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INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK HITTING A GRAND SLAM Hock Of The Rock BY LARRY GORDON Eli Shapiro 15 Daf Yomi Insights Artificial Peace Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow 18 When all else fails, try to The linchpin to all these MindBiz create a fictional peace in the peace processes is the cre- Esther Mann, LMSW 22 Middle East. Jimmy Carter ation of a Palestinian state in tried it; so did Ronald Reagan. the West Bank and Gaza Letters To The Editor The senior George Bush tried, Strip. It’s been 40 years since Our Readers 27 Bill Clinton made a big effort, the Six Day War and the and now it’s time for the jun- realignment of real estate in Going, Going, Gone! ior George Bush to try. What Israel, with swatches of the Hannah Reich Berman 32 is it that they all have in com- West Bank wrested from mon? Inept and only minimal- Jordanian control and now ly successful foreign-policy developed into voluminous The roaring 5TJT Tigers of the Suit Central League of Simcha Day Camp, accomplishments that need to and productive Israeli cities. a division of Yeshiva Darchei Torah, celebrating a recent victory in the be covered up by blazing a camp’s competitive summer baseball league. trail to peace in the Mideast. Continued on Page 6 See Photos, Page 55 A JEWISH FUTURE HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Walking The Walk B Y TOBY KLEIN Bar Mitzvah of Jared GREENWALD BY LARRY GORDON these tree-lined blocks in the Ehrenreich. See Page 38 afterglow of Independence The name of the confer- It’s a July Shabbos in New Day on July Fourth. It’s a ence caught my eye: “The England. It’s not too far from beautiful piece of everyday Future of the Jewish People” home, but at the same time it America. is certainly more arresting is worlds away. At first sight, it It’s Springfield, Massachu- than “continuity,” and it is appears peaceful and pleasing setts, about 150 miles outside also, as they say in Hebrew, to the eyes. It is a quaint New of New York City, which “mechayev” (binding). England town, cars passing means that if not for the usual So it was clear—from the not so quickly down not so heavy traffic one could make title, from the intense working busy main streets. The the drive in less than two-and- groups on Leadership, Former Chief of Staff Moshe American flag still flies from a-half hours. I’m here for a “Boogie” Ayalon, Professor Itamar the front porches and front Continued on Page 8 Rabinovitch, and Natan Sharansky. windows of many homes on Continued on Page 4 Dr. Francine Stein, new president of AMIT. See Page 45 Fearsome Foursome Mitzvah SNORING Challot Halachic Musings BY RABBI YAIR HOFFMAN Our Aliyah Chronicle, Part 50 DIRECTOR, TIFERET CHAYA BY SHMUEL KATZ PROGRAM FOR GIRLS

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HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE He immediately suggested Diana’s as to be a beacon of Jewish life for 30 congregants. I remember shuls of Continued from Front Cover place—The Lathrop House Bed & Jews who by this time would otherwise this size back in the old Crown Breakfast—which is about three blocks be disenfranchised. Heights going through similar experi- change of pace, to get away from in from the Kesser Israel shul, but it didn’t One of the problems in Springfield ences. In those days, people moved front of my computer, to see how look like that was going to work. When these days is that the old traditional away, and opening shtiebel shuls was another part of Jewish America lives, I told him that, he said that the next Jewish lifestyle is dissipating. Children the order of the day. The big shuls to do this story, and to attend the back choice was “home hospitality.” I asked have grown up and either moved away were empty and it was only a matter of end of the internationally famous him where that was located and he said, or to an extent assimilated. Despite the time before they would have to close Brimfield Antiques Show, which ran “Right here in our home.” I was reluc- scattered nature of the community, the their doors and sell the building. through last Sunday. And that’s the tant to impose, but he quickly con- Chabad rabbis in town continue to The interesting thing about correct order of reasons that I spent vinced me that we were quite welcome, offer an extensive array of educational Springfield is that its Jewish character is last weekend here. and that first conversation led to a series programs that, while attracting few in evident wherever you turn. There is Like so many other things I do, it of calls back and forth over the next few number, have made a dramatic impact extensive housing for retired Jewish sen- was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hours about any special accommoda- on local families here. iors, a Jewish Community Center, a take off, as we looked around at the old tions we might need, what we liked or Holocaust Museum, and so on. In addi- Five Towns homestead and no one was did not like to eat, and so on. tion to the three large Orthodox shul around except us folks. My interest in Chaim did warn me that he lived a buildings I mentioned, there are equally Springfield was piqued earlier this two-mile walk from the shul, which is By taking the longer impressive Conservative and Reform summer by one Diana Henry who located in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in synagogues/temples in the area. What’s called about a kosher bed-and-break- Springfield, but I told him that I was route, more people can lacking is any kind of conventional fast she hosts in one of the most up for the task. We showed up a few yeshiva community that could lend majestic areas of this part of the coun- hours before Shabbos with another see that a Jew chooses to itself to a form of sustained growth that try, a place that conjures images of couple (he was expecting them, too) observe Torah law by might develop into a larger community. George Washington and the historic and we were made extremely welcome That is not the typical Chabad expe- years when America gained its inde- and quite comfortable. walking on Shabbos rience, especially in an isolated area pendence more than 230 years ago. Though a relatively short distance like Springfield, Mass. In the Chabad When I finally decided that it might from the metropolitan centers of the rather than driving. model, when a family becomes obser- be a nice experience to spend a weekend New York area, Springfield is middle vant it usually means that it’s time to in Springfield and finally get a firsthand America. Among other things, this get them out of town to a place where look at Brimfield, I called Diana. She means that the fashion in which Jewish life is more developed, where would have wanted us to spend Shabbos Yiddishkeit is practiced is going to have Still, the unfortunate reality is that there are yeshivas and the other neces- with her, but because of the Brimfield attached to it, in many instances, some two of three Orthodox shuls will be sities of big city and communal Jewish event her inn was sold out up until unusual nuances. At the same time, all closing after the upcoming holidays life where their families can flourish. As Saturday night. My next foray was into these years later one is able to observe and consolidating into one new con- a result, places like Springfield remain the thicket of Chabad emissaries in and gain a further appreciation for gregation. It was no doubt a difficult relatively small and religiously rural. Springfield, and my Google search led some of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s bril- decision, but the three shuls are Despite the growth problems in this me to Chaim Kosofsky. The rest was liance in constructing this vast net- extremely large and located on sprawl- part of Springfield, there is no short- both easy and intriguing. My first call to work of emissaries who place them- ing properties. I saw two of them, and age of drive or energy on behalf of the Chaim was to inquire about where else selves, and build their lives and the the capacity of each is probably close local sh’luchim of the Rebbe. On we could possibly stay in proximity to a lives of their families, frequently in the to 500 people. On an average Shabbos, Friday night after shul, we asked Shabbos minyan (and some food). middle of what looks like nowhere—so I was told, each attracts perhaps up to Chaim Kosofsky, our host, whether

4 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES there is a shortcut we could take to most prominent in Jewish educational reduce the length of the walk. He said life in Springfield, as it has been for there is, but that he prefers to walk the about 60 years. The senior Rabbi long way with his kids (and in this case Edelman, now 82 years old, has been with us, his guests). He said that by in Springfield since 1951. His children taking the longer route, more people hold key rabbinical and educational can see that a Jew chooses to observe positions in the city, and his daughter Torah law by walking on Shabbos is married to the Rabbi Noach rather than driving. He said he was Kosofsky (Chaim’s older brother), who personally struck by this idea some runs the yeshiva. years ago, when he was walking home It was an enlightening Shabbos with on a hot summer evening and a woman good people and good food as well as a in a car pulled alongside him and his splendid kiddush dotted with divrei family, rolled down her window, and Torah that inspired us and made us feel said that she thought that “this was a at home. We met good people, such as wonderful sight to see.” the Kosofskys and Edelmans as well as Rabbi Kosofsky and his wife, Rachel personalities like Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Leah, along with his brother Noach and Simenowitz, a lawyer, excellent ba‘al several others spend much of their time tefillah, and maple-syrup farmer who working on the yeshiva, which has been spends part of his week on his farm in recognized by professional organiza- the woods of Vermont. tions for its excellence in education. At It doesn’t get better than the pure present there are about 100 students goodness of these fine people who long enrolled in the yeshiva. These are the for nothing more than to do a good kids of local people, obviously, who deed for the next person. And that want their children’s education to be deed can be as simple as teaching him high quality but also want a Judaic ele- or her alef-beis or hosting them for an ment injected into that process. Rabbi extraordinary Shabbos. O Kosofsky says that some students travel up to two hours to get to the yeshiva. Comments for Larry Gordon are welcome at When I first walked into the shul on [email protected]. Friday night, the first thing I saw on the wall was a photograph of a young rabbi teaching pupils in a classroom. The photo caption says the year was WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? 1946, the place was Springfield—and WE WANT TO KNOW! the young rabbi was my uncle, Sholom Ber Gordon, of blessed memory. He E-MAIL US AT left Springfield a few years later for Newark and then Maplewood, New [email protected] Jersey. Today, the Edelman family is

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 5 FROM THE EDITOR an Israeli prime minister with an ments that these leaders need are peace Continued from Front Cover approval rating in the single digits, conferences and treaty- or accord-sign- leaders have to come up with some ing ceremonies on the White House Of course, considering Israel’s physical kind of angle on the Middle East situ- lawn along with the accompanying fes- size on the globe, these changes would ation before leaving center stage and tivities that could hopefully push up the P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 be barely visible without a magnifying moving off into the political sunset. popularity ratings, of Mr. Bush and Mr. 516-984-0079 [email protected] glass. To the outsider (and now to Historically, that means coming up Olmert in particular. A similar philoso- [email protected] many insiders, too), if this tiny speck with a plan for peace that involves phy is being used to currently fight the LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON on the map can be maneuvered around reducing Israel in size and expanding global war on terror. The groundwork Publisher/Editor Managing Editor and at the same time we can satisfy the the presence of a hostile Arab enemy for the genius of the effectiveness of YOSSI GORDON desire of the Muslim world for Jewish on her borders. It’s an odd approach to terror was hatched right in the area of Director of Sales land—well, what’s there to really lose? peace—give your enemies the results the same Middle East in which Mr. CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Clearly, making peace with a vio- of a successful war so that they for- Bush wants to so desperately score a Editorial Assistant success in peace-making. SIDI BARON Clearly, terror needs to be eradicat- YAKOV SERLE ed from wherever it exists, not dealt JERRY MARKOVITZ with diplomatically. The Abbas-Olmert Sales Representatives It’s as if the U.S. would decide to plan to rid the West Bank and Gaza of SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC terror merchants is to turn the terror- Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor ists into legitimate members of the CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Howard M. Adelsberg, Irwin H. Benjamin appoint Osama bin Laden as Secretary Palestinian security forces. This is the Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen future plan for Israel’s war on terror. Danny Block, Jamie Geller It’s as if the U.S. would decide to Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Yochanan Gordon of State of the United States. appoint Osama bin Laden as Secretary Michele Herenstein, Rabbi Yair Hoffman Karen Kahn, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky of State of the United States. By doing Shmuel Katz, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller this, Mr. bin Laden would no longer be Rabbi Yoni Posnick, Gary Rabenko, Naomi Ross a terrorist but rather an official of an Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Eli Shapiro lence-oriented Palestinian people has swear the idea of war and engage American administration. He’d be able YOSEF BROWN, MICHAL WEINSTEIN proved all but impossible over the last instead in peace. Forget about the ben- to keep his guns and whatever addi- Staff Graphic Artists half century. Over that period of time, efits of peace, of living side by side tional arsenal he may harbor, because IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Israel, her allies, the peace brokers, with your neighbors, of children play- they are no longer weapons of destruc- Staff Photographers and everyone else involved have been ing and attending school together. tion but rather an important element FRANKEL & CO., CREATIVE DESIGN LLC at a loss to find a group of people or Forget about working together and of his ability to maintain the peace. Of Design & Production even an individual with whom to sit building communities together so that course, just like the terrorists in Israel TALIYE CORLEY down and talk to without deviousness future generations are comfortable that are freed, he’d have to sign a Art Director and deception being job one. It’s not and secure. In our scenario here, the pledge that says that he promises not SUZETTE LEE that the present Palestinian leader, hostility remains, the objective to to indulge in terror again. It’s that Assistant Art Director Mohammed Abbas, is that person as obliterate the enemy remains—only piece of paper that seems to make all The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not much as that for now he has to be that the superficialities of what peace could the difference. necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not person. With not very encouraging look like is important. responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or prospects any time soon in Iraq, and Among those exterior accomplish- Continued on Page 16 establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times.

6 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 7 A Jewish Future dent from Brandeis (and the only One of the most important items to The Future of the Jewish People con- Continued from Front Cover woman who spoke from the dais) who come out of the Prague Charter, he ference also featured the obligatory stated, “Young Jews do not identify said, was that “those who will violate speeches by Prime Minister Olmert, Demography, Jewish Identity, and with Jewish peoplehood, and there is the rights of their own citizens can be opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu, Geopolitics, and from the star-studded no sense of responsibility… It is much counted upon to violate the rights of and (then) president-elect Shimon Peres. cast of invitees that the Jewish People more attractive to be a citizen of the people beyond their borders… The Government ministers Tzippi Livni and Planning Policy Institute succeeded in world than a member of ‘the tribe.’” globalization of radical Iran is a threat Ehud Barak put in short appearances in gathering together for three days in She painted a bleak picture of life to the moderate Muslim countries… the working groups. Jerusalem—that they were serious on campus and beyond, and it set a “Abu Mazen’s government must be Dennis Ross at the end spoke of “inclu- about countering some of the biggest clear non-Pollyanaish agenda for the benchmarked and standards required sion, diversity… We need to make Jewish challenges our generation faces. next three days. “My generation is of the Palestinian Authority must be values part of the story. That includes Unfortunately, as was repeatedly removed from historical events that adhered to… We should not take own- poverty in America and other issues; it’s a pointed out in the course of the con- define the Jewish people,” said Fish. ership of all the issues as if we, Israel matter of ‘framing.’ If Israel got out of ference, there was almost no one “‘Palestinians’ is the cause célèbre and and the Jewish people, can solve Gaza and got out of Lebanon and the under 40 present, no mainstream the litmus test for liberals on campus. them, because if we take ownership, result was a lot of rockets fired [at us], haredim, only a smattering of the Zionism itself must be reclaimed… we take blame.” He suggested renew- someone has to be responsible. We need a national religious, and—most glaring Every generation has to realize there is ing the Madrid idea of working groups secretariat to come out of this group that of all—only one-fifth of the invitees a Jordan River it will not cross…” on specific issues, such as water. will assume responsibility and would work were women. In a conference whose Dennis Ross, chairman of the insti- “There is a gathering storm and it is with the office of the President of Israel.” topic was the future of the Jewish peo- tute, referred to the declining number 1938 all over again, but 2007 is not The highlight for the non-Israeli partic- ple, this especially rankled. of Jews in the world, saying that “when 1938,” said Cotler. “We have some ipants was when president-elect Shimon Nevertheless, as participants Natan numbers become small enough, they powerful historical assets and we Peres put in an appearance at the confer- Sharansky and Irwin Cotler comment- have an impact on quality.” He echoed should never ignore this… There are ence’s conclusion. Since each of the four ed, there was value in having people the findings of the Winograd non-Jews prepared to join the Jewish working groups was in agreement that in who don’t usually talk to each other Commission on last year’s war, saying, people. In an age of globalization, the order to go forward and preserve the come together. “There is no strategic planning in the Jewish people are a global people… future the Jewish people must have a good The final recommendations of the State of Israel… The essence of state- We are a rights-based people—same knowledge of their history and culture, I working groups urged better leader- craft begins by being very clear on your language, memory, prophets. A people asked Irwin Cotler what he thought about ship, better education, better has- objectives, based on reality—not ideol- that for 3,000 years has had the notion the fact that Peres, who has said on a barah, the need to focus on Jewish his- ogy or faith.” This last comment drew of the rule of law as a moral impera- number of occasions that history bores tory, tradition, and culture, attention a spirited objection from David tive… We need to take back the narra- him or that it isn’t important, was asked to to the dangers of the Iranian and Landau (editor of Haaretz, who com- tive on the issue of the Israeli- head the subsequent secretariat whose Islamic threat, more trips to Israel for mented on the absence of more people Palestinianism.” goal was to monitor implementation. young people, and more attention paid whose lives were faith-based) and from In a follow-up interview, Cotler said, Cotler: “We’re anchored in history. to the expansion of the Jewish people, others in the course of the three days. “If you’re going to have a serious dis- Peres is almost ahistorical. He’s not willing and other measures. The question, Professor Irwin Cotler, former jus- course and bring different perspectives to think in historical terms. If we’re not however, repeatedly raised in the clos- tice minister of Canada and a member to bear, and you’re talking about inter- anchored, we won’t have the proper moral ing session was, how will all that be of its parliament, spoke of the existen- generational continuity, you have to compass for what we have to do. We speak implemented? tial threat from Iran and of the lack of have the younger generation there. If the same language, inhabit the same land, The opening shot was fired by human rights in the same countries as we did 3,500 years ago.” Rachel Fish, a passionate doctoral stu- who wanted to see Israel destroyed. Continued on Page 10

