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0 By Michael Orbach Need More Space? 7 7 Henry Roth’s life is the stuff novels UL 5 are made of. Roth was in his twenties when he published his masterpiece GET THE “Call it Sleep” in 1934. The story of Da- vid Schearl, a Jewish boy on the Lower 010 10 EL East Side, the book received mixed re- , 2

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ugus New York Times Book Review and sold A over a million copies. By then, Roth was in his forties living in Maine as a water month fowl dresser and dealing with a case of 1 writer’s block that prevented him from publishing anything. Shortly before his death in 1995, Roth published his sec- ond work, a four-volume fi ctionalized account of his own life called “Mercy of a Rude Stream.” The set, which in- FWith a minimumR of a E3 month aEgreement cluded two volumes that were pub- lished after his death, received critical not to be combined with any other offer. acclaim and Roth was hailed as hav- ing one of the greatest literary come- backs in history This past year saw the release of “An American Type,” a book culled from a 2000 page manu- script Roth left over, put together by Willing Davidson, the fi ction editor of The New Yorker. BIG BOB'S SELF STORAGE 381734 Michael Orbach: What do you 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City • 516-227-0200 think caused Roth’s writer’s block? 1 block south of Stewart Avenue, just west of the Meadowbrook Parkway (Exit 3M) Willing Davidson: We could speculate end- Adjacent to north campus of Nassau Community College. Offer Expires 10-01-10. lessly about what caused his writer’s block, MO: How do you think Roth’s later but certainly the mixed critical reception [to works compares to “Call it Sleep”? “Call it Sleep”] was a factor. Roth was a very WD: “Call it Sleep” is a long book, an ex- anxious insecure person and to have his work tremely intensely focused book, and it takes in public and to not be received completely place over a very short time span. “Mercy of a well was [devastating]. Rude Stream” is a much more sprawling epic novel; it turns its attention outwards. Where MO: What was Roth’s relationship to- “Call it Sleep” was about interiority, “Mercy wards Zionism and Judaism? of a Rude Stream” turns its attention to New WD: Roth was not a Zionist in his early York and the America that surrounded Roth. life; he did not subscribe to the notion of be- It’s much more observational when it comes ing Jewish as having a sort of nationalist as- to viewing the outside world. pect to it. He wasn’t enthusiastic about the creation of Israel, but then starting in the 60s MO: Does “An American Type” contin- he became much more sensitive to the Zion- ue that? ist project. The Six-Day War was when he WD: [“An American Type”] reaches out- fi rst started to identify with the Jews as a na- side of New York and examines America tion and not just as his cultural background. and what it means to be an immigrant in After that he became increasingly devoted to America. You can see a progression from Israel and the idea of Israel. He was never very tightly focused on the few blocks of Da- particularly religious [but] he began to view vid Schearl’s childhood to “Mercy of a Rude the idea of a Jewish homeland as important Stream” which broadens its focus to encom- to him, as an important aspect of his iden- pass New York and a time span of growing up tity. to “An American Type” which views America as a whole and to be a Jewish immigrant as MO: Why is “Call it Sleep” considered a whole. In this book, Roth’s narrator travels such a classic? across America and encounters all these vari- WD: “Call it Sleep” is really the fi rst great ous archetypes. The narrator rides freight novel that applies modernist sensibilities to trains across America, he goes to L.A., he’s the immigrant experience. What I mean by on welfare, he sees just such a large swath of modernist is the idea that plain language is Depression-era America. not suffi cient to describe reality as it’s actu- ally lived. Henry Roth had to invent a mode MO: Where does the title come from? of expression that would adequately convey WD: In the book, the narrator refers to what it means and feels to be a young Jewish someone or something as an American type. immigrant at the turn of the century. [The He describes his future wife, a Protestant New novel’s] rapturous passages and its sort of England woman as an American type and all delight and terror in the actual English lan- these different people as classical types. The guage and the way it fuses English and Yid- irony is a Jewish immigrant who comes over dish into this new, extraordinary energetic from Europe at the turn of the century and dialect — it was something that had never becomes a writer and also a manual laborer, been seen on the page. I think that’s part of who is Jewish but marries a Protestant. what makes “Call it Sleep” such a good novel. It’s just a terrifi c evocation of what it feels MO: Is there anything left of Roth’s like to be a child. that hasn’t been published? WD: I think this is the last we’ll hear of 395925 Roth. The well is dry as far as I know. 5 THE JE

