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Greetings friends and neighbors. ticle for our paper, and he finally Yes, it’s a little chilly, 50s and 60s, agreed. Read his article. You’re in but up north they are struggling with for a treat. single digits. My granddaughter in I had many responses to my ques- Toronto called to tell me it was six tion in the past issue about working below zero, so the 50s and 60s here in on this paper at the cost of losing southern Florida can be considered a time from learning. At this time, heat wave by comparison. I will only publish one response, As of this time, the government is which seems to be the general still shut down. Despite that, how- theme of all the replies. ever, the stock market has come roaring back, making up for all the “Torah & work: ethics of our fa- losses in 2018. Imagine when the thers: Avot 2.2. government opens its doors again! Beautiful is the study of Torah Here in West Palm Beach, we with the way of the world, for the have many Talmidei Chachomim toil of them both causes sin to be living in Century Village who grace forgotten…” “Reach for the moon. our Bais Medrash. One stands out Even if you miss, you’ll land among as a Gaon and is in a class by him- If you are aware of opposing self, Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum. views, please submit and I will be the stars.” He is known throughout the To- happy to publish them. rah world, and I’m lucky to sit only Enjoy the paper. two rows behind him in shul. I had been asking him to write an ar- Irwin

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The advertiser Coming soon to your local retailer! Shmuel Moshe Benjamin assumes all liability for the content of all ads For info., please email Irwin Cohen and replies. The advertiser agrees to hold The [email protected] Rabbi Mayer Friedman Jewish Chronicle and its employees harmless Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky from any or all costs, expenses, liabilities, and Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum damages resulting from or caused by the pub- Rabbi Ben Packer lication placed by the advertiser or any reply to Rabbi Shaya Richmond any such advertisement. Susan Richmond THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 3 THE TELEPHONE By Irwin H. Benjamin I felt that this was no ordinary tele- janitor of the building two quarters in phone, I must tell you about Shalom exchange for three cigarettes. Th e last JUNE 4, 2006 Frederickson. quarter he saved until davening was his is a true story about an I met Shalom Fredrickson about completed, so he could call his wife. extraordinary telephone and ten years ago when he fi rst arrived In the earlier years, he made the Textraordinary events that cre- at the nursing home. At that time, he calls himself, but later, I, or someone ated an extraordinary friendship. A was already in his late 80s. He was an else had to make the call for him, as friendship that I will never forget. active patient, more active than most. he could not get his arthritic fi nger Nestled in the shadow of the Wil- He did not require a wheelchair and into the hole of the rotary phone to liamsburg Bridge is a nursing home roamed freely throughout the build- turn it. called Home of the Sages. Th e home ing. He had a long, white beard, ex- Once hearing the phone on the graciously provides a shul where re- cept around his mouth, which was other side ringing, I would hand the ligious patients are taken down each a yellowish tan, the result of heavy phone to Shalom. By that time, he had morning to daven. smoking. He told me in his younger lit up a cigarette, and propped himself As gabbai, I am usually the fi rst to years he worked as a butcher’s helper, up on the arm of a chair, because the enter the shul in the morning, and no and then as a meshulach for the Vish- short silver coiled phone wire was not matter how hard I have tried to ignore nitz yeshiva. long enough to reach him sitting on a it, I never got used to an unusual phe- Towards the end of each morning’s regular chair. nomenon that existed for as far back happened oft en. Some people may davening, he would approach me with as I could remember. disagree, but to me it seemed that the a loud announcement: “TZADAKAH Walking into the dark Bais Medrash, phone did not allow Loshen Hara to – “and then there was a long pause before the lights were turned on, one go through its lines. as if he had planned to state a pasuk saw two counterbalancing red lights. True, I would be the fi rst to admit or give a long explanation, but either To the right, up near the amud, was that it did look like any other phone. because he forgot the words, or could the ner tamid, aglow in red, which is It was an old-fashioned, rotary style, no longer articulate them, he mere- common to almost all shuls. However, pay phone, indistinguishable from ly concluded by saying “VERY BIG to the left , in the Ezras Nashim, was any other; containing a black oblong MITZVAH.” Every morning was the a telephone, also aglow in red, which box, a button for coin release, and a same: “TZADAKAH – VERY BIG was not so common to all shuls. silver chute where coins are suppos- MITZVAH.” Of course, there was a simple, ra- edly expected to exit from. In those Since I am left -handed, I kept my tional explanation for it. Just above respects, it did give the appearance of money in my left pocket, so I would the telephone was a red emergency being the normal, usual, pay phone. I be able to get to it easily. Shalom chas- exit light, which not only illuminated agree. tised me very early on that tzadakah the backdoor exit, but shone directly However, over the years, in addi- had to be given with the right hand, down on to the telephone, giving it its tion to the Loshen Hara “block,” I ob- so when I heard him approaching, I dark red glow. served many other “abilities” or “in- immediately began the ritual of tak- Th is amazing coincidence - the red cidents” that - to me, at least - proved ing a dollar bill out of my left pocket, glow of a supposedly mundane tele- that my assessment of the telephone putting it in my right hand, and being phone being almost identical in color was correct; that it was not only heav- at the ready to give it to him once he to the red glow of the holy ner tamid enly, but it had human-like proper- concluded his short speech. – had existed for at least 30 years. I ties as well. A small example of this – Aft er receiving the dollar bill, he was never able to comprehend how which my coreligionists found merely said “I GIVE YOU A BRACHA FOR this extremely strange phenomenon fortuitous, which I did not - was that YOUR –” and here he put his right had escaped any scrutiny of my fel- one quarter got you a dial tone; not hand near the bottom of the fl oor and low-congregants. Th ey felt that there the two quarters that are presently re- arched it all the way over in a wide was nothing at all particularly odd quired. In addition, you were able to sweeping fashion to the left to em- He spoke in Yiddish, of course, about this. call anywhere you liked. Anywhere in phasize an all-encompassing motion, but here, again, I found something I thought it was so strange and so the world. All for the same quarter. “- GANTZER MISHPOCHA.” (Entire amazing, which, again, I attributed peculiar, that it immediately alert- Not only that, but no one ever inter- family) to the magical qualities of this grand ed me to further anomalies. Indeed, rupted to say your time was up, or any Obviously tired out from that dra- and wondrous telephone. For a man I had continued, for many years, to other such annoying interruptions. matic display, he laboriously lum- who could hardly get a word out, or attribute many unearthly abilities Oh, no, calls made on this phone were bered over to Rabbi Fishelis, the Rav put two words together consecutive- to this rather otherwise nondescript unlimited in every sense of the word. of the shul, who sat up front, where a ly, when he spoke on this phone his telephone. Like the time I heard about Call Honolulu for only a quarter. Keep silent exchange took place; he tender- memory was fl awless, and his speech one of our neighbors getting a divorce. talking all day. Th e same quarter. ing the dollar I gave him, and the Rav impeccable. No hesitation, no lapses; I called to tell my wife. I spoke to her Another thing I found unique about giving him four quarters. he forgot nothing. He detailed to his for fi ve minutes about other things, the phone was that we never received Next, he made three stops. One was wife, in Yiddish, everything that hap- and then, when I hung up, realized I an incoming call - except once, which to put one quarter into the pushka pened at the nursing home the previ- failed to tell her the original purpose I will relate later in the story. that was sitting on the bima. Th e next for my call. Th ese types of “incidents” For you to really appreciate why was to go out in the hallway to give the Continued on page 4 Page 4 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

THE TELEPHONE hanging in silent vigilance. I couldn’t been fantasizing all along about his Continued from Page 3 help but detect an eerie, knowing wife. In a couple of seconds, I heard smirk emanating from the glow of the the strained, thin voice of an elder- ous day and night; how he slept, what phone, as if reading my mind. ly European woman blurting out the nurses said to him; how he re- Th at day, aft er davening, I dialed “Shoolum, Shoolum.” fused to take the pills they gave him; a the number for Shalom, but this time, Scared out of my wits, I quickly whole litany of occurrences, and blow before giving it to Shalom, I waited handed the phone receiver to Shalom, by blow descriptions of everything a few seconds to see if it would be walked away, and tried never to think that took place, leaving out nothing. picked up, or if Shalom had merely about it again. Shalom passed away about a month One day I had occasion to go into later. It was a Monday, and it was cold the administrator’s offi ce because and pouring. Th e funeral was in Wil- the air-conditioner in the shul had liamsburg, at YeRayim Chapel, and the preceding night. She quietly be- stopped working. While I was there, was supposed to proceed from there gan sobbing and was about to hang she asked me how things were going. I to the Vishnitz Yeshiva, where he was up when I pleaded with her to stay on fi lled her in on some of the residents. a member for many years. Th ere were the phone. I wanted to fi nd out who I also asked her if Shalom’s wife ever only fi ve men and three women there she really was. visited him. It was then she told me besides Rabbi Fishelis and me. She then related a bizarre chain of something so unbelievable that it sent Outside, the rain was blinding, and events that began many years ago. chills up and down my spine. She told the wind blew sharply, at times howl- When Shalom had fi rst entered the me that Shalom’s wife had been dead ing. Before we even had a chance to nursing home, he was extremely dis- for 25 years! sit down, one of the Chasidim said a oriented. In addition, his hearing and Th at shocking revelation kept me few words in Yiddish, and the hesped sight was not the best. He forgot that up half the night with thoughts of was over. A man to live for 98 years, his wife had died. He had his old tele- possible strange interstellar journeys and in the end, just a few hurried phone number, but had apparently that this extraordinary telephone words, and not even a minyon to send misread a three for an eight, and di- might be party to. him off . aled a wrong number. Th e following morning, as I walked Too depressed, I did not go along Th e wrong number that he dialed into the shul, I immediately looked with Rabbi Fishelis to Vishnitz. In- turned out to be this lady; an old, to my left . Th ere was the phone, all stead, I returned to the nursing home lonely woman, who herself had lost aglow, basking in the red light, and to retrieve a few things I left prior to her husband not too long before, going to Williamsburg. and when Shalom called, she sort of Th e angry, torrential rain literally played along with him, pretending to 3K\VLFDO7KHUDS\ came down in buckets. Th e rain was be his wife; he telling her things about accompanied by thunder and light- what was going on in his life, and she 2FFXSDWLRQDO7KHUDS\ ening. It was fi erce. Only 11 o’clock in telling him things about her life. the morning and the sky was black. She happily confi ded in me that By merely walking from my car to she couldn’t wait for the mornings the nursing home building, a mat- to arrive, so she could talk to Sha- ter of a few steps, I was thoroughly lom, as that was the best and most drenched. I sat down for a few min- meaningful part of her day. Th is tele- utes to catch my breath and say a few phone friendship between these two kapitlach Tehillim for poor Shalom. 90-year-old people went on for most Just as I was winding down a bit, of the ten years Shalom was at the the phone rang – for the very fi rst nursing home. time – making me jump. Cautiously, Aft er hearing that incredible story, I walked over to it, gingerly picked it I was so stunned, I couldn’t speak. up, and said hello. When I fi nally did recover, I wished I then heard the hurried, thin voice her good health, happiness, said of the same woman who I heard goodbye, and hung up.  speaking to Shalom: Many years have now passed. Reb “Shoolum, Shoolum, iz Shoolum Loozer has long been gone; that in- du?” (Is Shalom there?) credible telephone was replaced years 10LOLWDU\7UDLO6XLWH& Almost dropping the phone, I said, ago, and that special red exit light is :HVW3DOP%HDFK)O “Nayn, er iz nisht da.” (No, he is not no longer there. here). Yes, time is quickly passing. Soon 3XEOL[&URVVWRZQ3OD]D In Yiddish, she told me she called, there will be no one left who will re- because Shalom never missed calling member. But I will. I will always re- her, and today since she did not hear member that once upon a time there from him, she was worried, and for was an extraordinary telephone. And the very fi rst time, called him. I will also remember that once upon &2857(6<75$163257$7,21 I then broke it to her as gently as I a time there was an extraordinary could, that Shalom had passed away friendship. THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 5

