavier today than we were<br />
in the 1950’s.<br />
Regardless of the ban, the choice<br />
seems obvious: choose the smaller<br />
soda. But can it really be that simple?<br />
Not exactly. As humans we are conditioned<br />
by the environment around us.<br />
Our eyes and brains literally work in<br />
tandem with our mouths and stomachs<br />
in deciding what and how much to eat.<br />
The University of Michigan conducted<br />
a study where participants were given<br />
cookies labeled either medium or large.<br />
The catch? The cookies were the same<br />
exact size, only the subjects didn’t know<br />
that. Interestingly, those given the medium<br />
cookies ate more than those given<br />
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The 16 oz. Soda Ban:<br />
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cookies labeled large. Instead of letting<br />
our bodies dictate the amount of food<br />
we eat, we have been conditioned to<br />
super-size it, trusting labels and inflated<br />
portion sizes. Many fast food chains<br />
now call their smallest size a mini, with<br />
the medium becoming original or classic<br />
and the largest now labeled as value<br />
or simply large.<br />
When you are<br />
feeling hungry<br />
a “mini” simply<br />
won’t do, even<br />
though the portions<br />
are still<br />
larger than those<br />
averages of the<br />
1950’s. Marketers<br />
also advertise<br />
such deals<br />
as being “Value<br />
Meals,” and given the option of paying<br />
$4 for a burger or $5 for that same burger<br />
plus a huge soda and a side of fries,<br />
most people will opt for the “value.”<br />
In New York City, about 58% of the<br />
population is considered to be obese,<br />
with 1 in 8 being diabetic. And if these<br />
numbers sound shocking, what’s worse<br />
is that for the first time in history, with<br />
all of the advances in medicine and the<br />
availability of medical treatments, our<br />
children have a projected lifespan shorter<br />
than the generation prior! However,<br />
will limiting a vendor’s right to sell a<br />
Big Gulp help? Maybe. People, and<br />
more specifically children, are creatures<br />
of habit and environment. Children understand<br />
the world in the way it is presented<br />
to them. Present them with a 32<br />
ounce cola and that will be their norm.<br />
The key is changing what’s “normal” in<br />
their eyes, from food choices to portion<br />
sizes.<br />
Soda itself is certainly not the enemy,<br />
but the larger implications of<br />
regulating consumer portions and serving<br />
size is closely tied to the beverage<br />
industry. Soda has become the target<br />
because unlike the burger and fries,<br />
which contain some intrinsic nutritional<br />
value, there<br />
are absolutely<br />
no redeeming<br />
nutritional<br />
benefits to<br />
drinking soda.<br />
Many schools<br />
have put a ban<br />
on the sugary<br />
drinks with<br />
parental support<br />
and little<br />
public outcry<br />
as to our children’s right to drink soda,<br />
however, adults have more to say about<br />
their own right to bear cola. I think this<br />
speaks to our desire to have our children<br />
be healthy, despite our own actions. Do<br />
as I say, not as I do will not work in this<br />
it shOuld cOme as nO surprise that americans<br />
are an average Of 26 pOunds heavier tOday<br />
than we were in the 1950’s.<br />
case, because parents and adults such as<br />
teachers, set the model of what our children<br />
are hardwired to eat. We need to<br />
reset the bar on what are reasonable and<br />
appropriate serving sizes for our health<br />
as well as our children’s.<br />
Here are some practical tips on<br />
teaching your children how to eat appropriate<br />
servings (and keep your own<br />
waistline in check at the same time):<br />
• Don’t Serve Family Style: Presenting<br />
your family with pre-plated<br />
servings of dinner as opposed to putting<br />
huge tins and bowls on the table will<br />
make them think twice before filling<br />
Dr. Bo Rosenblat<br />
up for more. When the food is right at<br />
your fingertips it is easy to pick, scoop,<br />
and ultimately over-eat. Leave the extra<br />
food in the kitchen, not on the table.<br />
If anyone wants more, they will get up<br />
and get it. This minor change helps us<br />
eat with our stomachs and not with our<br />
eyes. Out of sight usually tends to lead<br />
to out of mind.<br />
• Drink Water With Your Meals:<br />
Putting a pitcher of water on the table<br />
instead of a bottle of soda will not only<br />
cut the calories you may have spent on<br />
soda, but will also help to fill you up.<br />
Sugary sodas (and even diet ones) leave<br />
you with a sweet flavor in your mouth.<br />
This is what usually leads people to<br />
reach for some salty food, and then back<br />
again to the soda. This cycle can replay<br />
dozens of time throughout a meal and<br />
spill-over into the evening hours. Water<br />
will act as a thirst quencher, with none<br />
of the insulin effects that soda can have<br />
on your eating habits. An added bonus<br />
is that water will actually help decrease<br />
bloat while the carbonation and caffeine<br />
in soda will cause bloating.<br />
• Buy Pre-Packaged Individual<br />
Servings of Pretzels, Chips, Nuts and<br />
Cookies: It can be very tempting to buy<br />
the huge bag of pretzels that offers you<br />
20% more free, but this is an easy way<br />
for your family to over-do it. 100-calorie<br />
or other pre-portioned snack packs<br />
are a great way to keep your calories in<br />
check, while still allowing you to eat<br />
what you like. When holding a giant<br />
bag of chips it is very easy to keep going<br />
long after you have consumed one,<br />
two or even more servings. If you do<br />
buy the large bags, portion them off into<br />
little baggies right away for the same effect.<br />
Dr. Bo Rosenblat is a board-certified medical<br />
doctor with office locations in Hewlett,<br />
Manhasset and Manhattan. For more information<br />
about Dr. Bo’s Diet, please call<br />
516-284-8248. Have a question about<br />
diet or nutrition? Email Dr. Bo at info@<br />
drbosdiet.com and it may be featured in a future<br />
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is where the heart is” is<br />
a saying that rings true for<br />
“Home<br />
most people. And for those<br />
who have a passion for building like<br />
Bobby Jacobs, the heart lays in yeshivas<br />
and shuls all over the city, buildings that<br />
bring diverse groups of people together<br />
in the service of their Creator. When we<br />
walk through our neighborhoods and<br />
admire the backdrop, most people are<br />
not aware of the man behind these beautiful<br />
structures, but they certainly know<br />
the buildings that have become the pillars<br />
of our communities.<br />
Bobby Jacobs grew up in the Crown<br />
Heights of old, back when it was a mixture<br />
of Jews from all different stripes.<br />
He would build things as a hobby, and<br />
so it was only natural that when he<br />
went to college he would get his degree<br />
in civil engineering. When he completed<br />
his degree, he began working for the<br />
City of New York. That job was going<br />
well up until the early 70’s when things<br />
went sour for the city as they suffered<br />
an economic crisis, and Bobby got laid<br />
off along with most of his team. He<br />
had to fend for himself, and so he decided<br />
to open up his own business. At<br />
first, he started off with smaller jobs,<br />
doing renovations and small building<br />
work, and then got into building<br />
houses and such. At the time, Mr. Jacobs<br />
davened in Rabbi Oelbaum’s shul.<br />
The shul was in a small room behind<br />
the Rav’s house, and Mr. Jacobs was<br />
asked to build a building for the shul<br />
in the Rav’s backyard. The shul started<br />
off as one large room split in half, one<br />
side being for men and the other for<br />
women. Soon afterwards, as the shul<br />
grew, a second floor was built. The shul<br />
continued to grow until they bought the<br />
property next door, and Bobby built the<br />
beautiful building that sits there today<br />
as well.<br />
Bobby has had the privilege of<br />
working with many Torah giants in our<br />
communities and getting to see how<br />
they act in mundane matters is certainly<br />
a privilege to be cherished. Bobby<br />
elaborates, “When Rav Oelbaum’s shul<br />
was built, it was behind his house. We<br />
built a ladies’ section and hired a professional<br />
Italian ironworker who made<br />
beautiful gates and railings out of iron.<br />
He was commissioned to do the iron<br />
design on top of the mechitza for this<br />
newly built shul, as well as all the railings<br />
leading up the stairs.” Bobby was<br />
discussing ideas with him, and told him<br />
that the shul couldn’t pay so much for<br />
the railings, but asked what he could do<br />
for them that would be beautiful and<br />
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BOBBY JACOBS<br />
not so expensive. The Italian worker<br />
assured Bobby that he would do something<br />
absolutely stunning, as he was<br />
retiring after that job and wanted his<br />
last job to be something really special.<br />
He told Bobby he would surprise him,<br />
and Bobby agreed, assuming the artist<br />
would do a beautiful flower design or<br />
something similar to that. Weeks later<br />
it was completed and the Italian artist<br />
came to the shul to deliver the railings.<br />
As soon as he brought it off the truck,<br />
Bobby gasped. There was a huge,<br />
thick magen dovid in the middle of<br />
the mechitza, and three similar magen<br />
dovids on the railings. That wasn’t exactly<br />
what Bobby had in mind for Rav<br />
Oelbaum and his congregants. He panicked,<br />
as he knew that Rav Oelbaum<br />
would not like it. He decided that honesty<br />
was the best policy, and went to the<br />
Rav to tell him what had happened. He<br />
told him how he had allowed the artist<br />
to surprise him, and that it wasn’t<br />
exactly what he had in mind. Bobby<br />
showed Rav Oelbaum the railings and<br />
held his breath. After a short pause<br />
Rav Oelbaum replied, “It’s OK, it’s<br />
good.” Bobby responded, “What?? It’s<br />
good?!” Rav Oelbaum explained, “The<br />
man did this from his heart; he really<br />
thought we would be pleased with it. If<br />
Shira Diamond<br />
we tell him we don’t like it and throw<br />
this thing out, it would break his heart.<br />
It’s not the right thing to do.” And so<br />
it was. The railing and mechitzas were<br />
installed, and for years and years there<br />
were thick, heavy magen dovids to be<br />
seen all around. These railings are gone<br />
now as the shul was rebuilt many years<br />
later on the property adjacent to Rav<br />
Oelbaum’s house, but this lesson showcasing<br />
Rav Oelbaum’s greatness will<br />
remain with Bobby forever.<br />
Since building Rav Oelbaum’s shul,<br />
Bobby Jacobs has gone on to build<br />
many other beautiful Jewish institutions<br />
around the city. Some noteworthy<br />
shuls and schools he has built are Yeshiva<br />
Sh’or Yoshuv in Lawrence, Yeshiva<br />
Chofetz Chaim in Queens, Yeshiva Ohr<br />
Chaim, Congregation Etz Chaim, Ahavas<br />
Yisrael, Yeshiva of South Shore<br />
and Rabbi Speigel’s shul, to name just<br />
a few. He has amassed quite a resume,<br />
and has had the merit of working side<br />
by side with some of the most distinguished<br />
Rabbanim in our communities.<br />
Bobby gives us a fresh perspective on<br />
some of these Rabbanim. “Pretty much<br />
all the Rabbanim I have worked with<br />
are interested in the techniques and<br />
mechanics of the building process.<br />
They have interest in the progression<br />
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from beginning till the end. Some even<br />
watch the excavation. It’s enjoyable<br />
to see another side to such respected<br />
personalities, and to see their fascination<br />
when it comes to the intricacies<br />
of building.” Bobby explains that<br />
the building process can take a very<br />
long time, sometimes too long. A lot<br />
of the time it takes to build these institutions<br />
has to do with economics.<br />
“These institutions almost never have<br />
all the money it takes to complete the<br />
project when we start,” which means<br />
the building process often gets halted<br />
when the money runs out, and everyone<br />
must be patient until more funds are secured.<br />
Another reason why it takes so<br />
long is because very large companies<br />
cost more money to hire than smaller<br />
ones, so often the contractor must hire<br />
subcontractors from smaller companies<br />
when money is tight. This means that<br />
there is less manpower and they take a<br />
longer time getting the job done. It also<br />
means they might be less organized<br />
than their larger counterparts, although<br />
still just as skilled. However, due to the<br />
institution’s financial restraints, sometimes<br />
this is the only route to take.<br />
When you look at the beautiful<br />
buildings that Mr. Jacobs has built, you<br />
can’t help but marvel at the timeless-<br />
Rabbi Spiegel's Shul under construction<br />
ness of them. Buildings built ten years<br />
