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‘Not just a Syrian problem; lawsuit we are all scapegoats’ Public school parents claim Orthodox conspiracy in Lawrence BY MICHAEL ORBACH BY DAVID BIBI A federal judge Tuesday refused to temporarily block he way the Jewish papers and a Lawrence School Board consolidation plan that will blogs wrote about the recent close the Number Six School and bring all of the district's arrests in New Jersey requires fifth graders into the Middle School. T some comment. One expects mis- With just a month before the beginning of the new statements and exaggerations from the school term, five parents, including Andrew Levey, a liti- international media, but do the Jewish gious former candidate for school board, brought a Fed- papers need to follow suit? Rumor had eral civil rights lawsuit against the board that claims the become perceived fact, as so often hap- consolidation plan and previous actions by the Lawrence pens. What happened to dan lekaf Board of Education have violated the First Amendment sechut — giving the benefit of the separation between Church and State. It also alleges a doubt — and innocent until proven Photo courtesy Chai Lifeline wide-ranging conspiracy by the Orthodox Jewish com- guilty? Girls at this year’s session of Camp Simcha Special making a run for it through a gauntlet of friends munity to promote Orthodox interests. The lawsuit was filed at Federal Court in Central Rabbi Noah and staff members. Weinberg zt”l Islip on Tuesday afternoon. Although Judge Joanna Sey- tells of what he bert denied the motion to block the consolidation plan calls “A Jewish from moving forward, another hearing is planned for ”Three rabbis consciousness later this month. "The present board of education has elevated a sin- are accused of story.” Summer in Camp A gregarious gle private religious denomination over the children they succumbing to son partying serve," Robert Agostisi, a lawyer for the parents, claimed each night brags in a court house conversation with a reporter."They've compassion. to his father that eviscerated the separation between religion and state," Simcha Special he said. Was there per- he can count 100 true friends. The The lawsuit claims that the primary effect of the sonal gain for father congratu- What summer is like for the doctors consolidation plan is to “advance the Orthodox Jewish religion.” lates his son, not- autonomic nervous system. Some patients any of them? I BY MICHAEL ORBACH "It doesn't even simply impinge the six board mem- ing that in all his suffer from conditions that so far doctors bers, it implicates every Orthodox Jew in the neighbor- life, he has only have been unable to diagnose. And this isn’t highly doubt it.“ Dr. Robert Van Amerongen’s patients hood; it impinges every Orthodox Jew everywhere. We achieved half a a hospital; it’s a summer camp. have kidney diseases, cerebral palsy, hydro- basically form a cabal," said Dr. Asher Mansdorf, a board friend. The But then again, Camp Simcha Special, a cephalitis and familial dysautonomia — a member named in the suit. "It's almost that the people father suggests a rare disorder that causes a failure in the See CAMP SIMCHA, Page 8 test. “Take a that were involved in the lawsuit have read the Protocols goat, slaughter it, See XXXXXX, Page xx put it into a sack, get some blood on you and in the middle of the night go to your friends,” the father says. “Tell them you got into a fight with a guy at Racing the clock the bar, one thing led to another and you killed him. Beg them to help.” As so the son goes to each of those friends and all slam the door in his after a heart attack face. Dejected, he returns to his father and asks what the father’s half friend Balloon angioplasty and the 90-minute deadline would do. His father tells him to go BY MALKA EISENBERG Nassau Communities Hospital. “If you and see. open up the blood vessel for them In the middle of the night, still holding As the EMT’s roll the heart attack within 90 minutes, patients die less the sack and covered in blood, the son patient out of their ambulance and the and live more.” knocks at his father’s friend’s home. He wheels of the stretcher are locked into South Nassau Communities Hos- tells the same story. And the half- place, a clock begins to tick. pital is among the 569 hospitals friend hesitates, saying, “Although I For patients who require balloon awarded a Gold Medal in coronary shouldn’t do this, you’re Chaim’s son, angioplasty to open a blocked artery, artery disease from the American and I’ll help you.” the clock moves even faster. During Heart Association/American Stroke They take the sack and bury it the procedure a balloon-tipped tube is Association’s Get With The Guidelines together. threaded through to the heart, where program. This program ascertains that The boy returns to his father in it is inflated to clear plaque that is hospitals comply with current protocol shock. blocking or partially blocking an for cardiac and stroke patients. Clowning from coast to coast The story continues and the father artery. However, research has demon- Rabbi Elozer Kanner, coordinator explains that a true friend would never strated that the procedure is most for Hatzalah of Nassau County and the The Five Towns-based medical clowning troupe Lev Leytzan is busy in Budapest effective when performed within 90 Rockaways, said that Hatzalah trans- See VIEW, Page 5 this week, teasing smiles from the elderly and infirm on a 10-day mission of mercy minutes of a patient’s arrival at the ports most heart attack patients to to Europe. Last Thursday the teen and young adult clowns, led by the group’s hospital. South Nassau. Rabbi David Bibi leads the Sephardic “It’s requested by the community founder, Woodmere psychologist Dr. Neal Goldberg, appeared on the CBS Early “We know it improves mortality,” Show on the CBS Television Network. This Monday they were profiled on local tele- Congregation of Long Beach. He can be said Dr. Jason Freeman, director of at large,” Rabbi Kanner explained. reached at [email protected]. interventional cardiology at South “Balancing closeness and care, this is vision, in a piece by WCBS-TV reporter Cindy Hsu. See RACING, Page 7

