January 18, 2013

By Malka Eisenberg

Belle Harbor was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy; the ocean thun-dered over the beach and through the streets, flooding homes and leaving behind destruction and devastation. One of the synagogues there is now padlocked and dark, its innards rent asunder, waiting for the funds to rebuild.

There are essentially three Orthodox synagogues in Belle Har-bor, Ohab Zedek, Magen David, a Sephardic Adot Hamizrach con-gregation, and Congregation Bais Yehudah, a nusach sphard shteibl on Beach 137th Street. Magen David and the shteibl are once again functioning. Ohab Zedek’s building is closed.

Going down into its lower levels is like entering the sunken Ti-tanic, its structure still beautiful, the beams of flashlights cutting through the damp, dusty, silty darkness, illuminating the raw walls and floors that had once held benches, books, chairs, desks and Torahs.

Congregation Ohab Zedek is the anchor of the Jewish commu-nity, a majestic building with three sets of double wooden doors atop a bank of granite steps, a huge menorah visible through the balcony’s window above. The structure stretches along the whole block of Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 134th and 135th Streets. (The congregation traces itself back, according to

By Karen C. Green

“I’m in this to help the commu-nity--I care about where I live,” said Adam Haber, 47. The East Hills resident, who has served on the Ro-slyn School Board since 2009, has officially thrown his hat in the ring, announcing his candidacy for Nas-sau County Executive. The self de-scribed fiscally conservative, social-ly liberal Democrat is not currently the party’s candidate, and is ready for a primary run on September 3, prior to the November election.

Haber, who was raised in Spring Valley, spent 20 years trading de-rivatives of options, coffee, sugar, and crude oil, followed by a career in venture capital and commercial real estate. The owner of two res-taurants, Aldea, a Michelin star restaurant in Manhattan, and Lula, recently opened in Mineola, Haber considers himself a “serial entrepre-neur,” emphasizing “I don’t need this job, I want this job. I have had a successful life in business the last 25 years. I’ve sat on corporate boards--I know how businesses work.“

Haber is also very proud of his communal work. As a commer-cial real estate investor, who has rehabbed homes, Haber is very in-volved with All Hands Volunteers, a not for profit organization dedicated to empowering disaster relief volun-teers around the world. Haber has traveled with the organization to Bi-loxi, Mississippi, Cedar Rapids, Iowa and as far as Haiti rehabilitating homes,schools and improving water filtration systems. On a recent Sun-day, Haber visited the Five Towns, where he distributed space heaters at Rabbi Simcha Lefkowitz’s Life-House location in Cedarhurst. Co-ordinated through Legislator How-ard Kopel, this effort was the result

of Haber reaching out to legislators representing the South Shore. Both Legislator Kopel ( R-Lawrence) and Legislator Denenberg (D- Merrick) were recipients.

Haber and wife, Renee, of 21 years, are parents to a 16 year old daughter and 14 year old son and are committed to their Jewish com-munity; they are active members in their synagogue. Renee is on the Board of Directors at the Sid Jacob-son JCC. The Habers were honor-ees at the Glen Cove Holocaust and Tolerance Center. The family has been to Israel twice, most recently

on a bar mitzvah trip for their son. Haber jokingly brags about making it up Masada in under 30 minutes.

“My wife pushed me into poli-tics,” noted Haber. “It was a foot-ball Sunday when she came to me and said, ‘You’re running for school board!’”

In 2004, the Roslyn School Board made the news as their Superinten-dant stole $11.2 million in district funds. On the board since 2009, Haber has been part of a team that has been uniquely creative in find-

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Happy 112 bday in Long BeachBy Malka Eisenberg

The oldest resident of Long Island and pos-sibly the oldest Jew in the world, celebrated her 112th birthday on Sunday at the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.

Mrs. Goldie Steinberg’s actual birthday was on October 30th but the approach of Hurricane Sandy derailed the center’s plans. Grandell was evacuated on October 27th and Steinberg weathered the storm at the nurs-ing facility at Meadowbrook Care Center in Freeport. Residents were sent to 20 different nursing homes. After three and a half weeks of intensive efforts to repair the storm dam-age to Grandell’s kitchen, lobby and boiler, the Health Department allowed the residents to return on November 23rd. Steinberg’s birthday party was incorporated into a free community wide celebration sponsored by Grandell and the Beach Terrace Care Center for the return to Long Beach, explained Tzvi Barax, Grandell’s assistant administrator. He noted that her party was indoors, “coupled” with the other celebration outdoors, with fair rides, balloon jumps, food and drinks. In-side, they had waiters, a sushi bar and hors d’oeuvres. “It was very nice,” said Barax. “A bunch of kids sang happy birthday.” They had a very large chocolate birthday cake.

Steinberg was born in Moldova, formerly Kishinev, Russia on October 30, 1900. One of eight children, she survived both Kishinev po-groms, in 1903 and in 1905. The first pogrom left 49 Jews murdered, many others injured, and many homes and businesses destroyed. She immigrated to America at age 23. Goldie settled in Brooklyn, working as a seamstress, and met her husband, Philip Steinberg, there. They had two children, Donald Sargent and Ann Teicher. Philip died in 1967. Goldie con-tinued working as a seamstress into her eight-ies and lived in the same apartment until she had difficulty walking at age 104. She then moved into Grandell.

Barax pointed out that she continues to be active, reading the newspaper, knitting and is

an ardent Yankees fan. She recalls voting for Herbert Hoover and can speak English, Yid-dish, Hebrew and Russian.

“She’s great,” said Barax. “She’s very sweet, very calm. The staff loves her. She is easy to deal with. She has nothing negative to say.” If asked to what she attributes her years, said Barax, “she would say her children. She lived on her own till 104. Eight years later she is going strong. Her daughter credits her attitude. She’s a happy person. There is no getting upset. She doesn’t discuss her time in Europe.” Barax noted that even her children don’t look their age. “It’s something in the genes,” he theorized. “Albert Einstein College of Medicine took a blood sample for research to see what obtained for her old age; she gave DNA for that.” He noted that they are study-ing super centenarians, those 110 and over.

About six months ago, Barax recounted, Goldie’s 90-year-old roommate was coughing and unable to sleep. Goldie got out of her own bed and gave the roommate two cough drops and told her to put one in her mouth and instructed her that when it dissolves to put the other one in and she would then be able to sleep. “Goldie got out of bed to help her,” said Barax. “It’s unbelievable.”

Grandell is located on West Broad-way between Grand and Lindell in Long Beach.

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Mrs. Goldie Steinberg at her 112thbirthday celebration in Long Beach.

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ing ways to save money and generate revenue for the district. In his role as trustee he has been involved in the “the business side of ed-ucation,” including giving advice on collective bargaining agreements. Haber takes credit as being part of a district that has made great strides, including saving millions of dollars by engaging in cooperative busing, restructur-ing debt and reigning in purchasing. A pilot program that the school district took part in was an outgrowth of Haber’s revelation. “I did a graph to annotate current busing out of the district. Why don’t ten districts who own their own buses combine routes for out of district busing with the other school districts in Nassau County?” As a result, the Roslyn district now cooperates with the Wheatley and North Shore school districts, transferring roughly six kids, and yielding a significant cost saving to the district. “This should be county wide,” expressed Haber.

