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Palmach hero in West Hempstead Page 5 Are traffi c accidents worse in America than in Israel? Page 16 How Yomaira became Yehudit: a simcha Page 12 Ask Aviva: How to survive an empty nest Page 18 THE JEWISH STAR VOL 9, NO 19 ■ MAY 14, 2010 / 1 SIVAN, 5770 WWW.THEJEWISHSTAR.COM Last stop Kosher Subway thrown under bus By Michael Orbach Some latter-day Biblical critics have sug- gested that Jews and deli may have been the 11th Commandment. Broad generalities aside, given the Jewish fondness for pastrami on club and its sandwich siblings, who would think that a kosher Subway franchise in a heavily Jewish neighborhood could be a bad Insiders still in, idea? Alas, reality is bitter. Two kosher versions of the national restaurant chain have failed in this region. A Subway on Ave. J in Mid- wood, blocks from the real subway, closed outsiders still angry months ago; the other, on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, shut last month. “A lot of that is related to our inability to Photo by Claudio Papapietro take advantage of the economies of scale,” Annette Balzano pulls the lever in the voting booth at Number 2 School as poll worker Kathy Bowlers looks on explained Les Winograd, a spokesman for during the Board of Education elections on Tuesday. Subway. Each restaurant is individually owned but franchisees tap into the collective buying power of 23,000 stores in the U.S., Incumbents By Michael Orbach promise to address the problems with the district said Winograd. That is of limited value to ko- and not to use yesterday’s answers to today’s sher stores. In a victory that showcased the sheer de- problems. We will make things better for every “With kosher locations we have to source win Lawrence mographic power of the Orthodox community, child in this community, no matter where they’re kosher products from suppliers that are in the residents of District 15 voted to keep three in- from.” region, and so they only might be providing school board cumbents on the school board. Solomon Blisko, The greatest disparity between voters oc- food for a very small number of locations,” David Sussman and Nahum Marcus each beat curred in the Number 2 School in Inwood. Blis- he said. “Also, for a kosher store to be operat- election by their respective opponents by more 1,200 votes. ko managed to get only 46 votes, compared to ing, it has to follow local rabbinical supervi- Blisko defeated challenger Jay Silverstein, Silverstein’s 1,132. The opposite occurred in the sion and go to a different supplier than one 1200 votes, 4,623 to 3,337; Sussman defeated Anne Reyes, Middle School, where Sussman pulled in 2,224 in another area.” 4,677 to 3,261; and Marcus outpolled Nicole Di compared to Reyes’ 303. The results were close Israeli-born Avi Paner, who bought the school budget Iorio, 4,633 to 3,290. The school budget also in Lawrence High School, but tilted to the in- Subway franchise on Central Avenue in No- passed by a large margin, 3,528 to 2,360. cumbents’ favor by an average of 50 votes. Voters vember and closed it in April, learned the passes “We want to thank the electorate for an over- favored the incumbents in the Number 6 School hard way. For his troubles, Paner blamed the whelming mandate,” Sussman told The Jewish on Church Avenue by an average of 1,000 votes Vaad HaKashrus of the Five Towns and Far Star at the Lawrence Middle School on Tues- and absentee ballots favored the challengers by day evening, the night of the election. “We all Continued on page 6 Continued on page 3 Shabbat Candlelighting: 7:46 p.m. Shabbat ends 8:52 p.m. 72 minute zman 9:17 p.m. Torah Reading Parashat Bamidbar Zman Kriat Shma 8:26 (Magen Avrohom) and 9:15 (GRA & Ba’al Tanya) Rosh Chodesh is Friday PERMIT NO 301 NO PERMIT 11530 GARDEN CITY, NY CITY, GARDEN US POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE US PRST STD PRST 373622 2 Inside The Jewish Star Classified Ads 26 Crossword 22 YOUR AD Editorial 20 THE JEWISH STAR THE JEWISH I’m Thinking 22 Kosher Bookworm 24 Letters to the Editor 20 On the Calendar 8-9 Only Simchas 23 Opinion 18-21 Parsha 10 Sports 23 would look great That’s Life 27 The Other Side of the Bench 19 May 14, 2010 1 SIVAN 5770 5770 1 SIVAN 2010 14, May How to reach us: Our offices at 2 Endo Blvd., Garden City, NY 11530 are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every weekday, with early closing as necessary on Erev Shabbat. 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You may offer longer submissions for inclusion [email protected] on our Opinion pages. Letters and Opinion articles must be in our or email 373619 office by noon Friday to be considered for publication the following week. They are subject to editing for length and clarity. 3 Insiders still in, outsiders still angry STAR THE JEWISH Continued from page 1 over 500 votes. The election was a far cry from last year’s race when board member Uri Kaufman, chal- 5770 1 SIVAN 2010 14, May lenged by Barry Ringelheim, held on to his seat by a mere 135 votes. Some observers felt that last year’s close result forced an im- proved turnout this year among Orthodox voters. Late Tuesday afternoon, a teenager hand- ed out fl iers for the incumbents at the Ce- darhurst train station. At the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, a placard was set up reminding people to vote, and a list of the voting locations was tied to the shul’s glass door. A shul member delivered an announce- ment after Shacharis on Tuesday morning reminding the congregants to vote. “If you don’t care about your own taxes, then care about everyone else’s,” he said. Yona Hamlet, an ophthalmologist who attended the service, said, “obviously the election is important to the Jewish commu- nity.” Hamlet said he was voting for the in- cumbents since “the candidates are far more even-handed.” “They consider the needs of the diverse community,” he continued. “They’re doing an excellent job. The other candidates want to get on to the board not to make it more even-handed but to shift if to the non-Ortho- dox as they’ve done in the past.” He said he was still undecided about the budget. “We’re not getting that much benefi t but I think I’ll vote for the budget,” he said. Eric Nussbaum, an endodontist with sev- eral offi ces around New York said that he was fi cers and the same thing when it comes to Photos by Claudio Papapietro voting for the incumbents and voting down community.