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That's where 85% physics and chemistry; areas of particular of our teens are.” interest to him. You’ve been encouraging was strikingly enthusiastic about everything the club discussed: There are 35,000 Jewish him to expand his horizons; taking him to teens in New York according to scientific competitions and lectures for years, Israel, Jewish continuity, holi- days and Shabbos. a Federation survey completed so you find his enthusiasm encouraging. in 2001. Six or seven thousand What about kashrut? Shabbat? Sure, it G_fkfYpD`Z_X\c FiYXZ_ But there was one catch: the girl wasn't Jewish. are in various Yeshiva day might be challeng- schools and seven thousand are ing for him to deal :_`c[i\e\eafp`e^k_\J`dZ_Xk9\`k?XËj_f\mXjgfejfi\[Yp:_XYX[f]k_\=`m\Kfnejfe When she inquired about :_fc?Xdf\[Xk:\[Xi_lijkGXib% becoming Jewish, Rabbi Light- already in the NCSY database, with religious but that leaves a observance over stone told her that while she troubling figure. the summer. But “We're still that’s what real life was welcome in the club, he missing half the is about, isn’t it? Jewish people,” But then your rabbi couldn't teach her more about Rabbi Light- confronts you with stone said. “I am a troubling statistic: Judaism unless ÉJ\ZlcXi Finding inspiration in her parents gave asked the ques- 25 percent of all tion many times Orthodox atten- explicit permis- i\j`[\ek`Xc sion, something of whether dees to the summer going to public Zfcc\^\gi\j\ek program drop their they expressly tantrums and tennis balls refused to do. schools is a frill Orthodoxy. Despite Xj\i`fljXe[ The girl was dejected and when there are Orthodox fami- your skepticism, Two local inventors bring products to market in a recession lies needing help. It is our oblig- the rabbi shows spent the following Christmas \m\edfikXc 9 P D @ : ? 8 < C F I 9 8 : ? socks to her outfit. Needless Wilder, a freelance break with her maternal grand- ation to reach out to these kids.” you the surveys to say, she had a fit. designer, designed the prod- And he believes that mis- [Xe^\ikffli and it’s true: one- parents. Seeing she was unhap- The economy may be “I looked around and uct and Mogelefsky, who sion is becoming more and quarter of all py, the girl's grandmother asked Z_`c[i\ejË slow but things are picking said, ‘Please don’t do this works in fashion, arranged to important. Orthodox camp why. She wanted to learn more up for two South Shore entre- here,’” Wilder recalled. have it produced in Taiwan. “Inside of each club, I am participants aban- about Judaism, the girl said, but n\cc$Y\`e^%É preneurs. But if necessity is the Last month GRiPPiES lucky if out of 50 kids, 15 kids don Orthodox couldn't since she wasn't Jewish. Two-and-a-half-years mother of invention, there won The National Parenting have both Jewish parents. The practice. “You don't have to convert,” ago, Corrie Wilder of Bell- may be no greater necessity Center’s Seal of Approval, fol- other half either has just a Jew- Would you her grandmother explained, more brought her daughter to than quieting a screaming lowing eight weeks of testing ish mother or a Jewish father. encourage your son “I'm Jewish and so are you.” a local gym where a strict two-year-old. Later, Wilder, by parents and kids that 15 years from now [only] five to go? It’s my article so I can say it: I would- Amid college fairs, SATs, rule required children to wear and fellow gym attendee found that not only do they kids will have both Jewish par- n’t. After spending so much time, effort, football games and parties, high socks with rubberized grips. Yelena Mogelefsky of Merrick work, but will also survive ents. Out of the other 35 only a blood, sweat, tears and money on conveying school presents kiruv (Jewish Her two-year-old daughter created GRiPPiES, no-slip multiple trips through the quarter will have Jewish moth- the importance of Jewish life to my children, outreach) professionals what is was wearing tights and a shapes that can be ironed on laundry. They are now sold in ers,” Lightstone predicts. “If we how could I risk it all on one summer — no perhaps their best opportunity twirly skirt and had no inter- to any piece of clothing, and over 850 Target stores across don't find these kids now, in the matter how enriching it may be? to reach unaffiliated Jewish stu- est in adding large white a line of no-slip tights. If you haven’t realized it by now, I’m not See FINDING, Page 6 dents, who otherwise might See SHRINKING, Page 9 writing about a summer program. No, I’m writing about attending secular college. In a fascinating symposium published in a special education issue of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah’s Meorot Journal, Rabbi Todd Berman writes about preparing stu- It takes a village (or one Rabbi Grossman) dents to thrive in non-Orthodox environ- ments, specifically secular colleges. His essay focuses on important ways to mitigate the The miracle of Migdal Ohr effects of the pressures to abandon religious 9 P D @ : ? 