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The 5 Towns Jewish Times Online @ See Page 100 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 9 NO. 25 2 NISAN 5769 trehu ,arp MARCH 27, 2009 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK CELEBRATING 14 YEARS OF BBY We Have Our Own BY LARRY GORDON Hannah Reich Berman 32 MindBiz Sheloshim For Levi Esther Mann, LMSW 39 They are unusually inspiring Daf Yomi Insights people. I’m sitting with Rabbi Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow 75 Zalman and Mrs. Chanie Wolowik just 22 days after R’ Yehudah’s Simanim their nine-year-old son, Levi PhotoByIvanH.Norman Rabbi Chaim Cohen 76 Yitzchok, a’h, suddenly and inexplicably passed away. This The ‘New Kashrus’ coming Monday night, the Rabbi Avi Shafran 80 Five Towns and Far Rockaway communities, and indeed Bnos Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Far Rockaway marked its 14th Jewish communities far and anniversary with a tribute dinner held last Sunday night at Ateres Nechama Liba Simcha Hall. Parents, supporters of the yeshiva, and families of the wide around the world, will be guests of honor were amongst the many hundreds in attendence. Above (L–R): Rabbi Shmuel Hiller, dean; NYC Councilman James Sanders; Continued on Page 10 and Mr. Laurence Garber, dinner coordinator. See Story, Page 66 THANK YOU, MK ROTEM HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Our Aliyah Chronicle, Part 111 gain some insight into their A Beacon Of Torah B Y SHMUEL KA TZ perception of Israeli life. Horowitz-Gruenstein Each year, we try to sched- BY LARRY GORDON Wedding. I had a unique experience ule a meeting with members See Page 89 last week. As part of our cur- of the Knesset, but for vari- The bright light of Torah riculum, the yeshiva normally ous reasons we had been scholarship emanates from spends a day touring both the unable to coordinate a per- Rabbi Tzvi Flaum in a multi- Knesset and the Supreme sonal visit in prior years. This plicity of directions. Since Court buildings, learning year, Rav Yehuda Susman, retiring from his position as about Israel’s governmental our rosh yeshiva, spoke to the rabbi of Congregation Kneseth process and legal system. “candyman” in his shul in Israel—the White Shul—in After the first couple of Efrat, who is also known as Far Rockaway last year, he has times, the novelty of the tour MK David Rotem of the redoubled the number of shi- has run out—but it is inter- Yisrael Beteinu party and is a urim and scholarly lectures he esting to hear the questions posed by our students and Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 26 Rabbi Tzvi Flaum Madraigos breakfast this Sunday. The Mitzvah Of Matzah PLEASE See Page 66 How Much Wine And REMIND ME Matzah? Another Mother’s Musings BY PHYLLIS J. B Y RABBI YAIR LUBIN HOFFMAN Organization has never It was a scientific experi- been my forte. Planning ment conducted in the 1700s ahead certainly never works that would shake the world. It for me. I have always been a had to do with eggs. It had to person who “lives on the Purim with the do with average thumb edge.” I’m always in a Nikolsburger Rebbe. widths. And its ramifications quandary, thinking perhaps I See Page 94 reverberated at Passover have forgotten something. Seders across the world. I try to compensate. Every CANDLE LIGHTING Thumb sizes are significant now and then I try to reinvent Rabbi Naftali Jaeger, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv, baking matzahs March 27 – 6:56 PM with the staff of Tiferes Matzah in Lawrence. Bakeries have been packaging in numerous ways. A recent myself: I make lists of things I April 3 – 7:03 PM matzahs since Chanukah, but many customers seek to enhance the mitzvah by baking their own Passover matzahs as the holiday approaches. Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 12 2 March 27, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES March 27, 2009 3 4 March 27, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES March 27, 2009 5 6 March 27, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES March 27, 2009 7 8 March 27, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES March 27, 2009 9 FROM THE EDITOR mission of what to do next and to make FEATURES Continued from Front Cover sure their son’s life will be a catalyst for good in this and other communities marking the sheloshim, the end of the around the globe. Around The Five Towns 52 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 30-day period since Levi’s passing. Chanie brings books of letters to 516-984-0079 “The house feels empty without the table. The thick, plastic-covered [email protected] Ask The Sensei [email protected] Levi,” says Chanie. “He was my side- pages chronicle fresh memories of kick and went almost everywhere and