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Hatzalah Members Recall the Harrowing Events of September 11

8 Ways to Get the Most out of the

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Keep the Excitement Going

Aaron’s Way Camp Middos Award Program Shined Brightly This Summer

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Ever since I remember, when visiting my cousins, my uncle, Dr. Mordechai Soroka, always had his Hatzalah radio on in the background. The low static and the steady voice of the dis-patcher would interrupt the conversations we had around the table. I remember him dashing out in middle of a meal, running out on a nearby Hatzalah call. In my mind, my uncle epitomized the classic Hatzalah volunteer—ready to assist at any time, even when it’s not the most conve-nient, because of his deep-rooted desire to help.

While most of us huddled in our homes with our families on the infamous day of September 11 thirteen years ago, Hatzalah volunteers ran to the scene. Their profound need to help others propelled them to journey to the site of tragedy and horror.

This week, TJH spoke with three volunteers who were at the World Trade Center site on 9/11 and all three of them echoed the sadness that all of America felt that day. Although they were waiting to care for the wounded, unfortunately, there were barely any survivors for them to help. 2,977 people died on that day, the longest day in New York’s history. The lack of survivors em-phasized the emptiness felt in our nation’s core on September 11.

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I found the volunteers’ stories to be extremely moving. Their accounts show a different side of September 11. Their willingness to help and their selflessness are in stark contrast with the evil of those who perpetrated the attacks. There is a lot of good in this world, and we hope to always be able to see goodness and kindness prevail.

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Dear Editor,I thoroughly enjoyed reading Rafi

Sackville’s musings on life in Israel (“Of Happiness and Fish in the Holy Land,” September 4). As he pointed out, Israelis have been ranked 11th in happiness in the world. Although it seems that Rafi is amazed by that sta-tistic, it only cements what I already knew: a person is happy not because of their surroundings but because of an innate sense of contentment and pur-pose found within.

Israelis are constantly living in tense conditions. These past few months highlighted the precarious con-ditions in the Holy Land. But fighting and rockets don’t make a person more or less happy. They may make them scared, they may make them anxious. But happiness? That’s something dif-ferent. And that’s something I think Israelis do possess. Although they are always wanting to improve, they are content with their lot in life. They don’t bemoan their situation. They say, OK, yalla, let’s deal with what we have and move on.

That feeling of not being stuck in a depressing state is what bolsters a truly happy society.

Chana Piekarski

Dear Editor,I loved reading Alex Idov’s article

this week on being “almost famous.” It was written with such pride; I only wish that all children will feel that way about their fathers. A Reader

Dear Editor,Susan Schwamm made a number of

good points in her article this past week on the ceasefire in the Middle East. There is one thing I’d like to point out. She wrote about the “misunderstand-ing” between the United States and Is-rael at the beginning of the fighting in which Israel felt that the U.S. let them down. She writes that that may have damaged the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Let it be known that the United States and Israel have had that relation-ship for years. There have been many times when Israel felt that the U.S. let them down. We have often been mis-understood, slighted, and hurt by our friends. Sometimes, it’s been hard to recognize that they are our allies.

But America needs to understand that although they may not always agree with what Israel does, Israel is the one true democracy in the region. It’s the one country that is actively

fighting terrorism. It’s the one place where “freedom fighters” are hunted and destroyed. Remember that, Amer-ica, when you want to turn your back on us.

President Obama seems to be re-luctant to join in any fighting or wars overseas. If that’s the case, he needs to keep Israel on his side, as they are the ones doing the fighting for him against evil forces who are threatening to take over the world.

Keren GrossWoodmere, NY

Dear Editor,I have often peeked into the large

window of The Studio while parking in Cedarhurst, but I never ventured inside. I found the feature this week on the de-signer to be interesting—I am amazed what one can do with great vision! It’s also good to know that I can drop by to see what’s new on the market.

I am looking forward to seeing more home design articles in The Jew-ish Home.J. R.

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Global73-Year-Old Swims the

English Channel

Last week, Otto Thaning broke a re-cord. The 73-year-old became the old-est person to swim the English Channel. This is not the first time Thaning swam the 21-mile waterway between France and England. He also accomplished this feat in 1994 and wanted to show the world what older people are capable of if they keep themselves fit and in shape.

The healthy heart surgeon said his biggest concern was the water tempera-ture. “The biggest problem is to maintain one’s core temperature because the water is cold,” he said. “We averaged 18° C (64° F) and that was particularly helpful to me because that is reasonably warm for the Channel. The Channel is usually a bit colder at this time of year.”

The previous record for world’s old-est person to swim across the Channel was held by Cyril Baldock, a 70-year-old Australian, who swam the 21-mile the waterway between France and England just last month.

A Young Girl’s Escape

from ISIS

A 14-year-old girl has escaped her ISIS captors in Iraq and is now telling her story to the press. Adeba Shaker had been trafficked from her village in the northeast Iraq region of Sinjar to the

Syrian border and presented as a “gift” to fighters on the frontlines. She was to be converted to Islam and forcibly mar-ried to one of them. After Adeba and her kidnappers arrived at a house in Raabia, Iraq, one of her captors received a phone call. A few moments later, all five men in the apartment picked up their guns and stormed out.

Shaker, a 14-year-old girl from the Yazidi ethnic minority, heard trucks leav-ing the property and then silence. For the first time in 20 days, she and another girl being held with her were alone with no guards, and the door was unlocked. “When [the militants] left us, I panicked; I didn’t know what to do. I saw a bag full of cell phones and I called my brother,” Shaker told the media.

On the phone, her brother Samir told her to go to a nearby house and ask for help and directions to reach the border where fighters from the Kurdistan State Workers Party (PKK) were battling Is-lamic State militants. He said the PKK would help her reach safety. “This was a gamble as I didn’t know who was a friend and who was an enemy,” she re-called. Shaker and her companion decid-ed to try their luck. They snuck out of the house and knocked on a neighbor’s door. “We explained the situation to them and they showed us the way to the border. We never looked back.”

Adeba Shaker is one of the few Yazidis to have escaped the Islamic State militants who have taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria in recent months.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled their ancient homeland of Sinjar and other villages to escape a dramatic push by the Sunni militants, who regard them as devil worshippers who must embrace the Islamic State’s radical version of Is-lam or die. In addition to Shaker, mili-tants abducted at least 73 women and children from her village and trafficked them across northern Iraq. Women and girls are auctioned off for as little as $10. Others, like Shaker, were to be married off to militants.

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during the autumn of 1888, Jack the Ripper committed at least five grisly murders. The police had six suspects but were never able to definitively prove who the serial killer was. Now, DNA evidence has shown beyond reasonable doubt which one of six key suspects commonly cited in connection with the Ripper’s reign of terror was the actual killer.

A remarkably never-washed shawl found by the body of Catherine Eddow-es, one of the Ripper’s victims, had been analyzed and was found to contain DNA from her blood as well as DNA from the killer. The landmark discovery was made after businessman Russell Edwards, 48, bought the shawl at auction and enlist-ed the help of Dr. Jari Louhelainen, a world-renowned expert in analyzing genetic evidence from historical crime scenes.

Using cutting-edge techniques, Dr. Louhelainen was able to extract 126-year-old DNA from the material and compare it to DNA from descendants of Eddowes and the suspect, with both proving a perfect match. Now, over a century later, a DNA match has shown that the true identity of Jack the Ripper is Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski. Kosminski was always one of the top contenders in the search for identity of Jack the Ripper but it has never been proven until now.

The revelation puts an end to the fe-vered speculation over the Ripper’s iden-tity, which has lasted since his murder-ous rampage in the most impoverished and dangerous streets of London. In the past century, a Jack the Ripper industry has grown, prompting an impressive ar-ray of more than 100 suspects, including Queen Victoria’s grandson – Prince Al-bert Victor, the Duke of Clarence – the post-Impressionist painter Walter Sick-ert, and the former Liberal Prime Minis-ter William Gladstone.

Now, his identity is a mystery no more.

American to Go on Trial in N. Korea

A trial date has been set in North Korea for Matthew Miller, one of three detained Americans by the Communist dictatorship. The short announcement by the North Korean government did not elaborate any further on what charges the U.S. citizen faces.

Miller, of Bakersfield, California, will go to trial in North Korea on Sep-tember 14. The 26-year old was arrested in April for tearing up his visa upon his arrival in the isolated country, state me-dia said at the time. The recent statement did not mention fellow U.S. citizen Jef-frey Fowle, 56, who was arrested in May after he left a Bible in the bathroom of a club in the town of Chongjin.

U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae has been held by the isolated country since December 2012 and is currently serv-ing a sentence of 15 years hard labor for crimes North Korea said amounted to a plot to overthrow the state.

North Korea, which is under heavy UN sanctions related to its nuclear and missile programs, is widely believed to be using the detained U.S. citizens to extract a high-profile visit from Wash-ington, with whom it has no formal diplomatic relations. Earlier this month, international media was granted rare access to the detained Americans, who in separate interviews all called on the United States to secure their early re-lease.

Burn the Flag Revenge

There is a new type of ice bucket challenge in Lebanon. Following the reported beheadings of two Lebanese soldiers by the Islamic State, the “#Burn

ISIS Flag Challenge,” a spin-off of the hugely popular ALS Ice Bucket Chal-lenge, went viral on Lebanese social media.

Thousands took to their personal social media accounts last week to post a video of themselves lighting up the black-and-white banner along with the #Burn ISIS Flag Challenge or #Burn ISIS hashtags, and have nominated “the whole world” to follow suit.

But the online campaign drew fire from lawmakers, who have condemned the practice due to the Islamic declara-tion of faith emblazoned on the flag. The campaign began after several protesters burned the ISIS flags in Sassine Square in a protest that sparked an outcry from Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, who called on the activists to be prosecuted for des-ecrating the sacred slogan.

“This morning, some people burnt the flag of ISIS in Sassine Square and their symbol reads: ‘No G-d but Allah and Mohammad the prophet of Allah,’ which is the cornerstone of Islam,” he told a Lebanese reporter. “This sym-bol has nothing to do with ISIS and its terrorist approach.” Rifi turned to state prosecutor Samir Hammoud to try the

perpetrators, who subsequently opened an investigation. The justice minister further argued that the practice was lia-ble to cause sectarian tensions.

However, another Lebanese law-maker defended the campaign, saying the protesters “only burned the ISIS flag without the intention of insulting Islam.”

Children of the Holocaust to Receive

Compensation

Here’s a case of a half-hearted at-tempt to placate the world and assuage the guilt of the descendants of Hitler’s willing executioners. Unfortunately,

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nothing can bring back the 6 million who lost their lives in the Holocaust and nothing can compensate for the pain and suffering survivors endured.

Now, children of the Holocaust are to receive monetary compensation from the German government for their pain and suffering. The Conference on Jew-ish Material Claims Against Germany announced last week that it had secured approximately $250 million from the German government for reparations. Around 75,000 survivors will be paid a one-time lump sum of about $3,280. The money is intended to be restitutions for the physiological pain and suffering that they endured during the war.

Anyone born between January 1, 1928 and the end of the war in August 1945, and who was put into a camp or ghetto, went into hiding, or had to live under a false identity for at least six months will be eligible for the payment.

Stuart Eizenstat, the conference’s special negotiator for these sessions and the former US ambassador to the EU, sat down with the German politicians to negotiate in late August. “Given the advanced age of survivors, if we were going to do it, it had to be done now,” he said. “We’re losing them at a rate of

eight per year.”“No one is saying Germany hasn’t

paid very large sums of money, they have. No amount of money can make up for the suffering, but these are the final years. Any acknowledgment has to be done soon.”

French Mom Reunited with Child Kidnapped

in Syria

Meriam Rhaiem, 25, is a young French mother who has been living a real life nightmare the past several months.

Her beloved two-year-old daughter, Assia, was smuggled out of France by her father and reportedly taken to jihadist

centers in Syria. Back in March, Rhaiem appealed to French authorities to recog-nize her baby as “the youngest French hostage.”

Assia’s father failed to bring her home and took her to Turkey instead. Her parents are currently in the divorce process. He called his wife regularly and begged her to come and join them, tell-ing her that he planned to cross into Syria with their daughter to join the Al-Nusra Front, which is Al-Qaeda’s official Syr-ian affiliate. Two weeks ago, the father was arrested in Turkey; he is still being held there, according to a French interior ministry source said.

After several months of separation, the mother and daughter were finally re-united on Wednesday.

“It’s a moment of great emotion with the arrival of Meriam Rhaiem and her daughter, Assia, after months of wait-ing,” said Interior Minister Bernard Ca-zeneuve, who met them as they arrived at Villacoublay air base outside of Paris.

He noted “the trials this young wom-an has endured, fighting hard for the re-turn of her daughter who was kidnapped in circumstances which aren’t clear” and paid tribute to “a brave mother [who] de-cided to get her child back.”

According to Rhaiem’s lawyer, Ga-briel Versini-Bullara, her husband had become radicalized after visiting Mecca, asking her to wear the Islamic veil, criti-cizing her for working, and banning her from playing music to Assia.

According to official estimates, around 800 French residents have trav-elled to Syria, returned from the con-flict-ridden country, or have plans to go there. France unveiled a bill in July aimed at stopping aspiring jihadists from travelling to Syria, a hotbed of radicals and militants. It includes a ban on foreign travel of up to six months for individuals suspected of radicalization and gives au-thorities the power to temporarily confis-cate and invalidate their passports.

U.S. and South Korea Form Joint Unit

South Korea announced last week that it would create a joint military unit with the United States. The outfit’s main objective would be to target North Ko-

rea’s nuclear weapons arsenal if a full-blown conflict ever broke out.

The mechanized unit led by a U.S. major general will be set up in the first half of next year, the South’s defense ministry said, as part of elaborate prepa-rations for any future war between the two Koreas. “It will be the first combined field combat unit to carry out wartime op-erations,” a defense ministry spokesman said without elaborating on its mission.

The ministry said the contingent would have a joint office of U.S. and South Korean staff in Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, where the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division guards a strategically import-ant area as a deterrent to an invasion by North Korea. In the event of an all-out conflict, a mechanized South Korean brigade would join forces with the U.S. division, which is armed with helicop-ters and other advanced weapons, it said. “This would be a symbol of a strength-ened military alliance between the al-lies,” a military official said.

Because the Korean conflict ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty, the two Koreas are still technically at war. Nearly 30,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the South under a bilateral military accord. If fresh hostilities broke out, the U.S. commander in South Korea would assume control of the South’s 640,000 troops.

A transfer of command in a wartime setting was set for 2015, which would allow South Korea control of its own troops, but Seoul wants a postponement citing the increased threat from North Korea’s nuclear and missile develop-ment.

South Korea and the United States held an annual military drill in August despite condemnation by North Korea which had threatened a “merciless” re-taliatory strike. The drill simulated the response to a nuclear attack threat for the first time, according to the South’s de-fense ministry. The U.S. nuclear umbrel-la protects South Korea, and in wartime, American soldiers in the South would be reinforced by military contingents from the continental United States and its presence in East Asia.

700 Children Killed or Wounded in Iraq this

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some of them used as suicide bombers by the Islamic State militant group.

The Islamic State group, which now controls a large swath of Iraq and Syr-ia, has become a brutal violator of chil-dren’s rights, though not the only one, said Leila Zerrougui, the secretary-gen-eral’s special representative for children and armed conflict.

Some children have been killed in “summary executions,” Zerrougui told the Security Council. She said the Islam-

ic State group has ordered boys as young as 13 years old to carry weapons, guard strategic locations or arrest civilians, and has used other children as suicide bomb-ers.

Zerrougui said her office has also received reports of militias allied to the Iraqi government using children in the fight against the Islamic State extrem-ists. She added that the whereabouts of numerous children jailed on security charges by the Iraqi government remain

unknown since militias stormed the fa-cilities where they were held in July.

Thankfully, there has been progress around the world in protecting children in armed conflict, including Chad end-ing recruitment of child soldiers and Yemen’s signing a plan with the U.N. to prevent recruitment of children in its armed forces. But those gains are be-ing overshadowed by violence against children in new crises, Zerrougui said, pointing to the Boko Haram insurgen-

cy in Nigeria and the conflicts in Gaza, Libya, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Mali and South Sudan.

U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said boys and girls have been among the

primary victims of armed conflict this year. In the Central African Republic, he said more than 8,000 children are in the hands of armed groups from all sides, including the Lord’s Resistance Army which is active in the country’s southeast. In South Sudan, he said, all

parties are recruiting children.Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitak-

er, who is UNESCO’s special envoy for peace and reconciliation, told the Securi-ty Council he returned on Sunday from South Sudan, where his foundation is training young people to build peace.

He said he saw the hair of some boys and girls in a camp in Bentiu turning red from malnutrition, hundreds of emp-ty schools, and “perhaps worst of all, walking through the cities, I saw child soldiers wearing military uniforms and carrying guns.”

Whitaker, who has worked with child soldiers for 10 years, said supporting governments to end recruitment of child soldiers is “a paramount first step.” But he said helping child soldiers re-enter so-ciety through education, job training and other efforts is just as key.

“It is impossible for us to compre-hend the magnitude of a child soldier’s pain: how deep his wounds, how heavy her burden,” Whitaker said. “Unless we are there to meet them with open arms, open homes, and open schools, their wars will never end.”

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group’s recent assent to power. One Arab cleric, who was recently inter-viewed, said of the beheading videos that he had seen the images and that “slaughter is one of the methods of ex-ecuting heretics and killers.” He said that since the state is Islamic, its people should be treated accordingly, adding that he would “follow the will of G-d and support the group, as long as it con-tinues to follow G-d’s commandments.”

The same cleric claims that support for IS will grow as soon as more people recognize the phenomenon as a sover-eign country. “Many Muslims are not aware that it is a stable country with a clear policy. It believes in the Quran and in the Prophet Muhammad,” he said.

“Unfortunately, the media makes many mistakes in reporting about the Islamic State and publishes false infor-mation,” he said. “Therefore, you do not see many people who support it. Those who know the true meaning of the state must support it. I’m not just talking about Muslims, Jews must also under-stand that they are actually the primary victims of Zionism and they should sup-port the Islamic State and even convert to Islam,” he added.

Netanyahu: Steven Sotloff was Seen as

Symbol for the West

Last week, the world was shaken by the gruesome video released by ISIS of the murder of reporter Steven Sotloff. Sotloff was a Jew who held dual Ameri-can-Israeli citizenship. He made Aliyah in 2005. Sotloff kept his faith to himself during his capture but tried his best to follow Jewish practices, including fast-ing on Yom Kippur.

This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the time to send sent his

condolences to Sotloff’s family and said that the young journalist was killed by members of the extremist group Islamic State because he was seen as a symbol of the West.

Netanyahu spoke about the brutal and graphic murder to an international delegation of SWAT officers who had arrived in Israel for a ceremony hon-oring Israel’s elite police unit Yamam, before thanking the Israeli officers for their dedication and service. “Steven was killed because he was seen by these murderous terrorists as a symbol of the West, the same culture that extremist Islam wishes to annihilate,” he said. The prime minister added that extremist Islam sees the Jewish state, the United States, and the free world as “partners in liberal democracy, values that it wishes would disappear from the world.”

Most of the world now under-stands, much better than in the past, that “threats to Israel are the same threats” facing other countries, and “those who don’t nip these threats in the bud will find them at the end of the day in their homes,” Netanyahu said. “We are fight-ing the same war,” the prime minister reiterated.

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tionally-backed reconstruction efforts. His comments, which also included harsh criticism of Hamas’ conduct in the war, appeared to be part of a brew-ing power struggle over who will control post-war Gaza.

Hamas has controlled Gaza since overrunning Abbas’ forces in 2007. Fac-ing international isolation and a deep fi-nancial crisis, the Islamic militant group agreed to the formation of a new unity government with Abbas’ Fatah move-ment in June, in which it would restore governing power to Abbas in the terri-tory. But making a deal with the devil usually does not turn out as expected. Hamas has yet to yield power — even after the devastating war against Israel, which killed more than 2,100 Palestin-ians and caused billions of dollars of damage.

“We will not accept having a partner-ship if their status in Gaza remains this way,” Abbas said. “Unity has terms. This situation does not represent any kind of unity,” Abbas said. “If Hamas does not want one authority, one law, one weap-on, we will not accept a partnership with it.” Abbas said that as long as Hamas remains in control of Gaza, “The gov-

ernment of national unity can do nothing on the ground.” The comments set the stage for what are expected to be difficult negotiations with Hamas in the coming days. With his criticism, Abbas appears to be putting pressure on Hamas to make concessions in the talks.

Hamas, meanwhile, remains in firm control of Gaza, with a depleted, but still significant, arsenal of rockets and thou-sands of armed fighters. Abbas heaped fierce criticism of the group’s handling of the war, accusing it of making unre-alistic demands for a full lifting of Isra-el’s blockade of Gaza and dragging out ceasefire talks. “With every passing day, more blood was shed,” he said, criticiz-ing the heavy death toll and damage. “Is this the victory they talk about? Regret-tably, I can only say the results are trag-ic,” he said.

In the coming weeks, Israel and Hamas are expected to start a new round of indirect, Egyptian-mediated talks for an extended ceasefire. Hamas is demanding a full lifting of an Israe-li-Egyptian blockade of Gaza, including the reopening of a sea and airport. Isra-el has said the blockade will remain in effect as long as Hamas controls Gaza.

The international community has made it clear that all funding and reconstruc-tion efforts be handled through Abbas’ government. Israel and the West want guarantees that Hamas will divert none of the aid for military use. A conference of donor nations is expected to take place in October.

Israel’s Hotels among World’s Most Expensive

This report is true, and we are not even talking about during Sukkos.

For the first half of 2014, before the start of the Gaza conflict, Israel had the fourth priciest hotels in the world, ac-

cording to Hotels.com. According to the figures, the average price of a hotel room in Israel in the first six months of 2014 was 5% higher than the average price of a hotel room in Israel in the first half of 2013, while many other countries presented a moderate increase or even a drop in prices. Israel went up to the fourth place on the index from the sixth place in the first half of 2013.

