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The Young Israel of Woodmere began with a phone call in 1955. The call was to Binyamin Kamenetz- ky, then a fi rst grade rebbe in Toras Chaim in East . Marvin Bienenfeld, the father of a boy in Rabbi Kamenetzky’s class, wanted his son’s rebbe to visit the com- munity where the family lived. It was in a foreign place called ‘.’ “He tells me people are moving in, and I didn’t pay any attention,” Rabbi Kamenetzky recalled last Sunday in a lengthy telephone interview. “I have no time to visit, but I said ‘Chol Hamoed I’ll drive in.’” During his visit to the family, Rabbi Kame- netzky noticed that the only shuls, including Congregation Beth Sholom, were far away from the Beinenfeld home. “I said, ‘You have such a beautiful home, Photos courtesy of Mayer Davis it would be the nicest place to make the min- Esther and Cantor Avrum Davis were married for 64 years before her death this year. yan right after ,’” Rabbi Kamenetzky counted. “I’ll say a dvar torah.” Rabbi Kamenetzky brought unused sid- durim from his father-in-law’s shul in . Eventually Bienenfeld and others convinced Kamenetzky to move into the When only the music is left neighborhood, agreeing to pay the $17 Rabbi Kamenetzky made each week as a shul rabbi in East New York. They also purchased the Robbed of speech, Esther Davis remembered to sing house on Barnard Avenue where Rabbi Ka- By Mayer Fertig actually composed by family members. It in 1973 after a long tenure at Congre- menetzky still lives, for $17,000. was an impromptu form of music therapy gation Shaaray Tefi lah in Far Rockaway. Eventually the shul moved to a storefront Dementia in her fi nal years robbed Es- that on one occasion yielded an amazing After Mussaf each Shabbos, Cantor Da- between Forest and Derby avenues in Wood- ther Frankel Davis of her ability to speak. result. vis would walk next door to his parents’ mere and then to a house on Cedarhurst Av- But remarkably, until several months Esther’s son is Mayer Davis, a long- apartment. enue and Peninsula Boulevard, and then to before her death on Rosh Chodesh Elul time West Hempstead resident and, since “In her last years she mostly sat there the mansion that would become Yeshiva of 5770, she still sang. Every Shabbos 1991, the cantor at Congregation Kehi- with a blank look on her face. I would South Shore, until the congregation made its morning when her son would visit, she lath Jeshurun on ’s Upper East walk in and touch her hand, and start way to the Young Israel of Woodmere’s cur- would emerge from the silence imposed Side, where he and his wife also keep an singing,” he said, and she would sing rent location on Penninsula Boulevard. by Alzheimer’s disease and join him in apartment. Mayer succeeded his father, along. singing familiar family melodies, some Cantor Avrum Davis, who began at KJ Continued on page 3 Continued on page 3

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f y “They only came because we built,” Rabbi built,” “They we came because only A portion of the proceeds from “Bridge o “In an ideal world this be is meant to “In an ideal world It is cer- years. about two The project took and its strength are the“Its weakness shortThe album includes several clips of Da- them and record about a year into “I went vi- “My mother beautiful. She was was bers. The only problem withbers. The only half a lasting for century is that of those many people are now and Milton gone. Rabbi Lebor died in 1997 Kame- Rabbi Binyamin Schulman in 1991. from a fall, plans who is recovering netzky, attend. to Kamenetzky said. Binyamin father in law — he was so sharpfather — he was in law and so spe- — has — Chaskal Fastag Charles Zaydie cial.” been in the throes illness of a dementia-like the or so. for years past four heard while you’re reading the in while you’re heard stories,” he said. the liner notes, mu- ordinarily Jewish commercial not tainly doesn’t challenge. sic — a description Davis same thing,” he said. “It’s so personal. But everybody about it — it reso- who I speak to withnates them.” vis singing along with his mother or father-in- — the suchlaw in existence. only recordings a half ago — that’s hear on the what you al- monthsbum. A few after them, I recorded he said sadly. sing,” they could no longer a travel She was brant — she had red hair. a great she was recalled Davis. cook,” agent; marriedHis parents were 64 for “M years. Generations” will go to theGenerations” will go to Alzheimer’s As- at Judaica sociation. The album is available and online at jewishjukebox.com. stores nal track, uence and were fully Ameri- fully uence and were Photos by Jewish Heritage Society Heritage Jewish Towns Five by Photos “The Young Israel was the Israel was mothership,” “The Young Jeffrey S. Gurock, of Jewish a professor “When I think of the history of shuls like The dinner will honor the past of In January, he and his brother were in he and his brother were In January, “Bridge of Generations” is “a musical “It saved his life,” Davis said. “We were were said. “We Davis his life,” “It saved and fi the Echsof,” “Koh 16th delity to Orthodoxy, — a commitment that Orthodoxy, delity to Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky explained, also co- was Shor Yoshuv adding that Yeshiva members of the by founded shul. and the author University history at Yeshiva of “Orthodox in America” (Indiana Uni- the Press, 2009), called a “mile- versity event stone.” it reminds me Israel of Woodmere, Young seen as a suburbia was that back in 1960, predict- as it was Orthodoxy, for backwater on, that theed, and evident early migrants if they York, from the inner city of New in maintaining religious life, interested were Conservative Re- for opt and perhaps would Gurock email. form explained by Judaism.” “The that regnant sense was those children and grandchildren of immigrants who were blessed with affl from away gravitate largely canized would This synagogue and ancestral Orthodoxy. that graphically refuted as- community have evidencing that thousands for sumption, of being comfortableJews, with this country’s and in- and successful in its professions ways dustries can go hand in hand with a strong fi the decades.” over grown has only the the shul and families and mem- founding Shul under construction and, left, 1956 left, and, Shul under construction about Record Shore in South notice Israel. a Young it was the shul before “was one of my mother’s one of my “was default niggunim,” he said. “It’s melody with of a gorgeous a lot neshama.” the unveil about to a cab in Yerushalayim, we monument on their mother’s “As grave. approaching Har Hamenuchot thewere driv- recalled, and theer turned Davis on a CD,” familiar tune poured out of the speakers. and it’s memoir in memory mother, of my bring together. to generations an attempt Da- put it,” That’s to the probably best way This vis explained. “This is a documentary. This is about continuing is about continuity. the to even next, traditions from generation though on they’re gone. Their music lives on thruand they live their music. father-in-law, Chaskel Fastag, or Zaydie or Zaydie Fastag, Chaskel father-in-law, the during visit to a PurimCharlie, 2007 room. emergency from being on a respira- minutes about two bring But the able to Fastag’s was family tor.” breathing under control inadequate panicky, with and soon their instead, song beloved patriarch sing along through able to his was mask. oxygen rst take on Rabbi Billet on Rabbirst Billet take ghter jets] or the jets] forces ghter uence of music therapy pa- on rst track, Nig- Charlie’s “Zayde He described his fi Israel of the moment at Young His favorite the drasha,” old and I gave years 10 “I was DuringRabbi the Billet’s tenure, shul’s the“The building goes to lay- credit for “The community had HAFTR and HALB, Israel theRabbi also credited Young Billet instrumentalThe shul was in the com- In an interview before Pesach, Cantor Da- In an interview Cantor Pesach, before reports unusual episodes Davis several According to the ab- to English-language According yeshiva man — who was batting in the who was man — yeshiva cage such me. It wasn’t a common occur- next to in a con- rence backengaged then and we thought I versation. learning he was in Sh’or the but he said he was rabbi,” new Yoshuv, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky laughed. dynamic personhit the who as “a young, ball well.” pretty he explained — aside from being Woodmere, during Rosen Shlishit Seudat chased Rudy by when the— was youth the Shabbos, where childrenthe ran coincided minyan, Shabbat with Israel’s victorious conclusion of the Six War. Day with not : he remembered. “Lo ‘chayal the fi MIGS [Russian tanks or the I’ll never Russians.... of the army, such he said. “It was a small place it,” forget Imagine knowing everybody. knew that we Israel [today].” everyone in the Young membership has quadrupled from 250 mem- its current ber families to size. The shul was charac- Rabbi was Billet in 1997. renovated modest about his role in its devel- teristically opment. no for people, who put in their work hard and Rabbi Kamenetzkyand Rabbi reward, Rabbi said. “They Billet who built it.” Lebor, already what deserve the over credit. I took and it grew naturally.” existence in was had an and a mikva and theand we Hakashruth,” he continued. “That Vaad was have here. When you I got before all created good schools, mikvah, an eruv and kosher the to city and services proximate and you’re the railroad, it’s a win-win situation. Unfor- in the Rabbi “we’re laughed, Billet tunately,” diaspora.” director, longtime executive of Woodmere’s Silverstein, and Paul Frankel, Rabbi Danny the youthwho oversees department. — supportingmunity’s development local, causes and national and international Jewish mik- the leadership of theproviding lay eruv, vah, and a number of local schools. Both Ku- mentoring program were lanu and the Tova Israel. in partfounded members of Young by gun,” withgun,” calming his bronchitis-stricken tients with dementia. ex- vis offered emotional more a somewhat planation. “Such such kavana, and so feeling, thathappy teaching me something,” she was speak to ... You me away he said. “It just blew that they doctors, say speak to scientists, you part of the I think affected. brain wasn’t it’s the spiritual part. I think it’s the [the Neshama soul]. It’s of melody.” the spiritual power surrounding on the tunes heard album. He credits the fi was, at last, complete.” at last, complete.” was, stract of a 2009 article in a German medical journal, suffering“Patients dementia from are nevertheless render excep- still able to example, tional musical performances. For they can recognize music from childhood and reproduce lyrics and melodies of songs The articlewith inconclu- was verses.” four recommending furthersive, the research into long-term infl — a nished rst met therst met yungerman rst bar-mitzvah in rst bar-mitzvah ve minyanim for Mincha for and Maariv minyanim ve

