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Dear Readers,It was a land filled with sand as

far as the eye could see. It was des-olate; they were alone. And then, these true pioneers tended to the earth and painstakingly removed the rocks, planted seeds and nur-tured the growing vegetation. It wasn’t just flora that was budding under their care, it was their dreams as well. What they hoped they would be able to achieve was actu-ally coming to fruition: they were building a garden of greenery in a land that was previously barren. They were building up Eretz Yisroel and seeing Hashem’s promise ful-filled.

Reading Anita Tucker’s account of how she and her family came to Gush Katif forty years ago was so inspiring to me. Their drive, their desire to build, their perseverance, their steadfast love for the land…Israel was built by individuals who toiled despite all odds.

And then came the expulsion.

I remember seeing the pictures of Jews being ripped from their homes, of soldiers on horseback, and the incredible pain and tears. It wasn’t just that the people of Gush Katif were being taken from the place they called home for so many years, there was a searing pain that was felt as they knew that the next day the Arabs would be ravaging those beautiful communities.

To see something you worked so hard to build and then to see it destroyed—the pain penetrates so deeply.

The expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif took place ten years ago, on the day after Tisha B’Av. As I read Anita’s account, I couldn’t help but think of the sig-nificance. Tisha B’Av has always been a day designated for sadness and for pain, for mourning and for loss. For thousands of years we’ve been driven out of our homes, forced into exile, destined to wan-der the world in the hopes of find-

ing a place to settle once again. So many of those who were forced out of Gush Katif are still not settled, living in temporary houses and still trying to find another way to earn their livelihood.

We, too, as a nation are still not truly home. Despite the luxury and relative peace we experience to-day, there are many reminders that we are only sojourners in a foreign land. Tisha B’Av is a stark remind-er of that reality. As we remember the calamities that befell our nation throughout the millennia and we concentrate on the tragedies that we feel so deeply, we yearn for the day when we can all live as one in the land that is truly ours, bringing honor and dignity to the Jewish na-tion.

May we merit to see Tisha B’Av celebrated as a yom tov of happiness and joy,

Shoshana

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Community Happenings 41

This Week We’re Talking to… Simcha Day Camp 58

News

Global 8

National 28

Odd-but-True Stories 36

Israel

Israel News 17

Gush Katif Ten Years Later… Ten Years after the Forced Expulsion from Gush Katif, Where are its Residents? 80

Coaxing Life from the Sands: Anita Tucker, One of the Founders of the Gush Katif Settlement, Shares Her Journey 84

My Israel Home: The Source of Israel’s Happiness 87

People

Ze’ev Raz: Leading the Mission to Bomb Iraq’s Osirak Nuclear Reactor by Avi Heiligman 101

Parsha

Rabbi Wein 66

The Shmuz 67

Jewish Thought

Looking Good by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz 78

The Secret of Jewish Immortality by Rabbi Naphtali Hoff 76

Feeling the Loss by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller 75

History

The Churban of Kitev: The Destruction of a Jewish Shtetl by Dr. Joseph Sturm 70

Halacha

Working on Tisha B’Av by Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits 77

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Dear Editor,I really enjoy reading Mr. Rafi

Sackville’s articles on life in Isra-el. He gives a different perspective into life there and I appreciate that he doesn’t always write about the beauti-ful—he shows us reality.

This week, his article truly moved me and showed me just how special and he and his wife truly are. They are blessed to be the parents of three spe-cial children and it’s apparent that they see their children truly as special indi-viduals. I am happy to see that their children are able to feel comfortable and enjoy activities that are meaning-ful to them, living their lives in a won-derful, connecting way.Sincerely, Rena GrossKew Gardens, NY

Dear Editor, The nuclear deal between Iran and

the United States in the long run will be detrimental to the survival of Israel. It is still not a done deal. Providing Iran with 24 day advance notification for inspection of potential violations is ludicrous.

Congress has 60 days to review and concur. President Obama in his usual arrogant way has already said he will veto any votes by Congress to can-cel the deal. It will require the votes

of 67 Senators out of 100 to overturn any presidential veto. Likewise in the House, it would require 290 Congress members out of 435 to do the same. Assuming all 54 Republican Senators object to the deal, Diogenes will be searching for 13 Democratic Senators to come up with the magic number of 67. Democratic Senate Minori-ty Leader Harry Reid from Nevada wants to make his self-appointed heir New York’s Senator Charles Schum-er Majority Leader when the 2017 session convenes. This means that he can protect up to 12 Senators who are concerned about being reelected in 2016 or 2018 with a wink and a nod to stand with Israel and vote against fellow Democrat President Obama. Will Senators Schumer and Gillibrand be profiles in courage and vote against this disastrous deal? Neither has ever been bashful about speaking their mind in front of a camera or micro-phone. Will Senator Schumer stand up and fight for Israel by seriously lob-bying his fellow Democrats to insure 13 or more defect from the president and vote against the deal and kill it? It may mean Schumer choosing between becoming Senate Majority Leader (by incurring the vengeful wrath of President Obama) and standing with friends of Israel. Reid wants to pro-tect members in potentially competi-tive districts in 2016 from a pro-Israel

Democratic primary or Republican general election challenger.

Assuming all 246 GOP Congress-members vote against the deal, Dio-genes will be searching for 44 Dem-ocratic Congress members to come up with the magic number of 290. Dem-ocratic House Minority leader Con-gress member Nancy Pelosi will pull the same parlor trick as her Demo-cratic Senate counterpart Harry Reid. With her own wink and a nod, she will allow up to 43 Democratic Congress members to vote against the president. Pelosi also wants to protect members in potentially competitive districts from a pro-Israel Democratic primary or Republican general election chal-lenger.

Friends of Israel who are Demo-crats should withhold campaign dona-tions to any Democratic presidential candidate such as former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who support this deal. Do the same with your local Democratic Congress mem-ber along with any fundraising letters from the Democratic Party National Committee, Senate or Congressional Committees as well.

President wannabe Hillary Clin-ton has endorsed this deal. She no longer deserves your support. The same should be true with Senators Schumer and Gillibrand along with all members of the New York State Dem-ocratic Party Congressional delegation if they lack the moral courage to stand with Israel in this defining moment in history.

Punish any potential presidential, Senate or House of Representative candidate between now and 2016 with your checkbook and ballot who don’t support Israel.

Future generations may speak of former President Obama as our ances-

tors did of Neville Chamberlain. Pres-ident Obama is kicking the can down the road for a future administration to deal with. SincerelyLarry Penner Great Neck, NY

Dear Editor,Dr. Deb’s advice to trust your gut

in the dating process is probably the most fundamental recommendation one can give those in the dating world. Even if everything looks so perfect on paper, if you don’t feel comfortable sitting next to the one you are dating, then something is wrong. It could be something that can be addressed and corrected or it could be something that’s niggling in the back of your brain, telling you that something is not right. You are the one who will be married to this person—not your par-ents, not your friends, not your rabbi or therapist. If he or she makes you feel uncomfortable and on-edge, don’t dismiss those feelings. They are legit-imate and important.A Reader

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GlobalUN Approves Iran Deal

On Monday, the UN Security Coun-cil unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing the Iran nuclear deal, paving the way to lifting longstanding sanc-tions on the Islamic Republic. The 15-0 approval of the agreement clears one of the largest hurdles for the landmark pact, which will now go before the U.S. Congress where it may face an uphill battle for confirmation.

The UN vote came shortly after the European Union approved the nuclear deal, endorsing the pact between the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany and Iran that lifts punishing economic sanctions on Teh-

ran in exchange for temporary curbs on nuclear activity.

On condition that Iran respects the agreement to the letter, seven UN res-olutions passed since 2006 to sanction Iran will be gradually terminated.

Israel has vocally opposed the terms of the deal. Among those voting in fa-vor at the Security Council was Jordan, a non-permanent member of the UN Se-curity Council, putting a dent in Israel’s claim that all the Sunni Arab states in the region oppose the deal as vocifer-ously as Jerusalem.

But a senior Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity dismissed Jordan’s vote. “The Arabs states talking to us send a clear message. Sometimes there’s a difference between what it said at multilateral forums and what is said in closed rooms,” the official noted.

Ahead of the vote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Congress to keep U.S. sanctions on Iran in place. The UN Security Council vote is not “the end of the story,” Netanyahu urged. “So long as U.S. Congress sanctions are in place, and noting that the U.S. econ-omy is 40 times larger than Iran’s, Iran will need to make concessions.”

Netanyahu slammed the Security

Council vote as “hypocrisy,” stressing that Tehran “systematically violates UN resolutions and calls for the destruction of Israel — a member of the UN.” The prime minister said many countries in the Middle East see “eye-to-eye with Israel” on the nuclear deal.

“History has proven that even when the world is united, it is not necessarily right,” he emphasized.

v

An Apology from Mitsubishi—70 Years Later

The Simon Wiesenthal Center host-ed the Mitsubishi Materials Corporation this week for quite an interesting event.

The Japanese company offered a land-mark apology for using U.S. prisoners of war for forced labor during World War II.

“Today we apologize remorsefully for the tragic events in our past,” Mit-subishi Materials’ senior executive offi-cer, Hikaru Kimura, said at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Toler-ance in Los Angeles on Sunday.

He apologized to 94-year-old James Murphy of Santa Maria, California, and relatives of other former POWs who toiled at plants its predecessor compa-ny operated in Japan during the Second World War. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the center, called it an important gesture, coming as it does ahead of the 70th anniversary in August of the end of the war that has height-ened scrutiny of Japan’s attitude to its past abuses.

“As far as I know, this is a piece of history,” said Rabbi Cooper, who helped to moderate the closed-door meeting at the center’s Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. “It’s the first time a major Japanese company has ever made such a gesture. We hope this will spur other companies to join in and do the same.”

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Japan’s government issued a formal apology to American POWs in 2009 and again in 2010, but until now, the dwin-dling ranks of veterans have gained little traction in their demand that Japanese corporations that used them as slaves at mines and industrial plants under often brutal conditions do the same.

Some 12,000 American prisoners were shipped to Japan and forced to work at more than 50 sites to support imperial Japan’s war effort, and about 10 percent died in their internment, ac-cording to Kinue Tokudome, director of the U.S.-Japan Dialogue on POWs. Tokudome said Mitsubishi Materials will be apologizing for its use of forced labor by some 900 American troops at four locations operated by its predeces-sor company, Mitsubishi Mining Co. Only two living survivors of that ordeal could be located to accept the apology, and of them, only Murphy is fit enough to make the trip to Los Angeles.

“This is a glorious day,” he said. He survived working at Mitsubishi Min-ing’s Osarizawa copper mine and the in-famous Bataan death march in the Phil-ippines. “For 70 years we wanted this.”

Queen of England Raising Nazi Salute as a Child Raises Ire

The media was in frenzy last week when a photo emerged of the Queen of England raising a Nazi salute at the young age of 7.

This photo shows Queen Elizabeth II, along with the Queen Mother, frol-icking on the grounds of Balmoral, their vacation castle in the Scottish High-lands, and raising a Nazi salute. Prin-cess Margaret, the Queen’s younger sis-ter—just three-years-old at the time—is also in the photo and appears to be being coaxed into saluting by Uncle Edward, Prince of Wales, the girls’ uncle. The photo is a part of a newly uncovered 1933 family movie.

Edward was a long-suspected Nazi sympathizer. He became king in 1936

for a short while and then abdicated his throne less than a year later to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson, also a reputed Nazi sympathizer, clearing the way for Elizabeth to take the throne. The couple was photographed meeting Hitler in Munich in October 1937.

The palace has been accused of at-tempting to suppress the release of ma-terial that would suggest or confirm any sort of connection between the leading royals and the Third Reich. This leaked photo and video has brought the rela-tionship to center stage. It has turned into a big global debate; historians and MPs have called for the archives to be opened so that the correspondence can be put into context.

“The royal family can’t suppress their own history forever,” said Kari-na Urbach of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. “This is censorship. Censorship is not a democratic value. They have to face their past. I’m coming from a country, Germany, where we all have to face our past.”

However, many Britons expressed their dismay that the Sun newspaper published the image of a harmless and clueless child. The managing editor, Stig Abell, defended the publication saying, “It is an important and interesting issue, the extent to which the British aristocra-cy – notably Edward VIII, in this case – in the 1930s, were sympathetic towards fascism.”

The paper declined to comment on how it acquired the footage. Legal ex-perts suggested a police investigation is unlikely, especially given the un-successful outcomes of recent cases in which Sun reporters walked free after being accused of paying public officials for information.

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“It’s really a question not so much on the law but whether it’s in the public interest for this material to find its way into a newspaper. The public interest in this document being produced is noth-ing to do with the royal family but how startling it is that in 1933 people were so naive about the evils of Nazism.”

In response to the brouhaha a palace spokesman said, “It is disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago and appar-ently from Her Majesty’s personal fam-ily archive, has been obtained and ex-ploited in this manner.”

The Sun published the photo under the headline, “Their royal heilnesses.”

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Khamenei: Our Policies with U.S. Won’t Change

The United States’ new partner is spouting rhetoric that makes one won-der if it’s truly onboard with the agree-ment brokered last week.

On Saturday, just days after hands were shaken over the Iran nuclear agree-ment, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed that the deal on his country’s nuclear program would not alter Iran’s policies toward the Unit-ed States.

In a televised address marking the start of Eid al-Fitr, the festival that fol-lows the Muslim month of Ramadan, Khamenei said the agreement signed on Tuesday on the nuclear issue would not affect Iran’s stance on other regional or bilateral matters.

“Our policies toward the arrogant government of the United States will not be changed at all,” he thundered

Khamenei said the negotiations with the United States and other world powers were an exception because they served Iran’s national interests.

His speech was punctuated by shouts of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

On Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry, one of the key negotiators at the table during the brokering of the deal, called Khamenei’s sentiments “very troubling.”

“I don’t know how to interpret it at this point in time, except to take it at face value, that that’s his policy,” he said in the interview with Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television.

“But I do know that often comments are made publicly and things can evolve that are different. If it is the policy, it’s very disturbing, it’s very troubling,” he added.

Previously, Kerry had said the deal would improve regional security by preventing Iran from seeking atomic weapons. He has yet to convince many Republicans in the United States and America’s key ally in the Middle East: Israel. Sunni-ruled Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia, are concerned about Shi-

ite Iran obtaining nuclear material.“The agreement gets rid of the nu-

clear weapon potential. But if we do the right things ... then I believe the Gulf states and the region can feel much more secure than they do today,” Kerry em-phasized.

“We don’t say the deal is totally in favor of Iran. Any negotiation is a give and take. We have definitely shown some flexibility,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, said. “I tell you as I told the Supreme Leader, we did our best to preserve most of the red lines, if not all.”

On Tuesday, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Khamenei on foreign affairs, said, “No one can tell us which weapons we can have.... Except nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruc-tion, Iran will continue making all the missiles, fighter jets, anti-missile de-fense systems, tanks and other armored equipment it needs,” he was quoted as saying on the Supreme Leader’s web-site.

Saudis Thwart ISIS Attacks

Saudi Arabia said this week that it has broken up planned Islamic State at-tacks in the kingdom and arrested more than 400 suspects in an anti-terrorism sweep. The announcement was made one day after a powerful blast in neigh-boring Iraq killed more than 100 people in one of the country’s deadliest single attacks since U.S. troops pulled out in 2011.

The Saudi crackdown highlights the country’s growing concern about the threat posed by the Islamic State group. In addition to its operations in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombings aimed at Shiites in the kingdom’s oil-rich east and in neighboring Kuwait. The Saudi Interior Ministry accused those arrested over the “past few weeks” of involve-ment in several attacks, including a sui-cide bombing in May that killed 22 peo-ple in the eastern village of al-Qudeeh.

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That attack was the deadliest militant assault in the kingdom in more than a decade.

Saudi Arabia also blamed ISIS for the November shooting and killing of eight worshippers in the eastern Saudi village of al-Ahsa, and for being behind another attack in late May when a sui-cide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up and killed four people in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque.

Saudi Arabia branded the Islamic State group a terrorist organization last year and has joined the U.S.-led coali-tion targeting it in Syria and Iraq. Au-thorities have vowed to punish those responsible for terrorist attacks inside the kingdom, the Arab world’s largest economy.

Guilty Verdict for Accountant of Auschwitz

Last week, a court ruled that Oskar Groening was guilty of being an acces-

sory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced him to four years in prison. He served as an SS sergeant in Aus-chwitz. The 94-year-old, who testified that he oversaw the collection of pris-oners’ belongings and ensured valuables and cash were separated to be sent to Berlin, listened expressionlessly to the verdict after a 2 ½ month trial.

The verdict, and presiding Judge Franz Kompisch’s thorough and im-passioned detailing of the Lueneburg state court’s ruling, renewed hope of more 11th-hour prosecutions of former members of the SS who served at death camps — regardless of their age. “This verdict was critical because this is the first case brought where the prosecution

charged a person who wasn’t involved in the physical side of mass murder,” said the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s head Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, in a telephone interview from Belgrade. “This paves the way for additional tri-als of individuals who did not literally pull the trigger but who were part of the implementation of the Final Solution.”

Kompisch acknowledged that Groe-ning was born in a different time, grow-ing up after World War I in Germany in a right-wing nationalist family and in a society where Jews were portrayed as a danger to the country. However, he pointed out that Groening joined the SS of his own volition when he had many other options. “You didn’t want to stand on the sidelines,” he chided Groening. “You wanted to be there.”

Dozens of Auschwitz survivors and their relatives joined the trial as co-plaintiffs, as German law allows, though none were present for the ver-dict. “It doesn’t matter to me if Oskar Groening got two, three or four years in prison. What matters to me is that this trial was held, and that he got convict-ed for his crimes,” said Angela Oro-sz-Richt, a co-plaintiff who testified at

the trial. The moral is that “no matter how old

you are, you will have to face justice,” said Orosz-Richt, who was born at Aus-chwitz and lives in Montreal.

Chinese Curator Forges 140 Paintings

China is known for selling fake items to the public but this case has made headlines for the boldness of the ruse.

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China, has admitted to stealing more than 140 paintings by Chinese masters from a university and replacing them with his own forgeries. He sold 125 of the paintings for approximately $6 mil-lion.

Interestingly, Xiao defended his actions, telling Guangzhou People’s Intermediate Court there were already fakes in the storeroom when he started to work there.

Xiao, who had a key to the universi-ty storeroom, substituted famous works by masters including Zhu Da, Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian between 2004 and 2011. During this time, some of his forgeries were stolen by someone else and then replaced with yet another copy.

“I realized someone else had re-placed my paintings with their own be-cause I could clearly discern that their works were terribly bad,” he said.

University policy allowed students and professors to take out paintings the same way one could borrow library books.

In 2012 Chinese news agency Xin-hua reported that art forgery was “in-creasingly rampant” in the country. That year it became the world’s largest market for art and antiques, according to the European Fine Art Foundation.

FBI: Syrian Atrocities are Real

After a year of analysis, the FBI has concluded that controversial pho-tographs showing the torture of Syrian political prisoners are indeed authentic. The findings provide powerful new ev-idence to support charges of extensive human rights violations by Syrian Pres-ident Bashar Assad.

The photographs, smuggled out of Syria by a defector two years ago, show no evidence of being manipu-lated and “appear to depict real peo-ple and events,” the FBI concluded in a report compiled at the request of the State Department. A top State Depart-ment official said the FBI report could provide fresh impetus for international war crimes prosecutors to bring crimi-nal charges against top Syrian officials.

The pictures were taken by a for-mer official government photogra-pher-turned-defector who, using the codename “Caesar,” smuggled them out of Syria two years ago on thumb drives concealed in his shoes. When the photos first surfaced last year, Assad officials denounced them as forgeries concoct-ed by Syrian rebel groups. Any expert

“could easily find out that these pictures are fake and that they have no relation to prisoners or detainees in Syrian pris-ons,” the Syrian Justice Ministry said in a statement at the time.

But the FBI report contradicts that claim. The bodies and scenes depicted in the 242 samples analyzed by FBI ana-lysts “exhibit no artifacts or inconsisten-cies that would indicate that they have been manipulated … [or] are the result of computer-generated effects,” states the report by the FBI’s Digital Evidence Laboratory.

Stephen Rapp, the State Department ambassador for global criminal justice, said that the FBI report has already been shared with officials at a United Nations commission investigating Syrian human rights abuses.

99.97% of N. Korea Participates in “Election”

Say yes—because you have to. State-controlled local elections in North Korea this week touted a 99.97 percent voter participation rate, state media re-ported, in polls to elect new represen-tatives put forward by the ruling party.

Typically, 99 percent of North Ko-rean voters in the de facto single-party state take part in elections and 99 per-cent of them cast affirmative votes for uncontested candidates.

“All participants took part in the elections with extraordinary enthusi-asm to cement the revolutionary pow-er through the elections of deputies to the local people’s assemblies,” Pyong-yang’s official Korean Central News Agency said.

The small percentage of citizens who did not vote were mostly out of the country, KCNA said. The ill and elderly were able to cast votes via “mobile bal-

lot boxes.”Leader Kim Jong-Un cast his own

ballot in the capital. In 2011, 28,116 representatives were

elected as deputies to local assemblies with not a single vote of opposition to the candidates. During each four-year term, the local assemblies convene once or twice a year to approve budgets and endorse leaders appointed by the ruling party. North Korea, which the Kim dy-nasty has ruled with an iron fist for more than six decades, held elections for its rubber-stamp parliament last year. Amazingly, those polls also saw turnout of 99.97 percent.

Many believe these formal elec-tions are one way for the dictating party to determine if there are any obvious names that are absent. South Korean intelligence officials say dozens of se-nior North Korean officials have been purged since Kim Jong-Un took power. Kim suspiciously replaced his defense minister in April. The most high-pro-file purge was of Kim Jong-Un’s once powerful uncle Jang Song-Thaek, who was condemned as “factionalist scum” following his execution in 2013.

IsraelTop Marks for Jewish IQ

A new study recently published by conducted at Cambridge University called, “From Chance to Choice: Ge-netic and Justice,” found that Ashkenazi Jews have a median IQ of 117. That’s 10 points higher than the “accepted” IQ of their biggest competition, those from Northeast Asia, and 20% higher than the global average.

Ashkenazim make up approximate-ly 80% of all Jews who descend from Medieval Germany and throughout Eu-rope. The other 20% is made up of Sep-hardic Jews, who were not researched in the study.

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the scores for “visual-spatial” were particularly low. Math and language scores, however, were astonishing. Ac-cording to the study, “Ashkenazi Jews comprise 2.2% of the USA population, but they represent 30% of faculty at elite colleges, 21% of Ivy League students, 25% of the Turing Award winners, 23% of the wealthiest Americans, and 38% of the Oscar-winning film directors.”

But the disproportion does not just stop at braininess. According to the In-stitute for Ethics & Emerging Technol-ogies, “Since 1950, 29% of the Oslo awards have gone to Ashkenazim, even though they represent only 0.25% of humanity. Ashkenazi achievement in this arena is 117 times greater than their population.”

250 Hamas Operatives Arrested

A potentially deadly series of ter-rorist attacks were thwarted this week when over 250 Hamas members were arrested by Palestinian Authority secu-

rity forces in the West Bank. According to the PA, the Hamas cells planned to kidnap Israelis, fire at vehicles on main arteries in the West Bank, launch attacks on IDF checkpoints and assassinate se-nior PA security officials. The PA also confiscated funds in possession of the Hamas operatives and seized weapons and explosives.

Behind the plot was a core of veter-an Hamas fighters known as the “West Bank office,” comprised of former con-victed terrorists from the West Bank who were released from Israeli prisons to the Gaza Strip in the 2011 Gilad Shal-it deal. The cells were managed by se-nior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri. The aim, a PA official said, was to destroy any ties between Israel and the PA and to cause Israel to make a drastic move

which would inflame the West Bank.Earlier this month, Hamas alleged

that more than 200 of its members were arrested by the Palestinian Authority recently, with most of them tortured, threatening to widen a rift between Pal-estinian factions. “Hamas members in the occupied West Bank are being sub-mitted to their worst campaign of arrests — their biggest and longest,” Hamas official Abdurahman Shadid told jour-nalists. He said more than 200 had been arrested since July 2 in the West Bank and “most have been severely tortured.”

Gush Katif Poll Shows Change of Heart

Ten years later, a majority of Israelis maintain they opposed the 2005 disen-gagement from the Gaza Strip, and over half believe Israel should resettle the territory. According to a survey by the think tank Begin-Sadat Center of Stra-tegic Studies, 63 percent of respondents say they were against the evacuation at the time, while 51% say Israeli civilians should move back into the coastal en-clave.

Nearly half of respondents (47%) also oppose evacuating West Bank Jew-ish settlements, while 53% support such a move under certain circumstances, such as a peace agreement with the Pal-estinians. Prof. Efraim Inbar, the head of the think tank, said the results indicate that many Israelis regret supporting the 2005 plan — which saw the dismantling of 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, evacuation of over 8,000 Israelis, and an end of Israeli control over the coastal enclave — and that some re-spondents lied on the survey about their past support.

“Since we know a majority of the public in 2005 supported the disengage-

ment, it’s very clear that some of the respondents don’t feel comfortable with their past support for the disengagement and therefore testify today that they op-posed it,” Inbar noted.

The majority support for territorial withdrawal in the West Bank under cer-tain conditions, namely a peace deal, is “not surprising,” he added. “Most Israe-lis are willing to make territorial com-promises, in particular in areas that have a large Arab population.”

That most Israelis want to resettle Gaza is, however, “surprising,” and re-quires further research, he said.

Malachi Rosenfeld’s Murderers Arrested

On June 30, Malachi Rosenfeld lost his life when he was shot by a terror-ist in a car. Earlier this month, Israeli security forces arrested his murderers, who were also behind a shooting two days earlier at a Magen David Adom ambulance and other vehicles near Be-itin. The family of terrorists and the rest of their cell admitted to have com-mitted these attacks and attempting to commit another attack on June 6, 2015.

The brains behind the “family business” terror cell, Ahmad Najar, a Hamas operative, was not among the suspects arrested. He was imprisoned in Israel several times in the past, most recently from December 2003 until Oc-tober 2011, over his involvement in a shooting attack that claimed the lives of six Israelis. After his release as part of the Shalit deal and expulsion to Gaza, Najar moved to Jordan, where he has been working to organize and fund ter-ror attacks.

His brother, Amjad Najar, also a Hamas operative, was arrested on July 7. In his interrogation he admitted to facilitating the transfer of instructions, weapons and funding from his brother in Jordan to the West Bank for the at-tack. He was previously arrested in the 1990s for involvement in terror activ-ities.

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ing on an arms deal for the attack, and to meeting Ahmad Najar in Jordan.

Abdallah Ischak was also arrest-ed on July 7. In his interrogation, the terrorist admitted to being directly in-volved in the two attacks, saying he drove the car used by the cell and par-ticipated in other armed activity. He was previously in Israeli jail in 2010-2011 for arms trade and terror activ-

ities. In 2006, he was involved in the planning of a terror attack.

Fa’ez Hamed, a Hamas commander, was arrested on July 9 for his part in the attacks. In his interrogation, he admit-ted to planning the attacks and being in-volved in another attempted attack. He was arrested several times in the past for his activity within Hamas.

Adallom: Latest Israeli Start-Up Buy-Out

Rumors are swirling about another huge acquisition of an Israeli tech start-up. According to many industry sources, Microsoft is set to acquire Israeli cloud security firm Adallom, making it the

company’s tenth outright acquisition in Israel.

If the reported acquisition price is correct, the Israeli start-up will cost Microsoft $320 million. According to reports, Tel Aviv-based Adallom, cur-rently with about 60 employees, will continue to operate in Israel and will ex-pand to become Microsoft’s cyber-secu-rity development headquarters in Israel. $320 million would be the most Micro-soft ever paid for an Israeli tech firm and would place Adallom among the top 25 biggest buyouts made by Microsoft. The software behemoth has made 179 acqui-sitions since 1987.

Adallom’s product is designed to prevent misuse of online Software as a Service (Saas) systems within organiza-tions by keeping an eye on how they are being used. The key to SaaS data secu-rity, such as corporate mail and messag-ing systems, is to ensure that not only is the data itself safe but that it is being used in a legitimate manner even by company employees, said Ami Luttwak, co-founder of Adallom.

The system keeps tabs on many oth-er security issues as well. If a user gen-erally reads or downloads 3-5 technical documents a day, Adallom’s system will send out an alert if it sees the user downloading hundreds of documents; perhaps the employee is planning to quit that very day and is taking along some data “souvenirs” before leaving. If the system notices that there is a great deal of browser activity and many ac-cess requests, that could be evidence of malware operating on a user’s system, sucking up data from an employee’s computer or from the network. A quick alert dispatched by Adallom’s security solution allows administrators to put a clamp on that user’s access privileges.

Adallom was established in 2011 by Luttwak, Assaf Rappaport, and Roy Reznik, who all previously served in the Israeli Intelligence Corps (“unit 8200”). Since then it has become a go-to enter-prise solution for companies like HP, SAP, FireEye, LinkedIn, Pixar, Netflix and DropBox. Adallom also has specific solutions for SaaS-cloud services like Google Docs, Office365, Salesforce.com, and many others.

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Hebrew U Ranked among World’s Best by Saudi Think Tank

High marks were given to Israel’s universities by a Saudi Arabia-based consultancy this week. The Jed-dah-based Center for World University Rankings listed three Israeli universi-ties in the world’s best 100, and a total of seven in the world’s best 1,000 — eclipsing institutions in the Middle East and the Arab world and standing on par with some of the best universities in Eu-rope, Asia and the U.S.

Jerusalem’s Hebrew University was ranked as Israel’s best institution, taking

the 23rd spot worldwide — down from 22nd place in 2014. The Weizmann In-stitute of Science secured 39th place, and Tel Aviv University clinched 86th spot. Rounding off the list, the Tech-nion came in at No. 136, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was ranked No. 349, Bar-Ilan University came in at 521, while the University of Haifa was ranked 700.

The highest-ranked institution in the region outside of Israel was the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, at No. 470. Unsurprisingly, Ivy League universities, together with Cambridge and Oxford universities in Britain, com-pleted the world’s top ten list. Harvard University was ranked the world’s No. 1, followed by Stanford and MIT.