8 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 9 A Jewish Future changing world… There is a millenni- Gottesman, French sociologist and discover that the people are strong and Continued from Page 8 um generation that behaves, thinks, author Shmuel Trigano, and various it is the leaders who are weak.” wants differently than previous gener- Israeli participants: that the proof will Sharansky, characteristically, bridged you’re talking about demography and ations… Our means of leadership had be in the action. the “realism vs. faith” argument when Jewish identification, you need to have need to deal with problems that are Natan Sharansky, who rescued the he said, “The strength of our people is gender equity so that was insufficient. not exclusively Jewish, but universal, Birthright budget when he was in the in faith; without that there is no inner “The discussions were good, but the like racism. There must be a continued Israeli cabinet, said unequivocally, “A strength. At the same time, a leader has question is, Where do we go from means of exchanging views and respect leader who is not connected to Jewish to know how to be with all the parts of here? The test will come now in the people. He has to be a realist. There whether serious task forces will be set are so many people that presume to call up that will be entrusted with the themselves ‘leaders’ but it is not felt in implementation that came out of each their behavior. Throughout history we of the groups. Otherwise it will be Only their third recommendation have felt the influence of the Jewish another talkfest. In our group on people on all of humanity… There is a geopolitics—it would have been useful was to ‘facilitate the Jewish strong connection between our needs if we had come up with a comprehen- and the needs of the free world. When sive and multifaceted strategy with we lose that connection, they connect respect to the Iranian threat. We family.’ with our enemies.” would have been doing a service for Regarding the conference, he said, the international community.” “There are no great rabbis here, no Annette Hochstein, president of the haredim, and not many kipot serugot Mandel Foundation in Israel, said, for diversity of opposing points of view tradition cannot be a leader. The [religious nationalists]. There is not “Israel would thrive if we had several and interpretations.” Like others in the strength of a leader is that he under- enough dialogue [between the differ- think tanks furthering the sort of delib- conference, she stressed, “We need a stands the strength of his nation. For ent groups], so of course there will be erations we have here… I think the more knowledgeable leadership.” several generations the leaders of the less disagreement.” leadership group was thoughtful, Over lunch I heard a common people have been saying that our people Sharansky believes in private initia- diverse, and focused on the future… refrain from many people, including are weak and that we have to do some- tives, giving the example of Birthright. Leaders need attributes for a rapidly American Reconstructionist Sally thing about it. At the moment of war we “[Yosi] Beilin was one of the few MKs who understood that the Diaspora is not just an appendage to Israel. What works best is to have private initiatives with the support of the government. Steinhardt and Bronfman [in creating Birthright] went against the stream, against the Jewish Agency at the time… Leadership must be independ- ent of the existing institutions and then know how to use them and how to be used by them.” Steve Hoffman of Cleveland said that his working group concluded that there is a need for “a strong core with common practices, memory, and inter- ests, but that is not the antithesis of diversity.” He also said, “The state monopoly of religion in Israel is a major impediment.” His group recom- mended that the Birthright concept be extended. He called the crowd’s out- rage at the paucity of women “insult- ing” and the issue of no women pre- senters “cosmetic,” due to the fact that women were such an important part of the process; but many of the confer- ence participants weren’t buying it. The demography group drew laughs when they said that they talked about how to increase the Jewish people, but there was nothing humorous about the fact that their first recommendation was to make conversions easier, their second recommendation was to have a more inclusive attitude toward Israelis living abroad, and only their third rec- ommendation was to “facilitate the Jewish family” including marriage and child-bearing. Dr. Jehuda Reinharz, president of Brandeis, who headed the group on leadership, quoted Mort Mandel of Cleveland, who used to say, “It’s all about ‘who.’” Among the 13 qualities that a leader must have, their group concluded, are a strong commitment to the Jewish people, Jewish cultural values, tradition, and history; an understanding of the historical process; strategic thinking; and the ability to mobilize others. David Horowitz, editor of the Jerusalem Post, countered, “It’s not just about ‘who’; it’s about ‘what.’ What will be done now to ensure that these recommenda- tions are implemented?” O 10 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Snoring Rav Shmuel HaLevi Vosner, shlita, admits that there is definitely a proof However, they may not stop him and Continued from Front Cover the rav and av beis din of the Zichron from Bava Basra 20b that preventing say, ‘We cannot sleep, because of the Meir section of Bnei Brak, discusses someone from sleeping is prohibited, sound of the hammer, or the mill.’” some sleep. In the room next to his the situation in the seventh volume of as well as from Choshen Mishpat This is because he already began was another hotel guest who was snor- his responsa (siman 224). siman 156:2 and 3. doing this and they did not stop him ing rather loudly. Hardin could not get Rav Vosner begins his response with The Shulchan Aruch discusses from doing it earlier.” to sleep. To relieve his predicament, he the position that the term “theft” can whether someone is permitted to Although the parameters of what is fired two shots through the wall. The permitted in a residential area and first shot woke up his neighbor; the what is not are somewhat complex, second shot killed him. The Time-Life the essential issue that preventing advertisement described Hardin as a The neighbors may not complain and say someone from sleeping is generally man who was “so mean he once shot a prohibited can be established from man just for snoring.” this ruling of the Shulchan Aruch. This brings us to a discussion of the they cannot sleep on account of the sound As we have seen, however, there halachic ramifications of snoring. are noted exceptions. In a similar There is an expression that is com- of children learning Torah. vein, the Shulchan Aruch rules in s’if monly used known as “gezel 3 that if someone begins teaching his sheinah”—“the stealing of sleep.” The children Torah in his house, the meaning is that doing something that neighbors may not complain and say either wakes another person up or pre- only truly be used when one steals an open a commercial store in a resi- they cannot sleep on account of the vents him or her from going to sleep is actual item and the thief either uses dential neighborhood. Rav Karo sound of children learning Torah. an act of gezel sheinah. Is this, in fact, that item or benefits from it. He writes writes as follows: “The immediate Rav Vosner concludes his response really stealing? Is there merit to the that preventing someone from sleep- neighbors may prevent him from with the idea that the term gezel is use of the term “gezel” to describe this ing is prohibited because one person opening up such a store and tell him, somewhat of a misnomer. The term is injustice? Is there an obligation on the is not allowed to cause damage to ‘We cannot sleep, on account of the used, however, in the Talmud part of one who snores to seek a reme- another or to prevent another from noise of those who are entering.’ He (Berachos 6b) in a situation that may dy for that condition? realizing a benefit, but there is no may only do his work in the house actual theft involved. Rav Vosner and sell it in the marketplace. Continued on Page 12 CALENDAR LUACH July 20-July 28 ZIP Code: 11516

5 Av – Erev Shabbos Friday, July 20 Daf yomi: Yevamos 78 Z’manim*: Earliest tallis/tefillin: 4:36 am Sunrise: 5:41 am Latest Shema: M. Av. 8:44 am Gr’a 9:20 am Candle Lighting: 8:03 pm 6 Av – Shabbos Saturday, July 21 Parashas Devarim Shabbos Chazon Pirkei Avos: Ch. 3 Shabbos ends**: 9:09 pm 72 min. 9:33 pm Eve of Tishah B’Av Monday, July 23 Sunset: 8:19 pm Megillas Eichah 9 Av –Ta‘anis Tuesday, July 24 Midday: 1:01 pm Earliest Minchah 1:38 pm Sunset: 8:18 pm Fast ends: 8:53 / 8:57 / 9:06 pm 12 Av – Erev Shabbos Friday, July 27 Daf yomi: Yevamos 85 Earliest tallis/tefillin: 4:44 am Sunrise: 5:47 am Latest Shema: M. Av. 8:47 am Gr’a 9:23 am Candle Lighting: 7:57 pm 13 Av – Shabbos Saturday, July 28 Parashas Va’eschannan Pirkei Avos: Ch. 4 Shabbos ends**: 9:02 pm 72 min. 9:27 pm * from MyZmanim.com ** add a few minutes for tosefos Shabbos according to your minhag 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 11 Snoring in a case where fisherman A set out the term is applied more loosely to Continued from Page 11 his net and fisherman B afterward set cases even where no item is stolen Do not give anyone out a net nearby with a dead fish but some moral boundary is crossed not quite be considered “stealing an inside (to attract more fish), it is con- and where another person is dam- special recognition actual item and using or benefiting sidered as if fisherman B stole from aged. The section in Shulchan Aruch when rendering from it.” Rav Chelbo quotes Rav fisherman A—even though the fish is thus quite well understood: judgment Huna as saying, “Whoever knows that had not yet arrived. (Fishermen: Whenever a moral boundary is the other generally greets him, please note the fishing advice from crossed, causing someone a loss of (Devarim 1:17) should greet him first, as it says, Rabbeinu Tam’s father.) sleep is a problem. However, when ‘Seek peace and pursue it.’ If the We see that the term theft is used children are learning Torah, there is An impoverished widow other gave him a greeting and he did more loosely than as defined by Rav no moral boundary being crossed and once came to the bet-din not return it, he is considered a thief, Vosner. Rav Bodner in Mamon it is permitted even when someone as it says, ‘For you have devoured the Yisrael, page 82, cites a response will consequently lose sleep. (court-house) of the great vineyard, and the theft of the poor is from Rav Zalman Nechemia Thus we are suggesting that based sage Rabbi Yehoshua in your house’ (Yeshayah 3:14).” Goldberg printed in the Av 5762 edi- upon these sources, the commonly Kutner.Weeping bitter Likewise, the term is used by Rav tion of Koveitz Beis Aharon V’Yisrael used expression of gezel sheinah is, in Chanina bar Pappa (Berachos 35b) that the case in Berachos 6b (regard- fact, appropriate. It is not exactly full tears, she begged him to regarding someone who eats and does ing one who does not return a greet- monetary gezel, but rather a lower- summon to the court a not recite a blessing. It is considered ing) is considered theft only because level form of it. man she accused of having as if he stole from Hashem and from it is the negation of a debt. Even With this in mind, let us return to wronged her. knesses Yisrael. And the term is used though the debt is non-monetary in John Wesley Hardin. The Talmud in Sanhedrin (91b): “Whoever pre- nature, it is still considered a debt, (Eiruvin 62a) states that stealing is a Rabbi Yehoshua summoned vents a student from learning Torah, and the negation of this debt thus capital offense for gentiles (thus it is as if he stole his inheritance from falls under the rubric of theft. Rav Western sheriffs were justified in the man to appear before him.” In both of these instances, no Bodner extends Rav Goldberg’s con- their punishments for cow rustlers). the court, but referred the actual item is being taken and bene- cept to include not reciting a It could be that Hardin erroneously case to another rabbi, fited from. berachah and not quoting a halachah equated lower-level thefts such as refusing to preside over it The Midrash Tanchuma in someone’s name. In both of these described above with the ruling in (Bamidbar 27) also uses the term to cases, Rabbi Bodner suggests that Eiruvin 62a and thus meted out his himself.“The Torah forbids describe someone who quotes a there exists a negation of a debt—the punishment accordingly. Let us be the taking of bribes,” he halachah and does not quote the debt to Hashem to thank and the reminded that Hardin’s father was a explained.“Do you think name of the one who said it, in vio- debt to the person to give him credit Methodist minister, and it was not lation of the verse “Do not steal from for teaching the halachah. uncommon for priests and ministers that a bribe is only a gift of the destitute for he is destitute” This extension is somewhat prob- to be familiar with Jewish texts. money? Tears can also be a (Mishlei 22:22). The Midrash traces lematic, in that the Talmud also Cotton Mather did have a copy of the bribe that ‘blinds the clear- this back to the zugos, and ultimate- states that there is a theft from kness- Talmud and the Rambam. Also, ly traces it back to Moshe Rabbeinu es Yisrael. Preventing a student from recently two nuns were spotted in the sighted’—especially the from Har Sinai. learning is also not exactly a debt, KiTov bookstore on Mott Avenue pur- tears of a poor widow.” Similarly, in a Tosefos in Kiddushin and neither is stealing fish that have chasing an ArtScroll Chumash. O 59a, Rabbeinu Tam’s father, Rav not been caught yet. (Maayanah Shel Torah) The author can be reached at Meir, is quoted as understanding that The alternative explanation is that [email protected].

12 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Aliyah Chronicle and that he is adjusting well. And America we went through a period of Since S’derot (at least to the govern- Continued from Front Cover hey—there is no way of knowing what several weeks where we prepared very ment of Israel) seems to be not impor- terrible trouble our kids could have few meals for ourselves. Goldie wanted tant enough to protect from the rockets are of course different for all of us. gotten into in America. to get right back to doing things for the (not that I would have a clue myself When we first talked publicly about “But the magazines all say…” we family, but it was clear that she was not how to protect the town), the rockets the possibility that we would be mak- heard repeatedly, each person telling strong enough to put forth the effort to rain down on a semi-regular basis. ing aliyah, we heard all about these us of the dangers they had learned of just jump in headfirst. If this were an industrial area or the families—about the uncles, cousins, in this weekly or that monthly. Yet life In a move I will always admire, rockets caused more significant dam- neighbors, or whomever, who had is not lived in the pages of a magazine Daniella Rudoff (who coordinated the age, we would probably have done made aliyah and returned having lost (although our lives seem to be lived in meals) refused to stop the meals until something more to clear out the terror- everything and suffered terrible disas- the pages of this newspaper). Had life I approved it rather than Goldie. In ists or build better protection for the ters. We heard about all the teenagers been lived in a magazine, we would fact, the first time Goldie tried to get people of S’derot. Right now, the ter- who have been “lost” in the difficult rorists have figured out how annoying transition to Israeli society and how they can be to us without getting these children’s lives were “ruined” by kicked back. (I hope that our tolerance parents who put them “at risk” in such Goldie hopes this week to go on a special level gets lowered—as they need a a thoughtless way. kick, desperately.) Yet, we knew that somehow there So the people of S’derot have to live had to be some people who actually outing to S’derot … and do some shopping in the constant fear that a terrorist will made it work. There had to be people get lucky and have his crude rocket who made aliyah with teenagers who in the local supermarket. actually hit a person or a car with peo- didn’t end up as ax murderers, people ple in it. They have to live with the who lived a successful life in Israel and stress that at any moment yet another might actually have made the right threat to their safety and security will decision. have given up the first week Goldie them to stop, I secretly told Daniella come flaming over the horizon to dam- There are no guarantees in life, and was finally diagnosed, when a psychol- that Goldie wasn’t ready yet. age their homes, businesses, schools, we certainly have no clue what lies ogist from our hospital was quoted in a So it was three or four weeks before and community. As you can guess, upon our road ahead. Yet here we are, popular religious weekly as saying that Goldie had a chance to prepare any many of the residents have fled for after a year in Israel, and we have they don’t help lung cancer patients Shabbat meals for our family. I think “safer” places. Yet many have remained. happy kids and continue to hope for fight their disease, they “prepare them the first one came the week that They refuse to give in to the terrorists’ the best for them here in Israel. to die.” Goldie was horrified to read Chaim and Aliza were leaving for desire to drive us from our homes. The one who was most set against those words. Yet she didn’t give up; we camp. With all the deliveries of food Life for them is difficult. Businesses coming, Chaim, may not be the most lived our lives and we are here today. and baked goods, it was another cou- cannot thrive when significant per- thrilled kid in the world, but he is far So, too, there are so many different ple of weeks before we had to actually centages of their customers flee. ahead of where he would have been on influences upon us all. There are so buy challot on our own. Obtaining the staples of life can his life’s mission if we had remained in many ways things can go wrong. Yet So we only had a limited opportuni- become difficult. New York. And (don’t tell him that we there are tons of ways things can go ty to have what we called the “mitzvah The same group with whom our know this) he has made a lot of new right, also. challot” of S’derot. family went to distribute Pesach treats friends and has grown tremendously in Through the extended kindness of S’derot is the town very close to Gaza to the chayalim (Israeli soldiers), character and maturity this year. We our neighbors and friends in Bet that has been constantly shelled by the know he is happy with his friends here Shemesh, when we first returned from Arabs for the past couple of years. Continued on Page 14

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Aliyah Chronicle stances I am not sure that I would be Southern Hemisphere students who ing sounds of some fighting at the Continued from Page 13 willing to tolerate. attend yeshiva from February through Gaza crossings. The next week’s seudah (meal) was December, we have an extended sum- I did, however (as the incredibly Standing Together, stood in to make a made even more meaningful when mer program for them (as well as those overpacked American), bring some difference. They arranged for groups Mordechai (age 6) turned to me right Northern Hemisphere students who shampoo, so I grabbed my bathing suit throughout Israel—in places such as after kiddush and asked, “Abba, do we elect to stay for a few weeks extra). and went down to the beach (where Yerushalayim, Modiin, and, of course, have mitzvah challot again this week?!” This year we had 22 students for the there is a shower for swimmers to Bet Shemesh—to purchase items from His joy was even greater than that of summer program. wash off the salt water) and I took a the shopkeepers of S’derot. his parents as we showed him the spe- These students are going on a trip to nice sunrise shower. This effort literally kept these mer- cially wrapped challot, and our pride in Poland with Bnei Akiva in a few days, We hiked around ancient Ashkelon, chants in businesses, benefiting not him and in the lesson he learned was to learn about European Jewry and the seeing the ramparts of the Roman walls only the merchants but also their cus- overwhelming. Holocaust, and will rejoin us a couple and some of the excavations. After tomers who would have nowhere to In an effort to try to “spread the of days before the new students from totally wearing ourselves out, we went shop if these stores had closed. A spe- wealth,” so to speak, the challah project the Northern Hemisphere come in. As to the (separate) beach and enjoyed the cific focus was the purchase of hun- has ended and other forms of support part of the closing week of the summer sea for a few hours before returning to dreds if not thousands of challot for are being organized. Goldie hopes this program, we took them on an the yeshiva. It was a great trip. Shabbat from a bakery in S’derot. week to go on a special outing to S’derot overnight tiyul. One of my functions is These are the things that keep us One of our neighbors, Randi Lipkin, to meet the people, distribute support directing alumni activities for our for- grounded and hoping for a better served as the local organizer for Bet packages (which were purchased with mer students. In order to get to know future as we continue to recover and Shemesh. She collected orders and charity funds spent in S’derot stores) to the students better and establish a move forward in our kelittah (absorp- money and opened her house for the those in need, and do some shopping in bond with them, I try to go with them tion). Yes, there are historic sites all pickup of challot on Fridays. the local supermarket. on as many tiyulim as possible, this over the world. Yes, there are many When we finally emptied our freezer, NNN one included. opportunities for chesed (kindness) we could not wait to order these challot We spent a day last week at the We had a terrific midnight BBQ (guess worldwide. But this is our home and for our Shabbat table. That Friday we Bituach L’umi (national insurance/social who the chef was) and a great time hang- every time we forget it, we drive by the described to the kids how we were going security) office. When the notice came ing out together till 2 in the morning, Kotel or learn about a miracle that to have special mitzvah challot for the in the mail, it said, “Be prepared to when we climbed into our sleeping bags happened in the place we were just Shabbat meal. We told them about the wait.” That was scary. We are always pre- (in the middle of the national park/histor- standing and we are reminded anew plight of the community of S’derot and pared to wait here. If they were actually ical site) to go to sleep. As an American, I how lucky we are to be in the place we of the wonderful mitzvah we were final- telling us to wait, they must really have of course assumed it would get cold at can all call home. O ly privileged to be a part of. meant business. They did. night, so I brought a flannel sleeping bag. P.S. This week is color war for Batya The kids’ excitement was so uplift- We were there for about six hours Big mistake. and Mordechai in their day camp. Let’s ing. They were so happy to be a part of and saw four different doctors. They It was hot. It was humid. The entire hear it for Team Lavan!! something, even if they didn’t totally were very nice and extremely kind place was soaking wet by morning, and Shmuel Katz is the director of Yeshivat Eretz understand what was going on. about offering their advice and referral I barely slept. We woke to the booms of HaTzvi in the Katamon neighborhood in Challah has never tasted so good. I to “the best doctor” who could help shelling that was going on in Gaza Jerusalem. Shmuel and his wife, Goldie (the have to admit that as far as actual taste Goldie. Then they told us they would (check out a map and realize how close controller at Bnos Bais Yaakov of Far goes, it was average. But, we could not get an answer to us in (maybe) two- we were) and then the sounds of Rockaway), and their six children made aliyah in July of 2006. Prior to his aliyah, Shmuel was wait to eat each slice as we really felt and-a-half months. machine-gun fire. It might have been the executive director of the Yeshiva of South the z’chut (merit) of helping the people My yeshiva went on an overnight live-fire exercises at a local army base, Shore in Hewlett. You can contact him at of S’derot, people who live in circum- tiyul to Ashkelon. Since we have but it seemed to us that we were hear- [email protected].