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Dear Mr. President, My wife and I recently spent two weeks in Israel where a most unexpected thing hap- pened to us. It seems to me that it is worthwhile to write about it because of what it says about Israelis. Photo by Miriam L. Wallach We were traveling from Jerusalem to Caesarea (more A short shopping precisely to Kibbutz Sedoth Yam) by train, to visit relatives of our neighbors. The trip list for the troops involved a change of trains at The Living Torah Museum in the Camp Hillel office at 33 Beit Shemesh and at Tel Aviv, Fallsburg, N.Y., Camp Hillel and Washington Avenue in Lawrence where our problem occurred. I HAFTR are conducting the “From before 4:00 p.m. this Friday, entered the train with my wife right behind me, but much to The letter writer, David Ebin, and his wife, Barbara, photographed together in the Roman Amphitheater in Day Camp to Base Camp” project, August 7, 2009. Camp Hillel staff our surprise, the doors closed Caesarea after a travel mishap accidentally separated them for several hours. collecting tube socks, Ziploc bags, members will drive the bins to the before she was able to enter. We Purell, granola bars and baby Fallsburg Post Office on Monday, both tried to get the doors to home, don’t worry,” I thought to someone had left me a message. one was in wipes to be delivered to troops where postal workers and local open again but they would not myself. But I was somewhat He told me that he would help need, all who were available did serving in Iraq. Those items, speci- families whose sons and daugh- and the train started to move. worried anyway. It was my me and would like to do so whatever they could to help. fied by the U.S. Army, can be ters in uniform are in Iraq, will pay So there we were, on our wife’s first time in Israel. because it was a good opportu- Our helpers, judging by their placed in the labeled bins outside to ship the items overseas. way to visit some people, but I got on the next train nity to practice his English. dress, ranged from secular to my wife was left on the plat- going north and looked for a When I explained my problem, haredi, but all were helpful form and I was now in the mov- passenger who might be of an older gentleman came out of without hesitation. ing train. I had the tickets and assistance. I quickly found one the station house and told me Mr. President, it seems to our money, and knew only that and explained my predicament. that my wife was already at the me that you should be proud to a man named Yuval was to pick Immediately he said, “Let’s con- kibbutz and Yuval was on his be head of such a country and us up at the station. My wife tact your wife; do you have a way to get me. that all Israelis should be proud had the phone number and full cell phone?” I replied that I did The young couple that had that they have such considera- names of our hosts, but no not but my wife did, so he gave assisted my wife had seen to it tion for others. money or tickets. As you can me his phone from which to call that she reached Caesarea. They Finally a note from our tra- imagine, this was most discon- her. Unfortunately I was unable had alerted the train personnel dition: We learn that in our his- certing. to locate her number, because to our problem and explained to tory tragedy befell the Jewish But now came the interest- hers was a borrowed cell phone. the conductor on the train that people because they were not ing part. Many passengers on My companion (he was so help- my wife had no ticket or money kind to one another — the sec- the platform saw my wife’s dis- ful that I feel I can call him that) to buy one because we had been ond Temple was destroyed tress and rushed to her aid. then told me that the train we separated. The conductor because of Sinath Hinam; a After all determined that her were on didn’t go to Caesarea allowed her free passage. All plague struck the students of best language was English, a but to Binyamina. However I this of course was a great relief. Rabbi Akiva because they did young couple set out to help could get off at Binyamina Why do I think I should not respect each other, etc. The Photo by Sasson Tiram her. They got on the next train where he was detraining and bother the president of the Israel that we saw was one of a with her and proceeded to the take a train one stop back to country with such a story? The people in harmony, of people Home at last second station in Tel Aviv, at Caesarea. salient feature is that from the who really cared about their fel- which I had gotten off. I was on I did this, and took the time the train doors closed sepa- lows. Surely the Guardian