ago look like they were build yesterday,<br />
none of them look outdated or old fashioned,<br />
no matter how long ago they were<br />
erected. Bobby explains his secret: “It’s<br />
very easy to design something in 2005,<br />
and in 2008 you’ll look at it and ask<br />
what you were thinking.” He says he<br />
always visualizes the end product of a<br />
project, and then visualizes what it will<br />
look like 20 years later. And knowing<br />
what the style was like 20 years ago,<br />
he uses that to project what the style<br />
will be in 20 years from now. He tries<br />
to stick with a nondescript style, with a<br />
mix of something contemporary and a<br />
little traditional. He tries to steer clear<br />
of anything that is overly trendy and<br />
in the “now” and knows what motifs<br />
and themes have been successful in the<br />
past. Bobby also loves working with<br />
stone, as in the Ohr Chaim building he<br />
has built, and the two pillars that grace<br />
the front of Ahavas Yisrael. Stones can<br />
speak for themselves and make a beautiful<br />
but subtle statement as well. Bobby<br />
explains how many of his buildings<br />
have a common thread but still look so<br />
different. “It’s like having five children;<br />
they all have a commonality but don’t<br />
necessarily look alike.”<br />
When Bobby is planning a building,<br />
he doesn’t only focus on the materials<br />
used and the ascetic design. He<br />
also thinks about the building in terms<br />
of function and goal. For instance, he<br />
plans the layout so there will be no<br />
“back of the shul,” the place that many<br />
shuls have where people tend to congregate<br />
during davening and talk. They<br />
feel like they are sort of separated from<br />
the rest of the congregants. A long narrow<br />
shul usually has a “back” so Mr.<br />
Jacobs tries to build shuls in shapes that<br />
don’t create this atmosphere. A shul has<br />
to feel good, or as they say in Yiddish,<br />
ef darf ciech git davenin. It’s not something<br />
that can be explained, it’s just a<br />
Rabbi Oelbaum's Shul<br />
Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Queens Yeshiva Ohr HaChaim in Queens<br />
feeling one gets, Bobby says. Dead<br />
space is a no-no when it comes to shul<br />
building, and objects have to be a certain<br />
distance from one another. Acoustics<br />
have to be good, it should be well<br />
lit, and it shouldn’t have empty spots.<br />
These are just some of the important<br />
thoughts that go into the creation of<br />
these magnificent buildings.<br />
Mr. Jacobs draws his inspiration<br />
from many mediums, one of them being<br />
his good friend Zalman Deutch. A<br />
friend who is originally from Monsey<br />
and now lives in Alon Shvut in Eretz<br />
Yisrael, he has designed many beautiful<br />
shuls and uses a lot of stone in his<br />
work. This inspired Bobby to use stone<br />
as well, and he looks up to Mr. Deutch<br />
as a talented builder. Choosing a talented<br />
builder for one’s own project<br />
is so vital, as buildings often take on<br />
the impressions of the builder himself.<br />
There are some extremely magnificent<br />
shuls, especially in Italy. But all these<br />
shuls were designed and built by non-<br />
Jews, and so the buildings express<br />
what the builder felt a house of prayer<br />
should look like. They were essentially<br />
churches with a magen dovid on<br />
it. The idea of a church is to make one<br />
feel humble and inferior, even scared,<br />
in front of G-d. That is the reason why<br />
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Eitz Chaim Inside Yeshiva Sh'or Yoshuv The rectangular luchos that created a stir<br />
many of these shuls in Europe are so<br />
high and tall with many echoes. A shul<br />
should be the opposite—it should be<br />
warm and welcoming; one should feel<br />
at home there. The Aron Kodesh should<br />
be beckoning and inviting. It may feel<br />
like a tradeoff because some of the<br />
beauty is compromised so that the shul<br />
can be inviting and homey, but you<br />
gain a lot more because it’s a positive<br />
place to daven in.<br />
The most important part of the<br />
process, explains Mr. Jacobs, is learning<br />
how to fuse what the customer<br />
likes with what the builder likes, and<br />
build something that you will both be<br />
happy with. This is the art of being a<br />
good builder, as the building must be<br />
pleasing to everyone, the general public<br />
as well. Sometimes, customer and<br />
builder can differ on intricate details,<br />
as in this humorous story. When Bobby<br />
was working on the inside of Yeshiva<br />
Ohr Chaim in Queens, they did many<br />
detailed carvings on the inside walls of<br />
the yeshiva. For instance, in the lobby<br />
there are stone carvings of bookcases<br />
and sforim, the sforim even have titles<br />
on them, carved in calligraphy by<br />
Queens’ own Lori Pollick. When Bobby<br />
was ready to carve the Luchos into<br />
the stone on top of the Aron Kodesh,<br />
he drew the sample as two rectangles,<br />
as they are described in the Gemara.<br />
Bobby showed it to the Rosh Yeshiva<br />
Rabbi Lander, in order to get his final<br />
approval so the Luchos can be carved,<br />
and the building would be finished.<br />
Rabbi Lander loved the design but<br />
asked Bobby why the Luchos didn’t<br />
have rounded tops. When Bobby explained<br />
that he drew them as they were<br />
described in the Gemara, Rabbi Lander<br />
felt that tradition was to do the Luchos<br />
with rounded tops. For hundreds of<br />
years Jews have been making Luchos<br />
with rounded tops, who were they to<br />
start changing this tradition? Bobby<br />
responded that the tablet shape was<br />
from Roman design, and had no source<br />
in Yiddishkeit. Rabbi Lander did not<br />
veer from his position, and felt that<br />
they should stick with tradition. Bob-<br />
by refused to carve the Luchos in this<br />
manner and told Rabbi Lander that the<br />
tradition was erroneous. They decided<br />
to take the question to Rabbi Oelbaum<br />
and he would decide what they should<br />
do. Each side was explained, and Rabbi<br />
Oelbaum responded, “There is no<br />
doubt that the Gemara says they were<br />
rectangular, but I have one question for<br />
you, who’s paying for the carving?”<br />
Bobby told him the Yeshiva was paying<br />
for it, so Rav Oelbaum responded,<br />
“Then they have to be rounded. If they<br />
are paying for it, then you need to follow<br />
his wishes.” Bobby then went to<br />
Rabbi Lander and told him what Rabbi<br />
Oelbaum ruled. He then asked, “What<br />
if I pay for the carvings?” Rabbi Lander<br />
laughed and said, “Oh, Bobby, do<br />
whatever you want.” So Bobby carved<br />
the Luchos to the specifications in the<br />
Gemara and footed the bill as well. But<br />
the story doesn’t end here. When Yeshiva<br />
Ohr Chaim was completed, they<br />
had a Chanukas Habayis and many reporters<br />
from various newspapers were<br />
there. Rabbi Lander called Mr. Jacobs<br />
up the next day and asked, “Bobby, did<br />
you see the Forward?” Bobby responded<br />
in the negative and asked why. “Just<br />
go buy it,” responded Rabbi Lander.<br />
It turns out, one of the reporters who<br />
covered the Chanukas Habayis wrote in<br />
his article that it was the first time he<br />
ever saw a proper Luchos in a shul or<br />
yeshiva. Needless to say, they both had<br />
a good laugh.<br />
Shuls and yeshivas are the heart of<br />
our community. They are not just<br />
buildings that house our seforim<br />
and our prayers. They are the places<br />
where we come together to daven and<br />
connect to our Creator. They are the<br />
places where we are uplifted. They<br />
are the places where we become better<br />
people. Mr. Jacobs has dedicated his<br />
energies to make our shuls and yeshivas<br />
beautiful and grand. He knows that<br />
these buildings are not just made of<br />
bricks and stones; they are a means to<br />
connect to ourselves, our fellow Jews<br />
and our Creator.<br />
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“Terrible since you got here.”<br />
- An Ohio poultry shop owner’s response when<br />
asked by Obama how business was<br />
“A new poll found that only 47 percent of<br />
voters find Mitt Romney to be trustworthy.<br />
Then Romney was like, ‘Well, I hope it’s not<br />
the same 47 percent I don’t care about.’”<br />
–Jimmy Fallon<br />
“You know, Barack doesn’t have a big ego.<br />
You see this in, you know, how he leads the<br />
country. I mean, he is very open to other<br />
people’s opinions. And he’s always willing<br />
to compromise and he’s always, always<br />
smith: I told Obama personally, I said,<br />
look, I had him for his first 17 years and<br />
then he went into the service, then you got<br />
him. And – I won’t say it the way I said it –<br />
but I said you [messed] up, you didn’t do a<br />
good job, I lost my son. And they said, we’ll<br />
get back to you. We I promise, I promise<br />
you. I will get back to you.<br />
cOOper: Who told you that they would<br />
give you information?<br />
smith: You’ll love this. Obama told me.<br />
Hillary promised me. Joe Biden – Joe Biden<br />
is a pleasure. He was a real sweetheart. But<br />
he also told – they all told me that – they<br />
promised me. And I told them please, tell<br />
me what happened. Just tell me what happened.<br />
cOOper: So you’re still waiting to hear<br />
from somebody about what happened to<br />
your son? About what they know? Or even<br />
what they don’t know?<br />
smith: Right. Right. Officially yes. I told<br />
them, please don’t give me any baloney<br />
that comes through with this political stuff.<br />
I don’t want political stuff. You can keep<br />
your political, just tell me the truth. What<br />
Notable Quotes<br />
“Say What?”<br />
listening. So that would kind of be the<br />
last thing that I would think of when I talk<br />
about my husband is big ego. Because he<br />
just doesn’t have that.”<br />
-Michelle Obama in an excerpt from an interview<br />
with CNN that aired Tuesday<br />
“Joe Biden is campaigning very hard for<br />
Obama. In Florida, Vice President Biden<br />
told a group of nurses, ‘If there are any<br />
angels in heaven, they’re all nurses.’<br />
Then Biden said, ‘Of course, maybe they<br />
wouldn’t be in heaven if they’d had better<br />
nurses.’”<br />
–Conan O’Brien<br />
happened. And I still don’t know. In fact,<br />
today I just heard something more that he<br />
died of smoke inhalation.<br />
So you don’t even know the cause of death?<br />
smith: They haven’t told me anything.<br />
They are still studying it. And the things<br />
that they are telling me are just outright<br />
lies. That Susan Rice, what – she talked to<br />
me personally and she said, she said, this<br />
is the way it was. It was – it was because of<br />
this film that came out.<br />
cOOper: So she told you personally that<br />
she thought it was a result of that video of<br />
the protest?<br />
smith: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. In fact all<br />
of them did. All of them did. Leon Panetta<br />
actually took my face in his hands like this<br />
and he said, trust me. I will tell you what<br />
happened. And so far, he’s told me nothing.<br />
Nothing at all. And I want to know.<br />
cOOper: It’s important for you to know all<br />
the details no matter how horrible.<br />
smith: Yes.<br />
cOOper: Or no matter how tough they are<br />
to hear.<br />
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“I don’t understand why we give money<br />
to people who hate us. They’ll hate us for<br />
free.”<br />
-Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on foreign aid in the<br />
Middle East<br />
“I’m going to say something controversial<br />
here. Obama arrived in Denver at 2 pm<br />
today, just a few hours before the debate<br />
started. Romney did his debate prep in<br />
Denver. When you go to five thousand<br />
feet, and you only have a few hours to<br />
adjust, I don’t know.”<br />
- Al Gore on Current TV explaining Obama’s lackluster<br />
performance in the first presidential debate<br />
Excerpts of an interview on CNN with Pat Smith, whose son was killed in the attacks in Benghazi:<br />
smith: Exactly. I told him, if it’s such a<br />
secret thing, fine, take me in another room,<br />
whisper in my ear what happened so that I<br />
know, and we’ll go from there. But no. No,<br />
they – you know, they treat me like – at first<br />
I was so proud because they were treating<br />
me so nice when I went to that reception.<br />
They all came up to me and talked to me<br />
and everything. I cried on Obama’s shoulder.<br />
And he – then he’d kind of looked off<br />
into the distance. So that was worthless to<br />
me. I want to know, for G-d’s sakeso r for<br />
Allah’s sake or whoever’s sake….<br />
cOOper: You deserve – you deserve<br />
answers.<br />
smith: That would be so nice. That would<br />
at least acknowledge that I have a right to<br />
know something, something other than,<br />
we’re checking up on it, or trust me. I like<br />
that one the best of all. ‘Trust me. I will let<br />
you know.’ Well, I don’t trust you anymore.<br />
I don’t trust you anymore. You – I’m not<br />
going to say lied to me, but you didn’t tell<br />
me and you knew.