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parts and organs involved in this rep- connotes the middas hadin, which rehensible act, and the order of their if executed in its entirety would be involvement. Th e messages are loud devastating, for our sins are too nu- and clear, and ever-present. We’re just merous to count, and our rebellious- not listening. ness overwhelmingly off ensive. But, As mentioned above, reward is also Hashem in his abundant and over- dispensed in this manner. Th e person fl owing kindness (“v’rav chessed”), who is great enough to let things go, sends us countless opportunities to By Rabbi and not seek requital for an insult shower kindness upon others, and or personal slight, absorbing the an- when we take advantage of that aus- Yehoshua guish and completely erasing it from piciousness, Hashem is enabled, as Kurland his memory ( “maavir al middosav”), it were, to ‘judge’ us middah k’neged is forgiven for all of his sins (“maavi- middah, and act mercifully. Indeed rin lo al kol pesha’av” – Megillah 28a). this fi ts the criterion, and thus is with- Th e question is obvious. What hap- in the parameters of what is legiti- One Measure pened to the middas hadin? Where mately called middas hadin. In eff ect, is Hashem’s strict judgment? Does the middas hadin is accomplished in Hashem simply wipe away years of the most compassionate way, allowing indiscretion because one does a vir- us every opportunity for vindication. for Another tuous act of relinquishing that which We must look for these lifesaving Six Jewish men were playing poker in the condo clubhouse for the third he has coming to him? (Mind you, I’m opportunities to do chessed for oth- time that week against their wives’ better wishes. Shapiro, upon losing not complaining. I can use all the help ers, for no doubt they surround us. We a thousand bucks on a single hand, and facing the prospect of a fate I can get!) must fi nd them, and implement them worse than death – telling Mrs. Shapiro – promptly keeled over and Rashi explains: the cheshbon is one to their fullest capacity. No longer can dropped dead at the table. Th e game continued, but out of respect for measure for another. Because one is a chessed opportunity be construed their fallen buddy, they completed the hand while standing. able to forgive and forget what others as a matter of choice (as if to say, “no, Th en the debate began. Who was going to tell Mrs. Shapiro? Straws did to him, Hashem is willing to do thank You, Hashem. I think I’ve had were drawn, and Goldberg, always a loser, picked the short one. the same for him. Th is is not incon- enough chessed for today.”). It is an gruous to the middas hadin, for it fol- opportunity for absolution and atone- “Be discreet and gentle,” they instructed him. “Don’t make a bad lows the precise execution of middah ment, a salvation from Heaven that situation worse than it is!” k’neged middah. It goes without say- can shift the position of the Dayan “Gentlemen, you have nothing to fear. I’m the most discreet guy in the ing that Hashem’s general willingness Ha’emes from the throne of strict world! Why, discretion is my middle name. Leave it to me!” to reward in a magnanimous fashion judgment, to the throne of mercy and Goldberg immediately set out for Shapiro’s apartment, and knocked in contrast to administering punish- compassion. It can be something as on the door. When Mrs. Shapiro opened the door and asked what he ment (the middah tovah is greater at simple as greeting another with a sha- wanted, Goldberg blurted, “Your husband just lost a thousand dollars a ratio of at least 500/1 – Sotah 11a) lom aleichem, or clearing one’s plate playing poker!” contributes greatly to this advanta- aft er dinner, to acts of chessed that geous judgment. Hashem’s kindness involve greater sacrifi ce. Th ey are all “He lost a thousand dollars?” Mrs. Shapiro exclaimed. “Why, that knows no bounds. monumental, and can be the source of scoundrel! I told him not to gamble so much! He should just drop dead!” Th is idea comes to light in examin- our very redemption. Goldberg replied, “Now that you mention it, he did exactly that, just ing Hashem’s Th irteen Middos of Ra- And when we take advantage of an hour ago!” chamim (mercy). All of them seem to these auspicious pretexts for deliver- fi t well into the category of benignity ance, we not only are absolved from he colloquial expression, “one measure for another” is taught in and compassion (“chanun – gracious, strict judgment, but are rewarded fi ve “you get what you pay for,” a mishnah, “B’middah she’adam mo- rachum – merciful, erech apayim – hundred-fold. We are forever grate- T is likely derived from a ba- deid, bah modidin lo — In whatever patient and forbearing, v’rav chessed ful that the chessed of Hashem, the sic tenet of Hashem’s conduct with fashion one conducts himself, Divine – abundantly kind...”) except for one: “Mekimi meiafar dal meiashpos ya- mankind to reward and punish mid- judgment deals with him in a similar “v’emes – truthful.” Isn’t truth an ex- rim evyon l’hoshivi im nidivim im dah k’neged middah (one measure way.” (Sotah 8b) Examples are cited pression of Hashem’s middas hadin? nidivei amo — Hashem, who lift s the for another). Torah Jews will refrain from Shimshon’s eyes being gouged Rav Pam zt”l, in Atarah Lamelech, impoverished out of the dust and the from uttering a negative word for out, corresponding to his seeming in- explains that the middah of “v’rav destitute from the trash heaps, to seat fear it will bolster the initiative of dulgence in gazing at foreign women, chessed” and “v’emes” that follows, are them with nobles, with the nobles of the Satan to bring that detriment to Avshalom’s death, instigated when very much connected. Indeed emes His people,” knows no bounds. upon them, and thus their words his long hair that he was so arrogantly will come back to haunt them. The mindful of became entangled in a tree “The Ponivizer Rov, who accomplished Gemara (Brachos 19a) refers to this branch. Th e ultimate source is the very phenomenon as: “Al yiftach adam specifi c manner in which a sotah – a great and fantastic things during his piv laSatan — One should not open suspected adulteress, meets her death his mouth to the Satan,” for a per- upon drinking the bitter waters. Her lifetime, was asked how he did it. He son’s very words could become the punishment is a display of the preci- impetus for his own destruction. sion of Hashem’s retribution for her said simply that most people dream at Th is classic middah of Hashem of infi delity, as it pertains to the body night. He dreams during the day.” THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 7

Th is is strange. Why should the victim re- there is a halacha that does not allow similar ceive less on the fi rst three times? According stores opening in the same neighborhood, to him, the attack was no diff erent than the but, there are many variables to said law. fourth. Th e original owner may wish to attack Th e answer is just as defi ning of the Jewish the newcomer as this store will, most likely, religion as the Ten Commandments them- aff ect his livelihood. Th e one issue he will selves. According to civil, governmental law, have to contend with is does the new owner the reason why someone’s neighbor cannot comply with halacha or not. Even if there overstep his own boundaries (between the is damage being done to the income of his two properties) is because “I own MY land, store, he can only take off ense if the halacha and YOU own YOURS.” says so. In Judaism the reasoning is fundamen- So too is speaking ill of someone for do- tally diff erent. Th e reason is because, “I am ing something wrong. If the words being not allowed to step into YOUR land.” Th e said fall under the umbrella of halacha, then Th e Halachic Man reason why your property is sacred to you it is allowed. If not, then it’s lashon harah. is ONLY because the Torah says that I can’t Th e reason why the Torah being given to t Sinai we received the Ten Com- agreed upon by all societies and integrate go there. us at Sinai is surrounded by the seeming- mandments. Th ese ten rules are them into the Ten Commandments which Being that the owner of the homicidal ox ly unrelated concept of civil law is because Athe pillars on which the rest of the are uniquely Jewish? did not have to be overly cautious the fi rst THESE ARE NOT CIVIL LAWS. Torah and Jewish lifestyle are based on. In Parshas Mishpatim there is a civil law few times absolves him of the full charge. Th ese are laws to govern each specifi c Th ey cover the basic concepts of Judaism that goes like this: When one’s ox gores Th is is because the Torah judges the person person in how to live his life. Th ey are fun- ranging from belief in Hashem to Shabbos, someone else’s ox then the owner of the based on HIS obligations, and what a victim damental in defi ning what a Jew is and who murder, active jealousy, etc. and defi ne what off ending animal only has to pay half the should receive is commensurate with that. he should be, in the same vein as the Ten it means to be a Jew. value of the victim. Th is is continued aft er a Th ere are many scenarios that can arise Commandments. And yet, for some reason, the story of the second and even third attack. But, aft er the where one feels the judicial right to attack Th e Torah says you have to believe in receiving of the Torah is bookended by the fourth, the owner will have to pay full value. another person, however, a perceived of- Hashem and the Torah says you have an arranging of a judicial system on the open- Th e reason given as to why the fourth of- fence is not necessarily a halachic off ense. obligation to impose a higher level of guard- ing end and the (mainly) monetary laws of fence is considered a more serious off ence For example: ianship on your animal when the need is Parshas Mishpatim at the other. (hence the harsher punishment) is because Someone owns a pizza store for many there. Why would the Torah choose to take being that it is now an established goring ox, years. Suddenly he fi nds that another, sim- Shmuel Moshe Benjamin is a distinguished these basic laws that, for the most part, are the owner should have watched it better. ilar, store has opened right nearby. Now, Magid Shiur and prolifi c writer.