of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Agency Chairman the platform there when I heard train south with the hope of rating my wife and me to the Israel will protect such a people Natan Sharansky greeted 238 new immigrants from the US and an Israeli voice from a train finding my wife or Yuval at the time of our reunion in Caesarea and make them prosper. In fact Canada — including families from Far Rockaway and Long Island — screaming my name. I was Caesarea station. I got off at everyone whom we came across the Israel we saw seemed very at a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion airport Tuesday. The new unable to see the bearer of this Caesarea, but saw no one wait- tried to help us. In America we prosperous as well. Israelis — including 55 army recruits — left JFK Monday on a voice, but I got the impression ing for me there. I did see a read in our newspapers how Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight, the second such flight this sum- that he might be on the train on young man with a rifle however, everything in Israel is tense and Most respectfully yours, mer. (L to R: Tzvi Mark from Maryland, Netanyahu, Sophie Lee the way to Caesarea with my who seemed to be a station how there is strife among from New York, Sharansky and NBN co-founder Tony Gelbart). wife. guard. I asked him to see the Israelis based on religion, poli- DAVID G. EBIN “We are in Israel so it’s like stationmaster, hoping that tics or ideology. But when some- Stony Brook, NY

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MAYER FERTIG Publisher, Editor-in-Chief Required viewing MICHAEL ORBACH Assistant Editor veryone makes mistakes. That is the A true leader knows how to admit to MALKA EISENBERG, TOVA ROSS legitimate and charitable reaction Editorial making a mistake. Sadly, most of our cur- from the most charitable among us to rent leaders don't seem to know it. Rav Reporters the arrests that brought shame and the making — to hear a public mea culpa Weisz, however, has arguably showed him- HELENE PARSONS, MAURY WARSHAUER E embarrassment to the entire Jewish from a Chassidishe rebbe who has pleaded self to be a true leader. Account Executive world. guilty to money-laundering charges from an The other reason not attending the Asifa RABBI AVI BILLET, ALAN JAY GERBER, MICAH D. HALPERN, Our mistake didn't involve anything ille- earlier round of embarrassing arrests. in Borough Park was a mistake was because RABBI YAKOV HOROWITZ, ADAM NEUSTADTER, DAVID SEI- gal, immoral or fattening. We pay our taxes, The Spinka Rebbe of Borough Park, Rabbi we missed out on the opportunity to hear DEMANN, BARUCH SPIER, YAFFI SPODEK, MIRIAM L. WAL- wash clothes but never cash, do not receive Naftali Tzvi Weisz, apologized for his actions. what may have been one of the most mag- LACH, CHANANYA WEISSMAN Section 8 housing assistance and have suc- In so doing he re-earned the respect of many. nificent, on point, speaking-truth-to-power Contributors cessfully resisted an oddly compelling urge "Out of necessity we allowed ourselves to speeches in modern Jewish history. ALYSON GOODMAN to get rich quick by trafficking in human indulge in illegal acts," he said, according to Lawrence attorney Benjamin Brafman, Editorial Designer organs. No, our mistake was a sin of omis- a transcript on the Vosizneias.com website. clean-shaven, wearing a business suit and kip- ■ sion. We should have but did not attend the "As painful as it may be, we must admit we pah seruga in sea of beards and black hats, The Jewish Star is an independent community newspaper. All opinions expressed 'Asifa' or gathering sponsored by Agudath have failed. Things have happened at our told his audience the three saddest words he's are solely those of The Jewish Star’s editorial staff or contributing writers. ■ Israel in Borough Park last week — the one mosdos [institutions] that should not have ever heard were “Tatty, kimpt aheym,” — 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530 intended to remind those of us who need happened. We must acknowledge this, and Daddy, come home — spoken by a three year (516) 569-4000 E-mail: [email protected] reminding that Hashem's chosen people are make it known publicly, because we're hop- old boy visiting his father in prison. fax: (516) 569-4942 not supposed to lie, cheat or steal. It's a ing it does not repeat itself.” If you haven't seen Brafman's speech on The Jewish Star is published weekly by the The Jewish Star LLC, 2 Endo shame that we need reminding but recent "I'd like to tell you that we've learned it's YouTube, we urge you to do so. It is Boulevard, Garden City, NY 11530. Postmaster send address changes to The events conclusively proved that we do. possible to lead Torah and chessed organi- required viewing for all of us. Instead of the Jewish Star, 2 Endo Boulevard, Garden City, NY 11530. Subscription rates: $36 for Not attending the get-together in Borough zations in accordance with the law. Yes, it is next round of fundraising chatchkes this 1 year, $60 for 2 years, $72 for 3 years within Nassau County. All other subscrip- Park was a mistake for two reasons. First, we possible. People think it cannot be done, but year, perhaps every Jewish institution ought tions $54 per year. Newsstand price: $1 . Major Credit Cards accepted. missed the opportunity to see redemption in we've learned this the hard way." to mail out a DVD of Brafman's remarks. Copyright © 2009 The Jewish Star LLC. All rights reserved.

