Can They Change?

See Pages 3, 4, 5 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 10 NO. 15 22 TEVES 5770 ,una ,arp JANUARY 8, 2010 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK POWER TO THE PEOPLE Faux Frumkeit BY LARRY GORDON Stacey Solomon 22 What Does Jimmy Want? SECURITY THREAT Hannah Reich Berman 29 “When it comes to airline the world. Defining Death Down security,” says Yehuda Dafna, Our talk with Yehuda Dafna Rabbi Avi Shafran 30 “America is backwards.” Dafna, a about security at airports and on MindBiz resident of Woodsburgh and a airlines was of course precipitat- Esther Mann, LMSW 31 member of several Five Towns ed by the events of December shuls, is the president and 25, when a lone terrorist, pur- Yitzhak Ahronovitch, a’h founder of ISS Action, Inc., and portedly a functionary of Al Rabbi Yair Hoffman 75 speaks from two decades of Qaeda, attempted to set off extensive experience with air- explosive materials on an airlin- line security. er approaching Detroit’s interna- The ISS offices are located at tional airport. The terrorist JFK Airport, and the company passed through screeners at air- Howard Kopel, the first Orthodox Jew elected to the Nassau County Legislature since its inception in 1996, being sworn in on Monday at the employs more than 150 people ports in both Nigeria and Cradle of Aviation Museum by U.S. Congressman Peter King as Mr. Kopel and provides security consult- began his term as a member of the new Republican majority. ants to scores of airlines around Continued on Page 15 See Page 61 HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Shidduchim:Letters Not So Fast to thewith length Editor of courtship, logic Dear Editor, would have us insist that a cou- Where The Time Goes Welcome to the shidduch ple really get to know each other Bat Mitzvah of Ayala scene. (“Matchmaker, Match- well before committing. We can B Y LARRY GORDON I know this to be true Schwartz. See Page 72 maker,” Heard in the Bagel Store, all cite examples from the secu- because that’s the way it was in January 1). I hope your son finds lar world where couples live I was just a boy not so long 1970, 1980, and 1990. And, of his bashert quickly. And, on the together, marry, then divorce. ago, and then this Waterford course, as Y2K approached, who subject of speed, I’d like to dis- Yes, getting to know someone crystal ball dropped in Times would have thought we would cuss your notion that “the entire very well does not preclude Square the other night and it was ever get used to the idea of a courtship itself usually takes divorce. But logically, if a couple 2010. It’s always mildly challeng- new millennium on top of the about three to four weeks.” The who know each other well for a ing to adjust to the change in the adjustment required in dealing obvious response is, have you long time can end up divorcing, number assigned to identifying with a new decade? heard about the high rate of does it mean that we should the year. However, if I write When the decade changes it divorce in frum circles? While throw caution to the wind and enough checks over the next provides an additional jolt to there has been no study correlat- week or two I will rapidly grow ing this increased divorce rate Continued on Page 6 accustomed to the new decade. Continued on Page 12 SKA Gift of Shabbos. MBD Music Therapy IAF Targets See Page 57 CAN THEY Terror Tunnels CHANGE? B Y SAMUEL SOKOL A Different View On The ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT Recent YU Debate BY DR. NORMAN In a joint operation with the GOLDWASSER GSS (Shabak) last Friday night, the Israeli Air Force successfully While reading the various targeted two terror tunnels lead- accounts and debates over the ing from the northern and recent Yeshiva University panel southern Gaza Strip towards about those of a definitively Mordechai Ben David (center) and members of the Mikimi Cheer-up Giving life and hope: Squad paid an unexpected visit to the Woodmere Rehabilitation and Israel The tunnels originated non-Torah orientation, I realized recipient meets donor. Health Care Center and lifted the spirits of the residents with their lively See Page 48 singing and dancing. See Page 59 Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 13 CANDLE LIGHTING Jan. 8 – 4:27 PM Jan. 15 – 4:34 PM 2 January 8, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES January 8, 2010 3 FEATURES Around The Five Towns 44 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 [email protected] Classified Ads 68 [email protected] LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON The Dish Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Elke Probkevitz 32 YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Sales Managers Five Towns Simcha CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Naomi Cohen/Glamorous Pics 70 Editorial Assistant SIDI BARON Health Section 46-48 YAKOV SERLE Sales Representatives