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fasting today, specifi cally, but the fact that fast because of a Rashi and a ride. down with a chocolate milkshake? Am I a is empty... I often do not really care whether 0 I , 2 so many of us do, so many times each year. A I have a horrible memory and recall sur- hypocrite or just a culinarily deprived fool? every rabbinical decree is “right.” 010 10 EL misinterpretation perhaps, more than a mis- prisingly little of what I learned throughout What if G-d laughs when we arrive in heaven, But fasting, I do care. I hate it. I challenge take. An exaggeration. From the bottom of school (a fact that brings great pain with the each balancing bags of Ase and Lo Tase mitz- the notion. It does not bring me to a higher my heart, I harbor doubt that we Jews were arrival of each tuition bill.) Yet, a Rashi in vot garnered by following a bunch of rabbis spiritual level, nor help me ponder the pain supposed to fast this often, for this long. I Devarim 17:11 made its home somewhere in to the left and then to the right until we were of my ancestors. I do not feel it makes me UL 5 think, perhaps, some well-meaning people of my cerebral cortex in the early 80s. The text spinning in circles? Should order reign over a better person. It makes me nervous, tired,

religious power took the gift of Yom Kippur indicates that one “should not deviate (lo reason? Tradition trump responsibility? dizzy, angry and ... it forces me to ponder in 7 7 and decided more is more, or less is more tasur) to the right or to the left” from that This brings me to the ride I mentioned. frustration. 0 depending on how you which he is instructed by the Sanhedrim to My stepfather, a teacher and dedicated Fasting conjures my doubts. It compels me look at it. do. Rashi cites the Sifrei who states that we chauffer for his children (and now grandchil- to contemplate my commitment. To wonder IN MY VIEW Scold me, stone me, must follow them even if it appears that what dren), shared more than traffi c reports and a why I follow this “rule” I am so unsure of and scowl at me but this is they tell us is right is really left and left is re- love of “Imus in the Morning” as he drove me by association, the thousands of others pro- my truth. ally right. (Of course, there are various inter- to and from school every day. He imparted vided by the same sources. And ultimately, to So why am I fast- pretations and disagreements on this point.) thoughts on life, liberty and the sorry state surrender, each time I fast, to the fact that in ing? Even as a schoolgirl surrounded by the of writing skills among high school students. total, I do respect the interpretations of our I have fasted every smell of pencil shavings, it struck me as ac- On one such ride he noted that, with regard Rabbeim. I appreciate the rules and restric- Tisha B’Av since I was curate that while the Torah was given to us to religious practices, he believed that if ac- tions and the freedom they paradoxically 11 (minus one where all, its interpretation is best left to the few. tions he took as a religious Jew caused no avail. I realize that I am a person of faith, not I stuffed a huge piece We are encouraged to question and to draw harm to others, and further, improved or en- blind faith, but thoughtful faith. Hungry still of babka in my mouth inspiration, but the conclusions that heed hanced the lives of those around him... it was for the something that religion provides. while on a teen trip to action must come from a learned, able and all good. And hungry for that apple on the table be- Israel, forgive me.) I willing minority if we are to have order in So how much is gained or lost in daily life fore me. There is more to say, but the fast is have fasted more than society. And I like order. I felt that this prin- by following the directions of other human ending, and I can now think of nothing more two decades worth of ciple must hold true even when we do not beings? 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Last weekend President Obama came out in favor of con- than a day later, he appeared to reverse his position, explaining a respected editor who has experienced Islamic terrorism fi rst- AR structing a new mosque and Islamic Cultural Center in Lower that he had merely been speaking in constitutional generalities. hand, each stake out one position on the mosque controversy,

Manhattan, two blocks from ground zero. Then, little more Here, a local elected offi cial and congressional candidate, and and stick with it. A ugus t 2 0 Pro: Con: , 2 The ground zero mosque: Of Mosques and 010 10 EL UL 5