“I was batting and I see a “I was After the founding shul, Rabbi Kame- “It was like being a pioneer,” he recalled, being a pioneer,” like “It was Schulman’s father moved his family from Schulman’s his family father moved “Like many simple Shabbat songs, it had a simple many “Like “One of the songs I started with singing “They refused me, [saying] that“They refused me, [saying] there “He was driving down West Broadway and Broadway West driving“He was down Robert Schulman, an endrocrinologist in On April 18, the Young Israel of Wood- Israel of the Young On April 18, Initially, the National Council of Young Is- of Young Council the National Initially, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, the son of Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky,

ith her, she hummed along beautifully, her she hummed along beautifully, ith her, hen the shul’s current rav, Rabbi Herschel hen the current shul’s rav, as returning from a Shabbat in Lakewood. as returning from a Shabbat in Lakewood. ere no religious people there,”ere no religious people Rabbi Ka- eshiva of South Shore, said he fi oung Israel, and relented only after only the oung Israel, and relented con- ears, and we’re still veryears, and we’re close with him.” uring and emotional up every musical note Continued from page 1 page Continued from Continued from page 1 page from Continued 1960 and led the congregation until 1981, and led the congregation until 1981, 1960 Shaya Lebor became theShaya rabbi of the shul in including Torah Academy for Girls. Rabbi Girls. for Academy including Torah to help build other Five Towns institutions, Towns help build other Five to focus on the new Yeshiva of South Shore and on thefocus Yeshiva new netzky eventually left eventually rabbi to his position as netzky the shul for the Friday night minyan. the the night minyan. shul for Friday adding that hustle people inside he used to each week. each week. brother were drafted into laining the drafted into brother parsha were shul. Once bar mitzvahed, Schulman and his Lynbrook to Woodmere to be close to the be close to to Woodmere to Lynbrook Part A and a Part B,” he recalled. “As I sang Part he recalled. “As A and a Part B,” “Aishes Chayil” is on the Chayil” album as track 4. “Aishes ther-in-law, who also suffers from dementia. ther-in-law, songs he would sing with his mothersongs he would and fa- released audio documentary he produced, of Generations” (Sameach Music, 2010), a just- Generations” (Sameach Music, 2010), Davis wrote in the liner notes of “Bridges of in the liner notes wrote Davis every night at their Friday Shabbat table,” my grandfather grandmothermy my sing to [A Woman of Valor], which she had heard of Valor], [A Woman my mother was a melody for ‘Aishes Chayil’ Chayil’ ‘Aishes mother a melody for was my all places, as Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky charismatic of Rabbi at a batting cage Billet Etz Chaim for several years. years. several Etz Chaim for gregation had been around under the name j w When only the music is leftWhen w Y w oped a strong friendship that all these lasted liked him a lot, and the two of them and the him a lot, devel- two liked “There an instant connection; he just was he met Rabbi Kamenetzky,” said Schulman. Rabbihe met Kamenetzky,” shul one weekday morning. shul one weekday in and the he went and he saw storefront, His father, Milton Schulman, discovered the Schulman, discovered Milton His father, y the shul that would become the Young Israel. the become the shul that Young would Borough Park, had theBorough Park, fi and fi every night. bos morning, two Daf Yomi shiurim each day, shiurim each day, Daf Yomi bos morning, two There are eight minyanim on a typical Shab- There are eight minyanim of the Orthodox shuls in the largest country. shul is the largest in the Five Towns and one Towns shul is the in the largest Five With close to 1,000 member families, the 1,000 With close to w explained. menetzky its 50th mere will celebrate anniversary.

rael was reluctant to have the a shul become have to reluctant rael was Y Young Israel of Woodmere turning 50 turning Woodmere of Israel Young heard in my life. Now, it seemed, the song Now, life. in my heard teach me Part before C — which I had never put her hand on my chest and proceeded to chest and proceeded to put her hand on my feeling from her own childhood. He fi from her own feeling She then her head left right to animatedly. eyes wide witheyes a smile on her face and shook gin again, “when Ima suddenly opened her gin again, “when Ima suddenly both parts be- of the about to song and was eyes closed intensely as though she were con- as though she were closed intensely eyes the founder and the current of the and the founder current Yeshiva Rosh Billet, took over. over. took Billet, 4 You’ll hear from my lawyer Charity sues bike tour guide By Michael Orbach sought to ban Goldstein from ever again us- THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH ing the word “Hudson” in his rides. If you’re thinking about ever running a bi- Goldstein thought about fi ghting it out in cycle tour, this tip can help you avoid aggra- court, but given his $35,000 yearly income, vation and legal fees: avoid the word ‘Hud- the prospect was daunting, he said. son.’ If you don’t, the Jewish Board of Family “The judges are going to say you can’t and Children’s Services might sue you. copyright the word of ‘Hudson,’ but my legal That was the experience of Glen Goldstein, bills will be to $10,000 to $20,000. They can an affable former public relations man who appeal again and I’m going to spend another gave up Madison Avenue for the mountains. $10,000 to $20,000,” he explained. “If my 516-569-2662 He organizes bicycle tours though a small lawyer had said $5,000 I might have been Ask for Mario or JJudyy at the Fish Counter business, Bike Shows US, that he operates out tempted.”