These results differ substantially from a June survey run by the British daily The Times, which indicated a considerable drop in Israel’s university rankings. On that list, Tel Aviv Univer-sity placed 22nd on the list of Asian na-tions, while Hebrew University ranked 25th. Turkey’s Middle East Technical University ranked as the best institu-tion in the region, beating out its Israeli counterparts.

Hamas: Israel Will Never Know what Happened to Fallen Soldier

It’s been a year since Golani Bri-gade combat soldier First Sergeant Oron Shaul was killed by Hamas operatives in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. But his body has never come home. Hamas has been holding Shaul’s body since last July 20 and now the armed wing of the terrorist organization, Al-Qassam Brigades, has published a statement claiming that Israel will never obtain any information about “the cap-tured soldier Oron Shaul” despite its ad-vanced intelligence capabilities.

“Today the hope of the prisoners [jailed terrorists] to obtain freedom soon is renewed, while the enemy is in

an embarrassment on this issue, and is helpless despite its use of all the intelli-gence means at its disposal in an attempt to obtain any scrap of information about its captured soldier,” read the statement.

Hamas gave the impression that Shaul was captured alive as it has on other occasions, even though the IDF confirmed he was killed when the armored personnel carrier he was in was hit by a Hamas rocket propelled grenade. Further putting a dent in the credibility of the Hamas claim is that the terror group has not given any ev-idence that Shaul is alive, or actively pressed for a prisoner swap as would be expected if they had a live soldier in their clutches.

Hamas claimed that “at 12:45 a.m. in the morning on July 20, 2014, bri-gade activists succeeded in capturing the soldier Oron Shaul to the east of Gaza City which brought about the death of 14 soldiers and the wounding of dozens, including Golani brigade commander Rasan Elian, and Shaul has [now] entered his 365th day in the hands of Al-Qassam.”

Perhaps understanding that their words aren’t too credible, the terrorist

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organization added, “Our statements ex-press the truth and honesty, and our ji-hadist fighters are the initiators on the campaign field, and the public of the enemy should follow our statements to know the truth from us and not from its lying leadership,” it insisted.

Aside from Shaul, the body of an-other fallen IDF soldier is being held by Hamas; Givati Brigade first lieutenant Hadar Goldin was killed on August 1, 2014 at the height of the operation after Hamas terrorists breached one of sev-eral ceasefires to attack his unit on the outskirts of the city of Rafah.

Likewise two Israeli civilians are being held alive by Hamas after enter-ing Gaza apparently due to mental ill-ness. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has said Israel will do all it can to free the captives but will not release terror-ists.

Pew Poll Measures Top Forty’s Fear Factors

In a poll with unsurprising results, Israelis were found to be most worried about the threats posed by Iran and the Islamic State. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated warnings of the Iranian threat made quite an impres-sion on Israelis, as 53 percent said they found Iran to be the biggest cause for concern, while 44 percent said they are most concerned with the threat posed by the Islamic State.

When looking at the different sec-tors in Israel, Jews (59 percent) were more concerned with Tehran’s race to-wards a nuclear bomb than Arabs (23 percent). Among the other causes for concern among Israelis: 28 percent said they were worried about global eco-nomic instability, 18 percent about cy-ber-attacks, six percent said the tensions between Russia and its neighbors, and three percent were worried about the territorial disputes between China and its neighbors.

But Israel is not alone in its concern over the threat posed by extremist Is-lamists. Many countries in the Middle East, Europe and the Americas listed the Islamic State as their top concern in the recent Pew poll. In the United States, for example, 68 percent said the Islamic State was the biggest glob-al threat, while 62 percent said they are concerned with Iran’s nuclear program. In neighboring Canada, 58 percent were most concerned about the Islamic State, 43 percent were worried about Iran and 45 listed global climate change as the

world’s top worry.In fact, residents of 14 countries put

the Islamic State as their top concern: 70 percent of Europeans expressed “top concern” over the Sunni terror organi-zation that has been capturing territories in its quest for a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Within the European continent, the Spaniards were the ones most con-cerned about the Islamic State (77 per-cent), while in Poland, the ISIS threat is secondary, with the tensions between Russia and its neighbors being the Pol-ish people’s top concern.

Naturally, in the Middle East the concern from ISIS is highest. In Leb-anon, for example, 84 percent noted ISIS was their top concern. 90 percent of Sunni Muslims and 87 percent of Shiites in the country view ISIS as the biggest threat, compared to 76 percent of Christians.

Court Awards Kafka Collection to Library

50 years and many court cases af-ter his death, Franz Kafka’s publisher’s estate will be legally placed in the safe hands of the National Library of Israel. The Court’s decision to hand over Max Brod’s possessions ended a longstand-ing dispute between Eva and Ruti Hof-fe – the daughters of Brod’s secretary, Esther Hoffe, whom Brod had left in charge of his estate upon his death in 1968 – and Israel’s National Library, which was suing for possession of the documents.

The judges found that upon her death in 2007, Ester Hoffe had ille-gally bequeathed the collection to her daughters, after having, also illegal-ly, sold several of its most important manuscripts to private archives around the world for impressive sums. “Is the placing of Kafka’s personal writings – which he ordered to be destroyed – for public sale to the highest bidder by the secretary of his friend and by her daugh-ters in keeping with justice? It appears that the answer to this is clear,” the

judges wrote in their ruling.At the heart of the debate lay the

equivocal legal status of the Kafka es-tate. Brod – himself a major cultural figure known for his work as a novelist, journalist, Zionist activist and compos-er – had received the collection from Kafka. Several decades later, he made a present of it to his secretary and asso-ciate Hoffe, whom he also named sole executor of his estate in his will. He left the fate of the material to Hoffe’s dis-cretion, providing a list of institutions – headed by the National Library – to which she should donate the estate upon her death, if not before.

The court’s decision confirmed that Brod’s ultimate request – that the col-lection be donated to a public institution – was the decisive factor in the story. “Just as Max Brod saw it as his indis-putable duty to publish Kafka’s works as overriding any consideration against their publication, so it is our duty and our privilege to realize this aim,” Jus-tice Kobi Vardi wrote in the Court’s decision. “And even if someone claims we were wrong, everyone will at least agree that this was a truly first-rate Kaf-kaesque story,” he added.

Kerem Shalom Crossing Used by Hamas to Smuggle in Goods

According to reports, Hamas mem-bers and Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip are still working tirelessly to continue their network of underground tunnels. Ramadan, a month of fast-ing that took place this year in the hot summer months, didn’t even stop them. However, in recent weeks, construction has slowed due to a severe shortage of materials that are essential for the tunnel

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industry. Many Israeli defense experts assume

that, a year after Operation Protective Edge, it is likely that Hamas already has one or more tunnels crossing the border fence and reaching inside Israel.

When Israel realized that materials vital to the tunnel industry were being smuggled from Israel into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom bor-der crossing, they put a stop to it. Some of the resources are dual-use materials and some illegal material was hidden in aboveboard supply deliveries. Material for rocket manufacture was also brought into the Strip via Israel in this way.

Recent inspections and seizures at the Kerem Shalom border crossing led to a discovery of an attempt to smuggle enough rocket fuel for 4,480 20-kilo-meter-range rockets. The fuel had been hidden in bags containing a different material.

Excavating tunnels requires heavy labor, shovels, steel cables, engines, pul-ley blocks, batteries, concrete or wood-en panels, metal pallets and various chemicals. The manufacture of rockets, meanwhile, requires electrodes, explo-sive materials and rocket fuel, among other things. Hamas was managing to smuggle all those things into the Gaza Strip until fairly recently — not through tunnels from Sinai or by sea, but from Israel via Kerem Shalom.

Many of the necessary tools and items can be disguised as harmless parts of civilian equipment but is easily repur-posed for arms manufacture and for dig-ging tunnels. For example, refrigerator motors can be ordered without raising a red flag and then parts of it can be used for tunnel excavations.

Supposedly Hamas set up an exten-sive hierarchy of funds and personnel for purchasing and acquisition in Israel and the West Bank. This apparatus re-ceives orders from all of Hamas’s var-ious departments: the military wing, of course, and military outposts, installa-tions, tunnels and arms-manufacturing plants. Hamas also set up a network of Palestinian merchants in Gaza to buy the goods; some know nothing of their role in the organization while others are well aware of it. Their job is to supply Hamas indirectly or directly with ev-erything it needs: electronics, commu-nications equipment and construction materials.

Despite the recent revelations of goods being smuggled in for tunnel ex-cavation and arms manufacture through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the trans-fer of goods is continuing—about 600 enormous trucks filled with goods from Israel enter the Gaza Strip every day.

But at the same time, the defense es-tablishment has heightened its efforts to prevent those dual-purpose materials from getting into the Strip.

Because of the tightening of con-trols, Hamas’s purchasing and acqui-sitions department is suffering from a shortage of electrodes and chemical ma-terials. A package of electrodes that un-til recently cost 60 shekels in Gaza now costs 800 shekels. The price for explo-sives smuggled into Gaza, once $10,000 per ton, has soared to $70,000. It seems that the price of terrorism has gone up.

NationalFive Honorable Servicemen Killed in Chattanooga Shooting

The night before Mohammad Yous-suf Abdulazeez shot up two recruitment centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he sent a text message linking to an Islamic religious verse about “declaring war.” He had spoken out about his outrage against conflicts in the Middle East.

The next day, on Thursday, he en-tered a recruitment center and started shooting. He then drove six miles to a Navy and Marine reserve center and shot and killed four marines, Thomas Sullivan, a native of Hampden, Massa-chusetts; Squire “Skip” Wells, a native of Marietta, Georgia; David Wyatt, a native of Burke, North Carolina; and Carson Holmquist of Grantsburg, Wis-consin.

A fifth victim, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, succumbed to his injuries and died on Saturday.

Eventually, police killed the terror-ist who had a handgun and two long guns on him at the time of his death. He was wearing a “load-bearing vest” that helped him carry extra ammunition during the shooting spree.

Abdulazeez, 24, was a graduate of the University of Tennessee; he ob-tained his degree in engineering. He was known as a devout Muslim, although his friends, family, and acquaintances say

he didn’t appear to be radical. He was born in Kuwait but became a naturalized American citizen. Jordanian sources said Abdulazeez had been in Jordan as recently as 2014 visiting an uncle. He had also visited Kuwait and Jordan in 2010, Kuwait’s Interior Ministry said.

U.S. Attorney Bill Killian said the shootings are being investigated as an “act of domestic terrorism,” but he noted the incident has not yet officially been classified as terrorism. Reinhold said there is nothing to connect the at-tacker to ISIS or other international ter-ror groups. Abdulazeez was not on any U.S. databases of suspected terrorists.

His family insists that he was de-pressed and under the influence of drugs.

“I think mental health professionals would be not happy with what the par-ents are assessing, in saying, ‘Well, he was depressed, and therefore that’s why he became a killer like this,’” CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes said. “People with depression do not turn, necessarily, into psychopathic killers – as he did.”

Best & Worst Cities for Drivers

New Yorkers, here is some serious validation.

New York City has been ranked the worst city in the United States for driv-ers. Yes, there is more excitement, en-tertainment, and opportunity in the Big Apple than in Lubbock, Texas, the city ranked best for drivers, but in terms of driving, we lose.

Personal finance website WalletHub published the Top 10 Best Cities for Drivers and the Top 10 Worst Cities for Drivers last week. Cities were ranked based on factors like average gas prices, average annual traffic delays, rates of car theft and car clubs per capita.

Where should drivers be honking their horns? Here are the best cities for drivers in the United States:1. Lubbock, TX 2. Corpus Christi, TX

3. Lincoln, NE 4. Greensboro, NC 5. Tucson, AZ 6. Reno, NV 7. Durham, NC 8. Colorado Springs, CO 9. Winston-Salem, NC 10. Raleigh, NC

Here are the ten cities to avoid if you’re behind the wheel:1. New York, NY 2. Washington, DC 3. Philadelphia, PA 4. San Francisco, CA 5. Detroit, MI 6. Newark, NJ 7. Boston, MA 8. Chicago, IL 9. Baltimore, MD 10. Los Angeles, CA

U.S. and Cuba Reopen Embassies

The last time the United States and Cuba “shook hands” was when Dwight Eisenhower was the president. There has been lots of bickering and even vio-lence since then, but this year President Obama and Raul Castro called a truce. Finally, on Monday, the United States and Cuba reestablished formal diplo-matic relations when their embassies reopened for the first time in 54 years.

On Monday morning, the Cuban government raised its flag over the old limestone building on Washington’s 16th Street Northwest, which has been a Cuban Embassy, a Cuban Interests Section in the absence of diplomatic relations, and now again an embassy. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez was the highest-ranking Cuban diplomat to visit the State Department in decades when he met with Secretary of State John Kerry in the afternoon.

Kerry has plans to visit Havana later this summer to inaugurate the U.S. Embassy there. The interests sec-tion was elevated to embassy status on Monday, but the American flag won’t fly until Kerry’s official visit.

The respective mission chiefs in

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Havana and Washington will become chargés d’affaires at the new embassies until ambassadors are named, and new rules for operations at the embassies will take effect.

Although this move indicates that the two countries are “on talking terms,” Obama was careful to acknowl-edge the differences that remain. “That will include America’s enduring sup-port for universal values, like freedom of speech and assembly, and the abil-ity to access information,” President Barack Obama noted on July 1 when he announced the date for restoring diplomatic ties.

“When the United States shuttered our embassy in 1961, I don’t think anyone expected that it would be more than half a century before it reopened,” Obama said. The old policy of isola-tion, he said, “shuts America out of Cuba’s future, and it only makes life worse for the Cuban people.”

Despite the day’s celebration, Cu-ban representatives were pushing for the United States to lift blockades against Havana.

“The historic events we are living today will only make sense with the removal of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, which causes so much deprivation and damage to our people, the return of occupied territo-ry in Guantanamo, and respect for the sovereignty of Cuba,” Rodriguez said at the reopening ceremony.

The 53-year-old embargo with Cuba still remains in place, although Obama has eased some business and travel restrictions with the island. Only Congress can lift it, something majori-ty Republicans are unlikely to do any-time soon.

Colorado Movie Murderer Found Guilty by Jury

James Eagan Holmes was found guilty on Thursday for murder for the shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012.

The packed courtroom reacted emo-tionally to the verdict. Many in the au-

dience were family members of loved ones killed during the rampage several years ago. Some were survivors them-selves of the July 20, 2012 shooting.

“As soon as you heard the first guilty, we knew all the dominoes were about to fall,” said Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was slain.

“Yes, yes,” mouthed a tearful San-dy Phillips when it was confirmed that Holmes was found guilty of murdering her 24-year-old daughter, Jessica Gha-wi.

“We’re very happy this animal, this monster, will never see the light of day,” said Phillips, who attended every day of the trial. “It feels good to have this weight off our backs.”

The jury of nine women and three men rejected defense arguments that the defendant was insane and driven by de-lusions during the attack that killed 12 moviegoers and wounded 70 others. Af-ter 11 weeks of often disturbing testimo-ny, the jury convicted Holmes on all 165 criminal charges.

The penalty phase was set to be-gin Wednesday. Under Colorado law, if just one juror disagrees with a death sentence, Holmes will be sent to prison for life without parole.

Holmes, 27, was charged with two separate counts for each murder and at-tempted murder. The former neurosci-ence graduate student had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. During the verdict announcement, Holmes stood at the defense table as the judge read through each guilty count. He kept his eyes straight ahead and never removed his hands from his pockets. His par-ents, Robert and Arlene Holmes, sat on the left side of the courtroom about 15 feet behind the defense table.

Three years ago, Holmes donned a gas mask and black combat gear and threw tear gas canisters before opening fire on the 420 defenseless moviegoers during a midnight showing of the Bat-man film “The Dark Knight Rises.”

“You cannot divorce the men-tal illness from this case or from Mr. Holmes,” defense attorney Daniel King told jurors during his closing argument. “Schizophrenia is a disease, inherited like cancer. We don’t blame people for getting cancer.”

The four psychiatrists who evaluat-ed Holmes agreed that he suffers from schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Sus-piciously, two court-appointed psychi-atrists concluded that he was sane at the time of the shooting, but the two work-ing for the defense believed he was le-gally insane.

Prosecutors, however, painted a picture of a conniving egomaniac who killed for enjoyment. Prosecu-

tors rejected a plea offer to a life sen-tence without parole in 2013. “Justice is death,” District Attorney George Brauchler said at the time.

The victims ranged in age from a 6-year-old kindergartner to a 51-year-old father of four. Fifty-eight moviego-ers were wounded by gunfire, and 12 more suffered other injuries in the pan-ic to escape the theater.

Bush 41 Suffers Neck Injury

Watch your step, Mr. President! George H.W. Bush, 91, fractured

a bone in his neck last week when he fell at his ocean-side summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Thankfully,

the injury was just physical in nature and he didn’t suffer any neurological impairments. The injury is expected to heal on its own over the next three to four months, officials said on Thursday.

Dr. William D’Angelo, a neurosur-geon who is treating the former pres-ident at Maine Medical Center, said he was lucky the fracture wasn’t more serious.

“He’s in great spirits,” D’Angelo said outside the hospital. “He’s with family. As his wife said, it takes a lot more than this to knock his spirits down. He was shot down over the Pa-cific in World War II. She said this is a small bump in the road.”

“It’s a significant injury, but right now the president is in excellent shape, and we anticipate he’ll make a full re-covery,” the doctor reiterated.

Bush, who has a form of Parkin-son’s disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility, has suffered other recent health set-backs. He was hospitalized in Hous-ton in December for about a week for shortness of breath. He spent the 2012 holidays in intensive care at the same Houston hospital for a bronchitis-relat-ed cough and other issues.

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Hacker Sentenced to 13 Years

Cyber-crime is quickly gaining recognition, although there still aren’t enough laws protecting victims from cyber-crimes and often cyber-criminals

remain free to continue committing these crimes. But Hieu Minh Ngo of Vietnam, responsible for a large Amer-ican hacking, didn’t get away with his transgressions.

According to a report released on Tuesday by the Department of Justice, the Vietnamese citizen was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking the computers of American companies. The 25-year-old earned over $2 million by

stealing personal information belonging to nearly 200 million people and selling it to other criminals online.

“Criminals buy and sell stolen iden-tity information because they see it as a low-risk, high-reward proposition,” Assistant Attorney General Leslie Cald-well said in the release. “Identifying and prosecuting cybercriminals like Ngo is one of the ways we’re working to change that cost-benefit analysis.” Ngo’s cost of doing business re-

mained low during his time in business. He worked from his home from 2007 to 2013. He’d enter companies’ sys-tems and collect full names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, Social Secu-rity numbers, bank accounts, and details about credit cards. Then he’d advertise the identities, which he called “fullz,” on websites he ran, including superget.info and findget.me. Ngo explained that fellow cybercriminals could search those websites for stolen information about specific individuals. According to the report, more than 1,300 of Ngo’s customers around the world used this feature, entering a total of 3 million search queries. Those criminals would then use that information to file fraud-ulent income tax returns. Details about 13,673 Americans, bought through his website, were used to file $65 million in such returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Ngo, arrested in February 2013 while visiting the U.S., was sentenced in a U.S. district court in New Hamp-shire for wire fraud, identity fraud, and access-device fraud.

Team USA Victorious in Int’l Math Olympiad

Worrying recent reports revealed that U.S. students score significantly lower on standardized tests than stu-dents from other developed countries. In a March 2015 report by the Organi-zation of Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. was ranked 28th among 76 countries for school perfor-mance. The OECD report ranked coun-tries based on 15-year-old students’ average scores specifically in math and science. But there is no better way to prove we’ve got brains than winning the

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32 The Week In Newsprestigious International Mathematical Olympiad.

Recently, the smartest math students from across the globe from more than 100 countries congregated in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for some healthy and brainy competition.

The International Mathematical Olympiad took place on July 10 and 11 at Chiang Mai’s Lotus Pang Suankaew hotel. Students were given three com-plex math problems to solve. Po-Shen Loh, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Team USA’s head coach, explained, “If you can even solve one question, you’re a bit of a genius.”

For the first time in over two de-cades, the U.S. claimed a victory. The American team won the competition with 185 points, just beating out China’s team, which scored 181. South Korea clinched third place.

“It’s been 21 years,” Team USA’s head coach, Po-Shen Loh, told The Washington Post. “This is a huge deal.”

Loh said that he hopes the recent Olympiad victory will “inspire large ar-eas of the [American] population to try harder in mathematics than they ever thought they could.”

“[A competition like the Olympiad]

plays the same role as the Olympics does in sports: to have some sort of far desti-nation that all of our hundreds of thou-sands or millions of people in America can reach towards, like a pinnacle in the distance,” Loh said. “It pushes people to reach farther in mathematics.”

The last time America won the Olympiad was in 1994.

Gun Storeowner: No Muslims Allowed

In response to the recent murders in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by Moham-mad Youssef Abdulazeez, a Florida gun shop owner has banned Muslim customers from his store.

On Saturday, Andy Hallinan de-clared Florida Gun Supply a “Mus-lim-free zone” after four Marines and

one sailor were killed in Abdulazeez’s shooting spree.

“I have a moral and legal responsi-bility to ensure the safety of all patriots in my community, and so effective im-mediately, I’m declaring Florida Gun Supply as a Muslim-free zone,” he said in a video as he stood against the back-drop of the Confederate flag. “I will not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots.”

“I’m not going to be asking every person who walks in what their reli-gious background is. That’s not my business,” he told the media. “But I do have the right to deny firearms and training to anyone I deem as a threat.”

“We are in battle, patriots, but not only with Islamic extremism,” Halli-nan added in the video. “We’re also in battle against extreme political correct-ness that threatens our lives, because if we can’t call evil, evil for fear of offending people, then we can’t really defeat our enemies.”

In order to help people become better protected against other terrorist attacks, the store will also be offering free conceal carry classes and open its practice shooting range to the public.

“Our leaders are telling you that Is-

lam is a peaceful religion full of toler-ance and love and hope. Don’t believe their lies,” he said in the video.

In terms of the colorful backdrop in the video, Hallinan defended the Con-federate flag, which has been the center of recent debates. “This flag represents nothing but the rich heritage of the South,” he declared.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for the Department of Justice to review the no-Muslim policy, which it claimed violates federal civil rights laws.

“These bigoted declarations are no different than ‘whites only’ signs post-ed in businesses during a period of our nation’s history that we had hoped was over,” CAIR National Communica-tions Director Ibrahim Hooper told the media.

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9/11 Related Illnesses Sweep the Nation

Although New York City and its residents were the majority of the phys-ical victims of Osama Bin Laden’s 9/11 terrorist attacks, the entire nation suf-fered severe trauma and was effected emotionally. Now, a new study reveals that in fact people in all 50 states are suffering physically from the vicious attack against our nation. According to The Daily News, every single state in the nation now has a resident suffering from cancer or other illnesses related to the 9/11 terror attacks.

Facts were based off of people who receive financial help from the Septem-ber 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Its receivers vary from just a handful in states like Wyoming, Utah and Alas-ka to several dozen in North Carolina, sources said. For obvious reasons, the numbers increase dramatically once people live closer to New York. For example, in Pennsylvania just under 100 people receive aid but in New Jer-sey nearly four times that number are beneficiaries of the fund. Expectedly, the Empire State has the most people who receive aid, with over 4,000 New York State residents receiving compen-sation. According to the FDNY, more than 1,100 active and retired firefight-ers have been diagnosed with a 9/11-re-

lated cancer.Many of the sufferers are retired

police officers and firefighters who moved out of New York. Others are first responders from other states who joined bucket brigades at Ground Zero in the days after the attacks.

“We knew this was a national issue right from the beginning,” 9/11 Victims Compensation Board member Sheila Birnbaum acknowledged.

Sufferers began receiving financial assistance with the passing of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensa-tion Act in 2011, which provides health monitoring and health coverage and compensation for illnesses ranging from cancer to asthma tied to toxic air.

As of March 31, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has provid-ed more than $1 billion in assistance to 10,549 people suffering 9/11-related illnesses. The bill is set to expire, in phases, starting in October. A House subcommittee is mulling an extension, but many are opposed to extending the bill.

That’s OddThe Fashion of Food

To raise awareness for a new vari-ety of Special K cereal, a designer cre-ated a special dress. This dress is no

ordinary dress. No, this dress has no cotton or silk or wool. It’s made of ce-real ingredients and no doubt will make the wearer pretty hungry.

Four thousand stalks of braided wheat structured the shoulders, bodice, and skirt, and 500 almonds, hand-sewn together, are interspersed throughout. The train is composed of 450 red ap-ples, and flowers were tastefully placed for decoration, not eating. But wait, there’s more! The dress also has 800 cut almonds, 50 vanilla pods, 50 vanil-la flowers and 100 apple peels.

“I’ve created some weird and won-derful things in my time but to make a dress 100 percent out of the ingredients of a cereal recipe was a huge challenge and involved a lot of hard work,” de-signer Petra Storrs said.

It took 200 hours to complete the dress, with five people working togeth-er.

Let’s just call it the food frock. Make sure not to fress when you wear this dress!

One Bid for Spanish Airport

Want to buy your own airport to land your private jet? It won’t cost too much—just a few thousand euros and you can call it your own.

This week, one of Spain’s “ghost airports”—expensive projects that were virtually unused—received just one bid in a bankruptcy auction. The bid was from a Chinese group who offered just 10,000 euros for Ciudad Real’s Cen-tral airport 150 miles south of Madrid. Want to guess how much it cost to build the airport? 1.1 billion euros.

The airport became a symbol of the country’s wasteful spending during a construction boom that deflated in the 2008 financial crisis—the year the airport opened. After failing to draw enough traffic, the operator of the air-port went bust in 2012.

Although the Chinese group bid 10,000 euros for the complex, a mini-mum price of 28 million euros was set

previously. If no better bid is found by September the sale will go through.

Time to take out your checkbooks. Central has one of Europe’s longest runways and was designed to handle 2.5 million passengers a year. Should be enough space for all my flying gear.

Go Straight to Jail

A life of crime is not for the smart-est members of society, but his thief takes the cake.

A 28-year-old resident of Ramle in Israel was arrested on Sunday morning after trying to flee the scene of a crime in an unmarked police vehicle with an officer sitting in the driver’s seat.

The suspect reportedly threw him-self in the back of the car yelling, “Drive, drive!” which is what the de-tective did—straight to the police sta-tion.

The police were called when a woman said she saw someone trying to break into a home in the area. When police arrived, the suspect already was at another residence trying to break in.

At one point, the thief realized he was being targeted and ran straight into what he thought was a getaway car.

Police said they were placing him under arrest for his sense of foolish-ness. (Just kidding.)

He Won the Game but Didn’t Have to Play

You know what they say: you have to be in it to win it.

But that’s not necessarily true. Kevin Foster just happens to be one

lucky guy. In 2012, though, he didn’t feel too lucky. True, he just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in cross-cul-tural studies, so he could be proud of his BA. But he also came out of college carrying a load of debt of $32,000. And really, Kevin, what do you do with a de-gree in cross-cultural studies?

It seems that Kevin decided to tackle his student debt the old fashioned way: via the internet. He signed up for an in-novative new pay-to-play online trivia

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Seems like a long shot? It was. But it paid off. Last month, Givling showed up at Foster’s door, telling the shocked Kevin that his debts were all clear.

“I started freaking out,” he recalled. How do you win the jackpot like

Kevin? People with student loan debt

can sign up for Givling in order to be placed in a queue based on the time and date of their registration to have their debts paid. But these students don’t have to play any games on Givling to be eligible for loan repayment.

Separately, trivia gamers sign up and are randomly placed into teams of three. Team members answer true or false questions to rack up points. The highest-scoring funding team is eligi-ble for a $4 million prize. In addition to the large $4 million prize, there are smaller daily prize amounts awarded.

Givling costs $0.50 to play a round and an additional $0.30 for a transac-tion fee. Players also receive one free game a day.

Despite signing up with Givling, Kevin had no illusions that it was a (very) long shot. He continued to pay off his student debts—around $500 a month—and worked three jobs: at a kitchen at Manhattan Christian Col-lege, as a paraeducator in a special-ed-ucation classroom for a local high school, and as server in a restaurant at Meadowlark Hills, a retirement home. Sounds very cross-cultural to me.

Although the gift of no-more stu-dent debt came through for Kevin, he

and his wife are still not in the clear: she has about $10,000 in student debt in her name.

I know a website she can go to.

JFK Airport is for the Dogs

Sometimes JFK Airport seems like a zoo.

Pretty soon animals can look for-ward to their own $48 million private facility in the busy airport aptly called The ARK at JFK. The luxury terminal will handle more than 70,000 animals

flying in and out of the airport every year—from cats and dogs to horses, cows, and even sloths and aardvarks.

The animals will be living large. The bigger animals will enjoy their own climate-controlled stalls, and dogs will occupy hotel suites featuring flat-screen TVs, bone-shaped splashing pools and spa services. Wonder what they’re watching on the tube. “It’s a Dog’s Life”?

Pet owners will be able to monitor their pooches through webcams.

Sounds like the perfect ‘port for your pooch. Wonder if I can get in there while I wait for my flight in the dingy, dark terminal we humans are forced to use.

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Looking for a good snooze? You may want to visit the town of Kalachi. The 600 person village in Kazakhstan has been struck by a mysterious phe-nomenon that has scientists baffled as to the cause.

Villagers have been falling asleep at random times—in schools, at home, even on a motorcycle—and sometimes even sleeping for days at a time.

Last week, local officials officially ruled that the town has been hit with carbon monoxide poisoning suspected to be coming from a nearby uranium mine. But the mine is inactive, and sci-entists are not convinced.

Villagers also don’t suffer from oth-er symptoms of carbon monoxide poi-soning and some have thought that men-ingitis or even bad vodka was the culprit for the tired town. Just to be safe, the Kazakh government has decided to re-locate the villagers. Which, of course, is a whole new headache.

The Proper Way to Walk

In New York, you don’t just walk down the street. There are rules—and you better keep to ‘em!

A few months ago, the NYC De-partment of Pedestrian Etiquette issued the following proclamation: “Effective April 1, 2016, all new residents and vis-itors to New York City [o]ver the age of 16 will be required to take a mandatory training session on Proper Etiquette for navigating the sidewalks and streets of the greater metropolitan area.”