good for the Jews Mother’s Day 7 7 0 live in Riverdale, a community that was trau- and though they fl ed mistreatment in their home cannot drive by Ground Zero, or see hundreds in New York, so we know that matized fi fteen months ago when a consor- countries they were not above meting it out to a picture of the Twin Towers, with- opponents of the Ground Zero mosque I tium of police agencies foiled an alleged plot “heretics” in their midst. I out getting a lump in my throat. That are not trying to limit the religious free- by Muslim extremists to bomb two of its largest In 1654, Peter Stuyvesant, the governor of gaping hole in the Manhattan skyline dom of Muslims. They’re disgusted at synagogues. It wasn’t the fi rst time that attackers what was then New Netherland, sat down at his always reminds me what happened on how insensitive the mosque’s planners — acting in the name of Islam — had targeted desk — not far from today’s Ground Zero — to 9/11, to whom, and by whom. are to the open wounds caused by 9/11. institutions in our midst. write to the directors of the Dutch West India The sense of Such behavior is inexcusable, and wor- Yet, a local newspaper Company: loss, grief, and thy of opposition. editorial, written in May “The Jews who have arrived would nearly all outrage on 9/11, Consider that the Confederate Flag is of 2009 — just a week af- like to remain here, but learning that they (with and in the years all but banned in the South because of ter the abortive synagogue their customary usury and deceitful trading with that followed, what it represents to African Americans. attack — was able to draw the Christians) were very repugnant... we have... gives me little Sincere people understand that even a positive lesson from the deemed it useful to require them in a friendly reason to expect though the fi rst amendment protects incident. “There are times way to depart, praying... that the deceitful race or demand of their right to fl y this fl ag, because it is when good fl owers from — such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the Americans to insensitive to do so, they will choose to the soil of evil. So River- name of Christ — be not allowed to further infect separate Ground fl y it elsewhere or not at all. dale reaped a harvest of and trouble this new colony...” Zero from those Many schools downplay Mother’s goodness from the horrifi c In a later missive, Stuyvesant explained that who turned it into Day, or Father’s Day because it’s such plan of the four men who he feared tolerance for Jews might attract other Ground Zero. This a painful day for children without a Richard L. Stein schemed to set off truck persecuted minorities, like Catholics, to settle in Fran Becker is terribly unfair mother or father. Is it fair to deny this bombs aimed at Riverdale the city. to hundreds of to the rest of the children? Well, it’s not Temple and the Riverdale Beholden to wealthy Jewish investors, the di- thousands of de- about being fair. It’s about learning to Jewish Center,” it noted. rectors refused to expel the Jews from Manhat- cent American Muslims who love Amer- be sensitive to the feelings of others. The good the editorial referred to was an out- tan but they wrote to Stuyvesant, “The consent ica, abhor terrorism, and wish their When a group that claims to pro- pouring of support from members of the clergy of given to the Jews to go to New Netherland was religious freedoms were as defi ned and mote tolerance is so grossly insensi- every faith and denomination — especially Mus- extended with respect to civil and political lib- secured as any other United States citi- tive to the legitimate emotional needs lims. One after another of the city’s imams rose to erties, without the said Jews becoming thereby zen. But it’s just as unfair for support- of others, I have to wonder about their the podium at a rally in the community room of entitled to a license to exercise and carry on their ers of the Ground Zero mosque to deny sincerity. Especially when they seem to the Riverdale Jewish Center to condemn the plot religion in synagogues or gatherings.” or invalidate the emotions of those still be downplaying the religious aspects of and avow that terrorism has no place in Islam. It was, thus, to protect us from ourselves grieving this horrible event. the complex, and have the gall to com- Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, an African-Ameri- — Quakers from Puritans, Catholics from Prot- Right or wrong, millions of Ameri- pare it to Jewish community centers in can from Harlem, reminded his listeners that too estants, Jews from Christians and even Moslems cans associate the historical facts of Manhattan. often Muslims are singled out as though every from the rest — that the First Amendment was 9/11 with Islam. Continued Islamic ter- Now they’ve changed the name of worshiper in every mosque harbored hatred. inserted in the Constitution. Its words are clear: ror attacks and threats to our nation the mosque from the vaguely Middle Ten years after Al Qaeda’s heinous destruc- ”Congress shall make no law respecting an estab- and allies, and the absence of an orga- Eastern sounding “Cordoba House” to tion of the World Trade Center that misconcep- lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise nized Muslim movement to reject and the purposely-vague “Park51.” It makes tion is as strong as ever. Recent attempts to build thereof...” denounce Islamic terror only reinforce me wonder: is their goal really to pro- mosques and Muslim community centers, not just Free exercise of religion means being able to this association. While activists shout mote peace, understanding, and toler- near Ground Zero, but from coast to coast, have put a church, synagogue or mosque where adher- about stereotypes and religious dis- ance, or to promote a goal that should met with vehement opposition. Protestors have ents want one, even if it’s a place where no one crimination, regular Americans simply be intolerable to even the most tolerant rallied in Staten Island, Falls Church, Va., She- else does. open their eyes and call things as they Americans. boygan, Wis., and even tiny Temecula, Ca. see them. Of course, religious misunderstanding and Richard L. Stein is former editor and publisher I do not support building a mosque Fran Becker is a six-term Nassau persecution are not unique to America. What is of The Riverdale Press, a weekly newspaper that two blocks, or anywhere close to County Legislator, and the Republican unique is our precious Bill of Rights. was fi rebombed by followers of Ayatollah Khomei- Ground Zero. 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0 Aug. 9 issue of Time featured the face of will take the young lady to the doorway of her that the act they are about to commit is a To- fault depends on how much we accept that 7 7 T a young Afghani woman whose nose has father’s home, and the people of the city will rah prohibition, for which the punishment is a “na’arah” has understanding of the reper- been cut off. Though we can’t see it, appar- stone her until she dies. She has brought sex- “x.” The act needs to be witnessed and then cussions of her deeds. Some will say she has

