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137 SPRUCE STREET 516-569-2662 THE JEWISH HOME A PUBLICATION OF THE FIVE TOWNS & QUEENS COMMUNITY Weekly FEBRUARY 13-FEBRUARY 19, 2014 | DISTRIBUTED IN THE FIVE TOWNS, QUEENS & BROOKLYN PESACH Destination & Travel Section Starting on Page 111 Around the Community See pages 5, 60, 61 & 107 – See page 28 – See page 82– PAGE 45 PAGE 57 Bnos Malka First Graders Celebrate their First Siddurim PAGE 55 Rambam Talmidim Dedicate Vacation to Serving the Jewish State Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Celebrates their 45th Annual Dinner Hundreds Turn out at Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns Dinner to Celebrate a True Makom Torah PAGE 57 Caring for our Community At Urgent-MD, the Doctor is Always In i-Shine Brightening Their Day China And The Jews Page 96 Page 84 Page 72 Page 74 See page 12

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137 SPRUCE STREET 516-569-2662 THEJEWISHHOMEA PUBLICATION OF THE FIVE TOWNS & QUEENS COMMUNITY WeeklyFEBRUARY 13-FEBRUARY 19, 2014 | DISTRIBUTED IN THE FIVE TOWNS, QUEENS & BROOKLYNPESACH

Destination & Travel SectionStarting on Page 111

Around theCommunity

– See pages 5, 60, 61 & 107 –

– See page 28 –

– See page 82–

PAGE 45

PAGE 57

Bnos Malka First Graders Celebrate their First Siddurim

PAGE 55Rambam Talmidim Dedicate Vacation to Serving the Jewish State

Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Celebrates their 45th Annual Dinner

Hundreds Turn out at Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns Dinner to

Celebrate a True Makom Torah

PAGE 57

Caring for our CommunityAt Urgent-MD, the Doctor is Always In

i-Shine Brightening Their Day

China And The Jews

Page 96

Page 84

Page 72 Page 74

See page 12

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FEBRUARY 15, 2014

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The Propriety of Asking & Providing a Second Halachic OpinionYI Lawrence Cedarhurst 8 Spruce St., CedarhurstShabbos Feb. 22nd, 9:15-9:45am (after 7:30 Shachris Minyan)

An Analysis of לא תתגודדו (creating factions) in Halacha & Shmiras Ha’MitzvosKehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi (The Red Shul) 391 Oakland Ave., CedarhurstShabbos Feb. 22nd, 4:30-5:15pm

The Role of the Rov & Importance of The Shoel in Psak Halacha Cong. Knesset Israel (The White Shul) 728 Empire Ave., Far RockawaySunday Feb. 23rd, 8:15-9:00pm

Rabbi Walter is the Rav of Woodside Synagogue Ahavas Torah in Silver Spring, MD and the director of the Vaad HaRabbanim of Greater Washington. He is the author of the recently published book, The Making of a Halachic Decision and has published articles in Hakira and the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society. Rabbi Walter is the founder and editor of the Halachah Bulletin of the Vaad HaRabbanim of Greater Washington.

Announcing three Shiurim by Rabbi Moshe WalterWeekend of February 22/23—the entire 5 Towns and Far Rockaway community is invited

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Dear Readers,

When a tragedy strikes our community, we are all pained by the loss. Last week, we lost a shining light, a woman with a dynamic spirit who brightened the lives of all around her. I personally felt the void as Mrs. Esther Lerer a”h and her family moved next door to my in-laws four years ago. Almost immediately, she became our friends. In fact, within just a few weeks, the whole family—including sons, daughters, and daughters-in-laws of my in-laws—considered Mrs. Lerer a friend. She was so easy to talk to and brought enthusiasm to every conversation. Whether we were discussing schools, parenting, cooking or the weather, the conversation was never dull when Esther was involved.

I know that everyone who knew her feels the same way. She naturally connected to those who she met and when I went to the Lerer home this week, it was filled with so many people who wanted to talk about the special relationship they had with Esther. Every one of those visitors’ lives was brightened by their special connection with Esther.

We will all miss Esther, one who brought so much light into our lives. May she be a meilitz yosher for her husband and her wonderful children and for our community.

This week, Susan Schwamm writes about the unique relationship between China and the Jews after meeting with Professor Pan Guang, the foremost expert on China and the Jews. China is not necessarily a country we associate with Jews. In fact, many times it’s referred to as “Red China” and Jews didn’t fare very well under the Soviet Communist regime. But interestingly, throughout the years, China has always shown a benevolence towards the Chosen Nation. In fact, Susan Schwamm points out that Jews have never experienced anti-Semitism in China from the Chinese. The Chinese respect our values—the importance of family, education and righteousness is echoed in the Chinese philosophy. Some scholars in China and other Asian countries have even translated the Talmud into their languages for they believe that the Jews are a smart people and they wish to learn from them.

My family and I share a special gratitude to China. My grandfather, a”h, was learning in the Mir Yeshiva when World War II broke out. It was only due to many miracles and the open arms of the Chinese that he and the rest of the yeshiva were able to enter Shanghai during the War. In essence, I owe my life to the Chinese.

Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana

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Dear Editor,I enjoyed reading about my fellow

frum women who are entrepreneurs. I just want to add a point—in a sense, all frum women these days are entre-preneurs even if we don’t own our own businesses because on the financial end of our lives we are being forced to work in jobs and for hours that frum women never had to work until recently.

When I was young if my moth-er or a friend’s mother worked, it was as a babysitter at home for a few kids or as a teacher part time. Now we are working as therapists, accountants, at-torneys, nurses, marketers, etc. We are also working full-time jobs, which often require us to be on the train to the city at 7:30 AM, only to return home by 6 PM. Yet our primary job remains moth-erhood—nurturing our children, doing

homework with them, and taking care of them.

Despite the fact that it is hard to be in a corporate setting and our Bais Yaa-kov upbringing didn’t necessarily train us for it, most of us are known as pretty good workers. That is entrepreneurship because it’s not like we are just follow-ing what our mothers did, because we are not. We are blazing new trails. Sincerely,Shalhevet Krantzler

Dear Editor,“The Jewish Mom in the Corner

Office: Exploring Female Entrepre-neurship in the Orthodox World” (Sara Glaz – February 6) was more informa-tive! The article should be must reading on bipartisan basis for Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal pub-

lic officials on the federal, state, city, county and town level to understand how jobs are really created.

Entrepreneurs such as Talia Mashi-nach, founder and CEO of Eved; Hinda Mizrahi, owner of two Koko FitClubs; and Suzannah Raff, Raff Business, Con-sulting, LLC, have continued to create new employment opportunities without the assistance of federally-funded tax-payers’ stimulus dollars. These people are our neighbors who work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employ-ment. All are true American and Ortho-dox Jewish heroes. Sincerely,Larry PennerGreat Neck, NY

Dear Editor,I was surprised to read that most en-

trepreneurs featured in your cover arti-cle were told when they were younger that they were “the best at everything.” As a parent I have seen that it is im-portant to give children confidence and praise them when it’s warranted. But I

also feel that inflating their egos is un-healthy. They will encounter failure at times and we should prepare them for those inevitable failures. Rather than telling our children that they will suc-ceed at everything they attempt to do, we should be praising them for trying their best and praising them for the hard work that they do.Rachel WernerDear Editor,

Please do not impeach the Centerfold Commissioner. The world is becoming way too PC. Everything anybody says is examined to figure out who is insulted by it. I read the centerfold every week and find it quit humorous and always appropriate. Yes, at times the wisdom keys are edgy, but that’s what makes it fun. So, although I think the Center-fold Commissioner has a huge ego and I would love to see him deposed “just because,” I must stand by him and stand with him. So, please do not impeach him now...yet.Sincerely,A Happy Centerfold Reader

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GlobalSochi Gets Underway

But With Some GlitchesThe 2014 Winter Olympics being

hosted by Russia got underway last

Friday in Sochi, a coastal town on the Black Sea. From the outset, President Putin has been heavily involved in So-chi 2014 – from lobbying the Interna-tional Olympic Committee to bring the games to Russia, to inspecting con-struction sites and, more recently, test-ing out completed sports facilities.

In the seven years since Russia won its bid to host the 2014 Olympics, au-thorities have built a highway, a high-

speed train line, electric power stations and an entire series of resort villages in the Caucasus Mountains, where the alpine sport events are taking place. Nearly every venue where games are being held were built from scratch. The massive project, which was originally budgeted at $14 billion, is estimated to have cost more than $50 billion.

Yet, on the eve of the games many projects were still under construction.

Arriving spectators and media mem-bers discovered that what they thought was going to be a first class modern experience was more reminiscent of old-times USSR. Many hotel rooms lacked running water and electrici-ty. Photographs of broken toilets and moldy ceilings quickly flooded the so-cial media. One reporter tweeted a pho-tograph of brown water and noted that hotel staff sent out the following warn-ing: “Do not use [hotel water] on your face because it contains something very dangerous.”

The opening ceremony was indeed magical, but not without a glitch. It started with a small girl sailing through the air suspended by wires over a col-lection of floating islands which were meant to depict a journey across the country. The ceremony featured a visu-al and audio feast of Russian cultural delights, such as a balletic portrayal of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and clas-sical music by Alexander Borodin and Tchaikovsky.

But when the Olympic symbol was supposed to be dramatically introduced there was a glitch. Five giant snow-flakes descended into the stadium and were then meant to inflate and form the Olympic rings, but one of the snow-flakes failed to inflate, leaving a mas-sive illuminated symbol with only four rings.

Although the games are meant to perpetuate unity, a small rift arose be-tween the U.S. and Russia. No, it’s not about a nuclear arms race this time—it’s about yogurt. Chobani, which is an official sponsor of the U.S. team, has been blocked by Russian officials from shipping 5,000 cups of Chobani blueberry-, strawberry- and peach-fla-vored Greek yogurt to Olympians in Sochi. Russian officials claim that the yogurt simply lacks the correct paper-work to clear Russian customs. Amer-ican officials claim that it is a way for Russians to take revenge of the fact that America and Russia have never been able to reach a good working trade re-lationship. “We are a lawful country,”

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Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington, told The New York Times. “You should follow the rules.” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement, “Chobani yogurt is safe, nutritious and delicious and the Russian authorities should get past ‘nyet’ and let this prime sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Team deliver their protein-packed food to our athletes.” Despite not having their Chobani, America was the first country to win gold when Team U.S.A’s Sage Ko-tsenburg, 20, won gold in men’s snow-boarding. Take that Putin!

Car Bomb Training Camp Gone Bad:

21 Students Killed

Sometimes classroom exhibits don’t go as planned; this one killed 21 prized students—future suicide bombers.

The incident happened at a terror-ist training camp outside of Baghdad belonging to an off-shoot of al-Qaida. A police officer said the militants were attending a lesson on making car bombs and explosive belts when a glitch set off one of the devices on Monday.

The massive blast alerted police to the camp, which was hidden in an or-chard. Police arrested many of the sur-viving terrorists, some of whom were injured and trying to hobble away from the scene. Security forces found seven car bombs, several explosive belts and, of course, 21 dead terrorists.

I guess that class bombed.

Clashes Between Muslims and

Christians IntensifyOn Sunday morning, at 9:30am,

Polin Pumandele was killed in Bangui, Central African Republic. His death was unprovoked; Polin was a Chris-tian man walking in a Muslim enclave,

carrying wood to sell. But his reli-gious beliefs were enough to have him killed, and a Muslim mob grabbed the 23-year-old and threw him into a ditch before slitting his throat.

Amazingly, while the slaughter was taking place, some of the murderers or-dered a Washington Post journalist to leave the killing site. “Allez, allez — go, go,” one yelled, wagging his arms menacingly. A group of Burundian peacekeepers tasked by the United Na-tions to protect civilians were standing by. They knew about the killing once Polin’s mutilated body was brought past them in a wheelbarrow. His limbs were summarily dumped outside the Red Cross office in the area.

Once word hit the street about the callous killing, riots broke out. At least nine other people were killed on Sun-day in and around the area where Polin was murdered. Christians killed Mus-lims. Muslims killed Christians. Shops were burned down. Houses were looted. Bodies were burned in streets, in front of African peacekeepers. Some tried to stop the looters; others looked the other way. In all, Sunday’s events were the latest sign of the mayhem in this be-sieged capital, reeling from one of the worst episodes of sectarian violence on the continent in recent memory.

Polin’s death came about almost by accident. Half an hour before he was killed, heavy gunfire erupted near the Grand Mosque, near the Red Cross office, one of the last remaining Mus-lim enclaves in the capital. Muslims accused three Christians — Polin and two friends — of carrying grenades and seeking to hurl them into the mosque. The Burundian soldiers took two of the men into custody, but Polin ran in the other direction. There were no gre-nades, the Burundians later said. Fear-ing for his life, Polin simply ran the wrong way. But within minutes, the mob caught up with him and his death was certain.

“The Muslims did this,” one of his relatives screamed as they were walk-

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ing Polin’s body home. “They cut his neck like a cow. They are going to kill all of us.”

“All the Muslims will die in the country,” vowed one woman during the procession, shrieking loudly. And as Polin’s body arrived in his neighbor-hood, a poor, mostly Christian commu-nity, one man yelled, “We have to burn a Muslim and eat him.”

During his funeral, Polin was re-membered as a boy who loved soc-cer. His father seemed surprised at his death. “He was a civilian,” he lament-ed. But the faces of the crowd were an-gry. Raymond Laguerret, the chief of the community, shook his head, “I don’t know if our youth will calm down,” he said in a low voice. “There will be re-venge attacks, and it will get worse. Any Muslim who comes into our area will be killed. Any kind of cooperation between Muslims and Christians is not possible anymore.”

“Everything is going wrong.”

U.S. Issues Toothpaste Bomb Warning

If you’re traveling to the Olympics this week, make sure to be on the look-out—for toothpaste, that is. The Unit-ed States has warned American and foreign airlines on Wednesday that ter-rorists could try to place explosives dis-guised as toothpaste on Russia-bound flights. An official related that the in-formation the government procured is specific to flights bound for Russia, where the Winter Olympics started on Friday in Sochi.

“While we are not aware of a spe-cific threat to the homeland at this time, this routine communication is an important part of our commitment to making sure we meet that priority,” the Department of Homeland Security an-nounced. “As always, our security ap-paratus includes a number of measures, both seen and unseen, and DHS will

continue to adjust security measures to fit an ever evolving threat environ-ment,” it said.

Security at the games has been a major concern following two deadly December suicide attacks in Volgograd at a train station and a trolleybus. Since then, terrorists involved in those attacks threated the Olympic games.

In a video posted on a well-known jihadi forum last month, the terrorists promised Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will receive “a present from us for the Muslim blood that’s been spilled.”

On Wednesday before the games began, two U.S. warships arrived in the Black Sea, ready to offer assistance in the case of a security emergency at the massive sports event.

Iran’s Warships Head Toward U.S.

Iranian warships in the Atlantic Ocean are sailing close to U.S. mari-time borders in order to send a message to the U.S. that Iran does not approve of its presence in its waters in the Persian Gulf.

“The Iranian Army’s naval fleets have already started their voyage to-wards the Atlantic Ocean via the wa-ters near South Africa,” Commander of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad announced on Saturday. “Iran’s military fleet is ap-proaching the United States’ maritime borders, and this move has a message,” he added.

The plan is part of Iran’s response to Washington’s beefed up naval presence in the Persian Gulf. The US Navy’s 5th fleet is based in Bahrain – across the Persian Gulf from Iran – and the U.S. has conducted two major maritime war games in the last two years.

Sayyari had first announced in July 2011 that Iran was going to send “a flo-tilla into the Atlantic.” “Like the arro-gant powers that are present near our maritime borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to the Ameri-

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can marine borders,” Sayyari said.The Iranian ships are reported to be

carrying about 30 navy academy cadets for training along with their regular crews. They are on a three-month mis-sion.

So, if you smell a foul odor, don’t worry, it’s just the Iranians off the coast.

U.K.’s Rise of the Elite

Despite the hope that the upper class is diminishing in Great Britain, there are signs that the age-old class system for Brits is on the rise.

One can look at the country’s lead-ers to see the trend. Britain was led for ten years by Margaret Thatcher, a grocer’s daughter, who took power in 1979. John Major, who succeeded the

Iron Lady, was the son of a music hall entertainer. But the country’s now be-ing led by David Cameron, a descen-dent of King William IV whose cabinet is stacked with men, like him, from the country’s toniest private schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities.

But it’s not just political arenas where the upper class holds the power. “In every single sphere of British influ-ence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent mid-dle class,” Major points out. “To me, from my background, I find that truly shocking.”

So is Britain going back to the age of lords and ladies? Not so fast, ex-perts say. The upper class now in Brit-ain seems to be dominated by an elite, but now the elite is a club where money is the coveted currency over lineage. Because money can buy one into the “exclusive club,” more women, ethnic minorities, and foreigners have made it to the top. Still, it remains an arduous task for those who are poor and uncon-nected to reach the top rungs of the so-cial ladder.

When the Sunday Times newspaper

published its first annual “Rich List” in 1989, Britain’s wealthiest individual was Queen Elizabeth II. The top 10 was dominated by established British prop-erty and business owners, including the Duke of Westminster, who owns vast swaths of central London, supermarket magnate Lord Sainsbury and food mo-gul Lord Vestey. It was a snapshot of an elite heavy on titled backgrounds, club-by connections and inherited wealth.

The 2013 list is a roll-call of in-ternational capitalists who have made London their base, with the Duke of Westminster the only carryover from the original roster. Even the queen has dropped out. The top 10 now includes Uzbek mining magnate Alisher Us-manov; Indian industrialists Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja; Chelsea Foot-ball Club’s Russian owner, Roman Abramovich; Norwegian shipping ty-coon John Frederiksen and Heineken beer heir Charlene de Carvalho. The changes in the super-wealthy class were triggered, in part, by Thatcher, who deregulated business and banking and opened up London’s financial sec-tor to the world.

Philip Beresford, who assembles

the list, told the BBC that “when I first started 25 years ago about two-thirds of the rich list were people who had in-herited their wealth. Today, approach-ing 80 percent are self-made and that’s really a legacy of the Thatcher years.”

If business has grown more open, many Britons express concern that an old upper class is reasserting itself at the top of politics. “No one would have imagined 20 years ago we’d be going back to Old Etonian prime ministers,” said historian David Kynaston, who is chronicling the way British society has changed since World War II in a series of books. “It was kind of thought once that class was going away.”

The same holds true in the entertain-ment and sports industries. Although some popular names come from more common stock, there are many who come from “posher” backgrounds—wealthy and more cultured families—and attended private, elite schools.

Certainly, class divisions in En-gland are not going away. But what de-fines who will succeed may be chang-ing in the U.K. Best of British to you!

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Killer Tiger on the Prowl

In just six weeks, a tiger killed ten people in a village in northern In-dia, despite efforts to set a trap for the beast. It is believed that the marauding cat strayed from Jim Corbett Nation-al Park, the country’s oldest national park which was established in 1936 to provide endangered Bengal tigers with safe territory.

Sunday night was when the tiger killed its tenth victim—a 50-year-old man collecting firewood in a forest. It devoured parts of the man’s body be-fore being scared away by villagers with shovels and meal rods.

A day earlier, hunters had almost nabbed the tiger with a bovine calf as bait. “On Saturday night the tigress al-most fell in trap and was close to the calf,” officials said. “But she did not attack the bait and left silently.”

“The animal has started attacking humans because it is not getting its natural prey,” said Rupek De, chief wildlife warden of Uttar Pradesh. “The tigress must be tired because it is not getting adequate rest.” It has been on the prowl in an area around 80 miles. But despite its weariness, officials still have not been able to combat the beast. On Sunday, angry villagers seized a na-tional forestry office, demanding pro-tection and compensation for the fam-ilies of the dead.

“We can understand the predica-ment of the villagers,” an official said. “The villagers do not have toilets in their homes. They go out in the open or forest areas to answer nature’s call. In this scenario it is difficult to give pro-tection to each and every villager. We have advised them to move in groups.”

India’s wild tigers are considered endangered because of rampant poach-ing and a shrinking habitat as India undergoes breakneck development to accommodate the staggering growth of its 1.2 billion people. The country has more than half of the 3,200 tigers estimated to be left in the wild. Despite dozens of tiger reserves across India, however, the numbers have sunk from

an estimated 5,000-7,000 in the 1990s, when the big cats’ habitat was twice as large.

Iranian President Allots $400K to Jewish

Hospital in Tehran

Perhaps as part of his effort to change the country’s image, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani recently al-lotted $400,000 to the Dr. Sapir Hospi-tal and Charity Center, which is Iran’s only Jewish hospital. The surprise donation was delivered by Rouhani’s brother, Hossein Fereydoon, who walked into the Tehran hospital and explained, “Our government intends to unite all ethnic groups and religions, so we decided to assist you.” Ferey-doon also promised that more attention would be given to hospitals that tradi-tionally serve Christian and Jewish Ira-nians.

There are approximately 25,000 Jews living in Iran today, most of whom live in Tehran. There is one Jew-ish member of the Iranian parliament. Iranian officials—including former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad—have long maintained that they are not anti-Semites, just anti-Zionists. The latest donation to the Jewish hospital may be meant to further that narrative.

IsraelIranian TV Airs

Simulated Bombing of Tel Aviv

On Friday, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor

in a hypothetical retaliation for an Is-raeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic. Iranian drones and missiles were also shown carrying out simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, downing Amer-ican aircraft, and striking American military targets in the Persian Gulf.

The film, entitled, “The Nightmare of Vultures,” opens with Supreme Leader Khamenei addressing military academy graduates in 2011, warning: “Anybody who thinks of attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran should be pre-pared to receive strong slaps and iron fists from the Armed Forces.”

The clips of drone strikes on Is-rael are interspersed with shots of Is-

raeli emergency personnel evacuating injured Israeli civilians and soldiers while air raid sirens wail. A barrage of missiles brings down Tel Aviv’s sky-scrapers in a final blow.

Iranian leaders have made repeated threats to wipe Israel off the map and have threatened to annihilate Tel Aviv should Iran’s nuclear facilities be at-tacked by the West.

Riots on Temple Mount

On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians attacked officers with rocks on Temple Mount after concluding their weekly prayers. The violence came one day af-ter police closed the holy site to Jews to avert another riot, following numerous anonymous threats from Arabs of prob-able violence should any Jews ascend.

“Police responded immediately by entering the Temple Mount area and dispersing the rioters, using only stun grenades in order to prevent injuries,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld

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said. He added that seven arrests were made as police attempted to stem the violence.

“Luckily there were no injuries to officers,” he said, noting that police had preemptively heightened security in the area upon receiving intelligence that the Arabs intended to riot after praying. “Security assessments were also quick-ly made to ensure immediately after the riot to prevent any further disturbances in and around the Old City,” Rosenfeld said.

The frequently violent Arab re-sponse to Jewish visitation rights to the Temple Mount has a long and conten-

tious history, dating back to when the Wakf Muslim religious trust was giv-en oversight of the holy site following the Six Day War in 1967. Although the Supreme Court upheld Jewish prayer rights on the site, the court allows po-lice to prevent any form of worship there if they believe such activities will incite a “disturbance to the public or-der.”

Jordanian Parliament: PA Does Not Have to

Recognize IsraelOn Saturday, the Jordanian parlia-

ment declared that it did not agree with Israel’s demand that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize it as Jewish state. In a statement carried by the Jor-danian Petra news agency, the Lower House of the Parliament outlined its “fundamental position on the Pales-tinian issue” and said it was rejecting Israel’s demand for being recognized as a Jewish state. It added that there is a need to establish an independent and

fully sovereign Palestinian state along the pre-1967 borders, with eastern Je-rusalem as its capital.

Obviously, the country’s wellbeing was foremost on its mind. The state-ment stressed that “a final status solu-tion concerning refugees, Jerusalem, security, water and settlements should take into account Jordan’s higher inter-ests, adding that it would totally reject any arrangements or frameworks that did not safeguard and meet all Jordani-an national interests or undermined its security and territorial safety.”

The legislature said it stood behind King Abdullah’s efforts “to reach a just, comprehensive and lasting solution to the Palestinian cause,” reported Petra.

The statement comes several days after Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, said he was against recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has refused to recognize Israel. This week he reiterated that refusal and said that recognizing a Jewish state would be “out of the question.” He also said that Egypt and Jordan were not required to recognize Israel when they signed a peace treaty with it.

Peres to Set World Record

On Thursday, President Shimon Peres will try set a new Guinness World Record when he delivers the largest on-line civics class in the world. It will be held at Cisco’s headquarters in Netanya and over 6,500 high school students in 215 classrooms across Israel will view it.

Peres will deliver the online class using Cisco’s advanced technology. Students from Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, Tel Aviv, Kuseife, Ofakim, Dimona, Hadera, Tiberias, Tayibe, Nahariya, and other communities across Israel will participate. Both Arab and Jewish students will participate.

Israel is a world leader in the tech-nology area and there are currently efforts to introduce technology into classrooms across the country. The class will be a live example of the tech-nology which will help digitalize edu-cation worldwide, reduce the distance between the center of countries and the periphery, reduce inequality in educa-tion and allow for lessons to be deliv-ered by leading experts to thousands of pupils at the same time.