Letters PARSHAT EIKEV The Torah tells us in the one’s face during kedusha. beginning of chapter 8: “You Rather, it refers to more global must safeguard and keep the Jewish traits such as modesty in ty “Ashkenazi” Jews are not entire mandate that I am pre- lifestyle and dress, honesty in associated with this “outside” Struggle for observance Thanks for the scribing to you today. You will business and speech, and choos- community of Middle Eastern- By Rabbi Avi Billet You’re allowed to carry.” then survive, flourish, and come ing Jewish values over Holly- ers. Was Bernie Madoff ever “Yes,” David said. “But I to occupy the land that G-d wood values. subscription described as an “Ashkenazi” Abe and David were long- don’t trust that eruv.” swore to your fathers. Remember The Seforno explains that Jew? From my perspective, a time study partners (chavrusas). Each person’s level of obser- the entire path along which G-d “testing to determine what is in To the Editor: Jew is a Jew is a Jew. I am not One day Abe asked David to sign vance is relative. People who your Lord led you these forty your heart” was in order for I’ve been receiving your in need of any adjectives to set a document as a witness and was appear to be identical in practice years in the desert. He sent hard- those feelings to be made known paper and am really enjoying it. me aside from others. If chared- shocked when David declined: may, in fact, be at completely dif- ships to test you, to determine to angels. They ought to know Your columnists provide me im (Ashkenazim and Sfardim) “Sorry Abe. I can’t be a witness ferent stages in their religious what is in your heart, whether that, in judgment, humans have with insightful new informa- riot in Jerusalem, they are all because I’m actually not Jewish.” development, depending on the you would keep His command- greater merits than angels, as tion. Thanks for the subscrip- my burden. If a young Tel Avi- “What do you mean you’re path they’ve traveled to get to ments or not.” their knowledge of G-d comes tion — I really look forward to vian (irrespective of his not Jewish? We’ve been this particular point. Those who Which one is more binding? from a lifetime spent struggling each new issue. genealogical background) is chavrusas for 15 years! You’re continue adding to their reper- “You must safeguard the man- with questions of faith and ignorant of the meaning of MICHELLE PINTO the frummest guy I know.” toire of obedience to the guiding date” (meaning “command- meaning. Tisha B’Av while chomping on Director, Media Relations “Nevertheless,” David said, principles of Jewish law are per- ments”) or G-d tested you “to Angels don’t have such chal- his burekas, it is my tragedy. North Shore-LIJ Health System “the fact is that I’m not Jewish.” sonally on an upward growth determine what is in your heart, lenges. Humans do. Angels are And if hundreds of kippa seruga “Dave,” Abe countered, ladder. Those who may have whether you would keep His told what to do, and they do it. officers and soldiers serve in “you, of all people, know very been in a stricter environment commandments or not?” Humans have free will. Zahal - they have my pride - well that a non-Jew is not sup- and choose a more moderate There are many today who Netziv quotes the Talmud and I do not investigate Why single out posed to keep Shabbos. I know middle ground might or might opt to say, “I am still deciding Avodah Zara 5b, which teaches whether their ancestors were you are scrupulous in your obser- not be on a downward slide; whether I want to keep com- that some people take 40 years Sfardim or Ashkenazim or Cha- Syrian Jews? vance. Now, explain how you’re they may simply be finding mandments. Some of them fit to understand the teachings of sidim or Misnagdim. ‘not Jewish.’” themselves and a form of into my lifestyle but some don’t their mentors. Depending on To the Editor: JAY A FRIEDMAN “Well, you don’t know this,” halakhic Judaism they find com- agree with me, and I don’t agree how you define teachings and I am somewhat upset at the Ra’anana, Israel David said, “but I’m always car- fortable. with them.” This is not referring mentors, this could refer to forty publicity being given to “Syrian” (with magnificent memories of rying my house key in my pocket These who actively ask ques- to minute details such as years of studying, which might Jews and the “Syrian” Jewish Far Rockaway and Shaaray on Shabbos.” tions and seek answers are on an whether one first faces to the begin at age 5, or forty years community. It is as if the majori- Tefilah) “So what? We have an eruv! admirable journey. right or to the left when turning See PARSHAT, Page 9

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FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BENCH Hope for the President The only light more (Biden drank a non-alco- the spectrum: the words of an 18 for the last two years. that while she and her red than the one I passed holic beverage — proba- year old girl in New Jersey that res- Wherever Tikvah father still eat through was the light on bly a smart move on onated well and succeeded in chang- is in the Unit- non-kosher, top of the NYPD patrol behalf of the administra- ing the life of a despondent man ed States, they no car that pulled me over. I tion, as his penchant for and his family. The young lady’s or out of longer eat had all sorts of defenses gaffes would only name is Tikvah, “hope” in Hebrew, the coun- milk and planned but then remem- increase if plyed with which is exactly what she ultimately try, she meat bered the advice I have alcohol). provided. calls this together. given clients many times To his credit, Presi- Two years ago she began to visit man. In So what, over. Accept the ticket, dent Obama backtracked patients in a local hospital. She hap- one dis- you say? I allow the officer to per- David Seidemann and admitted he spoke pened upon the room of a mentally cussion, he say, that form his job, perhaps he’ll too harshly and too