UL 5 ently her husband, the man who cut off her ual immorality to her father’s house, doing a presented to the court without contradiction. disgraced her family; others will argue in her nose, also removed her ears in the Taliban- shameful thing in Israel. You must therefore The court must have the power to carry out defense. Surely her family taught her to con- commissioned attack on the 18-year-old. rid yourself of the evil in your midst.” capital punishment, which is not the case in duct herself otherwise. Or did they? The magazine editor defended using the Though a modern society our society where rabbinic The punishment takes place on her fami-

010 10 EL photo, for which the young woman posed, might somewhat justify her courts are primarily limited ly’s doorstep — not to protect their honor, but

, 2 saying the world needs to know what return- behavior — she was experi- to monetary arbitration, con- to shame them. And it is carried out by the 0 ing power to the Taliban in Afghanistan will menting, she was young and The lesson is not versions and divorce cases. entire nation, not by her husband or family. t 2 mean. This and “honor killings” will be run- innocent, she didn’t know In our case, the girl has The Talmud in Ketubot (45a) says the crowd of-the-mill in a society governed by Sharia what she was doing — let us to be the age of a “na’arah” exclaims “Look at the offspring you have ugus that Judaism A law. agree that her faithlessness is — between twelve and raised!” In other words, you parents failed Perhaps Muslim fanatics who have no deplorable behavior; after all, twelve-and-a-half — a very in the education of your daughter. Does the respect for life are irrelevant to us — they a betrothal is a commitment. believes in small window of time. Much family want their daughter dead? Of course are free to do to their own people what they But the death penalty? as the Rebellious Son (Ben not. The lesson is not that Judaism believes want. And in such a fashion? Could honor killings. Sorer u’Moreh) (21:18-21) in honor killings. We abhor the thought and We don’t really believe that, of course, but the Torah be serious? was never killed (Sanhedrin distance the idea. But we do believe in a let’s leave the “what By our standards the text 71a) — it stands to reason strong education, in living by a set of values can we do?” question alone is insuffi cient. The Oral We abhor the our case was also meant to that are immutable. And, most importantly, to the politicians to Tradition (Torah She’baal be taught as a lesson in mo- in passing our values to the next generation. fi ght over for now. Peh) and Rabbinic explana- thought and rality, without ever coming Had the girls’ parents educated her properly, The issue is relevant, tion help us understand the to practice. Besides, the last this never would have come about. however, when we look text more clearly. Mishnah in Makkot chapter There is no room for hypocrisy. If we are at Devarim 22:21. If a “An eye for an eye,” for distance the 1 indicates, in essence, that to sustain Judaism as we know it, we can “na’arah” wife is ac- example, is rabbinically inter- Jewish courts did not carry no longer afford to hear stories of infi delity cused of infi delity dur- preted as a monetary punish- idea. out capital punishment. of any kind. Children learn to do the things ing her betrothal pe- ment. While that is not the In our day, therefore, no they see, and are very well aware of when we riod, her husband and case here — if guilty, the girl one can ever interpret these contradict ourselves — preaching one way as her family may each will die — the circumstances to bring about verses literally. Other than saving someone’s we practice another. We must live the lives present their case. The capital punishment are so diffi cult to achieve life from a direct danger, no individual may we know the Torah depicts as ideal because Rabbi Avi Billet Torah tells us what the that the punishment as written is virtually take the law into his own hands. through these guidelines our lives will not husband’s punishment impossible to carry out. The guilty girl committed a horrible act. only be fi lled with meaning but will stand as is for fabricating the Valid witnesses (who cannot be related “Her offense is to all of Israel for not up- a blessing to ourselves and everyone around tale, and then the Torah explains what hap- to either of the perpetrators or biased in any holding the moral standards for which we us. 395927 9 Unfi nished THE JE A picture is worth a thousand words WISH S

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The Warsaw Ghetto, established in 1940, 7 is mainly known for the uprising against the 0 Nazis. However the ghetto istelf was also a miniature metropolis for the 400,000 Jews that were crowded into the less than three square mile area. In the footage shot by the Nazis, the Nazis staged elaborate parties ed truths of what life was like in the Ghetto. and banquets for the few rich Jews and then Parts of the Nazi documentary were pure fi c- fi lmed images of poorer Jews in ramshackle tion; other parts were abridged truths. apartments and general squalor. The contrast 70 years later the footage is still strik- was intended to show the Jews’ callousness ing, though not for the reasons the Nazis in- towards each other. “A Film Unfi nished” tended. Using modern-day effects, Hersonski shows how the Nazis staged these events, zooms in on the faces of those suffering in- when in reality, as a survivor says in the fi lm, side the ghetto. In one image, she pans across there were only 20-50 wealthy Jews. The the face of a lone bystander, his face gaunt actual Nazi fi lm had no sound, so Herson- with hunger, contorted with the pain of life ski provides her own soundtrack: the voice in the ghetto. of survivors of the ghetto explaining their After all is said and done, the fi lm ends day-to-day lives. Part of the fi lm is also spent just as it began: in the archives, a room of I MONSEY I 5-TOWNS W/AD THRU 8/26/2010 I UNION, NJ I LYNBROOK 55 Atlantic Ave. watching survivors watch the Nazi footage endless shelves of forgotten footage. 414 Route 59 252-18 Rockaway Blvd. 2470 Route 22 for themselves. Usually, the survivors’ eyes (845) 425-3375 (718) 949-0350 (908) 810-0060 (516) 596-2741 widen, not so much in horror but in recogni- “A Film Unfi nished” will be showing at the PATCHOGUE WOODHAVEN SELDEN CARLE PLACE FARMINGDALE tion of what they’ve tried to forget. Lincoln Plaza and the Film Forum in If nothing else, the fi lm reveals the cloud- Discount Taken Off Regular Price. Not Valid on Prior Purchases No 2 Sales Can Be Combined. Higher Price Prevails.