After the data is processed and an-alyzed and the numbers of students verified, Guinness’s official is expected to announce that the record has been broken.

Peres has shown a keen interest in technology and in 2012 was the guest of honor at the World Facebook headquarters, where he and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched the Israeli president’s official Facebook page.

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danced, cried and smiled in movies of long ago and Americans were mesmer-ized by her energy. Shirley Temple was 85.

A talented and ultra-adorable enter-tainer, Shirley Temple was America’s top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Tay-lor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford.

In 1999, the American Film Insti-tute ranking of the top 50 screen leg-ends ranked Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses. She appeared in scores of movies and kept children singing “On the Good Ship Lollipop” for gener-ations. Temple was credited with help-ing save 20th Century Fox from bank-ruptcy with films such as “Curly Top” and “The Littlest Rebel.” She even had a drink named after her, an appropriate-ly sweet and innocent cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a mara-schino cherry.

Despite her popularity, Temple re-tired from films at the age of 21. She raised a family and became active in politics, holding several diplomatic posts in Republican administrations, including ambassador to Czechoslova-kia during the historic collapse of Com-munism in 1989. “Politicians are actors too, don’t you think?” she once said. “Usually if you like people and you’re outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.”

“I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the lifetime achievement award. Start ear-ly,” she quipped in 2006 as she was honored by the Screen Actors Guild. But she also said that evening that her greatest roles were as wife, mother and grandmother. “There’s nothing like real love. Nothing.” Her husband of more than 50 years, Charles Black, had died just a few months earlier.

Temple’s mother, Gertrude, worked to keep her daughter from being spoiled by fame and was a constant presence during filming. Her daughter said years later that her mother had been furious when a director once sent her off on an errand and then got the child to cry for a scene by frightening her. “She never again left me alone on a set,” Temple recalled. Because of her mother’s con-stant care, Temple was not plagued by the usual maladies that affect young performers in the industry. She grew up in a pretty regular childhood, although she may have missed out on the care-free youth that so many children enjoy.

During her career, Temple became a

nationwide sensation. Mothers dressed their little girls like her, and a line of dolls was launched that are now high-ly sought-after collectibles. Her fans seemed interested in every last golden curl on her head: It was once guessed that she had more than 50. Her mother was said to have done her hair in pin curls for each movie, with every hair-style having exactly 56 curls.

Her immense popularity prompted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to say that “as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” “When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles,” Roosevelt said.

Outrageous: IRS Reinstates Bonuses

IRS Commissioner John Koskin-en, who took over the Internal Rev-enue Service last month, announced last week that he plans on reinstating bonuses that were rescinded by acting commissioner Danny Werfel in light of last year’s scandals, which included the singling out of Tea Party and Conser-vative groups for special screening in their applications for tax-exempt status and reports of lavish spending on IRS conferences over three years. In all, $62.5 million in bonuses will be doled out to IRS employees.

“This is money best spent on our existing employees,” said Koskinsen in an email to agency employees. “The performance award payouts are in rec-ognition of that great work done in very trying circumstances. I firmly believe that this investment in our employees will directly benefit taxpayers and the tax system.”

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many of its employees having conduct-ed themselves in a manner inappropri-ate for government officials, and the agency decides to reinstate employee bonuses? It’s hard to think of a group of people less deserving of bonuses than IRS employees.” He continued, “Frankly, this is outrageous. I under-stand that not every IRS worker was responsible, but this just is the wrong signal to send the American people who were rightly outraged by how this agency treated people for their political views. I will be discussing this matter with IRS Commissioner Koskinen, es-pecially since his predecessor rightly took the step of canceling these bonus-es.”

Koskinen responded to critics of the bonus agreement by saying that the decision became clear to him after visiting with employees during his first weeks on the job.

Sure, these employees really need bonuses because their jobs must be so taxing.

De Blasio: State of the City is Dismal

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave his first State of the City address last week and it was chock full of liberal goodies. The address, held at La Guardia Community College in Queens, focused on income inequality and on things the mayor plans on giving New Yorkers, such as universal free Pre-K programs.

New York City is a “tale of two cit-ies – with an inequality gap that funda-mentally threatens our future,” said the mayor, and he promised that during his time in City Hall that will change.

He said that he will ask the state government in Albany next week to grant him the power to raise the mini-mum wage in the city. “In the process, we will send a powerful signal to the people of New York – that we honor work … and that we are committed to

making work pay.”On the education front, De Blasio

reiterated his plan to extend pre-kin-dergarten education, a major campaign issue, and to extend after school pro-grams for middle school children. The plan would cost an average of $970 for those earning between $500,000 and a million dollars, De Blasio said. “But to the young minds that we help shape…the pre-teen lives that we keep safe…the generation of working New Yorkers that we put on a path to success…it will be priceless.”

There was a message too, for “the almost half-million undocumented New Yorkers, whose voices too often go unheard.” The mayor said he would issue municipal ID cards to undocu-mented citizens, “so that no daughter or son of our city goes without bank accounts, leases, library cards simply because they lack identification.”

He also made sure to note some of his early accomplishments, including dealing with a barrage of snowstorms. He pointed out, “We’ve faced more snow last month than any new admin-istration since January of 1978, when Mayor Ed Koch led this city.”

The mayor thanked public workers and noted, “I know that these speech-es have at times been used to attack the motives of our public employees. To-day, I want to recognize the hard work and commitment of those men and women – and to say how proud I am of them.”

I don’t know which mayor attacked public workers in their State of the City addresses. But then again, I’d be lying if I said I ever listened to any of them before.

Key Provision of Obamacare Delayed

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last Monday that employers with 50 to 99 workers will be given until 2016 — two years longer than originally envisioned under the Affordable Care Act — before they risk a federal pen-alty for not complying with Obamacare requirements. The “employer mandate” is highly unpopular because it will rad-ically change the insurance plans avail-able to the millions of Americans em-ployed by mid-sized businesses.

The latest delay is seen by many as an effort to limit the negative con-sequences Obamcare may have on the Democrats during the 2014 midterm elections. Congressional Republi-cans seized on the announcement as the latest justification for scrapping the healthcare law. “If unilateral de-lays were an Olympic sport, the White House would sweep the gold, silver, and bronze,” House Energy and Com-merce Committee Chairman Fred Up-ton (R-Mich.) said in a statement. “The White House is in full panic mode, and rather than putting politics ahead of the public, it is time for fairness for all,” he said.

Conservative pundit Charles Krau-thammer said on Fox News, “Generally speaking, you get past the next election by changing your policies, by announc-ing new initiatives, but not by wanton-ly changing the law lawlessly. This is stuff you do in a banana republic.”

A-Rod Drops Lawsuit: Will Sit Out 2014 Season

Last Friday, Alex Rodriguez dropped his lawsuit against Major League Baseball’s players union, thus ending his effort to overturn his 162-game suspension (plus any 2014 post-season games) for taking banned sub-stances. The decision came nearly four weeks after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz issued his decision largely upholding the penalty issued to the New York Yankees third baseman last summer by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.

Rodriguez will lose most of his

2014 salary, which was supposed to be $25 million.

Rodriguez had angered many of his fellow players by suing his own union in an attempt to avoid a suspension. “Alex Rodriguez has done the right thing by withdrawing his lawsuit,” the union said in a statement. “His decision to move forward is in everyone’s best interest.”

When the 2015 season comes around, A-Rod will be 39. Despite his age, he will have a “$60 million dollar” incentive to play during the final three seasons of his contract—the amount he will be owed for those years. In addi-tion, if he reaches certain homerun and hitting milestones he will be paid even more. So there’s no doubt that he will continue to eat his Wheaties throughout 2014.

Leno’s Final Curtain Call in Burbank

In a mega change in the world of late night TV, Jay Leno, who has host-ed “The Tonight Show” for 22 years, passed the torch to Jimmy Fallon, for-mer host of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” last week. Leno’s forced re-tirement was seen as a “look ahead” move by NBC to appeal to a younger audience. Although Leno, 64, is at his peak in popularity, Fallon, who is only 39, is seen as a host who can secure younger viewers and even grow that audience with time. Seth Meyers is replacing Fallon on the “Late Night” show, which airs at 1:00 AM.

Leno’s last show on February 6th featured guest Bill Crystal, who was also a guest on Leno’s first show ever. It was also the last show to take place in Burbank, California. The show, which took place in New York until Johnny Carson moved it to Burbank in 1972, is returning east to a brand new studio at NBC’s Rockefeller Center studios. “The Tonight Show” will resume with Fallon as its sixth all-time host on Feb-

ruary 17, after the Sochi Olympics are finished.

Leno’s tenure is second only to Johnny Carson’s 30 years. It can be said that he was a good steward of the show—it was the most popular night-ly show among viewers when he took it over and when he handed it off last week it was still the most popular show among those who watch late night TV. Leno, whose autobiography is titled, Leading with my Chin, briefly and be-grudgingly handed over “The Tonight Show” to Conan O’Brien in 2009. But when the ratings tanked, Leno was quickly returned to the slot. Leno in-sists that this time there is no looking back and the reins are being perma-nently handed over to his successor. In a signal that this time Leno is at peace with his replacement, Fallon appeared on one of Leno’s last shows.

Yet, if the phrase “every joke has some truth to it” rings true, Leno is less than pleased with his forced retirement. Over the past year since the move was announced, Leno has taken repeated shots at NBC. Perhaps feeling rejected by NBC, Leno recently quipped, “They

say the threat of terrorism at the Sochi Winter Games is very high right now and it’s pretty scary. In fact, it’s so dan-gerous over there right now that today NBC asked me to go as a correspon-dent.” In his last monologue he joked, “I don’t like goodbyes; NBC does.”

One person who doesn’t believe that Leno is really gone for good is his main competitor, David Letterman, who not-ed that Leno hosting his last show and the Winter Olympics are “two events that happen every four years.”

Over Leno’s 22 years, he told 43, 892 jokes, according to a study by The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. They found that Bill Clinton was Leno’s top target and was the butt of 4,607 jokes. Perhaps that explains why Clinton never appeared as a guest on “The To-night Show”, yet appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” 10 times. Leno’s second most popular target, George W. Bush, appeared on Leno’s show four times over the years.

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flects the fact that presidents were usu-ally Leno’s leading targets, and Demo-crats occupied the White House in 13 of his 22 years as Tonight Show host.

I would try to think of a good line to end with, but then again, if I am really funny I may be dethroned…like Leno was.

Osama Photos Destroyed After

his Death

A newly released email shows that just eleven days after the death of Osa-

ma bin Laden in 2011, the U.S. mili-tary’s top special operations officer ordered underlings to destroy any pho-tographs of the terrorist’s corpse or turn them over to the CIA.

This email was released under a freedom of information request by Ju-dicial Watch. It was released on Mon-day by the group and shows that Adm.

William McRaven, who heads the U.S. Special Operations Command, told military officers on May 13, 2011 that photos of bin Laden’s remains should have been sent to the CIA or already destroyed. The al Qaeda leader was killed by a special operations team in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.

McRaven’s order to purge the bin Laden material came 10 days after The Associated Press asked for the photos and other documents under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Typically, when a freedom of information request is filed to a government agency under the Federal Records Act, the agency is obliged to preserve the material sought — even if the agency later denies the request.

On May 3, 2011, the AP asked Spe-cial Operations Command’s Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Division office for “copies of all e-mails sent from and to the U.S. government ac-count or accounts” of McRaven refer-encing bin Laden. McRaven was then vice admiral. A day later, on May 4, 2011, a response from the command’s FOIA office to the AP acknowledged the bin Laden document request and said it had been assigned for process-ing. AP did not receive a copy of the McRaven email obtained by Judicial Watch. Subsequently, the Department of Defense FOIA office told the AP in a Feb. 29, 2012 letter that it could find no McRaven emails “responsive to your request” for communications about the bin Laden material.

The email that was released on Monday shows a heavily blacked-out email addressed to “gentlemen” in which McRaven told his unnamed sub-ordinates: “One particular item that I want to emphasize is photos; particu-larly UBLs remains. At this point – all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them de-stroy them immediately or get them” a blacked-out location. UBL refers to bin Laden.

A CIA spokesman said at the time that “documents related to the raid were handled in a manner consistent

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with the fact that the operation was conducted under the direction of the CIA director,” then Leon Panetta. The CIA statement also said “records of a CIA operation such as the raid, which were created during the conduct of the operation by persons acting under the authority of the CIA director, are CIA records.”

In a Jan. 31, 2014 letter to Judicial Watch in response to its request for all records relating to McRaven’s “direc-tive to purge,” the Pentagon’s office of general counsel said it had been able to locate only document — Raven’s re-dacted email.

On Monday, Judicial Watch presi-dent Tom Fitton said that the email “is a smoking gun, revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American people’s right to know.”

Think Zuckerberg is a Major Tweeter?

I am not a user of Twitter and some-times I wonder if I am missing out. But when I heard that one of the world’s most famous faces of the tech age is just barely using the 140-character pro-gram, I felt a little better.

On February 2009, Mark Zucker-berg joined Twitter. Since then, he has tweeted only 19 times and has over 300,000 followers (although I don’t ex-actly know what they’re following…).

Some of his brilliant tweets are list-ed here. Let’s not go overboard by the depth of some of these tweets.

On February 13, 2009, Zuckerberg tweeted, “Never thought I’d be on a boat.” His fourth tweet, sent on Febru-ary 14 of that year, bragged about Face-book reaching 175 million users: “175 million :-)” On March 4, Zuckerberg was happy. “A good day,” he tweeted to his followers. (Profound.)

By March 7 he felt compelled to confirm his identity. “Yes, this is the real Mark Zuckerberg. Thanks for fol-lowing me!” A day later he wrote, “So

many interesting people are following me. I think I’ll follow some of you guys as well.”

Finally, his most recent tweet took place after a three year hiatus. On Jan-uary 18, 2012, the Facebook founder wrote: “Tell your congressmen you want them to be pro-internet. My Face-book post is here: https://t.co/XEmF-NxGt.”

Seems like a loquacious guy.

Ralph Kiner: War Hero, Baseball Slugger, Broadcaster and

Storyteller for the Ages

Legendary baseball personality Ralph Kiner passed away this week at the age of 91. Kiner, who was a fighter pilot in WWII, played the bulk of his Hall of Fame career as an outfielder for the Pittsburg Pirates. He began his 10 year career in 1956 and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975. He finished with 369 home runs, 1,015 RBIs, 1,451 hits and a .279 career batting average. Kiner walked 100 or more times in six seasons. He was con-sidered the game’s greatest home run hitter during the years directly follow-ing World War II and ended his career with 369 homers. The baseball great is known to have said, “Home run hit-ters drive Cadillacs and singles hitters drive Fords.”

The six-time All Star joined the Mets as a broadcaster at the inception of the team in 1962. He quickly became a permanent fixture at Shea Stadium and broadcasted Met games for the next 52 years. Generations of Met fans took delight in “Kiner’s Korner,” which was a post-game interview show following New York Mets broadcasts hosted by the baseball great. Kiner was such a fixture in the broadcast booth that the home TV booth at Shea Stadium was named in his honor.

“Our style of broadcasting is dif-ferent from that of the new commenta-tors,” Kiner told The New York Times in 2004. “I prefer the old style of broad-casting in which you talk to the guy sit-ting next to you as if you were sitting together in the stands.”

Kiner’s clever or “simple” one lin-ers—depending on how you look at them—became known as “Kinerisms.” He once noted, “All of the Mets road wins against the Dodgers this year oc-curred at Dodger Stadium.” One time when the Mets were playing particu-larly badly, he commented, “If Casey Stengel were alive today, he’d be spin-ning in his grave.”

Kiner, whose “back of the card” was obviously legendary, was also known as a link to the last generation of baseball players and a bygone era. One of Kiner’s favorite stories was about the time his Pittsburgh team finished in last place in 1952. Kiner played great that season and went into famed gen-eral manager Branch Rickey for a pay raise. Rickey looked at Kiner and re-plied, “We finished last with you. We can finish last without you.”

Pork Filled Farm Bill Passes

Last Friday, President Obama signed the $956 billion Farm Bill into law. Most of the money, $756 billion of it, is allotted to food-stamp and nutri-tion programs, which are administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. One in five American households re-ceive food stamps today. More than 1 million people were added to the rolls in 2013, including residents who live in the country illegally. In the year 2000, the entire food stamp program cost $17 billion. Last year that figure was a whopping $78 billion.

The bill was filled with pork items such as a $170 million program to protect catfish growers from overseas competition. The Wall Street Journal pointed out that one provision in the bill guarantees Japonica rice growers that if prices of Japonica rice drops below 115% of the average price of all types of rice, growers of Japonica rice will get a government payment to make up the difference. “Who grows Japon-

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ica rice anyways?” you wonder. Well, Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa is a fourth-generation Japonica rice farm-er and he sits on the House agriculture committee. Another provision in the bill gives $100 million to research how to get Americans to buy more maple syrup.

How about giving them more pan-cakes?

Google Becomes Second Largest

U.S. Corporation

Google, whose stock has risen 52% in the past year, reached another mile-stone last Friday to become the second

largest American corporation. The company, which became the world’s largest online advertiser through its dominant search engine, has a market capitalization of $393.5 billion while oil company Exxon is valued at $392.6 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Apple remains the largest American corporation, with a market value of $465.5 billion. Software com-pany Microsoft Corp. is No. 4 with a value of $302.1 billion.

Don’t think Google is worth that much? Google it and find out.

Driving the Wrong Way Kills 11

Early Sunday morning, eleven peo-ple died in two highway collisions—one in Florida and one in California—when two drivers drove the wrong way down the highway. Five people were killed in Florida and six were killed in California.

A Ford Expedition SUV traveling south on northbound Interstate 275 in

Tampa, Florida, collided head-on with a Hyundai Sonata just after 2 a.m., kill-ing the SUV driver and all four people in the other car, according to a Flori-da Highway Patrol news release. The SUV became engulfed in flames, and the other vehicle was also damaged by fire.

In California, six people were killed in a pre-dawn crash when a motorist was traveling the wrong way on a high-way east of Los Angeles, according to the California Highway Patrol. Three vehicles were involved in the crash.

Alcohol use is suspected in both fa-tal crashes.

Rebuilding a City of Ruins

The once thriving city of Detroit has crumbled into ruins, with homes left to decay and murder and drug deals on the rise. The local government, dys-functional and bankrupt, has offered little to no help to the city.

But now there may be hope for the residents of the Motor City.

Over the past two years, private foundations have come in to help the Brightmoor section of Detroit, setting up a community action group to help revitalize and rebuild. The Detroit Blight Authority, a nonprofit that de-molishes abandoned homes and cleans up empty lots, cleared out 14 blocks of decay in the neighborhood last summer and plans to tackle another 35 blocks this year.

And the initial work has already

transformed the neighborhood — mak-ing the streets a little safer and ener-gizing residents who had never given up on the idea that Brightmoor could bounce back, even if it’s getting little help from the city government.

Ora Williams refuses to leave her home of 35 years despite the break-down of the community. “This is my home,” she said. “This is where I raised my kids. … Besides, if everybody de-cides to run, you don’t have a commu-nity anymore. They beat you at your own game. It’s about stick and stay, and believing in what can be.” There are 700,000 like Williams who vow to stay in the neighborhood.

The headlines about Detroit are constantly doom and gloom — and for good reason. The city has major prob-lems. Its long-term debts are at least $18 billion and growing. The infant mortality rate rivals that in developing countries. Unemployment is at 11 per-cent. City Hall, long mired in corrup-tion scandals, is now under the control of a state-appointed emergency manag-er. Municipal services, which had al-ready been lacking for years, have been cut to the bone. Retired city workers are worried about losing their pensions. Half of the city’s 88,000 streetlights don’t work. Roads go largely unplowed during snowstorms. The police re-portedly take in upwards of an hour to respond to even the most serious of crimes. And the list goes on and on.

Today, Detroit’s iconic image is al-most always a picture of one of its es-timated 78,000 empty buildings, which have become an odd tourist attraction. The “ruins,” as they are described, are a striking monument to what the Motor City used to be.

But just as there is blight in virtu-ally every corner of the city, there is also hope and glimmers of new life. It’s an odd dichotomy for a city that many have written off as dead. In Midtown, just blocks from the boarded up man-sions of historic Brush Park, there is a new Whole Foods store — the first new grocery store to open in the inner city in decades. A few miles away in down-town, all the tables at Roast, a restau-rant owned by Food Network chef Michael Symon inside the renovated Westin Book Cadillac hotel, are perpet-ually booked and not just by visitors to the city.

And that’s what locals say the world doesn’t get about Detroit: that life here goes on, fueled in part by the strength of residents who believe very strongly

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that the city will come back. And many are working to make it happen in both big and little ways.

In downtown Detroit, Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, has purchased several buildings and relocated his 10,000 employees into what was vacant office space in

hopes of reviving the city’s urban core. He’s hoping to create a Silicon Valley of the Midwest by helping lure startups to Detroit with grants and other assis-tance.

And all over town, small business-es are starting to pop up, founded by a younger generation of entrepreneurs

who have descended on the city to take advantage of what locals say is an at-mosphere friendly to people who want to test out business ideas with nothing to lose. Over the last year, companies that make bicycles, handmade jeans and luxury watches have launched in Detroit. At the same time, the city’s bar

and restaurant scene is booming — aid-ed largely by Detroit natives who came back to the city because they wanted to build something in their hometown.

“If you are someone who wants to build something, to do something of your own, Detroit is really cool be-cause you can do that right now,” said Amanda Brewington, who opened Al-ways Brewing Detroit, a coffee shop and community space last year. “This place has always been magical to me,” the 28-year-old said. “People are differ-ent here. There is a lot of pride in the city and a ‘do it yourself’ mentality that you don’t find in other places.”

CVS to Stop Selling Tobacco at all Locations

CVS announced last week that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores across the U.S. by October 1, 2014, making CVS/phar-macy the first national pharmacy chain to take this step.

“Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our cus-tomers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” said Lar-ry J. Merlo, President and CEO, CVS Caremark. “Put simply, the sale of to-bacco products is inconsistent with our purpose.”

Smoking is the leading cause of pre-mature disease and death in the United States with more than 480,000 deaths annually. While the prevalence of cig-arette smoking has decreased from approximately 42 percent of adults in 1965 to 18 percent today, the rate of reduction in smoking prevalence has stalled in the past decade.

CVS estimates that it will lose ap-proximately $2 billion in revenues on an annual basis from tobacco shoppers.

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Mark Zuckerberg: Most Charitable in the U.S.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the most money to charity in the U.S. in 2013. According to the Chron-icle of Philanthropy, a database which records charitable giving, Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife gave 18 mil-lion shares of Facebook, valued at about $992.2-million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View, California. They donated the same number of shares of Facebook to the fund in 2012.

The Zuckerbergs did not say what programs the latest gift would support but said that their philanthropy would focus on children.

America’s biggest donors gave $7.7 billion to nonprofits in 2013, with high-er education and family foundations re-ceiving the most money.

According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the following donors complete the rest of the top ten donor list:2 George Mitchell (amount given: $750 million)3 Philip & Penelope Knight ($500 million)4 Michael Bloomberg ($452 million)5 John & Laura Arnold ($296.2 million)6 Charles Johnson ($250 million)7 Pierre and Pam Omidyar ($225 million)8 Irwin & Joan Jacobs (221.1 million)9 Sergey Brin & Anne Wojcicki ($219 million)10 Jeffery Carlton ($212 million)

Children’s “Weight Fate” Determined

at Age 5

Healthy habits start when children are young. There is no better time to ensure proper hygiene and routines in a household. But how young should our children be when we talk to them about proper nutrition? A recent study points out that at the age of just five-years-old, a child’s “weight fate” is already deter-mined. Nearly half of children who became obese by the eighth grade were already overweight when they started kindergarten.

It’s widely known that children in

America are prone to being overweight or obese. Around a third of American children tip the scale. But what can we do to prevent this malady?

Now researchers are saying that we can’t start too early to prevent obesity in our children. Solveig Cunningham, a scientist at Emory University, points out, “A lot of the risk of obesity seems to be set, to some extent, really early in life.”

In the study she published, a nation-wide sample of more than 7,700 chil-dren through grade school was tracked. When they started kindergarten, 12 percent were obese and 15 percent were overweight. By eighth grade, 21 percent were obese and 17 percent were overweight.

Between ages 5 and 14, nearly 12 percent of children developed obesity – 10 percent of girls and nearly 14 per-cent of boys. Nearly half of kids who started kindergarten overweight be-came obese teens. Overweight 5-year-olds were four times as likely as nor-mal-weight children to become obese (32 percent versus 8 percent).

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younger ages. In fact, the biggest shift into obesity took place between first and third grades.

It would be wise for parents to be cognizant of these results because they are the ones who are feeding their chil-dren and modeling healthy habits. En-couraging exercise and healthy eating is key to helping children maintain a healthy lifestyle. Schools, too, should encourage and promote physical activi-ty and offer nutritious foods to children.

“You can change your fate by things that you do early in life,” with more exercise and eating a healthy diet, Dr. Stephen Daniels, a University of Colo-rado pediatrician and a spokesman for the American Heart Association, said. “Once it occurs, obesity is really hard to treat. So the idea is we should really work hard to prevent it.”