14 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES of civility and law. Personally, I happen very successful, and what we lacked in to like walking in the street on numbers of participants we made up Hock Of The Rock Shabbos and would imagine that some for in really great ideas. To paraphrase residents of Lawrence enjoy doing so, a friend of mine, the fewer people who BY ELI SHAPIRO as well. Whether it is your Old World participate, the greater the partici- pickup on the side of the house, lower senses, the pragmatics of walking with pants’ influence will be. It would be a Once again I lost my Costco card. car-insurance rates, world-class parks a large family, or just because you like shame, however, if a park that will You would think that as one of my and playgrounds, a superior library to, I am pleased to invite you to Far service thousands is designed by only a prized possessions I would be more system, no city income tax, larger Rockaway to enjoy a nice Shabbos handful. The next meeting is Thursday, careful with it, but at checkout I homes with more land, etc. afternoon walk up and/or down Reads July 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the Young never end up putting it back in my I recently saw a letter that publi- Lane. There is no risk of receiving a Israel of Far Rockaway. The final wallet. This usually happens because cized that walking in the streets when summons. design will be presented at an August I get flustered trying to pack my cart, a sidewalk is available is a violation of In other news, I just wanted to 23 meeting (at the Young Israel, as make room for the next customer, some ordinance. Furthermore, resi- update residents that the last two well). We really encourage you to par- and hang on to my receipt lest I dents should be aware that they may meetings with the parks design com- ticipate and I look forward to seeing never be allowed to leave the ware- be ticketed for this egregious violation mittee for the Lanett playground were you there. Until then, stay safe… O house. In any case, I once again found myself at the membership counter waiting to have my picture taken yet again. As the woman behind the counter handed me my new card, she asked, “Do you mind if I ask you a question?” When I said no, she went on to ask, “Why do Jews walk in the street?” She did not mean anything negative by it, but was gen- uinely curious. I thought about it for a moment and replied that while I didn’t know for sure, I had a couple of hypotheses: 1. Perhaps it’s a European thing. When Jews lived in Europe, when there were no sidewalks they walked in the street like everyone else—and it has continued as a habit to this day. 2. Jews tend to have larger families, and the narrow sidewalk might not accommodate those families, so they now walk in the street. She seemed satisfied with either answer, and I went on to buy my bulk paper towels and a host of items I had never thought about owning but just had to have, because—hey, it’s Costco. Let me state without any reserva- tions that I love living in Far Rockaway. Don’t get me wrong; my love for Far Rockaway does not exclude me from loving the Five Towns, as well. It’s not a competition. In fact, most of my friends know that the furthest I like to wander from my home in Far Rockaway is Prospect Avenue in Cedarhurst. Garden City is for special Sundays, and Manhattan is reserved for the really special annu- al event. In any case, even though I love Far Rockaway, I am not blind to the many benefits of living in Nassau County. Just to list a few: garbage

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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 15 FROM THE EDITOR the past, a peace process that has to Continued from Page 6 be expedited because someone is in a rush to be favorably remembered by For now, I’m curious and even history cannot work, either. Peace has intrigued as to why administration to come in small steps, and it needs to after administration cannot think of include confidence-building measures any other area in the world where they for both sides—which does not need can achieve some foreign policy suc- to include the release of murderers cess other than at Israel’s expense. I’m from prison. Israeli leaders are wont to additionally interested to know why offer the establishment of a these things only happen to U.S. lead- Palestinian state anywhere from thirty ers when they begin to see the end of days to six weeks after final-status their terms in office. Why Israeli lead- negotiations resume. This approach ers indulge in these exercises is just a with such a severe time limit applied bit clearer. The main reasons are some to it cannot result in the achievement leaders’ guilt as a result of being of a serious peace. accused of occupying Arab territory for As we go to press, Debka.com so many years. The other possible reports that plans for the peace confer- explanation is the huge amounts of ence proposed by President Bush have money—usually from the U.S. and already begun to fall apart. Both Saudi Europe—available for being able to do Arabia and Egypt have told Bush rep- anything that soothes the savage beast resentatives that these key Middle of radical Islam. Eastern players will not attend. The For my part, I am very much for reason? Both disagree with the Bush peace, and I believe that most Israelis, administration’s boycott of Hamas. including those who reside in Judea and I thought President Bush was more Samaria as well as those who once genuine than having to resort to the resided in the Gaza Strip, also favor “Let’s pressure Israel into concessions” peace with their Arab neighbors. That kind of peace in order to salvage his peace, though, has to be genuine and legacy as a leader. He has to know and substantive. It has to be the kind of understand that a Palestinian state is peace that calls for people to be able to only a ploy—an attempt to gain a stag- live together or at least near each other ing ground for future attacks on the without fear of violence and without Israeli heartland. Mr. Abbas is the need to build high stone walls. Any extremely weak, and his grip on power peace that calls for forcibly removing even in the West Bank is extremely Jewish people because their very pres- tenuous. Israel needs new elections ence somehow soils or pollutes the land and new strong leadership—and the is no basis for peace, and certainly not sooner that happens, the better. O a basis for any kind of lasting peace. Comments for Larry Gordon are welcome at Additionally, and as we’ve seen in [email protected].

16 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 17 circumcised a 24-year-old Russian born; the b’ris may be performed man. At that b’ris, the young man immediately after sunrise on the Daf Yomi Insights made his own berachah of “L’hikaneis eighth day. The Gemara records a dis- bi’vriso…,” “to enter into the pute as to whether a b’ris that was covenant…” He was entering himself delayed (i.e., the eighth day has BY RABBI AVROHOM hospitals. This was another opportu- into the covenant, so the grammar of already passed) needs to be per- SEBROW nity for R’ Yossele to let his “interns” the berachah had to be changed. formed only during the day. The have some practice. One sad thing I heard from Rabbi Shulchan Aruch (262:1) rules that Some may know him as a talmid of I asked Rabbi Glenn if he had any Glenn is that he once overheard a regardless of what day the b’ris is per- R’ Pinchas Scheinberg, shlita. Some good stories for my article. He said, kollel man remarking to another, “I’m formed, the circumcision should take may know him as a ba‘al keriah or “Do you want to hear about the time I glad I had a girl; I couldn’t afford a place during daylight hours. ba‘al tekiah. Yet others know him as did a b’ris on TV?” mohel.” At that point Rabbi Glenn What is the halachah if someone the Hatzalah guy whose car is always “Sure, sounds interesting,” I said. decided he would offer his services performed a b’ris on a child before parked partially on the sidewalk on “Well, I was asked by this non-frum free to anyone who couldn’t afford to the eighth day, or during nighttime Broadway. But to me (and probably family to perform a b’ris on their son. I pay. I asked him, “Do you really want hours? Can one rectify the situation many others), Rabbi Avrohom Glenn (since the child can obviously not be is the mohel who is always asking me circumcised again)? The Shach’s about when I am going to give him position is that in both cases, hatafas some business. Since a number of dam should be performed: one must blatt of the daf yomi have been dis- R’ Yossele performed so many cause covenantal blood to flow from cussing the various restrictions facing the infant. Causing this blood to flow uncircumcised members of K’lal from the place of the invalid circum- Yisrael, I thought it would be appro- b’risos that he was able to occa- cision is tantamount to performing priate to focus on b’ris milah. milah a second time. One question that was always in sionally slip his trainees under his If unfortunately the child is sick on the back of my mind: How does a the eighth day, the b’ris has to be post- mohel start off? Which parent is poned. The Gemara (71a, Vilna text) going to hire a mohel who has never tallis and have them do the milah. states: “Shmuel said that after a had any practice? Rabbi Glenn child’s fever has left him, we give him explained that the first circumcision all seven,” meaning that we wait seven he performed took place 39 years ago days after the child has healed before in Eretz Yisrael under the tallis of R’ went to their house and couldn’t find me to write that in my article?” He performing the circumcision. The Yossele Weisberg, zt’l, the legendary an appropriate table. So I did the b’ris answered in the affirmative. Gemara states a little further that the mohel of the previous generation. R’ on their large console TV.” As is well known, the optimal day seven days are actually seven 24-hour Yossele performed so many b’risos The berachah that we all hear the on which to perform a b’ris is the periods, starting from the time of day that he was able to occasionally slip father make at the b’ris is “l’hachniso eighth day of a boy’s life. The Gemara that the fever dissipated. (This is in his trainees under his tallis and have bi’vriso shel Avraham Avinu,” “to cause (Yevamos 72a) says that there is a contrast to the initial seven-day period them do the milah. Since R’ Yossele him to enter into the covenant of Biblical source for only performing following the birth of the boy. As we was the official mohel of the Israeli Avraham, our forefather.” The father circumcision during the day. mentioned above, the b’ris may be per- government, he was also in charge of is causing his child to enter into the However, it does not make any differ- formed immediately after sunrise on circumcising children in government b’ris of Avraham. Rabbi Glenn once ence what time of day the baby was the eighth day, even if it less than 168

18 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES hours from the actual time of birth.) he first became rav, an individual who Please see Shulchan Aruch 262:2 as to wanted to honor him with being which sicknesses require the seven- sandek at his son’s b’ris approached day waiting period. him. Rabbi Chatzinoff at that point Where does this seven-day period had never been a sandek and was come from? The Binyan Tzion says it excited at the opportunity to fulfill is a halachah l’Moshe miSinai, an oral such a wonderful mitzvah. The night law transmitted verbally by Moshe before the b’ris, he received a phone Rabbeinu after he heard it directly call from the ba‘al ha’simchah, who from Hashem. Rav Shlomo Zalman proceeded to apologize profusely and Aurbach, zt’l, on the other hand, says said that due to familial obligations he that the seven-day period is likely a had to give the honor of being sandek decree enacted by our Sages to safe- to a family member. Of course, Rabbi guard the well-being of the child. We Chatzinoff understood the delicate give the infant a full 168 hours to family matter and took no offense. He recuperate from his illness before went to the b’ris and wished the fami- performing a circumcision. ly a hearty mazal tov. A practical difference between Apparently, some time later the P h o t these two positions is in a situation o family realized something was not B y T . where the b’ris was performed before G right. It seemed that the child would l e n the seven days were complete. If it is n have to be recircumcised. Someone a halachah l’Moshe miSinai, then it is (L-R) Rabbi Pinchas Scheinberg Shlit"a, Gavriel Sanders, and Rabbi Avrohom Glenn at the suggested that they go to the Skverer an absolute requirement, and if the vasikin minyan at Agudah of Lomg Island. Rebbe and request a berachah that b’ris was performed early then it this time around everything should be would be considered a b’ris that was underwent a halachically incomplete fully remove the entire orlah. (This fine. So the family went to the Rebbe not done in its proper time. We men- circumcision needs to have another stresses the importance of hiring a and told him the situation. He asked tioned that the Shach holds that in b’ris mi’d’Oraysa. The Gemara also dis- competent mohel.) them who the mohel would be this such cases hatafas dam must be per- cusses the case of mashuch. In that If a boy needs a second circumci- time and they told him that they formed. However, if the seven-day case, a boy had a halachically valid cir- sion and he is already five or six years would be hiring a well-regarded mohel period is a rabbinic enactment to cumcision but something happened to old, a urologist, working with an anes- who has experience in these situa- safeguard the health of the child, make the boy appear uncircumcised. thesiologist, often performs the milah. tions. The Rebbe approved and gave then a b’ris performed before the The Taz (Y.D. 264:9) explains that In my daf yomi chaburah there is a them a hearty berachah that all seven days are complete would be since there is no doubt that the first urologist who has performed these should go well. As they were leaving, valid ex post facto, and no further milah was valid, another circumcision second b’risos on five- and six-year-old the Rebbe added, “And make sure this action would need to be taken. is only required rabbinically. (See the boys. Rabbi Glenn personally heard time to use the right sandek!” Another halachah mentioned in the Shulchan Aruch there for exactly in from R’ Moshe Feinstein, zt’l, that at Needless to say, Rabbi Chatzinoff was Gemara in Yevamos is that of an which case a new circumcision is rab- least in some of these cases the par- the sandek and baruch Hashem every- incomplete circumcision. The Gemara binically required.) Rabbi Glenn told ents should make another se‘udah. thing turned out all right. O provides guidelines as to what exactly me that when a boy needs a second Rabbi Pinchas Chatzinoff is the Rabbi Sebrow leads a daf yomi chaburah at Eitz qualifies as an incomplete circumci- circumcision nowadays it is most esteemed rav of the Tiferes Tzvi Chayim of Dogwood Park in West Hempstead. sion. It is clear that someone who often because the first mohel failed to Yeshiva Minyan in Cedarhurst. When He can be contacted at [email protected].

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 19 sound of gunfire rattles your front door? And what about sinas chinam, gratu- Thoughts For The Three Weeks itous hatred between Jew and Jew, which our rabbis identify as the cause BY ROY NEUBERGER of our rabbis, who tell us that the last net tightens. Are we to scream to the of our terrible exile (Yoma 9b)? What exile before Mashiach will be the Exile British, indeed to the world, “Don’t are we to do about this? Apparently We find ourselves once again in that of the Children of Ishmael (the Arabs),1 you see who is threatening you? Why this plague is still rampant; otherwise awesome period we call “the Three but to see it in person is truly powerful. do you blame the Children of Israel Mashiach would already have come. Weeks.” How does the meaning of this We live in a dangerous world. Only when we are the victims to a greater But aren’t we working on shemiras season become real to us? How do we days after we left England, a bomb was extent than you?” ha’lashon? derive spiritual benefit from it, using detonated at the Glasgow Airport; power- Indeed, my friends, our screams Consider the following scenario: Two its unique power to bring healing into ful bombs were discovered in London. In would fall on deaf ears. Jews pass each other on Shabbos. One the world? Manchester, upon our arrival, police We cannot rely, either inside or out- says “Good Shabbos,” with an enthusi- Life, after all, is not just simcha, were searching in and under all incoming side Israel, on the friendship of other astic smile; the other ignores him. Or despite the “have fun” philosophy of vehicles; clearly, they knew something nations, no matter how protectively they the second Jew answers in a barely the Western world. While the month was imminent. Is America so different? may have sheltered us up to this time. audible grunt, without even looking at of Adar in the spring is characterized England is shaking from the Muslim We must take very seriously the threat to his brother. by simcha, the Three Weeks are char- threat, but who is blamed? our established way of life. The nations I submit, my friends, that in this sce- acterized by the opposite of simcha. Recently, the British Broadcasting are not our security, but neither are they nario we have the churban repeated! If Until Mashiach comes, both play their Corporation publicly apologized for its the source of our problems. It is not to we are to repair the curse of sinas chi- part in our lives. “error” in having referred to Jerusalem them that our cries should be directed. nam, unwarranted hatred among us, Recently, we spent a few days in as “the capital of Israel”! British trade My friends, if we would only realize then we must act as friends, act as fam- England. In the crowded Manchester unions and universities want to boy- our danger, perhaps we would pray with ily, act with love toward one another! I Airport, more than half of the travelers cott Israel. After Friday night services the fervor of one who knows his life is at would think it is not sufficient to were Arabs, with dozens of planes in Manchester, policemen guarded the stake! Will you talk in shul when a sword refrain from speaking lashon ha’ra, but bound for the Middle East. We have synagogue lobby and a patrol car stood is at your throat? Will you discuss busi- in fact to act positively toward each heard about the Muslim influx into by as we walked to our homes. ness or sports when the shouts of the other as a loving family who need each Europe. We have also heard the words The threat comes ever closer; the enemy resonate at your gates or the other to survive. Let’s remember what caused our downfall: it goes back all the way to the hatred of the brothers toward Joseph, the act of selling their brother, the jeal- ousy, the rivalry, the refusal to speak to each other in peace. If we are to rectify the sins of the past and the curses of the present, then we must realize each sec- ond that our very lives literally depend on unity among us! If we cannot greet each other with a smile and respond with warmth, then how can we hope that the Master of the World will rescue us and send our Redeemer? This demands constant work. One smile, one “Good Shabbos,” one “Shalom Aleichem” could tip the balance and instantly bring Mashiach ben Dovid! My friends, we cannot blame the other nations, no matter how much they hate us. It’s easier to blame others, but it just doesn’t work. It’s up to us to end this exile. We started it, and we have to end it! Just as in learning Torah, there is no shortcut. Only by constant, ceaseless application of all our powers, with cease- less cries for help from Above, is it possi- ble to acquire Torah. The same goes for character refinement, which is indispen- sable for healing our self-inflicted wounds. Only by ceaseless effort, with constant appeals for help from Above, can we conquer our yetzer ha’ra and return to the family unity that will herald the coming of our Redeemer, Mashiach ben Dovid. The footsteps of Mashiach are rever- berating, and the entire world is shaking! May our eyes open. May we greet our brothers and sisters with enthusiasm and love. May we greet our Redeemer, Mashiach ben Dovid, soon in our days, with love. May we give nachas to our Father in Heaven and see the day soon when we return in unity to the Holy City of Yerushalayim, never again to leave the hallowed sanctuary of our Holy Temple, may it be rebuilt soon in our days! May G-d soon wipe away all our tears! With blessings for a speedy Redemption and a Tishah B’Av filled with joy! O

Notes: 1. An excellent compilation of the many sources for this prediction can be found in the book Redemption Unfolding (A. A. Mandelbaum, Feldheim Publishers, 2005) beginning on page 41 20 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 21

good reputation. And thirdly because pediatrician, there is an important I think maybe the problem is me and point that I feel compelled to share not him, and I would feel insecure with you. Most people have the ten- wherever I went. dency to romanticize experiences and So I’m wondering if you have any relationships that are not present in helpful suggestions that will help me their lives. For instance, the woman walk into this pediatrician’s office who doesn’t have a brother may con- feeling good about myself and com- vince herself that if only she had Dear Esther, that he has an attitude with me. I fortable asking questions. grown up with a brother, she would When I was 17 years old, I unfortu- sometimes feel that he assumes I Uncomfortable be much smarter about men in gener- nately lost my mother. I got married at know stuff that I don’t know, because al, feel more comfortable around 21 and had my first child at 23. There no one taught me, and he makes me Dear Uncomfortable, them, and be more adept at raising a was such a great feeling of loss in my feel stupid when I ask too many ques- I’m so sorry about your loss. Losing son. Or the teenager who doesn’t life in general, but in particular not tions. I’m very insecure about my lack a mother at any age must feel devas- have a grandmother may believe that having a mother to help with my dat- of knowledge, not having a mother to tating. Certainly, at such a crucial if only she had a grandmother, she’d ing challenges was really tough on me. show me the ropes, and he doesn’t time in your life, it must have felt have an advocate to turn to when she I had no one really to turn to for the help matters. When I ask questions absolutely overwhelming. You were knocks heads with her mother, a con- best advice. And when it came time to fidante to share her secrets with, or plan a vort and my wedding, I missed someone older and wiser who had all having my mother more than ever. I the answers to life’s mysteries. could go on and on about all the hard- My point here is not to, G-d forbid, ships I experienced during such cru- They may be getting most of their practical denigrate these important relation- cial times in my life, but this letter ships that many people are blessed would never end. information from the baby nurse, or from with, but rather to point out that they But I want to ask about one partic- do not necessarily represent the be-all ular area that has become very trou- an experienced sister-in-law, or from the and end-all when it comes to learning bling for me lately. Now that I am a about men, having a soul mate to con- mother, I feel like there is so much savvy neighbor next door. fide in, and so on. It’s easy to fall into my mother would have taught me the trap of fantasizing about how per- about caring for a baby. Though I get fectly wonderful everything in one’s along with my mother-in-law, she life would be, if only… lives out of town, and frankly is that maybe should be basic knowl- left to journey through many pivotal Often we learn many crucial life much closer to her daughters than to edge for most new mothers, he gives decision-making moments and chal- lessons from unexpected sources. me. She treats me politely and I sup- me a look that makes me want to lenges alone. It doesn’t sound as Though one might naturally believe pose with love, but there is a dis- crawl out of his office. Sometimes I though there was anyone to step in that everything one needs to know tance both physically and emotional- hold back from asking questions alto- and at least try to fill the void. about getting married, setting up a ly. I try very hard to be a great moth- gether, which upsets my husband. Somehow, thank goodness, you man- home, and caring for a newborn must er, but sometimes I feel very unsure I guess you’re wondering why I am aged to persevere and here you are, come directly from her mother’s about myself. still using this doctor. First of all, married with a child. Despite difficult mouth, that is often not the case. In The problem I am having is that because he takes my insurance. odds, you’ve come a long way. fact, many women learn about child when I go to the pediatrician, I find Secondly, because he does have a Before I get into the issue of your rearing from friends, books, and