The sign, which is obviously (we hope!) a spoof, was affixed to posts in certain neighborhoods in the city.

Some violations pedestrians should make sure to avoid:

• Blocking the sidewalk or any pub-lic area in a large group or just standing in the middle of pedestrian traffic. Also referred to as “Clumping.”

• Weaving from side to side oblivi-ous to busy New Yorkers trying to get around you.

• Walking with your face in a map

or mobile device.• Excessive arm swinging or bag

swinging.• Stopping on a bike path with a big

group to take pictures of squirrels.• Or any rude or offensive pedes-

trian behavior as deemed unsuitable by the NYC DPE Patrol Units whose judgment shall be final.

The consequences for those incur-ring “three strikes” against the code? Removal of the offender and denial of permission to re-enter the city for five years.

Of course, there’s no real Depart-ment of Pedestrian Etiquette, but with more than 56 million visitors a year, “clumping” is a sure problem—espe-cially in tourist magnets like Times Square, Rockefeller Center, the Brook-lyn Bridge, and the falafel cart.

And this is not the first time a New Yorker decided to take the pedestrian problem in hand. Previously we’ve seen Pedestrian Penalty Cards and pop-up sidewalk lanes separating tourists from locals.

You know what they say: if you can make it (down the block) here, you can make it anywhere.

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ried in Illinois in front of family and friends. The two made headlines when Burger King promised to foot the bill to their nuptials after they announced their engagement.

The bride and groom posed in paper crowns from the burger chain, and the groomsmen wore Burger King T-shirts under their suits.

“When we heard about the hap-py Burger-King couple, we felt an overwhelming urge to celebrate their upcoming marriage,” Burger King spokesman Eric Hirschhorn related.

“On so many levels, it felt like fate. They found each other and their story found us.”

Burger, 24, and King, 25, have known each other since they were chil-dren in the small village of New Berlin but they didn’t always connect their last names with the fast food giant.

King is taking her husband’s last name, so she is now a Burger.

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Family and friends said it was a whopper of a wedding. I wonder if they served more than just hamburgers at the smorgasbord.

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The annual dinner of the Young Isra-el of Long Beach took place on Tuesday evening, July 14 at the White Shul. A large contingency of members, friends and supporters gathered to pay tribute to the honorees and to the work of the YILB in the enhancement of Jewish life in the “City by the Sea.”

The program was opened by the recitation of Tehillim followed by Jo-seph Langer who served as the Master of Ceremonies during the course of the evening. Joseph welcomed all of the as-sembled and shared personal vignettes in regards to those being honored. He then introduced the Mora D’osrah, Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, to make the presenta-tions.

Prior to the formal presentations, Rab-bi Wakslak unified the evening’s compo-nents by citing the Gemara in Meseches Gitten that is associated with the Three

Weeks and Tisha B’Av. The Gemara re-lates how Vespasian, the Roman general, in a moment of benevolence told Rab-ban Yochanan ben Zakai to make a re-quest on behalf of the Jewish nation and it would be granted. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai asked for three things: (a) the safety of the family of Rabban Gamliel representing the distinguished lineage of the house of the Nasi (b) a physician to heal Rabbi Tzadok who had been fasting for forty years prior to the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash and (c) Yavneh v’chacomeha.

The first presentation was made to the children of Rabbi Sam and Miriam Krischer z”l, who were longtime mem-bers of the Young Israel of Long Beach and the Long Beach community. Their lives served as a paradigm of the classi-cal “baal habayit” marked by chessed, generosity of spirit and refinement of character. Their dedication to the ob-servance of Torah and mitzvoth and in-volvement in every communal endeavor

served as a model to everyone whom they encountered. Since their p’tirah, the family has retained the house in which they lived to be used as a haschnosos or-chim home for individ-uals in need of housing. In making the presenta-tion of a “Birchas Ha-Bayit” plaque to Elliot & Rivki Krischer, Benjy & Sima Krischer, and Dovid & Janet Klein, Rabbi Wakslak connect-ed the Krischer family to the first request of Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakai – the preservation of the house of the Nasi. Following a video tribute, El-liot Krischer responded and thanked the

large contingency of friends and fami-ly members who came to pay tribute to lives of his parents.

The second presentation was made to Shelly Neumark, wife of Berel Neu-mark, z”l, who was a staunch mem-ber of the Young Israel of Long Beach and other communal organizations and whose untimely passing took place only several months ago. Berel Neumark z”l was an outstanding philanthropist and advocate for every cause that would en-hance Yiddishkeit. He prided himself in his Chabad roots and adopted their core values of kiruv and outreach. Whenever Berel saw a need, he was first and fore-most in his support, encouragement and insistence that the project be undertaken.

The second presentation likened Ber-el’s life and achievements to the second request of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai related to insurance that Rabbi Tzadok be afforded the proper treatment and re-habilitation. The Rav explained that the survival of Rabbi Tzadok was critical

because whereas everyone may have no-ticed the subtle changes that were taking place in the Bais HaMikdash forty years

earlier, it was only Rabbi Tzadok who appreciated the message and acted and fasted in an attempt to reverse the course of the impeding destruction. This characteristic of Rabbi Tzadok defined Berel! Ev-eryone may have heard a particu-lar need or an opportunity to ac-complish or advance Yiddishkeit but it was most often Berel who not only heard but acted.

The last presentation coin-cided with the final request of Rabban Yochan: “Tain li Yavneh v’chachomeha.” This presenta-tion was made to Rabbi Do-

niel Keilson, Rabbi Avraham Gedalia Karr, Rabbi Yiz-chok Gordon and Rabbi Moshe Rost-ker, members of the Ateres Avigail Night Kollel.

Rabbi Chaim and Rivka Wakslak established a kollel in memory of their beloved daughter Avigail a”h, a wom-an who passed away at a very young age, leaving her husband, Yisroel Zev Rechnitz, and three children. Avigail, al-though young in age, revolutionized the Los Angeles community through her acts of chesed especially in the area of bikur cholim. Rabbi Wakslak expressed his feelings that it was most fitting to estab-lish a kollel in her memory, specifically in Long Beach, because it is where she grew up and developed the seeds for her outstanding and exceptional life.

The inception of the kollel took place approximately two years ago. Rab-bi Wakslak approached Rabbi Yechiel Perr, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway, and asked for his assistance. Rabbi Perr graciously agreed and facili-tated the establishment of the night kollel by asking Rabbi Keilson to recruit young men who were learning in the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway during the day to become members of the Ateres Avigail night kol-lel in Long Beach.

The kollel meets every night from Monday through Thursday. Rabbi Chaim Axelrod, assistant rabbi of the Young Israel, works diligently to establish chavrusos between the kollel members and people from the community. Today,

a kol Torah can be heard on any given evening in the Young Israel Bais Me-drash. On Thursday evening, one of the kollel members delivers a shiur in parsha in conjunction with chulent and kugel.

Each member was presented with a beautiful plaque and Rabbi Donial Keil-son expressed their appreciation for the warmth and opportunity to share Torah with the community.

Yehuda and Rivka Bohan served as the dinner chairs and Nelson & Tara Spiess as journal chairs.

Young Israel of Long Beach Annual Dinner

Elliot Krischer speaking Joseph Langer, Master of Ceremonies Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak

Members of the kollel – Left to Right: Rabbi Karr, Rabbi Keilson, Rabbi Rotzker, and Rabbi Gordon

Joseph Langer, Rabbi Chaim Wakslak and Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky

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Camp Areivim’s Senior Division (grades 4-8) weaves together an incredi-ble balance of learning, sports, trips and achdus. In particular, Camp Areivim’s overnight trips have become legendary in the day camp scene.

As part of the vision of Rabbi Yanky Hersh, Director of the Camp, these overnight trips give Areivim that “sleepaway camp” ruach and feel that is sorely lacking in many day camps. This summer, Areivim’s Senior Division has already engaged in two overnight trips (with two more to come).

Overnight #1 – Clementon, NJ July 6-7 – The first stop on the first

overnight was Blackbeard’s Cave Fami-ly Fun Center in Bayville, NJ. Campers had a blast throughout the entire after-noon trying and re-trying all the fantas-tic attractions and activities that Black-beard’s had to offer. The afternoon was topped off with a vintage Areivim bar-beque dinner.

But the day wasn’t over yet! Upon arrival to the sleeping quarters at the KleinLife JCC in Philadelphia, camp-ers were able to make use of the indoor swimming pool and expansive gymnasi-um before heading to bed.

Day two began with a visit to Torah Links in Cherry Hill, NJ. Rabbi Yis-roel Tzvi Serebrowski, the rav of the shul, opens the shul to Camp Areivim on many of their trips. After davening, Rabbi Serebrowski enlightened camp-ers with an inspirational drasha on the

topic of the Three Weeks and achdus. A great way to start the day!

Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Senior Divi-sion Head Counselor, commented, “It’s important to us to give our campers an amazing summer experience, be it in our staff, our leagues, our swimming or our trips, yet never lose sight of the potential for growth in ruchniyus along the way. Davening, learning and proper middos are an integral component and primary concern during any activity in which our campers engage.”

Next, it was off to Clementon Park Splash World! Campers received all-day passes and a voucher for a free soda or ices and that was all they needed as they ran off to conquer the amusement park. Beginning with Splash World, campers enjoyed the amazing attractions and wa-ter rides available.

Following lunch, campers had the opportunity to attack the amusement park portion of Clementon! Camp-ers even commented, “We don’t want to leave this place!” Cheers of Camp

Areivim’s “A-R-E-I-V – I AM” could be heard throughout the day as the ru-ach of Camp Areivim permeated Clem-enton Park Splash World and awed the other camps that were there as well.

Excited and exhausted, campers re-turned to camp and had sweet dreams about the amazing overnight they just had.

Overnight #2 – Lake George, NY July 13-14 – The first stop of this trip

was Six Flag’s Great Escape and Splash Water Kingdom! What an amazing amusement park! Campers were able to take full advantage of the awesome at-tractions that Six Flags had to offer. On top of that, many campers were able to reconnect with friends from sleepaway camp who joined us in the park. It was really great! Be it the Boomerang, the Comet, the Condor, the Extreme Super-nova, Sasquach or the Steamin’ Demon – there was so much to do!

As the Great Escape was finishing up, campers were delighted to find out that the sleeping quarters were right across the street from the park! But what they didn’t know was that they weren’t going immediately to sleep. Upon ar-rival at Adventure Family Fun Center, Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, MIT Division Head, announced that there would be a Mega Pajama Laser Tag competition!

After campers set up their sleeping ar-rangements and changed into pajamas, they were invited to participate in an all-out laser tag competition before getting a good night’s sleep.

The next morning, campers were in for another surprise. Before heading to the scheduled white water rafting des-tination, campers engaged in a team versus team scavenger hunt at the local Walmart. An activity exclusive to Camp Areivim, Walmart agreed to allow campers to traverse the store in search of items fitting the descriptions assigned for them. It was a great “wake-up call” and campers got energized and ready to tackle white water rapids of Lake Sa-candaga!

Upon arrival at Lake Sacandaga, campers split up into groups and, to-gether with counselors and guides, rafted down the Sacandaga, battling the rapids and rowing to their destina-tion. Campers were unanimous – this overnight was over-the-top! As they completed their journey, campers were greeted by a buffet lunch of chicken fin-gers and potato knishes. What a way to end an amazing trip!

Amazing Overnights at Camp Areivim

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By Shoshana BernsteinOn Thursday night, July 30, the

talmidei chachamim of Kollel Chatzos Meron will gather in Amukah to daven on behalf of Jewish singles around the world to find their bashert. At a time when the shidduch crisis has been called the bane of our generation, Kollel Chat-zos is offering singles the world over the zechus of partnering with Torah learning and the power of talmidei chachomim’s tefillos on their behalf.

Kollel Chatzos, the network of kol-lelim that studies Torah throughout the night, every night, maintains three branches throughout the Greater New York area, as well as an exclusive fourth Torah Center in Meron at the kever of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. In the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai repeatedly extols the practice of rising at midnight to learn Torah; he mentions often that he in fact did so as well. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai guarantees that anyone who gets up to learn Torah during the second half of the night, his tefillos will be accepted.

Amukah, home to the kever of the taana Yonasan ben Uziel, is renowned as a place where tefillos for shidduchim are readily accepted. While the origins of this tradition are shrouded in mystery, thousands of eligible young men and women travel each year to daven at the kever and beseech Hashem for a won-derful shidduch.

So why is the 15th of Av such a spe-cial time to partner with Kollel Chatzos?

The 15th of Av has been adapted as a special day for tefillah for Kollel Chat-zos, a day focuses on davening for shid-duchim for Klal Yisroel. The Talmud (Taanis 26b) teaches that the 15th of Av was celebrated as a tremendous yom tov, a date that was set aside for matching up Jewish couples. The eligible girls of Yerushalayim would gather in the fields on this day to be chosen by suitable young men. Building on this theme, lat-er seforim describe the 15th of Av as a day that bears a special segulah for find-ing one’s zivug.

In addition, the talmid also states that

on the 15th of Av the summer solstice has passed and the nighttime hours begin to lengthen, allowing for more learning to take place during the night hours. While this is a difficult obligation for most to fulfill, the illustrious kollel members of Kollel Chatzos do indeed spend the midnight hours steeped in Torah, begin-ning earlier as the day begins to shorten. Kollel Chatzos is therefore eminently qualified to represent Klal Yisroel in Amukah on the 15th of Av.

These two reasons make Kollel Chatzos the ultimate conduit for tefil-los for shidduchim and the 15th of Av the perfect day on which to daven. In past years calls have come into the main office from across the world and across the spectrum of Jewish people; young men and women and their parents, eager to partner with Kollel Chatzos during the Amukah campaign and reserve their share in this special event.

Last year, on the eve of the 15th of Av, the Kollel Chatzos Meron members left their homes and travelled to Amu-

kah. With hundreds of names in hand, they opened their hearts and davened in unison, storming the Heavens on behalf of the long list of names who are hoping to find their bashert quickly and easily. In the weeks that followed, Kollel Chat-zos was thrilled to receive numerous calls announcing shidduch after shid-duch that came to fruition after parents partnered with Kollel Chatzos.

Adding together the merit of the lo-cation in Amukah, the date on the 15th of Av and the nature of the representatives who offered the tefillos, the representa-tives of Kollel Chatzos; the sum is an unbelievably charged opportunity for zechusim on behalf of those awaiting their bashert.

Call Kollel Chatzos today and join the Amukah Campaign.

May we all hear besuros tovos b’karov!

Phone: 1-855-Chatzos (242-8967). Main Office: 718-887-9114. Fax: 718-506-1051. Mail@kollelchatzos.com. www.1855chatzos.org.

Looking for a Shidduch? Join the Kollel Chatzos Amukah Campaign on the 15th of Av

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The annual BBQ event for Yeshiva Nish-mas Hatorah was hosted this year by Dr. Sam and Pamela Singer in Cedarhurst. It featured a Hakoras Hatov pre-sentation towards Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid for their graciousness in hosting the Yeshiva for the past few years. In addition, it was a kick-off for the purchase of the building in Wood-mere that the Yeshiva is be”H moving into shortly. It was b”H a very successful event on all accounts!

For more informa-tion about the Yeshi-va, please go to www.nishmashatorah.org or email yeshivanish-mashatorah@gmail .com.

Rabbi Mordechai Stern, Rav of Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid, accepting the Hakoras Hatov award from the Roshei Yeshiva on behalf of the Shul

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There is a connection between the Three Weeks and the time between Rosh Hashanah and Hoshana Rabba, which is also a period of three weeks. While we don’t generally associate the three weeks of mourning with repentance, there is a tremendous ability to use this time to come closer to Hashem, just like

we use the time of the High Holidays to draw closer. In fact, the ability to come close to Hashem may even be stronger during this time of year. With respect to the three weeks that are between Rosh Hashanah and Hoshana Rabba, Hash-em is described as a king sitting on His throne of glory judging our people. On

the other hand, during this current time of mourning for the Beis Hamikdash, Hashem is described as a king without a throne wandering in the fields. By defini-tion, a king in the fields is much easier to approach than a king on His throne. The level of preparation and effort involved is much less when the king is out wan-

dering in the fields where all the common people can be found.

We are told that all those that pursue the Jewish nation can catch up to her to inflict harm during the time of the Three Weeks. For this reason people take extra precautions during this time, try to stay out of the non-Jewish court system, and attempt not to put themselves into any situation of potential danger. There is an-other way to explain the following teach-ing. Usually we interpret the one being pursued as the Jewish nation but it is also possible to explain that the one being pursued is Hashem. Therefore, if we say that all those who pursue can catch up to that which they are running after during the time of Three Weeks, it becomes apparent that there is an extra ability to use this time to pursue a connection with our Creator. During this important time, if we try to chase after Him, we will be able to catch up to Him and achieve the closeness and connection we seek.

As we attempt to use this time to be-come closer to our Creator, we can also work to forge a closer connection to our spouse. Hashem designed the world with various prototypes to help us better achieve our purpose in this world. One of those prototypes is the system of mar-riage. By creating a strong connection with our spouse, we gain insight into how close a relationship can be, and this can then give us the ability to better un-derstand how to forge a connection with our Creator. In marriage we learn how important it is to give, we focus on mak-ing our spouse happy, and we see how we reap tremendous satisfaction from a loving and happy connection with our spouse. All these ideas and more are present when we build a relationship with Hashem.

Let us work this Tisha B’Av to be-come closer to our spouse and to in turn better understand how we can become closer to Hashem. Let us use this time to develop and strengthen close bonds and may we merit that this Tisha B’Av become a holiday where we will serve Hashem in the Beis Hamikdash once more.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative pro-vides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anony-mous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thurs-day evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the ho-tline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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The Gesher Early Childhood Center is pleased to announce some exciting new changes taking place this coming year at Gesher. The continuous growth and ex-pansion of the program has compelled the

administration to look for ways to better service the community.

As the saying goes, ‘‘location is ev-erything.” This is especially true in re-gards to the Gesher model. Mrs. Chava

Bodner, Director of Gesher, explains, “Our student body comes from every sector of our community, throughout the Five Towns and Far Rockaway. It is im-perative that our location be convenient and attractive to all of our parents.”

On that note, the decision was made to move to a bigger and more central lo-cation. In the short time that Gesher has made its mark on local chinuch, its need for appealing space has driven several key decisions.

Gesher was originally located in the preschool building of the Yeshiva of South Shore. When the program grew out of that space, it was relocated to the Ohr Torah building in North Woodmere. “Being in our own location allowed us to grow exponentially,” said Mrs. Bodner, “and we felt that we would be able to serve the needs of our student body better in a larger and more centralized location.”

Recently, Shulamith announced that they would be moving their operations to a new facility and would be vacating their location in Cedarhurst. The admin-istration at Gesher recognized that the Cedarhurst location would allow them to maintain their high standards of chi-nuch and personalized attention while continuing to expand and develop new programming.

Gesher’s new address is 350 Broad-way in Cedarhurst, between Locust and Grove. “We will now be midway be-tween Lawrence/Far Rockaway and Woodmere/Hewlett. The classrooms are large and airy and are perfect for early childhood education.”

In the next few weeks a playground will be installed and the rooms will be readied for the many related service pro-

viders that team with Gesher to make its model so successful.

The benefits of the intended move to Cedarhurst can already be felt. Mrs. Bod-ner is pleased to announce the opening of a parallel pre-1A. “Our pre-1A class filled up quickly and we had a large wait-ing list. After much thought we decided to open another class so that the needs of our students could be met.”

The Gesher model calls for limited class size and only a few spots remain in the second pre-1A. The kindergarten, first pre-1A, and the new first grade are full, with just a few spots left in the nursery class as well. “The requests to open more classes are a testament to our great staff of teachers who have built a reputation of caring and success.

Along with these developments comes the need to properly manage all of the many aspects of Gesher’s responsibil-ities. “We are happy to introduce a new member of our administrative team. Mr. Jared Berkowitz will be coming onboard to serve as Director of Operations.”

Mr. Berkowitz is recognized for his organizational experience and excite-ment about Gesher’s distinctive mission statement. His wife is a Woodmere native and works for the Board of Education as a speech therapist. He will be tasked with many of the day-to-day managerial operations, helping to ensure that Gesh-er continues to be the best place for our children.

“I have been watching Gesher grow over the last few years and I am amazed by what they have produced,” comment-ed Mr. Berkowitz. “I am honored to be part of the team and look forward to see-ing Gesher build on its success.”

Gesher Expanding Again

Matt Martin, current Islanders player and 4 time winner of the Bob Nystrom award, paid a visit to the Hillel Day Campers on Monday, July 20. He spoke about the importance of staying fit, shared the story of his success, his experience on the sports team, and the skills necessary to pursue a career in hockey. This summer, Hillel began a new hockey league and clinic led by an incredible hockey coach for all second through eighth grade boys. 

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For most frum children, the summer means a time of fun and laughter spent in a day camp or sleepaway camp; how-ever, there are many children who come from homes with two working parents and still have no means left to send their children to camp. Why is camp neces-sary for every child? A summer camp is an important experience for every child to have in order to help mold their mid-dos and social interactions while in a “kosher” environment spearheaded with a Torah foundation.

This past May, a group of young adults founded an organization called The Camp Scholarship Fund. The group consists of five young adults who no-ticed that this was something lacking and felt they should help in this import-ant endeavor. They followed in their parents’ footsteps who taught them, “Chessed olam yebuneh.” They them-selves always “Got Involved” in many

chessed organizations. The girls com-mittee is headed by Channa Shira Ry-back and Tali Wienberg and the boys committee is headed by Dovi Friedman, Avi Parnes and Shmaryahu Ryback. A fundraiser kickoff event was put to-gether at the Five Towns Batting Cages. This event got the word out about this dire need in our very own communi-ty. Baruch Hashem, the evening was a smashing success and 14 children went to day camp this summer because people like you “Got Involved.” We all cherish our camp memories and lifelong friend-ships that we create. “The Camp Schol-arship Fund” is backed by LIFE, which is founded by Rabbi Simcha Lefkowitz.

We thank all of those that have got-ten involved already and those who will begin to join us in this special organi-zation. Email tcsfkids@gmail.com to help send children in our community to camp.

“Getting Involved” in the Camp Experience

On Sunday night, close to 1,000 peo-ple from the South Shore of Long Island, NY, along with others who came from far and wide, assembled at Temple Hillel in Valley Stream to discuss and learn how to fight the Islamic Nation of Iran Nucle-ar Accord.

Thanks to the energy and passion of one woman, Cindy Grosz of Long Is-land, the community pulled together in a non-partisan setting to fully understand all the details and to learn specifically how to take action as a group and as in-dividuals against this blasphemy of an accord. And act, we must!

U.S. Congressman Lee Zeldin, NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind, and Zionist Organization of America Director Mort Klein were the featured and impassioned speakers. Former Congressman Bob Turner, GOP Chairman of Queens Coun-ty, NY, moderated, and Laurie Cardoza Moore, President of Proclaiming Justice

To the Nations, made salient remarks. Friends, this is a dangerous, precar-

ious and life-threatening agreement that will definitely and irreparably damage our country along with the entire world as we know it.

How to Take Action:Please call U.S. Senator Chuck

Schumer and your local congressperson – and ask all your family and friends to call today and every day – to urge them to vote down this accord in Washington, DC. We do need you to call every representa-tive of every political persuasion. While the GOP is virtually unanimous against the Accord, we still need the Democrats to bring this up to a 2/3 majority!

Senator Schumer can be contacted at his Washington office at 202-224-6542 or at his New York office at 212-486-4430.

You can find your local congressper-son’s contact information at www.con-tactingthecongress.org.

Take Action against the Iran Nuclear Accords

PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff spoke on Sunday morning at Congregation Shaaray Tefila before a large crowd. His subject was “Is There Pluralism in Hashkafa?” Pictured here is Rabbi Avrohom Schwartz, Rabbi Dr. Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Yossi Sonnenblick and Rabbi Yitzchok Sladowsky.

Word of “mouth” on the street is that Orah Day Camp can’t be beat! There is plenty going on in camp every sin-gle week. “Mouth” week started with a “Gourmet” Dress Up Day!! There were hamburgers, hot dogs, cookies of ev-ery shape and color, candy, candy ma-chines and plenty of chefs. Everyone looked delicious! I’ve never seen a more “mouth”-watering morning ruach! The cupcakes were cute, the button candies beautiful, and the full pint of spirited strawberries were stupendous.

It’s true that swimming in our mag-nificent in-ground outdoor Olympic-size pool was put on hold this week, but there are plenty of special Nine Days activities to fill the holes or should I say cavities? We have a slack line and a zip line set up. For the slack line, the girls work “hand” in “hand” or “hands” on “shoulders,” to be more correct, to master the art of walking on the slack line. The zip line is less about finesse and more about fun! The girls with helmets on their “heads” are zipping across the spacious back field with the wind in their “faces” and enjoy-ing every minute.

This week also has all the bunks ex-citedly preparing for bunk week. What’s bunk week? Well, “chew” on this, each bunk has to come up with an original song and perform it on stage during lunch. The girls help come up with the words and “hand” motions and really get into it. We are all looking forward to the bunk presentations.

“Mouth” week is also an excellent time to discuss with our older bunks the concept of healthy eating and what we put into our mouths and bodies.

Mrs. Berry (how’s that for a name?), a licensed nutritionist, is running a num-ber of activities to help demonstrate this lesson of healthy choices, healthy eating and healthy body images.

Of course, almost all of our special-ties fit into mouth week one way or an-other, but this week the specialty in the spotlight is—wait, it’s on the tip of my tongue—drama, where our very own homegrown drama queens love to come! Mrs. Malka Wolf, our drama teacher, is working with a 5th grade bunk to practice and pull together a dramatic play for our Nine Days Cantata. The Cantata, which also features a camper choir and a staff choir, is a highlight of the first half and is the last Main Event of this half. While we are sorry to see some of our campers go, we are ecstatic about the new camp-ers who are coming, and we are really putting our money where our “mouth” is—so many of our half summer campers are having such a good time, they have decided to sign up for August!

While focusing on our “mouths” we had some special treats for our camp-ers! We had sour sticks to make their lips pucker, hot sauce to spice up the fish sticks, and random acts of candy. “Brace” yourself for a sugar rush!

This week should be a favorite to anyone with a sweet “tooth.” It’s hard to believe that camp is half over but we’ve taken a bite out of summer and still have so much more in store!

So off the top of our “heads,” we have to fight “tooth” and “nail” to con-tain our excitement about what’s com-ing up because Orah Day Camp is the “HEAD”-quarters of fun!

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Construction projects are prone to surprises and setbacks. Look no further than Hatzolah of Rockaway/Nassau Volunteer Ambulance Corp’s near-de-cade effort to construct an ambulance garage in Woodmere. After many chal-lenges, however, just as the weather started getting warmer this spring, the project finally seemed ready to cross the finish line. Then came the surprise; then came the setback.

Hatzolah’s plan to convert a former mechanic shop on West Broadway in Woodmere into a modern, three-bay ambulance garage is an ambitious proj-ect, which includes replacing a deteri-orating roof and adding a third parking bay. While dismantling the roof, the contractor recognized inherent weak-nesses in the unreinforced brick walls that comprise the existing structure. As soon as the roof was completely re-moved, fearing imminent collapse, the contractor preemptively demolished two of the three existing walls.

Though a necessary precautionary measure, the unplanned demolition and resultant need for reconstruction went far beyond the scope of the ap-proved plans Hatzolah filed when ap-plying for a Town of Hempstead build-ing permit. Municipal governments carefully regulate the design and con-struction of any structure by requiring and retaining accurate, comprehensive documentation of all building projects for many reasons. These include en-suring the structure is consistent with local zoning laws; meets town build-ing codes; complies with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) stan-dards, environmental laws, workers safety requirements, and multiple oth-er categories requiring oversight.

Because the nature and parame-ters of the Hatzolah garage project changed so dramatically – from ren-ovating an existing structure to con-structing a brand new structure – Hat-zolah suddenly faced the prospect of having to halt all construction and vir-tually restart the entire permit applica-tion process.

“This development was a crush-ing blow,” said Rabbi Elozor Kanner, coordinator of the Hatzolah of Rock-away/Nassau. “Overnight, just as the project was finally gaining momen-tum, our progress came to a screeching halt. It was a terrible disappointment, and a difficult setback.” Under normal circumstances, applying for and be-ing approved for demolition and new

construction permits, as Hatzolah was now required to do, could take months to complete, and along the way, cost many thousands of dollars in permit application, legal, and architecture fees.

“We were back to square one on a project that seemed all but complete,”

said Moshe Ratner, a Hatzolah vol-unteer and a key member of the team working on the ambulance garage proj-ect. Among Ratner’s main concerns

was that it would be winter by the time all the filing requirements and techni-cal details were complete. This would mean having to once again expose the ambulances to several months of ice, snow, and freezing temperatures, all of which cause excessive wear and tear for the vehicles and dramatically de-creases their lifespan of useful service.

Unsure of where else to turn, Rabbi Kanner reached out to Town of Hempstead Councilmen Anthony Santino and Bruce Blakeman, who, between the two, represent the entire Five Towns on the Town of Hemp-stead Board. In response, Santino and Blakeman arranged an emergency meeting with the Building Department plan examiners to provide Hatzolah’s architect, D. J. Shtierman, and proj-ect leaders, Moshe Ratner and Meir Krengel, a point-by-point list of exact-

ly what they needed to produce when filing the new permit applications and building plans.

“Hatzolah is an organization any-one could admire, and one I hold in especially high esteem,” said Coun-cilman Anthony Santino. “Rabbi Kan-ner represents an army of uniquely

selfless, unsung heroes who sacrifice their time, energy, and expertise to help people they never met, usually on a moment’s notice. Whenever Rabbi

Kanner calls for help, finding a solu-tion goes straight to the top of my pri-ority list.”

Due to the unusual circumstance that an unforeseen event substantially changed the nature of ongoing project and in consideration of the invalu-able service Hatzolah provides to the Five Towns, Santino and Blakeman requested the Buildings Department extend every possible resource to ex-pedite the approval of the permit ap-plication.

Also, to avoid Hatzolah having to expend valuable, often-scarce resourc-es, all of which comes from charita-ble donations, the councilmen made a special request that the Buildings Department waive the thousands of dollars in application fees Hatzolah would otherwise need to spend. “They already paid all these fees the first time

they applied for permits,” pointed out Councilman Santino. “I’d rather see that money go towards training vol-unteers or keeping their ambulances stocked.”