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By Harav Shlomo Aschkenasy He always put the Torah “before Rosh Kollel of the Bostoner Kollel in Har himself” both in the area of bein Nof, Israel adam laMakom as well as in the area of bein adam lechaveiro. One hen you plan a vacation, of Rav Aharon Leib’s descendants what’s the first concern once queried him about his great Wof most people? Is the hasmadah. He asked him if it was location a scenic one? Is the cui- true that for six years while in Swit- sine gourmet food? Does the place zerland he never slept on a bed. Rav have elegant rooms and well-kept Aharon Leib responded in his de- grounds? murring style with a smile, “It’s true All of these are most important but it wasn’t because I was such a big factors and warrant doing good re- masmid. I just couldn’t take a chance search. But for the Torah-true Jew and sleep on a bed because I wasn’t these are not the top priority. First sure that there was no shatnez on and foremost are the questions about the mattress.” For him the danger kashrus. What is the hechsher of the of shatnez stood before his bodily products being used? Who is the needs. Rabbi Shlomo Aschkenasy Rav responsible for the supervision? When it came to bein adam Such are the questions of the tru- lechaveiro, he was also infinitely ry theme of the parashah is inter- Navi goes so far as to say that “your ly observant Jew whose Yiddishkeit careful. There was a situation where personal relations and liabilities. holidays are disdainful to Me.” The comes before his comfort. Torah ful- Rav Aharon Leib was on a trip and It is surprising to find the laws of Gra explains that this refers to how fillment and adhering to its restric- had to borrow a yarmulke for some eved ivri at the beginning. It’s not Am Yisrael fulfill the mitzvah of tions take priority over everything time. A member of the family no- the most common thing, so why oneg Shabbos. else. ticed that Rav Aharon Leib repeat- should the parashah begin with its Oneg Shabbos is meant to be for This is the spirit of the interpreta- edly picked up his hands and then rules? The Ramban notes that it is the sake of Shabbos, not for our own tion of the first passuk in this week’s but them down. Curious to know given prominence because the num- sake. It is an opportunity to bring parashah, as given by Reb Bunim of why, he asked Rav Aharon Leib ber seven plays a major role in it. joy and pleasure to the Shabbos. By Psyzcha, zy”a, the father of Polish whether he was davening or saying This heightens our awareness of the virtue of oneg Shabbos we recog- Chassidus. Tehillim? Source of our existence. It focuses nize Hashem’s goodness and can ap- The passuk speaks about, “the Laughingly, Rav Aharon Leib re- our attention on the fact that what- preciate the pleasant elements with mishpatim which you should put sponded, “No, I wasn’t reaching out ever we possess is thanks to Hashem, Hashem has endowed our world. before them” (Shemos 21:1). Reb to Heaven. I had a hard time con- Who created everything in seven The neshamah yeseirah which we Bunim in his cryptic style com- trolling myself. My scalp was irritat- days. It accentuates the responsibil- are granted on Shabbos refines all ments, “put the mishpatim before ing me intensively and I felt a need ity of a master to his slave, remind- of our senses so that we can enjoy themselves!” Moshe was told not to scratch it. Instinctively I raised ing the master that he himself is a the pleasurable aspects of the world only to impart information, but also my hands to do so, but since I am servant of the Master of the world, and connect them to Hashem with to teach them how to relate to it. He careful never to scratch my head bound by His will. Chazal go so far gratitude to Him. Oneg Shabbos should inject them with enthusiasm with my bare hands and I only do as to say that whoever acquires an puts us in good spirits so that our and fear for G-d’s commandments it with my kippa. I was in a bind. eved ivri acquires a master for him- physical demands cooperate with which puts mitzvos above everything The person who lent me the kippa self because he must give priority to our spiritual aspirations and allow else. Their importance makes them gave it to me to wear – not to scratch the comforts of the eved before his us to become uplifted by the higher be the first and foremost thing they myself with it. My hands went up own! This message affects all of our elements of Torah and the inner es- think about in any situation. to scratch, but I forced them down interpersonal dealings and connects sence of Shabbos. A tzaddik in our time who lived lest I transgress an iota of the pro- them to Hashem. Eved ivri shows Thus the higher goal of Shabbos, by this principle was Hagaon Hatza- hibition of using something without us that all members of Am Yisrael, which is to come closer and attach ddik Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman, permission.” regardless of their position in the ourselves to Hashem, should be the zt”l. He wasn’t a chassid of Psyz- For Rav Aharon Leib the danger hierarchy of society, are under the superior element of all of our Shab- cha but he personified the princi- of getting a scratch on his neshamah auspices of Hashem’s guiding light. bos observance. The joy of the Shab- ples Reb Bunim espoused. Like the took precedence over the relief of There is another angle of Torah bos, that we honor it with special Chofetz Chaim in his time of whom scratching his head. observance to which the concept clothes and meals, the pleasure we the saintly Belzer Rav, Rav Aharon, What can arouse in us such a high of putting Torah before ourselves give to Shabbos by making all as- zy”a, said that he achieved the level level of devotion and commitment is applied. The Vilna Gaon in his pects of our existence have spiritual and quality of avodah like one of the to Torah and its mitzvos? The Ram- comments on the passuk in Yeshaya value, that is the essence of Shab- talmidei Baal Shem Tov. So too the ban points to a puzzling aspect of (1:12), which describe Hashem’s bos. To do that we have to put our displeasure with the way Am Yisrael Klausenberger Rebbe, zy”a, said of our parashah which can serve as a Continued on page 9 Rav Aharon Leib, zt”l. source of inspiration. 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PROPERLY FOCUSED Thus, if we put Torah before our- Continued from Page 8 selves, it will take us out of our ego- istic selves. We will be able to the To- World’s Oldest Man Dies own interests aside and focus on the rah inspired evolution from earthly The world’s oldest man — who Shabbos – putting it before ourselves homo sapien to sublime holy peo- spent his days soaking in Japan’s – above our natural physical incli- ple. As the Kotzker Rebbe said: “We hot springs and watching sumo nations. Otherwise Hashem abhors are enjoined to be ‘anshei kodesh’ wrestling — died on January 20. our holidays, because they are ours (Shemos 22:30) mentchlich heilig, He was 113. and not His. They become days of humanely holy.” While being normal Masazo Nonaka died peaceful- self-centered gratification instead of people involved in a mundane ex- ly in his sleep at home in Ashoro, spiritual elevation. istence everything should permeate his family said. The Vilna Gaon says that this is with holiness. We needn’t be angels “We feel shocked at the loss of the secret of the special ingredient out of this world, we must bring ho- this big figure,” his granddaughter Yuko Nonaka told Kyodo News. “He which gives Shabbos foods a special liness into this world by giving To- didn’t have any health problem. … He went peacefully and that’s at least taste. Only someone who observes rah precedence and supremacy in our consolation.” the commandments of Shabbos and everything. The supercentenarian was certified by Guiness World Records in April is inspired by them to growth in in With this thought in mind we 2018 as the world’s oldest living man at 112 years and 259 days. emunah and feels a greater connec- conclude the parshiyos of Shovavim Born on July 25, 1905, Nonaka grew up with seven siblings and even- tion to Hashem will be able to sense from the beginning of Shemos until tually took over running the hot springs inn the family had operated the special fragrance endowed by Mishpatim to take us out of Mitz- in their home for four generations. The 106-year-old inn is now run by Hashem to food. The Baal Shem rayim and enable our evolution Yuko. Tov too said that the good taste of from slaves of Pharaoh to become The wheelchair-bound Nonaka moved around the inn wearing his food is a function of the spiritual servants of Hashem. This empowers trademark knit cap and regularly soaked in the springs. He loved eating spark that is in it. A person who eats us to read parashas Shekalim and sweets, especially cake. food properly can elevate that spark prepare to give shekalim for ser- After breakfast every morning, he’d read a newspaper and loved to from its physical masquerade, and vice in the Beis Hamikdash which watch sumo wrestling and samurai dramas on TV. the spiritual spark will in turn ele- epitomizes the consecration of the Nonaka had outlived all of his siblings as well as two of the five chil- vate the person to greater heights material world to the sanctity of dren he had with his wife, who died in 1992 of spirituality. Thanks to the ne- Hashem’s Name. May we merit ac- The world’s oldest living person is also Japanese — Kane Tanaka, a shamah yeseirah this is more readily tually fulfilling this mitzvah very 116-year-old woman from Fukuoka. achieved on Shabbos. soon!

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Reading the arti- been writing about more recently. cle, I believe, may give us ideas how For example, I’ve never had a to maximize our concentration as social media account, and though we approach learning our Daf Yomi I may have missed out on various or any other Torah endeavor. It may small advantages here and there, also apply to our day to day sched- I’m convinced that it has had large uling and relationship with friends positive impacts on my profession- and family. Of course, people who have cantly reduce your performance due to habit formation vs. willpower, too, al output and personal satisfaction. been learning Torah a long time I am the cost of context switching. right? TH: Which brings us full circle to sure have already conditioned them- TH: You use a term in your book to CN: Right. Deep work is demanding, your final rule of deep work: “Drain selves to pay attention and put aside describe that feeling: attention residue. and our brains, which are evolved to the shallows.” What does that mean, all the narishkeit, but it never hurts What exactly do you mean by that, and avoid unnecessary energy expenditure, and how do we do it? to hear a fresh approach. As I say, this what’s the reason for it? Is there a way therefore try to avoid it if possible. CN: “Shallow work” is my term article may not be benefi cial to every- to actually avoid it? We’re simply not evolved to give con- for anything that doesn’t require one, but it at least gives us fresh food centration the same priority that we uninterrupted concentration. This for thought. CN: Every time you switch your at- might give to evading a charging lion. includes, for example, most admin- tention from one target to another and Th erefore, you cannot rely on willpow- istrative tasks like answering email HOW TO ACTUALLY, TRULY then back again, there’s a cost. Th is er alone. You need all the help you can or scheduling meetings. If you allow FOCUS ON WHAT YOU’RE DOING switching creates an eff ect that psy- get to trick yourself into getting started your schedule to become dominated chologists call attention residue, which with this activity. by shallow work, you’ll never find By Tim Herrera can reduce your cognitive capacity for TH: So, great, we’ve got a strategy time to do the deep efforts that re- “Deep work,” a concept coined by a non-trivial amount of time before it to build habits around deep work and ally move the needle. It’s really im- one of my favorite thinkers in this clears. If you constantly make “quick to actually do it. What’s rule two? portant, therefore, that you work to space, Cal Newport. He published a checks” of various devices and inboxes, CN: The second rule is to “embrace aggressively minimize optional shal- book in 2016 by that name, and in it he you essentially keep yourself in a state boredom.” The broader point here is low work and then be very organ- details his philosophy and strategy for of persistent attention residue, which is that the ability to concentrate is a skill ized and productive about how you actually focusing on the things we can a terrible idea if you’re someone who that you have to train if you expect to execute what remains. It’s not that do and accomplish. uses your brain to make a living. do it well. A simple way to get started shallow work is bad, but that its op- Th is week I’ve invited Cal, whose TH: You outline the four rules of training this ability is to frequently posite, deep work, is so valuable that new book, “Digital Minimalism,” deep work in your book, which I think expose yourself to boredom. If you you have to do everything you can to comes out next month, to talk about is a great place to start for someone instead always whip out your phone make room for it. how to do deep work, why it matters who’s just learning about these ideas. and bathe yourself in novel stimuli at TH: Th at’s perfect. I’m taking this and how we can use it in our lives. Let’s go through them. What is the fi rst the slightest hint of boredom, your to be permission to ignore all of my Tim Herrera: Hey, Cal! Th anks so rule of deep work, and how do I apply brain will build a Pavlovian connec- emails, and now I’m going to go delete much for chatting with me this week. it to my life? tion between boredom and stimuli, my Twitter. Th anks so much for chat- For those who don’t know: What ex- CN: Th e fi rst rule is to “work deep- which means that when it comes time ting, Cal. Any last words on how we can actly is deep work? ly.” Th e idea here is that if you want to to think deeply about something (a make deep work work in our lives? Cal Newport: Deep work is my term successfully integrate more deep work boring task, at least in the sense that CN: When it comes to topics like for the activity of focusing without dis- into your professional life, you cannot it lacks moment-to-moment novel- distraction in the workplace, my phi- traction on a cognitively demanding just wait until you fi nd yourself with ty), your brain won’t tolerate it. losophy is that instead of focusing too task. It describes, in other words, when lots of free time and in the mood to TH: Which is a perfect segue into much on what’s bad about distractions, you’re really locked into doing some- concentrate. You have to actively fi ght your third rule of deep work. it’s important to step back and remem- thing hard with your mind. to incorporate this into your schedule. CN: The third rule is to “quit social ber what’s so valuable about its oppo- TH: So, like, closing your email tab It helps, for example, to include deep media.” The basic idea is that peo- site. Concentration is like a super pow- or putting your phone in a drawer? work blocks on my calendar like meet- ple need to be way more intention- er in most knowledge work pursuits. If CN: Right. In order for a session to ings or appointments and then protect al and selective about what apps and you take the time to cultivate this pow- count as deep work there must be zero them as you would a meeting or ap- services they allow into their digital er, you’ll never look back. distractions. Even a quick glance at pointment. lives. If you only focus on possible Have a great week! your phone or email inbox can signifi - TH: And that has a lot to do with advantages, you’ll end up, like so — Tim THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 11 Parsha Shiur by Rabbi Mayer Friedman פרשת משפטים “And if men quarrel, and one strikes cursed Cham’s son Canaan that he the other with a stone or with a fi st, would always be a slave to the other and he does not die but is confi ned to brothers. Th us, the curse was given be- bed” (21:18) cause Cham sinned with his eyes and Even within this section of civil law, his teeth. But when a Canaanite slave the Torah does not just tell us the law in suff ers an injury to his tooth or eye, for a crime, but also provides context to then the off ending body part has re- explain how these things happen. Th e ceived its punishment and the person Midrash on this posuk says that one himself is entitled to his freedom. person only strikes another if they are fi rst fi ghting. Nothing good comes of “And you shall be holy people to a fi ght. Th e Torah explains this to us Me, and fl esh torn in the fi eld you so that we can avoid these situations by shall not eat; you shall throw it to the avoiding arguments in the fi rst place. dog” (22:30) Th e Midrash also adds that fi ghting Rabbi Mayer Friedman Why is this mitzvah introduced with never leads to peace. Sometimes people the injunction to “be holy people” to insist of arguing and believe that they are multiple generations of children con- dents!” Hashem? Th e Mechilta comments: “Isi can convince the other person to see tained within that single fetus. If that ben Yehuda said: When Hashem adds a things their way, thereby restoring peace. fetus were to live, it would bear children “And if a man strikes the eye of his new mitzvah for the Jewish people, He However, the truth is that fi ghting never and be the source for many more future manservant or the eye of his maidser- grants them additional holiness.” Every has a peaceful outcome. generations. Th is is akin to Hashem’s vant and destroys it, he shall set him mitzvah makes us holier. Our sanctity Th e fallout of fi ghting can be both accusation of Kayin aft er he murdered free in return for his eye” (21:26) depends on our involvement in mitzvos physical and spiritual. Rashi on Deva- Hevel: “Th e voice of the bloods of your Why is a Canaanite slave emancipat- and we express this conviction in the rim 25:1 points to Lot as an example of brother cry out to me from the ground.” ed when his owner knocks out his tooth blessing we recite before performing someone who deteriorated spiritually as Th e plural of “bloods” refers to the many or puts out his eye? Why does this law a mitzvah, which states that Hashem the result of a fi ght. Certainly Lot was future generations that were murdered diff er from the law of the Jewish serv- “sanctifi ed us through His mitzvos.” It attracted to the culture of Sodom, but with the death of Hevel. Here too, the ant? Rabbeinu Bachya explains that the is not just the act of the mitzvah, which the only reason for his move there was Torah refers to a single miscarriage as reason for this law can be traced back is holy, but also the eff ect that the mitz- because of his quarrel with Avraham and the death of “children” so that we recog- to the original designation of the Ca- vah has on us. Mitzvos make us better the disagreement between their shep- nize the magnitude of the tragedy when naanites as slaves. When their ancestor people, train us to improve and to live a herds. Th ese powerful ideas should give such a situation occurs. Cham saw his father Noach uncovered, certain type of lifestyle. In short, when us pause before engaging in arguments. Of course, the same idea holds true he went to tell his brothers about what we perform mitzvos, we become people in the positive sense as well. When one he had seen. When Noach awoke, he of holiness. “And should men quarrel and hit a saves a life, one rescues many lives be- pregnant woman, and she miscarries cause there are future generations that but there is no fatality, he shall surely be will be born because of this salvation. Aft er Pittsburgh punished, when the woman’s husband When one teaches Torah to a person makes demands of him, and he shall and encourages him to do mitzvos, it By Rabbi Shmuel Moss pay according to the judges” (21:22) has an impact beyond that single indi- Th e Torah describes the victim’s mis- vidual. It carries over to that person’s Th e dead are crying out; carriage as “her children come out,” descendant who will follow aft er him as their voices joined with the blood of seemingly referring to multiple children. well. the millennia Th e Mechilta says that because of this we Th ere is a well-known story told Dripping down cheeks like tears might have thought that this law only ap- about R’ Shlomo Heiman, a Rosh Yeshi- fl owing ever so slowly without stop- plied when a woman miscarried twins. It va in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. One time, ping is only because the posuk begins by de- only two students showed up to his class For their blood mixes with that of the martyrs, scribing the victim as “a pregnant wom- because there was a major blizzard. De- With those whose lives ended an” that we apply this law to all miscar- spite the paltry attendance, he gave the in the last sound of screams cut by Cossacks’ swords, riages, whether involving single fetuses shiur with the same attitude and deliv- Or remains mixed in the ashes scooped out from the ovens; or multiples. ery as if the room had been full. Aft er- And all fl owing down the stream of time However, this seems strange. When wards, his students asked why he hadn’t rising up toward heaven listing the basic cases of civil law, the To- scaled his lecture back to a more infor- With the trails of smoke crying out: rah usually sticks to the most common mal level because of the small attend- when, oh when will this end; scenarios. Why does the example given ance. His response was: “Do you think When, oh when will the promise of eternity be fulfi lled for a situation when someone causes a I am only giving this shiur to the two of And we will be able to live, to live as God said we would! woman to miscarry involve twins? Rab- you? I am giving this shiur to you, your How sad, how tragic the never-ending fl ow of blood; bi Friedman suggests that even when a future children, your future students, When, oh when will it stop, and all will be; just be - in peace, shalom! woman is pregnant with one child, there and all their future children and stu- Page 12 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE The Art Aficionado Discussing the Work of Mané-Katz

