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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

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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),

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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. on business out West and my wife visit us that I don’t remember. They or 12, they still want to see you (and of A few decades ago, there was no came to join me for a Shabbos over usually made certain that someone course you want to see them) but place in the Catskills to buy anything. which I was somewhat voluntarily came to visit us on those days—my mostly the effort becomes one big stuck there for a few extra days. We grandparents, an older sibling, or opportunity to transfer some funds Continued on Page 7

4 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 5 FROM THE EDITOR light of an environment that exists Mr. Shwekey’s rabbi, Rav Ovadyah Continued from Front Cover around these shows. The rabbi said that Yosef, spoke with the entertainer last the rabbanim in Eretz Yisrael under- week in Jerusalem and told him that had to endure over the last week or so. stand that there is a positive and even his position was that the shows should P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 Awful traffic accidents over the last inspiring aspect to these shows, but go forward and that he should per- 516-984-0079 few days have claimed the lives of that the venues and the atmosphere form. As a result, we’ve learned he’s [email protected] [email protected] some very young people. Two fatalities that exist—not in the shows them- been told by some here that they will took place in upstate New York, and selves, but around them—may not be organize an effort to encourage people LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor several other people remain in critical respectful enough for the Holy City. not to hire him for simchas here, and YOSSI GORDON condition in hospitals. Another was a Certainly it’s a level of thinking that there is a concern that pressure will be Director of Sales young woman from New York in her exerted on the yeshivas that his chil- CHANA ROCHEL ROSS mid-20s, and then the other morning dren attend to remove them from the Editorial Assistant the news broke of a group of yeshiva schools because he may have defied a SIDI BARON boys from Telshe-Stone outside The self-appointed ruling of gedolei Torah. YAKOV SERLE Jerusalem whose jeep overturned, It’s hard to imagine that this was the JERRY MARKOVITZ causing four additional fatalities. enforcers are not as intent of the above-named rabbis. Still, Sales Representatives Perhaps the rabbis in Israel felt a this is the way in which those who seek SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC sense of the tragedies that were in the to carry out their directives—possibly Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor offing. Maybe they could not intellec- sensitive or as even with good intentions—interpret CONTRIBUTING EDITORS tually or emotionally fathom the juxta- what are often declarations that con- Howard M. Adelsberg, Irwin H. Benjamin insightful as the Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen position of the events. Still, one of the tain some ambiguity. A conversation Danny Block, Jamie Geller wonderful things about our relatively with Mr. Fried on Sunday left me with Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Yochanan Gordon minuscule communities flung across rabbis themselves. a sense of his shock and even concern Michele Herenstein, Rabbi Yair Hoffman the globe is our diversity of thought for the way in which these events Karen Kahn, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky Shmuel Katz, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller and ability to rebound and rise to the unfolded. Rabbi Yoni Posnick, Gary Rabenko, Naomi Ross occasion when needed. In a nutshell, Those of us who in the past have Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Eli Shapiro so to speak, that is the history of the not too many of us are capable of attended Fried, Shwekey, or Ben-David YOSEF BROWN, MICHAL WEINSTEIN Jewish people. relating to. On the other hand, those shows either here or in Israel have wit- Staff Graphic Artists But as happens with some of these who appoint themselves as the nessed the intense, inspiring nature of IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS pronouncements, sources in Jerusalem enforcers of the edicts of the rabban- these performances. They leave many Staff Photographers have indicated that the nature of the im are not as sensitive or as insightful of us spiritually and emotionally uplift- FRANKEL & CO., CREATIVE DESIGN LLC declaration may have been misunder- as the rabbis themselves. As a result, ed with feelings of hope and optimism Design & Production stood to an extent. A local rabbi who there is a misunderstanding that man- in puzzling and difficult times in our TALIYE CORLEY spoke with Rav Elyashiv’s grandson Rav ifests itself in a distorted fashion that communities. And that is the intent of Art Director Aryeh Elyashiv told the Five Towns can quickly get out of control. As a the performers who have dedicated SUZETTE LEE Jewish Times that the objective of the result of what happened in Jerusalem themselves to spreading a positive Assistant Art Director ruling was to achieve a higher sanctity last Thursday night, both Mr. Fried Torah message and have managed to The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- for the city of Jerusalem. The intention and Mr. Shwekey had to hire security do so successfully through their per- paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not with this and other rulings was to estab- guards to get them out of the stadium formances and recordings. responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or lish a higher standard for Jerusalem safely and to the airport for their flight establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. because of what the rabbis feel is too back to New York. Continued on Page 12

6 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE how I was doing. He said that it was a Continued from Page 4 long time then asked me where we knew each other from. I said I wasn’t If you were lucky, your mother baked sure—maybe camp, perhaps yeshiva. you a cake or a few cookies. Your par- He was trying to remember, too. Then ents might have brought you a few bot- he asked me what my name was. I told tles of soda, but that was it. him, but he still stared blankly. I asked Today, summer in the Catskills trans- him his name, but it didn’t mean any- lates to food galore. You can’t turn in thing to me, either. We said to each any direction and not come into eye other that it was “nice to see you,” and contact with some kind of specialty then moved our different ways. You restaurant or kosher supermarket. see, if not for Visiting Day, I never Driving down Broadway in Monticello would have run into that guy (whoev- this week, we happened across Shmuel er he was). Ungar’s “Simply Sushi.” Their specialty Reflecting on this essential day of is self-explanatory—and very tasty. They the calendar, it occurs that perhaps also feature an array of other foods and this whole Visiting Day ritual is not drinks and a very fine iced coffee that is that much about the kids, the tips, way out there and delicious. and so on. Perhaps more than any- And then once again we headed east thing else, these days can provide an and home. Visiting Day was over for opportunity to visit and revisit our- another year. As you know, Route 17 in selves and our past, with a little the 120’s was a schlep, slow with some sprinkling of what will, hopefully, be cars pulled to the side with flat tires or a vibrant and promising future. O fender benders. After that, traffic moved at a pretty good pace back to Comments for Larry Gordon are welcome at the Palisades, the bridge, the Throgs [email protected]. Neck again, the Cross Island, and finally home. Everyone we saw was well and doing well. We ran into lots of people we know, particularly as we perused WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? the aisles at Wal-Mart. Some I hadn’t seen since either that morning or the WE WANT TO KNOW! day before on Shabbos. Others that I ran into I hadn’t seen in about 30 E-MAIL US AT years. One guy saw me from the dis- tance, and I could detect his eyes [email protected] widening with recognition. He extended his hand and shook mine heartily with both of his hands. He asked me

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 7 Ascent To Eitam and many other actions in support of reality on the ground. Remarkably, it did nothing more than invigorate the Continued from Front Cover settling the Land of Israel, had a lot to was at the end of this past week’s Torah youth with the love of the land of Israel, say. She told me that every new neigh- portion, where it speaks of the Jewish the very soil of Israel, it was all worth it. ficult terrain, zigzagging to avoid being borhood that is built in Judea and people inheriting the Land of Israel, Will it succeed? Who knows? This is stopped, to get to Eitam. Today, we Samaria takes time. In fact, this was that it says, “Every place where the sole 2007, not the ’70s and the height of the drove in our cars, on the main trail, how Zayit, Dagan, and Tamar, the of your foot will tread shall be yours.” age of settling Israel. It was easier then. right up to the main hill. Two weeks newest of the Efrat neighborhoods, Here we were bringing the Torah to life. Zionism was the way of the Jewish ago, people were dragged away from were started. Zayit now has hundreds of We just needed those first few steps to masses. Our allies were few, our ene- Eitam, manhandled and humiliated. families living in beautiful homes and establish that this, indeed, is a part of mies were unambiguous, and our Today, we relaxed there on blankets, apartment buildings, when not long ago the Jewish homeland. options were practically nonexistent. played Frisbee, and ate hot dogs. Two it was a barren hilltop not unlike Eitam. Now many have arrived at post-Zionism. weeks ago, a man was arrested for dar- She was about to point out the strategic The thinking is that we have a new ing to bring an Israeli flag to the Israeli importance of the location of Eitam, Middle East; peace processes, peace territory known as Eitam. Today, our when she suddenly realized its signifi- We all looked around partners, the Left becoming bedfellows young children laid the first stones for cance to the 200 people gathered and with the enemy—many think we don’t a synagogue there. Just two weeks. pulled out her bullhorn. Dramatically, for a moment, need Zionism any longer. Worse, they What changed? This was the big she circled as she pointed out the 360- have traded in their nationalism for the question bewildering many of us who degree view of the surrounding hills. startled, seeing counsel of other nations. Are we truly had experienced the challenging Starting to the east and going clock- ready to rest on our collective laurels, moments of just two weeks ago. I’m not wise were Herodion and the eastern nothing but hills and while our task is only partially complete, even sure I have the answer. Some say Gush Etzion villages of Tekoa and and rest our fate in the hands of that the last event, a very public one, Nokdim; to the south was the summit strangers? Have we come so far only to required a public response. Others say of the new Efrat neighborhood of rocks and brambles. backtrack right into our enemies’ hands? that the last event was an effort to per- Zayit; to the west is my own Neve Are we without hope of making a differ- manently settle the land, and needed to Daniel, with its unique dome-topped ence ourselves? be stopped; this was a simple picnic, synagogue clearly visible on the hori- At around 6:00 p.m., they announced I think not. When I was watching scheduled to last less than two hours. zon. Then, to the north, expansive and that it was time for the afternoon prayer those precious children painstakingly Still others said that they simply gave beautiful, just beyond the hills of services “at the synagogue.” We all piling stones on the ground of the Eitam in and are letting us do what we want. Bethlehem, is Jerusalem. Nadia point- looked around for a moment, startled, hilltop for a synagogue, I realized that All I know is that when I spoke to the ed out that this very hill connects not seeing nothing but hills and rocks and the impossible can be achieved. One officers that were there two weeks ago only East and West Gush Etzion, but brambles. Then we saw them passing day, years from now, I hope to come to find out why they were so deter- serves as a further bridge between out hoes and realized what they meant. back to Eitam, to find a thriving, vibrant mined to block us from settling land Gush Etzion and Jerusalem. Everyone, especially the children, using community. There we will go to pray at that had been zoned for Efrat over 20 What could our little picnic possibly hoes, bare hands, and the very rocks the synagogue and we will say to our years ago—and still is—they said alter- achieve? Perhaps the government had that were found all over this area, children, “This is what you started!” If a nately, “This is a closed military zone” the same thought, and hence allowed it. worked to begin to build a synagogue. few hundred people can make a differ- or, “It is too dangerous; it is hostile ter- But this was more than just a picnic. What an incredible feeling and experience at Eitam, think of what thousands ritory.” Based on this logic, two weeks Creating a yishuv takes time. Two weeks ence! It was just so beautiful to see all of or even millions can do. O should change nothing. But it did. ago, an illegal decree was issued, and our precious children literally building © 2007 Laura Ben-David. Nadia Matar, the charismatic leader defied by over 1,000; that broke the ice. the Land of Israel with their bare hands! Laura Ben-David is the author of Moving Up: of Women in Green who organized this Our picnic further thawed the frozen What was accomplished today? If we An Aliyah Journal (Mazo Publishers).

8 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Small Things with a friend (and right before hanging Continued from Front Cover up the phone), is, “Looking forward.” I’ve always felt saddened by endings: miss out on all of the small things, the end of a good book, the end of a which I believe make up most of what vacation, the end of a relationship, and life is really all about. yes, the end of a weekend (I’ve always Clearly it would be difficult to always disliked Sunday evenings). For me, it’s look forward to the many details that the beginnings that are so exhilarating: make up your days, like the next phone cracking open the new Harry Potter call with your friend or the next meal book and smiling because even the first you are going to eat. You may speak to page (out of 759 pages) was chock-full your friend all the time; it’s not momen- of excitement and adventure; going to tous. You have meals and snacks every the airport and waiting to catch the day; they’re not historic. But a good plane, knowing there is a whole vaca- phone call with a friend or loved one, tion ahead; meeting someone on a date filled with laughter and funny stories or and feeling that first flush of excite- with honesty and good advice, can be ment, knowing that all the good stuff is meaningful and can leave you feeling yet to come. These beginnings are truly good for a couple of hours or days after- what make life a blessing. wards. Meeting your friend, co-worker, Of course, 300 pages into the book or spouse for coffee or lunch may just be you’re still enjoying yourself, but you can another stop in your busy day, but it can never actually go back and start again

I’ve always thought that planning is often as much fun as the actual vacation.

also be looked at as quality time spent and have that heady feeling of anticipa- with someone you care about and enjoy tion, no matter how much you desire it. being with. The phone calls, the lunch- Being on vacation is terrific, but you es—the time spent with people you love can’t experience that same first-day thrill on an ordinary day—should be appreci- you felt at the start. And being in a good ated and never taken for granted. relationship is the absolute best feeling, All too often, the emphasis is put on but you can’t go back and experience the the “big thing” itself, overlooking all the excitement of just beginning to learn all details leading up to it. For how long did about this person you now care for. many of us look forward to getting and It’s the firsts—the anticipation, the reading the new Harry Potter book? beginnings, and the hope of all that’s Looking forward to reading the seventh ahead—that keeps us on our toes, that and last book in the series was a source keeps us guessing, that keeps us feeling of excitement (well, it was for me!). I say there is much good yet to come. And was (past tense) because it took five days knowing there is still good ahead, still for me to read it (it should have taken beauty, still hope, makes the more blasé two, but I did take time out to go to mundane everyday things morph into work), and now I don’t have that specif- something more wondrous. ic pleasure to look forward to anymore. When you have a group of ingredi- But the months leading up to getting ents laid out in front of you, they’re just the book, discussing with my friends that—individual ingredients, nothing to what could happen, what should hap- get excited about. But knowing that, pen, were extremely enjoyable and pret- cooked together, they can coalesce into ty laughable, as the plots we devised something delicious makes all the dif- were unrealistic in the extreme. ference. In the same way, it’s the small Planning a vacation may take up a details that make up a good, blessed, lot of time, but I’ve always thought and meaningful life. that planning is often as much fun as So enjoy all the moments, especially the actual vacation. There is definitely the ones that seem small and insignifi- something to be said for anticipating cant. Because those are the ones that something. A quote I found on the you will probably look back at later and Internet seems to echo my feelings on want to remember. The big stuff—you’ll this topic: “Travel is ninety percent retain those memories for sure. But anticipation and ten percent recollec- don’t forget the “small” stuff—the laugh- tion” (Edward Streeter). ter, the silly conversations, the planning, I feel that many people don’t realize, the giddiness…and never forget the feel- or perhaps ignore, the beauty of antici- ing of anticipation of things yet to come. pation. Some of the synonyms of antici- Samuel Johnson, the famous 18th- pation are expectation, eagerness, and century British author, said, “We love to hope. We all have expectations of how expect, and when expectation is either something will turn out, we are eager to disappointed or gratified, we want to be see the results, and we have hope that again expecting.” Expectation, anticipa- things will turn out well. Hope is heady. tion, and hope will hopefully stay with Without hope, there is often despair. I us always, as they are keys to living a believe hope is a necessary ingredient full and satisfied life. Don’t forget: it’s for happiness. Being able to look for- in the little things that we may often ward to things, and get excited about find our happiness. O things, is often greater than the actual Michele Herenstein is a freelance journalist who event itself. A favorite expression of lives and works in New York City. She can be mine, which I use when making plans reached at [email protected]. 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 9 No Trespassing onto somebody else’s property with- stealing. The Talmud (Bava Basra also the ruling of the Shulchan Aruch Continued from Front Cover out permission, which could just be a 88a) records a debate between Rabbi in five different places (C.M. 292:1, civil law tort (allowing the owner to Yehudah and the Sages as to whether 308:7, 359:5, 363:5). Prosecution for trespassing is up sue for damages) or it could be a borrowing an item without permis- Does this apply in all cases? In the since 2004, when Mayor Bloomberg criminal matter. sion renders a person a gazlan, a case of trespassing, there is no value instituted Operation Safe Housing, an Are these trespassers in violation thief, or whether he simply has the per se in setting foot on the person’s initiative with the goal of reducing vio- of halachah as well? What about status of a borrower. property. While this may be the case, lence by going after trespassers, many the Chazon Ish (B.K. 20:5) writes that of whom had been identified by ten- the prohibition of sho’el shelo mida’as ants as selling drugs and carrying guns (one who borrows without permis- in city housing projects. Maybe in order to “borrow,” you sion) applies even when the item is A similar situation happened last not something that generally has a June in Lakewood, N.J. A 15-year-old market value, and even if the value is black male, an honors student at have to physically take an object. less than that of a perutah. Lakewood’s high school, supposedly But what about if the owner would took a shortcut through a path on pri- have approved of it? Many people are vate property in a largely religious Here, you are just taking up thinking that if the owner was aware of section of town. A religious Jewish “what I was doing here” he certainly resident (not the property owner) airspace on someone’s land. would not mind. This last point is not warned the youth and tried to photo- so clear cut. It has to do with the con- graph him. There was a scuffle, and cept of yei’ush shelo mida’as. (That’s some Jewish men were able to hold right, in the Gemara, Perek Eilu down the youth. Police arrived on the when we park on someone else’s Rabbi Yehudah maintains that he Metzios, that is often taught to sixth- scene—and arrested the religious property without permission? Is this does not have the halachic status of a grade yeshiva boys). Jewish man. also a violation of halachah? If so, thief, while the Sages maintain that he Let’s go back to that famous debate How do we define trespassing? what exactly is the violation? Is it a does. The Rif and the Rambam both between Abaye and Rava. If a person From an American law perspective, crime or just a tort? rule in accordance with the Sages—he would have given up hope on a lost trespassing is the act of illegally going The violation is actually that of is considered a thief. Indeed, this is item, but didn’t know yet that he lost it, is the article considered to be abandoned? Abaye says not; Rava says yes. This is one of only six instances in which we rule in accordance with Abaye as opposed to Rava. So, in our case, where the owner didn’t know about it yet, but (in the trespasser’s mind) would most certainly have given permission, it doesn’t matter. We rule like Abaye. Indeed, this is the position of the Tosefos (B.M. 22a, “Mar Zutrah”) as cited in the Sefer Mamon Yisrael. Even though the Shach (C.M. 358:1) writes that he dis- agrees with the Tosefos, the overwhelming conclusion of halachic authorities is to remain with the ruling of the Tosefos. This is the conclusion of the Ketzos HaChoshen (358:1 and 262:1) as well as the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (182:13). Ah, but how do we know that borrowing without permission also applies to being on someone’s land? Maybe in order to “borrow,” you have to physically take an object. Here, you are just taking up airspace on someone’s land. The Rashbam in Bava Basra 57b dis- cusses a case of a piece of property owned by two partners. There, writes the Rashbam, we are lenient and assume that one gives the other permission to place his animals on the land without explicit permission. In such a case, he would not be considered a sho’el shelo mida’as since they, in general, are partners, and would let the other do what he wants with their property. According to Rashbam, therefore, when not dealing with two partners of a property, trespassing would be subsumed under the concept of sho’el shelo mida’as. What happens if someone does trespass? He is considered a gazlan! According to the Shulchan Aruch (C.M. 34:7), therefore, he cannot be a witness at a Jewish wedding unless he does teshuvah and makes restitution where applicable. The conclusion from all this is that trespassing is serious business. Let’s be careful about where we park. O The author can be reached at [email protected]. 10 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES CALENDAR