Councilman Bruce Blakeman took an equally forceful role to ensure the application submission and approval process ran as quickly and smoothly as possible. “Anytime someone in dis-tress calls Hatzolah, they know help will be on the scene in less than two minutes,” said Councilman Blakeman. “These noble volunteers do this ev-ery single day and night, and they’ve been doing it for decades. I say this from personal experience as I was treated by Hatzolah EMTs for my own medical emergency just a few months ago. When Hatzolah calls the Town of Hempstead in distress, the least we can do is send it as soon as we can.”

In this case, it took less than a week. In the typical scenario, this could have taken months. “We had our best people working on this, and they understood why we needed to help this organization, and why it was so important to put them back on track so quickly,” said Santino. “I’m proud of what we achieved.”

Both Santino and Blakeman share a long history of helping Hatzolah. “We didn’t just wake up and discov-er Hatzolah yesterday,” Blakeman emphasized. “We’ve been there for Hatzolah for many years. Everyone in Hempstead Town government, from Supervisor Kate Murray and all my colleagues on Town Board, under-stands this is an essential organization that does its work for all the right rea-sons and always in the best possible way.”

“When Hatzolah calls the Town of Hempstead in distress, the least we can do is send it as soon as we can.”

Santino and Blakeman Restart Stalled Hatzolah Ambulance Garage Construction

What do Scope, Head and Shoulders, and job interviews have in common?

See what Rabbi Mordechai Kruger has to say on page 102

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YLX will be holding a Tisha B’Av program at the Agudath Israel of the Five Towns, 508 Peninsula Blvd in Ce-darhurst, NY. This program aims to provide high school boys in the area with an opportunity to experience Tisha B’Av, and specifically the Kinnos, in a new meaningful and inspiring way. The program will begin with Shacharis at 9am, followed by a brief introduction to the Kinnos and then select Kinnos will be read. The Kinnos will be explained

and expounded upon, all in an effort to engage young people and allow them to truly relate to this solemn day.

Although the program is designed to meet the needs of high school boys, all are invited and encouraged to attend.

For more information, contact Rab-bi Aryeh Dachs at 410-258-5134 or email him at YIDLearningExperience@gmail.com.

YLX Tisha B’Av Program

Parents of teenagers in the Five Towns participated in a four-part se-ries of parenting workshops offered by Madraigos between June 24th and July 15th. The series, aptly named “Real Face Time,” was delivered by Mrs. Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director. Well-known for its wide ar-ray of clinical and community services, Madraigos works directly with its teen-age and young adult members to pro-vide the necessary skills to live healthy lifestyles. However, Madraigos recog-nizes that the influence of the teenagers’ parent is extremely crucial and any pro-gram to help the community’s teenagers would be incomplete without parent participation.

To that end, Madraigos developed the parenting workshop series as part of their holistic approach of support-ing and assisting young adults and their families. By providing specific parent-ing guidance in a warm and congenial environment, parents were able to sort out the parenting areas they needed to work on and “take home” specific ideas on improving their relationship with their teenagers and becoming better par-ents.

The workshops focused on staying connected with children and building closeness. Parents learned that by being available and responsive to their chil-dren, it enables their children to trust them and feel that parents support them. Mrs. Delman provided specific direc-tions for connecting to children, such as:

Learning what activities children en-joy and participating with them in these activities on a regular basis is worth-while.

Focusing on the moment, sitting next to children and giving them full attention is extremely important. While the importance of open communication with teenage children cannot be overly

stressed, Mrs. Delman explained that it is equally important to set boundaries for interactions with them.

Discussing real ways to solve daily problems is helpful. Children need to learn that they have the ability to solve problems on their own.

Striking the right balance between taking a “hands-off” approach versus micromanaging their lives must be reached. Being overly protective, even though the intent is to help children avoid negative consequences, may stifle their development.

Guidance was also offered to help parents maintain a balance between re-specting our children’s inherent value while still teaching them to have a sense of responsibility and desire to meet their moral responsibilities. A crucial in-gredient in achieving such a balance is displaying unconditional love. Even if children’s performance comes up short of parents’ expectations, children’s be-havior should only be judged and not the person. Young adults brought up in such an environment are not afraid to learn and grow from mistakes. They maintain self-dignity and are well-posi-tioned to develop a healthy conscience and sense of responsibility.

Mrs. Delman stressed the impor-tance of praising teenage children and the necessity of being specific in their praise, such as saying “your voice is lovely” or “the way you take care of your clothing is wonderful.” She ex-plained that praising children and ad-dressing them with verbal terms of af-fection is instrumental in helping them develop both self acceptance, belief in oneself as a good and worthwhile per-son, as well as self-efficacy, belief in oneself as capable of performing a task or managing a situation.

The importance of being a role mod-el for our children in all areas of life

came up several times during the work-shops. The way we respect others and maintain a respectful environment in our homes can have significant impact on our children’s moral and ethical de-velopment. Other important tips includ-ed the importance of praying for Heav-enly assistance, self-care, trusting our own judgment, consulting with mental health and rabbinic professionals when needed, and having patience with the parenting process.

Parents left feeling that they had a support system and more confident in going about their challenging parenting duties. Judging by the parents’ respons-es to the end-of-workshop surveys, the parents appreciated learning about the critical importance of empathizing with their children and listening to them in a non-judgmental, focused manner with-out try to impose their own “more cor-rect” views or solutions, a skill known as “active listening.”

Madraigos plans on offering more free parenting workshops for the com-munity throughout the upcoming school

year. Other services that Madrai-gos provides include the after-school “Lounge” program, year-round events, in-school programs, as well as parent and community education. Madrai-gos also provides a myriad of life-sav-ing clinical intervention services that ensure that the young adults and their families receive caring and comprehen-sive support and guidance during their most difficult times. Since its founding in 2003 and with multiple expansion proj-ects thereafter, Madraigos’ goal has re-mained consistent: To provide all of its members with the necessary tools and skills to empower them to become the leaders of tomorrow.

Four-Part Parenting Workshop Series Delivered by Madraigos Clinical Director

Why are Israelis so happy?

Let us count the waysSee page 87

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Ruach Day Camp provides a summer experience like no other. We provide an environment for children to grow, make friends and build confidence in them-selves. Our formula is simple: dynamic and creative programs with highly spirit-ed and interactive staff. Our emphasis is on growth, friendship and fun!

In addition to our creative theme and dress-up days, we offer unique spe-cialties for our campers to choose from. Among those is Dreamation Design, a DIY (Do it Yourself) specialty where children create projects from everyday items we have at home. Some of those projects include making plaster, mak-ing play dough from scratch, a home-made bouncy ball and creating a stained glass solution. Another popular elective is Dance Choreography where the girls learn the moves to the chorus of a song and then collaborate to choreograph the rest. A new elective this year is Comput-

er Game Design where campers learn basic coding techniques to develop their own interactive computer game. This

elective helps children learn to think cre-atively, reason systematically and work collaboratively – essential skills for life

in the 21st century. They are doing amaz-ing things that they see as fun, yet educa-tional, valuable and worthwhile.

Creativity Reigns at Ruach Day Camp

Increasingly, Klal Yisrael seems like a ship on a storm-tossed sea of spiritual, political and economic tur-moil. Yet the ship is going somewhere; it is heading to the geulah, and Hashem is navigating.

The Torah teaches us that we were cast out onto this sea two millennia ago, exiled from our land and dis-persed among the nations, all for one reason – sinas chinam, baseless hatred. The only way to counter this corrosive force is by strengthening its opposite – ahavas Yisrael.

Caring for others as we do for our-

selves, seeing their needs as important and valid, feeling the brotherly connec-tion we have to other Jews – these are the ingredients of ahavas Yisrael and the course Hashem has mapped out for us to arrive at the geulah. A vital key to these traits is vatranus – yielding to others’ needs.

In our highly competitive, self-cen-tered world, vatranus may be mistak-en for weakness, yet it is the ultimate power. It taps into the Jewish people’s natural drive to connect with each other and help each other. It inspires incred-ible acts of kindness and sensitivity to

others, and if we strengthen it, vatra-nus has to power to carry us safely to the end of our storm-tossed journey.

This Tisha B’Av, July 26, the ach-dus Hashem treasures will be on full display as tens of thousands of Jews unite in 700 gatherings around the world to learn how to strengthen the powerful trait of vatranus.

This Tisha B’Av, Hashem will see His children getting together in order to learn how to perceive each other’s needs more clearly and respond more graciously, sensitively and generously. He will see tens of thousands of Jews around the world learning how to let go of their illusions and recognize Hash-em’s control of the world.

This Tisha B’Av, Hashem will see a nation truly yearning to be united un-der the Shechinah.

The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foun-dation is offering two distinct programs for this year’s World-Wide Tisha B’Av Event, each featuring three dynamic speakers who will deliver inspiring in-sights on the power of vatranus to build each of us and to uplift Klal Yisrael.

Program A features Rabbi Yisroel Reisman, Rav of Agudath Israel of Madison (Brooklyn, NY) and well-known lecturer on Navi and contem-porary Jewish topics; Dayan Yonason Abraham, founder of the Yeshiva at Kollel Beth HaTalmud in Melbourne,

Australia, and currently dayan of the London Beth Din; and Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, the Rav of Congregation Shaarey Tefilah in North Miami Beach, Florida, whose lectures have inspired thousands of Jews toward great-er strides in the mitzvos bein odom l’chaveiro.

Program B presents Rabbi Eli J. Mansour, one of the most sought-after speakers and leaders in the Syrian-Jew-ish community and Rav of Congrega-tion Bet Yaakob in Flatbush, NY; Rab-bi Zecharia Wallerstein, a well-known figure in the world of chinuch and founder of Ohr Naava, renowned wom-en’s learning institution in Brooklyn; and Dr. David Lieberman, a clinical psychologist whose many clear-sight-ed books have been translated into 26 languages.

On the day which Klal Yisrael mourns the destruction of the Beis Ha-mikdash, the golus and the suffering it has wrought, these speakers will in-spire Jews around the world to tap into the power of vatranus. As we learn how to knock down the walls that di-vide us, we can show Hashem that we are ready to once again build the walls – the walls of the Beis Hamikdash – within which we will soon, iy”H, be united.

See the ad in this week’s issue for a complete listing of times and locations.

“The Power to Yield” Builds Klal Yisrael’s True Strength Tisha B’Av Event Inspires Unity, Shalom Worldwide

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Simcha Day Camp is one of the largest camps in the Five Towns area, serving more than 800 camp-ers. This week, we spoke with camp director Rabbi Shimon Dachs and office manager Mrs. Sharoni Botwinick.

TJH: Every camp has an origin story. Tell us yours.

Rabbi Shimon Dachs: Originally, our camp was called “Simcha by the Sea.” It was run by the Hartman Y. In 1999, Mr. Richard Altabe and Yeshi-va Darchei Torah took over, and it became Simcha Day Camp. We had 140 boys; 240 campers total. Moish Zimberg joined the team between 2000 and 2005, and I took over after that.

While the original camp had boys’ and girls’ divisions—with, at our peak, 1372 campers—over the next 15 years we moved to become a boys’ camp. And we kept that boys’ division strong.

Now we have more than 800 camp-ers in 33 bunks.

Wow, that’s a lot. SD: Boruch Hashem. In or-

der to make a large camp small, we have a division head for each grade.

We have a Junior division—that’s our preschool age for kids going into kindergarten and pre-1-A. Then, we have separate divisions for grades 1 through 4. Grades 5 through 7 have one division head; the CITs (grades 8 through 10) have their own.

Our CIT division has grown so much: we have 100 campers in that age group.

That’s impressive. Tell us about your campers: where are they from?

SD: They come from neighborhoods all over. This include Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest, Brooklyn, West Hempstead, Atlantic Beach, Oceanside, Far Rockaway, the Five Towns, Long Beach, and Belle Harbor.

Why are they coming from all over to ex-perience Simcha Day Camp? What makes it so unique?

SD: We’re a real sports camp. This year, new for 2015, we have a special person exclusively in charge of sports clinics. He goes to every divi-sion—from first grade and up—to train our camp-

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2,400 pizza bagels served each week

33 bunks – for a total of more than 800 campers

26 busses bringing in kids from Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island

22 experienced rebbeim: most have 20 years of experience

12 head morahs nurturing their Junior division

10 basketball courts

9.5 acres of fabulous campus

7 outdoor water stations to keep hydrated while playing sports

6 batei medrash

5 deep fryers (for those, mmm, favorite homemade chicken fingers)

4 baseball diamonds

3 fish tanks

2 indoor gyms. One recently renovated, state-of-the-art for older campers. The other includes a two-story-high jungle gym for the Juniors.

1 Olympic-sized in-ground pool. It’s more than 100 feet long. Each camper has swim-time twice a day for instructional and recreational swim.

How are the Five Towns’ youngest residents spending their summer? Over the next eight weeks, we’ll be speaking to different local day camps to learn how their campers are spending their 104 days of summer vacation.

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105ers in specific sports skills. The campers learn the fundamentals of each sport. We bought a lot of equip-ment so all campers can really practice simultaneous-ly. The campers learn how to focus, where to place their hands, the right stances—all the fundamentals.

One of the most amazing things about our camp is our 9.5 acre campus. We have four baseball diamonds right here, indoor basketball courts and ten outdoor basketball courts, a hockey court, a grass volleyball court, and a grass soccer field (everyone’s crazy about FIFA nowadays). This year we have a cool new gaga pit.

We have two gyms. One recently underwent a half-a-million dol-lar upgrade. It’s brand new and state of the art. The other gym is just for the Juniors. It has a two-story high jungle gym in there, and the Ju-niors have time in there every day.

So you see: we don’t have to get on buses to go places, to go swimming or play sports. That’s why more than 200 kids come here from Brooklyn. Ev-erything is right here.

We have an in-ground pool on campus, and our campers swim twice a day—once for free swim and once for instructional swim. I’m so proud of this: you come to Simcha Day Camp to learn how to swim. The four- and five-year-olds learn from mommies who are also WSI lifeguards. The lifeguards are sensitive and experienced so the campers feel comfortable in the pool.

I’m not just the director: I’m also a parent. I have my sixth boy going to Simcha Day Camp, and all my boys were deep-water swimmers by the time they were in first or second grade.

We’re also uniquely professional, starting from the office manager on down. Everything is run professionally. Each season we try to im-prove. We always listen to advice, and we never rest.

There’s a cer-tain calm dur-ing the day here. Things are noisy when they’re sup-posed to be, when we’re pumping up the ruach. But this is a structured environment. So, when campers are at play or at activities, the campus has a calm feeling to it.

Our staff has been in camping for many years. We want everything top grade. We have a real full-time nurse, real morahs, rebbeim who, for the most part, have been teaching for 20 years. The campers get real professional care.

What are some of your awesome activities?SD: We have amazing overnights for our older

campers, and late nights for the younger ones. Our overnights, for grades 5 through 10, happen twice a

summer. We take a two-day trip, and we rent out a water park just for us. We take coach buses, and, in between other planned events, we go on other trips. This can mean going to Fun Center, Dave and Buster’s, Connecti-cut Sports Center, or Six Flags New England. Then, we sleep at a sleepaway camp

and use their facili-ties as well—like

their zip line or ropes course—or go paintballing

there. We have night activ-

ity. Every division gets two late nights that cul-minates with extra swim, a barbeque, and a great

game, like water ball or Minute to Win It.

We go on trips to laser tag, Active Kids, Sky Zone, Adven-

tureland, and Bounce. When our campers from

Brooklyn and Queens come back really late, we bus them to their home neighborhoods instead of having their parents shlep out to get them at that hour.

We bring in a lot of fun activities too: a carnival, a petting zoo, a magic show. Simon Sez comes by; the moon bounce stays here all summer.

Do you have a theme this year? SD: Our Junior division does. This

year, they have a Storybook theme. It’s all about famous storybooks: Clif-

ford, Dr. Seuss. They have main activities tied to these

books. Their division’s t-shirts are also tied to their theme.

What are some of the perks that campers

enjoy?SD: We give out t-

shirts, water bottles, and Fris-bees to the little

kids.Sharoni Botwin-

ick: Each camper gets his bunk picture on a keychain at the end of the summer. This way they remember us when they go into their home away from our home.

Tell us about a typical day at Simcha Day Camp.

SD: Campers arrive at 8:45,

and so we get started before 9. We have davening,

snacks (like cook-ies and juice), and

then learning. Then campers go to their activi-ties. We have so many sports, but campers also

enjoy arts & crafts and computers. We have leagues,

and campers get to play different sports in their leagues.

We emphasize that they need to have ex-cellent sportsmanship, like making sure to congratu-late kids on their successes, even if that team lost. We give out trophies for league play and for excellent middos.

We serve great lunches every day. Campers love our homemade pizza, and they love our chicken fin-gers even more.

After lunch, campers enjoy more activities. Mon-day through Thursday, they go home at 4. Fridays—and this is a biggie—we end at 3.

Any meaningful plans for the Nine Days?

SD: We have a special middos program in mem-

ory of Aharon Tepfer, a”h, son of one of our lifeguards. During the Nine Days, we embark on a middos program to carry out the essence of what Aharon exempli-

fied. We give rewards and

prizes for acting kind to friends and for good sportsman-

ship. Rabbi Zevi Trenk came in as a spe-cial guest speaker.

Like many camps, we joined the Chai Lifeline Bowl-a-thon this week. And campers up to third grade got wet, by running in the sprinklers or doing car washes.

How about Shabbos Nachamu?SD: Normally, we have an oneg on Erev Shabbos

with music. But on Erev Shabbos Nachamu, we have a big concert. We bring in a band and a professional singer, like Benny Amar, and make a massive kickoff to the weekend.

As a newspaper, we love to get the scoop. When’s color war?

SD: Who said we are having color war? LOL!

Sounds like our readers will be kept in suspense. Oh, well.   Any  final words?

SD: My staff re-ally runs an amazing

camp—one we are very proud of.

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78ANSWER TO RIDDLE: Use the “unlock” buttons.

T J H C E N T E R F O L D • T J H C E N T E R F O L D • T J H C E N T E R F O L D

You are locked in a car and told that if you get out within 5 minutes you will be given $100. To help you get out of the car you are given a screwdriver, a wrench and a hammer. You are not allowed to break any windows of the car. How do you get out of the car?

See answer below

A pedestrian stepped off the curb and into the road without looking one day and promptly got knocked fl at by a passing cyclist.

“You were really lucky there,” said the cyclist.“What on earth are you talking about?! That really

hurt!” said the pedestrian, still on the pavement,

rubbing his head.“Well, usually I

drive a bus!” the cyclist replied.

Riddle!

You Gotta be Kidding!Dear Mr. 11-year-old NY Mets Prospect,You are absolutely right about the trivia answers. It was sloppy work on my part. Ever hear of sloppy work? You know, sloppy base running, slopping fi elding…there’s a place in Flushing, Queens, you can go to if you want to witness such sloppiness every day. (You can even buy a kosher hot dog while you watch the exhibit.) Oh, by the way, now I know why Sandy Alderson isn’t making any moves to get another bat—he knows you’re coming up through the ranks and will be ready to play in ten years. I guess Harvey, Matts, Syndergaard and deGrom will just have to be patient and keep losing 1-0 ballgames until then.

Sincerely,

Barack Oba�.oops, I forgot I’m not supposed to mention my real name�.

Sincerely, the Centerfold Commissioner

See answer below

and will be ready to play in ten years. I guess Harvey, Matts, Syndergaard and deGrom will just have to be patient and keep losing 1-0

Dear Mr. Centerfold Commissioner,

First of all, I know your real name but for the sake

of your privacy I won’t mention it. Your trivia is great,

especially when it’s about baseball. I just found two

mistakes in the All-Star game trivia. Question 2, which

managers manage the All-Star teams? The correct

answer is A, the managers who managed the World

Series. Also in question 9, Why did the 2002 All-Star

game result in a tie? The correct answer is B, the

teams ran out of pitchers. (Judah B. from Cedarhurst

told me that.)

Regarding what you said about Mets players not

making the All-Star game, when I’m on the Mets I’m

going to start the All-Star game, and BTW, Jacob

deGrom (of the NY Mets) pitched phenomenal in the

All-Star game.

Thank you,

An 11-year-old NY Mets prospect

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1. How many miles is the 2015 Tour de France?a. 1,575b. 2,087c. 3,267d. 5,344

2. Maurice Garin won the very first Tour de France in 1903. The next year, he won the Tour’s second running but was eventually stripped of his victory for cheating. How did he cheat?

a. He took a train to the finish lineb. He used performance enhancing drugsc. He knocked his main opponent off of his bike, resulting in a calf

injury which prevented him from completing the raced. He had his team members throw out all water at pit stops after he

drank, so that his opponents would go thirsty.

3. Over the course of the Tour de France approximately how many calories does the average biker burn?

a. 33,000b. 73,000c. 111,000d. 127,000

4. What was Lance Armstrong’s average speed in the 1999 Tour de France?

a. 19 MPHb. 25 MPHc. 32 MPH

d. 37 MPHe. 45 MPH

5. Who is awarded the yellow jacket?a. The winner of the dayb. The best climberc. The overall leader of the race

d. The last place driver of the day

6. The green jersey is awarded to the racer who is best at doing what?

a. Climbingb. Sprintingc. Assisting his teammatesd. Knocking out an opponent

Answers:1. B2. A3. D (That is the equivalent of eating a total of 672 jelly donuts…

which is exactly what I would do if I burned that many calories)4. B5. C6. B

Scorecard5-6 correct: You get the Yellow Jacket!3-4 correct: You may not be in Tour de France yet, but good luck on

Bike For Chai.0-2 correct: You need to start cheating a little bit my friend…Live

Strong!

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Tour de France Trivia

You spend at least an hour a day watching GoPro footage.

You know where every single pothole is within a 5 mile radius of your home.

Your bike is cleaner than your house.

Your bike has a nickname and you’re not at all embarrassed.

When driving, you yell, “On Your Right!” when you pass another car.

After every weekend your phone is filled with photos of mountains, trails, descents, signposts, fields, sunsets…

You hear someone had a crash and your first question is “How’s the bike?”

Your bike costs more than your car.

You start yelling at cars to “hold your line.”

You have more money invested in your bike clothes than in the rest of your combined wardrobe.

You have more bike jerseys than dress shirts.

A Power Bar tastes better than a Snickers.

You can’t seem to get to work by 8:30 AM, even for important meetings, but you don’t have any problems at all meeting your buddies at 5:00 AM for a ride.

You can tell your spouse, with a straight face, that it’s too hot to mow the lawn and then bike off for a century.

You tailgate a semi-trailer to get the drafting effect.

Signs That You Are Too Into Biking

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It’s a good thing my nephew Heshy had a baby. I called to say mazel tov and that is from whence this column

sprang. Or sprangeth, maybe. You see, until I spoke to Heshy, I was debating whether writing about my inventing the Ambien Diet a few weeks ago was too embarrassing, considering I had already set a really low embarrassment bench-mark with The Infamous Pepper Spray Incident.

You’re probably not familiar with Ambien Diet (patent pending). That’s when you don’t want to gain weight by pigging out over Shabbos so you take an Ambien Friday night (instead of dinner) and two more Shabbos morn-ing after davening (instead of lunch). The ingenious diet’s major flaw is that when you awaken, you’re in such a stu-por, you think you’re on Pluto and have an appointment with King Xandok, so you get in the shower and promptly fall and crack a rib (no kidding). Brilliant, right? Riiiight. It’s actually among the dumbest things a functioning human being can do, right up there with bungee jumping and eating mushrooms.

So do you see now why I was so relieved that I had a new topic to write about? Anyway, I guess the column of-ficially starts here:

My mom a”h passed away in Au-gust of 2013 (4 Elul, to be exact). Her name was Baila, and she didn’t love it. She made it quite clear that she didn’t want any great-grandchildren named after her. No one agreed with her, of course. True, it’s not a modern, hip, Is-

raeli-style name like Yael or Ayelet, but it’s not exactly an assault on the cochlea either, like, say, being strapped down for hours on end and being forced to lis-ten to the BeeGees.

So when she passed away, we did what all good children and grandchil-dren do: we ignored her wishes. Hes-hy’s brother Zevy named his little girl Ahuva Baila a while back, and then just a few weeks ago, Heshy had a girl and named her Baila — just Baila! A rather gutsy thing to do, considering he lives in Lawrence. Honestly, don’t you think of Lawrence as more of a Kineret or Yedidah type of town? So I called him to say mazel tov which led to a long conversation about naming in general which led to him suggesting that I write an article on the subject. I thought that was a great idea, so here we are.

To collect “naming stories,” I sent out an email to my friends. Both of them. It read, in part:

“I am planning to write a piece about the naming process of babies in our community. As we all know, this can be a time when husband and wife come together as one and bring this tiny

new member of their family into their loving household with joy and rapture in their hearts. Sadly, it can also be a time when husband and wife become extremely stressed…”

Amazingly, I didn’t get a lot of re-sponses. That’s probably either because everybody is away having a good time or because I don’t shower often enough. But I did get a few. So here are some letters that I paraphrased, some infor-mation I received, my own story about my grandson Yosef Dovid, and a re-markable tale I heard from one of my oldest, dearest friends, Jerry Weissman.

Interesting (Alleged) Facts (Letter #1):

A. The name Genendel originates from Gan Eden’l.

B. The names Shprintza and Yenta originate from the S p a n i s h / L a d i n o names Esperanza and Juanita, respec-tively.

Which Moshe? (Letter #2):Two Satmar

chassidim were me-shadeich and when the first einekel was born, the parents wanted to name the baby Moshe. The two grandfathers each had a Moshe on their side and each wanted the right to say that it was his Moshe. They went to the rebbe (Reb Yoelish zt”l), and he told them not to fight because in twenty years it would be very clear which one the baby had

been named after. The obvious infer-ence was that being someone’s name-sake influences the character traits of the child.

P.S. The husband won.

I Fulfill a Promise:When my son Kalman was born in

1980, we named him after my mother-in-law’s father, Klonimus Kalman. My father-in-law was a wonderful person who always treated me like the son he never had (Frenchi is an only child). I went over to him at the bris and said, “Iy”H if we have another boy, we’ll name him after your father, Yosef Dovid.” Unfortunately, we never had another boy (I have three kids, Feige, Kalman, and Blimie), so I was never able to fulfill that kinda-sorta promise.

When I found out late in 2012 that my daughter Blimie was expecting, I called her.

“I’m not butting in,” I said, “and I certainly don’t want to pressure you, but when Kalman was born I told Zei-die Mendel…” and explained how I had always felt badly about never being able to give that name while my father-in-

law was alive.“I’m just say-

ing if you have a boy and you and Amir have no one in particular that you want to name after, it would be a really nice thing to do.”

Blimie gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on January 1st, 2013, who is so nuts, he has yet to stop bouncing. He’s also the cutest kid in the world. His name is Yosef Dovid. When his name was announced at the bris, Frenchi cried, I smiled broadly and hugged my daugh-ter, and I’m sure Menachem Mendel ben Yosef Dovid was looking down at

all of us beaming.P.S. Unbeknownst to me, a few

Rocky Zweig

The Rocky Rant

“Thank you very much. But I never had a brother named Binyomin, and I never had a brother named Dovid!”

The Name Game

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days before the bris Amir’s grand-mother, Savta Shoshana, called him from Yerushalayim. She told him that since the previous week’s Parsha was Vayechi, which deals rather extensive-ly with Yosef Ha’tzaddik, and since she had had a son who died when he was very young whose name was Yosef, she would be very happy if they named the baby Yosef!

Awe-Inspiring Hashgachah Pratis Story:

I’ve known Jerry Weissman since el-ementary school, so of course when he lost his father many years ago, I went to be menachem avel. While I was there he told me the following incredible story:

I got involved with having Russian boys circumcised before their bar mitz-vah. There was this one Friday after-noon when I was at the bris of a twelve-year-old boy in Boro Park and was given the kibbud of being sandek*. This boy knew nothing about Yiddishkeit and nei-ther did any members of his immediate family. Unfortunately, any kesher that might have once existed had been lost in the horrors of the Soviet Union. After the bris, I was approached by the rabbi.

“As sandek,” he explained, “you get the z’chus of choosing a Hebrew name for this young man, who has never had one.”

Wow. I was really not prepared for this! I thought for a while and then re-alized that my father’s two late brothers, Uncle Benny and Uncle Dave, didn’t have anyone named after them. Con-sequently, the Russian boy was named Binyamin Dovid.

Thinking he would be absolutely thrilled, my wife and I stopped on our way home to tell my father the good news.

“I just had the chance to name a Russian boy after Uncle Benny and Un-cle Dave, so we named him Binyamin Dovid,” I told my dad excitedly.

“Thank you very much,” he said. Then, switching to Yiddish, he continued, “Ubber ich hob kein mol nisht gehat kein brider voss hut gehe-isen Binyumin, un ich hob kein mol nisht gehat kein brider voss hut geheisen Du-vid.” [“But I never had a brother named Binyomin, and I never had a brother named Dovid!”]

I was dumbfounded. “Ta,” I said, “What are you talking about? What about Uncle Benny and Uncle Dave?

“Uncle Benny hut geheisen Volf Berr, un Uncle Dave hut geheisen Shmiel, ubber du in America hoben zei eim gerifen Dave!” (“Uncle Benny’s name was Volf Berr, and Uncle Dave’s name was Shmiel, but here in America they called him Dave!”)

Hey, what are you gonna do, right? My heart was in the right place, and at least the boy now had a beautiful He-brew name. Motzei Shabbos the phone rang. It was the rabbi who had arranged the bris.

“Jerry,” he began, “how did you know?”

“How did I know what?”“The name. How did you know

what to name the boy?”“Well,” I said, “I wanted to name

him after my two uncles, but as it hap-pens — wait a minute — how did I know what?”

“After the bris,” the rabbi continued, “the boy’s grandparents approached me. After the name was announced, his grandfather suddenly remembered that his father had been called Binyamin and his grandmother recalled that her fa-ther’s name was Dovid!”

Now how’s that for a goose-bump producing, “small-miracles” worthy sto-ry?!

Wishing everybody an easy fast, - Rocky* The bris was performed with an-

esthesia.