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7 Misplaced optimism UL 5 en years ago Israel put up a wall, now day care centers and local schools were all wall. There was no hue and cry by the people they are taking it down. regular targets for the snipers. of Gilo asking for the wall to be removed. T The wall was erected to protect the Beit Jala, a predominantly Christian Arab Israel is placing the What began as a reminder of tragic killings

010 10 EL residents of Gilo, a Jerusalem suburb, from village, is very densely populated. The snip- and heart-wrenching trauma had become a

, 2 snipers practicing their craft across the valley ers were not locals; they were professionals good people of Gilo at way of life, a fact of life. 0 in Beit Jala. Artists from Israel and around brought in to kill. They found perches, made Israel is placing the good people of Gilo t 2 the world joined locals in turning the protec- their kill, mingled with the local population risk. Israel has chosen, at risk. Israel has chosen to, once again, turn

ugus tive wall into a piece of art. to avoid detection and then rotated out. New Israeli children into easy targets. Israel is A Gilo’s wall went up crews were brought in as replacements. The once again, to turn tempting not only fate, but tempting those in response to shots irony of all ironies is that the snipers were Palestinians who believe in pressuring Israel I’M THINKING fi red by Palestinians trained in Langley, Virginia by the Central In- Israeli children into through terror. And Israel is doing all this for who climbed the spires telligence Agency. no reason at all. of churches and hid Israel was a faced with a very diffi cult de- easy targets. Israel is This poor decision is just one of many that in high perches. The cision. To fi re back into Beit Jala, to use air can be attributed to an overly optimistic so- snipers had easy line force planes or helicopters as tools of retalia- not only tempting fate, ciety. Israeli leadership on both sides of the of sight to the Israeli tion, would cost the lives of too many Pales- aisle and a plurality of Israeli citizens under- homes across the val- tinian residents of Beit Jala. but tempting those stand the dangers they confront, yet, they ley. Carefully and me- Instead of snuffi ng out the snipers, Israel continue to be overly optimistic. They believe thodically, the Palestin- blocked the ability of the snipers to shoot and Palestinians who believe that peace can be just around the corner, or ian snipers made the to terrorize. And over the past few years the just behind the wall. lives of the residents of area has been pretty quiet as far as snipers in pressuring Israel Gilo a living hell. go. And so, it was announced that the protec- The trauma infl ict- tive wall of Gilo would be coming down. The through terror. Micah D. Halpern is a columnist and a Micah D. Halpern ed upon the residents process will take two weeks and then, voila, social and political commentator. Read his of Gilo, shot in their no more wall. that there is a logical fallacy at play. latest book THUGS. He maintains The Micah kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms and This act can be called neither strategic nor Quiet now does not mean quiet tomorrow. Report at www.micahhalpern.com. while spending family time at dining room tactical. It is an act of good faith. I can po- It is much easier and much, much quicker to tables, resonated worldwide. Kindergartens, litely call it hopeful. But practically I know put snipers back in place than to replace the

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7 emphasis on cooperative instruction, Pitsco Education; computer and technol- shiva Siach Yitzchok (Far Rockaway) and ■ ■ ■ team building, leadership and technology ogy teacher Alisa Watman will lead it. SAR Academy (Riverdale). UL 5 to prepare students for the 21st century In the elementary division ex- workplace. tra space will afford room for a Yeshiva of Central recording studio sponsored by the PTA, to be utilized by the 010 10 EL Queens (YCQ) Yeshiva Toras Chaim of music program led by composer , 2 Yeshiva of Central Queens is now