April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE HEBREWDATE 2010 April 9, of his house in Monticello. Last year he was Three months later a bewildered Gold- contacted by the Jewish Board of Family and stein reached a settlement with the JBFCS. BBREADEDRE Children’s Services, known as JBFCS, to run He changed the name of his bike tour to ILAPIA ADED a fundraising bike tour, their fi rst such event. “Bike the River Valley” and agreed to sell the TTILAPIA FFLOUNDERLO The tour, which they called “The Hudson Val- Internet domains he bought that used the UND AMILY 4499 RREADYEADY ER ley Ride,” rode through the Hudson Valley in word ‘Hudson.’ As part of the agreement, FFAMILY $ TTO HEAT PPACKACK LB. O HEAT Westchester, with a fundraising miniimum of Goldstein was prohibited from contacting & EAT $ 999 $500 per person. Goldstein, who is Jewish, any “employee, director, trustee, agent or 5 EAT LB.9 was so taken with the charity that he says he volunteer” affi liated with the JBFCS. 5 donated $500 of his own. Goldstein was mystifi ed that a charitable A year passed and Goldstein didn’t hear back organization would spend money on lawyers from JBFCS but wasn’t too bothered by it. for something that could have been handled MMOROCCANOROCCAN HHAND-SLICEDAND-SLICED “Usually when I do a ride for someone amicably. He was hoping they worked pro- SSALMONALMON MMUENSTERUENSTER else you do it for one year,” he explained. bono but said he learned that they weren’t. FFILLETILLET CCHEESEHEESE “They learn all of your tricks and you’re “My guesstimate? They’ve already spent DY Cholov done. That’s completely fair.” between $10,000 and $20,000 in legal fees,” RREADYEA $ 99 $ 99 KE LB. Yisroel LB. Having sponsored one biking event, JB- he said. “Their lawyers aren’t free. Tony’s a TTOO BBAKEA 9 7 FCS was invited to the Bike Summit, online good guy and JBFCS is a good charity but dialog where various bike tours coordinate in the way they spend their money — this their schedules, so as to not interfere with seems like a weird way.” FREE GRILLING - SUNDAYS & FRIDAYS one another, but the JBFCS did not attend, JBFCS did not return calls for comment. according to Goldstein. Stephen J. Quigley, an attorney with the fi rm Sale Dates: April 11 - 16 Goldstein set up his own ride along the of Ostrolenk Faber, that represented JBFCS, 137 Spruce St., Cedarhurst Hudson River for the next year and called it declined to comment.

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who have the least amount of voice,” she explained. April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE The line for the free chickens stretched around the Brook- The blighted economic situation has also exacerbated the lyn block. Despite their poverty, the elderly crowd composed impact of reductions in funding, according to Met Council of immigrants from the former Soviet Union expressed community manager Sarah Felsenthal. thanks. “With this recession, demand has risen by approximately “We should kiss this land in gratitude, the elders don’t 35 percent for our food packages,” she said. starve here,” Leonid Shafi r, 83, said in fractured English. The center serves at least 500 meals a week to those in “Over there, we wouldn’t even be alive at this age.” need, Krich said. To qualify for the free meals families must A week before Pesach, Monroe, N.Y.-based KJ Poultry, earn no more than $200 more than their rent, which in Brigh- donated 6,000 pounds of chicken to the poor and needy. ton Beach tends to run in the $700 range. The Satmar-run poultry processor gave two chickens to each The Shorefront JCC is also part of the Metropolitan Coun- person at the event, which was organized by the Shorefront cil for Jewish Poverty’s food pantry program and serves 1100 and the Metropolitan Council of additional meals a month, as well as maintaining a stock of Jewish Poverty. emergency food preparations. Recipients of food pantry do- “KJ Poultry felt it was really important to help people that nations are usually families that are under-employed or par- are less fortunate celebrate Pesach in a way that the Jew- tially employed. A vocational program operated by the South ish people regularly celebrate Pesach,” said Zecharia Mehler, Shore JCC with the assistance of the United Jewish Appeal director of media relations for Lubicom, a marketing agency was cut last year at the height of the Madoff scandal. that represents KJ Poultry. The situation for the poor in Brighton Beach is dire, ac- “They understand that this is a very expensive holiday for cording to Krich, who said the JCC is serving to capacity and people who are less fortunate. It’s hard to make a Seder,” he will soon be forced to turn away those in need. said. As fi fteen volunteers handed out chickens from the back of Initially, said Mehler, the company planned to donate a KJ Poultry truck, many recipients spoke of the blue-collar jobs 4,000 pounds of chicken, but a concern that the demand they used to hold as mechanics or shoemakers. The income they would be far greater led the company to add an additional made was insuffi cient to sustain them in retirement. 2,000 pounds to its gift. “Our rent is our biggest monthly expense,” said Victor Le- The Shorefront JCC served 1200 people; a separate dona- schinsky, 72. “This food calms my nerves.” tion to 500 people took place at the Coney Island JCC. Photo by Sergey Kadinsky “A friend at the beach told me about this,” said Meyer “I worked as a shoemaker here, and I was hoping to make Volunteers help distribute 6,000 pounds of chicken Cherner, 75. “If you are on SSI, you qualify.” it big,” lamented Odessa native Yakov Rozenberg, 71, as he to the needy in Brooklyn. Most of the people in line were not traditionally obser- stood on line. “Now I live on Section 8 [a welfare program]. vant, but the majority indicated that they planned to attend Depending on the months, we are not too poor, but the food Pesach is falling at a time of unprecedented budget cuts for a Seder. program helps in a big way.” social service programs around New York State. Most of the “Helping the poor during the holiday period is an integral The donation was more than timely, said Rachel Krich, people her center serves are elderly, Krich said; 50 percent part of the Jewish tradition,” Joel Weiss, the manager of KJ director of the Shorefront Jewish Community Center. This are Holocaust survivors, she added. Poultry, said. CAYENNE CLEARANCE!