Rocky Zweig has been writing since he was sixteen and was the Editor-in-Chief of the late and decidedly unlamented

Modieinu, the mimeographed (remember mimeographs?) newspaper of the Tenth Av-enue Pirchei of Boro Park, where he wrote everything from stories to news articles to hashkafa articles to...yes (now it can be told!)...letters to the editor. Rocky was six-teen a very long time ago. He is the proud father of three marginally neurotic children. He has been married three — count ‘em — three times and has finally determined that he’s probably not very good at matrimonial bliss. He lives in his Fortress of Solitude in Flatbush with a small menagerie: Clarice, a European Starling; Rabbi Horatio LeZard, a Bearded Dragon; an aquarium filled with Lake Malawi African Cichlids; and a ten gallon tank that functions as a Home for Un-wanted Goldfish, or H.U.G., collected over the years by his grandkids and great nieces and nephews at myriad street fairs and car-nivals (rather than face the unpleasant task of flushing these unfortunate piscine crea-tures when they are eventually, inevitably ignored by their own obnoxious progeny, the parents simply call Uncle Rocky who then feeds them and cares for them until their ulti-mate natural demise three or four or even ten years down the pike). So apparently Rocky seems to get along better with animals than with his fellow homo sapiens. Or sapienses. Or whatever.

Rocky’s column will be appearing every other week in The Jewish Home. Rocky can be reached at anidaati@aol.com.

Mouth-watering.Satisfying.

Savory.

Delightful

#soooooogood

#amaaaazing

Spicy

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The book of Devarim begins on a somber note. In fact, the en-tire book, for most of its con-

tents and statements, is a very sobering volume. Our teacher and leader Moshe reviews for us his career and the events of his leadership of Israel over the past tumultuous forty years. He spares nei-ther himself nor the people of Israel in his assessment of the mistakes and mis-fortunes that occurred over that period of time. Only at the very end of this volume with soaring poetry and exalted prose does Moshe predict the eventual happy ending to the story of Jewish and general human civilization.

But it seems apparent from the en-tire tenor and tone of the book that this essential success and happiness will be bought at great cost and enduring pain-ful memories. The realistic appraisal given by Moshe of the failings of the Jewish people are difficult to absorb and appreciate. After all, this was in a certain sense the greatest generation of Jews ever – the generation that left Egypt,

stood at Sinai and accepted the Torah and thereby fashioned the Jewish people for all time.

If they were so weak and failed to reach their goals then what shall we, certainly a lesser generation in spirit and holiness, expect to accomplish. But that certainly is not the message that Moshe wished to transmit to us. Apathy, giving up on goals and on our ability to achieve them, is contrary to all basic Jewish val-ues and Torah teachings. The words of Moshe are meant to be guideposts and warnings, pointing out the pitfalls of the past so that the goals of the present and the future can be achieved and realized.

The problems and failings discussed

by Moshe and even more explicitly de-tailed by Isaiah in the prophetic reading of this week are all current events in our society and milieu. Before they can be dealt with, improved upon or even elim-inated, they must first be recognized and admitted to exist. Much of the Jewish world, today, as in the past, indulges in the fantasy of denial.

Rather than dealing with problems, accepting challenges, recognizing the changing nature of societies, we prefer to ignore these realities and pretend that all is well. If the prophet Isaiah were to stand before us today, he perhaps would not change his message or temper his words much in viewing our world.

One feels the frustration of the prophet at having his words ignored and his message unrecognized. It is the unrealistic view of the people and of its leaders’ will, the inability to recognize the changed nature of the problems that face the Jewish society then and now that most disheartened the prophet.

Like Moshe before him, Isaiah paints for us a realistic picture of the failings of Jewish society in the hope that recogniz-ing the problem will help, eventually, lead it to its solution and elimination. The destruction of the Temples and the ensuing troubles that marked Jewish his-tory are usually attributed to the will of G-d. That certainly is true but that sup-poses that as in all matters of human life, it is human choice and behavior to which the will of G-d, so to speak, reacts.

An honest appraisal of the true na-ture of our society and its problems will help us rise from the sadness of these days and allow us to reach the rosy fu-ture that will inevitably come.

Shabbat shalom.

Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Devarim—Chazon

Torah Thought

The words of Moshe are meant to be guideposts and warnings, pointing out the pitfalls of the past so that the goals of the present and the future can be achieved and realized.

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“And it was in the fortieth year, in the twelve month, on the first day of the month, when Moshe spoke to the Bnai Yisroel according to everything that Hashem said to them.” — Devarim 1:3

When Moshe Rabbeinu was near the end of his life, he gathered Klal Yisroel to-

gether to give them rebuke for the sins they committed in the forty years of wandering in the desert.

Rashi is bothered by why he waited. Why didn’t he rebuke them years earlier when the events first took place? Rashi answers that Moshe learned from Yaa-kov Avinu. Yaakov didn’t admonish his son Reuvain until he was close to death. “If you are wondering why I didn’t ad-monish you all of these years,” Yaakov told Reuvain, “it’s because I was afraid that if I did, you would leave me and cling to my brother Eisav.” Therefore, Yaakov waited until he was about to die and only then did he chastise Reuvain. Moshe learned from Yaakov, so he too didn’t give rebuke to the Jewish nation until he was about to die.

This Rashi is very difficult to un-derstand. Why would Yaakov be afraid that if he criticized Reuvain, it would cause him to leave and cling to Eisav? First off, it is difficult to imagine a re-lationship of love, mutual respect, and dedication that was greater than the one that Yaakov and his oldest son Reuvain shared. Aside from the natural sense of attachment of a son to his father, Reu-vain accepted his father as his teacher, mentor, and spiritual guide. Surely, that should have allowed Reuvain to know that his father’s rebuke was only for his good.

Furthermore, whenever Yaakov spoke to his son, it was with love and sensitivity. If a situation arose where Yaakov felt his son erred, a mature per-son like Reuvain would willingly accept words of guidance and correct his ways. Why should Yaakov have been afraid?

The Damage of CriticismThe answer to this question is based

on the effect that criticism has upon a person. The Orchas Tzadikim (Shaar 12) explains that when you verbally at-

tack me, it is a given that I will retaliate. It isn’t much different than if you were physically assaulting me. I perceive your words as an attack against the es-sence of me, and it is almost within the category of self-defense for me to strike back at you. Every fiber of my being

screams out to defend myself against the onslaught of your words.

Criticism is but one step below a verbal attack. It isn’t quite as pointed, not quite as aggressive — but not that far off. When you criticize me, I am under attack. The essence of me, who I am, and what I stand for is being as-saulted. You may not have intended it that way, but that is what I feel. There is a power-ful sense of disapprov-al and condemnation that comes across, and I feel under attack. No one likes to be criticized, and the easiest course is to avoid the pain by pulling away. The greater you are in my eyes, the greater the damage of your words, and the more they will drive a wedge between us.

This seems to be the answer as to why Yaakov was so afraid to criticize Reuvain. Despite the fact that Yaakov would only have intended it for his son’s good, and despite the fact that Reuvain was looking for direction from his loving father, if Yaakov had rebuked Reuvain, he was afraid that it would have forced them apart, damaging the relationship, and perhaps even going so far as to drive Reuvain away. The sense of disapproval that Reuvain would have felt would have been so difficult to bear that Reuvain might well have run away to avoid it, even going so far as joining Eisav.

This is a powerful illustration of the damage caused by rebuke. Even in a relationship based on mutual love and respect, criticism undoes the bond and causes a separation. Here we see it with a mature man whose priorities were straight, a man who lived his whole life

for growth and recognized his father as the spiritual guide of the generation. Yet words of rebuke could have had the effect of separating and causing even such a man to go off the path.

If this concept is true for people as great as the Avos, how much

more so for us? The reali-ty is that we humans are very sensitive; we hunger for ap-proval and despise rejection. When you criticize me, it may not be your intention, but I feel unwanted

and unaccepted. I feel that you don’t approve of

me, so I am not respected in your eyes. That emotion is very

difficult to bear. The easiest course is for me to run away — away from the situation, and away from you. For that reason, criticism is poison to all rela-tionships. As a parent, it is one of the most noxious elements that can ruin an otherwise strong relationship. As a spouse, it can be the wedge that drives apart an otherwise happily married cou-ple. And amongst friends, it can be the force that ends an otherwise nurturing relationship.

3 Rules of Criticism For that reason, before a person

sets out to criticize, he should remem-ber the three cardinal rules of criticism. The first rule is: don’t do it. The second rule is: don’t do it. And the third rule is: don’t do it.

Don’t do it because it hurts. Don’t do it because it distances people. Most of all, don’t do it because it doesn’t work.

Even if your intentions are to help, and even if you only mean these words for the good of the recipient, criticism is a powerful separator that accomplish-es no good, merely drives people apart, and should be avoided like the plague.

Rabbi Shafier is the founder of the Shmuz.com. The Shmuz is an engaging, motivating shiur that deals with real life issues. All of the Shmuzin are available free of charge at the www.theShmuz.com or on the Shmuz App for iPhone or Android.

Parshas DevarimI Hate Criticism

R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

The Shmuz

Even in a relationship based on mutual love and respect, criticism undoes the bond and causes a separation.

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The town of Kitev is little known, but its story is representative of the fate

of so many Polish shtetls. Kitev was most re-nowned for its association with the holy Ba’al Shem Tov and several other rabbinic luminaries including Rav Gershon Kitiver, the son-in-law of the Besht; Rav Yosef Shmuel Gelernter, au-thor of Roshei Besomim; Rav Moishele Kitiver; and Rav Chaim Gelernter, author of Pri Eitz Chaim.

The town itself was a picturesque hamlet, nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian Moun-tains. It was known for its beautiful landscape,

verdant forests, and fragrant fruit orchards. Kitev was a twin city with Vishnitz, which sat across the Chermosh River on the other side of the Polish-Romanian border. Before World War

II, it sat in southern-most Polish Galitzia with a total population of approximately 6,000, half of which were Jewish. (Today the town of Kuty is part of Ukraine.)

As beautiful as Kitev’s scenery was, its lo-cal Polish and Ukrainian residents were ugly. Before World War II, the Jews suffered from heavy taxation, no government representation, inability to obtain employment in any civil ser-vice jobs, and all the other typical anti-Semitic calumnies.

The Jewish community itself was a micro-cosm of pre-war Jewish life in Poland. The town had three Chassidic batei medrashim (Kloz) from Vishnitz, Chortkov, and Kossov. There was a large central shul with separate minyanim for each group of tradesmen such as the tailors, the shoemakers, etc. Each Simchas Torah, the wealthier members of the town would serve a tremendous kiddush with the main invitees be-ing the poorer members of the town. On Friday afternoons, many also had the minhag of distrib-uting bread and challah to the needier members of the town (which were many).

The secularists, the Maskilim, and Zionists were also well-represented among the town’s

youth with strong membership in such groups as Shomer Ha’tzair, labor Zionists, and the social-ist Bund. Many of the town youth were fervent believers in Communism as well.

In fact, at the outbreak of the Second World War, it was the Red Army that arrived first to oc-cupy Kitev. The Soviets were initially hailed as saviors by the town Communists. Within a short while, however, it became clear to all that the Soviets were there simply to plunder the Jews, deprive them of their livelihoods, and restrict their religious freedom. The Soviet secret po-lice, the NKVD, appointed one commissar for each ten Jewish households to constantly moni-tor all activity. Anyone stepping out of line simply disappeared during the night and was presumed to have been shipped to Siberia. The first Rosh Hashana rolled around under Soviet rule, and the Jews were forced to daven in secret at 3a.m. Even the most ardent Communists who had never stepped foot in a shul their entire lives appeared in the back of the shul that early morn-ing, having been totally disillusioned by the be-havior of their Soviet “comrades.”

By the time the Nazis broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and arrived in June of

1941, the Jewish community of Kitev was al-ready in an impoverished, weakened, and starv-

The Churban of KitevTHE DESTRUCTION OF A JEWISH SHTETLBY DR. JOSEPH STURM

The author’s mother, Sarah Henya, is pictured with her parents and brothers in front of their house in Kitev, circa 1938. Sarah Henya’s oldest brother, Menachem, pictured top left, managed to smuggle nine-year old Sarah Henya across the Romanian border to the train station in Vishnitz shortly after the German actsia. Me-nachem promised her that he’d be back the next day with the en-tire family. Sarah Henya waited and waited, but her family never

came and she never saw them again.

BODIES LAY IN THE STREETS EVERYWHERE, THE AIR WAS FILLED WITH THE ACRID SMOKE OF BURNING HOMES AND HUMAN FLESH; ON EVERYONE’S FACES THERE WERE LOOKS OF DAZE AND BEWILDERMENT.

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117ing state. The Nazis immediately established a Judenrat and seized all remaining valuables, foodstuffs, and winter clothing. The Jews of Kitev were forced to wear blue stars and their movements were increasingly restricted. They gradually heard rumors of liquidation actions (actsias in German) being taken against neigh-boring Jewish communities. They knew their turn was soon to come and they prepared make-shift hideouts.

On the seventh day of Pesach, 1942, their awful turn arrived. The SS death squads sealed off all exits, along with the more than willing Ukrainian police, who arrived with skull and crossbones painted on their trucks. The SS im-mediately began shooting any Jews caught in the open. The Ukrainians then singled out each and every Jewish house that was to be set on fire (knowing that many Jews were hiding in their houses). Those who that fled the burning houses were thrown back into the fires, while those who ran were hunted down by ax-wielding Ukrainian peasants. The only “fortunate” Jews were those who hid in bunkers beneath houses that were too close to gentile homes or businesses to be “safely” set ablaze.

My mother recalled being stuffed into a makeshift bunker underneath the kitchen stove along with a dozen other Jews. Her heart pound-ed with terror as she heard the Ukrainian boots stomp overhead. She heard the Ukrainians curse their bad luck as they could not find any “Zhidhe Paasheva” (dirty Jews) hiding in that structure. In many houses, the Ukrainians shouted out in Yiddish, “They’ve left, it’s safe to come out now” in order to coax the Jews from their hiding places.

When the actsia was over and the surviv-ing Jews emerged from concealment, they wit-nessed a most ghastly scene. Bodies lay in the streets everywhere, the air was filled with the acrid smoke of burning homes and human flesh; on everyone’s faces there were looks of daze and bewilderment. There was a macabre and grizzly cortege of mothers holding their dead babies who had been strangled in order to avoid having their hiding places revealed.

Over the spring and summer of 1942, many Kitev Jews tried to flee

across the river into the comparative safety of neighboring Romania knowing that the final liquidation was soon to come. A vast majority were either killed outright by Ukrainian peasants and border police, or turned over to the Gestapo.

Five days before Rosh Hashana in 1942, the Na-zis conducted one final gathering of the Jews of Kitev. The Jews were marched to a train station in a neighboring town. Men were on the inside of the column while women and children were kept on the outside to ensure that no one would escape. Those young men that were deemed fit to work were shipped to labor camps in Lemberg, where most died of exposure, beatings, and starvation. The remainder of the Kitev Jews were over-stuffed into cattle cars in the searing hot sun and

shipped off to the death camp at Belz. Many perished from dehydration and suffocation on the way to the death camp. The remainder died from electrocution at Belz.

Of the three thousand Jews of Kitev, only a small handful survived the war. Most were too shell-shocked by the unbelievable and gruesome horror to ever speak about it again. Many en-tire families were wiped off the face of the earth, their burial places unknown, with no one having ever said Kaddish for them.

As those of us who say Kaddish this Tisha B’Av think of whom to include in our tefillos, let us remember the nearly forgotten souls of the Jews of Kitev.

Hashem yinkom damam.

The preceding article was compiled based on two Yizkor books written many years after the destruction of Kitev and on several eyewit-ness accounts.

Author’s Note: During the spring of 1942 before the final German actsia, an SS officer ap-proached a young Jewish man who was holding his two-year-old daughter. The girl had pigtails and a pretty polka-dot dress. The Nazi officer told the Jewish man that he had taken a liking to the little girl. He told the man that his own wife could not have children, so he asked the Jew if he would allow him to take the girl and raise her as a German. The Nazi said, “After all, you know that you will never leave this place alive.” The young Jewish man trembled, but declined the German’s offer. He never understood why the German did not simply shoot him on the spot and take the girl. However, that young man and his daughter were some of the few people to safely cross the border into Romania and es-cape the final liquidation of Kitev. The young Jewish man spent the next thirteen years after the war pecking away at an old Yiddish type-writer, chronicling the life and death of the town of Kitev in a book called, “The Kitev Yizkor Book.”

The author is a graduate of Yeshiva University and lives with his family in Woodmere, NY. His mother, Sarah Henya (Sally Sturm), a”h, was one of the few survivors of the town of Kitev.

mother, Sarah Henya (Sally Sturm), a”h, mother, Sarah Henya (Sally Sturm), a”h, was one of the few survivors of the town was one of the few survivors of the town

Pictured here is Rabbi Chaim Drukman, the most illustrious survivor of Kitev, standing in the town square during his visit in 1990. The only reminder of Jewish life he could fi nd was the holes in doorposts where mezuzahs had been in hanging in Jewish homes. Photo courtesy of Chaim Zins, who wrote a book

published in Israel in 1993 entitled Kitev, My Town.

The author’s mother, Sarah Henya, is seated on the lap of her aunt in Kitev, circa 1938. Seated next to her aunt is Reb Shmuel Liebergall, the gabbai of the Chortkov Beis Medrash. He was known for hosting all of the chassidish Rebbes that would pass through town. He was also known for his melodious and meaningful Yamim Nor’aim davening. After all the other shuls had ended davening on Rosh Hashana, the entire town would come to hear Reb Shmuel Liebergall’s musaf.

Standing behind the author’s mother is Eisig Husen, the young man who refused to give up his two-year-old daughter to the SS and who later authored the Kitev Yizkor book. He, his wife, and

Sarah Henya were the only people in this picture to have survived the war.

The author’s mother, Sara Henya, a”h, who passed away fi ve months ago, is shown as the little girl with the doll with her ex-tended family in Kitev circa 1937. She was the only one in this photo who survived the war. Orphaned at the age of nine, and aside from raising her family and teaching, she spent the rest of her life personally helping orphans, widows, divorced people, and

all those she came across who felt alone.

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85Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

Torah Thought

Mourning is never easy, nor is it meant to be.

Recognizing the empty space that can’t be filled with distraction or replacement is one of life’s most profound experiences. There are losses so devastat-ing that words, no matter how carefully selected, are cheap and banal at best and patronizing at worst. When there is nothing to say, nothing is more eloquent than silence.

There are losses that not only defy any lexicon, but they are so enormous that even our minds cannot grasp them, and we find ourselves in emotional denial. When we realize that the life of any Holocaust survi-vor has chapters that can never be digested, let alone expressed, we can begin to understand the awesome silence of loss.

When we have no words, there is no way to trans-mit information. A tragic result is that often the most profound losses are also the least understood, and most often forgotten. To our great-grandchildren, the horror of the Holocaust may become a dusty relic of antique memory, much as the Spanish Inquisition is to us.

No one today can begin to understand the enormity of the loss of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the Beit HaMikdash. When it stood, the Temple let us experi-ence spirituality directly. G-d’s presence could be felt in every stone, in every corner – no external catalyst needed.

We have been mourning the loss of this connec-tion for thousands of years, and we no longer have the words to convey its meaning. We go through the mo-tions of mourning, but we need words to make it real.

Let us focus on what the loss of the Temple 2,000 years ago means to us in the new millennia.

***

The words Beit Hamikdash literally means “Holy House.” A house is by definition a place to find shelter, comfort and express our identity.

Without a house to call our own, Jews experience

discomfort in the world. Physically, we are not com-fortable in the face of ceaseless persecution. Nor are we psychologically comfortable unless we have spiri-tual means of being ourselves. Without it, our collec-tive life is painful and gray.

The need to express our most genuine selves mani-fests at times in pursuit of justice. This is reflected in social activism. Our collective need to give has been reflected in our caring and generosity. We are an ex-

traordinarily interactive people, but we are still rest-less. The inner serenity that we seek eludes us; we are not quite at home.

The material world that fulfills us also distracts us from searching for our deepest sense of identity and at times corrupts us. In recognition, other religions have idealized “rising above” worldly desire. Jews recog-

nize the power and beauty of the world as a catalyst for our capacity to live meaningful-ly, and we embrace it. But our two worlds, the outer one and the inner one, sometimes remain separate realms.

In the Beit Hamikdash, the spiritual world was not obscured by the physical. The two worlds existed perfectly together through the grace of G-d’s presence.

G-d Himself is referred to as HaMa-kom, “The Place.” He is the place in which the world exists. The engaging nature of the world conceals G-d from us, and we drown in the endless pursuit of what the world cannot give us. The exception to this was intense realization of G-d in the Temple,

where the physical stones revealed more holiness than they concealed. It was a place of intense joy. There, we were truly home. We were ourselves, at our best.

The Beit Hamikdash was the glue that held us together as a people. Not only were we “at home,” but we also developed a collective identity – one family with common goals, while retaining our individual roles. In such a setting, the external differences be-tween individuals fades, leaving only our yearning for goodness.

Yet when our ability to see the common bond of goodness fades, our focal point changes. Inexorably we focus on the limitations that separate us. Our sense

of justice is degraded into ceaseless negativism and biting criticism. This eventually leads to senseless ha-tred.

Hatred is senseless when there is no desire to im-prove the relationship between oneself and another person. The fact that “they” are not you is enough of a threat to fear them at first, and then hate them. The more different they are, the greater the threat.

The Temple’s destruction was caused by senseless hatred. The factionalism and xenophobic fear of others catapulted a 2,000-year journey toward rectification. Now, the physical return to Israel has given us, for the first time in centuries, a physical means of redefining our nationhood. And though there are signs in the right direction, we are not yet at home.

THE KEY TO REDEMPTIONWill we ever be truly home? Is there a way out?Maimonides offers a formula that has often been

referred to as “senseless love.” We must reach out to each other without agendas that corrupt into another form of acquisition. The process is transformative in the way that it changes our focus:

• We are obligated to speak well of other people, sharing our joy at having glimpsed his/her inner beauty. The act of speaking positively allies us to each other. It makes us aware that we are on one team.

• We are obligated to care for each other’s material needs. By being aware of how frail and needy our bodies make us, we become more forgiving and tolerant.

• We are obligated to seek out situations that bring honor to others. By doing so, we give them the precious gift of self-esteem and simultaneously remove ourselves from the egotistical traps of center stage.

This three-step process is deceptively simple. Yet it can change us dramatically. It can change not only our relationship to others, but can lead us to rediscover ourselves. In doing so, the endless mourning for our lost selves, and for our national tragedies, will cease.

Tisha B’Av, the day we lost the First and Second Temple, is also the day in which the Inquisition edicts were signed over 500 years ago. It is also the fateful day in 1914 that started the World War One, which inevitably led to the worst atrocity mankind has ever experienced, the Holocaust.

For two millennia, the Jewish people have been targeted again and again by hatred and persecution. It seems that we are held together by the world’s ha-tred rather than by love for each other. Yet things can change. We only need to take the steps from hatred to love, from criticism to appreciation.

G-d Himself has promised that once we achieve this transformation, we will merit to truly come home.

It seems that we are held together by the world’s hatred rather than by love for each other. Yet things can change.

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85Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

Torah Thought

Mourning is never easy, nor is it meant to be.

Recognizing the empty space that can’t be filled with distraction or replacement is one of life’s most profound experiences. There are losses so devastat-ing that words, no matter how carefully selected, are cheap and banal at best and patronizing at worst. When there is nothing to say, nothing is more eloquent than silence.

There are losses that not only defy any lexicon, but they are so enormous that even our minds cannot grasp them, and we find ourselves in emotional denial. When we realize that the life of any Holocaust survi-vor has chapters that can never be digested, let alone expressed, we can begin to understand the awesome silence of loss.

When we have no words, there is no way to trans-mit information. A tragic result is that often the most profound losses are also the least understood, and most often forgotten. To our great-grandchildren, the horror of the Holocaust may become a dusty relic of antique memory, much as the Spanish Inquisition is to us.

No one today can begin to understand the enormity of the loss of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the Beit HaMikdash. When it stood, the Temple let us experi-ence spirituality directly. G-d’s presence could be felt in every stone, in every corner – no external catalyst needed.

We have been mourning the loss of this connec-tion for thousands of years, and we no longer have the words to convey its meaning. We go through the mo-tions of mourning, but we need words to make it real.

Let us focus on what the loss of the Temple 2,000 years ago means to us in the new millennia.

***

The words Beit Hamikdash literally means “Holy House.” A house is by definition a place to find shelter, comfort and express our identity.

Without a house to call our own, Jews experience

discomfort in the world. Physically, we are not com-fortable in the face of ceaseless persecution. Nor are we psychologically comfortable unless we have spiri-tual means of being ourselves. Without it, our collec-tive life is painful and gray.

The need to express our most genuine selves mani-fests at times in pursuit of justice. This is reflected in social activism. Our collective need to give has been reflected in our caring and generosity. We are an ex-

traordinarily interactive people, but we are still rest-less. The inner serenity that we seek eludes us; we are not quite at home.

The material world that fulfills us also distracts us from searching for our deepest sense of identity and at times corrupts us. In recognition, other religions have idealized “rising above” worldly desire. Jews recog-

nize the power and beauty of the world as a catalyst for our capacity to live meaningful-ly, and we embrace it. But our two worlds, the outer one and the inner one, sometimes remain separate realms.

In the Beit Hamikdash, the spiritual world was not obscured by the physical. The two worlds existed perfectly together through the grace of G-d’s presence.

G-d Himself is referred to as HaMa-kom, “The Place.” He is the place in which the world exists. The engaging nature of the world conceals G-d from us, and we drown in the endless pursuit of what the world cannot give us. The exception to this was intense realization of G-d in the Temple,

where the physical stones revealed more holiness than they concealed. It was a place of intense joy. There, we were truly home. We were ourselves, at our best.

The Beit Hamikdash was the glue that held us together as a people. Not only were we “at home,” but we also developed a collective identity – one family with common goals, while retaining our individual roles. In such a setting, the external differences be-tween individuals fades, leaving only our yearning for goodness.

Yet when our ability to see the common bond of goodness fades, our focal point changes. Inexorably we focus on the limitations that separate us. Our sense

of justice is degraded into ceaseless negativism and biting criticism. This eventually leads to senseless ha-tred.

Hatred is senseless when there is no desire to im-prove the relationship between oneself and another person. The fact that “they” are not you is enough of a threat to fear them at first, and then hate them. The more different they are, the greater the threat.

The Temple’s destruction was caused by senseless hatred. The factionalism and xenophobic fear of others catapulted a 2,000-year journey toward rectification. Now, the physical return to Israel has given us, for the first time in centuries, a physical means of redefining our nationhood. And though there are signs in the right direction, we are not yet at home.

THE KEY TO REDEMPTIONWill we ever be truly home? Is there a way out?Maimonides offers a formula that has often been

referred to as “senseless love.” We must reach out to each other without agendas that corrupt into another form of acquisition. The process is transformative in the way that it changes our focus:

• We are obligated to speak well of other people, sharing our joy at having glimpsed his/her inner beauty. The act of speaking positively allies us to each other. It makes us aware that we are on one team.

• We are obligated to care for each other’s material needs. By being aware of how frail and needy our bodies make us, we become more forgiving and tolerant.

• We are obligated to seek out situations that bring honor to others. By doing so, we give them the precious gift of self-esteem and simultaneously remove ourselves from the egotistical traps of center stage.

This three-step process is deceptively simple. Yet it can change us dramatically. It can change not only our relationship to others, but can lead us to rediscover ourselves. In doing so, the endless mourning for our lost selves, and for our national tragedies, will cease.

Tisha B’Av, the day we lost the First and Second Temple, is also the day in which the Inquisition edicts were signed over 500 years ago. It is also the fateful day in 1914 that started the World War One, which inevitably led to the worst atrocity mankind has ever experienced, the Holocaust.

For two millennia, the Jewish people have been targeted again and again by hatred and persecution. It seems that we are held together by the world’s ha-tred rather than by love for each other. Yet things can change. We only need to take the steps from hatred to love, from criticism to appreciation.

G-d Himself has promised that once we achieve this transformation, we will merit to truly come home.

It seems that we are held together by the world’s hatred rather than by love for each other. Yet things can change.

Feeling the Loss

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Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

A Fulfilled Life

Each year on Tisha B’Av we commemorate and mourn the destruction of our two batei

mikdash together with their associat-ed torment and exiles. Certainly, these events were both tragic and traumatic, and left indelible scars on the collective psyche of Bnei Yisroel, both at the time of their occurrence, as well as for many subsequent centuries.

Yet, despite this pain and agony, it is still possible to identify a number of proverbial silver linings, positive out-comes which these events have engen-dered. One such benefit has been the concretization of our belief in Hashem as the Guiding Hand of Jewish history.

It is well-known that every power of yesteryear, such as Assyria, Baby-lon, Greece and Rome, has long disap-peared from the historical landscape. Yet, the Jews have survived and have often thrived. When you consider that the Jewish people have averaged to no more than a mere 1% of the entire world population, the question of our enduring survival becomes even more perplexing.

Compounding the issue is the set of circumstances that our nation has en-dured. In all of human history, seldom has an entire nation been exiled out of its country. Multiple exiles are prac-tically unheard of. No nation has ever survived exile with its national identity intact. Based on the “rules” of history, the Jewish people should have been de-stroyed many times over or, at the very least, absorbed into other nations.

So obvious is this historical “truth” that a number of gentile thinkers have openly acknowledged it. Close to 350 years ago, King Louis XIV of France asked the great French philosopher Blaise Pascal to give him proof of the supernatural. Pascal answered, “The Jews, your Majesty, the Jews.”

How is it that we have managed to defy this trend? What is it that ensures our ability to continue on this incredible odyssey?

Of course, the primary answer is that our survival is in no way contin-gent upon our physical and numeri-cal strength. Had it been so, we surely

would have vanished from the world long ago. Rather, we survive for the simple reason that Hashem has willed it so, in order that we can continue in the lofty covenant established with our ancestors.