Omney: Any investments I have over the<br />
last eight years have been managed by<br />
a blind trust. And I understand they do<br />
include investments outside the United<br />
States, including in — in Chinese companies.<br />
Mr. President, have you looked at your<br />
pension? Have you looked at your pension?<br />
“All of the punishments that are written<br />
in the Koran never came to pass in the<br />
time of Prophet Muhammad…never — but<br />
every plague — every plague that is written<br />
in the Koran is going to come to pass in<br />
America under the modern Pharaoh, in the<br />
modern Rome, in the modern Babylon, in<br />
the modern Sodom and Gomorrah — take<br />
it or let it alone.”<br />
- Louis Farrakhan, 10/14/12<br />
“I hope this doesn’t harm Obama, but if<br />
I was from the United States, I’d vote for<br />
Obama...I think that if Obama was from<br />
Barlovento or some Caracas neighborhood,<br />
he’d vote for Chavez.”<br />
- Hugo Chavez, while campaigning for reelection<br />
“This is deadly earnest, man. This is deadly<br />
earnest: How they can justify, how they<br />
can justify raising taxes on the middle class<br />
that has been buried the last four years —<br />
how in L-rd’s name can they justify raising<br />
their taxes with these tax cuts.”<br />
- Joe Biden at a campaign rally<br />
“Unbelievable jobs numbers…these<br />
Chicago guys will do anything…can’t<br />
debate so change numbers”<br />
- Tweet from famed CEO Jack Welch after the<br />
government reported a significant drop in the<br />
unemployment rate, despite a mere 114,000 jobs<br />
being created in September<br />
“Think about Obama’s anti-Israel friends<br />
and mentors—radicals like Rashid Khalidi,<br />
Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright,<br />
or the late Edward Said, the virulently<br />
anti-Israel professor under whom Obama<br />
studied. Has he made anti-Israel promises<br />
Exchange at second presidential debate:<br />
Obama: You know, I — I don’t look at<br />
my pension. It’s not as big as yours so it<br />
doesn’t take as long.<br />
rOmney: Well, let me give you some advice.<br />
Obama: I don’t check it that often.<br />
rOmney: Let me give you some advice.<br />
Look at your pension.<br />
to them? Is Obama’s campaign rhetoric in<br />
support of Israel only creating ‘space’ till<br />
after the election? These questions cause<br />
genuine worry in Israel…to take seriously<br />
the question: What are his second term<br />
plans when he no longer needs the Jewish<br />
vote?”<br />
- Sheldon Adelson in an article on JNS.org<br />
“I like PBS. I love Big Bird...But I’m not<br />
going to keep on spending money on<br />
things to borrow money from China to pay<br />
for it.”<br />
- Mitt Romney at the first presidential debate<br />
“I’m glad [Romney’s] finally getting tough<br />
on Big Bird.”<br />
- Obama on the campaign trail<br />
“You have to scratch your head when the<br />
president spends the last week talking<br />
about saving Big Bird.”<br />
- Mitt Romney on the campaign trail<br />
“Paul Ryan now says that President<br />
Obama’s foreign policy has ‘blown up in<br />
his face’ and it’s time to go back to the<br />
Republican foreign policy. Well, let’s see,<br />
Obama kept Guantanamo Bay open, the<br />
troops are still overseas, and the Middle<br />
East hates us. Isn’t that the Republican foreign<br />
policy?”<br />
–Jay Leno<br />
“The words don’t always come out the<br />
right way. You know how that is, Joe.”<br />
-Paul Ryan’s response to Joe Biden<br />
“This week President Obama’s Facebook<br />
page received more than a million ‘Likes’ in<br />
a single day. All of them from Republicans<br />
who watched last week’s debate.”<br />
–Jimmy Fallon<br />
“The good news for the White House is<br />
that unemployment has dropped to 7.8<br />
percent, right where it was when President<br />
Obama took office. So Obama has gone<br />
from ‘Change you can believe in’ to ‘Can<br />
you believe there’s no change.’”<br />
–Jay Leno<br />
“Today the Secret Service caught a woman<br />
trying to sneak into the White House with<br />
a mysterious package. Turns out it was just<br />
Ann Romney with some carpet samples.”<br />
–Jay Leno<br />
“The Obama campaign is planning to<br />
open up its 120th field office in Ohio. Even<br />
Starbucks is like, ‘That’s too many locations,<br />
man.’”<br />
–Jimmy Fallon<br />
“Astronomers have discovered a planet<br />
that is twice the size of earth and made<br />
of diamonds. President Obama says the<br />
planet may be inhabited by aliens not paying<br />
their fair share.”<br />
–Jay Leno<br />
“A down to earth guy.”<br />
–A fellow cab driver describing Adam<br />
Woldemariam, 42, who returned $221,510 he found<br />
in a laptop case in his car<br />
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It is often said that conservatives<br />
think with their minds and liberals<br />
think with their hearts. The more<br />
cynical version of that statement is<br />
that conservatives think with their<br />
minds because they have no hearts, and<br />
liberals think with their hearts because<br />
they have no minds. In the first debate,<br />
Romney showed heart (his likability<br />
rating has gone up exponentially since<br />
the debate) and he certainly showed his<br />
mind (his command of the issues was<br />
unflappable). So the first part of that<br />
statement seems to be false. Obama on<br />
the other hand…hey, by the way, how’s<br />
the weather?<br />
When I watched the first presidential<br />
debate, all I thought was that Obama was<br />
simply off his game. That is fine; it happens<br />
to everyone from time to time. You<br />
can’t contest the fact that Obama is a<br />
smart guy, after all, he fooled more than<br />
half the country into voting for him, but<br />
he simply wasn’t prepared. Obama has a<br />
lot to do—he has golf games to play and<br />
celebrities to hang out with—and having<br />
a command of the issues was never<br />
his thing in the first place. And I can’t<br />
Political Crossfire<br />
A Race Between<br />
Mind and Emotions<br />
blame Obama for not doing his debate<br />
homework—his debate tutor was Senator<br />
John Kerry. I wouldn’t want to be in<br />
a bank vault with that guy, never mind<br />
debate prep.<br />
The way liberals responded to<br />
Obama’s debate performance sheds light<br />
on the prism through which they view<br />
the world. They weren’t disheartened by<br />
Obama not having a grasp of the issues.<br />
Instead, what they found so shocking<br />
about Obama’s debate performance was<br />
that he didn’t seem angry enough during<br />
the debate. The media narrative was<br />
that Obama seemed bored. (I don’t know<br />
how they concocted the theory—I know<br />
that President Obama has an inflated<br />
self-image, but it is a stretch to say that<br />
talking to 70 million people is boring for<br />
him. This is a guy who gets excited when<br />
going on The View, which has a total<br />
audience of eight stay-at-home moms.)<br />
They promised that in the next debate<br />
he would show his angry side more.<br />
You know that angry liberal aunt that<br />
you have—the one who at family sim-<br />
when i see guys acting like biden acted, my initial<br />
reactiOn is tO simply lOck my car dOOrs. (i dOn’t<br />
care if they hear the clicking Of the lOcking<br />
buttOns…safety first.)<br />
chas everyone is scared to say the wrong<br />
thing around her? She is the poster child<br />
for liberals. Obama was supposed to be<br />
her at the debate and his biggest failure<br />
at the debate was that he didn’t act like<br />
her.<br />
So in order to stymie the debate<br />
fallout, the Obama campaign sent Joe<br />
Biden out at the vice presidential debate<br />
to be angry. He was so busy being angry<br />
throughout the debate that he must have<br />
gotten really hungry—it was the first<br />
time in the past four years that he went<br />
for a whole 90 minutes without putting<br />
his foot in his mouth. The problem is<br />
that when sane people are angry, they<br />
scream; when crazy people are angry,<br />
they sometimes laugh. And that is when<br />
it gets freaky. And it got freaky with<br />
Biden. He wasn’t that aunt at the Bar<br />
Nate Davis<br />
Mitzva who you tiptoe around; he was<br />
the scary-looking, disheveled guy in the<br />
long raincoat with whom you avoid eye<br />
contact at all cost.<br />
His odd laughing and chuckling at<br />
random times reminded me of the slight<br />
jolt of fear I feel when I am outside a<br />
pizza shop and the 25¢ pony-ride lets out<br />
a yelp in order to entice five-year-olds to<br />
hop onboard. It’s random, childish, and<br />
somewhat diabolical. When I see guys<br />
acting like Biden acted, my initial reaction<br />
is to simply lock my car doors. (I<br />
don’t care if they hear the clicking of the<br />
locking buttons…safety first.) I don’t<br />
know how Ryan stayed on the stage with<br />
him.<br />
But the media adored Biden’s performance;<br />
they considered it to be brilliant<br />
even though he did not say one intelligent<br />
thing throughout the debate. It was<br />
brilliant to the media because to them<br />
Biden’s ability to express anger equals<br />
brilliance. The reality though, is that<br />
the only thing Biden and brilliant have<br />
in common is that they both start with<br />
the letter B. (Come to think of it, Biden<br />
shares that distinguished honor with another<br />
prominent member of the Obama<br />
campaign—Big Bird). Yet, to them he<br />
was brilliant because he was emotional.<br />
Angry. Not burdened by reality. Unforgiving.<br />
He was the perfect liberal.<br />
This race is far from over. The outcome<br />
will depend on whether people<br />
think with their minds or with their<br />
hearts. This is a race of mind over emotion.<br />
But one thing is certain, if Obama<br />
wins, we will very quickly all be very<br />
emotional…when we realize that our<br />
country is going to pot.
