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GET’ GOING Briton? an Overview of the Growing Get Crisis by RABBI AVI B Y ESTHER SHAFRAN SCHONFELD, ESQ Celebrate more than four decades of community service with Sh’or Yoshuv Institute on December 5, 2009 $ See Page 64 1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 10 NO. 8 3 KISLEV 5770 ,usku, ,arp NOVEMBER 20, 2009 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK HIKIND: OBAMA IS OBSTACLE TO PEACE ‘Buycott’ Campaigns BY LARRY GORDON Samuel Sokol 28 MindBiz ONE MAN, TWO VOTES Esther Mann, LMSW 31 Harvey Schwartz, a tax lawyer New Guys On The Block and longtime Woodmere resi- Hannah Reich Berman 35 dent, made aliyah about two Mind/Body Connection years ago, after a long period of Rachael E. Schindler, MS 62 thought and deliberation over making the change. It quickly became clear that for Harvey, an What Is Zionism? P h o t Dr. Alex Grobman 73 intelligent and accomplished o B y H individual, this would not be e s h y just a change of address. R u b i n Harvey is the founder and s t e i prime moving force behind the n relatively new American Israeli NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D., Borough Park) on a solidarity mission in Israel this week laying the cornerstone at the dedication of the second Action Coalition. Affiliated with phase of development of the Nof Tzion neighborhood in Jerusalem. President Obama has referred to construction in this area of the capital Continued on Page 5 Harvey Schwartz city as being unhelpful to the peace process. See Page 60 Letters to the Editor HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE JNF Defends Its Land of Jordan, the United Nations Standing Before Heroes Dear Editor, confiscated a large parcel of Cantor Helfgott at Park East. The claims printed in your land in northern Jerusalem, See Page 56 BY LARRY GORDON front-page article “This Land Is owned by JNF, and built the Our Land” in the November 13 Kalandia Refugee Camp on the Just two days after last year’s issue, regarding JNF, require a land. JNF had no ability to stop international conference of response. Mr. Arieh King of the this illegal confiscation by the sh’lichim — emissaries of Israel Land Fund is quoted as UN and subsequent construc- Chabad-Lubavitch around the the source for the claim that the tion, and never accepted this globe — the world was stunned Jewish National Fund “has seizure of its land. by the brutal murder in allowed Arab homes to be ille- In 1967, after the Six Day War, Mumbai, India of two sh’lichim, gally constructed on land when Israel asserted control Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, of owned by JNF.” over this property, JNF went to blessed memory. Just as stun- This is total misrepresenta- the Israeli courts and sought to ning was the unceremonious tion of the facts. In 1948, when evict the residents of the Kalan- fashion in which their then two- many parcels of land owned by the JNF fell under the control Continued on Page 20 Continued on Page 12 Gabi and Rivka Holzberg, z’l 9/11 Jerusalem dedication. See Page 24 Kulanu Meets The Mayor Who Is A ‘GET’ GOING Briton? An Overview Of The Growing Get Crisis BY RABBI AVI B Y ESTHER SHAFRAN SCHONFELD, ESQ. To the delight of Jew-haters When a man divorces his first everywhere, a British court has wife, even the Altar sheds tears. in effect deemed Judaism a — Gittin 90b racist religion. As a result, the From the perspective of blogosphere swarmed with Jewish law, marriage is a con- invective about how the Jews tractual relationship between a Happy 105th. had been exposed as imposing, husband and a wife. It is nei- See Page 37 in the words of one jolly blog- ther a creature of the State nor ger, an “ethnic purity test.” a mandate of the rabbinate. A What happened is that the Jewish divorce is the termina- CANDLE LIGHTING parents of a boy whose father is tion of the contractual rela- Nov. 20 – 4:15 PM Students of Kulanu Torah Academy met recently with Cedarhurst Mayor Jewish but whose mother tionship between a husband Nov. 27 – 4:11 PM Andrew Parise to make some suggestions about improved traffic safety near the new Kulanu school building. See Page 57 Continued on Page 19 Continued on Page 16 COLOR 2 November 20, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 20, 2009 3 4 November 20, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES FROM THE EDITOR Continued from Front Cover the National Council of Young Israel, over the coming months and years the AIAC can quite possibly play a leading role in the direction that U.S.