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The Seventh Annual Garden Barbecue This Sunday at 6:00 pm See Page 5 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 9 NO. 34 13 SIVAN 5769 tab ,arp JUNE 5, 2009 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK A SPECIAL KOTEL VISIT Organizing 101 BY LARRY GORDON Raizy Goldberg 18 MindBiz Natural Growth Esther Mann, LMSW 31 On the surface, it does not Israel-U.S. relationship over A Squirrel Saga look like Barack Obama is the next year or so. Hannah Reich Berman 36 going to be the most favorite A man who is most able to President of the United States assess the current diplomatic P h To Boldly Go o that Israel has ever had to deal jockeying for position is t o B Brian Shtundel 44 y with. His talk about being Malcolm Hoenlein, the Exec- Y a i r H honest with Israel for its own utive Vice-Chairman of the o f f The Train Of Life m a good, even if it hurts, and the Conference of Presidents of n Rabbi Dr. Simcha Y. Cohen 67 demand that all settlement Major American Jewish Organ- activity come to an absolute izations. He’s dealt with many Monday morning at the Kotel, the worshipers were treated to a visit from Maran Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, shlita (seated). It is Rav Elyashiv’s practice and immediate halt does not presidents, secretaries of state, to visit the Kotel close to the time of Shavuos. bode well for the future of the While at the Kotel, he briefly exchanged greetings with the Kotel Rav, Continued on Page 6 Rav Shmuel Rabinowitz, and recited a number of perakim in Tehillim. PLAYDATE PROTOCOL HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Affordable Yeshiva B Y BENNY TAMIM prised and disappointed about the way the boys had spent Felderman-Kosoff Wedding Six-year-old Avi was invited their time, but did not mention BY LARRY GORDON down the road. Now the focus See Page 42 to a classmate’s house for a anything to the other child’s is on saving wherever and few hours on a Sunday after- parents, not wanting to embar- There’s been a shift in the whenever possible. Not only noon. His mother was rass them. But the next time global economic jet stream. has refraining from spending acquainted with the family and that friend called to get togeth- Where the winds of wealth money become necessary, it is knew them to be quality peo- er, an excuse was fabricated. once blew, there is now a new now also fashionable. ple. Sunday evening when she When we invite someone emphasis on frugality and A financial publication picked him up, she asked Avi else’s child over to our home, prudent spending. Call it, if recently reported that con- what the boys did together. we are assuming responsibil- you will, a financial storm. sultants who help corpora- “We watched such a good ity. Each set of parents has Once, companies unquestion- tions to function on less are movie! It was PG-13!” was the slightly different standards ingly sought out projects to now flourishing. The report reply. Avi’s mother was sur- allocate millions of dollars for, Continued on Page 17 in the hope of some profits Continued on Page 14 Rav Kook on Iran See Page 57 Ohel Grand Opening A Modicum ACCEPTANCE Of Modesty Another Mother’s Musings BY RABBI AVI BY PHYLLIS J. SHAFRAN L UBIN In one of his wonderful They were all there—men, collections of essays (The women, and children. The Youngest Science: Notes of a very old along with the very Medicine-Watcher), the late young. All were present— physician Lewis Thomas tells wall-to-wall people—waiting of a highly successful doctor in anticipation for the big Yeshiva Gedolah of Five Towns Ohel opened a new Regional Family Center in Far Rockaway. Ohel provides annual breakfast. a wide array of counseling services for the greater Five Towns and Far Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 11 See Page 53 Rockaway community. See Page 50 CANDLE LIGHTING June 5 – 8:04 PM June 12 – 8:08 PM See Page 6 2 June 5, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 5, 2009 3 4 June 5, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 5, 2009 5 FROM THE EDITOR Minister Netanyahu; their agenda FEATURES Continued from Front Cover from the outset of his administration has been to do what they can to and prime ministers, and he possesses a unseat him from office as soon as is Around The Five Towns 48 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 unique insight into what is being said on politically feasible. 