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THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH candlelighting ceremony for the six million Jews also describes the return from Sweden to Norway who perished and the millions of other, non-Jew- Submit your shul or organization’s events or shiurim to [email protected]. after the liberation and the resettlement and rebuilding of the Jewish community during the ish men , women and children who were also Deadline is Wednesday of the week prior to publication. targeted for murder during that time. post-war years. This program is co-sponsored by Two survivors — Eddie Weinstein and Annie Thanks to Scandinavia; tickets are $5 and free for Benjamin Brafman will Bleiberg — will give personal testimoney about members of the Museum. speak at the Yom Hashoah their experiences, the fates of their loved ones, commemoration in Congre- and will discuss the meaning of the day and its gation Beth Sholom on April implications for the future. This museum is also 11. Brafman will be speak- a center that teaches tolerance, and issues that April 18 ing about being a second- make the news today — bullying, mob violence, April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE HEBREWDATE 2010 April 9, generation survivor, in his bigotry — will also be explored. address, “The Holocaust Two 15-year-olds who are third generation & 25 Really Did Happen & Do survivors (their grandparents were imprisoned Not Let Your Children Ever OU Outreach during the Holocaust) will speak briefl y about Forget it.” Keynote speaker THE will present its popular OU the lessons to be learned, specifi cally how mob Charlotte Gilman will speak Kosher program, ASK OU OUTREACH, in Brooklyn rule and bullying destroys the lives of young about her experience in by holding a series of kashrus shiurim on two people, and how we should be focusing on these Belgian Catholic convent. Sundays in April. Both days fall during the period issues. For more information call 516-571-8040. Teenage documentarian of sefi rah, a perfect time for introspection and

Joe Klein will discuss “Sur- Jewish education. viving Surviving,” his fi lm On Sunday, April 18, the shiur will take place about survivors in poverty. at Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin, at 2913 Avenue The program begins at 7 L and the corner of Nostrand Avenue. The ses- April 11 p.m. sions are as follows: Yom Hashoah Programs 8:00-8:45 p.m. “Ask the OU Rabbonim,” with CONGREGATION BETH SHOLOM, located at 390 Rav Yisroel Belsky, OU halachic decisor and Rabbi Broadway Avenue in Lawrence, will be hold- Moshe Elefant, OU chief operating offi cer and ing a community wide Yom Hashoah program those who were lost, and learn from those who executive rabbinic coordinator will answer ques- beginning at 7 p.m. “Surviving Belgian Catholic survived. Hear personal stories from artifact Elie Wiesel tions on halacha and offi cial OU policy. Priority ADELPHI UNIVERSITY will host “An Evening with Convents,” the keynote address, will be delivered donors, Holocaust survivors, and their families. will be given to questions sent by fax to (212) Elie Wiesel,” the Nobel Peace Prize-winning by Charlotte Gilman, who was hidden from the Museum admission is free with suggested dona- 613-0621 or by email to [email protected]. Holocaust survivor, author and activist. It will Nazis as a child. Benjamin Brafman will deliver tion all day. 8:45-9:30 p.m. “An Ex’salmon’ation of Kosher begin at 7:00 p.m. in the University’s Center for remarks on behalf of second-generation survi- From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Holocaust survivors will Fish,” by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg, rabbinic coordi- Recreation and Sports, 1 South Avenue in Garden vors entitled, “The Holocaust Really Did Happen be in the galleries discussing their experiences. nator and fi sh expert. City. The William E. Simon Lecture in American & Do Not Let Your Children Ever Forget It.” Teen- Many are artifact donors who will stand beside 9:30-10:30 p.m. “The Ongoing Struggle to Civilization and Values Endowment sponsors the aged documentarian Joe Klein will speak about their objects and explain their signifi cance. Preserve the Mesoros of Kosher Birds,” by Rabbi event. For more information and to purchase the third generation in “Surviving Surviving,” his From 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Visitors are welcome Chaim Loike, rabbinic coordinator and bird/eggs tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu or call the box fi lm about survivors in poverty. There will be a to spend time in Andy Goldsworthy’s Garden of expert, with a live viewing of exotic birds. offi ce at 516-877-4000. Tickets can be purchased musical presentation by Baruch Abittan, who will Stones, a contemplative space at the Museum. On Sunday, April 25, the shiur will take place in person at the box offi ce, by phone or online, perform “Forbidden Voices — Composers Silenced The Garden is a living memorial and is a tribute at Agudath Israel Zichron Chaim Tzvi, 2122 are available for $25 for premium fl oor seating During the Shoah.” to the hardship, struggle, tenacity, and sur- Avenue S. The sessions are as follows: vival experienced by those who endured the and $10 for regular seating. 7:30-9:00 p.m. Meet and hear From the OU’s THE KINGSWAY JEWISH CENTER, located at the Holocaust. It was planted by Goldsworthy, with expert mashgichim/rabbinic fi eld representa- Corner of Kings Highway and Nostrand Avenue Holocaust survivors and their families, in 2003. tives from around the country, including: Rabbi Jews in Norway Shraga Kaufman of , on “How Pure is in Brooklyn, will be conducting a Yom Hashoah Timekeeper, a virtual exploration of the Garden THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, located at program from 10 a.m. until noon. Rabbi Meyer using time-lapse photography, is also on view. Pure?”; Rabbi Gershon Segal of Newton Centre, 36 Battery Park in New York City, will be hosting MA, on “The Complexity of the Flavor Industry”; Moskowitz , author and former headmaster of For more information call (646)-437-4200. Irene Levin, author of “We Are Going to Pick Ramaz Lower School and chairman of the Bible Rabbi Avrohom Stone of West Orange, NJ, on Potatoes,” in a discussion beginning at 7 p.m. In “The Pasteurization of Beverages”; and Rabbi Dept. of the Upper School will be speaking. 1942, four-year-old Irene Levin was one of 1,200 Benzion Twerski of Milwaukee, on “The Kashrus Norwegian Jews who escaped to Sweden. Some Challenges and Opportunities from the Wisconsin THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, located at 36 771 Norwegian Jews were sent to Auschwitz, only Battery Park in New York City, will be holding a Plains.” 28 survived. “We Are Going to Pick Potatoes” 9:00-10:30 p.m. “The Bedikas Toyloim of Fruits daylong Yom Hashoah observance. The communi- describes the early settlement of Jews in Norway ty is invited to come to the Museum to remember April 14 and Vegetables — a live demonstration” with

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Rabbi Yosef Eisen, rabbinic administrator of the Avenue in Cedarhurst, will present Dr. Annett THE JEWISH STAR Vaad of the Five Towns and former OU rabbinic Labovitz, who will give two classes about the coordinator of Food Services. ON THE stories of Shalom Aleichem: “Tevya the Milkman” There will be a separate ladies section (May 6) and “The Railroad Stories” (May 13) at available for all sessions. For more information, 10 a.m. There is a $30 fee for the two classes. To contact Rabbi Grossman at 212-613-8212 or Gross- register please call Sheryl at 569-6733 x 222 or e [email protected]. Calendar mail sheryl.wyszkowski@fi vetownsjcc.org