Insights On The Torah SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC R’ Yanki Tauber 24 Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 35 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS R’ Mordechai Kamenetzky 41 Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen, Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Toby Klein Greenwald, Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz, Luach 8 Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, MindBiz Martin Mushell, Elke Probkevitz, Naomi Ross, Rachael Schindler, Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Esther Mann, LMSW 31 Rabbi Avi Shafran, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher, Samuel Sokol Mother’s Musings DOV GORDON, ELISHEVA ELEFANT Phyllis J. Lubin 19 Staff Graphic Artists IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Puzzle Staff Photographers Yoni Glatt 74 FRANKEL & CO. Design & Production Real Estate TALIYE CORLEY Anessa V. Cohen 40 Art Director SARAH GREENBAUM That’s The Way It Is! Assistant Art Director Hannah Reich Berman 29 The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly newspaper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not Travel Section responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or 36-44, 49-51 establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. 4 January 8, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Terror Tunnels ridor between the Sinai Peninsula and Continued from Front Cover Gaza. Despite numerous sorties flown by the IAF against the tunnel system, many from a distance of approximately one Israelis consider it impossible to halt the kilometer from the Gaza security fence use of the tunnels without a boots-on- and were intended for infiltrating into the-ground operation. During Cast Lead, Israel and executing a terror attack against the upper echelons of the defense estab- Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers. lishment decided against a move on the According to the Israeli military, the Egyptian-Gaza border. attacks were in response to the firing of a According to a report in Al-Ahram, the rocket at the city of Netivot last Thursday official Egyptian state newspaper, there evening. are currently around 1,200 such tunnels. Also, in a joint IDF-GSS operation this Tuesday, the IAF attacked a group of terror operatives planning to fire rockets from the southern Gaza strip into Israel. The IDF statement did Accurate hits were identified. Since the end of Operation Cast Lead— not explain why the an IDF incursion into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in January of last year in retalia- attack on the tunnel tion for several years of rocket attacks on Israeli civilians in the Negev Desert—more was undertaken only than 280 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel. Throughout 2008, prior to in response to a Cast Lead, over 3,300 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip. rocket attack. In a statement released to the foreign press, the IDF declared that Israel’s defense establishment “will not tolerate the firing of rockets by terrorist organizations at Some 70,000 residents of Gaza are report- Israel and will continue to respond against ed to be involved in digging the tunnels, any attempt to disrupt the calm in Israel’s which can cost up to $50,000 to excavate, southern communities.” but which can bring in profits of up to The IDF statement did not explain $184,000 in goods on a daily basis. why the attack on the tunnel was under- Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim taken only in response to a rocket attack, Brotherhood, a radical Islamist organiza- if the intended purpose of the under- tion active in Egypt. Hamas operatives ground passage was to facilitate terrorist involved in tunneling operations have activity against Israeli civilians. opened fire on Egyptian soldiers, and There are several hundred smuggling tunnels running under the Philadelpi cor- Continued on Page 18 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES January 8, 2010 5 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Continued from Front Cover say conversely that a short courtship will end up in a happy marriage? I think not! There are many problems that have arisen in the last decade or two regarding shidduchim. Some we can control, some we have to wait for the rabbanim to address. But there are some things that we as parents can insist on. One is the duration of dating. Why is it that most singles spend less time getting to know each other than they do buying a new house? The fact is that singles today are expected to commit at a blink of an eye, regardless whether they are 20 or 35. If the parents hear that a couple has been dating for two weeks, they book wedding halls! I wonder if we would be that cava- lier with purchasing stocks or other investments.

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