Fugitive Found after 37 Years

In 1977, Judy Lynn Hayman es-caped from the Ypsilanti prison while

serving time for attempted larceny. She was halfway through her 1 ½ years sen-tence. Now, almost 37 years later, the long arm of the law caught up with the fugitive. Police found her living under an alias in San Diego on Monday.

Acting on a tip, officials went to her apartment. There, she identified herself as Jamie Lewis, producing government documents with the name. But officers remained suspicious because of incon-sistencies in her story and her resem-blance to an old Michigan mug shot they were holding. “Her eyes gave her away,” San Diego police Lt. Kev-in Mayer said. “The eyes in the picture

matched the eyes of this woman.”At the police station, Hayman fi-

nally admitted her guilt. She will be returned to the prison to complete her sentence. Authorities there will deter-mine if she will have to serve extra time because of her escape.

Neighbors said Hayman had lived in the complex for several years and mostly kept to herself. Her son seemed completely surprised to hear of her ar-rest.

After years of being on the loose, it could be that Hayman never thought she’d see the inside of a cell. “I com-mend them [the police] for their tenac-ity,” Mayer said. “This is a very old case.”

Empire State Building’s Vertical Marathon

On Wednesday, athletes from around the globe raced to the top of the Empire State Building in an intense vertical marathon. Some were running to beat the clock, and others were run-ning to beat disease.

Australian athlete Suzy Walsham, who calls Singapore her home, con-quered 86 flights in just 11 minutes, 57 seconds, becoming the first to win the women’s competition for a fifth time. Days before the competition, Walsham said, “It’s an incredibly tough race, but training has been going well so I am hoping for a strong performance.”

Runner up Erika Aklufi of Los An-geles finished the race in 12 minutes, 48 seconds. After her completion, Walsham and Aklufi embraced in a spirit of sportsmanship. Norwegian runner Thorbjorn Ludvigsen won the men’s competitive heat by clocking in at 10 minutes 6 seconds.

Firefighter Touché Howard of Durham, N.C., said he started running the Empire State Building’s 1,576 steps to raise money for multiple myeloma research, an illness his battalion chief has and to set a goal for himself after

suffering a severe on-the-job back in-jury six years ago. “My colleagues re-ally worked hard to get me back into shape so this was kind of a big goal to help set for me to push me forward and get me back on duty,” he said. But rac-ing up the skyscraper was just a small part of the challenge—the firefighter completed the race in all 60 pounds of firefighter gear. “It includes the SCBA, the breathing apparatus,” he said. “So that’s in my favor because that ball will weigh six pounds less at the top be-cause I will use every bit of it to get up there.”

Another runner, Tricia Williams, was also running to raise money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Founda-tion (MMRF), which organizes the an-nual event. Her father has been living with the disease for nearly a decade. “It’s the second year I’ve done it. It’s so much fun,” she said. “By the time you hit the 60th floor your heart’s beating out of control but it’s just amazing to get to the top. Your adrenaline carries you up there.”

“I’ve been having a continuous pan-ic attack for the last three weeks,” Sara Angle recalled. “After about the 20th floor my heart rate calmed down from nerves and then it was just the heavy breathing setting in – the elevation is the hardest thing.”

“The guys that were stationed at certain points who said, ‘You got 10 more flights,’ were really helpful,” Brittany Forgione added. “They work here at the Empire State Building and were in their nice attire. They were re-ally encouraging along the way.”

That’s OddLivin’ in a Bin

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ton-Tillotson University in East Austin, Texas, had a daydream which landed him in a dumpster. No, this is not an-other mob-hit story— he is alive and well, but decided that for the next year he will live in a 33-square-foot dump-ster.

“I was revising a journal article thinking about how could I make my research more applicable to student learning, and then I looked out the win-dow and saw the dumpster and thought, ‘That’s it,’” Wilson explained.

“Professor Dumpster,” as he’s re-ferred to on campus, sold off all of his earthly possessions in order to properly conduct the experiment. Because the dumpster is 1 percent the size of the av-erage American home, it will be a tight squeeze for sleeping. “The dumpster is 6-feet by 6-feet, and I’m 6’1”, so that’s a little math problem. I’ll be sleeping diagonal,” said Wilson.

Throughout the next year, the dumpster will transform into three dif-ferent types of living space. It will start as a camping site. A negative 15-de-gree-rated sleeping bag will keep him warm. “So, hopefully the temperature won’t drop below that,” said Wilson. It will then become an average Amer-ican home with appliances. “For ex-ample, we’ll have a washing machine out here that will use 40 gallons on the average wash, so I will be getting my water from Town Lake. So that’s eight five-gallon buckets I’ll have to haul up the hill,” said Dr. Wilson. And finally, a space capsule. “It will be the ultimate small space ever designed,” said Wil-son. Each phase will be designed and tested by students in elementary school through college.

“They will propose different solu-tions, go do some research, and run it by experts. And we’ll test out solu-tions,” said Wilson. And in the end, Professor Dumpster hopes to answer this question. “Can you have a pretty good life living in 1 percent of the aver-age new American home with 1 percent the energy, 1 percent the water, and 1 percent the waste?”

I don’t know what this experiment will lead to, but I know what it should lead to: Starbucks placing warnings in their stores that excessive daydreaming may cause stupid activity to ensue.

Beer Fridge in SochiOlympic competitors work hard and

they deserve to enjoy their downtime. Some Olympic houses can be pret-

ty luxurious. In the London Olympics, the U.S. Olympic House had a tropi-cal palm tree and garden space trans-formed into a Bud Patio and Coca Cola Re-Charge area.

But this year, the Canadians are the coolest sportsmen around. According to reports, Canada has a beer fridge in its Olympic House in Sochi. But this is no ordinary fridge. Athletes have to scan their Canadian passports in order to open the fridge to get the cold brew.

The fridge is sponsored by Molson, one of Canada’s oldest beer companies. The company popularized the fridge with an innovative commercial that went viral last summer. In the clip, one can see the iconic red refrigerators be-ing dropped off around Europe. But no one can seem to open them. “Is there a Canadian around?” people keep ask-ing, as the words on the fridge prompt users to scan their Canadian passport. Finally, a crowd gathers as one Cana-dian scans his passport and the door opens to reveal the ice cold beverages for the crowd. Friendships are made as the drinks are shared as Canadians say that it “reminds them of home.”

Guess How Much This Lady Tipped the Waitresses?

If you were in a generous mood, how much extra would you tip your waitress at a restaurant: 25 percent? How about 50 percent? What about 100 percent? If you did any of that you would definitely qualify as generous. But is there even a word for someone

who tips 50,000%? That’s exactly what one mid-

dle-aged woman did after eating an om-elet alone at the counter of the Boone County Family Restaurant in Caledo-nia, Ill., last Saturday. She didn’t do it once— she did it three times. She asked the three waitresses in the restaurant their names and summarily wrote each of them a check for $5,000.

The woman explained that she had overheard their conversation about “life stuff” like bills, college and stu-dent loans and she handed them the money with instructions to “put it in your pockets and use it for school or whatever we needed.” She quickly left the family-run restaurant, but only after insisting that she pay for her $9 omelet, which they insisted she not pay for.

The restaurant’s owner, Matt Nebiu, called the bank after the woman, whom Nebiu says has dined there before but is not a regular, left to confirm that the checks are real.

“They said there was no hold on the checks,” Nebiu said. “We are in a small population of a town and we’ve been here for 30-some years and for people

to do that you know that there’s nice people out there.”

I guess she really liked the omelet…or am I missing the point?

More Chicks for Wisdom

Researchers found out that it’s nev-er too late to have more chicks when the world’s oldest known wild bird gave birth to her newest baby last week.

Wisdom is a Laysan albatross who is at least 63-years-old—probably old-er—and was spotted taking care of her new hatchling last week by a manager

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at the refuge. The bird was seen dot-ing on the furry brown baby, keeping it warm and safe. During the non-nesting season, Wisdom spends her time forag-ing over the vast parcel of the Pacific.

“As the world’s oldest known bird in the wild, Wisdom is an iconic symbol of inspiration and hope for all seabird species,” Dan Clark, refuge manager,

stated in a news release. “She provides to the world valuable information about the longevity of these beautiful crea-tures. In the case of Wisdom, she has logged literally millions of miles over the Pacific Ocean in her lifetime to find enough fish eggs and squid to feed her-self and multiple chicks, allowing us to measure the health of our oceans which

sustain albatross as well as ourselves.”To be sure, scientists are enthralled

by Wisdom because of her ability to survive ocean pollution, a problem that has led to the death of thousands of sea birds when they ingest plastic products that they mistake for food. A chick’s survival is dependent on its mother and Wisdom has worked hard to ensure her

other chicks’ survival. Albatrosses lay only one egg a year; it is believed that Wisdom raised at least 30 to 35 chicks of her own.

She’s certainly no birdbrain.

Wrong Turn Can Land Man in Jail

For long drives, a GPS is a must. But we all know the frustration of fol-lowing the GPS’s melodious voice only to get directed to the wrong road or turn. Well, a man from Kentucky made the ultimate wrong turn when his GPS directed him towards the Canadian bor-der. His mistake could now land him in jail.

Louis DiNatale was on a Vermont getaway with his wife when they wound up on the way to Canada when they were “misdirected by an unreli-able GPS.” The gadget directed them the Thousand Islands Bridge border crossing between New York State and Ontario.

At the border, the DiNatales asked if they could turn around. They were denied. And then the border patrol agent asked if Louis owned a gun. “I told him I was retired military, I had respect for weapons, and I had a con-cealed carry license to do so,” DiNatale explained. “He asked me when was the last time I had a weapon on me. I told him, ‘Earlier that week.’ He asked me again, ‘Why?’ I told him it was my right as an American citizen to do so.”

But Louis forgot about the handgun he stowed in the center console of his car. When agents searched his vehicle, they found the gun and arrested Louis for attempting to smuggle a gun into the country and lying to patrol agents. The American was arrested; his court date is set for June. If convicted, the retired Army sergeant major faces three years in a Canadian prison.

“They’re trying to make a general blanket statement to American citizens: Don’t mess with our borders,” DiNa-tale’s lawyer, Bruce Engel, told the Times. According to the paper, nearly 1,400 firearms have been confiscated

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at Canadian entry points over the last three years, most of them personal guns belonging to U.S. citizens.

Tip for those entering Canada: leave those weapons at home.

Storeowner Loses $7 Million from Super Bowl Win

Houston’s Gallery Furniture stor-eowner Jim McIngvale is putting his money where his mouth is. Mattress Mack offered customers who bought at least $5,000 worth of furniture a full refund if they correctly picked the winners of the NFC and AFC Champi-onship games. He lost $650,000 in that

venture.But McIngvale seems to be a bet-

ting man, and in his next promotion, he offered refunds to those who purchased $6,000 worth of furniture if the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl. Last week the unbelievable happened and the Super Bowl trophy went to the Se-ahawks after a 43-8 jaw-dropping win. Their victory was his loss. Now McIn-gvale will be refunding more than $7 million to customers of his store.

McIngvale isn’t a sore loser. In fact, he asked that contest winners post photos of their free furniture on his Facebook page. He is also a pret-ty unconventional businessman. His stores boast live parrots and a group of monkeys he calls “our board of direc-tors.” Customers are treated to fresh-squeezed lemonade, coffee, warm cookies and chocolate cake.

“It was a stress test for the busi-ness,” the businessman said. “This is about as wacky [of a promotion] as it gets. It was certainly the most expen-sive.” But he admits he made a fortune off of the promotion in free publicity and got millennial customers in the door. “It was a tremendous response,”

he points out. “The best outcome that could have happened is for Seattle to have won the big game. Our drivers were delivering furniture up until the fourth quarter.”

What’s next for the intrepid busi-nessman? Free furniture if the Mets make the playoffs?

77-Year-Old Man “Walks” Around

the GlobeIke Herrick, 77, walked around the

world, and he never even stepped out-side. How did he do that? On his tread-mill.

Herrick began the project of walk-ing 21,477 miles, the equivalent of walking around the world, when he had a heart attack in 1987 at the age of 50. “Being 50 years old, I thought I was bulletproof,” said Herrick.

He drastically changed his diet and began an exercise regime that includ-ed walking every day. Herrick kept a

calculation of his miles. He says that when he reached the 18,000 mile point, he thought, “I wonder what the distance is around the world.” He calculated the distance using Austin’s 30 degree lat-itude and realized he was 3,477 miles away from the equivalent of walking around the globe. “I said, ‘That’s an achievable goal if I can live to the age of 77,’” he said. “My achievable goal was three miles a day, 15 miles a week or 700 miles a year.”

After going through two treadmills and about 20 pairs of sneakers, Herrick completed his goal.

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I know what the accomplishment feels like. I flew around the globe solo...while sitting on my couch.

Dumb Starbucks Opens in Los Angeles

People in the Los Angeles neighbor-hood Los Feliz must have thought that they were on a caffeine high when they observed what looked like a regular Starbucks shop, except for the fact that the store was actually called “Dumb Starbucks.” The weird phenomenon continued inside the store, which was the mirror image of a real Starbucks, except that everything on the menu was preceded by the word “dumb”— “Dumb Iced Coffee,” “Dumb Frappuc-

cinos,” etc.Starbucks was quick to announce

that this store was in no way affiliated with their company. The storeowners claimed that they were not infringing on any of Starbucks’ rights because of the Parody Law. A sign in the store explained, “Although we are a fully functioning coffee shop, for legal rea-sons ‘Dumb Starbucks’ needs to be cat-egorized as a work of parody art. So, in the eyes of the law, our ‘coffee shop’ is actually an art gallery and the ‘coffee’ you’re buying is considered the art. But that’s for our lawyers to worry about. All you need to do is enjoy our deli-cious coffee!”

Over the several days that the store was open, long lines formed as patrons waited to purchase their favorite, dumb drinks.

But was this real? Would a fresh cup of coffee make me realize that my mind is playing tricks on me?

It turns out that the whole thing was a stunt by Canadian comic Nathan Fielder who was preparing to use the bid on his Comedy Central show, “Na-than For You.”

I guess that is pretty funny. But not as funny as a bid I did on my comedy show, “Dumb Nathan For You.”

Woman Shoots for Getting Her

Order Wrong

Shaneka Monique Torres, 29, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, really likes her bacon and she may shoot you if you don’t give it to her.

It all started when Torres and an-other woman placed an order at the drive-thru window at a McDonalds. The workers got the order wrong, po-lice said, and the customers were told their next meal would be free.

The women returned to the restau-rant’s drive-thru window several hours later and ordered again. When she got her food, her sandwich was missing the bacon that she ordered. In a fit of

rage, Torres pulled out a gun and fired one shot through the closed car window and drive-thru window. The bullet went through the other side of the building, but thankfully did not hit anybody.

Torres was arrested shortly after the shooting. She was arraigned in Grand Rapids District Court last week on charges of carrying a concealed weap-on, discharge of a firearm in or at a building and felony firearms.

There is no word yet on whether she is being charged with “excessive Mc-Donalds eating” as well.

10-Year-Old Crashes into DMV

This 10-year-old girl is definitely good at parking…smack in the middle of the DMV.

According to Parker, Colorado, po-lice, the girl and her 12-year-old sister were waiting in the car for their moth-er who ran into the DMV and left the keys in the car. The 10-year-old slipped behind the wheel and shifted the car into drive. The car only went about 20 to 30 feet at a slow speed before crashing through the office windows. There were 12 people in the facility at the time, but thankfully no one was in-jured. The young girl was charged with reckless driving.

Apparently they thought she needed a few more years to get her license.

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Stressed out and anxious?

Take a deep breath and read Dr. Deb’s article on page 89.

You’ll be glad you did.

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There was a sense of excitement throughout the crowded halls of the Sands where the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns held its 11th anniversa-ry dinner on Tuesday evening, February 4th. There was also a sense of pride in the accomplishments of the Guest of Honor, Mr. Shlomo Mayer, appreciation for the contributions of Mr. and Mrs. Baruch Moskowitz, who received the Avodas Hakodesh Award, and recogni-tion of the work spreading Torah in the community done by Rabbi and Mrs. Ba-ruch Aryeh Tzvi (Adam) Schachar, who were the recipients of the Harbotzas To-rah Award. Additional excitement was in the crowd’s realization that how the community had played an integral role in the continued growth of the Yeshiva Gedolah as a preeminent makom Torah as well as in its soon to be completed new building. With the new building in mind, additional tribute was paid to Mr. Yaakov Mermelstein of Ray Builders who has immeasurably helped the Ye-shiva in creating the appropriate edifice for its efforts and aspirations.

The Yeshiva Gedolah is a place of higher Torah learning for bochurim re-turning from Eretz Yisroel, as well as for young married men who wish to learn in Kollel. At the same time, it serves as a community institution where baalei batim enjoy many shiurim and minya-nim. But what makes this Yeshiva truly unique is that it is a makom Torah where individual needs, strengths and person-alities are respected and nurtured. This is true, whether it relates to the talmi-dim of the Yeshiva or the baalei batim who associate with the Yeshiva. Each individual brings to the Yeshiva his own strengths and perspectives, and, at the same time, all are united in their dedi-cation to Talmud Torah, yiras shamayim and chesed.

This year’s honorees clearly ex-emplify this diversity and unity. Mr. Shlomo Mayer, with the support of his

wife, has served as a paradigmatic ex-hibition of the latent potential in every baal habayis in the community. Mr. and Mrs. Baruch Moskowitz represent the growth of the Yeshiva and the dedi-cation required to build a makom Torah in our neighborhood. Rabbi and Mrs. Schachar, with their talents, warmth, hospitality and great dedication to learn-ing, make the Yeshiva home in every conceivable way, and set an example of what a Torah home should be. Mr. Yaa-kov Mermelstein’s sensitivity and care for the soon to be completed building truly were catalysts in getting to this point. Each of the honorees is an inte-gral and important part of the Yeshiva, its past successes and its future growth.

The crowd was privileged to hear the words of Rabbi Knobel, shlita, the Yeshiva’s Rosh Kollel. Rabbi Knobel first expressed his gratitude to Hashem for all of His kindness, in giving him

and his Rebbetzin the zechus to be connected to Torah, specifically in this community. He spoke of how privi-leged they have been to learn from and be guided by their parents and grandpar-ents, as well as many gedolim, bearers and guardians of the mesorah. Rabbi Knobel spoke of the total immersion in learning and Torah that the Yeshiva rep-resents. Its influence is renowned com-munity wide and beyond. Rav Knobel then introduced the video presentation about the Guest of Honor, Mr. Mayer, whom Rabbi Knobel has been learning with b’chavrusa for the past 8 years. In the video, Rav Knobel spoke of Shlo-mo’s growth in learning, his desire and dedication for learning, and the impact that his learning had on his entire fami-ly. One of his sons attested to this influ-ence, noting how the sincerity of it was so clear to all those around him, espe-cially within the family. Shlomo himself spoke of how it changed his life, and the affect that the learning and the Rosh

Kollel have had on him and his family. Rabbi Moshe Zev Katzenstein, shl-

ita, the Rosh Yeshiva spoke about the clarity that Torah brings us in a confus-ing world. He explained that the Aron and the Mishkan are commanded in plural, which indicates the need for ev-eryone to have a part in the building of Torah. The Yeshiva was the beneficiary of the generosity of so many in the com-munity and beyond, and the Rosh Yeshi-va implored everyone to help complete the project. This year’s honorees were very appropriate considering the immi-nent completion of the new building and what we hope to accomplish in it. In the video presentation about the Schachar family, who he has such a close connec-tion to since Baruch Aryeh came to the Yeshiva, the Rosh Yeshiva gushed about both the seriousness with which Baruch Aryeh takes his learning, as well as how the entire family makes the Yeshiva their home in in every possible way. The Schachars have a home renowned in the Yeshiva and the greater community for chessed and warmth. In the video Rav Baruch Aryeh spoke about his passion for the Yeshiva, and how quickly he knew it was a place he was going to stay for the long term, before ultimately set-tling in Woodmere. A talmid attested in the video based on personal experience, to all that was said about him and his family, both in terms of learning as well as the warmth of the Schachar home.

Mr. Yehuda Biber, the dinner’s MC and co-chair, introduced the video seg-ment about Baruch Moskowitz and his wife, Tamar. Mr. Biber spoke firsthand as an active board member as to the hard work and dedication that they have shown. Baruch, in his video segment, spoke about the growth of the Yeshi-va since he first took over as executive director some 7+ years ago. He spoke about how the building project became such a part of him and that watching each stage being completed he likened

to raising a child. Even more special to him was that the project coincided with his marriage to Tamar and subsequent birth of their first child, Shira Leah. To him, this was and will be the culmina-tion of years of work, but it is more spe-cial to share it with his own family.

An important part of the evening was the tribute paid to Mr. Yaakov Mer-melstein and Ray Builders. This was the perfect transition to acknowledge the upcoming completion of the new building and to acknowledge those that contributed so greatly to that cause. Rabbi Katzenstein spoke about how, de-spite what is a relatively small project to his company, Yanky took every de-tail to heart, to ensure that Torah in our community would be housed in just the right atmosphere and environment. The Yeshiva felt it was only right to publicly thank him and those who assisted him as it moves into what will be its magnif-icent, yet simple new home.

The Eleventh Anniversary Dinner was a great success, with more than 440 people in attendance. The evening pro-vided an opportunity to take pride in all that has been accomplished. At the same time, those who attended were given a vision of the Yeshiva’s future plans and goals, including the completion of the Yeshiva’s beautiful new home, with the announcement that the Yeshiva will tentatively celebrate its completion on March 30th iy”H. We look forward to realizing these goals and to furthering the growth of the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns as a makom Torah in the midst of our community.

For dedication or donation op-portunities and for more information regarding the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns, please visit the Yeshiva’s website, www.ygft.org, or telephone the Yeshiva office at (516)295-8900 x5.

Yeshiva Gedolah Of The Five Towns Held Its 11Th Anniversary Dinner

Avodas Hakodesh Awardee, Baruch Moskowitz, accepting his award Guest of Honor Mr. Shlomo Meyer accepting his awardRabbi Baruch Aryeh (Adam), the Harbotzas Torah Awardee, accepting his award

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HANC High School’s menahel, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, accompanied by the director of Israel guidance, Rabbi Avraham Ismach, visited alumni spend-ing their year in Israel over winter break. HANC hosted a reunion for all the stu-dents on Tuesday evening, January 14th at the OU Center, providing a delicious pizza dinner, inspirational divrei Torah, siyumim, and a nostalgic video montage.

As everyone arrived, students greet-ed each other with warm welcomes and embraced one another with open arms as if no time had actually passed between the reunion and their last visit. The video, put together by current HANC senior Alex Sachs, was a heart-warm-ing highlight of the night, comprised of messages from HANC teachers and students. Throughout the event, students and teachers exchanged stories and re-cent experiences, catching up with old friends.

Additionally, Rabbi Adelman and Rabbi Ismach spent four days visiting the various yeshivot and seminaries

including Harova, Hakotel, Shaalvim, Baer Miriam, MMY, Raishit, Mikdash Melech, Midreshet Moriah, Tiferet, KBY, Darchei Binah, and Netiv Aryeh, meeting each of the Roshei Yeshivot/Menaehelot and catching up with the HANC students in each of the schools.

“While I hope that our visit provid-ed chizuk to our students,” said Rabbi Adelman, “I can’t overstate how in-spired and uplifted we were by what we witnessed and heard over the course of our visit. The high level of limud HaTo-rah and spiritual growth on display by these outstanding young men and wom-en affirms the value of the important foundation they received in their homes and here at HANC, which served as a crucial spring board for the immense success that they are now experiencing. It is very inspiring.”

HANC is very proud to hear of all our students’ accomplishments and gains nachat from them knowing that they continue to distinguish themselves in their respective yeshivot and seminaries.

HANC High School Reunion in Israel

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The Lawrence School District 15 Board of Education has awarded an $8.5 million contract to sell the va-cant Number Six School to the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB), and it set a March 31 referendum for voters to approve the transaction.

Under the contract, HALB will pay $8.5 million in cash and issue a $2.7 million note with the School District to ensure that Lawrence realizes an-nual savings on transportation, public health and welfare, and special educa-tion costs for HALB students.

“This purchase agreement is a win-win for the Woodmere-Five Towns community and for our students,” said HALB board President Lance Hirt, who explained the school acquisition would:

Safeguard the character of the near-

by, family-oriented, residential neigh-borhood.

Help the Lawrence School Board to stabilize local property taxes.

Generate millions of dollars in cost-savings for the District for years to come on transportation, special ed-ucation, public health and welfare, and for out-of-district reimbursements.

Represent a multimillion dollar in-vestment in the Woodmere-Five Towns community that will boost the local economy.

HALB plans to relocate 800 ele-mentary school students from Long Beach to Woodmere after it receives approval from the Town of Hempstead to renovate the Number Six School and the work is complete.

Hirt said the renovations are nec-essary for HALB to make better use

of classroom space and public areas; improve energy efficiency with a new roof, new windows, and state-of-the-art heating and air conditioning systems; and enhance safety with new electri-cal and plumbing systems that comply with the current building codes.

HALB decided to buy the Number Six School because over 90-percent of its incoming classes are from the Wood-mere-Five Towns area and because the Woodmere building is one-third larger than its Long Beach school and the 6.6-acre Church Avenue property is three times bigger.

“The larger school and its amenities are a significant improvement over our current building in Long Beach. This will enable HALB to offer our students a more robust curriculum and better ex-tracurricular programs,” Hirt said.