April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE Submit your shul or organization’s events or shiurim to [email protected]. April 18 Deadline is Wednesday of the week prior to publication. May 26 Play Shalhevet Dinner THE HAZAK CHAPTER OF THE BELLMORE JEWISH SAVE THE DATE: Shalhevet High School for Girls CENTER, located at 2550 South Centre Avenue in will hold its fi rst annual dinner honoring Judy Bellmore, is bringing The Troupe of the Folksbi- and Scott Wagman and Stacy and Robbie Zeitz. ene Theatre for a performance of “Mama’s Loshn The dinner will be held at Temple Hillel, located Kugel,” a Yiddish musical revue with English at 1000 Rosedale Road in North Woodmere. For supertitles, at 3:00 p.m. A limited number of more information call 516-224-0242. A place to seats are still available. Cost is $18 for adults download an ad blank or details for the dinner ($23 at the door) and $12 for children 10-16. Call will be available on the Shalhevet website shortly Bill at 221-2056. Shiurim April 19 Monday Commemoration HALACHA SHIUR followed by a Parsha shiur by BARUCH COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE PERFORM- Rabbi Yaakov Feitman beginning at 9:00 PM ING ARTS, located at 55 Lexington Ave. and 25th at Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi, 395 Oakland Ave., street, will host a Uprising Com- Cedarhurst. memoration and Memorial to the Holocaust. This commemoration will include a candle lighting ceremony, musical presentation and a Tuesday conversation with Rwandan genocide survivor Photos by Elizabeth Kirshenbaum SHIUR IN MAHARAL ON THE CHUMASH by Rabbi Volunteers at the Lawrence-Cedarhurst fi rehouse extinguish fi res set to dispose of Jacqueline Murekatete & Holocaust survivor Eytan Feiner from 8:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. at Con- chametz, leaven, on Erev Pesach. David Gerwitzman. gregation Kneseth Israel, 728 Empire Ave., Far Watch a clip of Murekatete and Gerwitzman: of overseers, Steve Brown, and his wife, Mychal Rockaway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dzOZ81fSgE Brown, plus two prominent alumni and their This event is free and open to the public with April 21 wives: Rabbi Daniel and Ziva Glanz and Rabbi Thursday no advance registration. For more information Ariel and Shani Kopitnikoff. contact Shelley: (212) 889-6800 x319 Robert Morgenthau VIDEO SIMULCAST of the widely popular weekly THE MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE, located at 36 shiurim of Rabbi Eli Mansour and Rabbi Yissocher Battery Place in New York City, will be hosting Frand at Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi, 395 Oakland former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Mor- Teachers’ luncheon Ave., Cedarhurst. Rabbi Mansour’s shiur begins at genthau in a conversation with Marie Brenner. THE ASSOCIATION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH TEACH- April 20 ERS OF THE NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, will 7:45 p.m., Rabbi Frand’s at 9:00 p.m. The Weekly Morgenthau, recently retired, was the district Chabura at 10:15 p.m. and Taamei HaMitzvos attorney for over 30 years. He will be sharing present David A. Adler with the Author of the Yom Ha’atzmaut Year Award at the 40th annual luncheon which Shiur: 11:00 PM with Maariv at 11:15. Chulent will THE FRIEDBERG JCC, located at 15 Neil Court in personal stories about his illustrious career will take place at noon at the Renaissance in be served. Oceanside, invites everyone to celebrate Israel’s and remarkable family. Brenner is a Vanity Fair Brooklyn. Adler has written more than 200 books 62nd year and the 150th birthday of Theodore writer-at-large. For more information call (646)- including the popular “Cam Jansen” mystery Herzl with a movie presentation of “The Faces of 437-4200 or go online at www.mjhnyc.org. series. The deadline for luncheon reservations Israel.” Israel fi nds itself facing a series of hot Daily and journal ads is April 12. For more information topic questions about marriage, state and reli- MEN’S TORAH STUDY KOLLEL PROGRAM with Rabbi call 718-258-3585. gion. Each segment of the movie will include a Don Well, from 10-12 every morning at Congre- discussion with Amy Beth Oppenheimer, a gradu- April 25 gation Bais Medrash of Cedarhurst, 504 West ate of John Hopkins University; she has received Broadway, corner Bayview Ave in Cedarhurst. much praise on this timely documentary from a Touro Rabbis Ordained Touro College will be celebrating its 10th anniver- wide spectrum of Jewish leadership. Register no sary at Congregation Kneseth Israel, The White later than Thursday, April 15. Israeli food will be Shul. The dinner will celebrate the ordination May 6 & 13 available. of 52 new rabbis. Honorees also include Lander Shalom Aleichem College for Men’s founding chairman of its board THE FIVE TOWNS JCC, located at 207 Grove

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THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH HEBREWDATE 2010 April 9, was prepared by Measuring Success, a con- there would be an emphasis with presenting sulting fi rm contracted by the Partnership for moral dilemmas to students and have them Excellence in Jewish Education, a national struggle with them, and guiding them to group that works with Jewish day schools. think for themselves and make better moral “The report produced two very surprising choices,” said Weinbach. results: the high school is on very strong fi - Students were empowered to decide Photo from Shalhevet-LA’s Facebook page nancial footing; that the other divisions were school policies such as dress code and disci- Students at Shalhevet in Los Angeles show their support for Israel. a drain and operating much less sustainably,” pline, he said. said Rabbi Weinbach, a Five Towns native “The town hall [is] the most unique ex- who previously headed Rav Teitz perience I’ve seen ever in education, not just to close.” cation at the Board of Jewish Education of Academy (RTMA) in Elizabeth, N.J. Jewish education,” said Weinbach. “A Shal- As happened in the Five Towns when the Los Angeles, said that the decision to close The report compared the fi nancial situa- hevet student is different than any student identically named Shalhevet High School Shalhevet’s lower schools, based on the fi - tion of the school to 200 other and I’ve ever encountered — when you meet one faced imminent closure for fi nancial reasons, nancial information and the independent as- in the . you know.” parents have begun mobilizing to save the sessment, was the “only viable option.” She “The Middle, Elementary and Early Child- Plans are already in place to ease the tran- school. stressed that the high school is still open and hood schools were operating at a defi cit and sition for students and faculty. The eighth “There is no other school like Shalhevet in that it fulfi lls a unique niche in the commu- their operation was no longer feasible,” ac- grade will continue for one more year in or- Los Angeles. It is truly a magic place,” wrote nity. cording to a press release from the school. der to not displace graduating students. Al- Debora Joffe, a parent, on the Shalhevet “In the long run it will strengthen the com- The decision was somewhat pre-emptive. together about 115 students will be without Facebook group. munity,” she said, “but it is very painful.” “What Jewish school doesn’t know they’re a school. The day after the announcement By e-mail she explained that the group Hess does not see any national implica- in fi nancial diffi culty?” Weinbach asked. was made was “like Tisha B’av,” Weinbach had already raised $200,000 to save the tions from the school closing but emphasizes “They’re mission driven. All schools are sad- recalled. school, out of $550,00 that would be re- that there is a moral to the story. dled with a fundraising load.” “All schools say our kids love to come to quired to stave off closure. “I urge schools to have the courage to look Yet, faced with a growing budget short- school; it’s true here,” he said. “In a world Miriam Prum Hess, director of the Cen- carefully at the data and make data-based fall, the school decided to close the doors of of meritocracy this would be the last school ter of Excellence in Jewish Day School Edu- decisions when it’s clear,” she said. MMississ yyourour hhomeome deliverydelivery ooff TheThe JJewishewish Star?Star? WWantant toto startstart receivingreceiving itit atat home?home? FFixix iitt withwith a phonephone call!call! DDialial 5516-569-400016-569-4000 eext.xt. 7 dduringuring bbusinessusiness hhours.ours. Or get your copy at one of dozens of locations in Nassau County & the fi ve boroughs: kosher supermarkets, bakeries, restaurants, retail stores, news boxes or shuls.