Thus, even while (the Jewish people) are in the land of their en-emies, I will not reject or destroy them … I am the L-rd their G-d; I will remember them because of the covenant I made with their ances-tors whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, in the sight of the na-tions, so that I might be their G-d. (Vayikra 26:44-45)

But that is not to say that we have not also played a significant role in en-suring our own survival. Of particular note are the efforts of the great Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, av bais din of the Sanhedrin at the time of the Great Revolt against Rome (in 66 CE, which eventu-ally resulted in churban bayis sheni). In an attempt to salvage at least some

remnants of Jewish life in Eretz Yisroel, Rabban Yochanan risked his own life to leave Yerushalayim and meet with the Roman general Vespasian.

Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai man-aged to gain the good graces of Ves-

pasian and was granted three requests. The sage asked for three things, all re-lating to Torah and the Jews’ spiritual

preservation. “Give me Yavneh and its wise men, the family chain of Rabban Gamliel, and physicians to heal Rabbi Tzadok.” All three of his requests were summarily granted. (Gittin, 56a)

At first glance, one is left to wonder

whether Rabban Yochanan’s requests truly addressed the needs of the people. In fact, some of his own colleagues crit-icized him, stating that the Bais Hamik-dash, perhaps even the entire city, could have been spared had the appeal only been made. Seen from the vantage point of historical hindsight, however, we can see that Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai,

in asking for Yavneh, comprehended that for the sake of survival, the Jew-ish people would be better served with a viable Torah center even more than its own capital.

“Give me Yavneh and its wise men!” Rabban Yochanan ben Zak-kai stood before the Roman emperor and asked of him, not the preserva-tion of the state, because it was no longer a state of the Torah, and not the preservation of the Bais Hamik-dash, because Herod’s name was associated with it – but the preser-vation of the oral law of the Torah, which depended on Yavneh and its sages. He knew that if there were a people of the Torah, there would be a land of the Torah, and in the future – a state of the Torah. With “Yavneh and its wise men” he saved every-thing. (Rabbi Eliyahu E. Dessler) In a physical sense, the Ro-

mans emerged from this war as the victors, capturing Yerushalayim and destroying its Bais Hamikdash. History, however, would show that the Jews won the greater ideological struggle, keeping themselves and their Torah alive long after the fall of the empire and its pa-gan values. When the Bais Hamikdash and the political entity that it represent-ed disappeared, the spirit of Judaism, represented by Yavneh, stepped in and filled the void.

We are an “Eternal Nation” (Ye-shayahu 44:7). Our survival has been directly linked to our covenant with Hashem and our commitment to Him and His Torah. As long as we follow the Torah, we are guaranteed survival. It is the quality of Jewish living that carries the day, not our numerical strength. In the words of the Talmud, “The People that is tired out by intensive Torah study will not be delivered into the hands of her oppressor.” (Sanhedrin 94b)

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com). He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at presi-dent@impactfulcoaching.com.

The Secret of Jewish Immortality

King Louis XIV of France asked the great French philosopher Blaise Pascal to give him proof of the supernatural. Pascal answered, “The Jews, your Majesty, the Jews.”

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The custom is that one does not work or do business from the night of Tisha B’Av until after

chatzos the next day. The reason given is to stay focused on the aveilus. Oth-ers explain that Tisha B’Av is called a moed. Work that does not take too much time is permitted even before chatzos because it does not distract from the aveilus. Some examples are turning on lights, tying knots, etc.

One should not open his store (if he does not sell food) before chatzos. The custom is to be lenient and open after chatzos, although some are strin-gent.

Work that is done privately by a non-Jew is permitted on Tisha B’Av.

Some say that a factory may re-main open if non-Jewish workers will be doing the work.

The Aruch Hashulchan says, “One who needs the parnassa may work af-ter he has finished reciting the kinnos. However, one who fears [Hashem] should be careful not to do work until after chatzos.”

If one will lose money if he does not do a specific job, then he may work even before chatzos. Therefore, one who works every day may go to work if he will lose money.

In any event, one who does work on Tisha B’Av even after chatzos will not see bracha from that work (either from the item that he produced or the money he earned). This applies to someone who works and forgets about the aveilus. Therefore, although it is permitted to do work after chatzos one should not “drag out” the work in or-der not to forget about the aveilus. A good idea is to listen to a shiur about the churban.

Sitting on the Ground While Traveling

One who finds himself with no choice but to go to work on Tisha B’Av before chatzos is faced with a question regarding sitting in a car or a train.

The custom is that we sit on the floor until midday. This is just like an avel who sits on the floor, as some had the custom to literally sit on the floor. Al pi kabbalah one should not sit di-rectly on the floor even if he is wear-

ing clothing unless there is a hefsek of a garment that is not meant to be worn between him and the floor. Since our floors are not dirty but have boards and tiles, some poskim are lenient in this regard. However, the custom is that we do not sit on the floor but sit on some sort of pillow or cushion. One who finds it hard to sit on the floor may sit on a small chair which should not be higher than three tefachim (ap-proximately 12 inches), though some are stringent and hold not higher than a tefach (approximately 4 inches). The custom starts at night and not during bein hashmashos. Although we do not sit or stand on a table which we eat on, the custom is that one can sit on a folding table in shul on Tisha B’Av.

A man who is weak, or a pregnant woman, may sit on a normal chair. One is permitted to sit on the step or the landing in front of the aron kodesh on Tisha B’Av since this is viewed as sitting on the ground (people walk there).

The restriction ends after chatzos, since we can be lenient with a cus-tom. Some say that this is until after Shacharis (after kinnos). Since one is supposed to say kinnos until chatzos, there is no argument. One who fin-ished kinnos before chatzos still sits on the floor. One should not be strin-gent and sit on the floor or low chair after chatzos.

One who is driving in a car is per-mitted to sit while driving even before chatzos. Some explain that the custom does not apply when traveling. Others argue that the seat is less than 3 tefa-chim.

When traveling by train to work on Tisha B’Av one may sit on the seat as

well. Others say that one should not do so unless it is too hard to stand due to the motion of the train.

After ChatzosWhy is it that some of the restric-

tions are lifted on Tisha B’Av after chatzos? This is the time that the fire engulfed the Bais Hamikdosh. At this time, it was obvious that only the Bais Hamikdosh would be destroyed but the Jews’ lives would be spared. Therefore, we lift some of the restric-tions.

Shoes to Work on Tisha B’AvWhat happens if someone needs to

work on Tisha B’Av and must dress formally? What should he do?

The halacha is that leather shoes are not worn on Tisha B’Av. This issur applies to women as well. The time for this starts at night (at Maariv). A non-leather shoe with a decorative leather strap may be worn. One who finds himself among the non-Jews may wear leather shoes since the non-Jews may laugh at him. Others feel that this heter is not valid since the non-Jews may laugh at us anyways. Nonetheless, one who wishes to be le-nient in this regard may do so.

While traveling, there is no need to wear leather shoes, since the driver’s feet are not visible to others. When one comes back home he should put on his shoes which he wears on Tisha B’Av.

One who is traveling may wear leather shoes, because it is bother-some to go around barefoot on the road (since there are pebbles, etc.). However, this would not apply today since our roads are paved.

Therefore, one may wear shoes if he needs to look presentable. Howev-er, if man-made shoes that look like leather are available, it is more advis-able. One who does wear real leather shoes should put dirt in his shoes to feel the mourning somewhat. One who can get away with wearing non-leath-er sneakers to work should do so.

There is a big discussion in the poskim if wearing materials other than leather is an issue. Some even went around barefoot (with socks) in order to avoid this dispute.

Many poskim say that only leather is an issue, others say wood is also an issue, and others say that any item that is called a shoe is forbidden. The main reason why some forbid other materi-als is because it is considered a shoe. In addition, one does not feel that he is in pain and in aveilus when wear-ing shoes made out of other materials (even if it is not leather). However, the majority opinion only forbids leather.

Even according to the stringent opinion, one would still be able to walk around with galoshes since one feels as if he is walking on the floor. However, sneakers and Crocs® would not be allowed. Nonetheless, the over-whelming custom is to allow all types of footgear, as long as they are not leather.

Some say that non-leather shoes that look exactly like leather shoes may not be worn because of ma’aris ayin.

Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits is a for-mer chaver kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and a musmach of Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita. Rabbi Lebovits currently works as the Rabbinical Administrator for the KOF-K Kosher Supervision.

Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits

Halachically Speaking

Working on Tisha B’Av

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The Observant Jew

When it’s your child, you see the good and the beauty in him or her even if others don’t.

Looking Good

Two women were sitting togeth-er in a restaurant. One of them noticed a young man come in

and whispered, “Oy! Look at that boy. He’s got a nose that’s too big for his face, he’s slouching like he’s a hunch-back, and he’s covered in acne!”

The second woman turned, then turned back and hissed, “That’s my son!” “Oh,” said the first woman, with an ingratiating smile. “But on him it looks good!”

It’s a joke, of course, but imagine the boy did look like that. Don’t you think his parents will still have his pic-tures on the refrigerator door? Won’t they be proud to pose for pictures at his Bar Mitzvah and say how handsome he looks?

When it’s your child, you see the good and the beauty in him or her even if others don’t. You find something to compliment him about, and you see the nature of the child as something won-derful.

How often do we find that people caught in the act of committing violent crimes are defended by their parents? His mother will say, “He’s a good boy; he’d never do something like this.” The fact that he was seen by dozens of people and caught on camera doesn’t make her waver. She still contests that he’s a good boy and something else must have happened or someone else must have forced him to do it.

To us it sounds preposterous, but it’s a natural instinct to see the best in

your own. Though my children didn’t get the benefit of this that much, some

children’s parents will defend them to the death for misbehavior at school. Their child may be a thief, a bully, or show major disrespect to the teacher or

principal, but these parents blame ev-eryone but the child. They are blind to their kids’ shortcomings.

So why did Hashem make this hap-pen? Why can’t we see objectively?

The truth is that if we want to, we can see objectively and recognize the bad behavior. However, regardless of what they do, when it’s someone we love, it

is the behavior we despise, and not the person.

If it’s someone we don’t know, however, or better yet, someone we don’t like, then we have carte blanche to hate them, call them out for their be-havior, and declare that it just shows how evil they truly are. How sad.

You see, what happens when we let people know that we dislike them is that they gain a natural dislike for us. We cause hatred, resentment, and further bad behavior. Especially with young people who feel a need to stand up for themselves and prove that the person putting them down is wrong (unless it’s a peer, but that’s for a dif-ferent time) by persisting in the nega-tive acts.

Showing displeasure in the person will often lead to worse behavior. So what can we do?

A woman I know told me what she did, and I was inspired. She saw a young man in a store. He had messy hair falling into his eyes, headphones on his ears, and a small yarmulka on his head which looked a bit incongruous. A rather observant-looking man walked into the store and the boy spoke to him. He responded, but the boy didn’t seem to like it. As the man left, the boy si-lently cursed him out, making gestures and mouthing words behind his back.

Horrified at the hatred she’d seen, she tried to turn this young man’s feel-ings around—at least a little bit. She engaged him in conversation. Asked him what he did. She said she figured he worked with the handicapped or the elderly because he seemed to be a good guy with a big heart. He softened. He told her he wasn’t religious. “But you’re wearing a yarmulka!” He said he only did it for work. “That’s amaz-ing. You’re so good to be respectful and do that.”

What she was doing was seeing the good because she realized he is one of our own. If he had been her son, she would have done nothing less, so why do anything less if he is her Jewish brother?

The days of the Nine Days and Tisha B’Av are times to reflect on the goodness that is inherent in each oth-er, and use it to overlook what we find lacking. Of course if we can help guide someone we should, but we must make sure it’s more carrot than stick.

Let’s try to focus on the seeing the good in each other, because it truly is there. As they say, “If you can’t say anything nice about someone, you’re not trying hard enough.”

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar To-rah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeech-Writer.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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A DECADE AGOJust a few years ago, Gush Katif was a land in-

habited by highly successful farmers and exporters. Former residents describe it as one with “the empty sand dunes, the wonderful beaches, the miracle of the bare sand transformed into beautiful communi-ties, synagogues, schools, the hotel, the hot houses that grew flowers, fruit, and vegetables not only for local purchase, but for the foreign markets.”

The people who lived there were industrious and ba’alei tzedakah: those looking for food dona-tions would go first to Gush Katif. The Gush Katif-niks lived with unusual achdus: one shul encom-passed all nusachim. The shul followed the ba’al tefilah’s nusach; this naturally changed regularly.

The people had been sent to Gush Katif as pioneers, chalutzim, by the Israeli government. With the forced evacuation, they went from being chalutzim to enemies of the country.

As much as the government planned the evacu-ation, the government did not consider the morn-ing after. People who had lived in beautiful homes, who had busied themselves from dawn to dusk with their farms, businesses, and greenhouses, were now homeless and jobless. It was very painful for them. They had been so connected to the land—they had literally made the desert bloom—and they had lost it all.

They left their greenhouses and agricultural in-frastructure and shuls—only to see the Arabs de-stroy them within hours of the evacuation.

The government claimed to be helping the evacuees, but they were largely ignored. Sudden-ly, people were living in tent cities or hotels, whole families in single rooms without privacy, let alone the autonomy of a washing machine or a stove. For those who had spent their lives invigorated by hard work and the fruits of their labor, they now had stunningly little to do. They did not have jobs. Overnight, the people went from 3 percent unem-ployed to a full 86 percent.

“They lost control of their lives,” says Rabbi Pesach Lerner, executive vice president emeritus of National Council of Young Israel. “There’s no control of your life in a hotel. They had lived in a beautiful place, with a low divorce rate, kids on the derech. Today, it’s the opposite—a clear conse-quence of this [evacuation].”

Months after the explusion, Rabbi Lerner helped procure and distribute Purim costumes to the chil-dren. He raised money for yomim tovim, giving out chicken, meat, and fish. One father thanked him for grape juice: he had planned to color his children’s water as a substitute for the arba kosos.

People’s health declined. Rav Yosef Tzvi Rimon, the rav of Alon Shvut,

took volunteers from Alon Shvut to the evacuees’ hotel. What he found was appalling.

He tried to help and organized little things, like laundry pickup and diaper distribution. But one thing was most concerning to him.

“Things were bad,” he recalled. “Worst of all: those people who were working people all their lives found themselves jobless. No one was doing anything.”

FINDING JOBS: THE BIRTH OF JOBKATIF

Rav Rimon, a rav, scholar, and writer, knew little about job seeking and the job market. But he felt it was his chiyuv to help another Jew in need. Drawing on volunteers, Rav Rimon began to help match people with new jobs. But this was, as he told us, “challenging. Someone who was a farmer, in charge of security, can’t find a job. They need to change professions. We needed to know, how do we find the right training? How do we get the money for this? It’s complicated.”

“L’at, l’at [slowly, slowly],” they found people more jobs. But this was not enough. A lot of the people were over 40. Opening a business brings its own challenges, as 70 percent of new businesses fail. The kibbutzim would not accept the farmers because of their age. How does an experienced farmer start a city business?

Rav Rimon felt that once people were on a nor-mal working schedule, they would find jobs. He helped people find appropriate work, working ini-tially on a volunteer basis. Many became success-ful based on this model.

These efforts turned into a serious organization, key to the emotional and physical rehabilitation of evacuees. Rav Rimon came to the United States for a wedding in 2005 and stayed with Mark and Susan Wiesen of Teaneck. The Wiesens, whose sons had been in Rav Rimon’s shiur at Yeshiva Har Etzion, arranged parlor meetings in Teaneck, on the West Side, and Riverdale, as well as contacts for the rav. At each meeting, Rav Rimon spoke about this fledgling organization that hoped to bring a long-term solution for evacuees, to restore their sense of dignity and their home structure.

By 2006, JobKatif became a reality. The orga-

GUSH KATIF Ten Years Later…

A DECADE AFTER THE FORCED EXPULSION FROM GUSH KATIF, WHERE ARE ITS RESIDENTS?

BY BRENDY J. SIEV

TEN YEARS AGO, ON THE DAY

AFTER TISHA B’AV, THE ISRAELI

GOVERNMENT EVACUATED ALL

RESIDENTS OF GUSH KATIF IN GAZA

AND RETURNED THE LAND TO THE

PALESTINIANS FOR WHAT THEY SAID

WAS THE SAKE OF PEACE.

WE ALL KNOW THE END OF THAT

STORY—A DARK STAIN ON ISRAEL’S

HISTORY. DID THE EVACUATION BRING

ITS DESIRED OUTCOME? AT THIS

POINT, GAZA IS A ROILING TERRORIST

TERRITORY, RIFE WITH POVERTY,

FEAR, ANGER, AND HOME-COOKED

ROCKETS. MANY OF THOSE ROCKETS

ARE LAUNCHED FROM FORMER GUSH

KATIF RESIDENTS’ HOMES INTO THEIR

NEW SETTLEMENTS.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE RESIDENTS?

HOW ARE THE FORMER INHABITANTS

OF GUSH KATIF FARING TODAY, TEN

YEARS AFTER BEING PULLED FROM

THEIR HOMES?

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113nization is quite successful. Judy Lowy, executive director of Job Katif, points out, “It’s not just about money for families. Jobs give back a person’s con-fidence.”

Two years ago, they surveyed their clientele to determine how to best continue to assist them. They identified six core groups that could best benefit from their offerings. JobKatif has created individualized programs for each group, including counseling, mentoring, and assistance to, as they say, “maximize successful integration.”

Over time, JobKatif has helped launch more than 250 small businesses; most are still in opera-tion. They continue to consult with the businesses to ensure continued success. These businesses also hire former evacuees, “helping to absorb their for-mer neighbors into the workforce.”

So successful was JobKatif that, seven years ago, Shimon Peres, the proponent of disengage-ment, gave Rav Rimon the President’s Award for volunteerism. The government started giving matching grants to money JobKatif raised.

Initially, JobKatif thought that once they had helped people find employment, the organization would close: its mission would have been com-plete. But, Rav Rimon told us, “Two years ago we thought if Hashem gave us tools like JobKatif we have to use it for other people.” Once they have helped ease all former evacuees into full-time em-ployment, the program will be renamed JobIsrael and will offer unemployment services to people throughout the country.

Now, they have expanded into helping other communities. Because of their “extensive exper-tise in designing unique employment programs that help marginalized population groups enjoy op-portunities for stable careers,” they have piloted a new program for a new population group. This is for Ethiopian women whose job prospects are bleak and who have not received adequate education to qualify for nursing school. A new nursing training program has Ethiopian women rising to the top of their classes.

One woman’s father had been a rebbe in Ethio-pia. In Israel, he works as a street cleaner. He told his daughter, “I did it for you to be in another posi-tion.” She is now a nursing student and tearfully told Rav Rimon, “You made my father’s dream real.”

Thus, ten years after the evacuation, they have

helped those from Gush Katif as well as other Is-raelis. The organization has sent 580 people to further their education. Most of those who have completed professional retraining courses are em-ployed. Others participate in the Bridge-to-Work Volunteer Program, “whereby evacuees will ‘vol-unteer’ in positions where they feel certain they can excel [and enjoy].” Most become full-time employ-ees when the volunteer period ends.

TEN YEARS LATER...Once again the people of Gush Katif are re-

building. Today, 2,600 people have jobs. There are 250 new businesses.

Only 330 people are still unemployed. While this figure seems low, it is important to realize that they have not worked in ten years. These past weeks have seen a push in the United States to raise $2,000 per shul to helping these last 330 people gain employment. Rav Rimon emphasizes, “Each job is to save a person, a child, a family, a marriage. Boruch Hashem, it is a big privilege to help these amazing people.” JobKatif continues to try to help them through various tools and tremendous siyata dishmaya.

Despite re-entering the job market, Rav Rimon tells that, among former residents of Gush Katif, there is “not the same morale. Everyone knows [evacuating Gaza] was a big mistake. It brought

more war.”“You can’t take people

out of their homes if you have no solution for them,” he explains. “There was no solution. We hope this will not happen again. B’ezrat Hashem.”

But, as resilient and amazing as former Gush Katif residents are, “they are scarred,” says Judy Lowy. “Young couples who had been teenagers remi-nisce on their Facebook page about their lives. This brings up all the pain. They are a wonderful and wound-ed people.”

A NEW PLACE TO CALL HOMEOf course, people cannot live in hotels or tents

forever. So while JobKatif has emphasized the micro, or individual, rehabilitation of residents of Gush Katif, Friends of Gush Katif has worked on a macro level. This means that they are involved in building settlements and public buildings in new communities.

Dror Vanunu, leader of Friends of Gush Ka-tif (gushkatif.co.il), is himself a former resident of Gush Katif. During his last year there, he was working in the municipality as an international co-ordinator and in regional development. He was a spokesman and leader of the effort to stop the ex-pulsion.

“It was shocking,” he told us, “that the govern-ment, despite that it repeated that it was helping, didn’t do anything. There was no compensation.”

Ten years later, only 75 percent of the people have permanent housing. It will take at least a few more years to get the other 25 percent homes. Most shuls have not been built.

Vanunu says, “We’re making a significant ef-fort for every family from Gush Katif to be part of a Gush Katif community. This is a major, major effort.”

To build what was destroyed takes more than 20 years. But Vanunu works with the government to help people at least get settled. At this point, 23 new communities have been developed and are building themselves up. One farming community, Bnei Net-zarim, has seen success farming in the south.

“It took a lot of time to get the government to understand that nothing was available for Gush Katif residents,” he says. “We demanded help; nothing was being done. Since the Netanyahu gov-ernment came in, the government has cooperated more. Then, things moved somewhat faster.”

Despite this, “the bottom line is that so many years have passed since the disengagement and we still have so far to go. People sacrificed so much,” he adds. “The opposite has happened to peace.”

For efforts that the government cannot do, Vanunu turns to NGOs and donor friends from around the world.

Mike Roth, treasurer of American Friends of Gush Katif, says that his organization has chan-neled more than five million dollars to former evacuees. Some funds are earmarked for specific projects: a Sefer Torah for a new settlement called Palmachim, a beit medrash for Netzer Ariel. Some monthly donations even come from non-Jewish, sympathetic sources.

Scott Feltman of the One Israel Fund has also worked tirelessly on behalf of evacuees. The One Israel Fund was founded to provide humanitarian aid specifically for the Yehuda, Shomron, and re-emerging Gaza communities. The organization has been involved in grassroots efforts to help the fami-lies and the settlements.

“The people were left to the wolves, taken from their homes, ripped from their livelihoods, put into tent cities,” says Feltman. “Only ten years later are most in permanent housing,” he points out.

The One Israel Fund works to build play-grounds, youth centers, mikvahs, and shuls in the new settlements. They procure security equipment for communities near the borders.

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114 ten years. We see firsthand how desperate the situ-ation is—to rebuild lives for thousands of people.”

FOCUSING ON ONE NEW SETTLEMENT: NETZER HAZANI

Today, the new Netzer Hazani, a settlement that shares its name with the original first settle-ment in Gush Katif, is full of new homes. Many are modified trailers or double-wides, small substitutes for the beautiful multilevel homes and gardens residents had in Gush Katif. But the residents of the new Netzer Hazani, who have seen their fel-low Gush Katif-niks suffer over the past ten years, perceive “each and every home in and of itself mi-raculous.” They see the building as miraculous, a gift that “Hashem gave each and every family the fortitude to build their home anew as a tikkun for their destroyed home.”

During the evacuation, residents took trees originally planted in Gush Katif in memory of resi-dent Etti Pachima who was killed by Arabs when she was 40. These trees were uprooted, taken to a nursery in Gilat, and watered for ten years. They have now been replanted in Netzer Hazani, their roots still filled with Gush Katif sand. The trees are starting to branch and flower. Resident Anita Tuck-er writes, “Will our replanted souls be capable of showing signs of sprouting and flowering anew?”

REMEMBERING THE PAINOver the past few years, former residents of

Gush Katif have developed two museums com-memorating Gush Katif in its glory and the tragic expulsion.

The Gush Katif Legacy Center is located in Nit-zan between Ashdod and Ashkelon and is narrated by the voice of a boy, the last child born in Gush Katif. The Gush Katif Museum, located in Jeru-salem at 5 Sha’arei Tzedek Street, is directed by Rabbi Wolpo and managed by former Gush Katif resident Shlomo Wasertheil.

We spoke with Wasertheil about the museum’s mission “to learn and remember the legacy of Gush Katif.”

He told us about his time in Gush Katif: “We came during prosperous times, and there was noth-ing there. We turned it into a gan poreach [blos-soming garden], like Gan Eden for people, animals, trees... In less than two generations, we changed the place. We exported to all of Europe and Is-rael—there never before had been something like this.” Nature seemed to have changed as Hashem looked over their shoulder.

Ironically, the government “made war from the peace” and Oslo: “Until the Peace there had been peace.”

The museum seeks to show others that the peo-ple who had lived in Gush Katif were “beyachad.” They helped each other to grow and succeed. Ac-cording to Wasertheil, “There are no other exem-plars of this togetherness in Israel.”

In the exhibits, “we tell the story. We also em-phasize that in the expulsion itself not a single per-son raised his hand. The wholeness of the nation precedes the wholeness of the land.”

The 200,000 visitors who have come to the mu-seum thus far see what they did not know. A connec-tion develops: people see the war that has ensued since the evacuation, the deaths. Visitors think: maybe there’s another way to peace than returning

land. The second floor overlooks the Kotel. The message is clear: “We are am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael.”

Because of this, on the night of Tisha B’Av, more than 1,000 people come to the museum. They read Eichah and say special kinnos for Gush Katif.

With the tenth an-niversary of the ex-pulsion, the evacuees and local government have planned several events.

Netzer Hazani residents see the tenth anniversary com-memoration as “just the time to touch those sores and pains in our souls.” They want this “month of events for the people in the community to be fun, encouraging, and therapeutic.” They hope that by “touching the pain,” they will actually “build pride in all that we built in Gush Katif ... and the victory of building anew.” This pride “must replace the pain, guilt and the anger that sears...in those so spe-cial neshamas.” Through this, they seek to “bring pride and not shame to all of am Yisrael.”

Einat Yefet Bloch chairs the committee for those who, ten years ago, were teenagers protest-ing to save their parents’ homes and are now par-ents. Her brother, Itamar, H”yd, was murdered on the roads of Gush Katif in 2000. She writes, “Ten

years have passed since our world collapsed on us and was destroyed, the backdrop of our youth, our home, the place where we grew up was trampled as if it never was... Perhaps this was all just a dream? With a heavy heart yet with much faith we contin-ued.”

She describes the incredible unity among for-mer Gush Katif-niks, as “G-d tied us together via our mutual fate and we were melted into a friend-ship of heart and soul that held us together through thick and thin, good and evil via that very same fate that caused us to be separated against our will.”

She is now organizing an event at the new Netzer Hazani settlement, bringing her cohort to-gether for “the beautiful privilege of a few hours of feeling this togetherness again... We will laugh, cry, hug, and feel that special love of friendship as we long for those faraway days that will not return as they were.”

She hopes that “such a special evening will give us the added strength so needed to continue to con-tribute and to build, each of us, wherever we are with the values and faith that were not destroyed!”

RELIVING THE TRAGIC BUS TRIPFormer residents of Gush Katif have also orga-

nized a bus trip in remembrance of the dark days ten years ago. Aviel, a dynamic leader of the com-munity during the struggle, says, “Ten years ago our entire community was expelled altogether from home, piled on buses, abandoning Gush Katif... The goal of this event is to have the entire com-munity take that same—that very same—route in buses covered with appropriate signs, traveling in the opposite direction to reach the closest possible location towards Gush Katif.”

He adds, “This symbolic voyage will be a par-tial emotional tikkun of that so sad voyage that we traveled together that very night. But now [we will travel] with children and grandchildren strong, with faith, with dreams.”

Because many families have not been emotion-ally able to travel that route again, while others have only traveled it once or twice, this journey is one of emotion and “longing.” The trip includes “guided explanations on the area, riddles on the past, songs, as well as time to feel and think while together.”

This journey “hopes to stir the dreams for am Yisrael returning to this part of nachalat shevet Ye-

“Ten years have passed since

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115huda.” The trip culminates with a ceremony at the Gamma junction in the Negev. There they will in-stall a sign pointing to Gush Katif, a sign that did not exist before.

Last Wednesday, July 15, the President of Is-rael, Reuven Rivlin, hosted the “Gush Katif 10 Years Commemorative Event” at his home. Many attended. But some of the invitees to this VIP event declined. They considered this overture too little too late.

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, one of the invitees, told us, “The event at the president’s house is nice—it keeps this in the news. But it’s unfortunate to cel-ebrate ten years of expulsion.”

Yehudit Tayar, a former IDF soldier who had been stationed at Gush Katif, describes her time there as a “privilege.” The invitation to commem-orate the tenth anniversary of the evacuation led her to cry: “Yes, I cried again, as [I have] so many countless times since the destruction of the Gush; the expulsion of our families not only from their lives, but also from what we believed to be the final resting places of our loved ones, z”l.”

But she is confounded, because “I find it im-possible to comprehend how this disaster happened and how much suffering it caused to our families...and indeed the entire country.” She recounts “our beloved Hanan Porat, z”l, with tears in his eyes saying to us, ‘We returned to the Gush (Gush Etzi-on ) we shall return to the Gush (Gush Katif).’”

She prays that “the Jewish Nation will know how to redeem our history and protect it forever more. That we will finally realize that no matter what we do, what we give up or abandon, the world

will never accept our existence. This is our heritage and we shall never forgive nor shall we forget Gush Katif.”

MOVING FORWARDTen years ago, with the announcement of the

planned evacuation of Gush Katif, only three or-ganizations at a meeting of the Conference of

Presidents of Major American Jewish Organiza-tions voiced opposition to the Israeli government’s decision. These organizations were the National Council of Young Israel, Emunah, and the Zionist

Organization of America.How that has changed.Now Dror Vanunu of Friends of Gush Katif em-

phasizes that the majority of people in Israel realize that losing Gaza gave them nothing. The fact is that “during the last election no one spoke about giving away territories. They realize that no matter how much we give, peace won’t result.”

Scott Feltman of the One Israel Fund emphasiz-es, “I don’t think anyone would think [the evacua-tion] wasn’t a travesty...of tremendous proportions. We need to get our hands dirty, moving forward to help building new communities. There’s still so much that needs to get done.”

Billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure were left in Gaza. Today, these are facilities for terror-ism, launch points for rockets into the Negev.