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t 2 the South Shore (South Bald, who is a rebbe in the ye- students from nursery to eighth grade. shiva. Enrollment “skyrocketed” in the words of ugus Shore) A one administrator; over 60 students hail The yeshiva is spreading out, taking Editor’s note: Based on past from the Five Towns. over the space formerly occupied by Me- experience, in order to preempt The YCQ Early Childhood Center im- sivta Ateres Yaakov. A junior high school misunderstandings with con- plements “Handwriting Without Tears,” ‘Mechina’ program is being inaugurated stituents of institutions not rep- an innovative program designed to teach in its own building with a shul, Bais me- resented above, we note schools writing without stress, beginning in kin- drash and high school-level lab. that did not respond to requests dergarten. Several grades will buy and Rabbi Yitzchak Goldman will serve as for information, in- package foods for the Five Towns Food Mashgiach and Rabbi Gershon Greenberg cluding Torah Pantry. Monthly trips will include the as Assistant Menahel. Rabbi Mair Wolof- Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn sky, will serve as Educational Director of and farms and nature preserves on Long the General Studies Department, Rabbi Island. Avraham Fridman will be the Associate Administrators and teachers will lead Principal for grades 1-5 and Mr. Daniel monthly Rosh Chodesh celebrations. He- Winkler will assume the position of As- brew language will be a major focus, with sociate Principal of General Studies for the Tel-Am Hebrew language program. grades 6-8. Students will use the Gruss Success Maker Rabbi Wolofsky will organize a wide computer program for math and reading. range of special activities including With a smart board in every classroom, Knowledge Bowl, Spelling Bee, Puzzle technology is integrated into everyday Contests and World’s Fairs. education. Yeshiva of South Shore is one of the

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of Port Washington that N.J. However, following a 010 10 EL billed itself as a low-cost board meeting on Sunday Madraigos, an organization that ‘We would like to allow yeshiva, has closed. it was announced that the works with at-risk teenagers, will Rabbi Shalom Paltiel, The closing fi nancially strapped school begin drug testing for several local the school to do their

the dean of the school and would not open, accord- schools. UL 5 the rabbi of the Chabad of was attributed ing to Yeshiva World News “We would like to allow the school education and not to Port Washington, attribut- (theyeshivaworld.com). to do their education and not to be 7 7 ed the closure to fi nancial to fi nancial The Schwartz Torah preoccupied with areas that are more 0 reasons and the existence Academy, which opened 12 challenging, that would distract them be preoccupied with of a similar day school op- reasons and the years ago, charged $7,000 from their focus,” said Rabbi Dov Sil- erated by the Chabad of per student for the school ber, who founded Madraigos seven areas that are more Great Neck. establishment in year, close to $4,000 less years ago to work with struggling “The vast majority of than most other yeshivas teens. challenging, that the day school children in the region. Rabbi Paltiel The organization maintains a were coming from Great recent years of a said he managed to keep drop-in center in Woodmere and Neck,” Rabbi Paltiel ex- tuition down by limiting holds therapy and counseling groups would distract them plained. “Chabad in Great similar school in the number of extra-cur- daily for both boys and girls. Neck opened a yeshiva ricular activities the school “We assist the schools so these which essentially caters to offered. from their focus.’ Great Neck. kids can be rehabilitated and become the same crowd so it re- “Our mission is to keep any specifics concerning the tests. ally didn’t make sense to kids out of public schools... responsible members of the school,” However, both stressed that the operate two schools... [Closing] makes sense so we priced it accordingly,” Rabbi Paltiel said Rabbi Josh Zern, executive direc- testing program itself might act as a even if we were rolling in dough.” told The Jewish Star last year. tor of Madraigos. “Kids won’t be cast At its height the Schwartz Torah Academy Rabbi Paltiel said that the school held a out, but the problem will be nipped deterrent for teenagers on the “fence” had 200 students but enrollment for this year fair for yeshivot at the end of the year. Ac- in the bud.” about drugs. had declined to 135 students and a decision cording to Rabbi Paltiel all the students from Citing confidentiality, neither man “If [a student] knows that he may was made to shut down. The Silverstein He- the Schwartz Torah Academy will be attend- would identify the schools for which be found out he may think twice brew Academy, the school run by the Chabad ing yeshiva this year. Madraigos will conduct testing, or about it,” explained Rabbi Silber. of Great Neck, opened fi ve years ago and “I don’t look at it at as a major tragedy,” now has a nursery and grades K-5. Rabbi Paltiel said. “Nothing was lost. Boruch Regionally, this is the second yeshiva clos- Hashem, we have plenty to do.”