516-984-0079 both sides, how it is being said, and At the same time, Hoenlein is Ask The Sensei [email protected] [email protected] what the true meaning of many of these intrigued by the effort to portray Warren Levi 46 statements really is. Israel as “intransigent” in the face of LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Over the phone from his office in U.S. demands to halt settlement Classified Ads 70 YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON New York on Tuesday, Hoenlein told building. “Israel has already agreed Sales Managers us that he feels at this juncture that not to establish or build new settle- Daf Yomi Insights Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow 59 CHANA ROCHEL ROSS the seemingly evolving crisis in U.S.- ments and has also agreed to evacu- Editorial Assistant Israel relations is “being overblown and quite possibly intentionally so by The Dish SIDI BARON Elke Probkevitz 29 YAKOV SERLE the media, including some in the JERRY MARKOVITZ Jewish media, as well as elements in “Where was the Five Towns Simcha Sales Representatives the administration.” Sol Lawner 42 SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC Mr. Hoenlein’s perspective on administration’s reaction Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor these issues does not simply come Insights On The Torah CONTRIBUTING EDITORS about reflexively. His assessment of to Abbas’s statement Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen, Rabbi Yanki Tauber 32 Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Toby Klein Greenwald, the unfolding situation is filtered that he will not enter R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 36 Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz, through many years of experience Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Shmuel Katz, along with important contacts at talks with Israel until The Legendary . Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, high levels of the administrations . Danny O’Doul 20 Martin Mushell, Elke Probkevitz, Naomi Ross, the Netanyahu people Rachael Schindler, Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, both here and in Israel. “I can tell you this: I don’t sleep at night Letters To The Editor Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher leave office?” 55 DOV GORDON, ELISHEVA ELEFANT because of some of these issues that Staff Graphic Artists have come to the fore, but I can also Luach 8 IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS tell you that it is not quite as bad as Staff Photographers it sounds,” he says. ate and dismantle illegal outposts,” MindBiz Esther Mann, LMSW 31 FRANKEL & CO. Hoenlein says that he feels that in Hoenlein says. “The issue of natural Design & Production some instances President Obama’s growth in the settlements is a non- comments are being purposely dis- issue for a number of reasons,” he Real Estate TALIYE CORLEY Anessa V. Cohen 30 Art Director torted by some in the media as well insists. He adds that it is clear to the SARAH GREENBAUM as by left-leaning organizations in administration that halting natural That’s The Way It Is! Assistant Art Director Israel and those who do their bidding growth building is not possible and in Hannah Reich Berman 37 The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- here in New York and Washington. contravention to agreements reached paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not These groups, such as J Street, New with the Bush administration. necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not Travel 44 responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or Israel Fund, and Peace Now, are establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. focused on trying to rattle Prime Continued on Page 8 6 June 5, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 5, 2009 7 FROM THE EDITOR Continued from Page 6 And honoring past agreements is one of the usual sticking points in this process, as no agreement can be satisfactorily reached if every time there is a change in governments the process gets rolled back to the start. The Palestinians can hope and push for Israel to evacuate 300,000 people who are living in Judea and Samaria, but not only is that impossible as these settlement communities grow, but it has been impossible for quite a number of years already. “If the Obama administration was so surprised by Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to a two-state solution and ceasing natural growth,” Malcolm Hoenlein says, “then where was the administration’s reaction to Mahmoud Abbas’s statement that he will not enter talks with Israel until the Netanyahu people leave office?” Certainly the Abbas position, as it was articulated after his meeting with President Obama, is even more CALENDAR LUACH June 5 – June 13 ZIP Code: 11516 13 Sivan Friday, June 5 Daf yomi: Bava Metzia 41 Z’manim*: Earliest tallis/tefillin: 4:18 am Sunrise: 5:25 am Latest Shema: M. Av. 8:33 am Gr’a 9:09 am Candle Lighting: 8:04 pm 14 Sivan – Shabbos Saturday, June 6 Shabbos Parashas Naso Avos: Ch.