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Page 64 THE JEWISH PRESS Friday, September 30, 2011 Community Currents Upcoming events… topic “As Free Will Has Been Granted to All” (Ram- tion of Jewish Day Schools will be hosting their an- bam Hilchot Teshuva 7:1) at 40 Duvdevani Street in nual Professional Development Conferences on No- Bais Yaakov Oz Vehodor, Birkas Yisroel High Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem at 8 p.m. vember 7-8. Monday, November 7, will concentrate School, will hold a Kinus Noshim on Sunday, Octo- Both lectures will be webcast live at www.yutorah.org. on special education topics and will take place at ber 2. Addressing the gathering will be Rebbetzin Vi- the Orthodox Union Headquarters, 11 Broadway in tal Kalmanovitz and Rav Nachum Chaimowitz. The * * * Manhattan from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. event will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Shulamith Bikur Cholim of Boro Park, in partnership with Both the New Jersey Statewide Staff Develop- School Auditorium, 1277 East 14th Street in Brooklyn. Sharsheret and CancerCare, hosts monthly friend- ment Conference and the second half of the Nation- ship gatherings for frum women who are or have al Special Education Conference will take place side- * * * been in treatment for cancer. Its next confi dential by-side at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in JerusalemOnlineU.com will soon launch Step meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 4, from Livingston, New Jersey from 8:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Up For Israel, a national grassroots Israel educa- 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bikur Cholim of Boro Cost of the conference is $80.00 per educator per day tion campaign designed to create broad awareness Park, at 5216 11th Avenue, and will be free of charge. or $150 per educator for both days. of the growing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic move- Participants will hear interesting guest speakers and Keynote speakers include Dr. Jeffrey Lichtman ments on college campuses. The international cam- have opportunities to meet others “who understand,” (Monday) on the topic “Partnering with Parents paign launch will take place on October 3 at 7:00 while enjoying a light, healthy snack. For more infor- for Effective Collaboration,” Rick Lavoie (Tuesday) p.m. at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City, mation, leave a message at 718- 438-2020, ext. 7451. speaking on “Fairness: The Key to Effective Main- chaired by both Professor Alan Dershowitz and for- streaming,” and Dr. Rona Novick (Tuesday) present- mer Ambassador Dore Gold. * * * ing on “Care and Be Fair.” There will also be a screening of Crossing the The Jewish Community Council of Pelham Park- In addition, workshop concentrations include Line, a short fi lm produced by Raphael Shore that way’s 33rd annual Jewish Music Festival will be held math, literacy, writing, science, social studies, men- exposes the growing anti-Israel movement on col- on Sunday, October 16. The festival begins at noon tal health, and special education. The workshops will lege campuses. and will last until 5:00 p.m. This year’s performers in- be divided into early childhood, elementary, middle, clude Shlomie Dachs, Yoel Sharabi, Shea Rubinstein, administration, and special education levels. * * * Michoel Pruzansky, Yisroel Williger and the Festival To register and to view the brochure of the full pro- Rabbi Yosef Blau and Rabbi Dovid Miller will Klezmer Orchestra. There will be exhibits by com- gram, go to www.ou.org/yachad. For more information be the featured speakers at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan munity organizations (including The Young Israel of contact Batya Jacob at 212-613-8127 or [email protected]. Theological Seminary’s 27th Annual Hausman/Stern Pelham Parkway’s Housing Incentive Plan Info), ko- Kinus Teshuva lectures. The lectures will take place sher food, clowns, magicians and face painters. In recent news… in New York City and Jerusalem on Tuesday, October The festival will take place at Comras Mall of 4, the seventh of Tishrei. The lecture series is run by Bronx Park, one block south of Pelham Parkway Zev’s Fund Excited Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future. on Bronx Park East, and just steps away from the By New FDA-Approved Drug Rabbi Blau, senior mashgiach ruchani at YU, will Bronxdale entrance to the Bronx Zoo. The JCC’s suk- speak on “Multiple Kedushot Ha-yom of Yom HaKip- kah will be open throughout the day. Zev’s Fund, an organization founded by Helen purim – A Guide to Responding to a Complex World” For more information visit jcpelhamparkway.org and Dr. Ranan Wolf, recently marked a successful at The Jacob and Dreizel