“HALB is sensitive to the interests and concerns of the Woodmere commu-nity,” said Steven Zuller, a Woodmere resident and HALB’s board vice pres-ident. “Our board and executive staff are dedicated to ensuring that HALB is a good neighbor and a reliable commu-nity partner.”

“We will work hard to balance the community’s wishes with our students’ needs and with the Town of Hemp-stead’s zoning requirements to preserve outdoor recreation areas at the Number Six School,” Zuller said. “Our goal is to create a mutually-acceptable plan for community use of school fields and playgrounds when not in school use.”

Lawrence School Board Sets March 31 Referendum for Voter-Approval to Sell the Number Six School to the

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This past Sunday night, February 9th, CHAZAQ hosted world renowned

lecturer, author and founder of “The Shmuz” Rabbi Benzion Shafier live at the Beth Gavriel Center in Forest Hills. The rabbi spoke to the many men and women in the crowd about “How to get up after falling” which is part of his new series called the “Marriage Seminar.”

For a full listing of upcoming CHAZAQ events and programs, con-tact us at 917-617-3636, email [email protected], or visit us online at www.CHAZAQ.org.

Rabbi Benzion Shafier of the Shmuz Speaks in Queens

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A new Lunch & Learn Program started for a group of fourth and fifth grade boys. Once a week this group will meet during lunch and they will learn a Daf Hashavua curriculum. This curric-ulum is taken from the newly designed Daf Yomi for Children in partnership with Bar-Ilan University. It focuses on basic mishna and gemara concepts, and meaningful stories about tanaim and

amoraim. It also focuses on higher level thinking and strong Hebrew language skills. It is designed to provide a healthy introduction to learning mishna and gemara. This class is being taught by Rabbi Dovid Kupchik, middle school menahel and senior rabbi of the lower school. A similar class is starting for sixth graders which will be taught by Rabbi Yisrael Moshe Siff.

New Lunch & Learn Enrichment Program at HAFTR

This past Motzaei Shabbos, the Young Israel of Long Beach held their Annual Robert Chiger Scholarship Con-cert featuring Lipa Schmeltzer and the Shira Choir. The concert took place in front of a standing room only capacity crowd. As in years past, the concert, dedicated to the memory of Robert Chiger, raised funds for yeshiva and summer camp scholarships.

Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, morah d’asrah of the YILB, expressed heartfelt expressions of hakoras hatov to all who attended. There was a special tribute to Avigail Rechnitz a”h at which time the Shira choir sang a specially composed song, “El HaNaar hazeh hispallalti” that was originally introduced in Los Angeles. Rabbi Chaim Wakslak also introduced an original niggun he com-

posed, “Menucha shelema sheata rozeh bah” during the course of the concert.

The concert was punctuated with the singing by the participants. An elaborate Melavah Malkah was served with fruit platters donated by Yanky Brach of Brach’s supermarket and donuts donated by Dunkin Donuts.

Young Israel of Long Beach Annual Scholarship Concert Features Lipa

In the Jewish Home Division:Art World-29, China Glatt-21: In

this low scoring game, the score was back and forth all the way down to the wire. At the end it was the now 3-7 Art World who pulled off their third win go-ing into playoff week. Binyomin Parnes took over offensively as he led his team with 12 and Shaya Lichtfield had 6. Chi-na Glatt, now 5-5, will face Batampte Pickles in the playoffs next week.

Quality Carpet-44, Batampte Pickles-41: Moshe Frank and Co. dom-inated with just three others players on his side. He finished the game with 17, while Chuli Herbst knocked in 12. This win gives Quality a 7-3 record going into the playoffs where they will face Art World. Batampte’s Yosef Kapeta again led his team with 27 of 41 points. However, the quickness and agility of Quality kept them just short of anoth-er win. They now stand tied with China Glatt at the #2 seed with a 5-5 record.

Shirt Stop-35, ITP-29: This game was close throughout, as the absence of Yehudah Oppenheim almost cost Shirt Stop the victory. Nissim Furer led Shirt Stop with 18 while Yitzi Weinberger had 8. Mordechai Cohen for ITP led with 20 of 29; however, Shirt Stop was too strong and quick for the Sefardi boys. ITP finishes the regular season with a 4-6 record and with face off with Per-fect Collision next week in the playoffs, while Shirt Stop finishes their season with an 8-2 record.

Perfect Collsion-56, Pizza World-42: Perfect was up for most of the first half, as Pizza World struggled to control Dovid Reiser and Meir Ru-binfeld’s fast breaks points. Howev-er, as the second half began and Piz-za World was down by double digits, they went on a 22-7 run against Perfect Collision and brought the game within reach. However, it was a little too late for Pizza World to secure the victory. It was a valiant effort by Pizza World’s Eli Kremer (15 points) and Yitzi Wald-man (13 points). Dovid Reiser and Meir Rubinfeld combined for 46 points to lead Perfect to a 6-4 record as they face ITP next week.

In the Jewish Connection Division:

Ready to Roll does just that over Repairs on Wheels 60-51 Yaakov Ibragimov scores 28 and Eli Schlosser knocks down 13 to lead Ready. Dovid Sterns barrage of three pointers and Zevy Tepper got Repairs close at the end but fell short. These two teams will face each other in the first round of the playoffs as the second and third seeds.

Nosh Express brings their amazing regular season to a 9-1 mark with a vic-tory over Plaza Auto Leasing. Sendy Hammond, Shmuel Krywanowski and Aaron Lowenthal did most of the dam-age as these two teams meet next week in the playoffs.

The Flatbush Basketball League Week #10 Recap

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“Eretz Yisrael, America and Europe are on fire with Daf HaYomi B’Hala-cha!” was the passionate description of Rabbi Avigdor Berenstein, senior mem-ber of Dirshu’s hanhala. “At the recent Dirshu test – the first test on Chelek Vav – there were more than 3,500 new test takers,” Rabbi Berenstein exclaimed.

The milestone of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha beginning Mishna Berurah Chelek Vav has made waves in the wid-er Jewish world. Certainly, the fact that Daf HaYomi B’Halacha has embarked on its final march to what will be a his-toric first siyum on the entire Mishna Berurah has had a significant impact. Many new learners want to get in on the ground floor of this historic undertaking of bringing daily halacha learning into their lives.

An Auspicious Time to BeginIn addition, Chelek Vav, which is

primarily devoted to the halachos of the Yomim Tovim, is an ideal starting point as many people desire to attain a more meaningful Yom Tov permeated by hala-chic knowledge. In fact, it is said in the name of the Chazon Ish that the best way to truly connect with any aspect of avodas Hashem is through properly and comprehensively learning the spe-cific, relevant particular halachos. Not only does learning the halachos of the Yomim Tovim open new vistas in shem-iras halacha that one never previously understood, it also opens the wellsprings of the pnimiyus, the inner essence of Yom Tov, enhancing it with a unique taam, a delightful spiritual insight.

Triple Increase: Increase in Test Takers; Increase in

Participants; and Increase in ShiurimIn addition to the 3,500 new test tak-

ers who are bringing true accountability to their learning, thousands more have joined the daily Daf HaYomi B’Halacha without taking tests.

To augment the increase in partici-pants, Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein, Dir-shu’s Director of Public Affairs, has reported a significant number of new shiurim in Daf HaYomi B’Halacha throughout the world. In Eretz Yisrael alone more than 15 new shiurim have commenced in the main Torah centers as well as some smaller communities.

In Europe, a new shiur has begun at the Bais Medrash Eitz Chaim in Amster-dam, Holland. Eitz Chaim is the home of the Kollel of Amsterdam led by Rav

Padwa. The shiur given by Rav Yisrael Sigal has already attracted a devoted following. In Strasbourg, France, too, a new shiur deliv-ered by Rav Michael Szmerla at the Adas Israel Congregation every weeknight after Mincha and Maariv, has been established. Numerous shiurim have been added to the roster in England and by now, virtually every neighborhood in England with an Ortho-dox Jewish presence, boasts a Daf HaY-omi B’Halacha shiur.

Perhaps one of the most interesting new shiurim to begin with Chelek Vav is one established by a Brooklyn marketing firm. Every day before the onset of work the employees gather together for a Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiur whose mem-bers enthusiastically declare how it has immeasurably enriched their day.

In Eretz Yisrael, several yeshiva ketanos have established shiurim and special testing sites have been designat-ed in order to accommodate those yeshi-vos whose schedules do not allow their bochurim to take the monthly tests at the regular scheduled sites.

Aside from the live Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiurim the world over, Dir-shu has made available numerous oppor-tunities to hear shiurim for those unable to personally attend along with many oth-er aids to learning Daf HaYomi B’Hala-cha. Listeners to the many Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiurim on Kol Halashon have increased significantly, and in the New York Metro Area, a radio segment of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha is broadcast 3 times each day. Other highly useful tools are the daily newsletter available via e-mail as well as the monthly Daf HaYomi glossy bulletin with all kinds of interesting shailos and insights to enrich one’s learning and knowledge. In this way, Dirshu has empowered Jews who are interested in learning Daf HaYomi B’Halacha to participate wherever they may be!

The Impetus: The Call of the Gedolim

Rabbi Aharon Gobioff, Director of Dirshu’s American operations, explains, “Without a doubt the tremendous siyata d’Shmaya that Dirshu has experienced

and the massive increased enrollment is due to the call of numerous Gedolei Yis-rael in the aftermath of the recent Dirshu Convention in Somerset, New Jersey. Prominent Gedolim, including HaGa-on HaRav Shmuel Yaakov Borenstein, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Kiryas Melech, and others, called on all of Klal Yisrael to incorporate the learning of halacha l’maaseh, practical halacha, into their daily limudim.”

HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shtein-man, shlita; HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita; HaGaon HaRav Ger-shon Edelstein, shlita and HaGaon HaR-av Nissim Karelitz, shlita issued a Kol Korei addressed to “Acheinu Bnei Yisra-el wherever they may be,” proclaiming:

It is therefore proper that every sin-gle person set aside time every day to learn halacha, and especially halachos that are of practical relevance, every day and every Shabbos. This daily learning of practical halacha should not be less than a half hour….”

The Gerrer Rebbe and the Sanz-Klau-senberger Rebbe, also issued a call, with the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe writing: “Especially at this time when it is an eis tzarah l’Yaakov, and specifically in Eretz Hakodesh, where there are attempts to trample on the kavod haTorah and those who learn Torah…”

A New Look at Age-Old LawsOne of the new participants who

began learning Daf HaYomi B’Halacha with Chelek Vav and the laws of Chol Hamoed, said, “I can’t even describe how much I have gained from learn-ing Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Certainly, I always knew that Chol Hamoed was special, but I had no idea how intricate and detailed the halachos were! My ob-servance of Chol Hamoed together with my whole attitude towards Chol Hamoed will change through my learning the

halachos properly in the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Would I have ever imagined that there might be a halachic issue with hiring and paying a babysit-ter on Chol Hamoed? What about making a bank transac-tion? These and so many other things have enlightened me about what is permitted and prohibited on Chol Hamoed and has given me additional appreciation for the Yom Tov of Chol Hamoed.”

He is so effusive he sim-ply cannot stop. “What about

laundry? What laundry can and can’t you do on Chol Hamoed? What about polish-ing your shoes?...”

All of these issues are discussed in the Mishna Berurah and in the Dirshu Biurim and Musafim that bring the piskei halacha of the gedolei haposkim on a panoply of modern day shailos that have arisen since the publication of the Mish-na Berurah more than 100 years ago.

Making Every minute of Every Day Count Spiritually – Every Jew’s

Obligation!Perhaps the words of HaGaon HaR-

av Dovid Cohen, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of the Chevron Yeshiva, in a letter issued before the commencement of Chelek Vav encapsulate it best: “Learning halacha, learning Mishna Berurah always needs strengthening. It is an absolute obligation for every Jew and particularly for a ben Torah. It is impossible to even describe the greatness and the zechus inherent when thousands strengthen themselves by learning Mishna Berurah every day and then take tests on what they have learned to ensure that they remember… In this zechus may we soon merit the geulah sheleimah.”

So if you really want to make every minute of your day, your Shabbos, your Yom Tov, one in which you meet Hashem and think about Him and His command-ments, now is the time to join Daf HaY-omi B’Halacha.

If you have not done so yet, NOW is the time to change your life and trans-form your day – every single day – from the mundane into the holy by incorpo-rating the daily learning of halacha into your life.

To join Daf HaYomi B’Halacha, please call 1-888-5-Dirshu or e-mail [email protected].

Explosive Growth in Worldwide Daf HaYomi B’Halacha EnrollmentBy Chaim Gold

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Canned fish has long been consid-ered a household staple, a convenient and easy way to create filling spreads and sandwiches. But fish fans will tell you that not every can is an equal catch. When it comes to quality fish with per-fect flavor and freshness, knowledge-able customers will reach for a can of Glick’s tuna or sardines, easily the best one on the shelf.

To create the famous canned fish, Glicks starts out with only the freshest and finest the river has to offer. Pro-cessed quickly and carefully, Glick’s fish are guaranteed to maintain a max-imum level of freshness from fishing net to can. After being cleaned, flavored and canned, Glick’s tuna and sardines are ready to enhance any meal or snack. Glick’s tuna is available in chunk light or solid white albacore, packaged in water or oil. Glick’s sardines are also available in a skinless and boneless va-riety, and are packaged in pure olive oil

or water.Aside from the flavor and conve-

nience of Glick’s canned fish, tuna and sardines are excellent sources of Ome-ga 3 fatty acids, an important compo-nent of any healthy diet. Fish is also a major source of lean protein, making it an ideal meal for those careful with carb intake. In short, with awesome fla-vor and freshness and full of nutrition, a can of Glick’s fish is nothing short of perfect.

Gllick’s Finest carries an extensive line of high-quality food products, all under the hashgacha of OU and Hi-sachdus. Their premium product line includes canned good, barbeque sauces, natural fruit preserves, baking products such as pie crusts, oils and puddings, and staple groceries like peanut butter and salt, to name a few. Attractively packaged and always fresh and tasty, Glick’s products certainly have “quality you can taste.”

Glick’s Canned Fish: When a Fresh Catch is Not Possible

The second grade talmidim in Yeshi-va Tiferes Moshe celebrated their first siyum on Parshas Chayei Sarah this past Sunday. Parents, grandparents, member of the hanhalah and many other proud community members shared in the boys’ simcha. Everyone felt the boys’ pride in

their own achievements coupled with the nachas evident on the faces of their rabbeim and families in an atmosphere of ahavas Torah. The boys worked hard for this event, and their effort really paid off! The event was beautifully imple-mented and rightfully enjoyed.

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“Is there any greater nachas a rebbi can enjoy than watching his talmi-dim grow?” asks Rabbi Yehoshua Robinson, 11th grade rebbe at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov. “What’s amazing about this yeshi-va is that it never ends. Just when we thought we had seen it all, we’re once again astounded…another blatt is learned during free time, another kasha is asked, another middah is improved.”

Indeed, another accomplishment is celebrated!

This year, the Mesivta Ateres Yaakov dinner theme is appropriately “Celebrat-ing Accomplishments,” since it defines the atmosphere of growth that so perme-ates the halls of the yeshiva.

This all-encompassing environment is equally felt in the general studies de-partment as well. “It’s simple. Our boys are really motivated to learn,” explains Rabbi Sam Rudansky, the general stud-ies principal. “I think it is unique to find a school where you see impressive and sustained academic commitment in both limudei kodesh and limudei chol.”

In a school that takes great pride in its culture of motivation, the achievements are simply astounding: 185 talmidim from 9th to 12th grade, 40 budding talmi-dei chachomim in its Yeshiva Gedolah, and a shul kehillah that is bursting at the seams. There is growth to be found ev-erywhere you turn.

“Ateres Yaakov is more than just a yeshiva,” exclaims a passionate Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, the Yeshiva’s beloved menahel, “and I am proud to say that our staff goes above and beyond in every-thing they do. We are a makom Torah in

every sense of the word. We are commit-ted to producing full-fledged, well-round-ed bnei Torah. That is why we view our staff as mentors, not just teachers, and the yeshiva as not just a place to learn, but a place to grow.”

At this year’s annual dinner which will take place on February 23rd, the yeshiva will honor several important in-dividuals who have demonstrated a firm commitment to the Yeshiva and its val-ues. Mr. Jonathan Farrell, Esq. will be the Guest of Honor, Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Ro-goff will be recognized as Parents of the Year, Dr. & Mrs. Saul Bahn and Rabbi & Mrs. Benjamin Samson are Grandparents of the Year, and Mr. David English will be honored as Alumnus of the Year.

“At the end of the day, we’re all here for the same goal,” says Rabbi Robinson, “to help our talmidim develop as bnei To-rah. Just look around here; whether it is in the Bais Medrash or in our brand new science lab, it’s plain to see. There is no doubt that Ateres Yaakov is doing an ex-ceptional job.”

“To us, and to our phenomenal parent body, that is the greatest nachas.”

To participate in this year’s dinner campaign, call 516-374-6465 or email [email protected].

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On February 4th and 5th, the first grade students at Bnos Malka Academy took part in a huge milestone event and a once in a lifetime occasion. They performed a beautiful siddur presentation for family and friends as they received their sid-durim amidst great pomp and excitement and despite the inclement weather! The students’ enthusiasm was palpable as they walked on stage. Their smiles were contagious! The performance, which included live music by Morah Reena Greenberg, was the perfect venue for the students to display their poise, self-con-fidence, and enthusiasm. Mrs. Herzberg, the first grade morah, along with Mrs. Panish and Mrs. Gemal, the first grade assistants, did a wonderful job preparing the girls for this momentous occasion. The students had so much fun practicing for their play that they did not even real-ize how much Hebrew they were learn-ing in the process! It was especially cute to see other students, and even parents and grandparents, whispering the words to the play along with the speakers. It seems everyone enjoyed getting ready for this siddur presentation.

After the presentation concluded,

the students were called up one by one to receive their siddurim, complete with a decorative and original siddur cover which each girl designed her own. The collation afterward was filled with yum-my treats and a beautiful ‘Mazal Tov’ cake. The Parents’ Association spon-sored adorable peklach to sweeten the occasion for the students. We wish the girls students much hatzlocha as they continue to grow into bnos Yisroel who cherish their ability to connect to Hash-em through tefilla, and we wish their families much joy and nachas from them!

Bnos Malka First Graders Celebrate their First Siddurim

In honor of Parshiot Terumah and Tetzaveh, the second-sixth graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School welcomed Steve Frankel and the traveling school exhibit from Machon HaMikdash.

Mr. Frankel gave the students an overview of what the Mishkan and the Beit HaMikdash looked like; he explained to them that the Beit Ha-Mikdash was one of the most beauti-ful buildings ever built and that people

from all over the world came to visit Yerushalayim just to see the Beit Ha-Mikdash. After the presentation, the students built an actual replica of the Beit HaMikdash! The students started by laying the bricks of the courtyard and then built the Beit HaMikdash, in-cluding the keilim. The students were blown away by beauty and intricate de-sign details of the Beit HaMikdash!

“It is hard to communicate to stu-dents today what we lost when the Beit

HaMikdash was destroyed and it’s hard for them to visualize what it looked like. By actually building the Beit Ha-Mikdash with their own hands and see-ing the beauty of the Beit HaMikdash, it gave the students an opportunity to see

what we’re missing today and to fully appreciate what they’re learning about in Parshat HaShavuah,” explained Rab-bi Michael Merrill, rebbe and director of student programs.

HANC Builds the Beit HaMikdash

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A minhag that has cropped up around a num-ber of yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel has now taken root in America. Yeshiva Gedola Ateres Yaakov ini-tiated its first Super Seder this past Sunday.

Super Seder is remi-niscent of leil Shavuos…with a twist. Instead of watching the Super Bowl

together with the majority of Americans around the world, talmidim of Ateres Yaakov joined their reb-beim, ba’alei batim and a sizable number of the 12th grade at MAY for a 4 hour seder beginning at kickoff and ending well after the final minutes of the game.

The evening “kicked-off” with a schmooze

from 12th grade rebbe, Rabbi Elysha Sandler, who inspired those in at-tendance with t r e m e n d o u s words of chizuk and hisori-rus. Talmidim then learned b’chavrusa and in small chabu-ros led by their rebbeim.

“This is a minhag that many of our talmidim adopted and participated in during their years in yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel,” commented Rav Meir Braun-stein, Rosh HaYeshiva, “They did not want to break their ‘chazakah’ and asked if we would organize a Super Seder here in America as well. How

could we say no?!”Refreshments were served through-

out the evening, generously sponsored by Gourmet Glatt, and culminated in a closing schmooze from Rav Eytan Fein-er, rav of the White Shul, followed by enthusiastic singing and dancing.

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Avi & Naomi Krasnow, Guests of Honor Rabbi Yehoshua Kalish, Harbotzas Torah and Rabbinic Leadership Awardee Mr. & Mrs. Yochanan Gordon, Esteemed Alumni Honorees

Stepping up and helping out is one of the greatest things one can do. Since 2002, in the midst of the Second Intifa-da, Rambam Mesivta has sent juniors and seniors on its annual Mitnadvim (Volunteers) program to help on vari-

ous IDF bases. This act of chesed and this statement of commitment to Israel is made possible through Sar-El which is a combination charity organization and army unit. It allows non-Israelis to spend from a week up to a few months volunteering on IDF bases. The Mit-

nadvim program would also not have been possible without the commitment of Rambam Mesivta’s principal, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, who himself served in the IDF, and the hours and hours of time he spent putting this program together.

This year was the eleventh time a Mitnadvim group went to Israel during the “Yeshiva Week” break. This year, four devoted students, senior Yitzchak Milworn, and juniors Dovid Rosenz-weig, Zachary Beer and Shmuel Halb-finger, decided to forgo “vacation” and

spend their time on an IDF Base doing whatever was necessary for the safety of Israel.

The volunteers left on Motzei Shab-bat of January 11th, and arrived in Is-rael on Sunday night and met up with their Madrich, Netanel, as well as some Sar-El representatives. The boys were then whisked off to the Tzippori base in the Galilee. Along with other vol-unteers, the students assisted soldiers with different jobs on the base for two

weeks. They packed duffel bags, orga-nized a warehouse and unloaded trucks among other things. Many on the base expressed gratitude towards the stu-dents, including many soldiers and commanders. It is a tremendous source of chizuk to Israelis to know that Amer-ican Jewry is there to help.

Rambam Mesivta would like to congratulate these students on a great job on the program and helping out the IDF to protect the State of Israel.

Rambam Talmidim Dedicate Vacation to IDF Base

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The Yeshiva of Central Queens will hold its annual Scholarship Dinner on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at The Sands Atlantic Beach, it was announced by YCQ’s President Dr. Joel Cohen this week.

The Dinner will mark the Yeshiva’s seventy-third anniversary and pay tribute to outstanding people who have served the Yeshiva and the community with much devotion. It will also highlight the achievements of the Alumni Classes of 1964 and 2004.

Receiving the Yeshiva’s prestigious Leadership in Education Award will be Mr. Lawrence Cohen, upon his re-tirement after eleven years as a highly dedicated assistant principal. Mr. Cohen joined YCQ after a distinguished career with the New York City Board of Edu-cation. He quickly became an important and beloved member of the administra-tion, and has been essential in the growth and success of the Yeshiva during this period.

Ilana and Eli Gutenmacher will be honored as Parents of the Year. They

serve as wonderful role models to their lovely children through their active in-volvement in their education. They en-thusiastically participate in the activities of the YCQ Parents Association and their shul, Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills. Ilana is also a P.A. representative on the YCQ Board of Trustees. Their unas-suming dispositions coupled with their sincere devotion have earned the Gut-enmachers a large cadre of friends and admirers.

Special tribute will be paid to the YCQ Alumni Class of 1964 upon its fif-tieth anniversary and the Alumni Class of 2004 upon its tenth anniversary in conjunction with their class reunions which will take place at the Dinner. The Alumni Committee includes Dr. Paul Brody for the Class of 1964 as well as Ben Blumenthal and Tova Cohen from the Class of 2004, and Rabbi Marc Mer-rill as YCQ’s Alumni Director.

YCQ Board Chairman Israel Gla-ser noted that all funds from the Dinner campaign will be allocated to the YCQ Scholarship Fund. A Scroll of Honor

listing the contributors will be published for the occasion.

Mrs. Reize Sipzner and Mrs. Pearl Cohen, Dinner Co-Chairs, asked all members of the “YCQ Family” to make their Dinner reservations as soon as pos-sible and participate generously in the Scroll of Honor so that “we can all en-

joy a special evening of friendship in the spirit of hachzakat HaTorah.”

For more information, please call 718-793-8500 ext. 300 or 302. Alum-ni inquiries should be directed to Rabbi Merrill at ext. 304 or at [email protected]. All are invited to peruse the YCQ website at www.ycqweb.com.

Yeshiva Of Central Queens73Rd Anniversary Scholarship Dinner

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Vort of Michael Weingarten, son of Dr. Alex and Meryl Weingarten of Jamaica Estates,

and Julie Stahler, daughter of Mark and Eta Stahler of Lawrence Bay Park, at the

Young Israel of Holliswood. Rabbi Kenneth Hain of Cong Beth Shalom dropped in to

give mazel tov and dance with the families.