8 < C F I 9 8 : ? new wife picked up their young daugh- ter and got on a bus. See VIEW, Page 4 After witnessing the Six Day War, Once there, he saw poverty — Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, a sev- burned out homes, lines of beggars — Rabbi Reuven Spolter is Director of enth generation Yerushalmi (Jerusalem and he asked some elderly men who Admissions and an instructor of Jewish resident) figured there were enough were playing backgammon where he Studies at the Orot Israel College of Edu- chasidim in Meah Shearim. He asked could find the local shul or yeshiva. cation in Elkana, Israel. Before his aliyah the Israeli government what he could to They laughed at him and pointed to a in 2008, he served as the rabbi of the do help the young country, and where nearby disco. So, Rabbi Grossman, Young Israel of Oak Park in Oak Park, MI. was the worst possible place in Israel dressed in his customary black hat and G_fkfZflik\jpD`^[XcF_i This essay first appeared on his website where he could go to help. Migdal long black coat, went to the disco. IXYY`P`kqZ_Xb;fm`[>ifjjdXe www.spolter.net and is reprinted with Ha'Emek, he was told, a town to the "I was very naive," Rabbi Grossman c\X[jDX[`jfeJhlXi\>Xi[\e`e permission. south of Haifa. 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What is tolerated esteem by this or A Broadway producer ished Adam and Eve from total objectivity. It was the Tree of today, what is ratio- that institution.” For couldn’t have staged it bet- the Garden of Eden. Torah, the Tree of Mesorah; the Tree of nalized today, would the record, I’ve seen ter. There I stood in the Yes, a Hollywood set- the Word of G-d; of absolute faith; the never have been accept- woman abuse men middle of an apple orchard ting: two Jews trying to Tree of Ruach Hakodesh (divinely able in a world of objective almost as often as I’ve seen in Congers, New York pick- select the “proper apple” inspired vision). Had Adam and Eve truth and falsehood. Let me give you a men abuse women. But more often ing apples with my family. while avoiding the apples confined their dietary intake to its fruit, painful example from my daily work. than not, the man has a rabbi or an They give you a pole that falling around us. And then, without question, their entire A man abuses his wife? Rational- institution to hide behind, to feed his seemed five times my when? Days before we read lives would have been in the genre of ized by the man as, “She deserved it.” ego, to take his money. height and four times my the very Torah portion with “G-d decrees, man follows.” A woman tolerates his abuse? Rational- Shame on any such man, shame on weight. For every apple I the episode of a snake, two The Tree of Knowledge of Good ized by the woman as, “I must have any such shul or yeshiva: you are both picked that fell into the bag ;Xm`[J\`[\dXee trees and two adults who and Bad was the subjective tree. It was a deserved this.” I know whereof I speak; serving poison fruit. Men who abuse attached to the pole, five ignored specific instructions. tree whose fruit introduced subjectivity this is my line of work, and this is not their wives and children should be more whizzed by my head, falling to So what is the deal with these into man’s being — both good and bad. hyperbole. I’ve heard the husband justi- excommunicated, shunned by every the ground. What a racket. I’m con- trees? What was the Tree of Life? Why It was the tree of rationalization. It was fy the abuse, and I’ve heard the woman Jewish institution. Their money should vinced that after all of the “guests” leave were they allowed to eat from it? Why the tree that allowed man to disguise offer explanations as to why she not be taken. If your yeshiva must close the workers pick up the apples we inad- was it the center point of the garden? good in what was really bad. It signaled deserved it. A generation later, the son without their money, so be it. You are vertently knocked to the ground, saving What was the Tree of Knowledge of the downfall of man because that tree of that couple abuses his wife. Oh, aiding and abetting. Close your shul if them backbreaking work. Good and Bad? Is any knowledge allowed for the planting of seeds of that’s easy. Rationalized as, “That’s you have to. Close your yeshiva if you So I stood, pole in hand, trying to “bad”? Why were Adam and Eve for- doubt and suspicion between man and what I saw in my house!” have to. Take a poll of your members. avoid the wild swings of other amateur bidden to eat from it? If