Rabbi Lerner of the National Council of Young Israel reiterates, “There has to be a lesson for the future. Abbas wants 250,000 people evacuated from parts of Jerusalem, and 700,000 out of Judea and Samaria.

“This Gush Katif evacuation cannot be forgot-ten. It’s our history, and G-d willing we’ll go back one day. The lesson learned here is: it doesn’t work! Kick ‘em out: you think it brings peace? When we’re strong, everyone’s afraid of us. When we’re weak, everyone takes advantage. Especially Arabs.

“We need to be more egotistical and proud. Don’t celebrate [an anniversary]. Recognize its les-son.”

Because, as Feltman reiterates, “We need to make sure that Judea and Samaria do not suffer the same fate.”

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We were very Zionistic, and we moved to Be’er Sheva. I was pregnant with my first at the time; I gave birth in Soroka Hospital alongside Bedouin women!

We had more children, and in 1975 we decided we wanted our children to have challenges. So we went to the Min-istry of Agriculture and asked to move to a settlement to farm. They showed us several new communities. Gush Katif was the one closest to Be’er Sheva, it needed a cultural center to open as well, so we went there.

We packed our three kids in the car—they were 5, 4, and 2, at the time—and we followed the primitive map and directions we had to get to our new home. We got to the place, and all we saw was sand and sand. We thought we were crazy. But while we were standing there, the kids pulled out gar-bage bags from the trunk, walked up the sand dunes, and started sledding down the dunes.

You have to understand. There is no other sand like that in the world. It’s so fine and so soft….The children didn’t want to leave. So we moved there in 1976.

There were no houses. We just had a

contract to grow and sell tomatoes. We were nine families and two

bachelors living in these caravans on land that during the time of the Gemara had been called “Kfar Dorom.”

One day, we were standing near the sand dunes when

we heard a noise. And we saw one Arab in his keffiyeh and galabiyya rising at the top of one sand dune. Then we saw

another Arab in his keffiyeh and galabi-yya rising at the top of another dune. Both were coming toward us.

It was out of an old movie, and we were scared. But then we saw that each held bread and salt in their hands. They wished us “bruchim ha’baim,” and in-troduced themselves. They were leaders

of their communities and came to ask us if we could give their people work.

Under the Egyptians, they had re-ceived no work or aid. Under the Israe-lis, who had acquired the land in 1973, nothing had come either. They were at a standstill.

We were nine families standing there; several people were children of immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries. So they spoke with these men, who turned out to be the mayors,

the muchtar, of their villages. Eventu-ally, it came out that one of them had actually studied at Oxford. He spoke with me in a beautiful British English.

Hearing that we had come to farm, the muchtar were incredulous. “Our tradition is that this land is called the ‘Cursed Land.’ Nothing grows here.

Coaxing Life from the Sands Anita Tucker, One of the Founders of the Gush Katif Settlement, Shares Her Journey

PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY BRENDY J. SIEV

I grew up in Brighton

Beach. My husband,

a YU musmach, is from

Cleveland, and in 1969

we decided to make

aliyah. We decided that,

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shtetl after shtetl, that

we didn’t want to be

refugees. We wanted to

live in our homeland.

“It was a great area, great to be a farmer, to feel connected to the land, to its mitzvos,

like maaser. Torah was alive and real.”

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This is El Grarah [Grar]. The last people who were able to farm here were Avra-ham and Yitzchak.”

Indeed, historians examining the land and its artifacts later verified this.

We also visited the Arab settlements in Gaza City. This had once had many Jews; they had been evacuated in 1929 by the British who feared anti-Jewish riots and massacres. We brought a man who had lived there as a boy, and he showed us the old Jewish quarter and his former home. We saw the beauti-ful mosaic floors of the old Jewish homes. One, on the floor of the old cheder, depicted Moshe and the sneh and Dov-id and Golias; now it houses a mosque.

Remember: Gaza was a home for us for generations. It was part of our nachalah.

We appealed to the Ministry

of Agriculture that we had no elements here

for farming. But we started on our own. We built greenhouses. We used the drip method. We used computers to measure out the amount of fertilizer entering the plants, the exact amounts of water. We wasted nothing.

We started producing 1,000 kilo [2200 pounds] of food, and we kept growing. Our last year there, we pro-duced 20 tons of organic tomatoes.

All our children had a strong feeling about this. Even the most secular saw and believed that this was a blessing

from G-d. Gush Katif became beautiful: full

of grass, trees, gardens. We had a cul-tural center with basketball courts, schools, shuls, a college, yeshivot.

The children grew up loving surf-ing. It was a great area, great to be a farmer, to feel connected to the land, to its mitzvos, like maaser. Torah was alive and real.

People made a good living there, too. We exported 70 percent of Israel’s total organic produce.

For 25 years, we had a good rela-tionship with the Arabs. When the Is-raelis extended the water pipeline to us, we made sure they piped water into the Arab cities as well. The same with elec-tricity.

Then the world started talk-ing about “peace.”

Arafat came in the 1990s. He was a cruel person. He hanged Arabs. He took their land. He killed our Arab friends,

the muchtar. This wasn’t peace.

It was piece. It tore us to pieces. This was not about shalom, with its roots in the word “shalem,” or “whole-ness.”

Post Oslo [Accords], we had a lot of terror. I was afraid driving to the packing plant in Kfar Darom. Every time we knew about new terror-ists and their hideouts, and we told the govern-ment or army, we were They turned a land of sand into a plush carpet of greenery Destroying what took years to build

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told, “We can’t take them out because of Oslo. We keep treaties.”

So, I had no defense as I drove my celery to the packing plant. I wouldn’t take my gun—what was the point? I repeated a mantra to myself in the car, “Kuma Hashem v’yafutzu oyvechah v’yanusu sanechah mipanechah,” over and over.

I was never attacked. I didn’t appreciate this until after

we were thrown out of Gush Katif. This was a privilege! Imagine: no one listens to you, and you yell out to G-d Who listens!

The peace process continued. They gave the Palestinians arms. After a month, an officer warned us that the price of bullets on the black market had dropped from $20 to five. That means, he told us, that they’re smuggling in arms and bullets. Be ready, he said.

He was right. Soon after, rockets were flying. They were shooting them all over towns. We had no alerts. But I personally saw so many nissim. Rock-ets landed between two people, and they didn’t explode.

Then the government de-cided to take everyone

out and destroy everything there. They did not give us an explanation why.

This meant taking 10,000 people out. The kids between 12 and 25 just couldn’t get it. They saw it as immoral and unethical. They would not close

their eyes. They followed the lessons of Dovid against Golias.

They knocked on doors all over Israel to explain why this was wrong. The media kept coming down.

But the day came anyway. The day after Tisha B’Av.

Our own IDF soldiers had to evacu-ate us. All of us had served in the army in some capacity. But the army came with bulldozers and tanks. The youth put up signs in front of towns, kids of all religious and ethnic backgrounds. They wrote and said, In our town, we believe in G-d in full faith. The kids thought this would save them.

Even the media were crying.There was a feeling of destruction.

We sang Hatikvah, Ani Maamin. Our house was our home. Our son

had married the girl next door!My neighbor and machateyniste

had a beautiful home. When the sol-diers came to evacuate her, she burned her own house down. She said to them, “My dear soldiers, you come to destroy my house. I’m destroying it. You can’t destroy the spirit that built this.”

In our home, my daughters opened the table up and put out our best china. They put out a full breakfast.

When the soldiers came, they were marching in five rows of three—15

soldiers to evict the Tucker family! Each soldier had a blue vest. On one side was an embroidered menorah, the symbol of the Knesset and Bais Hamikdash, and on the other the side the Israeli flag, symbolizing the tech-eles and Torah.

Anticipating our resistance, they planned to come in groups of three until we’d comply and leave. But my daughter opened the door and forced them all into our home at once. She sat them at the table. “We have to hear what’s in your hearts. And you have to hear from us.”

After two hours of talking, the sol-

diers were unmoved, like robots. And I started crying. I wanted to evoke their emotions. “Hamedina sheli! I want my grandchildren to believe that this is reishis tzmichas geulaseinu. One of you! Show me—”

They moved not a muscle, not an atom.

Eventually, my daughter took a sol-dier and put him in a room alone with me, away from the others. “Right now! You have to give my mother some-thing!”

And the soldier burst into tears.This happened with all 14 soldiers.G-d gave me a present. There’s still

a medinah. There’s still a tzmichah. We have a lot of work. But this cannot hap-pen again.

We left the house. The last to leave was my youngest son, who himself was in the IDF but stationed elsewhere. My son put on his army jacket, stood at the door to our house and tore kriah. He kissed the mezuzah, knelt, kissed the land where he was born.

Everyone started to walk. We were hunched over. After so many months of struggle….

My husband realized he had left his tallis and tefillin and went back to get them. Back in the house, he saw the of-ficer, the seemingly cold-hearted offi-cer who had forced us out of our home, sitting at our dining room table and crying.

We tried to awaken the achdus in Bnei Yisrael. We took a Sefer Torah and walked.

We were packed into army trucks. We wanted to go to

the Kotel, but the soldiers had been in-structed to drop us off at a nearby bus

junction. Finally, we got permission to go to the Kotel.

There, we were greeted by 10,000 people. Some soldiers defied orders and joined us (they were later jailed for this).

A Knesset member made arrange-ments for us to stay at local hostels for Shabbos. But then, we were relocated to different hostels and hotels through-out the country, to a tent city near the Tel Aviv train station.

The Israeli government told people that we were put in new places, but that was not true. We were on our own.

The process took a long time. Af-ter a year, we moved to mobile homes, called “caravillas.” For others, this process continued until 2007.

Two years ago, we built a new settlement called Netzer

Hazani. We built a beautiful shul with funds donated from Jews from all over.

You see, when we were originally being evicted, someone went to the high court and argued successfully that you cannot destroy a synagogue. So the batei medrash were left intact. As soon as the Arabs entered our Gush, they burned the synagogues down, shout-ing, “Massacre the Jews!”

Our first challenge was to build it. When we had arrived in Gush Katif,

there were only 150,000 Arabs there, according to the U.N. Now, there are millions. Many have been brought in. Some pay people to live in their homes while they live elsewhere, in order to get benefits from the U.N.

We have kept in touch with some of our old Arab friends and workers. My son had a worker whose family members had a particular genetic dis-ease. He received his medication from our pharmacies. After we left, my son sent him medicine through the mail. Then Hamas stopped the mail from go-ing through. Many of our other Arab friends have been killed or live in fear, so we cannot speak with them any-more.

Now is the tenth anniversary of this evacuation. We have buildings and houses. But families are not flour-ishing. The pain hasn’t healed. We’re longing for home. Especially the young families.

Gaza is part of our country; the sea is one of our natural borders. Without it, we look like a pear, with a small bite of its corner.

Iy”H, there will come a day when we will go back. We will be able to live there.

“He saw the officer, the seemingly cold-hearted officer who had forced us out of our home, sitting at our

dining room table and crying.”

Anita in her greenhouse in Gush Katif in 2002

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JULY 23, 2015The Better Life Index – also

known as the Happiness Re-port – was recently released

by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, rating the highest life satisfaction scores of

36 countries. The list starts out pretty much as

expected, with Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Finland – countries that are relatively prosperous, not involved in wars, and shielded from constant global scrutiny – taking the top spots. But that Israel is ranked fifth in the Happiness Report has mystified many people. How can a country that has lived in a constant state of war since its inception, that has an almost-nuclear Iran threaten-ing to wipe them off the map, that has Arab neighbors firing rockets into its cities on a regular basis, that has been vilified and boycotted by many coun-tries, and that has internal friction be-tween segments of its population, be so happy?

And lest you think that this is a unique, one-time ranking, think again. Israel has for many years ranked highly in similar Gallup, Forbes and UN polls.

Let me share with you a number of reasons, in no particular order, that have been proposed to explain the source of Israel’s happiness.

One possible explanation is that Israel’s demographics are strong: while many countries’ populations are declining, Israel’s population is robustly expanding. This sense of continuity and growth is a compelling motive to elicit a national sense of happiness and stability.

An inspiring answer is that, de-spite becoming westernized, Israel’s definition of happiness is deeply root-ed in the Prophet Isaiah’s vision of the Jewish people’s role as an “ohr lagoy-im,” a light unto the nations. Living a meaningful existence – realizing that you have value and that you can add value – is an understandable justifica-tion for happiness.

Another reason – or, some may

argue, an extension of the last ex-planation – is that Israelis are happy living in an enlightened society that leads the world, on a per capita basis, in scientific publications, museums,

and new book publishing – and boasts an inordinate number of Nobel Prize winners.

A practical answer focuses on Is-

rael’s economic success, spurred by its extremely successful high-tech in-dustry and its advances in many other important fields. This sense of finan-cial well-being understandably helps create a national culture of content-ment and self-confidence.

An insightful explanation touch-es upon the religious nature of the Jewish people in Israel. Despite only 20% calling themselves “religious,” 57% of the Jewish population con-sider themselves religiously connect-ed, and over two-thirds of the Jewish population believes in G-d. This ap-preciation of a Higher Being endows people with a sense of purpose and

infuses meaning in their lives. Another poignant reason focuses

on many Jews’ sense of attachment to the physical land of Israel. This ap-proach resonates not only in the “re-

ligious nationalist” camps but across the demographic spectrum. The ex-perience of living in the land of our patriarchs and matriarchs creates a

comforting and encouraging sense of being part of the chain of Jewish destiny.

An uplifting answer focuses on the unprecedented amount of Torah that is being learned in Israel and the religious growth occurring here. There are literally thousands of Judaic classes offered for people of all ages and skill levels. The sheer number of people learning Torah is astounding, and the high level of study is remark-able. For religious people, this is a source of tremendous pride and joy. Interestingly, many secular Israelis also derive satisfaction knowing that Jews are keeping their grandparents’

traditions alive. An interesting explanation for the

country’s high morale and sense of security is that its army has consis-tently proven itself – spanning mul-tiple wars, intifadas (Arab uprisings) and terror attacks – as a reliable and unswerving protector of the Jewish people.

One final reason is proposed by Dr. Joshua Lipsitz, professor of Psy-chology at Ben Gurion University. He maintains that most Israelis are more interconnected – they know each other and are concerned about each other’s welfare – than citizens of other countries. Thus, the sense of loneliness and alienation that peo-ple in large population centers often experience is less common in Israel. Although one may sometimes prefer to be left alone than to answer to mul-tiple Yiddishe Mamas intruding on their goings-on, the general feeling of being connected to others is a source of happiness and contentment.

The happiness that pervades Israel is not borne of naiveté nor established in denial of the challenges confront-ing the nation. Rather, it is based on an understanding that life in Israel, despite its real and difficult hardships, is enriched with meaning and a sense of purpose and destiny.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail.com.

The Source of Israel’s Happiness

Gedaliah Borvick

My Israel Home

Living a meaningful existence – realizing that you have value and that you can add value – is an understandable justification for happiness.

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Health & Fitness

I glanced again at the concerned grandparents and then said a little silent prayer to G-d.

Yael’s Mysterious Illness

Dear Readers,As many of you are aware, prac-

ticing medicine today poses many challenges. To name a few:

• Staying focused on the patient and ignoring any painful or insensitive comments his parents may make.

• Staying focused on treating patient concerns despite challenging financial environments such as Obamacare.

• Staying focused on patient care despite the parents’ objections to conventional medicine.

• Delivering excellent care despite challenging opinions posed by family members and friends.

• Finding competent, honest and skillful specialists to assist in the care for our patients.

• Delivering superior care without the frequent use of unnecessary tests and emergency room visits.

• One constant challenge that physicians have faced since the first medical doctor started his practice is the challenge of making an accurate diagnosis.

As they teach us in medical school, in 95 percent of the cases a doctor makes his diagnosis solely based on the history given by the patient or the caretaker. The examination portion of the visit serves just to confirm the hypothesis. But what happens when the diagnosis is not that straightfor-ward, or when the patient does not respond to the treatment prescribed or the developing symptoms are simply unexpected?

For years I’ve wanted to share this inspiring story. It is one that starts off routine and becomes more dra-matic. A story that takes a comic turn and concludes with a happy but sus-pense-filled ending.

This story took place approx-imately eight years ago, in the early years of my practice

in Cedarhurst (established in 2005). Yael, a young, 12-year-old girl pre-sented at the office with a sore throat

and fever. She had a slight cough and headache but appeared very strong. Her rapid strep was negative and I suggested hydration and Tylenol for her fever and pains.

Two days later, the young girl returned to the office with a worsen-

ing headache and persistent fever. I knew her mother well. She was (and still is) an intelligent, energetic and caring figure. Seeing the concerned look on her face, I realized that these headaches signaled something must be wrong despite the negative strep test. Coupling the fever and head-aches with the cough and the conges-tion, I surmised that the child may be suffering from Acute Bacterial Si-nusitis and started treatment with an appropriate, strong antibiotic called Augmentin. I also drew a set of blood tests to make sure that we were not dealing with mononucleosis or anoth-er pathogen. I was happy to report to the mother the next day that the blood tests showed no surprise. The young girl was feeling slightly better and that was comforting.

As I walked over to my car a week later my pager went off. On the line was this girl’s mother. The paging message said that her daughter was not feeling well, and that she looked horrible, much worse than before. I quickly called the mother and asked the regular questions:

How high is the fever? Is she coughing a lot? Where is the pain? But for some odd reason, the mother could not answer these questions which had me wondering what happened to my “super mom.” Immediately a quiet, apologetic voice said to me—I don’t know the answer to these questions

because I am not with my daugh-ter. “Where are you?” naturally, was my next question. In an apologetic, devastated voice she replied: “I am in Florida with my husband. After 16 years of marriage, we dared take our first vacation without our kids. My in-

laws are watching the kids. But tell me, Dr. Simai, should my husband take the first flight home?”

I was so taken aback by this whole back and forth that I just smiled and said, “Give me a little time to see my wife and kids, and I will stop by your house shortly.” In my mind I was hop-ing that the girl was a little nervous to be without her parents, and maybe her parents were just a bit “pan-icky” because they were away.

I live just a 5 min-ute drive away from the office but I was paged three times by the girl’s father who wanted to know if he should head over to the airport. I suggested that he allow me an hour or two so I could give him my honest opinion, and assured him that I would provide him with an answer soon. I rushed in to see my wife and kids and grabbed a bite of dinner and headed to my patient’s house.

As I entered the house, I was immediately impressed by the calm and pleasant de-

meanor of the grandparents. They

seemed to be friendly, sweet and grateful people, and that made my job enjoyable, feeling at ease in their presence. They offered me some din-ner which smelled really delicious. Regrettably, I declined. In my of-fice, this patient appeared febrile but strong, but this night she appeared very different. Yael was lacking en-ergy, she could barely sit up in her bed. Her cheeks were very rosy and her lips were cracked from dry-ness. She was running a high tem-perature, and her blood pressure was borderline low. I asked her grand-parents if she was drinking anything throughout the day. The answer was negative! I asked when was the last time she urinated. 12 hours prior. Fi-nally, I asked her what bothers her the most and she replied, “My head.”

I proceeded to examine Yael and to my great surprise, despite being on Augmentin for over a week, she

had developed an ear infection and still had some mild congestion. Her heart rate was elevated and her lung sounds were very “wet” sounding – the sound of full blown pneumonia. While I was listening to her lungs, my thoughts were racing. How on earth does a patient start getting better from a sinus infection and then continue to develop a full-blown pneumonia while on antibiotics? Reflexively, when physicians seem confused, we resort to the help of – you guessed it – other physicians! The idea of send-

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ing Yael to the emergency room was naturally the first thought that crossed my mind. But then I glanced at the grandparents, a nice couple in their 70’s who had been working around the clock caring for Yael and her sib-lings. I could picture them driving in their car or riding in the back of an ambulance to the E.R. They would stay up all night just waiting for test results and Yael’s parents would cut their first independent vacation short. Would that make sense?

On the other hand, if Yael re-mained at home, her pneumonia could overwhelm her; she appeared very weak, tired and dehydrated. My stethoscope was still on Yael, listen-ing to her heart and lung sounds as I was having all these thoughts, and I felt that it was time to end the exam part of the visit and state my opin-ion at last. But the truth was that I was clueless as to what the diagno-sis was: a severe pneumonia while taking strong antibiotics?! I glanced again at the concerned grandparents and then said a little silent prayer to G-d. “Please, help me find the right diagnosis and avoid inconveniencing these nice grandparents.” And then it came to me!

I literally had goosebumps when I took the stethoscope off and with a confident voice explained to the

grandparents and Yael the follow-ing. Yael had a pneumonia while on Augmentin because the bacteria that caused her symptoms was Mycoplas-ma Pneumoniae, a common cause of what is known as “walking pneumo-nia.” Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacteria/virus—it has properties of both—and many people heal from the infection without treatment, but some go on to develop a worsening cough, culminating with a pneumonia.

I suggested that we will start Yael on Zithromax that night and hydrate her very well with electrolyte drinks, which the grandparents did so amaz-ingly well. Hydrating a febrile child is always very challenging and it takes a lot of patience and warmth. I was confident that these grandparents possessed everything necessary for Yael to heal.

The next day, Yael came to my office for a recheck. She was still febrile but appeared much stron-ger. She drank 64 ounces of Gatorade and started urinating again. I drew her blood to test for mycoplasma and sent her for a chest x-ray as well. The

radiologist saw the right lower lobe pneumonia and phoned me immedi-ately. I asked her: What do you think is the likely pathogen causing the pneumonia? She replied, “A regular pneumococcal pneumonia,” but af-ter I told her the entire story, she was amazed how Mycoplasma in Yael’s case caused such an unusual picture.

Yael’s father called several times and gave me feedback on the com-ments that he received from family physicians. At first, they were equiv-ocal but after all the labs and x-ray results were in, they all agreed that it was a very unusual presentation of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. The end-ing was sweet. Yael was back to her vibrant and smiling self before the week ended. Her parents enjoyed the rest of their vacation in Miami, and her grandparents continued enjoying their time spent with their wonderful grandchildren.

The image of Yael, laying down sick in her small bedroom, is still in my heart and mind, and every so of-ten, when a child has an illness that does not resolve with a penicillin, I think of Yael. And when I feel lost in my thoughts while auscultating (listening to the lungs) a patient and

trying to decide on a course of action, I send the same prayer to Hashem – to guide me on the right path, to navigate my way through all the challenges a doctor has to the Ultimate Diagnosis.

Wishing you a healthy summer,David Elazar Simai, MD

Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pedi-atrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnos-ing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

Dr. Deb

The Divorce Option

Trampling through the brambles to clear a path to our beloved has to be the biggest joy.

I have always been opposed to di-vorce. I have an article on my blog, “15 Reasons Not to Divorce,” and

the reasons are quite powerful: the kids will suffer, there will be unexpected costs, antagonisms will increase instead of being quieted, and perhaps most im-portant of all – the parties will have lost their chance to grow through the rela-tionship.

See, I believe that marriage is the proving ground of personal growth. Marriage brings together two people who can learn from being in the com-pany of someone who sees things dif-ferently, does things differently, and is, well, completely different.

Sometimes it feels really alone to be with that difference. It feels like be-ing on each of two cliffs with no bridge between them. But I think marriage is for creating that bridge. Exercising that creative process is growth.

We have to somehow learn to val-ue that which never interested us like watching football games or tearjerkers. We not only have to participate in it but value it so that our significant other feels valued. After all, if we poo-poo it, then how can the person who is passion-ate about it feel valued?

And it’s more than that. There are those real annoying opposites of temperament that we have to bridge, too: the messy-neat, the morning per-son-night person, the spendthrift-free spender, the far right-the left wing, and so on. They’re not easy. None of this is easy.

Then there is the tendency to feel like a victim when nothing negative was meant. And the worse tendency to believe that one is indeed a victim and lash out at the other because of it. There is the tendency to crawl up un-der the covers and be sad because one’s soulmate is not rescuing you from per-ceived pain that the soulmate is actually unaware of.

There are all kinds of communica-tion breakdowns and misperceptions. There is the tendency for life to get in the way of relationships and only to find that the relationships are withering on the vine because of it.

But all of that is good. Yes, it is good. Because bridging all of that is

the growth that we are here for. Are we not here to make a teeny difference? Doesn’t the job of tikkun olam (fixing the world) begin with us? So it is up to us to build those bridges, reach out, try to understand, value, and square away misperceptions. That is an exciting,

wonderful process. Trampling through the brambles to clear a path to our be-loved has to be the biggest joy.

Except when it isn’t.It isn’t when one person—

• persists in negative views of those he or she is supposed to love

• will not make shalom with others• cannot take into himself or herself

gentle tochacha (rebuke) • cannot be honest• is not trustworthy• misuses his or her tongue to hurt

One person cannot carry the rela-tionship. It takes two. That’s when di-vorce peeks at you from where the thought of it was ban-ished and invites a sec-ond look.

O n e thing that is clear to me in spite of the fact that I am a member of MarriageFriendlyTherapists.com is that the Torah has a place for divorce. Un-like the other peoples of this world, we accept the fact that because everyone has bechira chofshi (free choice), peo-ple may choose to not do what they are supposed to do.

Torah-abiding Jews should auto-matically practice derech eretz (good behavior). That is a requirement. With-out it, Torah practice is a sham. But our bechira chofshi means we may choose

not to. That’s where the list of bullets above comes in.

Then we would be that person who thinks ill of others instead of being dan lechaf zchus (judging others favorably). And we might not wish to be an oheiv shalom (lover of peace), nor would we

ever do a cheshbone hanefesh (per-sonal accounting) to see if we should correct something we are doing wrong to others. We would possibly be guilty of onas devarim (hurtful words), tafal sheker (lies), and kazav (false promis-es).

We have that right. We have the right to do exactly what we want, whether it is right or not. Of course, Adam and Chava got banished from the Garden for exercising that right. But we still have it.

And when one partner insists on doing what he or she wants rather than

what G-d wants, the other part-ner cannot fix what is broken in the relationship. Repairs take two people. For such couples, di-vorce is a healthy op-tion.

So let me clarify what I mean by “such people.” We have a Torah that is our Guidebook to life. If we are not so clear in how to interpret it, then it behooves us to get daas Torah (Torah knowledge) from the rabbi that we have created a relationship with. When a marriage partner refuses to respect the rabbi as Hashem’s shali-ach (messenger) and disregards Torah imperatives, treating them as if they were optional, then what is the other partner to do?

So, from my perspective, divorce is not an option because you got bored with your spouse. For them, I say: You need to stretch yourself. Learn to value what your partner values.

Divorce is not an option because you have nothing to talk about anymore. To me that means you haven’t tried. Take a class together; learn together; go white-water rafting together; do things to talk about!

Divorce is not an option because your spouse “seems” mean. Many abu-sive people do reform. First go to ther-apy. Dig in. Stay with it. Don’t give it twenty years, but give it two. Be com-mitted to the process and to each other. This could also be said for the many other ills that befall people: depression, anxiety, gambling, drinking, drugs, im-proper websites, and so on. The solution is the right therapist and rolling up your sleeves to face your demons.

But when you’ve given your all and your partner is simply not making that effort, it is not your burden to carry the marriage.

If there ever were a good time for self-reflection (cheshbone hanefesh), this is it. We are on the brink of Tisha B’Av. We lost our beis hamikdash be-cause we thought we knew what we were doing. We persisted in the wrong paths and didn’t listen to the prophets telling us to change. How is that differ-ent from the way we are today?

A rabbi’s sermon could be a wake-up call and so can divorce papers. G-d willing, we won’t need either one. G-d willing, the beis hamikdash will be re-built now and Moshiach will come. But we have to bring him. Better to be served papers than to suffer a Divine punishment.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, is a Marriage & Fam-ily Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—To-gether. Attend the Food For Thought lec-tures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a love-ly optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

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Health & Fitness

Quench Your Thirst this Summer

Do you know our body weight is comprised of nearly 60 to 70 percent water and that suf-

ficient intake of water can help us stave off many health problems? Despite the seemingly sublime importance of water consumption, most people tend to choose sodas as their beverage of choice. There are many reasons why one should avoid drinking diet sodas and other soft drink beverages, but I have narrowed it down to the top five.

1. Caffeinated Beverages: Caffeine is an addictive drug and stimulates the brain similarly to mechanisms used by amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin, albeit with milder effects. If you cannot function without your coffee in the morning then you are addicted to caffeine. Consumption

of caffeine in large amounts, especially over extended periods of time, can lead to a condition called caffeinism. Caffeinism encompasses a wide range of physical and mental

symptoms that include nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, and heart palpitations.

2. Will Harm Your Teeth: The flavoring agents used in soft drinks make the beverage more acidic and could erode tooth enamel. Coke and Pepsi are very acidic. I read an article about a fifth grader whose science fair project consisted of placing her baby teeth in vials of Coke. Over the course of a few days, they disappeared! Her project, “Rot your Teeth,” won an Honorable Mention at the fair.

3. Linked to Cancer: The Center for Science in the Public Interest has recently petitioned the FDA to ban ingredients known as “caramel coloring” that are found in many soft drinks and snacks. These chemicals have been shown to cause several different types of cancers, including lung, liver, thyroid, and leukemia in lab animals.

4. Weight Gain: The high sugar content of sodas will cause increased weight gain. Although diet sodas lack calories, the sweet taste of the diet sodas will keep you craving sweets and inhibit any attempt at weight loss.

5. You Will Drink Less Water: The more soda you drink, the lower your water intake. Why is it important to drink water?

• Water maintains blood volume and reduces risk of heart diseases like high blood pressure and heart attack

• Flushes out the toxins and prevents UTIs and kidney stones

• Reduces risk of cancer. It

minimizes the chances of colon cancer by 45%, breast cancer by 75%, and bladder cancer by 50%.

• Weight loss. Drinking a glass of water before each meal will help make you feel full and you will eat less.

• Digestive health. Water prevents and eases stomach distress and constipation.

• Water improves skin texture. Your skin will be smoother with less breakouts

There are some healthy beverage alternatives to water that can be incor-porated into a nutritious diet:

• Milk: A great source of energy, protein, and loaded with calcium.

• Green tea: The Chinese have been using green tea for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. A 1994 study showed a clear link between green tea and the lower risk of esophageal cancer in the Chinese by as much as 60%.

• Seltzer: When craving some fizz in your drink, seltzer is the best carbonated beverage. You can even flavor it with a little cranberry or pomegranate juice while giving it a healthy boost of antioxidants.