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In my unexpected encounter with Avraham Fried in the Catskills on Sunday, he said that the shows in Jerusalem adhered to the highest levels of modesty that can be applied to a crowd of 15,000. He said that the stadium featured separate sections for men and women and that there were even different entrances for men and women in an effort to protect that very sanctity that we would all do our best to preserve. Still, the message from the gedolim in Eretz Yisrael was that people should not attend the shows, and several thousand who had already purchased tick- ets did stay away. Certainly it’s natural and even impulsive to be critical of a rabbinical pronouncement on a matter that does not look like it can do much damage to begin with. But we live in troubling and difficult times, when opulence and success somehow manage to live side by side with misery and suffer- ing. At the same time, it’s difficult to reconcile how so many of the problems that plague our contemporary society can be attributed to whether or not men and women are seen together or attend a function together, whether it’s a wedding or a concert in a soccer stadium. Interestingly, one of the great problems that afflicts our communities today is the inability of men and women to relate to one another on a basic and civil level. As a result, there are more divorces and broken families in our frum communities than ever before. In addition, there is this increasingly severe problem with find- ing shidduchim for our children, with the boys saying the girls are not ready or accepting, and the girls being equal- ly critical of the young men and calling into question their suitability as worthy matches. As a result, we are sad- dled with the burden as a relatively small community with having thousands of young men and women eligi- ble and desiring to get married and start families but not being able to for whatever reason. We defer to gedolei Torah and rashei yeshiva because we are not suited or equipped to debate or necessarily understand the way in which they see things. They do frequently differ on some compelling issues, which leave us with the challenge of trying to fig- ure out what positions to adopt or sub- scribe to for ourselves, our families, and our communities. According to the singer, Mr. Fried, some of the so-called enforcers have an alternative agenda, which starts with their feeding the rabbanim misin- formation which leads to the spiral of what we have now—a situation that is on the verge of tumbling out of control. It would be nice if there were some kind of central voice that could place these issues in an across-the- board understandable perspective. But that would mean extracting the diversity and heterogeneousness out of Jewish life—halachic Jewish life—that is so rich and wonderful. O Comments for Larry Gordon are welcome at [email protected]. 12 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Cedarhurst Sidewalk Sale Photos By Ira Thomas Creations

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OU Chides N.Y. Times Over ‘Orthodox Paradox’ Fib The Orthodox Union has called Jewish Week, in its August 3 edition, In the wake of these revelations, graph of his day school reunion—the upon the New York Times to apologize published a report in which Feldman Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb and Nathan departure point and narrative framing for for its publication in its Sunday maga- admits having learned in advance of Diament wrote to the Times as follows: his essay—was false. When we read zine of an essay authored by Mr. Noah the publication of his essay that his On behalf of the leadership and con- Feldman’s article initially, we were Feldman after the New York Jewish assertion of being intentionally edited stituency of the Orthodox Union, we offended by the many scurrilous anti- Week revealed that Feldman and Times out of the photo was false. Moreover, write to express our outrage at the deci- Orthodox characterizations he makes editors knew in advance of publication (referencing the murderers Amir and that the essay contained false state- Goldstein; comparing the tefillin (phy- ments. The OU further called upon lacteries) worn at morning prayers to the Times to remove Feldman from his “The editors were informed, in advance of masochistic devices, etc.), but we could position as a contributing editor to the not reasonably expect the editors of the New York Times Magazine. Times to have the knowledge or back- The essay, a highly personal account publication, that Feldman’s representation of ground to vet such assertions, even of Feldman’s difficult relationship with though we would expect any intelligent the Modern Orthodox Jewish commu- reader of the essay to question Feldman’s nity in which he was raised, entitled the photograph incident was questionable.” perspective. But it is another matter “Orthodox Paradox,” was published in entirely to learn that the editors were the July 22 edition. The essay opens informed, in advance of publication, that with a lengthy account of Feldman Feldman’s representation of the photo- attending a reunion of his Orthodox the Jewish Week exposé (www.thejewish sion by the Times magazine editors to graph incident was questionable; decid- high-school with his non-Jewish week.com/news/newscontent.php3 publish Mr. Feldman’s slanderous essay ed, as reported by the Jewish Week, to fiancée and his assertion that the ?artid=14367) reveals that Times edi- when…it became known to the author pay for the photographer to travel and school deliberately eliminated the cou- tors were also aware, in advance of and to the editors, in advance of publica- retrieve the contact sheets; examined the ple from the photograph of the reunion publication, that the essay’s assertion tion, that Mr. Feldman’s assertion of his contact sheets and then determined published in the school newsletter. The was false. being deliberately cropped out of a photo- Feldman’s assertion was false and then made an editorial decision not to publish the photo! Such editorial conduct is out- rageous and we believe demands an apology from the Times. Moreover, we believe that Feldman’s own “journalistic” credibility has been sufficiently shown to be absent… we ask you to remove him from his position as a contributing editor to the Times, just as you would remove any columnist or reporter found to be knowingly writing articles with false information.

The Times Responds The Times responded: I’m grateful to you for expressing your concerns about Noah Feldman’s essay. I also appreciate your efforts to bring the recent article in the Jewish Week to our attention. The article in the Jewish Week, however, does not accurately describe the essay we published or our editorial process. In his essay, Mr. Feldman does not assert, as the Jewish Week claims, that he was “erased” from the photograph or that he and his wife were “stricken from the photo.” Nowhere does he say, as you put it in your letter to us, that he was “deliberately cropped out” of the picture. The assertions that you and the Jewish Week attribute to the essay are assertions that are not made in the essay. In researching the article, we obtained the original contact sheets for the pictures taken by Lenny Eisenberg. The record shows that Eisenberg took five wide-angle photos of the entire crowd at the class reunion. In addition, he took a photo of the crowd from the left side, which includes Mr. Feldman and his wife; and a photo of the crowd from the right side, which does not include Mr. Feldman and his wife. The Maimonides School newsletter chose to publish the photo of the crowd from the right side—the photo that does not include Mr. Feldman and his wife. These facts are entirely consistent with the essay we published, where the author writes that a “group photo” was taken and yet when the alumni newslet-

Continued on Page 16 14 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES less and exhausted. Reporters peered that were built on the ruins of Government Forces Complete in the tiny window built into the Hebron’s Jewish Quarter, whose resi- bunker to speak with the youths, who dents were murdered and their proper- remained steadfast in their efforts to ty looted exactly 78 years ago,” said a Expulsion Of Hebron Families resist the expulsion until forces man- statement by the group. “The expul- BY HANA LEVI JULIAN search and rescue unit, usually aged to penetrate the walls. Engineers sion of Jews once again from property reserved for natural disasters and worked for more than an hour to find that is Jewish is the fulfillment of the The expulsion of two families from building collapses due to missile a way to open the bunker without intentions of the rioters who sought to their homes in the Shalhevet neigh- strikes and other forms of terrorism, harming the young protestors, due to uproot any Jewish presence in Hebron borhood, built on the site of the former was drafted by eviction forces to concerns that using cement-cutting as the first step in ridding all of Israel Hebron marketplace, was completed of Jews.” late Tuesday morning. 3,000 border Police broke into the home of the guard officers, Yassam special forces, Bar Kochba family in the wee hours of and IDF soldiers forcibly evicted the Tuesday morning as thousands of families as well as hundreds of their “It will be the police forces, security officers began forcibly remov- supporters in an operation that began ing the more than 100 activists barri- in the wee hours. not the residents, who determine the caded inside. Three young protestors were the last “There is serious violence going on holdouts in a cement bunker which level of violence.” here,” activist Nadia Matar said early was eventually breached by an IDF in the morning. “There are no female search and rescue unit. Eyewitnesses soldiers or police to handle female reported that the IDF demolished all activists and they are being very violent of the homes built in the neighbor- remove the activists from a bunker saws would create sparks that could with us.” hood. Media reports said the IDF first built in a third apartment in the neigh- ignite oxygen tanks that were placed Female activists reported that male brought in a moving company to borhood. inside the bunker. Yassam officers deliberately tore the remove the families’ possessions prior The three youthful activists who Professors for a Strong Israel clothing off the women who resisted to the destruction, adding that the sol- refused to leave the sealed room, strongly condemned the expulsion diers loaded the items onto the trucks. according to Army Radio, were shirt- efforts. “We are dealing with stores Continued on Page 17 Police removed windows and door- posts as well, in an effort to block efforts to return later to the homes. Hebron Jewish community spokesman Noam Arnon said that despite the eviction, the struggle for the Hebron marketplace, built atop the ruins of the city’s old Jewish Quarter, is not over. “We will return to the Shalhevet neighborhood and the families will be back in their homes,” he vowed. Activists at the scene charged that the destruction of the homes was an act of vengeance in retaliation against the determined struggle they waged against the expulsion of the two families who lived in the neighborhood. They also expressed bitterness that the army had secured a permit to destroy the buildings prior to the expulsion. Army officials had promised permits a year and a half ago to the 11 families who lived in the neighborhood, saying they would be allowed to return with legal status on the condition they left the premises peacefully. Nine of the families cooperated with the government officials, believing they would make good on their end of the deal. Attorney General Menachem Mazuz quickly voided the promise after they moved out, saying the army officials had no authority to make the agreement. Thirteen activists were arrested during the expulsion, accused of attacking police and throwing stones. In addition, 15 police officers and 25 activists were hurt in the melee, most with light wounds. Three police officers were taken to a hospital for treatment. Activists flung oil at the Yassam forces during the expulsion, following up by spraying water at the officers and then throwing gasoline and flour, damaging the apartments as well. The activists also locked and welded shut the doors to the homes. One of the leaders of the Hebron community, Orit Struk, reportedly asked the activists to stop fighting with the expulsion forces. The protestors stopped hurling rocks at the police after Struk’s announcement. The IDF Home Front Command’s 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 15 OU Chides NY Times Continued from Page 14

ter appeared, he and his girlfriend were “nowhere to be found.” Yours, A. S. Senior Editor New York Times Magazine

OU: Response Is ‘Disappointing’ The OU wrote again to point out the weakness of the Times response: Thank you for your reply. Frankly, we find it hard to comprehend. Your defense is that Feldman’s statements are literally true. But the clear impression Feldman (not to mention the essay’s accompanying illustration) wanted to convey—and every reader we know came away with—was that the photo was cropped to exclude him and his girlfriend and no one else. Moreover, your account of your editorial inquiry into what photos were taken and which was chosen for publication highlights your recognition that this element of the essay is an important one for setting its tone and so you bothered to research the facts. Feldman strongly conveys the impression that he and his girlfriend alone—not he, his girlfriend, and a number of others—were “nowhere to be found” in the photo, and the editors let that misimpression stand. The Times ought to do better than hide behind such a lit- eralist reading. Is that the standard by which all your articles are deemed “fit to print”? For the “paper of record,” your reply is most disappointing… We hope the Public Editor will take a look at this matter as well; we believe an “independent view” is war- ranted. O

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Hebron Families Continued from Page 15 the forcible eviction. One activist said she assumed the move was an accident when the pants she was wearing beneath her skirt were pulled down by a Yassam officer as she was violently pulled out of the Bar Kochba home. “But when I saw that the same thing was being done to my friends, I realized this was some sort of sick tactic,” she said. Similar incidents came to light during protests against the uprooting of Jews from Gaza and Northern Samaria in 2005 and following the violent demolition of houses by Yassam officers at Amona in February 2006. Matar said “they took me and beat me outside the house, but I managed to escape due to the chaos.” She was later removed from the scene by police. Activists had surrounded the neighborhood with barrels, barbed wire, and burning tires in an effort to prevent the expulsion forces from entering the area, named for a 10- month-old who was murdered several years ago by a Palestinian Authority terrorist sniper. Teenagers climbed to the roofs of buildings in the market and reportedly hurled eggs, lightbulbs, and rocks at the government forces. Police climbed to the roofs after them. “Despite the fact that they will succeed in removing these two families we truly see a new spirit in Judea and Samaria in the struggle for the Land of Israel,” said Matar, who had maintained an upbeat attitude during the struggle between activists and police. “We won’t leave the marketplace voluntarily,” a determined Gershon Bar Kochba told reporters early in the operation. Bar Kochba is the head of one of the two families who were the targets of the expulsion. “The struggle will be res- olute, but non-violent,” he vowed. It will be the police forces, not the residents, who determine the level of violence. We do not intend to use violence.” (Arutz Sheva) O

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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 17 Hock Of The Rock YMCA By The Sea Over 2,300 new homes have been BY ELI SHAPIRO placed in well designed developments over an area of 117 acres within view of As a Rockaway resident for more than or near the ocean, and another 1,800 a decade, I have had the opportunity to homes will be built in the “Arverne East” see the positive changes that have section to complete this development occurred here in recent years. These project. It is quite remarkable to see positive changes are commonly referred such a large area, once designated as an to as “The Rockaway Renaissance.” urban renewal area, change into middle- While here at the easternmost end of class primary and summer residences. the peninsula there have been major The developer of Arverne by the Sea quality-of-life improvements, increased is Benjamin Beechwood, LLC. As part The current design is a two-story, it when funds become available. property values, and well-developed of the deal to purchase the land from 32,000-square-foot facility to be located Perhaps the most significant part of relationships with our elected officials the city and develop it, the company on the corner of Beach 73rd Street and this planned YMCA is the pools. The and city agency representatives, the made certain guarantees for infrastruc- Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Some of design calls for a 25-yard-long, 30-foot- middle of the peninsula has seen a ture improvements. Included in that the amenities of the new YMCA are a wide four-lane lap pool as well as a zero- tremendous amount of growth, as well. was the commitment to build a commu- 6,000-square-foot area for exercise depth-entry aquatic center with a maxi- Perhaps the most significant develop- nity center. In November, Mayor equipment, including treadmills, ellipti- mum depth of four feet. The pool will ment to occur in the Rockaways in Bloomberg broke ground on the site cal machines, stationary bicycles, and have a spray shower, slides, islands, and recent years has been the “Arverne by that is to house this community facility. weights. There will also be locker spaces toys. The temperature of the lap pool will the Sea” project. The location of this It was also noted that Benjamin in three separate areas for men, women, be kept lower for those using swimming project is bounded by Beach 32nd Beechwood LLC was partnering with and families and a basketball court that as a fitness opportunity, and the aquatic Street, Beach 81st Street, Rockaway the YMCA for the design and manage- is currently planned to be just outside of center will be warmer and will be geared Freeway, and the Rockaway boardwalk. ment of this $13 million facility. the building with a design for enclosing for children, seniors, and families. I know what many of you are thinking: “So what?” At a Community Board committee meeting last Wednesday evening, committee members as well as community people had the opportunity to view the planned construction with its design- ers and architects as well as meet with representatives from YMCA of Greater New York. At this meeting (which I attended), Harvey Gordon, executive director of the JCCRP, and Boomie Pinter, president of the West Lawrence Civic Association, were in attendance. It was confirmed by Linda Allocco, vice-president of operations for the YMCA, that this facility is being created with the intention of serving all residents of the Rockaway Peninsula, from Breezy Point to the West Lawrence neighborhood of Far Rockaway and everything in between. As a follow-up to her statement, Harvey Gordon identified the fact that there are thousands of residents on the peninsula who would not feel comfortable with mixed swimming and would also be looking for opportunities for separate exercise opportunities and fitness classes. Ms. Allocco assured us that there was precedence for such provisions, and in designing the programming for the Y, a committee of community representatives would be created to identify the needs of every community on the peninsula. Delores Orr, chairperson of Community Board 14, made a very clear statement that the needs of the Orthodox community must be met for this project to receive approval from the board. In response, Ms. Allocco stated, “This will be your Y. We want to create a place where everyone who comes feels welcome.” While the YMCA facility will be a huge boost for the immediate surrounding communities of Arverne, it appears that it will also be an opportunity for the residents of Far Rockaway to also have a place that they will feel comfortable using. It is anticipated that construction will begin by the end of 2007 and should take about 18 months to finish. The YMCA plans to open its doors to the community some time in the first quarter of 2009. Until next time, stay safe… O 18 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 19 national business publication that he think this pledge will mean for describes itself as “the first media Green’s career? “I’m going to shy away company for people seeking a…social- from putting a numerical value to it. ly responsible route to business suc- But there’s a great value in that you can JEWPRENEUR cess” (see www.whatsyourmotto.com). meet someone at a charitable event BY AVRAM L. DAVIS When I mentioned Shawn Green’s who may later turn out to be a pivotal RBI announcement to Salwen, he was business, social, or political contact. It pleased to hear of Green’s altruism, is certainly true that giving is one of the The Business Of Doing Good: but he seemed to eschew the question ways that relationships develop among of what this pledge will mean for the elite. In the end is the giveback Green’s own success. “I think it direct- more than the gift? Maybe.” The Shawn Green Story ly relates to your definition of suc- Finally, I contacted Yitz Weiss, CFO of cess,” he says. “And generally, in our Passaic Valley Water Commission and I am speaking with Shawn Green, All of this is good news for the UJA society, success is not measured in author of Deep in the Heart of Taxes. right fielder for the New York Mets, in and the individuals who benefit from terms of at-bats or RBIs, but is meas- Weiss also happens to be a Jewish, Torah- the Shea Stadium dugout. Although he their funding. But as a business pro- ured by monetary success. But that’s a observant certified public accountant, so has just finished his batting warm-up fessional, part of me has a very strong pretty shallow definition of success. I I have a sneaking suspicion that the practice, and this is my first time sit- feeling that this will also be very good think what Shawn Green is doing words of the Midrash Tanchuma ring ting in the Mets dugout, we aren’t talk- for Shawn Green. I see so often that brings him more fully into a complete true for him: “One who is gracious to the ing baseball. Instead, he wants to poor has lent to Hashem, and He will pay share with me his recent announce- him his reward.” ment that for every RBI that he hits “I have seen that, yes, the people who this season, he will donate $180 to the “Individuals who give money away, and are giving the most tzedakah are doing United Jewish Appeal. the best financially,” he says definitively. “I’m giving $180 because it is relat- But he thinks it’s very dangerous to try ed to chai,” Green tells me, “and I expect that they will have what they need, to expect a specific payback for your giv- wanted to give to a Jewish organization ing. “That’s G-d’s way. Sometimes you that reaches out to many people. The tend to get what they need.” put in your efforts in one area, and you UJA is pretty universal, and I like that are paid off in other areas. In general, I it helps a wide gamut of people.” In do think that giving puts things in per- addition to the importance of Green’s spective for individuals. It makes them own contribution, this is developing philanthropic giving comes full circle, relationship with his work, with giving appreciative of what they do have. into something of a philanthropy- and the original giver receives back as to others, and being a more connected Generally, people tend to get what they awareness campaign. The New York a result of his gift. part of a community. That’s a very expect. Individuals who give money Mets have also agreed to donate the I’d like my business colleagues to sophisticated level of emotional away, and expect that they will have same amount to the UJA. share their experiences on the result of attachment, and one that our society is what they need, tend to get what they “I’m pretty happy about these match- giving. So I dialed up the Jewpreneur moving increasingly towards.” need. That’s the Law of Attraction.” ing funds,” Green says. “Also, there are panel of experts to hear how they Next, I spoke to Dr. Eugene Miller, So what does he think this could a few kids who heard about this and weigh in on this question. assistant director of the Center on mean for Green? “I think it has the decided to pitch in $180 of their own First I spoke with Kevin Salwen, co- Philanthropy and Civil Society at the potential to be tremendous for him, money from bar mitzvah gifts.” founding editor of Motto Magazine, a City University of New York. What does both financially and professionally.” O