they couldn’t his fellow man, and man and G-d. I can almost understand the ratio- Ask the fine young men or women you migrant workers, and the barrage of eat from it, what was its purpose? Why No longer was there an empirical nalization of, “I was a victim, so now are educating. I am sure all of them falling apples. And who do I bump into do we read that portion of the Torah truth. Instead, excuses and rationaliza- I’m a tormentor.” But what I cannot in would tell you, “We don’t want to daven but the world-renowned lecturer, Rabbi immediately after Rosh Hashanah, Yom tion permeated man’s actions. Maybe any way accept is the rationalization of or learn in an institution funded by Jonathan Rietti. We stared at each Kippur and Succos? What is the practi- others could live a life like that, but not shuls and yeshivas that prop up, accept money from men who behave like that.” other holding the poles as if they were cal application for us today? Adam and Eve, not those created donations from, bestow honor upon It’s time to see the forest for the lances. We laid down our arms and In the few hundred words I have directly by G-d and not those who fol- and lick the bootstraps of men who trees. wished each other a good Yom Tov. left for this week, here goes. The Tree low G-d’s Torah today. refuse to pay child support, refuse to Then our conversation turned quickly of Life from which Adam and Eve could After drawing closer to G-d provide for their ex-wives pursuant to a David Seidemann is a partner with the to apples. Not just any apple, not just eat was placed precisely in the middle through fear on Rosh Hashanah and divorce agreement, and abuse their law firm of Seidemann & Mermelstein. any fruit, but the fruit of the forbidden of the garden. No one had better claim Yom Kippur, and through love on wives both before and after the divorce. He can be reached at (718) 692-1013 tree, the Tree of Knowledge of Good to its fruit, as it was equidistant from all Sukkos, Shmini Atzeres and Simchas I’ve heard it. I’ve seen the rabbis and at [email protected]. and Bad; that famous tree which ban- points in the garden. It represented Torah, the mood dissipates. We start to look the other way, enabling abusers to I ’ M T H I N K I N G Yitzhak Rabin, as military chief of member of Israel’s armed forces staff. Ron Arad has become an and the loss of life sustained by Israeli icon. the military in tracking and cap- The price that Israel is being turing those terrorists. It means Shalit’s freedom — at what price? asked to pay in order to bring reneging on a promise made to all back Gilad Shalit, one son to his Israelis. How far would you go to politically charged, flowed from her ears. blood on their hands. During parents, in order to return one sol- Families of terror victims save your child? and historically laden 23 new victims of ter- those same years Israeli parents dier to his nation, is astronomical- have begun to express their dissat- What rules would you break? decision. ror have since been have sent their sons and daugh- ly high. isfaction with a potential Shalit What deals would you make with The last time linked to the terrorists ters to serve in the Israel Defense Releasing the prisoners on deal. the devil? Israel was placed in released in that deal. Forces secure in the knowledge the current Hamas list means A deal means invalidating What happens when the this position was in The prisoners that their military would never releasing murderers directly the judicial process that put those “parent” is a country? What about 2006 when a bundle Hamas is asking for leave a soldier behind, would do responsible for the deaths of the terrorists in prison. This is not when the “child” is Gilad Shalit, of terrorists was now are terrorists — everything possible to seek the sons and daughters, the mothers parole, it is not early release for the Israeli soldier kidnapped by exchanged for the captured by Israeli return of their child, that in the and fathers, the grandmothers good behavior — this is granting Hamas in June of 2006 while on- bodies of three dead, soldiers, tried in worst case there would always be and grandfathers, the teachers them freedom. duty on the Israeli side of the captured Israeli sol- D`ZX_;%?Xcg\ie Israeli courts and con- a grave at which to mourn. and doctors and friends and play- Gaza border, the soldier who has diers and one live victed by Israeli The exceptions to that rule mates of other Israelis. It means Micah D. Halpern is a columnist become the international face of criminal. The terrorists most judges. have been few, mostly in cases releasing people responsible for and a social and political com- captivity, whose September 14th notably included Samir Kuntar, For years, the mantra of where the whereabouts of the sol- crippling, maiming, paralyzing, mentator. Read his latest book video, courtesy of his captors, can captured after brutally murdering Israeli governments — left, right dier was not known. The most scarring, destroying the lives and THUGS. He maintains The now be seen on YouTube? nearly an entire family, including and center — has been: we will notable exception is Ron Arad, left taking away the livelihoods of Micah Report at www.micah- Once again, Israel must a little girl he beat so badly with not negotiate with terrorists, we behind and captured by the other Israelis. 