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It’s been said that the two hard-est words to say are “I’m sorry” and the three hardest words are “I forgive you.” There are many reasons why it is difficult to apologize. However apolo-gizing is a tremendously powerful and effective tool in relationships. A sin-cere apology has the power to bring people closer.

Only Hashem is perfect. People make mistakes. That is a fundamental part of being a human being. In mar-riage it’s important to know how to apologize for our mistakes, and how to forgive, both our spouse for mistakes made and ourselves. Holding back forgiveness for a mistake results in the relationship being stuck or declin-ing. When we do forgive, we create a precedent in our marriage for apology and forgiveness and that results in a re-lationship that is closer and richer.

What is a proper apology? The main components necessary in an apology are sincerity and a commitment to change. Otherwise one will not be believed and it will not lead to forgiveness. A sin-cere apology is simple, clean and con-tains no excuses. “I’m sorry I snapped at you when I came home last night, I’ll try to be careful not to let it hap-pen again.” It is OK to explain the cir-cumstance or situation but care must be taken to use it as an explanation and not the excuse, for example: “I apolo-gize that I snapped at you when I came home yesterday. I had a very hard day and came home in a bad mood, but that

is no excuse for taking it out on you and I am sorry. I’ll try not to let it happen again.” However, when the excuse is part of the apology it makes it feel less sincere. “I apologize but I didn’t do it on purpose. I had a hard day and didn’t realize what I was saying.”

It is also important to make sure to be someone who is easy to apologize to. When your spouse apologizes, re-spond with a simple “thank you for the apology,” or if it is genuine, “I forgive you.” By accepting the apology and not responding with criticism and bringing up past mistakes it will do a lot towards creating a safe environment for apology and will enable your spouse to repeat it in the future.

This week let us try apologizing sin-cerely when necessary and try to forgive or at the very least be accepting when apologized to. Let this endeavor result in increased shalom bayis between us and our spouse, and may it bring us one step closer in our creation of a bayis neeman b’Yisroel.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative pro-vides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage thera-pists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 10:00-11:00 p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email [email protected].

A Sincere ApologyBy David Steiner, MD

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A select group of students at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Busi-ness are enjoying a real-life entrepre-neurial experience this semester, thanks to a new course called “Growing a Man-aging Business.”

The class is open to students on both the Beren and Wilf campuses and aims to give them the unique opportunity to work as a consulting team together with a faculty member to advise and develop solutions for a business client on a cho-sen project. This year, that client is YU’s annual Seforim Sale, North America’s largest Jewish book sale, which is op-erated by YU students—from ordering merchandise to setting up the premises, marketing, accounting and all the tech-nology the project entails.

“The students have now spent a num-ber of months studying the Seforim Sale and trying to determine what are the crit-ical issues that need to be addressed,” said Leonard Fuld, clinical assistant

professor of accounting, who is teaching the class. “Similar to Pricewater-houseCoopers or any out-side firm, the idea was for them to look at the sale and determine what needed the most attention…to give them the hands-on expe-rience you don’t get in the classroom.”

The 4-credit, 17-week course also requires stu-dents to attend the sale, held from February 2-23, to enable them to make recommendations on how to improve the current business model. The stu-dents attend as consultants to study the operations, interview employees and perform on-site analysis and real-time audits.

The participating students also heard

lectures from experts in law, banking, management, inventory management, accounting, and mergers and acquisi-tions.

“Students are getting a well-rounded look at the business world: a very rich set of classroom lectures, the ability to share ideas with professors and the ex-perts, and the occasion to get hands-on experience by actually attending the Se-forim Sale and understanding the issues it faces,” said Fuld. “It’s truly a unique opportunity. What makes it different is the ability to take the theoretical and put it into practice.”

Students analyze the business and provide practical recommendations to the client throughout the semester, cul-minating in a final report and presenta-tion. The class also challenges students to utilize key entrepreneurial skills, while touching upon elements of social science, business, law, and features of private and public entities.

“At Syms, we are continuously striv-ing to initiate innovative, constructive and practical business education meth-odologies and the new course exactly fits those academic goals,” said Sy Syms As-sociate Dean Michael Strauss, entrepre-neur in residence and clinical professor of management. “The students address business problems in a hands-on manner and thereby develop their team-working and people skills, critical thinking, cre-ative planning, management abilities, technical knowledge and communica-tion proficiency. The course is more akin to a business clinic one might find offered at one of the elite graduate busi-ness schools.”

In subse-quent years, the goal is for the class to focus on local small businesses out-side the realm of YU. “We’d go and offer the consulting to other neigh-borhood busi-nesses that are having trouble running their operations in certain areas,” said Fuld.

S t u d e n t s were drawn to the class for the opportu-nity to gain practical experience beyond the classroom. “The fact that you’re able to learn and then actually apply it to the Seforim Sale really fascinated me and attracted me to the course,” said Asher Perez, an accounting student and a mem-ber of the Sy Syms Business Honors and Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. “Every class was a different topic and I like the variety—one day we covered the legal aspects, one day the operational as-pects, one day the accounting. It was re-ally a snapshot into how business works, which is what I wanted to see.”

One part of the course that Perez par-ticularly enjoyed was the marketing as-pect, where students sent out surveys to past customers to garner feedback about the sale. “I got 250 responses on the first day,” he said. “There’s a clear desire for the Seforim Sale and people enjoy it. Now the question is, how do we harness that to make it successful?”

For others, the open communication with business executives and fellow stu-dents was tremendously valuable.

“We have many distinguished pro-fessors and business associates giving frequent informative lectures and help-ing us every step of the way…and we have learned a great deal of information and tactics about how a business should be run,” said Jonathan Katz. “To have the ability to bounce ideas off my fellow classmates and to collaboratively ad-dress problems and try and solve them will be the greatest asset that I take away from this class. This facet closely mim-ics the real business world where a team is working towards the same goal.”

Learning Business by the BooksSy Syms Students Gain Consulting Experience at Annual Seforim Sale

Every month, the pre-school direc-tors from the Five Towns/Far Rockaway area gather together to brainstorm. This month’s meeting was hosted by Bnos Bais Yaakov and its pre-school director, Morah Yehudis Oppen.

Sue Remick Topek, Associate Direc-tor of the Early Childhood Department of the Jewish Education Project, orga-nizes these meetings and arranges for speakers to address the directors. This month’s speaker was a BBY parent, Mrs. Devorah Pacht, M.S. CCC-SLP,

who spoke on “Auditory Strategies for Young Children.”

These monthly meetings afford the neighborhood pre-school directors the opportunity to confer with others in their field. The children in our community can only benefit from such think-tank discussions. As Morah Yehudis said at the meeting, “Each one of our pre-schools is unique and different. When we, as directors, bond together, we cre-ate a strong and solid sense of commu-nity with achdus, respect and dignity.”

Bnos Bais Yaakov Hosts Pre-School Directors Meeting

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The sounds of lively music and dancing filled the air at DRS Yeshiva High School’s 17th annual Parent-Son Melave Malka. In an email to the DRS family, Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Ka-minetsky remarked that the goal of the Melava Malka is to celebrate “the joy, fulfillment, and meaning that there is in being a Jew,” as well as to highlight the “positive Jewish energy that [the Ye-shiva] strives to inculcate in its talmidim with song, divrei To-rah, food and dancing.” This annual event is the one night that the entire Yeshiva fam-ily, rabbeim, parents, and talmidim get to-gether to honor these aspects of the positive spirit of being Jewish.

The Melava Malka commenced as students, parents, and faculty members enjoyed a kumzitz together in DRS’s beautiful Beit Medrash, accompa-nied by a band comprised of DRS fac-ulty members and rebbeim. During the kumzitz, the yeshiva paid tribute to longtime DRS rebbi, Rabbi Shlomo Klapholtz, who has been teaching in DRS since its inception in 1997. A video tribute to Rabbi Klapholtz was shown, and he was also presented with a plaque and award in recognition of his service and dedication to DRS. After a resound-

ing standing ovation from the crowd, Rabbi Klapholtz delivered a heartfelt message to the students of DRS.

In the gym, students and parents enjoyed a dairy buffet, and a video highlighting the school spirit and unity among students at DRS, including highlights from the annual DRS Shabbaton in November and Color War in December. “The Melava Malka

really brought out the achdus in the school,” said sophomore Jared Willner. Torah Growth Awards were awarded to students who have shown tremendous commitment to their Torah learning over the past year. In addition, the An-nual Middot Awards were handed out to one student in each grade. This award is especially unique as the students in DRS vote upon who they feel best per-sonifies the title of “Baal Midot Tovot.” Following the distribution of awards, students, parents, rebbeim, and faculty danced together in unison and celebrat-ed the joy of being a Jew together.

Annual DRS Melave MalkaPHOTO CREDITS: IRA THOMAS CREATIONS

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Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe held its an-nual Parent Appreciation Melava Malka this past Motzaei Shabbos at the Shaare Tova Hall in Kew Gardens. The Melava Malka is designed to be an evening of food and entertainment for parents and friends of the yeshiva.

Quite a large crowd ventured out in the cold to enjoy the fare, which in-cluded a full sushi bar, soup, pasta, and create-your-own salads and sandwiches stations. A wine tasting booth was pro-vided by Hekerem Wine and Liquor of Main Street. Rabbi May, the Menahel,

thanked the parents for entrusting their children to the yeshiva and spoke about the effects learning Torah has on a per-son. Mentalist David Levitan had the audience laughing and wondering at the same time. The evening was capped by the drawing the names of the winners of the Mini-Chinese Auction prizes and the Grand Raffle. “As a parent at YTM, I always enjoy going to the Melave Mal-ka and getting to see the other members of our greater school family. Of course, a free night out is always a treat!” re-marked a participant.

Parent Appreciation Melava Malka at Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe

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Morah Faigie and Morah Wolfson’s Pre-1A talmidot fin-ished the Alef-Bet last week and celebrated in grand siyum style! Each girl received her own special “ot” (let-ter) hat along with a yummy assortment of sweet siyum (party) treats! Morah Faigie had each girl say the name and sound of the otiot (letters) and then transitioned smoothly into nekudot (vowels) as each yalda then connected the ot (letter) with the “sound” under-neath. Morah held a large green metal-lic kametz (vowel sound) and placed it underneath the letters as the girls “read” for the first time. They were so proud

of themselves! The celebration contin-ued as they created their own “Alef Bet” cookies in class by rolling out cookie dough and then using Alef Bet cookie cutter shapes. From the Alef-Bet learn-ing to the siyum celebration and then the cookie creations that followed, it was a sweet time for all the Pre-1-A yeladot!

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Following Rosh Mesivta Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman’s trip to visit the Ram-bam alumni learning in yeshivot in Isra-el, Rambam Gemara Iyun Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Ziskind found himself surrounded by Rambam talmidim, sharing in Torah and learning.

This past summer before the yearly Seuda Peradih of Rambam’s advanced gemara shiur held in the Ziskinds’ bun-galow, a decision was made to keep the kesher throughout the year. It was de-cided that when Rabbi Ziskind came to visit Israel, the talmidim from his Double Bais shiur would commit to, once again, strengthen the kesher. Eitan Blumstein, Class of 2013, now learning in Yeshivat Shalavim, and Eric Gross-man, also class of 2013 and learning in

Netiv Aryeh, worked out the details.The reunion started with a shiur

at the Kotel, on the sixth perek in Be-rachos followed by an inspiration-al Maariv. After Maariv, the group walked together with the Rabbi and Rebbitzen back to Geuala for supper where they were joined by honorary shi-ur member, Yitzchok Meir Ziskind, as well as Rambam grads, Dovi Bitterman, Yair Lichtman, Michael Rosenfeld, Dovid Simpser and Joseph Yitzhaky.

It is an amazing thing that despite a time difference and thousands of miles, from Rabbi Friedman to Rabbi Ziskind, to the rebbeim and teachers who send emails, make phone calls, and visit, the Rambam talmidim may leave Rambam, but they never really leave.

Rambam Keeping the Kesher: Part II

Yeshiva University (YU) has chosen five outstanding students at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls for ear-ly admission to the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program. All five of SKA’s ap-plicants have been awarded scholarships to Stern College for Women.

The girls are talented leaders in the school, have strong academic records

and an impressive list of awards and ac-tivities. All plan to spend a year in sem-inary in Israel before taking their places in Stern. In addition to the scholarships, the program helps students grow intel-lectually as well as personally.

Mazel tov to our scholars Yael Ar-shadnia, Raizy Joseph, Tali Weintraub, Rikki Weitz and Chaya Wertman!

SKA Honor Students Win Scholarships to Yeshiva University’s Stern College

for Women

Raizy JosephRikki Weitz Tali Weintraub Yael Arshadnia

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Bais Yaakov Leagues Champions

The Bais Yaakov of Queens eighth grade leagues played its final this week, the championship game. The program, sponsored by the Parents Association, is a huge “hit” with the girls. Mrs. Sarah Bergman, principal, initiated the leagues program to foster whole grade connect-edness and sportsmanship, encouraging all three 8th grades to inter-relate.

The first place Fearless Footballs defeated second place Super Champions in a competitive basketball game. The gym was r e v e r b e r a t i n g with cheering, roars, shouts of encouragement, advice, and congratulations as girls from all four teams watched excitedly. Although the

Super Champions managed to tie up the score twice during the game, the skill and teamwork of the Fearless Footballs, led by captains Devora Amsel and Chaya Esti Deitsch, proved unstoppable.

We congratulate all the teams, and especially the captains, on their sports-manship and derech eretz during the

Leagues season. We hope the lessons of teamwork and vatranus carry over into the girls’ daily endeavors.

Mazal Tov to all the Kitah Aleph students in Morah Katz and Morah Shoshana’s classes at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School on receiving their first very own siddur!

The students sang and danced and shared their love of tefilah with all the parents, grandparents, friends and HANC faculty that came to celebrate with them. The students inspired everyone in attendance to be more connected to tefilah and to be sincere in build-ing their relationship with Hashem.

“We are so proud of all our first graders!

They did a beautiful job at the Chag HaSiddur and it is inspiring to see how excited they are to daven and to start us-ing their siddurim,” said Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh, principal.

Chag HaSiddur Celebrated with Song

My name is JJ Goldstein and I am a student in Kulanu. I ran the Miami Mar-athon with team Yachad last weekend. Our team went to the expo for free stuff on Friday. We got a massager, a bag, and a kippah. We stayed at the Deauville ho-tel in Miami Beach Florida. Over Shab-bos we stayed at the hotel, we ate, dav-ened, and had some free time. On Motzei Shabbos, we went to the pre-pasta party. On Sunday, we woke up at 3:15 in the morning for the run. I ran for 4 hours and 15 minutes. I ran with Aharon, my Yachad buddy. My team consisted of

my dad, my sisters, Kara and Nicole, and my brothers-in-law, Ju-dah and Yehudah. Even though my feet were killing, I felt proud of myself. My family was proud of me that I ran. After the race we went back to the hotel for the team BBQ. I sat with my team, my mom, and Kaylie, my niece. We all felt good and enjoyed the BBQ. We spent the afternoon lounging by the beach and the pool. At night everyone from Yachad watched the Super Bowl. It was a good experience!

My Run with YachadBy: JJ Goldstein

JJ and his family and running buddies

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This year, two DRS Seniors, Yitzei Scheinman and Aryeh Kaminetsky, have both qualified as finalists for the Nation-al Merit Scholarship. This is an extreme-ly prestigious honor, and it reflects the high level of education that DRS strives to deliver to their students, as well as the level of commitment and work they expect from them. The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Schol-

arship Corporation, a privately funded, non-for-profit organization. Each year a total of approximately 8,000 scholar-ships are awarded scholarships, which represent less than 1% of the initial pool of entrants. Students who qualify as fi-nalists have an outstanding academic record, are endorsed and recommended by a school officials, and earn extreme-ly high PSAT scores. 50% of those who qualify as finalists are awarded the spe-cial scholarship.

DRS Seniors Qualify as Merit Scholarship Finalists

Pictured left to right: DRS Principal Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum, Yitzie Scheinman, Aryeh Kaminetsky, and DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky

As Winter Break approached, Shu-lamith girls were busy building the world with acts of kindness! Some Shu-lamith girls went to Kulanu to celebrate Tu B’Shvat together with the Kulanu friends whom they have gotten to know

this year. They celebrated a Tu B’Shvat seder, complete with all the seven kinds of foods that the land of Israel is blessed with, danced and played many games to celebrate the trees’ birthday! The eighth grade went to visit the Long Island Living Center where they sang, talked and lifted the spirits of the elder-ly who await their lively visits.

After a week to recharge their bat-teries, the Shulamith Middle Division students came back to continue to fill their neshamot with more chessed. A few seventh grade girls went to visit Donna, a new friend in the new OHEL residence. They filled their bodies and their souls with cookies, candy and learning shmirat halashon. We will iy”H continue visiting Donna and

building the friendship every week. Our Rosh Chodesh visit to the elderly at Long Island Living Center was a suc-cess! The fifth graders sang and wished the elderly a happy and healthy month!

In keeping with the notion that “Chessed starts at home,” Shulamith Middle Division students have vol-unteered to mentor and/or help their younger school mates. Many applica-tions have been completed and our girls are eager to help, coach and motivate their “little sisters”. Mr. Richard Alt-abe, a longtime mechanech, principal and supervisor of mentors, was invited to the Middle Division to speak to the newly minted mentors about the impor-tance of motivating the younger girls and providing the friendly support they need to keep them on the right track.

Several eighth graders also gave of their time to enrich the activities of the elderly at the JCC program. They did arts and crafts, kept them company, and listened attentively to the interesting tales of the past told to them by their senior friends.

As always with chessed and good deeds, it’s hard to decide who benefits most, the recipients or the givers!

Shulamith Middle Division Ablaze with Chessed Activities

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A t 11pm one Thursday night, my son woke up screaming from pain in his left ear. Despite a call to the pediatrician and a healthy dose of

Tylenol, no one in my house slept that night. I planned to take him to the doctor first thing in the morning, but the soonest available appointment was not until late that afternoon. Needless to say, it was a long day for both of us. Fortunately, there is now a better solution for these unexpected illnesses – Urgent-MD, a state-of-the-art medical clinic that provides patients with

expert medical care in about the same amount of time it takes to order a meal at a restaurant.

Dr. Robert van Amerongen, better known as Dr. Van, has been the Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medi-cine at NY Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn for the past 18 years, and is the mastermind and Medical Direc-tor behind Urgent-MD, which first opened its doors at 1220 Peninsula Boulevard in Hewlett in June of 2013. A brand-new second location at 380 Rockaway Turn-pike in Cedarhurst opened this week, and a third loca-tion is slated to open this spring in Kew Gardens Hills.

“We find ourselves in the midst of rapid unprec-edented changes in the world of medicine, not the least of which is an increase in healthcare options,” says Dr. Van. It is no surprise that when given choices, people

will logically choose the most effective, efficient, and pleasant mode of healthcare. This is the urgent care model – essentially a hybrid of the hospital emergen-cy room and the family physician. For patients, this means care that is faster, cheaper, and logistically sim-pler.

As Dr. Van points out, the vast majority of all emergency room cases are not life threatening. Many patients use it because they are in need of urgent medi-cal attention and have nowhere else to go; ironically,

they end up having to brave an hour’s long wait in order to be seen “immediately.”

With the launch of Urgent-MD, crowded emergency rooms are no longer the only route. At Urgent-MD, patients are admitted quickly, without appointment, and at a fraction of the cost of the emergency room. Urgent-MD ac-cepts most major insurances, and, as Dr. Van explains, “prides itself on its fast, patient-fo-

cused, and comprehensive medical care, immaculate facility, and sleek modern feel.” The goal is to provide quick yet thorough medical care.

Urgent-MD’s open hours in both lo-cations are Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to midnight, and Saturdays, Sundays, and major legal holidays from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. The center is open 365 days a year, accommodating the full-time student, the working parent, and ev-eryone in between. Urgent-MD doctors treat nearly everything that falls under non-life-threatening medical conditions, from broken bones to viruses to dehydra-

tion. If a patient’s problem is discernible, routine lab tests and x-rays can be completed even before seeing the doctor. Dr. Van rightly believes, “As healthcare options continue to increase, customer satisfaction is what will keep customers coming back.”

To be clear, Urgent-MD is not intended to replace the emergency room or the family practice, both of which serve a crucial purpose in the healthcare infra-structure. Nevertheless, Dr. Van considers urgent care indispensable now more than ever.

Still, it’s more than just an impersonal business. Dr. Van, a local Woodmere resident, devoted husband, and father of three girls, reflects positively on the ex-pansion of Urgent-MD, “I spent most of my medical career in the emergency department. It is special for me to be helping and taking care of my community and friends and family.”

Although illness can be unpredictable, it is thanks to Urgent-MD that medical care doesn’t have to be.

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Carpooling, serving dinner and helping with homework are all typical activities in the daily lives of parents. These ordinary responsibilities can become overwhelming or even impossible

for families going through an illness or loss of a loved one. I-Shine, a division of Chai Lifeline, is a unique experience that ex-

emplifies compassion for the families where loved ones are suffering. Since its founding in 1987, the mission of Chai Lifeline has been to improve the lives of critically ill children. The organization embraces ideals of compassion, kindness, and caring for others inherent in Jew-ish culture and life. Its slogan, “fighting illness with love,” is combined with the belief that illness affects each member of the family

The concept for i-Shine came from three Five Towns mothers, Deena Intrator, Annette Kaufman and Stacy Zrihen, eight years ago. The after-school program welcomes children in kindergarten through eighth grade who are living with the illness of a sibling or parent or have recently suffered the loss of a family member. Under direction of Andy Lauber, LMSW, the program currently serves close to 40 chil-dren every week. Like all Chai Lifeline programs, it is free of charge to families.

Housed at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, the program runs Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00-6:30. Children come from 13 schools in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway. Over 100 weekly volunteers provide door-to-door transportation, supervision, and fun from the moment children enter the premises. Students from the local yeshiva high schools are eager to help and readily commit to the program for the school year. The program is also supervised and staffed by teachers, social workers and psychologists.

Homework and snacks start the evening. Some children are un-able to complete homework assignments with the limited assistance at home. The i-Shine volunteers will often review the past week’s as-signments to try to bring the child up-to-date in his or her school work. Some need extra attention due to prolonged issues in the family.

Aside from the basics of supervision, dinner and homework, the children at i-Shine programs have the opportunity to socialize, play games, receive tutoring and mentoring. There is always something new and fun on the itinerary. Incentives are given to encourage and reward the children. “i-Shine Bucks” are distributed whenever goals are met and children can shop weekly in the program’s “store.” The cabinets are stocked with healthy and fun snacks. Special activities throughout the year include Chanukah and Purim parties, karate and sushi making.

The young participants of i-Shine are well cared for and enjoy the time focusing on being kids. The program is an opportunity for them to forget whatever may be happening at home and just relax. It of-fers peace of mind during those crucial after school hours. It is also a chance for the families to focus on the issues at home, knowing that their child is being well cared for and having fun as well.

Upon a recent visit to the program, one could hear the halls of HAFTR filled with the hustle and bustle of any typical youth program,

with kids smiling and playing games. After homework, boys and girls gathered in the brand new gym for a special basketball program. The volunteers looked as happy as the children.

HAFTR High School senior Jordan Schwartzstein originally came to i-Shine as a way to fulfill community service hours needed for school. Now he spends as much time there as his schedule allows. “I like to help the kids and give them time away from their situation, to be distracted and just have fun. Soon you begin to build real relationships with the kids,” he says. Jordan has been involved since the 10th grade and encourages his friends to get involved and volunteer as well.

What started as a community program is now going global. I-Shine has sprouted in other Jewish communities around the country and now internationally with a program in Antwerp. The communities tailor the programs to meet the needs of their own communities. I-Shine in Borough Park, for example, runs their programs on Sundays and often organizes shabbatons for the children.

Everlasting relationships are formed through the i-Shine network. Children have a chance to connect over their shared experiences. There are friendships between public school kids and yeshiva kids who come together to form a unique bond. At times, volunteers go above and beyond what is expected of them. Many have gone beyond the walls of the program and have stepped in to help the families when they see an extra need arise. According to Mr. Lauber, “The program is a true testament to the community.”

When families are going through illness and loss, any support from friends and family is generally welcome and appreciated. In the Five Towns, the entire community becomes the largest network of friends and extended family.

i-Shine will be holding their upcoming “Bake n’ Buy” bake sale on February 19th and 20th at the home of Bonnie and Heshie Schertz to benefit i-Shine’s children. Contact [email protected] to vol-unteer, or visit Chailifeline.org/ishine to learn more about the i-Shine program.

Focus on the CommunityTammy Mark

i-Shine

Volunteers Jake Kaufman and Jason Sulzberger with some of i-Shine’s children

Brightening Their Day

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One day a president (insert one you don’t like) fell off a bridge and was saved by three young boys.

The president thanked them and said he’d give them all one thing in the whole world. 

The first boy asked for a trip to Disneyland and that summer he went to Disneyland.

The second boy asked for the newest pair of Air Jordans, and sure enough, the next day he was wearing a pair of Nike’s finest.

The third boy asked for a wheelchair with a nice TV, cup holders and hydraulics. 

The president looked at the boy puzzlingly and asked why he wanted a decked out wheelchair even though he was totally not disabled.

The young boy replied, “I may not be disabled now, but I will be after my father finds out that I saved you.”