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changed the way we live—and not ling is. In short, the average ten-year- always for the better. old isn’t left alone for a single minute I’m not sure I know a single soul of the day. So exactly why does the who doesn’t own one. I’ve even seen kid need a cell phone? children as young as ten years of age Still, the overwhelming majority of carrying a cell phone. And, while I people who carry cell phones are find that to be distinctly inappropri- adults. And the burning question is, ate, I’ve learned to keep my mouth how did we live without them? Even Shopping By Phone shut about it. This is because every more important, how did we shop parent who gives a cell phone to a without them? In the supermarket, child that’s barely out of diapers everyone is jabbering away on a cell The first time I made a milkshake years we’ve replaced each one several claims to have a perfectly good rea- phone. In one aisle last week, I over- in my new blender, I wondered how I times over. Clearly appliances are not son for doing so. “I want him to be heard the following, “Shirley, it’s me, had managed to survive so long with- made to last forever. safe and to be able to reach me in Marcia. What size detergent did you out one—the blender that is, not the But of all the perks associated with case of an emergency. And I also want want?” In the produce section I heard, milkshake. I felt the same way when I modern technology, none is more vis- to be able to reach him.” “Sharon, it’s Mom. Are you sure you used a dishwasher for the very first ible, or has impacted on lives more, I don’t get it. A ten-year-old kid want cucumbers, because the Kirbys time. Imagine that; I wound up with than the cell phone. Appliances, after goes from the front door of his house look terrific!” And right next to her, a sparkling clean dishes, and I never husband was calling his wife: “Judy, lifted a finger—or a dish. And when I the bananas are green. Do you still got my first self-cleaning oven, I felt want me to get them?” I heard all this like I’d died and gone to heaven. in a single day. Never was anyone happier to chuck The average ten-year-old Since most people can now be the Easy-Off. For months, the reached anytime, anywhere, shopping thought that ran through my head isn’t left alone for a single minute for someone else is now an error-free repeatedly was, “How did I ever use exercise—unless, of course, the party that smelly stuff?” It was no different who didn’t make it to the store isn’t when I got a refrigerator that came of the day. So exactly why does the answering her phone. This can be the equipped with an automatic ice- cause of enormous frustration. I maker; I couldn’t give away my ice- kid need a cell phone? know that from experience; nothing cube trays fast enough. is more irritating than calling the per- My cleaning girl has undoubtedly son for whom I’m shopping, to ask a long since used up the bottle of oven pertinent question, and not getting cleaner that I gave her, but she will all, are used only in the home. And to the steps of the school bus. His an answer. My thought is always, never want for ice-cube trays. That’s the amount of time anyone spends entrance into the building is moni- “Hey, I’m buying something you because I handed her metal trays, loading a dishwasher, retrieving ice tored, and the rest of the day he’s in asked me to get, so why aren’t you rubber trays, and trays that make ice cubes by holding a glass against the school under the watchful eyes of a answering your phone?” balls instead of cubes. My magnani- front of a freezer door, or flipping a teacher. At dismissal time the routine And, thanks to the widespread use mous nature knows no bounds. switch to clean an oven is minimal at is reversed. And if his mother isn’t of cell phones, I often find myself a I referred to all of the above appli- best. Cell-phone usage however, is home when he gets there, a house- part of another new scenario. It ances as firsts because in the ensuing everywhere, all the time. It has truly keeper, grandparent, or an older sib- occurs when I bump into a friend or

22 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES acquaintance while shopping. I always smile, nod, and say, “Hi, how are you?” But times have changed, and while my personal greetings have remained fairly constant over the years, the responses have not. Once upon a time I would receive a verbal response. My acquaintance and I would exchange pleasantries for a minute or two, and then we would walk on. But that’s no longer always the case. Now, instead of a return greeting, I often get a signal. This signal is transmitted in the form of an index finger going up in the air. And, savvy individual that I am, I understand that I’m being told in sign language that it will be a second (or is it a minute?) before this person will speak to me. This is because she’s chatting with someone I can’t see— on her cell phone, of course. It’s at this point that I have to gauge the situation. If she’s engrossed in deep personal conversation I wave, smile again, nod understandingly, and walk away. But if she’s asking her husband whether he wants steaks or chops for dinner, I need to assume she’ll be off the phone as soon as she gets his answer, in which case it would be rude not to wait it out. This is annoying, because half the time I’d like nothing more than to keep on walking so I can get my shopping done and get out of the store. But since I was the one who started the conversation with my, “Hi, how are you?” I find myself stuck in a holding pattern. As a result of those developments, I’ve learned to keep a sharp eye out. If I see someone I know and she’s holding a cell phone to her ear, I give her a wide berth. I do the old “two-step,” that dance that people do when they want to pretend they haven’t seen each other. Once upon a time I did this “dance” only if I was in a big rush and didn’t have time to stop and chat. But more and more often lately, rush or no rush, I find myself doing it when I notice the other gal is yakking on her phone. This routine worked well for a while. But then someone went and invented the Bluetooth earpiece. Because of its tiny size, this piece of equipment totally ruined everything. The device can be discreetly tucked into someone’s ear, so half the time I don’t realize she’s engaged in conversation until it’s too late. That puts me back at square one, feeling obligated to wait around until she can respond to me. After all, she did give me the “just a minute” sign. When her call ends, we exchange a few pleasantries, conclude our conversation, and then walk on. And all this because I said “Hi, how are you?” without realizing she was on a call. Life isn’t always fair! It looks like, in the future, I may have to do my little dance routine— the one that translates to “I don’t see you, and you don’t see me”—with everyone I see. In any case, the facts are in. Cell phones give a whole new meaning to the expression “shopping by phone.” O

Hannah Berman lives in Woodmere and is a licensed real-estate broker associated with Marjorie Hausman Realty. She can be reached at [email protected] or 516-902-3733. 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 23 Dear S.B., watch on everyone else. It’s really First, let me commend you on your none of your business. strong work ethic. It’s wonderful that You need to understand that people you take your job so seriously and are usually pretty good at picking up strive to work at maximum capacity. on one another’s vibes. So if you’re not Also, let me say that I can see why it feeling particularly comfortable going would be disturbing to you to see in to work, it’s probably because your your peers goofing off while you’re co-workers know what you’re thinking Dear Esther, three days—and we all receive about hard at work. I work in an office environment the same salary. Also, I get the feel- However, and I mean this in the where there are about a dozen men ing that they resent how hard I work. gentlest possible way, what business is doing exactly what I do. I don’t want to I guess it makes them look bad, and it of yours how hard or not hard your give away the specifics of my job, they would rather I had the same associates work? You are not paying No one hired because I don’t want anyone to get sus- work ethic as they have. But that’s their salary, nor does it affect your life picious. But we all work in cubicles, just not me. in the slightest whether it takes them and it’s easy for me to see what every- As time goes on, it’s become harder three days—or twenty, for that mat- you to be the one is up to. and harder for me to be at work. I don’t ter—to accomplish what you can I come in to work every day, ready to get a good feeling when I’m there. As accomplish in one day. hallway put in a solid day of hard work. What’s you would imagine, I’m not “Mr. Perhaps you were raised to take been bothering me a lot for a while Popular” with the guys. I’ve discussed your job and responsibilities very seri- now is the fact that most of the other the problem with my wife. I think I ously, or maybe you decided on your monitor. guys at work goof off a lot. They will basically have two choices, to either own that it is the only way to approach spend time on many personal phone speak to my boss about the situation or a job. Whatever the case, that’s a deci- calls, schmooze with one another, and look for a new job. My wife doesn’t like sion you made because you believe it just plain waste time. either idea, and she suggested that I is honest and correct. But no one and resent your invasion of their It really bothers me a lot, because write to you for your suggestion. So hired you to be the hallway monitor, space. No one wants to feel that some- I think that I probably produce in what do you think? so, frankly, you need to disconnect one is looking over their shoulder and one day what these guys produce in S.B. from your desire to keep a steady judging them—particularly if that someone is not even their supervisor. My suggestion to you is to try to lighten up. By all means, continue to work the way that feels right for you. And if you feel that your work is so outstanding, you may want to go to your boss and talk about the possibili- ty of some kind of recognition or bonus, without pointing out the dis- crepancy between your production and the production of others around you. Just keep it about you. You may also want to think about taking a moment or two to connect with your co-workers. It doesn’t take much time to stop at someone’s desk and give them a quick hello. Every office has a culture of its own. It sounds as though yours has a very friendly culture. You may want to try blending a bit more. I don’t think that taking five minutes out from your morning or afternoon to ask how others are doing will affect your level of accomplishment. But it could very well gain you acceptance and a few friends. Being seen as “one of the guys” has its perks. Think about it. Esther

Esther Mann, LMSW, has a private practice in Lawrence. She works with individuals, couples, and families. She can be reached at 516-314-2295 or [email protected].

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24 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES ally loftier than that of the human forbid) than his natural state. being; for in the great collapse of the When a person drinks a glass of primordial world of Tohu the higher water, eats an apple, or slaughters an elements fell lowest (as the highest ox and consumes its meat, these are stones in a collapsing wall fall far- converted into the stuff of the human thest), so that the loftier sparks of body and the energy that drives it. Divine light came to be incarnated in When this person performs a G-dly the so-called “lower” tiers of the phys- deed—a deed that transcends his nat- ical world. ural self and brings him closer to From The Chassidic Masters Man does have the right to con- G-d—he elevates the elements he has sume other creatures only because, incorporated into himself, reuniting and when, he serves as the agent of the sparks of G-dliness they embody Eating Meat their elevation. with their source. (Also elevated are The spiritual essence of a stone, the creations which enabled the G-dly plant, or animal may be loftier than deed—the soil that nourished the When Hashem your G-d shall broad- other existence to achieve this goal. As that of a human being, but it is a stat- apple, the grass that fed the cow, the en your borders, as He has promised a great Chassidic master put it: When ic spark, bereft of the capacity to horse that hauled the water to town, you, and you will say, “I shall eat meat,” a person walks along without a thought advance creation’s quest to unite with and so on.) for your soul shall desire to eat meat, of G-d in his head, the very ground its Creator. The cruelty of the cat or Therein lies the deeper significance you may eat meat to your soul’s desire. under his feet cries out: “Boor! What the industry of the ant is not a moral of the verse quoted above, “And you —Devarim 12:20–23 makes you any better than me? By what failing or achievement, nor is the will say, ‘I shall eat meat,’ for your soul “Last and first You created me” rights do you step on me?” hardness of the rock or the sweetness shall desire to eat meat.” You may (Tehillim 139:5)… If man is worthy, he express a desire for meat and be aware is told: “You are first among the works of only of your body’s craving for the creation.” If he is not worthy, he is told: physical satisfaction it brings; in truth, “The flea preceded you, the earthworm When a person walks along without a thought of however, this is the result of your soul’s preceded you.” desire to eat meat—your soul’s quest —Midrash Rabbah, Vayikra 14:1 G-d in his head, the very ground under his feet for the sparks of G-dliness it has been There are those who contest the sent to earth to redeem. morality of eating meat. What gives cries out: “Boor! What makes you any better than man the right to consume another Desire creature’s flesh? But the same can be me? By what rights do you step on me?” There is, however, an important dif- said of man’s consumption of veg- ference between the consumption of etable life, water, or oxygen. What meat and that of other foods. The dif- gives man the right to devour any of ference involves desire and the role it G-d’s creations simply to perpetuate The fact that man is a “higher” life of the apple. The mineral, vegetable, plays in the elevation of creation. his own existence? form scarcely justifies the destruction and animal cannot do good or evil— The human being cannot live with- Indeed, there is no such natural of dumb or inanimate creatures. they can only follow the dictates of out the vegetable and mineral compo- right. When man lives only to sustain Moreover, according to the teachings their inborn nature. Only man has nents of his diet. Thus, he is com- and enhance his own being, there is no of Kabbalah, the souls of animals, been granted freedom of choice and justification for him to tamper with any plants, and inanimate objects are actu- the ability to be better (or worse, G-d Continued on Page 28

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 25 26 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 27 CHASSIDIC MASTERS fulfill his Creator’s will, the connec- may eat meat to your soul’s desire.” Beha‘alosecha (Bamidbar 11). Continued from Page 25 tion is complete. From this the Talmud derives that It was only after G-d broadened But man eats meat not to live, but to “originally, they were forbidden to eat their borders, granting them a man- pelled to eat them by the most basic of savor its taste; thus, it is not enough ‘meat of desire’ (basar ta’avah); it was date to make the land holy, that they his physical drives—the preservation that a person lives to serve his Creator only after they entered the Land [of were enabled to sanctify this most cor- of his existence. Meat, however, is not for the meat he eats to be elevated. Israel] that they were permitted to eat poreal corner of human life. a necessity but a luxury; the desire for Rather, he must be a person for whom meat of desire.”1 For the first genera- (What was the case in Jewish histo- meat is not a desire motivated by need, the very experience of physical pleas- tion of Israel’s existence as a people— ry was also the case in the history of but desire in its purest sense—the ure is a G-dly endeavor, something from the time they received the Torah mankind. Originally, man was granted desire to experience pleasure. devoted solely toward a G-dly end; a and erected the Mishkan (Sanctuary) license only to eat “of every seed-bear- In other words, animals are elevat- person for whom the physical satisfac- in the Sinai Desert until they settled in ing herb on the face of the earth, and ed—their flesh integrated into the tion generated by a tasty meal trans- the Holy Land—the only meat they every tree on which there is fruit-bear- human body and their souls made lates into a deeper understanding of were permitted to eat was the meat of ing seed” (Bereishis 1:29). It was only partner in a G-dly deed—only because Torah, a greater fervor in prayer, and a the korbanos, the animal sacrifices after the Flood, following which the G-d has instilled the desire for pleas- kinder smile to accompany the coin offered to G-d in the Mishkan. world was imbued with a greater spiri- ure in human nature. pressed into the palm of a beggar. (See The consumption of this meat was a tual potential, that G-d told Noach This means that the elevation of Yoma 76b; Bava Kama 72a; Tanya; mitzvah, which meant that its eleva- that “every moving thing that lives meat requires a greater spiritual sensi- Ch. 7. “Bread” and “meat” are tion was achieved by the fact that eat- shall be food for you.”) tivity on the part of its consumer than employed here as prototypes of neces- ing it constituted a direct fulfillment of Similarly, our Sages have said that that of other foods. When a person sity and luxury, respectively; in this a Divine commandment. However, “a boor is forbidden to eat meat” eats a piece of bread and then studies context, a cream pie or a yacht would they did not have the capacity to ele- (Pesachim 49b). The license given to Torah, prays, or gives charity, the bread be a form of “meat,” while a piece of vate “meat of desire,” meat that is man to consume the creatures and cre- has directly contributed to these meat eaten to keep body and soul eaten for the purpose of granting ations of the world and subjugate them deeds. In order to perform these deeds, together would fall under the category pleasure to its consumer. So the con- to serve him is not unconditional. It is the soul of man must be fused with a of “bread.”) sumption of such meat was forbidden. contingent upon his sensitivity to the physical body, and the piece of bread Thus the Torah says: “When Indeed, the Children of Israel were spiritual essence of G-d’s creations, was indispensable to this fusion. Man Hashem your G-d shall broaden your rebuked and punished for expressing a and his commitment to serve them by eats bread in order to live; if he lives to borders, as He has promised you…you desire for meat, as related in Parashas making them component parts of his sanctified life. It takes an individual with broad spiritual horizons to prop- erly relish a steak. O

Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted by Yanki Tauber. Courtesy of MeaningfulLife.com.

