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The 5 Towns Jewish Times $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 7 NO. 28 2 IYAR 5767 grumn-ghrz, ,arp APRIL 20, 2007 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE LA versus BA BY LARRY GORDON Rabbi Yair Hoffman 17 MindBiz Campaign Of Deception Esther Mann, LMSW 24 World Of Real Estate Information obtained by formed members of the com- Anessa V. Cohen 26 the Five Towns Jewish Times munity. This information, indicates that the “public coupled with the leaflets that school” candidates running in urge public-school parents to When Swallows Return PhotoByIvanH.Norman Hannah Reich Berman 28 the District 15 May election “take back” the school board, are planning an ad campaign harkens to the original hate- Letters to the Editor that intentionally indulges in filled campaigns of yesteryear. Our Readers 30 misinformation. In reviewing The material, including the the material provided, it draft text of an ad to be spon- Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed in the Five Towns, as it is became apparent that the sored by the Alliance of annually, this past Sunday night at Beth Sholom in Lawrence. Six families motivation for this campaign’s Lawrence Public Schools, was lit candles, commemorating the six million Jews who perished in the Shoah. Above, three generations of the Mitgang family – Holocaust survivors approach is to instill fear and Mr. and Mrs. Mitgang, their son Dr. Charles Mitgang, and grandchildren – hostility among the unin- Continued on Page 4 kindled one of the flames. See Photos, Page 49 HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE APERSONAL NOTE Imus And Me BY SHMUEL KATZ week with joy in my heart and Bat Mitzvah of a satisfaction that we have BY LARRY GORDON Nechama Schwartz. “As we drove home with the really found a sense of home Simcha Photos, kids still bursting with excite- and belonging in our move I found him refreshing, Pages 42 & 68 ment and pleasure from the here. Three days later, our inspiring, and a little off the experience, Goldie commented lives were forever changed. wall. As an 18-year-old college to me that she would love to go On Wednesday morning, student and the news director out every week and do the we got a call from the doctor of my college radio station, I same thing. No matter how to come in so that Goldie felt that somehow I just had many times we go out to sup- could be scheduled for some to meet this guy. He was rela- port our chayalim, I hope that more tests. When we arrived, tively new to New York, and I each time I have the same the doctor sat us down to believed I was a connoisseur excitement and emotion as I deliver the news that they had of radio and had hopes of had that Sunday.” I wrote those words last Continued on Page 10 Continued on Page 12 Don Imus Israel Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger THE BICYCLE Pesach Plus to be in Woodmere this Shabbos. Israeli Professor Killed See Page 38 BY IRWIN H. The Ultimate Commuter, In Virginia Tech Attack BENJAMIN Part 7 BY DANNY BLOCK On the day Jews worldwide I was alone in the room, honored the memory of those with a bunch of memories. It It’s Sunday night at about who were murdered in the was late morning. Sunlight 10:15, and everyone is Holocaust, a 76-year-old sur- was coming in through the upstairs sleeping except Yogi vivor sacrificed his life to save shades. Motes of dust were (my dog) and me. He is just his students in Monday’s dancing in the air. The fact waiting for me to walk him, shooting at Virginia Poly- that it was a day after the long after which he will undoubt- technic Institute that left 33 Pesach holiday served only to edly go to sleep on my vacant people dead and over two heighten the leisurely atmos- pillow. I am waiting for my Sheldon Margules confers with dozen wounded. phere. It was a morning to driver, Avi, to pick me up to go Rav Elyashiv. See Page 47 Professor Liviu Librescu, dawdle over a cup of hot cof- to the sadeh (slang for s’deih 76, threw himself in front of fee, to take stock of one’s cir- ha’te‘ufa, airport). This week’s CANDLE LIGHTING the shooter when the man cumstance and ponder one’s challenge is that I had to Apr. 20 – 7:21 PM attempted to enter his class- mortality. change my flight schedule Apr. 27 – 7:28 PM Continued on Page 19 Professor Liviu Librescu, z’l Continued on Page 11 Continued on Page 14 2 April 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES April 20, 2007 3 FROM THE EDITOR yearbook in Brooklyn holds the secret Continued from Front Cover plans of a “private-school community” in Long Island to take over the public provided to the 5TJT by a source schools! (Perhaps it should be called requesting anonymity, not