“Government is known for having a ‘why we can’t’ attitude. The answer should be why we can, why we should,” continued Haber. In-stantaneously, he rattles off a list of problems county wide that need fixing and offers ideas

to mitigate the problems.“Police precinct closings, tax certiorari,

sewage repairs, Superfund sites, Hurricane Sandy response, loss of funding for social ser-vices are top concerns,” noted Haber.

“The police precinct closings and consoli-dation hasn’t yielded any savings, the sewage treatment plants are a mess. There needs to be preventative maintenance. The tax cer-tiori is a mess, with over a billion in bonding. There are 16 Superfund sites, 7 are active and are destroying our ground water. The Super-storm Sandy response was uncoordinated. There was no plan. Nassau County was reac-tive rather than proactive. There should be emergency contacts on AM radio. Very trou-bling are the drastic cuts in mental health funding, 45%, in the 2013 budget.

“I’d rather find solutions,” expressed Haber offerings ideas to mitigate the prob-lems. “The county should have availed them-selves of EB-5 financing to help build the hub-site as opposed to using public funds. If they did, we could still possibly have the Islanders today.” Noting the August 2011 referendum which cost Nassau County taxpayers $2 mil-lion, Haber suggested, “a $15,000 poll to see

if the referendum could pass would’ve been equally effective, they (the current adminis-tration) didn’t think.” Still on the subject of the Nassau Coliseum and revenue, Haber la-mented that the current administration did not take advantage of “stadium naming op-portunities, premium seating or a possible ticket surcharge.”

In addition to his own ideas, Haber values the thoughts of his fellow Nassau County con-stituents. He created a forum for the shar-ing of ideas by launching Nassausuggestion-box.com, which allows visitors to post their thoughts about how to make government more effective.

Haber is fervent in his opinion that Nassau County needs to be known as a place to do business. “There is a lot of empty space from layoffs. These locations could be venture cap-ital sites. There could be desks in every room with other entrepreneurs. As an incentive, the County can offer micro-financing for use of the facilities. “We need to create efficien-cies in government and need to make greater use of technology and innovation.”

Although he is running a grass roots cam-paign, Haber notes that “there has never been

a business person who has been willing to put in his own money in the campaign. I see this as making an investment in my community. I am willing to put up half of what the racewill cost.”

Discussing rumors of former County Ex-ecutive Tom Suozzi making a political come-back and entering the race, Haber expressed, “I think he (Tom Suozzi) is a nice guy. The county is no better off than it was when hestarted. It’s time for a fresh perspective. ”

With a degree in finance from University of Albany, Haber recently earned a Masters degree in political science from LIU Post col-lege. “I’m a ‘what you see is what you get’ guy.I’ve been successful in a business (commodi-ties) in which your word is your word. Busi-ness is done on a handshake. As a business man, I know what it’s like to make payroll. Ihave a very unique pedigree by training. I don’t have any grand plans, I don’t want to be President. I want my kids to be able to af-ford a home in Nassau. I truly care about the community. Nassau County is a piece of coal that needs to be polished into a diamond. I’m all in!!!”

a historical account on its website, as the summer quarters of The First Hungarian Congregation Ohab Zedek, formed in 1873 on Avenue B and Houston Street in Manhat-tan.) Before Hurricane Sandy, Ohab Zedek boasted a large main sanctuary, a ballroom, and a lower level basement with a Beit Mi-drash, an elementary school, lunchroom/minyan room and a playground behind. The upstairs is intact; the basement floor is gut-ted. The school, Yeshiva of Belle Harbor, has been displaced to Brooklyn.

Now the growl and gas fumes of two large generators greet visitors to the site, powering the cell phone towers mounted on the roof of the shul. And in the lot near the playground behind the shul is the temporary home of Ohab Zedek, a large, fully outfitted trailer tied in by LIPA to the power line, providing a temporary haven to Ohab Zedek’s members, refugees from the storm.

The men gathered for mincha and maariv on a recent Sunday as the sun began to set, painting a pink-orange-red swath across the sky over the churned and battered beach. The one time multi-million dollar homes abutting the beach are split, their insides gaping open, pillars scattered like bowling pins, the beach walls snapped and scattered like discarded crackers in the carved out sand. The wind whips the cold air but inside the trailer it is warm and brightly lit. The camaraderie and the davening warmed the group, and the rabbi of the shul, Rabbi Tsvi Selengut, gave a dvar Torah between mincha and maariv.

Rabbi Tsvi Selengut is now the full time rabbi of Ohab Zedek. He has semicha from Yeshiva University and is in his second year teaching at DRS High School as the mash-giach of the Yeshivat Lev Shlomo program for the boys at Queens College who learn at DRS in the mornings. He and his wife, mar-ried one year, live on Beach 129th Street near Yeshiva Mercaz HaTorah. He is also the grandson of Chazan (cantor) Abraham Da-vid Fuchs, a”h, who had led the davening at Ohab Zedek from 1962.

The orthodox Jewish community in Belle Harbor is a tight knit group, almost shtetl-

like in its unity and closeness. Even those who have lived there and moved on retain an almost umbilical connection to the narrow peninsula bounded to the north by Jamaica Bay and to the south by the Atlantic Ocean.

“Every single inch of Belle Harbor, be-tween the beach and the bay was flooded,” noted Selengut. “Every house lost electricity and heat. The first row of houses along the beach are now destroyed. The 130th street block between Newport and Cronston burnt down with just blackened ground left. The shul had ten feet of water in it, the entire (newly refurbished) Bais Medrash was de-stroyed. Most of the Sifrei Torah were safe in the Rabbi’s study but two were in the base-ment in an Aron above ground. We never expected it to flood over three feet. The en-tire electricity, plumbing and heat are totally destroyed—about $1,000,000 of damage.

“No one could live here—the whole town smelled of smoke and sewage. In twenty minutes you would have a sore throat, the air quality was so bad. Some stayed, many left. In the first week about 15% were back, now more than half are back. They have a very positive spirit. The Jews here are very hartzig.

“The boardwalk and the beach wall are down so there is no eruv. The mikveh is damaged—we are raising money. The insur-

ance is not going to pay for it.” Rabbi Selen-gut distributed money from the OU and UJA and they helped finance the trailer and Philip Goldfeder arranged for LIPA to hook it up to the electricity. Selengut said it is a Nadler modular home, with air conditioning, heat-ing, electricity, bathrooms. The inside is di-vided by a mechitza from Ohab Zedek, white lattice wood dividers interspersed with white shower curtains strung between, chairs, ta-bles, book cases, siddurim and chumashim that were not damaged from Ohab Zedek. He said many had to replace their Tallesim (prayer shawls) and Tefillin—they had been in the bais midrash high on the wall, but the flood waters reached the ceiling there. “No one imagined it would go so high.” The trailer also has an area for a kiddush with a warming drawer, table, hot water pots.

“We’re coming back,” declared Selengut, determinedly. He counted out the different classes, and that 80 people come to daven ev-ery Shabbat. “It’s getting cramped. We would like to get back into the upstairs of the shul, that’s the first goal and to close off the down-stairs.” He said that all the infrastructure would cost $100,000. The community has always been a bastion of chesed, who would give freely to many charities, but now, he stressed, each resident “needs from $40,000 to $60,000 just to get their homes functional

again with costs of $10,000 just for the boilerin a house and $10,000 to empty the sea and sewage water from the pipes.”