The Hotel Price Index (HPI) is a reg-ular report on hotel prices in major desti-nations across the world, based on book-ings made on the Hotels.com site. Prices shown are those actually paid by custom-ers per room per night, including taxes and fees, rather than advertised rates. Ac-cording to the report, the most expensive country in terms of hotel stays is Mona-co with an average of $370 a night and a 21% increase compared to the first half of 2013. Oman came in second ($304 a night), followed by Mauritius ($256) with a 7% drop compared to 2013.

Israel ranked fourth with an average price of $240 a night, and Switzerland came in sixth ($222). The United States ranked 13th ($191), followed by Norway ($187). Italy came in 18th ($178), France 23rd ($167), Canada 25th ($164), Ja-

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Details Released About Teen Murder Plot

The Shin Bet has released new in-telligence surrounding the abduction and murders of Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrach hy”d. The Israeli agency is the equivalent of the FBI and has been conducting the inves-tigation since the teens’ disappearance in June.

New reports include the transfer of money from Gaza to Hebron to fund

the triple murder and the failed escape to Jordan of Hussam Kawasme, who allegedly helped bury the three teens on his land and was indicted in a military court last week. Kawasme, 40, was ar-rested on July 11. He later admitted to his role in the attack and fingered other family members and acquaintances.

The disappearance of the three boys triggered a massive search operation and crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank, with hundreds of members being arrest-ed. The two men suspected of carrying out the murders, Marwan Kawasme and Amer Abu-Ayshe, are still at large. “They’ll make their mistake and we’ll get to them, too,” a senior Shin Bet offi-cer confidently stated in a briefing.

The officer revealed that the terror attack is believed to have been a local initiative rather than a directive from above, and that, according to Hus-sam Kawasme’s confession, Marwan Kawasme arrived at his house at one in the morning on the night of the attack and said: “We wanted to kidnap one, we kidnapped three. We got tangled up. We killed them.”

The two men at the heart of the attack were the brothers Hussam and Mahmoud

Kawasme. The latter, who lives in Gaza, was released from a 20-year sentence in an Israeli prison for his role in a 2004 suicide attack in Beersheba and exiled, as part of the Gilad Shalit deal, to the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave. Ac-cording to the report, at least eight men involved in the kidnapping and murders have been arrested.

NationalObesity Study Results

Are In

Warning: reading this article may make you want to skip the French fries the next time you pick up food.

Americans are getting fatter. Much fatter. The adult obesity rates increased in six states last year. They fell in zero states. And in twenty states, at least 30 percent of adults are considered obese. These new findings were just released by Trust for America’s Health and the Rob-ert Wood Johnson Foundation and were based on federal government data.

From 2011 to 2012, by comparison, the rate of obesity increased in only one state. The 2013 adult obesity rate ex-ceeds 20 percent in every state, while 42 have rates above 25 percent. For the first time, two states, Mississippi and West Virginia, rose above 35 percent. The year before, 13 states were above 30 percent and 41 had rates of at least 25 percent. Adult obesity rates increased last year in Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, New Jersey, Tennessee and Wyoming.

These alarming increases are in spite of the many programs that are out there to educate the public about calorie count-ing and weight watching. First Lady Mi-chelle Obama has especially taken up the cause, although she obviously has not had much success.

Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, where BMI is calculated by dividing weight (in ki-lograms) by height (in meters) squared. Overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9. Nationally, rates of obesity re-mained at about one-third of the adult

population, according to The State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America, while just over two-thirds are overweight or worse.

There is some good news: at least the rates of childhood obesity have lev-eled off. In 2012, about one in three 2- to 19-year-olds are overweight or obese, which is comparable to rates over the last decade. Continuing a years-long trend, nine of the 10 states with the high-est rates of obesity are in the South. The West and Northeast had the healthiest BMIs, with Colorado boasting the low-est adult obesity rate in the nation—21.3 percent.

Obesity also tracked demograph-ics, with higher rates correlating with poverty, which is associated with lower availability of healthy foods and fewer safe neighborhoods where people can walk and children can play outside for exercise. More than 75 percent of Afri-can-Americans are overweight or obese as compared to 67.2 percent of whites.

The socioeconomic pattern affects children, too. In 2012, just over 8 per-cent of African-American children ages 2 to 19 were severely obese, with a BMI above 40, compared with 3.9 percent of white children. About 38 percent of Af-rican-American children live below the poverty line, while 12 percent of white children do.

Get out those sneakers, America, and start walking!

Soldier Buried 70 Years Later

The family of a long lost fallen WWII soldier will finally see him buried with full military honors in Arlington Na-tional Cemetery this month. A Japanese nonprofit that searches for fallen soldiers excavated the remains of Army Pfc. Ber-nard Gavrin, who was from Brooklyn. Last year, the group turned over their findings to the American government for DNA testing, and Garvin was found among them, using a relative’s DNA sample to match.

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ed missing on July 7, 1944, the Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office said. His regiment had been in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands of the west-ern Pacific Ocean and came under heavy attack, suffering many casualties. The soldier was declared dead in July 1945, and his remains were deemed non-recov-erable in 1948.

His 82-year-old nephew David Rog-ers, of Delray Beach, Florida, said he was planning to be at the burial on September 12. He said it was “absolutely incredible and unbelievable to all of us” that Gavrin would be laid to rest in “the most hon-orable place you could be buried in this country.”

Rogers, whose mother was Gavrin’s sister, said Gavrin was the youngest of three children and had enlisted in 1940. He said the last time he saw his uncle was when he was 8 years old and his un-cle came to visit. Gavrin’s loss was shat-tering, Rogers said. When the telegram with the news of his passing came and Gavrin’s mother, Rogers’ grandmother, opened it, “She let out a scream that lives with me to this day,” he said.

Finally, this brave soldier will be laid to rest.

10% of CA’s Workforce are Immigrants

Ever wondered what California’s estimated 2.6 million immigrants are up to? USC researchers in California have released a new report that finds that il-legal immigrants compose nearly 10% of California’s workforce and contribute $130 billion annually to its gross domes-tic product.

Here are a bunch of interesting facts that were found in the study. Immigrants who are in California illegally make up 38% of the agriculture industry and 14% of the construction industry state-wide. Half of the immigrants who are in the state illegally have been there for at least 10 years. Roughly 58% do not have

health insurance, and nearly three in four live in households that include U.S. cit-izens.

USC sociology professor Manuel Pastor, who worked on the report, said it shows how integrated immigrants are into daily life in California. “It’s a pop-ulation deeply embedded in the labor market, neighborhoods and social fabric of the state,” said Pastor, who is a co-di-rector of USC’s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.

Advocates for more inclusive immi-gration policy say the economic contri-butions of immigrants are another reason they should be allowed to stay. “Every one of California’s immigrants helps shape our state’s economic and civic vitality,” said Reshma Shamasunder, Di-rector of the California Immigrant Policy Center.

America’s Economy Ranked Third

The American economy is doing a lot better these days than just a couple of years ago. According to the World Eco-nomic Forum’s annual competitiveness rankings, the United States is number three in the world. That’s not as good as the No.1 spot we held back in 2008, but it’s much better than being No. 7 like we were in 2012. This year, our economy falls only behind Switzerland and Sin-gapore. Completing the top ten are Fin-land, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

The WEF rankings are based on surveys of business leaders, so they’re weighted toward factors that might be more important to businesses than to or-dinary people. Still, they tend to reflect important trends that matter to people on the street. The WEF breaks down its rankings into more than 100 indicators that provide insightful detail on each country’s economic performance.

Here’s what America is doing right. Innovation and technology adoption are close to the best in the world. Investor protections are strong. America still at-tracts and retains top talent from every-where. U.S. businesses are sophisticated,

with highly efficient logistics and distri-bution.

But there are three big problems with the U.S. economy that have been show-ing up in the WEF rankings for several years: government, healthcare and ed-ucation. It is very difficult for business leaders to understand political maneu-verings such as threatening to default on U.S. debt and shutting down the govern-ment. The biggest gripes about Wash-ington involve a convoluted tax system, a thicket of regulations (including state and local rules layered upon those at the federal level), and bureaucratic ineffi-ciency that can make things like permits and licensing nearly impossible.

But business leaders seem to think the U.S. government is a bit less terrible than it used to be. An improvement in America’s fiscal standing is the reason the United States rose from fifth in last year’s WEF rankings to third this year. That’s mainly because the U.S. budget deficit has been improving, although the national debt—the aggregation of all budget deficits—has continued to swell and is now around a staggering $18 tril-lion.

Healthcare is a problem because it’s expensive in the United States, and ac-cess is far spottier than in nearly every other developed country. The Affordable Care Act that’s now been in effect for nearly a year was supposed to fix that, yet the United States still has a complex system that puts a huge burden on em-ployers. Business leaders rank the Unit-ed States 49th for health and education, combined.

America’s university system ranks No. 3 in the world, but the overall qual-ity of U.S. education, at all levels, ranks 27th. And secondary education, aka high school, ranks 59th. That’s on account of dismal high-school dropout rates and poor student performance on math and science, as compared with other coun-tries.

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But for those of us who are looking to get into the best schools in the nation, U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings reveal no surprises. In general, the colleges at the top of the list remain the same, although they may shift spots every year.

Schools are ranked on up to 16 mea-sures of academic excellence, including graduation rates, selectivity and fresh-men retention to help families compare schools, narrow their searches and make informed decisions.

So what’s the top school in the na-tion? Princeton University came in at number one and Harvard University slipped in close behind. Yale came in at number three and the rest of the top ten—Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania and California Institute of Technology—generally remained the same.

Dartmouth, which came in at num-ber ten last year, shifted into the eleventh spot.

In addition to nearly 50 types of nu-merical rankings and lists, U.S. News publishes a wealth of data on each school’s online profile page. For the first time this year, this includes each school’s campus safety statistics and three-year federal loan default rates, as published by the U.S. Department of Education. This new information can help prospective freshmen in their college search.

Longest Commute in the Nation

Think your commute is long? How about 7 hours in the car each day to your dream job?

Meet Thurmond Alford, a man from Richmond, Virginia, who is the ultimate dad. “It’s all about family,” said Alford. “If you don’t have family what are you going to do?” But 12 years ago, Alford was offered the perfect job. It paid three times what he was making at the time.

There was no question he would be tak-ing it.

And so began one of the longest daily commutes in America. His day starts at 4am. Alford drives 80 miles to a park-ing lot outside Fredericksburg, Virginia. There he shares a ride with someone else. An hour later, he’s at another parking lot in Arlington and then he take two trains to downtown Washington, D.C., where he is a program manager at the Depart-ment of Justice. Alford finally gets to work at 7:30am.

After passing through three major cities and traversing 220 miles, Alford can finally start his day.

“Every two weeks I was changing oil,” said Alford. “The guy at Jiffy Lube ... he knew my first name. He knew my football team. He says, ‘You’re here ev-ery two weeks.’ It’s like I’m getting a haircut with him – he was changing the oil in my car.”

“It could be sunny in Richmond and it could be snowing in D.C.,” Alford jokes. It’s like he’s crossing the country on his commute. But he wouldn’t change any-thing for the world. His family is where his home is at. “I have a support system here. So I have a happy home.”

San Fran Snobbiest of All

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“Filled with politicians and some of the most educated people in the country, it’s no wonder our nation’s capital has be-come a bit snobby,” Movoto says about D.C. The list used factors such as cost of housing, average household income, number of art galleries, and percent of

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residents who graduated from college.D.C.’s second-place ranking can be

credited mostly to its high number of col-lege graduates, as well as its abundance of cultural activities. “With theaters like Ford’s Theatre and the JFK Center for the Performing Arts, plus countless galleries and museums, D.C. ranked 10th and 12th for its number of performing arts centers and art galleries, respectively,” according to the list.

So where do residents turn their noses up at visitors the most in our nation? At-lanta, GA; Madison, WI; Honolulu, HI; Irvine, CA; and Portland, OR, came in at the top ten snootiest on the list. Oakland, CA; Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA; Wash-ington, D.C.; and San Francisco, CA, rounded out the top five.

SEAL Shirt on Display in 9/11 Memorial Museum

Visitors this week to the 9/11 Memo-rial Museum were emotional when they saw the new display of a shirt worn by a member of SEAL Team Six during the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. The showcase of the brown shirt boasting a black U.S. flag designed for the night-time mission was “awe-inspiring,” said Roy McDonald, 58, as he held back tears. “Seeing that shirt brought me back to the joy and elation I had that day when it was announced that Bin Laden was killed,” added the hotel worker from Ft. Lauder-dale, Florida.

An anonymous donor gave the shirt to the museum. The donor requested that it be displayed in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in honor of the entire Navy Special Forces unit that took out Bin Laden during a May 2, 2011 raid on his Abbottadbad, Pakistan, hideout.

The shirt will be displayed with other items recovered during the raid that prompted spontaneous celebrations throughout the country. It’s a symbol of America’s resilience and strength in the face of evil.

Williams is Champ Again

Serena Williams is good at tennis. Se-riously good. This week, the 33-year-old athlete ended the Grand Slam season by winning her third consecutive U.S. Open. The win counts as her 18th major title overall. The 75-minute championship match between Williams and Caroline Wozniacki came to a close with Serena winning two sets 6-3 and 6-3.

Williams matched Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova with 18 Grand Slam singles titles, the fourth-most in history. Williams also matched Evert’s total of six championships at the U.S. Open and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert’s four-title run from 1975-78. Not only did Williams, ranked and seeded No. 1, win all 14 sets she played in the tournament, she never even dropped more than three games in any of them.

When the final ended, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face.

Her first major trophy also came in New York, in 1999, when she was 17. “It is a pleasure for me to win my first Grand Slam here and then this No. 18,” Williams said, her voice choking. “So I’m really emotional. I couldn’t ask to do it at a better place.”

Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis – $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American sum-mer hard-court circuit. Evert and Navra-tilova joined her on court during the tro-phy and check ceremony.

Comedian Joan Rivers

Dies at 81On Thursday, Joan Rivers, the come-

dian and queen of “snark,” died of com-plications from a minor throat surgery. She was 81.

Her daughter, Melissa, who was al-ways at her side, said, “My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.”

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“We wanted to do it, and we did it, and we don’t [care],” Rivers once said. At the time, she was talking about her 1978 big-screen comedy, Rabbit Test, which she wrote, directed and willed to life, but she could’ve been talking about any stage of her show-business run. “The trouble with me is, I make jokes too often,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “That’s how I get through life. Life is so difficult — everybody’s been through something! But you laugh at it, it becomes smaller.” Whatever came her way, she made sure to push past it and rise above it.

Joan was born Joan Alexandra Mo-linsky in Brooklyn, NY, on June 8, 1933, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Her more than 50 years in the entertain-ment industry was studded with ups and down. She endeared herself to fans with her famous “Can we talk?” catchphrase and later used the question “Who are you wearing?” to celebrities preening on the red carpet. And she was unafraid to reinvent herself. Rivers was constantly changing and never felt that any gig was beneath her.

Her regular reference to her myriad plastic surgeries never got old. “I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware,” she quipped. Another time she joked, “I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.”

Rivers essentially started her career on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1965. She frequented as a guest and then as a permanent guest host. But then, in 1986, when Rivers launched her own late show, she lost a friend, as Carson vowed to cut her out of his life and show. She never once went on the Tonight Show again during his reign. “I kept saying, ‘I don’t understand, why is he mad?’” Riv-ers wrote in 2012. “He was not angry at anybody else.”

Two year after hosting her show, it was cancelled, and just three weeks later, her husband and manager, Edgar Rosen-berg, took his own life. It seemed as if Rivers’ career and life was floundering. But Joan was not a quitter. “I don’t want a warm hand on my shoulder,” Rivers told People magazine at the time. “I don’t want sympathy audiences.”

Rivers kept marching on. She put in time on Hollywood Squares. She

launched a morning talk show and joined the E! Network. She hawked jewelry on QVC. Nothing seemed beneath her and no one seemed to be able to dodge her brilliant and hilarious comments and insights. “I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking,” Joan once pointed out.

But most people were able to relate to her wittiness. Every housewife could understand when Joan said, “I hate

housework. You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later, you have to start all over again.” Viewers laughed when she quipped, “The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” “I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzhei-mer’s. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it,” she once said.

“I’m never gonna retire,” Rivers told People last year. And true to her word, Joan never did.

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Army: Friendly Fire Incident was Avoidable

A military investigation report has been made public revealing that a “mis-communication” was responsible for a “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan that killed five U.S. soldiers and one Af-ghan in June. The accident was one of the deadliest same-side attacks in the war, which began almost 13 years ago.

While many of the details were blacked out, the report did cite a col-lective failure by soldiers, commanders and aircrew members to execute the fundamentals of the mission. As a re-sult, the five Americans and one Afghan were mistaken for the enemy and were attacked with two laser-guided bombs from a B-1 bomber.

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Detroit’s Expensive Bankruptcy

Filing for bankruptcy is supposed to save money. But not with this price tag.

The law firm guiding Detroit through the biggest-ever municipal bankrupt-cy has charged the city just over $26 million, according to Robert Fishman, a court-appointed fee examiner. The firm’s fees bring the total price tag for all of Detroit’s professional services in the historic case reported so far by the fee examiner to about $55 million.

The Motor City’s state-appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, has said he hopes the final cost will not reach the hundreds of millions of dollars. Jef-ferson County, Alabama, which was the largest municipal bankruptcy before Detroit filed for protection in July 2013, spent only about $25 million on its two-year case.

Fishman’s subsequent quarterly re-ports will likely show ballooning costs, reflecting work by the city’s lawyers and consultants ahead of a key confirmation hearing and their participation in the hearing, which started on September 2 and is scheduled to last through October 17. Judge Steven Rhodes will use the hearing to determine if the city’s plan to adjust $18 billion of debt is fair and feasible.

Drug Drop Off Program Expands

Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that there will soon be more options for safe places to dispose of prescription drugs. Drug addiction and abuse have been on the rise in the U.S. and the new disposal centers are aimed at helping to stem the tide. Holder said in a statement that the new DEA policy would let prescription drugs be dropped off at hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and other authorized drop-off sites.

Long-term care facilities will also be able to collect controlled substanc-es turned in by residents. Prescription drug users can mail unused medications to collectors using pre-paid packages, the statement said. “I am committed to ending the national epidemic that has already stolen too many lives and torn apart too many families,” Holder said.

Alarmingly, a 2013 survey showed that about 6.5 million Americans 12

and older were non-medical users of prescription drugs. In 2011, more than half of the 41,300 unintentional U.S. drug overdose deaths involved prescrip-tion drugs. Opioid pain relievers caused about 17,000 of those deaths.

Drop off centers and programs will hopefully halt future drug abuse. During a nationwide take-back event in April, Americans turned in 390 tons of pre-scription drugs at almost 6,100 sites coordinated by the DEA and police. Additionally, more than 2,100 tons of prescription pills have been turned in over the last four years.

The next prescription drug disposal day will be on September 27.

Best Places for Working Families

Nowadays, it is getting harder and harder to find married households in which one of the parents does not work. In fact, according to the Bureau of La-bor Statistics, nearly 60 percent of “mar-ried couple families with children” now include two working parents. So who’s home watching the kids? In that vein, personal finance website NerdWallet partnered with Business Insider mag-azine to find the best places to live for working parents.

In ranking each city, NerdWallet took four factors into account: cost of living in that city, the percentage of households with children, cost of child care, and quality of available education. In con-sidering cost of living, analysts looked at median household incomes and fac-tors including mortgage and real estate expenses, insurance, and utilities. Child-care costs came from 2013 report from ChildCare Aware of America. Data that compares standardized test scores from public and private schools to state av-erages was used to determine education quality.

So where are the best cities in the nation for working parents to bring up their children? Well, none of these place

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Two Men on Death Row Set Free

After sitting on death row for three decades, two North Carolinian men are being freed.

In 1983, Sabrina Buie was tragically murdered at a young age and half-broth-ers, Henry McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, were charged with the crime. They both faced the death penalty until now, when new evidence was discov-ered.

Another man’s DNA was found on a cigarette butt left near the girl’s body. Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser said the new DNA results contradicted the case prosecutors put forward, and he overturned the convictions of McCollum

and Brown.“We waited years and years,” James

McCollum, Henry McCollum’s father, said after the decision was announced. “We kept the faith.”

Defense attorneys say the case was based on intimidated confessions from two petrified teenagers with low IQs. There was never any physical ev-idence connecting them to the crime scene. Defense lawyers petitioned for their release after a recent analysis point-ed to another man who lived near the soybean field where Buie’s body was found in Robeson County. That guilty man is currently serving a life sentence for a similar crime that occurred about a month after the Buie incident.

Despite the judge overturning the verdict, the two brothers went back to prison after the announcement. Keith Acree, spokesman for the state prison system, said that it would take several days to complete the paperwork until the two men will be able to walk away freely.

“The evidence you heard today in my opinion negates the evidence presented at trial,” Johnson Britt, the Robeson County district attorney, said during a closing statement before the judge an-nounced his decision. Britt was not the original prosecutor of the men.

That’s OddSick of Chores

Have you ever pretended to be sick to get out of having to take out the gar-bage or sweep the floor? Well, in South Korea, they’ve taken chore-related mal-adies to a whole new level.

Fake casts have been selling like hotcakes the few days before the annu-al Chuseok festival. It seems that South Koreans would give their right (or left)

arm not to have to work in preparation for the festivities.

“We have been selling this for 10 years now, but sales increased drastically starting last week,” said a sales manager at an online vendor who declined to be identified. Both men and women have been buying the bogus casts.

It’s hard to blame the women for wanting to shirk their household duties. During Chuseok, a three-day thanksgiv-ing holiday, women traditionally do most of the work in preparing and cooking elaborate ceremonial dishes while the men of the family chat, drink and watch television. Only 4.9 percent of people say that both men and women share the holiday chores. For everyone else, it’s only the females working. I wonder why men would buy the fake casts; maybe it’s too hard to lift their own drinks?

The holiday gender divide is so en-trenched that it has spawned the term “daughter-in-law holiday syndrome,” with many young women suffering post-holiday stress and fatigue.

Even though many have been buying the casts, they may have a hard time con-vincing their families that they’re really incapacitated. The media has been high-lighting this trend and the fake casts are no longer a secret.

