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See ad on page 11 See ad on page 33 JEWISH LINK February 13th - 24 Shevat Parshat Mishpatim CANDLE Light Candles: 5:10 PM BRONX, WESTCHESTERIssue & #61 CONNECTICUT LIGHTING Shabbat Ends: 6:19 PM OU/RCA Issues Statement Endorsing Childhood Vaccination By Elizabeth Kratz vaccination once again to the pub- jority of poskim stand on the side lic sphere. of vaccination.” The Orthodox Union (OU) and “There’s been a lot of report- The OU and RCA also sought the Rabbinical Council of America ing to suggest that Orthodox to dispel the notion that anyone (RCA) issued a statement on Tues- Jews commonly don’t vaccinate, believes vaccinations are linked of misinformation could bear very See ad on Back Cover day strongly urging all parents to but that’s JLBWC not so,” an OU to autism, citing in the statement serious consequences, not only for vaccinate their healthy children spokesman told JLNJ. “In both the that the particular link between peoples’ own children but others’ on the timetable recommended Jewish and secular media, report- the two was published in a study too, especially those medically un- by their pediatrician. The state- ing on the measles outbreak could that was retracted and charac- able to be vaccinated. ment came in response to the on- lead people to believe that Ortho- terized as fraudulent, whose au- “Judaism places the highest val- creative photography and video going measles outbreak said to dox Jews don’t vaccinate, so this thor was stripped of his medical ue on preserving human life. It is have begun at California’s Disney- statement might help to set the re- license. The statement indicat- well known that those facing even land last month, which brought cord straight. It should also make ed that the ongoing measles out- the international debate regarding it perfectly clear that the vast ma- break demonstrates how this kind CONTINUED ON P. 3 WDS Celebrates President Rivlin Visits the Bronx See ad on page 16 Its 67th Anniversary Dinner By JLBWC Staff Mamaroneck—Westchester which the honorees, in their own Riverdale— THIS SUNDAY @ YU Day School celebrated its 67th an- words, explained the importance Israeli President niversary dinner recently, and it of WDS in their lives and the lives Reuven Rivlin Taking Control: was the most successful dinner in of their children. Rabbi Joshua was welcomed Ethical and Halachic the school’s history. The dinner ap- Lookstein, Head of School, said as guest of hon- Implications plauded the involvement and com- of the honorees, “Our honorees or at the Bronx of BRCA Screening and mitment of Ellen and David Gold- are treasures of Gold, not just in Museum of the Elective Egg Freezing schmidt, Guests of Honor, Cheryl name, and together—as a group— Arts, where he and Daniel Gold, Young Leadership they are the form and substance of was hosted by awardees, and Laurie Popiel as the Westchester Day School, a house of Bronx Borough See ad on page 15 faculty honoree. Westchester Day God.” Guests were also entertained President Ru- Rabbi Levi Shemtov greets President Rivlin at The Bronx School parents, friends, alumni and by a school video refl ecting the ben Diaz Jr. and Museum of Arts. (CREDIT: ARIEL NEHORAYOFF) current 8th graders fi lled the room theme of the year, the 12 shevatim Consul General with warmth and good feeling. of Israel in New York, Ambassador Guests watched a video in CONTINUED ON P. 3 Ido Aharoni. The event was attend- CONTINUED ON P. 10 Passover A Frank Conversation on 20th Annual Henry SPORTS Sale begins February 6th Marriage in Israel With Witt enberg Wrestling See ad on Tzohar’s Rabbi David Stav Invitational Tournament page 18 By Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org By Jeremy Berger I had hardly sat down for my re- On President’s cent meeting with Rabbi David Stav weekend Yeshi- at Manhattan’s Wolf & Lamb kosher va University will steakhouse when a stream of din- host the 20th an- ers, young and old, approached our nual Henry Wit- table. They introduced themselves tenberg Wrestling HOW CAN WE HELP and thanked the rabbi profusely for Invitational Tour- his leadership. Their praise was not nament. Yeshiva GROW YOUR BUSINESS? without reason. Stav was the driv- high school wres- ing force behind the Israeli Knes- tlers from across the Jeremy Berger (in yellow and black) set’s passage of the “Tzohar Law,” Rabbi David Stav visits the Western