22 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES sometimes even through trial and s”xc error. In fact, so much has changed from the time our parents raised us, that many of our mothers are not necessarily even aware of the latest theories on child rearing. The reason I mention this is to enable you to believe that you are not necessarily at a disadvantage when it comes to parenting. Though your friends may fortunately have their mothers around, in fact, many of them may be getting most of their practical and crucial information from the baby nurse they hired early on, or from an experienced sister-in- law, or from the savvy neighbor next door. Knowledge is all around us, and it is our job to seek it out and take advantage of it. It comes in many packages, some of them quite unex- pected. Giving birth to a child without the benefit of your mother near you must have been beyond painful. But there’s no need for you to feel at a dis- advantage intellectually when talking to a pediatrician. Doctors are just regular people who are highly trained. Like regular people, some will be nice and some will be rude. Some will be sensitive and some will be aloof. Some will be patient and some will be abrupt. And then there are those who will feed off of the message that you convey and those who will act in a kindly fashion no matter what. Apparently you feel as though you convey a sense of inse- curity when speaking to your pedia- trician, and perhaps this weakness is pounced upon by him. The first thing that needs to change is your attitude. You must believe in your heart that you have every right to ask as many questions as necessary, so that when you leave his office you feel We will be closed for ctc vga, confident about your role as a mother. July 23-24. You are the consumer and he is getting paid to be of service to you. No ques- We will reopen on Wednesday, July 25. tion is stupid when it comes to your child’s well-being. So ask away. If he “gives you a look,” you have three choices. You can ignore it; you can Closed Sundays during July and August confront him about it and ask him if he has a problem answering your questions; or you can always find another pediatrician who takes your insurance and is well regarded. Whatever option feels right is the one for you. But understand that if your pediatrician is acting dismissively towards you, chances are that that is his general style, and it has nothing to do with the fact that your mother was unable to guide you in this area, and everything to do with his lack of sensi- tivity. A good doctor should never act judgmental or impatient—so make sure that yours is not. I have no doubt that you will always miss your mother, and proba- bly most powerfully during all of the major moments of your life and the lives of your family. But don’t allow that feeling of loss to compromise your sense of self and worthiness. You have every right to feel as whole as anyone else. And that is a goal worth pursuing. Esther

Esther Mann, LMSW, has a private practice in Lawrence. She works with individuals, couples, and families. She can be reached at 516-314-2295 or [email protected]. 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 23 consciously aware of the cause of our and banished the Divine Presence sudden inspiration. from our lives. So G-d built us a third temple. The Divine Dwelling Unlike its two predecessors, which The Holy Temple in Jerusalem was were of human construction and the seat of G-d’s manifest presence in therefore subject to debasement by the physical world. man’s misdeeds, the Third Temple is as A basic tenet of our faith is that “the eternal and invincible as its omnipo- entire earth is filled with His presence” tent architect. But G-d has withheld From The Chassidic Masters (Yeshayah 6:3) and “there is no place this “third suit of clothes” from us, void of Him” (Tikkunei Zohar 57); but confining its reality to a higher, heav- G-d’s presence and involvement in His enly sphere, beyond the sight and Shabbos Of Vision creation is masked by the seemingly experience of earthly man. independent and arbitrary workings of Each year, on the Shabbos of Vision, nature and history. The Holy Temple G-d shows us the Third Temple. Our And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, A father once prepared a beautiful was a breach in the mask, a window souls behold a vision of a world at but the people with me did not see it; suit of clothes for his son. But the child through which G-d radiated His light peace with itself and its Creator, a yet a great terror befell them, and they neglected his father’s gift and soon the into the world. Here G-d’s involvement world suffused with the knowledge fled into hiding. suit was in tatters. The father gave the and awareness of G-d, a world that has —Daniel 10:7 child a second suit of clothes; this one, realized its Divine potential for good- But if they did not see the vision, why too, was ruined by the child’s careless- ness and perfection. It is a vision of the were they terrified? Because though they ness. So the father made a third suit. Each year, on the Third Temple in heaven—in its spiritu- themselves did not see, their souls saw. This time, however, he withholds it al and elusive state—like the third set —Talmud, Megillah 3a from his son. Every once in a while, at Shabbos of Vision, of clothes that the child’s father has On the ninth day of the month of Av special and opportune times, he shows made for him but is withholding from (Tishah B’Av) we fast and we mourn the suit to the child, explaining that G-d shows us the him. But it is also a vision with a prom- the destruction of the Holy Temple in when the child learns to appreciate and ise—a vision of a heavenly temple Jerusalem. Both the First Temple properly care for the gift, it will be given Third Temple. poised to descend to earth, a vision (833–423 BCE) and the Second to him. This induces the child to that inspires us to correct our behavior Temple (349 BCE–69 CE) were improve his behavior, until it gradually and hasten the day when the spiritual destroyed on this date. The Shabbos becomes second nature to him—at vision becomes tactual reality. preceding the fast day is called the which time he will be worthy of his in our world was openly displayed by Through these repeated visions, living “Shabbos of Vision,” for on this father’s gift. an edifice in which miracles were a in the Divine Presence becomes more Shabbos we read a chapter from the On the Shabbos of Vision, says “natural” part of its daily operation and and more “second nature” to us, pro- Navi (Yeshayah 1:1–27) that begins, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, each and every whose very space expressed the infini- gressively elevating us to the state of “The vision of Yeshayah…” one of us is granted a vision of the ty and all-pervasiveness of the Creator. worthiness to experience the Divine in But there is also a deeper signifi- third and final Temple—a vision that, Here G-d showed himself to man and our daily lives. cance to the name “Shabbos of to paraphrase the Talmud, “though man presented himself to G-d. Vision,” expressed by Chassidic master we do not see ourselves, our souls Twice we were given the gift of a The Wearable House Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev with see.” This vision evokes a profound Divine dwelling in our midst. Twice The metaphors of our Sages continue the following metaphor: response in us, even if we are not we failed to measure up to this gift to speak to us long after the gist of their

24 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES message has been assimilated. Beneath Holy Temple as a suit of clothes. the surface of the metaphor’s most obvi- For the Holy Temple was also a high- ous import lies layer upon layer of ly compartmentalized structure. There meaning, in which each and every detail was a Women’s Court and a courtyard of the narrative is significant. reserved for men, an area restricted to The same applies to Rabbi Levi the kohanim, a “sanctuary” (Heichal) Yitzchak’s metaphor. Its basic meaning imbued with a greater sanctity than the is clear, but many subtle insights lie “courtyards,” and the “Holy of hidden in its details. For example: Holies”—a chamber into which only Why, we might ask, are the three tem- the High Priest may enter and only on ples portrayed as three suits of Yom Kippur. The Talmud enumerates clothes? Would not the example of a eight domains of varying sanctity with- building or house have been more in the Temple complex, each with its appropriate? distinct function and purpose. The house and the garment both In other words, although the Temple “house” and envelop the person. But the expressed a single truth—the all-perva- garment does so in a much more per- sive presence of G-d in our world—it sonal and individualized manner. While did so to each individual in a personal- it is true that the dimensions and style ized manner. Although it was a “house” of a home reflect the nature of its occu- in the sense that it served many indi- pant, they do so in a more generalized viduals—indeed the entire world—as way, not as specifically and as intimate- their meeting point with the infinite, ly as a garment suits its wearer. each and every individual found it a On the other hand, the individual tailor-made “garment” for his or her nature of the garment limits its func- specific spiritual needs, according him tion to one’s personal use. A home can or her a personal and intimate rela- house many; a garment can clothe only tionship with G-d. one. I can invite you into my home, Each year, on the Shabbos before but I cannot share my garment with Tishah B’Av, we are shown a vision of you: even if I give it to you, it will not our world as a Divine home—a place clothe you as it clothes me, for it “fits” where all G-d’s creatures will experi- only myself. ence His presence. But this is also a G-d chose to reveal His presence in vision of a G-dly “garment”—the dis- our world in a “dwelling”—a commu- tinctly personal relationship with G-d, nal structure which goes beyond the particularly suited to our individual personal to embrace an entire people character and aspirations, that we will and the entire community of man. Yet each enjoy when the Third Temple the Holy Temple in Jerusalem also had descends to earth. O certain garment-like features. It is Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher these features that Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Rebbe; adapted by Yanki Tauber. Courtesy of wishes to emphasize by portraying the MeaningfulLife.com.

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 25 companies for appraisals does not nec- essarily have the same values and for- mulas used by lenders when ordering G-d spoke to us in Horeb, appraisals for borrowers. Since the insurance companies are saying: “You have long looking for construction costs for enough surrounded this rebuilding—as opposed to the lenders, So here is the $64 question: Can One type of replacement cost is who are looking for market value of mountain. Turn away, the appraisal you get for insurance, or called “full replacement cost,” which comparable homes that recently sold, and take your journey...” for purposes other than a mortgage, will cover the full replacement of your as well as amenities—trying to utilize (Devarim 1:6–7) give you a true sense of what your house and its contents in the event of an insurance appraisal in order to set a home is worth in today’s market? a catastrophe. There are other levels of value for a home that you need to sell The mountain we’re talking The answer is that it should, but usu- replacement cost taking on a lesser or refinance will not work. ally does not. “How can this be?” you replacement liability, as well as dollar Trying to pinpoint construction about is Mount Sinai, scene of might say. “An appraisal is an appraisal.” costs for rebuilding has nothing to do the most monumental event in Well, yes, that should be; but because with what the market value will be or human history: the methods and results of evaluating is for selling a house, which is why the G-d’s revelation of His wisdom the amenities of houses and properties Construction costs final number on an insurance apprais- differ depending on which industry is al might be very different from the and will to man. Still G-d says: ordering the appraisal, there can be vast for rebuilding have final number on a lender’s appraisal. “You’ve been hanging around differences in the final values. When you are trying to decide on this mountain long enough. For example, when an insurance nothing to do with how to determine the market value of Move on!” company orders an appraisal, they are your house in preparation for putting it not really looking for a market value what the market on the market, the tried and true In our lives, we also have based on reselling the house. An method of figuring out this value is to moments, days, or years of appraisal for insurance purposes is value will be. base it on recent sales of comparable usually broken down into categories houses during the previous six months. revelation, times when we with values calculated to cover what Utilizing actual sales of homes with learn and grow and are the insurance industry calls “replace- similar square footage, condition, enriched. But the purpose ment value.” amount policies which limit the amenities, and layout remains the must always be to move on, Replacement value is based on the replacement to a specified dollar most accurate way of determining many variants taken into consideration amount instead of replacement costs. market value. O move away, and carry the in itemizing what it would cost to All of them have one thing in com- enlightenment and enrichment replace your house or its structure mon: they use a formula to arrive at a Anessa Cohen lives in Cedarhurst and is a to someplace else—some together with the personal items and dollar amount that the insurance com- licensed real estate broker (Anessa V Cohen Realty) and a licensed N.Y.S. mortgage broker corner of creation that awaits different amenities you might have in panies have calculated will equal your (A.C. Action Mortgage Corp.) with over 20 years your house and around it. replacement costs or dollar amount of experience, offering residential, commercial, redemption. and management real-estate services as well as Replacement value can be taken in policy as they have determined, based mortgage brokerage services. You are invited to (The Lubavitcher Rebbe) various forms, depending upon the on an appraisal that they order which visit her website at www.AVCrealty.com. She can be reached at 516-569-5007. Readers are particular type of homeowner’s insur- projects this formula. encouraged to send any questions or scenarios to ance that you took out. The value system used by insurance [email protected].

26 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Dear Editor, consideration for their drivers and The Five Towns Jewish Times is my parkers, I also feel compelled to ask favorite Jewish paper both for its infor- the residents of our fine towns to mation and its candor. I appreciate the afford everyone the same courtesy diversity of the articles and the words (with regard to inconsiderate double- of Torah. However (and there is always parking, illegal U-turns, impatient a “however,” isn’t there!), this past honking, and overall lack of driver issue had two Letters to the Editor courtesy). with rather specific and harsh criti- To whom it may concern: cism; both were signed “Anonymous.” I received the enclosed summons on Why would your reputable newspaper Thursday, July 12. Now, generally I publish a letter that is not signed? So, would just pay a ticket and be over my comment is that I respectfully with it. However, I feel there has been request that you consider this policy: If a gross injustice done not only to me, someone feels strongly enough about but it continues to be imposed upon all his convictions, we do need to know the residents (and shoppers) of the the reliability of the writer—is it a per- Village of Lawrence. son who can own up to this responsi- You will note that the time on the bility, or maybe a 10-year-old in summons is 11:10 a.m. You will also Timbuktu or Yenemsvelt? note that the PAID RECEIPT for my Thank you for your consideration. parking space indicates that I was Looking forward to the next issue. indeed entitled to my spot until Chana Epstein 11:39 a.m. What seems to have hap- pened is that in his zeal to issue sum- Dear Editor, monses, the “meter man” wrote me a Below is a letter that I wrote to the ticket during the brief time that it Village of Lawrence in regard to a took for me to walk from my parking recent parking summons I received. I space to the nearest Muni-Meter. Yes, am submitting it for publication, as I it is probable that while he checked think many people probably share my for expired meters in one of the meter opinion. I would add, however, that as machines, I was beginning the I would like to demand of the towns of Lawrence and Cedarhurst fairness and Continued on Page 28

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 27 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR that continue to unjustly impose on the at mixed tables, or simply have open ing singles get married. Those who are Continued from Page 27 residents of our wonderful Five Towns. seating and allow their friends to seat responsible for closing off avenues of I would greatly appreciate a response. themselves, this would only open up meeting that are not halachically process of payment in another. Thank you another avenue for people with com- required to be closed will have to give However, the problem here is larger mon friends to meet. There is really no a din v’cheshbon. than this minor discrepancy in his Dear Editor, downside to this, and a wonderful Ms. Weiss then proceeds to discard timing and my location. Since I am a proponent of three of upside. One cannot rationally argue the idea of community shabbatons Metered parking in Lawrence and the four suggestions to alleviate the that it is just as likely for singles to meet without any basis or reasoning whatso- Cedarhurst used to be from the hours problems in the world of shidduchim if they are seated separately as if they ever. She just supposes that it “won’t of 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. I suppose the indi- as noted in the article by Hillel Fendel are seated in mixed company. The other do much.” Well, I’m happy to inform vidual towns were so much in need of (see the July 6 issue of the Five Towns reasons people give for separating sin- Ms. Weiss that EndTheMadness has additional revenue that they felt it nec- Jewish Times, page 54, or www.israel- gles are similarly weak and contrived, run nearly two dozen community shab- essary to extend these hours, in some nationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/12 and stem only from a desire to justify a batons in the last three years alone, places to 9 p.m. and in others even 2896), I must take issue with reader position by working backwards. and these have led to countless dates around the clock. I am also sure that Chana Weiss’s assertion (Letters to the Ms. Weiss then cynically remarks arranged by the singles themselves and this additional income is being well Editor, July 13) that “none of [these] that mixed seating at a wedding would quite a few marriages as well. Just last spent to benefit the citizens of our suggestions will have much impact.” be tantamount to speed dating. I hard- week we received the following testi- wonderful towns. The gross injustice I This abrupt dismissal is irresponsi- ly see how. If only she knew how many monial from a young lady who would referred to above is when the paying ble and incorrect—irresponsible, as of our parents and grandparents, rabbis surely take issue with Ms. Weiss’s citizens are double charged for their her response raises personal concerns and rebbetzins met their intended at defeatist attitude: parking spaces, which happens con- that are easily addressed; and incor- mixed-seating simchas a generation or “My husband and I met last year in stantly with the Muni-Meter system rect, since these suggestions have two ago, perhaps she would think twice March on one of your beautiful shabba- found in the Lawrence parking lots. already been implemented and have before rejecting this idea as farcical. tons held in Monsey and just finished This happens in the following manner: already made an impact. If they are Revisionist historians might make celebrating our [first] anniversary. We Person A parks in spot #70 and pays more widely implemented they will other claims about the effectiveness want to thank you and your entire for two hours’ worth of parking. have an even greater impact. If they and appropriateness of mixed seating organization for ending our madness. I However, Person A finishes after an are casually dismissed by naysayers at simchas, but those who care enough am your biggest fan and believe very hour and a half and leaves his spot. and bitter folk, then they will not. to get their facts straight know that much in the way you organize your Person B then pulls in behind him and Ms. Weiss first attacks the idea of mixed seating used to be mainstream events. You found the secret ingredient proceeds to pay responsibly for his mixed seating at simchas as a venue for even for those who considered them- for allowing people to meet without the time, perhaps one hour. You will note people to meet, on the grounds that it selves super-frum, and it was responsi- pressure of the “meat market” experi- that the town is now collecting fees would “require that the chasan and ble for countless good connections. It’s ence. Small meals provide a more inti- from two people for the next 30 min- kallah think about potential matches not by coincidence that our parents mate experience and allow one to learn utes. Such an imposition on the resi- so they can seat these people at the and grandparents did not know of a more about the person facing you. Your dents of our town is not only unethical, same tables.” First of all, is this a bad shidduch crisis. Perhaps we should events create not only opportunity to it seems legally questionable, as well. thing? Is this too much trouble? Is this learn from them instead of rejecting meet one’s bashert, but to also meet As I ask that you dismiss my person- not something any kind person would their ways as not frum enough for us. with families and learn about other al summons, I also request that you be more than happy to do on behalf of To borrow a line from a gadol of a Jewish communities. An equal number please investigate seriously the situa- his or her single friends? previous generation, I am not being of men and women, affordable pricing, tion I described above as there are Second of all, even if the chasan and meikil in the halachos of modesty; I am and beautiful “heimish” accommoda- daily—perhaps hourly—occurrences kallah were to randomly seat the singles being machmir in the mitzvah of help- tions make events held by