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THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH By Ronit Zweig one, (that you probably won’t get to read either, and consider canceling the subscrip- As a professional organizer my clients tell tion). me the most motivating factor in their quest ■ Put the bills near your checkbook, which to conquer clutter is the realization that should be near the envelopes, stamps, fi ling people much worse than themselves have cabinet etc. succeeded in organizing their lives. And so I present to you, four challenging, real-life I encountered an unfortunate situation organizing situations, and tips for taking when working with an elderly couple’s de- control. The message: Don’t give up! There ceased parents’ estate. I estimate that in the are many people much worse than you think piles of unopened mail, we found approxi- you are. mately $25,000 worth of expired, un-cashed April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE HEBREWDATE 2010 April 9, checks, some 30 years old, most of which But it’s FREE! were impossible to have re-issued! Salespeople often give me funny looks when I politely refuse a free sample. The Food books to be read, and sundries to be used. truth that the mice had been there for quite thing is, I understand the value of my clutter- Find yourself shopping without a list? But how can you reap the benefi ts of these some time, feasted and nested amongst the free space. If you don’t need it, a ‘free’ item Buying products you already have three of, items when you can’t fi nd them? I was called papers and books, and were fl attened by the isn’t ‘free’ once it gets into your home. You and then stuffi ng the new items in the front in to help a couple, both professors, organize mass that was also contributing to the obvi- now have to un-free previously ‘free’ space of your already busting pantry? Do you wrap their “book collection.” As it turned out, they ous sagging of their fl oors. for it. Don’t delude yourself into thinking it’s leftovers in unidentifi able silver foil and had so many books and magazines that not Take heart and be realistic: It didn’t take only two-inches tall, or it only weighs a few shove it in an empty spot in the fridge? One an inch of fl oor was visible. Did they have 20 minutes to accumulate the clutter initially, ounces. Inches become feet and ounces be- client had such minimal food management carpeting? Bare wood fl oors? Linoleum? The so it will probably take more than 20 minutes come pounds and before you know it, all the skills that when the smell from his fridge neighbor below had complained that his ceil- to organize it. I hope this article gives you a ‘free’ stuff has now claimed your once ‘free’ got too bad, he just stopped opening it and ing was collapsing, but the couple insisted he new perspective on the small steps you can space. I encountered an extreme case of this started eating out. When we fi nally ventured was being “melodramatic.” take so that your home does not become one when I discovered, by nearly breaking my leg, to clean out his fridge (wearing hazmat gear) Unfortunately, they would not hear of of these shocking stories too. that the living room in a client’s apartment we found milk that had turned into fl akes, letting go of any book, even the ones that was actually three steps below the kitchen! and chicken with a four-year-old ‘born on had been chewed on by mice, unless an ex- Dr. Ronit Zweig is a cognitive-behavioral For the past 10 years she had piled bags on date.’ act duplicate could be found in their collec- psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn. top of bags, fi lled with everything she got “at tion. When we fi nally got down to the bot- She is also a professional organizer who a bargain.” She sacrifi ced a beautiful sunk-in Tips: tom of the piles, we found the mice, dead, tailors home and offi ce systems for individu- ■ living room that she was paying rent for in Keep a running list of things you need and fl attened. The couple insisted the mice als, families, and companies. She lectures exchange for bags of ‘free’ stuff. on your fridge. Then, only buy what is on must have been recent, due to neighborhood and offers workshops on psychological and your list. construction, and probably died of starva- organizing topics. Contact Dr. Zweig through ■ Paper When you get home, play ‘grocery store.’ tion, since they were very ‘careful about food’ her website, www.theorganizingdoc.com. 10 pieces of mail today turn into 50 pieces Line up the food, newest in the back. around the house. They refused the obvious by the end of the week, 200 plus pieces by ■ If your cabinets are too deep or high to the end of the month. see everything, tape an itemized list to the inside of the cabinet door. Tips: ■ Every time you put something into the ■ Dump junk mail immediately. While fridge, inspect an item lurking in the back, you’re at it, dump the envelopes and the ex- you’ll never have to worry about pre-historic tras inside the rest of the mail. expiration dates or embarrassing odors. ■ File notices and statements in their cor- rect place — not in a folder marked “to be Collections fi led” (an all too common misstep). What is the point of the books, clothing ■ Replace the last edition of ‘XYZ’ maga- and sundries that we buy if they never fulfi ll zine that you “plan to read” with the current their purpose? Clothes are meant to be worn, 360483

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y 361718 y y Causes and Cures. Dr. Salamon, a Fellow of the American Salamon, a Fellow Dr. in Hewlett, NY. He is the author of numer- NY. in Hewlett, ous articles and several psychological tests. tests. ous articles psychological and several Several recent outrightSeveral false stories about or embellishing stories ma Exaggerating His most recent book is The Shidduch Crisis: recent His most Psychological Association, is the founder and Psychological director of ADC Psychological Services, of ADC Psychological PLLC, director need to tell the tell true The Klausenbergneed to events. there, was HeRebbe no one else was. when warmthbrought a sense of spiritualit and be seen by some as an acceptable way to to way acceptable an some as be seen by our children a point to teach morals or make at thebut not price of distorting the and lives history of real individuals. Our children need be inspired. Changing truereality to stories inspire, it diminishes. It is counter- does not a true take story to and turnproductive it tale when the an old wives reality is so into much more powerful. back to thoseback to who had lost everything. in recent years. appeared the Holocaust have at the The endearing story entitled “Angel to Herman found was by Rosenblat, Fence” be a fabrication after Oprah did a story on By embellishing survivor’s Rosenblat. Mr. diminish the inspiration, strengthstories we and hope that survivors of the Shoah give us. lent that this the prepared. How had Rebbe transpired, where the have could possibly dead is never it was cat came from or why explained. a total lackThis to of accuracy leads lack all of the of credibility for Rebbe’s great- simpl embellish, we need to not do ness. We rst rst nally nally ce is legend- rst meal. One rst meal after liberation before I wonder why these are why misrepresentations I wonder re- been told tale thatThe latest I have