disabled 50 year-old man who had mentioned change was remember how courteous you were, quickly. Indeed, he was guilty of the suffered a stroke. A curse upon a that he remem- more difficult for and negotiate later. very rush to judgment of which he curse. Sitting with the 50 year-old bered his Bubbie them than anything So if it was me instead of the accused the police. invalid was his 60 year-old sister made chicken soup on I do in the name of religion Harvard Professor who was arrested The greatest casualty (thankful- who had never married and their 87 Friday nights. Tikvah sent over on a daily basis. while seeking entry to his own ly) of Obama’s ill advised words was year-old father. Though born into chicken soup. One April, he men- What was the genesis of their home, I would have politely that his healthcare plan took a back the Jewish faith, they had no faith tioned that his Bubbie made a dish newfound belief in G-d? Believing in explained that I lived here, followed seat for a week and the country now and did not observe any of the dic- on Passover called matzo brei. Tik- one of G-d’s creations. And not just the officer’s commands and in all has more time to study a healthcare tates of the Jewish religion. vah whipped up a dish of matzo brei any creation, but a creation that likelihood would not have let the plan that could make you sick. Once The 87 year-old man cried to and had it delivered to the man and showed an interest in them; that did affair escalate to the point where I again it becomes clear that the spo- Tikvah that he had lost his wife, has his daughter. not look down upon them; a cre- was arrested for disorderly conduct. ken word can either build upon or a 60 year-old daughter who never Slowly, slowly, the kind acts, ation, a young girl, whose words No, it wasn’t the officers who totally derail man’s plans. Those married and a 50 year-old son more and the interest Tikvah showed to were chosen carefully and with acted irresponsibly, it was Professor three words uttered by ObamaL dead than alive. this man, his sick son, and single thought; words that unified and Henry Louis Gates. And no it wasn’t “They [the officers] acted stupidly” “There is no G-d,” he exclaimed. daughter yielded fruits. It took him bridged a divide. the person who called the cops who shifted the entire focus of an admin- Oh, but there is, insisted Tikvah. a while but his belief and trust in She would make a good Presi- spoke irresponsibly, it was President istration, the press, and the nation Look at nature. Look at how though Tikvah, an Orthodox Jewish girl, dent one day. Obama. Without knowing any of the from a discussion of healthcare to G-d took your wife, your children morphed into a belief in G-d the facts, President Obama labeled their an analysis of race relations and are not alone. Look how your son, in way Tikvah perceives. They see G-d’s actions “stupid.” White officers prejudice, with the President’s com- his limited capacity, has a father to presence in their daily lives, through David Seidemann is a partner with arrest black people all day long and ments being as unfounded as any care for him and love him. Look how the tears, through the hardships. the law firm of Seidemann & Mer- black officers arrest white people all words a white man could utter your daughter, who is alone, has a At 87 its difficult to learn a melstein. He can be reached at day long and not a word from our about an African American. father who looks after her, upon whole new way of life. And no, he (718) 692-1013 and at ds@lawof- President. But this case was differ- The President has as much to whom she can rely in her loneliest and his daughter are not (yet) Sab- ficesm.com. ent. Why? Because the arrestee was learn it seems, as those who he of moments. bath observant and do not (yet) a friend of the President. thought needed a lesson. Who was it That discussion was the first of maintain a kosher home. But two So three beers and one non- who said, “words matter?” many weekly discussions that have weeks ago, Tikvah received a phone alcoholic drink later, all is well. Then there is the other end of taken place, every Friday afternoon call from the daughter informing her

ably tells me that Hashem is IN MY VIEW with them. I’M THINKING Was it wrong to be com- Continued from Page One plicit in a potential federal felony? Undoubtedly it was. even hesitate. Does it mean we need to The Torah states, you examine ways of helping? Cer- should love your friend as Israel’s newest arrivals tainly, and we need to reex- yourself, I am G-d. If you truly amine much in the way we fulfill this, G-d promises then For centuries but the disconnect they are legally classified as world, Jews have been sent live. He is the third partner in your people have risked from reality is refugees. At home, they are out from their communities. The shocking news is the friendship. their lives leaving clear. In the Mus- being murdered by their rul- Certainly, along with these traitor among us. One begs to What is a true friendship? their countries of lim world children ing governments. In Israel, illegal arrivals come legal and imagine the FBI threatened Do you have a true friend? Do birth to come to are fed a diet of they are being asked not to bureaucratic entanglements. and cajoled, but to set up the you have half a friend? Do Israel. They leave hatred for Israel: live in the central part of the Israel was set up to receive 87 year old chief rabbi, to set you have someone in your life behind family, hatred for Israelis, country. Jewish refugees from around up a relative, to set up the who would risk his freedom, property and hatred for Zionists, Very few countries in the the world, not intended to be holy man who shared the dais his honor, his money if your belongings, bring- along with their world have taken in the a magnet for Muslims fleeing with his own father for 30 son came to him? ing with them mother’s milk. As refugees of Darfur. Israel has. Muslim oppression. But