See Page 68 See Pages 3, 4 & 5 $1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM VOL. 10 NO. 37 13 TAMMUZ 5770 ekc ,arp JUNE 25, 2010 INSIDE FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK CONG. SHAARAY TEFILA AT 100 No Good Deed BY LARRY GORDON Hannah Reich Berman 26 MindBiz Feeling Rubashkin’s Pain Esther Mann, LMSW 34 When the sentence was The ‘Going Rate’? reported on the news sites, I sat Sima Menora 53 staring at the computer screen A Blessed Curse in stunned disbelief. How could R’ Meir Orlian 67 it be? Today, Sholom Rubashkin faces 27 years in federal prison. P h o Under federal guidelines, the t The Words Of Bilam o B y I v earliest he could be released a Larry Domnitch 68 n H . N under the sentence would be o r m a after serving about 23 years, and n after being released he would Congregation Shaaray Tefila of Lawrence marked its 100th anniversary have to serve an additional 5 in a gala festive weekend that featured guest speakers and a Sefer Torah years of supervised release. Of dedication. A dinner in observance of this historic milestone was held on June 17 at the Lawrence Country Club. Guests of honor were Rabbi and course, awful mistakes were Mrs. Dovid Weinberger. Above (L–R): Sam Davies, president of the shul; Rabbi Weinberger; Shimon Felder, mayor of Lawrence; and David Malek, Continued on Page 10 chairman of the shul. See Page 71 PROBLEMS IN PARADISE? HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE Halachic Musings Yeshiva. Some young men stay Yeshiva Superstructure Bat Mitzvah of BY RABBI in rented apartments. Others, Gabi Nachman. Y AIR HOFFMAN however, stay in this unofficial BY LARRY GORDON See Page 71 dormitory. The boys in the dorm Some young American must pay a monthly rent of $130. I walked through the long, bachurim studying in the Brisker In addition, every two months, high-ceilinged stone corridors Yeshiva run by Rav Avrohom the costs of all the utilities are the other week with Rabbi Yehoshua Soloveitchik, shlita, in divided up and shared by all the Baruch Rothman of Yeshiva Yerushalayim have just raised an dorm boys. The meals are pro- Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway. intriguing problem. A building vided just across the street. On Calling this place a building across the street on Rechov the bottom floor is a beis would be an understatement. It Press, in the Geulah section of midrash which is rented out to a is actually four buildings, set Yerushalayim, once belonged to yeshiva for Yerushalmis. alongside each other, with an the Ner Yaakov Yeshiva and The low cost, the nearness of inch or two between them. Kollel. The building was recently the yeshiva meals, the close Walking within the shell of sold and is now the “unofficial The soon-to-be-completed dormitory” of the Brisker Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 18 Yeshiva Darchei Torah. Shuvu Lawrence breakfast. See Page 35 New Seminary A Big Hit A Visit, MAKE A STIR A Memory, THIS FALL And A Wish BY RABBI AVI BY RICHARD ALTABE SHAFRAN How much longer can we, as My wife, our daughter, and I Jewish supporters of Israel, recently spent a Shabbos on the stand idly by while we watch sprawling campus of the Ner American support for our home- Israel Rabbinical College, near land evaporate into thin air? Baltimore. The yeshiva might Each week the situation wors- P h o t o better be described as a town: ens, and our enemies continue New VP at YU. B y E l i S scores of rebbeim and kollel fam- to become more emboldened See Page 50 h a p i r o ilies live in on-campus apart- by an administration that refus- More than 40 young women attended a special shiur delivered by ments and townhouses, and es to even recognize the term CANDLE LIGHTING Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner on Tuesday night at Congregation Kneseth Israel hundreds of talmidim reside in Islamic fundamentalism. Are we (The White Shul) as a kick-off event for Machon Basya Rochel, the new June 25 – 8:11 PM Five Towns/Far Rockaway seminary of which Rebbetzin Feiner is the on-campus dormitories. to simply sit back and wait for a July 2 – 8:11 PM educational director. Classes are to begin in September. See Page 46 Continued on Page 16 Continued on Page 20 2 June 25, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 25, 2010 3 FEATURES Around The Five Towns 32 P.O. 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We are not responsible for the kashrus or hashgachah of any product or Travel 44 establishment advertised in the Five Towns Jewish Times. 4 June 25, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 25, 2010 5 6 June 25, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 25, 2010 7 8 June 25, 2010 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES June 25, 2010 9 FROM THE EDITOR this one is tantamount to a life sen- They feel that there are significant beyond excessive, it is patently offen- Continued from Front Cover tence—then how far away are we really grounds to appeal the convictions and sive—especially for a nonviolent crime in from flogging and stoning people who now the sentencing, and they intend to a case where the defendant had no prior made and crimes were committed, commit certain types of offenses? get busy doing that immediately. criminal record,” as reported in The though it would seem from all the mate- It’s counterproductive and downright Surprisingly, the judge paid no atten- Jewish Week. In a statement released by rial floating around these last few days silly to label what took place as having tion to the letters sent her by six former Agudath Israel of America, Rabbi Chaim that most of these costly errors were shades of or overtones of anti-Semitism. U.S. attorneys general and two solici- Dovid Zwiebel wrote, “It is a dark day for made under great duress and in the heat First of all, it most likely does not. tors general who commented on the American justice. There is something of battle, so to speak. Beyond that, there is an extremely flawed severity of the sentence that the gov- very wrong with this picture. It is a dark It’s important to say right up front sentencing protocol that different judges ernment was seeking, which at first was day, as well, for American Jewry. While here that it is wrong to mistake the react to in a variety of ways. Judge Reade life in prison. Instead, Judge Reade none of us condones any wrongdoing by Orthodox Jewish community’s support could have been much more lenient and resorted to sentencing guidelines to Mr. Rubashkin, the extraordinary severity for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin as an of the sentence imposed upon one of our expression of the desire that he go Jewish brothers sends chills of shock and unpunished or that his punishment be apprehension down our collective spine. lessened because he is one of us. It U.S. immigration tried twice to This is a horrifying development.” seems that sentencing guidelines in this Mr. Rubashkin’s attorneys feel that country have over the years been distort- insert an agent as an underage there are very good grounds for success- ed way out of line and are used, as they ful appeals. In addition to Judge Reade’s were this week, not to administer pun- lack of compassion for the Rubashkin ishment for crimes committed but employee at Agriprocessors, but each family was also the fact that damaging rather to devastate a man and his family. testimony on the charges of employing While that may not have been Judge time the agent was turned away. underage alien workers at the plant was Linda Reade’s objective in announcing allowed into the fraud trial. The underage such an extreme and drastic sentence employment charges were either dis- for Mr. Rubashkin, she must certainly be missed by the government, or Mr. aware that this will be the result. considerate with Rubashkin. The fact is which judges are no longer bound by Rubashkin was found not guilty of the What is the relationship between a that his life as a businessman is ruined.