The Jewish Star Independent and original reporting from the Orthodox communities of Long Island VOL. 8, NO. 44 OCTOBER 30, 2009 | 12 CHESHVAN 5770 www.thejewishstar.com CHALLAH FOR SALE ENDORSEMENTS REVIVING KASZTNER Some say the best in the Five Towns Election Day is Tuesday. Vote! A Holocaust hero finally gets his due? Page 2 Page 11 Page 7 IN MY VIEW Fingerprints, not fingerpaints Elder Rabbi The Post Kamenetzky Shidduch- injured in fall Crisis Suffered concussion; some effects linger BY MAYER FERTIG Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetzky, founder of BY RABBI AVI BILLET Yeshiva of South Shore and many other Five Towns institutions, ur community has a lot to is hospitalized in say about the "shidduch cri- stable condition sis." First, we blame the sin- and described as O gles themselves. Why can't "recovering" after young people date like we did? Why a fall and a blow can't they meet people in normal to the head at the ways? Why can't they have social Sephardic shul on functions like we had? Why can't Peninsula Boule- they get over their hang-ups of dat- vard in ing one person at a time? Why do Cedarhurst. they have to be so picky? Maybe He was there they don't really want to get mar- to borrow a Sefer Photo by Andrew Vardakis ried, because if they did, they Torah for the would. minyan for Sefardi Then we blame their teachers. Meir Heller helps daughter Dina get her fingerprint digitally recorded at the Fingerprinting for Kids fair, held in Cedarhurst’s Maple Plaza on Sunday. The event was co-sponsored by Ohel and the Nassau DA. More on page 15 boys held in the Why don't the rebbeim do some- Yeshiva of South thing about Shore on Rosh it? Why do Chodesh. Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetzky they teach “He went to the boys that get a Sefer Torah from the Derech Emunah shul on girls are Oakland," a family member told The Jewish Star. taboo until "A man brought out the Sefer Torah and he was it's time to Running, shooting and following. A kid ran up the steps and [Rav get married? Kamenetzky] tripped and fell and hit his head.” Why are girls Rav Kamenetzky suffered a concussion that prohibited has left some lingering effects. His family request- ”People put from talking scoring for charity ed these not be specifically reported in order to way more hours to boys Sports as the new fundraising preserve the rav's privacy. He is described as because of a "awake and alert" and the family member stressed BY MICHELLE BORTNIK host of other Jewish charities in what has become a into what will stigma? that rumors that Rabbi Kamenetzky is comatose Then we popular way to fundraise: athletics. be a five-hour “There seems to be a shidduch between fundrais- are incorrect and untrue. blame Martin Bodek had been running the NYC A statement on the Yeshiva of South Shore halacha Marathon for 13 years when he finally ran out of steam. ing and athletics,” explained Saker. “People that are wedding than involved in athletics are generally socially dynamically- website reads, in part, “The Yeshiva and Kamenet- (Jewish law). Then Derek Saker, director of communications for zky family truly appreciate everyone's interest and preparing for It's because OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services, motivated people. From a cause perspective it’s always good to have these people on board because they are concern regarding Rav Binyamin's condition.” they can't be approached him and suddenly Bodek was running for “In the meantime,” the statement goes on, what should be normal something entirely different. self-motivated and very committed.” The 2009 NYC Marathon marks the first time Ohel “continue your Tefillos and Tehillim on behalf of a fifty-plus year teenagers or In this year’s NYC marathon on Sunday, Bodek will Binyomin ben Itta Ettil, L'Refuah Shelaima.” adults - they be running for Ohel alongside participants running for a See RUN FOR CHARITIES, Page 12 See INJURED IN FALL, Page 12 marriage.“ don't hold hands (plen- ty do anyway — that's for a different dis- cussion). What's the big deal about a casual Back from Iraq, HANC alum returns hug or impersonal kiss? Modesty shmodesty — they're going to share Private Yosef Salzbank speaks about Jewish life in the army a bedroom once they're married, so BY MICHAEL ORBACH Rabbi Moshe Stavsky, the principal HANC, Salzbank studied at Yeshivat Ner why the need to dress modestly of HANC, introduced Salzbank by saying Yaakov in Israel for a year before returning to now? An unusual alumnus returned to HANC High that as students graduate, “it is hard to the United States where he became an emer- Then we blame the culture School this past Wednesday. say what you will become,” but that at gency medical technician. He continued his we've created. Ridiculous back- Private 1st Class Yosef Salzbank, a 2002 grad- HANC, “we hope to instill within you a EMS education and became a paramedic, but ground checks that put FBI and El- uate who enlisted in the United States Army 18 desire to take the values [of the yeshi- found the job unsatisfying. Al security to shame. Measuring months ago, gave a moving, often hilarious, talk va] and bring them into your every- “I sacrificed from myself in order tapes to check lengths of skirts, about what it’s like to be an Orthodox Jew in the day life.” to make someone’s life better. I did- sleeves, and hat-brims. How classy American military. Salzbank, Stavsky said, is n’t just want to do a job that just are the "mechutanim"? (What does “Soldiers come from places where they’ve an example of that. He is an gave me a paycheck.” never seen a religious Jew,” Salzbank explained to intelligence analyst for the He explained that he See VIEW, Page 9 US Army, stationed at Fort the HANC students. “Each one of them meanders See HANC ALUM, Page 17 over to me individually and asks, ‘I don’t want to Wainwright in Alaska; Xxxx sound offensive, but what’s that on your head?’” back from a tour of duty in Private Yosef Salzbank, a 2002 Three weeks ago, Salzbank said, one soldier Iraq, he is set to be HANC graduate, deploys to thought his yarmulke was a bad toupee. deployed to Afghanistan in Afghanistan in June. June. 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Photo by Mayer Fertig doughy and satisfying in a way sh’lom bayit purposes, you "He didn't want his boss to Hot and fresh, just out of the oven might say. think he was angry at him for After he was laid off from laying him off," she explained. his job with a local electrician "That's his personality, he loves early this year, "My wife said we every person." EMBARK ON A NEW PROFESSION or could longer afford to buy chal- Neighbors and friends who ENHANCE YOUR PRESENT CAREER lah," and that they would have tasted the challah loved it and to bake their own, he explained. began encouraging Laizer to "I went to the grocery and take orders. Meanwhile, medical Become a bought all the ingredients and bills for Ephraim's care were came home and she said, 'Now beginning to pile up. Professional Coach... make it.' And I said, 'It's not sup- "People were starting to like posed to work like that. You're the challah — and starting to supposed to do it.'" call. 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