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Dear Aviva, simply because they did not support your en- should either give a vague, global thank-you I have worked very hard over the past Dear Successful yet resentful, deavors. It does not sound like you are try- to all who believed in you and supported you. few years in school; maintaining a great GPA Wow, with all your accomplishments, ing to be vengeful. If you were, maybe that This will not offend them because you are not while juggling a young family and an almost you sound like Superwoman! I guess this would be stooping to their level. going to be conspicuously omitting them. Or, full time job. The end is fi nally in sight, as I confi rms that even Superwoman can have a Listen, it’s not easy to take the high road. you can try very, very hard to think of one or will be graduating at the end of the upcom- problem or two. If you don’t, however, you will be widening two things that they have done for you since ing semester. My husband has been support- Okay, the question that I have for you is: the divide between you and your brother in you began your adventure. Did he ever lend ive throughout, and understanding when the Do you want to maintain your status as Su- ways that are unbridgeable. I say this know- you a calculator or tell you about a relevant laundry wasn’t done or we had pizza for din- perwoman, or do you want to be relegated to ing full well that he is the one who drafted website? Get creative and think of a tiny sup- ner several nights in a row. a mortal earthling? From the few encounters up the plans for this very road. But you are portive act that he displayed and pouf it up My problem is my older brother. He has that I’ve had with some Superwomen, I have an adult. You see that someone close to you a little bit. (“Calculator” now equals “Loaned been the opposite of supportive; not only did found that they often remain true to their has erred. Are you going to attempt to leap me school supplies one semester.” “Relevant he not show any interest in what I was doing higher convictions, no matter how diffi cult over this gap, or are you going to dig your website” is now known as “helped me with or how I was doing in school, he openly chal- it may be. In your case, this would mean to foot down in anger or even apathy? I know some research.”) lenged my choices. He expressed his opinion publicly treat your unsupportive brother as if it’s not fair, but if you are not the one to put If you really can’t go through with this and that I ought to have waited to graduate before he had been mildly supportive. a stop to this breach, it will continue to grow don’t invite or thank him, just know that I building my family. He and his wife failed to If your relatives who backed you up are exponentially. Do you think this issue would still think very highly of you. Balancing work, extend themselves in any way to alleviate the coming to the graduation, the rules of Super- bother you less or more if it is laden with a school and family, all the while meeting your pressure. It would have been nice if we had woman-hood dictate that you should extend few passing decades and life stages? goals of success is nothing short of heroic. at least been invited for an occasional Shab- an invitation to your brother and sister-in- In the spirit of Elul, fi nd a way. I think you The only thing that you’ll have to do after the bos or dinner, but that never happened. law as well. If not, you would be stooping to should invite them to the graduation. Think party is summon a real Superhero to mend Now, with graduation approaching, I their level by mistreating them just because about it: you will be preoccupied with the the mess of snubbing your sibling. And I can’t know they will expect to be invited. I don’t you personally disagree with their choices. pomp of the circumstance. You will barely really do much in that department… want them there. Furthermore, I know they Sorry to break it to you, but they are part of notice another two faces in the crowd. This - Aviva will expect to be thanked in the speech that I your family. will be very little sacrifi ce on you part. will be giving at the huge party my husband Of course the fact that he disagrees with The party, on the other hand, will require Aviva Rizel has received her Master’s will be throwing for me (at my insistence, and your choices does not give him the right to a ton of sacrifi ce. Yes, they should be invited in marriage and family therapy from because I’ve earned it). I think I will probably withhold his affection from you. So in real- to this huge bash (kudos, by the way, for di- Hofstra University and sees couples, choke on the words. 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“Mr. Non-President, I think you just advo- expressing your opinion on the actual mat- down. Do not render an opinion on the non-is- 7 cated pouring rubbing ter, as we don’t need you to comment on the My mother, may she rest in peace, gave sue and claim not to have an opinion on the 0 alcohol on an open constitutionality of an issue that all agree is birth to six out of her eight children in the ultimate issue. If indeed you are the leader FROM THE OTHER wound”. constitutional. same Catholic hospital in Columbus, Ohio. of the free world, then lead. Take a position SIDE OF THE “Well, let me re- This has nothing to do with constitution- Each time she was admitted to the hospital or state clearly that you will not take a posi- BENCH phrase that. I wasn’t ality, Mr. Non-President. Rather the issue is to give birth, in advance of her being trans- tion. commenting on wheth- human sensitivity despite one’s religious or ferred from the birthing room to her hospital It is clear what occurred on September er it would be wise to political rights.” room, the non-Jewish nurses would remove 11, 2001. Almost 10 years later our lead- pour rubbing alcohol Some 15 years ago a rabbi from Israel, his the cross from the wall above my mother’s ers should speak with an equal amount of on an open wound. I wife and their sick child found their way to hospital bed. The nurses were not required clarity. For days after the attack, smoke and was simply speaking Lubbock, Texas. He was there because only to do this and my mother never asked them ash from the towers fi lled the sky, rendering in constitutional terms in Lubbock could he fi nd a doctor to treat a to, but they did so of their own volition be- invisible the truth of what was there to be that every American rare disease that affl icted their infant daugh- cause they understood that one of the fun- seen. has the constitutional ter. There wasn’t a Jew within miles, not to damental religious principles is sensitivity to It is disheartening, at the very least, that right to do so, should mention a synagogue or kosher food. The those with different beliefs. with the passage of time certain truths are he or she desire.” family made friends with a real estate agent I don’t fault Muslims for wanting to build still hazy. “Mr. Non-President, who took them from house to house as they a mosque at or near Ground Zero. It furthers that seems most obvi- searched for a rental. Only one house fi t the their goals to construct at that location. Nor David Seidemann ous. Why would you bill but there was a problem. A cross had do I expect them to factor into their deci- comment on some- been hung in every room. sion what others might consider insensitive. David Seidemann is a partner with the thing that is not in When the rabbi and his family moved We all make decisions in life that for better law fi rm of Seidemann & Mermelstein. dispute, that is funda- into the house a few days later, they were or worse, are best for us. That is human na- He can be reached at (718) 692-1013 mentally accepted, i.e. that any moron so surprised to see that the non-Jewish realtor ture. and at ds@lawoffi cesm.com inclined could pour rubbing alcohol on a had removed every single cross. The rabbi What I fi nd intolerable and inexcusable,