rst spending time in prayer. When he fi rst time in prayer. spending months following theirmonths release with following this holy the did man. My father Rebbe us how told eat his fi not fi ary. My father and one of his brothersary. were withliberated the and spent the Rebbe fi did eat, the his hands in the washed Rebbe eat. He to sitting down before traditional way his meal and of- ate and deliberately slowly new the the food.A fered blessings following about him that circulate is tale has begun to untrue.very story new This likely that is mak- ing the rounds is that the arranged for Rebbe served be a chulent to at that fi hear, not only that only no matzo baking ever not hear, thathappened, but also have it could not fabrication. happened. It is a complete occurring. Are the stories of survival mov- not some- need to ing enough as they are? Do we need? some greater reality for change how the to Holo- so habituated become we Have stories? new create to have caust that we Halberstam, the Yehudah Yekusiel to lates en- lost his The Rebbe Klausenberg Rebbe. in the him- tire family Shoah. He dedicated survivors. young for recreating lives self to liberation, the Rebbe following Immediately arranged, with the assistance of American chaplain, thetroops and a Jewish for basic be to trappings of a Shul and a Shabbat meal His self-sacrifimade available. of the survivors, so angry what hadG-d for at him and thetranspired to death of his fam- members, the threwily a dead cat into chu- cx”s 365248 cation a tree fell over the sides of the over cation a tree fell A tale is told that A tale is told some people managed A man who survived in a slave labor camp labor camp A man who survived in a slave Those who survived the Shoah, and those to bake matzo in Dachau. bake Speak with to any survivor with a clear memory will and you ditch. It was early autumn and somewhere and somewhere autumn ditch. early It was The near the time of the of Sukkot. holiday me that withman told if he had some food made the sit- blessing for him he might have ting in a succah. The story misrep- has been building a as some Jews recently resented succah in Auschwitz. for three years once told me thatthree for once told while he years digging a deep trench a Germanwas for fortifi who did not, have left us with have who did not, a special in- cruelty mankind’s sight into and the very carryhuman desire to taught have on. They us much about the human condition and our one another and our G-d. relationship to begun, perhaps have many Unfortunately, demean their I am to ordeal. inadvertently, talking about Ahmadinejad or his ilk who not thedeny very of the existence Holocaust. storytellersI am speaking of our very own who embellish and in thethe end maggidim pervertwould the story of the Holocaust to examples some other need. Several meet been making the rounds. have warding though,warding is the story of survival. He from their taken home were and his family a and liberated after Passover immediately as well Passover, after Passover. later year time for are a natural Tovim as other Yomim and he has exodus of his own speak him to decades. done so for No bubbe maises about the Holocaust the about maises No bubbe nd- Are you prepared? you Are -Vocabulary expansion strategies -Sentence structure -Comprehension skills -Speaking/listening and test-taking The Hebrew Regent is June 22. Regent The Hebrew Naomi Billauer ~ 516.374.2908 Billauer Naomi Our regent preparation addresses: My father is one own resilient personali- own the Regardless, fi ty. been quite ings have consistent. of those and who told his sto- tell continues to He along with two ry. of his brothers survived the Holocaust, but watched as Mengele themseparated from a younger their mother, brother and other rela- they as arrivedtives in Auschwitz. My father’s all im- were relatives killed. mediately Michael J. Michael J. IN MY VIEW My father is a Holocaust survivor. In some My father is a Holocaust survivor. My father took us to his hometown in his hometown My father us to took ays I am a typical second-generation per- I am a typical second-generation ays Salamon, Ph. D. Salamon,

w Opinion underwent frightening. What is more re- was torture that he and his fellow campmates campmates torture that he and his fellow and how so many people were killed. The were people so many and how bor at the BMW factory among other places housed the ghetto. We heard of his forced la- of his forced heard We housed the ghetto. northeast Hungary that the and to town or perhaps it is just a function of theor perhaps person’s Post Traumatic Stress. Perhaps it is cathartic Perhaps Stress. Traumatic Post ly to suffer some of the classic symptoms of suffer some of the to ly classic symptoms have a better outlook on life and are less like- outlook on life a better have and others who are close to them tend to themand others to are close to who tend are able to tell their their tell stories to childrenare able to search that that determined survivors who Over the years I have been involved in re- been involved the I have Over years son, and in some ways I am veryson, and in some ways different. 16 Opinion

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ometimes the people you encounter in we were forced to eat as slaves for 210 years? Din and that Bet Din and nothing seemed to companied, at least in part, by a wish to be the hours before Passover and the peo- And whatever it symbolizes, what’s the point work. She came to my offi ce two weeks ago elsewhere; and a man who longed to share S ple you share the Seder with make just of breaking it, of hiding it, then having it re- and we put a plan in motion. Without going another Seder with his wife. as big an impact as the Seder itself. emerge at the end of the Seder as the afi ko- into detail, less than 24 hours before the fi rst And because we were all there together, We like to say that there are “four ques- man? Seder, she received her Get and was set free. those of us with whole matzos realized that tions” but there are so many more. Among The people I encountered before Passover, Her bread of affl iction became her bread of others, inches away from us, were trying to them are two that have always presented and those I shared the Seder with, helped freedom. pick up the pieces of their broken ones. And some diffi culty to me: answer the questions. Trust me, my memo- I shared my Seder this year was a man that there can be no Jew who eats a whole First, if karpas, the vegetable that we dip ries of them and their experiences will linger who just lost his wife. We had shared previ- matzo so long as there are Jews next to us,