In an unrelated story, many bochurim were seen with casts on their arms as they landed in JFK two weeks before Pe-sach this year. Miraculously, their arms were healed and the casts were taken off the night of the seder.

These Kids Have all the Answers

Students in Austria are know-it-alls—at least they were for a minute or two.

144 students taking the entrance exams to University of Salzburg were handed out tests on Tuesday with all the answers filled in. No, it was not an April Fools’ Day prank (do they even have April Fools’ Day there?). The professors mistakenly handed out the completed tests that were meant for grading.

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Luckily, the mistake was caught and the students are going to be retested next month.

Sounds like the teachers may need to go back to school.

$50 Fine Paid— 50 Years Later

You know what your mother says—it’s never too late to correct a wrong.

Well, Robert Atherton must agree with this axiom. The Phoenix native was fined 1,000 lire—approximately 70 cents—for illegally parking his Vespa in an Italian village while on vacation in 1964.

Now, 50 years later, Atherton has sent a letter of apology—along with $50 to pay the penalty and extra to cover its 50-year inflation—to the mayor of Leri-ci, a town in northern Italy. He told au-thorities in the northern region of Ligu-ria that he was “deeply sorry” for having previously failed to cough up the cash.

Apparently, Atherton simply forgot about the fine. But now, when stumbled across the ticket, he decided to “make up for his forgetfulness” by sending the note and the extra money.

The American’s scrupulousness im-pressed Mayor Marco Caluri, who said Atherton’s gesture was “exemplary.”

“I thank Mr. Atherton on my own behalf and on behalf of the town and I will not forget to write back to him, to thank him personally for his honesty,” he told Il Gazzettino. “It is a really admira-ble gesture that I hope will serve as an example.”

Does he want us all to pay our tickets 50 years later?

Dog Eats 43 Socks

Want to know where all those miss-ing socks went? Well, it seems the dog ate it.

Before you start laughing, this really is true. When a 3-year-old Great Dane suffered from a painful stomachache, an astonishing X-ray revealed “a large quantity of foreign material.” With no other way to get the clump of matter out of the pooch, the dog went under the knife and surgeons pulled out 43 and a half socks one at a time.

DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hos-pital took a picture of the multi-hued

socks laid out one by one on a table and submitted the dog’s X-ray to an annual vet magazine contest called, “They Ate WHAT?” and ended up winning a $500 third place prize late last month. First place went to an exotic frog that ate 30 ornamental rocks in Texas, requiring sur-gery. Second place went to a Florida dog that swallowed a shish kabob skewer.

All my dog ever eats is my home-work.

Sky High VowsThink you can say “I do” way up in

the sky?A couple exchanged marriage vows

atop a Miami hotel before rappelling down the high-rise building along with hundreds of others for a charity fundrais-er.

The new couple, Melissa Lopez and Chris Cruz, won a contest to rappel down the JW Marriott Marquis. Before the couple said “I do” on Friday, dozens of others rappelled down the building to raise money for a Miami charity.

Talk about a marriage made in heaven.

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China’s Tantrum Insurance

In an effort to drum up business in China’s insurance industry, insurers are dreaming up more and more creative ways to get payees to sign up.

Scared your child will break some-thing if he throws a tantrum? Take out “naughty child insurance.” Don’t want your team to be knocked out of the World Cup? Afraid you’ll burn your tongue slurping hot and sour soup? There’s an insurance for you.

“It’s consumer acquisition, a way to engage new customers,” said Joseph Ngai, who heads the Greater China fi-nancial institutions practice at McK-insey in Hong Kong. “It’s primarily marketing.”

Some policies are aimed at married couples and others are for families with children.

For young children, there’s now insurance for recalled infant milk for-mula, and for little ones who get out of hand, People’s Insurance Group of China Co Ltd (PICC) offers a policy against “mischievous and destructive” habits. The policy’s tagline reads: “Why not let us pay for the child’s fault?” It’s a steal, considering how rambunctious your child is. It costs 44 yuan ($7.16) and provides cover up to 100,000 yuan for 12 months.

Chongqing-based Ancheng sells a similar policy in three different ver-sions, with parents of the naughtiest children paying 116 yuan for a 5,000 yuan payout. Wonder when it’s coming to America.

During the recent soccer World Cup in Brazil, Ancheng and ZhongAn insurance companies offered policies allowing Chinese customers to pay for protection against over-drinking, being attacked by hooligans and a “Heart-break” policy for when their favorite team was eliminated. Uptake wasn’t huge, but the policies succeeded in win-ning plenty of media coverage, although industry regulators were concerned that insurers were skirting too close to the Chinese love of gambling.

Other attention-grabbing tactics cover Chinese cultural events. Ancheng has a policy covering any medical costs resulting from burns while eating hot-pot, a Chinese tradition involving cook-ing raw meat and vegetables in a boiling pot of soup placed at the center of the table.

And, of course, in a country smoth-ered by smog, insurers are hoping to cash in on the weather. Other Ping An and PICC policies – which were quick-ly shut down by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission – paid out if city smog levels topped a certain level for a specified period, if customers were hospitalized due to smog, or if tourists spent at least two days in a smoggy city.

Wonder if I can take out an insur-ance policy on those Chinese toys I just bought. They seem to keep on break-ing…

SheTaxis Say No to Guys

Ever been waiting for a cab in New York City only to have a guy grab it ahead of you? Well, women, that won’t be happening to you any longer.

New York is about to get a new taxi app service—and this one is for women, by women.

Serving New York City, subur-ban Westchester and Long Island, the latest Uber-like taxi app will be avail-able through an Apple application for smartphones as of September 16, with an Android app to follow. It will be called SheTaxis in the suburbs and SheRides in New YorkCity, due to reg-ulations barring the use of “taxi” in the name.

The driver will be riding in style. Women who summon the service will be met by a female driver wearing a hot pink pashmina scarf.

The female-only transport was start-ed by those who are leery of climbing into a car with an unknown male. A woman driver will make occupants feel safer, especially at night.

New York won’t be the first to put out women-only cabs on the streets. In-dia has its own women-driven fleet of taxis – also called SheTaxi – as does New Zealand. Japan has had women-only train carriages on and off for more than

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Stella Mateo, a mother of two daughters, started the new female-on-ly taxi app. She hope that it will allow more females to enter the taxi and lim-ousine industry, a field that has long been dominated by men. Only 1 percent of New York City’s nearly 52,000 driv-ers of cruising yellow cabs are women, and only 5 percent of the city’s nearly 60,000 drivers of for-hire limousines and luxury sedans are female.

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3,143 Counties and Counting

Looking for a great road trip? For-get about visiting all 50 states. How about visiting all 3,143 counties in the United States?

Members of the Extra Milers Club go, well, the extra mile. The 34 people in the club’s 31-year history have all

reached 100 percent—meaning they’ve visited every county or equivalent ju-risdiction in the United States. Marge Brown was the most recent finisher who completed the arduous quest on her 76th birthday last year.

County collecting is a strange hob-by, but it’s one that keeps you on the move. Reid Williamson (final jurisdic-tion: Aleutians East Borough, Alaska) has been interested in counties for more than 50 years. “When I was about 10 years old, my father used an atlas to show me where my uncle was living in Arizona,” the self-described “list keep-er” says. “The map was the kind from 1940s that had very vividly marked county lines. When I was 14, my aunt

gave me another atlas that I prompt-ly started desecrating by marking the counties that I had been to.”

He joined the Extra Milers in 1991 after a chance meeting with one of the co-founders in the parking lot at the Grand Canyon. The two knew of each other from the License Plate Collectors club, to which they both belonged.

Williamson completed his journey at Dutch Harbor in Alaska in 2007. He is now 74 percent of the way through his quest to become the first person to visit all 3,143 counties twice.

Itching to join these dedicated mem-bers? It’s pretty cheap considering how accomplished these guys and gals are. Membership to the Extra Milers (mot-to: “Because the shortest distance be-tween two points is no fun!”) costs $12 per person per year or $15 for an entire family for the year. Nearly 50 out of the 290 members attended the recent annual meet-up. The next one is scheduled for July 18, 2015, in Rogers, Arkansas. At-tend and you’ll have only 3,142 to go.

Some of the U.S. counties are re-ally hard to get to. Take, for instance, Kalawao, Hawaii. The county is on the northern side of Molokai island,

and the local population of less than 100 battles Hansen’s disease (leprosy), meaning visitors need a special permit from the county to visit. Visitors take a flight from Honolulu to the Kalaupapa Airport. There’s also a long, steep mule trail from a more central part of the re-mote island.

Nantucket, Massachusetts, is also considered tough to get to for the Extra Milers since there’s no road to get there. Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, is the westernmost point on the Alaskan Pen-insula. If you’re looking to head there, it’s best to go in the summer months. Door, Wisconsin, is, according to Wil-liamson, “the tiny thumb of Wisconsin” which “won’t be on your route because it’s a dead end.” It’s only an hour from Green Bay but according to the county’s website, you won’t be bored. There’s so much for the “outdoor enthusiast, art lover, theatre goer, boutique shopper, history buff, adventure seeker or rest and relaxer.” Wow!

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Aaron’s Way Camp Middos Award Program Shines Brightly This SummerBy Liba Lieberman

The precious neshama of Aaron Sha-lom Tepfer, a”h, who was niftar at the end of last summer after completing fifth grade, continued to watch over Klal Yisroel with the implementation of a middos program in Aaron Shalom’s memory, taking place in ten boys’ camps throughout the northeast this summer. The program was under the auspices of Aaron’s Way, a movement developed by Aaron’s parents, Tuli and Rachel Tepfer, to help chil-dren emulate Aaron’s ex-traordinary middos. The sole purpose of Aaron’s Way is to provide boys with opportuni-ties to do chessed, designed to perpetuate the acts of kindness which Aaron performed and perfected at such a young age. Wherever he went, Aar-on brought goodness and kindness to those who needed his love and support. The middos program was a transforma-tive opportunity that, like its namesake, worked to bring out the best in children by setting good examples. Those exam-ples were specific middos directives with beautifully designed middos mission cards given each week to boys partici-pating in the program, guided by enthu-siastic rebbeim responsible for directing the middos program in each camp. All participating camps worked on the same middah each week, creating a network of achdus among all the campers working together to improve the same middos. At the end of the summer, a grand raffle was held in each camp. By all accounts, boys’ summer camps were shining with hakoras hatov phone calls to parents and good morning greetings to kitchen help.

“The program is a system of com-mon knowledge with a focus on mid-dos,” explains Rabbi Dovid Morgenstern, coordinator of the program, Menahel at Yeshiva Darchei Torah and Learning Di-rector at Camp Munk. “It was palpable. Parents and staff com-mented on it. The children were rooting for each other as they collectively grew in their avodas Hashem, specifically in the area of middos. It is a most befitting tribute to the legacy of Aaron Shalom. The children were in-spired from stories of his incred-ible middos.”

The Aaron’s Way Camp Middos Award program was adopted from a middos program devised five years ago

by Rabbi Asher Dicker of Camp Achim, a sixth grade rebbe at Yeshiva Orchos Chaim in Lakewood, who created a sys-tem for his campers that helped boys work on their middos. Rabbi Dicker’s modus operendi was “help yourself by becoming a better mensch.” Rabbi Dick-er recalls, “It came to me that when you look at young children, there is a need for improvement. It is almost impossible to address those needs on an individual basis. The beauty of the program is that it doesn’t need a shmuess from a mechan-ech. It is something children instinctive-ly understand. They were just never giv-en this kind of focus.”

As coordinator of a program that was run in multiple camps, however, Rabbi Morgenstern realized the program needed a new level of organization. He reached out to many people to do this right, asked many mechanchim, and act-ed on every suggestion. The program is now something that anyone can pick up and run with.

“The program is very unique,” Rabbi

Morgenstern adds. “Each week focused exclusively on one middah. The chil-dren were eager to pick up their mission

cards and begin fulfilling the middah of the day, and were given specific missions how to practice that middah. The boys were not only taught daily a better approach to middos, but they were guid-ed how to implement real changes in how they act in their daily lives. There was even a ‘wild card’ that boys could do ‘anything’ as a zechus for Aaron Shalom. They were thrilled to do it.”

Aaron’s Way Camp Mid-dos Award Program is geared for children in elementary

school, in second through eighth grades. Rabbi Morgenstern shares the following story. “Mr. Tepfer told me that someone got a call from his son, who had called to thank his father for sending him to camp this summer. The man further explained that his son’s card had told him he should call home and thank his parents. It’s an exciting and easy to do program.”

For each participating camp, the list of middos in the program were hakores hatov, savlanus, zerizus, vatranus (being mavater), kavod habriyos, and chessed. Each middah was further broken down to encompass the six days of the week.

Each camp varied in how the reward system worked. For Rabbi Eliezer Feuer, Learning Director at Camp Agudah, the program involved hundreds of kids who daily undertook a new mission from cards given to them by their rebbeim. There were daily discussions guided by rebbeim of that week’s topic, giving real life examples of people who embody that specific attribute. Once a mission was completed, a boy’s card, with his

name and bunk number on it, was placed in a weekly raffle. By all accounts, the boys responded beautifully.

How simple were the missions? They included holding a door for chessed, saying thank you for hakoras hatov, or giving up your place on line for being mevater. At Camp Morris, where Rabbi Yehudah Brecher, Menahel of the Ched-er, was, the unfolding of the program had been simply amazing. “Mission cards were given out every day at breakfast, al-though I carried cards on me throughout the day. The raffles were held randomly, sometimes two to three times a day. By the end of first half, a larger raffle took

place where one boy received Shas. The numbers of boys participating were just tremendous. After the first few weeks alone, over a thousand mission cards had been given over to the office. After introducing each mission with a story at the beginning of each week, the middah was reinforced with more stories and ex-amples from the rebbeim during lunch. During the recent war in Eretz Yisroel, we discussed how the brave soldier who jumped on a grenade to save his com-rades was an example of being mevater. On a less dramatic level, we explained, giving up your place on line was another

example of being mevater.”The benefits far exceed the

effort, as Rabbi Morgenstern points out. “The program is very unique. There was such achdus among the campers. They were all working togeth-er. In one camp, a boy wanted to change his bunk. The camp acquiesced and the boy was thrilled. But he soon realized that if he left his bunk for a new one, he would mess up some-one else’s summer plans in the new bunk This boy went to

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Pinny Munk,Yosef Wortlosky, Dovid Messner,Yehoshua Ottensoser, Rabbi Dovid Morgenstern

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the camp director and asked to be left in his originally assigned bunk. This was an example of vatranus, giving of one-self. On visiting day, boys from differ-ent camps were pulling out their mission cards, discussing the same middah they were focused on for that week. It was

amazing.” Another benefit of the program took

place among the counselors and rebbeim who were teaching the program to the children. As they shared divrei Torah and stories with each other, an exciting ach-dus occurred. “The collaboration was beautiful,” Rabbi Morgenstern notes. As one of the originators of the program, Rabbi Yehudah Deutch, Program Direc-tor in Camp Rayim and Aaron Shalom’s third grade rebbe at Yeshiva Darchei To-rah, allowed boys to seek out staff mem-bers for mission cards at any time of day. And in this camp, there was tremendous interest among ninth graders as well as younger boys. Even staff members were participating, asking if they could use the program as a paradigm to work on themselves. Raffles were held at the end of each middah, offering a set of se-forim and a prize. As an example of the program’s great success, Rabbi Deutch cites the chessed of a young camper to a worker on the grounds. “We were add-ing more amps in bunk houses to install air conditioners. One of the campers came back from canteen with a slush for one of the workers. He explained that the man must be hot. When the worker found out that the camper had paid for the slush with his own money, he bought one for the camper in return. The boy didn’t want to accept the gift, explaining that he had bought the slush because he appreciated that the worker was making the boy’s bunk a better place. We had been speaking about hakores hatov in the program and obviously this boy made a connection. Kids are definitely learning the lessons being imparted by Aaron’s Way.”

Learning Director Rabbi Avraham Bender at Camp Bonim notes the high percentage of involvement. “Different counselors were telling me that campers were noticeably nicer,” Rabbi Bender points out. “For example, not mak-ing as much noise as night or thanking

waiters. We believe they will follow through when the school year starts.” Rabbi Bender worked with Rabbi Chaim Dovid Lapidus to introduce each new middah of the week, both carrying mid-dos mission cards. Each Friday, five dif-ferent raffles were held. “It was like a Chinese Auction,” Rabbi Bender shares. Campers were more and more excited as the summer continued, especially since understood they were following in the footsteps of Aaron Shalom himself. “At one point, we read a letter that Aaron Shalom wrote at the end of fourth grade to his rebbe,” Rabbi Bender remembers, “thanking him for teaching him that par-ticular school year. It made an impres-sion.”

Camp Romimu was another partic-ipating camp, where the program was headed by Rabbi Shlomo Dovid Pfeiffer, the camp’s Learning Director. At Camp Romimu, the middah of the week was presented on Shabbos, and counselors gave out mission cards to campers. As with the other camps, each filled out card was entered in a raffle, although in Camp Romimu boys were given the choice of entering smaller raffles or waiting to put all six cards at the end of each week into a raffle for a bigger prize. “Something as simple as filling a nagel vaser cup for the next boy to use was a sign of chessed,” Rabbi Pfeiffer explains. “Middos are small steps, not jumps. I told them that small acts of patience can help a person become a more patient person.” Rabbi Pfeiffer referred to the Sefer Middos by Rav Yecheskel Levenstein while partic-ipating in the program.

Still another camp that imple-mented the program was Simcha Day

Camp in Far Rockaway on the Yeshiva Darchei Torah campus. Everyone here felt a strong connection to Aaron Sha-lom because he was a student in Yeshiva Darchei Torah and a camper in this day camp. “I was very close to him,” begins Rabbi Aron Rosenberg, Learning Direc-tor of the camp. “The fact that we were able to do this means a lot to us.”

Since Simcha Day Camp is a day camp, and not a sleep away camp, cer-tain changes were made to the program. The program ran during the Three Week and included the whole camp, with boys going into grades second through sev-enth working together on each middah. The counselors kept the cards on them, and looked for boys performing certain middos. Hundreds of boys channeled their energies on one middah at the same time. Because the program was of a more limited nature, each card itself was considered a prize for doing a middah. The cards became part of a raffle which took place after Tisha B’Av.

Rabbi Rosenberg concludes that

when he spoke with each bunk during the program, he talked about Aaron and how his middos were so exception-al. “We need to strive to be like him, to make Aaron’s way a part of us.” Indeed, it seems Klal Yisroel has done just that.

For more information on Aaron’s Way programs, contact aaronsway.org.

This article was originally printed in the Yated Ne’eman.

L-R: At Camp Agudah: Dovi, Shmuli and Tuli Tepfer, Rabbi Eliezer Feuer, and raffle winner

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Goldfeder Joins Wavecrest Bayswater Senior Center at First Annual Health Fair

Assemblyman Phil Gold-feder joined hundreds who attended the Wavecrest and Bayswater Senior Center First Annual Health Fair at the Young Israel of Wavecrest and Bayswater on Sunday. The event offered free health screenings, promoted healthy living and provided residents the opportunity to speak with a variety healthcare and well-ness professionals.

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Teachers have been putting up bulletin boards, decorating the walls of their classrooms, and put-ting the finishing touches on their first week’s lesson plans. Teachers not only take care of technicalities, they need inspiration – to transmit the warmth of Yiddishkeit and to connect to her students in a real and meaningful way. That inspiration was provided mag-nificently by Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky, shlita. Rav Shmuel addressed the han-hala and teachers on Tuesday, September 2, stressing the importance of chinuch habanos. As the Rosh HaYeshiva stated, when you educate a boy, you raise a man; when you educate a girl, you raise a fam-ily. He then went on to describe the ways in which a Jewish home is infused with light, love, and warmth by the mother.

Rav Shmuel expressed his amaze-ment at the size of the audience he was addressing. The Rosh HaYeshiva was under the impression that the huge crowd was comprised of teachers and parents.

When he was told that the room was full of just staff and that between BBY and TMM close to 1,000 girls are being educated, Rav Shmuel was astounded. Rav Shmuel had been at the school’s groundbreak-ing ceremony and then at the chanukas habayis. The growth since that has

been explosive. The Rosh HaYeshiva was impressed by the size of the school, the beauty of the building, and the ruach of the staff.

In appreciation of those factors and simply because he is a Gadol B’Yisroel, Rav Shmuel stayed after his words of chizuk to give brachos to any staff mem-ber who wished to meet with him. His concern and ahavas Yisroel were abun-dantly clear to all, and his presence and sentiments gave the staff just the right dose of chizuk and inspiration to start off the school year with geshmak.

We wish the Rosh HaYeshiva many more years of gezunt and inspired lead-ership of Klal Yisroel.

Rav Shmuel Kaminetzky shlita Addresses the Hanhala and Moros

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HAFTR sends a record number of graduates—14—to Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim

The levaya of Aaron Sholom Tepfer, a 10-year old talmid of Yeshiva Darchei Torah who was suddenly niftar last year mere days before the start of the school year, was a heartrending event. Speaker after speaker described the remarkable maturity and concern for others that Aaron Sholom possessed. Grown men cried uninhibitedly as the Yeshiva and community absorbed this difficult blow.

In the days, weeks and months fol-lowing his passing, relatives, rabbeim, friends and even total strangers have transformed their grief into inspiration, undertaking a variety of initiatives in Aaron Sholom’s memory that serve as an aliyah for his neshama as well as im-petuses for personal improvement. One of these projects is about to reach its cul-mination.

Yitzy Berko, now a seventh grad-er, was a classmate of Aaron Sholom. One day he came up with an idea: What better way to perpetuate the memory and legacy of his friend, who loved to learn Torah, than with a Sefer Torah? The Torah would be written as a zchus for Aaron Sholom and when completed would be housed in the Aron Kodesh of the Junior High School, where it would be used by the boys in their minyan for many years to come.

In an emotional appeal to his fellow talmidim, Yitzy Berko explained: “Fifty years from now, in this beis medrash, a boy is going to ask his rebbi, ‘When was this Sefer Torah given?’ The rebbi is going to say, ‘The whole entire Junior High School decided to raise [funds] for a Sefer Torah in Aaron Sholom’s zchus.’”