–Israel relations will ultimately go. The AIAC is doing many things to help elucidate issues that affect the vital interna- tional relations between the two countries. What is espe- cially making elected officials here in the states take a second look is the group’s work over the last year to rally Americans living in Israel to vote in U.S. elections in which they are legally entitled to participate. “Today there are 250,000 American citizens living in Israel, many with dual citizen- ship,” Mr. Schwartz says. “That means they are allowed to par- ticipate in the electoral process in both Israel and the U.S.” As one can easily surmise, people who pick up and make the move to Israel are usually cit- izens who are politically savvy and up on the issues of the day. It’s a group with immense potential for wielding political power in U.S. elections on multi- ple levels. Last year, in the U.S. presidential election, AIAC was instrumental in facilitating and encouraging over 5,000 American citizens residing in Israel to cast their votes by absentee ballot. If you can recall the very close election in 2000 between George Bush and Al Gore (in which a winner was proclaimed by Supreme Court decision), then you can share the vision of the role this unique organization can play in the future of Israel–U.S. relations. Combine the work of this new group with the fact that Barack Obama has a 6% favor- able rating in Israeli public-opin- ion polls, and we may be look- ing at a formidable electoral force residing in Israel, almost 6,000 miles away. Look ahead less than two years from now, and it’s not impossible that a scenario unfolds where Mr. Obama—in a close election— would have to make Jerusalem a campaign stop. “For us right now, the impor- tant matter is keeping the issues visible that affect all of us,” said Mr. Schwartz. He added that the effort to marshal the group into a political force will be method- ical and will gain momentum as time elapses. Mr. Schwartz was in Washington, DC last week with the Jerusalem Conference, where he shared some of his group’s work with a number of congressmen and senators. Mr. Schwartz recalled in par- ticular a meeting with Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, to whom he Continued on Page 10 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 20, 2009 5 6 November 20, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 20, 2009 7 FEATURES Around The Five Towns 37 P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 516-984-0079 [email protected] Aliyah Chronicle [email protected] Shmuel Katz 58 LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Classified Ads 70 YOSSI GORDON, YOCHANAN GORDON Sales Managers The Dish CHANA ROCHEL ROSS Elke Probkevitz 32 Editorial Assistant SIDI BARON Insights On The Torah YAKOV SERLE R’ Ben Tzion Shafier 41 Sales Representatives SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC The Legendary . Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor . Danny O’Doul 26 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen, Luach 21 Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg, Toby Klein Greenwald, Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Miriam Horowitz, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Shmuel Katz, MindBiz Phyllis J. Lubin, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller, Esther Mann, LMSW 31 Martin Mushell, Elke Probkevitz, Naomi Ross, Rachael Schindler, Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Mother’s Musings Rabbi Avi Shafran, Eli Shapiro, Ari Sher Phyllis J. Lubin 22 DOV GORDON, ELISHEVA ELEFANT Staff Graphic Artists Puzzle (Solution) IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS Yoni Glatt 67 Staff Photographers FRANKEL & CO. Real Estate Design & Production Anessa V. Cohen 42 TALIYE CORLEY Art Director Strategies For Success SARAH GREENBAUM Kenneth J. Levin, LCSW 66 Assistant Art Director The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- 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 Hannah Reich Berman 35 responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. Travel 35-37 8 November 20, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 20, 2009 9 FROM THE EDITOR exercising the political likes or prefer- vision of a left-leaning liberal America seri- income in taxes to the two jurisdictions. Continued from Page 5 ences of the AIAC organization. It is sim- ously hampered were he to lose the very The tax rate for above-average-income ply the democratic process on display in wide margin that he now enjoys in earners in the U.S. is in the 35% range, expressed concern about issues such as its purest form. No matter who the elect- Congress. (Although one would have while Israelis are customarily taxed at a Jerusalem and the danger of Palestinian ed official is today, and regardless of the thought that, operating with the 50% rate. There are numerous tax benefits statehood. “Congressman Smith asked level of service, he or she is always watch- Democratic majorities he currently possess- for new olim, including a tax exemption me why these issues were never present- ing the polls, trying to see how the people es, effectuating his new vision of America’s for the first ten years on income (including ed in the fashion that we presented them feel about issues and which way the future would be a simple process.
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