Congregation Bais Yehudah on Beach 137th Street became the relief center three days after the storm, recounted the rabbi there for ten years, Rabbi Levi Osdoba. The basement had flooded, destroying the water tank, boiler and electricity. A generator pro-vided by Chasdei Lev in Brooklyn was hookedup to the shteibl to run electric heaters andlights. They were open for the community, said Osdoba, for members, nonmembers, theunaffiliated. They supplied food, clothing,cleaning supplies, and volunteers from othercommunities. They had mincha and maariv immediately, said Osdoba, and within threeweeks, after repairs, they reinstituted Shab-bat and Shacharit. Initially, some wanted to “move out and give up, they were disillu-sioned,” he said. But he gave them “chizuk”and spoke to them, encouraging them. “The support of the community gave them encour-agement. As far as I know everybody is com-ing back. This is a community in desperate need.” He cited the mikve, the eruv and theHatzolah van. “Salt water went into the en-gine,” he said. “We have a long way to go. It will take months, but it looks positive.”

Living in Belle Harbor, part of Queens, islike living, “out of town in town,” said Selen-gut, smiling. The people, he said, “feel muchmore positive, everyone wants to be back,they want to rebuild, they are not gloomy. They are looking forward and ahead. This islike their family-–they are happy to be back with their family. It’s not a depressed place. It’s positive. From the waters rose such tre-mendous chesed (kindness), ahava (love) and triumph. It’s incredible.”

Selengut said the experience gave him adeeper understanding of the concept of “yi-kavu hamayim” G-d’s gathering the waterstogether at creation. “Belle Harbor became part of the Atlantic Ocean for the night,” he explained. He sent email drashas, chizuk, during the period of displacement. He alsounderstood Yaakov’s request for Lechem (bread) and begged (clothing) and onlythat—“an appreciation of the basics.” He smiled. “It will be good.”

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Rabbi Tsvi Selengut, left, showing the water level in the stripped down basement classrooms. Ohab Zedek member Rabbi Bennet Rackman looks on.

Adam Haber throws his hat into the ring

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Autistic and proudTo the Editor

My name is Masha Nockenofsky. I am 18 years old and I’m an autis-tic child. My youngest brother is the same thing, too. If you are all won-dering why I’m so different from ev-erybody else in the world, here’s how it all started.

When I was about four years old, not much of a big girl yet, I wasn’t so used to being built in a different way. Unlike my big brother and sis-ter, they weren’t born autistic, but me and Yaakov Yisrael, my brother were born differently. (Did I forget to mention about the time when I got myself into Mommy’s blueberry cake and she got angry at the mess that I did?)

Well, that was only fourteen years ago before I even started playgroup.

By the time I was 11 years old, I had to be transferred to another school. And that was, Kulanu To-rah Academy Middle School. It was a little scary at first, but then I got used to it.

Another thing that is so different about me is my hobbies and my in-terests.

At the age of 12, my very first in-terest was Hello Kitty. But, then it all came to a big end by the time I was already thirteen when I wanted to pick out Fur Real Friends. I have about a bunch of them, but I don’t think about playing with them.

Next, at fourteen, my second in-terest was American Girl Dolls. I have about nine of them already. Oh, yes, and I also have quite a few porcelain dolls, but they made for display, only. Then at age 15-17 I played with Play Mobil, but suddenly I stopped it all by the time I had turned 18 years old.

I’m right now 18 years old, a big girl in high school, with lots of abili-ties for writing stories, working and coming up with great ideas. Though I may be a little different from every-body, I finally had gotten over that when I figured out that not every-body is the same.

Everybody is made differently, like me and my brother.

And the last and most important thing that I want you all to hear about me is I don’t actually mind be-ing made differently from everybody because I am happy with the way Hashem made me. I know that HE loves me and takes care of me.

1)Q: If you had to suddenly leave home in an emergency, what two things would you take?

A: I would take some of my sto-ries that I wrote and typed because I worked very hard on them and thought how to create very interest-ing stories for other people to read. I would not like it if they would get ru-ined and to save them would be very important to me. Another thing that I would take with me is my picture albums that my counselors in Camp Mishkon made for me. These albums are very precious because they hold a lot of dear memories of the great times I had in camp.

2)Q: Share a story about a hero in your life who overcame a challenge

A: My mother is a very special lady. She has me and my brother who are different from other people, we

are autistic and I have another broth-er who has diabetes and a few years ago my mother had a brain tumor. Even though she has many difficul-ties in life she is always happy, cheer-ful and full of life. She even went back to college to get a degree in special education and is graduating with a master’s degree in 2 weeks.She is my hero and I honor her in ev-ery way possible. She is amazing and I am so glad to be her daughter. She overcomes these challenges everyday, (believe me, me and my brothercan be hard and problematic) and al-ways thanks Hashem for giving her such beautiful and special children. I know she absolutely loves us!!

Masha Nockenofsky

Waive permit feesTo the Editor:

Over 2 months have passed since the night Hurricane Sandy changedthe lives of my family, my block and my community forever. From the moment daylight broke overour wrecked homes, water dredgedpersonal property and irreplaceable home records and memorabilia, Iknew it would take a miraculous featto rebuild. The deluge of water fromHurricane Sandy decimated ourbasement and first floor living space. Against insurmountable odds, home-lessness, possible financial ruin and family trauma we have begun the long haul to restore what was once a place we called home.

As many are now painfully aware, restoring and rebuilding a home ishighly dependent on aid from FEMA,the cooperation of insurance com-panies, access to grants and low in-terest loans and various other assis-tance and intervention. Now a new storm is threatening our mental andfinancial wellbeing – the tsunamiof bureaucratic double talk! With each passing day, progress is furtherhampered by inaccurate and oftencontradictory information by gov-ernment officials who serve to locate any technicality possible to avoidhelping the constituents it should be protecting. I am specifically talkingabout the Town of Hempstead Build-ing Department Fee Waiver.

Originally we were told that the Town of Hempstead was waiving building department permit fees for“in kind” reconstruction and replace-ment of homes damaged by Hurri-cane Sandy. When I called the De-partment of Buildings, I was told bya less than amenable secretary thatfees were only being waived for ex-act replacement of damaged homes- a piece of sheetrock for a piece of sheetrock. What the Department ofBuildings fails to understand is that many of us who previously lived on these ruined streets now have to re-think their basements and the usage of the living space of their homes.Where once a home office was keptin the basement area – after the loss of years of family and home records-a need to keep these records above ground level is now required.

Thus, I am ending this letter witha personal plea. I am going to re-build my basement but am limitingits future usage to storage. Our fam-

Opinion

A ccording to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, a group of anti-Israel activists and journalists are engaged in a coordinated cam-

paign to stifle criticism of controversial secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel by attacking the for-mer Republican senator’s critics, according to emails obtained by the Free Beacon.

One of the leaders of this cabal is Chas Freeman former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia;

“Elliot [sic] Abrams is an ardent armchair Zionist who thinks that a commitment to Is-rael is an essential qualification for public service in the United States,” wrote Freeman, a vo-ciferous Israel critic who has dubbed Israel’s supporters in America a “fifth column.”

“Abrams doubts that Ha-gel has such a commitment. Abrams thus ‘has a problem’ with Hagel,” Freeman wrote, according to the January 10 email chain obtained by the Free Beacon. “Abrams is a Jew. Ergo, he asserts, Jews have a

problem with Hagel. Logically, therefore, Hagel has a problem with Jews. What slimy nonsense!”