Doing some quick math, Yitzy re-alized that to reach his goal of raising $54,000, all he needed was for 1,000 families to contribute an average of 54 dollars! The campaign, spearheaded by Sgan Menahel Rav Avrohom Bender is nearly complete; the Sefer Torah was written in Eretz Yisrael; and a Hachna-sas Sefer Torah is planned for this com-ing Sunday, September 14th.

The events will begin at the Tepfer home, 376 Rugby Road, Cedarhurst, NY, from 12:00 noon until 3:00 with the inscription of the final letters of the Sefer Torah. At 3:40, the festivities will resume at 12-14 Heyson Road, Far Rockaway, NY, for the Hachnasas Sefer Torah procession to the Yeshiva.

For more information, or to con-tribute, please contact Rabbi Avrohom Bender at 347.254.0155 or [email protected].

Sefer Torah in Memory of Aaron Tepfer a”h to Be Dedicated this Sunday

A tremendous organization of chesed exists right here in New York City and for those who have the unfortunate ex-perience of needing a hospital, these individuals supply hot food daily to anyone who might be at these hospitals in Manhattan. Women bake and cook fresh, hot meals daily in their spotless homes in Williamsburg as well as per-sonally deliver the food to those in need. Besides that, the Satmar Bikur Cholim

provides other services as well, all by volunteers who do this l’shem Shamayim and seek nothing in return.

Reuven and Esther Guttman of the Lawrence Chapter of the Satmar Bikur Cholim invite the community to an eve-ning of prayer and song on the first night of Selichos, Motzei Shabbos, September 20 at 9:30pm which will take place at the home of Suzi and Dov Klein, 235 Broadway in Lawrence, NY.

A Night of Selichos to Benefit the Satmar Bikur Cholim

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In anticipation of the new year, Bais Yaakov of Queens administration coor-dinated two days of invigorating prepa-ration for their teaching staff. Mrs. Leah Goldstein, the Positive Intervention team coordinator, and Dr. Howard Muscott, director of the NH Center for Effective Behavioral Interventions and Supports at SERESC, met with Bais Yaakov’s dedi-

cated leadership team to continue coach-ing the Positive Behavior Intervention Support called HEART. The team met to discuss the re-teaching of last year’s ex-pected behaviors while planning to move forward with new ones.

On the second day, Mrs. Nechama Jurkowitz, the new Limudei Kodesh principal, addressed her staff with her ef-

fusive warmth. She described the role of teacher as a “reflection of Yehoshua bin Nun’s paradigm of tuning in to the indi-viduality of each person.” She noted that each student has a “ruach,” a uniqueness, that with a teacher’s insight and love, can be nurtured to its potential. Mrs. Jurkow-itz applauded her Bais Yaakov of Queens staff as having this special ability.

Mrs. Sarah Bergman, general studies principal, along with Mrs. Karen Reis-baum, assistant principal, welcomed their staff. Mrs. Bergman’s encourag-ing theme of reflection of educational practices and meeting the challenge of educating children for the 21st centu-ry was enthusiastically received by the staff. She stressed, “We teach children, not subjects, and so we will collaborate and include our children in the planning. We need clear communication to define, articulate and teach our expectations for mastery.” She concluded her message with, “And remember to celebrate their success with warmth, and nurture them to create motivation within each student, to learn and grow.”

Rabbi Mordechai Gewirtz, dean of Bais Yaakov, then warmly welcomed the entire staff. Rabbi Gewirtz stressed, “Our number one priority is the safety, security and well-being of our children, and we have to care and be concerned about the whole child. This includes the social, emotional, psychological, and of course, spiritual components of every student in BYQ.” He added, “Students are to be recognized as people, with the same feelings, sensitivities, and needs as adults, therefore, it is incumbent upon us to treat our talmidos with respect and dignity at all times, and to strive to make their school experience a happy one!”

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Operation Protective Edge seems to have woken up Jews around the world. Whether connected personally to a loved one fighting in the IDF or running for shelter, or virtually through the con-stant stream of social media, the Jewish people are empathizing more than ever with their brethren in Israel. Acting on the urge to “do something,” individuals and groups have found meaningful ways to help. One organization, the One Isra-el Fund, has seen an outpouring of sup-port for the work it does.

One Israel Fund’s reputation for suc-cessfully providing aid where it is most needed has broadened the organization’s visibility and value. Its latest mission is called Operation: No More Jewish Victims, and the goal is to prevent ter-ror attacks before they occur. This sum-mer, when the Gaza border communities reached out for help, One Israel Fund sprang into action, and Jewish American support followed suit.

Whereas most organizations were fo-cused on comfort items for the soldiers of the IDF, One Israel Fund was the prima-ry organization working to get lifesav-ing equipment and supplies into the “1-4” Jewish communities along the Gaza border directly affected by the most re-cent violence in Israel. These aforemen-tioned communities get their name based upon the fact that they exist in 1 to 4 kilo-meters from the border with Gaza – and some reside a mere few hundred feet. As the terrorists’ tunnels come in past the armies and directly inside the communi-ties, it is vital for the community security patrol to have the tools and resources to defend themselves when necessary.

Originally established in 1994 to sup-port the families living in YESHA (the Hebrew acronym for the communities of Judea, Samaria and those formerly in Gaza), the organization is commit-ted to ensuring the welfare and safety of the over 150 thriving communities in the region. It expanded its efforts in 2005 af-ter the expulsion of residents from Gush Katif, and continues to rebuild the lives and new communities of those uprooted from their homes as well as those south-ern communities which have borne the brunt of attacks since the Disengagement.

This summer, One Israel Fund saw new donors and previous donors alike turn their concern for the safety of all residents of Israel into wild-ly successful fundraisers. From backyard barbecues to bake sales, grassroots cam-

paigns raised a total over $300,000 to help the organization continue its work.

A desire to help expressed one Monday night over dinner manifested into a full blown event by Thursday of that same week. Six friends from the Five Towns celebrated a gala siyum at the home of Gabriel and Rebeka Boxer, with over 150 people in attendance. Their en-thusiasm was so contagious that every single item and service was donated by close to 20 different local vendors, and the event raised nearly $20,000.

Shoshie Manela, Devorah Rosner and Jackie Erlichman, also of the Five Towns, put their creativity and culinary skills together and ran a bake sale that raised another $10,000. Alan and Sha-ron Shulman of West Hempstead hosted a barbecue at their home courtesy of Al-an’s company, Mauzone, and then Mau-zone went on to match the contribu-tions 1:1 for a total of $50,000.

Long Island communities were not the only ones to mobilize. The Syrian communities of Brooklyn and Deal, New Jersey, participated in a paintball tourna-ment headed by Jack Cattan. There was a rally and concert organized in Brooklyn and “Bowl for A Cause” was a grass-roots event put together by Eve Stieglitz and Ryan Shemen and was held at and partially sponsored by Bowlmor in New York City.

Some individuals took it upon them-selves and launched campaigns for much needed items. Albert Maslaton ran a drive for security vests, and Jessica Gold-smith raised money through RootFund-ing.com for specialized water canteens called shlukers for the IDF.

Longtime supporters also re-newed their commitment to One Israel Fund this summer. Board Member Su-zie Schwartzstein, along with Deena Segal, Breezy Schwartz and the ladies of Beaver Lake Estates in Monticel-lo, ran a ”package party” resulting in

a fun evening which provided security equipment to the border community of Alumim where Suzie’s extended family resides. The Beaver Lake Synagogue ran a successful appeal as well.

Fayge Feder, co-owner of Cedar-hurst boutique Kiss and Makeup, has routinely coordinated with One Isra-el Fund and sent donations of make-up and cosmetics to female IDF sol-diers throughout the years. This summer, the store also encouraged their customers to donate as well by offering discounts on all products purchased for donation.

Appeals were held at the White Shul and Khal Machzikei Torah, Agudath Is-rael of West Lawrence, all of Far Rock-away, and Congregation Or Torah of Skokie, Illinois. Online campaigns were coordinated by Jonathan Kestenbaum of Israel, Dov Gelman of My Brother’s Keeper International, and Michael Ger-bitz of United with Israel.

The fundraising continued past La-bor Day weekend with a lavish barbe-cue and Israeli wine tasting event, gen-erously hosted by Lynn and Joel Mael of Lawrence. Several upcoming events are currently being planned in other communities as well, including Boca Ra-ton, Florida.

One Israel Fund is very grate-ful for its support at all times. As sup-porters turned their compassion into contributions, One Israel Fund turns the donations into supplies within a matter of days. Unlike the larger American Jewish organizations, One Israel Fund is able to evaluate the needs quickly and efficient-ly.

Executive Vice President Scott Felt-man works with Director of Securi-ty Projects Marc Provisor to pinpoint the immediate and the long-term needs of each community. Provisor, a former head of security in Shilo credited with re-sponding to over 100 attacks there during the Intifada years, is the “security man

on the ground” in Israel and personally visits the communities. In coordination with residents, government officials and the IDF, Feltman, Provisor and the One Israel Fund staff work to fill the gaps insecurity and essential medical ser-vices. They also look to address social, recreational and educational needs as well.

Working not only during times of crisis but dedicated to supporting the more vulnerable populations at all times, One Israel Fund’s projects address a wide range of needs, from armored vans to refurbishing of armored ambu-lances to high-tech thermal surveillance cameras. Communal projects include playgrounds, youth and senior centers, schools, synagogues, mikvaot, libraries and health clinics. It funds schools for at-risk youth in some communities and special needs schools in others.

One Israel Fund also helps provide specific items to the IDF, including work-ing with the IDF Chief Rabbinate’s Of-fice in supplying religious items like IDF olive green tzitzit and portable contain-ers containing synagogue supplies for use in the field.

This summer, the focus was on se-curity for the Gaza border communi-ties. Working with the Ravshatzim, the community security chiefs and civilian li-aisons to the IDF, One Israel Fund assist-ed in setting up and upgrading perimeter surveillance camera and emergency light-ing systems, and communication gear.

Many of the supplies like Quikclot combat gauze, head lamps and cloth stretchers, are low cost and easily ob-tainable. Other specialized items, such as the TacSight camera, are ordered immediately when funds are available and sent over as soon they are ready for delivery. The TacSight is a porta-ble thermal imaging camera to help the security teams patrol their borders at night. This same technology was uti-lized to see terrorists emerging from the underground tunnels. This new security equipment has already prevented several potential attacks.

Even the jaded residents that are somewhat accustomed to the unrest in the region are now living under extreme stress. Communities being pummeled by mortars have been sending out the wom-en and children to relocate as the situa-tion becomes unbearable.

The gratitude of the residents is evi-dent as the security chiefs, medical teams

One Israel Fund Sees Outpouring of Support for Israeli Communitiesby Adam Kessler

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At the Five Towns BBQ (l to r) OIF Executive VP, Scott M. Feltman; Ambassador John Bolton; Congressional Candidate Bruce Blakeman and OIF trustee, Jay Kestenbaum

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and mayors have all expressed appre-ciation to One Israel Fund and their do-nors for bringing in exactly what they have been asking for to properly secure their towns. Provisor will often take do-nors out to visit these communities to get a glimpse of the strained conditions. The residents are aware that most other or-ganizations are willing or able to help them and grateful community mem-bers are at times brought to tears by the show of support.

“The ripple effect of crossing the Green Line to help is creating achdut that is beyond the politics and baloney,” says Provisor.

“I find it equally ironic and rewarding that One Israel Fund, an organization cre-ated to build and fortify the ‘settlements of YESHA’ is now crossing over the so-called Green Line to help those commu-nities which have traditionally opposed the communities of YESHA, many of which were established in the early days of the State,” says Feltman. “But that is changing in a very big way. They see,

very clearly, that we are the organization coming to their aid, the one organization that they would never have identified with in the past. And it’s making a real and meaningful difference. This point is clearly not lost on them.”

With the abundance of Jewish organi-zations focusing on different worthwhile causes and various needs, One Israel Fund remains intent on standing out and making its mission known. The recent confusion with The New Israel Fund, a group committed to “social justice” with a goal of dismantling settlements, giving support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and fund-ing organizations which seek to under-mine the IDF, was unfortunate and dis-turbing. The unwavering commitment of One Israel Fund and its donor base is vital to the lives of all Israelis living un-der constant threats.

One Israel Fund also works to an-ticipate need before crisis hits. Plans for the upgrading of security had been mapped out for the community of Ita-mar, but funds were hard to raise be-

fore the tragic and brutal murder of the Fogel family occurred. The existing security cameras had gaps in coverage and left the residents of Itamar vulner-able. Provisor remembers being told by potential donors at the time that the equipment was not necessary. “It’s quiet there,” he was told. Of course, after the murders, it was easy to raise funds. Pro-visor wishes that mindset would change since, oftentimes, One Israel Fund, through the security apparatus in exis-tence, knows of impending attacks before they occur and have the knowledge to prevent them.

As the fighting in Syria escalates, the communities up north in the Golan have been inquiring about assistance from One Israel Fund so they too can be better prepared to protect their res-idents. Rocket attacks in the north and south also continue to pummel the fledgling communities that are com-prised of many of the families evacu-ated from Gush Katif in the summer of 2005. With the first stage almost com-plete in the southern communities, Pro-

visor says he is now concerned with get-ting back to focusing on the Judea and Samaria region to ensure that the com-munities are properly prepared against in-evitable attacks from the Arabs in his own backyard.

While war and other threats to Is-rael’s security create a heightened awareness of these needs and boost donor support, stable reliable support is clearly needed in the “quieter” times as well. While awareness and contributions rise during war time, weaker financial climates have severely impacted the or-ganization. Even with a ceasefire, there is no guarantee of true quiet. One Israel Fund is determined to continue and ex-pand its work and donor support is im-perative.

Says Provisor, “We must keep the support flowing. We have to have the common sense to be proactive and pre-vent future victims. We have the know-how, we just need the funds.”

To donate or learn more about One Israel Fund visit www.oneisraelfund.org.

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The excitement was palpa-ble on Thursday, September 7th, as students and faculty arrived for the first day of classes at the Shulamith School for Girls Mid-dle Division. Mrs. Rookie Bil-let, Principal, Dr. Evelyn Gross, Assistant Principal, and Morah Chana Schwartz, Director of Stu-dent Activities, were on hand to welcome each student back to school. It was heartwarming to watch students bask in the warm hugs of their teachers and friends!

After a communal tefillah, the girls enjoyed a brief opening day assembly. Mrs. Rachel Steiner, Director of Stu-dent Activities, introduced eighth grad-ers Ariella Lax, Abby Lieber, and Aliza Pfeffer, heads of this year’s Tech Com-mittee. Students laughed, cheered, and applauded as they watched a slideshow of last year’s extra-curricular highlights. When the show ended, Mrs. Steiner an-nounced this year’s G.O. theme, “Going Places,” and G.O. 2015 took to the stage. Dressed as Parisian artists, complete with berets and smocks, Presidents Sela Pol-lack and Rachelli Wasser and Vice Pres-idents Tamar Davies and Eliana Eichler performed their G.O. song, composed to the tune of “It’s a Small World.” Students then received their schedules, and, to cap

off the morning’s festivities, everyone was treated to a doughnut and a drink from the “Shulamith Café.”

For the students of Shulamith, a year of adventure and exploration awaits. We look forward to sharing our journey with you, as we travel “Around the World in 180 Days!”

Shulamith Students’ First Day Delights with Doughnuts and Drinks

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital advo-cates health awareness with a back to school community health fair.

It is that time of year again! In be-tween the school shopping, getting back into the school routine, and the beginning of fall, being sure to maintain a healthy lifestyle may fall to the wayside. It is im-portant for every parent to take the time to ask themselves several important ques-tions:

• Did my child have his or her annual checkup yet?

• Did my child get his or her immuni-zation shots yet?

• Does the school have all the neces-sary medical information on file?

• What important current medical concerns should I be aware of?

• What are good, easy, healthy reci-pes can I use to provide my child with a whole lunch or snack?

St. John’s recognizes the importance of educating parents and children alike on current healthcare issues. Therefore, St. John has organized a back to school community health fair. This will provide parents the opportunity to have access to current and relevant medical informa-tion that may pertain to them and their children. There will be healthy cooking demonstrations and free health screen-ings. There were also be entertainment and games for the kids.

The health fair will take place from 11 am to 3 pm at the Hospital campus, locat-ed at 327 Beach 19th Street, Far Rocka-way, NY 11691. Kosher food will be sold by Traditions, Kosher World Pizza, and Congo Juice. A DJ will be provided by Isaac Chalouh Entertainment.

“Here at St. John’s, we understand the worry and fear parents may feel about their children’s health. We have organized a back to school community fair to help parents stay apprised of cur-rent healthcare information. It is a great family fun event! There will be games and giveaways. Be sure to arrive early to take advantage of all the educational and recreational opportunities!” says Richard Brown, CEO.

St. John’s is a faith-based institution and the cornerstone of Episcopal Health Services. A vital part of their mission is to provide quality health care in a compas-sionate and caring environment, which has been incorporated as the Hospital’s Core Values and Service Standards. Ac-cording to recent publicly reported data, the quality of care measures for heart at-tack, heart failure, and pneumonia exceed state averages.

For more information on St. Johns Episcopal Hospital, you may visit them at 327 Beach 19th Street, Far Rockaway, NY, reach them by phone at (718) 869-7750, or visit their website at www.ehs.org.

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School got off to a wonderful start and we can’t wait for the upcoming year of learning and adventures to un-fold!

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Parshas Ki Teitzei was a momen-tous Shabbos for the Inwood commu-nity for multiple reasons. In memory of the three boys who were murdered in Eretz Yisrael, the shul took on a com-munity-wide project to learn the entire Shas Mishnayos. In honor of being mesayem (completing) the entire Shi-sha Sidrei Mishna, the community was honored to host Rabbi Paysach Krohn and his Rebbetzin for Shabbos.

Rabbi Krohn, in his ever-riveting and powerful style, spoke twice for the shul, once on Shabbos morning and once at Shalosh Seudas, and spoke a third time for the women on Shabbos afternoon. Rabbi Krohn’s shiurim, stressing the need to strengthen our-

selves in our commitment to davening and making ourselves a “Kos Shel Bra-cha,” were indelible and certainly will be remembered as a most special Shab-bos for the kehilla.

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There are three areas we are advised to work on during the days of Elul. They are repentance, prayer and charity. This week, we will discuss the importance of prayer and the role it plays in our lives.

R’ Shimshon Pincus relates the fol-lowing story. A doctor was on call in a hospital over the weekend. What was sup-posed to be a quiet night turned into a very busy evening as more and more patients

were admitted to the ward. The doctor was dashing back and forth trying to meet all the needs of the numerous patients on the floor.

By the end of the night, there had been a number of emergencies and even with the dedicated help of the nurses, unfortu-nately, one elderly lady did not make it. Her family decided to sue, and they took the doctor to court. The doctor defended

himself, explaining how busy the ward had been and how many patients he had been attending to, as well as mentioning how there was no proof to pin the blame on him, as the nurses had been on the scene, the woman’s heart had stopped, and with an elderly person such a scenario is not uncommon.

The judge sided with the family of the deceased, however, stating that such

an excuse is not valid because the doc-tor should have called for backup if he saw he was too overwhelmed, and had he been properly freed up to devote the requisite attention to the lady, he quite possibly could have saved her. Although he was the only doctor physically on call, there were a number of doctors available as backup and he simply could have picked up the phone, and one quick call could have made all the difference. R’ Pincus explains that this is how we should view prayer. One quick call can make all the difference when we feel over-whelmed, and when we feel that it is too much for us to handle a situation on our own. That feeling is designed as a push for us to turn to Hashem and daven, because we were never meant to do it all; we are just required to ask Hashem for help.

When Adam was created, the world had already been created before him, yet our sages teach that there was no grass growing. The grass needed the prayer of Adam to go from seedlings to full grown shoots. When we pray, we bring out the potential of what is around us and allow it to enter a stage of being and become a reality. Hashem waits for our prayers to allow events to unfold. He wants to hear from us before He goes ahead and fulfills all our needs. The best way to channel emotions therefore, is to turn them into prayer, as prayer is one of the more con-structive things we can do. If we feel wor-ried, sad, nervous, anxious, or even happy and excited, the most powerful thing we can do with our emotions is turn them heavenward and make them into a prayer.

We should merit to utilize the tool of prayer fully and properly. We should merit to have all our prayers answered for the good, in a way that feels good too. We wish “shana tova u’mesukah,” a year that is both good and sweet, because some-times we can know something is good but it may not feel pleasant or comfortable, so we ask that the coming year be a sweet and happy one. We should use the power-ful tool of prayer to pray on behalf of our loved ones; our spouse, family and friends that they merit to be written in the book of life for a year of health and happiness.

May this year be the year that we see all our prayers, hopes and dreams become a reality.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides ed-ucational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire com-munity Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email [email protected].

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Rabbi Yaakov Feitman Bais Yehudah Tzvi S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Saron Solomon // Yanky Muller Yaakov Gade // uri Dreifus

Rabbi Yitzchok Frankel Agudas Yisroel of the Five TownsS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eShlomo parnes

Rabbi Berish Friedman Kehilas Bais YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eheshy Berkowitz

Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg Chofetz Chaim Torah Center S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eDovid Breier

Rabbi Moshe Zev Katzenstein Rabbi Yitzchak KnobelYeshiva Gedolah of the Five TownsS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeytan Feldman

Rabbi Simcha LefkowitzCongregation Anshei ChesedS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eDov hertz

Rabbi Zvi Ralbag Cong. Bais Ephraim YitzchokS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SBerel Daskal // Steve landau

Rabbi Shaya Richmond Cong. Bais Tefilah of WoodmereS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SJosh haft // Marvin Wertentheil Moshe Berkowitz

Rabbi Dov Silver Kehilas Ahavas YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SDovid Kirschenbaum // ari Friedman

Rabbi Dovid Spiegel Cong. Bais Medrash of CedarhurstS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Suri Schlachter // Shmulie Schechter

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger Congregation Aish KodeshS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e SYaakov lipschitz // tzuriel ross Sam Gross

Rabbi Naftoli Zvi Weitz Ishai YisraelS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v e Snesanel Feit // Moshe Gordon

Rabbi Akiva WilligBeis Medrash of WoodmereS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeli Sklar

Rabbi Shmuel Witkin Khal Bnei HayeshivosS h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eMenachem ruvel

Rabbi Mordechai YaffeMesivta Ateres Yaakov S h u l r e p r e S e n tat i v eeliezer allman

Thank you!ON BEHALF OF THE OVER 3,000 HEROES WHO’VE COMMITTED TO UPHOLD MITZVAS SHMITTAH:

May the openhanded munificence of this distinguished Kehilah allow us to uphold the manifestation of hashem’s desire for his land to rest during the Shmittah year - and usher in the bountiful rewards promised by the torah: V’tzivisi es Birchasi.