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G-d your brother?” G-d, in essence, something to Hevel, the specif- ©Cop said to Kayin, ‘Why are you so was saying, “Where is Hevel ic words are not necessary to furious? Why are you whom you have been calling be recorded. Most arguments depressed? 7. If you do good, ‘Brother?’ What happened to that take place between family Open 365 days a year will there not be special privi- that relationship?” members could probably be lege? And if you do not do Kli Yakar suggests Kayin avoided, and often begin over Monday through Friday 6 PM – 12 AM good, sin is crouching at the was really rebuking Hevel say- very petty things. Weekends & Holidays 12 PM – 12 AM door. It lusts after you, but you ing, “I am better than you. I We allow ourselves to get can dominate it. 8 Kayin said was the first to give an offering upset with family, and we to Hevel, his brother. Then, to G-d. You only brought an excuse behavior that would not when they happened to be in offering because you saw I had be tolerated anywhere else, the field, Kayin rose up against offered one.” thinking “It is my family mem- AGES: Hevel his brother, and killed Different midrashim sug- ber. Surely I will be forgiven INFANTS him. gest, as Rashi hints, that they and the incident will be forgot- Care It is important to never may have argued over a num- ten later. We love each other THROUGH trust a translation. Look up ber of things including: divi- anyway, no matter what.” AGE 21 these verses in their original sion of the world — as in real While members of our Hebrew if you want to get the estate versus tangible objects; community are not likely to most out of the following division of the worlds — who commit actual murder on ideas. will rule over this world versus account of disputes, verbal and WE SEE ALL OF OUR PATIENTS ON A WALK-IN BASIS In verse 8, the big question who will rule over the world to emotional fights can wage on NO APPOINTMENTS! is what did Kayin say to Hevel come; on whose land the Holy for weeks, months, years, his brother? The Torah does not Temple will one day be built; decades, and even across gen- say. Rashi makes our lives sim- something relating to Chava; erations. 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Kayin’s confession he felt more d’s “Why are you sad?” he We accept most major insurances. For a free fridge magnet e-mail us at [email protected] 314221 314506 / The Jewish Star October 16, 2009 Karate for keeps at the JCC of the Greater Five Towns Tryouts this Sunday for martial arts team bound for competition 9 P D 8 C B 8 < @ J < E 9 < I > petitions and compete and if we sey and Connecticut, according the founder and chief instructor don’t win we will train harder to Sheryl Wyszkowski, director of Shotokan Karate USA, a 7th Black Belt Alex Sternberg is and analyze why we didn’t win. of art and leisure at the JCC. Dan black belt from the USA coming to the Jewish Communi- I will produce winners.” Applicants will be divided into National Karate-do Federation, ty Center of the Greater Five The Jewish Community three teams: junior ages eight and member of the US Olympic Towns to lead a competitive Center of the Greater Five through 12, youth ages 13 Committee. He is also chairman karate class. And he’s not taking Towns will begin holding try- through 17 and senior ages 18 of the Karate Committee for any prisoners. outs for its first karate team this and up. Maccabi USA. From the 1960s “We will be training hard Sunday, October 18th. The goal Sternberg began his train- through the 1980s he competed on a regular basis; it will be is to field three competitive ing at age 12 and has been prac- nationally and internationally, challenging,” Sternberg teams to compete in tri-state ticing, teaching and coaching winning at nearly 90 meets. explained. “We will go to com- matches in New York, New Jer- karate for over 40 years. He is Sternberg left active competition and continued in karate as a coach for many US National teams in junior and senior World Championships, Pan American Championships and World and Pan-American Mac- cabiah Games. Sternberg is cur- rently an adjunct associate pro- fessor of sports science at Long Island