Glueck Beit Midrash, 515 or call 718-792-4744. milestone for neuroblastoma patients when Memori- West 185th Street in NYC, and Rabbi Miller, Ben- al Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center reported that the jamin and Charlotte Gottesfeld Chair in Talmud * * * United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and associate director of YU’s Caroline and Joseph The National Association of Jewish Schools Serv- had approved initial clinical use of the humanized S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, will lecture on the ing Special Children and The New Jersey Associa- antibody referred to as Hu3F8. Development and manufacture of the experimental drug was funded by Zev’s Fund and other non-profi ts started by par- Jabotinsky Remembered ents of children with neuroblastoma. Hu3F8 will be used as an adjunct to chemotherapy, which is often On Thursday evening, September 15, over 200 birth, as it was based on Jabotinsky’s short essay not effective at clearing cancer. people joined Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) entitled, “The Iron Wall”, said Dr. Eldad. Penned “We are ecstatic at hearing this news, and are and The Nordau Circle as they commemorated the in 1923, Jabotinsky wrote: grateful to Hashem for helping to create new treat- 71st yahrzeit of Revisionist-Zionist leader Ze’ev “Except for those who were born blind, they real- ments,” said Dr. Ranan and Helen Wolff, parents of Vladimir Jabotinsky at Congregation Ohab Tze- ized long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the 7-year-old cancer patient Zev. “The new antibody dek on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for convert- treatment may represent a huge leap in the effort “Jabotinsky’s ideology is the bedrock for those ing ‘Palestine’ from an Arab country into a country to treat this disease.” who believe in a greater Israel, with its biblical, with a Jewish majority. As long as the Arabs feel that Zev’s Fund was organized late in 2007 under the legal and historical entitlements and is the driv- there is the least hope of getting rid of us, they will direction of Rabbi Heshel Billet, Dr. Asher Mansdorf, ing force for AFSI,” said Helen Freedman, AFSI’s refuse to give up this hope in return for either kind Elliott Platt, Peter Steinerman and Joe Steinfeld. To executive director. words or for bread and butter, because they are not a date, the fund has raised over $1.5 million, which in- Among his numerous accomplishments, Jabo- rabble, but a living people. And when a living people cluded donations raised through a Yom Iyun event at tinsky spearheaded a campaign to reestablish the yields in matters of such a vital character it is only the Young Israel of Woodmere in late 2007. In addi- fi rst Jewish army in Israel in nearly 2,000 years, when there is no longer any hope of getting rid of us, tion to supporting the work of doctors at Memorial, was elected as a delegate to the 6th World Zionist because they can make no breach in the iron wall.” Zev’s Fund has also been able to give seed money to Congress in 1923, and founded the Betar Zionist Adding that the fi rst prime minister of Israel, the research and development of other credible, in- youth movement in honor of his friend and fellow David Ben Gurion, also adopted this policy, Dr. El- novative therapies that may also lead to new treat- Jewish soldier Yosef Trumpeldor. Young Betarim dad said, “When the Arabs will be convinced that ments for Zev and his peers. (The fund is commit- were taught to defend Jews against their enemies they can’t break this wall then we can have peace. ted to not retire until every child with neuroblasto- and devote their energies to helping create a new Jabotinsky saw the future much clearer than any ma has a good chance for long-term survival.) Jewish state. Derided as a “fascist” by his detrac- of us today and this is why his “Iron Wall” vision Zev will be entering 4th grade at Yeshiva of South tors because of his nationalist zeal and scorned and is so vitally essential now.” Speaking of the ideo- Shore this fall. He continues to enjoy school, sports ridiculed as an alarmist when he traveled through logical weaknesses of the post-Zionist era, Dr. El- and friends. He’s looking forward to beginning to Europe in the early 1930s urging Jews to evacuate dad castigated the mentality of the “apologetic learn mishnayos this year. “Living in the Five Towns Europe, Jabotinsky was only posthumously cred- Jews who do not really believe that the land of Is- and having support from those who know us – and ited for his foresight and doughtiness. rael belongs to the Jewish people” and referred to those who do not – has helped smooth our rough Dr. Arieh Eldad, a member of the Israeli Knes- Zionism as an abnormal liberation movement in journey,” said Zev’s parents.