28 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES EndTheMadness a winner.” I sincerely empathize with the frus- tration and disillusionment Ms. Weiss and so many others have been subject- ed to in their experiences with insensi- tive and incompetent shadchanim, poorly conceived singles events, and those in the community who simply don’t get it. I hope that her future expe- riences do not mirror those of her past. However, it is wrong for her to con- clude her painful letter with the decla- ration that “we’re not getting closer to finding [a solution]” after refusing to give fair consideration to solutions that are tried and true. There is no magic bullet that will perfectly solve every aspect of this multilayered problem. However, each of the suggestions that we have offered the community has proven to be a significant step in the right direction. For anyone to dismiss these suggestions without seriously weighing their advantages over the sta- tus quo is a sin against the countless people who are suffering. Sincerely, Rabbi Chananya Weissman, Founder, EndTheMadness

Dear Editor, I enjoy reading the Five Towns Jewish Times each week, especially the articles written by Rav Aryeh Zev Ginzberg. The rav’s articles are filled with insight, wisdom, and wonderful stories about his personal meetings with the gedolim. I truly look forward to each and every one. Last week’s arti- cle, however, “The Last Mishnah,” was far different. The article pained me greatly, as it showed the galut (exile) mentality of a great and wise rabbi. The rav laments the heavy price we have paid for settling the Land of Israel: “I sometimes think about all the suffering, the loss of life, the broken families, the yesomim and yesomos who have been brought upon us by living side by side together with more than a million b’nei Yishmael.” The rav fur- ther writes about how, immediately following the great miracle Hashem made for us in the Six Day War, Rav Shach said, “with great tears and emo- tion, that as a consequence of this vic- tory, Jews would be stabbed on the streets of Israel’s cities.” Finally, Rav Ginzberg writes that unfortunately “Rav Shach’s prophetic vision of stabbings in the streets of Eretz Yisrael” has come true. How timely that the rav wrote this article on the Shabbat before the Nine Days! Although this was not his goal, these words helped me prepare for this trag- ic time in our history, because I can now cry—not only over the loss of both Batei Mikdash of long ago, but also of the loss of today’s great gift of liberat- ing the Promised Land. For 2,000 years our people prayed. For 2,000 years our people cried while sitting on the floor in exile. For 2,000 years our people dreamed of coming home. Did Rav Ginzberg think that we would enter the Land on “wings of an eagle”? Did he think that reclaiming the Holy Land would be easy and trou- ble-free? Rav Ginzberg is a tremen- dous talmid chacham who is surely familiar with the teachings of Chazal,

Continued on Page 30 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 29 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR head of the Agudah party and one who point that these holy, wise, and right- him, and he stood head and shoulders Continued from Page 29 claims to take direction from the eous men must do more than just not above everyone else because he com- gedolim, supported, endorsed, and spill blood; they are responsible to do bined Torah scholarship with Torah who say that “Eretz Yisrael nikneit encouraged his party to vote last everything in their power to save action. He was a true scholar-warrior. b’yesurin”—“the Land of Israel is month for Shimon Peres as President Jewish lives! These great rabbis must He studied Torah by night and fought acquired through suffering.” of Israel! Shimon Peres? The man who make certain that the Jews of their city the physical battles of Am Yisrael by I too shudder at the massive loss of gave 50,000 guns to Fatah? Agudat are not in physical danger. It is not day. He fought to save Jews of all life that has taken place, especially in Yisrael, led by the gedolim, supports enough that they sit and learn Torah kinds, even those who never had inten- the last 15 years, in our homeland. I Shimon Peres, and then you cry over all day, confining themselves to the tions of coming to Eretz Yisrael. personally buried nine close friends, the loss of life? walls of the yeshiva. They must take I do the best I can to follow in his but what drives me mad, above every- In a few weeks, we will read active steps to save Jewish lives. ways, even though in last week’s paper thing else, is that these rivers of blood Parashat Shoftim, which tells us the Based on this, I ask Rav Ginzberg: Rav Ginzberg wrote that I reminded could have been avoided! This pain mitzvah of “eglah arufah.” This mitzvah Can the gedolim say, “Our hands have him of the early Zionist leaders “who and suffering is not because of the is about an unsolved murder—a Jew not spilled this blood”? Can the held the murderous belief that the only b’nei Yishmael, as Rav Ginzberg incor- was found murdered and nobody gedolim who were quiet during the Jew whose life is worth saving is a Jew rectly states, but because of weak and knows who killed him. The Torah Gaza Disengagement Plan say that— who chooses to come to Eretz Yisrael.” impotent Jewish leadership. This hor- states that the elders of the city closest as rockets rain down on S’derot? I What total nonsense! Let it be known rific leadership—supported most of to the corpse must bring a heifer, ax would really like to know the answer to that I am willing to save any Jew, at any the time by the gedolim—has brought the back of its neck, wash their hands that question. time, regardless of level of observance. us these atrocities! This is a fact that over it, and declare, “Our hands have I will be the first to admit to my lim- I was a proud member of the Jewish cannot be denied. not spilled this blood.” All of the com- ited Torah knowledge, yet I know Defense League and fought goyim with Rav Ovadiah Yosef, one of the great- mentaries are puzzled by this. Why enough to agree that one must attach my Jewish fist that was attached to my est gedolim today, supported the Oslo must the elders, the great rabbis of the himself to a gadol. Baruch Hashem, I Jewish head. I was arrested four times Accords and allowed his Shas party to city, state that they have not spilled the have done this. My rebbi was, and in New York fighting for the release of sit with Prime Minister Rabin. His blood of this Jew? Did anyone think for always will be, the great Rav Meir Soviet Jews and never asked if these support gave Rabin the power to bring a minute that these great rabbis are Kahane, zt’l, whom I had the privilege Jews would live in Israel. I am proud to the terrorist Arafat into the heartland murderers? Of course not! Rather, this to know very well. This amazing Jew call myself a Kahanist because, unlike of Israel. Rabbi Menachem Porush, act symbolizes the fact and stresses the was a shining example to all who knew most of the other gedolim, Rav Kahane was one who could truly say, “Our hands have not spilled this blood.” I love Eretz Yisrael and appreciate the gift that Hashem has bestowed upon us. I say Hallel on Yom HaAtzma’ut, even though I realize that the state we have today is a far cry from what we have been yearning for. Nevertheless, this state is a begin- ning…an infant. In order for that infant to grow, we need to nurture it. We need to work hard. We need to fight many battles—both spiritual and phys- ical. How wonderful it would be if the yeshiva world came out and realized this as well. How beautiful it would be if we worked together and realized how much power we could have in Israel’s political system if we did not only con- cern ourselves with our little frum ghetto. The leftists understand this perfectly well, and this is why they win every election! They stand as one and defeat us each time, because we are divided while they are united. Dear readers: Do not be depressed by the prophecy of Rav Shach. We are

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30 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES not condemned to be slaughtered! We understanding of Jewish leadership Mr. Sackett’s premise, which I also reflects the end of an era; it is dying a are a proud and strong people who can and responsibility. I would like to deal uphold to an extent, is that too much natural death as the American children liberate the Land from the enemy. In with this idea at greater length in a religious emphasis is being placed of Yiddish speakers forgo it. There is order to do this, we must cling to the subsequent article. upon the anti-Semitic European now a new form, Jewish-English or Torah and find gedolim who will lead What is beautiful, though, about all hometowns. We are not dubbed “the “Yinglish” (for more info, see The Joys us in all aspects of battle. Do not listen this is that our differences of opinion wandering Jew” for nothing; nearly of Yinglish by Leo Rosten) that is form- to those who speak lashon ha’ra about will not prevent us from sitting togeth- every piece of land in this world has ing in America, and is being analyzed the Land. This mistake was made er on the floor and mourning together felt Jewish feet upon it. The Middle on a lingual and anthropological level. thousands of years ago—the anniver- the loss of our Beis HaMikdash this East, centuries ago, was a haven; then Like the original, the combination of sary of which is this week on Tishah Tishah B’Av, nor from dancing togeth- we were driven out. Spain, Portugal, two languages was to uniquely adapt to B’Av night—when the spies, who were er arm in arm in celebration at his son Italy, England…and so on. We our community. all tzaddikim (see Midrash Tanchuma, Gabi’s upcoming wedding in Eretz dwelled there, witnessed great heights When the messiah arrives, we will Parashat Shelach 4) came back and Yisrael in just a few weeks, b’H. May in our Sages and Torah scholarship, not be spirited back to Radin. We will said that Israel is “a land that devours we be zocheh to also dance together and then were murdered, forced to be returning to the sole Holy Land, all its inhabitants” (Bamidbar 13:32). arm in arm with the rest of K’lal Yisrael convert, or expelled. of us jabbering in a myriad of tongues. Do not get depressed by the hard in celebrating the coming of Mashiach Our time in Eastern Europe, in the The punishment of the Tower of Babel times our people have experienced in in our day. grand scheme of things, is rather was different languages, which cause the Land. New leadership is on the Respectfully, recent. The Yiddish tongue united a disunity. Being able to speak Ivrit cre- way that will change this situation. Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, scattered people across the region. ates cohesion between the myriad of We must show Hashem that we Cedarhurst Great Torah minds arose; yeshivas Orthodox sects, from the ultra- appreciate the gift that He has given were built. Yet, as the Meshech Orthodox to the modern. us, and we must fight with mesirut Dear Editor, Chochmah (Rabbi Meir Simcha of If we all have the same goal, which nefesh to conquer the land and free it Due to the influx of negative reac- Dvinsk) said, “They think Berlin is is the desire for our homeland and the from the enemy. tions to Shmuel Sackett’s article Jerusalem.” wish to speak as one, “chaverim kol Stay strong, my fellow Jews, and join “Longing for the Old Country,” I I come from a family of fluent Yisrael” is the merit which will have us in the fight. Be like the tribes of pulled up the bone of contention to Yiddish speakers, and always felt our land and security returned to us. Reuven and Gad who fought the phys- see if his statements were taken out of dispirited that I had no head for lan- Lily Weiss, ical battles even though they lived out- context. I believe they were. guages. My struggle with that tongue Lawrence side the Land. And most importantly of all, let’s work for one thing only: the complete and total sanctification of Hashem’s Name. Let the world see our unity, devotion, and selflessness, and through this dedication and commit- ment, let this be the last Tishah B’Av we sit on the floor and cry. Next year in rebuilt city of Jerusalem! With love of Israel, Shmuel Sackett

Dear Editor, Despite what the reader of Reb Shmuel’s letter (in response to my article “The Last Mishnah”) may think, our differences in outlook are really small, while our similarities sig- nificant. We both love and cherish Eretz Yisrael and we both love and cherish K’lal Yisrael. We both are great admir- ers of Rabbi Meir Kahane, H’yd (I even had the z’chus to be one of the maspidim at his levayah), and we both revere the words of gedolei Yisrael. (What I do admittedly lack, as I always tell Reb Shmuel, and what I am truly jealous of is his level of pas- sion for his beliefs.) Where we differ, though, is not in the reverence that we have for gedolei Yisrael, but in the reverence that we have for the words of these gedolim. Reb Shmuel doesn’t understand Rav Shach’s thoughts and actions regard- ing events in Eretz Yisrael over the years, and so he chooses to negate them, accusing him along with other gedolei Yisrael of having blood on their hands (Rachmanah litzlan!). I instead chose to go to Rav Shach, zt’l, (as well as others) and ask them to share with me their Torah thoughts and hashkafos on these issues, and they would graciously do so. (My loyal readers have read about some of these conversations in my articles over the last few years.) Furthermore, in regard to issues that I did not merit to ask about or did not merit to understand, my overwhelming respect (and yes, even passion) for their level of Torah and yiras Shamayim leads me to believe deeply in my soul in their great 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 31 To compensate for my inability to mothers are never too busy to talk to clearly read the screen, and because I their children. never remember how to retrieve past Happy to chat with my daughter, I calls, I resort to another tactic: I hold proceeded to talk. Huffing and puff- the phone as far away from my face as ing, I lifted the heavy bags and possible in the hope that I can make squeezed them—and myself— out at least one or two telltale letters in through the metal poles that are the name (like maybe the first and the spaced about two feet apart (to pre- Going, Going, Gone! last letter). On this particular occa- vent people from walking off with the sion, I determined that the caller was wagons). Methodically I set each bag my daughter. onto the seat, and then went back for As time marches on, things have a seemed that the call was from my I always take all calls from my chil- more—all while chatting on the cell habit of getting away from us. The ele- daughter. dren, just in case they should need me phone, which was by then pressed ment most noticeably missing is often The reason for my uncertainty is for something—anything. But in this between my right ear and shoulder, memory. Where mine went, I have no that, while the perk known as Caller case, she was calling just to shoot the and which will one day probably give idea. But it did leave me, which is sad, ID is one terrific convenience, my breeze. If anyone else had been calling me a severe case of torticollis. But I since I was so attached to it. eyes are too old to make proper use of me at that moment just for the sake of never missed a beat, neither in the Forgetting the names of people and it. There’s no point in searching for having a little chat, I would have told conversation nor in accomplishing places happens to everyone occasion- my eyeglasses to try to make out the them that I’d call them back later. But the task at hand. The trouble came ally, and it’s nothing to get worked up when I was finished with the task, over. From time to time we blank out, but not with the conversation. such as when we can’t remember the Before slipping into the driver’s seat, telephone number of someone we call “Ma, I’m busy. Can’t talk now. it is my habit to look for the following every day. It’s infuriating and momen- three things: sunglasses, car keys, and tarily upsetting, but it’s understand- cell phone. I do this because I have able. And, best of all, it passes. But Call ya’ back later.” And before I can even been known to lose one or the other of passing or not, every now and then we these items in the past. have an experience that’s really scary. I On this occasion I spotted my sun- had one last week that nearly sent me say “okay,” I get the dial tone. glasses and my car keys, both of which over the edge. I had tossed onto the front seat. But I I was leaving the supermarket with couldn’t find my cell phone. In sheer a wagon full of groceries. And just as panic, I shrieked, “Oh, no, no! I lost I was loading the bags into the back number on the screen, because by the I never do that when the call is from my cell phone.” My daughter’s seat of my car, my cell phone played time I would find them, the caller will one of my offspring. The way it works response was a slow, measured, its happy little tune. I wasn’t thrilled have already hung up. And I’m still in my family is that when one of my “Maaaaa.” I totally ignored her and about answering the phone, because unsure of how to figure out whose kids is too busy to speak, I get the fol- shrieked again, “You don’t understand; setting heavy bags into the car goes a calls I missed. I never know which lowing response: “Ma, I’m busy. Can’t I lost my phone. I need to find it. lot faster with the use of both hands. buttons to push. This is unfortunate. talk now. Call ya’ back later.” And Maybe I left it in the wagon, or maybe Not sure if I should answer or not, I (It’s also odd, because on occasion before I can even say “okay,” I get the I left it on the counter when I was looked at the Caller ID screen and, I’ve been told that I’m good at push- dial tone. But it doesn’t work in although I wasn’t entirely certain, it ing people’s buttons.) reverse. It’s a one-way street, because Continued on Page 35

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Siyum Schedule For The Nine Days The flight is set to begin at the During the Nine Days, Jews com- Republic Airport in Farmingdale and memorate the destruction of the Beis to conclude at the East 34th Street HaMikdash (Holy Temple). We mourn Heliport, where the guests will be the destruction in different ways. We transported in a luxury limousine to don’t celebrate or party, we minimize the upscale Abigael’s on Broadway for washing ourselves and our clothing, a celebrity luncheon. we don’t eat meat, etc. This getaway trip is the culminating The Lubavitcher Rebbe suggested prize offered by Rabbi Perl’s Chopper that during this time of mourning we Charity Raffle, which seeks to raise look for ways to combat the mourning financial support to help bring Jewish with the permitted joy of Torah learn- education to the unaffiliated and ing. Many try to rejoice in Torah every expand the rabbi’s “Taste of Shabbat” day with a siyum to celebrate the com- program, providing two challahs and a pletion of a tractate of Talmud. bottle of grape juice to men and More than 30 years ago, Rabbi women in a correctional center, group Jacob J. Hecht organized siyumim for homes, and rehabilitation centers. the benefit of people who could not Rabbi Perl is the director of the make their own by making a siyum on National Committee for the Furtherance the radio each night of the Nine Days. of Jewish Education on Long Island and Each day, the siyum is scheduled to spiritual leader of Chabad of Mineola. take place from 7:00 to 7:15 p.m. on For more information please call Rabbi WSNR 620AM and WVOS 1240AM. Perl at 516-739-3636. O On Friday, it is scheduled for 6:45–7:00 p.m. On motzaei Shabbos, it ‘Kosher’ Certification Of A is scheduled for 10:00–10:15 p.m. on Different Kind WMCA 570 AM. O By Jeremy Wimpfheimer Israeli restaurant owners are well Rabbi Takes To The Skies accustomed to the question “Do you On Thursday, July 26, at 11:00 a.m., have a teudah?” referring to the official Rabbi Anchelle Perl plans to exchange certificate deeming all food and food his black fedora for a captain’s headgear, preparation to be kosher in accordance to lead a special group on an amazing helicopter tour of New York City. Continued on Page 36

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THAT’S THE WAY IT IS! Continued from Page 32 checking out.” I grabbed my keys, because the last thing I needed at that point was to get locked out of my car, and ran frantically back to the wagon. It wasn’t in there, of course. Then I ran into the store. All the while my daughter kept saying, “Maaaaa.” Realizing that panic had overtaken me, and that I was paying absolutely no attention to what she was trying to tell me, she finally screamed, “MA, YOU’RE TALKING ON IT RIGHT NOW!” Suddenly I stopped mid- flight, pulled my hand away from my ear, discovered the phone, and held it out in front of me in utter disbelief, with more relief than I am able to describe. I had no idea—not a clue— that the cell phone I was frantically searching for was between my ear and my shoulder the entire time. That’s the point at which my aston- ished daughter said, “Ma, hang up now, get in the car, go home, and maybe stay in for the rest of the day.” I didn’t do that, of course, and I’m glad that I didn’t. Once I had brought my groceries home and put them away, I drove into town because I had plans to meet a friend for lunch. After I parked the car and as I was waiting for the light to change so I could cross the street, I bumped into an acquaintance carrying packages. We chatted pleas- antly, making small talk, and when the light turned green we crossed together. Once on the other side, I stood in front of the café where my friend and I had planned to meet, and the gal walked off to find her car. About three minutes later, while I was still waiting for my lunch date to show up, this same acquaintance came walking back past me, now going in the opposite direc- tion. With a sheepish smile plastered across her face, she looked at me and said, “I walked two long blocks with these packages before I remembered where I parked my car; can you believe I was going the wrong way?” Her words were like music to my ears. I wasn’t alone in the morass. “Yeah, I can believe it,” I replied. O