Health & Fitness<br />
Q: My second grader is struggling<br />
with reading Hebrew. He seems to be<br />
just below grade level with English<br />
reading, but he is completely uninterested<br />
in kriyah. Do you have any suggestions<br />
for motivation?<br />
A: First, let me congratulate you on<br />
addressing this issue when your son is in<br />
second grade. Many parents believe that<br />
the problem should correct itself, but in<br />
reality, the longer we wait with reading<br />
(any language),<br />
the harder it becomes<br />
for children<br />
to catch<br />
up.<br />
Next, I<br />
wanted to outline<br />
the reasons<br />
why reading is<br />
so important.<br />
Often, we mistakenly<br />
think that reading is a skill relegated<br />
to the academic realm. We think,<br />
“So what if a child doesn’t read at grade<br />
level? Maybe he won’t do well in school,<br />
but he can still be a successful adult.” In<br />
fact, research has shown that literacy is<br />
directly connected to both social and financial<br />
success.<br />
In 2009, the National Institute for<br />
Literacy released the following statement:<br />
“The ability to read and write<br />
is fundamental to full participation in<br />
American society. Our nation of farmers<br />
and mechanics has been transformed<br />
into one in which economic, civic, and<br />
social success depend on educational attainment<br />
for all, particularly in literacy.”<br />
Not only do children who read proficiently<br />
have an easier time in all academic<br />
areas, they also are more capable<br />
in social situations. They are more confident<br />
and more independent and therefore<br />
function more smoothly with their peers.<br />
Conversely, illiteracy has a shocking<br />
connection to crime. Statistics show that<br />
60% of all prison inmates are functionally<br />
illiterate. The Department of Justice<br />
states, “The link between academic failure<br />
and delinquency, violence, and crime<br />
is welded to reading failure.” Of course,<br />
I am not saying that because any child<br />
struggles with reading he will be a criminal,<br />
rather I am indicating that when<br />
academic problems go undetected and<br />
untreated, they can extend well beyond<br />
the classroom.<br />
Okay, so we talked about the very im-<br />
Social Smarts<br />
Rifka Schonfeld<br />
Handy Homework Habits Reading Hebrew: Essential<br />
and Crucial in Our Lives<br />
Children, with special attention<br />
to those with ADD/ADHD and<br />
certain sensory dysfunctions,<br />
may find completing homework quite<br />
challenging. It can be a stressful<br />
time of evening<br />
for children and<br />
parents alike. The<br />
following is a list of<br />
tips for developing<br />
good homework<br />
habits and making<br />
homework time<br />
more manageable<br />
for all.<br />
1. Play before<br />
Work. Following<br />
seven hours of class<br />
and a bus ride home that can exceed 30<br />
minutes, every child needs a little unwinding<br />
time after school. A healthy<br />
15-20 minutes of “play time,” whether<br />
it’s a game of basketball, trampoline or<br />
bike riding will allow your child to let<br />
off some energy before tackling homework.<br />
Take advantage of the last days<br />
of fall before the weather turns frigid!<br />
2. Work and Play. Allow intermittent<br />
and timed (see #4 below)<br />
sensory breaks. Depending<br />
on your child’s<br />
sensory needs, sensory<br />
break activities can consist<br />
of doing jumping<br />
jacks, chair pushups, animal<br />
walks etc.<br />
3. Snack. A light<br />
snack either before or<br />
during homework time<br />
can satisfy hunger pains<br />
until dinner. Snacks eaten<br />
during homework will<br />
keep your child’s hand<br />
and mouth “busy” and less fidgety so<br />
their minds can be available to think.<br />
Crunchy snacks such as nuts, cut up<br />
veggies and fruit are healthy and energizing.<br />
However, sugary foods give a<br />
stimulating sugar rush and a sugar crash<br />
later—certainly, not the best recipe for a<br />
productive homework session.<br />
4. Time Management. Stop watches<br />
are a great tool. They can be used<br />
to place a time limit on breaks taken<br />
as well as a countdown until the next<br />
break.<br />
Figure 1- Pencil Topper Fidget<br />
Figure 2 - Weighted Lap Pad<br />
Devorah Gerber Schmeltz<br />
5. Sensory Support. Unique to<br />
your child’s sensory needs, a sensory<br />
support can help carry out a task with<br />
the support of a sensory stimulus. Examples<br />
include sitting on a therapy ball,<br />
use of a pencil fidget<br />
topper (see figure 1)<br />
or wearing a weighted<br />
lap pad (see figure<br />
2).<br />
6. Keeping a<br />
Routine. Be consistent.<br />
Homework<br />
should be done at a<br />
designated workstation<br />
(see previous<br />
article) and completed<br />
each night.<br />
7. Check Off. Break down homework<br />
into mini assignments and list<br />
them on a paper. As each item of homework<br />
is completed, have your child<br />
cross out/check off the listed assignment.<br />
This provides an ongoing visual<br />
feedback of work accomplished.<br />
8. Medication. If your child is on<br />
a stimulant medication such as Ritalin,<br />
be aware of the time<br />
medication is given and<br />
when its effects begin to<br />
wear off (which may be<br />
at around the time homework<br />
is to be done). Use<br />
this knowledge to your<br />
advantage to find the best<br />
time to complete homework<br />
assignments.<br />
9. ...and of course,<br />
Encouragement, Praise<br />
and a Positive Attitude!<br />
Devorah (Gerber) Schmeltz, MS OTR/L is a<br />
2003 alumnus of Downstate Medical Center’s<br />
OT Program. She is a senior occupational<br />
therapist at United Cerebral Palsy’s Brooklyn<br />
Children’s Program. Devorah maintains<br />
a private practice, Bumble & Tumble Occupational<br />
Therapy P.C., in Far Rockaway,<br />
NY providing pediatric occupational and<br />
physical therapy. Department of Education<br />
vouchers/RSAs are gladly accepted. Your<br />
questions and comments are welcome. She<br />
can be reached at BumbleTumbleTherapy@<br />
gmail.com or 917-971-5327.<br />
portant reasons to learn to read English<br />
(which you can share with your son as<br />
well, if you think it will help), but what<br />
are some separate motivating factors for<br />
kriyah? As a Jewish male, kriyah is an<br />
essential part of participation in communal<br />
life. Men are called up for aliyos<br />
in shul and your son will undoubtedly<br />
lein from the Torah for his bar mitzvah.<br />
Aside from these public opportunities<br />
that create pressure to perform, being<br />
able to daven<br />
in shul is contingent<br />
upon<br />
kriyah. In addition,<br />
learning<br />
gemara without<br />
any knowledge<br />
of kriyah is<br />
almost impossible.<br />
On top<br />
of all of the motivating factors I listed<br />
above, setting up a chavrusah with an<br />
older boy who he admires could help<br />
motivate him to excel. Intertwining social<br />
activity with academic pursuits is a<br />
great way to stimulate educational success.<br />
However, if your son still needs to<br />
master the basic skills of kriyah consider<br />
working with a reading specialist. Because<br />
Hebrew is a completely phonetic<br />
language, learning kriyah through a phonics<br />
approach can be quick and simple.<br />
Within a few weeks, your son can gain<br />
the confidence to read and write Hebrew.<br />
Remember, the earlier you start with<br />
him, the less time you will need to catch<br />
up (and the less mounting frustration he<br />
will have accumulated).<br />
While motivating a child to learn is a<br />
bit like asking the grass to grow, with a<br />
bit of sunshine and water, even the most<br />
stubborn seed can blossom.<br />
The opinions expressed in this article reflect<br />
the view of the author and those cited by her.<br />
In all matters of hashkafah and chinuch, readers<br />
should seek reliable rabbinical guidance.<br />
Mrs. Rifka Schonfeld, founder and director<br />
of Strategies for Optimum Success (S.O.S.) in<br />
1980, services all grade levels in secular as<br />
well as Hebrew studies. A long-time kriah and<br />
reading specialist, she offers evaluations, as<br />
well as G.E.D. preparation, social skills training<br />
and shidduch coaching. She can be reached<br />
at 718-382-5437 or at rifkaschonfeld@verizon.net<br />
or at www.rifkaschonfeldsos.com.<br />
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During World War II, there<br />
about 16 million Americans<br />
women in the military but<br />
only a small percentage of them<br />
actually fought. Many<br />
people were needed to<br />
support the fighting<br />
troops. There were<br />
several units<br />
created to make<br />
this global<br />
war possible<br />
for the Allies<br />
and the US to<br />
have a fighting<br />
chance to defeat<br />
the Nazis and the<br />
Japanese. One of<br />
these specialized<br />
units was the Navy<br />
Seabees.<br />
Right after the Japanese<br />
surprise attack on December 7,<br />
1941, Rear Admiral Ben Moreell started<br />
the unit and was given a home base<br />
in Davisville, Rhode Island. They were<br />
originally called Naval Construction<br />
Battalions but the name was shortened<br />
to C.B.s or Seabees.<br />
The Seabees’ main responsibilities<br />
were to take over the construction duties<br />
from civilian contractors. These<br />
specialties were needed in remote<br />
overseas bases that were often under<br />
enemy fire. Civilians had been used in<br />
these bases since 1940; however, under<br />
international law only military personnel<br />
were able to fire back at the enemy<br />
and civilians caught using weapons<br />
could be executed as guerrillas.<br />
Admiral Ben Morrell was born to a<br />
Jewish family in 1892 and had served<br />
in the navy through both world wars.<br />
During WWI, he was stationed in the<br />
Azores and got to know an assistant to<br />
the Secretary of the Navy who would<br />
be a future president, Franklin Delano<br />
Roosevelt. For 30 years, Morrell was<br />
stationed in American navy yards<br />
around the world and in 1937 was selected<br />
by President Roosevelt to be<br />
the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and<br />
Docks and the Chief of Civil Engineers<br />
of the Navy. Some of the work that he<br />
oversaw was the construction of naval<br />
yards at Wake and Midway Islands and<br />
Forgotten Heroes<br />
The Seabees<br />
The Navy’s Goodwill Ambassadors<br />
the Seabee logo<br />
the creation of two dry docks at Pearl<br />
Harbor. All of this was vital in the early<br />
months of the war as the US Navy<br />
needed to repair its damaged<br />
fleet as quickly as possible.<br />
Right before the<br />