By Jacob Benjamin he associated with Chaim Soutine he had exhibited in the Salons. He and Marc Chagall and continued stayed in Paris until the end of his mmanuel Mané-Katz born his art studies there at the Beaux career, and there he worked happi- Mane Leyzerovich Kats Arts Academy. ly, painting hundreds of portraits E (1894–1962), was a painter During World War I, he tried to of rabbis and works of Jewish sym- born in Ukraine, best known for his join the Foreign Legion but was re- bolism. In making these images his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in jected because he was too short. He dominant theme, he subconsciously Eastern Europe. Raised in an ortho- returned to Russia again, this time was attempting to satisfy his father, dox Jewish family in Russia, Mané joining the Soviet Revolution but who had wanted him to be a rabbi. was an artist known especially for rejected the cause because he was so While in Paris, he became an im- portraits and paintings with Jewish horrified by Josef Stalin. He worked portant member of the “School of themes. From childhood, he had briefly for the Russian ballet, and Paris” (Ecolé de Paris) - a group of rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, been influenced by stories of Jewish in 1921, he returned to Paris where young artists, many of them Jews, Yeshiva students and scenes from mysticism, which was reflected in he took French citizenship. For the who arrived in Paris from Eastern the East European shtetl. his paintings. next twelve years, he traveled wide- and Central Europe at the beginning Many people do not understand or He had a peripatetic life be- ly, showing his artwork and creating of the 20th century. They changed appreciate the work of Manè-Katz. tween Russia, France, Israel, and many paintings. the face of art in France between the His style is expressionist, which America. He left his parents In 1939, as World War II was two world wars, and quickly partic- means there is a lot of movement to home at the young age of 19, and breaking out, he was drafted by the ipated actively in the avant-garde, figures and space, the fluidity creat- always felt he had disappointed French and then was taken pris- taking a prominent role in estab- ing liveliness in even a simple land- his father, who had wanted him to oner by the Germans. He escaped lishing Paris as the capital of the art scape. become a Rabbi. He studied art in and went to the United States and world, filled with new and extraor- His works are widely collected by Kiev at the Beaux Arts Academy, remained there until 1945. After dinary creative power. distinguished private collectors and and in 1913, went to Paris where the war, he returned to Paris where Early on, his style was classical and important institutions. The Manè- somber, but his palette changed in Katz Museum is in Haifa, Israel at a later years to bright, primary colors, mountaintop villa that was once the with an emphasis on Jewish themes. home of the artist. His oils feature Hassidic characters, Jacob Benjamin has been dealing in Fine Art for several years. He has worked closely with several major NY auction houses, and most recent- ly has assisted in curating and deac- cessioning important private collec- tions. To contact him with inquiries, he can be reached at Artcurialselect@ Yahoo.com THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 13