United States will (CREDIT: YESHIVA U.) See ad on page 32 Wall in Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. join together for the CONTINUED ON P. 9 Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. four-day event. Wrestling begins at CONTINUED ON P. 29 SPEAR TEAM 2015 TRANSACTION UPDATE F0R SALE 325 SOUTH ORANGE AVE, LIVINGSTON 48 MULLARKEY DRIVE, WEST 0RANGE 1 MORAN ROAD, WEST 0RANGE 27 MORAN ROAD, WEST 0RANGE 2 OLD ROAD, LIVINGSTON 149 VALLEY ROAD, MONTCLAIR UNDER CONTRACT 6 MELLON DRIVE, WEST 0RANGE 83 SULLIVAN DRIVE, WEST 0RANGE 72 CUMMINGS CIRCLE, WEST 0RANGE 18 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, WEST 0RANGE 35 WOODLAND AVE, WEST 0RANGE 22 RYNDA AVE, MAPLEWOOD SOLD 59 CRESTMONT ROAD, WEST 0RANGE F0R RENT 17A SOUTH VALLEY ROAD, WEST 0RANGE 10 N. RIDGEWOOD ROAD, (JUNIOR 1), SOUTH ORANGE THE GATEWAY LUXURY RESIDENCES 9 W. 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With announced the establishment of the Shel- presence at WDS brought us to where we members of her family present, WDS paid ley Lippman Science and Innovation Fund are today and her incredible legacy will (tribes), featuring footage of WDS’ 2 year tribute to her by showing a brief retro- which will help update the lab and be serve as a springboard for advancing the olds through 8th grade, learning, playing spective and then announcing that with used to upgrade WDS’ hardware, software, WDS science program into future genera- on the beautiful campus, and celebrating the blessing of the Gruss Foundation, the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering tions.” together as individual grades and a school school will be renaming the Gruss Science and Math) curriculum and professional To learn more about Westchester Day as a whole. Lab, “The Shelley Lippman Science and In- development to expand WDS’ 21st centu- School visit www.westchesterday.org Mothers of Kidnapped Boys Featured At OneFamily Event By Oren Oppenheim New York—OneFamily, an Is- raeli organization that aids vic- tims of terrorist attacks, recent- ly held an event in Manhattan to show solidarity with Israel. “Con- tinue the Unity” was hosted by Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, an Orthodox synagogue on the Upper East Side. In attendance were Rachelle Fraenkel and Iris Yi- frach, two of the mothers of the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered this past summer. Rabbi Gideon Black, the repre- sentative of the Jewish Learning (CREDIT: ONEFAMILY) (CREDIT: ONEFAMILY) Initiative at NYU, opened with why he had been chosen to lead in vain. And they are now in the the Earth as ancient and as large way that you began. They took Rabbi Black also asked her the program. Less than a year af- shrines of the Tzadikim… who as the family of the Jewish peo- your body, but they didn’t take about the challenges she faced in ter surviving an attack on Ben Ye- are guarding us throughout the ple.” your soul.” regards to helping her other chil- huda Street, Rabbi Black and his generations.” After a short fi lm about the Rabbi Black then held a Q and dren cope with the crisis when cousin Yoni were travelling when Marc Belzberg, the founder organization and its accomplish- A session with Fraenkel. About it fi rst began. “I think the biggest explosives were set off by a Ha- and chairman of OneFamily, ad- ments, Iris Yifrach and Rachelle how she has coped with the sor- challenge at the time was being mas terrorist on their bus. Yoni dressed the audience about the Fraenkel were introduced. Yi- row, she said, “We’re totally not optimistic and joking around was struck by a metal bolt and organization’s origins and its frach spoke from prepared re- alone… there’s so much support about how hilarious it was going passed away soon after. “Ripped guiding principles. The organiza- marks, thanking the audience for from day one” both from Isra- to be when Naftali comes back apart with grief over the loss of tion was begun when his daugh- their support and retelling the el and around the world. After and sees everything that’s going my best friend and cousin... I was ter Michal’s bat mitzvah plans story of how the world “united discussing the actions of oth- on,” and yet to still express to also aware of just how lucky I were derailed by a terrorist attack in praying for the return of the er families who are also coping them that “we don’t know how was to survive,” Rabbi Black said.