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The 5 Towns Jewish Times Online @ The Sixth Annual Garden Barbecue Memorial Day at 6:00 pm See Page 5 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 8 NO. 35 18 IYAR 5768 h,ejc ,arp MAY 23, 2008 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK GIVING BACK TO HATZALAH B’rit Framed By History B Y LARRY GORDON Toby Klein Greenwald 14 Our Aliyah Chronicle Shmuel Katz 23 Obama And The Jews But I Just Saw Him! Looking back and, at the he was the nominee. Hannah Reich Berman 30 same time, slightly ahead, I On the other side of this have to seriously ponder equation, the seemingly end- P h o t o MindBiz B whether there is anything less feature bout between y C a p Esther Mann, LMSW 34 t more than bluster about who Senators Obama and Clinton u r e d I the next president will be and apparently has not had an m a g e Letter Of The Law how that will have an impact ending scripted for it as of yet. s Marcel Weisman, Esq. 48 on the State of Israel. The My own feeling is simply that This past Sunday, May 18, marked the annual Five Towns–Far Rockaway right wing in the U.S. is hesi- the media in our country just Hatzalah BBQ at The Sands at Atlantic Beach. The community turned out tantly supporting Senator turned out to be more en masse to demonstrate both personal and material support for a special group of men who gallantly serve the community around the clock and around John McCain. Somehow— enthralled with the prospect the year with their life-saving emergency response. Pictured above, Hatzalah’s and no one seems sure how— rabbinical advisor, Rabbi Dovid Weinberger; Marvin Hershkowitz of Far we just woke up one day and Continued on Page 10 Rockaway; and the keynote speaker at the event, Rav Reuven Feinstein. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE B Y J. PHILIP ROSEN Routine Miracles In S’derot Rav Shlomo Avaigdor Centuries ago, the Great BY LARRY GORDON Sha’alvim, during which time Faivelson. See Page 20 Rabbis decreed that a his relationship with and love berachah, a blessing, be recit- He’s an unusual man. He for Israel was solidified, and ed when a Jew is in the pres- W sat on a couch in my den he became determined to h i t e ence of a secular king. Some H recently, calmly discussing his make his home there. o u s e say this includes a president P mission in life very simply and Moving to S’derot more h o t o or prime minister. The ques- B in a matter-of-fact way. Rabbi than 14 years ago, Rabbi y J o y tion is which berachah is c Dov Fendel lives and works in Fendel never imagined that e N . B recited by a nation when that o S’derot. But he did not always this little city, home to large g h o s i nation is in the presence of a a live there. He was born and numbers of working-class im- n president so devoted to the raised in West Hempstead and migrants from places like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Jewish people and Israel as is Israel and President George W. attended HANC (the Hebrew Tunisia, Algiers, and Morocco, Bush share a moment during their Academy of Nassau County). Continued on Page 12 tour of Masada. Later, he attended Yeshivat Continued on Page 6 Shaaray Tefila hockey: the winning team. ‘The Rule Of Law’ See Page 59 Partners For Life RABBIS MUST And Other Troubles GO TO COMBAT B Y MOSHE FEIGLIN BY HANAN For all of those waiting to GREENBERG see Ehud Olmert forced out of office, I suggest that you When Brigadier General don’t hold your breath. Avichai Ronsky decided to Olmert is a product of his accompany a combat unit to times and surroundings. His an operation in the Gaza Strip corruption is not a meteor on Shabbos three weeks ago, that exploded here with no he was accused of desecrating Yeshivas Ner Yisroel warning. It is more like the tip the Shabbos. General Ronsky Annual Five Towns Breakfast. of a very slippery iceberg that is Israel’s chief military rabbi. See Page 84 reaches into the depths and Rabbi Ronsky issued an cannot easily be removed and official letter responding to CANDLE LIGHTING forgotten. these allegations. In the letter, Richard Joel (front row, center), president of Yeshiva University, alongside Jay May 23 – 7:54 PM Feinberg, founder and executive director of Gift of Life, accepting the The corruption from which he states that “the military May 30 – 8:00 PM Partners for Life Award at the gala dinner, surrounded by YU students who ran two successful bone-marrow drives this year. See Page 53 Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 19 2 May 23, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 23, 2008 3 4 May 23, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES s xc ROFEH CHOLIM CANCER SOCIETY ” The RCCS Five Towns Young Initiative Committee Presents: The Sixth Annual RCCS Garden Barbecue Memorial Day – Monday, May 26, 2008 at 6:00pm at the home of ARI & RUTHY JUNGREIS 515 Ocean Avenue, Lawrence Guest Speaker: Rabbi Pinchas Chatzinoff (, Esq.) Mara D’Asra, Congregation Tifereth Zvi Award Presenter: Dr. Shlomo Blisko — Special Piano Performance — — Barbecue & Sushi Bar — — Wine Tasting Sponsored by Chateau de Vin — EVENT COORDINATORS NAFTALI & BETH BENNETT YEHUDA & BUKIE COHEN ELI & CHAVA LOWY MOSHE & SHIRA MENDLOWITZ THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED IN PART v”g khpte cegh ic ejmh b”gk CHAIRMAN SHLOMO Z. WEISS YOUNG INITIATIVE COMMITTEE MR. & MRS. NAFTALI BENNETT MR. & MRS. JOHNATHAN HERSHEL MR. & MRS. ELI MOSKOWITZ MR. & MRS. GERSHON BERGER MR. & MRS. ARYEH HERSKOWITZ MR. & MRS. SHMULY NEUMAN DR. AND MRS. SHLOMO BLISKO MR. & MRS. YEHUDA HERSKOWITZ MR. & MRS. MENASH ORATZ MR. AND MRS. DOVID BRIER MR. & MRS. MENACHEM JACOBOWITZ MR. & MRS. AVI PIFKO MR. & MRS. WARREN CINAMON MR. & MRS. BEN KAMINETZKY MR. AND MRS. CHAIM PUDERBEUTEL MR. & MRS. YEHUDA COHEN MR. AND MRS. DOVID KIRSCHENBAUM MR. & MRS. MEIR RESNICK MR. & MRS. AVI DAVIES MR. AND MRS. USHI KLEIN MR. AND MRS. AVRUMY ROSENBERG MR. & MRS. AVI DREYFUSS MR. & MRS. MEIR KRENGLE MR. & MRS. SHMUEL SCHECHTER MR. & MRS. JOSHUA FARKAS MR. & MRS. CHAIM KURZ MR. & MRS. CHAIM SCHULHOF MR. & MRS. MOSHE FESSEL MR. & MRS. STEVE LANDAU DR. AND MRS. DAVID SIMAI MR. & MRS. MEIR FRANKEL MR. AND MRS. MENACHEM LANGER MR. & MRS. YOSSI SINENSKY MR. & MRS. JEREMY FRENKEL MR. & MRS. ELI LOWY MR. & MRS. SHMUEL STERN MR. & MRS. YOCHANAN FRISCH MR. & MRS. EPHRAIM LOWY MR. & MRS. YISROEL WASSER MR. & MRS. NACHUM FUTERSACK MR. AND MRS. MOSHE MALEK MR. & MRS. SHIMI WEINER MR. & MRS. MOSHE FUTERSACK MR. & MRS. MAYER MALTZ MR. & MRS. SRULY WEINSTEIN MR. & MRS. ELLIOT GLUCK MR. & MRS. DOVID MEISELS MR. & MRS. AHRON WEISS MR. & MRS. ISSACHER GOLDBERG MR. & MRS. MOSHE MENDLOWITZ MR. & MRS. DAVID WEISS MR. & MRS. YAKOV GOODSTEIN MR. AND MRS. NECHEMIA MORDOWITZ MR. & MRS. SHLOMO WEISS MR. & MRS. ELY GUTTMAN MR. AND MRS. HESHY ZWEIG 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 23, 2008 5 HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE a statement that expresses the extent are fired, the same statement is rolled both on Purim and Yom HaAtzma’ut, Continued from Front Cover to which they are losing their patience out saying that now the Israeli govern- the city government of S’derot with the continued attacks. Each time, ment “really, really” means what they allowed the yeshiva to sing, dance, would become the center for the strug- a different variety of a statement is are saying. And they say that an and celebrate in the center of town in gle of the future of Eretz Yisrael. issued. It usually says something along assault on the attackers is about to be a “yeshiva” fashion, prior to the city S’derot is today at the center of a rather the lines of “Israel will not tolerate mounted. But so far, that “one more organizers celebrating these obser- complex situation that in any other missile”—the proverbial straw that vances in, what we will call for our country of the world would be anything breaks the camel’s back—has not been purposes here, “their way.” but as complicated as it is. fired. Perhaps that will happen tomor- “This is the purest form of Religious Even Israel’s president, Shimon So far, that “one more row or the day after that, or maybe Zionism,” says Shlomo Gottesman, Peres, said to U.S. House Speaker next week or next month for sure. It’s president of American Friends of Nancy Pelosi (who was visiting Israel missile”—the proverbial certainly going to be any day now— S’derot. “The presence of the yeshiva over the weekend in George Bush’s you just wait and see. in S’derot in some way benefits every footsteps) that the situation in S’derot straw that breaks the These silly machinations mean next person in the city.” is comparable to having missiles fired camel’s back—has not to nothing for Rabbi Dov Fendel, his Sitting with Rabbi Fendel and Mr. from Tijuana, Mexico into San Diego, staff, and the nearly 500 young men Gottesman and having walked the California. For how many months, been fired. who study in the Hesder Yeshiva of weeks, or days would the U.S. tolerate S’derot. They are all, like their rabbi, Continued on Page 8 such activity? The residents of S’derot fearless and filled with the knowledge have been absorbing the missiles and that it is their study of Torah and their the deaths and injuries left in their these types of attacks and will serious- bringing a Torah presence to S’derot trail for over seven years.
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