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Zeresh was suggesting that Haman Th ey all have a spark of Moshe inside sink down to the lowest depths of them. Haman did not know that “On “tumah,” to the fi ft ieth level, the fi ft i- the seventh ... he was born” refers to eth “amah.” He should build the fi ft y Moshe’s rebirth into tzaddikim, which “amah” gallows with the fi ft y levels of began on the seventh, immediately “tumah.” At that level, he would be able when he died. to defeat Mordechai, who certainly was And at what level does that spark en- not greater than Moshe Rabbaynu, who ter them? At the level that Moshe was had only attained the forty-ninth level on when he died, which was the fi ft ieth of kedusha. level of wisdom. Every gadol hador has Until now, Hashem saved various within him the potential to reach that THE WISDOM OF THE Jews from many diff erent means of level. Mordechai, as the gadol hador death because they always had kedu- of his generation, had this power of sha to save them. But if Haman would Moshe within him. He had the power of MEGILLAH plunge down to the fi ft ieth level of tu- the fi ft ieth level of kedusha, with which mah, it will surely countermand what- he could defeat Haman. Th is was the By Harav Noach Isaac Oelbaum THE GREAT PLAN OF EVIL ever levels of kedusha Mordechai has power of Mordechai. And Zeresh his wife and all his loved (which can’t be more than Moshe’s for- Th ere was a man (ish) a Jew in he Chasam Sofer (in Drashos, ones told him, “Make gallows fi ft y ty-nine), and there Haman will be able Shushan Habirah (Esther 2:5). Mor- vol. 1, p. 164) says something Amos high” (Esther 5:14). destroy him. dechai is described as “ish.” Th e Mid- Tso amazing about Megillas Es- Zeresh advised Haman to hang Mor- Th is was her brilliant plan to defeat rash (Esther 2:6) points out that Moshe ther that we can only believe it because dechai on wooden gallows fi ft y Amos Mordechai. Rabbaynu, too, is described as “ish”: someone as holy as the Chasam Sofer high. Chazal praise the great wisdom “And the man (ish) Moshe was very said it! He says that the megillah, be- of her advice. Chazal say that Zeresh THE POWER OF MORDECHAI humble” (Bamidbar 12:3). Th is teach- cause the Jews accepted it willingly, told Haman that throughout history, What needs to be understood is how es us, explains the Midrash, that Mor- has so much kedusha that it is in some Hashem saved tzaddikim from many indeed Mordechai overcame the power dechai in his generation was equal to respect greater than the holy Torah it- diff erent vehicles of destruction. Noach of Haman? Where did he get the strength Moshe in his generation. Mordechai self, which was accepted with an aspect was saved from the waters of the Mabul; to fi ght the fi ft ieth level of tumah? For actually reached that highest level of of force. Amazing! And this is despite Avraham Avinu, as well as Chananya, this, we must understand the power of kedusha, the fi ft ieth level. the fact that Hashem’ s Name does not Misha’el, and Azaryah, were saved from Moshe Rabbaynu. Firstly, according to appear even one time in the megillah. a burning furnace. Th roughout histo- the Arizal and the Megillah Amukos, THE SECRETS WITHIN THE What could possibly be the meaning of ry, HaKodesh Baruch Hu had already Moshe Rabbaynu had forty-nine levels MEGILLAH such a shocking statement? What ke- proven that He can save Mordechai from of wisdom during his lifetime, but be- When Mordechai Hatzaddik wrote dusha in Megillas Esther is the Chasam almost any punishment Haman could fore his death, Hashem granted him the the megillah, all his levels of wisdom and Sofer referring to? devise. So, Zeresh said, we must devise a highest level, the fi ft ieth level. kedusha went into it. Of course, most Actually, the Arizal (in sefer Pri Eitz new plan in order to successfully kill him. Secondly, the Gemorah (Megillah people can’t see it; it is well hidden. But Chaim) says something equally amaz- Hang him! Hashem has not yet saved 13b) tells us that Haman was over- the megillah was written with the fi ft ieth ing. He says that during the time of the anyone from hanging. Hanging him will joyed when the goral (lot) came out in level of kedusha. It was actually, in some Purim story, the Jews were privileged to work. Brilliant advice! the month of Adar, because this is the respect, on a higher level than the Torah, “oros” (spiritual lights) that the world had Many commentaries struggle to un- month in which Moshe Rabbaynu Sec- because Moshe Rabbaynu received the never seen before. Imagine! Th roughout derstand this Midrash. If Hashem can ondly, the Gemorah (Megillah 13b) tells Torah before he had attained the fi ft ieth Klal Yisrael’ s entire history, they never save someone from the Mabul and from us that Haman was overjoyed when the level of wisdom. He had only forty-nine experienced spirituality the likes of Pu- a burning fi re, surely He can save some- died. However, he did not know that on levels at that time. Perhaps this is what rim. Not at Kriyas Yam Suf, when even one from any type of a danger! What is so the seventh of Adar Moshe died, and on the Chasam Sofer implies when he says a maidservant saw more than the great special about hanging that Hashem can’t the seventh of Adar Moshe was born. that the oros found in the megillah are Navi Yechezkel. Not at Matan Torah, thwart it as well? Haman didn’t know that Moshe Rabba- greater than that of the Torah. when the sky opened for them. Not dur- Rav Yehudah Moderni (in sefer Pri ynu is reincarnated in every generation. Of course, the Torah that Hashem has ing the fi rst Bais Hamikdash, when there Ha’ Eitz, Parshas Tetzaveh) explains as He didn’t know that aft er his death, in Heaven is on a higher. level. Howev- were constant miracles. Th e world never follows: Th e Gemorah in Rosh Hashan- Moshe is constantly reborn. er, it was given to Moshe only at the experienced oros of kedusha as powerful ah (21b) says that fi ft y levels of wisdom Th is is explained by Rav Yonasan forty-ninth level, and that’s how it was as those felt at the time of Purim. - and kedusha - were created in the Eibshutz who asked (in sefer Ya’ aros passed down to Klal Yisrael. Th e Arizal adds that we were not only world, and Moshe Rabbaynu attained Devash) on the Gemorah above: fi rst a Now we see why there is such a tre- zoche to these oros of kedusha when the all of them, except one. Moshe pos- person is born and then he dies, so why mendous power of kedusha in the me- miracle of Purim actually took place. sessed forty-nine levels of wisdom. does the Gemorah reverse it, mention- gillah. Purim is the day that we can tap Th ese oros of kedusha reoccur every year “Th is opposite this,” Hashem creat- ing his death fi rst? He answers that the in to some of that kedusha. May the Ri- when Purim comes. Th is means that ed (Koheles 7:14). Everything Hashem power of Moshe is passed down to the bono Shel Olam give us the wisdom to every year, if a person really tries to be created in this world has a parallel. Th e gadol hador of each generation. Th e use the holy day of Purim properly so worthy, he can be granted tremendous world is a perfect balance. If there are Gemorah oft en refers to a “talmid Cha- that we can absorb all that it has to off er. levels of kedusha, just as Klal Yisrael was fi ft y levels of “kedusha,” then there are cham” as Moshe, even if his name is not Rabbi Oelbaum is the Moreh D’Asra of granted through the Purim miracle. fi ft y levels of “tumah.” (We are all famil- Moshe. Th e reason for this is because Congregation Nachlas Yitzchak, a recog- What is the special greatness of the iar with the Arizal who says that Klal there is a spark of Moshe within him. nized Talmud Chachim, a noted Posek, Yom Tov Purim and of the Megillas Es- Yisrael in Mitzrayim almost sunk into Even though Moshe Rabbaynu passed author of many seforim, and popular ther? the fi ft ieth level of “tumah.”) away, he is reborn in future gedolim. world-class lecturer. THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 15 How Exercise May Help Keep Our Memory Sharp By Gretchen Reynolds Th ose issues attracted the attention Th ey infused the brains of the an- But the animals that had been una- of an international consortium of imals bred to have dementia with a ble to create irisin did not benefi t much risin, a hormone that is released scientists — some of them neurosci- concentrated dose of irisin. Th ose mice from exercise. Aft er exposure to beta during exercise, may improve brain entists, others cell biologists — all of soon began to perform better on mem- amyloid, they performed about as Ihealth and lessen the damage that whom were focused on preventing, ory tests and show signs of improved poorly on memory tests as sedentary occurs during Alzheimer’s disease. treating and understanding Alzheim- synaptic health. animals with beta amyloid in their A hormone that is released during er’s disease. At the same time, they soaked the brains. exercise may improve brain health Th ose concerns had brought a hor- brains of the healthy animals with a Taken as a whole, these experiments and lessen the damage and memory mone called irisin into their sphere of substance that inhibits production of suggest that exercise may protect irisin and then pumped in a form of against dementia in part by triggering beta amyloid, a protein that clumps an increase in the amount of irisin in together to form plaques in the brains the brain, says Ottavio Arancio, a pro- of those with Alzheimer’s. In eff ect, fessor of pathology and cell biology at they gave the mice dementia. And, Columbia University, who conducted without any irisin in their brains, the the research along with two dozen col- once-healthy mice soon showed signs leagues from the Federal University of of worsening memory and poor func- Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Queen’s Uni- tion in the synapses between neurons in versity in Canada and other institu- their hippocampus. tions. Th e scientists also looked inside indi- But the experiments, although elab- vidual neurons from healthy mice and orate and multipronged, used mice, found that, when they added irisin to and so cannot tell us if exercise and the cells, gene expression changed in irisin will work similarly in people, or ways that would be expected to lessen how much and what types of exercise damage from beta amyloid. might be best for brain health. Th e re- Finally and perhaps most important, sults also do not show whether exercise loss that occur during dementia, a new interest. Irisin, fi rst identifi ed in 2012 the scientists had healthy mice work and irisin can prevent Alzheimer’s, but study fi nds. Th e study, which was pub- and named for Iris, the gods’ messen- out, swimming for an hour almost every only that they seem to allay some of lished this month in Nature Medicine, ger in Greek mythology, is produced by day for fi ve weeks. Beforehand, some of the eff ects of the disease in mice once involved mice, but its fi ndings could help muscles during exercise. Th e hormone the animals also were treated with the it begins. to explain how, at a molecular level, exer- jump-starts multiple biochemical re- cise protects our brains and possibly pre- actions throughout the body, most of serves memory and thinking skills, even them related to energy metabolism. in people whose pasts are fading. Because Alzheimer’s disease is be- Considerable scientifi c evidence al- lieved to involve, in part, changes in ready demonstrates that exercise re- how brain cells use energy, the scien- models brains and aff ects thinking. Re- tists reasoned that exercise might be searchers have shown in rats and mice helping to protect brains by increasing that running ramps up the creation of levels of irisin there. new brain cells in the hippocampus, a But if so, they realized, irisin would portion of the brain devoted to memory have to exist in human brains. To see formation and storage. Exercise also can if it did, they gathered tissues from improve the health and function of the brain banks and, using sophisticated synapses between neurons there, allow- testing, found irisin there. Gene ex- ing brain cells to better communicate. pression patterns in those tissues also In people, epidemiological research suggested that much of this irisin had indicates that being physically active been created in the brain itself. Levels reduces the risk for Alzheimer’s dis- of the hormone were especially high ease and other dementias and may also in the brains of people who were free slow disease progression. of dementia when they died, but were substance that blocks irisin production. Th e scientists involved in the study But many questions remain about barely detectable in the brains of peo- In the untreated animals, irisin levels hope soon to test a pharmaceutical just how exercise alters the inner ple who had died with Alzheimer’s. in the brain blossomed during the exer- form of irisin as a treatment for de- workings of the brain and whether Th ose tests, however, though inter- cise training and later, aft er the animals’ mentia in animals and eventually peo- the eff ects are a result of changes else- esting, could not tell scientists what brains were exposed to beta amyloid, ple, especially those who have lost the where in the body that also happen role irisin might be playing in brains. they seemed to fi ght off its eff ects, per- ability to exercise, Dr. Arancio says. to be good for the brain or whether So the researchers now turned to mice, forming signifi cantly better on memory But for now, he says, the overarching the changes actually occur within the some healthy and others bred to devel- tests than sedentary control mice that lesson of the study would seem to be brain itself. op a rodent form of Alzheimer’s. likewise had been exposed. that “if you can, go for a walk.” Page 16 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Current Events from Israel By Rabbi Ben Packer teresting to see if he can climb out of it. LAST WEEK TODAY -Expect a lot more to happen! Crazy winter weather has hit Isra- el and I decided to write the update JERUSALEM a little earlier this week, just in case The Supreme Court recently we lose....can’t even say it! Honestly re-affirmed the eviction of a large I don’t even know where our pow- property in the Jerusalem neighbor- er lines are in the Old City, but they hood of Shimon HaTzadik (Sheikh generally don’t go down and if they Jarrah to the Arabs). The particular do, we can always go pray at the property is located very near to the Western Wall that it will come back tomb of the famous Sage, Shimon soon. HaTzadik. (Google him). There has not been an eviction of Arab squat- SYRIA ters in this area in the past 10 years. There was recently a serious ter- The evictions of virtually all the rorist attack by ISIS on a patrol in other properties in the neighbor- northern Syria and four US soldiers hood have been held up by similar were killed and others wounded. arguments to the one just rejected This is a very serious escalation and by the Supreme Court. In short, this is definitely connected to stated US is just the beginning. plans to leave Syria in the near fu- Stay warm and dry. I need you to ture. There has been a clear uptick be healthy to be able to continue in the number of ISIS terror activ- reading these important updates! ity in the past few weeks. Might be the animal kicking before it dies or Rabbi Ben Packer THIS WEEK TODAY an actual resurgence. Remains to ESCALATIONS! Lots of them! be seen. Will be hard for President found murdered in their Jerusalem what can be eventually proven. Trump to ignore this attack. Oth- apartment last week, not far from a ESCALATION IN THE NORTH erwise, Syria is quiet as President previous terrorist stabbing. Current- ELECTIONS This week saw a serious escalation Assad continues to consolidate his ly the details of the investigation are Much is still to be decided as to between Israel and Iran/Syria. It position, both domestically and in- under a gag order, but all signs point who is even running together in the started out relatively routine: Israel ternationally. to terrorism and many are openly coming Israeli Knesset elections. We bombs Iranian positions in Syria. suggesting that the two incidents found out a few things this week: Syria lies and claims to have thwart- A SIXTH HEZBOLLAH TERROR are likely linked. The neighborhood, -Yair Lapid will not be running ed the attack. Israel doesn’t claim TUNNEL FOUND Armon HaNatziv, borders an Arab with Tzipi Livni the attack. Carry on as usual. Last week, a sixth tunnel from neighborhood known for terror, Ja- But then things changed: a large Lebanon into Israel was found by Is- mal Mekaber. Don’t have to be Sher- -United Torah Judaism will be surface-to-surface missile was shot raeli combat engineers. It has been lock Holmes to figure this one out. running together (Chassidic and at Israel from Syria over Mount Her- reported that this is the final tun- non-Chassidic ultra-Orthodox mon - the highest point of the Golan nel that exists. Pretty confident, no? JEWISH TERROR? parties). Personal prediction: I Heights. Mount Hermon was full of Without to sound too over-confi- As was reported two weeks ago, a think they’ll get 7-8 seats this time. families playing in the snow. Once dent myself, it would seem that the group of Jewish youths were arrest- They’ve been stuck below that for a over Mount Hermon, the rocket was findings of the six tunnels were all ed on suspicion of throwing a stone while and I think their quick unity shot down by Israel’s Iron Dome sys- based on received intelligence info at a car that resulted in the death of will pay off this time). tem - as tons of Israeli kids watched. that indicated that there were six an Arab woman. Since then, four of -Betzalel Smotrich was elected This wasn’t the first time that such tunnels and more or less where they them have been released and, as of head of the right-wing National Un- a missile was shot at Israel, but this were located. Realistically, these now, no potential indictments have ion faction. It is believed that he is time it was in broad daylight and tunnels were not in the best shape been indicated for them. However, keen to include the far-right parties aimed to hit Israel. Israel’s response and one has to wonder how much the prosecution has announced that in some sort of partnership. This was quite intense and many Iranian of a real threat they presented. Of they intend to indict the fifth youth would be a big deal for the right. positions in Syria were destroyed course, it remains to be seen if any (16 years old) for manslaughter in Prime Minister Netanyahu imme- and both Iranian and Syrian soldiers additional tunnels are found what the death of the Arab woman. No diately called Smotrich to congrat- were killed. This time, Israel took that will mean. For now seems like evidence has been provided to the ulate him on his victory. He didn’t full credit for the attacks and dared more of a psychological victory over public as of yet and the defense at- do that to be nice. His future gov- Iran to respond. No response as of Hezbollah than a military one. torney is screaming that there isn’t ernment very well might depend on yet. any. I don’t think either of these Smotrich. Not the best time to be shooting at TERROR IN JERUSALEM things are indications of anything -Benny Gantz is a leftist and has An older married couple were and we will have to wait and see dug himself quite a hole. Will be in- Continued on page 17 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 17

CURRENT EVENTS FROM ESCALATION BY THE and since all the money he stole is for Black History Month. It pays to ISRAEL PROSECUTION hidden overseas, his local property have a cultured Prime Minister who Continued from Page 16 As Israelis start to try to figure is the easiest way to collect compen- went to high school (and college) in out who to vote for in a few months sation. Frankly, this should be done America! Israel. It’s election season and Prime time, leaks from the Attorney Gen- more often. Originally from Petersburg, Vir- Minister Netanyahu’s main compe- eral’s and the Police Chief’s offices ginia, Ben Packer moved to Israel in tition comes from the right, not the suggest that Prime Minister Net- SOME SHORT LITTLE NEWS 1999, where he served in the IDF’s left. His strong response was quite anyahu will be indicted well before BITS: Givati Brigade in the Gaza Strip. Ben predictable and his threats are like- the elections take place. This has -The American Arab citizen who served as a Rabbi on campus at Univ. ly quite credible. But leave it to Ha- already prompted one party leader was kidnapped by the Palestini- of North Carolina and at Duke Univ. mas in Gaza to be a little slow on the (who already served time in jail for an authority in Ramallah and sen- from 2006-2010. Ben now serves as learnin’ curve. corruption) to say that he doesn’t tenced to life in jail, with hard labor, Director of the Jerusalem Heritage care and will be happy to sit in Ne- for selling a property to Jews has House (www.heritagehouse.org.il) ESCALATION IN THE SOUTH tanyahu’s future coalition govern- been freed and sent to the United and Co-Director of Young Jewish Right as things somewhat calmed ment regardless. Brave. Anyway, States. Rumors are that Israel had Conservatives (www.youngjewish- down up north, Hamas terrorists vi- most on the right continue to see all threatened to raid the jail and free conservatives.org). He lives in the olently rioted by the fence between these investigations as something him if this hadn’t been agreed to. Old City of Jerusalem with his wife Gaza and Israel. During the alterca- akin to “Robert Mueller probes on So that drama is over, at least un- and six children. tion, an Israeli officer was shot by a speed” and the left sees them as the til more of what actually happened sniper in the head, but his helmet only realistic way to ever get rid of comes out. Spoiler: its good news blocked the bullet! Those helmets Netanyahu as prime minister. for the Jews. “The Lubliner Rov aren’t designed to do that, so draw -Speaking of drama, there was a was asked by an anti- whatever conclusion you want from ESCALATION AGAINST juicy judicial sex scandal exposed Semite, What’s the that. Israel responded immediately, ARAFAT this week concerning the appoint- destroying a Hamas lookout post Arafat may be dead (Thank G-d!) ment of judges in exchange for stuff. difference between and bombing near Gaza City. Once but his financial liability for his life The details are a little too exciting a Jew and a dog. He more, Prime Minister Netanyahu of terrorism goes on. This week an for this boring news update, but answered, the same sternly warned Hamas that now was Israeli court placed a lien on a prop- have your kids help you Google it. not the time to mess. Since then, all erty in Jerusalem belonging to the -Finally, Israel officially renewed difference between pretty much quiet. dead evil terrorist. A claim has been diplomatic relations with the Afri- you and me.” filed against him by terror victims can nation of Chad. And just in time