University, and a clinical instructor at the department of 8pfle^8c\oJk\ieY\i^ c\]k [\dfejkiXk\jXdXik`XcXikjk\Z_e`hl\% Orthopedic Surgery and Reha- bilitation Medicine at Downstate patience and quit, Sternberg aspects of karate and my inter- Medical Center in Brooklyn. maintains, when karate is est coincided with business,” Sternberg approached “training for its own sake.” In Sternberg said. “I owned and Wyszkowski about beginning a contrast the JCC team will be a operated several karate schools. team before the summer. “competitive class.” Now I teach because I enjoy it “I thought it was a great Students should come will- and because I enjoy what it does idea,” said Wyszkowski. ing to work, said Sternberg. He for the children. Studies show J_Xc_\m\kXkJflk_EXjjXl?fjg`kXc Applicants aren’t required is looking for “normal, typical that physically fit children who AljkY\]fi\Jlbbfk#Dij%8e[i\XJZ_lcdXe c\]k Xe[Dij%:_Xe`JZ_nXikq Yfkkfdi`^_k XZZfdgXe`\[ to have prior training, but must children in the community who engage in sports on a regular 0k_^iX[\ij]ifdJ_Xc_\m\k?`^_JZ_ffc]fi>`icjkfm`j`kgXk`\ekjXkJflk_EXjjXl?fjg`kXc`e pass a physical fitness test. are not afraid to work hard.” basis do better in school. They FZ\Xej`[\%=fijfd\f]k_\jkl[\ekj`knXj clZb`cp k_\`i]`ijkk`d\m`j`k`e^_fjg`kXc`q\[`e[`m`[lXcj%Dij% Applicants should be serious Weight, Sternberg said, is not an have a better attention span, about the program, which JZ_nXikqËj_ljYXe[#IXYY`PXXbfmJZ_nXikq#`jXZ_XgcX`eXkk_\_fjg`kXc% issue. A child may have a good better behavior and better involves buying personal equip- athletic potential, he continued, school performance. It improves ment including two uniforms, and the course will “give chil- their health and their scholastic and twice weekly training ses- dren the challenge to work out and academic performance.” sions with professional coaches in a serious manner” and enter For more information or for and travel to competitions with- karate competitions “to give a no-fee tryout appointment, in the tri-state area, confidence and have a level of call the JCC at (516) 569-6733 “Apparently many kids in experience to draw upon.” extension 222. karate schools in the Five Towns “I spent probably 40 years don’t compete,” pointed out of my life teaching kids various Sternberg. Children tend to lose Wrap your home in classic elegance. 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Of the 5.2 mil- level of affiliation was among 859 Peninsula Blvd one to find.” lion, nearly 20% did not identify families with children of ele- Woodmere, NY 11598 High school is also a most themselves as Jews and had no mentary school age. crucial time for kiruv efforts connection to any Jewish orga- since it is the first time that indi- www.yiwoodmere.org www.oucommunity.org viduals can truly begin to make 314938 their own decisions. “I think the Torah is very clear that someone becomes an adult at age 12 or 13,” says Rabbi Steven Burg, international director for NCSY. “They start HOWARD KOPEL figuring out their place in the world and all the i mp o r t a n t for Legislator issues in life. Judaism has to be there to make them realize it is relevant to every- IXYY`8ip\_ thing they C`^_kjkfe\ have to go t hrough... These are the crucial years, it's a major pivotal time in a child's life; college is too late.” “It's a tough age, many peo- ple don't understand it,” says Rabbi Burg. “People find high school kids sometimes stubborn but they don't realize that when they [high school kids] are stub- born outside it's masking their uncertainty of where they're headed.” New York NCSY has a full- time staff of 15, plus 15 part- timers and 150 advisors. The organization offers weekly club meetings at local public schools, where students can come and MAKE NASSAU AFFORDABLE FOR WORKING FAMILIES & SENIORS schmooze for 25 to 40 minutes while enjoying free pizza. Offer- • Repeal the newly enacted 2.5% tax on all forms of home heating and electric ing clubs inside high schools is essential, Rabbi Lightstone explained, since most teens are FIX NASSAU’S ANNUAL PROPERTY REASSESSMENT SCHEME most comfortable in a familiar environment. • Reform the property reassessment scheme that’s costing taxpayers $150 million of tax NCSY also has a weekly 'latte and learning' sessions in a overpayments annually. After ten years in office, Howard’s opponent has failed to do this. local Starbucks where students • Guarantee easy access to Assessment Review process and prevent additional filing fees. are able to talk more in depth about specific Jewish issues like Howard will not accept the current Majority’s threat to put tax reduction firms out of business free will and life after death. Once a month NCSY runs a pro- which would prevent reductions of over-assessments gram called 