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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 35 AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS eral seals have been revoked after it was Continued from Page 34 reported that workers’ rights were being repeatedly violated. Violations include with rabbinical guidelines. Yet, as a cases where workers are being denied result of the efforts of Bema’aglei breaks or being paid below the legal Tzedek, a Jerusalem-based non-profit minimum wage or where the restaurant organization, consumers are now on the is lacking appropriate access for the lookout for a second type of certificate handicapped. indicating that the restaurant conforms The seal has also gained the atten- to a completely separate set of “kosher” tion of many members of the Israeli guidelines—good employment practices Knesset, across the political spectrum. and accessibility for the disabled. Amir Peretz, who until recently served Called the Social Seal, or Tav as Israel’s Defense Minister and was Chevrati, the certificate—which is the longtime head of the Histadrut now being prominently displayed in national union said the seal is establish- over 300 Israeli eateries from ing a new standard of ethical practice in Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and various other Israeli society and that “highlighting the locales—was introduced by Bema’aglei issue of worker’s rights will create a bet- Tzedek to combat what the organiza- ter future for the people of Israel.” tion’s director, Asaf Banner, calls “an Zevulun Orlev, a member of the Mafdal all-too-often ignored, yet deeply trou- party, notes that this effort brings to the bling aspect of Israeli society.” forefront an issue which is of critical Banner, who was among the organiza- nature to the national and Zionist tion’s founders in 2004 says, “The way cause. “In order for us to be a fair and that tens of thousands of workers all just society,” he says, “it is necessary over Israel are being treated without that workers have the assurance that regard to their most basic human rights they will receive the proper treatment was a situation that demanded to be and compensation they deserve.” O addressed. We saw that the social seal was a great way of bringing attention to Former Woodmere Resident this issue.” While the campaign began Elected Hadassah National locally in Jerusalem with organization President representatives using the seal as a means Nancy Falchuk, a resident of Newton to promote the good labor practices of Center, Mass., and formerly a resident of shop owners, it has quickly gained steam Woodmere, was elected by Hadassah to and spread across the country. be its newest national president. She has In order for an eatery to receive the been a member of the Hadassah seal, representatives of the organization National Board Honorary Council, the will visit the restaurant and observe Hadassah National Executive overall conditions as well as speak with the workers. According to Banner, sev- Continued on Page 39

36 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 37 Five Towns Simcha Gallery Photos By Ira Thomas Creations Photos By Suri Adams Photography Jared Ehrenreich, Mazel tov to Danny son of and Elana Stahler on Karen and Shimmie their marriage on Ehrenreich June 28 at Terrace- of West Hempstead, on-the-Park. Special celebrated his mazel tov to the Bar Mitzvah at the parents of the Sephardic Temple on chassan and kallah, Sunday, June 24. Ushi and Esti Stahler Music was performed and Larry and by Neshoma Sharona Beck and to Orchestra. the grandparents, Marty and Rozy Davis, Alvin and Frimi Stahler, Stanley and Ruth Beck, and Leo and Florence Schechter.

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AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS Mrs. Falchuk, with the leadership of information, administrative services, and Gush Katif whose families have lost Continued from Page 36 Professor Benjamin Sachs of Harvard insurance products to over ten million their livelihoods and who have children Medical School, promoted and facilitat- individuals in more than 30 countries all getting married. This latest show was Committee, and the national coordina- ed the first Hadassah/Combined Jewish over Latin America, Europe, Japan, the organized by a group of Jerusalem tor of the Development Division of Philanthropies of Boston Medical Middle East, and North America. She is women interested in helping Rina get Hadassah. She was the coordinator of Solidarity Conference to Israel. More married to Dr. Kenneth H. Falchuk, who her message out to the world— Hadassah International (2000–2004) than 60 of America’s most prominent was born in Venezuela and is a professor Professor Susan Handelman, Lori and was chairman of the Hadassah 2000 physicians came to show their support of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Lurie, Renee Miller, Jane Medved, and National Convention in Los Angeles. for their Israeli colleagues and to make the director of the International Medical Roni Schwartz. Mrs. Falchuk was a founding and the statement that medicine must not Center at the Brigham and Women’s Rina tells the audience at the outset ongoing member of the Hadassah be used as a political weapon of war. Hospital, and its chairman of the educa- that she began writing the script Medical Organization board of directors Since this is an international effort, she tion council of the Department of before the expulsion, one night when from 1995 to 2004. She was chairman repeated the mission with Professor Medicine. Dr. Falchuk was recently hon- she had awoken to nurse her tiny new for the medical and scientific relation- Sachs in 2003, bringing 30 outstanding ored for his unique work as a professor baby. Segments of the play are per- ships for Hadassah International, which doctors from the United Kingdom, four at Harvard Medical School. The formed by Rina reading from her jour- has groups in over 26 countries around from Austria, and 65 from America. Falchuks have three children and four nal—moments that would be boring the world. For the last 17 years, Nancy Mrs. Falchuk is a member of grandchildren. O were the actress less talented, but are, worked with Hadassah International, Congregation Mishkan Tefila, a former instead, almost hypnotic. We watch a traveling through Europe, South vice president of the New England ‘In The Forest We Will Dance’ slender, modest woman—vulnerable at America, and Israel raising substantial Zionist Federation, and a former treas- By Toby Klein Greenwald first glance—allowing us into her most funds for the Hadassah Medical urer and vice-president of the New Rina Ackerman, a mother of eleven private moments. Organization, promoting its work, and England Jewish Community Relations who was removed from her home in As the hour-long performance pro- creating medical cooperative relation- Council, also serving as chairman of Gush Katif in August of 2005, has chan- gresses (a more ideal length would be 50 ships for Hadassah with other major the Middle East Committee for five neled her pain into a cathartic one- minutes), we are less aware of her vul- academic centers. She’s chaired years. She was elected to the executive woman performance for which she has nerability and more aware of her inner Hadassah International Conferences in board of the New England Anti- paradoxically borrowed the title from a strength, the heartbreak and disillusion- Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Defamation League in 1991 and the breezy Israeli children’s song, In the ment notwithstanding. Rina relates the Israel, and Canada. She was chairman women’s division of the Combined Forest, In the Forest, We Will Dance. story of her grandmother who was taken of the first Hadassah European Jewish Philanthropies in 1996. When I was asked to give my profes- away and murdered in Poland, and she Conference held in Paris in 1997 and Nancy, who is the daughter of sional advice to Rina regarding her physically pantomimes how she, Rina, the chairman of the first Hadassah Mildred and Murray Kozinn currently of show, a work in progress, I readily planted trees when she arrived at her International Congress held in the Aventura, Florida, graduated from agreed, having witnessed the expulsion new home in Gush Katif many years ago, United States in Miami in May 1999. Woodmere Academy. During her years in from Gaza firsthand through various her way of responding to her grandmoth- She has addressed many major events in the Five Towns, she and her family family members. er’s death—trees where birds no longer numerous countries throughout Europe belonged to Temple Beth El in Rina has been performing her show sing, in the wake of the disengagement and South America. She also developed Cedarhurst. She then attended Russell in various locations around Israel, most and the uprooting of the trees. the first major gifts fundraisers for Sage College where she earned her recently in Jerusalem at a spacious pri- Her performance progresses through Hadassah International in Geneva, Bachelor of Science in nursing. She is vate residence. She previously per- the shock and horror of the reality, Rina Paris, and Jerusalem. currently an advisor to Best Doctors, a formed at the same venue at a commu- slowly digesting the fact that it is really In 2002, during the worst part of the health services company that provides nal “bridal shower,” part of a unique intifada and calls for boycotts of Israel, medical services, access to medical effort to help brides and grooms from Continued on Page 40

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 39 AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS tion will bloom forth, and the messiah narrative of the heartbreak and anger of coming, and she’s still in pajamas. But Continued from Page 39 will draw near.” The extreme incon- being uprooted, by one’s own people, now, when everyone is gone, I think gruity of the elation of the song togeth- from a home and a land she loved. about her face and I cry. I know I hurt happening, that her family will be er with the despair of the situation cre- Toby Klein Greenwald is a commu- her feelings. Her eyes just stare back at forcibly removed from their homes. The ates a strong theatrical moment. nity theater director (www.bible- me as I lace into her precious soul. climax of the play, in my opinion, is Theater in Israel that focuses on hot arts.com) and the editor of And that’s not all. Last week I got a when Rina describes how the family, topics is almost certain to be controver- WholeFamily.com. O whopper of a phone call from Chaim’s rather than scream and shout at the sol- sial, and Rina’s show is no exception. rebbi. “Your son is displaying aggres- Whereas any viewer who was close to Behind My Closed Doors sive behavior. He keeps biting other someone who experienced the uproot- By a Student of Rabbi Brezak’s Workshops children. It is completely unaccept- ing was deeply moved and identified You know me. I’m the “lady next able.” The unspoken demand was, with her pain, there were others who door.” The one who has it “all put “You, as the parent, must ensure that felt that by telling the story of her grand- together.” The lady who smiles and this does not happen again.” The mother’s murder in the forest and sever- waves as you walk by. unspoken accusation was, “What kind al other references, she was equating You think I’m calm and collected, of a home raises a child who intention- the expulsion from Gush Katif to the but deep down I feel like I’m cracking. ally hurts other children?” Truthfully, I Shoah. Though Rina insisted that was I’m not going through a major catas- don’t have answers. I am at a loss. not the purpose of the analogy, it was an trophe, baruch Hashem. But, the daily What do I do with a child who always example of how every viewer brings to a pressures of life are really getting to wants his way? You can’t imagine the live performance his own history, as me. And it’s not a pressure I can “leave humiliation I suffer when parents call well, which is why all theater is truly to others,” or “simplify.” to tell me he’s been bullying their interactive. In contrast to those who Because it’s my kids that are putting child. Am I supposed to make him were uncomfortable with the Shoah ref- me under this pressure. And, it’s not a apologize? Am I supposed to punish erences, another audience member said pressure I can just “deal with.” I simply him? Am I supposed to bribe him to be afterwards, “I did not for a second think don’t know how. “good”? How am I supposed to make she was claiming that what happened to Take Leah, for example. She’s the sure he behaves when he is in school? them was a Holocaust. It is legitimate cutest little thing. But she just doesn’t And then there’s Lazer. There’s always for evacuees of Gush Katif to see what move herself in the morning. I mean, Lazer. He is a happy-go-lucky child to happened to them and their homes as how many times can I ask, plead, and the world, but a lazy, underachiever to both a personal churban [destruction] bribe her to get dressed? I tried charts those who really know him. He gets up Rina Ackerman and a national tragedy…” and stars, prizes and treats. Nothing—I late for minyan—when he gets up at all. More than anything else, one is mean nothing—works. This kid just And, when he does go to shul, he barely moved by Rina’s courage, and by her doesn’t move. And so, when Leah davens. He doesn’t take mitzvos serious- diers and officers who come to remove ability and willingness to get up repeat- missed the bus again the other day, I lost ly, he doesn’t take his learning seriously, them from their home (sent, as she edly before strange audiences—some it. I just screamed and screamed at her. and he doesn’t take schoolwork serious- describes the government at the time, who may be hostile to her message—and I really let her have it. And now I feel ly. His bar mitzvah is not too far away, by “the powers of evil”), invites them in bare her soul through words, song, and really bad. Because it’s not the first and then he will be considered an adult. to dance with the family, to the joyful movement. While the performance is time. I’ve done it before. I honestly just In a few months he will be held respon- strains of Carlebach’s song about the still in need of polish in certain areas, it don’t know how to get her moving. The sible for all his actions—and he is living final salvation—“V’yatzmach purkanei is undoubtedly a strong testimony to one pressure is so intense when the baby is in dreamland. Life is just one big joke to viykareiv meshichei”—“And the redemp- woman’s experience and a wrenching crying, the milk is spilling, the bus is him. So many bar mitzvah boys are doing

40 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES extra learning and preparing for their pshetel. My Lazer just wants to know the exact menu of the caterer. My heart is breaking. I want so badly to be a “great mother.” I have dreams of a beautiful Shabbos table, smiling children, and a smil- ing mother. But that isn’t what’s happening in this home. I live with constant indeci- sion. I struggle with daily anger. And I’m consumed with unending guilt. The emotional stress is enormous. Trust me—I’m not smiling too much behind these closed doors. Sometimes I think I should get really tough. “These kids need to be put in their place once and for all.” Sometimes I try to be positive and loving. Honestly, I’m not sure what to do. But, I must be doing something wrong. Everyone else seems to have well- adjusted, smiling children. And then my friend let me in on the “big secret.” “We all have our challenges. And, no, we are not expected to know all the answers. But, instead of ‘learning on the job’ with our children being the ‘testing ground,’ we can reach out to people who have years of experience and learn from them.” She encouraged me to call Rabbi Brezak’s parenting line. Rabbi Brezak is a mechanech par excellence. In his many roles—as parent, principal, author, lecturer, and consult- ant—Rabbi Brezak has proven himself a master in bringing out the best in our children. His personable, extremely human approach, spiced with wit, humor, and tireless enthu- siasm, has changed the face of the Torah world. I was skeptical at first. My mother never needed to call a “parenting expert.” But, my friend encouraged me to try it. “It’s just a phone call. Try it. It will give you the advice you need, and a much-needed dose of chizuk.” I did try it. And I keep call- ing. Whenever I feel like the pressure is mounting, I call. I get chizuk. I get advice. And I calm down. Why should I wander around feeling alone and lost? Why shouldn’t I get da‘as Torah when I have parenting questions? And so I keep calling. And now I am one of the hundreds that Rabbi Brezak has really helped. And my kids are among the very lucky ones who have benefited from his advice. I have unending grati- tude for the changed atmos- phere in my home.

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42 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 43 AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS mitteeman and State Committee- Republican leadership in the 23rd AD for the party chair’s faith in Jane and Continued from Page 42 woman,” Ragusa said. “They have the has long been a bone of G.O.P. con- me,” said Ulrich. “His support sends a right combination of experience, tention and was one of the central issues strong message to Republican voters And Bikur Cholim surely jumped for vision, and energy to lead all the in the birth and growth of the Rockaway in every corner of the district that the joy when they heard that the TAG girls Republicans of this district, from Republicans, a local group that formed Republican Party is ready to emerge raised $6,000! Ozone Park to the Rockaways.” in 2004 at least partly in response to from its long hibernation in our area TAG is very proud of its talmidos, who The leadership of the 23rd AD was what was perceived as passive and rud- at last.” always go out of their way to help our previously contested in 2005, when derless incumbent district leadership. Added Deacy, “This is a very impor- local tzedakos, making the TAG name the Ulrich ticket surprised observers The newly designated Queens tant time for Queens Republicans and synonymous with both excellence in by coming close to unseating the heav- County Chair, Phil Ragusa, himself we thank Mr. Ragusa for his trust. We chinuch and chesed par excellence. O ily favored and well-funded incum- embroiled in controversy over his suc- won’t let him down. We plan to reach bents, Terry Ariola of Howard Beach cession to former County Chair Serph out to Republicans in every corner of Queens G.O.P. Chair Endorses and Ed O’Hare of Broad Channel. Maltese’s seat, broke with precedent the 23rd AD.” Deacy And Ulrich For District 23 This time out, Ulrich and Breezy to endorse the Ulrich-Deacy slate. If The primary is on September 18. O Leadership Point’s Deacy have so shaken things up successful, the two challengers have On Tuesday, July 10, Jane Deacy that Ariola and O’Hare declined to committed themselves to finding and OU High Holiday Virtual Job Fair and Eric Ulrich, candidates for the defend their seats and stepped aside in supporting local G.O.P. candidates, a Following the success of the first Republican District Leadership in the a surprise move in favor of two long-time demand of the Rockaway OU Virtual Job Fair, which was held in 23rd Assembly District, picked up the Howard Beach residents who aren’t Republicans, in order to restore com- early June and resulted in 35 job offers, endorsement of the Queens County well known outside their area. petitiveness in local political races. the Orthodox Union announced that it Republican Party Chairman. In his In 2005, Ariola only managed to hold They have also pledged themselves to will hold its Virtual Job Fair II on endorsement letter, Chairman Phil onto her position by 99 votes, the nar- actively rebuild local G.O.P. member- Wednesday, August 29. The second fair Ragusa praised Deacy and Ulrich for rowest win for a leadership position in ship and to become engaged in local will incorporate a variety of new fea- their dedication and commitment to the history of the 23rd AD. This year’s civic matters, unlike incumbent lead- tures and will be held free of charge at the Republican Party. race pits the central part of the 23rd AD, ership which tended to keep a lower OU Headquarters (11 Broadway in “It’s my pleasure to personally Howard Beach, against both outer public profile. Manhattan). endorse Eric and Jane for the impor- fringes: Ozone Park in the north (Ulrich) Both Deacy and Ulrich welcomed “With the success we had with the tant posts of Republican State Com- and Rockaway in the south (Deacy). Ragusa’s endorsement. “I’m thankful first job fair, it was already clear that we should have an encore for the members of the Jewish community who are looking to find employment,” declared Michael Rosner, director of the OU job board. “Therefore, we scheduled another fair prior to the High Holy Days to help people find meaningful work before the holidays begin,” he said. “There will be no bet- ter way to start the new year than with a new job.” The job fair is believed to be the first program anywhere to combine state- of-the-art technology with human resources practices to assist the unem- ployed and under-employed in the Jewish community in New York and nationally in finding meaningful work. “From the moment resumés are post- ed by the candidates for the job fair, the process begins,” Mr. Rosner said. “The OU in reality goes to each of the employers and drops off resumés where appropriate, making a true match for the job that is being offered. In this way, employers who want to see a candidate NewCommissioner

Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback (D-Oceanside) congratulates the newly appointed Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey at the July 9 legislative session. Commissioner Mulvey is a decorated veteran of the Nassau County Police Department with 28 years of police experience, replacing the retired James Lawrence. 44 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES in a scheduled interview setting have more meaningful by learning tech- morning programs. Steinig, National Council of Young already had a chance to review each niques that can help you help Israel. In the evening (5:00–8:00 p.m.), Israel Director of Programming; 212- resumé, experience, and qualifications The Arab-Israeli conflict has produced Young Israel of Hewlett will also be the 929-1525, ext. 103; e-mail: jsteinig@ prior to setting up the interview.” a wave of anti-Semitism throughout venue for “Winning the War of Words” youngisrael.org. O When the applicants arrive at OU the world. K’lal Yisrael needs educa- for singles over 30. This event includes Headquarters, they are interviewed via tion and training to combat this grow- a dairy dinner and costs $25 for reser- Dr. Francine Stein Elected a video conference with HR personnel ing animus and advocate effectively for vations made by July 20; $36 after President Of AMIT in the New York/New Jersey area, who Israel in the classroom, office, and July 20. Reservations are required and AMIT recently convened its 2007 have the comfort of remaining in their neighborhood. “Winning the War of subject to space availability. National Convention at the landmark own offices. HR professionals who Words: Become an Effective Advocate Winning the War on Words will pro- prefer to screen applicants in person for Israel” is a program designed vide strategies to use when confronted will come to the OU and conduct their specifically to meet this difficult chal- by colleagues, teachers, and peers in an interviews live. lenge. National Council of Young anti-Israel debate. Lawrence Muscant According to Mr. Rosner, a number Israel and The David Project, an is the speaker at the Young Israel of of improvements were instituted in organization that promotes a fair and Kew Gardens Hills. He is manager of preparation for the second job fair: honest understanding of the Arab- campus support for the David Project The name of each candidate will Israeli conflict through seminars, are Center, and a Ph.D. candidate in phi- appear on the resumé when it is sent partnering to teach advocacy to the losophy at Carleton University, where to the company; OU “ushers” will Orthodox community. he is writing about American foreign escort HR staff who are coming to the On Sunday, July 22, this program policy in the Middle East. Rabbi Bini OU to their stations and will introduce will be presented by two leading Young Maryles, spiritual leader of the Young each candidate before the start of the Israel synagogues in the New York Israel of North Woodmere, will present virtual and live interview. Headsets will area. Morning programs (10:30– both sessions at the Young Israel of be provided by the OU for a minimal 12:00) will take place at the Young Hewlett. Rabbi Maryles has been fee to the virtual attendees. Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, 150-05 trained in advocacy outreach though The Virtual Job Fair is a project of 70th Road, Flushing, and Young Israel the David Project. Dr. Francine Stein. the OU’s job board, which was intro- of Hewlett, 1 Piermont Avenue, For more information or registra- duced in January and which maintains Hewlett. There is no cost for the tion, please contact Rebbetzin Judi Continued on Page 46 a comprehensive website. To partici- pate, log on to www.ou.org/jobs to access the application tab for the August 29 job fair. As with the first job fair, sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information, contact Mr. Rosner at 212-613-8129 or rosnerm@ ou.org. O

A Shabbos Nachamu To Remember One has to only turn the pages of any Jewish newspaper and see the many dif- ferent opportunities open to the com- munity for Shabbos Nachamu. How does one choose between all the differ- ent programs? Well, this year there is a new program taking place on Shabbos Nachamu for the very first time that should make the decision for you. Rabbi Moshe Fuchs, who has been serving as host to many summer and Yom Tov programs for almost two decades, has decided to direct all his experience and talent towards creat- ing a program that will be the talk of the town long after Shabbos Nachamu ends. One of the most beautiful Hilton hotels on the East Coast, the Hilton Woodcliff Lake Hotel in northern New Jersey is playing host to the event, which will feature a world- class caterer, five-star luxury hotel and spa, and entertainment provided by Shalsheles and world-class chaz- zanim. The Shabbos will also be an inspiring one, with such world- renowned lecturers and speakers as Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg of Cedarhurst and Rabbi Dovid Weinberger of Lawrence. Months of planning went into this Shabbos, where every detail is being focused on to ensure the maximum enjoyment in both gashmiyus and ruchniyus. Rooms are filling up quickly. To be a part of what will surely be a very mem- orable Shabbos, please call 800-522- 1850 to make your reservation. O

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Puck Building in New York City. Dr. Francine Stein, a res- ident of Englewood, New Jersey, and a pediatrician spe- cializing in behavior/develop- mental pediatrics, was elected president of the organization. Dr. Stein succeeds Jan Schechter of Lawrence. Her term will officially begin on September 1. Other national officers elected include Debbie Isaac, treasurer; Mindy Liebman, chair, board of directors; Barbara Nordlicht, chair, board of governors; Robyn Price Stonehill, chair, New Generation Board; Peggy Danishefsky, vice president, leadership development; Su- zanne Doft, vice president, marketing; Brenda Kalter, vice president, financial resource development; Debbie Moed, vice president, Israel program- ming; Ina Tropper, vice presi- dent, strategic planning; Ellen Hellman, vice chair, Israel executive committee; Rahel Rogers, associate treasurer; and Sharon Merkin, secretary of the board of directors. Former New York State Governor George Pataki made a special guest appearance during the cocktail reception which preceded the presiden- tial dinner. He lauded AMIT for its more than 80-year his- tory of caring for and provid- ing quality education to Israel’s children. Other convention speakers included Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and presi- dent of The Israel Project, who discussed the need for better communication of Israel’s point of view to the world’s journalists and media; and Scott Shay, chairman of the board of Signature Bank, who discussed his thought- provoking book, Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry. Updates on the AMIT Network in Israel, which this fall will encompass more than 70 schools and pro- grams for over 20,000 stu- dents, were provided by Dr. Amnon Eldar, director general of AMIT in Israel, and Arnold Gerson, executive vice presi- dent of AMIT. The 2007 National Conven- tion was chaired by Mindy Liebman and Harriet Seif, assisted by a convention com- mittee composed of Esther Goldman, Audrey Lookstein, and Esther Semmelman. Dr. Francine Siegel Stein was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and graduated Barnard College with a B. A. in biolo- gy. She then attended New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, where she received her M.D. degree. 46 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Dr. Stein served her intern- ship and residency in pedi- atrics at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and com- pleted a fellowship in behav- ioral/developmental pediatrics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She is licensed to prac- tice medicine in both New York and New Jersey, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics. She also is a member of the Society for Behavioral Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Stein is currently in private practice and is a member of the voluntary staff at Englewood Hospital. She was previously a clinical asso- ciate in the Division of Child Development at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and a developmental pediatrician at the Children’s Center for Special Services at the Jersey City Medical Center. Dr. Stein is married to Dr. Aaron Stein, a cardiologist who is affiliated with Palisades General Hospital and Englewood Hospital. They are the parents of three children: Beth, an MBA stu- dent at the New York University Stern School of Business, who is married to Nat Lipschitz, an agent for New York Life Insurance Company; Michael, a senior at NYU; and Gary, who is a sophomore, also studying at the NYU Stern School of Business. Dr. Stein is the daughter of Mollie Siegel, also an Englewood resident. AMIT enables Israel’s youth to realize their potential and strengthens Israeli society by educating and nurturing chil- dren from diverse back- grounds within a framework of academic excellence, religious values, and Zionist ideals. AMIT educates and cares for Israel’s youth, including the most vulnerable. Some 70 percent of AMIT students cope with educational, psy- chological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state, and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 70 schools, youth vil- lages, surrogate family resi- dences, and other programs, constituting Israel’s only gov- ernment-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies. O 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 47 48 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES ‘Sala’s Gift’ By Ann Kirschner

BOOK REVIEW BY known slave labor camps. While pre- MICHELE JUSTIC senting slightly less life-threatening circumstances, these camps allowed How can we keep the Holocaust prisoners to receive and send mail and from becoming a historical artifact? photos. These cherished letters helped When survivors will no longer be able Sala retain something many survivors to tell their tales in person to Yom could not cling to—a sense of human- HaShoah gatherings, will our youth ity. Kirschner utilized her mother’s think of the Holocaust in the same “gift” to its fullest, first by deciphering light as the Spanish Inquisition— the contents through translation and something very bad but in a fuzzy, long historical research, and second by ago way? The Shoah Foundation and lending the material to galleries, pub- other independent efforts are scram- lishing the book, and having it inter- bling to get every last memory down on preted in a film documentary and for print or film, but will future genera- stage presentations. tions care to read or see it? The letters and photos bring to life While I can’t completely answer Sala’s difficult teenage years. At age 16, those questions, I can present another Sala sought new adventures and also to fighter in the memorial battle—Ann protect her studious and frail sister, Kirschner. Kirschner was an accom- Raizel, from the enlistment orders she plished professional, educator, and had received from the government. So, writer before receiving a “gift” from she went in her stead to what became her mother, Sala. Sala Garncarz known as “Organization Schmelt.” Kirschner had opted to keep her Albrecht Schmelt helped create the Holocaust memories silent for business plan for a system of exploiting decades—until 1991, as the date for free labor to build roads, munitions, and her heart surgery loomed near. Then other materiel for the Nazis. His net- she presented Ann with a box of over work of camps worked together with 350 letters and photos from her days opportunistic Jewish leaders to recruit in a slave labor camp. Other Holocaust and maintain high-quality personnel to memoirs rely on survivor memories aid in the war effort. While “Rosie the and official Nazi and Allied military Riveter” helped the cause of patriotism documentation and evidence. Sala— on our side of the Atlantic, Sala and her through luck, bravery, charm, and, of friends were forced to do the same course, the will of Hashem—managed under horrifying conditions. The labor- to avoid the unbearable torture of the ers also lived in bunks (though Sala was concentration camps and instead served as a seamstress in the less well- Continued on Page 51

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 49 What Are We Mourning?

BY RABBI YONI POSNICK sion, Klal Yisrael’s tragedy, the tragedy of Tishah B’Av. Moshe was used to Parashas Devarim is always read on faithfully and diligently bearing the Shabbos Chazon, the Shabbos pre- nation’s burden. His one complaint, ceding Tishah B’Av. We find near the his one point, was that he was alone. beginning of the second aliyah the word “eichah,” as Moshe Rabbeinu, reflecting upon the nation’s experi- ence, recalls how he said, “Eichah esa levadi—How can I alone If your ‘secret carry…?” The word “eichah” brings to mind the upcoming Tishah B’Av, admirer’ told you to when we read Megillas Eichah. The Vilna Gaon, zt’l, points out a deeper correct your ways, connection between this pasuk and Tishah B’Av from the common third you wouldn’t mind or word found in both our pasuk and the opening pasuk of Eichah—the get offended. word “alone.” Moshe Rabbeinu said, “How can I alone carry…?” while Yirmiyahu, the author of Eichah, lamented, “Eichah yashvah vadad— How the city sits alone!” We may add that Moshe certainly did This connection gives us a major not need any assistance. He was quite insight into the essence of Tishah B’Av. capable of leadership; he was the quin- The feeling of being isolated, forsaken, tessential manhig (leader) and rebbi alone—those pervasive feelings of (teacher). Nonetheless, the feeling of loneliness—shed light on Moshe Rabbeinu’s statement and, by exten- Continued on Page 52

50 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES ‘Salas Gift’ Sala’s life in the ghetto and ceeded in keeping alive the Continued from Page 49 in the camps is fascinating and memories of Raizel, Sala, uplifting. The faith and love and many other victims of usually lucky enough to share a between her family members the Shoah through her exten- room exclusively with her certainly played a large part in sive research and her gift for friend Ala Gertner), ate poor her survival. She continued to language. food, wore only the clothes make cherished friendships Upon being asked to lead a they came in with, and worked with Ala and others, which also book club discussion about a long hours under high pres- helped her maintain what “Holocaust book,” I became a sure. Most frightening, howev- could unfortunately be consid- bit weary. I know it is our duty er, was the prospect of being ered, in comparison to others to remember this tragedy in sent to a concentration camp. victimized by the Holocaust, an light of all who deny it. Yet, Sala’s act of extraordinary almost privileged lifestyle. Sala does anyone ever look forward initiative—serving in a labor had a burdensome work sched- to reading a book about dep- camp in her sister’s place— ule, but also benefited from ravation and destruction? became one of the defining greater food and conditions That low feeling is building up moments of her life. While than other Jews of the time. now as we prepare for Tishah almost everyone in her home- Her friends helped sustain her B’Av. Yet Sala’s Gift: My town of Sosnowiec, including in practical, social, and emo- Mother’s Holocaust Story (Free her parents, Yosef and Chana, tional ways. They traded help- Press) is fascinating as a com- and most of her 10 siblings ful hints as well as beautiful ing-of-age story amid the died from starvation, illness, birthday cards and poems from backdrop of a changing world. or extermination at the hands friends, reassuring words from Newly released in paperback, of the Nazis, Sala managed to home, and even love letters it will deepen the reader’s survive through her own wiles from a few men. understanding of the triumph and those of the woman she Though Josef, Chana’s of humanity during an inhu- befriended on that pivotal father, was a rabbi, sadly some mane period. O train ride, Ala Gertner. of the traditions of the Ala’s life could fill a book of Garncarz family did not survive its own. This feisty ingénue the Holocaust. The Kirschner had her hands in many pots. family is now traditional but At 5TJT.com Her flirtations with men of all modern, and at some points sorts helped earn her high Ann refers to letters from you can enjoy articles rankings and allowed her a Raizel as “preachy.” She con- in 3 ways: position where she could aid in tinued to view her aunt in this the resistance groups. Her manner in real life as well. I 1. Read friendship with Sala started think that through this labor of with a simple promise to Sala’s love for her mother, she can’t 2. Print frightened mother at the train help but reconnect somewhat 3. E-mail station and grew to become a with her family’s ways. maternal love in its own right. In any event, Ann has suc-

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 51 INSIGHTS ON THE TORAH alas are now missing! Continued from Page 50 What exactly does it mean to be close to our Father, to have a close emotional loneliness, of feeling alone, of “levadi,” attachment to Hashem? HaRav Shimon is a powerful one, and Moshe Schwab, zt’l, once explained this con- Rabbeinu shared this feeling with the cept with the following mashal: nation before his passing. We are all born with a desire to be The same occurred in Yerushalayim. loved. We want others to care for us, “Eichah yashvah vadad…” The to look out for our needs—both phys- Megillah goes on to say in one form or ical and emotional—and be there for another four different times, “ein lah us. Suppose one day you started get- menacheim—there is none to comfort ting a series of anonymous letters in her”; Yerushalayim sits all alone, for- the mail. The letters say, “I am a secret saken, with no one concerned about admirer of yours. I’m watching you all her. If we had to break down all that we the time and looking out for you. are doing during this time—the Three You’re really marvelous. Others should Weeks, the Nine Days, Tishah B’Av—if treat you better. And you are incredi- we had to summarize why we are bly important to me.” No doubt you mourning and fasting, it is for this idea, would feel very warm and joyful, this feeling. Yerushalayim is lonely and because you would know that some- isolated. The voice and heart of one really likes you for you and has Yerushalayim represent the voice and special concern for you. heart of every Jew and all of Klal Now, even if, in another letter, your Yisrael. We too are alone, with no one “secret admirer” told you that you were to comfort us, far away from our Father doing something wrong and you to whom we were once so very close. should correct your ways, you wouldn’t We must ask ourselves: Do we mind or get offended. In fact, you understand what we are doing during would welcome the constructive criti- this time? Why are we spending these cism, because you’d know it was advice weeks in aveilus? Why are we fasting? in your best interests, offered by an What are we mourning? We speak a lot individual who really cared about you. and hear a lot about the Beis This is exactly what we had, concluded HaMikdash, the churban Bayis, and Rav Schwab, when Hashem was in His Yerushalayim. We must make no mis- house. Every Jew had this special feel- take, however. We are not mourning ing that Hashem was nearby and tak- the Beis HaMikdash—we do not ing care of them. Chazal describe how mourn for bricks and stones, for a during the time of the Beis HaMikdash finite building. We are mourning for every Jew felt as if he were standing by our tragic loss. We lost our Father’s Har Sinai every single day! He felt—he close presence! We are mourning for knew—there was a Creator, Who loved ourselves—for what we once had and and cared for him.

52 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES This all ended with the loss of the Mikdash. The Beis HaMikdash was the physical manifestation of that spe- cial all-pervasive feeling of security and Divine love. The churban Bayis changed the world, and we use Tishah B’Av to reflect on this powerful and poignant idea. Imagine two separate individuals, “A” and “B.” Each has his own circle, A and B respectively. Each has an area that intersects and overlaps with the other. It is in this area where the two distinct entities find their common denominator. Let us call this over- lapped part of the circle a bayis, a house. A “bayis ne’eman b’Yisrael,” the unique berachah which we wish every young couple as they embark on build- ing a marriage, indeed includes two people of distinct nature and person- ality. What is the task of marriage? What is the challenge? To take those character traits that the other finds unbearable and leave them on the out- side, while those aspects that are com- mon to both are included and accen- tuated in the home. As the marriage progresses, both sides divest them- selves of offensive behavior, and learn more and more to enjoy their common dreams and goals. In other words, marriage is about getting rid of the negative things that bother the other and focusing on building up the posi- tive traits that allow you to grow both as individuals and as a couple. This all takes place in that overlapping part of the circle where two very different minds, hearts, and personalities meet. This is what we call a bayis. How does this relate to G-d, man, and the Beis HaMikdash? Even more than two separate individuals uniting in marriage, G-d and man are as dis- tinct elements as could be. G-d is the ultimate spiritual essence, devoid of all materiality. Man is a physical being, with a seeming lack of much spiritual- ity. How can these two ever possibly connect? The answer is that G-d creat- ed a place in the material world that would serve as a bayis, a house where we and He could unite. That place was the Beis HaMikdash—“Beis” from the word “bayis,” but also “beis” as in “two” (aleph, beis), for indeed it was there where the human and the Divine included their points of commonality, and where the two could connect and unify their marriage. What a profound thought! This was the place on earth where we and the Al-mighty were in the overlapping part of the circle. This was our Bayis—our Beis HaMikdash. And we await the day when both Hashem and man are ready to share that Bayis again. The Chofetz Chaim, in Sefer Shemiras HaLashon states, “Every person who will strive to correct the aveiros for which Hashem removed Himself from us and destroyed His holy house will have a chelek (por- tion) in the building of the Third Beis HaMikdash, for without such people the Mikdash would remain destroyed, chas v’shalom, and it is by their merit that it will be rebuilt.” What does this practically mean? Imagine if Mashiach came tomorrow morning and we were about to begin construc-

Continued on Page 54 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 53 INSIGHTS ON THE TORAH sive feelings of our generation is that Continued from Page 53 of “Eichah,” that feeling of loneliness. There was no generation when tion on the Beis HaMikdash. Eichah speaks to us and comes alive Mashiach walks over to you and says, more than ours. So many people, so “How would you like to donate a many Jews, feel alone, insecure, anx- piece of the house of Hashem. If you ious, sad. We need the Beis do so, your name will be inscribed on HaMikdash! We need to feel our a plaque on the wall of that part of “Secret Admirer” looking after us; we the Beis HaMikdash.” Would anyone need to leave our differences aside hesitate for a second? Just think— and make our way back into the circle your name next to the Shulchan, the where we can come to Hashem’s Menorah, the Kiyor, or one of the house and feel His presence and the walls, for all to see! This is exactly security and warmth it brings. May we what the Chofetz Chaim is telling us. merit to stop mourning ourselves but Each of us has the power to have a each put in our chelek to the rebuild- share in the Bayis Shelishi, to have ing of the house of Hashem, when we the Beis HaMikdash built in our will no longer feel alone but only merit, or to, Heaven forbid, keep the warm, protected, and truly joyous! O churban going and cause its contin- ued destruction in our generation! The author may be reached at One of the greatest and most perva- [email protected].

