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$1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 8 NO. 32 27 NISAN 5768 ohause ,arp MAY 2, 2008 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK DEAL OR NO DEAL? Welcome Back, Pilgrims BY LARRY GORDON Hannah Reich Berman 26 MindBiz Reading Kahane Esther Mann, LMSW 31 He was a solitary, heroic, School-Board Strategy PhotoByIvanH.Norman Larry Gordon 42 and tragic figure all wrapped up in one unassuming man Leaving A Legacy with a towering conscience. James C. Schneider 67 He was a man who could not be still or rest if Jews anywhere The traditional halachic sale of chametz for parts of the Five Towns and Far Five Towners In Israel in the world were not being Toby Klein Greenwald 75 Rockaway took place prior to Passover, at which time rabbis represented their afforded the same opportuni- congregants in a sale of their chametz (leavened products) to a non-Jew so ties available to those of us liv- that the products are not in the possession of Jews during the holiday. ing in freedom. As a result, After the conclusion of the holiday, the items are transferred back to their original owners. there was very little time for Pictured above (L–R): Rabbi Yisroel Meir Blumenkrantz, Rabbi Shaul Chill, Rabbi Dov Bressler, Duke Walters (to whom the chametz was sold), Rabbi Continued on Page 8 Rabbi Meir Kahane, a’h Yitzchok Frankel, and Rabbi Pinchas Chatzinoff. A GLIMPSE OF GREATNESS HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Part 2 and her grandparents would Inside The Bubble B Y RABBI be severed at her generation. Engagement of Robert YAIR HOFFMAN The woman had one sister, BY LARRY GORDON ting shivah in his father’s Shechter and Rochelle who unfortunately was inter- rather worn and very humble Frankel. See Page 23 Deep in the heart of married. Indeed, not only did I didn’t know that he was so abode in Brooklyn. I decided Brooklyn lived a Jewish she intermarry, but she had open and talkative. Until just to go visit him and, as our woman who, sadly, never mar- wed a gentile leader of what a few weeks ago, this acquain- commentators say, help pro- ried. She was also, Racha- was known as the “Hebrew tance of many years usually vide him some comfort at a manah litzlan, dying of can- Christian movement.” nodded his head in my direc- time when he was no doubt cer. While not particularly This sister had one child. tion, gave me one of those dealing with a great deal of observant, this woman was The child was a 12-year-old seemingly forced, minimal emotional pain. proud of her Judaism. But, boy who had been, alas, deeply smiles, and sometimes said It didn’t matter to me at the aside from her cancer, she indoctrinated with the hereti- “good Shabbos,” but that was time that I was going to be was also deeply pained about cal beliefs of his parents. The it. But then, a couple of weeks uncomfortable. Sure, there something else. She was sad- child’s aunt, dying of cancer, before Pesach, his father dened that the link from Sinai passed away, and he was sit- Continued on Page 10 connecting her, her parents, Continued on Page 20 Josh and Shlomo Hauser, formerly of the Five Towns. The Ultimate STRESS-BALL See Page 75 Acheinu Kiruv Conference Solidarity Trip THERAPY B Y LISA SILVERBERG BY MICHELE HERENSTEIN The plane descends, flying closer towards its final destina- We live in a particularly tion. The excitement in the stressful time, with our wor- cabin is palpable as the passen- ries and concerns—often gers get ready to disembark. related to events in the world Music plays over the loud- and in our lives—looming speaker—“Heveinu Shalom larger and scarier than ever Significant scientific finding Aleichem.” The wheels of the before. We live in a post-9/11 by students at Touro. airplane screech to a halt. world, where many of us are See Page 47 Thunderous applause erupts. on high alert in many areas of We have landed in Israel. our daily lives. And, of course, CANDLE LIGHTING The year is 1986. Every there are the normal, everyday May 2 – 7:34 PM HaRav Matisyahu Salomon, shlita, among the crowd of participants that passenger on that flight had a stressors, which I’m sure is May 9 – 7:41 PM attended the second conference on kiruv-outreach, which took place prior to Pesach in Israel. See Page 42 Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 12 2 May 2, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 2, 2008 3 4 May 2, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 2, 2008 5 6 May 2, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 2, 2008 7 FROM THE EDITOR number of followers created organi- FEATURES Continued from Front Cover zations intended to emulate the rabbi’s Jewish Defense League, but Around The Five Towns 42 him to sit back or relax. none could replicate his genuineness