If the name Chas Freeman sounds familiar, he was nominated to a key national security position by President Obama in 2009, but some enterpris-ing blogger (me) led the charge to expose some of his strange positions regarding the Middle East and China, got members of Congress involved, and forced him to renounce the nomination. Freeman responded by attacking the Jews: “I do not believe the National Intelligence Council could function effectively while its chair was under constant attack by unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country.” Ambassador Chas Freeman Jr. 3/10/09

I call it enterprising, he called it unscrupulous people with dual loyalty (his son, a China scholar, threatened to punch me in the nose).

It was an interesting debate about Freeman, and it mirrored that of Hagel in a way. Just like Hagel, the debate was about the wide-expanse of Freeman’s bad positions and, just like Hagel, the media and his sup-porters are focusing on Israel and the Jews.

Freeman’s detractors talked of his Saudi ties, while his supporters talked of an Israel Lobby. We exposed that he was on the board of a Chinese company that broke the U.S. embargo against Iran, they answered by blaming the Israel lobby. We talked about his statements supporting Chinese human rights viola-tions, they countered with Israel lobby.

I half expected a Freeman supporter to claim those 87 Chinese dissidents who asked President Obama to reconsider the Freeman appointment were

secretly Jewish (or at least supporting the Jewish position because you know how those Jewish people love Chinese food).

Chas Freeman on the violent response to peace-ful protests at Tiananmen Square in China: “In this optic, the Politburo’s response to the mob scene at “Tian’anmen” stands as a monument to overly cau-tious behavior on the part of the leadership, not as an example of rash action. For myself, I side on this -- if not on numerous other issues -- with General Doug-las MacArthur. I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be.”

And throughout the entire two-week-long Free-man debate, we knew exactly what the Freeman sup-porters were really saying, “We can’t defend his lack of judgment, instead we will just blame the Jews. Heck, when he was Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sec-retary of State James Baker (who once commented “F**k the Jews, they won’t vote for us anyway”) said Freeman was too pro-Saudi--that’s like the Pope say-ing someone is too Catholic.

Freeman was head of The Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) that produced some pretty extreme stuff. It pushed an anti-Israel agenda that goes be-yond the pale of normal thinking, even for some-one who is anti-Israel. Freeman ran a magazine that claimed the Iraq war was waged to help Israel. Like Hagel, he subscribes the “Walt and Mearsheimer con-tention that the Israel Lobby (a nice way of saying Jews) controls the U.S. foreign policy, although un-like Hagel, he wasn’t dumb enough to call it the Jew-ish Lobby. Freeman’s MEPC political action group published a workbook, teaching our children that the Muslims discovered the “New World” and the “Indi-ans” who met the English Explorers all had Muslim names (Ablaa Pocahontas?)

My mother, of blessed memory, used to tell me to select only nice people as friends, because one of the ways people judge others is by the company they keep. There are tons of policy reasons why Chuck Hagel is not a good choice for Secretary of Defense; many of them have been outlined on these pages. But I believe my mother was correct, and the people who conspire to slander those fighting his nomina-tion are also an indication of what is in Hagel’s heart.

Chas Freeman is a radical, with radical anti-Israel views--just like his buddy Chuck Hagel. But Free-man’s anti-Israel views were only a small part of why he was not right for his National Security job, just as Hagel’s views are just one item that should disqual-ify him for Secretary of Defense. Others include his views on Iran, terrorism, how he wants to practically disembowel our military defense and nuclear deter-rence and much, much more.

Hagel, like his buddy Chas, is bad for the U.S. and should not be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.

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One day, Joan’s passion for sports, and a chronically bad back, finally caught up with her. First, she noticed numbness in her legs. Then, no feeling at all. She was terrified. But she remembered that her father-in-law had been treated by an amazing neurosurgeon at Winthrop-University Hospital. Her husband drove her straight there. Emergency tests showed Joan needed complex, extremely delicate spinal surgery. Right away. Or she might never be able to walk, or even sit on a stool, again.

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The three plagues of Parshat Bo can be summarized in one word: Darkness. The locusts “covered the entire surface

of the land, making the land dark.” (10:15) The plague of Darkness speaks for itself. And the Death of the Firstborn takes place around midnight (12:29), in the darkness of the shadows of the night. Death, as those of us who have experienced loss know, is the

ultimate darkness.Though only the last

plague, by design, was meant to take life, all of these final plagues brought either a physi-cal or psychological darkness upon Egypt’s citizens.

And so the irony of the Israelites’ experi-ence comes through in one oft-quoted verse, “And for all of the chil-dren of Israel, there was light where they lived.” (10:23) Many

commentaries stick with the classic ap-proach that while the Egyptians experienced the Plague of Darkness, the Israelites – even when walking among Egyptians – had light.

They could thus see where valuables were hidden during the plague of Darkness in or-der to ask for them in the moments preced-ing the Exodus (12:35).

Others interpret the verse homiletically. The contrast of darkness to light is not hard to understand as a deeper metaphor. For ex-ample, the Or HaChaim writes, “The wicked are covered with darkness, whereas the sun shines upon the righteous, as Devorah said at the conclusion of her song (Shoftim 5:31), ‘May Your enemies perish… but they that love Him (should be) as the sun when it goes forth in its might.’”

The Midrash Tehillim (22) calls Morde-chai and Esther a contradiction – they were a light for Israel but darkness for the nations of the world. How could they serve as light and as darkness at the same time? The experience of darkness in Egypt is proof that there is no contradiction. There could be darkness for one side while the other side has light. The Midrash concludes with a message of Isaiah, “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has shone upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and a gross darkness the kingdoms, and the Lord shall shine upon you, and His glory shall ap-pear over you.” Apparently, even when dark-ness pervades, there is hope for light to shine

through.Bamidbar Rabba (5) defines the phrase

of the Israelites having light as the verse in Nachum 1:7: “On a day of trouble He is cog-nizant of those who trust in Him.” The light the Israelites experience in their dwellings, in other words, is G-d’s cognizance of them.

This is a perfect segue to the insight re-corded by the Yalkut Shimoni, who also con-cludes by quoting the verse from Nachum.

“G-d is different than a human king who might display collective punishment. When the human king experiences rebellion, he sends in his troops and destroys everyone, good and bad people together. But G-d saves the righteous – he treated Hanokh, Noach, and Lot differently than he treated their generations. Instead of including them in the collective destructions, they were saved. Similarly, look at the darkness heaped upon Egyptians as compared to the light the Israel-ites experienced. Death of the firstborns had its antithesis with the sanctification of the Is-raelites’ firstborns. ‘On a day of trouble, He is cognizant of those who trust in Him.’”

G-d’s awareness of the people and their suffering and even their innocence or good-ness, then, is the indicator of their best chances to survive and experience a personal redemption.

In his commentary, Abravanel explainswhat he sees as the “reason” for each plague, each coming as a form of ‘measure for mea-sure’ for how the Israelites had been treated.

The 9th plague was Darkness because the entire exile was a parable to darkness. Onthe other side, the redemption is compared to light (as per Isaiah 9:1 – ‘The people whowalked in darkness, have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of the shadowof death, light shone upon them’). Thosewho had caused the extent of the exile were,therefore, judged with darkness, while the Israelites had light.