NOTES:

1. Rabbi Yishmael, cited by the Talmud in Chullin 16b. Rabbi Akiva (ibid., 17a) interprets the verse differently, understanding the words “when Hashem your G-d shall broaden your borders” not as a qualification of “you may eat meat to your soul’s desire,” but of what the Torah states immediately afterwards: “You shall slaughter of your herd and your flock which G-d has given you, as I have commanded you.” Thus, according to Rabbi Akiva, not only was “meat of desire” permitted in the desert, it was even permitted without shechitah (the halachically prescribed manner of slaughter), while all meat eaten following Israel’s entry into the Holy Land requires shechitah.

However, the deeper significance of the law that Rabbi Akiva derives from these verses is identical to that of the law derived by Rabbi Yishmael. Shechitah means “drawing forth” (Talmud, Kiddushin 82a); the slaughter of an animal in accordance with the Divinely mandated laws of shechitah is what enables its elevation—the drawing of the animal out from its beastly state into the domain of a life consecrated to the service of the Creator. In the desert, shechitah was limited to the animals offered in the Mishkan, for only these could be “drawn forth” in the manner that shechitah makes possible. The only difference in the opinions of Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi Akiva is that Rabbi Yishmael states that since the full elevation of “meat of desire” was not possible in the desert, its consumption was prohibited, while Rabbi Akiva holds that it was nonetheless permitted, since a lesser elevation could be achieved.

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28 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES times a little more), since this sub-prime mess started, mortgage brokers are receiving changes to guidelines and programs as well as the canceling of many programs about once or twice a day. What this translates into, in brief, is that starting now, and probably for an extended period of time, borrowers are To Buy Or Not To Buy going to find it harder and more complex to get a mortgage, either for purchasing “Well, this is a fine fix you’ve gotten hedge funds, pension funds, insurance a house or just refinancing one. us into!”—Ollie Hardy to Stan Laurel investments, etc., found themselves After American Home Mortgage from a Laurel and Hardy movie from with more investors pulling themselves closed its doors on Thursday, many the 1930s or ’40s (I don’t remember the out of these volatile investments than lenders met on Friday and canceled exact year; it was before my time, of staying in the game. many of their no-income-documenta- course). Anyway, that quote is what With the different funds traditionally tion loan programs, low-income-docu- comes to mind when thinking of the used to cover various mortgage bank mentation loan programs, and stated- havoc that has transpired in the mort- sales falling away, mortgage banks found income loan programs. Although a frac- gage banking industry this week. tion of them still remain at the various American Home Mortgage, one of lenders, they have also raised the credit the largest mortgage banks in the coun- Borrowers are going to scores needed to achieve them as well as try, went belly up after not being able to knocked out most of the programs that cover its margin calls. What are margin find it harder and more fall into the jumbo mortgage category. calls, you ask? Well, simply translated, (A jumbo mortgage is a mortgage over in order to provide monies to cover complex to get a the amount of $417,000). loans that a bank closes, the mortgage My recommendation to anyone look- banks need a certain amount of credit mortgage. ing to buy a house now or in the imme- on a regular basis, which covers their diate future: Go out and find yourselves funding operations until loans they have something quick and get the mortgage funded and closed have been sold to themselves far short of amounts needed now, because the mortgage industry is other banks or investment banks, and to fund their operations. American going to be in a terrible state of flux for monies realized from those sales can Home Mortgage closed its doors, but the next couple of years at the least. O cover those credit outlays. there are many more not too far behind In this case, what seems to have hap- them who are on the precipice and try- Anessa Cohen lives in Cedarhurst and is a licensed real estate broker (Anessa V Cohen pened is that the fear gripping all the ing to stay in the black. Realty) and a licensed N.Y.S. mortgage broker players in the mortgage industry, both What does this mean for the con- (A.C. Action Mortgage Corp.) with over 20 years sub-prime as well as A market, has sumer? Not anything good, that’s for of experience, offering residential, commercial, and management real-estate services as well as become so fierce that investors started sure. Whereas, in the past, mortgage mortgage brokerage services. You are invited to bailing, and the different investment guidelines for qualification would change visit her website at www.AVCrealty.com. She can be reached at 516-569-5007. Readers are banks or houses, comprising a variety of an average of twice or three times a year encouraged to send any questions or scenarios to different combinations of funds, such as (sometimes in a very minor way, some- [email protected].

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 29 expelled twice: first in August 1929 fol- Jewish police, a Jewish military, a lowing the riots, and then again in the Jewish government, and a Jewish state. Hebron And Darfur spring of 1936. A large group of fami- It seems that they prefer not to follow lies desired to return to Hebron, but in the footsteps of the first Jew, BY DAVID WILDER “No, Jews are going to expel us.” were prevented from doing so due to Avraham, who, being commanded by He looked at me, wide-eyed with “political considerations” determined G-d, “Lech l’cha,” Go to walk the land, August 3—A few days ago, I went astonishment: “I don’t understand. by the Jewish leadership at the time. the length and width of Eretz Yisrael, with an American family from What does the Israeli government care However, a group of some 30 fami- did just that, stopping only in Hebron, California on a tour of Hebron. A about two families in the Shalhevet lies did move back to Hebron in 1931 making this city his home, the first youth of about 16 asked me the same neighborhood in Hebron? Why are and lived in the city until a few days Jewish city in the Land of Israel. question any number of times during they going to forcibly expel families? after Passover of 1936. At that time, Rather, the Israeli state, using all of the two hours we spent together. I How can they do that?!” the British again expelled them, saying the resources available to such a sover- don’t know if I was able to satisfactori- Very good questions, coming from a that the Mufti was inciting, there was eign body, prefers to follow in the foot- ly respond to his queries. young man, his first time in Hebron. I going to be trouble, and that the steps of the Mufti and the British. When we were at Beit Hadassah have trouble giving him a good answer. British police wouldn’t be able to pro- Ah, you ask, the Mufti? The Mufti and I described how the women and Not that I don’t know the answer. The tect them. They threw them out with slaughtered people. How can you com- children living there were surrounded pare the Israeli government to Haj and lived under siege, he asked, Amin el Husseini, a Jew-hater whose “What, Arab police surrounded them?” incitement led to the 1929 riots? Very My response was, of course, “No, clearly, Amin el Husseini’s goal was the Jewish police.” “But why would Jewish “Arabs are going to throw you expulsion of Jews, starting with police do something like that?” he Hebron and reaching Jerusalem and asked. other cities in Israel. He wanted Jews When I told them the story of a lit- out?” And of course I responded, out, and cared not how it happened. tle boy with a toothache who was sent He had plans to annihilate all the Jews from Beit Hadassah to nearby Kiryat living in Eretz Yisrael following Arba to the dentist, and who upon “No, Jews are going to expel us.” Rommel’s expected invasion of Israel returning to Beit Hadassah wasn’t during World War II. He met with allowed back in, he again asked, “An Hitler in Berlin in the 1930s and clear- Arab guard wouldn’t let him in?” And ly discussed more than formation of of course again I answered, “No, a question is how to express it so that it the clothes they were wearing, but the Muslim Brigades, which fought Jewish guard.” will be comprehensible. nothing else. That was the end of a against the Allied forces in Europe. “But why would a Jew do that to a Yesterday, Hebron marked the 78th Hebron Jewish community until our And our government, where are child?” anniversary of the 1929 riots and mas- return in 1967. It was, for all intents they? Are they defending their people? When we arrived at the Shalhevet sacre during which 67 Jews were and purposes, the first time in almost a Where are they today, as Kassam rock- neighborhood—the “shuk”—and I slaughtered and more than 70 injured. thousand years that Hebron had no ets continue to fall on Sderot? Where related to them the events leading up A Washington Post article, which I Jewish population. were they last year when rockets fired to next week’s planned expulsion of responded to last week, stated that the In the 1920s and 1930s, there was from Lebanon blasted northern Israel? two families from that site, again he survivors “fled.” This is, of course, a lie. no Jewish state, no Jewish army, no How are they, at present, preserving piped up, “Arabs are going to throw The survivors were expelled. They Jewish ability to truly defend our- not only the physical entity of the you out?” And of course I responded, weren’t expelled once. They were selves. Today, 78 years later, we have State of Israel, but also its heritage, its

30 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES history, its essence? exit from the homes, families would Yesterday, the new-old Defense soon be allowed to “legally” return. Minister, Ehud Barak, effectively That was a year and a half ago. The declared war on Hebron’s Jewish resi- agreement was voided by Attorney dents—and seemingly on all Jews living General Menachem Mazuz, using the in Judea and Samaria. Barak received excuse that Golan was not authorized first-hand information from high-rank- to make the agreement. This, despite ing legal advisors within the adminis- the fact that the general was on and off tration that the families do not have to the phone with his bosses in the be expelled from their homes, that Defense Ministry during the meeting there is no court ruling compelling with Hebron representatives in order forced eviction of the families, and that to receive their OK to the compromise. there are legally viable alternatives to Again we’ve been told that “we can the expulsion that would be acceptable talk about the shuk after the families to both sides. (One of Hebron’s ranking leave.” We’ve been through that legal advisors, former Justice Minister once—one time too many. Not again. Yaakov Neeman, offered such a com- The property is Jewish property. A mil- promise on behalf of the community, itary appeals court recommended that labeled the “Neeman Plan,” months the buildings be leased to the Hebron ago, but the compromise was rejected Jewish community. This, too, was for reasons not specified.) rejected. What more do they want? Despite this information—despite The answer seems very clear: they the chance to avoid what could turn are looking for blood, Jewish blood. into an ugly clash—Barak prefers to Shades of the Mufti; shades of the flex his muscles and show the country British; blood and expulsion. Not by what he’s made of: black uniforms, Arabs and British, rather by Jews. hard-rubber batons, tear gas, and lots Astounding. And very sad. of force. Blood, sweat, and tears. One of this morning’s headlines at (Settlers’ blood and tears, of course!) Ynetnews.com proclaims, “MKs The last time such a decision was Behind Darfur Refugees: 63 Knesset taken, the result was Amona. members sign petition calling on prime A year and a half ago, nine Hebron minister not to deport Sudanese families and the occupants of a Torah refugees.” So now I have a new idea: study hall voluntarily left these homes Let’s bring those refugees to Hebron in order to prevent what could have and let them live in the shuk. That way been an extremely violent situation. nobody will dare touch them. Unless, The community was given a firm of course, they convert. Once they’re promise, in the form of an agreement Jewish, watch out; then they will sure- with General Yair Golan, the com- ly face expulsion: not from Israel, but mander of forces in Judea and from the Shalhevet neighborhood in Samaria, that following our voluntary Hebron. O

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 31 Springfield, known as the “city of I was surprised to read the state- homes,” is one of the best-kept ment made by my friend and col- secrets; it is just waiting for yeshivas league, Deborah Lipstadt, to the to take over the magnificent Kodimah Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in which and Kesser Israel synagogues, and she said of the Wyman Institute, “They new stores to open. sort of straddle the area between Ann Pava of Kodimah started a suc- scholarship and activism.” She also cessful high school (co-ed) nearby, and told the JTA, “I don’t believe that you A Bagel For Your Brain exercise and less daytime eating in an she will help anyone who is interested change things by petition.” Dear Editor, attempt to boost your energy levels. in checking out Springfield. And, by the What’s wrong with changing things I am a physician and nutritionist Breakfast and lunch are the perfect way, have you ever tasted bottled water by petition? There’s no rule that says and I loved seeing the photo of the times to include protein in your meal. as delicious as that which comes right historians have to stay in their ivory bagels in your “Heard in the Bagel Vegetables? As many as possible, along out of those faucets in Springfield? towers all the time. Signing petitions Store” article. Bagels, and other with seasonal fruits. And healthy fats Please continue to find ways to doesn’t diminish their scholarship—it starchy and sweet carbohydrates, are a like nuts, olive oil, and fatty fish in spread your article around (as so many just shows that they care about what great way to boost brain serotonin. moderation. This way of eating, out- others are also doing), and perhaps we happens in the real world. When you eat carbs, it allows your lined in the book The Sertonin Power can save those beautiful holy syna- Two years ago, the Wyman Institute brain to make serotonin, and serotonin Diet (Rodale, 2007), is especially ben- gogues, built and maintained by our mobilized more than six hundred makes you feel good, gives you mental eficial for people on antidepressants, ancestors’ hard-earned nickels and scholars—including me—to sign a energy, and tells you you’re full. That’s emotional overeaters, women (espe- dimes, with hopes and dreams for petition supporting Professor Lipstadt why we all reach for carbs when we cially during PMS or menopause), and expanding Yiddishkeit there. Dare I say when she clashed with C-Span. The want comfort. And it explains why those who fail on a low-carb diet. that your gem of an article, and what television network wanted to broad- boosting your natural brain serotonin Bagel, anyone? you and we might do with it, may cast a speech by Holocaust-denier by eating carbs is the perfect way to Nina Frusztajer Marquis, M.D. become an answer to the only thread David Irving to “balance” a speech by lose weight. This was discovered by Co-author, The Serotonin Power of prayer with action left—but swiftly! Lipstadt. She protested, and the MIT research scientist Judith Diet G-d bless you and yours Wyman Institute came to her Wurtman, Ph.D., and her husband, Ms. P. defense—leading to C-Span’s deci- Richard Wurtman, M.D., and has Springfield: Spread The Word Springfield, Mass. sion to cancel the Irving speech. been backed by published research Dear Editor, When we organized the petition sup- and years of clinical experience. I hope your marvelous article Historians Not Confined porting Professor Lipstadt against Of course, eating ten bagels a day is (“Heard in the Bagel Store: Walking To Ivory Tower C-Span, I don’t recall anyone com- not the answer; but then again, you The Walk,” July 20 issue of the Five Dear Editor, plaining that we were “straddling the don’t need to. A little goes a long way Towns Jewish Times) will inspire and I am one of the 83 historians who line between scholarship and to have its effect. If you eat half a motivate a yeshiva and yeshiva move- joined the recent petition by the David activism.” On the contrary, I remem- bagel, say, in the late afternoon, and ment to relocate to Springfield S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust ber everyone being grateful that the then focus on wholesome carbs such (Massachusetts), where a beautiful, Studies urging the United States Wyman Institute cared enough to get as brown rice along with some vegeta- spacious home with a large yard can Holocaust Memorial Museum to add involved, at a time when too many bles, you’ll be really satisfied and won’t be purchased for under $200,000; material to its exhibits about the other institutions and organizations be tempted to graze all evening. You’ll where there is a park that rivals New 1940s Holocaust rescue advocates were reluctant to get involved. probably sleep better, too. And more York’s Central Park, designed by the known as the Bergson Group. (See Sincerely, sleep translates to more motivation to same architect (Olmsted). related article, page 38—Ed.) Dr. Alex Grobman

32 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES needed to unleash the special qualities of the HLC build a hierarchy of skills that every child has within himself. for success. Success, leadership, and foresight are And they remain cognizant of the not necessarily related to one’s cogni- fact that while learning and success tive skills or his ability to see letters build self-esteem, self-esteem, in turn, and words the way the average student maximizes learning, a philosophy of sees them. personal attention in a relaxed educa- Upcoming Events At the JCC 8:00. Fee $5. For further information Seeing the greatness and potential tional setting that has proven to be The JCC of the Greater Five Towns and to register, please call Chana of every child is the function of the successful. Self-improvement becomes (207 Grove Avenue, Cedarhurst) Pfeifer ext. 213 or Bracha Arnon ext. remarkable staff of the Heller each child’s goal. announces the following events: 204 at 516-569-6733. O Resource Center. Directed by Rabbi Through a generous grant by the Bereavement Dinner-Dinner With Shalom Rohr, who holds a master’s Gruss Life Monument Funds, begin- Friends Program. One of the hardest Fourth Annual Y.O.S.S. Concert On degree in special education and has ning September 2007 the Heller times when living alone is the dinner The Lawn, August 14 expertise in learning and reading dis- Resource Center will be equipped with hour. Why dine alone when you can By Marty K. Kamen abilities, the staff of seven expert the Waterford Program by Pearson dine with friends? Come and enjoy the The world of education has changed teachers gives the students the tools Educational Software. Waterford is a music, just watch or jump in for a fun dramatically in recent times; overlook- they need to succeed in both limudei unique computer program that is and energizing dance workout with ing the needs of the individual pupil is kodesh and secular studies. Equipped geared to fill the needs of special-edu- Martha Mancilla. Wednesday, August no longer an option. Children have with the latest teaching tools, the cation students in reading, language 15 at 7:00 p.m. Pre-registration is individual needs, and their skill sets Yeshiva of South Shore’s Heller arts, mathematics, and science. The required. For further information, are as diverse as their appearances. Resource Center staff strives to help Waterford Early Reading Program please call Lisa Stern at 516-569- How does a yeshiva that cares for every all the children reach educational incorporates skills such as letter mas- 6733, ext. 209 child as an individual accommodate accomplishments that neither they nor tery, reading and listening develop- Disabled Singles. These are the needs of each child and develop a their teachers had imagined possible. ment, controlled and natural language social/recreational programs designed program to educate him according to Because of the small size of the stories, complex spelling, basic writing to bring together disabled singles ages his unique abilities? How does a yeshi- groups and the high teacher-pupil skills, and comprehension strategies. 25 and over on Long Island. Members va with classes as large as twenty or so ratio, the teachers at the Heller The Early Math and Science program enjoy exciting musical programs, guest children develop an educational Resource Center are able to accommo- utilizes digital music, engaging graph- speakers, game nights, and craft accommodation to ensure that every date each child’s needs and ensure ics, and animation—along with a full events: one of those students receives an edu- that he maintains the basic academic set of student take-home materials— Please join on Monday August 13 cation that is bringing out the fullness standards of his peers. The education- targeted to help students master a from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to hear about of each child’s potential? al staff of the Heller Resource Center range of concepts such as number the life of a pet psychic. Bring your pet What happens to the child who has uses the same materials as the main- sense, operations, geometry and pat- if you would like. Learn to speak to learning difficulties? What happens to stream class, emphasizes the same terns, and the scientific process. animals. Light refreshments to be the boy who cannot differentiate skills, reads the same literature, and In addition, as an adjunct to its suc- served. Fee $5. between the beis and the chaf or con- develops the same writing skills. In cessful Heller Resource Center in the On Tuesday, August 21 from 7:00 to fuses an M with a W? addition, they also perform diagnostic elementary school, the Yeshiva of 9:00 p.m. join in for a “Sock Hop to The potential greatness of every remediation; as a child’s needs change, South Shore will be adding a program Disco” at Cedarhurst Park. Bring a child is embedded within him. It takes materials and methods are adjusted to for early intervention in its Hollander lawn chair and enjoy pizza and soda. a special group of teachers to realize meet those needs. Lessons are sequen- Pre-show starts at 7:00, concert at that potential and to develop the skills tial and individualized as the teachers Continued on Page 34

