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$1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 6 NO. 31 30 NISAN 5766 APRIL 28, 2006 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK REMEMBRANCE DAY MindBiz Esther Mann, LMSW 24 Good Business, Or Betrayal? It was heartening to see the just as a consequence of Welcome Back Hannah Reich Berman 26 outpouring of support just bureaucratic bungling, almost prior to Pesach for the so- a year later the back of what Halachic Chips called refugees of Gush Katif. was the strength and core of Rabbi Ben Nathan 28 People came out and respond- the settler communities has ed generously to the call of been broken. Thousands— Satmar Rebbe, zt’l leading rabbis here and in even those who left peacefully Photo By Ivan Hl. Norman Hillel Fendel 35 Israel to do what they could to and long before the govern- help these people and their ment established deadlines Being Left Behind? families, who have been merci- last summer—are living in Heshy Shayovitz 57 lessly uprooted from their makeshift homes and in A capacity crowd filled Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence on Tuesday homes, their communities hav- squalor. Many of the strongest night to remember those who perished in the Holocaust and to stand with ing being destroyed, and, for all Gush Katif communities have those who survived, who lived to see a new day and make a bright Jewish future possible. Above: Mrs. Mildred Seidenfeld of Borough Park, Brooklyn, intents and purposes, just been broken apart and now, a survivor of Auschwitz, with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, about abandoned by everyone. Chavi Seidenfeld, Devorah and Raizy Taub, and Sheri, Moshe, and Eliezer Whether intentionally or Continued on Page 4 Seidenfeld. See More Photos, Pages 70-71 RAMBAM H.S. STUDENTS HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE PROTEST ON YOM HASHOAH Passover Diary: Rabbi Binyomin Moskovits On Tuesday at 1:00 p.m., will spend Shabbos in On The Streets Of St. Pete Lawrence. hundreds of students from the See Page 10 Rambam Mesivta High School rallied outside the offices of BY LARRY GORDON the Ukrainian mission to the UN, demanding that Ukraine Passover, in all its illustri- immediately extradite Jakiw ous and caloric glory, has Palij and Jaroslaw Bilaniuk, the arrived and now moved on. As last two Nazi war criminals liv- a result, people everywhere ing freely in New York. The were on the move, going any- where from the corner grocery Continued on Page 6 to the nearest and most con- Corley Photo By Taliye Schools Election Heats Up Continued on Page 11 Rafi Ohana of GFI Mortgage Bankers. See Page 36 PESACH OF ’06 Why We Are BY MICHELE Making Aliyah HERENSTEIN BY SHMUEL KATZ It’s been only two weeks since I left my apartment in In the last few weeks, as Manhattan for Passover, yet the news of our impending since then I’ve slept in three move has gotten out, my wife different places, eaten in Goldie and I have heard that Photo By Five Towns Jewish Times Towns Photo By Five excess of six different types of same comment over and over: cake, and worn more than “You’re making aliyah? But seven different pairs of shoes. you’re not the type.” The truth Rabbi Manis Friedman, featured My adventures began erev is, we have no idea what “the speaker at the Chabad Pesach, when I did last-minute type” of person is who choos- Shabbaton. See Page 36 BY LARRY GORDON school-board elections. This errands around the Five es to move to Israel. We only year’s election takes place on Towns. I went from store to know who we are and what CANDLE LIGHTING The month of May is just a the Jewish holiday of Lag store searching for much-need- brought us to this point in our Apr. 28 – 7:29 PM few days away, and around BaOmer, Tuesday, May 16, ed brown heels (although lives. May 5 – 7:36 PM here that means it’s time for the annual school-budget and Continued on Page 44 Continued on Page 14 Continued on Page 16 2 April 28, 2006 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES April 28, 2006 3 FROM THE EDITOR speaks forcefully for positions identi- last year or so is that there is indeed a ficult decisions when it comes to fied mostly with those who value and method in the madness of these politi- money. After all, many were already Continued from Front Cover are committed to the Biblical land of cally strategic machinations. An living in poverty while receiving myri- with all this time behind us and like so Israel. To say that Netanyahu repre- important part of this maneuvering ad government