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See Pages 3, 4, 5 See Page XX $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 10 NO. 18 14 SHEVAT 5770 jkac ,arp JANUARY 29, 2010 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK NETANYAHU: REMEMBER AMALEK MindBiz BY LARRY GORDON Esther Mann, LMSW 30 What A World Let My People Go Hannah Reich Berman 34 Has there ever been a more the United States has believed Jewish Vienna elongated or frustrating peace that he would be the fortunate Irene Shaland 35 process than the one obsessive- one who would be able to pre- The Earth Trembles ly taking place between Israel side over a definitive and perma- Rabbi Avi Shafran 52 and her Arab neighbors, which nent agreement that would seems to continuously make usher in a state of peace around Delivery From Darkness sharp turns to nowhere? I seri- the world. ously doubt it. Enter Barack Obama, who a R Reviewed by Fern Sidman 74 e u t e r There are certainly conflicts little more than a year ago s around the world that have believed that only he had the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the International Holocaust dragged on longer, but none formula that would shake Remembrance Day in Germany on Wednesday. The prime minister addressed world leaders on the lessons of Auschwitz and the existential have been in the international things up and turn them around threats faced today in the Middle East. L–R: President Kaczynski of spotlight like this one. And Poland; PM Netanyahu; his wife, Sara; PM Donald Tusk of Poland; and every one of our leaders here in Continued on Page 5 Jerzy Buzek, president of the EU Parliament. See Page 25 THE KOSHER SIDE OF A PIG HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE B Y YOCHANAN its cud) as well as on the outside Sisterly Love GORDON (having split hooves). Our sages have pointed out, “Any Torah BY LARRY GORDON The founders of and man- There is nothing to get too scholar whose outer facade agers of the Sister to Sister NYMohel.com. excited about; pigs are still not does not reflect his core essence It’s difficult to know whether organization make it clear that See Page 70 kosher for consumption. But is not a Torah scholar.” It seems, the hundreds of divorced young their group does not revolve the truth is that we have a les- then, that the kosher require- Orthodox women gathered for a around any type of feminist phi- son to learn regarding the split ments for animals are relevant Shabbos weekend in the losophy. They do not encourage hooves that a pig possesses. on a greater scale. Catskills represent an unfortu- their members to position The Torah clearly states that Split hooves and chewed cud nate but predictable statistic in themselves in further adversari- the requirements for animals to represent the universal signs our community or a symptom al postures when it comes to be fit to eat are having split indicating a truly kosher indi- of something gone terribly their former husbands. hooves and chewing their cud. vidual who is wholesome on wrong. Whatever precipitated “We are a mentoring group It’s kind of interesting that the inside and the outside. such a situation, the reality is looking to assist and restore dig- necessary signs have to be pres- that it is here and needs to be ent both on the inside (chewing Continued on Page 18 dealt with. Continued on Page 12 Israel MK Meets NCYI Rav Dunner THE GREAT Gloria and Harvey Kaylie, Ohel Guests of Honor. See Page 55 Responds To ESCAPE EJF Attack Another Mother’s Musings In the January 15 issue of the BY PHYLLIS J. LUBIN Five Towns Jewish Times, we published an interview with It is 9:00 a.m. and we are Rabbi Aba Dunner, the executive finally in. Yussie has been up director of the Conference of since before 7, and from that European Rabbis (CER), which time he’s been eagerly waiting has condemned the activities for the indoor water park to MK Danny Danon met recently with the leadership of the National and sponsorship of EJF Inter- open. He has made it into the Council of Young Israel. Items discussed included the building freeze in national (Eternal Jewish Family), basketball area and is diligently Yehudah and Shomron and its political and financial consequences, the as well as EJF’s response. We now making baskets while gliding U.S.-sponsored Mitchell peace initiatives, and the relationship between Israel and the United States. L–R: Yosef Poplack, Dr. Chanania Gang, publish Rabbi Dunner’s very can- through the water. Rabbi Pesach Lerner, MK Danny Danon, Shlomo Mostofsky, Eli Bobov Kollel Breakfast. Dworetsky, David Love, and Rabbi Chaim Komendant. Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 14 See Page 76 CANDLE LIGHTING Jan. 29 – 4:51 PM Feb. 5 – 4:59 PM 2 January 29, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES January 29, 2010 3 FEATURES Around The Five Towns 53 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 [email protected] Aliyah Chronicle [email protected] Shmuel Katz 22 LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Book Review YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Sales Managers Fern Sidman 74 CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Editorial Assistant Classified Ads 66 SIDI BARON YAKOV SERLE The Dish Sales Representatives Elke Probkevitz 47 SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor Health 54 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen, Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Toby Klein Greenwald, Insights On The Torah Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz, R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 46 Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, Martin Mushell, Elke Probkevitz, Naomi Ross, Luach 21 Rachael Schindler, Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Rabbi Avi Shafran, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher, Samuel Sokol MindBiz DOV GORDON, ELISHEVA ELEFANT Esther Mann, LMSW 30 Staff Graphic Artists IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Puzzle Staff Photographers Yoni Glatt 73 FRANKEL & CO. Design & Production Real Estate TALIYE CORLEY Anessa V. Cohen 48 Art Director SARAH GREENBAUM Assistant Art Director That’s The Way It Is! The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- Hannah Reich Berman 34 paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or Travel 35 establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. 4 January 29, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES FROM THE EDITOR ever skillful, cannot always be trusted. He Continued from Front Cover is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won’t be in the Middle East. The odd thing is that able to close it.” many of us had an inkling that his Mr. Herbert writes that Mr. Obama is approach was wrong. Now it seems that the man who came after the banks and he has come to that realization as well. Wall Street, but all of his key Treasury Obama’s presidency through his first people are from the financial industry’s year has been anything but Kennedy- biggest and most influential Wall Street esque, as he had hoped it would be. As he firms. Herbert says that at the same time enters his second year, it seems that the as Obama keeps talking about ending the new keyword for his administration is war and the American presence in Iraq, disenchantment more than anything he is revving up the action with a large else. Even Obama’s ardent supporters are troop increase in Afghanistan. Middle East peace was going to be one of the easy things that Obama would be able to accomplish. But he seems to have misjudged that too. having second thoughts. And if that’s the There is one of two things at play here case, what should his critics and detrac- with President Obama. Either he serious- tors say? ly misjudged the pressures inside the oval No one in all of the print media has office, or he is a great campaigner for the been more pro-Obama than New York presidency but not such a great president. Times columnist Bob Herbert. The Mr. Herbert seems to agree. He wrote: twice-weekly columnist was Obama’s “Mr. Obama promised during the cam- greatest cheerleader, but his full sup- paign that he would be a different kind of port and defense of the president seems president, one who would preside over a to have changed, based on his Tuesday more open, more high-minded adminis- op-ed piece: tration that would be far more in touch “Mr. Obama is in danger of being per- ceived as someone whose rhetoric, how- Continued on Page 8 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES January 29, 2010 5 6 January 29, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES January 29, 2010 7 FROM THE EDITOR Continued from Page 5 with the economic needs of ordinary working Americans.” All he has given them so far through a year in office is high unemployment and stunning budget deficits that may take generations to pay down. I know that, like Mr. Obama, Bob Herbert is concerned that minorities be lifted up in this country, that illegal aliens be afforded health coverage regard- less of the expense, and who will get stuck with the bill. The other matters that they are both concerned about are that the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba be closed and that the nation of Palestine be estab- lished with Jerusalem as its cap- ital. Despite the great number of areas in this country as well as around the world that need seri- ous work and attention, it is this administration’s opinion and obsession that all would be well with the world if Israel would just back off and give in.