attack at Pearl Harbor,<br />
Morrell asked<br />
for the Seabees,<br />
and they were<br />
created within<br />
a month after<br />
the attack. He<br />
was the one<br />
who came up<br />
with the name<br />
Seabee and soon<br />
after the logo, a<br />
fighting bumblebee,<br />
was adapted.<br />
Since many of the early<br />
Seabees were recruited<br />
from civilian positions, the average<br />
age was about 37 and later it was discovered<br />
that several men over the age<br />
of 60 had managed to join. Altogether<br />
during World War II, 325,000 people<br />
served in its ranks and were sent to six<br />
continents and 300 islands. Most of<br />
their work was needed<br />
in the Pacific, and<br />
as such, they came<br />
in right after the marines<br />
landed, often<br />
even before the island<br />
was secure. The<br />
Seabees, who were<br />
trained to fight as<br />
well as do construction,<br />
often found<br />
themselves in bitter<br />
firefights and took<br />
casualties. Some of<br />
the things that they<br />
built, oftentimes<br />
from scratch, other<br />
times with prefabricated<br />
pieces, included:<br />
airstrips, piers,<br />
tanks for gasoline<br />
storage, hospitals,<br />
warehouses and barracks to house 1.5<br />
million soldiers.<br />
Seabees also knew how to service<br />
weapons as was evident when Seaman<br />
2nd Class “Bucky” Meyer fixed a ma-<br />
chine gun on Guadalcanal in the Solomon<br />
Islands. He was working on Henderson<br />
Airfield when a Japanese Zero<br />
fighter swooped in low and opened up<br />
on the Seabees. Meyer<br />
calmly picked up<br />
his repaired machine<br />
gun and shot down<br />
the plane. He was<br />
awarded the Silver<br />
Star but was killed<br />
thirteen days later by<br />
Japanese naval gunfire.<br />
After World War<br />
II, the Seabees were<br />
officially recognized<br />
in the Navy Reserves<br />
and would be on<br />
standby for any conflict where American<br />
troops would need them. It didn’t<br />
take too long before the Korean War<br />
broke out in 1950, and 10,000 Seabees<br />
were called for duty. When the marines<br />
landed at Inchon, the Seabees were<br />
right behind them, fighting, building<br />
and supporting the troops. The navy<br />
wanted a naval air station in the Pacific<br />
region and a place on the Philippine<br />
African-American Seabees training during WWII<br />
(the military was segregated during the war)<br />
Islands was picked out. The Seabees<br />
were called upon to build this station<br />
after civilian contactors said it was<br />
impossible because of the mountainous<br />
terrain. The Seabees had to cut a<br />
Avi Heiligman<br />
mountain in half to make way for a two<br />
mile long runway.<br />
In addition to going to war zones,<br />
the Seabees can be found in remote<br />
Seabees during WWII<br />
countries building for needy communities<br />
and thus became known as the “navy’s<br />
goodwill ambassadors.” In 1955,<br />
200 Seabees were sent to Antarctica as<br />
part of Operation Deep Freeze to build<br />
scientific stations for the scientists doing<br />
research on the world’s coldest<br />
continent.<br />
The Vietnam War saw the Seabees<br />
building camps in remote jungle areas<br />
for Special Forces. These<br />
camps were considered<br />
the most secured areas<br />
from attack by the Communists.<br />
Here they also<br />
helped the local population<br />
by building roads,<br />
schools, hospitals and<br />
other public facilities.<br />
In 1970, Seabee activity<br />
in Vietnam drew to a<br />
close. The Navy’s builder-fighters<br />
had made a<br />
lasting contribution to<br />
the people of South Vietnam.<br />
Seabee construction<br />
skills and medical<br />
assistance contributed<br />
greatly in “civic action”<br />
programs.<br />
It was in Vietnam<br />
that Marvin G. Shields<br />
received the Medal of Honor, the only<br />
Seabee to get the medal. His citation<br />
reads as follows: For conspicuous gallantry<br />
and intrepidity at the risk of his<br />
life above and beyond the call of duty
Seabees in Afghanistan<br />
while serving with United States Navy<br />
Seabee Team 1104 at Dong Xoai, Republic<br />
of Vietnam, on 10 June 1965. Although<br />
wounded when the compound<br />
of Detachment A-342, 5th Special<br />
Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special<br />
Forces, came under intense fire from<br />
an estimated reinforced Viet Cong regiment<br />
employing machine gun, heavy<br />
weapons and small arms, Shields continued<br />
to resupply his fellow Americans<br />
with needed ammunition and to<br />
return the enemy fire for a period of<br />
approximately three hours, at which<br />
time the Viet Cong launched a massive<br />
attack at close range with flame throwers,<br />
hand grenades and small-arms fire.<br />
Wounded a second time during this<br />
attack, Shields nevertheless<br />
assisted in carrying<br />
a more critically<br />
wounded man to safety,<br />
and then resumed<br />
firing at the enemy<br />
for four more hours.<br />
When the Commander<br />
asked for a volunteer<br />
to accompany<br />
him in an attempt<br />
to knock out an enemy<br />
machine gun emplacement<br />
which was<br />
endangering the lives<br />
of all personnel in the<br />
compound because<br />
of the accuracy<br />
of its fire, Shields<br />
unhesitatingly volunteered<br />
for this<br />
extremely hazardous<br />
mission. Proceeding<br />
toward<br />
their objective<br />
with a 3.5- inch<br />
rocket launcher,<br />
they succeeded<br />
in destroying the<br />
enemy machine<br />
gun emplacement,<br />
thus undoubtedly<br />
saving the lives of<br />
many of their fellow<br />
servicemen in<br />
Adm. Ben Moreell<br />
the compound. Shields was mortally<br />
wounded by hostile fire while returning<br />
to his defensive position. His<br />
heroic initiative and great personal<br />
valor in the face of intense enemy<br />
fire sustain and enhance the finest<br />
tradition of the United States Naval<br />
Service.<br />
The Cold War ended in 1991 with<br />
the fall of the Soviet Union but that<br />
meant that the Seabees could concentrate<br />
on a new global threat: terrorism.<br />
In that year, 5,000 Seabees<br />
were sent to the Middle East to assist<br />
in Operation Desert Storm. They also<br />
participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom<br />
(2003) and Enduring Freedom<br />
(Afghanistan and<br />
the Philippines).<br />
Seabees are<br />
also on call to respond<br />
to natural<br />
disasters, whether<br />
domestically or<br />
abroad. In 2005,<br />
they were tasked<br />
with helping the<br />
victims of Hurricane<br />
Katrina in the<br />
Mexican Gulf area,<br />
and in 2011, they<br />
were sent as a part<br />
of the relief effort<br />
for the tsunami in<br />
Japan.<br />
Melvin Glenn Shields, the only Seabee to receive<br />
the Medal of Honor<br />
These armed construction workers<br />
stand ready to assist any and all peoples<br />
who may need their expertise. First and<br />
foremost, they are there to serve and<br />
protect the US and the military.<br />
Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The<br />
Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments<br />
and suggestions.for future columns and can<br />
be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.<br />
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Savvy Savta<br />
Moderated by Sarah Schwartz-Schreiber<br />
My Husband Feels Tortured Underground<br />
Dear Savvy,<br />
My stomach is in knots over this. I just returned from a wonderful Sukkos<br />
Yomtov spent with my husband and baby in my mother’s basement (she lives in<br />
Lawrence). My other siblings were there. My oldest sister stayed in two bedrooms<br />
upstairs (she lives in Florida and has five children). My brother camped<br />
out in the den with his wife and three children (he lives in Flatbush). While I<br />
was OK with the accommodations, my husband basically could not sleep. Every<br />
time someone ran a sink or a shower, we heard gurgling. When the boiler<br />
came on, it sounded like the house ignited and a train was clanging by. When<br />
we left, my mother, oblivious to our discomfort, kissed us goodbye with a cheery<br />
“Can’t wait for a repeat visit on Pesach.” Afterwards, my husband made it clear<br />
that no way was he coming back to be tortured underground. What to do?<br />
Sleepless in Cedarhurst<br />
Suri from Midwood responds:<br />
Sorry that your husband had such a<br />
“miserable” time. I am more sorry that<br />
he’s missing the point of a Yomtov/family<br />
reunion. It sounds from the tone of<br />
your letter, that you indeed appreciated<br />
your parents’ hospitality and the fam-<br />
ily reunion and that your mother was<br />
delighted with the arrangements. Let’s<br />
not forget that she didn’t have it easy.<br />
First, giving up her home. Making<br />
dozens of beds. Shopping for dozens<br />
of meals. Cooking for dozens of eaters.<br />
Setting up, clearing off. Giving<br />
up her own privacy. Bubbies/Savtas/<br />
Grandmas are natural givers. Still, all<br />
this giving does take its toll on her energy<br />
and pocketbook. Time for a reality<br />
check with your hubby to discuss what<br />
takes precedence/priority in life. The<br />
Marriott may provide comfort but for<br />
true-blue family warmth and memories,<br />
there’s no place like home.<br />
Malky from Boro Park responds:<br />
I think you are doing a disservice to<br />
your Mom by not telling her that your<br />
husband was not comfortable. A house<br />
may be a mikdash me’at but it does not<br />
stretch to accommodate the inhabitants.<br />
If she knows you were not comfortable<br />
in the basement, she can make inquiries<br />
now about available spaces in the<br />
neighborhood. When I made an Aufruf<br />
a few years back, I had my guests and<br />
some family members stationed in nearby<br />
homes, with neighbors and friends.<br />
Nobody complained. But then again,<br />
I’m not doing another Aufruf.<br />
Suri from Bayswater responds:<br />
I heard Italy is gorgeous this time of<br />
year although the choliptzes are not as<br />
tasty as Mom’s.<br />
Susie from Lawrence responds:<br />
It still amazes me that people still<br />
act like children even though they are<br />
married with their own children. Tell<br />
your husband that sometimes we put<br />
ourselves into situations that are less<br />
than ideal because we feel that it is important<br />
for us to be there. Yes, he may<br />
have had some of his beauty sleep disturbed,<br />
but a yom tov is a time for family<br />
to be together. I would take a noisy<br />
basement over a quiet house on the holidays<br />
any time—time spent with family<br />
is the stuff that memories are made of.<br />
And maybe buy him some earplugs.