the years is unconscionable. Micah D. Halpern A Jewish consciousness only their dream - they grow older Few countries took in the Jewish state is sensitive to the French Jews burned Mai- story! to settle in the the children are boat people of Vietnam. Israel concept of people fleeing monides’ book and a short Three Sephardic rabbis land of Israel. introduced to vile, ugly, anti- did. In the 1970’s thousands from persecution and that time later the Talmud was are accused of succumbing to Every day, another group Israel propaganda. As they of boat people were floating explains why Israel has a tra- burned in France. compassion. Was there per- of 500 to 600 people enters grow still older they are aimlessly, citizens of nowhere, dition of taking in people in We have a problem and sonal gain for any of them? I Israel following their dreams. encouraged to engage in anti- no place offering to take them need. its beyond the scope of this highly doubt it. The difference between these Israel activities. And yet, here in, no one willing to save Today’s refugees from article and well above my pay Did they succumb to a people and the thousands they are by the thousands, them. Israel, the Jewish State, Sudan and Eritrea have fig- scale to solve it. But the prob- young man who was ostra- who have come before them Muslims unwilling to end was one of the only countries ured it out. They have figured lem is not a Syrian problem, cized by others? Did they suc- is that these groups are not their treacherous voyage until to open doors to the boat peo- out that Israel is not the not a Sephardic problem, not cumb to a young man who welcomed by the Jewish they have set foot over the ple, escapees from a far off enemy. They have figured out even an Orthodox problem. came to them again and again Agency or Nefesh b’Nefesh. Egyptian border and entered culture. that Israel is the savior. It’s a Jewish problem. Let’s pleading that his children had They enter Israel by crossing the Jewish homeland. Israel accepts refugees, come together to solve it. Let’s no food on the table? Did they over the Egyptian border and At home and in the other even illegal refugees, because Micah D. Halpern is a colum- give each other the benefit of succumb to the suffering son sneaking into Israel illegally. Muslim Arab countries they that is part of the Israeli mis- nist and a social and political the doubt and lets avoid of a trusted scholar? They did. They are Muslims and pass through, the former citi- sion. Israel accepts those who commentator. Read his latest pointing out scapegoats, They fulfilled the verse, Ve’a- they come from Sudan and zens of Sudan and Eritrea are have no home because, book THUGS. He maintains because in the eyes of the havta LeReacha Kamocha, Eritrea. in danger. Because none of throughout history and in The Micah Report at world, we’re all the scape- even though they were duped, The logic is difficult to follow them can ever return home, countries throughout the www.micahhalpern.com. goats. and my sense of judging favor-

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We’re called when there is an “Ninety minutes goes very Symptoms of a heart attack BY MICHAEL ORBACH emergency so we generally don’t fast,” Green noted. will vary case by case, according have the luxury of a longer trip.” “Door-to-balloon in 90 min- to North Shore’s Dr. Green. Josh and Rachel Itzkowitz In the case of a dire emer- utes is the Medicare standard “Everyone is different and has dif- want to give parents of hospital- gency such as cardiac arrest, pro- that all hospitals have to meet,” ferent sensations.” ized children a restful Shabbos tocol requires a patient to be explained Donna Moravick, a “The patient will feel dis- experience. transported to the very nearest nurse practitioner and vice presi- comfort, not super painful, pres- Nessa, the youngest of their hospital. dent of cardiovascular services of sure, a heaviness, usually in the eight children, was born with a For balloon angioplasty the North Shore-Long Island Jew- middle of the chest,” he severe congenital heart defect patients, “There’s a huge push to ish Health System. It is infrequent described. “It can radiate but it called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syn- improve times,” said Freeman. that North Shore-LIJ does not may not, lasting a half hour or drome. Years ago, children born The average time in South meet the 90-minute time win- longer. It can go to the left arm, with the condition would live just Nassau was 67 minutes in the last dow, she said. neck or back. They may have a few days. Thanks to medical quarter, he said. Community hospitals that breathing problems at the same advances, and after two surgeries “Ninety minutes is the cut off are not equipped with catheteri- time, may break out into a sweat so far (a third is planned for Sep- point,” agreed Dr. Stephen Green, zation labs cannot perform angio- or have an upset stomach. It tember), Nessa is thriving, Baruch Photo by Josh Itzkowitz chief of cardiology at North plasty. Instead, they process and shouldn’t go away in two min- Hashem. But the Itzkowitz's have Revach’s Shabbos RV at rest in the driveway of the Bris Avrohom Center Shore University Hospital in Man- stabilize such patients and trans- utes; two minutes is angina, not a spent their fair share of time in in Hillside, N.J., also home to a Hatzalah ambulance. hasset. “The sooner the patient is fer them elsewhere for further heart attack. It’s consistent for 20 Columbia Presbyterian Children's treated, the less the mortality. treatment. minutes or more. They should Ninety minutes is a reasonable Mercy Medical Center in seek care.” Hospital. Itzkowitz's dipped into their chil- is no eruv outside the hospital window to mobilize staff to do Rockville Centre and Peninsula Female patients may experi- "No one should know what it dren's college funds and bought (the answer was with a combina- the procedure, diagnose acute Hospital in Far Rockaway