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 33 AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS into one comprehensive state-of-the- Continued from Page 33 art program located in a 4,500-square- foot space. The renovation, costing Early Childhood Center this school more than a million dollars, features year. Together with ECC Director spacious new treatment rooms, wait- Elana Fertig and the dynamic Pre-1A ing area, a vascular laboratory, and rebbi known affectionately by his two new hyperbaric oxygen therapy talmidim as “Rebbi Eli” (Herzberg), chambers with the capacity to add two the expansion of the Resource Center additional chambers. In the near will include Mrs. Leora Feldman, future, the center may also offer on- M.A., a reading specialist and profes- site vascular studies, a diagnostic tool sional in the field of special education that helps physicians evaluate one’s for the last seven years. blood circulation. On August 14, the yeshiva is sched- “We now have an ideal, beautiful uled to host its Fourth Annual Gala center for the treatment of those who B-B-Q and Concert on the Lawn to suffer from non-healing wounds,” said benefit the Heller Resource Center. Lloyd Bardfeld, D.P.M., co-director of The concert will feature the energetic the Center for Wound Healing and Chassidic entertainer Lipa Schmeltzer, chief of podiatry at St. John’s. whose ability to meld the worlds of “The center is spacious and easily Chassidic music and popular enter- accessible for wheelchairs and pro- tainment has enthralled audiences vides comfortable accommodations for around the world. The concert is set to the high level of care and activity that take place on the lawn outside the goes on there,” added Gilbert home of Melly and Rochelle Lifshitz at Makabali, M.D., chairman of surgery 1259 Veeder Drive, Hewlett Bay Park. and co-director of the center. In case of inclement weather, the Non-healing wounds, caused by dia- event will take place at Congregation betes, osteomyelitis, radionecrosis, Beth Sholom. For further information, and lymphedema, afflict three to five please contact Miriam Kritzman at million Americans a year. These chron- 516-374-7363, ext. 300. O ic sores may become infected and ultimately lead to limb amputation. At the Wound Healing Center At Center for Wound Healing, the staff St. John’s Hospital Expands evaluates the wound and the patient’s St. John’s Episcopal Hospital at general health. They then design a South Shore in Far Rockaway has treatment program based on his or her expanded and renovated its Center for special needs, which may include reg-

Lloyd Bardfeld, D.P.M. (left front), and Gilbert Makabali, M.D., co-directors of the Center for Wound Healing, pictured above with the wound healing team.

Patient in hyperbaric chamber watching television and conversing with technician by intercom.

Wound Healing and Hyperbaric ular visits, detailed instructions in Medicine. The new center consoli- home care, bandage changes, and pro- dates its wound-healing service and hyperbaric oxygen therapy program Continued on Page 36 34 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 35

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tecting the wound from further injury. Treatment plans may include the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which enhances the body’s own natural healing process by delivering pure oxygen to damaged tissue. Oxygen sat- uration improves the ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria, lessens local swelling, and promotes the growth of new blood vessels in the affected area. During a treatment, the patient rests comfortably in a state-of- the-art hyperbaric chamber, while watching television or reading. Patients are continuously monitored by a technician and can converse through an intercom. The wound healing team includes a wide range of physician and surgical specialists, podiatrists, nurses, and technicians. They are supported by fel- lows from the podiatric medicine residency program who are receiving an additional year of specialized training in wound healing. Many health plans cover wound treatment, so patients should bring their insurance cards when visiting the Center for Wound Healing. To be evaluated for wound care treatment or for more information, call 718-869-8306. O

Sefer Torah Dedication At YI Of Queens Valley, September 9 The Young Israel of Queens Valley, through the generosity of Rubin and Rita Markowitz, is honoring its esteemed mara d’asra, Rabbi Peretz Steinberg and Rebbetzin Chaya Steinberg, with the writing and dedication of a sefer Torah. Congregation members, friends, and family plan to gather on Sunday, September 9, to participate in the joyous completion of the Torah at the Markowitz home, followed by the traditional procession to the shul with chuppah, song, and dance. Rabbi Steinberg attended Yeshiva Mesivta Torah Vodaath and Bais Medrash Elyon. His semichah is from

Mr. Rubin Markowitz and Rabbi Peretz Steinberg.

Torah Vodaath and he received the prestigious Yadin Yadin from Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt’l. Rabbi Steinberg’s contributions to the community include initiation of the Kew Gardens Hills eiruv, helping to build a community mikveh, establishing the first chevra kadisha in Queens, as well as starting the gemillas chesed fund. He has also served as chairman of the vaad halachah of the National Council of Young Israel and av beis din of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. In addition, he oversees the proceedings of 36 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES gitten, religious conversion, and civil tion of Brooklyn. Mr. Jacob has been an crowded tenements on the Lower East J. Shulkin, M.D., president of Beth cases for the Jewish community. Rabbi EMT with Hatzolah for ten years and is Side. The second was to have a hospi- Israel Medical Center. “Our new Steinberg is also a s’gan av beis din of from the Lower East Side of tal that would observe strictly patient navigators are here to help peo- the Igud Harabonim. Manhattan. Orthodox principles in its kitchen as ple every step of the way through what Rabbi and Rebbetzin Steinberg are Serving New York’s Jewish popula- well as in other respects. Finally, the can sometimes be a confusing system, the parents of Rabbi Binyomin tion has been central to Beth Israel’s founders of Beth Israel wanted a hos- especially for people who are ill. The Steinberg, Rebbetzin Ruchie mission since its founding in 1889 by pital that would admit new immi- navigators will work closely with Schechter, Mrs. Yocheved Davis of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. grants, as other city hospitals required patients and their family members to Chicago, and Rabbi Eliyahu Moshe The founders’ mission was to serve a year of residency before they would make their hospital stay as comfortable Steinberg. O both their own community and the care for immigrants. For over a centu- as possible, with special sensitivity to community at large, with an emphasis ry now, the Jewish communities of their cultural needs.” Final Standing For Softball Teams on Jewish values and tradition. These Manhattan and Brooklyn have looked For more information on the new Going Into The Playoffs brave newcomers to America estab- to Beth Israel as their “neighborhood patient navigator program at Beth HALB’s Avnet Country Day School lished the hospital with three main hospital.” Israel Medical Center, contact Richard Woodmere Campus Leagues have objectives in mind: The first was to “The Jewish people should always come to the close of their exciting reg- have a hospital convenient to the feel at home at Beth Israel,” says David Continued on Page 39 ular season. As the campers head into the playoffs, they look back on a season of many memorable games, daily heroics, and stellar performances by all players. Below are the final stand- ings as the post-season begins. Good luck to all teams and stay tuned for the championship results. Play ball! Apple Bank for Savings “Money Makers” 13–6–1 Swim & Scuba “Aquamen”: 12–6–2 Fitwize 4 Kids “Musclemen”: 10–8–2 Gourmet Glatt “Meatballs”: 7–11–2 L.J. Cerullo Landscaping & Irrigation “Bushwhackers”: 7–12–1 Sharmel Caterers “Sloppy Joes”: 6–12–2 O

Beth Israel Hires ‘Patient Navigators’ To Support Jewish Community Beth Israel Medical Center plans on hiring two individuals as “patient navigators” as part of its Heritage Initiative, the program created last year to better serve the Jewish communities of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The patient navigators’ key functions are to serve as a single contact throughout a hospital stay; to act as a liaison with physicians and other medical staff; and to provide patients with information about resources and support services available to the patient and their loved ones. The navigators are concentrating on Beth Israel’s Manhattan campus sites only, which are the Petrie Division on 16th Street and 1st Avenue and the Phillips Ambulatory Care Center on Union Square East. The Heritage Initiative was founded and is managed by Richard Friedman, M.D., director, and Alex Sino, vice-president for physician services, patient access, and business development. Its goals are to increase the overall cultural sensitivity to the Jewish community at all Beth Israel inpatient and outpatient sites; provide services that will better assist Bikur Cholim and Hatzolah ambulance vol- unteers in their ongoing efforts to save lives and provide special care for ill individuals; and increase Beth Israel’s presence in these communities to ensure that everyone is aware of the culturally sensitive Jewish services and accommodations that Beth Israel provides. The two new patient navigators are Joseph Deutsch and Dov Jacob. Their responsibilities include guiding patients from the community through their hospital stay and interacting with their health-care providers. Mr. Deutsch has been a paramedic with Hatzolah Volun- teer Ambulance Corporation for 15 years and is from the Williamsburg sec- 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 37 urged the museum to add the Bergson Bergson Group To Be Honored In Exhibit Group to its permanent exhibition. The Bergson Group, known as the BY ETGAR LEFKOVITS mainstream Jewish leaders urging the Luckert wrote in a letter to the direc- Emergency Committee to Save the museum to acknowledge the Bergson tor of the Washington DC-based David Jewish People of Europe, raised public The United States Holocaust Group in its main exhibit. S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust awareness about the Holocaust and Memorial Museum intends to change “As you know from our various com- Studies, which initiated the petition. campaigned for U.S. rescue action to a section of its permanent exhibition to munications, in the course of our Luckert said the new War Refugee save European Jewry. The group was include information about the maver- research and deliberations, we decided Board exhibition section would be led by Hillel Kook, a nephew of Israel’s ick 1940s rescue organization known to revise the entire War Refugee Board completed by the spring. first chief rabbi, who worked under the as the Bergson Group, museum offi- segment in the permanent exhibition The Wyman Institute, which has pseudonym of Peter Bergson. cials said. in order to provide some visual materi- been pressing the museum on the The organization was viewed by The announcement comes just days als and artifacts relating to the issue for nearly five years, welcomed mainstream American Jewish leaders after the publication of a petition by Bergson Group to better highlight its the decision. “The Wyman Institute during World War II as being too forth- more than 100 Holocaust scholars and activities,” museum curator Steven applauds the U.S. Holocaust right in its criticism of the Roosevelt Museum’s pledge to correct the omis- administration’s failure to rescue sion of the Bergson Group from its Jewish refugees. In recent years, most permanent exhibit,” institute director Jewish leaders have come to recognize Dr. Rafael Medoff said. “We trust that the group’s crucial contribution to the the corrected exhibit will clearly infamously belated rescue effort. acknowledge the Bergson Group’s vital The Bergson Group is credited with role in the process leading to creation helping to persuade president Franklin of the War Refugee Board, including D. Roosevelt in 1944 to establish the its march by 400 rabbis in Washington War Refugee Board, which ultimately and its crucial work with members of saved 200,000 Jewish lives, including Congress to promote rescue.” future U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, Nobel Prize laureate and Holocaust the current chairman of the House survivor Elie Wiesel also recently Foreign Relations Committee. Despite opposition from mainstream American Jewish leaders, the organization campaigned to save European Jewry through theatrical pageants, lobbying on Capitol Hill, placing more than 200 newspaper advertisements, and organizing a march in Washington by 400 rabbis, which, the Wyman Institute said, was the only rally urging rescue efforts in the nation’s capitol during the Holocaust. About 150 relatives of the rabbis who took part in the march have also signed the petition, the institute said. (JPost.com) O

These are the [land] animals which you shall eat… These you may eat from all that are in the waters… All pure (i.e. kosher) birds may be eaten…

(Devarim 14:4, 9, 11) Land animals, which were created from the soil, are rendered fit to eat by the severing of both vital passages (the windpipe and the gullet). Fish, which were created from the water, do not require any shechitah to render them fit to eat. Birds, which were created from a mixture of soil and water, are rendered fit to eat with the severing of either one of the two vital passages. (Talmud, Chulin 27b)

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AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS Synagogue in Manhattan attended the Continued from Page 37 dinner. “Yerushalayim is an integral part of our hearts and souls and we Friedman, M.D., at 917-710-4896 or will never waver from our belief that patient navigators Joseph Deutsch at Hashem wants Jerusalem to remain 917-509-4441 or Dov Jacob at 917- united as the eternal capital of Israel 886-3865. O and the Jewish people,” said Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie. Jerusalem Reclamation Project In attendance from Israel were Mati Celebrates Yom Yerushalayim At Dan, founder and chairman of Ateret Gala Dinner Cohanim, and Daniel Luria, executive A cross section of American Jewry director. Mort Klein, president of the celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Zionist Organization of America, pre- reunification of Jerusalem in the Six sented Mr. Margules with the Guest of Day War at a major dinner at the Honor award; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Marriott Marquis Hotel on May 16, executive vice-president of the New Yom Yerushalayim, sponsored by the York Board of Rabbis, presented the Jerusalem Reclamation Project/Ameri- Bonei Yerushalayim award to Rabbi Dr. can Friends of Ateret Cohanim. The Sidney and Mrs. Ruthie Solomon; and Jerusalem Reclamation Project is ZOA President Mort Klein and Shoshana Hikind, JRP director of development, Rabbi Moshe Hauer of Baltimore pre- with Guest of Honor Ruben Margules and Cecelia Margules. responsible for the resurgence of sented the Bonei Yerushalayim award Jewish life in the heart of Jerusalem to Jerry and Sora Wolasky. over the past 26 years. Bonei Yerushalayim honorees includ- Jerusalem united with Jewish life. This Dr. Edward Jutkowitz, president of The beautiful celebration began ed Rabbi Dr. Sidney and Ruthie was a meaningful honor I will always the Jerusalem Reclamation Project, with lively dancing accompanied by Solomon of Roslyn, New York; Rafi treasure,” he added. Melvyn B. Wadler, vice president, the Shloime Dachs Orchestra. This and Esther Katz of Los Angeles; “To have my two sons, Allan and Jay, and Shoshana Hikind, director of gala dinner was the largest Yom Andrew R. and Sydney Lewis of honored with me on such a significant development, were thrilled with the Yerushalayim celebration held out- Atlanta; David Metzman of Teaneck; occasion is something I will always evening’s turnout and the joy side of Jerusalem, with over 800 and Jerry and Sora Wolasky of cherish,” stated Guest of Honor Jerry expressed by the guests who partici- guests in attendance. The Jerusalem Baltimore. Wartski. “Israel plays such an impor- pated in the celebration. “Everyone Reclamation Project honored a num- “Being very familiar with Ateret tant role in our lives and we will con- present tonight played a direct role in ber of distinguished friends and part- Cohanim’s incredible accomplish- tinue to do whatever we can to furthering and strengthening Jewish ners who have played a role in JRP’s ments in Jerusalem, I was very happy strengthen Jewish life in Jerusalem, a life in Jerusalem. We hope that all of historic work rebuilding Jerusalem. to be a part of this meaningful event city we all love and that means so our guests will visit Ateret Cohanim The truly deserving Guests of Honor marking such a historic date in the life much to Allan, Jay, and me.” in Israel because when people walk were Rubin Margules of Manhattan of Israel and the Jewish people,” said JRP was delighted to recognize the with us in Jerusalem, they are very Beach and Jerry, Allan, and Jay Rubin Margules. “It was a wonderful dedication and commitment of the proud of being our partners,” said Wartski of Manhattan. The Rabbinic feeling to celebrate this joyous event, esteemed Rabbi Dr. Elie and Estie Ms. Hikind. Leadership Award was bestowed on and by so doing, we were standing in Abadie and was pleased that so many The Jerusalem Reclamation Project Rabbi Dr. Elie and Estie Abadie of solidarity with our brothers and sisters of their friends from Brooklyn and the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue. The who are leading the battle to keep members of the Edmond J. Safra Continued on Page 40