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Meat – 6-8 Servings<br />
This is a stunning dish. Save it for a special occasion or holiday meal. If you can’t<br />
find sunchokes, you can substitute 1 pound of fingerling or baby Yukon Gold potatoes,<br />
each also cut in half.<br />
Ingredients<br />
1 pound sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes, unpeeled, rinsed<br />
1 large (1 pound) turnip, rinsed, unpeeled, cut into 1-1⁄2-inch chunks<br />
3 yellow beets (3⁄4-pound), rinsed, ends trimmed, quartered<br />
1 teaspoon fine sea salt<br />
1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper<br />
1 tablespoon olive oil<br />
8 cloves fresh garlic, minced<br />
2 teaspoons dried tarragon, crumbled<br />
1⁄2 cup fresh dill sprigs, packed, chopped<br />
2 tablespoons coarse grain Dijon or Country Dijon<br />
1 (3-4 pound) silver tip roast, tied<br />
1 heaping cup red seedless grapes, each cut in half<br />
2 large shallots, peeled, cut into small dice<br />
1-1⁄2 tablespoons red wine vinegar<br />
1-1⁄2 cups chicken stock<br />
Directions<br />
Preheat oven to 375° F.<br />
Cut each sunchoke in half lengthwise, and then the bigger pieces into fourths.<br />
Place the sunchokes, turnip, and beets in a single layer in a heavy, metal roasting<br />
pan. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and olive oil. Toss to coat.<br />
In a small bowl, mix the garlic, tarragon, dill, and mustard. Pat evenly over the<br />
top and sides of the roast. Set aside.<br />
Place the roast over the vegetables. Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour and 45 minutes.<br />
Remove the roast from the pan. Add the grapes, shallots, vinegar, and chicken<br />
stock to the pan, stirring or swirling to pick up the fond that the meat left behind.<br />
Return the uncovered pan with sauce and vegetables to the oven for 5 minutes. Slice<br />
the meat, place on platter, surround with the vegetables. Spoon the pan sauce over<br />
the meat.<br />
In the Kitchen<br />
Fall Favorites with a Twist<br />
Fall Harvest Silver Tip Roast<br />
Susie Fishbein<br />
These recipes have been reprinted from KOSHER BY DESIGN COOKING COACH: Recipes, Tips and Techniques<br />
to Make Anyone a Better Cook By Susie Fishbein, Artscroll Mesorah Publications / October 2012.<br />
Susie Fishbein is a world-famous kosher cook and author. Her wildly successful Kosher by Design series has already sold over 450,000 copies worldwide and has led to hundreds of appearances by<br />
Susie from coast-to-coast and Canada. She has been the featured celebrity guest on cruise ships as well as at a week-long culinary adventure in the Galil in Israel. Profiled in the New York Times<br />
and on CNN, Susie has been named one of the 50 most influential Jews by the Forward. A media darling, she has been a guest on dozens of network TV and radio shows. Susie was featured at the<br />
Epcot International Food and Wine Festival at Disneyworld, and taught at the DeGustibus cooking school in NY. Susie was an honored guest at the White House in recognition of National Jewish<br />
Heritage Month. Just back from leading a culinary tour in Tuscany, Susie lives with her family in New Jersey.
Red Snapper with<br />
Warm Olives, Capers,<br />
and Tomato<br />
Parve – 6 Servings<br />
Although red snapper is hard to find these days, buy it when you can, and try it<br />
with this recipe. Purchase it with skin. It is fun and easy to pit the olives, just press<br />
each one on your cutting board with your palm and the pit pops right out.<br />
Ingredients<br />
6 (6-ounce) red snapper fillets, with skin, or lemon sole, skinless<br />
Fine sea salt<br />
Freshly ground black pepper<br />
All-purpose flour<br />
3 tablespoons olive oil<br />
1⁄2 cup white wine<br />
15 Gaeta or kalamata olives (1⁄3 cup), pitted, coarsely chopped<br />
2 teaspoons capers, rinsed well, chopped<br />
1 large beefsteak tomato, cut into 1⁄2-inch dice<br />
8 fresh basil leaves, stemmed, finely chopped<br />
Juice of 1⁄2 lemon<br />
1 teaspoon dried oregano<br />
1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes<br />
2 handfuls fresh baby spinach<br />
Pine nuts, for garnish<br />
Directions<br />
Cut diagonal score marks in the skin side of the red snapper fillets. Skip this step<br />
if using lemon sole.<br />
Season the fish on both sides with salt and pepper. Dust both sides with flour,<br />
shaking off excess.<br />
Heat the olive oil in a large (12-14 inch) skillet over medium heat. Add the red<br />
snapper, skin-side-down, in a single layer; you will need to do this in batches. Cook<br />
2-3 minutes until golden brown. Flip each fillet to finish on the other side. Remove<br />
to platter, cover with foil to keep warm. Cook remaining fillets.<br />
Add the wine to the pan, allowing it to bubble. Add the olives, capers, tomato,<br />
basil, lemon juice, oregano, red pepper flakes, and spinach. Cook until the spinach<br />
has wilted, about 2 minutes. Spoon this mixture over the fish. Sprinkle with pine<br />
nuts.<br />
Serve hot.<br />
Silan Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Leeks<br />
Parve – 8 Servings<br />
Silan is date honey or date syrup. Available online, it can also easily be bought<br />
anywhere Israeli products are sold, particularly in Syrian and kosher markets. This<br />
versatile ingredient is sweet, sticky and will do wonders for any vegetable that you<br />
can roast. It has a unique flavor, deeper and richer than honey. I have seen it used in<br />
everything from cookies, Passover charoset, dressings, chicken and meat dishes, to<br />
topping off an ice cream sundae. Track a bottle down, it is so worth it.<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 large leeks, root end and top 4 inches trimmed,<br />
sliced into 1⁄2-inch thick rounds, cleaned well<br />
6 large sweet potatoes, peel half of them,<br />
cut each into 1-1⁄2-inch chunks<br />
1⁄3 cup extra-virgin olive oil<br />
1⁄3 cup silan date honey<br />
Directions<br />
Preheat oven to 400° F.<br />
Cover 1-2 jellyroll pans with aluminum foil. Set aside.<br />
Place the sweet potatoes and leeks into a large bowl. Toss with the oil to coat all<br />
of the vegetables. Pour in a single layer onto prepared pan. Roast, uncovered for 30<br />
minutes. Remove from oven and drizzle on the silan. Be careful, the pan will be hot.<br />
Coat the vegetables well. Return, uncovered to the oven and roast for an additional<br />
15-20 minutes, until the sweet potatoes are fork-tender and sticky. Toss once during<br />
the roasting time.<br />
Transfer to serving bowl.<br />
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From My Private Art Collection<br />
There Is Nothing<br />
Routine About “ART”<br />
Now that we are “back to<br />
routine,” I feel compelled to<br />
state that there really is nothing<br />
routine about art. Art is exciting<br />
with many dimensions and topics that<br />
should be reviewed,<br />
each time unveiling<br />
a new understanding<br />
of the subject<br />
being discussed,<br />
without ever getting<br />
bored. New and<br />
original concepts<br />
will consistently be<br />
unveiled.<br />
With this in mind<br />
I would like to introduce<br />
some necessary<br />
visual elements that<br />
will be helpful. My hope is that with<br />
this knowledge, you will be able to better<br />
understand a painting and help those<br />
individuals who do not have a clue as<br />
to what message the artist was trying to<br />
convey. The words that come to mind<br />
when describing any painting will help<br />
analyze and characterize it for you.<br />
The particular types of lines used in<br />
a painting are the expressive characteristics<br />
that we learn from. Take the diagonal<br />
lines, for instance, that will add<br />
energy and drama to a painting. Zigzag<br />
lines will make the painting pop<br />
and bring an explosive dimension to<br />
it. Curved lines are graceful and give a<br />
feeling of harmony. Thin lines are used<br />
to create a soft and delicate feeling in<br />
a work of art. The use of thick lines<br />
is wonderful when the artist wants to<br />
express a strong feeling. To create a<br />
feeling of balance, an artist will very<br />
often use vertical lines.<br />
Do you want to try the following<br />
exercise? It is a learning activity that<br />
will demonstrate this lesson through<br />
actual practice. We all know the old<br />
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg<br />
saying “practice makes perfect”—here<br />
is a perfect opportunity to experiment.<br />
Draw a picture using a variety of<br />
lines. As you draw each different line,<br />
try and zero in on the type of emotion<br />
that you are feeling.<br />
Jot down each emotion<br />
on a piece of paper.<br />
Now, copy those<br />
lines with another<br />
medium like paint,<br />
markers, or crayons.<br />
Jot down the feelings<br />
that each particular<br />
medium brings to the<br />
forefront. The outcome<br />
will surprise<br />
you. Have fun! Go<br />
to a museum and try<br />
to interpret a painting. You may be<br />
surprised to find out how this activity<br />
has helped you grow in the understanding<br />
of art. As you can well see, there<br />
is nothing routine in art. Art is always<br />
changing and is a visual way of expression<br />
at times when it is hard to find real<br />
words that express how you feel. Did<br />
you know that it has been found that<br />
Alzheimer’s patients can express themselves<br />
through art, and that art therapists<br />
use art as a tool for communication?<br />
I hope that everyone enjoyed this<br />
learning experience. By the way, you<br />
are now on your way to becoming an<br />
art critic.<br />
Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a professional<br />
art educator, artist and designer.<br />
Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture<br />
presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House,<br />
Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director<br />
of Operations at Shulamith School for<br />
Girls. Please feel free to email nherzberg@<br />
optonline.net with questions and suggestions<br />
for future columns.<br />
Room For Design Naftali Landau<br />
Designing a<br />
Functional Foyer<br />
Now that my family is back to their<br />
routine, my front hallway has become<br />
a huge mess again. What are some design<br />
ideas to keep my foyer neat and<br />
beautiful?<br />
-S.B.<br />
The foyer is your home’s chance<br />
to make a lasting first impression.<br />
Whether it’s the meeting place<br />
to usher your family out the door or<br />
just the room where you drop your<br />
keys, it needs<br />
to be functional<br />
and inviting.<br />
The foyer is an<br />
entryway to your<br />
home and it<br />
shows your guests<br />
your tastes, gives<br />
them the first<br />
impression about<br />
your home and<br />
lets them know<br />
how passionate<br />
you’re about the<br />
interior design.<br />
It’s also the space<br />
that welcomes you every time you<br />
come home so it should be practical<br />
and connect to the different parts of<br />
your house. There are many different<br />
ways to make your entranceway more<br />
comfortable and a lot more appealing<br />
Since the foyer is the main thoroughfare<br />
of your house it does end up<br />
becoming the dumping ground for all<br />
your family’s odds and ends. A major<br />
design idea that can keep this space neat<br />
and organized is to have built in cabinetry.<br />
There are numerous ways that you<br />
can build the right style and size for<br />
your specific need. Many people choose<br />
to build in cabinets that have cubbies<br />
that the children in your family can<br />
place their own coats and backpacks so<br />
that it doesn’t end all over the front hallway.<br />
You can also design a bench under<br />
the cubbies with a shelf so they can sit<br />
down and put on and take off their shoes<br />
that are stored underneath. This idea has<br />
a tremendous benefit to the overall organization<br />
of the front of your house<br />
while also creating a very pleasing and<br />