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In dients the glycerin is batel b’rov, and Hhonor of the Yartzeit I am it is not considered a food even ac- sharing a number of Piskei Halachah cording to the machmirim. Recently, of Harav Belsky zt”l in matters of gen- in many types of toothpastes, calci- eral Kashrus, which was published a few um carbonate has been replaced with years ago and is out of print. hydrated silica (a sand product), Standard granulated sugar does not which is listed either second, third, require a hechsher, but confectioners or fourth in the ingredient panel. sugar does. Dark beer without a hechsh- This means that the ingredients list- er may contain non-kosher additives, ed before are the main ingredients. which give it its dark appearance, there- Those ingredients are water, glycer- fore, it should not be used without a in, and sorbitol, which are regular hechsher. Dried spices are for the most food ingredients. Therefore, most part free of insects. However, additives of the makeup of the toothpaste is a may have been added to them and it is food ingredient, and the inedible hy- preferable to use those with a hechsher. It drated silica comprises about 20% of is highly recommended that one should Rabbi Shaya Richmond the toothpaste. Accordingly, Harav buy whiskey with a hechsher. Th ere is a One should wrap a gel cap pill in a In the past, the basic formula for Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l’s reasoning substance called a blender, which is fre- tissue and then swallow the gel cap. If it toothpaste was chalk (calcium car- mentioned above would not apply. quently added to enhance the whiskey’s is too diffi cult to wrap it in a tissue, one bonate), which was used as an abrasive Aquafresh® still uses the old formula fl avor, and some of these are defi nitely not may consume it without the tissue. Lip to scrape the residue off the teeth, and of calcium carbonate, as well as the kosher. One should try to purchase apple balms and lip cosmetics such as lipstick, glycerin (food item). Being that the Arm and Hammer Company®. juice with a reliable hechsher only. Check- Blistex® and Chapstick® all contain a ing cranberries for bugs is not necessary. hardening agent which makes them Regular salt, as well as sea salt, does not stand solidly. Th e most common hard- need a hechsher. Dry roasted almonds do ening agent is tallow, which is an ani- “COMPLETE CAR not require a hechsher (if oil is not listed mal fat, and as such it shouldn’t be used on the ingredients). Shelled peanuts are because the treifus and fat are secreted roasted in an oven, but they do not pres- into food and swallowed. Today, there CARE CENTER” ent a kashrus issue. Banana chips, dried are many brands with other harden- apples, canned vegetables, and dried ing agents such as beeswax and paraf- 2188A N Military Trail cherries (the kind found in fruit cocktail) fi n. One should be careful before using all require a hechsher. Flavored seltzer any wax applicator because not all the West Palm Beach, Fl 33409 needs a hechsher all year round. ingredients are always listed. Vitamins Th e term natural fl avors does not which are consumed as food supple- imply kosher. Flavors such as beef, ments as opposed to curative purposes wine and beavers’ glands are all natu- would be forbidden to ingest if they are ral, but quite obviously not kosher. If coated with gelatin or made with other a product states “naturally sweetened” non-kosher ingredients. and there is no hechsher, one has to as- Some claim that mouthwash is con- sume it is yayin nesach and therefore sidered “nifsal m’achilah” and thus per- prohibited. All available information mitted. However, non-kosher mouth- indicates that the glue on stamps and wash contains glycerin, which creates envelopes is kosher and one may lick the refreshing sensation, and therefore those items with his tongue. If a per- the rule of nifsal would not apply. Th e son is particular about this issue, he only mouthwash which is permitted should not be discouraged. Regular in- to use without a hechsher is the brown stant unfl avored coff ee does not need (original fl avor) Listerine®. Although a hechsher, but fl avored coff ee does. Listerine does not contain glycerin, Tel:


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By Liz Dominguez type of home theft in which fraud- artificial intelligence system, Alexa, market will be $27 billion by 2021. sters break into homes looking to and was sent to a number on the Of course, the vulnerabilities that Glitches of early iterations aside, steal identifying information via family’s contact list. have cropped up for some users could AI-based technology has come a smart home gadgets, leaving little to Amazon has since reported that have an impact on the selling process. long way, and has an increasingly no evidence of their break-in behind. the Echo speaker picked up words For example, some sellers have al- active presence in the lives of home- in Danielle’s background conver- ready begun using their security sys- owners who are looking for conven- 2. Smart Technology Could Lead sations that it interpreted as “wake tems as a way to listen in on prospec- ience and savings in a pushed-for- to Location-Based Tracking words” for recording and sending tive buyers or watch them as they visit time era. From adaptive thermostats Earlier this month, security inves- audio to a contact; however, an arti- the listed home, regardless of whether that automatically gauge energy us- tigator Brian Krebs reported on a cle published by website The Infor- local laws prohibit these recording age and alter temperatures for opti- privacy vulnerability for both Goog- mation last July states that Amazon practices. mal savings, to smart home speakers le Home and Chromecast—found by was considering obtaining recorded Additionally, if homeowners have that use sophisticated artificial intel- Craig Young, a researcher with secu- conversations and sending transcripts devices such as Google Home or ligence to provide services and infor- rity firm Tripwire—that leaks accu- to developers so they can build more Amazon Echo, but do not have se- mation in real-time, a smart home- rate location information about its responsive soft ware, making it un- curity cameras, how can they be sure owner can now cross off a variety of users. clear if these devices automatically re- that visiting buyers are not accessing menial tasks from their daily to-do According to Young, attackers can cord audio without waiting for “wake sensitive information through these list without doing more than speak- use these Google devices to send a words.” speakers? While agents always play ing a phrase out loud or clicking a link (which could be anything from Th ese Vulnerabilities Could Impact a role in adding a measure of secu- button on their mobile device. a tweet to an advertisement) to the Real Estate rity by being present during show- What is the true cost of this con- connected user; if the link is clicked Smart homes are increasing across ings, fraudulent activity that is in- venience? Some gadget adopters are and the page left opened for about a the country. According to Statista, a ternet-based only, such as obtaining reporting invasion of privacy, secu- minute, the attacker is able to obtain statistics website, the estimated value online data through links, will be rity risks, and more. For those who a location. of the North American smart home difficult to identify. have not yet invested in smart home “The difference between this and technology, these factors are largely a basic IP geolocation is the level of holding them back; in fact, it is the precision,” Young said in the article. second-biggest reason for hesitation “For example, if I geo-locate my IP for 17 percent of non-users, behind address right now, I get a location that price (42 percent), according to a re- is roughly two miles from my current cently released report by Pricewater- location at work. For my home inter- houseCoopers (PwC), “Smart Home, net connection, the IP geo-location Seamless Life: Unlocking a Culture is only accurate to about three miles. Stradford - $78,000 of Convenience.” With my attack demo, however, I’ve Magnificent Water Views. 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After us- released any software to fix the issue ing Amazon devices throughout her with older units. home to control temperature, light- SOLD For the typical owner, this may ing and security, Danielle was made 156 Salisbury G - SOLD 167 Canterbury G - SOLD not seem like a significant violation; aware that a private conversation was however, this could lead to another accidentally recorded by Amazon’s 23 Coventry A - SOLD 35 Salisbury B - UNDER CONTRACT Page 20 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE WEST PALM BEACH NICHE Aitz Chaim Hi THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 21 WEST PALM BEACH NICHE Aitz Chaim Hi Page 22 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Twentieth Yohrzeit of Rabbi Tzvi Eisner, ZT’L By his niece Rosalie (Rochmie) advice, his friendship, and his leader- ment was easy for me, and by 1991 Daniel Wollner ship. Rabbi Eisner served his people I had a little better command of with distinction, was the honored Rav, English than in 1971. How can I for- orty-four years ago today, on respected humanitarian and commu- get Uncle Hershel’s encouragement in February 2nd, four brothers were nity leader for nearly forty years. overcoming the lack of our English Freunited aft er being torn apart Uncle Hershel cherished his wife, verbal and written skills? “Do not by the winds of war. Th e happiness of our dear Tante Manya, loved his son read the Russian paper, read the New that day was boundless. Th e love shared Moshe, adored his grandchildren, York Times, be inquisitive, ask ques- by the united Eisner family lasts to this and cared for his extended family. tions. Your best friend should be a day. In summers bygone, he would drive dictionary.” Today we mark the Yohrzeit of our on Sunday mornings to Brooklyn, Upon his insistence and HIAS’ as- beloved uncle Hershel, Rabbi Tzvi Ei- pick up Uncle Mayer’s family, turn sistance, my siblings and I enrolled sner, A”H. Twenty years ago we all around and drive back to Ellenville. in American Language and Cultural traveled to Ellenville, New York to Uncle Shmiel and cousin Sury also en- Institute in Manhattan to study the give Kvod Ha’acharon to our dear un- joyed spending time with Tante Man- language of the land. cle. Upon return to Baltimore, where I ya and Uncle Hershel in Ellenville and It was a struggle. While learning ad- lived at that time, I dedicated my Kiruv the beautiful Catskill mountains. jectives, the teacher asked to write a newsletter “Awakening” to his memo- Any undertaking, big or small, al- sentence with the adjective delightful. ry and was inspired to write a poem, ways bore positive results. She gave an example from Mary Pop- originally in Russian, about that pain- For many years he carried a heavy pins: ful time for our entire family: burden, spent many a sleepless night “Just a spoonful of sugar makes the MY UNCLE’S ORCHARD worrying about his brother Yosef’s medicine go down in a most delightful As we walk in total silence, Rabbi Eisner was the spiritual lead- predicament, put forth immeasurable way.” I thought of my Uncle, if I could Past your town, your shul, your house, er of our Family. We seeked his ad- eff orts to secure his family’s emigra- only use that dictionary of mine, in class! We all mourn you, Rabbi Eisner - vice, respected his WELT ANSCHA- tion from communist Russia. Delightful - udovolstviye, naslazdenie. Brother, Father, Uncle, Spouse. UUNG, world views and his deep He continued his holy work aft er re- I still struggled two years later, when Now in Israel they are planting, understanding of communal and tirement. One of his major undertak- at my engagement party he discussed Th ere, it’s springtime, almonds bloom, global aff airs. ings was facilitating the restoration of with me and Elliot our wedding plans, Here- your long journey has ended, We are eternally grateful for his the cemetery in his ancestor’s town of he asked, “Any other issues?” My chosen Hearts are heavy, sadness, gloom. moral and material support. My sib- Kushnitza. Th e repairs were complet- said no, but I had to check in my room In our Holy Land an orchard lings and I are indebted to Hakodosh ed in August 1991. Helen, Tuly and the meaning of the word issue - sporniy Is named aft er you in Safed, Boruch Hu, to Rabbi Eisner, his broth- Moshe, Abe and Lev Yitzchok accom- voproc, predmet obsuzdeniy in my Rus- Here, alas, we bid you farewell ers, their families and to our parents panied Uncle Hershel to see the com- sian-English Romanov dictionary. On this day of Tu B’Shvat. for our sustenance and guidance. De- pleted arduous task and present the One cannot forget Uncle Hershel’s Our nation’s crown is duller, spite living under a Soviet regime, they Mayor of the town a Certifi cate of Ap- impact of one word, one deed. Th e deed For it lost a precious gem. all enabled us to retain our Yiddishkeit, preciation. I was honored to be asked imbedded in my memory- his trave- We learned from you chesed-kind- gift ed us the ability to raise new gener- by my dear Uncle to write the certifi - ling from Florida to Baltimore in late ness, ations dedicated to Torah and Mitzvos.” cate. It was handwritten in Ukrainian December of 1987 to the Levaya of Emes, true love for Hashem. A young shochet, with his new bride, and English, a copy of which I have my late husband Elliot Daniel, A”H, sailed from Europe to America aft er retained, and will read the inscription: even though Rabbi Eisner just arrived Th is is what I stated in the newslet- the Holocaust. Th ey lived with relatives “We, sons, daughters, brothers, sis- there for his winter vacation the pre- ter introduction: in Williamsburg, then the Lower East ters and grandchildren of the Jewish vious day. Two of our Rabbonim were “Th is edition is dedicated to the Side. Following the sage advice of their men, women and children of Kush- Kohanim. I needed my Uncle, and he memory of my unforgettable dear mentor Harav Hagoan Moshe Feinstein nica who were brutally murdered by was there for me, for our family. uncle Rabbi Tzvi Eisner, who left us ZT’L, who bestowed Semicha upon our the Nazis in the year of 1944, proudly All of us, gathered today in our for the better world in January 1995. Uncle Hershel, the Eisners settled in El- make this presentation to the Honor- home, will forever carry cherished He was a wonderful person with a lenville, thus starting a new chapter in able BARNA ILYA, Mayor of Kushni- memories of our dear Uncle. May his big heart, a man of sterling character, their lives. ca, in recognition of his eff orts in pre- neshomah have an Aliya, and may he wholly dedicated to Judaism, its be- He immersed himself in his new role serving the Jewish cemetery. continue to be a Maylitz Yosher for liefs, customs and traditions. Rabbi of a Rav of Ezrath Israel Congregation For over 350 years our forbearers, our family and Klal Yisroel. Tzvi Eisner sincerely loved his peo- with selfl ess commitment to his diverse loyal citizens of Kushnica, hard work- Th is article was published in the Jew- ple, his community. He headed his fellow members, and worked faithfully ing men and women generously con- ish Press and written for the annual Si- synagogue in Ellenville, New York for to build the community of Ellenville tributed to the welfare of this commu- yum held in memory of Rabbi Tzvi Eis- many decades. He assisted people in and surrounding towns in Upstate New nity. It is our hope and prayer that the ner, A”H, upon his Yohrzeit on 14 Shevat need in his town, state, and in Israel. York. He shared his vast knowledge of present as well as the future admin- by his niece Rosalie (Ruchoma) Daniel He was considered a pioneer, who Torah insights and quickly became a istrations will continue to maintain Wollner. Rosalie, her fi ve siblings and worked tirelessly with government strong spiritual force in the region, nev- the cemetery where our ancestors are parents Yosef and Rochel Eisner emi- offi cials of the United States, on state er compromising his principles. interred. grated to the United States in 1971 from and federal levels, lobbying for im- Rabbi Eisner’s warm personali- Presented this thirteenth day of Au- communist controlled Munkatch. proving human rights and free immi- ty, gentle demeanor, genuine smile, gust, nineteen hundred ninety one.” She can be contacted at rsdaniell@ gration of Soviet Jewry. endeared him to all who sought his Well, the calligraphy on this docu- aol.com THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 23