A special note of appreciation to the community visionaries who so graciously opened their homes and hearts for the cause of Keren Hashviis.

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The mission of Keren Hashviis is to act as the champions of Mitzvas Shmittah. We strive to ensure that shmittah is upheld by every Jewish landowner in Eretz Yisrael who is a maamin b’Hashem and adheres to His mitzvos. To that end, Keren Hashviis serves as a central hub providing farmers with financial resources, halachic guidance, and moral support — before, during and after shmittah.

Keren hashviis would like to publicly recognize the enthusiastic support of the Cedarhurst and Woodmere communities for proudly embracing the call of the Giborei Chayil.

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The new academic year of 5775, 2014/2015, at Shevach High School, un-der the leadership of Rebbetzin Rochelle Hirtz, was launched in an inspirational way with the privilege of having Rab-bi Paysach Krohn address the students. He spoke of encouraging the students to look into themselves and reach upward. He recommended small steps at first, leading to greater heights. His words were well-received by the attentive stu-dent body.

Shevach High School was also proud to announce the implementation of a new four year English program that is fresh and forward-thinking. The experienced staff of the English department, Mrs. Car-ol Neuman, Mrs. Yael Rosenberg, and Mrs. Shari Weiss, worked throughout the summer with Mrs. Nechama Mirsky, As-sociate Principal for General Studies, to create a new curriculum that incorporates several recommendations from the Com-mon Core in a smart and practical way.

Through a well-thought out and series of engaging English courses, the students are being prepared for success in all dis-ciplines in high school, college, and be-yond. A tracked system for English was also initiated, acknowledging a more in-

dividualized approach to education. She-vach is pleased to welcome Mrs. Regina Fischbein and Mrs. Chevy Gewirtz to the English department this year to help fa-cilitate this innovative program.

Shevach High School Begins New Year with Inspirational Speaker and Innovative English Curriculum

For the past four years, the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, in part-nership with NCSY and under the inspir-ing leadership of SKA Chesed coordi-nator, Mrs. Leah Pariser Falik, has sent a number of sophomores and juniors to the Lauder Yeshurun Midrasha in Berlin, Germany, to celebrate Purim with Ortho-dox community and the students there in a program called JEWL.

On Sunday, August 22, the roles were reversed! A group of JEWL girls from Berlin came to America as part of an out-reach program and spent the day at SKA. The program started with a delicious brunch and all the girls had the oppor-tunity to spend time together and get to know each other. For some SKAers who had been to Berlin, it was a delightful re-union! Chavruta learning on the topic of “You Get What You Get and You Don’t Get Upset” was further explored in an en-gaging shiur by Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, former head of the Long Island region of NCSY who had been closely involved with the program.

The SKA and JEWL students were then assorted into groups and went to Central Avenue in Cedarhurst to buy sup-plies for an important chessed project, creating packages of supplies for children living in southern Israel. During Opera-tion Protective Edge, these families were unable to leave their homes to purchase items like coloring books or puzzles; the packages showed our support during those dangerous days.

This inspiring event was such a suc-cess! Girls from both the Midrasha and SKA commented on how much apprecia-tion they gained from each other and how similar they all really were even though they seemed so different at first. Thanks

go to Mrs. Avital Braun and Mrs. Leah Pariser Falik for planning this wonderful day of kiruv and chessed.

Berlin Travels to SKA

Midreshet Shalhevet is so excited to welcome the class of 2018!

The students started the year off with an exciting orientation where they met their teachers, got acquainted with the administration, and partook in an Owl Ceramics activity. They bonded with their senior class “big sisters” on a trip to Adventure Park in Long Island. There the girls participated in numerous ob-stacle and ropes courses with varying degrees of elevation and difficulty. The “sisters” connected as they swung from ladder to ladder and walked across thin ropes. Some of the seniors encouraged the freshmen to participate, while some of the ninth graders had to push the se-niors to climb the ropes. A few of the students even managed to complete the extreme black course. Dassa Bitterman and Daniella Azose, who both complet-ed the intense course, said it was tough

and exhausting but well worth it. They felt accomplished once they reached the end. Senior Devora Chait shared how nice it was to get to know her “little sister” and was excited about becoming friends with many of the new students.

The seniors and freshmen bonded tremendously and it was an excellent start to what promises to be a great school year!

Welcome to Shalhevet

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Yeshiva Har Torah welcomed back its students for the start of its 26th year. Over 600 students gathered in the school parking lot for a welcoming as-sembly. Tehillim, the anthems and a te-fillah for Israel were said collectively by

the students. Soon after, the students excitedly made their way to classes, greeting their teachers and friends. YHT looks forward to another successful year, embodying their motto, “Building the Jewish Future, One Child at a Time.”

Welcoming Assembly atYeshiva Har Torah

Thirty seven select undergraduate science majors from the US and Canada participated in the fourth annual Summer Science Research Internship Program, a joint Bar-Ilan University/Yeshiva Univer-sity initiative that enables students to gain hands-on experience in emerging scientific fields while being mentored by some of Israel’s leading scientists. This year’s par-ticipants, half female, half male, and over two thirds of them from Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women, also hailed from Cornell University, Queen’s College, UCLA, the University of Toronto and The Cooper Union.

During the seven-week research ex-perience, students are placed in intensive internships in the University’s state-of-the-art research laboratories and mentored by

scientists from the Institute of Nanotech-nology and Advanced Materials, Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Faculty of Engineering, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and Departments of Chem-istry, Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Physics.

“Our goal is to expose these students to serious Israeli science and to the idea that they can pursue graduate study and establish careers in Israel,” says Dr. Ari Zivotofsky, of the Gonda Brain Center, who is directing this year’s program, add-ing that several previous participants in the program have subsequently returned to Is-rael to continue their studies.

While focusing primarily on lab work, the Summer Internship Program, the brain-

child of Prof. Chaim Sukenik, who ran it for its first three years, also includes lunch meetings with Bar-Ilan faculty members, lectures on a variety of topics, and trips to scientific and industrial sites around the country. Participants have already received tours at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Tel Hasho-mer Hospital, the Volcani Agricultural Re-search Center, Israel Aircraft Industries, among others.

Outside of their research activities, participants in the program organize social activities of their own such as bonfires, movie nights, sushi making and joint study sessions.

Similar to Israelis, this year’s partici-pants have also endured the effects of this summer’s security concerns as they shuttle between their summer home at YU’s Gruss Dormitories in Jerusalem and their labs at Bar-Ilan. Coincidentally, the moment Dani Edelman finished telling fellow partic-ipants that a siren went off while he was wired to sophisticated EEG equipment measuring his brain activity at the Uni-versity’s Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidis-ciplinary Brain Research Center, another siren blared, forcing them to seek shelter in a nearby safety room.

A native of West Hempstead, New York, Dani Edelman, a graduate of Ram-bam, is a pre-med biology major going into his junior year. Working in the animal behavior and ecology lab of Dr. Lee Ko-ren, at the Institute of Nanotechnology and

Advanced Materials, he had the opportu-nity to spend several days tracking hyrax-es at the Dead Sea. He and a PhD student from the lab caught the furry creatures, ex-tracted hair and DNA samples, and tracked them in order to learn more about their so-cial behavior. Back at the lab, Dani helps to extract hormones from hair and nail samples to determine, for instance, wheth-er hormone levels at the time of human conception can affect a baby’s gender.

Josh Herzberg of Lawrence, New York, also a graduate of Rambam, is a ju-nior at The Cooper Union studying electri-cal engineering with a focus on computer engineering. He’s spending the summer working on methods of advancing file compression (saving files without utilizing too much computer memory) in the lab of computer scientist Prof. Shmuel (Tomi) Klein. In his spare time, using his com-puter science skills, Josh launched Torah-Summary.com, a website providing short summaries of biblical passages and of the Talmud. He takes pride in the audience he’s developed among group members interested in hearing his occasional shiur. “The people on the Program are so Zion-istic and so motivated to learn. There is a constant exchange of ideas of an interdis-ciplinary nature among us. Likewise, the many diverse lecturers with whom we’ve been networking are enabling us to learn about careers and opportunities in Israel,” he says.

Two Rambam Graduates Participate in Bar Ilan’s Summer Science Research Internship Program

In preparation for the new school year, Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe conducted a Pro-fessional Development day for the limudei kodesh and general studies staff.

On Tuesday, September 2, the Yeshiva was graced with the presence and Torah of Rav Sholom Spitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshi-va Shaar Hatorah – Grodno. The rabbeim’s day started with divrei psicha from Rav Spitz, who shared with the rabbeim the privilege of being a mechanech and pro-vided insight into tapping the abilities of each child.

After the divrei psicha, the rabbeim of Grades 1-3 were presented with a workshop on “Developing Executive Skills in our Students.” The workshop included ideas to prepare our children to manage time, assist in organization, and implementing set goals. The presentation was made by Rabbi Elimelech Gottlieb, Director of Gott

Learning and a Master Educator. The rabbeim of Grades 4-8 were pre-

sented with a workshop on “Reaching the Whole Class: Practical Tools for Teaching Mishnayos and Gemara.” The workshop was presented by Rabbi Menachem Schiff, Developer of Keys to Gemara Program and Director, Speech and Learning Center of Lakewood, New Jersey.

On Wednesday, September 3, the gen-eral studies staff was presented with Rab-bi Gottlieb’s workshop on “Developing Executive Skills in our Students.” The workshops were well-received and the skills presented will enable the rabbeim and teachers to share these tools with their students.

The Yeshiva’s faculty and talmidim thank the Parents Association who spon-sored these workshops, which will impact all of the students.

Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe Gears up for a Great Year

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BY RENA ZINGMOND


Everyone remembers exactly what they are doing at the time tragedy strikes. The eerie slowing of time seems to freeze the moment of mind-numbing confusion in our memories as we struggle to make sense of what our senses perceive. Each person has a unique reaction to the unfathomable collision of the norm with the unearth-ly, the routine with the unimaginable. All the more so in an event of national catastrophe as were the horrors of September 11, 2001.

Chevra Hatzalah, as the largest emergency response

service in the United States comprised solely of volun-teers, was one of the first responders on the scene of the calamity. Over the course of those harrowing hours, over 100 Hatzalah EMTs from around the New York area ar-rived to help treat patients and shuttle them to nearby hospitals. Their efficiency and promise to help any and all in need have earned them great respect from their counterparts in emergency service. Below are the indi-vidual accounts of three Hatzalah members as they ex-perienced September 11, thirteen years ago.

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Everyone remembers exactly what they are doing at the time tragedy strikes. The eerie slowing of time seems to freeze the moment of mind-numbing confusion in our memories as we struggle to make sense of what our senses perceive. Each person has a unique reaction to the unfathomable collision of the norm with the unearth-ly, the routine with the unimaginable. All the more so in an event of national catastrophe as were the horrors of September 11, 2001.

Chevra Hatzalah, as the largest emergency response

service in the United States comprised solely of volun-teers, was one of the first responders on the scene of the calamity. Over the course of those harrowing hours, over 100 Hatzalah EMTs from around the New York area ar-rived to help treat patients and shuttle them to nearby hospitals. Their efficiency and promise to help any and all in need have earned them great respect from their counterparts in emergency service. Below are the indi-vidual accounts of three Hatzalah members as they ex-perienced September 11, thirteen years ago.

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clear, blue and beautiful. Travelling from Law-rence to his Philadelphia-based workplace, Fragin was on the Verrazano Bridge when the first plane hit. Though not having witnessed the initial ex-plosion, he could clearly see the belching clouds of smoke contrasting starkly with the powder blue sky. Most people were at a loss as to what had occurred. Fragin, tuning into the transmis-sion on his radio, sized up the situation and quickly turned his car around, heading in the direction of Manhattan. As a member of Hatzalah for 17 years, he perceived that emergency response teams would need all the manpower they could get.

Fragin planned to meet up with an am-bulance on the Lower East Side but was halted upon finding the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel closed to all traffic following the second plane’s strike. After explaining his intention to the officers stationed there and awaiting their instructions, Fragin was al-lowed through, though nothing could have prepared him for what lay in store on the other side. With the tunnel’s exit only four or five blocks from the World Trade Center site, emerging from the passage was instant penetration into the heart of the destruction.

“It was already chaos down there,” Fragin recalls. Debris was flying everywhere and from where he was parked, Fragin could see people tragically jumping from the buildings in an ef-fort to escape the intense flames. “It was horrific. That’s probably the worst thing you can see and that’s after 17 years of working for Hatzalah.”

Fragin had made his way to the Hatzalah com-mand post and began treating the first wave of pa-tients, most of them suffering from injuries result-ing from falling wreckage. Once the first tower collapsed, however, the air became filled with thick, black smoke, making it virtually impossible to see or breathe, and Fragin was not equipped with breathing apparatus. Eventually, the smoke cleared enough for Hatzalah responders to aid in evacuating people by boat to New Jersey, includ-ing their own team of injured members. “Baruch Hashem I wasn’t injured, so I stayed,” Fragin says. He spent the most part of his day riding around in an ambulance in anticipation of receiving patients as they exited surrounding buildings; unfortunate-ly, his wait was mostly in vain. “Hospitals were set up, we were set up with a triage/trauma station in Foley Square, but there weren’t many survivors of the collapse of the Towers.”

Fragin ended his day by returning home at 2:30am. Driving in a car caked with debris and ash, he encountered what he describes as a surreal experience: a highway completely devoid of traf-fic. “There were no other cars on the road. Noth-ing.”

What he did find, however, led to an unexpect-ed connection. The morning after the attacks, Fra-gin found a business card caught in his windshield wiper. It turned out it belonged to a man who had an office in the World Trade Center. Fragin called the number.

“He survived – it was a pretty amazing story,” says Fragin. “He was one of those people who had started to evacuate who was given the all-clear to return.” Unfortunately, due to the lack of informa-

tion and clarity as to the nature of the emergency, many people who re-entered the buildings were not so fortunate as to make it out a second time. This man had decided against returning to his of-fice and left, a decision that ultimately saved his life. A couple of years later, Fragin actually met with the man and gave him back his business card. Their conversation led, inevitably, to the mutual

horrors they had witnessed that day. “We unfortu-nately reminisced about all the tragic events of the day,” Fragin recalls.

Adding to the dissonance of past and current realities was Fragin’s own presence in the Tow-ers only weeks before; he was visiting a former professor, who ultimately also survived. “I myself had actually been in the offices of Cantor Fitzger-ald. I remember the top floors very well.”

He adds that for families of Hatzalah mem-bers, the fear that day was palpable. “There was no communication – no way to call anybody. You had to hope that they knew that everything was OK.” Which, understandably, was not everyone’s first assumption.

Although he undoubtedly aided many in need,

Fragin still feels a nagging regret at the impossibil-ity of the situation. “We were not prepared for the magnitude of the situation…for what resembled a warzone.”

Who could have been?

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On the B train from Flatbush to his workplace at 42nd Street, Dr. Mordechai Soroka got his first glimpses of the Towers on fire from the Manhat-tan Bridge. He stared along with the gaping pas-sengers through the subway window while rumors circulated that the building in distress was NYU’s Medical Center. Arriving at 42nd Street, the situa-tion had been clarified but the subways were shut down, making it impossible to get back until later in the day.

Once back in Brooklyn, Dr. Soroka, a member

of Hatzalah for 35 years, wanted to head back to Manhattan to help those who may be in need. He made his way to the Hatzalah garage where mem-bers were loading ambulances in preparation to head to the World Trade Center site. He went as well, stationing himself near the Brooklyn Bridge. Once there, they encountered hundreds of other emergency responders who, like Fragin, were

waiting for survivors. After lingering for about an hour, the

team decided to drive closer to the actual site and walk, carrying their equipment. Upon approaching, Dr. Soroka asked a nearby fireman, “Where’s the plane? I don’t see any plane!” There was nothing left to see; “everything had been pulver-ized,” as Dr. Soroka describes it. Exposed steel beams protruded from walls as ash and debris rained down incessantly. Be-tween caring for firemen and other first responders, people were mainly occupied in endeavoring to rinse their eyes from the incredible amounts of soot that was just unbearable.

Dr. Soroka eventually returned home at five o’clock in the morning, his clothes

a mass of smoke and ash. The following day, Dr. Soroka collected a number of goggles from his eye clinic and brought them over to emergency person-nel who were still working at the site.

“It was traumatic; it was surreal,” Dr. Soroka recalls. “Walking through the debris, walking through the World Trade Center site, some of it which was still on fire – people were dazed.” The city was permeated with an air of depression and hopelessness.

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Shamai Goldstein’s detailed account has been published online for the purpose of expressing his hakaras hatov to the One Above and to inspire oth-ers to appreciate the gift they receive every day – the gift of life.

Goldstein and his team were originally dis-patched to the Twin Towers following a report of fire. Not fully understanding the enormity of the situation, they rode in the ambulance to Manhattan in the direction of the Battery Tunnel. From the ambulance windows, the responders could clearly see the upper portion of the Towers engulfed in flames.

Exiting the tunnel and turning on to West St., Goldstein beheld the same scene of disaster that Fragin described as a “war zone.” “I saw body parts all over the street,” he recalls. “I saw a part of the airplane, it looked like a[n] engine behind a burned car.”

As they neared the site, the Hatzalah team was instructed to park close by; to Goldstein it seemed to be right behind the Towers. They remained parked and awaited directions from the Command Center, which was in the process of being set up in the lobby of the Towers. During the wait, Hatzalah members gathered near the ambulances just watch-ing the massive buildings burn. They began to see people jumping out of windows to their deaths. “It was a sight I don’t think I will ever forget,” mourns Goldstein. “We just started to say Tehillim.” The responders were overwhelmed with a feeling of

“I, ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE, RAN FOR MY LIFE.”

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All that separated the team from the burning

structures was a single building. Suddenly, a loud rumble was heard. “I looked up and saw one of the towers starting to come straight down on itself,” Goldstein recounts. “I, along with everyone else, ran for my life.”

About half a block down, they became envel-oped by a tremendous cloud of smoke, dust and debris. It became so dark that they couldn’t see an inch in front of them. Goldstein likens it to the makkah of choshech. The thick smoke and residue made it difficult to breathe and his eyes were burn-ing from the mix of pollutants in the air. He began to get short of breath.

Goldstein paused in his attempt at escape only to help a fellow Hatzalah member who had tripped while running. In all of the tumult, he probably would have been trampled. At the same time, Gold-stein noticed a two-way radio on the floor, and for some reason, he picked it up. He began to realize that their only chance of survival would be to find shelter. He considered hiding under a fire truck, but it was getting hard to breathe. The combination of polluted air and heavy running was making it nearly impossible.

Ducking into an alleyway, Gold-stein forced himself to stop running and catch his breath. “I sat myself down and thought to myself that this was probably going to be the end.”

He was still unable to see a thing. “It was so quiet, there was not a sound. Some big guy tripped on me while I was sitting trying to calm down. He asked if I [was] a person. I told him to hold on to me and together we would survive.”

Figuring that there must be a building nearby, Goldstein steeled himself to stay calm and looked for a window to break and climb through. He and the man held onto each other until they felt their way to a wall of a building. They discerned a large window and groped around for a door.

The door they found was locked. Searching unsuccessfully for his Hatzalah radio with which to break the window (which had been lost), Gold-stein’s hand closed around the radio he found on the street which “happened to be” a Hatzalah ra-dio as well. He began banging on the glass, hop-ing to shatter it. It wouldn’t yield. Instead, the ra-

dio’s larger size produced a sound loud enough for someone to hear, and they were let inside.

The lobby of this building provided welcome accouterments: light and water. They re-mained there for a short time until the sec-ond tower collapsed. “Thank G-d I had picked up the radio, and I was able to com-municate to let the other Hatzalah members know which building I was in and that I was alive,” Goldstein relates. He describes the agony of listening to fellow Hatzalah mem-bers calling for help on the radio, uncertain of where they were or if they would survive. “One member was yelling and crying that he was trapped and surrounded by fire all around and he didn’t know where he was.”

At that point, they decided to leave the building for fear of collapse. Someone handed out dust masks while Goldstein formed a makeshift one out of a wetted shirt, half of which he handed to a

fireman there. Everyone ran back out into the cha-os, wondering which was safer: exposing them-selves to the constant fall of debris or the projected building collapse.

Spotting a Hatzalah ambulance, Goldstein

leapt into it, sharing the crowded space with the members already inside. Everyone’s first priority was oxygen. The number of people and quantity of oxygen necessitated sharing the masks. “We took turns; each wanted the other one to have it, say-ing, ‘You need it more than I [do].’ Mi k’amcho Yisroel!”

The ambulance had reached the waterfront and was prevented from going further. Boats were commissioned to ferry people off of the island to Liberty Park in New Jersey. Goldstein headed straight for the boats, breathing with difficulty.

Women and children ascended first. Informing the authorities of his paramedic training, Goldstein was allowed to board the boat. Again he was en-veloped with a feeling of helplessness as he stood among the injured and ailing without any equip-

ment to help. There was a fireman who couldn’t see from all the debris in his eyes. A woman from the Chief Medical Examiners had a broken leg. The Chief Medical Examiner suffered from lacera-tions on his hand. Someone was having an asthma attack. Goldstein tried his best to assist with the wounded with his limited resources.

Liberty Park on the New Jersey side was equipped with a huge tent organized to triage the patients coming off the boats. After helping where he could, Goldstein realized his own health re-quired attention, what with the toll the conditions had taken on his body. He was taken to Bayonne Hospital where he was treated by a caring and incredulous staff. They couldn’t believe he and others in his position had survived. “One Jewish doctor walked into the room and looked at me and said, ‘Baruch Hashem!’”