The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents but were not brothers. How is that possible?

Answer on next page

You Gotta beKidding! Riddle!

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“Reannexation of Texas and reoccupation of Oregon”

“Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men, and Fremont”

“A Full Dinner Pail”

“He’s making us proud again”

“In your heart you know he’s right”

“I Like Ike”

“Not Just Peanuts”

“Kinder, Gentler Nation”

“Putting People First”

“Reformer with results”

“Ross for Boss”

“Keep cool with Coolidge”“Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine”

“A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”

“The stakes are too high for you to stay at home”

“Government of, by, and for the people...not the monied interests”

“Who is James K. Polk?”

“Vote Yourself a Farm”JAMES K. POLK

JOHN C. FREMONT

HENRY CLAY

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

GROVER CLEVELAND

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

RALPH NADER

CALVIN COOLIDGE

HERBERT HOOVER

DWIGHT EISENHOWER

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

BARRY GOLDWATER

GERALD FORD JIMMY CARTER

GEORGE BUSH

BILL CLINTON

GEORGE W. BUSHROSS PEROT

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THE “WEIRDER SIDE” OF PRESIDENTS TRIVIA

Answer to riddle: It was the same man—Grover Cleveland served two terms as president of the United States but the terms were not consecutive.

1. After President Bush Sr. did something in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word Bushusuru entered the Japanese language. The word reflects what Bush did. What does the word mean?

a. To bow to someone for 90 seconds or more

b. To trip while walking alongside someone

c. To vomit publiclyd. To fall asleep while someone else is

giving a speech

2. What is one of the jobs that Grover Cleveland held before becoming president?

a. Bankerb. Doctorc. Train conductord. Hangman

3. JFK is lauded for his famous inaugural line, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Was that an original line or did he borrow it from another president?

a. Originalb. Not original

4. Which president claimed to have seen a UFO?

a. Jimmy Carterb. James Monroec. Franklin Pierced. Chester Arthur

5. When Martin Van Buren wrote his autobiography after serving as president from 1837-1841, who did he fail to mention in his book even once?

a. His vice presidentb. His secretary of statec. The senated. His wife

6. George Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long. He went on to become the most iconic president. William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) holds the record for the longest inauguration speech in history at 8,578 words long and one hour and 40 minutes. What

happened to him afterwards?a. He was impeachedb. He was voted as the worse president

everc. He died one month laterd. An earplug company changed their

slogan to “Make sure you have these when Harrison comes to town.”

7. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. Who else is seen in the photograph?

a. Jefferson Davis, future Confederate president

b. John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s eventual assassin

c. Robert E. Lee, Confederate generald. Larry King

8. William Howard Taft (1857-1930) once needed emergency personnel to come to his rescue in the White House for what reason?

a. His Secretary of Labor beat him upb. He choked on a pretzelc. He got stuck in the bathtubd. He fainted when his budget office

showed him the deficit for that year

9. Thomas Jefferson’s gravestone epitaph (which he wrote) mentions a number of positions he held in his lifetime. What position is not mentioned?

a. President of the United Statesb. Author of the Declaration of Inde-

pendencec. Author of Statuette of Virginia for Re-

ligious Freedomd. Father of the University of Virginia

10. Why did Lincoln grow a beard?a. He never could afford razors to shaveb. Because he thought it would keep

him warm in the Illinois wintersc. Because a little girl told him tod. Because he thought it looked distin-

guished

ANSWERS:1. C-On January 8, 1992, Bush

Sr. fainted after vomiting at a banquet host -ed by then-Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa. I guess he didn’t like the sushi.

2. D-Grover Cleveland was the only

president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap at a hanging.

3. B-It was a borrowed line. President Warren G. Harding told the 1916 Republi-can convention: “We must have a citizen-ship less concerned about what the gov-ernment can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”

4. A-Jimmy Carter reported seeing an unidentified flying object while he was governor of Georgia. He filed a report of the sighting with the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

5. D6. C-Harrison gave the speech dur-

ing bad weather and a month later, he was dead from pneumonia, making his the shortest presidency on record.

7. B-John Wilkes Booth is seen in the inauguration photo. It was not the only time before the assassination that he was in close proximity to Lincoln.

8. C-At 325 pounds, William Howard Taft (1857-1930), who was dubbed “Big Bill,” was the largest president in American his-tory. He once got stuck in the White House bathtub and people came to his rescue to pull him out.

9. A10. C- It was the fall of 1860. Abraham

Lincoln was the Republican nominee for president of the United States. Election Day was less than a month away. Mr. Lincoln, a lifelong beardless man, received a letter written by Grace Bedell, an 11-year-old girl from Westfield, New York. Written on Oc-tober 15th, 1860, the letter urged him to grow a beard. She wrote, “I have got four brothers and part of them will vote for you anyway and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you. You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin.”

WISDOM KEY:7-10 correct: You are really smart; you

could probably be president. But, then again, Carter was president, too. See any UFOs lately?

4-6 correct: You are right in the mid-dle—a hanging chad.

0-3 correct: You just Bushusurud all over the TJH centerfold

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“And Hashem spoke to Moshe say-ing, ‘Go down, for your nation that you have brought up from Egypt, has sinned.’” Shemos 32:7

Moshe Rabbeinu was the single greatest human being who ever lived. The Rambam tells us that of all the navi’im, he alone was able to speak to Hashem directly. Normally, a prophet must go into an altered state of con-sciousness to experience Hashem. Otherwise the experience would cause sensory overload, and he would die. Moshe was able to speak to Hashem in a totally clear, conscious state of mind. At any time, he could approach Hashem and speak, experiencing Hashem as I do a neighbor or friend. Moshe was also granted access to the entire Torah, in all its depths and its secrets.

Right after the sin of the Golden Calf, Hashem told Moshe, “Go down.” Rashi explains this didn’t simply mean, “Go down to see what the nation is up to. Rather, “Go down,” from your great-ness. You have lost access to the upper worlds. The ability to enter the Bais Din of Heaven has been taken from you. I only gave you that access because of the Klal Yisroel. They are no longer worthy, so you must go down.”

This Rashi becomes difficult to un-derstand when we take into account that Moshe was on a fantastic level because of his actions and ways. He spent his life dedicated to serving Hashem. Clearly, this access to the upper worlds and his ability to perceive and understand Torah

were things that he had earned because of his hard work. So why should they be taken from him?

The answer to this can be better un-derstood by focusing on the relationship we have to one another.

Two Systems in the World to Come

The Chovos Ha’Levovos explains that there are two systems of measure-ment in the World to Come, the internal and the external. The internal system is based on my personal growth: improv-ing my character traits, increasing my awareness of Hashem, learning Torah. The external system is based on merits outside of myself: how much I affected others and the influence that I had on people. These are accomplishments that don’t directly change my state of spiri-tuality, but because I was the cause of them, they are credited to me.

As an example, the Chovos Ha’Levovos describes two individuals. The first has sterling character traits, is steeped in Torah knowledge, and is so great that he can be compared to the an-gels above. The second individual is but

a plain person. He’s nowhere near as developed in his service to Hashem as the first man. Yet when they both come to the World to Come, the second indi-vidual will tower over the first.

Why? Because the first person brings with him his own merit while the

second toiled to improve others. There-fore, he has his own merit plus the mer-its of all of those whom he helped.

A mashal to this would be looking at how people become wealthy. In 2001, Microsoft Corporation reported 40 bil-lion dollars in excess cash. That means money that was not needed for oper-ating expenses, research and develop-ment, or marketing — extra money. Bill Gates, as the largest single shareholder of the company, had become one of the richest men in the world with billions of dollars in discretionary income. It would take a successful lawyer, doctor, or account 10,000 years of hard work to earn that kind of wealth. The question is, how does a person acquire so much money?

The answer is he cannot. No single man can ever earn that type of pros-perity. The secret to building wealth is to have other people on your payroll. A successful dentist can drill, fill and bill, but he is only one man doing a job. Bill Gates had 20,000 workers in his employ. In a good market, with a good product and a team of thousands churn-ing it out, your profits will be multiplied exponentially, and you can realize that which no single individual can even dream of.

This is how the Chovos Ha’Leva-vos explains these two individuals. The first person may have been great, but he was working for himself. He was a one-man operation. While he may have attained prominence, it was limited.

The second man had many people in his employ. Because of him, many people grew closer to Hashem. And since their growth came about because of him, he is credited with it, so he is fantastically rich in merit.

Moshe was Working for the KlalThe answer to this Rashi seems to

be that when it comes to aiding others in their spiritual growth, not only does Hashem reward someone with the exter-nal merit of what others accomplished, He gives the person all the tools he needs to accomplish his mission. Moshe was the representative of the multitude and was therefore allowed access to the highest level of Torah knowledge and understanding — not in his own merit, but in the merit of the entire nation.

As important as Moshe Rabbeinu was, he was a man, and man isn’t al-lowed access to the upper worlds. When the Jewish nation was deserving, Moshe represented them and therefore was al-lowed to enter the Heavens. He was the conduit for bringing Torah to the multi-tudes. Once the Jews fell from that lev-el, they were no longer worthy, so he as their shaliach was no longer permitted in Shamayim. It wasn’t as a punishment to him, but a reality. He no longer had the merit of that great nation catapulting him to those heights.

We see a powerful concept from this Rashi. When you help other peo-ple grow, not only do you receive re-ward for everything that they accom-plish, you receive S’yata D’Shmaya to do things that you might not have been able to otherwise. Whether as a rebbe teaching a difficult gemara, a worker for the klal taking on a bold project, or a parent trying to create a wholesome environment for his or her family, the merit of the entire group works in your favor, and you will be able to do things that would otherwise be unthinkable.

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Parshas Ki SisahThe Merit of Others

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Imagine you got a call from a friend one day who said, “I was just think-ing about you and wanted to call

and say hi. Oh yeah, and the pajamas you wore last night have a stain on the shoulder. You should really wash them.” “What?? My pajamas? How do you know what my pajamas look like?!” We might think about investing in better curtains, but we would undoubtedly be unsettled to think that someone would have been looking through our window in the first place!

A similar experience happened to my friend, Eli. As he unloaded his gro-ceries into trunk of his car at an out-of-the-way grocery store, he got a text mes-sage that read, “How was [supermarket name]?” It was immediately followed by another text that read, “Hey, you left your wagon in a parking space on the left, instead of putting it into the cart re-turn aisle on your right! Do I have to write another article about it?”

Yes, the text messages were from me. You see, I had gone to the same store that morning and when I pulled into a spot several rows behind him, I recognized my friend from a distance. I knew he couldn’t see me from his van-

tage point so I thought it would be fun to text him. After I sent the first mes-sage, but before he saw it, he put his shopping cart into the empty parking space to the left of his car, even though there was a cart return aisle in the spot immediately to his right. Knowing he can take a little friendly mussar, I sent the follow-up text.

He replied, “I’m caught!” He later told me that it was such a lesson to him because it reminded him that Hashem is everywhere and sees everything. Now, we don’t get text messages from Hash-em (though if we did, I assume they’d be free of airtime charges) but I’m sure that when we do make mistakes, Hash-

em tries to communicate with us and let us know what He saw.

I had felt the same way about the incident, and told Eli that in his merit I would write an article about it, the very one you are reading now. But let’s for-get the shopping carts for now; there’s

much more to this concept than that. The fact of the matter is that Hashem is watching us 24/7, while we sleep, while we eat, and even when we’re in the bathroom.

He sees if we’re following the hala-chos of using the facilities, and of bath-ing, washing our head first, then the right side before the left, top before bot-tom, and front before back. Hashem’s checking our books at work and knows what we do in business. Would you do the same things if an auditor was there?

When we’re “alone” in front of the computer, Hashem is watching and re-

cording what we do, say, post, and look at. When we speak to our children and our spouse, we’re being watched. What if you got a text message from a friend say-ing, “Hey, I saw you yell at your wife last night. She was in tears; didn’t you realize that maybe you should soften up?” I don’t think we’d like it but I also don’t think we’d do it again. Of course, the odds are that if someone saw us do that, they wouldn’t want to get involved and they’d mind their

own business. They would look the other way and pretend they hadn’t seen anything instead of telling us we’d been seen.

But Hashem doesn’t look the oth-er way and He doesn’t pretend. True, he may extend patience and give us an opportunity to repent and change our ways, but some day, we will get that multi-media text message with a pic-ture, video, and audio of what we did. That should be a sobering thought.

When R’ Yochanan ben Zakai was on his deathbed, his students asked him for a bracha. He said, “If only your fear of Heaven would be as great as your fear of Man.” They were shocked, “Is

that all?” Obviously the fear one must have for G-d far eclipses the fear one would have for Man who can truly do nothing to or for him!

R’ Yochanan ben Zakai replied, “Halevai, if only it would be as much.” Yes, we feel that we understand what it

means to fear Heaven, but it is a con-ceptual fear, not an actual one. Nobody writes on his tax return, “Please note: Items 43-48 are fake invoices I drew up to defraud the government.” He is more afraid of the IRS than he is of Hash-em. You don’t see someone on a diet sitting down in front of her family with a whole chocolate cake and one fork. I might be willing to do it, but not where

people can see me!The bottom line is that sometimes,

like my friend Eli can attest, we get re-minders that we are not alone and must act accordingly. Each day, Hashem is sending us invisible text messages that remind us, “I’ll be seeing you.” When we can start to see and take in those messages, then we’ve got some yiras Shomayim.

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Rabbi Dani Staum

Let Each Child Shine

A CHILD ACUTELY SENSES HOW HIS PARENTS

AND TEACHERS PERCEIVE HIM

AND HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THEY

FEEL HE HAS.

One night a few weeks ago I noticed that one of the front headlights on my car was

out. Not wanting to be stopped by an aggressive cop, the next day I went to the mechanic and had the light changed.

That night as I was driving to shul for Ma’ariv, I noticed a po-lice car at the intersection at the bottom of the hill near our home. I felt very cocky as I passed him, sporting my headlights and duti-fully adhering to the speed limit. You can only imagine my shock then when, as I was about to turn into the shul’s driveway, I saw flashing lights in my rearview mirror.

It’s always fun for a rabbi to get pulled over just outside his shul. I rolled down my window as the cop jauntily asked for my license and registration. I honestly could not figure out why he had pulled me over. After handing him my information I asked him what I had done wrong. He replied that the light on top of my license plate was out. I was stunned. “Officer, I just had my head-light changed today. I didn’t even know there was a light by the license plate.” “Oh sure,” he re-plied, “That light is what allows us to see your plates at night.”

After checking my record he hand-ed me back my li-cense and let me go. I quickly turned into the driveway and hurried into shul late and red-faced.

In order to drive around our cars must have license plate which identify us to the outside world. In a similar vein, we all have personalities and character traits which define us. For a child to be successful he must have confidence in himself. He must have the courage to forge ahead down the ominous and unsure paths of life. That courageous attitude is like a headlight which illu-minates the looming darkness. Just as without that light one would never be able to drive in the darkness, without that confidence a child cannot be suc-cessful.

For a child to develop that confi-dence he needs to have a cheerleading

squad who believes in him, even when he doesn’t believe in himself. A great educator once quipped that children do not become what we think they can become, nor do they become what they think they can become. Rather, they become what they think we think they can become. As parents and teachers we need to demonstrate to our children that we believe in them. (As we know, it is the children who need it the most that get it the least!)

A child acutely senses how his par-ents and teachers perceive him and how

much potential they feel he has. That op-timism and belief in the child is the light which shines from behind. It illuminates the child’s sense of identity and gives him the fortitude to plunge ahead. A child who lacks that light cannot proper-ly drive ahead. Even though his headlights may shine brightly in front of him, without the lights shining on his sense of identity,

impediments can sneak up from behind and impede his progress.

So this week I finally went back to the mechanic and had the light on top of my plates replaced. And that very night – I kid you not – when my wife was pulling out of the driveway I noticed that her front headlight was out!

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead, and Guidance Counselor/Rebbe at Yeshiva Bais Hachi-nuch & Ashar in Monsey, NY. He is the au-thor of Stam Torah and can be reached at [email protected]. His website is www.stamtorah.info.

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Gedaliah Borvick

Tel Aviv’s Religious Reawakening

I have always valued Tel Aviv’s impor-tance as Israel’s largest economic hub and as a leading center for medicine

and education. I also appreciate its won-derful museums, parks and performing arts venues.

As Tel Aviv is known for its hip at-mosphere and famous 24-hour culture, I never expected the city to become a destination for young religious people. I was wrong.

HistoryEver since its establishment in 1909,

Tel Aviv has always been home to reli-gious Jews. In the early years, the city even had prohibitions against some forms of commerce on the Sabbath.

Interestingly, Tel Aviv is the only major city in Israel that has only Jewish places of worship, an important factor which attracted many Chassidic rebbes. By the 1960s, there were close to fifty Chassidic sects that were based in Tel Aviv.

But by the early 1970s, the city be-gan to become more chic and housing prices skyrocketed. Observant Jews be-

gan to leave in droves and most of the city’s 500 synagogues experienced dra-matic declines in membership.

RenaissanceAround the time of Israel’s 2005 dis-

engagement from the Gaza Strip, many people felt a visceral need for Jews in all segments of society to reconnect. A number of religious organizations became active in Tel Aviv, aspiring to improve relations between the city’s religious and secular populations and strengthen the city’s synagogues. In ad-dition, groups of young families – called “garinim” (literally “seeds”) – started moving into Tel Aviv to help revitalize the city’s religious environment.

Olim Another element that has influenced

the Tel Aviv religious landscape has been the arrival of numerous European – primarily French – observant Jews. With a flair and passion for fine cuisine, many of these immigrants have opened kosher restaurants, bakeries and gourmet food stores.

Singles SceneNotwithstanding the influx of young

idealistic families and European immi-grants, probably the main influence on the religious upsurge in Tel Aviv has been the large religious singles scene, which has expanded dramatically in re-cent years. This late-twenties and thir-ties crowd covers the full spectrum of religiosity and many of these residents have a strong liberal bent. Tel Aviv is a perfect city for this spiritual resurgence, as it is relatively open-minded and ac-cepting of nonconformists.

Educational and Social ProgramsNew and innovative congregations

have been established throughout the city, which address the needs of pro-fessionals and students from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. The city’s renewed religious vitality has also affected the older synagogues, as a number of these establishments now offer innovative programs and lectures.

In addition, numerous outreach centers are thriving in their efforts to help secular Jews explore their heri-

tage. There are many learning centers that offer a full spectrum of classes on practically every level from beginner to highly advanced. Most of these centers augment their learning programs with social and entertainment programs, serving as vibrant hubs for Jewish activ-ities and addressing the need for healthy environments for singles to meet.

Changing CultureAlthough Tel Aviv continues to

be predominantly secular, there is no mistaking the increased interest in reli-gious activities among the city’s secular population. In Tel Aviv’s tolerant envi-ronment, many people who have spent their lives shunning religion are finally discovering their Jewish roots.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real es-tate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at [email protected].

A view from aboveAs the sun sets on the city

The Azrieli Center

The bustling city’s lights at night

The Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv

The Shell Synagogue, Cong. Heichal Yehuda

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Shoshana Soroka

Vayipach ba’apov ruach chaim. Hashem created man by breathing life into him, and as a tzelem Elokim we are all capable of doing the same. No, we cannot physically breathe life into a human being, but we can spiritually create life by adding light and happiness to those around us and those who we encounter.

That was Esther Lehrer a”h.She was a joy to be around and brought joy to

those who she encountered. She always had some-thing to say—a compliment, an inquiry about a proj-ect you were working on, a joke, an invitation to come to her house or splash in her pool. She made everyone feel comfortable and special.

My in-laws were lucky to be her neighbors. When Esther would walk in the side door on an erev Shabbos or on a yom tov to say hello, the house would brighten. She could talk to my mother-in-law about recipes, she could talk to my husband about his job, and she could talk to my four-year-old nieces about their beautiful Shabbos outfits. Esther showed the same excitement regardless of who she spoke to, and if you were in a nearby room, you knew she was there when good na-tured laughter and animation filled the room.

It is uncommon for somebody to be described as so outgoing, yet so dedicated to tzinius. But Es-ther was able to combine those two seemingly con-tradictory attributes because it was never about her. Her down-to-earth nature made her the person to call when something needed fixing or to bring out the shy person in the room. But along with that friendly and sociable side, she was dedicated to the middah of tzin-ius because she lived by the virtue of kol bas melech penima. She saw right through materialism and was not intimidated nor impressed by it; it’s almost as if she thought it was silly. With the flip of the hand, she could get those around her to see the vanity of some of the things that somehow seem so central in our lives. She was not only concerned about her own tzinius, but cared about the tzinius of the whole community because she valued the community and felt like she was part of something special. Esther was not merely fighting against a lack of tzinius; she was fighting for the improvement of the spirituality of a community that was so dear to her.

It was because of her sincere nature that she was able to say what needed to be said, even when it was hard to say. As Rabbi Bender recalled at the levaya,

Mrs. Lerer always spoke her mind when it came to school policies affecting the parents and children of the yeshiva. What was unique about her, Rabbi Bend-er recalled, was that she was able to cut through to the heart of the issue and make her point without beating around the bush, with strength of mind, and, of course, with her indomitable good nature. He referred to her as having an “open door policy”—when she came to the yeshiva to see Rabbi Bender, she would walk into his office, regardless of what was going on. It was her determination to make things right that made her feel compelled to meet with him.

Her visits to Darchei were indicative that there was nothing more important to Esther than her chil-dren and their spiritual and physical wellbeing. Her children came up in every conversation she had be-cause she loved them so dearly and was so involved in their lives. When she spoke about them she would light up as she recalled their anecdotes and accom-plishments. This past Succos, the Lerers and my family ate together in my in-laws’ sukkah for a meal. During those few hours, it was apparent that the rela-tionship between the Lerer children and their parents is one of respect, love and lots of fun. The good na-tured banter, the jokes, the stories, and the comfort-able schmoozing between them filled the yom tov air.

There is so much we can learn from this shin-ing soul who was taken from us at such a young age. We will miss Esther’s keen advice. We will miss her laughter. We will miss her dynamic personality. We will miss the light she brought to our lives.

But we can emulate Esther’s zest and love for life. When we see someone who needs a compliment, we can remember how Esther would do it in her endear-ing way. When we see a wrong that should be cor-rected, we can think, “What angle would Esther take to resolve this issue in the most positive way?” When one of our children needs a little extra TLC, we can think about what Esther would do in that situation.

Esther will be missed terribly by her family and the whole community. Yet she will always bring joy to our hearts, as we think about the wonderful and exuberant way she lived her life. As we emulate her and her ways, she will continue to inspire the lives of all who knew and loved her.

May she be a meilitz yosher for her family and our community. Yehi zichra baruch.

Esther Lerer A”H

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Lori Boxer

Falling Off the Weight Loss Wagon

One of the most discouraging as-pects of weight loss is the inevita-ble slips. Everyone has them. For

some people, an occasional slip engen-ders an all-out binge…followed by guilt, self-recrimination, a sense of powerless-ness and a feeling of what’s the use?

Sound familiar? We call it “falling off the weight loss wagon,” and if you can change how you think about it, you don’t need to be victimized by it any-more. Let’s start by looking at a simple kid’s board game called “Chutes and Ladders.” In case you forgot how to play, here’s how it works: You use a spinner to advance from space to space toward the winner’s spot. Along the way there are ladders which leapfrog you over a lot of spaces, as well as chutes which send you back in the opposite direction.

Some kids play this game with a lais-sez faire “whatever” attitude, taking life as it comes with all its ups and downs, pitfalls and triumphs. They learn the won-derful moral of Chutes and Ladders—

half of the secret to life is just showing up. Keep playing the game, and eventu-ally you’ll get where you’re going.

Some kids, however, get very upset when they land on a chute. They’re ready to quit the game, pick up their proverbi-al marbles and go home. For some rea-son, they believe that life isn’t supposed to have any chutes. When they land on them, they are very disappointed and feel like giving up.

Weight loss is like a huge game of chutes and ladders!

In dealing with hundreds of clients over the years, we’ve discovered that the biggest difference between the winners and the losers in the weight loss war isn’t whether or not people have slips and go off their program. It’s not really a ques-tion of if they have them; it’s a question of when. What really makes the difference is how you deal with the slips when they happen. Here’s an example. You’ve been absolutely wonderful on your eating plan for three weeks. You’ve been sticking to your exercise routine and feeling pretty

terrific. You go to a wedding and have a glass of wine. Before you know it, some-one is insisting you try those delicious lit-tle canapés, and before the wedding sing-er can say “Let’s Cuts the Cake,” you’ve managed to down about 4,000 unwanted calories from stuff you wouldn’t have been caught dead looking at during the past couple of weeks or months…pates, desserts, breads, stuffing, you name it. Most people think that’s where the action stops. Actually, it’s where the real action begins.

First, a reality check. Have you done a lot of damage? Not really. Maybe you put on a pound or two. Big deal. You can knock it off in no time, and go right back to work on yourself. So what’s the problem?

The problem isn’t what we did, but what we make it mean. We tell ourselves that our transgression means that we have no will power, that we will never succeed, and that our efforts are in vain. In other words, we hit a chute and now we want to stop the game.

Let me suggest something more em-powering. Suppose, instead, we learn to see life’s occasional chutes as just that—stumbling blocks that everyone hits on their personal path to personal power, nothing to be afraid of and certainly noth-ing to give a lot of meaning to. So you hit a chute. On your next spin, you might hit a ladder.

