The Jewish Star Independent and original reporting from the Orthodox communities of Long Island VOL. 8, NO. 32 AUGUST 7, 2009 | 17 AV 5769 www.thejewishstar.com DAY OF REST ON WHEELS BLOG BECOMES BOOK GOOD HEALTH The Shabbos RV The Kosher Bookworm Special section Page 7 Page 10 Pages 1, 7 & 8 IN MY VIEW Don’t point Another fingers day, another ‘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. 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