Other Hatzalah members had made their way to the hospital were more than happy to see each other alive. Two of them had been on the way into one of the buildings when it collapsed. After un-dergoing some blood tests and a chest x-ray, Gold-stein was discharged around 4:00pm. Grateful to be alive, he headed back to his family in Brooklyn.

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Hatzalah, always careful to do its utmost to protect its constituents, has since redoubled its ef-forts in promoting member safety. Handing out helmets is one example. Another is the institu-tion of a more effective accountability system for dispatching responders. No one may voluntarily patrol or take his own initiative in responding to a call. Members, identified by their Hatzalah num-bers, must be clear on who is accepting the job and where they are located.

“The first rule of any emergency responder is to ensure your own safety first,” says Fragin. And, he continues, they focus on what every self-respecting response organization emphasizes –

drills. “We spend a lot of time preparing for things that most likely won’t happen,” he says. As unlikely as such emergencies may seem, the success of each procedure is affected by the degree to which its ex-ecution becomes second-nature. As ev-eryone around the world has witnessed, even the most unbelievable scenario can become reality.

The tragedy of September 11 is not merely a page in history; its scars remain a rooted shadow hanging over the pres-ent. Fragin looks back on the events of that day through subdued eyes. “It’s still a surreal thing; it’s incredibly depress-ing,” he bemoans. “You can never get over it.”

As Goldstein writes in his essay, amidst the indescribable terror and destruction was evidence of Hashem’s unwavering protection. The fact that not one Hatzalah member was killed or seriously injured was an unquestionable miracle. For Goldstein, the ordeal changed his perspec-tive on life. “When I got up this morning and said “Modeh Ani” it had a whole different meaning. Prayer took a lot longer than usual. I wasn’t in a rush to leave synagogue this morning. Life is too short and precious.”

“IT WAS TRAUMATIC; IT WAS SURREAL.”

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Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Ki Savo

IT DOES CONVEY A SENSE OF SATISFACTION, ACHIEVEMENT, GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION

FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

In this week’s parsha, all of Jewish history is reflected in the two rela-tively short scenarios that the Torah

describes for us. There is the opening section of the parsha – the promise that the Jewish people will come into the Land of Israel, settle there, develop the country, build the Temple and express their gratitude to G-d for the blessings that He has bestowed upon them. They will harvest bountiful crops and com-memorate these achievements by bring-ing the first fruits of their labor as a thanksgiving offering to the Temple and the priests of the time. They will then recite a short statement of Jewish his-tory, a synopsis of the events that have occurred to them from the time of the patriarchs until their own time.

The Torah promises blessings and serenity to the people of Israel but the Torah does not minimize the toil and tra-vail that led to the moment of these of-ferings in the Temple. However, it does convey a sense of satisfaction, achieve-

ment, gratitude and appreciation for the accomplishments of the Jewish people, individually and nationally, regarding the Land of Israel and its bounty.

It is a spirit of wondrous gratitude

that marks the accomplishments of the individual farmer and of the people generally in settling and developing the Land of Israel. There is little room for hubris and self-aggrandizement in the text of this offering in the Temple. Rath-er, it highlights the relationship between G-d, the Land and people of Israel. That is one scenario that is outlined for us in this week’s parsha.

The second situation is a much more somber and even frightening one. It describes the events, travail and per-secution that will visit the Jewish peo-ple over the long millennia of its exile

from its land. In vivid detail, the Torah describes the horrors, defeats and de-struction that the Exile will visit upon the Jewish people.

In our generation, this portion of the Torah reading can actually be seen on film and in museums. We are witness to the fact that not one word of the Torah’s description of dark future events is an exaggeration or hyperbole. This period

of trouble and exile has lasted far longer than the offering of the first fruits in the Temple. Unfortunately, the residue of this second scenario is still with us and within us as we live in a very anti-Jew-ish world society.

Yet we are to be heartened by the concluding words of this section of the Torah that promises us that it will be the first scenario that will eventual-ly prevail. Even though so much of the negative is still present in our current state of affairs, we should nevertheless be grateful for our restoration to sover-eignty and dominion in our own home-land and for the bounty of the land that we currently enjoy.

All of this is a symbol of the begin-ning of the resurrection of the first sce-nario and the diminishing effects of the second outlined in this week’s parsha. May we all be wise enough to realize this and adjust our attitudes and actions accordingly.

Shabbat shalom.

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Two football teams played a game which had no field goals or safeties. One team won, even though no man ever entered either end zone. How could that be?

Answer on next page

Riddle! Three fans were talking about the sad state

of their football teams. The first fan said, “I blame the manager;

if we could sign better players, we’d be a great club.”

The second fan said, “I blame the players; if they played better we’d score some touchdowns!”

The third fan said, “I blame my parents; if I had been born in a different town, I’d be supporting a decent team!”

You Gotta beKidding!

Football Words of Wisdom“Nobody in

football should be called a genius.

A genius is a guy like Norman

Einstein.”- Joe Theismann

“Baseball players are smarter than football players.

How often do you see a baseball

team penalized for too many men on the field?”- Jim

Bouton

“A good coach needs a patient

wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback, but not necessarily in that order.” – Bud

Grant

“I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards,

whichever comes first”-

George Rogers

“I feel like I’m the best, but

you’re not going to get

me to say that.”- Jerry

Rice“Opening

games make me nervous; to tell the truth,

I’d rather open with our second

game.”- John McKay

“You guys line up

alphabetically by height.”- Bill Peterson

“I’ve been big ever

since I was little.”- William “Refrigerator”

Perry

“People say I’ll be drafted in

the first round, maybe even

higher.”-Craig “Ironhead”

Heyward

TOUCHDOWN!

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Answer to riddle: The winning team’s touchdown was scored by a female!

1. What Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback won four Super Bowls?a. Ben Roethlisberger b. Bobby Layne c. Terry Bradshaw d. Terry Hanratty

2. Who is the leading rusher in NFL history?a. Emmitt Smith b. Walter Payton c. LaDainian Tomlinsond. Adrian Peterson

3. Which of these teams has never played in a Super Bowl?a. Cincinnati Bengalsb. Detroit Lionsc. Arizona Cardinalsd. Kansas City Chiefs

4. What Jersey number did Jets legend Joe Namath wear?a. 6b. 12c. 33d. 42

5. What Cardinals rookie of 2003 caught a pass in his first 32 games?

a. Anquan Boldinb. Larry Fitzgeraldc. Bryant Johnsond. Freddie Jones

6. In 1992, the Packers dealt a First Round pick to acquire Brett Favre from what team?

a. Ramsb. Jetsc. Seahawksd. Falcons

7. Which two teams played in the 1981 AFC Championship Game known as the “Freezer Bowl”?

a. Pittsburgh-Clevelandb. New England-Miamic. Houston-Green Bayd. Cincinnati-San Diego

8. Which 49ers quarterback threw a late game-winning touchdown in the 1981 NFC Championship Game known as “The Catch”?

a. Steve Youngb. Joe Montanac. Jim Plunkettd. Steve DeBerg

9. Who scored the winning touchdown in the Giants 2007 Super Bowl victory?

a. Mario Manninghamb. David Tyreec. Plaxico Burressd. Steve Smith

10. Which team defeated the New York Jets in the 1999 AFC Championship?

a. Titansb. Broncosc. Dolphinsd. Patriots

Answers:1. C

2. A3. B

4. B5. A6. D7. D8. B9. C10. B

Scorecard:8-10 correct: We have the next

John Madden here! (Just work on the belly)

4-7 correct: Not bad, but you are no John Madden (even

though you may have the belly).

0-3 correct: This concussion thing is really a big deal…It causes you to forget everything you know about football.

Football Trivia

GOT FUNNY? Let the Commissioner decide Send your stuff to [email protected]

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“Because you did not serve Hash-em, your G-d, amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant.” — Devarim 28:47

The Destiny of the JewsAt the end of a long prophecy of

what will befall us if we don’t follow the ways of Hashem, the Torah seems to lay the blame on one issue: because you did not serve Hashem, your G-d, amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant. It seems the pivotal point of these two extremes is based on simcha, implying that serving Hashem with happiness is critical to our success as a nation.

Rabbeinu Bachya explains that this is because the mitzvos must be done with joy and complete devotion. When the mitzvos are done without joyful-ness, they are lacking in their effect, and this can be part of the spiral down-ward.

He then gives an example of a mitz-vah that wasn’t done with complete motivation. The Medrash tells us that when Reuvain attempted to save Yosef from his brothers, he said, “Let us put him in the pit.” His intention was to buy some time to eventually save him. However, had he realized that he would be recorded in history as the one who saved Yosef, he would have put him on his shoulders and carried him home to his father. From here we see the impor-tance of doing a mitzvah with complete dedication and commitment.

The Power of SimchaThis Rabbeinu Bachaya is diffi-

cult to understand on two levels. First, how can the Torah command me to be happy? Being happy isn’t an emo-tion that we can turn on and off like a light switch. And second, how can we compare the effect of doing a mitzvah joyfully to the case of Reuvain? We

are well aware that honor is one of the most powerful driving forces in the hu-man condition. Granted Reuvain was a tzaddik, but the fact that he would have been titled the savior of Yo-sef for eter-nity is some-thing that would propel a man to ex-tremes. How can that be compared to something as minor as joy in the perfor-mance of a mitzvah?

The answer to these questions can best be understood through a different perspective.

If I Were a Rich ManSheldon Adelson is the owner of

Las Vegas Sands Corp. In 2003, his net worth was ranked at $1.4 billion. While that is an impressive sum, it didn’t put him anywhere near the richest people in the world. However, when he took his company public, a rather interesting thing happened. His personal wealth increased by 750%. By 2004, his per-sonal worth had increased to over $20 billion, making him the fifth richest man in the world. Forbes magazine es-timates that over those two years, Adel-son’s fortune had been growing by $1 million every hour.

Imagine for a moment what it must feel like to know that your wealth is increasing at that rate. You sit down to a leisurely lunch and walk away a million dollars richer. Open a Gemara for the daf HaYomi – there’s another $750,000. Lie down for a Shabbos nap, wake up three million dollars wealth-ier. What it’s like to be alive! Every moment I live, I become richer, and richer… I can’t wait…

I Have No Plans of Dying The single most difficult concept

that we human beings deal with is our mortality. While we are cognitively aware of it, emotionally we just don’t feel it will happen. With that emotional blindness comes blindness to the value of our actions. Since in our operating reality, I will never die, then what I do

or don’t do really doesn’t matter. If, for a flashing moment, I were to

see what the World to Come will be like for me, I would effectively lose free

will. The extraor-dinary accom-plishment of one mitzvah would so overwhelm me that I would be completely and radically dif-ferent — not dif-ferent physical-ly, not smarter, but much more driven to accom-plish my purpose in life. When

Chazal tell us over and over again that mitzvos are worth far more than the greatest treasures in this world, it is because they had that clarity. They un-derstood what it will be like for each of us as we regale in our great wealth. In that World, we will look back at every chance we had to grow as the greatest opportunity ever given to man. We will look back at our mitzvos, and they will bring us far more joy than earning than a million dollars an hour.

This seems to be the answer to Rabbenu Bachya. One of the greatest motivators in the human is enthusiasm. That enthusiasm is based on a value system. If I value money, I will be driv-en to pursue it, and the acquisition of it will bring me great joy. If I gain a deep-er perspective on life, then I experience elation, knowing that my net worth in the World to Come is growing at an in-credible rate. My investments are pay-ing back in spades. That excitement is one of the most powerful motivating forces — equal even to kavod. With it, a person can reach great heights. With-out it, a person’s avodas Hashem can become stale and lose its potency, thus beginning a downward spiral.

Ultimately, joy is a great force that both allows a person to enjoy his short stay in this world and propels him to achieve the greatness for which he was created.

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200 YEARS since the Creation

Star Spangled Banner

Every American knows the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem written by

a captive, Francis Scott Key, as he was watching from the hold of a British ship. The words were Key’s way of expressing relief over the victory at the Battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore. The song has stood the test of time, and the story behind the song will explain just how this song became famous.

It was during the War of 1812, and the British were on the attack. Earlier in the year of 1814, they had marched into Washington, D.C., burned many build-ings including the White House, the Capitol and the Library of Congress, and forced most of the govern-ment including President James Madison to flee. Now the British were looking to capture Baltimore and sent a huge fleet into its port. The Americans were centered at Fort McHenry and needed to hold onto it to save the city.

The British also wanted Bal-timore because they thought that many raiders who were attacking their ships were based out of that port.

British Major General Robert Ross first led 5,000 soldiers against roughly 11,000 American defenders who were spread out throughout the city. The Americans were mainly militia troops and were led by Ma-jor General Samuel Smith. Smith sent 3,000 men under General John Stricker to meet Ross who landed 14 miles north of Fort McHenry at North Point. This force was to delay the British while the main defenses of the city were being prepared.

On September 12, 1814, Ross attacked but suffered heavily in the first part of the battle. General Ross was shot in the chest by an un-known sharp-shooter of the

5th Maryland Regiment and died soon afterwards. The British, now under Colonel Arthur Brooke, re-organized and outflanked the de-fenders, forcing them to fall back. Some American soldiers fired as they retreated and inflicted enough casualties on the British that they held up for the night. This allowed the American troops to retreat, and they bolstered their existing defens-es in Baltimore. Brooke was not as experienced as Ross and this showed in the subsequent fighting.

The day before the battle, British ships had moved into the harbor and on September 13, they began shelling the defenses. The ships were too far away for shore cannon to reach them.

The Brits rained down mortars and rockets on the fort, expecting the Americans to surrender in a matter of hours. The British sent in troops even though the fort was still in American hands.

The invading troops had not anticipated the strong defensive rings around Baltimore. Many “irregu-lars” had joined the ranks to defend their city. 12,000 American troops were in the city, and Brooke’s Brit-ish troops were unable to find a weakness in the line. They fought with so much ferocity that the British were forced to board on their transport ships after mi-nor gains. Even though the frontal assault was called off, the bombardment continued.

Nineteen British ships launched a huge bombard-ment that lasted 25 hours but it did little damage to Fort McHenry, the last in the lines of defense. The fortifications held up and the defenders were well-entrenched waiting for the British assault. After the failure of the daylight attack, the British tried land-ing 1,200 men in the darkness and fired signal flares. This gave away their position to the

Americans who inflicted heavy casualties from the safety of two other forts. The British retreated to their ships in defeat, and on the morning of September 14, the fort was safely in American hands.

The British troops rejoined the fleet and soon left the harbor to prepare for one last fight against the U.S. The Battle of New Orleans took place in early 1815 and with the victory, ended the British invasion of America. In all, the British losses were 300 killed, wounded

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battle. 28 Americans were killed, 163 wounded and about 50 cap-tured.

The story of the Battle of Bal-timore is not

complete without the story of the Star Spangled Banner. Ev-ery morning at reveille, a huge American flag was raised over Fort McHenry, and on the morn-ing of September 14, an Ameri-can in British hands saw it fly-ing high. Local seamstress Mary Pickersgill had sewn the 15 star and 15 stripe flag with her 13-year-old daughter to be seen across the harbor.

A respected and elderly doctor named William Beanes was arrested by the British for allegedly aid-ing in the arrest of British troops. On September 7, before the commencement of the fighting, 35-year-old Francis Scott Key and John Skinner boarded the Brit-ish flagship with orders from President Madison to re-lease their friend. They met with General Ross and the admiral-in-command of the fleet Alexander Cochrane. After convincing the officers with letters from British soldiers stating that Beanes was indeed helping the soldiers, he was released. However, Key and Skinner heard the plans for the upcoming battle, and they were to be held until after the fighting ended.

Key and Skinner were allowed to return to their boat but they weren’t allowed close to the shore. As they watch the battle unfurl eight miles way, they couldn’t tell who was winning. On the morning of September 14, the smoke began to clear and “at the dawn’s early light…our flag was still there.” Key put his thoughts down on the back of a letter, and the rest is history. His brother-in-law, who was an officer in the fort, called it the “Defense of Fort M’Henry.” A local newspaper, the Baltimore Patriot, picked it up and soon it spread throughout the country under its new name, “The Star Spangled Banner.

Originally, the song was four stanzas long and set to a popular tune called the Anacreontic Song. Over a century later, President Woodrow Wilson enlisted the help of five famous musicians and composers includ-ing John Phillip Sousa to pick out the official tune. They standardized the song and put it to the interna-

tionally recognized melody. In 1889, the song was made

the official tune of the navy and soon was being played at sport-ing events. In 1931, Congress of-ficially made the song the national anthem. By World War II, the Star Spangled Banner was being played at every baseball game. Over the years, several fans have added emphasis on certain words in the song. The best example of this is at Baltimore Orioles games, the word Oh in “Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave” is yelled out by all the fans as Oh is the shortened nickname for the team.

The original flag, which is 30-by-42-feet, has been restored and is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The original document is on display at the Maryland His-torical Society in Baltimore. The 200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner is officially on September 14. The Battle of Baltimore forced the British to re-treat and it is fitting that national anthem was written about the glorifying features of the flag and the intensity of the battle.

Here is our nation’s anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, in its entirety:

Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleam-ing,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O’er the land of the free and the home of the

brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first

beam,In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:Tis the star-spangled banner, Oh! long may it

waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the

brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,A home and a country, should leave us no more?Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’

pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the

grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth

wave,O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation.Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: “In G-d is our trust.”And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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

The original flag on display

Mural of the defense at Fort McHenryFort McHenry as it stands today

Artist’s rendition of what Key saw on the morning of September 14 that inspired him

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battle. 28 Americans were killed, 163 wounded and about 50 cap-tured.

The story of the Battle of Bal-timore is not

complete without the story of the Star Spangled Banner. Ev-ery morning at reveille, a huge American flag was raised over Fort McHenry, and on the morn-ing of September 14, an Ameri-can in British hands saw it fly-ing high. Local seamstress Mary Pickersgill had sewn the 15 star and 15 stripe flag with her 13-year-old daughter to be seen across the harbor.

A respected and elderly doctor named William Beanes was arrested by the British for allegedly aid-ing in the arrest of British troops. On September 7, before the commencement of the fighting, 35-year-old Francis Scott Key and John Skinner boarded the Brit-ish flagship with orders from President Madison to re-lease their friend. They met with General Ross and the admiral-in-command of the fleet Alexander Cochrane. After convincing the officers with letters from British soldiers stating that Beanes was indeed helping the soldiers, he was released. However, Key and Skinner heard the plans for the upcoming battle, and they were to be held until after the fighting ended.

Key and Skinner were allowed to return to their boat but they weren’t allowed close to the shore. As they watch the battle unfurl eight miles way, they couldn’t tell who was winning. On the morning of September 14, the smoke began to clear and “at the dawn’s early light…our flag was still there.” Key put his thoughts down on the back of a letter, and the rest is history. His brother-in-law, who was an officer in the fort, called it the “Defense of Fort M’Henry.” A local newspaper, the Baltimore Patriot, picked it up and soon it spread throughout the country under its new name, “The Star Spangled Banner.

Originally, the song was four stanzas long and set to a popular tune called the Anacreontic Song. Over a century later, President Woodrow Wilson enlisted the help of five famous musicians and composers includ-ing John Phillip Sousa to pick out the official tune. They standardized the song and put it to the interna-

tionally recognized melody. In 1889, the song was made

the official tune of the navy and soon was being played at sport-ing events. In 1931, Congress of-ficially made the song the national anthem. By World War II, the Star Spangled Banner was being played at every baseball game. Over the years, several fans have added emphasis on certain words in the song. The best example of this is at Baltimore Orioles games, the word Oh in “Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave” is yelled out by all the fans as Oh is the shortened nickname for the team.

The original flag, which is 30-by-42-feet, has been restored and is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The original document is on display at the Maryland His-torical Society in Baltimore. The 200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner is officially on September 14. The Battle of Baltimore forced the British to re-treat and it is fitting that national anthem was written about the glorifying features of the flag and the intensity of the battle.

Here is our nation’s anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, in its entirety:

Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleam-ing,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;

Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,O’er the land of the free and the home of the

brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first

beam,In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:Tis the star-spangled banner, Oh! long may it

waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the

brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,A home and a country, should leave us no more?Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’

pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the

grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth

wave,O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation.Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: “In G-d is our trust.”And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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

The original flag on display

Mural of the defense at Fort McHenryFort McHenry as it stands today

Artist’s rendition of what Key saw on the morning of September 14 that inspired him

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70 A Fulfilled LifeRabbi Naphtali Hoff

Keep the Excitement Going8 Ways to Get the Most out of the School Year

T hroughout the Jewish world, tens of thousands of children and young adults recently returned to the classroom for another year of schooling.

The excitement was palpable. Children and parents were busy purchasing and labeling school supplies, clothing, lunchboxes and other related items. Teachers worked diligently to ready their classrooms, organize materials and foster an engaging, productive learning environment. Administrators toiled throughout the summer to have everything in place for day one, in-cluding back-to-school programming for students and professional development for teachers.

The first day finally arrived. With great eagerness, children rose early for school, ready to reconnect with friends and meet their new teachers. They excitedly learned new routines, began to understand expecta-tions, and set off on a new journey ripe with oppor-tunity.

While some children and adults are able to sustain their enthusiasm well into the year, for many, their ini-tial interest quickly dissipates, sometimes within but a few days. We start to think of school less in terms of growth potential and achievement and more about the daily grind, an endless process of work, discipline, assignments and the like that for too many converts opportunity and passion into burden and indifference (if not outright contempt or despair). What can we do to make this school year the one that fulfills all of its promise? How can we make this year the best one ever?

While there is no formula that will work for all of us, there are some strategies that, if followed carefully and consistently, can help our children and ourselves gain the most from the upcoming school year.

1. Adjust your mental paradigm – Too often, we think of tasks and processes as sprints. Our goal is to get off to a quick, strong start and we don’t anticipate having to sustain our effort for all that long. To suc-ceed at school requires a different approach. Children as well as the adults who teach and support them need to take a long term view of things. This may include general persistence and strong study habits. It also re-fers to a mindset that we are in it for the long haul, with much to do before we can say that we’re finished (at least with this year’s work).