'Friday Night Lights,' where students can come enjoy a free Shabbat din- IMPROVE NASSAU’S FISCAL OUTLOOK ner and lunch. Rabbi Lightstone became • Stop Nassau from spending more than its income. It’s simple: cut taxes and spending the regional director for Long Island NCSY in 2006. On his • Reverse the $150 million budget deficit and put Nassau back on solid financial footing watch, three public school clubs grew to 18, and the organiza- • Ensure Nassau County’s “rainy day fund” is never again depleted during good fiscal times tion went from having 100 kids at events to between 400 and 500; from sending two or three KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE & HELP THOSE IN NEED kids to Israel each year to send- ing close to 25. 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Each portion has between Bereishis is now tions on the Book of Rabbi Sacks’ volume is four and five essays on a spe- upon us, and with Genesis are works by titled, “Covenant and Conver- cific theme within the text of the return of the reg- two of the most sation: Genesis — The Book of the Chumash. It is how Rabbi ular Jewish calendar 8cXeAXp>\iY\i learned essayists of Beginnings” [Maggid Books Sacks links the events in the comes a spate of our sacred writings, and The Orthodox Union, bible text to historical events newly published Rabbi Sir Jonathan 2009]. Contained herein is a of world history that makes this commentary unique — events that were in some way linked thematically, or fore- shadowed by the biblical nar- rative. Some of these events deal with human cloning, econom- IXYY`J_cfdfI`jb`e IXYY`AfeXk_XeJXZbj ics and political theory, and personalities such as the Roman Emperor Constantine, mash. Russian intellectual Nikolai For the Berdyaev, Polish Jewish psy- younger set may I chologist and Holocaust mar- bring to your tyr Dr. Janusz Korczak and attention a new many classic rabbinic com- book titled “JPS mentators; even Shakespeare Illustrated Chil- makes a cameo appearance. I dren’s Bible” was particularly taken by a [Jewish Publica- citation by noted physicist and tions Society, defender of the Jewish reli- 2009], by the gious tradition, Dr. Gerald veteran writer Schroeder, with a take con- of Jewish folk- cerning the context of the cre- lore and ation story. Midrash, Dr. Rabbi Riskin’s work is Ellen Frankel, titled “Torah Lights, Bereshith: and illustrat- Confronting Life and Family” ed by artist [Maggid Books, 2009]. It is a Avi Katz. collection of traditional Divrei I n Torah — five to eight sermon- addition style essays for each parsha - to an that reflect, in an exquisite engag- modern cadence, an eloquent ing text commentary on the ancient a n d Biblical text. i l l u s t r a - Aside from classical com- tions, what particu- mentaries, Rabbi Riskin cites larly grabbed my contemporary commentators attention is like Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky, an eight- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, page essay Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, at the end of Dr. Nechama Leibowitz, and the book Rabbi Haim David Halevi, all titled, “Writ- of blessed memory. ing A Jewish Both seforim are the fore- C h i l d r e n ’ s runners of future volumes that Bible: An will encompass the entire Chu- Author’s Note- book.” In a can- dor uncommon for any writer, Frankel provides a justification for the manner in which this book is written in terms of diction, translation, editing, com- m e n t a r y , objectionable or adult materi- al and gender. Dr. Frankel’s forthright candor “The Essential Malbim,” the should not only to be appreci- other a long-awaited transla- ated by the readers and their tion of the near classic “Aleinu parents, but also serve as an L’shabeiach,” both published example for other authors and by Artscroll. their publishers, as a source of The recent translation of accountability for the rationale Rav Chaim of Volozhin’s that goes with their craft. If “Nefesh Hachaim” [Judaica more would follow Frankel’s Press, 2009] will be reviewed example, it would go a long within the context of Rabbi way toward improving the Norman Lamm’s classic study quality of American English- and analysis of this work language Jewish literature. titled, “Torah Lishmah.” First Two other recently issued published twenty years ago, commentaries on Genesis will, the work is still available from with G-d’s help, be featured in Ktav Publishers. forthcoming columns. One is More than math class; more than a test Touro’s Lander College password-protected website. for Men will inaugurate a Registration ends Nov. 15; mathematics competition for the final exam will be admin- yeshiva high school students istered Sunday, March 14, next year. 2010. 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