Week of February 12-19, 2016 • 2-10 Adar 1, 5776 Vol. 9 • Issue 11 FLAKEY JAKE presents 38 PASSOVER 2016 PAGE3 PAGE 19 PESACH CELEBRATION 2016 37 YOUNG MEN WITH NO YESHIVA AGUDAS YISROEL OF STATEN ISLAND HOSTED THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED HANACHA K’HALACHA TEFILLIN PROGRAM (ALSO KNOWN AS THE TEFILLIN AWARENESS PROJECT). FLOCK TO YESHIVAS MEISHEV NEFESH AS 3RD YEAR BEGINS should properly be seen as an- BDS after the Boycott ti-discrimination measures, and 38 BEN COHEN welcomed on those grounds. No against its adoption. 2016 may well be remembered U.S. state should contract with These anti-boycott bills CONT. ON P34 as the year that Boycott, Divest- ment and Sanctions (BDS) move- The Jewish Connection mourns the loss ment targeting Israel finally died its RABBI of Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum ZT”L, the death—in a clinical sense, at least. TANNENBAUM Rov of B’nai Israel of Linden Heights in LEVAYA OF Boro Park and director of the Rabbinical RABBI BELSKY, ZT”K Across the U.S., state legisla- tures are passing bills that will out- Alliance (Igud HaRabonim) of America. Rabbi Tannenbaum was a columnist for law state authorities from investing The Jewish Connection and he wrote about IN THIS WEEK’S public funds in, and entering into many topics including events of The Igud contracts with, companies and other HaRabonim. He leaves behind his wife, ISSUE entities that engage in a boycott of Rebbetzin Sarah Tannenbaum, his children The Center of the World Israel. This doesn’t mean that en- Rabbi Chaim Tannenbaum, Rabbi Yitzchok Roy Neuberger...................................8 gaging in a boycott of Israel is ille- Zev Tannenbaum, Mrs. Bracha Holtzer and Mrs. Malky Haimoff. The Levayah took place at The World According to Me gal, but for anyone who cares about Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz................15 Cong. B’nai Israel of Linden Heights, 4502 9th their bottom line, the legislation Ave. Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Healthy Spinach Kugel should provide a powerful incentive Orly Gottesman..............................22 Popsugar She Just Doesn’t Meet My Needs Slain Israeli policewoman was still in Racheli Fried....................................22 WE ARE BECOMING A SOCIETY OF DISPOSABLE basic training, prevented larger attack JNS NEWS.....................................30 MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS. EMUNA BRAVERMAN YEHUDA SHLEZINGER, EFRAT FORSHER, YORI YALON Train Your Brain Rabbi Moshe Goldberger...............32 Whoever thought I’d wax nostalgic for the good old days Members of the family of Hadar Cohen, the Israeli Border of Disney movies – the destructive messages of serendipi- Police officer who was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack tous meetings at royal balls, fortuitous shoe fittings, happi- in Jerusalem on Wednesday, gathered at their home in Or ly-ever-afters and falling in love with the heroine while she Yehuda on Thursday to mourn their loss. is asleep. Her aunt, Zehavit Cohen, expressed her dismay that the Those of us raised on these movies and these messages 19-year-old rookie policewoman who had not yet completed ,urb ,eksv CONT. ON P4 CONT. ON P3 3 Adar 1 t rst "d Assessing Obama’s Mosque Pregnant? For Your Baby’s Health, Parashat Speech on Islam Eat Fish, But Make Sure It’s High in Terumah DANIEL PIPES Omega-3 and Low in Mercury 5:08 P.M. FIVE TOWNS DR. JOSEPH MERCOLA 5:09 P.M. STATEN ISLAND Wishing to address growing anti-Islamic sentiments among 5:09 P.M. BROOKLYN the American public, Barack Obama ventured on Feb. 3 to the Omega-3 fat is important for prop- 5:09 P.M. TEANECK, NJ Islamic Society of Baltimore (sadly, a mosque with unsavory er energy storage, oxygen transport, 5:54 P.M. MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Islamist associations) to talk about Islam and Muslims. The cell membrane function, and regula- 4:43 P.M. JERUSALEM 5,000-word speech contains much of interest. Here’s an in- tion of inflammation. It’s also critical for healthy develop- CONT. ON P5 CONT. ON P6 2/12/16 saw how pained Hashem was during moments when it makes sense to us. ALEC BORENSTEIN our stay in Egypt, and the imagery But often it’s just the opposite. We related to bricks because that is what can’t see the puzzle until much later, Feeling Sick This Winter? Use the Jews were building. if at all. Your Pain! The question is asked - why was When Hashem saw the Jews cre- the image of “sapphire” brickwork ating bricks, Hashem felt for what specifically? The Jews clearly did we went through, but He also saw When I think about this time of times in between. But Hashem con- not create sapphire bricks - why were and knew the whole picture. Hashem year (February), I think about pain. trols all of them. the bricks made of sapphire in the knew that all of the pain the people I think about lots of snow, I think Including our painful times. In last vision? went through had a purpose. To about colds, I think about the flu. In week’s Parsha (Mishpatim) the To- The answer relates to how we Hashem, each brick wasn’t a brick my own house my boys rotate sick- rah relates an amazing image of the see the world in relation to how made of crude materials - it was a ness, strep today, coughing tomor- elders having seen Hashem sitting on Hashem sees the world. Hashem perfect, beautiful puzzle that culmi- row, a virus another day. My wife “sapphire brickwork.” The commen- sees the world as a perfect, beautiful nated in Jewish independence and in got sick in the last round, thankfully I tators talk about this image of Hash- puzzle that makes sense. Each piece our receiving the Torah. have been spared (for now). em in the sense that the elders saw a is placed precisely where it needs Thus, each brick was sapphire be- Such is life, there are good times, vision of what Hashem went through to be. We are lucky in that there are cause each brick was created to make there are bad times, and there are when we were in Mitzraim. They the Jews that much greater. Each brick was indeed made of sapphire (metaphorically speaking) because they were the beautiful cause of our nation’s independence. Hashem gives us pain in our lives ESACH 2 016 because He wants us to grow. You P see, when you are in pain you grow. 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