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See Pages 3, 4 & 5 SeeSee Page XX $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 11 NO. 14 10 TEVES 5771 hjhu ,arp DECEMBER 17, 2010 INSIDE DINNER ON ISRAEL’S FRONTLINE Communication FROM THE Dvorah Levy, LCSW 23 EDITOR Weight Botchers BY LARRY GORDON Pam Moritz 39 We were all there to assert Barons And Bankers and demonstrate our support Miriam Handler 47 for an issue that should be near Truth About Transplants and dear to all of us. That is the Leon Zacharowicz, MD 67 right of Jews in Israel to settle and live throughout the land of Terror Cells In Jerusalem the Jewish people without dis- Samuel Sokol 70 crimination. As we know, there PhotoByEliBlachman was an attempt earlier this year to hammer home as acceptable the idea that there needs to be one set of rules for Jews in On the fifth night of Chanukah (December 5), over 1,500 supporters of the Israeli community of Bet El gathered at the New York Marriott Marquis. L–R: MK Yaakov Katz, Jean Gluck, Governor Mike Huckabee, and Eugen Gluck. Continued on Page 13 ACHEINU BEIS YISRAEL HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE An Evening For Reb Sholom was translated into Yevanis, into Midwinter Dilemma Mordechai Rubashkin the Greek language. BY RAV ARYEH Z. The Gemara explains that BY LARRY GORDON than the things kids would like Ray-Gordon wedding. GINZBERG Talmai HaMelech placed 72 today. For me, as I can recall, the See Page 50 CHOFETZ CHAIM TORAH CENTER sages into 72 separate rooms Only over the last few years thing I yearned for most was to and asked each of them to have I come to realize that when be off on Sundays. That really The Talmud tells us that on translate the Torah into Greek; I was in yeshiva, in the 1960s and never happened. the eighth day of Teves, a terrible and, through a special miracle, early ’70s, the system was tap- Perhaps what motivated me event happened that warranted a neis, all of them made exact- ping around trying to find its most in that direction was that Chazal’s establishing that day as ly the same variations from a way and figure out the proper I had neighbors who were off a national fast day. The event literal translation. way to function. I now realize on Sunday, and my sister and that is remembered on that day that the things I wanted then as in infamy was that the Torah Continued on Page 20 a kid are not that much different Continued on Page 16 The Orlando Magic The Past In THE CASE OF THE WIG: The Present NOT CUT-AND-DRIED Mayor Cory Booker at YU. BY RABBI AVI SHAFRAN BY RABBI YAIR HOFFMAN See Page 48 Several years ago,I made a Many people are already quick trip to my hometown, familiar with the case of a recent Baltimore, to crash a party. appearance of a religious Jewish It was a celebration hosted by couple, “Heidi and Mendi,” on my brother, a rebbe, or “Talmud/ The People’s Court in a case ethics/philosophy teacher and involving a Georgie wig that was counselor” in Ner Israel Rabbin- erroneously washed by workers The Ohr Meir Foundation took 48 young cancer patients from across the ical College’s high school divi- at a laundry service. The People’s United States and Canada on a four-day dream trip to Orlando. See Page 58 Continued on Page 12 Continued on Page 17 Chanukah at Woodmere Rehab. See Page 50 CANDLE LIGHTING Dec. 17 – 4:11 PM Dec. 24 – 4:14 PM P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 [email protected] [email protected] LARRY GORDON ESTA J. 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Hannah Reich Berman 32 Tidbits From Israel Ron Jager 74 Travel 54, 68 2 December 17, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES December 17, 2010 3 4 December 17, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES December 17, 2010 5 6 December 17, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES December 17, 2010 7 8 December 17, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES December 17, 2010 9 10 December 17, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES December 17, 2010 11 Past In The Present which he was completing his course of But he couldn’t have known that then, told by a passenger that, due to the war, all Continued from Front Cover study, I pictured my father as a 14-year- and he was determined. the yeshivos in that city had relocated to old, when Germany invaded Poland and At the siyum, my brother recited the Vilna. When the train arrived in Bialystok sion. After many years’ effort, he was he and his family, along with the rest of special prayer traditionally offered at the boy asked how to get to Vilna. marking his completion of the study of the residents of his shtetl, fled before the such celebrations, putting “the Talmud” “Someone comes over to me and says . .. the entire Babylonian Talmud. advancing Germans. where the name of a single tractate there is a train that goes to Vilna. I said I A small group of local relatives and He experienced some hair-raising would normally go. And I remembered, have no ticket. He said don’t worry about a esteemed rabbis were present; my brother moments during that flight, including the incongruously, how my father at 14, when ticket—go! People were hanging from the (whom I taught everything he knows— murder of his uncle by German soldiers he said his final goodbye to his parents, doors . I’m standing there . probably about hitting a baseball) had purposefully who overcame the refugees, and being had never before been on a train. crying . something was telling me ‘you not informed me of his accomplishment or must get onto the train.’ And all of a sud- its celebration; he hadn’t wanted me to den I see the train moving . so I grabbed make the 200-plus-mile trip to join him. But the handle of the steps—people were I was tipped off by his wife, who thought, Sixty-seven years earlier, carrying his standing on the steps and I couldn’t get on correctly, that I wouldn’t have wanted to the steps . as the train started to move miss so festive an event in honor of so mag- faster and faster, people pushed them- nificent an accomplishment. apples, his phylacteries, and a prayer- selves in and I got between two cars . .” It was a wonderful experience, not I, too, am proud of my brother’s accom- only because I was able to participate in book, he boarded a train to Bialystok. plishment. He and his wife—whose own the event itself—the meal served in cele- commitment and assistance made his bration of a siyum , or “completion cere- achievement possible—deserve tremen- mony,” is considered religiously signifi- dous credit for the thousands of hours of cant—but because I was able to break packed, along with the rest of the towns- “I [had] promised [myself] that I would hard work and sacrifice that underlie it. bread with my father, stepmother, broth- folk, into a synagogue that was then set go to Bialystok and something was telling But at the siyum I couldn’t help but think er, sons (students in Ner Israel), sister-in- ablaze. (The people were released at the me—maybe it was because I was stub- a thought that I know they would agree law and her parents and siblings, to last moment, through the intercession of born—I said I am going to yeshiva and with, a thought that has occurred to me whom I feel very close as well. a passing German general—who the vil- I’m going to go.” countless times about my own life. I found myself thinking about my lagers suspected had been Eliyahu Those gathered at the siyum offered All of us surely play a major role in father’s experiences as a youth in Poland HaNavi in disguise.) Nevertheless, once my brother their hearty congratulations whatever we may achieve. But in the end at the outbreak of World War II.