Most important of all, you can’t win the game unless you keep on play-ing. And every minute gives you a new chance for another spin. Take it. And don’t look back.

Lori Boxer is the Director of Weight No Mo-reSM Diet Center. In addition to serving the Brooklyn, Long Island and New Jersey com-munities for 25 years, they also provide Skinny SkypeSM service to clients nationwide and to Israel, and offer customized Workforce Weight LossSM Programs for businesses. For more information, please call Rosalie Shatzman, Rana Frankel and Linda Franklin in their Ce-darhurst office: 516.569.6400.

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Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

The Ravages of Anxiety

ANXIETY HAS A HABIT OF TAKING OVER A HOME.

Shevie was staring at her textbook and the words were not penetrat-ing. Her eyes flashed up to the

calendar on the wall. The test was day after tomorrow and after weeks of dili-gent preparation, she felt like her mind was still blank. She twirled the curl that dropped near her nose and focused on the book. It didn’t work!

Ahron, her younger brother, passed by her room, poked his head in and, not knowing what else to do, grinned at her.

“Go ‘way!” Shevie shouted.Ahron slunk away, his high mood

dampened. He went into the kitchen for a snack, opened the fridge, but the fun was out of it. He closed the fridge, took some water, and went back up to his own room.

Mrs. Natow, their mom, noticed. She wondered why Ahron had such a long face. She was considering going upstairs to ask if anything was wrong, when she heard a door slam, and heavy footsteps clumping down the stairs. It was Shevie, darkly glaring at no one in particular. Mrs. Natow caught her breath: Was Shevie going to be rude to her like she was yesterday? “When will these exams be over?” she wondered.

Is the problem the exams?Is it bad parenting? Is it a lack of

derech eretz on Shevie’s part? Is it sib-ling rivalry?

From my standpoint, it’s none of the above. Rather, anxiety is ruling Shevie and spilling over to torment everyone in the family.

Anxiety does have a habit of taking over a home. Natan was never the great-est earner and now with the slowdown, he was most anxious about being let go. He would come home and little things would make him yell at his wife, pick at his kids and even spoil the mood at family celebrations.

Rochel, who had lost her parents rather young, missed getting the posi-tive feedback that helps a child to know who she really is. She grew up unclear as to her good qualities. She wasn’t sure of her strengths. When she married a lovely, kind man who fell madly for her, she came to believe that she must, after all, be the good person she wanted to be. Nevertheless, life has a habit of tossing obstacles in the way.

One day she had an interaction at the

grocery store that embarrassed her. She handed the wrong denomination bill to the cashier and it seemed to her that the cashier was mocking when she said, “You only gave me a ten. You need a 20.” This incident started to absorb her thinking. She could not free her mind from it. Like Shevie and Natan, it per-vaded her entire day. And the next day.

Her husband couldn’t seem to say

anything helpful. Whatever he said didn’t take away the sting of her humil-iation. Frankly, he couldn’t understand it anyway. “What’s the big deal?” he thought. “Why is she making mountains out of molehills?”

The answer is that anxious peo-ple appear to their families like they are doing exactly that. And it is inex-plicable. But when you look into the mind of an anxious person, their over-whelming thoughts make perfect sense: A person who lacks the feedback about the behavior that is necessary in order to know if they are doing “it” right may very well be anxious about how they are perceived.

If we can add to Rochel’s story about that time in elementary school when her teacher accused her of cheating – when she was not doing so – then we have a recipe for a perfect storm. Not only didn’t she get helpful, loving feedback from parents, but she got inaccurate feedback from an authority figure.

What message did that give to her? The message is that there must be some-thing wrong with how she presents her-self to the world. And since she always tried to do the right thing, even doing the right thing doesn’t matter. Imagine how such a background must create uncertainty in a person. It is no wonder that a relatively small episode would trigger hand-wringing anxiety.

In spite of Shevie’s, Natan’s, and

Rochel’s plight, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Before I offer suggestions for han-dling it, however, I don’t want you to think that I think anxiety is the “ene-my.” If Hashem created it for us, then He meant it to be a tool. Indeed, scien-tists say a little stress is useful. Before a competition, whether athletic or aca-demic, a dose of anxiety can secrete a

bit of cortisol into the system.The Mayo Clinic website explains

the role of cortisol as follows: “Adren-aline increases your heart rate, elevates your blood pressure and boosts energy supplies. Cortisol, the primary stress hormone, increases sugars (glucose) in the bloodstream, enhances your brain’s use of glucose and increases the avail-

ability of substances that repair tissues.

“Cortisol also curbs functions that would be nonessen-tial or detrimental in a fight-or-flight situation. It alters immune system re-sponses and sup-presses the digestive system, the repro-

ductive system and growth processes. This complex natural alarm system also communicates with regions of your brain that control mood, motivation and fear.”

It’s a good thing. Hashem wanted to give us a means to keep us on our toes when we need it. However, like all gifts that He gives us, we must appreci-ate them and use them wisely. If a small portion of stress hormone can be really helpful when we need it, does that mean a huge dollop will help even more?

Logically, one could think so, but as you very well know, too much anxiety becomes counterproductive. Cortisol not only suppresses the digestive sys-tem but also the thinking system – the cerebral cortex. So when the very thing a person is stressed about is intellectual in nature – such as a job review, a pre-

sentation at work, handling social con-versation, or school – boom! The corti-sol blocks the ability to think.

Finding that happy medium in expe-riencing stress is possible nevertheless. Here are some tips for doing just that:

Learn to take control of your auto-nomic nervous system with deep breath-ing. I realize that breathing sounds like it’s just too simple to be a solution to such a monumental problem. However, when we breathe slowly and deeply – guess what? – it reduces cortisol levels! It brings our blood pressure, heart rate, and all other stress responses back into line. If you practice the breathing with an attempt to relax your muscles and the tension you feel in specific areas like your throat and chest, you can achieve a calmer state. Practice this.

Search for accurate and helpful feed-back from others. You know who the people are who are willing to be hon-est. They will tell you what you could do better if there really is something to do better. They will also tell you what you did well. If you are in a business or job that has opportunities for feedback, take advantage of it. When I give talks I have anonymous evaluation forms. I always ask for “constructive criticism.” You can do the same at work.

Keep a journal of casual interactions with people – or with the subject matter that makes you nervous – to record the good, the bad, and the beautiful. With a dated journal, you can’t tell yourself, “I always screw up,” when it is plainly not true. When you do make errors, that is the time to find out what you can do to correct them.

Give yourself a positive – and accu-rate – affirmation regularly. Shevie, for example, could tell herself, “I got over 90 on the last three history tests; I will be fine.”

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fami-ly Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual--Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect--Togeth-er, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. For more information, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at drdeb.com.

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Compiled by Nate Davis

Notable Quotes

“Say What?”I have to tell you, my friend, I’ve been, quote, attacked before by people using real bullets, not words, and I am not going to be intimidated. I am not going to stand down with respect to President Obama’s commitment to trying to find peace in the Middle East. - John Kerry on CNN, discussing comments that Israeli politicians made about him in response to a statement which he made which insinuated possible support for a boycott against Israel

Well, as we remind all Americans that come to this country, the Russian government has tremendous capabilities. And [it’s] legal, by their law, [to intercept] phone calls, emails, et cetera. There’s no doubt that I am a primary subject of interest for them, and from time to time they have also leaked conversations I had that I thought were private.- U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Meet the Press, when asked if he has ever been bugged in Russia

The games haven’t even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don’t flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it’s like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise. - Jay Leno

We are going to have parents being able to come home, working reasonable hours. People are going to be able to retire. People might actually be able to cook dinner rather than have to order out and get some takeout. If you look at international comparisons country by country, Americans work way more that the average of industrialized countries around the world. - Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) on CBS responding to the CBO report that American workers’ hours will be cut due to Obamacare

Chobani yogurt is safe, nutritious and delicious and the Russian Authorities should get past ‘nyet’ and let this prime sponsor of the US Olympic Team deliver their protein-packed food to our athletes.- Senator Charles Schumer in a statement about Russia’s refusal to allow 5,000 Chobani yogurts into Russia for U.S. Olympians

We do not serve FBI and CIA agents.- Sign outside a restaurant in Sochi

I think there’s a high degree of probability that something will detonate, something will go off.- House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) discussing a possible terror attack during the Sochi Olympics

This has been the greatest 22-years of my life. I am the luckiest guy in the world. Just been incredible.- Jay Leno, at the end of his last show as host of “The Today Show”

The worst thing about losing this job, I’m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for Obamacare. - Jay Leno

This is the last night Jay Leno is hosting “The Tonight Show.” Good luck, Jay. The lesson here is if you work hard and succeed, someday you will be fired. - Craig Ferguson

The Olympics start airing tonight on NBC. It’s very cool. That’s right, NBC has the Olympics. It’s a big deal. NBC will finally get to show somebody who is OK with passing the torch.- Conan O’Brien, on the night of Jay Leno’s last show as host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show

He’s very into the military because, you know, how do you annoy your left-wing liberal pacifist mother? You become a big military man. – Rosie O’Donnell on The View, discussing her son who joined the military

People are worried that Sochi in Russia is not ready for the Olympics. They have a mall there where the only store that’s currently open is a Cinnabon — or as Americans refer to it, a mall that caters to all of our needs. - Conan O’Brien

Generally speaking, you get past the next election by changing your policies, by announcing new initiatives, but not by wontedly changing the law lawlessly. This is stuff that you do in a banana republic.- Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer responding to the Obama administration once again delaying an unpopular provision of Obamacare to 2016

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There are 12 new events in this year’s Winter Olympics—12. The new events include women’s ski jumping, luge-team relay, and finding a working toilet. - Conan O’Brien

The Olympic torch arrived in Sochi yesterday after going on a four-month relay around the world. That’s when you know things are bad — when even the torch is putting off going to Russia. - Jimmy Fallon

I mean, it started, it seemed to start anyway with the filing of my nonprofit application in 2010. And from that point forward we had a parade of the alphabet soup come to visit me from the FBI to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, OSHA, the IRS again and again and again – 15 times, more than 15 times when you talked about all the investigations that went on in between. There’s really very little to explain away the fact that prior to filing that nonprofit application I’d never had any government agency be interested in me or my family or since that time.- Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of a Tea Party group, detailing her run-ins with the federal government after seeking non-profit status for her group, on Fox News

You have to at some point in time take responsibility for your own safety. And that’s all I was doing. I’m not a sitting duck. - A 59 year-old Los Angeles woman explaining why she went outside with a shotgun when she saw to potential burglars in her backyard

Crazy [lady] has a gun- Response of the bewildered burglars as they ran away

I’m glad you were able to tear yourselves away from the Winter Olympics. The sporting event that answers the question, “How many different ways can white people injure themselves on ice?”- Jimmy Kimmel

There’s a new survey that found that 50 percent of doctors admit to going on Wikipedia to look up medical information. While the rest behave like professionals and use WebMD. - Jimmy Fallon

Two things that happened in 2012: We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born and we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general. And those are the things that add up into our benefits cost. So when we had the final decision about what benefits to cut because of the increased healthcare costs, we made the decision, and I made the decision, to basically change the 401(k) plan. - AOL CEO Tim Armstrong during a conference call explaining to company employees why he was changing their benefit packages

37 minutes! . . . 37 minutes! - Former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz overheard on a hot microphone, when Mayor de Blasio finally showed up 37 minutes late to give his State of the City address

It’s our last episode of Late Night. You know, I’m really going to miss being on TV at 12:37. I’ll especially miss the battle for late-night ratings with my fierce rivals — Craig Ferguson and a Veggie Chopper infomercial. - Jimmy Fallon

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.- President Obama to Leslie Bowman, president of the Monticello Foundation, when he and the president of France were visiting Jefferson’s estate and President Obama broke protocol

The Olympics start Friday and Russia’s implementing the most intensive security in Olympics history. The government will monitor every email. They will monitor every social media message and they will listen in on every phone call. In fact, people are now comparing Russia to the United States. That’s how bad it is. - Jay Leno

Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks. Today, they had their big Super Bowl victory parade. You see what the city did to make the parade move along faster? They put the Denver Broncos defense right in front of them.- Jay Leno

Let me try. I just wanna run. If you catch me, good. Then you caught me. If not, then sorry about your luck. Maybe another day.- Don Pooley, 34, of Colorado who was holding a 13-year-old hostage in a conversation with KDVR-TV, trying to convince the police to give him a one mile lead to escape

If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2 o’clock in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said, “Where do you think you are?” They would say, “This must be America. This is a modern airport.” If I took them blindfolded and took them to LaGuardia airport in New York, he would be like, “I must be in some third world country.” I’m not joking. – Vice President Joe Biden at a speech in Philadelphia about America’s infrastructure

LaGuardia obviously needs an upgrade, but that being said the airport manages an extraordinary amount of traffic and the people who work there make it work under very difficult circumstances. So as a proud New Yorker, I didn’t like that comment, and I think it was not the right way to talk about it.- New York Mayor de Blasio, responding to Biden’s comments

Today is the 10th anniversary of Facebook…More than anyone, Mark Zuckerberg revolutionized the way we avoid doing work in this country. - Jimmy Kimmel

There’s a pillow shortage in Sochi too. They don’t have enough pillows for the beds. How do you not foresee a demand for pillows? Although in their defense, it is Russia. When you sleep wherever you happen to pass out, pillows aren’t so important. - Jimmy Kimmel

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To the average person, the submarine is

a mysterious weap-on of war that lurks beneath the ocean and strikes stealth-ily at will. For the enemy, it is a dan-gerous machine that is capable of sinking a ship with just one shot. Since 1945 there have been very few ships sunk from a submarine’s torpedo but it remains an effectual psychological weapon that is feared worldwide.

Before the invention of nucle-ar-powered subs in the 1950s, all sub-marines (technically they were called submersibles because they relied on surfacing to recharge batteries) ran on diesel engines. The ships were hot and unpleasant for the occupants and some-times their worst enemy was the sub itself. Several times submarines disap-peared without a trace and mechanical problems were blamed for the losses. However, in 1939, an American subma-rine did sink but 33 crewmen survived because of the heroic efforts of the crew and the use of a new invention.

The USS Squalus (SS-192, squa-lus is the Latin name for shark) was launched in 1938 and in May 1939 went through a series of test dives to prepare her for the inevitable war. Un-der the command of Lt. Oliver Nanquin, the Squalus had a crew of 59 sailors on board on May 23 for a test dive off the coast of New Hampshire. At first all in-dicators showed that the test was run-ning as planned. Then disaster struck.

The ship had several airtight doors that when properly locked wouldn’t al-low seawater to enter. A main induction valve that allowed surface air into the engines somehow opened up and water poured in as the ship started to rapidly

sink. The sub fi-nally settled on the bottom of the ocean at a depth of 240 feet. Subsequently, the after-torpedo room, flooded and the 26 men in that area of the Squalus drowned. The oth-er 33 men began to franticly close all the inner doors,

thus preventing water from flooding the other compartments. The crew had to preserve precious air by minimizing their breathing and movements until help could arrive.

The first responder was the Squa-lus’s sister ship the USS Sculpin (SS-191). After several hours of searching, the Sculpin found where the Squalus went down and was able to commu-nicate with her via telephone wire on a buoy. However, the connecting line snapped and communication was soon lost. A rescue tug had attached a grap-ple hook on metal down below on what everyone hoped was the sub and they waited for divers to come up from the mid-Atlantic. They could have used a new device called the Momsen Lung but it was very dangerous to ascend with it and could cause oxygen poison-ing.

The creator of the Momsen Lung, Lt. Commander Charles Momsen, was racing to the scene on the rescue ship USS Falcon. The ship, equipped with divers, also had a new rescue device de-veloped for such an emergency called the McCann Rescue Chamber. It was a contraption that lowered from the res-cue ship to the sunken sub and would pull up several men at a time without endangering the sailors still in the sub. The senior medical officer on scene was Lt. Commander Dr. Charles Schilling and Captain Albert Behnke was on-

board the Falcon as the ex-pert of compression sickness. He would oversee the dives and monitor the divers and survivors of the Squalus for symptoms of sicknesses that come from being at the ocean bottom.

On the morning of May 24, the Falcon reached the point where the tug had at-

tached the grapple hook and determined that the metal that was attached was indeed from the Squalus. The rescue chamber was set up by divers, and by early afternoon they made the first trip down to the ocean bottom. Three trips were completed by evening and 25 men had been successfully rescued from the doomed sub. Only one more trip was needed to retrieve the last eight sailors.

At about 8 in the eve-ning the rescue chamber went down one last time with divers John Mih-alowski and James H. McDonald in charge of the pickup. The last eight sailors including Lt. Nanquin from the Squa-lus entered the chamber and the ascent began. At about 160 feet from the surface, they suddenly stopped. The cable jammed and the sailors had to return to the sunk-en sub but now ten lives were at stake. After four hours of tense work with ad-ditional divers and careful monitoring from Momsen, Schilling and Behnke, the chamber finally surfaced at mid-night.

For the first time in history sailors from a sunken sub had been successful-ly rescued. The British did not have the McCann Rescue Chamber and during a crisis of their own, all survivors of the submarine HMS Thetis died during res-

cue attempts just a week after the Squa-lus rescue.

A year after the sinking of the Squa-lus, the sub had been pulled from the depths, refitted and given a new name. The USS Sailfish was recommissioned in May 1940 and sailors on the sub were forbidden from saying the word “squa-lus” due to superstitions that only exist in the navy. (It is considered bad luck to

be on a ship that had its name changed.) She went on twelve war patrols per-forming brilliantly against Japanese targets and three years after the war she was sold for scrap.

On December 4, 1943, the Sailfish was in the Philippine Sea looking for tar-gets and saw the ultimate prize—an air-craft carrier. Several attempts had been made before by American submarines

to sink one but they had all managed to get away. The Sailfish was determined not to let it happen again and with four torpedoes sent the carrier to the bottom of the ocean with 1,250 Japanese sail-ors aboard. 21 American prisoners were also on the ship and twenty went down with George Rocek being the sole survi-vor. In an ironic twist of fate, it was dis-covered that these prisoners were from the Sculpin—the submarine that had first responded to the Squalus’s disaster. However, none of the sailors were from the original crew that had come to the rescue of the Squalus.

Before going to the scrap yard, the conning tower was re-moved and was transferred to the Portsmouth Naval Yard where it stands as a memorial for the men who died on her. Four div-ers from the rescue team, includ-ing Mihalowski and McDonald, were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their hero-ic efforts in saving the lives of the 33 sunken submariners. The saga of the Squalus changed the thinking of rescue operations for

the upcoming war that would see sub-marines take the center stage of stran-gling the Japanese war machine.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your com-ments and suggestions.for future columns and can be reached at [email protected].

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I find it fascinating that the foremost expert on Jews in China is not a Jew himself. He is a Chinese man who

was born in Shanghai and is now the Director of the Institute of European and Asian Studies at Shanghai Acad-emy of Social Sciences.

Professor Pan Guang has spent de-cades researching Jews in the country and has written dozens of books on the subject. When I met the professor this week, we spoke about his interest in the Chosen People. There aren’t many Jews in the country now—only about 12,000—but Guang says that children growing up in China are always told the story of the Jews. It’s not necessarily taught in school; these are stories and messages that are passed down from parents to their children.

What attracted him to spend his life dedicated to learning about the Jews in China? Guang points out that Jews and the Chinese share common values. The importance of family, education and business are central in both cultures. Additionally, he says, the philosophy of

Confucianism focuses on being good to both man and being righteous and hu-mane. He says that the Chinese see the Torah as mirroring those same values. In China, Guang notes, Jews have never felt any anti-Semitism. They were and are always welcomed and valued for what they contribute to society.

THE FIVE WAVES Jews came to China in five waves,

much like other immigrants coming to other countries. The earliest group of Jews who came to China came by land via the Silk Route in the seventh cen-tury. They moved to Kaifeng and es-tablished a famous Jewish community there. Although the community was vi-brant, after many years, they eventually assimilated into Chinese society.

The second wave of Jews primarily consisted of those of Sephardic descent and came in 1814 when the British opened China up to foreign trade. Many British businessmen came to China then to do business and a group of Sephardic Jews came from Mumbai to engage in trade.

The famous Sassoon and Kadoorie families came to China at the time and were more than just businessmen. They helped develop the Jewish and Chinese communities, building shuls and schools for the community. The first shul in Hong Kong, the Ohel Leah Synagogue, was donated by the Sas-

soon family. It is now the center of the Jewish community in Hong Kong. The Ohel Rachel Synagogue was the first Sephardic shul to be built in Shanghai, and it is still preserved there. HSBC bank (which stands for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) has its origins in the Sassoon banking days. And the Peace Hotel, which is open even today, was built by the Sassoons.

The third wave of Jews to immi-grate to China came from Russia. It was a small group of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Siberia and end-ed up in Harbin, China. Interestingly, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s grandfather, Yosef Olmert, was one of those who came with this group. He is buried in Harbin.

The main synagogue in Harbin was built in 1907. The Jews experienced no anti-Semitism in China, a relief af-ter being persecuted for their beliefs for years in Russia. Unlike Jews in the previous wave, Russian Jews engaged in commerce on a smaller level. They owned small businesses, like fur shops, as opposed to the Sephardic Jews who came earlier who focused on banking and real estate.

Interestingly, in 1932 there was a Jewish unit in the army called the Jew-ish Company of Shanghai Volunteer Corps that consisted of four officers and 100 soldiers. It was the only Jewish fighting unit in the world (aside from

in Israel) and several books have been written about the unit.

The fourth wave of Jews is probably the most famous. These Jews were ref-ugees escaping Hitler’s wrath. China was the only country to open its doors to them. In fact, Shanghai at the time did not require visas to enter the coun-try. Many of those who came were con-sidered “stateless,” but were welcomed nonetheless. It was only because the Nazis required visas in order to leave the country did these Jews scramble in order to obtain the golden visas.

The fifth and final wave of immi-gration to China is the wave of Jews in the country today. There are only about 5,000 Jews in Shanghai—12,000 in the whole China. Most of them are busi-nessmen and teachers who have come for opportunity to a country that wel-comes them with open arms.

A CITY FOR THE STATELESSNovember 1938 changed every-

thing for the Jews in Europe. Rum-blings of Hitler’s craziness were felt by Jews in Germany and the surrounding countries for many months, but most thought they were the ramblings of a madman. Kristallnacht rudely shook the Jews out of their reverie and gave them a terrifying glimpse of what Hitler and the Nazis were planning against the Jews.

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their countries while others were left behind scrambling to find refuge. Ev-ery country slammed their doors in their faces, echoing Hitler’s sentiment that the Jews were not wanted. All countries, except for China. Shanghai was open to all—and did not require a visa or a passport to enter. From 1933 to 1941, 30,000 immigrants poured into the only city that accepted them. Eventually, Shanghai took in more refugees than Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, South Africa and India combined.

Consul General Feng Shan Ho in Vienna was known to many as “China’s Schindler.” As a graduate of University of Munich, he spoke German fluently. He risked his life to issue thousands of visas (the Germans required them in or-der to leave the country), saving thou-sands of lives. Within the first three months of him holding office as consul general, he issued 1,200 visas. Although it is unclear how many Ho issued, it is known that he issued nearly 2,000 vi-sas during the first half year of his post; it’s understood that he may have issued thousands of visas while in office.

One person came to Ho begging for his help in securing eleven visas for her family. Ten of her family members were in concentration camp and she was told they would be released if they had visas. He readily agreed to give her the visas after she brought him their

passports. After his death, Ho became the first

Chinese to be honored in Yad Vashem as one of the “righteous gentiles.”

THE MIR YESHIVAHo was not the only diplomat to

save thousands of lives by issuing vi-sas to refugees. Consul Chiune Sugi-hara was a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania. He issued almost 6,000 visas while risking the lives of himself and his family, spending 18-20 hours a day writing the visas. Even while being led away from his office, he was sign-ing visas on the train and flinging them out the window to the desperate crowds below. He too is remembered in Yad Vashem as a “righteous gentile.”

The most famous group to benefit from Sugihara’s benevolence was the Mir Yeshiva. It was the only yeshiva to have escaped intact from Hitler’s clutches. The yeshiva stayed in Japan for several months and after trying unsuccessfully to obtain U.S. visas, left to Shanghai. Once there, the bo-churim spent their time learning. Beis Aharon Synagogue fit the yeshiva per-fectly—with just enough seats—and so they were able to learn during the rest of the war years. Most of those in the yeshiva were orphans—their whole families were exterminated by Hitler’s minions—and the yeshiva became their family. The “Alter Mirrers” shared

a bond of closeness that was unparal-leled.

LIFE IN SHANGHAIThe Ohel Moshe Synagogue be-

came the religious center for the Jew-ish refugees at the time. The refugees received food and shelter and schools were established for their children. Shanghai at the time was under Japa-nese rule and the Germans tried to in-fluence the Japanese to establish con-centration camps to annihilate the Jews. The Germans suggested a mass arrest on Rosh Hashana in September 1942 of all Jews in the city. Colonel Josef Meisinger, chief representative of the Gestapo in Japan, proposed a “Final So-lution in Shanghai” to the authorities. Fortunately, the Japanese did not heed the Nazi’s whisperings; they weren’t interested in killing the refugees.