2. Clue them into the goals – Too often, children and parents don’t really know what the year’s goals and objectives are. Most would probably say “to finish __ grade.” As a former teacher, I would submit that

teachers also (particularly newer ones) may enter the year with a nebulous sense of what needs to happen in order for the year to be considered a success. Teachers can help themselves and their charges by offering a list of objectives (“by the end of third grade, you will have learned … and be able to…”) Even if certain in-dividual students are unable to achieve those goals as they are presented (more about that in a bit), they give the class and the year a sense of direction and purpose.

3. Get to know children’s learning styles – Most instruction, particularly in elementary school and higher, tend to be auditory and visual (verbal). This means that teachers rely heavily on their ability to ar-ticulate concepts, instructions, etc. and have students learn and process by listening. We do our children a great service by helping them understand how they learn best. They may be kinesthetic learners, who learn better when they can move as they learn. Perhaps they have strong interpersonal intelligence, and need to talk things through in order to achieve clarity. Maybe they are musical, and would be well-served by being able to listen to music or put information to song as a way of deepening their learning. Quizzes are available online that can help determine a child’s learning preferences.

4. Communicate early and often – It is crucial for parents and teachers to develop strong lines of communication. This is true on the high school level,

and all the more so in primary grades. Of course, such communication should be two-way and proactive. However, I suggest that parents in particular take the initiative, and not wait for conferences or for things to go sideways. I can personally attest from my experi-ence as a teacher as well as a principal that involved parents are usually great advocates for their children. This is not to say that parents should overdo it. Rather, arrive at an early understanding as to when would be a good time to catch up and endeavor to stay consis-tent throughout the year, even when things appear to

be going well. This will minimally result in the child receiving more positive feedback and may even allow for the adults to identify an issue and troubleshoot it before it becomes something bigger.

5. Same does not mean equal – To that end, chil-dren need to know that different (as in different objec-tives and treatment) is not unfair. If anything, we cre-ate an imbalanced playing field by asking all students, regardless of abilities, supports, etc. to perform the same way. Let students know that personal approaches are designed to meet individual needs and then help him identify and celebrate his successes.

6. Develop a routine – Establishing a proper daily routine can be very healthy. Routines ensure that chil-dren and their parents remain focused and organized, and don’t let things get past them. Almost nothing causes greater stress in the morning than a child or two who overslept, can’t find what they need, realizes that they didn’t do an assignment, etc. Moreover, when a child goes to sleep knowing that she is ready for the next day, she is more at peace and more relaxed. The goal is to keep the stress level down while also mini-mizing the association between school and stress.

7. Tell them the benefits – Take the time to help children see the value in what they are learning. If the material falls within general studies, let them know what they will be able to do with their learning, in terms of employment or as informed citizens. Mitzvos, as well as general hashkafa, also must be presented in the right context. Sure, our children need to know that we learn because that is the way through which to un-derstand and practice d’var Hashem. But they should also be told what they stand to gain, such as reward for the actions, as well as a deep sense of personal ful-fillment. This will help motivate them to learn and do more.

8. Daven – We all want for our children to be happy and successful. Certainly none of us want for them to experience a poor year, particularly with all of that money that we pay in tuition. Daven regularly that they should succeed.

Of course, the above list represents but a handful of suggestions that can help to ensure a successful year from beginning to end. May all of our tefillos be an-swered and may we shep much nachas from our chil-dren throughout the most amazing and successful year that is now upon us.

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 [email protected].

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Republicans have a video game for the kids. You have an elephant on your video game and it tries to accumulate seats in the Senate. It’s not the first. Remember George W. Bush had a video game back in 2000? Grand Theft Election. – David Letterman

According to a report from the United Nations, the damage from global warming could be irreversible. It’s clear we need to do something. We need to give the Earth the ice bucket challenge. – Jimmy Kimmel

Happy Birthday to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who turns 52 years old tomorrow. The star of TLC’s show “Cake Boss” is actually making the cake for Chris Christie’s birthday party. In fact, I hear he’s even making the cake in the shape of Christie’s favorite thing: cake. – Jimmy Fallon

You don’t look at the people who are for [the name]. You look at the people who have been damaged by it… In a domestic violence situation you don’t ask the perpetrator how he’s doing, how he’s feeling, he or she—whoever it is. You ask the victim, “How are you doing? How can I help you? How can I make this a safer place for you?”- The lead plaintiff in the suit to get the Redskins to change their name, on ESPN, comparing those offended by the Redskins name to victims of domestic violence

Israel bugged John Kerry’s phone last year while he mediated Middle East peace talks. They listened in on John Kerry’s phone calls. It’s the rare case where the crime is the punishment. – Seth Meyers

A glitch in the John Madden NFL game has accidentally created a player who is 1 foot tall. Another glitch accidentally created an NFL player with no criminal record. – Conan O’Brien

Yesterday, John Kerry joined five previous secretaries of state at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new diplomacy museum...While the diplomacy museum is just a pile of dirt now, pretty soon it’ll be even LESS interesting. – Jimmy Fallon

A couple of weeks ago, Peter asked you a question and you said that the president was not referring to ISIS when he dismissed the terrorists in the New Yorker magazine as the “JV squad.” The Washington Post gave you “four Pinocchios” for that. The president yesterday went ahead and doubled down on it and said “I was not referring to ISIL.” Why do you and the president continue to say something that is proven to be false?- Fox News White House Correspondent Ed Henry to White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Apple is sprucing up the iPhone. Tomorrow you can get the new iPhone 6. The iPhone 6 is a lot like President Obama’s hair. Every year it’s lighter and thinner. – David Letterman

Happy birthday to Los Angeles. The city was founded on this day in 1781. The land was first discovered by an old prospector who said, “There’s Botox in them, their hills! And kale!”- Craig Ferguson

We are looking for an insane number of bodies to help, starting on Thursday, 9/4. I know that school also starts on the same day, but just remember that this is the last week of this campaign… I will gladly write an absence letter to excuse you from your academic duties.- Queens State Senate candidate S.J. Jung in an email to local high schoolers, trying to convince them to take off from school on Primary Day to help his campaign

Los Angeles is considering a new plan to boost the city’s minimum wage to $13.25 an hour. It’s getting huge support across the entire country — of Mexico. – Jimmy Fallon

Five geckos sent into space as part of an experiment have all died. On the bright side, they were able to save 15 percent on their car insurance.- Conan O’Brien

Starbucks has a new business plan. Starbucks is planning to open about 100 new upscale coffee shops with more expensive coffee. It’s for customers who feel that the regular Starbucks prices are too reasonable, I guess.- Jimmy Kimmel

It’s good to see Starbucks sticking with doing what they do best, which is opening more Starbucks.- Ibid.

I should’ve anticipated the optics. Part of this job is also the theater of it. It’s not something that always comes naturally to me. But it matters.- President Obama on “Meet the Press” responding to criticism of his golf outing six minutes after condemning Jim Foley’s beheading

Some presidents might have garnered a bit of sympathy and understanding with claims that the ‘theater’ of the office doesn’t come naturally to them. … But Barack Obama? This is the Obama who as a candidate spoke before 200,000 at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate? … The same candidate who gave his acceptance speech outdoors in Denver surrounded by columns, mocked for their resemblance to ancient Greek temples, which is, ironically enough, where the Greeks performed the new art form of dramatic theater.- Stuart Stevens, The Daily Beast

No question about that, in my mind. – Mitt Romney, when asked on Fox News whether he would be a better president than Hillary Clinton

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Have you heard the expression “phoning it in”? It means to do something half-heartedly and un-

convincingly. I believe it may have its origins in the world of acting. Imagine watching a play and the main character is nowhere to be found! Instead, you hear a voice going through the script, not acting anything out, and definitely not bringing you into the moment.

By not being there in person, just simply “saying the lines” via telephone, for example, the performer has watered down the experience for everyone in-volved. If someone is there in person, goes through all the motions of his part and says the words he is supposed to, but is disinterested and emotionally de-tached, the audience will feel the same as if the fellow had simply “phoned it in.”

I recently had an experience much like that. I wrote to a business suggesting a possible joint endeavor. I ex-plained what I wanted to do and included my name and phone number. I received an e-mail back from the of-fice person stating that I would need to call the office and speak to the boss, Mr. So-and-so. I immediately e-mailed back and asked if he was in the office that day. I’m still waiting for a response.

So, this employee asked me to “phone it in,” but is it possible that that’s exactly what he or she was doing?

Let’s see what she was hired for. (I only assume it was a woman because when I had been there in person that’s who I’d seen working there.) She was presumably the secretary, expected to respond to customers, assist with ques-tions, answer phone calls and e-mails, and basically handle things so the boss could focus his attention elsewhere. He felt he had her “minding the store” on his behalf, acting as an extension of himself. But she is phoning it in.

Why? Let’s look at what happened. I contacted them via e-mail, clearly ex-pecting to reach the business owner. Had he read my letter, what would he have done? Would he have said, “You will have to call me at such-and-such number to speak to me”? Of course not! I’d already explained what I wanted. All he had to do was tell me if he had any interest in the proposition I’d made. He

could have done so by replying to the e-mail or calling me.

The secretary didn’t have that option. She didn’t know if the boss was interest-ed and she was right that it was his deci-sion to make. So why do I suggest that she’s “phoning it in,” not really playing her part? To answer that, let’s look at her options. What could she have done?

She could only let me know that I had to speak to the boss, right? Wrong.

If she was truly concerned about the boss’s welfare, which would impact,

in turn, her own job, she could have shown the

e-mail to her boss and asked how to respond. She could

have given him a mes-sage as if I’d called and had him call me back. She could have been more

specific in her response to say, “Call us, please, at ‘X’ o’clock when my boss will be in.” But she didn’t.

Instead, she did what she had to do

to fulfill her most basic obligations and be ‘blameless.’ She did what she was hired to do: answer e-mails and respond to inquiries. But she didn’t do what the boss hired her to do, be an extension of him. She didn’t feel the same passion or interest in his success as he would were he to be the one answering the e-mail. She was just phoning it in.

Our Boss has given us jobs too. Not because He can’t handle everything Himself, but because He wants us to be partners in His business with a vested in-terest in its success. He gave us mitzvos, Torah, and all sorts of tasks to achieve that give us the opportunity to show our true motivation.

Are we just biding our time until 120 o’clock, doing the minimum to fulfill our job specifications, or are we interested in the Boss having a successful operation? If we are concerned with Hashem, and what He wants from us, then we ap-proach things much differently.

I saw a fellow in shul who I knew usually headed out to work much earli-

er. A few days later, I noticed him again. I could have minded my own business, but the Boss wants us to mind His! I went over to find out if the man was al-right, or if perhaps he was in-between jobs. Not because I have a job to give him, or because I’m nosy, but because if someone needs help, our Boss wants us to be as proactive as possible.

We’re here not to mark time, but to make moments matter. The way to do that is by focusing on the Boss, getting down to business and making the right calls.

Now in bookstores, The Observant Jew, a compilation of some of Rabbi Gewirtz’s best articles from years past, is receiving critical acclaim. With short, funny, insightful selec-tions, this book is the perfect summertime companion. Look for it in your favorite Jew-ish Book Store or visit Feldheim.com.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.

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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 pro-duces 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 per-sonal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

“Siman” FishA special fish to bring in the sweet new year

Ingredients1-2 pounds tilapia, cut in half lengthwise 2 TBS. curry powder½ cup cornstarchSalt and pepperOlive oil for frying3 leeks, washed, cleaned and sliced2 cloves garlic4 carrots, sliced into rings1 cup ketchup1 tsp cinnamon¾ cup brown sugarPinch of cinnamon1 can pineapple chunks in heavy syrup2 cups water, divided1 ½ TBS cornstarch

PreparationRinse, then pat the fish dry

and season with salt and pep-per. Mix the cornstarch and curry together in a small bowl. Dip fish in mixture and shake off excess. Heat oil in a sauté pan and sear the fish on medium heat until crisp, about 4 minutes on each side. (It should look a little yellow from curry.) Place fish in a 9x13 oven-to-tableware dish and set aside.

In the same pan, add the leeks and sauté until soft. Add the garlic and carrots and sauté for 2 more minutes. Add ketchup, pinch cinnamon, brown sugar, can of pineapple chunks with the liquid, and ½ the water. Bring to boil and simmer for 3 minutes.

In a small bowl, combine the cornstarch and remaining water until cornstarch is dissolved and add to simmering sauce. Bring back to boil until sauce thickens, stirring constantly. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Pour sauce over the fish in the pan and bake for 15 minutes at 350° covered.

M any years ago, my mother visited me in New York for the Yamim Noraim and we were busy cooking together in my kitchen. The two of us were testing out new recipes for a fish cooking class

that I was scheduled to give for Ossie’s Fish in the Gourmet Glatt supermarket. We came up with an idea for a sauce that used some of the simanim from Rosh Hasha-na. After extensive testing and tweaking, we finally came up with a great balance, and I introduced the recipe at that class. It was an instant hit. Since then, Siman Fish has been one of my favorites and has been one of the most popular of my recipes.

NOTE: This recipe easily doubles, freezes well, and the sauce can also be used to spruce up leftover corned beef or chicken cutlets.

Here are some of the meanings for the Simanim:leek (kartei in Aramaic)—y’hi ratzon she-yikhritu soneinu...that our enemies

be cut off.fish—y’hi ratzon she-nifre v’narbe kadagim…that we will be fruitful and mul-

tiply like fish.Carrot (gezer in Hebrew)—y’hi ratzon she-yikra gezer dineinu…that the decree

of our due judgment be torn up.Olive (oil) (Zayit in Hebrew)—Let it be Your will, O’ L-rd our G-d, G-d of our

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From My Private Art Collection

Illustrations for Children’s Books Part II

There is a famous slogan used by art directors all over the globe, “Who would sell the passer by,

first must plan to catch the eye” (Rice, 1996, p. 61). This saying must never be forgotten when planning your book and deciding on the type of illustrations.

It’s interesting to note that the word “illustration” means to “light up,” which comes from the Latin verb to “il-luminate.”

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livered in your storyConsider the following quotes

while continuing on with your cre-ative journey in illustrations:

“Illustration does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all” -James Anthony Froude

“He who overdoes anything, spoils it” -Lao-tzu

“I mix them with my brains, sir” -John Opie, when asked how he mixed his colors

“Chance will not do the work” -Sir Walter Scott

The old Chinese saying, “A picture truly is worth a thousand words” (Rice, 1996, p.61) is so true. Always keep in mind that if you want to make a differ-ence, the people who read your books need to understand what you are try-ing to express. Let the storyline unfold slowly so that the ideas expressed can be understood and grasped. This is the cause and effect which must occur in a good story. Keep your goals for the story in mind at all times and then your message will remain clear. The repeti-tion method together with rhythm is a satisfying and pleasurable technique which should be continuously embel-lished.

To be continued…

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a profes-sional art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculp-ture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Direc-tor of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions and sugges-tions for future columns.

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They daven in your shul.They live in your neighborhood.They are your relatives.

They need your help.

Y e s h i v a D a r c h e i T o r a h - r a b b i ’ s s p e c i a l F u n D

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Dear Friends,We hope this letter finds you and yours in the best of health.We are sure that you are inundated with requests for tzedokoh at this time of year. The financial situation of our Jewish brothers has become perilous. There are many hundreds of families who find themselves in dire financial straits, which is creating major issues for these families. These issues include problems with marital harmony, health related issues, unemployment, cost of education, costs of marrying off children, widows, orphans, and just plain poverty.

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My dissertation took forever. Being slightly – only slightly, mind you – OCD, I had to do

the most thorough job of research ever. It actually was about 8 years. Well, I had little kids; sue me. Anyway, when I was all done, I had this stack of tran-scripts in my hand from the interviews I had with the people who volunteered to tell me their stories. It was time for me to pick a title.

I poured over all the transcripts, flipping from one to another. And then this cold shiver ran down my spine. I couldn’t believe what my eyes saw. I double and triple checked and there it was. Somewhere in each conversation, every person I had inter-viewed said nearly the same thing us-ing nearly the same words: “I was never good enough.”

That be-came the title of my disser-tation.

I wonder how many people feel that way. If you do, you shouldn’t. But if you do, then it probably affects how you view the Yo-mim Norayim (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur). See, I can remember not look-ing forward to them. I mean, who wants to examine your sins anyway? It really doesn’t sound so pleasant.

Somewhere along the line, I real-ized there was a connection between the first story and the second. Maybe it was when I was in college that I had that “Aha!” moment. Many of us grew up with that “not good enough” message. And when we hear that message in varying ways over long periods of time, it unfortunately seeps into our souls. We believe the message. That’s not a good thing.

When we feel that in some profound way, we are “not good enough,” we sure don’t want to look too closely at ourselves.

This presents a paradox. If the only way to “fix” ourselves – if we really ar-en’t so good after all – is to look inside so we can tinker around and see what

needs fixing, but the very act of looking is too painful because we’re “not good enough,” then how do we begin?

This problem chases all the value – all the joy, all the benefit – out of Yom Kippur. Oh, you didn’t think there was joy? Well then, maybe you should join

the club of the “not good enoughs.”There’s a way out and it’s some-

thing I work very, very hard with my clients on whether the Yomim Norayim

are approaching or not. The truth is that we all are good and we all are good enough. The message we got from our par-ents was a mis-take.

I am not say-ing there aren’t evil people in the world. There are. The founder of

ISIS comes to mind. I’m saying you’re not one of them. Most people don’t fit into that category. How do I know? (After all, I don’t really know you.) It’s like this: If you are put off by Yom Kippur because you don’t want to ex-amine yourself, then you are definitely not evil.

People who “know” that they need self-examination and are afraid of what they will find show by that very fear that they are good people. You see, being concerned is a good thing and proves that you are not evil. Evil peo-ple give themselves a very quick rub-ber stamp of approval. They don’t think they need to look inside because they are not worried about their behavior. Of course, they are the ones who should and they are the ones who won’t. Con-cern is the step just preceding keeping an eye on yourself, and by golly, that is self-examination!

But there is another piece to this, a disturbing piece: It is wrong to think we are not good or not good enough in the first place. We should not approach

HaKadosh Baruch Hu from a place of feeling defective. On the one hand, it is absolutely true that we were not created perfect. We were, in fact, created imper-fect so we could improve ourselves.

On the other hand, G-d thought that we were “good” when He created us.

How can this be? How can we be im-perfect yet good?

We are not supposed to be compla-cent with our imperfection; on the con-trary, we must work on it (Avos 3:21). But here is the key thing: Because we were and are “good,” we should ap-proach the job with joy. There should not be clouds hanging over us like they hang over Eeyore. Just as too much praise should not “go to our heads,” neither should our imperfections.

We should be able to examine our-selves from a position of knowing we are basically good (to paraphrase Anne Frank) and then see how we can be bet-ter. We can accept ourselves and yet strive to be better. In fact, it is ironically only when we do accept ourselves as we are that we can work on improving ourselves.

When we accept who we are, it gives us the strength to look inside our-selves to do the examining that is re-quired during Elul, on the Yomim Nor-

ayim, and all year long.So the real question is: How do we

overcome that nagging feeling inside of us that we are no good, defective, less-than? How do we accept our imperfec-tions while wanting more for ourselves?

I think the answer is simple yet pro-found: G-d loves us. He created us with love. He also created us imperfect so that we could reap the satisfaction that comes with overcoming challenges, the biggest challenge, of course, being overcoming our old habits and ways of thinking. As we read through the dav-ening, notice that message throughout. Hashem wants us to feel good about ourselves at the core of who we are – and He also wants us to be better. It’s both and the machzor proves it.

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Is Teshuva for Feeling Bad about Yourself?

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Shake Your Salt Habit

On average, Americans consume a whopping 3,436 mg of sodium daily. Whether at a restaurant or

at our own kitchen table, we constant-ly reach for salt. Because most things we buy already have salt added to them, this habit can be dangerous to your health.

Sodium chloride is more commonly known as table salt. Sodium is used as a preservative in all processed foods and is found naturally in some foods. It’s an essential nutrient that helps maintain blood pressure and volume, muscle contractions, and nerve transmis-sion. However, our bodies only require a small amount to function. Too much sodium in a diet can cause serious health complications such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cardiac arrest, changes in nerve and muscle function, and shortness of breath, as well as fluid retention, which causes weight gain.

The American Heart Association recommends that a healthy person con-sume no more than 2,400 mg of sodi-um daily. However, those with high blood pressure or cardiovascular dis-ease should keep their sodium intake to fewer than 2,000 mg per day. It is important to read food labels in order to keep within your recommended dai-ly amount. The only way to know the exact sodium content is by looking at the nutrition facts. However, at a quick glance, some of the terms used can give you a good idea of what to expect. “So-dium free” means there’s less than 5 mg of sodium per serving. “Very low-sodi-um” means no more than 35 mg of sodi-um per serving. “Low-sodium” means 140 mg or less of sodium per serving. “Reduced sodium” means that the usual sodium level is reduced by 25%. Last-ly “unsalted” and “no salt added” mean that the only sodium in the product is naturally there.

When baking or cooking, keep in mind that with one small splash, you can be adding a whole lot of sodium. One teaspoon of salt has 2,300 mg of sodium, more than the recommended daily allowance, and a tablespoon of baking soda has 1,000 mg of sodium.

Learn to use spices and herbs and en-joy the natural flavor of food. Next time you are cooking, instead of reaching for the salt, experiment with your spice cabinet. You can use allspice in meats, stews, and sauces. Basil tastes great on fish, meats, salads, and soups. Experi-

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Motti Shanet, LCSW

Feel the Rhythm

During my years of helping at-risk youth through psychotherapy and at Project Extreme, I have had the

opportunity to talk with some deeply insightful teenagers. I realized that they often turned to dangerous and harmful behavior because they never learned how to handle feelings of hurt and an-ger. What many children and teens share is the need for a voice, a safe platform in which they can channel their feelings and cope with them in a meaningful and structured style. I tapped into my ex-perience as a pro-fessional drummer and found that music reached the youths I worked with at an unprecedented level. Through therapeutic drumming, they were able to feel safe and whole. I was not surprised to find many sources for this unique phenomenon—both in psychological re-search and anthropological study.