Every person, every community, the State of Israel, and even all of world Jewry, experi-ences periods of darkness. But even the bit-terest darkness can include its antithetical light, the promise of a better future that ismerely lurking in the shadows, waiting for the darkness to fade. The light may be outin the open, or it can burn bright inside oursouls. It is the light of His cognizance – Hiscognizance of us, as well as our cognizance of Him. If we prepare properly and have proper awareness of our task in this world,then we will see the fulfillment of “and for all of the Children of Israel there was light in their dwelling places.”

In his commentary on Parshat Pinchas, after mentioning the light of the Israelites as an image of the time of redemption, Rabbi Jacob Skili (Torat HaMincha) concludes, say-ing, “May the Blessed One, for the sake of Hisgreat mercy, take us out of this exile which is compared to night [and bring us] to light, ashe lightens our eyes with the arrival of the redeemer – our eyes will see it and our hearts will gladden.”

Parshat Bo:

Darkness, precursor to redemption

Rabbi Avi Billet

By Malka Eisenberg

Even as Israel experienced its heaviest snowfall in some areas in two decades this past Thursday, other areas are already seeing signs of spring, whose official date is the fif-teenth day of the Hebrew month of Shevat or Tu B’shvat, this year on January 26th.

Before that date, though, things are heat-ing up in Israel in anticipation of elections to be held on January 22nd. Multiple parties are vying for placement in the 120 seat Knes-set. The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, similar to the House of Representatives, is officially elected every four years, but elections can be called earlier for various reasons. Israel’s electoral system is “based on nation-wide proportional representation,” according to the Knesset’s website. The votes from the whole country are divided by the 120 seats in the Knesset; each seat is represented by the same number of votes. Voters vote for political parties; each party presents a list of members. The more votes a party gets, the more members on its list from the top down get a seat in the Knesset. A party must re-ceive at least 2% of the votes to get in. The President determines the party most likely to put together a majority of seats and choos-es its head as prime minister, charged with forming a government.

There are quite a few parties vying for votes, holding different platforms, goals and views. Next week we hope to discuss the re-sults of the elections.

Some local Five Towners are traveling to Israel this week and if they hold Israeli citi-zenship, may be able to vote. Only Israeli citizens present in Israel during the elections may vote.

The Central Election Committee set up a website and toll free telephone number for Israeli citizens to find their polling location based on their mailing address.

The URL for the English site is: http://

www.bechirot.gov.il/elections19/eng/home_eng.aspx

The toll free number in English is 1-800-200-135. The number in Hebrew is 1-800-200-137 .

According to the Central Election Com-mittee, “It is not necessary to present your voter notification card when coming to vote;

you do need any one of the following means of identification: An Israeli ID card, a valid drivers license, or a passport.”

A user can also type in their teudat zehut number to find their polling station at a gov-ernment site, available in Hebrew at https://kalpi.elections.gov.il/ .

Winter turns to spring as elections heat up Israel

Photos by Devora Eisenberg

Winter snows blanket Migdal Oz in the Judean Hills last Thursday. This amount of snow hasn’t fallen in the area in over two decades.

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A chicken in every pot, getting up with the chickens, chicken out, running around like a chicken without its head

and let’s not forget chicken soup!Chicken soup has been called the “Jewish

penicillin.” The 12th-century Jewish physi-cian, Rambam, started the chicken soup-as-medicine trend when, in his book, On the Cause of Symptoms, he recommended the broth of hens and other fowl to “neutralize body constitution.”

In Jewish Food: The World at Table, Matthew Goodman re-ports on a 1978 study conducted at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach that con-fi rmed at least part of Maimonides’ prescrip-tion: “Chicken soup proved more effective than simple hot or cold water in clearing con-gested nasal passages.”

While no single culture can claim it as

exclusively its own, Jews and their chicken soup maintain a particularly close relation-ship.

Research has been conducted that sup-ports the notion that eating chicken soup can relieve the symptoms of the common cold in an anti-infl ammatory manner, but its cura-tive powers remained somewhat unclear, un-til some doctors started to do research on it.

Dr. Stephen Rennard is one such doctor.

His experiment to test the effects of chick-en soup as an anti-infl ammatory agent has been widely accepted for its unequivocal evidence. The targeted cells were neutro-phils, a type of white blood cell involved in the infl ammatory response immune system. These cells are responsible for phagocytosis (consumption) and destruction of foreign bodies or antigens. In his experiment, Ren-nard demonstrated how the ingredients in his “Grandma’s” chicken soup recipe inhib-ited the activity of neutrophils. I also found some interesting facts to back up the curative powers of chicken soup.

Amino acid released from chicken during cooking chemically re-sembles the drug acet-ylcysteine, prescribed for bronchitis and other respira-tory problems. The onions added to the soup have anti-infl ammatory proper-ties that help sore throats and help stop the movement of neutrophils. The steam you in-hale as you sip the hot soup helps clear up congestion. And the spices added to chicken soup, like garlic and pepper, work the same way as modern cough medicines, thinning mucus and making breathing easier.

Perhaps future scientists will discover some miraculous benefi ts of the matzoh ball.

OK, so maybe our grandmothers and moms were right about the chicken soup, but did we really have to have Vick’s Vapo-Rub spread on our chest when we were kids? The active ingredients consisted of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus oil, yuck. It wasn’t

bad enough that we were sick and stuck in bed, but we had to have that “gook” on our chests with a towel over it to make sure none of the vapors escaped--of course had we listened to our moms and stayed out of the “draft” we wouldn’t have gotten sick to begin with, right? The memories I have of being home, with swollen glands, running around the house with a scarf tied around my neck and a woolen beret on my head to keep the draft away. Was I sick or a French artist? It seemed all ailments could be blamed on a draft. Stiff neck, sprained shoulder, cold, fl u, sore throat, virus of any kind--it was the draft that caused it. Wait, it could have also been going out with wet hair or barefoot, not just in the winter, in the summer as well. It’s ac-tually amazing that Americans have dodged death all these years and that the American

race itself has not yet been extinct. All of you with parents or grandpar-

ents of European origin know exactly what I’m talking about....

■ Americans sip over 10 billion bowls every year.

■ The earliest evidence of mak-ing soup was in 6000 BCE…And guess

what kind of soup it was? Hippopotamus!■ In the 1700s, apparently the French King

was so enamored with himself that he had his royal chefs create a soup that would allow him to see his own refl ection in the bowl. As a result, consommé (clear broth) was born.

■ Thin soups became all the rage in Eu-rope during the 17th century, when the spoon was invented to accommodate the giant ruffl es that people wore around their necks.

And my favorite: ”The only thing chicken about Israel, is their soup.” Bob Hope.

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ents, so you can lift them out easily and noth-ing falls apart. After cooking I lift the bagsout. I throw out the bag with greens, andsave the chicken and vegetables to be served along with the soup.

Directions:Bring water to a boil and add salt, pepper,

chicken and beef consomme cubes.Place carrots, celery, sweet potato, squash,

parsnip and onion into a cheesecloth bag andplace in water.

In another bag, place the dill, parsley, gar-lic and ginger and place into the water.

Lastly, place chicken in third bag and addto the soup 30 minutes after placing the oth-er bags in.

Boil for another 1 1/2 hours. I like to pre-pare the soup the night before so I can chill it and remove the fat before reheating.

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IsraAID volunteers working together with a group of friends from the Five Towns who are Queens College students did a remark-able job rehabbing homes in the Rockaways. The group, led by Sari Gartner and Tziporah Pill, both of Lawrence, have prior experience in disaster relief.