having been Protocols of the Children of Brooklyn.) authorized to release the information. The thrust and tone of the ads is to The ad suggests that the objective of create a type of hysteria and the the current board is to seize the impression that there is some kind of Middle School—“the jewel in our real- devious plan being plotted by the estate crown”—and turn it into a majority of the current school board to building that will host a yeshiva. The seize control of the district and ulti- ad contains a photo from the yearbook mately dismantle the public schools. of a girls’ yeshiva in Brooklyn, and it The whole thing seems to be some- asks if there is a hidden agenda by the thing between a joke and a lurid fanta- private-school community to sell off sy that resorts to conjuring up extreme public-school properties to Brooklyn- scenarios in order to scare voters into based yeshivas. voting for candidates who are cam- In reality, some members of the paigning to limit the influence of pri- yeshiva’s senior class, to illustrate vate-school-oriented candidates. the contrast between the imposing The headline of the ad reads: Lawrence Middle School building “Prepare To Be Shocked.” The ad, as and their own (less impressive) shown in the draft copy goes on to say: school building in Brooklyn, inserted “Lawrence Middle School is our archi- the picture into their yearbook as a tectural treasure, a local icon and the joke. Whoever provided the ALPS core of the public-school system… So campaigners with the information what’s its picture doing in a Brooklyn from the yearbook also provided yeshiva’s yearbook?? Is there a long- them with a list of graduates of that range plan?” class, including their home address- The ad continues: “The Middle es, e-mail addresses, and phone School may be the jewel in our real- numbers. Reasonable people under- estate crown…but an excellent pub- stand that this is a wild idea and the lic-school education is our children’s furthest thing from an actual plan, entitlement.” It then states in large, and that the current board in its bold letters: “We will not be robbed of present structure has worked dili- either.” The ad then concludes: “On gently to support and even elevate May 15 voting day you can save our the quality of education—on all lev- public schools and give our students els—within the district. all they deserve.” It then goes on to The ad’s conclusion is so bizarre list the three candidates closely iden- that it defines new boundaries for debate. Imagine: a student-sponsored Continued on Page 6 4 April 20, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES April 20, 2007 5 FROM THE EDITOR spend so freely exists mainly because warned the public—meeting after Continued from Page 4 most of the money would come from meeting and year after year—that vot- those who do not utilize the schools ing down the budget would cripple tified with creating imbalance in the and therefore it doesn’t matter how the educational ability of the district. P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 district between the public and pri- high taxes get driven. Somehow the budget was voted down 516-984-0079 vate schools. Thankfully, there has been a sane and, strangely enough, not one educa- [email protected] [email protected] It’s not a new approach for these majority on the school board this tional program was cut. And this is campaign organizers, but one has to year—and it’s vitally important to keep the way it’s been, and this is probably LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor wonder how people who have been it that way for the next year. The major- the way it’s going to continue to be, YOSSI GORDON exposed to the issues that are repeated- ity of this board has done everything until both groups decide to work Director of Sales ly present in these election campaigns, they can to gain a consensus and create together. The way it seems today CHANA ROCHEL ROSS especially over these last seven years, a unity that can move the district for- unfortunately is that we will probably Editorial Assistant can fall for this type of pie-in-the-sky SIDI BARON hysteria about the board’s plans for the YAKOV SERLE district’s schools. For the last six years— JERRY MARKOVITZ and particularly the last four years, It would be disappointing to learn that the Sales Representatives when the schools budgets have been SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC rejected at the polls—the previous Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor boards have told us that a budget with- desire to spend so freely exists mainly CONTRIBUTING EDITORS out an increase will cause the children’s Howard M.
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