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 39 AROUND THE FIVE TOWNS Israel, Rabbi Metzger’s duties include Continued from Page 39 oversight over all matters of kashrus. Rabbi Metzger said that although the (JRP) was founded in 1978 by a level of spirituality is unfortunately unique group of pioneers and scholars problematic among many Israelis, who dedicated themselves to restoring “When we conduct surveys on the Jewish life to all parts of the Old City level of kashrus observance, even in and surrounding neighborhoods which Tel Aviv…60 percent of people are were once home to a vibrant Jewish keeping kosher.” This trend of kosher community. Since Jerusalem was was reiterated by Mr. John reunited in the Six Day War, Jews have Catsimatidis, CEO of Red Apple returned to homes and institutions Group, who said, “You don’t have to that were once the nerve center of the be Jewish to keep kosher.” After com- Jewish world. JRP strengthens Jewish plimenting the chef on the juicy life in the Old City by purchasing and salmon, Mr. Catsimatidis announced renovating buildings for young yeshiva that he is exploring the opportunity of families, renovating destroyed syna- running for mayor of New York. gogues, and by supporting nurseries, New York City is “doing fabulous- Standing, L–R: Zev Brenner of Talkline; Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group; playgrounds, and children’s recreation- ly,” said William C. Thompson, the Ben Barber; Malcolm Hoenlein, vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major al facilities. official in charge of city fiscal issues. American Jewish Organizations; and Rabbi Adam Mintz, Jewish liaison to the NYC To arrange a fascinating tour in “It is a great time to be in New York,” Comptroller. Seated, L–R: Eddie Allaham, owner of La Carne Grill, Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Jerusalem, please call Shani Hikind at he added. Regarding the high price Ashkenazic Rabbi of Israel; NYC Comptroller William C. Thompson; and John Catsimatidis, 212-216-9270 or e-mail ateret@ of living, the comptroller feels that CEO of the Red Apple Group. juno.com. O the city has to continue to build more housing in order to keep New ized by The Friedlander Group, was on the season. The summer/fall menu La Carne Grill Hosts Live Yorkers living in the area. Rabbi Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice- will continue until November, at ‘Talkline’ Broadcast Adam Mintz, Jewish liaison to the chairman of the Conference of which time changes will be made to The taste of political talk was comptroller, described his work as Presidents of Major American Jewish complement the winter season. unusually enticing on August 1, when “bringing the Jewish community and Organizations, who “appreciates the La Carne Grill is under the supervi- Mr. Eddie Allaham, owner of La Carne the comptroller together so that they opening of La Carne, being that my sion of OK Kashruth and is located at Grill, hosted a special “Talkline with can better appreciate one another.” office is a block away.” Also in atten- 340 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan Zev Brenner” broadcast featuring Rabbi Mintz noted the various issues dance was Rabbi David Stigman of the (212-490-7172). O Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Ashkenazic concerning the diverse Jewish com- OK, who discussed the intricacies of Rabbi of Israel, and NYC Comptroller munities, especially the issue of preserving the finest level of kashrus in Ariel University Center Announces William C. Thompson. housing in both Brooklyn and the fish and meat menu. Authorization Of New Status Rabbi Metzger blessed Mr. Manhattan. He affirmed, “The La Carne Grill strives to maintain At a press conference held in Tel- Allaham, noting, “Eddie has years of comptroller is concerned and recep- impeccable service, exceptional food, Aviv, the leadership of the newly con- experience and an intricate knowl- tive to this, and all other issues, fac- and unrivaled ambience. In an innova- stituted Ariel University Center of edge for special meat. I see the faces ing the communities.” tive approach to really challenge the Samaria (AUC) announced the of everyone here and they are enjoy- Completing the roster of guests at guest’s palate, the premier chef at La change in name and status. The insti- ing.” As Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of the live broadcast, which was organ- Carne alternates the menu depending tution, formerly known as “College of

40 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES evolving into a university,” stated academic criteria, not on politics.” Prof. Meyerstein. “In fact, the many The institution has fulfilled all aca- American universities like Harvard, demic and administrative require- Yale, and Columbia began as under- ments prescribed by the legitimate graduate colleges,” he added. authorities for approval as a university Since its establishment in 1982, the center. Accordingly the change has institution has steadily broadened its been implemented. O academic offerings and built a broad- based research framework, including Manis Friedman To Headline High four masters’ degree programs and Holy Days At Ft. Lauderdale Beach some of the most advanced research Resort laboratories in Israel. Over 9,500 stu- The High Holy Days are coming to dents attended the institution last Fort Lauderdale’s premium beach semester. resort, the beautiful Bahia Mar. Following the May 2005 decision Guests will have the choice to join for of the Cabinet, a special committee all or part of the holidays which will appointed by the Council of Higher include for the first time a full 11-day Education of Judea and Samaria option featuring inspiring High Holy (CHE-JS) conducted an in-depth Day prayer services, elegant glatt review of the then College of Judea kosher gourmet fine dining, magnifi- Yigal Cohen-Orgad (foreground), Ariel University Center executive committee chairman, and Samaria’s readiness to become a cent lectures by world-renowned edu- announces upgrading of institution from college to university center at an August 1 press university. The committee, whose cators such as Rabbi Manis Friedman, conference in Tel Aviv. membership included one Nobel lau- wonderful youth services, and deluxe reate, four Israel Prize laureates, and accommodations overlooking the Judea and Samaria,” was authorized research and academic instruction… a Wolff Prize laureate, unanimously beautiful ocean at the Bahia Mar to announce this upgrade as part of a I extend my blessings for the contin- concluded that the college already Beach Resort. five-year timetable established by the ued development of scientific functioned as a university and should Floridians typically choose a split Council of Higher Education of research and broadening the base of be officially recognized as one upon stay, opting to return home after Rosh Judea and Samaria that will lead to higher education at the university completion of certain steps. This Hashanah and join once again for Yom its full accreditation as a research center for the benefit of Israel’s econ- committee established the timetable, Kippur, but many seniors and out-of- university. omy and society.” approved by the CHE-JS, which towners have requested a full-time The move immediately received University center president Prof. called for the change to “university option. Therefore, the hotel is offering the blessing of Prime Minister Ehud Dan Meyerstein observed that this center” at this stage, as an interim a special discount for those wishing to Olmert who, as member of the historic and unprecedented transi- phase. remain the entire time to take advan- Cabinet, voted in 2005 in favor of the tion marks the first time in Israel’s Reacting to the sharp opposition tage of the beautiful hotel amenities institution’s transition to a university. history that a “college,” originally expressed by education minister Yuli and enjoy the popular luxury beach Prime Minister Olmert stated “I established to provide education for Tamir, the chairman of the university resort. Carefully planned and wonder- would like to congratulate the undergraduate students, has success- center’s executive committee, Yigal fully organized by Chabad of University Center of Samaria on the fully made the transition to universi- Cohen Orgad, stated that “The deci- Southwest Broward’s Rebbetzin Gitty upgrading that you have earned…in ty status. “In the United States there sion about eligibility for university sta- recognition of your achievements in is nothing unusual about a college tus should be based exclusively on Continued on Page 45

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 41 42 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Shlock Rock At Avnet Country Day School Photos By Ira Thomas Creations

Lenny Solomon and his famed Shlock Rock band entertained the HALB Long Beach campus as Avnet Country Day School held its first nighttime concert for the campers and parents on Thursday, July 26. Hundreds of attendees were treated to both classic tunes and new material from the forthcoming Shlock Rock CD.

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Andrusier, each guest is warmly welcomed and given the finest holiday accommodations. The unsurpassed program, celebrating its 13th year, will offer guests a wonderful resort setting for families to enjoy the holidays. Individuals can also join just for prayer services and/or meals as well. Services are led by Rabbi Pinny Andrusier, dynamic spiritual leader of Chabad of Southwest Broward and the sweet and delightful melodies of Cantor Rabbi Yerachmiel Andrusier of New York. Services are filled with energy, insight, and song. Participants will enjoy three daily meals and tea room, freshly prepared and catered by the executive chef and staff of Gourmet Kosher Caterers under strict rabbinical supervision. All meals are complemented with enter- taining stories and traditional songs and melodies. By popular demand, Rabbi Manis Friedman, the ever popular and noted biblical scholar and philosopher, is returning and will provide daily lectures on timely topics using ancient wisdom and modern wit. Rabbi Friedman, dean of the Bais Chana girls’ seminary in Minnesota, is recognized for his sagacious grasp of Jewish mysticism. He has appeared on various television programs worldwide and, as always, is sure to offer all in attendance incredible guidance and definite direction. Also joining the program to provide insight and meaning will be Mrs. Miryam Swerdlov. Miryam is a renowned educator famous for her unique style, tireless energy, and terrific humor. Only 10 minutes from the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International airport, the resort overlooks the ocean and is centrally located in Broward County between Miami Beach and Boca Raton. Rabbi Pinny promises, “The High Holy Days at Bahia Mar Beach Resort is guaranteed to leave young and old with fond memories and a stirring sense of fulfillment for the New Year. The resort will offer each and every patron the opportunity to pray in a warm and beautiful setting while being privileged to relax and enjoy the holiest of days with the finest comforts of a luxury resort. The all-encompassing program is for families of all ages, featuring explanatory prayer services and thought-provok- ing lectures and is sure to add tremendous insight and meaning to the High Holidays.” Chabad’s flamboyant youth director, Rabbi Adi Goodman, and his team of highly skilled youth coun- selors will conduct special youth services and provide meaningful programs of fun and interest for younger guests. Professional babysit- ters will also be on-hand for infants and toddlers. They are well trained and most caring. Chabad warmly welcomes one and all to join them as they greet the New Year. For more information and reser- vations, call 954-252-1770 or visit www.ChabadTodayFlorida.com. O 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 45

into handling and dealing with the before him as a test from Above. When many nisyonos each person is given on a person is confronted by doubts and an almost constant basis. Simply stat- questions in life, he thinks in his mind, ed, life is filled with nisyonos. We are “This all must be sheker, false.” He constantly tried and tested, to see fails to recognize that it is indeed the where we are holding, to bring out our emes. What is happening is often all true strengths and abilities, to see what we (read: our neshamos) are truly made of. Often these “tests” are extremely demanding—physically, The truth of the Passing The Test mentally, and emotionally. The trouble starts, however, because we do not matter is that we fail view the trying conditions we are fac- BY RABBI YONI POSNICK true, he is a navi sheker. ing as a nisayon. to pass nisyonos The meforshim ask the obvious Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, zt’l, writes: Parashas Re’eih contains the sec- question: If indeed this is a navi shek- We see time and again when people precisely because we tion of the navi sheker, the false er, a rasha trying to sway Jews off the are faced with difficult circumstances, prophet. The pesukim tell us that the derech and away from Hashem, why doubts, and things do not seem to make are unaware of their way to determine who is a true navi would Hashem make his sign come sense, they jump to make sense of it all, and who is false is by asking them for true and allow him to perform mira- to resolve the doubts and uncertainties. presence. a sign or miraculous feat. If the sign cles? Rashi, citing the Sifri, answers, This person will turn over and turn indeed comes true, we can be assured “For Hashem is testing you.” Simply over his situation from every angle, the navi is true. The Torah cautions, put, it is a nisayon. Hashem wishes to using every bit of reasoning and imagi- too real. These difficulties could even however, that if a person arises and test our emunah, our faith. Will we nation he can conjure up to explain it sometimes seem miraculous or super- tries to persuade K’lal Yisrael to wor- listen to the words of the Torah, or and come up with a plan to deal with natural. Power is given to cause doubt ship avodah zarah, we must not will we be swayed by witnessing it. One thought, however, never enters and trial in a person’s life. For what believe him; even if he performs a miraculous feats? his mind: “It is a nisayon.” Maybe, per- reason? “Hashem is testing you.” In miraculous feat or his sign comes This parashah gives us major insight haps, the entire ordeal was placed truth, this should be a person’s first thought and mindset. “Yes, this is real. I am unsure of why this is happening, but perhaps it is a nisayon, a test from Hashem Himself.” A person may ask, what is the advantage of this mindset? Why is it so important to acknowledge the nisayon and think this way? Our parashah of navi sheker tells us that at times Hashem will allow the false prophet’s signs to come true in order to test us. A person does not have to deny the signs. Yes, he indeed per- formed a miraculous feat—it is true and real. Even so; when one lives with this yesod—this fundamental principle that “Hashem is testing you,” that it is a nisayon—that real- ization itself allows him to go on and overcome the test! The import of this principle is strik- ing. When one feels confused and unsure of what is occurring, he becomes anxious and insecure, likely to run to extremes or into danger in search of relief, however temporary or spiritually unsafe it may be. Indeed, we see all the time how those who had appeared strong in times of prosperity suddenly crumbled and left the fold in times of nisyonos. It is not our place to judge them, as the Gemara clearly teaches. The point, however, is clear and compelling: If one takes the mindset and attitude of “This is a nisayon,” if one ingrains this into his head and heart when difficulties arise, this individual knows the Source of the test and takes strength and comfort in the awareness that all he is undergoing is from his Merciful Father, Who only tests someone who has the skills and strength to successfully overcome the test. This must be a person’s constant refrain—“It’s a nisayon.” When stuck in traffic; when stuck in line; when one’s patience is being tested by spouse and children; or in the realm of the more serious and somber tests of this world, be it physical, financial, emotional (relationships, shidduchim, marriage), etc., this mindset will determine whether one will crumble and fall apart or will elevate himself and prevail, unlocking hidden kochos 46 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES inside of himself. The Nesivos Shalom (in Pirkei Avos, Ch. 5) says: The truth of the matter is that we fail to pass nisyonos precisely because we are unaware of their presence. We undergo difficulties and chal- lenges but we don’t recognize them as a nisayon. If a Jew would know at the time of a challenge that he is undergoing a test—if one thought to himself, “This is a nisayon”— he would undoubtedly pass the test. Regrettably, we become confused and unthinking as the yetzer ha’ra plans, and so not only do we fail to make use of the Heavenly presented opportunity for true growth and advancement, but the confusion and lack of recognition itself makes the nisayon harder. The truth of this statement is apparent. When we know we are being tested, we perform at our maximum; we foster all of our resources and inner fortitude to successfully prove ourselves. If only we realized that we are being tested, that we are being watched! When we are chal- lenged, the malachim in Shamayim along with the Al- mighty Himself look to see what will happen and what we do. If we fail to internalize this attitude, not only do we fail to take advantage, but we simultaneously make the very test that much harder for ourselves. May we merit to recognize the Source of all of our nisyonos and thereby successfully pass all our life-tests with fly- ing colors, letting our true neshamos shine through and giving great nachas to Hashem Above. After all, every parent takes joy when his child achieves high marks on a test! O The author may be reached at [email protected].

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5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 47 Jewish answer to this cesspool of problems? Israel Needs Jewish Leadership There is hope! There is one man who is trying to lead the country who BY ROB MUCHNICK parties in the government refuse to death to thousands of Israelis who has real answers to these very real vote him out of office, because they live in cities surrounding Gaza, by problems, and on August 14, the Likud I live in Suffolk County, about an would most surely lose their comfort- way of Arab rockets falling daily on party will be able to choose him to run hour east of the Five Towns. I come to able Knesset seats and the perks that them which the government refuses for prime minister. As all Israeli polls Central Avenue just to shop at the go along with them if they did. to respond to in a serious way. show the Likud party winning the next kosher stores. It’s a great treat for my Olmert even tries to hang on to his How can it be fixed when, accord- general election, in essence the kids to see all the religious children, position by proposing further Israeli ing to recent polls, the majority of Likud’s August 14 primary is really to and we try to do it about once a withdrawals from Judea and Samaria non-observant Israeli teens can’t even choose the next prime minister of the month. One of the things I love best (“the West Bank”) and the Golan recite the Shema, and three-quarters State of Israel. about the Five Towns is the great love Heights to make him appear as a suc- of them have never set foot anywhere Moshe Feiglin is the president of the Jews there have for our beloved cessful “peacemaker,” even though it in the city of Jerusalem by the time Manhigut Yehudit—“Jewish Leader- State of Israel. Israeli flags are sold in is obvious to all that the concept of they enter the army at 18 years of ship”—the largest bloc inside the all the Judaica stores, and the support Likud Party of Israel. Mr. Feiglin and for various institutions and organiza- Manhigut Yehudit were invited into tions in Israel is well known and the Likud party in 2001, as veteran something you should all be proud of. Veteran Likudniks felt that the Likud party Likudniks felt that the Likud party had The problem I have is that Israel is abandoned its ideology and that Mr. in serious danger, and I often ask Feiglin would be the one to bring it myself, “What went wrong?” and “Is had abandoned its ideology and that back. They surely felt this way because there a way for our wonderful country during the early “good years” of the to be fixed?” “peace process,” Mr. Feiglin and his Israel is faced with a seemingly end- Mr. Feiglin would be the one to bring it back. predecessor organization, Zo Artzeinu less string of enemies bent on its (“This is Our Land”), were the first to destruction—from Hamas to the so- introduce the concept of non-violent called “moderate” PLO, from civil disobedience into Israel, much as Hezbollah to Syria, and now a nuclear- evicting Jews from their homes, such age? Is it any wonder that the majori- was done in America during the 1960s. bound Iran. This situation would be as was done in 2005 from Gaza, ty of non-observant Israelis actually Even though the Likud has only depressing enough for most of us, but yields only complete failure and only believe that their country won’t exist continued the shameful Oslo farce, what makes it worse is the fact that puts Israel in a much worse strategic in 30 years? the Likud’s official charter still calls Israel’s politicians and leaders are position than previously. Let’s also Should we all heed the unbeliev- for Jewish annexation of and settle- seemingly plagued by corruption, not forget to mention that Ariel able advice given last month by for- ment of the entire Land of Israel scandals, or utter ineptitude. Sharon’s Disengagement has pro- mer Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, along with the country being run In a recent poll, Israel’s current duced 10,000 Jewish refugees in who told all Israeli Jews to get foreign according to “Jewish values.” prime minister, Ehud Olmert, received their own country, who are now being passports, eliminate the Jewish “right Manhigut Yehudit joined Likud an approval rating of below 1 percent. treated worse than the government of return” to Israel, and make Israel because it agreed with these core Yet somehow he manages to stay in treats endangered salamanders. It into a bi-national state—i.e., an Arab Likud principles, and because most office; his Kadima party and the other also brought the daily specter of state—immediately, or do we have a prime ministers come from the Likud