subsidies for rent, many other things that we cannot do sents the right or that Sharon became starkly reveals the connection between food, education, and other living too much about, just about forgotten. the candidate of the left or that some the political, the economic, and the expenses. They couldn’t make ends It’s easy to blame much of what hap- other personality represents the cen- religious in Israel. As you know, eco- meet under those “desirable” circum- pened on the misguided vision of what ter is void of meaning today. In Israel, nomic belt-tightening has wreaked stances; what could they do when so might have been at the time a mental- in the aftermath of the illusory intoxi- havoc, particularly in Israel’s yeshiva many of these avenues of assistance ly impaired Prime Minister Ariel cation with the blurred visions of communities. Child subsidies have were dramatically curtailed? Sharon. The former prime minister peace, left and right have become been drastically reduced, as has aid to What does all this have to do with now lies in a vegetative state, while his indistinguishable from one another those who have made Torah study on a evacuating Gush Katif last summer? political heirs fall over one another try- and may not even exist anymore. full-time, full-day basis their life’s On the surface it seems that one thing ing to bring the former Israeli leader’s This is perhaps more noticeable in work. Life has become so economical- has nothing to do with the other; but dream, which has caused so much what was once the settler movement ly hard-pressed in many of these com- just a half-inch beneath the surface damage, to fruition. than anywhere else in Israel’s political munities, to the point that a few they are seemingly very tightly con- But blaming Ariel Sharon, now system. To have thought years ago that months ago the Belzer Rebbe issued a nected. Speaking at a reception for removed from the political scene, is there would be elements in this move- call to his chassidim to become trained the Gush Katif refugees in the begin- just the easy way out. There are oth- ment in favor of removing settlements, in professions and to seek out employ- ning of April in the Five Towns, and ers, both in and out of politics—many eliminating communities, and forcibly ment opportunities. He said that only again last week in Florida, Rabbi still vital and influential—who bear moving people would have been anath- those who possess an intense pen- Paysach Krohn said that across the almost as much responsibility for what ema to all involved. In the aftermath of chant or those whose scholarship is on board, the people he had spoken to the wrongful Sharon vision has the Madrid conference—which led to a very high level should remain in who are living in temporary cramped wrought. Among those are people like Oslo and then to Camp David—the yeshiva full time. quarters (at best) were betrayed by Benjamin Netanyahu, who heads up most alarming and even contradictory As a result of the changes in the fis- just about everyone they dealt with. the once-powerful but now hanging- ideas became possible. cal landscape in Israel, the chareidi They were lied to by the Israeli gov- by-a-thread Likud party. Netanyahu What has become apparent over the leadership has had to make some dif- ernment, the YESHA council bungled the entire operation that opposed the evacuation, and the rabbis told most not to move and that an evacuation would never take place. CALENDAR LUACH April 28 – May 6 ZIP Code: 11516 30 Nissan – Erev Shabbos Friday, April 28 1st Day Rosh Chodesh Iyar Daf yomi: Pesachim 101 Omer: 15 Z’manim*: Earliest tefillin: 4:59 am Sunrise: 5:58 am latest Shema: M. Av. 8:49 am Gr’a 9:25 am Candle Lighting: 7:29 pm 1 Iyar – Shabbos Saturday, April 29 Shabbos Parashas Tazria-Metzora 2nd Day Rosh Chodesh Iyar Pirkei Avos: Chapter 2 Shabbos ends**: 8:34 pm 72 min. 9:01 pm 5 Iyar Tuesday, May 3 Israel Independence Day 7 Iyar – Erev Shabbos Friday, May 5 Daf yomi: Pesachim 108 Omer: 22 Earliest tefillin: 4:49 am Sunrise: 5:49 am latest Shema: M. Av. 8:44 am Gr’a 9:20 am Candle Lighting: 7:36 pm 8 Iyar – Shabbos Saturday, May 6 Shabbos Parashas Acharei Mos–Kedoshim Pirkei Avos: Chapter 3 Shabbos ends**: 8:42 pm 72 min. 9:08 pm * from MyZmanim.com (EDT) ** add a few minutes for tosefos Shabbos/Yom Tov according to your minhag 4 April 28, 2006 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES This is where the economic situa- terrorists launch missiles into Israel. reach out to others to help you repair wholeness of the Land of Israel.