aesthetic look to your foyer.<br />
Another idea is to create a very dramatic<br />
look in your foyer by placing a<br />
nice shallow side table with a gorgeous<br />
mirror above it. This idea allows you to<br />
have a functioning space for your keys<br />
or mail yet sets an inviting tone when<br />
you enter your house. There are many<br />
different styles of tables and mirrors that<br />
can complement any home and you can<br />
dress it up in your own specific way.<br />
Some people like keeping it more casual<br />
and can place pictures around the mirror<br />
or you can keep it more elegant and<br />
add a sconce or decorative light above.<br />
A good idea for the table is to try to<br />
find one with a drawer in it so you can<br />
store items which<br />
is very useful in<br />
such a prime area<br />
in your home.<br />
If space is<br />
limited in your<br />
front hallway then<br />
you may want<br />
to keep it more<br />
simple and decide<br />
to create an area<br />
which doesn’t<br />
require a lot of<br />
space but still organizes<br />
you and<br />
looks nice. An<br />
idea like this can be to place a coat rack<br />
in the corner of your entranceway along<br />
with a few hooks for keys so that it becomes<br />
your focal point in the room. This<br />
can be a very interesting way to design<br />
the hallway because it relies heavily on<br />
the materials and colors you choose for<br />
these items. To give the room some interest<br />
you can use a bright colored coat<br />
rack and have a key hook made out of a<br />
funky material or shape so that it doesn’t<br />
look like you just placed these pieces<br />
there but that it is adding to the whole<br />
look of the foyer.<br />
In summary, we see that there are<br />
many ideas that you can use to create a<br />
welcoming foyer and have the functionality<br />
you need. This hallway is a main<br />
area in your home that not only gets used<br />
a lot but also gets seen a lot so it is important<br />
to keep it looking fresh and clean<br />
but allow you to have an entranceway<br />
you feel comfortable in. Good luck.<br />
Naftali Landau is owner and chief designer of<br />
Exclusive Cabinetry and Design and has been<br />
designing kitchens for the past 12 years. For<br />
questions or ideas for future articles, he can be<br />
reached at 917-468-7693 or at naftalilandau@<br />
gmail.com
If you don’t take care of your taxes,<br />
you risk some pretty expensive<br />
fines and penalties. Some of<br />
those amounts are fixed, like $195<br />
per partner per month for failing to<br />
file your partnership return. Others are<br />
based on the actual tax due, like the<br />
10% penalty for failing to<br />
file employment taxes. If<br />
the IRS has to come after<br />
you, they can slap liens<br />
on your home or other<br />
property. They can impose<br />
levies to pluck back taxes<br />
from your paycheck, your<br />
bank account, or your<br />
retirement plan. They can<br />
even seize your assets and<br />
auction them to collect<br />
their pound of flesh.<br />
Having said all that,<br />
would it surprise you to learn that there’s<br />
someone with a “Get Out of Jail Free”<br />
card for not paying his taxes? Would it<br />
surprise you even more to learn that it’s<br />
Uncle Sam himself?<br />
The Treasury Inspector General for<br />
Tax Administration (TIGTA) is an independent<br />
board that oversees the IRS.<br />
Their job is to audit, investigate, and<br />
inspect the tax system itself, as well as<br />
to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and<br />
abuse within the IRS and related entities.<br />
Last month, the TIGTA issued a<br />
report with a bland and vague title: A<br />
Concerted Effort Should Be Taken to<br />
Improve Federal Government Agency<br />
Tax Compliance. But that deceptively<br />
bureaucratic name masks a pretty outrageous<br />
conclusion:<br />
“Federal agencies are exempt from<br />
paying Federal income taxes; however,<br />
they are not exempt from meeting their<br />
employment tax deposits and related reporting<br />
requirements. As of December<br />
31, 2011, 70 Federal agencies with 126<br />
delinquent tax accounts owed approximately<br />
$14 million in unpaid taxes. In<br />
addition, 18 Federal agencies had not<br />
filed or were delinquent in filing 39 employment<br />
tax returns. Federal agencies<br />
should be held to the same filing and<br />
paying standards as all American taxpayers.”<br />
Fourteen million bucks might not<br />
seem like a lot compared to our sixteen<br />
trillion dollar debt. But believe it<br />
or not, the problem is bad enough that<br />
the IRS has an entire unit, called the<br />
Federal Agency Delinquency (FAD)<br />
Your Money Allan J. Rolnick CPA<br />
Latest Government FAD<br />
Program, just to collect delinquent taxes<br />
from other federal agencies! How well<br />
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had happened through December, 2011.<br />
The TIGTA found that just 33% of those<br />
agencies had paid their employment<br />
taxes. 30% of those accounts were still<br />
open and unresolved, three years later.<br />
Even worse, 36% of those accounts<br />
had actually expired; meaning the IRS<br />
won’t ever collect those balances.<br />
That “FAD” unit sounds like a real<br />
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2-4 says the IRS can’t assess interest<br />
or penalties against delinquent<br />
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You might ask yourself why it even<br />
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who live in glass houses shouldn’t<br />
throw stones. That age-old advice seems<br />
especially appropriate here. We’re in<br />
the home stretch of an election centered<br />
largely on the role we want entitlements<br />
to play in our society. And every time a<br />
federal agency short-changes its payroll<br />
tax obligation, it cheats the Social Security<br />
and Medicare trust funds of muchneeded<br />
dollars. It hardly seems controversial<br />
to ask Uncle Sam to set the best<br />
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Is There Life<br />
After the Holidays?<br />
Let’s think…<br />
Vacation!<br />
What’s the first thing we think<br />
about when we get home from a vacation?<br />
Come on, everyone together:<br />
“I need a vacation.”<br />
The packing, the traveling, the<br />
schlepping. The lack of sleep, the overeating,<br />
the stress and strain of getting<br />
there, being there, and getting home!<br />
The missing part of vacationing is<br />
vacating. We always fill up too much<br />
instead of unloading. We fill up our<br />
luggage, our time, our stomachs. We<br />
just don’t do enough of downtime, relaxing,<br />
or de-stressing.<br />
The holidays we just experienced<br />
came in a barrage. We have Rosh Hashanah,<br />
then Yom Kippur, then Succoth,<br />
then Hoshanah Rabbah and we top it off<br />
with Simchat Torah.<br />
If we played our cards right, we<br />
connected spiritually to what is important—who<br />
we should be and how we<br />
could be better.<br />
But what went on for us physically?<br />
• Too much eating! If there is such<br />
a thing?!<br />
• Too much running to have meals<br />
with friends, family, neighbors<br />
• Too much travelling, for many<br />
• And too much change in routine,<br />
for most<br />
So how to broach life post holidays?<br />
Just like vacations tend to overstuff<br />
us and disorient us, when they were<br />
supposed to mainly reinvigorate us, the<br />
holidays tend to do the same!<br />
So here are some hints to start living<br />
and stop feeling the potential negative<br />
fallout from the holidays:<br />
1. Get a good sturdy lock and put it<br />
on your fridge. Only give the code to<br />
your most disciplined family member.<br />
2. Stock up on Chobani and celery<br />
and learn to enjoy it.<br />
3. Or just buy yourself a muzzle and<br />
call it quits.<br />
4. Start an exercise routine—anything<br />
physical, even walking, is good,<br />
as long as it’s away from your food<br />
source!<br />
5. Keep a steady diet of contact with<br />
family and friends, that way it won’t be<br />
all that traumatic suddenly spending so<br />
much time together when the holidays<br />
roll around.<br />
6. Buy a thick protective t-shirt or<br />
camisole. Keep it in a safe place. And<br />
next year wear it under your garments<br />
to protect against the black and blue<br />
marks you give yourself, swiping your<br />
credit card.<br />
7. Most importantly,<br />
practice sitting<br />
in a chair. Extending<br />
your arms and pushing<br />
away from the<br />
table. If you can perfect<br />
this by the next<br />
holiday, you may put<br />
less stress on your digestive<br />
system.<br />
\Then here’s the<br />
secret formula to<br />
defray the physical<br />
stress of the overeating<br />
and enhance the<br />
spiritual effect of the holiday.<br />
Start singing more and learning<br />
more all year round. Then next time you<br />
are at the table too long you can enjoy<br />
sharing the zmirot and Torah you have<br />
learned.<br />
In the interim, you will have upped<br />
the spiritual ante and built the stamina<br />
you need to enjoy the “meal after meal”<br />
effect of food, family, and also enhance<br />
the ability to focus on a fabulous, fulfilling<br />
future.<br />
We are, after all, only looking to vacate<br />
the toxic life effects but we want to<br />
fill up on the important life enhancing<br />
ones.<br />
So, sure there’s life after the holidays.<br />
Get busy with it and start by putting<br />
down the danish you’ve been eating<br />
while reading this!<br />
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Ladino Tapas<br />
940 8 th Ave and 56 th Street<br />
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Sunday 4-10pm<br />
Mon- Thurs 12pm -12 am<br />
Fri 12- 2pm<br />
Motzei Shabbos 1 hr after Shabbos- 2am<br />
Entrees $22- 39<br />
Lunch and Dinner Prix Fixe till 7pm<br />
Whatever relationship can be said to exist between<br />
the Jews and Spain would be minimal at best.<br />
The Spanish Inquisition lasted close to four<br />
hundred years, and the little homage the Jews pay Spain<br />
is limited to the Gypsy Kings’ performance on The Big<br />
Lebowski. It is therefore puzzling that one of the most<br />
exciting new kosher eateries is a Spanish venue serving<br />
tapas, traditional Spanish bar snacks. The puzzle is<br />
further compounded by its location: Columbus Circle,<br />
a distinctly Latino-restaurant area, and, therefore, non-<br />
Jewish locale.<br />
But Ladino, one of the most ambitious kosher restaurants<br />
to open in recent memory, manages to fuse shmaltz<br />
with salsa. The brainchild of Alex Petard, formerly of The<br />
Box Tree and La Carne Grill, Ladino is admittedly not<br />
Spain-centric; it rather draws from the entire left side of<br />
the map, with dishes from Central down to South America.<br />
Ladino is unabashedly Latino. Indeed, the beautifully<br />
designed restaurant, with votive candles running alongside<br />
its rust painted interior and hanging from the central<br />
chandeliers, is decorated with Diego Rivera murals depicting<br />
Mexican peasants at harmony with the earth. The<br />
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something more American, it is quickly changed back. At<br />
Ladino, the busboy is not just a busboy. He doubles as a<br />
prop.<br />
At most kosher restaurants, cocktails are reserved for<br />
the semi-adventurous patron in the mood of a syrupy alcoholic<br />
concoction. Ladino, however, is home to a lively<br />
Food & Leisure<br />
Restaurant Review<br />
Ladino Tapas<br />
bar scene and a tantalizing list of Spanish-inspired cocktails.<br />
While the sangria may be a little too generous on the<br />
club soda and skimpy on the alcohol, the guava mojito<br />
is a tasty treat unique to Ladino. Meals start with yucca<br />
chips—light on the grease, perfectly salty—with chimichurri;<br />
one need not contend with getting full from a never<br />