both ence very different, even minimal means to live in a hospital," said and retrofitted a recreational vehi- tion lock), and there were numer- myocardial infraction, get transfer their heart attack signs of a heart attack, according Josh, who calculated that he cle (RV) that could be parked out- ous technical details to work out. approval from family, get patients. to a recent study published in the spent at least three months in the side a hospital. The RV sleeps six "How much does a cup of informed consent, and ask ques- “Obviously, [a patient] will medical journal Circulation. hospital over the last two years. and has its own dining room, coffee cost?" Josh asked rhetori- tions.” not make it [to a catheterization Researchers studying early While the care in Columbia kitchen and oven. cally. "Apparently, thousands of Huntington, South Side and lab] in the 90-minute window,” female heart attack symptoms Presbyterian and the services "You take for granted that dollars." South Nassau hospitals can do said Dr. Peter Galvin, Peninsula’s found that during a heart attack, offered by volunteers of the Sat- when you have space that belong Josh and Rachel Itzkowitz balloon angioplasty, and North chief medical officer. 43% of the 515 women studied mar Bikur Cholim were "excellent," to you ... you live in a house that are also active members of Hatza- Shore provides quality oversight. Dr. Sergio Sokol, chief of car- had no acute chest pain, which is he repeatedly stressed, Itzkowitz you can lock your door. In a hos- lah of Union County, covering “We track how well they are diology at St. John’s Episcopal considered to be a hallmark found that while in the hospital pital you don't have that. Even the Elizabeth and Hillside, N.J. and doing and if any emergencies Hospital in Far Rockaway, said symptom of heart attack in men. something important was lacking: couch that opens to a bed, you surrounding areas — he is a first don’t work out well they are via email that his hospital stabi- “Patients must realize that Shabbos. Last April, when the cou- can't sleep for more than half an responder; she is a dispatcher transferred to North Shore or lizes cardiac patients within 15- they have to call [for help] as ple decided they wanted to give hour. I don't see us leaving the nearly every day. LIJ,” said Green. 30 minutes of their arrival, and soon as they suspect that they something back to fellow parents baby alone, but why couldn't I say They have paid back the North Shore, designated a that the hospital’s six month sur- have a heart attack,” stressed Dr. of sick children, they knew just sleep for three or fours, or have a money they borrowed from their “tertiary hospital,” can perform vival rate for angina and heart Green. what to do. Friday night Seuda (festive meal) kid's college funds but hope to "We said, 'How could we give for half an hour. " fundraise to purchase more vehi- them back the dignity that they "We can light candles and cles and expand the organization's don't have walking around their enjoy Shabbos. You can't do that services to more rural hospitals. hallways,'" Josh recalled. "We could in a hospital." The Revach Project can be give them a place of respite." From The Itzkowitz's consulted contacted at 908-436-9310 and there came the idea for Revach, numerous rabbis about halachic Josh is willing to drive the RV which means respite in Hebrew. questions about the RV's opera- anywhere, so long as he can make The goal of Revach was to provide tion on Shabbos, including how to it back to his home in Hillside in a full Shabbos experience for par- pump water and how to lock and time for Shabbos. ents and families in hospitals. The unlock the door to the RV if there

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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SUIT Continued from Page One By Michael Hatten's own count, this suit represents the of [the Elders of] Zion and have third time the former board pulled out individual pages and member has been sued for being applied it to the Lawrence a member of the Lawrence school district." school board. The lawsuit claims that the "This level of nastiness closing and potential sale of the shouldn't be dignified with a Number Six School is motivated response," he said. by a desire to lower property School Board President taxes in order to finance yeshiva Murray Forman said the result tuition. of the lawsuit and the need to "Orthodox families tend to defend against it would be to be large, and yeshiva tuition waste district funds that would tends to be expensive," the law- have been better spent in the suit says. The document claims classroom. the school closing would be the Superintendent John Fitzsi- "latest device used to direct pub- mons declined to comment but lic funds toward Orthodox inter- an attorney for the district, ests." Albert D'Agostino, told The Jew- Additionally, it claims that ish Star Tuesday afternoon that the consolidation plan and the “The plaintiff's request [for an actions of the Lawrence school injunction to block the plan] board serve as a “disapproval of was denied by their apparent their [public school students] lack of likelihood of success on religious choices.” their merits.” An advertisement that “The judge does not think appeared in the Five Towns too highly of the lawsuit and Jewish Times in 2006 was their chances of winning,” said among the evidence submitted D'Agostino. by the parents. The ad was Agostisi, the lawyer for the signed by 23 Orthodox rabbis in parents, was adamant that his support of Orthodox candidates clients are not anti-Semitic. in that year's election, in which "They don't care if [the the Orthodox community won a board is] little green men from majority on the board. Mars, so long as they put the The lawsuit names the interest of the children first." board and its trustees, both indi- Mansdorf disagreed: "They vidually and in their official are blatant bigots, by every defi- capacities. nition of the word."