The Story Behind the Music“Music expresses that which cannot

be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” This insight by famous author Victor Hugo explains why mu-sic has long been a favored vehicle of expression for those whom the spoken word has failed. Music helps breach verbal barriers, enriching the meaning behind intended messages at emotion-al, psychological and cognitive levels. However, communication through mu-sic is not a privilege restricted to com-posers and musicians alone. In fact, there has been a growing amount of research documenting the therapeutic benefits that music, and particularly drumming, offers.

In recent years, researchers at UCLA conducted a study that showed that when drumming is used to teach life skills, it is effective in producing significant improvement in the following areas: attention deficit/ hyperactivity, inatten-tion, oppositional defiance, aggression, anxiety, and depression. Other studies have demonstrated that drumming led to improvement in immune functions, decreased stress levels, physical and aer-obic health, scores in school/work and role performance, improved IQ, nega-tive self-evaluation, and instrumental anger. Overall, intent-focused drumming

is recognized as a holistic approach to emotional health and wellness, affecting mind, body and heart.

The HistoryDrums have been used for thou-

sands of years, across many cultures, as a way of building communities, cel-ebrating together, and healing. Because the first sound that babies hear in utero is the steady beat of their mothers’ hearts,

rhythm has always been an innate part of life. In ancient African civiliza-tions, messages about survival were transmitted by individuals standing on neigh-boring mountain-tops and tapping

out a beat on handmade bongo drums. In Jewish history, when the Jews left Egypt, Miriam took the drum in her hand and all the women followed her with drums and song. Miriam used drums as a sym-bol of hope to create community and express her sense of gratitude, joy and personal freedom. King David, the mas-ter of song and emotion, famously sang, “Praise G-d with drum and dance.” And for centuries, Jews have been doing ex-actly that.

Guided drumming combines ancient wisdom with the latest modern under-standing of human development and evidence-based practices. Rhythm is an extraordinarily powerful tool for helping youth to unlock their inner potential. In my drum circles with children, I have witnessed astounding things happen. Children learned to regulate their intense feelings and calm themselves down. They learned to trust and communicate with their friends. They learned that making mistakes is normal. Most of all, they learned to reach a place of inner peace and happiness.

How it WorksTen-year-old Baruch appeared

charming and friendly. His family, how-ever, knew the truth. When Baruch got frustrated, he exploded. He shouted, threw things and even became aggres-sive with his siblings. He seemed like a completely different person, a person who was trapped in a self-destructive cycle. No matter how many times his parents told him that his behavior was unacceptable, they were unable to get

through to their child when he was over-taken by anger. What pained them most was watching their child feel guilty, mis-erable, and begin to lose his confidence.

Baruch learned some practical skills in the drum circle. First, he learned to be-come aware of his anger by learning to recognize how his heartbeat accelerated each time his temper flared up. He used drums to communicate how the rapid beat of his heart felt. Then, he learned how to use breathing and self-talk to regulate the intensity of his emotion and tone it down a few “octaves.” He learned how to “sweat off” some of the intensity of the emotion without hurting himself or others. Baruch still gets angry today but he has learned how to stop himself before the anger gets out of control, and how to bring his heart rate back to a calm rhythm.

It is completely natural for parents to resign themselves to the hopes that their child is simply experiencing a phase that he/she will soon “‘grow out of.” For those parents who do seek guid-

ance to help their child communicate their feelings, they may find their efforts hindered by other issues that arise. A shy child very often is reluctant to open-up and share their most intimate feelings with a stranger. Other children may have confused emotions and lack the language necessary to properly express themselves, fueling their frustrations fur-ther. However, we know that addressing problems when children are young can save so much heartache later. Research has demonstrated that music is one of few empowering and exciting ways to give children the skills they will need to manage life.

Motti Shanet, LCSW, is a seasoned clinician who treats children, families, and individuals at the Five Towns Wellness Center in Cedar-hurst, NY. The relationships he develops with his clients strategically place him in a posi-tion to teach them the latest, most effective, evidence-based techniques in the field. For information about Motti’s groundbreaking groups for boys, please see www.5twc.com or follow the Five Towns Wellness Center on Facebook.

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104 Health & FitnessDevorah Gerber Schmeltz

Sensory Cravers in SchoolI have a six-year-old son who is

what I call Mr. Active. He absolutely loves all and any type of movement; he is constantly on the go. The sum-mer is the best time of year for him. He spends every daylight hour out-doors biking, running and climbing. Now that the school year has begun, I’m desperate to make the year go by without a deluge of calls from his teachers that he is acting out and can’t sit still. We already had a psy-chological evaluation for him at the urging of his school and ADHD was ruled out. But he has been evaluated by an OT who indicated that he has sensory issues. Unfortunately, the district did not grant him OT service. Can you provide me with some tips to make his day at school more success-ful?

The Therapist Responds:Thank you for your letter. I want

to first commend you for sharing your concerns and seeking advice for your son. The transition from summer to the school year can be difficult for many children and especially challeng-ing for the sensory child. Your son no longer has the opportunity to freely en-gage in his sensory seeking behaviors throughout the day. Now that he is in school, he has less control of his time and environment. Despite this, there are strategies that can provide him with the movement he craves and help make his day at school successful and productive for learning.

1. Provide Purposeful Move-ment Activities

Contrary to what you might think, end-less jumping, spinning and running are actually counterproductive to a sensory craving child. These activities will only over-arouse the child since in essence a child with sensory craving can never get enough input. Movement activities that are purposeful are therapeutic for these children. Examples of such activ-ities are duck, duck goose, relay races and obstacle courses. These games in-volve movement that is goal oriented.

2. Provide Interrupted Move-ment Activities

Movement activities, which incor-porate a “stop and go” help develop

inhibition. Games such as red light, green light and musical chairs are clas-sic examples.

3. Heavy work activitiesFor a child with sensory craving,

heavy work activities help organize and self-regulate. Heavy work refers to activities that involve pushing, schlep-ping and pulling. In-class activities in-clude wiping the dry erase board, col-lecting textbooks and helping to move chairs or desks.

Before and after school, activities that are fun, goal-directed and short are best. Examples include pushing a shopping cart in the supermarket, strip-ping linen off a bed and performing pull ups from a push up bar.

4. Environmental Modifications Alternative seating such as chair

moves (e.g. sitting strad-dled to the chair) and the use of seat cushions (see picture) allow the child

to wiggle around while sitting. These modifica-tions allow the sensory craving child to sit in

class while still get-ting the movement they need.

Wishing your son much hat-

zlacha in the new school year!

Devorah (Gerber) Schmeltz, MS OTR/L is a 2003 alumnus of Downstate Medical Cen-ter’s OT Program. She worked as a senior occupational therapist at United Cerebral Palsy’s Brooklyn Children’s Program for 9 years. Currently, Devorah runs a private practice, Bumble & Tumble Occupational Therapy P.C in Far Rockaway. Your ques-tions and comments are welcome. She can be reached at [email protected] or 917-971-5327.

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110 Your MoneyAllan J. Rolnick CPA

People Who Live in Glass Houses

Takisha McGee works (at least for now) as a Section Manager for the IRS Office of Professional

Responsibility, where their mission is to “interpret and apply the standards of practice for tax professionals in a fair and equitable manner.” Among her other duties, she travels around the country teaching IRS of-ficials and tax preparers how to behave them-selves. She gives lectures with titles like “When Your License To Prac-tice Before the IRS Is On The Line.” You would think someone like that would watch her own back pretty carefully. But sadly, that’s not the case, at least as far as McGee herself is concerned.

This week’s story starts back in 2007, when McGee helped her future husband’s Aunt Rue collect $8,900 af-ter an auto accident. At the time, Mc-Gee was two years out of law school, working on employee benefit issues at the Department of Labor, and had never handled a personal injury case before.

On July 21, 2008, the insurance company sent McGee a settlement check for $8,900. McGee kept $1,000 for herself and deposited the remaining $7,900 in her little “firm’s” trust ac-count. Two weeks later, McGee gave her client $4,500, $4,700, or $4,900 (depending on whose affidavit you be-lieve). McGee understood that she was also supposed to pay her client’s medi-cal bills, which totaled $2,682.46. She withdrew $1,800 more in cash from the trust account, but none of it found its way to the doctors.

Apparently, that was when McGee decided she wasn’t cut out for a life of chasing ambulances, because that’s when she started her job helping su-pervise the IRS ethics cops. She also started not answering her email and even disconnected her cell phone and fax machine “to reduce stress.” (Don’t you wish you could do that?)

With all that stress reduction going on, Aunt Rue eventually filed a com-plaint with the District of Columbia Bar Association. McGee defended her-self with several inconsistent stories about paying the medical bills, but the

Bar Association wasn’t buying it. They recommended disbarring her, based on “clear and convincing evidence of intentional misappropriation,” among other offenses. McGee apparently feels the heat, although she dismisses her shenanigans as a “one-time mistake.” Last week, she confessed to the Wash-

ington Times that it keeps her awake at night. “As it relates to my job, may I possibly lose it? Yes, I face that each and every day.” She says that she noti-fied the IRS about the pending disbar-ment when she started working there, but an IRS spokesman said the Service was unlikely to comment. (Privacy is-sues…)

The 18th-century Frenchman Jean Baptiste Colbert, who worked as King Louis XIV’s Minister of Fi-nance, once said,“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” The IRS employs almost 90,000 people in that pursuit. Most of them work hard at a thankless job. They don’t get a lot of love, and they don’t make a lot of money. So it’s probably fair to cut them at least a little slack for honest mistakes, even as we hiss at being plucked. But some people just don’t belong where they are, and McGee sure sounds like one of them.

Meanwhile, the other 89,000 peo-ple who work at the IRS are still on the job — and so are we. Remember, tax season is just around the corner…and Uncle Sam already has his hand out.

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].

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Ask the AttorneyRoman Aminov, Esq.

The Intricacies of Joint OwnershipI am recently married and would

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we own are held jointly with anoth-er person. Almost anything, including real property, bank accounts, and in-vestment accounts, can be, and often is, owned jointly. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to understand the various joint tenancies and their consequences. This article will deal with the three joint ownership structures in New York and discuss their basic characteristics. As al-ways, no planning should be undertaken without consulting a New York estate planning attorney.

Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship (JTWROS)

If you are married and look at your bank or investment account statements, the chances are that you and your spouse are both named owners. This simple, yet common and useful ownership struc-ture, is known as joint tenancy with rights of survivorship (JTWROS). The reason that JTWROS is so popular is that, upon the death of one owner, their rights in the property automatically pass to the remaining owner(s). That means that jointly owned assets do not need to be probated when one party passes away and there are remaining owners. When there is only one owner living, the property will pass to the beneficia-ries or distributees of the final owner. Each joint tenant has equal and undi-vided ownership in the property, which means all of the owners have an equal percentage. Each joint tenant can gift or sell their share of the property to a third party without the consent of the remain-ing joint owners. When that happens, the joint tenancy stops and becomes a tenancy in common (see below). Unlike tenancy by the entirety, described be-low, there is no creditor protection. Con-sequently, the creditor of one owner can place a lien on that owner’s portion of the property and foreclose on it, affect-ing all the remaining owners. The cre-ation of JTWROS can cause significant tax and liability issues and is best done after a consultation with an attorney.

Tenancy by the Entirety (TBE)The second form of ownership, ten-

ancy by the entirety (TBE), is very com-mon when a married couple owns real estate, such as their primary residence. If you were married when you bought your home, it is highly likely that you own it as TBE with your spouse. In New York, tenants by the entirety (TBE) can

only be to real property (and co-ops if purchased after 1996) and can only be used by a married couple. In fact, if a married couple takes ownership of real property, they automatically own it as TBE, unless the deed indicates other-wise. Just like a JTWROS, when one spouse passes away, the property au-tomatically passes to the other spouse without probate. Each spouse owns an undivided 100% interest in the property which, unlike the other two forms, can’t be sold or given away without the other spouse’s permission. The main advan-tage of a TBE over a JTWROS is that, as long as the couple is married, a cred-itor of one spouse cannot place a lien on the real property while the non-debtor spouse is alive. If the spouse who in-curred the judgment and lien passes away, the property passes automatically to the surviving spouse, and the lien is extinguished. However, if the non-debt-or spouse passes away first, the creditor can place on lien on the property.

Tenancy in Common (TIC)With a tenancy in common (TIC),

each owner owns an undivided percent-age in the property. Unlike the other two structures, one owner can own a greater percentage than the other(s) – one own-ing 99% and one owning 1%, for exam-ple. Like a joint tenancy, any owner can use the property whenever they wish, and any owner can sell their portion without the consent of the other(s). The major distinction between TIC and the other two forms is that, after the death of an owner, his share goes to his heirs, and NOT to the remaining owners. This

allows owners to plan for the distribu-tion of the asset in accordance with their will and to potentially maximize their estate tax savings in some instances. A big drawback of TIC ownership is that when one owner passes, the assets held as tenants in common will require pro-

bate or estate administration, which may delay the transfer of the property until the court process is complete. Addition-ally, unlike a TBE, there is no creditor protection for the owners.

While this overview may appear straightforward, the practical appli-cation is fraught with significant tax, estate, liability, and long term care implications. Before purchasing new property or transferring existing proper-ty into joint names, it is best to consult with an attorney to understand the po-tential pitfalls which may affect you and your loved ones.

No column is a substitute for compe-tent legal advice. Any additional or dif-ferent facts could change or affect any legal analysis. Please consult with your legal professional of choice regarding any legal question you may have.

Roman Aminov, Esq. is an estate planning, probate, and elder law attorney with an of-fice in Kew Garden Hills. He can be reached at (347)766-2685 and at www.AminovLaw.com.

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Apartments for Rent 2 and 3 bedroom apts. Available

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BAYSWATER JEWISH LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN A wide selection of both the latest and classic novels,

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19,600 SQFT Warehouse and office space available for rent in West Hempstead.

Includes three loading docks and parking. Asking $12 per SQFT (negotiable) Call

Michael at 516-582-4247 to setup a showing.

Director of Purchasing - Nursing Home Company

-Nursing Home experience a MUST -Established frum-owned company

-Competitive salary with healthcare benefits and 401k

-Relocation assistance available Relocate to a relaxed midwest city with strong

frum infrastructure, short commute w/o traffic, inexpensive housing, and a great job!

Email resume to [email protected]

Seeking SECULAR Studies TEACHERS for 2014-2015 for 7th-8th Grades.

*Queens Day School *Part-time afternoon position available

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Email resume and references to [email protected]

Bayswater apt for rent three bedrooms two bathrooms eat in kosher kitchen

dining room living room first floor apartment

call 212-470-3856 WinZone Re

Amazing Job Opportunities In Cedarhurst Shomer Shabos Office.

Flexible hours for working moms! Part time and full time jobs available. Seminary girls welcome. Seeking capable, efficient individuals to join a fast-paced growing

office. Excellent communication skills and strong organizational skills required. Basic Computer Skills necessary. Ability to multi-task and detail-oriented. Email resume to

[email protected]

Far Rockaway/Lawrence apartment available for rent by owner.

Conveniently located on Central Ave Doorman building, Shabbos elevator Fourth floor, junior 4, 1 bathroom,

updated kitchen – Please call: 917-250-3464—

for rent by owner, no brokerage involved

Far Rockaway Co-Op for Rent: 833 Central Ave. Luxurious 24 hour

Doorman Building, Spacious 2 Bedroom, Renovated Bathroom,

Spacious Kosher Kitchen, Spectacular View, centrally located near LIRR and

all shuls. Call 516-633-5564.

Torah Academy for Girls in Far Rockaway is seeking teacher assistants, half or full day in both Limudei Kodesh and General Studies. Please fax resume to 718-868-4612 or email

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10,000 SQFT Warehouse and office space available for rent in West Hempstead.

Includes three loading docks and parking. Asking $12 per SQFT (negotiable) Call Michael

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The Young Israel of Wavecrest and Bayswater Senior League invites all seniors 60 and above to attend their free weekly fitness and technology classes. Optional lunch catered by Chap a Nosh. For more

information kindly call 718-327-0297

Business Opportunity Looking for an investor for a fabulous Youtube business. Great opportunity.

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We Import the finest Pearl Jewelry directly from farms in Asia. No middlemen. Lowest Prices Anywhere. South Sea, Akoya, Freshwater. Starting at $20.

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TEACHERS, Judaic/Secular Studies, K-8 in Queens. 2+ years exper. Great Pay/On

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For Sale:Dining Room Set Thomasville Pecan Wood Table, 2

Extensions, 6 Chairs, Credenza and Hutch $950. 516-483-1464

Seforim for Sale 1,000 volume library

Ideal for Ben Torah, etc. 718-471-1019 or 347-853-6494

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Proficient in electronic health records All health insurance information

Skilled in all medical office technology Looking for immediate employment

If interested please call 516-330-5828 CATAPULT LEARNING

Teachers for Title I in Boro Park and Williamsburg Chassidic

boys schools *College/Yeshiva Degree Required

*Strong desire to help children learn *Excellent organizational skills

*Small group instruction *Competitive salary

Email resume:[email protected]

Fax# (718) 381-3493

Customer service /recept exp. wanted for busy furniture store.

Good phone voice needed. Good oppty. Sun-Thurs 10 - 6pm

646-517-0247 lv detailed msg

For Sale:Den or Office Furniture Cherry Colonial Desk with Matching Bureau and Swivel Chair, Inlaid Black

Surfaces Excellent Condition $300 for all. 516-483-1464

Seeking a middle school SS/English teacher for Sept. 2014.

Supportive staff, good salary. Please call 917-742-8909 and email

resume to [email protected]

Leaders in Online Jewish Marketing are hiring Sales Superstars. Do you fit the bill? Send your resume to [email protected]

or call us @ 646-351-1808 x 111

Volunteer tutors desperately needed for Zichron Etel

A tutoring gemach that provides free tutoring to those who cannot afford it. Help

needed in Brooklyn & the Five Towns. Please contact Nina@ 516-791-6676 or

[email protected].

Graphic Designer Wanted Experienced on Mac. Must Know Adobe Illustror, Photoshop, & Indesign. Part-

Time. Monday & Tuesday. (718) 377-8016 or email resume to

[email protected]

New D.N.D Support Workshop Divorced not Depleted!

Frum divorced women invited to attend every Wed. evening from 10-11

For more info please call 718-755-7224

Mehudar Esrogim and Lulovim available Beis Horah in Flatbush 1236 Ave. M

Reasonable prices with a rov available on premises

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Life Coach

Hey Bus-ter

A nice looking young man stood alone on a street corner with pur-pose in his posture. He was dressed

casually, with a few strands of tzitzit hanging out. It was around 8:45 AM. A partner and I were walking our miles before launching into our day. What was he doing hang-ing out on the cor-ner of Broadway and something? Was he worth giv-ing the third degree to, seeing if we could help him find his life’s mate?

Make no mistake—at the hours be-tween 6:30am and 10:00am, early in Sep-tember, anyone standing on a corner with a clear look of purpose in their eyes has a kid! They are there to deal with one thing only— the battle of the bus!

Each year there is the possibility of a new corner or a new driver, new stops added, new routes fashioned. No one can even think of leaving for work till the ex-act time and place where their precious bundle will be scooped up is squared away. Is this the permanent driver? Is this the permanent time they’ll be coming? Is this the same spot they’ll be stopping every day? Assurances must be gotten to start dealing with other aspects of life.

The yellow brigade is out in full force. Waze needs to adjust all E.T.A.’s for arriving at people’s work locations by considering those stop signs that pop out torturously slowly off the side of any stopped school bus picking up a child. Every parent is truly ecstatic they exist for the safety of their children, but each person dreads being the victim stuck be-hind one of these buses.

Sometimes we stumble into the mis-fortune of lumbering behind one of these buses for blocks at a time. I’ve rarely wit-nessed an emotion more easy to identify with than the elated relief of a car driver when this “stop every corner bus” sud-denly puts on his turn signal. The de-sire to rev up one’s engine and fly out of there is palpable! But, if the buses turn suddenly reveals a string of busses ahead of that one, it’s clearly time to stop at the nearest Dunkin Donuts and sit and “latte” at the deluge.

Oh, and what about those little bite-size buses? Just when you think the roads are free and clear, the whole preschool population needs to be whisked off for their day. These mini cabooses may not

take up as much room on the road, but when their doors are unleashed, the same dreaded red octagons pop out and keep your car firmly in its place.

My advice is to leave to work at 5:00am or take the train. You can even try walking to work; you’ll proba-bly get there soon-er!

These school buses own the morning streets. Ninety of them

pass by my home every morning, but my daughter has perfected knowing which one is hers from over a block away and still out of view. There must be engine sounds or carburetor emission, unique to each bus that begin to speak to their pas-sengers. To me, they are all yellow school buses. But to her, one is clearly her daily chariot, complete with fun friends or frus-trating characters and all.

This is all part of the school day. Kids are adjusted to and content with circling the neighborhood for 45 minutes before heading off to school! Could you imagine getting your child to sit patiently in the car that way while you did what you had to for 45 minutes before reaching a des-tination?! Those bus drivers have them trained. I’m thinking of buying a yellow bus for trips, then maybe the first question when we get into the car won’t be “Are we there yet?”

So you may still be wondering what that dad was doing on the corner of Broadway and something at 8:45am, waiting for a bus, without a child in tow. It seems he was not yet at peace. He was double-checking the bus route as it came back, the other way, with his child al-ready on board. That’s how devoted and focused we get when the bus route begins in September.

Yes, as September rolls around, the buses do rule the roads. You see them gathered and settled in groups at night, blatant in their color, but silent, behaved, and well out of the way.

However, with the morning light, they are the masters of the neighborhood. They are carrying precious cargo, and we know it. So plan your route accord-ingly, but don’t get that upset with them. Because remember, if they weren’t doing this job each day—you would be!

And honestly, carpooling to after-school activities is tough enough!

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Merom Yerushalayim is being built on the Schneller compound, an estate that for one hundred and fifty years has been lending a majestic air and a dash of European panache to the streets of Yerushalayim. Vast expanses of flourishing greenery and rare architectural beauties lie behind its stately stone walls. Now you can experience life in a haven of peace and nature, secluded from the tumult of the city, yet in the center of it all; Yerushalayim shel maala.

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