ending bread basket—although refills on the chips are<br />
quick in coming. (Value added: no need to bentch!)<br />
Although Ladino offers popular appetizers and entrees,<br />
one needs only to order a selection of tapas a la<br />
carte to have a great experience. By far, the most popular<br />
are the sliced veal and tangy lamb chop. Ask your server<br />
for a recommendation on the ceviche: they are fresh and<br />
bright tasting. Beef skewers are soft and juicy and come<br />
with a cucumber sauce of a tahina consistency. The cactus<br />
with jalapeno dressing provides a lesson in cost-benefit<br />
analysis: a unique experience with a blandish gourd. The<br />
spicy tamale gives a spicy encounter, and nothing more,<br />
but the spicy wings deliver, however unoriginal they seem<br />
to be. Discount your server’s warnings about the spiciness<br />
of some of the offerings; the chef seems to be aware<br />
of Americans’ desire to feel adventurous without actually<br />
getting burned.<br />
Dessert picks up right where the menu leaves off: original<br />
and perhaps even tastier. Hot churros contrast nicely<br />
with cold peach and chocolate sauces. A cold, white chocolate<br />
mousse speckled with lime with an ice cream texture<br />
may be the greatest treat one has ever had, to those partial<br />
to lime.<br />
The atmosphere at Ladino is light and happening, and<br />
at dinner hour the restaurant can fill up fast. Needless to<br />
say, it is not a place for romantic dinners, votives and all.<br />
While the delicious menu may come with hefty sticker<br />
shock, this Spanish venue offers its own bailout: prix fixe<br />
lunch and dinner before seven pm, where you can experience<br />
the same fiesta in a less bustling environment. Enjoy!<br />
Nachum Soroka, a connoisseur of all things good, is the exclusive<br />
reviewer of eateries throughout the world for The Jewish Home.<br />
Nachum is intrigued by new gustatory experiences. He can be contacted<br />
through the editor at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com.<br />
Nachum Soroka
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Last week, after all the chagim were over, I was on the “That’s Life” segment<br />
with Miriam L. Wallach on the Nachum Segal radio network. Our topic was<br />
the dreaded words kids hear when they ask “What’s for dinner?” Inevitably,<br />
the response is “LEFTOVERS!!!” After Yom Tov or even after this past Shabbat,<br />
we have so many leftovers and we feel so bad about throwing them out. In order to<br />
make it more palatable, I try not to call it leftovers but rather reinvention.<br />
Take, for instance, my grilled vegetable platter that I served for lunch on Shabbat.<br />
On Monday morning for my husband’s lunch, I used the leftover vegetables from the<br />
platter in a wrap with some pesto sauce and, voila, we now have a grilled vegetable<br />
pesto wrap. In Manhattan, you can get charged $10 for a sandwich like that.<br />
To use up leftover chicken, I make a large pot of vegetable soup containing all the<br />
unused vegetables, such as zucchini, cauliflower, sweet potato and onion, and I throw<br />
in some of the leftover chicken that I shredded up. The chicken adds flavor and the<br />
soup usually gets eaten up in a jiffy!<br />
Below is an easy stir-fry recipe to use up leftover vegetables, chicken and, if you<br />
have leftover roast, you can use that too. If you are low on vegetables, you can throw<br />
in some Bodek broccoli or cauliflower too.<br />
Easy Chicken Stir-Fry<br />
You can choose any vegetable you like. You can also use tofu or salmon instead<br />
to make it vegetarian. Serve with brown rice on the side.<br />
Ingredients<br />
2 tablespoons canola oil<br />
1 red bell pepper, cored, seeded,<br />
and julienned<br />
1 yellow bell pepper, cored,<br />
seeded, and julienned<br />
1/2 cup thinly sliced red onion<br />
1 cup half-moon sliced yellow squash<br />
or zucchini<br />
1 cup small broccoli florets<br />
(or pkg frozen Bodek)<br />
Leftover chicken or roast, shredded<br />
1 clove garlic, minced<br />
1/2 cup teriyaki sauce<br />
2 cups sliced bok choy<br />
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper<br />
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt<br />
2 tablespoons sesame oil<br />
Directions<br />
Start by preparing and cutting all the vegetables and measuring your ingredients<br />
so that they are ready to go. Once you begin stir-frying, it goes very quickly.<br />
In a wok or large skillet, heat canola oil over high heat. Add the peppers and onion<br />
while stirring constantly. While continuing to stir, add successively the squash,<br />
broccoli, chicken, garlic, and teriyaki sauce. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.<br />
Add the bok choy, sprouts, pepper, and salt and cook, stirring, until crisptender,<br />
about 2 minutes more.<br />
Stir in sesame oil and remove from heat. Serve immediately.<br />
Naomi Nachman moved from Australia approximately 20 years ago and, in 2004, started<br />
“The Aussie Gourmet” to cater weekly and Shabbat/Yom Tov meals for families and individuals<br />
within The Five Towns and neighboring communities. Naomi is also sought after<br />
to teach cooking classes throughout the NY/NJ Metropolitan area (from Scarsdale to Boro<br />
Park, Manhattan to Teaneck, the Hamptons and Connecticut… and of course, The Five<br />
Towns). She has also taught classes in Florida, Australia and Israel. Naomi is a guest host<br />
on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, a cooking CD and a variety<br />
of newspaper articles. Naomi currently lives in Woodmere, NY with her husband and 4<br />
daughters.
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walk to all shuls<br />
Can rent weekly or monthly, Perfect for<br />
any Simcha or vacationers<br />
Call 631-484-6781<br />
For rent 2 bedroom apartment<br />
Far rockaway near BBY<br />
Available NOW<br />
Kosher Kitchen New appliances<br />
Call 516-225-4558<br />
Real Estate for Rent/Sale<br />
Cedarhurst colonial in excellent condition<br />
Three Bedrooms 1 Bath - Den, cellar, fenced<br />
backyard close walk to synagogues<br />
Call 516-569-4628<br />
or 516-547-8930 (cell)<br />
Gemachs<br />
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Midyear opening at TAG High School for<br />
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experience required. Email resume<br />
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Long Island Yeshiva looking for a full<br />
time administrative assistant.<br />
Proficient in Microsoft Office<br />
2 years minimum experience required.<br />
Email resume<br />
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Firm in 5 Town area seeking<br />
motivated individual to handle<br />
AR/collections and general office work,<br />
must be organized, detailed oriented and<br />
professional, excellent salary + benefit<br />
package and room for growth, please<br />
email resume to<br />
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Seeking administrative assistant<br />
in the educational office of a growing<br />
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requires dynamic organization and<br />
administrative skills, strong computer and<br />
people skills, and having an educational<br />
experience is a plus. Please send resumes<br />
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Great opportunity to do Chesed and get<br />
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Call Metropolitan 718-633-3334 ext. 0<br />
Executive Assistant: PT, Exec Assis for<br />
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Ability to multi-task a must. Email<br />
resume to chayaweinberg@yahoo.com.<br />
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Experienced P-3 Provider, with M.S. in<br />
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Lost white gold diamond<br />
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please call 347.578.4165<br />
A piece of jewelry was found on July<br />
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We are looking to replace our reserved spot<br />
in a 3 year old play group in Far Rockaway.<br />
The play group is well established and is a<br />
warm, caring and educational environment<br />
suitable for boys and girls that turn 3 years<br />
old in 2012. The playgroup hours are 9AM-<br />
1PM Monday –Thursday and 9AM -12PM<br />
on Erev Shabbos. Please contact Yael<br />
Gladstone @718-471-2751 for more<br />
information.<br />
The Yeshiva of Far Rockaway<br />
admits students of any race, color,<br />
national and ethnic origin to all the rights,<br />
privileges, programs and activities<br />
generally accorded or made available to<br />
students at the school. It does not<br />
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Now it’s time to talk about Arizona. No, not the<br />
drink, the state! Arizona became part of the United<br />
States in only 1912, and it’s hard to believe it happened<br />
so recently. With its desert climates, mountain<br />
ranges, and lastly, but certainly not least, its Grand<br />
Canyon, America would simply not be the same<br />
without this wonderful state. Let’s take a look at all<br />
the things you can do in Arizona.<br />
Arizona Art<br />
Are you an art fan? Go to Scottsdale, Arizona,<br />
where you can go on a Scottsdale “ArtWalk” through<br />
more than 100 art galleries. Every week, the Scottsdale<br />
Gallery Association hosts exhibits where people<br />
can come and join in an “open house,” just to view all<br />
different kinds of art. Too informal for you? Well, why<br />
not go to Phoenix, Arizona’s Art Museum? It’s the<br />
Southwest’s largest art museum at 285,000-squarefeet.<br />
It opened in 1959, and since then has amassed<br />
more than 18,000 works of art from all different times<br />
and places. Contemporary art, modern art, European<br />
art, you name it.<br />
Leisure & Travel<br />
From Sea to Shining Sea : Arizona<br />
Magic and Fun<br />
Come on down to Tucson, Arizona to see Arizona’s<br />
only old-world illusion show at the Carnival<br />
of Illusion. Known for its intimate setting and oldschool<br />
charm, the Carnival of Illusion is appropriate<br />
for people of all ages. But if you’re more of the action<br />
type, why not go to Octane Raceway in Phoenix,<br />
Arizona, billed as America’s largest indoor kart-racing<br />
venue, and includes billiards, an arcade, and rock<br />
climbing. Like golf? Arizona is known for having<br />
some of the most challenging golf courses, such as<br />
the Dinosaur golf course at Gold Canyon Ranch at<br />
the Apache Junction.<br />
Laser Tag and Arcades<br />
You may not know this, but Arizona is home to<br />
the world’s largest Laser Tag arena in Mesa, Arizona.<br />
With an 18,000 sq. ft. arena, there’s plenty of space<br />
to have your futuristic war with friends and family.<br />
The Grand Canyon<br />
How can we talk about the sites of Arizona and<br />
not talk about the Grand Canyon? Formed by the<br />
Colorado River, the Grand Canyon is 277 miles long,<br />
18 miles wide at its widest point, and one mile deep.<br />
Aryeh Sklar<br />
Nearly 5 million people visit Grand Canyon National<br />
Park each year. A sight to see, the Grand Canyon also<br />
has many different opportunities for adventure. You<br />
can take a river ride down the Colorado River. You<br />
can saddle up a mule and travel to Phantom Ranch,<br />
or you can just plain old hike in the inner rim of the<br />
Grand Canyon. Whatever you do, come to see a natural<br />
wonder of the world and experience the beauty of<br />
nature firsthand.<br />
Wild West<br />
Before Arizona even became a state, it was making<br />
headlines with its cast of outlaws and respected<br />
lawmen. Across the state, you’ll be sure to stumble<br />
on historic shops and hotels and quaint towns. There<br />
are tours and re-enactments of events along with attractions<br />
that highlight the Wild West found in Arizona.
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and sad times,<br />
Chai Lifeline<br />
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