48 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES party. As such, Mr. Feiglin decided who are murdered? Don’t we deserve and Samaria (the “West Bank”) and rights of its Jews. that in order to lead the entire State better than this? Gaza. Honoring the Biblical covenant Jewish labor for an effective, cre- of Israel from the prime minister’s Manhigut Yehudit’s all-encompass- between the Nation of Israel and the ative, and moral economy. Jewish office, the best way to do this would ing mission is to “perfect the world in Creator of the world, we shall imme- labor will be encouraged, with voca- be through the Likud party. the kingdom of the Al-mighty…by diately annex all territory in our tional training during the third year In the previous Likud primary for awakening and revitalizing Israeli soci- hands, settle every part of the Land of of army service and the removal of head of the party, and therefore for ety in its connection and bond to its Israel, and terminate the Oslo foreign workers. We will strive to candidate for prime minister, Mr. Jewish roots, national history, and the Accords. This plan also honors the build all our military necessities and Feiglin finished in third place (out of Land of Israel. Manhigut Yehudit’s philosophy of common sense—name- not purchase them from the U.S. and seven), with 13 percent of the vote. unmistakable message of Jewish val- ly, since the Arabs have attacked us elsewhere. According to current polls for the ues, Jewish pride, and social and judi- Energy and financial independ- upcoming August 14 Likud primary, cial reforms strives to turn the State of ence. We will initiate a massive gov- Mr. Feiglin now is polling very Jews into the Jewish State.” ernment-funded and -directed plan to strongly and trails only former prime Let’s take a look at Manhigut They hope that the develop non-petroleum-based energy minister (and Oslo-continuer and Yehudit’s policy lines to see how sources so as to provide ourselves and Disengagement-supporter) Benjamin Moshe Feiglin as prime minister plans Jewish People will not the world with clean, abundant energy Netanyahu. on accomplishing this goal: which will provide us, and not our Netanyahu stated that he advocates A Jewish state. The State of Israel is lie down in the face of enemies, with funding. We will also bringing Jordanian troops into Judea the instrument for establishing the end the acceptance of aid from and Samaria (“the West Bank”) in sovereignty of the Jewish people in the their problems America (it comprises only 2.5 per- order to strengthen the “Palestinian Land of Israel. Massive government cent of Israel’s GNP), as it is a drag on moderate” Mahmoud Abbas, to help funding to bring all Jews home. anymore. Israel’s economy, costs Israel 100,000 Abbas create another Arab state Education towards love of Israel, jobs, and costs Israel its real or per- inside of the Land of Israel. Aside Torah, and the land. Education for ceived sovereignty. from ignoring Abbas’s credentials as all Israelis based on Jewish values, Returning moral strength and Yasser Arafat’s right-hand man for 40 taught with love and not through power of deterrence to Israel’s army. years and his being the author of the coercion. One hour per day of and lost these territories, they deserve The Israeli Army must not be con- PLO’s phased plan for the destruction Judaism will be taught in schools. to pay a penalty. As such, they will cerned with “world opinion,” must of Israel in stages (the first stage Currently there is no Jewish educa- never recover these territories. We strike first when required, and will be being negotiations), and ignoring his tion in many Israeli schools. believe in the policy of “Peace for enabled to defeat and destroy Israel’s direct ties to the Nazi genocide by Liberation of Jerusalem and the Peace,” not “Land for Peace,” which enemies. way of his mentor the Mufti of Temple Mount. We shall foster Jewish has been proven not to work. The Likud primary is scheduled for Jerusalem Hajj Amin al Husseini (who prayer on the Temple Mount and build Renewal of democracy and the August 14. Moshe Feiglin and created Bosnian SS Divisions for a synagogue and study hall for the justice system on the basis of Manhigut Yehudit hope to make this Hitler and drew plans for another Sanhedrin on the Temple Mount national values. A constitution based election one that will reverberate Auschwitz in Israel), Netanyahu’s where permitted by Jewish Law. on Jewish values shall be enacted to around the globe with the hope that vision is just a continuation of the sui- Sovereignty of the Temple Mount will preserve Israel as a Jewish country the Jewish People will not lie down in cidal policies of the Left. Hasn’t he be taken from the Islamic waqf and (yet not to legislate or mandate reli- the face of their problems anymore, seen the direct correlation between given back to the Jewish People. gious practice), to protect the human but that they will stand up and defeat the amount of land that Israel gives to Cancellation of the Oslo Accords and civil rights of all its faithful resi- them with their heads held high, and its enemies and the number of Jews and immediate annexation of Judea dents, and to protect the political they will lead the world to victory. O

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 49 alone. Aharon set his focus on one site each knowing what the other was Days Of Old…And New in particular, located at the end of the thinking, began clearing out the rocks row, which was at the top of a hill. and debris from the area with our bare At that time, the site was nothing hands, and continued doing so for the B Y IRA HELLER edge of the Old City, identified all the but a heap of rubble, but Aharon knew better part of the day. sites in the Moslem Quarter where quite well that it was in that spot that After having done this for hours, we I had an extraordinary feeling today synagogues had stood (though a beautiful house of prayer had once took a step back to see what we had as we read Eichah—it reminded me of “Moslem Quarter” is a terrible mis- stood, known in its time as the Beit accomplished, and to our chagrin, it similar feeling I had back in 1980, dur- nomer, as it was a Jewish area prior to Knesset Galitzia. After we ascended looked as if we hadn’t even made a ing the time that I was learning in the Jordanian occupation of 1948 to the hill via a crumbling stone staircase dent in what was still just an imposing yeshiva in Israel. At that time, I had 1967). All the synagogues, which were and traversed some scattered rubble, heap of garbage and large chunks of befriended a fellow whom I had sought rubble. Aharon then asked me, “Can out after reading one of his books. His you come back tomorrow?” I replied name was Aharon Bier. Aharon was that shiur (Torah study) would be back one of the great experts on in session in the morning, and I really Yerushalayim and Eretz Yisrael, with a “In this place there will once shouldn’t miss it. “Besides,” I said, “if special expertise on the Ir HaAtikah it’s going to be just the two of us again, (Old City of Jerusalem). He himself again be a house of prayer!” it’s going to take us a month to clean drew and published the maps of the it out.” But then I had an idea, and I Old City that had become the accept- told him that there would be a good ed standard, wrote at least a dozen chance that I would make it back the tour books, and was one of the leg- located on one central street lined up we found ourselves standing in the next day, and hopefully he would not endary tour guides in Israel. front and center with the Temple midst of a trash heap. At that point, be working alone. It was through my friendship with Mount, were either burned or reduced Aharon stopped and pledged out loud I did return the next day—together Aharon Bier that I was able to partici- to rubble by the “peace-loving” in his deep, booming voice, “Bamakom with about 50 yeshiva students. I had pate in something that, to this day, I Jordanians. At one time, there were hazeh yihyeh od pa’am beit knesset!” (In spoken to the rosh yeshiva, Rabbi consider one of my greatest accom- known to have been as many as 20 syn- this place there will once again be a Horowitz (of Yeshivat Bet Midrash plishments. Aharon, in his vast knowl- agogues that existed on this street house of prayer!) So the two of us, L’Torah, a.k.a. “BMT”), and told him of this great opportunity to lend a hand in the rebuilding of Yerushalayim. After hearing that Aharon Bier was involved, he unhesitatingly excused three classes from their morning sedarim and sent them along with me. I only wish I had a camera to capture the look on Aharon Bier’s face when I arrived the next morning with this mass of yeshiva boys in tow. Immediately, we put our ingenuity to work, and rather than having a hap- hazard crowd of boys wandering back and forth with heavy stones in that relatively small area, we decided to form a human chain. We extended the line from the garbage heap that was the shul, to an open area in back of the shul that was soon destined to be the new (temporary) garbage heap. As soon as the line was in place, we started passing the stones from hand to hand one by one, and the entire area was cleared in less than two hours. The next day, the rebuilding of the Galitzia shul began. I helped Aharon whenever I could get time off—late at night, on Fridays when shiurim were not in session, and whenever else I could find time. I helped carry bricks through the shuk (and they were heavy—many in excess of 100 pounds), hung from the rafters while putting up a fiberglass protec- tive cover, and did whatever else had to be done. The construction and refurbishing continued throughout that winter, and by spring it was in decent enough shape to be used. Whenever I had the opportunity, I would make the walk to the Ir HaAtikah to daven there on Shabbat. It is one of my fondest memories. Some years later, a few years after I had returned to America, I was back in Israel, visiting for the summer. Since I was to be there for Tishah B’Av, I decided that it would be especially meaningful for me to be in the Galitzia shul on that night. I made my way to the Old City, and when I arrived at the shul, was thrilled to find that it had been well completed with new windows, a secure front door, aron kodesh, and other accouterments. All in all, it looked spectacular. There were even 50 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES yeshiva boys learning there how it looked, and how we in clear view. I knew my voice unfortunate and shameful local shul in Hillside, N.J. full time by that point. began clearing the site and was carrying over Har HaBayit turn of events made sure that Clearly, Hillside is not I quietly walked into the subsequently rebuilt it. As as I sang, and I remember that any momentum that Aharon Yerushalayim, but come shul and planted myself in Tishah B’Av descended upon accompanying the lilting Bier and those like him had Tishah B’Av, regardless of one of the corners, just soak- us and the time to daven melody of Eichah was a rising put in place to energize the where my physical presence ing in the beauty of the place, approached, the person in bubble of hope that the rebuilding of Yerushalayim happens to be, my heart while feeling a twinge of pride charge of the tefillah asked if I rebuilding of Yerushalayim would soon come to a grind- returns to that special place in at the contribution I had would honor them by reading had truly begun, and nothing ing halt. Since then, that lit- the Old City of Jerusalem, made to bringing it back to Eichah for the group. Without could stop us now. tle bubble of enthusiasm I felt where I once felt that hopeful life. After a good few minutes missing a beat, I earnestly Little did I know what was at that moment had long bubble of enthusiasm back in passed, one of the yeshiva replied that the honor would coming down the pike on the receded, replaced only by a 1980. However, for the first boys who had been eyeballing be totally mine. I will always Israeli political scene in the helpless ache. time since the despair of Oslo me finally approached me remember that evening, as I next decade. The “Oslo Gang” That is, until this year. As began, I felt that feeling with more than a bit of suspi- recited Eichah in that shul on would soon be working their Tishah B’Av rolled in this beginning to return, reminis- cion, and firmly asked “Efshar the hilltop, lined up directly mischief, and the troubles evening, I took my turn to la’azor lecha?” (“Can I help with Har HaBayit, which was were about to begin. This lead a chapter of Eichah in my Continued on Page 52 you?”). I simply answered that I was waiting to daven. At that moment one of the other students noticed the exchange taking place, then looked at me and seemed to recognize me. He approached and put his hand on the shoulder of the young man who was ques- tioning me and quickly spat out at him, “What, you don’t recognize this person?” He then continued, “Were it not for him, we would now be standing on a heap of rubble.” Not surprisingly, the look on the first young man’s face softened immediately, and he extended me a warm welcome and a profuse apology. At that point a number of the boys began gathering around as I started telling them some stories about how Aharon Bier found the place,

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 51 Days Of Old term plan of Jewish leadership for the truly happen! With Manhigut Yehudit How will Moshe Feiglin do it? First, Continued from Page 51 Jewish State had to be established. as the most powerful faction in the the immediate plan: Thus was born the “Manhigut Likud party, this sickly wave of 1. He will advocate that the Israeli cent of that special moment in the Ir Yehudit” movement, under the princi- defeatism and capitulation ushered in school systems be purged of the dis- HaAtikah so many years ago. ple that the Jewish People in the Land by the Oslo era can be excised from ease of political correctness, and will Why? Well, surprisingly few people of Israel must have true Jewish leaders our midst, and Jewish values and restore Jewish education to its rightful seem to be aware of it, but we are truly who believe in the G-d of Israel. Since Jewish pride can be restored to the place in Israeli society. He proposes on the verge of nothing less than a then, Moshe and Shmuel have man- nation. The leader of Manhigut that all Jewish students, religious or mahapecha, a revolution in Israeli pol- aged to masterfully navigate the Yehudit, Moshe Feiglin, a G-d-fearing not, should have a minimum of one itics. Few people seem to be aware of treacherous waters of Israeli politics man of vision with an iron resolve, is hour of Jewish Studies. Not religious the fact that two “regular guys” from without selling their souls or violating on the verge of infusing the principles coercion, just the minimum knowledge the Shomron—not politicians, not their Jewish principles. Now, after of Manhigut Yehudit into the main- of their Jewish heritage of which they government apparatchiks, but believ- more than ten years of arduous and stream of Israeli politics. are now devoid, so Jewish pride can be ing Jews—are on the verge of changing persistent work, they have positioned The unfortunate part is that most restored to all Jews. the landscape of the Israeli political 2. In an age of twisted values, in scene forever. These two young men, which “coming out of the closet” in its Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett, grossest sense has become a “virtue,” who originally entered the public stage Moshe Feiglin advocates that the time as the “rabble rousers of Zo Artzeinu,” The Manhigut Yehudit leadership has come to take Jewish family values were responsible for the massive dis- “out of the closet” and back into the play of civil disobedience against the has dared to challenge the corrupt mainstream of Israeli life. Oslo “peace” plan back in 1993. In the 3. He will put an end to our days of opinion of many, it was their actions cowering in our homes, fearful of the that tipped the scale against Shimon Israeli political establishment. Arab attacks that are becoming more Peres, keeping him out of the prime and more commonplace (thank you, minister’s office and paving the way for Oslo “peace” gang, for giving them Bibi Netanyahu. weapons…). The answer is not to for- With Bibi’s ascent to the prime min- themselves for a major challenge believing Jews are now lost in despair, tify our roofs or build hospitals for the ister’s office, Moshe and Shmuel logi- against Bibi Netanyahu for the Likud and they refuse to believe that such a wounded. The answer is victory, and cally thought that Oslo was over and leadership. Even if they don’t succeed revolution is possible. Well, not only is nothing less. Unfortunately, this word their work was done. However, in deposing Bibi at this point, all indi- it possible, but it is happening right has left the Israeli lexicon, but the Netanyahu proved to be an unfortu- cations show that they will come now. However, this upheaval cannot be time has come to restore it and to nate disappointment, squandering the awfully close and, either way, it will no accomplished unless our people will restore Jewish pride. golden opportunity to abandon the dis- longer be “business as usual” in the believe that it is possible and will put 4. He will demand an end to the oli- astrous path of Oslo and put the coun- Likud. This can be an earth-shaking their support behind our courageous garchy that is the Israeli justice sys- try back on track, and instead choosing development in Israeli politics, as all Manhigut Yehudit leadership, who tem. The justice system in Israel to continue with the suicidal agenda of current electoral forecasts indicate have dared to challenge the corrupt reflects not the will of the people, but the perfidious Left. It was at this point that the Likud will win the next elec- Israeli political establishment. The the will of this self-perpetuating body that Moshe and Shmuel realized that tion and its policies will determine the potential is enormous, and things of elitists whose views represent a tiny short-term, emergency interventions course of the State of Israel. could change overnight if we’ll only minority of the country. The time has would not solve the problem; a long- This opportunity is real, and it can believe that it is possible. come to take back control of this cru-

52 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES cial area of Jewish society and momentum is building. This events of historic proportions infuse it with Jewish values in is not about “religious coer- that will bring positive change place of the values of the mis- cion” in the State of Israel; not only to the State of Israel, guided extremism of the liber- rather, it’s about turning the but to the entire world. There al Left. State of Israel into the kind of is no time to waste. The time 5. He will make sure that state that the overwhelming is now. O there is a zero-tolerance policy majority of Jews in Israel toward Arab terrorism. desire. They desire a state Ira Heller is a world-renowned performer and longtime supporter of Anyone caught committing or which runs on Jewish princi- Manhigut Yehudit. He can be reached aiding and abetting an act of ples, not principles which par- at [email protected] or via his terror, whether or not they are rot the moral decrepitude of website, www.iraheller.com. Manhigut Yehudit can be reached at “citizens” of the State of the other nations of the world. 516-295-3222 or manhigut-USA@ Israel, will be treated as ter- The victory of Manhigut manhigut.org. See their website at www.jewishisrael.org or Moshe rorists. Terrorist murderers Yehudit, with G-d’s help, can Feiglin’s new website at who machine-gun children in potentially bring a chain of www.mf1.co.il. their beds and who bomb buses and marketplaces deserve no mercy, and will receive no leniency. And finally, we do not negotiate with terrorist murderers—period! So if this plan sounds right to you, what can we do to help make it happen? The Likud primaries are scheduled for August 14. If you are in Israel, you must join the Likud as soon as possible, and support Moshe Feiglin’s candidacy to get him elected to the leadership spot. If you are outside the Land of Israel, learn about Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit and spread the message that there is a solution, and we can make it happen! Just think, our success can bring an abrupt end to the Oslo Nightmare—k’heref ayin (in the blink of an eye). The process has begun, and the

5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 53 A Frum Survival Story At Bridge Collapse

Minneapolis—Roman Koyrakh, a like an obstacle course, but not 20-year-old, frum college student, before swimming over to other vic- was saved from a life-threatening sit- tims to offer assistance. He only uation with only a few bruises to scrambled for safe ground once he show for it. realized his own danger in the precar- At about 6:00 on Wednesday night, ious situation. August 1, his car was stuck in traffic Koyakh was transported by ambu- on the north side of the I-35 bridge, lance to North Memorial hospital at the water’s edge. “There was a loud where he was pronounced lucky to be bang, and my car buckled suddenly. alive, and only needed stitches on his Dust and smoke shot up all around, face and arms. and the next thing I knew I was Roman Koyakh has been living in falling, plunging headfirst.” His Minnesota for many years and is an airbag was activated, and his car was active participant in the local com- hit several times, and then jolted to a munity kollel. “Hashem saved me,” stop. “There was water, water every- he said. “There’s no other explana- where,” he says. Water rushing into tion for such nissim.” Baruch his car, the current pulled it directly Hashem, he has suffered no lasting into the river below. Certain this was effects from the accident. His main the end, Roman said Shema Yisrael as worry, he confesses, was about his he was thrown to and fro. His mind parents’ welfare and how to reassure blank, pure instinct took over, and he them of his safety, and he deeply managed to unlatch his seatbelt and regrets that he had to miss the exit the car door. Submerged in Gemara shiur at his evening kollel water, he maneuvered his way out program. (VOS IZ NEIAS) O

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Engagement of Mitchell Rocklin, Sruli Feldheim of Far Rockaway 2nd Lt., US Army Chaplain and Sarah Midnick of Brooklyn (son of Steven and Leah Rocklin) were married at the Imperial and Rachel Chernyak (daughter of Catering Hall in Williamsburg Dr. Leon and Helen Chernyak) of Sharon, Mass. on June 14. was celebrated on Tu B'Av, July 30.