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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 55 JCC Golf Outing Photos By Gene Lesserson

The JCC of the Greater Five Towns recently held its annual golf outing to help raise funds to support the variety of programs and services offered by the JCC. This year’s proceeds will go to the JCC’s food pantry to help provide kosher non-perishable products to over 125 families a month throughout the community. For more information, visit www.fivetownsjcc.org. 56 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES

Tiberias, and it was an oppor- Miriam’s Well Rediscovered At Kinneret tune time, and he saw Miriam’s well and washed in it and was B Y HILLEL FENDEL others in the Land of Israel Horowitz, in his work Hibat Sotah 11:1). After it completed healed… The well was oppo- are known. Yerushalayim—states, “When its purpose in the wilderness, it site the main entrance to the Archaeologist Yossi Step- A work by one of the Arizal’s one goes from within the city to was taken into the Land of ancient synagogue of ansky, based on centuries-old students, called Shaar the Tiberias Hot Springs, some- Israel. The Talmud and Tiberias…” texts and legwork around the HaGilgulim, states that the where in the middle of the way, Midrash say that it can now be While Stepansky did not Kinneret Sea, says he’s found Arizal identified an area of the where are found ruins of 13 seen from the top of a moun- identify the actual rock from the long-lost site of Miriam’s Kinneret as the site of Miriam’s synagogues, there are rocks jut- tain as a type of sieve in the sea which water trickled, he iden- well, as identified by the well. However, the book did ting out of the Kinneret, and (though the mountain is identi- tified the site. The Tourism Kabbalist sage Rabbi Yitzchak not specify the precise loca- one walks on them for a few fied differently in the various Office of the Tiberias Luria. tion. In another work, however, strides… and there is the well.” sources). One ancient Midrash Municipality said that there Yosef Idan, writing for the entitled Nagid U’Mtzaveh by Based on these descriptions, tells of a person who “suffered are no current plans to devel- Hebrew NFC newssite, reports Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach, written archaeologist Stepansky from boils and went down to op the site as a tourist attrac- in detail on the most recent 60 years after the Arizal’s searched the shores of the immerse in the waters in tion. (Arutz Sheva) O discovery of the found-again, death, the following is cited: Kinneret in and around lost-again holy site. “When I, Chaim [Rabbi Tiberias—and claims he found Archaeologist Stepansky has Chaim Vital, possibly the the remains of the pillars. They discovered the pillars of Arizal’s top student], came to are located south of the munic- ancient synagogues alongside my teacher of blessed memory ipal beach, near the shoreline of the Kinneret Sea, which have [the Arizal] to study this the Holiday Inn Hotel (formerly long been considered the land- [Kabbalistic] wisdom, my the Ganei Hamat Hotel). Four marks for Miriam’s Well, near teacher of blessed memory hundred years ago, the site was the Tiberias Municipal Beach, went to Tiberias and took me under water, as the level of the in the southern part of the city. with him… and when we were Kinneret was some two meters The Arizal told Rabbi on a boat in the water, opposite higher than it is today. Chaim: “Now you will attain the pillars of the old syna- Two photos on the NFC with this that wisdom, for this gogue, my teacher of blessed site—one found by Stepansky water that you have drunk is memory then took a cup and in the National Archives and a from Miriam’s well.” The filled it with water from more recent one taken by famous preeminent Kabbalist between the pillars, and gave Stepansky—show the site as it master known as the Arizal, me that water to drink, and appeared 100 years ago and as Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of 16th- said to me: Now you will attain it appears today. century Jerusalem, Egypt, and with this that wisdom, for this The well in question is actu- Tsfat, was the first to note the water that you have drunk is ally more like a “rock full of location of Miriam’s well— from Miriam’s well. And from holes” from which water used somewhere in the Kinneret. It then on, I began entering the to trickle, and which “ascended is on his authority, in fact, depths of this wisdom.” mountains with [the Israelites that many of the burial sites A 19th-century source— in the desert] and descended to of famous Talmudic sages and Rabbi Chaim HaLevy the valleys with them” (Tosefta

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 57 I’m Wheelchair-Bound, And The Terrorists Can Go Free?! BY HILLEL FENDEL in a shooting attack on the Kisufim route [into Gush Katif], I would like to Olmert has agreed to grant know if the government decision to amnesty to nearly 180 Fatah terror free 250 terrorists ‘without blood on leaders, in exchange for their signa- their hands’ includes the release of ter- tures on a commitment to cease ter- rorists who wounded Israelis. rorism for three months. If they suc- Spokesman and ‘leakers’ for the gov- ceed in giving up terrorism for that ernment say that a terrorist who period, they will no longer be consid- wounded a Jew is not considered to er wanted by Israel. have ‘blood on his hands,’ and can Chana Bart lived with her husband therefore be included on the list of and eight children in Kfar Darom, those who can be considered for Jewish Gaza, before being thrown out release. of her home during the “The thought of this gives me no Disengagement/expulsion two years rest. I assume that this is true for other ago. She was paralyzed in the lower terrorism victims as well.

A terrorist who wounded a Jew is not considered to have ‘blood on his hands.’

half of her body in a terrorist shooting “I ask you, Mr. Prime Minister: attack in 2002, and has been confined Just because I was successful in to a wheelchair ever since. Two years remaining alive, therefore those later—a day after Sharon’s bombshell wicked men who shot me should be announcement of his plan to throw the released? I am bound to a wheelchair, more than 8,000 Jews of Gaza out of and they should be able to walk their homes—Chana and her husband around free and happy? Just because Eliezer celebrated the b’ris of their new I managed to survive the inferno from baby son. They named him Amichai which they planned that I would not [My Nation Lives] Yisrael. come out alive, they should be able to The scene of Chana carrying her enjoy the rest of their lives calmly baby to the b’ris in a wheelchair and pleasantly? marked a poignant moment in Gush “In previous terrorist releases, I Katif history, and was immortalized in have been informed [by the Almagor films prior to the expulsion. terror victims association] that your Mrs. Bart, now living in Ashkelon predecessors understood that ‘blood with many of the other exiled Kfar on their hands’ means both killing and Darom families, was incensed to learn wounding. They understood that a ter- of Prime Minister Olmert’s planned rorist who failed to kill but succeeded “gesture” towards Abu Mazen in which in wounding his victim, must serve out 250 Palestinian terrorists would be his full sentence. freed from Israeli prisons. She wrote “I wouldn’t want you to have to deal him the following letter: for even one week with what my fami- “As one who was seriously wounded ly and I have to deal with day in and day out. Perhaps you will invite me and my family for a talk and you will hear Remember that article? what we go through each day. I can of course only tell you in words what we Visit our archive section go through, but the actual pain you won’t be able to feel—but at least you and find any issue of the will have some of ‘all of the data’ on 5 Towns Jewish Times your way to make such a fateful deci- sion. It is a decision that has no turn- ing back, except by once again expend- ing great efforts to arrest them once www.5TJT.com again, at the expense of endangering IDF soldiers.” (Arutz Sheva) O

58 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES an address organized by the Ya’alon said regional stabili- marked by both a successful Gaza to pressure the Islamist Ya’alon: Shalem Center, a Jerusalem ty was not dependent on the crackdown on terrorism, and group to stop Kassam attacks research institute, on the con- resolution of the Israeli- his very overt falling out with and to free Cpl. Gilad Schalit, Land For Peace sequences of the Hamas Palestinian conflict, as many then-prime minister Ariel and was instead serving the power grab. Western leaders argue, but on Sharon over his opposition to Palestinian interest by releasing Ya’alon said the faulty con- the defeat of jihadism, led by the unilateral withdrawal security prisoners and easing Concept Failed ceptions about the Israeli- the Iranian regime. from the Gaza Strip. movement in the West Bank. Palestinian conflict included “Any Israeli concession will In a separate address, Maj.- Neither Israeli nor B Y ETGAR the beliefs that the Palestinians not only not reduce the Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, a Palestinian leaders were inter- LEFKOVITS want—or were able—to estab- threat, but will increase it,” he former head of the National ested in reaching a peace lish an independent state within said. “The result of Israeli Security Council, said Israel agreement, Eiland said, since The concept of land for the pre-1967 armistice lines, concessions today will hurt was missing an opportunity such an accord would not be peace has proven a failure in that the creation of two states not only Israel’s interests and following the Hamas takeover practical, given the political the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, within those boundaries would those of the West, but those of Gaza last month. realities on the ground, and and any future IDF withdraw- solve the conflict, that land for of moderate Arab regimes in Eiland said Israel had not would only lead to an escala- al from the West Bank will cre- peace was the basis for any the region,” he added. used the Hamas conquest of tion of violence. (JPost.com) O ate a second “Hamastan,” peace agreement, that peace Ya’alon, who is expected to which would threaten both would bring security, and that be a top contender in the Israel and Jordan, former chief the key to stability in the Middle political arena in the future, of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) East was the resolution of the said Israel must treat the Moshe Ya’alon said. Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas-run Gaza Strip as an Ya’alon said Hamas’s He said the violent “enemy entity” and should takeover of the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rejection of the “disengage” from providing the creation of “the first peace proposal offered to water, electricity, and other jihadist Arab entity” on Israel’s them at Camp David seven supplies to the volatile coastal doorstep last month was “the years ago, which would have strip where an estimated 1.4 last nail in the coffin” in a given them a state on the million people live. string of faulty conceptions Gaza Strip and some 95 per- At the same time, he said about the Israeli-Palestinian cent of the West Bank, and Israel should give the Fatah- conflict that had character- the refusal of both Hamas and run PA in the West Bank a ized Israeli and Western poli- Fatah to recognize the exis- chance to establish cy for decades. tence of a Jewish state negat- autonomous rule, while Israel “The strengthening of ed the essence of Israeli and stayed in charge of security. Hamas after the Israeli pullout international policies—that He said he opposed the from Gaza and the Hamas the Palestinians want an inde- deployment of any foreign takeover of Gaza necessitate a pendent State alongside Israel troops in the West Bank, renewed examination of Israeli on the pre-1967 borders. including from Jordan, calling and international conceptions “We are talking about [a it a fruitless idea that has about the Israeli-Palestinian Palestinian Authority which been ineffective in the past. conflict that, to my mind, are is] a gang authority and not a Ya’alon’s tenure as IDF no longer relevant,” he said in political authority,” he said. chief from 2002 to 2005 was

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comes non-Jews, for the purpose of cheap labor, while it turns its back on Israel’s Black African Priorities a Black Jewish population that per- ceives Israel as its home. B Y DAVID BEDEIN government made a decision on viding “Immigration Eligibility To learn more about the plight of February 16, 2003, that anyone who Forms” for the Falash Mura, no remaining Ethiopian Jewry, visit The Rescue operations conducted by can trace maternal descent to Jews of Israeli government representative Struggle to Save Ethiopian Jewry at the government of Israel to bring Ethiopia would be allowed to return has visited the three compounds www.SSEJ.org. O more than 16,000 Ethiopian Jews to to Israel under the Law of Return. where the Falash Mura have been Israel represented one of the few The Israeli government then lingering since the decision to bring times in history that a Black African launched Operation Promise to raise them to Israel. No Israeli govern- community willingly and enthusiasti- funds from Jewry around the world to ment official will give an explanation Bring forth wise and cally moved to a majority-White bring this last community of for this policy. Western country. Ethiopian Jews to Israel. However, the Israeli government is understanding men, From the point of view of Ethiopian With expectations raised, the making every effort to absorb at least known among your Jewry, they had come home to Zion. Having visited Ethiopian Jews dur- tribes, and I will ing their trek from Ethiopia during place them at your Operation Moses in 1984, this How an unpaid Muslim population reporter heard numerous stories head from Ethiopian Jews about their own prophetic lore. Passed down from will integrate into Israeli society is a (Devarim 1:13) one generation to the next was a tra- dition that Ethiopian Jews would be question that no one in Israel is va’asimaim repatriated to Zion when the last prepared to deal with. The word (“and emperor of the Solomonic dynasty I will place them”) is writ- would fall. And when Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was ten in the Torah lacking the overthrown in 1974, that was one of letter Yud, so that the word the signs that Ethiopian Jews would 16,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura have 5,000 Muslim Sudanese refugees indeed come home. moved their residence into three tem- from Darfur, who are leaving transit can also be read as Although Israeli Jews of Ethiopian porary compounds in the Gondar camps where they had been living in va’ashamam,“and their origin now number more than region of Ethiopia, awaiting their repa- temporary accommodations in Egypt. 100,000, there were some Ethiopian triation to Zion. However, the Israeli The Israeli kibbutzim are absorbing guilt.” This comes to teach Jews who were left behind. They are government will only allow 300 Falash the Darfur refugees and giving them us that the faults of a gen- the 16,000 Ethiopian Jews from a Mura per month to arrive in Israel. No work in exchange for room and board. eration rest with its heads group known as the Falash Mura, the one in the Israeli government will give How an unpaid Muslim population remnants of Ethiopian Jews who had an explanation as to why such a low will integrate into Israeli society is a and leaders. been forcibly converted over the quota exists. question that no one in Israel is pre- course of previous generations. Meanwhile, although the Israeli pared to deal with. (Talmud; Rashi) After intense pressure, the Israeli government is supposed to be pro- Sometimes, the Jewish State wel-

60 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES July 20, 2007 61 the Disengagement in its coming stages. If another Disengagement Is The Likud A Leftist Party? takes place in Judea and Samaria, then the leadership under Binyamin Netanyahu will be able to fully apply BY ATTY. ELYAKIM apart outposts that were not legally the hint. On another occasion, he said, sovereignty to those areas that Yitzchak HAETZNI approved. After strengthening the securi- ‘What is there to talk about? After all, Rabin delineated in his last speech in ty borders, there is no reason not to dilute the Palestinian state already exists!’ the Knesset… the Jordan Valley, in its Let’s examine what the head of the the military presence in Judea and Pay attention to the expression, “seri- widest interpretation, Jerusalem, set- Likud says. Samaria…. Arriving at a peace agree- ous compromises” and see if you can tlement blocs and no return to the There is a political opposition in ment requires concessions from both find the difference between that and Green Line.” Israel, the Likud party, which polls sides, including land concessions on our Ariel Sharon’s infamous expression, Again, find the differences between indicate will score a great victory in the part…. We will be prepared to make seri- “painful compromises.” In reaction to Rabin and Sharon II and Netanyahu coming elections. If so, let us examine ous compromises. We will not return to Netanyahu’s speech, Uzi Landau said, and Landau (that is, the Likud). what the head of the Likud, Binyamin And, just so you don’t say, “Those Netanyahu, has to say. Although, of are old quotes,” here is a fresh quote late, he doesn’t really say anything, or from Amnon Lord (Makor Rishon, says very little, in the spirit of the June 29, 2007), in an article titled, times. But from the bit that he does Signs of sobriety can be seen in “Yes. Jordanian Soldiers.” Here, as is say, and from a lot that he said a year his wont, Lord provides cover fire for and a half ago, and from what his loyal the latest Netanyahu plan/folly— mouthpiece in Makor Rishon, Amnon polls and in various statements bringing the Jordanian Badr Brigade Lord, says, we can sketch a fairly accu- into the western part of the Land of rate picture of his plans. Israel. Lord claims that Olmert is lean- In the little that he says now, here made by opinion-makers. ing towards Netanyahu’s idea, which is and abroad, Netanyahu precisely and intended to “bring about the integra- carefully speaks only against a unilat- tion of the Jordanians in control over eral withdrawal. You will not catch him Judea and Samaria.” As Amnon Lord opposing the very idea of a withdrawal control the Palestinian population cen- also during the Herzliya Conference, explains, “The real opening created by from Judea and Samaria, nor will you ters, and we have no intention to annex that it was acceptable to him and that it the entry of the Jordanians is a change catch him ever ruling out the destruc- territories. As prime minister, I will work was indeed Likud policy. in the final settlement picture…. Such tion of communities and the expulsion to renew final status negotiations. That is The “Rashi commentary” on all of a final settlement definitely fits into a of Jews in those lands from which he is my first priority. The borders of Israel this is given almost every week by ‘defensible borders’ outlook… a prepared to withdraw. must include the Jordan Valley, the someone who appears to be Jordanian-Palestinian confederation.” In his first policy speech after being Judean desert, greater Jerusalem, the set- Netanyahu’s regular interpreter, Thus he wrote. elected chairman of the Likud, at the tlement blocs, and the territories over- Amnon Lord, chief editor of Makor A “confederation,” for those who Herzliya Conference on October 22, looking Gush Dan and the coastal plain. Rishon. In the November 8, 2005, edi- don’t know, is a compact between two 2006, Netanyahu revealed what we Asked if he supports the creation of tion, shortly after the Disengagement sovereign states. In other words, in can expect of him. As he said: a Palestinian state, Netanyahu replied, expulsion, he wrote: “It appears as Netanyahu’s plans, according to his Everything must be done to limit con- “Leave something over for negotia- though the Right will also have to get interpreter Amnon Lord, we, Israel, flict with the Palestinians. We will take tions.” And the wise person can take used to the compromise inherent in are no longer there at all. And if there

62 July 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES is any distinction whatsoever in Netanyahu’s policy, it is only as to how the Palestinians and the Jordanians will skin the bear. To the dead bear— to us—it doesn’t much matter. All of the foregoing forces us to frankly admit that Netanyahu and the Likud are not on the Right—which they announce themselves all the time to be—rather, the Likud under Netanyahu is expressly on the Left. According to a simple definition, any- one who advocates a Palestinian state—meaning, the willing transfer of territory from the western Land of Israel by us to a foreign sovereignty— is on the Left. Beyond this, the “far- left” is anyone who intends to turn all of the lands beyond the Green Line, including Jerusalem, into “Palestine.” Accordingly, Netanyahu and the Likud are not far-left. Whoever seeks com- fort in this fact is welcome to do so. Nonetheless, there is no place for pessimism. There are several positive developments—even outside the events in the Arab camp, which save us time after time from our own destructive hands: A. There is a positive shift in Israeli public opinion. Signs of sobriety can be seen in polls and in various state- ments made by opinion-makers. B. Recovery is underway in the set- tlement camp. The path of the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Council has been rejected by the general public. That rejection forced the organization to “renew itself,” to change names and logo, to hold elections and to play a game of pseudo-democracy. Beyond this, the Homesh initiatives showed that the settlement public has begun to rise from the rocks to which Sharon’s betrayal threw them. In Homesh, in Nagohot, in Eitam, adja- cent to Efrat, in Hevron, and in many other places, the settlement heart is once again beating. C. Most importantly, there is room for hope that the settlement youth and its supporters will not obey expulsion orders this time, and that the popula- tion marked for expulsion will resist and not repeat the condemnatory exil- ic show from Gush Katif. The under- standing gained from Amona and Homesh is a spark of light in the dark- ness that has spread across the entire political spectrum, from Hadash up to and including the Likud. Across that entire political spectrum, they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing, even after the Second Lebanon War and after the First Hamas-Fatah War. In contrast, even if only we, in the national camp, learned anything and are applying the lessons of not collab- orating with a government that besmirches Israel, then that will be enough not to give up in the face of calamity. (Arutz Sheva) O

Elyakim Haetzni is a lawyer and former Knesset member who resides in Kiryat Arba.

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