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The 5 Towns Jewish Times! $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM HAPPY THANKSGIVING! VOL. 8 NO. 10 13 KISLEV 5768 jkahu ,arp NOVEMBER 23, 2007 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK LIFE SAVING CEREMONY A Sh’or Yoshuv Legacy BY LARRY GORDON Leah Goldman 20 Silly Studies Peaceful Musings Hannah Reich Berman 26 It’s not as if new people they espouse today. Cellular Bondage with new philosophies have They had a change of heart Doni Joszef 35 come on the scene in Israel or a complete mental make- and brought with them a new over; something just happened MindBiz way of thinking. The people to them that made them not Esther Mann, LMSW 36 doing the thinking and mak- just see everything differently ing the policies that call for but adopt opinions and politi- Tiferes Matzah In a ceremony in Beitar this week, 20 volunteers of Hatzolah Israel received 58 Israel to shrink itself and cal formulas that directly con- official certificates as volunteers of the fire department. They successfully make itself vulnerable to its travene positions they previ- completed a special course given by Mr. Shai Turgeman, in which they were enemies are the same individ- ously held. trained how to deal both with fires and evacuation of trapped people. Also uals who fought with all their In Israel, even though present, in addition to the graduates, was the mayor of Beitar, Reb Meir Rubenstein; his assistants Reb Shlomo Sharabi and Reb Akiva Ovitz; the might and were once dedicat- those on the right usually pre- head of Hatzolah Israel, Reb Duki Greenwald; the general manager, Reb ed to policies that are the Chaim Fridman; officers of the government’s fire department; and the officer exact opposite of those that Continued on Page 6 of the Beitar station, Mr. Shai Turgeman. and Zichron Moshe neighbor- HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE POSTERS hoods are inundated and plas- tered with signs. The subjects depicted on the posters are as Getting The Business A STORY BY varied as they are many. Each IRWIN H. BENJAMIN sign advocates his or their BY LARRY GORDON not open to the public. point of view, depending on It’s not a secret society that Mosholu Rebbe in 5T’s Part 1 the issue. The differing points It’s very early on a is convening here, but rather a next week. See Page 66 Forbidden from reading of view cover an enormous Wednesday morning. There is group of men and women who secular papers, surfing the range of subjects, ideas, and, parking aplenty on Central live and work in and around Internet, watching television, most importantly, differing Avenue in Cedarhurst. the Five Towns who get togeth- or even listening to the radio, religious opinions because, Breakfast is already set up to er at about 7:00 a.m. every news-deprived Yerushalmi after all, these are intensely accommodate around 40 peo- other week to hear presenta- chareidim are relegated to religious neighborhoods, and ple, though the organizers tions on each other’s business- only one source of news. matters of religion are careful- really don’t know how many es and business experiences Posters. Flat or round, large ly watched, monitored, and will show up at any given and to share trends and leads or small, any and every avail- followed with great interest. meeting. I cannot disclose the that can result in new business able surface is game. The Mea precise location of the meet- Shearim, Geula, Bais Yisrael, Continued on Page 14 ing, because the meetings are Continued on Page 8 Eitan Wertheimer at JCT ATrue Chesed Jewish Poverty A DEBT luncheon. See Page 50 In America ELIMINATION B Y RUTH SINAI PLAN Every day at 6:00 p.m., 72 Jews come to the Ezra Center B Y BEN NATHAN in Chicago’s Uptown neigh- borhood. They come to eat The Torah uses the word dinner. Although the meal is “neshech,” whose root mean- provided by a respectable ing is “to bite,” to describe the caterer and served in a place concept of interest on debt. called Uptown Café, this is The commentators explain Fridays at Shuvu. unmistakably a soup kitchen. that, like a snake bite, which See Page 49 Many of the diners are elderly starts with a small wound and immigrants from the former quickly inflames the whole Soviet Union. Others are body, the financial impact of CANDLE LIGHTING homeless people living in the interest debt is not so notice- Nov. 23 – 4:13 PM Jewish community center’s able at first but accumulates Nov. 30 – 4:10 PM SKA students volunteer on a Hebrew Free Burial Society project. See Page 52 Continued on Page 11 Continued on Page 9 2 November 23, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 23, 2007 3 4 November 23, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES November 23, 2007 5 FROM THE EDITOR staunch