PARSHAT EIKEV  Continued from Page Four While each person has a dif- ferent path to travel, hopefully all under the guidance of someone roads lead to the same place. The you choose as your teacher, goal we can share until we get to which might mean your high that place, however, is to view school teacher, rosh yeshiva and the struggle as an important part shul rabbi combined. of our personal development. As  All this suggests that the long as we do not remain stag- choices we make in our lives are nant, and we continue to allow Production facilities available Very competitive rates supposed to be a struggle and ourselves the opportunity to are supposed to jump in different explore, to find the form of reli- directions, because we are meant gious expression that works for to be struggling with our us within a framework that has a For more information call Judaism and finding what works source and a basis, we are on the TALKLINE COMMUNICATIONS is an agency for us. If the Babylonian Talmud right path. specializing in matching broadcasters is correct in the assertion that we This applies whether you with radio and TV stations leasing time 212.769.1925 don’t “truly” understand until were born into Judaism, came after 40 years, then many people back to it, or picked it up along don’t arrive at true understand- the way; whether you carry a TALKLINE 1-866-MY TV SHOW ing until they reach the age key in your pocket because you COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK email:[email protected] range of 45-65. do or you do not trust the eruv. 300309 10 The Jewish Star August 7, 2009

THE KOSHER BOOKWORM Why a teacher is reviewing a book by a writer named Student Our review rial contained in his adaptation of Torah teach- vast array of discussions and responsible take on its sub- wonder that the Young Israel this week is of a work is even more ings from his popular blog, questions concerning nearly ject matter. Absent is the ran- movement, book by an author intriguing. HirhurimMusings.com, which every conceivable major con- cor and together named Gil Stu- “Posts Along The expresses opinions on Jewish temporary issue dealing with slander with the dent. As unlikely Way, Volume One: law and practice and wel- the shul. that OU’s NCSY, a name as this Shul” is, according to comes studied and informed Unlike many others, the daily has sur- may be, the mate- Rabbi Gil Student, an replies. The book contains a Hirhurim blog reflects a inhabit vived for other NOW BRcloseOA DtoC AaSTING Alan Jay Gerber blogs century as claiming the prime to repre- youth sent tra- movement ditional in Ortho- ADCASTING Judaism. doxy in W BRO With- the Unit- NO in the ed States book’s 261 today. TSKILLS pages are At one THE CA to be found time in E IN topics nor- the near LIV mally found past this in halachic would SATURDAY NIGHTS 10:30 PM – 2:30 AM or rabbinic IhaveN THE CATS journals. It LIVE not KILLS WVOS 95.9 FM CATSKILLS • WMCA 570 AM METRO NY is divided been into four main sec- TUNE IN WEEKNIGHTS 7 PM – 2 AM MON- THUR tions. The thought possi- first, Praying ble. WSNR 620 AM METRO NY and Prayers, consists of twen- This volume consists of ty-one entries that include 223 detailed and very extensive discussions on Jew- informed scholarly footnotes ish prayer such as Jewish to help the reader in his or liturgical practice, prayer her further studies; a source texts and variant practices, index of three pages and a the use of Hebrew, Carlebach subject index of sixteen TTALKLINEALKLINE WWITHITH SSATURDAYATURDAY NIGHTSNIGHTS minyanim, the appropriate pages. ZZEVEV BRENNERBRENNER 12 MIDNIGHT TO 2 AM timing for prayer, proper Rabbi Student grew up times for the attendance of in Teaneck, N.J. He attended AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE MMON-THURON-THUR children at services, medita- the Solomon Schechter of tions as additions to the main Bergen County elementary JEWISH PROGRAM 9 PM – 10 PM service and, that all time school, Frisch High School, favorite, talking during dav- and Yeshiva University. He ening. learned in Rav Mayer Twer- Another section deals sky’s shiur for five years, the with issues of rabbis and can- last in the yeshiva’s Kollel. tors, including can a ba’al Beginning as an actuary he Teshuvah (returnee to obser- later moved into finance in vance), a convert or a woman the bond industry. In 2002, become a rabbi? The give Rabbi Student published his and take is quite open, with first work, “Can the Rebbe be FOR MORE INFORMATION each side given its due. Some Moshiach?” that brought INCLUDING OUR NATIONAL TV PROGRAMS of the conclusions will sur- forth detailed proofs from CONTACT: prise you; other may anger the Talmud, Midrash and you. Rambam that the late Lubav- 212-769-1925 The largest section is itcher Rebbe zt”l could not be 1-866-JEWISH RADIO titled Women’s Roles; not the long awaited messiah. [email protected] surprisingly, this is the In 2004 Student started “hottest” item in a book of a publishing house called LISTEN ONLINE ANYTIME: TALKLINECOMMUNICATIONS.COM hot button issues. Yashar Books, publishing 300288 The centerpiece of the works of contemporary section deals with women’s Orthodox Jewish scholarship. prayer groups; the positions His publishing experience led of a number of great rabbinic him recently to assume the luminaries are given their position of managing editor due, among them Rav Joseph of the Orthodox Union’s Soloveitchik zt”l, Rav Eliezer newly established OU Press. Berkovitz zt”l, Rav Hershel More on that iy”H in future Schachter, Rav J. David Ble- editions of The Kosher Book- ich and Rav Yehuda Henkin. worm. Each set of opinions, taken Student’s blog has together, represent a bal- proven for all to see the value anced point of view on this of the Internet and blogs in most emotional of issues. the dissemination of Torah Other issues related to studies. He has proved that women include a discussion responsible journalism can be about calling women to the accomplished without the Torah. At appropriate use of sensationalism and moments Rabbi Student yellow journalism. Rabbi Gil adeptly files his own take Student is to be commended which serves to remind the for this, his first volume of “ON SALE” reader that this is a book of his blog’s work. the author’s creation. Student’s opinions are WE SERVICE ALL TYPES OF sure to set you thinking THE KOSHER about issues you might not BOOKSHELF LAWN SPRINKLER SYSTEMS have previously considered I would like to bring to important to you. 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