“In eleventh grade we had the opportu-nity to go to New Orleans and do relief work there. When Hurricane Sandy hit so close to home we felt it was our duty as New York-ers to help out in the aftermath. Although neither of our houses were affected by the storm, many of our close family and friends unfortunately were. We felt as though this was the least we could do during such a try-ing and difficult time. Although the work was difficult, IsraAid made the experience one that we will never forget for the rest of our lives. Strangers at first, we came together as one family and successfully accomplished the work we set out to do. Thank you to the Is-raAid team for all you have done here in New York, you’re truly are amazing”

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One of Maimonides’ lasting legacies was his attempt to systemize the specifics of Jewish belief. Consisting of thirteen

statements, he gave our faith a form wherein we are able to point to specific basic beliefs that go to the core of our faith. The seventh one focuses upon the belief in the role of Mo-ses in our tradition.

Maimonides states the following in his commentary to the tenth chapter of Mishnah Sanhedrin, as cited by Dr. Menachem Kell-ner in, “Torah in the Observatory” [Academic Studies Press, 2010]:

“The seventh foun-dation is the prophecy of Moses, our Teacher; to wit, it should be known that: Moses was the father of all proph-ets – of those who came before him and those who came after him; all were beneath him in rank and that he was chosen by G-d from among the entire spe-cies of humanity and that he comprehended more of G-d than any

man who ever existed or ever will exist ever comprehended or will comprehend, and that he reached a state of exaltedness beyond hu-manity, so that he perceived the level of sov-ereignty and became included in the level of the angels.”

Further description enhances Moses’ role as G-d’s prophet, lawgiver and divinely ap-pointed leader of the Jewish people.

Dr. Kellner states further that, “The proph-ecy of Moses is different in kind from that of all other prophets; G-d communicated with Moses directly, through no intermediary, in a way which was unique and will never be repeated.” Such was the persona of Moses that was, according to Maimonides, to be ac-cepted as the core to our belief system.

This belief system was analyzed further by Dr. Kellner in a work with the challenging title, “Must A Jew Believe Anything?” [Sec-ond edition, Littman Library, 2008].

In this volume we are presented with a comprehensive review of Moses’ role as the premier religious, as well as political, leader of our people for all time. In a detailed foot-note, Dr. Kellner states: “Maimonides here makes a number of unprecedented claims about Moses:

a.He is the ‘father of all the prophets, in-cluding the Patriarchs who preceded him;

b.No other prophet ever achieved his rank, nor will any prophet do so;

c.Unlike other prophets who, in effect, chose themselves, Moses was chosen by G-d from among all humans;

d.Moses’ uniqueness was, apparently, a consequence of his having achieved such an exalted level of comprehension of G-d;

e.Moses became an angel, pure intellect only.

None of these statements about Moses is commonplace in Jewish tradition.”

These daring claims by Maimonides were disputed by many in the many centuries to come. Nevertheless, despite these disputes, these thirteen core beliefs are to be found in just about every traditional prayer book

of our faith both in prose, the Ani Ma’amin, and in poetry, the hymn, Yigdal.

Dr. Kellner goes into greater detail, explaining Moses’ leader-ship role starting from the Exo-dus, the giving of the Ten Com-mandments, and leading to the borders of the promised land. His basic premise is that Moses was different in just about every way and in just about every en-deavor that he was involved in. Reading and studying the Torah text with Dr. Kellner’s take will surely give you an added dimension to the Moses legacy from both the religious and historical perspective.

As noted above there were many who dif-fered from Maimonides’ evaluation of Moses’ role and importance within our tradition.

In another work on this subject by Dr. Marc Shapiro entitled, “The Limits of Ortho-dox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Prin-ciples Reappraised,” [Littman Library, 2004] the author cites many contrary opinions and the reasons for those evaluations. One of the most intriguing were those by two very interesting personalities, both no strangers to readers of this column. To be fair,I shall quote Dr. Shapiro’s narrative of this fascinat-ing and challenging teaching.

“Finally, I must mention R. Isaac Luria’s view that Moses’ understanding of divine matters was inferior to that of certain kab-balists [including himself]. This notion is elaborated upon by R. Shneur Zalman of Liady who asks, ‘How did Rabbi Isaac Luria apprehend more than he, and expound many

themes dealing with the highest and most profound levels, evenof many Sefirot ?’ According to R. Shneur Zalman, because Moses only used prophetic powers, hewas not able to reach the heightsof R. Shimon bar Yochai, R. Luria, and other kabbalists, whoattained their understanding through wisdom and knowledge[chochma v’daat].According toR. Shneur Zalman, this means that, while these kabbalists had a more profound understand-ing of divine matters, none of them actually reached Moses’ prophetic level. Thus, there is

no conflict with Devorim 34:10, since thisverse only states only that another prophet as great as Moses will never arise again.

“According to R. Shneur Zalman, thissuperior understanding of the kabbalists incomparison to Moses explains the Talmudicsaying, ‘A wise man is better than a prophet’.R. Shneur Zalman comments: ‘Because byhis wisdom he can apprehend exceedingly beyond the levels that can descend nether-wards in a mode of revelation to the proph-ets in the vision of their prophecy. For only the lowest ranks can descend and become revealed to them.’”

These citations by Dr. Shapiro were fromthe famous Tanya, Likutei Amarim, IgeretHakodesh, number 19. Re-read last week’s column for the historical perspective to R.Shneur Zalman and the Tanya.

In the months ahead, as you continue tofollow Moses in the Torah readings, consider the teachings of both Maimonides and the Baal HaTanya, and the historical and theo-logical teachings of both Dr. Menachem Kell-ner and Dr. Marc Shapiro. Hopefully, some-time soon, we may be privileged to hear and learn from both of these gifted scholars.

Alan Jay Gerber

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The Orthodox Union Singles Connection invites singles of all ages to a Beatles Extrava-ganza featuring “Come Together,” a Beatles tribute band, for a fun and exciting opportunity to meet new people.

The recreations of the visual, vocal and instrumental experience of what was known as Beatlemania will take place at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan, 5 East 62nd Street. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.

The OU Singles Connection is a division of the OU Department of Community Engagement.

Pre-registration is $20 online at www.oucom-munity.org or calling 212.613.8300. Admittance will be $25 at the door.

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Tuesday, January 22 - Story Time with David from David’s Pizza - 11AM

Fun “Brochos Placemat” Project to follow. ** Each family will receive a 25% coupon

towards a delicious lunch at David’s Pizza!!** Tuesday, January 22 - Video Night at the

Library featuring: Berel the Bus Driver - 6:30PM Special snack and hot chocolate (dairy) treat at the end!

Thursday, January 24 - Story Time with Guest Story Teller Morah Michal from Gan Chamesh Prescooll - 5PM followed by a surprise project.

Video Presentations EVERYDAY 1:30PM & 3:30PM

Crafts will be available on premises for $5Enjoy the library facility through-

out our extended winter break hours! Sunday, Monday and Wednesday: 11AM-5PM Tuesday and Thursday: 11AM - 7PM

(These hours will be in effect from January 20 – 24)

For more information call: (516)374-2665 or email:[email protected]

Levi Yitzchak Library and Family Center is located at 564 Central Ave, Cedarhurst, NY 11516

Jan 25–27OU Shabbaton Young Israel of Plainview

Our Way , OUs Division for the hearing impaired has brought its joyous Shabbaton programs to communities all over North America, open to members of the Jewish community from all backgrounds. Materials and prayer services will be provided in American Sign Language and deaf advisors will assist to create a meaningful, traditional Shabbat experience.