Levi and the kind of young man he Warren Levi 55 LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON did everything with Zalman,” she said. was—his extraordinary, sensitive Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Book Review YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Their older son, Mendel, is away Sales Managers attending Yeshiva in Detroit and the Fern Sidman 88 CHANA ROCHEL ROSS next boy is seven years old, she Editorial Assistant explains, so just when they had started They seem to boldly Classified Ads 90 SIDI BARON to have another big boy around the YAKOV SERLE house they are now once again, she Daf Yomi Insights JERRY MARKOVITZ feels, dealing almost exclusively with resist the natural Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow 75 Sales Representatives little kids. SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC As Chabad sh’lichim in the Five desire to ask why or Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor Towns, the Wolowiks are natural Five Towns Simcha CONTRIBUTING EDITORS born leaders. Still, however, they are Ivan H Norman 89 Irwin H. Benjamin, Hannah Reich Berman probe where there Anessa V. Cohen, Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg first and foremost parents, who are Toby Klein Greenwald, Michele Herenstein raising a beautiful family and who Insights On The Torah Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz raised a remarkable young man who are no answers. Rabbi Yanki Tauber 60 Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky left us for reasons that are far beyond Shmuel Katz, Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah 46 Rochelle Miller, Martin Mushell, Naomi Ross our comprehension but certainly way too soon. Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher Letters To The Editor 50 MICHAL WEINSTEIN, BINYAMIN RHODES “I don’t know how I am function- nature as well as the deep and abiding DOV GORDON ing,” says Reb Zalman. “I feel like my kindness he displayed to classmates Staff Graphic Artists physical strength is gone, but at the and others, either in yeshiva or in his Luach 26 IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS same time I’m working longer hours parents’ shul at Chabad of the Five Staff Photographers each day and doing more than I did Towns. The books also feature e-mails MindBiz FRANKEL & CO. before.” The passing of young Levi from friends and family stationed Esther Mann, LMSW 39 Design & Production Wolowik almost a month ago left a around the world as emissaries of the TALIYE CORLEY community stunned and gasping for its Lubavitcher Rebbe. They are out Real Estate Art Director breath. No one understands why there living in the larger metropolises SARAH GREENBAUM Zalman and Chanie were selected for as well as the hinterlands because the Anessa V. Cohen 38 Assistant Art Director this most trying Divine test, but they Rebbe adopted as his mission to be The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- seem to boldly resist the natural desire there for other Jews, who are often That’s The Way It Is! paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not to ask why or probe where there are no disconnected from Judaism. Who was Hannah Reich Berman 32 responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or answers or any level of understanding. establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. Instead they are occupied with the Continued on Page 22 10 March 27, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES March 27, 2009 11 Mother’s Musings keep a handle on the dif- little dazed. brother. 8:15. Continued from Front Cover ferent schedules of every “I think it’s almost 8.” I “Well in that case, put him “H e l l o … I’m sooo person in my family— tend to exaggerate time. on!” To talk to Yussie she tired…” She still sounds have to do; I e-mail myself except, of course, Yussie’s “What? I’m sooo tired.” perks up. I put the phone on sleepy. reminders; I leave phone mes- since he reminds me of his “But don’t you have an 8:30 speaker so we can all con- “But you were already up, sages on my voice mail at schedule constantly. So you class today?” verse. so I figured I could call you work. And despite all my self- really can’t blame me when I “No…it’s Tuesday…Mon- “‘ello, what ya doing?” back.” I thought that was log- reminders, my usual daily give my Binghamton Uni- days and Wednesdays I have Yussie’s favorite opening line. ical. morning e-mail to my hus- versity daughter a buzz at 8:30 classes. I’ve told you “I’m talking to you, buddy!” “Was there anything you band is, “Was there something needed to tell me right now?” important I was supposed to I note a tad of disdain in her do today?” (This way I can try voice.
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