$1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 7 NO. 43 26 AV 5767 vtr ,arp AUGUST 10, 2007 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK OUR STREETS COME TO LIFE Jewpreneur BY LARRY GORDON Avram L. Davis 20 Shopping By Phone Musical Dilemma Hannah Reich Berman 22 Last week, seemingly out of Yaakov Shwekey concert in MindBiz nowhere, the edict came down Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem Esther Mann, LMSW 24 from the rabbinical powers in last week. Mordechai Ben Israel prohibiting the yeshiva David canceled his sched- To Buy Or Not To Buy communities from attending uled performances this week, P h o t Anessa V. Cohen 29 Jewish music concerts. The as well. o B y I r a names of the leaders signing Frankly, it’s a difficult time T h o Jewish Leadership m a the decree were surprising to for us to be pondering the s C r e Rob Muchnick 48 a t i o many, as they included Torah idea of jumping for joy or n s luminaries such as Rav swaying to the music with Every year, hundreds of local residents anticipate the annual sidewalk sale Elyashiv, Rav Shteinman, and great giddiness, considering sponsored by the Cedarhurst Business Improvement District. This year’s sale the Gerrer Rebbe. what we as a community have took place July 25–26. Pictured above, the busy scene outside of Judaica There was an immediate Plus. Great weather, interesting people, and robust sales made the event a joy effect on an Avraham Fried– Continued on Page 6 for all. See More Photos, Page 13 NO TRESPASSING HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Halachic Musings Visiting Days ty included debates about Feldheim-Midnick wedding. BY RABBI YAIR newspaper articles and poli- See Page 57 HOFFMAN tics, he had never before been BY LARRY GORDON by the industry to take care of DIRECTOR, TIFERET CHAYA arrested. In high school, he the Visiting Day crowd. PROGRAM FOR GIRLS was president of the Student I’d like to offer some Instead, we did what we’ve Council; he mentored other observations and reflections probably only done a handful On November 29 of last students and volunteered for on the subject of Visiting Day of times over the last two year, a young black man Habitat for Humanity. at summer camp. For a decades or so: we drove up named Anthony Wells was Police said that Wells had change, our Visiting Day trip early Sunday morning and arrested by New York City no reason for being at the earlier this week was not returned late Sunday night. police on charges of criminal Alfred E. Smith Houses in turned into a whirlwind Apparently scattered around trespass. As reported in Manhattan that night. Wells weekend of hobnobbing in these Catskill Mountains are a Newsday, Wells, 19, was a and his lawyer state that he and around the Catskills or good share of those sparks of freshman at the School of was simply going to visit a participating in one of those Visual Arts. Raised by his friend. Shabbos weekends tailored Continued on Page 4 mother on the Lower East Mort Klein presents award to Rubin Margules at Jerusalem Reclamation Side, where dinnertime activi- Continued on Page 10 Project dinner. See Page 39 Ascent To IT’S ALL IN THE Hebron Expulsion Eitam: The SMALL THINGS Journey BY MICHELE Continues HERENSTEIN BY LAURA BEN-DAVID It seems that we’re always looking for the next “big August 6—Two weeks ago, I thing” to look forward to: the embarked on a memorable next vacation, the next best- journey, with a thousand oth- seller to hit the stores, the ers, to Eitam Hill, against next wedding to attend, the Rubin Markowitz and Rabbi Peretz strong resistance by our own next promotion (hopefully), Steinberg, rav of Young Israel of P h o t o army. Today, I went to Eitam the next day off from work B Queens Village. See Page 36 y P i e r Hill with my family and (Labor Day!), the next mile- r e T e r d j friends and had a nice picnic. stone in our lives. But if all we m a n / CANDLE LIGHTING B a Two weeks ago, we trekked for look forward to are the next u B a August 10 – 7:41 PM u over an hour along rocky, dif- “big things,” we may very well August 17 – 7:32 PM Protestors shouting from within a Hebron apartment during the police evacuation on Tuesday. See Story, Page 15 Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 9 2 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 3 HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE felt awful at the time, but asked some- someone else. from you to them. In other words, they Continued from Front Cover one else to please fill in and see to it Those are the images that memo- need more money to spend. that they pick our kids up and try to ries of Visiting Day conjure. I can We live in a time when it’s important holiness that were spread around the show them a good time for a small por- recall one day in particular on which to reexamine our habits and the things world (part of the traditional explana- tion of the day. my younger brother and I had no visi- we do just because we’ve always done tion as to why the Jewish people have My children—four of them in two tors while all the other kids seemed to them that way. This is one of those been historically so scattered) to some- different camps at the time—were not be busy with their parents. It seems things that needed to be looked at. No times the most obscure places on the happy with the arrangement. For years that it made an indelible impression longer are campers as inaccessible as globe. I guess that includes places like after that, we were constantly asked on me. I remember walking around on the dark side of the moon during those Hurleyville and Monticello, among oth- and re-asked, as each Visiting Day a hot day basically doing nothing, four weeks between visits, from mid- ers. Long after these mountain commu- approached, whether we were going to watching everyone else reunite with July to mid-August. Today, many chil- nities were declared to be relics of the be there or not. I suppose I’m particu- their families. Hence my Visiting Day dren, or at least their friends or coun- past, they are still ever so much alive larly sensitive to the inquiry, because sensitivities. selors, have cell phones, which makes and filled with the sounds of tefillah when I was a camper my parents usu- Okay, so I didn’t enjoy Visiting Day them accessible 24 hours a day, six and Torah study. There’s kedushah in days a week. “them there hills.” Still, this week’s Visiting Day was a This past Sunday was a strikingly nice and even a pleasant experience. beautiful summer day. Somehow the We left Long Island on a crisp and day compared well with Visiting Days No longer are campers as inaccessible sunny Sunday morning at about 8 a.m. of the past, creating a positive impres- We scooted along the scenic Cross sion. Perhaps it’s because the children Island Parkway, then across the Throgs have grown up a bit, or maybe it’s as the dark side of the moon during Neck Bridge (it can use a paint job) because there are fewer of our children and onto the Cross-Bronx, over the in camp than there once were, which those four weeks between visits. G.W.B., onto the Palisades and the translates to a less demanding day and Thruway, and we were there. Note the a more positive experience. I would be absence of the Van Wyck “Expressway” remiss if I didn’t say that, overall, traf- from this route; I’ve come to detest any fic was much more manageable than trip that involves that road—unless it usual; this factor alone can set a very ally did not come for Visiting Day. that much then—or now. In my adult is at 2:00 a.m., when traffic may be important tone for the day. That’s not because they didn’t think it years, however, I have come to admire moving at a good clip because of the It’s additionally important at this was important to have visitors, but the camps that have taken the initia- lateness (or earliness) of the hour. juncture to inform the reader that over basically because my parents used to tive and have cut the number of We made the ceremonial but still the last 15 years or so I’ve only missed spend most of each summer in Israel Visiting Days in half, to just one. The necessary stop at Wal-Mart in one Visiting Day. We’re scrupulous while we were parked safely away in way I see it, and the way time flies any- Monticello to get one of my children about this—or at least I am—for basi- the Catskills. I know my mom is going way, one Visiting Day over a seven- or a few things that he needed for color cally one or two reasons. The one time to read this and remind me of at least even eight-week period is sufficient. war and to get him through the rest that we missed was when I was away one or two times that they did indeed Once the children pass the age of 11 of the summer.