P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 I spent some of the just-elapsed chag or fortitude, and they became mostly 516-984-0079 engrossed in a new book that I received not-so-glorified support groups for [email protected] Classified Ads 72 [email protected] just before yom tov. The book was years those mourning the loss of their in the making and was written by Rabbi leader. One such organization was LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Insights On The Torah Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Rabbi Yanki Tauber 33 Meir Kahane’s widow, Libby, who called Kahane Chai. This group, YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON resides in Jerusalem. What essentially incorporated both in the U.S. and in Sales Managers Luach 14 emerges from this rather beefy first vol- Israel, was supposed to be founded CHANA ROCHEL ROSS ume, which covers Meir Kahane’s life and directed by Rabbi Kahane’s eld- Editorial Assistant MindBiz from his birth (in 1932) through 1975, est son, Binyomin Zev. The junior Esther Mann, LMSW 31 SIDI BARON is that all the while as Rabbi Kahane led rabbi, known as Binyomin, was tragi- YAKOV SERLE struggles to free Soviet Jews and stand cally murdered along with his wife, JERRY MARKOVITZ Nutrition Counts! up to the most powerful people in the Talia, by Arab terrorists who shot up Sales Representatives Miriam Horowitz, RD 38 world to defend Israel, there was a their car in the West Bank as they SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC onlySimchas! 23 strong and heretofore silent personality returned from a Shabbat in Jerusalem Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor behind the scenes that probably provid- spent at the home of Libby Kahane. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ed him with much of the strength and Five of their six children were in the Irwin H. Benjamin, Hannah Reich Berman Real Estate Anessa V. Cohen, Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Anessa V. Cohen 27 encouragement needed to carry on. family van at the time of the shooting Toby Klein Greenwald, Michele Herenstein With the publication of this book, but, thankfully, were not injured. Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz That’s The Way It Is! Libby Kahane is silent no more. I first Coincidentally, I maintained an Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky received an e-mail from Mrs. Kahane a office in the late 1990s in the same Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann Hannah Reich Berman 26 Rochelle Miller, Rabbi Yoni Posnick, Naomi Ross few years ago asking if I could provide office building as Kahane Chai on Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher her with some of the articles I had Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn. I MICHAL WEINSTEIN, BILLY LEWIS, DOV GORDON written about Meir Kahane during the was never a member of JDL or any of Staff Graphic Artists 1970s and 1980s when he was evolv- their offshoot organizations. In 1997, IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Submit your photo to the ing as an important and potent force in the Kahane Chai organization was Staff Photographers Jewish life. Because Kahane was so branded by the United States govern- FRANKEL & CO. 5 Towns Jewish Times! principled and determined, he was also ment as a terrorist organization, Design & Production You can upload your persecuted and prosecuted by the though it accomplished seriously little. TALIYE CORLEY authorities in the United States and During that time, someone associated Art Director digital photos and see them Israel through those two decades. with Kahane Chai had appropriated SUZETTE LEE Rabbi Kahane was murdered in New some of my possessions from my office Assistant Art Director printed in the weekly edition York in 1990 by El Sayyid Nosair, an to their office. Those things included The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- of the 5 Towns Jewish Times Arab terrorist who was later identified lists of people who were clients of paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not as being involved in the planning of companies, or donors to organizations, necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or www.5tjt.com/sendphotos the first bombing of the World Trade that I was consulting for. Shortly after establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. Center in 1993. After Rabbi Kahane’s death, a Continued on Page 11 8 May 2, 2008 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES May 2, 2008 9 HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE in this particular case, he spoke at great least a temporary friendship of this The point is that no matter how Continued from Front Cover length.

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