At the time, the Japanese military governor of Shanghai asked the Am-shinover Rebbe, Rabbi Shimon Sha-lom Kalish, why the Germans hated the Jews so much. Some say that Rabbi Kalish wisely replied in Yiddish, “Tell him because we are Orientals.” The governor smiled at his answer and did not hand over the Jews to the Nazis’ hands.

On February 18, 1943, a “Desig-nated Area for Stateless Refugees” was established. All those who immigrated to the city after 1937 were moved to a

one-square-mile “ghetto.” Contrary to what they experienced in Europe, the Shanghai Ghetto did not have walls, al-though curfew was enforced and food was rationed. Those entering and leav-ing the ghetto needed a pass. Interest-ingly, there were many Chinese people who lived with the Jews in the ghetto.

After the bombing of Pearl Har-bor, American citizens were unable to send food and money to those living in enemy-occupied areas. As such, the Jewish community in the United States couldn’t send provisions to their broth-ers in Shanghai. Food was scarce and life was hard in the ghetto. Outbreaks of disease were common. By 1944, though, those in Switzerland were able to send aid and the situation dramati-cally improved.

After the end of the war and upon the establishment of the State of Israel, most of the refugees left Shanghai to the United States and Israel. When the Cultural Revolution took place in 1966, all the Jews left the country. But to-day, Jews are coming back to China to engage in trade and education. Those who lived in China previously still harbor a deep sense of gratitude to-wards the country that opened its arms to them in their time of need. Indeed, many of us are descendants of those who survived through the benevolence of the China and will forever appreciate the goodness of our Oriental brothers.

The famous photo of the Mirrer Yeshiva learning in Shanghai. It was the only yeshiva to escape the war intact.

The grave of Yosef Olmert, grandfather of Ehud Olmert, in Harbin, China

A Jewish girl and a Chinese girl playing together

A frum school for Jewish refugees in the Shanghai ghetto, 1944

David Sassoon and his three sons

In the ‘ghetto’ in China

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The Shul on the BeachOld Orchard Beach, Maine

Kosherology TravelAlex Idov

To the tune of “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof“A shul that’s on the beach. It seems the strangest sight. It sits there on the beach, it sits there day

and night. What does this mean? This shul that’s on the beach. Where did it come from and how does it survive...Persistence! Persistence!...”

Sorry for my little song, but an Orthodox shul sitting on the beach in a small bygone beach town is truly one of the strangest sights I have ever encountered. This past summer, my father and I took a highly memorable road trip to New England (will hopefully have some more about that). We

traveled to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and saw many stunningly beautiful and interesting places. My father and I had to agree though; the most interesting place we visited was Old Orchard Beach, Maine, and the little old white shul that sits on the sand.

While planning our trip and trying to figure out where we could spend Shabbos in or near Maine (as that is where we were hoping to be, per our itinerary), I ran across a website which brought to my attention Congregation Beth Israel of Old Orchard Beach. It looked promising; after mentioning to someone we met in Rhode Island that we were hoping to go to Old Orchard Beach for Shabbos and were trying to get in contact with someone there who could help us make our plans (Where could we stay? Is there a minyan? Is this a crazy idea? etc.), we were put in touch with Eber Weinstein, who helped us plan our Shabbos. Who is Eber Weinstein, you ask. Eber Weinstein and his brother Neil are the sole forces behind Congregation Beth Israel. Having grown up visiting Old Orchard Beach during their summer vacations and having a close connection to the shul (their great-grandfather helped pur-chase the land the shul sits on), the Weinstein brothers decided to permanently move to Old Orchard Beach and keep their shul operating for all Jews in need of a shul, whether locals or visitors.

As it turns out, this bygone beach town of Old Orchard Beach was once a popular getaway for Jewish families, going all the way back to the 1800’s. In its heyday, Old Orchard Beach had three kosher hotels, a kosher baker, a kosher butcher, and even until fairly recently: a kosher French fry shop which attracted Jewish visitors who traveled from as far as Boston just to get these delicious boardwalk fries. Congregation Beth Israel was constructed around 1917 by a French carpenter and its design resembles that of a ship (only upside down) and served as the beach’s center for those seeking traditional Orthodox services ever since and at one point in time, was standing room only on Shab-bos. In the 1960’s, when airfare and other means of travel started becoming more affordable, visitors stopped coming to Old Orchard Beach, much like that which happened to the Catskills. The glory days of Jewish Old Orchard Beach was no longer.

The shul has since been sitting on the 7 mile stretch of Old Orchard Beach, surrounded by a doz-en old seaside beach motels, non-kosher restaurants and bars, souvenir/t-shirt shops, and a good old fashioned amusement park and arcade by the boardwalk (filled with the good old games I remember from arcades when I was a kid). There is no pulpit rabbi of the shul, rather all services are led by Eber and visitors to the shul. When we were there, we were fortunate to have a minyan for every ser-vice on Shabbos. Also visiting Old Orchard Beach this same weekend were a couple from Boston, a couple from Baltimore, two teenaged kids from New York, and a family from Montreal who had no idea there was a shul in the beach town they decided to visit over Shabbos. All of these visitors had a hand in adding to the unique Shabbos atmosphere and many helped with leading davening. I even led Shabbos morning Shacharis for the first time since my bar mitzvah, as well as Maariv motzei Shabbos. After Shabbos, my father and I took a walk down to the boardwalk arcade and to the pier, which was bustling with night-life activity. As we left Old Orchard Beach (or OOB, as it’s abbreviated on the sweatshirt I bought from a souvenir shop), we left with visions of a wonderful, memorable Shabbos, the town in its vibrant past with tons of Jewish families enjoying themselves strolling along the boardwalk, and a hope to return to this gem in the near future.

Alex Idov is a kosher food blogger who runs the blog “Kosherology” and is a regular contributing food colum-nist to TJH. He is currently studying for his bachelor’s degree in Culinary Sustainability (food & agriculture). Please visit “Kosherology” at www.exploretheworldofkosher.com and find Kosherology” on Facebook.

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The Attorney Responds:Without examining your financial

records as well as those of your wife, it is hard to answer with any specificity; however, I can give you an idea of the law on this subject. What your wife is talking about sounds like what we call “pendente lite relief.” The purpose of pendente lite relief is to ensure that the parties’ standard of living is preserved, pending the litigation. Domestic Rela-tions Law (“DRL”) Section 236(B)(6) and (8) and Section 240 provide author-ity for the Court to award either spouse temporary maintenance based upon the parties’ prior standard of living.

The pendente lite order should also be reasonable regarding the needs of the moving party and the financial ability of the moved upon spouse. This deter-mination should take into account the pre-separation standard of living. Some of the factors to be considered in award-ing temporary maintenance include the standard of living of the parties during the marriage, the income and property of the parties, the distribution of marital property, the duration of the marriage, the health of the parties, the present and future earning capacity of both parties, the ability of the party seeking mainte-nance to become self-supporting and the reduced or lost lifetime earning capaci-ty of the party seeking maintenance. In awarding maintenance, it is necessary to consider both the reasonable needs of the recipient as well as the pre-divorce standard of living. The party seeking maintenance has the burden of proof to show necessity or the inability to main-tain herself. So your wife would have to file a motion asking for temporary maintenance and attorney’s fees with reasons for why she should get it and you would have the opportunity to tell your side of the story.

Regarding your wife’s request for attorney’s fees, if asked for in a pendent lite motion, they are normally awarded to the less moneyed spouse in order to

level the playing field. So, for instance, let’s say that you make significantly more than your wife or that she has no income. You paying her attorney’s fees would accomplish the state’s goal of preventing the more affluent spouse from wearing down or financially pun-ishing the opposition by recalcitrance, or by prolonging the litigation. There are situa-tions, however, where the par-ties’ incomes are such that an award of mainte-nance and attor-ney’s fees would actually result in a situation where the wife has more money than the husband after the transfer of funds whereby the playing field is not leveled but tilted in the other direction. This is not like-ly to happen. There was a 2011 case (Scott M. v. Ilona M.) where the wife after being paid maintenance was now the moneyed spouse and therefore did not qualify for legal fees from the hus-band. In that case, Judge Sunshine stat-ed, “The Court cannot decide that just because one party ‘earns more’ than the other that they automatically become the ‘moneyed spouse.’” This would be an injustice.

In a newer case in 2013, Justice Matthew Cooper ruled that the wife would no longer qualify for additional legal fees paid by her husband because it was giving her a disincentive to settle as she had “no skin in the game” and would continue to litigate as long as her legal fees were being paid. I myself have defeated motions for attorney’s fees, especially where my fee was lower than the spouse’s attorney, the court is not generally going to award a fee that is higher than what the moneyed spouse is paying. So despite your wife’s opin-ion, awards of attorney’s fees are not a certainty.

Regarding your wife’s comment that you would be responsible for paying for all your children’s expenses, you should know that in New York, basic child sup-port as well as add-ons (expenses such as medical co-pays, extracurricular ac-tivities, private school tuition) are gen-erally paid proportionately to income, so if your wife is earning an income, she too would be responsible for part

of their support. There is a formula to figure out how much each parent should pay according to the statute, the CSSA (Child Support Standards Act). In addi-tion, couples can “opt-out” of the for-mula by either agreeing to pay more or less than is required depending on other factors in the divorce such as who is get-

ting which assets such as the mar-ital residence. A d d i t i o n a l l y, child support will depend on which one of you the children live with; normally the non-custodial

parent will pay support to the custodial parent.

My advice to you would be to con-sult with an attorney who can give you a specific picture of what your financial future may look like if you decide to

proceed with a divorce. You may not be living on that couch after all!

This column is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be legal advice. No attorney client re-lationship is formed unless a signed re-tainer exists.

Deborah Kaminetzky is the founding mem-ber of Kaminetzky & Associates, P.C. lo-cated in Cedarhurst, New York. Prior to starting the firm Ms. Kaminetzky was an as-sociate at Weisman Law Group, P.C. where she primarily practiced matrimonial and family law. Deborah has also worked at the New York Department of Consumer Affairs where she was responsible for prosecuting unlicensed home improvement contractors and negotiating settlements for consum-ers. Ms. Kaminetzky has spoken to various groups on topics including matrimonial law, technology and social media use, and disas-ter preparedness for business.

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Chai PointsThe Use of Art Materials with Caution in a Safe Environment

This article is being written to inform the readers of this col-umn of precautionary measures

which must be taken in order to secure the safe use of art materials. In all of my articles, I encourage creative stim-

ulation and experiment. These artistic voyages of expression should never be

taken at the risk of any health hazards. The personal rewards and accom-plishments are only a plus if health concerns are the top priority. My in-tention is to make the public aware of any health risks. So please take the time to be cautious when planning an art activity. Improper use can cause unnecessary health problems.

1) Always work in a well-ventilat-ed area, preferably outside or by an open window when using any product which produces fumes or dust.

2) Respiratory problems can be caused when fumes are inhaled on a continuous basis. Therefore, it is al-ways in your best interest to wear a doctor’s mask when working with ad-hesives, spray paints or fixatives.

3) Pastels, charcoal and chalks produce dust and should be used in an area with proper ventilation. Make

sure to take breaks when us-ing these materials. Continu-ous use of them while being used improperly can cause irritations to the lungs.

4) Make sure that when cleaning brushes with tur-pentine or paint remover that they are cleaned in a well-ventilated area or by an open window. Inhalation of the fumes can be toxic.

5) Check to see if you are allergic to any art materials before using them. Some people are aller-gic to specific art materials and they can cause rashes which are extremely uncomfortable. Wear doctors’ plastic gloves fit to size if this is the case. They come in all sizes. The tighter the fit the easier it will be to use the art materi-als.

6) Certain glazes used in working with clay and sculpturing can cause an allergic reaction. Check out all ingredients before using them.

7) Too much ex-posure to turpentine is not healthy. The skin can absorb it and it will enter the bloodstream. So be cautious when using. It is wise to wear rubber gloves and use a rag when using the material.

8). Inks and dyes require care when using. Preferably, they should always be used while wearing rubber gloves.

9) Plaster is also a material which gives off a tremendous amount of dust, so when planning a sculpture project wear a doctor’s mask and rub-ber gloves.

10) Safety glasses are wise to purchase if you will be doing a large amount of artwork on a continuous basis.

11) Do not chew the tips of your lead pencils or colored pencils. They can be toxic.

12) Any open cuts should be cov-ered when working with art materials.

13) Be cautious not to rub your eyes while your hands are covered with any art materials.

15) Read instructions on the prop-er handling of the tools of the trade. Some are easy and some require read-ing instructions before using, which will prevent any accidents from hap-pening.

16) Be careful not to bump into anyone else work-ing next to you in an art studio shared by many people. This will help avoid the risk of accidental-ly causing another person to hurt them-selves while holding a tool.

17) Always put your supplies away in a safe way and high enough so that young

children cannot reach them without supervision.

18) Always use non-toxic materi-als when working with young children in schools and at camp. Professional supplies which may be toxic are only to be used by adults who are proficient in their use.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a pro-fessional art educator, artist and design-er. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions and suggestions for future columns.

From My Private Art Collection

TAKE THE TIME TO BE CAUTIOUS WHEN PLANNING AN ART

ACTIVITY.

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Spiced Crab CakesIngredients1 loaf gefilta fish, defrosted2 tablespoons curry powder1 teaspoon dried cilantro1 tablespoon dried dill½ teaspoon cayenne pepper2 cups panko crumbs divided

PreparationPlace defrosted loaf into a mixing bowl and add

rest of the ingredients except 1 cup of the panko crumbs and mix well.

Take the extra one cup panko crumbs and place in a small shallow bow. Set aside.

From the mixture form patties about the size of your palm and then coat both sides in the panko crumbs. Set aside and repeat with remaining mixture.

On medium to high heat, fry the crab cakes for two minutes on each side until cooked through. Place on paper towels after cooking.

Nut Crusted Salmon with Creamy Chrain SauceIngredients1/8 cup red horseradish1/8 cup mayonnaise1 cup shelled salted pistachios½ cup brown sugar2 tablespoons lemon juice2 lbs salmon fillet (one whole side of a salmon)

PreparationMix the horseradish and mayonnaise together in

a small bowl.Place the salmon on a large baking sheet lined

with parchment paper. Spread the mixture over the fish and set aside.

In a food processor, crush the nuts until they are coarsely ground but not too fine. Add in the brown sugar and lemon juice and mix until it looks like wet sand. Pat nut mixture on top of salmon and bake for 25 minutes at 350°.

Fish with Butter and Lemon Wine Sauce with Fresh Herbs

Note: Roux is a substance created by cooking wheat flour and fat. It is the thickening agent when making sauces.

Ingredients2 lbs red snapper, cod, tilapia, Nile perch sliced into

individual servings approx. 6 oz each½ cup corn starch1 tablespoon Ossie’s lemon pepper4 tablespoons butter, divided2 tablespoons flour1 cup white wine1 fresh lemon, juiced1 teaspoon lemon pepper SaltSmall handful fresh parsley, finely chopped

PreparationIn a small bowl, mix corn starch and lemon pep-

per together. Coat the fish in the corn starch mixture.In a medium saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon but-

ter on a high heat (watch for burning) then add each piece of fish and cook for 3 minutes on each side until lightly browned. Place the fish in an ovenproof dish and set aside.

To prepare the sauce: on a moderate heat, melt butter then add in the flour to make a roux, stirring constantly, until it thickens. The sauce will get nice and thick as it gets closer to its boiling point. Add one cup of white wine. Add fresh lemon juice and lemon pepper, and salt to taste. Stir constantly till the sauce is nice and thick, then add in the fresh parsley.

Pour sauce over fish and bake at 350° for 20 min-utes uncovered.

In the KitchenNaomi Nachman

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

My parents were visiting us from Australia, so I wanted our Shabbat food to be extra special. I made them some of my favorite fish dishes with the new recipes I created since I had last seen them.

My mother is a gefilta fish maven – which she picked up from her mother, my Bub-bie – so I decided to make my Gefilta Fish Spiced Crab Cakes. My mother abso-

lutely loved them, as did my 6-year old! I made a double batch so we could have them all the way through seuda shlishit.

My parents also love salmon so, of course, I had to make my Nut Crusted Salm-on (which they really enjoyed). I’ve included recipes for both dishes below.

Below are three easy fish recipes that your family will enjoy as much as mine.

A Taste of the Sea

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In the Kitchen

A Sprinkle of Cinnamon

Baked Apples with a TwistIngredients2 lbs apples, Cortland or Gala, cored and

chopped2 tsp cinnamonJuice of 1 lemon1/3 cup brown sugar

PreparationPreheat oven to 375°. Toss chopped apples

with cinnamon, lemon juice and brown sugar. Place in baking dish.

Bake in oven, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes until soft and juicy.

Serve with ice cream for a delicious dessert or with roast meat as a great side for dinner.

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This recipe is dairy and is moist and delicious—perfect for Shabbos mornings!

Ingredientscups flour¾ tsp baking soda½ tsp salttsp cinnamon½ cup light brown sugar, not packed4 TBS unsalted butter, softened 2 large eggs½ cups mashed very ripe banana 1/3 cup plain or vanilla yogurt (you can

use Greek yogurt)1 tsp vanilla extract¼ cup sugar1 tsp cinnamon½ cup powdered sugar, sifted1 TBS heavy cream or half-and-half

PreparationPreheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×5-

inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. In a separate large bowl, beat the brown sugar and butter with a stand or handheld mixer on medium speed un-til well blended – about 1 minute. Add the eggs one at a time. With a wooden spoon, stir in the mashed banana, yo-gurt, and vanilla. Slowly add in the dry ingredients. Batter will be thick.

Spoon half of the batter into prepared loaf pan. Sprinkle with ¼ cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Top with remaining batter. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes in the pan on a wire rack. Remove from pan and cool com-pletely on the wire rack.

While the bread is cooling, make the glaze in a small bowl by combining the powdered sugar and heavy cream. Add more powdered sugar until you reached desired thickness. Drizzle over banana bread.

Ingredients½ cup plus 1 ½ TBS sugar, divided 1 ½ tsp cinnamon1 cup water½ teaspoon salt2 TBS plus 2 quarts oil, divided1 cup flour

PreparationCombine ½ cup sugar with cinna-

mon in shallow bowl. Line a plate with paper towels.

In a small saucepan over medium heat, whisk together the water, 1 ½ tablespoons sugar, salt and 2 table-spoons vegetable oil. Bring the mixture to a boil then remove it from the heat. Stir in the flour, mixing until it forms a ball.

Heat 3 to 4 inches of vegetable oil

in a large, heavy-bottomed pot set over medium-high heat until it reaches 375°F. (There should be a minimum of 3 inches above the oil to prevent it from bubbling over.)

Transfer the dough to a cloth pastry bag or heavy-duty plastic bag fitted with a large star tip.

Pipe the dough over the pot of oil to a length of about 4 inches, then us-ing scissors or a sharp knife, cut it so it releases into the oil. Pipe two to three churros into the oil at a time, frying them until they’re golden brown and cooked through. Transfer the chur-ros to the paper towel-lined plate to drain for 2 minutes, then roll them in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat the frying and coating process with the re-maining dough.

Soft ‘n Chewy Churros

Ingredients1 cup butter or margarine1 ½ cups sugar2 large eggs2 ¾ cups flour2 tsp cream of tartar1 tsp baking soda¼ tsp salt3 TBS sugar3 tsp cinnamon

PreparationPreheat oven to 350°F. Combine but-

ter or margarine, sugar and eggs in large bowl. Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl. Blend dry ingredients into margarine mix-ture. Chill dough for 10-15 minutes in the fridge.

Mix 3 TBS sugar and 3 tsp cinnamon in small bowl.

Using a chilled ice cream scooper, scoop up 1-inch balls of dough and roll in cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Place on chilled ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes.

Snickerdoodles

Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread

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Adding Insult to Super Bowl Injury

On Sunday, quarterback Peyton Manning led his uncharacteris-tically hapless Denver Broncos

to the second-most-lopsided Super Bowl loss ever. Manning & Company just couldn’t catch a break, from the safety they gave up on the game’s first play, to Manning’s two interceptions, to Percy Harvin’s second-half kickoff return, to . . . you get the picture. So, Manning didn’t walk away with that hoped-for second Super Bowl ring. But at least he walks away with the

$46,000 bonus the NFL awards to los-ing players.

Or does he? Well, here’s the deal. It turns on two things:

1. New Jersey, like most states, tackles visiting athletes with a “jock tax.” The state calculates Manning’s taxable income by dividing the num-ber of days he practices and plays in the state by the number of “duty days” he works for the whole year. Then they apply the regular tax rates, which range up to 8.97% on income over $500,000.

2. Next month, Manning heads to the doctor to follow up on a series of surgeries to his neck and spine. If ev-erything still looks good, he plans to return for the 2014 season. If not, he’ll ride off into the sunset, go to work as a broadcaster, and wait for his induction into the Hall of Fame.

Now, here’s where the play gets complicated. If Manning’s neck forc-es him to retire, he’ll finish 2014 with $111,000 in playoff bonuses. He’ll owe New Jersey tax for the seven days he worked in the state, out of 33 days he played for the year. He’ll hand off $982 in tax, and probably hope he can forget the day ever happened.

But — if Manning’s neck checks

out okay, and he goes on to play next season, he’ll earn another $15 million in 2014 salary. Then he’ll owe New Jersey tax for a smaller fraction of the season — seven days out of 200, rather than seven days out of 33. But he’ll apply that fraction to a whopping $15,111,000 of income. That means he’ll turn over $46,844 in tax — $844 more than he actually made for playing Sunday’s game!

And this is all before we get to Uncle Sam, who picks off 39.6% for

income tax and 3.8% for Medicare. Man-ning’s total tax bill on his $46,000 Super Bowl bonus could hit $66,808, meaning it ac-tually cost him 20 G’s to play! Where’s the fun in that?

At least Manning still leads the NFL in endorsements. He makes $12 million per

year from sponsors including Reebok, Buick, Wheaties, DirecTV, and Papa John’s pizza. He should be thank-ful New Jersey doesn’t tax him on a share of that endorsement income. Some U.S. golfers, among other ath-letes, have had to weigh whether or not to play tournaments in European countries that tax visiting athletes on a share of their endorsement income as well as contest winnings.

So, here’s the final score. When you try something new, like earning income from a new venture or in a new place, you can’t just add up the num-bers at the end of the year and hope for the best. You need a plan to pene-trate the tax man’s defense — one that anticipates blindside rushers like New Jersey’s jock tax. So call your accoun-tant when you’re ready for your plan. And remember, we’re here for your teammates, too!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].

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Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

Life Coach

The “Bliss-ard”

There’s this “breath caught in your throat” feeling. There’s an

all-consuming euphoria bubbling over. It’s just an overwhelming high!

And, strangely, I’m not talking about being in love or seeing one of the Seven Wonders of the World for the first time. I’m talking about a snow day!

There’s nothing that gets a kid more excited than a snow day. And if it lasts a week, oh my goodness, they’re fly-ing. It’s that Monopoly game, get out of jail free, pass go, collect 200 dollars feeling, wrapped up with winning the NY Lottery!

It kind of makes me wonder what in the world they are doing to our children at school that makes them so ecstatic not to go! To think we, lovingly, send off our innocent bundles of joy to a place they dread more than a blizzard.

Is it the snow they love? Is it the school they hate? Or is it the unexpected freedom of an unplanned, unregimented day, with no other agenda—just a day they suddenly own for themselves.

Everyone can identify with this feeling. We are all so scheduled up. Even when we plan a day off; we “plan” a day off! Get it: it’s work, it’s arranging, it’s thinking. Snow days just show up!

If you have a sled and a slope near-by, you are king of the hill! If not, even a carton and a driveway could work. If you’ve got carrots in the house and cu-cumber slices or loose buttons laying around, you’re good for the whole day.

Roll, pack, pile, slide—that’s about all you need to do. Then chill in front of a warm fire with hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows, and you’ve hit snow day heaven.

It’s simple, it’s fun, it’s why G-d ties up the whole city—just so every-one can experience childhood at its finest.

Sometimes we start to believe that doing the same thing day in, day out is the be all to end all—same car ride,

same subway, same trading floor, same roster with patients, same classes, etc… And then G-d decides to wake us all up. ‘Snow joke! You need to get out there and reconnect to the kid in you. Seriously, didn’t you notice the word “freeze” starts with the word “free”? You’ve got to get out there and freeze a little ‘cause it frees you up to throw off the daily shackles and be a free spirit.

Somehow it seems the hot places really miss out. You never really hear

people say, “Heat wave—no school today!” That’s probably why, if you take notes, “warm” start with “war.” It’s just a big fight to find a place to cool off.

It’s amazing we get these indi-

vidual little specks that fall in abun-dance like mannah from heaven, giv-ing us that little bit of sustenance to feed our ability to be a kid again.

The next time the flakes start to fall, and I’m talking from the sky, not your scalp, don’t fight it! Be thankful you can escape the rat race for just a little while to be that enthusiastic, snowball throwing, igloo building, kid you once started out to be.

Next time you wake up and hear “no school today,” don’t wait for your kid to come barreling into your room. Get up, run into theirs, jump onto their bed and yell, “Free for all!” Let them see the side of you that was once a kid, too. “Snow one” will be happier than you!

So….just enjoy the rest of the win-ter. Summer will be here before you know it!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relation-ship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or [email protected]

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