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B Y JOSH HASTEN AND Avner Maimon, 51; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) CHAVIVA LIBIN Assaf Abergil, 23; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, A “moderate” alternative? 24; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32; Should Israel really bolster Fatah as Kiryl Shremko, 22; Hassan Ismail a “moderate” alternative to Hamas? Tawatha, 41; Avi Zerihan, 36; The following are the names of 328 Gideon Lichterman, 27; Alexander Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign- Kostyuk, 23; St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, ers murdered by Fatah and affiliated 20; St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21; Zion groups from 2000-2007. Boshirian, 51; 2nd Lt. Amir Ben- Emi Haim Elmaliah, 32; Michael Aryeh, 21; St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20; Ben Sa’adon, 27; Israel Zamalloa, 26; Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi, 60; St.-Sgt. Roi Farjoun, 21; Dr. Daniel Mordechai Evioni, 52; Andrei Yaakobi, 59; St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, Friedman, 30; Meir Haim, 74; 20; Rafi Halevy, 63; Helena Halevy, Hannah Haimov, 53; Avi Kotzer, 43; 58; Reut Feldman, 20; Shaked Ramin Nasibov, 25; Staff Sgt. Mazal Lasker, 16; Eldar Abir, 48; Yosef Orkobi, 20; Ilanit Peled, 32; Viktor (Yossi) Shok, 35; Sgt. Nir Kahane, Shebayev, 62; Boris Tepalshvili, 51; 20; Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21; Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe, 46; Kineret Mandel, 23; Oz Ben-Meir, Lilya Zibstein, 33; Amiram Zmora, 15; Dov Kol, 58; Rachel Kol, 53; 55; Igor Zobokov, 32; Krassimir Dana Galkowicz, 22; Avihai Levy, 17; Mitkov Angelov, 32; Steven Arthur Dror Gizri, 30; Ibrahim Kahili, 46; Cromwell, 43. Munam Abu Sabia. 33; Ivan Shmilov, Ivan Gaptoniak, 46; Ion (Nelu) 53; Herzl Shlomo, 51; Ofer Tiri, 23; Nicolae, 34; Guo Aiping, 47; Li St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21; Second Peizhong, 41; Mihai Sabau, 38; Zhang Lt. Ariel Buda, 21; Salem (Sami) Al- Minmin, 53; Massoud Makhluf Alon, Kimlat, 28; Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19; 72; Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Sgt. Sa’id Jahaja, 19; Sgt. Hussein Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Abu Leil, 23; Corp. Adham Shehada, Ya’acov Lary, 35; David Peretz, 48; 19; Sgt. Tarek Al-Ziadne, 20; St.-Sgt. Shaul Zilberstein, 36. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22; Capt. Tal Revital Ohayon, 34; Matan Ohayon Bardugo, 21; St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21; 5; Noam Ohayon, 4. St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20; Border Yitzhak Dori, 44; Tirza Damari, Policeman Lance Cpl. Menashe 42; Orna Eshel, 53; Linoy Saroussi, Komemi, 19; Border Policeman 14; Hadas Turgeman, 14; Yosef Lance. Cpl. Momoya Tahio, 20; Ajami, 36; Lt. Malik Grifat, 24; Yafit Shlomo Miller, 50. Herenstein, 31; Avi Wolanski, 29; Sgt. Maayan Naim, 19; Victor Avital Wolanski, 27; Yekutiel Amitai, Kreirderman, 49; Moshe Yochai, 63; 34; Nizal Awassat, 52; Shlomo Maj. Shachar Ben Yishai, 25; Border Odesser, 60; Mordechai Odesser, 52; Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20; St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21. Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45; Hannah 20; George Khoury, 20; Gil Abutbul, Dikstein, 42; Shuv’el Zion Dikstein, 9. 38; Danny Assulin, 51; Avraham Rachel Shabo, 40; Neria Shabo, 16; Avraham, 34; Zion Dahan, 30; Ophir Zvika Shabo, 12; Avishai Shabo, 5. Damari, 31; Moshe Hendler, 29; Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43; Capt. Mazal Marciano, 30; Avi Suissa, 56; Hagai Lev, 24; Yosef Twito, 31; Noa Maurice Tubul, 30; Pinhas Avraham Alon, 60; Gal Eisenman, 5; Michal Zilberman, 45; Eitan Kukoi, 30; Franklin, 22; Tatiana Igelski, 43; Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25; Sgt.- Hadassah Jungreis, 20; Gila Sara Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25; Kessler, 19; Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17; Israel Ilan Avisidris, 41; Lior Azulai, Netanel Riachi, 17; Gilad Stiglitz, 14; 18; Yaffa Ben-Shimol, 57; Rahamim Avraham Siton, 17; Albert Maloul, 50; Doga, 38; Yehuda Haim, 48; St.-Sgt. Ruth Peled, 56. Netanel Havshush, 20; Yuval Ozana, Sinai Keinan, 14 months. 32; Benaya Yehonatan Zuckerman, St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21; 18; Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, 28; Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Rose Boneh, 39; Hava Hannah Suheila Hushi, 48; Yelena Konrab, (Anya) Bonder, 38; Anat Darom, 23; 43; Ling Chang Mai, 34; Chai Siang Viorel Octavian Florescu, 42; Natalia Yang, 32; Rachel Charhi, 36; Tomer Gamril, 53; Yechezkel Isser Mordechai, 19; Sgt.-Maj. Goldberg, 41; Baruch (Roman) Constantine Danilov, 23; Rachel Hondiashvili, 38; Dana Itach, 24; Levy, 17; Haim Smadar, 55; Gadi Mehbere Kifile, 35; Eli Zfira, 48; Shemesh, 34; Tzipi Shemesh, 29; Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19; St.-Sgt. Yitzhak Cohen, 48; St.-Sgt. Matan Tzur Or, 20; Gal Shapira, 29; Border Biderman, 21; St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir 21; Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19; Trostinsky, 22; Ro’i Arbel, 29; Capt. Avia Malka, 9 months. Hagai Bibi, 24; Capt. Leonardo Israel Yihye, 27; Devorah (Alex) Weissman, 23; Ilya Reiger, 58; Friedman, 45; Police officer FSM Samer Fathi Afan, 25; Sgt.-Maj. Salim Barakat, 33; Yosef Habi, 52; Eli Shlomi Belsky, 23; St.-Sgt. Shaul Dahan, 53; Sgt. Steven Kenigsberg, Lahav, 20; St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19; 19; Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25; David Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19; Sgt. Roy Yacov Damelin, 29; First Sgt. (res.) Rafael Solomon, 21; St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, Levy, 42; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Avraham 20; Shalom Har-Melekh, 25; Amir Ezra, 38; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Eran Gad, Simhon, 24; Krastyu Radkov, 46; 24; Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Yochai Porat, 26; Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31; Noam Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Kfir Weiss, 24; Sergei Leibowitz, 7. St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22; Continued on Page 60 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 59

Should Israel Bolster Fatah? David Tzarfati, 38; Hananya Continued from Page 59 Tzarfati, 32; Ya’akov Tzarfati, 64. Vandals Defile Ancient Jewish Haim Chiprot, 52; Inbal Weiss, 22; Birmov, 33; Vadim Balagula, 32; Didi Yehiav Elshad, 28; Samuel Cemetery In S. Czech Republic Yitzhak, 66. Milshevsky, 45; Noam Gozovsky, 23; Shlomo Nehmad 40; Gafnit Michal Mor, 25; Hadas Abutbul, 39; A Jewish cemetery has been dese- religious and social tolerance in Nehmad, 32; Shiraz Nehmad, 7; St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19; St.-Sgt. Yaniv crated in a southern Czech town. European nations, and a firm rejection Avraham Eliahu Nehmad, 7; Liran Levy, 22; Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19; Spokeswoman Hana Moltasova said in of fundamentalism. Nehmad, 3; Shaul Nehmad, 15. Haim Ben-Ezra, 76; Sergei Freidin, a statement that 23 tombstones were “Take the example of the threat Lidor Ilan, 12; Oriah Ilan, 18 20; Zvia Pinhas, 64; Sarit Amrani, 26; overturned at the cemetery in Pisek, from Iran, whose president wants to months. Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 100 kilometers south of Prague. Five of eliminate the state of Israel and denies Tzofia Ya’arit Eliyahu, 23; Ya’akov 19; St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26; Lt. the tombstones were broken, she said. the Holocaust,” she told the audience. Avraham Eliyahu, 7 months. Erez Merhavi, 23; Dov Rosman, 58; The cemetery, dating back to the Merkel said the international commu- Avi Hazan, 37; Chief-Supt. Moshe Sharon Ben-Shalom, 26; Yaniv Ben- 19th century, is no longer used for nity had to respond to this threat with Dayan, 46; Gad Rejwan, 34; Police Shalom, 27; Doron Sviri, 20; Maj. Gil burials, and was opened to the public resoluteness and solidarity. officer First Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21; Oz, 30; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21; Sgt. in 1993 after renovations. A wrong notion of tolerance was not Avraham Fish, 65; Aharon Gorov, 46; Tzahi Grabli, 19; Yuri Gushchin, 18; Last month, vandals defiled a useful in practical politics. Valery Ahmir, 59; Lt. Moshe Eini, 21; Doron Zisserman, 38; Lt. Col. Yehuda Holocaust memorial at a Berlin train She told 500 students and profes- St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20; St.-Sgt. Edri, 45; Zvi Shelef, 63; Dan Yehuda, station, where tens of thousands of sors that the German state would Mark Podolsky, 20; St.-Sgt. Erez 35; Eliahu Na’aman, 32; Arnaldo Jews were once shipped to Nazi con- stand up to fundamentalists and other Turgeman, 20; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, Agranionic, 48. centration camps. enemies of liberty. 21; St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21; Shalhevet Pass, 10 months. Several candles near the train tracks Jewish, Christian, and Muslim stu- Ahuva Amergi, 30; Maj. Mor Elraz, Lior Attiah, 23; Akiva Pashkos, 45; at Grunewald station were knocked dents attend the school in Heidelberg 25; St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21; Ofir Rahum, 16; Ron Tzalah, 32; over, and an Israeli flag was burned, to learn the basics about Jewish histo- Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32; St.- Binyamin Zeev Kahane, 34; Talia Berlin police said. Such acts are con- ry and faith. (Haaretz) O Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20; Miri Kahane, 31; St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) sidered crimes in Germany. Ohana, 45; Yael Ohana, 11. Flum, 21; St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, The Grunewald memorial is called St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos 21; Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64; “Platform 17,” commemorating the more Meconen, 33; Pinhas Tokatli, 81; Amos Makhlouf, 30; Gil Mor, 25; than 50,000 Jews transported from the At 5TJT.com Sarah Hamburger, 79; Svetlana Border Police Cpl. Yusef Madhat, 19; station to concentration camps. Sandler, 56; Edward Bakshayev, 48; Hillel Lieberman, 36; Lt. David-Chen Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited you can enjoy articles Anatoly Bakshayev, 63; Aharon Ben Cohen, 21; Avner Shalom, 29; Sgt. the Grunewald site last year. Yisrael-Ellis, 32; Dina Binayev, 48; Shahar Vakrat, 20; Miriam Amitai, German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 3 ways: Boris Melikhov, 56; Avi Yazdi, 25; Yoela 35; Gavriel Biton, 34; Itamar Yefet, has vowed to combat right-wing Chen, 45; Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71; 18; Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25; Ariel extremism, but critics say the 19 mil- 1. Read Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19; Yair Amar, 13; Jeraffi, 40. lion euros a year spent on campaigns Esther Avraham, 42; Border Police The answer is clear. (Arutz Sheva) O to draw young people away from radi- 2. Print Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, cal ideologies is inadequate. 35; Moshe Gutman, 40; Avraham Speaking later at a school of Jewish Josh Hasten is the president of the Bar-Am 3. Email Nahman Nitzani, 17; Yirmiyahu Public Relations firm based in Jerusalem. studies in the southwestern city of Salem, 48; Israel Sternberg, 46. Chaviva Libin is a sophomore at Stern College. Heidelberg, Merkel called for greater

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BY HANA LEVI JULIAN Reactions from the right were very minister gives Arabs the legitimacy not Last year, she ordered that maps of AND HILLEL FENDEL sharp. MK Meir Porush (United Torah to recognize Israel as the State of the Israel show the 1949 Armistice Line, Judaism) said that Prime Minister Jewish people. This decision marks the also known as the Green Line, which Arab schoolchildren in Israel will be Olmert, as part of his gestures to PA nakba of Israel’s education network.” draws the borders of Israel as it exist- taught next year that the founding of chairman Abu Mazen, might as well Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor ed before the Six-Day War in 1967. the State of Israel was a tragedy propose that PA officials run Israel’s Lieberman slammed Tamir as (Arutz Sheva) O (Nakba in Arabic) in accordance with a Education Ministry. Porush said that “expressing not only post-Zionism widespread Arab view of the event. Tamir’s decision was shameful and but also political masochism… The The Education Ministry, headed by should be retracted. Israel left always complicates itself Prof. Yuli Tamir (Labor), has approved trying to justify the other side with- adding the Arab version to the curricu- out understanding that there is noth- For the next issue, lum in response to calls by Arab ing to justify.” nationalists who requested the nakba “If we do not hurry and Moshe Feiglin, running for Likud deadline for reserving version be taught in their schools. Party Chairman on behalf of the The new directive approves a give Israel a leadership party’s Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish ad space is Grade 3 textbook Living Together in Leadership) faction, said, “If it is OK Israel, which was written by Arabs that truly believes in the to teach Israeli[-Arab] schoolchildren Monday, August 13 who left their homes during the 1948 justness of our existence, that the Jewish victory in the War for War of Independence and claim that Independence and the establishment at 5:00 P.M. Israel took their land. The textbook Israel will be erased from of the Jewish State are actually a evenhandedly points out that the catastrophe, this means that the Arab nations refused to accept the the map.” State of Israel is an illegitimate and United Nations partition plan creat- temporary body… Yuli Tamir hereby ing the Jewish State and a new Trans- reveals that she does not identify with All graphics for ads Jordan country. the Jewish claim over the Land more “The Arab narrative deserves to be Former Education Minister Limor than with the Arab claim. If we do must be in by told in Israel,” Tamir explained. Arab Livnat (Likud) declared that teaching not hurry and give Israel a leadership MKs congratulated her for her deci- Arab children the nakba version of that truly believes in the justness of Tuesday, August 14 sion, though immediately raised new Israel’s creation will encourage them our existence, Israel will be erased demands. Arab MK Hana Sweid said to later work against the nation. from the map.” at 5:00 P.M. Tamir should now incorporate Arab MK Zevulun Orlev (NRP), a former Teaching the nakba to Arabs is the poetry into Jewish school curricula, director-general of the Education latest in a number of dramatic moves while MK Jamal Zechalke called for Ministry, called upon Prime Minister by Tamir, a left-wing professor and “Arab cultural autonomy” under which Olmert to fire Tamir for making an Peace Now founder who has cam- Call 516-984-0079 Arabs would solely determine Israeli- “anti-Zionist decision that erases paigned against subsidies for Jewish Arab schools’ curricula regarding Arab Jewish history and denies the State of religious education while backing Arab history and culture. Israel as a Jewish state. The education nationalist programs.

62 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Jewish Jihad Is Better

B Y STEVEN SHAMRAK

Many Muslim mullahs, imams, and terrorist chiefs have been igniting their followers by the word “jihad”—Holy War. Even the leaders of some Muslim countries are not able to resist tempta- tion. Their true intent is a war against everything that is un-Islamic. Any infi- del, not just Jews, any non-Islamic country is a target. Even Muslim countries that allow some flexibility, freedom, and personal rights that are not in line with hard-core Islamic doctrine are considered as a blasphemous and also are targeted. Sometimes, in order to disguise the actual aggressive nature of Islamic jihad, Muslim leaders say that they are misunderstood. They say that jihad has nothing to do with terror and the desire for world domination by Islam; rather it is a call for the inner struggle of an individual Muslim. Little do they know that the concept of “inner struggle” is a deep spiritual idea of Judaism and Jewish spiritual teaching. Every year Jews celebrate the exo- dus from Egypt. Most Jews celebrate Pesach as the freedom Jews had obtained from physical slavery in Egypt, some 3,300 years ago. Not many remember or know that the Passover reminds us that internal freedom of mind and spirit is even more important. Unfortunately, even so many years after the creation of the independent Jewish State, many Jews are still living in inner mental slavery. We are constantly living under the fear of “THEM”: “What will they think?” “This is current reality, they will not allow us to…”—these are the questions that continuously sabotage our efforts to obtain true sovereignty and end endless torture or Arabs’ terror that is unleashed on Israel and is arti- ficially fostered by international hypocrisy. We neglect our own right to the unity of Jewish land. Our right to self- determination is forgotten and regular- ly abused. Our right to live in peace in our own country is non-existent! At the same time many Jews support the fic- tional people—‘Palestinians’, who were created for one reason only—to destroy Israel! It is time for the Jewish people to shake off the “Mitzraim” (internal slavery) and declare our own jihad! This is the fight against self-doubt, self-hate, and lack of self-respect. We must unite the Jewish nation, get rid of our enemies, and reunite our land! Only when we start to believe in ourselves will the respect from ‘THEM’ follow. As you can see, jihad is good when it is prop- erly used. So, let’s start a Jewish jihad. It will be good for us! O 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES August 10, 2007 63 64 August 10, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES Your Ad Could Be Here.

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