April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE HEBREWDATE 2010 April 9, into salt water, is meant to stimulate our long after the taste of the matzo, the wine ous Seder’s with him and his wife; his bread a few blocks away, living in Warsaw, chained appetite as some com- and the bitter herbs have dissipated. For the of freedom had become bread of affl iction. as an , trying to pick up the broken mentators suggest, why point of all of this is not commemorative in We shared our Seder this year with a pieces of the matzo that masquerades as FROM THE OTHER do we ingest it two to nature but experiential. The whole point of woman who, at age 40, was experiencing the their life. SIDE OF THE three hours before we the Seder exercise, of all the pre-Passover fi rst Seder of her entire life. Her bread of af- Those are the people with whom I broke BENCH actually eat matzo and toil, and all of the intellectual discussion, is fl iction was becoming her bread of freedom. matzo this year. Their lessons of life are not the meal? Typically, to feel in the year 5770 as if we have some- Also at this year’s Seder was a 17-year-old written specifi cally in the Hagadah; they are the appetizer is served how been liberated from those demons that boy from whose family is one of just written below the surface, underneath the right before the meal possess us and prevent us from embracing 10 observant families in Warsaw. Though he wine stains and between the crumbs that and not hours earlier. our G-d, our religion, and our people with wished to join them for Passover, it was not fi ll the binding. They are there all year long Try doing that at a din- a full heart. meant to be. He knew that his experience as waiting for those of us that are more fortu- ner or function — fol- So whose experiences accompanied me at a yeshiva student in the United States and nate, to make them whole, if not by solving low the appetizer with the Seder this year? joining our Seder, provided an experience their problems than at least by breaking our three hours of discus- She’s 22 years old with one child and without parallel in Poland; one he could not own complete matzo, letting them know sion and then serve the more on her plate than one could ever imag- duplicate in Warsaw. His matzo was simul- that as long as they are lacking we cannot meal. That’s the last ine. She has no money, no job and no support taneously the bread of affl iction and of re- be whole. dinner your organiza- from a soon to be ex-husband who doesn’t demption; his charoses was bittersweet. Yes, sometimes the people you encounter tion will ever hold. understand his responsibilities. He hides Another 17 year old, a young man with in the hours before Passover and the people Second is the di- behind misguided rabbis who I would hope Asperger’s Syndrome, rounded out our invit- you share the Seder with make just as big an David Seidemann chotomy between two would never let someone treat their daugh- ed guests. I witnessed him view freedom in a impact as the Seder itself. lessons of the middle ters as they watch this man treat his wife. way I never could have imagined. matzo — is it the bread For 2 1/2 years he has refused to support his So we all shared the holiday meals togeth- David Seidemann is a partner with the law of freedom commemorating our sudden and wife and child and refused to give her a Get, er. Those tasting freedom for the fi rst time; fi rm of Seidemann & Mermelstein. He can be miraculous departure from Egypt, or is it the releasing her from her modern-day slavery. those tasting freedom again for the fi rst time reached at (718) 692-1013 and at ds@lawof- poor man’s bread, the bread of affl iction that She tried this rabbi and that rabbi, this Bet in a long time; those whose freedom was ac- fi cesm.com The Kosher Bookworm A look back at April 11, 1945 It is not everyday that we witness the destruction of our constitution. He reasoned present-day foreign policy. Whether it is an army. Yet for many those fl eeting moments utter defeat of tyranny. Nevertheless, next that when all those things to which alone our Iran building up its nuclear capabilities and were to serve as a moral benchmark for the week we will commemorate the 65th anni- life was anchored were cut away, namely, threatening to exterminate the rest of their lives, and versary of the liberation of Buchenwald by our national customs and our lawful political six million Jews as an inspiration for us American armed forces leading to the ulti- rights and social privileges, we might be ex- of Israel, or a to learn from and to mate defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of posed to the very extremity of calamity, with- communist re- remember for the rest the Holocaust. out having any stay left to which we could gime in China of ours. The anniversary gives us the opportunity cling for safety.” bullying Google Hirsh provides fi rst to look back in time soon after Pesach, when Fast-forward 20 centuries. The victory over with threats of hand testimony to the liberation and the defeat of tyranny became Nazism is given a fi rst class presentation by shutdown, we blood and guts of the hallmarks of our religious and national tradi- noted military historian, Michael Hirsh, him- witness our gov- tyranny of National tion. self a veteran of US military service in Viet- ernment engaged Socialism. It is for us The Exodus was not the only experience in nam. In his recent book “The Liberators” Hirsh in Munich-style to better appreciate tyranny that our people gives full vent to the searing experiences that appeasement. our freedoms and had in Egypt. In his ex- our young and untutored American troops The lessons to consider the fate ceptional work titled, faced at the liberation of Buchenwald and nu- that we can glean experienced by the “The Historical Hagga- merous other Nazi slave labor camps in Ger- from the behav- Jews in the Alexan- dah,” Rabbi Nachman many during the closing days of the war. ior of our troops, dria of Philo and the Cohen reminds us of In a heart-rending series of biographical as detailed by Jews of mid-twenti- the experience of an sketches and interviews with many of those Hirsh, point to eth century Europe, affl uent Alexandrian GI’s, the author graphically details the hu- an America of the when their rights to Jewry, 30 years before man and emotional trauma that many of past where tyranny freedom and liberty the destruction of the them experienced and the horrifi c emotional knew no safe quar- were brutally cut second Temple, who and even spiritual toll this took on “our boys.” ter. They instinc- down. were to be destroyed Flashbacks to the scenes they witnessed 65 tively knew when Within 24 hours Alan Jay Gerber by the Roman viceroy, years ago this Sunday remain vivid to many to resist and when of the liberation of Flaccus. As detailed by vets to this day. to take the initiative Buchenwald, the the Jewish Biblical phi- One fact that left a sharp impression upon to exterminate the American people losopher, Philo, the one me was that many of our troops did not take handmaidens of the and the free world million Jews of Alexandria were cut down by Nazi prisoners after liberating the camps. tyrant without the would have a new their Roman rulers in a fi t of imperial rage in Rather, they would routinely execute SS pris- slightest hesitation leader, Harry S as cruel a manner as befi t Roman rule. oners, especially those who had been con- or qualm of false Truman, who was One phrase cited by Rabbi Cohen caught centration camp guards. Truth be told, this conscience. to lead the Ameri- my attention; take heed of their contempo- was to be a commonplace procedure. Our troops’ expe- can people and its rary meaning: We come to appreciate this behavior in riences in the camps allies to fi nal vic- “Once Flaccus saw that the attempt to retrospect when we consider the kid glove lasted a few hours tory in war and preside over America’s recog- violate the law prospered, he proceeded on- treatment modern day tyrannies experience to a few days before they moved on, back nition of the State of Israel three years later. wards to another exploit, namely, the utter at the hands of the formulators of America’s to the battlefi eld in pursuit of the German Such is the irony of history. 17 THE JEWISH STAR April 9, 2010 HEBREWDATE

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Dear That’s Life, It may be a lot of hard work, but it’s worth oven. The gentleman I called to repair my it. fence wanted to know when would be a good Pesach, at a full eight days (and even for time to swing by for an estimate. And instead those who hold seven), involves a complete of laughing hysterically or bursting out into immersion in the chag and it is for that rea- tears, either of which would have been ac- son that I love it. We look forward to certain ceptable responses considering the state of recipes, to seeing my Pesach dishes and to my kitchen and my Pre-Pesach panic, I asked unearthing the school projects from years if it could wait until after the holiday. past, including the Afi koman bag I made in “No problem,” he said, “It’s my holiday, kindergarten that I insist my dad use every too.” year. And while some may have had enough “Great,” I responded, and then he clari- matzo and cream cheese at this point (half- fi ed. “Except I’m too busy for all eight days,” way through), by the time you read this ar- he said, “so I’m doing it all on Sunday.” ticle, many a bagel will have been eaten and Huh? matzo brei will be a thing of the past. “See, I’m a fence guy,” he explained. “I’ve The pre-Pesach prep is enough to make got nothin’ to do all winter. But come spring even the strongest fall like a house of cards I’m really busy — I’ve got no time for eight as a repairman was needed erev Pesach to days!” And so, he was going to do it all on fi x my oven that blew as a result of the self- one day. Matzo, cream cheese and jelly were clean. “I’ve got a lot of calls like this today,” his favorite and that Sunday was going to be he said. “Can’t you guys just wait until after Passover for him. “You like matzo pizza?” he the holiday to clean your ovens?” It doesn’t asked. “How about matzo brei?” work that way, I explained. And then look- I said I liked them both, as I stared at my ing around my kitchen he said, “So some hands and looked at my clothes and the state people have two dishwashers, right?” Yes, I of my kitchen and thought about this gentle- answered. “One for kosher and one for not man and his one-day of Pesach. And that’s kosher?” he asked. Um, no, I said smiling. “It when the hysterical laughter began, coupled doesn’t work that way either,” I explained. with tears running down my face. And after that was clarifi ed and the oven We all have our breaking points. started to work, the band-aids were applied L’shanah Habah B’Yerushalayim. to the cuts in my hands and the cleaning re-

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