The Shabbaton will include three delicious meals and snacks, interpreted services in the synagogue, a beginner’s minyan, child care, program sessions, and an opportunity to join together with others to live and learn about Judaism.

Saturday night culminates with a family bowling social event at AMF Bowling, 500 Old Bethpage Road in Plainview.

Rabbi David Kastor will serve as the Deaf Scholar-in-Residence. Friday night, he will pres-ent a session (verbal and in ASL) entitled, “Green Thumb.” On Shabbat afternoon, Deaf Advisor Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, will lead a “Thanks to Hashem and Brochos Bee” and Rabbi Kastor will lead the family-fun game of “Jewpardy” (the Jewish parody of Jeopardy).

Rabbi Kastor graduated from Gallaudet University for the Deaf with a B.A. in Computer Science and is married to an Israeli deaf woman, Tchia. He received his semicha (rabbinical ordina-tion) from Ner Israel in Baltimore. He started the Ahavas Israel School for the Deaf in Frederick, MD and taught there for two years. Rabbi Kastor has worked for the OU as a Regional Representa-tive in Maryland more than 25 years.

Deb and Barry Spindel are the Deaf Hosts of the Shabbaton, who live in Long Island with their sons Michael and Jonathan. They first met at the Bi-Annual Conference of the Jewish Deaf Congress, held in New Jersey.

Shoshanah and Joe Suissa will serve as the Deaf Coordinators.

To participate, please send a check for $36 payable to Our Way Shabbaton to Our Way C/O Barry Spindel, 22 Forest Drive, Plainview, NY 11803. For further information, contact them via voice/relay phone 516.342.3711 or email [email protected].

A separate registration for bowling is required, by contacting Faigy Zaretsky at

[email protected] or via voice/relay phone at 517.342.3711.

Rabbi Lederfeind can be reached at [email protected] or by voice/relay phone at 212.613.8234.

The synagogue is located at 132 Southern Parkway. Registration is mandatory, and sleeping arrangements are available upon registration.

Jan 27Nefesh b’Nefesh Online Webinar

Go North Virtual ExpoHosted by Michele Kaplan-Green11:00AM- 2:30PM ESTGo North Virtual ExpoHear about opportunities in Israel’s north

from Nefesh B’Nefesh Go North Olim and staff, in the comfort of your own home.

Webinars will run throughout the day Instruc-tions for Joining the Webinar

To join the Webinar:1. Go to https://nefeshbnefesh-event.webex.

com2. On the drop down menu on the right side

of the screen, click down for Training Center (The default is meeting center)

3. Click “Join Now”.4. Enter your name and email address.5. Enter the session password: aliyah6. Follow the instructions that appear on your

screen.

7. Please login at least 15 minutes prior to the Webinar in case your computer must download program information.

Audio/Telephone InformationPreffered method of participating in the

audio is to listen through your computer with a headset.

If this is not an option for you, you can listen through your phone.

1. Log into the webinar first.2. Call one of 4 phone numbers:1-855-299-5224 US/Canada1-631-267-4890 US/Canada0800-051-3810 UK1-809 453 550 IL3. The prompt will ask for our session num-

ber: which will be on your screen once you login into the webinar

4. The prompt will ask for your user number which can be found on the screen once you login into the webinar

If you are having any issues, please call 1-888-872-2270.

Jan 29AMIT Dinner (rescheduled)

Feb 2LIVE FROM EMUNAH, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT!

EMUNAH OF AMERICA- 5 Towns Chapterproudly presents its 2nd Annual Comedy

Event Sold out last year! Join for a fun filled evening with good

friends and great laughs. WHEN: Motzei Shabbos, 8:00pm: Dairy Buffet

9:00pm: ShowtimeWHERE: Backstage Nite Club (Woodmere

Lanes)948 Broadway, WoodmereCouvert : $60 per person

SPONSORSHIPS : $100 Amusing $180 Funny $250 Comical $500 Humorous $1,000 Hysterical For Information & Reservations contact: Elana Oved: 516-984-4799 ELANREP@aol. comS

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Feb 9Trivia Evening benefitting Koby Mandell Foundation

Hebrew Academy of Nassau County ( HANC)Students from the Hebrew Academy of Nas-

sau County Brookdale High School are always on the verge of helping their community. The student leaders, through NCSY’s Project JUMP Program will be organizing a fun and interac-tive trivia evening in the school’s auditorium. All funds raised will benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation, which provides free therapeutic programs to child victims of terror who have lost a family member to a terrorist attack in Israel.

Program starts at 8:30 p.m.Music by Azamra DJTo register for this event visit www.tinyurl.

com/JUMPTRIVIA.

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The Beit Orot dinner honoring Alyssa & Chaim Winter of Cedarhurst, along with Yocheved & Bennett Deutsch of Teaneck, NJ, and Renee & Moshe Glick of West Orange, NJ, took place on Tuesday evening, January 8, 2013, at the Crowne Plaza in Times Square, NYC. Jewish radio personality Nachum Segal served as the eve-ning’s MC and Naftali Bennett, the recently elected head of Israel’s Bayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home) party, delivered the keynote address via live webcast. Beit Orot, anchored by a hesder yeshiva, represents the first living Jewish presence on the Mount of Olives in more than 2,000 years. The organization is dedicated to restor-ing the Jewish neighborhoods of the Mount of Olives Ridge in historic Jerusalem and to educating the masses about Jerusalem’s ancient and modern Jewish his-tory. L to R: Chaim and Alyssa Winter, Shlomo Zwickler, Executive Director, Beit Orot, and Seth Schreiber, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Beit Orot, also of Cedar-hurst.

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In 1975, little Avraham, the four-month-old son of Sarah Nach-shon, died of SIDS. His mother decided that he would be buried in the ancient Jewish cemetery of Chevron; no Jews had been buried there since the 1929 pogroms, and it had been desecrated by the Ar-abs. Soldiers sent to stop her by the government could not face her down when she took her dead baby in her arms and began marching on foot to Chevron….As she buried her son, she said, “3800 years ago, Avraham buried his wife Sarah in Chevron, thus beginning the Jewish settlement there; I now bury Avraham the son of Sarah, and this will be the beginning of the rebirth of this Jewish city….”

Avraham ben Sarah - Return to Chevron

Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusa-lem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.

By Rabbi Noam Himelstein

ily computer and records needs a new home and therefore I engaged an architect to build an additional room in my home; high above water level. This new reconfiguration of my home, I believe, is a logical conclusion, how-ever, I am now being told that I will have to pay hundreds maybe thousands of dollars for building permit fees. I am therefore be-seeching our County Executives to help one of your own. You are no strangers to shat-tering the glass ceiling and accomplishing a host of impressive accomplishments. Aid us in our time of need and help us rebuild our shattered homes – not as they were be-fore- but better! Help me in my quest to get fees from the Town of Hempstead Building Department and the ZBA waived so that I and family may move forward with our lives without being unduly burdened by addition-al financial burdens.

I await a response from any County Ex-ecutive.