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17 The Kosher Bookworm THE JE Repentance in the Chassidic tradition WISH S T AR In his classic study, “The Religious brew and English translation the work of- Next Shabbat, the 18th of Elul, marks the

Thought of Hasidism” (Yeshiva University fered an eloquent and picturesque portrayal birth date of the Baal Shem Tov. In honor of A Press/Ktav Publishing House, 1999), Rabbi of Chassidic life and practice through the this occasion, the Kehot Publication Society ugus Norman Lamm defi nes the Chassidic take on lives of its religious guides and mentors. has reprinted a newly revised edition of “The t 2 repentance: “To begin with, [repentance] of- Of particular interest to readers at this Great Mission: The Life and Story of Rabbi 0 ten refl ects kabalistic concepts of repentance. time of year is the ninth chapter of the Yisrael Baal Shem Tov.” Sec- , 2

Thus, human repentance is connected to the fi rst volume. Ti- tions of the book detail not 010 10 EL processes of cosmic renewal.” tled, “The Absolute only dry biographical facts Chassidism, according to Rabbi Lamm, Truth,” the chapter of the Besht’s life, but a pan- sees teshuva as a way of life, a pervasive as- deals with the High orama of the era in which pect of religion and not just an effort to ob- Holiday experiences he lived. Much of the book UL 5 tain divine forgiveness for particular sins. of R. Levi Yitzchak focuses on the Besht’s life 7

This view is refl ected of Berditchev. The and events that framed the 7 in Chassidic literature, narrative weaves future of Chassidism. Many 0 most of which consists together different of these well-known stories of stories about the per- communal and theo- have served Jewry well sonalities that created logical challenges and over the succeeding three Chassidic ideology. the author’s take on centuries. Rabbi Avraham Eli- the characters within As with the proceeding yahu Kitov was one of each segment of this volume, this book con- the leading populists religious drama. tains two brief, yet very of our time. He wrote I am certain that inspiring, timely chapters. predominantly about no reader has ever Titled, “The Sound of the the narrative of Jewish experienced Selichot Shofar” and “Spiritual Alan Jay Gerber ritual and holiday ob- or a Rosh Hashanah Shoes,” both chapters of- Dressner, z”l. servance. Rabbi Kitov service as described in fer a special message for First published in 1985 by the University helped inform gen- this segment. One has the upcoming holiday of Chicago Press, this classic, in my opinion, erations of both highly to assume that the story season. is one of the best books dealing with the and marginally observant Jews to better un- has much to teach us in In celebration of early personalities of the Chassidic move- derstand the history and reasoning behind terms of human rela- the Besht’s birthday, I ment. Since its publication in 1985 no other Jewish religious practice. Yet, in dealing with tions, ethics, and hones- would like to conclude book has come along to top this one in both Chassidic tradition, it is his story that is uti- ty, both among ourselves this review by bringing to your attention one scholarship and accuracy. While currently lized to detail the ritual and lifestyle of Chas- and between G-d and us. more book, “The Circle of the Baal Shem out of print, I hope and trust that a renewed sidic culture. Kitov’s skill in storytelling matches up to Tov: Studies in Hasidism.” Written by the late demand will generate a paperback edition of This point was refl ected in the writing of the skills he demonstrated in his previous great Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, zt”l, this valued piece of scholarship of Chassidic his two-volume classic, “In The Lion’s Den” works and much credit for this English trans- the work was edited and introduced with history. (Feldheim, 2005). In both the original He- lation goes to Miriam Zakon. a scholarly introduction by Rabbi Samuel Wish your family, friends and customers a Shana Tova, a Happy Chanukah and a Chag Kasher V’Sameach, all at once. with HOLIDAY GREETINGS in

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