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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder See Pages 3, 4, 5 See Page XX $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 10 NO. 21 5 ADAR 5770 vnur, ,arp FEBRUARY 19, 2010 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK UN DOUBLE STANDARD EXPOSED Lost Tzedakah BY LARRY GORDON Rabbi Meir Orlian 20 Brotherly Love Who Owns Judaism? Yochanan Gordon 25 It was a healthy and thought- what constitutes genuine MindBiz provoking exchange. Last week, Judaism. Livni made the com- Esther Mann, LMSW 31 in Israel’s Knesset, Kadima party ment in response to a remark by Thanks, Mel leader Tzipi Livni addressed Porush that “anyone who Hannah Reich Berman 33 comments to Israel’s Deputy belongs to Kadima cannot be a Minister of Education, Meir believing person.” Hishtadlus And Bitachon Porush, saying: “You will not The trading of condescending R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 36 take Judaism away from us.” barbs by these two members of Livni was firm and indignant. parliament speaks precisely to She demonstrated a weariness what ails Israeli society in partic- Protesters outside the United Nations in New York calling for the world with the notion that only the ular and, to an extent, Jewish body to condemn the killing of civilians by U.S. forces as they pursue Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A UN report recently Orthodox—and in this case the communities just about every- stated that the responsibility for civilian deaths lies with the Taliban. This so-called ultra-Orthodox—were stands in sharp contrast with the UN Goldstone Report condemning Israel the purveyors and assessors of Continued on Page 5 for its conduct in the Gaza military operation last winter. See Page 57 ABSENCE MAKES THE HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE HEART GROW FONDER Back Of The Bus HaRav Ephraim Kenig, BY LARRY GORDON Rockaway community liaison to shlita, in Five Towns. B Y A. GREENBLATT Let’s think for a moment the NYPD’s 101st Precinct, in Far See Ad, Page 80 what that means. It means no It’s always good to sit and Rockaway, he is also consulted This past Shabbos could have shared lunches (for those who grab a chat with Alex frequently on community mat- been one of the most memorable have kids or need to carry), no Wercberger, the proprietor of ters by the Nassau County in recent years in the Five Towns. play dates for many children, no Kosher World in Far Rockaway. Police Department as well as a Not because a specific rebbe was carrying seforim or siddurim to Aside from being the consum- number of other government in town or something earth-shat- various minyanim and shiurim, mate food impresario and the agencies. He does all this in tering happened. Rather, this past no carrying your house key, and dynamo who runs a very busy addition to his very active and Shabbos could have been the countless other things that local supermarket, his involve- influential involvement in the first one in many years that the many of us have taken for grant- ment in community-oriented local Hatzalah organization. Five Towns community would projects seems endless. have been without an eiruv. Continued on Page 13 In addition to being the Far Continued on Page 10 Giving Life And Hope Mishenichnas Adar, CALEB’S In support of Neveh Zion. Mishenichnas Av See Page 78 Part 2 GIFT BY RABBI UREN REICH BY RABBI AVI SHAFRAN We discussed last week the phenomenon surrounding the When I was a teenager, a well-known dictum concerning long, long time ago, I felt self- the month of Adar. One of the conscious about praying in pub- most intriguing aspects of this lic places such as airports. On at P h o t o halachah is the way in which it least one occasion, I entered a B y I v a n is presented by Chazal. It seems, phone booth (remember those?) H . N o r in some way, to be connected to while awaiting a flight, closed m a n the halachah governing the the door (yes, they had doors), The annual breakfast of Tomchei Shabbos/Yad Yeshaya took place mood of another month—the and spoke to the Ribbono shel Sunday morning at the home of Ronnie and Bruchie Lowinger in MK Arieh Eldad visits Lawrence. Vital funding was generated, enabling the organization to month of Av, wherein we are Olam through the telephone Kew Gardens Hills. continue its life-giving work. Above (L–R): Mr. Moish Lamm, Rabbi Tzvi See Page 54 Flaum, Mr. Lowinger, Rabbi Yaakov Bender, and Dr. Hylton Lightman. Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 12 CANDLE LIGHTING Feb. 19 – 5:16 PM Feb. 26 – 5:24 PM 2 February 19, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES February 19, 2010 3 FEATURES Around The Five Towns 39 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 Classified Ads 70 [email protected] [email protected] Daf Yomi Insights LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow 34 YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Sales Managers The Dish Elke Probkevitz 29 CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Editorial Assistant Five Towns Simcha SIDI BARON Jason Feingold 76 YAKOV SERLE Sales Representatives Health 60 SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor Insights On The Torah CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen, R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 36 Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Toby Klein Greenwald, Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz, Letters To The Editor 38 Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, Luach 7 Martin Mushell, Elke Probkevitz, Naomi Ross, Rachael Schindler, Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Rabbi Avi Shafran, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher, MindBiz Samuel Sokol Esther Mann, LMSW 31 DOV GORDON, ELISHEVA ELEFANT Staff Graphic Artists Mother’s Musings Phyllis J. Lubin 22 IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Staff Photographers Puzzle FRANKEL & CO. Yoni Glatt 81 Design & Production TALIYE CORLEY Real Estate Art Director Anessa V. Cohen 30 SARAH GREENBAUM Assistant Art Director That’s The Way It Is! The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- Hannah Reich Berman 33 paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or Travel 37 establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. 4 February 19, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES FROM THE EDITOR safe dealing with the religious, respecting Continued from Front Cover them and even placing them on a pedestal. In the age, however, of Barack Obama and J where. There are weaknesses on both Street—which really has its roots in the sides of this debate. For a long string of redefinition of reality known as the Oslo Israeli leaders, dating back to Ben Gurion, peace accords—it has become legitimate to the Orthodox Torah community in Israel move the furniture of reality around while was the group to look to for spiritual guid- attempting to redesign the whole house. ance on matters of religion as well as the That’s why a secular Jew like Ms. interface of religion and state in Israel. Livni—who, as foreign minister in the gov- At the same time, from the perspective ernment of the disgraced Ehud Olmert, Queen Vashti, it is suggested by the feminist revisionists, was the heroine who should be honored. of the Orthodox, especially in Israel, there routinely negotiated and offered part of may be a religious complacency that leads Jerusalem to her Arab counterparts—can many to the misguided belief that being lecture Porush, a lifelong devout Jew com- frum or Torah-observant means that mitted to the biblical ideals of Eretz Yisrael you’ve arrived at a safe and comfortable to not “take Judaism away from us.” If position in life. This too may be a wrong- nothing else, it’s ripping off a feature from headed approach, as most true Torah Jews the Palestinian playbook that depicts the know that this type of life does not toler- Arabs as being the real chosen people and ate complacency but rather demands con- the Jews the intruders and invaders in the tinued intellectual and spiritual growth. land promised to the Palestinian people. In Israel, some secular people, such as It is this theme that allows President Livni, get a feeling of being looked down Obama to call for an undivided Jerusalem upon from some high but very safe perch; while addressing an AIPAC conference, while some Orthodox people tend to and then qualifying that statement to look at the non-observant with an air of mean that he really does not want to see a superiority. For decades, secular political leaders felt Continued on Page 6 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES February 19, 2010 5 FROM THE EDITOR Continued from Page 5 barbed wire fence erected through the middle of the city. It’s this way of doing things that allows the J Street PAC to call itself “pro-Israel and pro-peace,” while working hard to under- mine the ability of the Jewish state to protect its rights to our ancient homeland. What Livni was doing the other day was taking a stab at turning the tables and casting the secularists who want Israel to be little more than a Hebrew- speaking Portugal into the new religious Jews and trying to turn the Torah Jews into the new sec- ularists who’ve long had enough of what they are not ashamed to call the burden of Israel and its Jewishness. Livni’s approach and the con- fidence she displayed in her posi- tion by verbally attacking Porush in public did not take place in a vacuum.
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