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  Page 24 THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Cherry Pickings By Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky colleagues back in aisle 12. I began peppering him with inno- ast summer, I was shopping cent questions as if he were the Gov- in Costco, one of those giant ernment appointed Czar of a pilfering Lwholesale clubs. I am sure many policy that was codifi ed by the Ethics of you are familiar with them. You Committee of Overspending Con- know, the type of place where you can’t sumers. “Where does it begin, and just buy one 100-foot garden hose, where does it end?” “Can I gather fi ve you have to buy six in a pack and then or six people to each take a few cher- try to make back your loss by hawking ries and thus split a box?” “How about them to your neighbors and (soon to potato chips? Can I open one bag in be former) friends. a case of sixty, take it out and begin Yet, all the items they sell are not as munching?” mammoth as refrigerators or washing I was not sure if my words made an machines (which, incidentally, they do impact. I began to regret the entire sell without multi-pack obligations); conversation It’s not that he cursed they sell items as small as cherries as me. He didn’t yell back. In fact, he well. Th ey are loosely packed in large, didn’t even raise his voice. He fur- fl imsy plastic containers, which oft en further down the aisle, perhaps pon- He looked at me quizzically. Aft er rowed his brow, quickly turned, and seem to bob open. dering whether it would be prudent to all, who was I, Mr. Costco or some- walked briskly away. I would not have So there I was, pondering whether it pilfer a potato. thing? “Oh, I’m planning on buying followed him, but his sense of mission is really worth it to buy 12 cantaloupes I decided to confront him, but not these,” I said pointing to the bin in my made him like the Pied Piper of Ham- at one time, when I spotted a burly in an accosting manner. Aft er all, he cart. “So even though they don’t be- fellow who looked like he had once sure looked like he could deck me, and long to me until I pay for them, I will been a longshoreman, but now had Costco did not seem like the proper pay for them and,” I added, “I’d feel been elevated to the position of union setting for martyrdom. And surely it better if someone pays for your cher- chief. He had a pretty distinguished was not worth a few cherries to be- ries.” I think he understood where I look to him, with a diamond studded come the subject of the police blotter. was heading, which gave him more pinky ring. I was trying to fi gure out So I set a strategy that I thought pause than guilt. how this fellow, wearing a fi ne look- would spare me physical retribution: “Listen,” he said, “I spend hundreds ing sports jacket and very fancy loaf- Set on purchasing a container of cher- of dollars in this store. You don’t have to buy me the cherries. I can well af- ford another carton.” He raised his hand and I saw the glint of what may have been a Rolex on his wrist. “I’m entitled to a handful of cherries every once in a while. Anyway, this store is makin’ G-d awful amounts of money. Did you see the parking lot? And be- sides, I am buying cherries anyway. I lin. And I, like a little rat, was very do have a right to check a couple out. curious. He began walking toward the No one wants sour cherries…” candy aisle. He stopped in front of the Th e man was serious. He seemed as York Peppermint Pattie® cases. I kept sincere as Karl Marx and Abie Hoff - my distance as he put his hand into man rolled into one. It was the Com- his pocket. And as he pulled it out, I munist Manifesto and Steal Th is Book saw the glint of his expensive watch. in the same breath. Th at was the ba- But this time the stuff in his hand was sis for his inalienable right to steal a also twinkling. It was fi lled with foil handful of cherries from the mono- wrapped mints, which he ever-so-in- lithic merchandiser. conspicuously stuff ed back in their He was right. Th ere was a closed box rightful home. ers, made it from the bottom up. Th en ries, I placed a carton in my wagon of cherries in his cart. But the box that I made sure that he never saw me I saw him pop open a container of and followed the man. Th is was going he had previously opened was bob- again that day. I hope that our encoun- cherries and invite himself to a couple to be diffi cult. Maybe I was doing the bing in the background together with ter, however, will be with him forever. of them. He then walked toward the wrong thing. I began to question my its beleaguered roundred colleagues. Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky is the potatoes, leaving the violated cherry own intentions. Aft er all, maybe I was It was beckoning for justice. Th e glis- Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chaim bin with its plastic lid bobbing up and looking for a fi ght. tening remaining cherries, at least to at South Shore, a weekly columnist in down. I wondered if a raw spud would “Excuse me,” I whispered. “Would me, appeared as tears of mourning Yated Ne’eman and the author of the be his next victim, as he just strolled you like some cherries?” for their cherry-napped and devoured Parsha Parable series. THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 25 Four Simple Words to Help You Live Well

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From there we can we started with a map, placed a plush backing on a cognitive system that Ttion of The New York Times. craft words and, ultimately, imag- fi gure below it, and then a dog with a was fine-tuned over millions of years If you have trouble remembering es. Some will, no doubt, be crude or pair of socks in its mouth. to work best with visual and spatial names, faces or phone numbers, enigmatic. Others may contain mis- Seven digits, though, is child’s play. representation. “Visualization is typ- these tips from memory champions spellings and factual errors. It doesn’t Gary Shang once used MoL to memo- ically beneficial due to its translation and neuroscientists can help. of the abstract form of the object (or You slide the key into the door and concept) into a spatial medium,” Dr. hear a clunk as the tumblers engage. Reggente said. You rotate the key, twist the door- knob and walk inside. The house is HOW TO REMEMBER NAMES familiar, but the contents foreign. At Names are actually best remem- your left, there’s a map of Minnesota, bered by focusing on the text as it’s dangling precariously from the wall. spoken and then using it immedi- You’re certain it wasn’t there this ately. “The most useful trick isn’t a morning. Below it, you find a plush trick at all,” Mr. Mullen, the memory M&M candy. To the right, a dog, a champion, noted. “It’s focus.” shiba inu you’ve never seen before. As mnemonics go, all the experts In its mouth, a pair of your expen- we spoke with suggested the same sive socks. technique for remembering names. And then it comes to you, 323- It involves singling out a particular 3607, a phone number. trait of the person you’re speaking If none of this makes sense, stick with. For Mr. Mullen, in a made-up with us; by the end of this piece example, that was hair color. The you’ll be using the same techniques matter. Th is system is designed to rize pi to 65,536 digits. trait most noticeable about “Karen” to memorize just about anything create rich imagery, not accurate rep- was her orange hair, about the same you’ve ever wanted to remember. resentations. HOW MNEMONICS WORK shade as a carrot. He’d then imagine The “memory athlete” Munkhshur Th e number 19, for example, is TP, In an evolutionary sense, our mem- Karen with carrots for hair, perhaps Narmandakh once employed a sim- TB, DP, or DB. From those two letter ory hasn’t quite become a powerhouse munching on them as they spoke. ilar combination of mnemonics to combinations, there are a host of vis- for nonvisual information. Early In the psychology world, there’s a commit more than 6,000 binary dig- uals we can come up with to match hominids had little need to remem- strange example of how these tricks its to memory in just 30 minutes. Alex words like toilet paper, tuberculosis, ber dates or phone numbers. Th ey work, called the “Baker/baker par- Mullen, a three-time World Memory Dr Pepper, or dubstep. Our visuals did, however, require an acute sense adox.” After showing subjects the Champion, used them to memorize followed the same logic. MN/Minne- of what times of the year were best to same photograph of a man’s face, the the order of a deck of cards in just 15 sota (32), MM/M&M (33), SH/shiba plant crops, what fl ora were edible, researchers tell half the participants seconds, a record at the time. It was inu (6), SK/socks (07). and when they might need to pack up his surname, Baker, and the other later broken by Shijir-Erdene Bat- One could argue that, on its own, and move to keep pace with nomadic half his occupation, a baker. Days Enkh, who did it in 12. the Major System is as complicated food sources. later, the subjects were more likely to We’re going to aim lower, applying as just remembering the seven dig- “From an evolutionary prioritiza- remember the man’s occupation than these strategies to real-world sce- it phone number, or perhaps more tion perspective, I think most of this his name. This plays to the sensory narios, like remembering the things than. That’s why you’ll often see comes down to gating mechanisms nature of memory. Upon hearing the we oft en forget at dinner parties or memory athletes combine the sys- we have in place for denoting and man was a baker, the brain imme- work-related mixers. tem with another mnemonic, like ‘tagging’ incoming stimuli as impor- diately springs into action, creating the “method of loci,” or MoL. tant for the continuation of our exist- or recalling vast neural networks of THE POWER OF MNEMONICS The method was first developed ence,” Nicco Reggente, Ph.D., a cog- what we’ve associated with the title: At the start of this piece, we em- in ancient Greece, but popularized nitive neuroscientist at the Tiny Blue fresh bread, a white hat and apron, or ployed two mnemonic strategies to in “The Art of Memory,” by Franc- Dot Foundation, said. perhaps someone standing in front remember the seven digits of a phone es A. Yates, in 1966. Also called a Even today, sensory representations of a patisserie, greeting children with number. Th e fi rst, called the “Major “memory palace,” MoL involves drive memory in ways mere mem- delicious sweets. System,” was developed in 1648 by placing items throughout a famil- orization can’t touch. Dr. Reggente When incomplete, this sensation historian Johann Winkelmann. iar place. In this case, your home. explained that this is best seen in the is also responsible for the tip of your In his book “Moonwalking With Mr. Foer in his book suggested walk- hippocampus, a part of the brain that tongue feeling where you can’t quite originally evolved to support move- recall a memory. According to Mr. ment. “In order for this movement Foer: “It’s likely because we’re access- to be purposeful, it must be guid- ing only part of the neural network ed via prediction,” he said. “It is the that ‘contains’ the idea, but not all of same region that is now, in our mod- it.” ern age, repurposed for non-spatial Continued on page 27 (non-movement based) memories as THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 27