Sincerely, Rina Gross Woodmere

Fed up with bureaucracyTo the editor

Enough Bureaucracy and FED UP!I am writing this article because it had to

be written. I have witnessed the whole sce-nario surrounding the Hurricane Sandy af-

termath and quite honestly, it is sickening. I woke up the other day to the local news as I usually do each morning, but this morningreally caught my attention more than ever. People were told when it came time for insur-ance company adjusters to assess their dam-age; they all of a sudden classify “Sandy” as a “Tropical Storm” rather than a Hurricane. Isaw a coalition of people who lived in IslandPark who were beyond fed up with the bu-reaucracy in our country and were headingto Washington to speak up. It seems that the money that was earmarked for these people whose life was destroyed over 2 ½ monthsago are still waiting in limbo just like peo-ple living in the Five Towns. They reduced the allocated amount of aid by nearly 60% which opened my eyes once again to the red tape and corruption that goes on daily. But yet, how many times do we hear about the U.S. giving away countless billions of dollarsto foreign countries that likely don’t get it to the right parties or simply, use it for per-sonal reasons and don’t ever think of paying it back. But Americans in desperate trouble, they are just second class citizens. We finally have an opportunity to keep the money in-ternal to help get AMERICANS back on withtheir lives, and what happens…well, you are seeing it firsthand. And if you miss one insur-ance payment or it comes late, forget aboutit! ENOUGH ALREADY!

Gary WeissWoodmere

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On Sunday evening, January 13th, the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County proudly hosted a “Back to the 80’s” Reunion Dinner for its high school alumni who graduated during the 1980’s. The reunion took place at HANC’s Mitchel Field High School campus, giving the alumni a chance to return to their alma mater and see first-hand just how much it has grown and changed, while retaining the warmth and sense of family that they remembered. The idea behind this reunion was to give those alumni who have had simi-lar experiences at HANC, and are at similar stages in their lives, an opportunity to recon-nect with each other and reminisce about their high school years.

The event was attended by Dean Emeri-tus, Rabbi Moshe Gottesman, as well as former and current HANC administrators and teachers. Jeffrey Lichtman, Chairman of HANC’s Board of Trustees and himself a HANC alum, emceed the event. Rabbi Got-tesman addressed the attendees regarding the importance of connecting with our past, present, and future in all that we do. Addi-tionally, alumni were treated to a game of “Guess the HANC Faculty Member”, as well as a Trivia of the 80’s Contest.

Since its founding in 1953 by Rabbi Meyer Fendel, thousands of students have attended and graduated from the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County. Presently, with four cam-puses educating over 1,000 students from all over Long Island and Queens, HANC has ex-panded its facilities, leveraged new technol-ogy, and innovated programming, providing an excellent Jewish and secular education to students on all of its campuses. Alum at-tendees were quite impressed with the dis-

play of advancements and innovations taking place in the HANC schools. HANC remains a premier Jewish Day School in the New York

metropolitan area.If you are a HANC alum and would like

to reconnect with HANC and receive alumni

news, please visit our website at www.hanc.org and/or email our Alumni Coordinator, Phyllis Itzkowitz at [email protected].

HANC high school alumni go back to the 80’s

Photo courtesy of HANC

Hebrew Academy of Nassau County alumni enjoy a reunion with a 1980’s theme reminiscent of their time in school.

By Anne Furmansky Fuchs

Congregation Beth Sholom is proud to honor an extraordinary couple, Melodie and Marty Scharf from Lawrence. They truly ex-emplify service to the community. There is no aspect of Jewish philanthropy that they and the entire Scharf family are not involved in; including Congregation Beth Sholom, (Hebrew Academy of Five Towns and Rocka-way (HAFTR), Israel or the Jewish commu-nity as a whole. In fact, the Scharfs have suggested that all the net proceeds from the Dinner Raffle go to the Rabbi’s Special Fund for Hurricane Sandy victims.

Community ContributionsThe Scharf’s contributions to the commu-

nity are numerous. Melodie and Marty, both Brooklyn bred, were married in October of 1980 and moved to Lawrence in 1984. They immediately became members of Beth Sho-lom and from that time have been an inte-gral part of the Beth Sholom family. Marty’s family, Rose and Abraham Scharf, and his brother Richard followed shortly thereafter. Marty had been on the Executive Board for 11 years and was an Executive vice president for 5 years. In the early years he coached the Beth Sholom basketball team. Melodie has worked tirelessly on the dinner committee and has been Scroll Chairlady for the past few years. She is active in the Sisterhood and was the Youth Chairman in the late 1980s.

In September, 2004, the Scharf family dedicated the main sanctuary in memory of Marty’s father and patriarch of the Scharf family,Abraham Scharf, z’l. They have also dedicated the Bimah in the main sanctuary in memory of Marty’s uncle Charles Scharf z’l

and the beautiful brass Menorah on the front lawn in memory of their grandmother Faige Kudel z’l. In addition, Melodie and Marty were major participants in Beth Sholom’s re-cent building renovations.

As soon as the Scharfs registered their children in HAFTR, Melodie became active. She served two, three year terms as PTA president and is presently on the Executive Board of the HAFTR school. She is also the alumni chair for the school. In 2004, Melo-die and Marty were honored at the HAFTR annual dinner. Recently, they dedicated the new gym building in memory of Abraham Scharf,z’l.

Kulanu Center for Special Services and the Kulanu Academy has put the Five Towns on the map for helping children with special needs, in a Jewish atmosphere. Melodie and Marty are founders of this incredible organi-zation. Marty is on the Board of Governors, and Melodie is on the Executive Board. The Scharf family dedicated the Kulanu Academy School building, on Central Avenue, in mem-ory of Marty’s father.

PhilanthropyThe Scharf family have not only limited

their philanthropy to the Five Towns com-munity but have also reached out to commu-nities all over the world to aid and promote many Jewish and personal causes.

•Renovations at Congregation Sons of Is-rael in the Bronx

•Built a dormitory in The Boys High School Maarava Machon Rubin in Modi’in, Israel

•In memory of Abraham Scharf z’l, the Scharf family has dedicated the Pinsk-Karlin Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

•Self Help centers (has programs de-signed to help Holocaust survivors with assis-tance) in New York City and Nassau County. The Scharf’s dedicated the two buildings in memory of Abraham Scharf z’l, a holocaust survivor.

•The Koby Mandell Foundation, where Melodie is on the Board of Governors.

•As residents of Westhampton Beach, they recently dedicated the Holocaust Me-morial at the Hamptons Synagogue.

•A scholarship in honor of Marty’s world championship horse of the year, Gallo Blue Chip, in 2000. The scholarship awards ap-proximately $20,000 annually, towards the education of a child of a groom or trainer in the industry.

Melodie and Marty Scharf are proud to

be this year’s guests of honor at Congrega-tion Beth Sholom’s 61st annual testimonialdinner. Their five children and three grand-children will be celebrating the evening with them; Robert and Tamar proud parents of Megan, Sloane, and Parker. Sondra, recentlyengaged to Adam Lesman, is an attorney in New York City. Jordan works with his father and Robert. Felicia is a freshman at the Uni-versity of Michigan, and Allison is a freshman at HAFTR high school.

The Congregation Beth Sholom dinner will take place on Saturday Night, March 2,2013 at the synagogue. To make a dinner res-ervation, or contribution in honor of Melodieand Marty Scharf please contact Congrega-tion Beth Sholom at (516) 569-3600 or viaemail:[email protected]

Cong. Beth Sholom honors Melodie and Marty Scharf

Melody and Marty Scharf of Lawrence will be the guests of honor at Congregation Beth Sholom’s 61st annual testimonial dinner on March 2, 2012.

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