right-leaning Likud member, FEATURES Continued from Front Cover who articulately expressed his total and unmitigated opposition to ever Aliyah Chronicle ferred a leader with a rightist orienta- entertaining the possibility of dividing P.O. BOX 690 LAWRENCE, NY 11559 Shmuel Katz 19 tion, in the aftermath of the so-called Jerusalem. Now we are led to believe 516-984-0079 first Camp David Accords attended that his thinking, and that of his col- [email protected] [email protected] Around The Five Towns 46 by Menachem Begin and Anwar leagues, has changed. On closer exam- Sadat of Egypt, under the tutelage of ination it is in fact true that what he LARRY GORDON ESTA J. GORDON Publisher/Editor Managing Editor Book Review President Jimmy Carter, it rapidly says represents a change in position. Ari Sher 32 YOSSI GORDON became clear that the right would be But what does he really mean when he Director of Sales Classified Ads 80 better off with a center-left personal- says that Israel does not need the total- CHANA ROCHEL ROSS ity in office. There was just some- ly Arab-populated cities that are Editorial Assistant Cooking Concepts thing about the background of a cer- attached to Jerusalem? SIDI BARON Naomi Ross 24 tain non-extreme type of rightist that Does he genuinely feel that YAKOV SERLE caused many of them to be more flex- Palestinian negotiators who cannot JERRY MARKOVITZ Five Towns Simcha ible in negotiations than other types accept the concept of Israel as a Sales Representatives 42,72,84 of Israeli leaders. Jewish state will have their thirst for all SHMUEL GERBER MICHELE JUSTIC The late Yitzchak Rabin sacrificed of Israel quenched by the offer to con- Chief Copy Editor Copy Editor Hock Of The Rock his ethics as well as his life so as to solidate a few beat-up, poverty-strick- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Eli Shapiro 68 enter a peace agreement that even he en towns on the outskirts of Howard M. Adelsberg, Irwin H. Benjamin didn’t believe in. He was once famous Yerushalayim, call them by the name Hannah Reich Berman, Anessa V. Cohen Insights On The Torah for saying during one of the intifadas Jerusalem, and have it become the Danny Block, Rabbi Aryeh Z. Ginzberg Rabbi Yanki Tauber 40 Yochanan Gordon, Michele Herenstein (when he was Defense Minister) that capital city of Palestine? Rabbi Yair Hoffman, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky the only way to deal with Palestinian At the same time, for some myste- Shmuel Katz, Esther Mann, Rochelle Miller Letters To The Editor 44 Rabbi Yoni Posnick, Naomi Ross rioters is to “use force and break rious reason, it is important to some Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow, Eli Shapiro Luach 13 bones.” At the time he was chastised Israelis that the Palestinians recog- MICHAL WEINSTEIN, ROB FILONUK by the world media for advocating the nize the Jewish character of Israel. Staff Graphic Artists MindBiz punishment of people who were said This just won’t wash on the radical Esther Mann, LMSW 36 IVAN NORMAN, IRA THOMAS to be guilty only of demonstrating Palestinian street that democratically Staff Photographers An Ounce Of Prevention their right to their version of freedom voted Hamas into office in 2005 by a and independence. Later in his polit- significant majority. As a result, PA FRANKEL & CO., CREATIVE DESIGN LLC Rochelle Miller 28 Design & Production ical career, Rabin apparently changed head negotiator Saeb Erekat said last TALIYE CORLEY Quick & Kosher his mind and ways and came to week that he doesn’t understand the Art Director Jaime Geller 62 believe that talks and negotiations Israelis. He says they are trying to SUZETTE LEE were the only way to go. poke a finger in the Palestinian col- Assistant Art Director Real Estate YouTube and other outlets on the lective eye so as to throw a wrench The Five Towns Jewish Times is an independent weekly news- Anessa V. Cohen 45 Internet are replete with videos of into peace proceedings. Erekat said paper. Opinions expressed by writers and columnists are not other former right-leaning politicos that the Palestinians will recognize necessarily those of the editor or publisher. We are not That’s The Way It Is! responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or who have done complete turnarounds Israel and that should be enough. establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. Hannah Reich Berman 26 in their thinking. Chief among those is The Israelis can call their a younger Ehud Olmert, once a Palestinian-recognized state anything 6 November 23, 2007 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES they want. If they want to call it a is a complete cessation of violence Jewish state they can do that.
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