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Marinated Salads t is worth it in one’s salad reper- ever long it takes to open up all the toire to have salads that not only cans! Itaste good when made a day or The last recipe, my daughter two in advance, but ones that are Soochi discovered a few years ago actually improved in flavor when as- and it quickly became a part of sembled earlier to allow the flavors our family. This Sesame/Soy Green to meld and marinate. Beans (Asparagus) has minimal in- I have found when I make let- gredients and has depth of flavor tuce-based recipes, they not only with the flavor combination of soy, have to be dressed right before serv- sugar and garlic. It works perfectly ing, but the leftovers don’t hold. with either green beans or aspara- Marinated salads are also wonder- gus, so simply steam either one and ful “nibblers” when put out in little add to the marinade. There won’t be bowls during a Shabbos meal or a any leftovers! family get-together. The first salad, Green Bean/Olive GREEN BEAN/OLIVE SALAD Salad is from my cousin Esti. It is 1 lb frozen string beans, defrosted such a pretty salad with the different 1/2 cup olive oil colored olives, bright green beans 1 T red or white wine vinegar CHAYI’S SALAD SESAME/SOY GREEN BEANS and red pepper strips. Esti uses fro- 5 T lemon juice (little more than 1/4 2 Cans artichoke hearts (ASPARAGUS) zen green beans and says it is a ter- cup) 1 can regular cut green beans 1-1 1/2 lb. thin green beans or 1 lb. rific salad to make if you have un- 1/2 tsp dried dill 1 can French cut green beans asparagus expected company. She just defrosts 1/2 tsp dried tarragon 1 Can asparagus, cut ½ C soy sauce the beans and opens up some olives, 1/2 tsp kosher salt (or steam ¾ pound asparagus) ½ C canola oil but the texture of it being made with 1/4 tsp black pepper 2 cans button mushrooms ½ C light brown sugar fresh string beans is superior. It has 2 cloves garlic, fi nely chopped 1 can black olives ¼ tsp black pepper an interesting undertone with dried 2 tsp Dijon mustard 1 green pepper, fi nely chopped 4 cloves garlic, chopped (or 4 frozen tarragon and dill in the marinade. Handful of freshly chopped parsley 1 medium onion, fi nely chopped cubes) Green beans are a fun to eat veg- 1/2 cup black olives, pitted (red or yellow onion) 2 T sesame seeds etable; it is easier to pick them up 1/2 cup green olives, pitted 1 T parsley, fi nely chopped ***Optional: 1 T toasted sesame seed oil with your fingers than it is to stab ***Optional: half of a red pepper, 1. Steam the green beans or asparagus them with a fork. Don’t be surprised thinly sliced Drain the liquid from the canned in water for fi ve minutes. Drain into if you see family members nibbling ***Optional: half of a green pepper, vegetables and put everything into a cold water. “just a few” as they walk by the tray. thinly sliced large bowl. 2. Bring the remaining ingredients to The next recipe is from my friend Add the dressing: a boil in a small pot, stirring just so Chayi. So we actually call it Chayi’s 1. Whisk the olive oil together with the sugar dissolves. Salad. It is a fun and busy salad the spices. Add the olives, defrosted 1 tsp kosher salt 3. Allow to cool for a few minutes and with something for everyone in it. string beans and optional peppers. ½ tsp black pepper por the marinade into a heavy duty Each family member has their fa- Let sit for at least a few hours, but ½ C canola oil Ziploc bag. Add the cooked beans/ vorite thing they “pick” out of it, be preferably overnight. ½ C vinegar asparagus. it the olives, mushrooms, asparagus 1 clove garlic, minced (or a frozen 4. Put the sesame seeds into a dry, cold or artichoke hearts. I personally go **Note: If you are using fresh string cube) frying pan. Turn on to low heat and for the button mushrooms that be- beans, steam them for fi ve minutes and shake around for a few minutes un- come tangy and soft after sitting in then drain them quickly into cold water ***It is best not to use the frozen til fragrant. Don’t leave to do some- the vinegary dressing. This recipe is to retain their color. Pour the marinade asparagus for this recipe as they are thing else or they will burn! Add to so quick to assemble- basically how- on top. sometimes not as tender. the marinade. THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 29 The Funny Easy Sudoku Bone Puzzles Th e doctor tells his patient, “I have Th e doctor replies, “I’ve been try- bad news for you, and worse news.” ing to contact you since yesterday.” “Oh, dear. What’s the bad news?” Sudoku Puzzle 1 asks the patient. Th e doctor replies, “You only have 24 hours to live.” “Th at’s terrible!” says the patient, “How can the news possibly be worse?” RIDDLE – THINK

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earlier. With Hank Greenberg in the army, though, the game didn’t have the interest it would have had in the Jewish community. Without thinking of events in Eu- rope, Jewish Americans could go to bed humming the latest• tunes. Sleep wouldn’t come easily if fel- low Jews knew what was transpir- ing in Jedwabne (Yadovneh) that very same day. Some of the Jews in the small Polish town were clubbed to death by shovels, hammers and boards. Others were butchered with knives and axes. The rest were for- The Historic Year cibly herded into a barn and burned alive. When the carnage of death ended, 1,600 Jews, numbering about 60 percent of the town’s population, of 1941 had been murdered-not by Na-

n April 18, 1941, Yugoslavia Thursday, July 10, 1941, was a surrendered to Germany. popular night for Americans to Sid Gordon ONazi bombing squadrons gather around the radio. The Bing soon targeted Belgrade, causing 700 Crosby Show hit the airwaves at were herded into a barbed wire ghet- Jewish casualties. Yugoslavia’s Chief 8:00, followed by Rudy Valee an to to await their fate. As the German Rabbi, Dr. Isaac Alcalay, was hour later, and Fred Waring and his army advanced in Russia, SS killing among the victims. The rabbi was band at 10:00. The variety programs squads followed behind with the killed when a Nazi bomb complete- provided listeners with a chance to mission of executing Jews. Tens of ly demolished the synagogue where hear the latest tunes of the summer thousands were murdered. Within several hundred men, women and of ‘41: “By the Light of the Silvery three days in September at Babi Yar, children also had taken refuge dur- Moon,” “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” outside Kiev, more than 30,000 Jews ing the raid. The bombing mission were forced to undress before being also destroyed every other syna- shot to death. gogue and the Jewish Community As August neared its end, Jews Center in Belgrade. Several hundred who fled to Hungary hoping to es- Jews who survived had been afford- cape the barbaric Nazis were round- ed protection during the air raids at Hank Greenberg ed up along with other Hungarian the American consulate. Jews and over 20,000 were shot to More than 700 Jews were killed zis but by their former neighbors. death. and over 2,000 wounded during a When the Nazi killing squads ar- As Jews were being slaughtered on five-day pogrom in Rumania. Many rived in town to do their work, they the other side of the ocean, Amer- thousands of other Jews were slightly were amazed that their mission had ica’s biggest Jewish hero, Hank wounded but didn’t seek treatment already been carried out, and with Greenberg, was training as an anti- as they feared reprisals. Hundreds such savagery. tank gunner at Camp Custer, Mich- of Jews sought and were granted As the Nazis occupied Lithua- igan. shelter at the American consulate. nia in the summer of 1941, sadis- Jewish baseball history was made Jews who tried to escape to Hungary tic gangs staged a violent pogrom on Sunday, September 21, 1941, as were machine-gunned, as were oth- against the Jews. An estimated 800 four Jews were in the starting lineup ers who tried to flee in small boats. Jews were butchered with axes, ham- of a major league game. It would be Criminals were released from jails in mers, knives, guns and other weap- the only time it would happen. Al Rosen Rumania by Iron Guardists to help ons. Many were maimed, some de- Almost 10,000 fans paid their way butcher the Jews. The director of “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” and capitated, and others burned alive. into the Polo Grounds to see the fifth the Zionist Organization in Bucha- “You Made Me Love You.” Read- By the first week of August, almost place New York Giants play a dou- rest and his 36 employees were beat- ing the paper in a big, comfortable 6,000 Jews were murdered in Lithu- bleheader against the seventh place en and hauled to a suburban field, chair within good hearing range of anian soil. Boston Braves that would close out where they were murdered. the radio was how most Americans On August 10, 1941, five weeks the home version of the 1941 season. On May 8, Hank Greenberg blast- relaxed. The newspapers that day after German soldiers entered Da- Bronx born Harry Feldman was ed two home runs in his final game didn’t have much coverage on the vid Horodok, now in Belarus, local making his second big league start before reporting for military ser- happenings in Europe. There were citizens assisted the SS Nazi killing after spending most of the season vice. The following day, Greenberg still plenty of human interest stories squads in machine-gunning Jew- in the minor leagues. Thirty-year- dropped from $50,000 yearly to an on the All-Star baseball game that ish men and burying the victims in army salary of $21 per month. had been played in Detroit two days a mass grave. Women and children Continued on page 31 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019 Page 31

THE HISTORIC YEAR ed, “In Berlin all Jews began wearing required Jews in conquered areas of Honolulu. Many Reported Killed OF 1941 the identifying Star of David badge Russia to wear yellow stars over the in Attacks. Battleship Afire. Continued from Page 30 in compliance with a Gestapo order.” left breasts. U.S. Army & Navy put on War Bas- In a related story, the sub-headline Hank Greenberg was rising in rank es Along Pacific Coast. read: and salary in military service. Now a Roosevelt to Address Joint Session old Harry Danning was calling the “Decree Bars Entry to Parks, Zoos, sergeant and earning $60 a month, of Congress Tomorrow. pitches for the 21-year old Feldman. Restaurants, Theatres and Many Greenberg returned to Detroit to The following day, the United The game would mark the first time Other Places.” ride on a gun carrier during the Ar- States declared war on Japan, and a Jewish pitcher and a Jewish Catch- The story, datelined Berlin, Sept. mistice Day parade downtown. three days later, Germany and Italy er would form the battery. 20, read: On December 5, Sgt. Hank Green- declared war on the U.S., after which Morrie Arnovich, eight weeks shy Jews in Germany and the Bohe- berg, less than four weeks away from the U.S. declared war against them. of his thirty-first birthday, was in mian Protectorate yesterday began his thirty-first birthday, was finally The newspapers on December 15 left field for the Giants, and rookie wearing six-pointed yellow stars discharged from the army. Back in told of the destruction eight days Sid Gordon was in center. Gordon, sewed on the left breast of their August, Congress had passed a law earlier: 24, a native of Brooklyn, was recent- clothing in obedience to the Gestapo that men over 28 shouldn’t be draft- Six Warships Lost & 2,729 Men ly called up to the majors by the Gi- decree that aims at “the end of Jew- ed. Greenberg was disappointed that Killed, 656 Wounded in Hawaii At- ants. The game only took one hour ish deception of the German people.” he wasn’t released in time to rejoin tack on 12-7. and 39 minutes as Feldman scattered The badges are four inches across the Tigers for the last part of the Two days after Pearl Harbor, Hank nine singles for a 4-0 win. Arnovich and stamped in black with the word season but was looking forward to Greenberg decided to reenlist. He and Gordon contributed a hit to “Jude. “After 4 o’clock considerable resuming his baseball career in ‘42. was the first major league player to Feldman’s first major league victory. numbers were seen on Jews standing Greenberg would only enjoy a few join the army after the United States The following day’s New York in lines before food shops. By offi- days of civilian life before the Japa- declared war. Times carried the report of the game cial order Jews may enter shops only nese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Author, columnist and public but made no mention of the number between 4 and 5 o’clock in the after- would change the course of life for speaker, Irwin Cohen, headed a na- of Jews in the lineup. While most noon. Jewish ballplayers and most Ameri- tional baseball publication and inter- Jews at the time didn’t pick up on This represents the first time in cans. viewed many legends of the game. He Jewish baseball history being made, history that Jews have been required Newspaper headlines around the went on to work for a major league they did pick up the paper to scan to wear signs of identification in country after the December 7 attack team and became the first Orthodox the front page. Germany. Previously, however, the read: Jew to earn a World Series ring. He Under the heading, “The Interna- Nazis introduced arm bands for Jews Japan Declares War on U.S. & may be reached in his dugout at ir- tional Situation,” the Times report- in Poland and more recently have Britain After Attack on Hawaii & [email protected]. Discover the world’s best walk-in bathtub from $1,500 SAVINGS AD RATES DISCOUNT RATES $1,500 in Savings INCLUDES a FREE Ad Rates Color American Standard Toilet Full Page: $400 Half: $225 Quarter: $125 Eighth: $65 ***WE PUBLISH EVERY OTHER THURSDAY *** Ask about deadlines.

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