5TJT.COM “The other evening, I was SERVING NASSAU COUNTY, BROOKLYN, QUEENS, MANHATTAN, in Queens at a wonderful BRONX, & STATEN ISLAND fish restaurant on Union Turnpike.” PG. 4 $1.00 | פרשת דברים | VOL. 18 | NO. 42 | JULY 20, 2018 FIVE TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 8 AV 5778 SSeeee PPageage 7 SSeeee PPageage 1100 Eichler’s of Flatbush was one of several stores to temporarily shut down midday in order to support Camp HASC. Page 72 FROM THE EDITOR Trump Puts Peace Above Politics Finding The Right Words BY JAKE NOVAK epending on who you ask, President Donald Trump’s BY LARRY GORDON post-summit news conference on Monday was something be- resident Trump is being picked apart more for his serious lack Dtween a bad misstep and proof of outright treason. of articulation and his inability to express himself properly Why? Pthan on matters of policy. At the same time and on the same Mostly because of his refusal to publicly scold President Vladimir day, the Democratic candidate for Congress from Queens, Alexandria Putin over alleged meddling in the 2016 election, as if that was likely Ocasio-Cortez, talked with a reporter about her position on “occupied to happen right to Putin’s face and in front of the cameras. Palestine,” and almost received a free pass until the Trump hubbub President Trump also took massive heat for again criticizing subsided. the controversial investigation into the 2016 election conducted In the Cortez issue, on the way she expressed herself, she backed by special counsel Robert Mueller. This was described by many as out of an obviously uncomfortable situation by saying, “I don’t always throwing the U.S. intelligence community under the bus in favor of choose the right words” on these subjects that Continued on Page 12 Russia. Continued on Page 10 SSeeee PPageage 9955 SSeeee PPageage 3399 July 20 - 8:03 PM July 27 - 7:57 PM See Luach, Page 15 Features Index, See Page 8 SSeeee PPageage 2211 SSeeee PPageage 1155 2 July 20, 2018 • 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES JEWISH TOWNS 2018 • 5 July 20, 3 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES • July 20, 2018 TIMES • July 20, JEWISH TOWNS 5 4 chicken was always preceded by a siyum the actual week in which Tishah B’Av oc- on a tractate of Gemara, rendering the oc- curs, are getting a free pass in a way. HEARD IN THE casion a seudas mitzvah. The accomplish- Actually, now that we are on the subject ment and celebration of that occasion of eating out or at least focusing on food, outweighed or perhaps neutralized the it occurs that there is at least one other BAGEL STORE mourning and allowed the consumption week in the course of our calendar year in By Larry Gordon of meat or chicken. which there is a dining-out and what-are- Not that we were great scholars in we-going-to-eat-today frenzy. And that is those days, but the feeling was that we the week before Pesach. During that week were all growing boys and we needed our we can eat whatever we wish as a prelude meals to have the proper nutritional con- to a holiday that was, once upon a time, a TIMELY FOOD tent so that we would develop into strong yom tov that in part revolved around what sually we dine on good food as a always had either meat or chicken for and healthy adults. At least that is what we were prohibited to consume. matter of our daily routine. But our nightly dinners. I thought the reason was at the time; it That is contrasted, as you know, with this week, as we head into the There we were, a few hundred yeshiva might have actually been that, but who this week prior to Tishah B’Av as we take July 20, 2018 • 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES JEWISH TOWNS 2018 • 5 July 20, U last third of the Nine Days, we are also kids singing “Al Naharos Bavel,” the song knows. our time to hunt down restaurants that pondering the matter and thinking about “By the Rivers of Babylon,” about how we For decades after that we were fi ne ab- have tables available at the conventional what it is exactly that we will be eating, were mourning the destruction and long- staining from a carnivorous indulgence of dinner hour, sometime between 6:00– some of us nonstop. And today there are ing for the redemption and the rebuilding any kind. The tradition is not to partake of 8:00 p.m. more choices than ever about how to of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem. And fl eishig, and the practice gave the steak- The other evening I was in Queens at a maintain the tradition of abstaining from wonderful fi sh restaurant on Union Turn- meat or poultry consumption or, for that pike. Turquoise has been around for quite matter, how to halachically circumvent a number of years because both the food that carefully abided-by minhag and en- After we fi nished the and the service are excellent. But I did joy some of the most succulent baby-back make the mistake of showing up without ribs to your heart’s content. heart-wrenching tune, a reservation on Sunday night, the fi rst Most of our steakhouses and meat weekday of these Nine Days, even though restaurants are closed during these nine we went right ahead and it was not even 5:00 p.m. yet. mostly meatless days. That is, unless the My calculation was that it was early and proprietor of these establishments de- feasted on brisket and that the dinner rush would probably not cides to go full throttle with a fi sh menu. have begun yet, but the way things were But while most subsist on fi sh or mashed potatoes. looking, I might have erred. I walked in cheese dishes during this period of na- with my wife—so we were just two peo- tional historical mourning, it has always ple—and apologized up front for not having been somewhat of a confusing if not a reservation. But while the person doing challenging period on our annual calen- then, after we fi nished the beautiful and houses a week off and was an annual boon the seating heard me out and even looked dar. For example, going back a few de- sometimes heart-wrenching harmony in if not a bonanza for the fi sh places. That is, understanding and sympathetic to my cades, as a young child in summer camp, that traditional tune, we went right ahead of course, if you are Ashkenazic and main- cause (dinner), he just shook his head side somehow, even though it was the time of and feasted on brisket and mashed pota- tain those seasonal customs. This year, to side, indicating that getting a table to year that meant no meat or chicken on toes or fried chicken with French fries. the Sephardim, who abstain from partak- the menu, in camp during that week we The weekday evening meal of meat or ing in meat or poultry dishes only during Continued on Page 10 5 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES • July 20, 2018 TIMES • July 20, JEWISH TOWNS 5 6 July 20, 2018 • 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES JEWISH TOWNS 2018 • 5 July 20, 7 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES • July 20, 2018 TIMES • July 20, JEWISH TOWNS 5 8 950 Broadway CALL FEATURES Woodmere, NY Bagel Store US Larry Gordon 4 516-295-3000 NOW!!! 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