As Americans, we have access on a daily basis to a copious amount of beverages. We watch the advertise-ments on television and see our friends drinking the eclectic range of drinks. What we don’t know is that the seem-ingly tasty and pleasurable drinks we crave are actually deceitfully harming us. The long term effects are daunting; cancer, tooth decay, weight gain, and other physical impairments are tan-gible threats to our lives. Hopefully by switching over to healthier drinks like water, seltzers, teas, and milk we will be able to break the constricting chains linking us to sodas and lead a new, joyful life!

Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a pri-vate practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com.

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thursday, august 6 Shepherds, Sweets & Sussyastart the day right! Cookies to soldiers at the Pina Chama; we’ll buy them fresh in Neve daniel with a view from the highest point in yehuda. then to sussya: taste goat yogurt and puddings at Chalav haaretz dairy, visit the incredible dahlia har sinai at her sheep ranch and buy organic flours, honey and cheeses. Mincha in the new/old Judean style synagogue. Light lunch at the Visitors Center with a chance to buy local crafts. then an in depth tour of ancient sussya, a talmudic era town.

wedNesday, august 19 Gush Katifers & the Gaza BeltMoreshet gush Katif; the moving, inspirational story of the Jews of gaza and a tour of the new community in Nitzan. then visit kibbutzim on the gaza border and the security chiefs who protect them, via One Israel Fund who are providing upgraded security equipment for the security chiefs and their communities. Lunch at alumim, the kibbutz that remained during Protective edge. hear from anita tucker at her new home in ein tzurim, and much much more.

MONday, august 24Gourmet Dayin the ShomronBegin our day with a ride to har Bracha. then freshly ground techina from the samaritans before we see the vineyards of the har Bracha winery and taste their wines. the shmitta year is ending but the challenges continue. gourmet dairy lunch with... wine at the famous tura winery in rachelim. dessert is in a glass at the award winning shilo winery followed by goat cheese tasting at the brand new gush shilo dairy amidst vineyards and olive groves. happy hour with the incomparable yoram Cohen at the tanya winery in Ofra. Chance to buy techina, cheeses, olive oil, honey, cider and of course wine all through the day for your holiday meals and gifts.

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“Say What?”Compiled by Nate Davis

Notable Quotes

Hey, I’m sorry if I delayed your show five minutes. But you got a lot of attention from this, so maybe I made your show a little better [known].- Nick Silvestri, 19, who climbed onto the set of a Broadway show before it started to plug his cellphone into a socket onstage, when his actions were discovered and were widely condemned

It was announced today that Iran has reached a deal with the U.S. to limit its nuclear program and send most of its uranium to Russia. Then Americans said, “That’s great! Wait, WHAT?”- Jimmy Fallon

The Congress and Senate are very strongly pro-Israel... In a sense, Obama is like a gift to Israel – the big brother you realize can’t take care of you when you are a teenager, so you have to take care of yourself. - Dr. Harold Rhode, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at international policy council and think tank Gatestone Institute

Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you’re keeping score, that’s robots: 1, Donald Trump: 0. – Jimmy Fallon

A couple who got married in Illinois on Friday has the last names Burger and King. Which makes sense because in a few years most of their conversations will end with “Fine, have it your way!”- Seth Myers

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MORE QUOTES

I’m just happy that he’s willing to review my status. When I sit down with him, I’ll tell him everything I did as a player and as a manager. We’ll go from there. I’ll be as honest as I can with him. I’m not going to make any odds. - Pete Rose, who was banned from baseball for gambling, discussing his upcoming meeting with MLB’s commissioner about possible reinstatement

Yesterday President Obama announced that he is commuting the sentences of 46 prisoners, most of whom committed nonviolent crimes. Then those 46 convicts said, “Actually we already escaped. Thanks for thinking of us, though.” – Jimmy Fallon

So Lindsey Graham says to me, “Please whatever you can do.” What is this guy, a beggar? He’s like begging me to help him get on Fox & Friends. So I say, okay. I’ll mention your name... And he gave me his number. And I found the card! I wrote the number down, I don’t know if it’s the right number, let’s try it... (202) 228-0292…So, I dunno, give it a shot…Your local politician, he won’t fix anything but at least he’ll talk to you. – Donald Trump, who is upset at Senator Graham for criticizing him, recalling, during a political rally, an incident from several years ago when Senator Lindsey Graham asked Trump to help him get on Fox News. (Reporters quickly called the number and it was, in fact, Senator Graham’s private cell number)

Probably getting a new phone. iPhone or Android?- Tweet by Senator Lindsey Graham after Donald Trump revealed his private cell number to the public

The president of Iran prematurely announced the nuclear deal on Twitter yesterday before it was official. Which isn’t that big a deal until you realize the guy who almost had nukes is known for accidentally hitting “Send.” - Jimmy Fallon

From what I hear, he is coming now as the president of the United States. He should have at least informed us as his family.- 57-year-old Malik Abon’go Obama during an interview at his home in Kogelo, Kenya

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Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama’s “Hope” poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It’s pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist’s spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements. – Jimmy Fallon

Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero and said, “I like people that weren’t captured.” Not good. In fact, Trump’s people are telling him to lay low for a while until all this combs over. – Jimmy Fallon

Tomorrow, July 15, is a rare day when no professional sporting events will take place in the U.S. It’s causing millions of fathers everywhere to ask, “Why can’t your dance recital be today?” – Seth Myers

As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran: Three held on trumped-up charges, according to your administration, and one, whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation, unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?- CBS News’ Major Garrett to President Obama at his press conference about the Iran deal

I’ve got to give you credit Major for how you craft those questions. The notion that I’m content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails, Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better.- President Obama in response

To the four Marines that have been killed, it has been a heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with great valor to be killed in this fashion.- President Obama after four Marines (and a sailor who has since succumbed to his injuries) were brutally gunned down by a radical Muslim terrorist

The Obama administration announced a deal with Iran that would prevent the Iranians from making a nuclear weapon. In exchange, we’re giving the Iranians Netflix. – Conan O’Brien

President Obama said yesterday that education is the key to reducing the prison population. Though apparently power tools also works. – Seth Myers

Senseless? Unfathomable? Terrorism? I doubt it… Not every act of political violence is terrorism. If we target a training site, and if the only people we kill are the fighters or trainees inside, our hands are clean. And that seems to be what Abdulazeez did to our own men in Chattanooga. We don’t yet know his motive. But if it turns out that he was angry about U.S. military action abroad—and if his response was to kill U.S. military personnel—does that make him a terrorist? Or just an enemy combatant?- William Saletan writing on hyper-left wing website Slate.com, shamelessly making a treasonous argument that if we go after ISIS recruits they should be able to target our military recruiting centers

Who would have supposed that there were ice mountains? It’s just blowing my mind. - Hal Weaver, a scientist on NASA’s New Horizons project, which provided mankind with its first up-close glimpse of Pluto this week

Police in Germany are trying to find the owner of a plastic bag filled with $200,000 after it recently fell from a tree at a local campsite. Then Greece said, “Can we get like 10 million of those trees?”- Jimmy Fallon

The U.S. won the International Math Olympiad. If you don’t think Americans can compete with Asia in math, maybe you should talk to some of the members of the American team, like Shyam Narayanan, Yang Liu, and Allen Liu. And their coach, Po-Shen Loh.- Seth Myers

Yes, it is real, it is possible, and, in fact, we should expect that some portion of that money would go to the Iranian military and could potentially be used for the kinds of bad behavior that we have seen in the region up until now. – National Security Advisor Susan Rice when asked on CNN if any of the $100 billion that is being released to Iran might go to fund terror in the region

Disney revealed its plans for its upcoming resort and theme park in Shanghai, which will open next year. It’s great news for anyone who loves theme parks but wished the lines were a billion times longer.- Jimmy Fallon

The pile officially melted. - The mayor of Boston sharing the good news on July 14th that the last of the snow from the city’s epic winter is finally gone

Has the administration reached out to the Steinle family, to your knowledge?-Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, during a Congressional hearing about sanctuary cities in the aftermath of Kate Steinle being randomly shot by an illegal alien while touring San Francisco with her father

To who?- Secretary Johnson in response

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they’ll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.- Conan O’Brien

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When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined “The worst

agreement in U.S. diplomatic history,” you don’t expect to revisit the issue. We had hit bottom. Or so I thought. Then on Tuesday the final terms of the Irani-an nuclear deal were published. I was wrong.

Who would have imagined we would be giving up the conventional arms and ballistic missile embargoes on Iran? In nuclear negotiations?

When asked at his Wednesday news conference why there is nothing in the deal about the four American hostages being held by Iran, President Obama explained that this is a separate issue, not part of nuclear talks.

Are conventional weapons not a separate issue? After all, conventional, by definition, means non-nuclear. Why are we giving up the embargoes?

Because Iran, joined by Russia – our

“reset” partner – sprung the demand at the last minute, calculating that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry were so desperate for a deal that they would cave. They did. And have convinced themselves that they scored a victory by delaying the lifting by five to eight years. (Ostensibly. The language is murky. The interval could be considerably shorter.)

Obama claimed in his Wednesday news conference that it really doesn’t matter because we can always intercept

Iranian arms shipments to, say, Hezbol-lah.

But wait. Obama has insisted throughout that we are pursuing this Iranian diplomacy to avoid the use of force, yet now blithely discards a previ-ous diplomatic achievement – the arms embargo – by suggesting, no matter, we can just shoot our way to interdiction.

Moreover, the most serious issue is not Iranian exports but Iranian imports – of sophisticated Russian and Chinese weapons. These are untouchable. We are not going to attack Russian and Chi-nese transports.

The net effect of this capitulation will be not only to endanger our Middle East allies now under threat from Iran and its proxies, but to endanger our own naval forces in the Persian Gulf. Imagine how Iran’s acquisition of the most advanced anti-ship missiles would threaten our control over the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, waterways we have kept open for inter-national commerce for a half-century.

The other major shock in the final deal is what happened to our insistence on “anytime, anywhere” inspections. Under the final agreement, Iran has the right to deny international inspectors access to any undeclared nuclear site. The denial is then adjudicated by a com-mittee – on which Iran sits. It then goes through several other bodies, on all of which Iran sits. Even if the inspectors’ request prevails, the approval process can take 24 days.

And what do you think will be left to be found, left unscrubbed, after 24 days? The whole process is farcical.

The action now shifts to Congress. The debate is being hailed as momentous. It is not. It’s irrelevant.

Congress won’t get to vote on the deal until September. But Obama is taking the agreement to the U.N. Security Council for approval within days. Approval there will cancel all pre-vious U.N. resolutions outlawing and sanctioning Iran’s nuclear activities.

Meaning: Whatever Congress ultimately does, it won’t matter because the legal underpinning for the entire international sanctions regime against Iran will have been dismantled at the Security Council. Ten years of painstak-ingly constructed international sanctions will vanish overnight, irretrievably.

Even if Congress rejects the agreement, do you think the Europeans, the Chinese or the Russians will reinstate sanctions? The result: The United States is left isolated while the rest of the world does thriving business with Iran.

Should Congress then give up? No. Congress needs to act in order to rob this deal of, at least, its domestic legitimacy. Rejection will make little difference on the ground. But it will make it easier for a successor president to legitimately reconsider an executive agreement (Obama dare not call it a treaty – it

would be instantly rejected by the Sen-ate) that garnered such pathetically little backing in either house of Congress.

It’s a future hope, but amid dire circumstances. By then, Iran will be flush with cash, legitimized as a normal international actor in good standing, rec-ognized (as Obama once said) as “a very successful regional power.” Stopping Iran from going nuclear at that point will be infinitely more difficult and risky.

Which is Obama’s triumph. He has locked in his folly. He has laid down his legacy and we will have to live with the consequences for decades.

(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-ers Group

Charles Krauthammer

Political Crossfire

Whatever Congress ultimately does, it won’t matter because the legal underpinning for the entire international sanctions regime against Iran will have been dismantled at the Security Council.

Worse Than We Could Have Imagined

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Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman

Ze’ev RazLeading the Mission to Bomb Iraq’s Osirak Nuclear Reactor

History has shown that diplo-macy in the face of nucle-ar warfare can work. The

USSR, South Africa, Pakistan and oth-er countries have or have had nuclear weapons but never used them. How-ever, some countries just cannot be trusted. For example, North Korea’s nuclear program has produced sever-al bombs at this point and the world hasn’t checked the Communist coun-try’s ability to wage a nuclear war. For Israeli security their main threat is in the Middle East and if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon it could yield disas-trous results. Israel doesn’t trust Iran will end their quest for a bomb, and now that the sanctions are being lifted, Iran will have more money to give to Hamas and Hezbollah. The one option

that remains on the table is a military airstrike like the one they carried out over Iraq in 1981. Many of the pilots on that raid are well-known but the leader needs more of an introduction.

Ze’ev Raz was born in 1947 and had shot down three Syrian MiGs. He flew in an F-4 Phantom during the Six Day War and shot down two MiG-21 fighters. After being selected to go to the United State to train in an Amer-ican aerial combat program called TOPDOG, he trained as a squadron commander in the new F-16 Falcon. His kill of a MiG-23 in April 1982 (ten months after the Raid on the Re-actor) was one of the world’s first kill in an F-16 called by the IAF the Netz.

By the time the training began for the raid against the Iraqi target, Raz was a lieutenant colonel and was selected to lead the raid. The second in command was Amos Yadlin who was given more media attention than Raz after the re-actor was destroyed.

The mission was a high risk one. There were several opponents in the Israeli military who were opposed to the plan. The strike was called off once before while the pilots were on the runway getting ready for takeoff. Surprise was a key element of the mis-sion, and Lieutenant Colonel Ze’ev Raz planned to use it while preparing for the raid. Taking off on Sunday af-ternoon, June 7, 1981, the eight planes planned on hitting the reactor at the changing of the guard. Flying close to

the ground so radar couldn’t pick up their movements, the timing was just right. If an F-16 was shot down, then a search and rescue mission would be launched by heli-copters on standby. The pi-lots were given Iraqi curren-cy and survival kits.

Despite the careful preparations, the squadron was afraid of two things: being chased by Iraqi fight-er jets and running out of fuel. They were fully pre-pared for a fight and were

shocked when Iraqi planes were no-where to be seen. What they didn’t expect was to be seen by the king of Jordan who was on his private yacht in the Gulf of Aqaba. King Hussein correctly predicted that the Israeli fighters (he could see the IAF insignia because they were flying so close to the ground) were headed to the Iraqi nuclear reactor. Fortunately, the warn-ing message sent to the Iraqis never reached the defenses. At dusk, sixteen bombs rained down and destroyed the Osirak reactor for good. Ten Iraqis and a French worker were killed. All of the Israeli planes returned safely to a base in the Negev even though most were dangerously low on fuel.

There was controversy afterwards among the pilots because Yadlin de-cided to take the first shot at the reac-tor instead of letting the commander, Raz, have the honors. As they were making the bombing, Raz missed a landmark and made too wide of a turn. This allowed Yadlin to cut in front. Raz later said that he was most upset because Yadlin was his wingman and he couldn’t see him in case an enemy plane appeared. Despite this blatant gap in the IAF’s defenses, the mission was successful although there is still a debate among the pilots what exactly hap-pened.

The Israeli government had a lot more on their plate than to deal with arguing pilots. The U.S. was really up-set in the aftermath and only ten years later during the Persian Gulf War did they realize the service the IAF had done for the world. Nuclear weapons had been taken out of Saadam Hussein’s arse-nal and an atomic war was prevented.

Raz later talked about the mission: “We were quite surprised that Iraq didn’t react, didn’t take off or fire any mis-siles to us. We couldn’t understand how they did not see us. They could see us on the radar scopes at least 15 min-utes before the bombing. It was disap-pointing; to play, to do their part and then our victory would’ve been larg-er, bigger, more realistic. King Hus-sein saw us one minute off the coast to South Arabia flying east, they saw us…and he reported. They did nothing with this information. They did not understand the purpose of his report, and he was the king!”

Ze’ev Raz was played a major role in one of the most important missions in Israeli history. He was awarded by the government but was most relieved when all of the pilots on the raid re-

turned safely. To him that was more important than any medal or recogni-tion he would receive. Today he works for an aerospace company after retir-ing as a full colonel. He believes that Israel will not bomb Iran. He says they will use their air force as a threat that

ultimately will bring the U.S. to their senses and call off this terrible deal with the Islamic Republic.

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 aviheiligman@gmail.com.

Some of the pilots after the successful raid

The site of the Osirak nuclear reactor in September 2002

Ze’ev Raz in a recent interview

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Remember the old “Scope” commercials? (Really old. )The ones where somebody had

to deal with the embarrassment of tell-ing their friend that an upgrade in oral hygiene was badly needed? Or “Head and Shoulders”? How embarrassing is it to tell someone that they need to deal with a personal snowstorm? Writing this week’s column feels embarrassing in about the same way.

There is a wonderful video available on YouTube called “The Entitlement Creed.” (Strongly recommended.) In it, an array of young adults are asked if they feel entitled to a job, and if so, at what salary. The responses, sadly, are all too predictable. They sure did feel entitled to a job, often expecting a six-figure salary or more (for starters!). Then, a number of employers were asked whether they felt “entitled” to any particular behavior from their em-ployees. The employers were quite em-phatic about their “entitlements.” They felt entitled to expect their employees to arrive on time, to focus on their work, to deliver the best effort they could while treating customers and coworkers with courtesy and respect. They felt entitled to honesty and loyalty to the mission of the company. And they felt entitled to fire anyone who didn’t want to live up to these expectations.

Here’s the embarrassing part of this discussion: that it has to take place at all. Unfortunately, there are clients who don’t inspire confidence on these points,

but they are not the only ones who need to address these issues. Especially when I speak to young people about their first

job hunt, I always bring up the sensitive topic of what is euphemistically called “personal management.” Sometimes I prepare checklists for the day of an interview that include dressing neatly and plan-ning to arrive on time. I have spo-ken to job place-ment counselors about the need to coach clients on speaking courte-ously, avoiding distractions, and demons t ra t ing company loyalty. There was a time not long ago when these things didn’t need to be talked about, or at least wouldn’t be talked about unless there was some clear indi-cation that a problem needed to be ad-dressed. Now the problem is so perva-

sive that every detail of menschlichkeit has to be talked about; there is no end to the ways that self-respect, self-dis-

cipline, and self-motivation have faded from our common discourse, leaving self-centered slackers taking selfies.

This somber situation would be a terrible obsta-cle for job hunt-ers to overcome even if it meant that, instead of relying on good upbringing and education, each candidate had to carefully assess the way that he presents himself to a prospec-tive employer

and correct any deficits. But the truth is much worse than that. The truth is that employers are so afraid of hiring a pouting adolescent in disguise that they often decide not to hire anyone at all.

The conventional wisdom today is that there is a shortage of jobs. But do a little research and you’ll find that there are millions of jobs that go unfilled. Even more jobs would be created if only employers felt confident that effec-tive workers could be found to fill them. That the worker they hire will work hard to learn the job, and then continue to work hard to deliver the greatest val-ue possible, every single day. Employ-ers hesitate to hire because they trem-ble at the possibility that someone who seems to have a solid resume and prov-en skills will turn out to have a “per-sonal management” problem. Whether it’s casually walking in late, spending the day texting or web surfing, leaving early, or just displaying a bad attitude, a “slacker” can poison the entire compa-

ny with lightning speed. Faced with the possibility that a new hire might turn out to be a slacker, employers decide to get along without hiring anyone.

This places a burden on all job hunt-ers, and especially affects young peo-ple. In a job market which is already highly competitive, often opaque, and terribly frustrating, it is not enough to demonstrate to an employer that you are the best candidate for the job. You also have to prove that you are not a slacker—that you can be relied upon to show up ready to work hard and deliver the value that is expected. Practically, that means that each job hunter must be ready to cite situations and experi-ences which demonstrate reliability and responsibility. Any accomplishment where hard work and determination were evident should become part of the resume, whether at school, in a volun-teer setting, even at home.

I’m not going to try to explain why we have reached this sorry point. I’m a job search coach, not a social scientist. My job is to help job seekers understand the employment battlefield and to teach them the strategies that lead to success. But if a young job seeker has never had a chance to exercise his reliability muscles, he will be handicapped in his efforts. Parents and educators must be sensitive to this and create opportuni-ties for these self-management skills to grow.

In Trinidad (this is true), if you are invited to a social event called for, say, 6 PM, you can show up whenever you want. An hour late, whenever, as long as when you arrive you greet your host with a smile and say, “Anytime is Trin-idad time!” you’re fine. But let a work-er try that at the office he will be told, “Time is time.” Far too many of our workers think they’re on Trinidad time. As a society, we must strongly espouse the value of personal management in every area, so that our careers— our fu-tures—begin on time.

Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search. Individual coaching is available. He can be reached at myparnassa@gmail.com.

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Cheesy Corn Fritters Ingredients Yields 101 ½ cups corn flour

(I used Bob’s Red Mill brand)*1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter, melted1 cup low fat milk¼ cup shredded Jalapeno Cilantro

by Sincerely Brigette ¼ cup shredded mozzarella 2 tablespoon honey 1 cup frozen corn kernels2 egg yolks 3 egg whitesCanola oil

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 ad-ditional 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.

In The KitchenNaomi Nachman

Corn fritters are a perfect

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recipe is a perfect balance of

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It makes a beautiful presen-

tation at a brunch or any meal

topped with some smoked salm-

on and chives.

PreparationWhisk together the corn flour, baking powder, and salt in a large

bowl. In a small bowl, mix the butter, milk and honey.Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir in the

cheese, milk mixture, 2 egg yolks, and corn. Set aside.In a clean, dry bowl, beat the 3 egg whites until stiff and they

hold their shape, then fold them into the corn mixture.Heat some canola oil in a non-stick skillet or griddle. When hot,

spoon batter in mounds into the skillet, spaced apart – making as many as will comfortably fit in the pan. I used ¼ cup measure per fritter.

Let the corn cakes cook until browned on the bottom then flip the corn cakes with a spatula and cook on the other side for about a minute, until lightly browned on the reverse side.

* Note: corn flour is not the same as cornmeal; it’s very finely ground corn.

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80 Great Kosher FoodElan Kornblum

JEF F NATHAN is Executive Chef and co-owner of Abigael’s on Broad-

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APPLE BLACKBERRY CRISPBy Jeff Nathan

Dairy - Serves: 6-8

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DIRECTIONSHeat the oven to 375°F.Make the topping: Combine the flour, both sugars, salt, cinnamon and

pecans in a medium bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until it’s well blended and the mixture crumbles coarsely; it should hold together when you pinch it.

Refrigerate the topping until you’re ready to use it. Make the crisp: Place the apples, blackberries and remaining sugar in a

medium-sized bowl. In a small bowl, dissolve the cornstarch in the lemon juice.

Using a rubber spatula, gently combine the mixture with the fruit. Pour the fruit into a greased 8 - 9 inch square glass or ceramic baking dish.

Set the pan on a baking sheet to catch overflowing juices. Top the fruit with half of the topping. Do not press down. The topping should be light and crumbly. Bake for 20 minutes.

Keep the remaining topping refrigerated until needed. Sprinkle the re-maining topping over the crisp and continue baking until the apples are tender when pierced with a knife, the topping is crisp, and the juices are bubbling, another 25 to 35 minutes. Let cool for 20 to 30 minutes.

Serve warm, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

INGREDIENTS1 cup unbleached whole wheat flour½ cup packed dark brown sugar¼ cup granulated sugarPinch kosher salt½ teaspoon ground cinnamon1/3 cup chopped toasted pecans8 tablespoons slightly softened unsalted butter, cut into pieces4 cups sliced Macintosh apples (½-inch slices)2 cups blackberries¼ cup sugar2 teaspoons cornstarch1 tablespoon lemon juice1 pint vanilla ice cream

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Seurat was born in Paris, France, in 1859 and died in 1981 at the young age of thirty-one. His

mother came from a family known to be sculptors. As a young boy he also displayed a tremendous interest in pro-ducing artwork. His mother’s brother was an amateur painter and worked with textiles. This same uncle was knowledge-able in art, and so to Seurat’s benefit he provided the young boy with art lessons. After receiving and enjoying these art lessons from his uncle, he continued with the study of art at an art school where he studied Henri Lehmann, and then went on to develop a new technique known as Pointillism.

Pointillism is a method of painting which uses small dots of pure color. This technique is appreciated when seen in his artworks, such as one titled “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” which is located on the Seine River. It is his largest and best

known work of art and can be viewed at The Art Institute of Chica-go. He had observed many large scale paint-ings done by other art-ists and decided that he could learn from them and develop their style even more. When ob-serving this painting you cannot help but notice how the colors appear to be blending into each other when looked at from far. His type of art creates what is referred to as “optical mixing” which has a scientific connotation. In many of Seurat’s paintings

he used these brushstrokes to create paintings which are engaging and exciting.

In 1879, Georges Seurat had the opportunity to ad-mire the work of Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. He loved the idea of how atmosphere and light would affect the way a painting appeared. This was the Im-pressionist style which he tried to use as a guiding

light. The guiding light to him was the scientific expla-nation of what makes up a piece of art. The line, form, psychological impact that art made on a person with the use of color and theory was quite important to him. He loved to read books which had a scientific component like the Principles of Harmony, which was written by a chemist, and the Essay on the Unmistakable Signs of Art. His work played a major role in influencing other artists.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a profes-sional art educator, art-ist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture present-ed 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 nherzberg@optonline.net with ques-tions and suggestions for future columns.

From My Private Art CollectionRebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

Georges Seurat “Some say they see poetry in my paintings;I see only science”

The Eiffel Tower, 1889

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

The Channel At Gravelines Petit Fort Philippe by Georges Seurat

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We tend to think of the Inter-nal Revenue Service mainly as Uncle Sam’s “collections

department.” But it’s also a true law en-forcement agency. Special agents from the Criminal Investigations unit take on obvious crimes like tax evasion and tax preparer fraud. They also partner with local police, the FBI, the DEA, and even foreign governments to combat public corruption, money laundering, drug traf-ficking, and international terrorism. The tax cops are good at what they do — the

IRS boasts the highest criminal convic-tion rate of any federal law enforcement agency (93.4% in 2014).

But sometimes the IRS plays a sur-prising role in more ordinary crimes . . . which brings us to today’s story.

On May 17, 2005, 38-year-old Amy Bos-ley frantically called 911 to report a break-in and shooting at her family’s holiday cabin in Alex-andria, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River

from Cincinnati. Police arrived to find her 41-year-old husband, Bob, dead on the bed with at least seven bullet wounds. The cabin had been ransacked, and the couple’s terrified sons, ages six and nine, were huddled in their room.

Local authorities were stumped at first. There were no witnesses and no DNA evidence. The Bosleys were well-liked in their commu-nity. They owned a mil-lion-dollar roofing business, along with all the grown-up

toys their success could buy: sports cars, horses, an airplane, and a 50-foot yacht.

But officials soon learned there were secrets beneath the Bosley’s successful facade. Bob had made enemies in his business. And he would disappear for days at a time to his boat on nearby Lake Cumberland.

Then came the call that cracked the case wide open. It seems that Amy, who served as the roofing company’s accoun-tant, had been cavalier with the business’s taxes. The company owed a whopping $1.7 million in back taxes. Amy had hid-den the investigation from her husband and even impersonated him on the phone.

Not being able to talk to Bob had the IRS smelling a rat. So they demanded an in-person meeting with the couple that was scheduled to take place . . . the morn-ing after the murder! And that morning, the “grieving widow” was even so bold as to call the IRS and say they wouldn’t need to meet because Bob was dead. Given the astounding coincidence on top of all the suspicious behavior, the IRS agent called local police and suggested a suspect and motive they might want to look into.

You can probably guess where the sto-ry goes from here. Investigators focused their attention on Amy and began to pull apart her story. They found hundreds of checks to the IRS, unmailed, in the back of her car. The coup de grace came from the children, who told interviewers they heard gunshots first, then breaking glass. Ten days later, Amy was in custody. She pled guilty to protect the children from having to testify, and now she’s serving a 20-year sentence.

Campbell County Prosecutor Mi-chelle Snodgrass told the court that Amy set out to destroy the business to get even with Bob. She even thought killing him would make the tax problems go away. And where did all the money go? Sno-dgrass says, “I think that there’s money buried, and when she makes parole, one of the first stops she makes is to go get that.”

When we work with couples, we make sure both spouses are on board with the plan. And while we probably couldn’t have saved the Bosleys, we can help eliminate financial conflicts that threaten relationships. So don’t wait to reach out to your better half. Make sure you have a plan that will help bring you closer to-gether!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

Allan J. Rolnick, CPA

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Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

Life Coach

Bad Hair Days and Good Ones

Hi, I am on a trip to Isra-el with just a few other women. Well, 399 to be

exact. We are from all walks of Jewish life. Tonight is our last night in Israel. And everyone has completely changed their identi-ty.

Literally! We are all trying on for the first time and switch-ing wigs!

Israel has had a wild effect on us. It changes us both physically and spiritually.

In just nine days we’ve gone from independent people to dependent ones. We are dependent on being with each other 24/7. I wouldn’t necessarily say it was a case of love at first sight, but it certainly is love at last sight.

The women are sending pictures of themselves home wearing the wigs they tried on and the husbands are flipping out. Half because they don’t recognize their wives anymore, and the other half because they can’t figure out why their wives are sending home pictures of what they think are other women.

What is this strange effect that this trip has on its participants? It’s a com-bination of women bonding, the air in Israel, and overdosing on hummus!

We also attend classes on the wis-dom that the Torah has to give on bettering ourselves as mothers, wives and human beings. And though most of our husbands, of course, know we are perfect just the way we are, we are willing to admit that there may be just one or two minor glitches in our pro-gramming. At least when we are alone without them.

We also tour the country and visit some important sites. We leave kids at second base to visit kids at an army base. We float away from the Hudson River to float on the Jordan River. We exit the West to encounter the Western Wall.

And in the end all the connecting has us standing around exchanging identities.

So don’t flip your wig—realize that we women are a lot more alike than we are different! Because no matter what’s on top of our heads, the reality is, we all have bad hair days and good ones. And bad days and good ones.

And then you’ll be the best version of yourself—inclusive and accepting.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or riv-ki@rosenwalds.com

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