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No more ‘tips’in San Francisco

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A Publication of the South Florida Jewish Community / Distributed in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties

By Avi Heiligman

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>> Community

COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS 7

>> Cover Story

US NAVY SEALS 18

NO MORE TIPS IN SAN FRANCISCO 46

>> World News

SFJH WORLD REPORT 26

>> Israel

MY ISRAEL HOME - ISRAEL: ENERGY GIANT 22

HOW TO BARGAIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST 23

THE SHAMIR WATER DRILL 37

FORGOTTEN HEROES - PETER MALKIN 39

>> ParentingPARENTS’S STRIFE 33

PEER PRESSURE 40

MRS. HEBEL’S TOP TEN TIPS 45

>> Finance

EXLINE 34

SHIVAH LINE 34

>> Jewish Thought

SHAVUOS 47

FROM THE RABBI’S DESK -

RABBI PERRY TIRSCHWELL 25

>> Health

SUMMER SAFETY TIPS 37

>> Lifestyles

KOSHER SALES 35

THE CHOSEN ONE 36

RECIPES 48

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOURSHAVUOS FLOWERS 49

>> Politics

ISRAEL’S FOLLY 30

>> Humor

SAY WHAT - NOTABLE QUOTES 28

BUMPER STICKERS IN THE MILITARY 21

>> Kosher Dining Guide 42

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

FROM THE EDITORS

As we approach the mid-year mark, we are very excited about

our magazine and about our South Florida community.

The Heat take on the Mavs in the NBA Finals, so far so good

- Go Heat. The Marlins continue to put a good and competitive

team on the fi eld and Lychee fruits and mangos are in full bloom.

We wish a Mazel Tov to Jonah Wasserstrom who celebrates the

second anniversary of his bar-mitzvah and we usher in Shavuous,

the anniversary of the giving of the Torah. We love hearing from

our readers, especially when they tell us how much they love

the product we tirelessly work to publish for you. We hope that

you will continue to show us your support by supporting our

advertisers, whether you are looking to lease a new car or you need

to lose some weight—we hope you will look at our magazine fi rst.

We bring you some great exciting developments from Israel and

an inside look at the US Navy SEALs. We continue to bring you

current community events as well as national and global news that

effects us here in South Florida. Again, we would love to hear from

you, a Simcha to announce, a joke to share, comments, criticism

and encouragement, [email protected].

The Editor

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The South Florida Jewish Home is an independent bi-weekly magazine.Opinions expressed by writers are not necessarily the opinions of the pub-lisher or editor. The South Florida Jewish Home is not responsible for typographical errors, or for the kashrus of any product or business advertised within.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORSKeith WasserstromRabbi Perry TirschwellRabbi Dov SilverEsty HebelMoshe BergerAvi HeilligmanTalia BorvickMoshe SharonRabbi Moshe ScheinerDavid GreenfieldElliott GrossbardGerald MayerhoffIsaac BachorDr. David SimaiBenjie SternJeff JacobyRabbi Kalman PackouzShiri Feldman


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Nearly 60 ninth graders from Hillel embark on an inspiring 2 week trip to Israel

today. This is the annual trip’s 11th year, a tradition of The Samuel Scheck Hillel

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“Through archeological digs and hikes along paths their ancestors once took, Hillel

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the year, speaking to Hillel’s mission to deepen young people’s commitment to Judaism,

the Jewish people and the State of Israel.”

The annual Israel trip is the ultimate demonstration of Hillel’s International Bacca-

laureate Middle Years Programme®, connecting secular and Judaic Studies in the form

of a single initiative. Hillel was named Florida’s fi rst Jewish IB World School® in March.

Every year, Hillel, generous foundations, students and their parents commit to and

raise funds to ensure every Grade 9 student has the opportunity to attend the trip. The

students will tour the country from north to south.

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From early childhood through Grade 12, Hillel inspires students to become exem-

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traditional Jewish community. For information, please visit www.hillell-nmb.org.

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Hillel Day School of Boca Raton 5th graders perform Daglanut, Israeli fl ag dance, at the Yom Ha’atzmaut festivities hosted by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County on Israel’s 63rd birthday.

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Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, under the leadership of Chairman of the Board William W. Lan-da, Rabbi Jonathan Berkun, Cantor David Muchnick and Executive Vice President, Dr. Amir Baron, induct-ed their newest President of the Synagogue, Marcy S. Resnik in April 2011. Marcy grew up in North Miami Beach and from an early age, synagogue life and Jew-ish education have been very important to her. Dur-ing high school, she served as President of the local chapter of B’nai B’rith Girls. She continued to make Jewish Education paramount in her growing family’s life by serving as Chairwoman of the Board of Educa-tion and President of ATJC’s Tauber Academy, for ten years. Marcy, an attorney specializing in Commercial Litigation and Family Law, is married to Dr. Barry I. Resnik. Together, they have 3 wonderful children Sydney, age 19, Chad, age 16 and Lindsey, age 13. All of the Resnik children attended the Tauber Academy prior to moving to The Pine Crest School.

In addition to the many positions Marcy has held at the Tauber Academy, she served as a Vice President of the Synagogue for many years as well as a member of the Executive Board for the past 15 years. She is also the Past President of the Pine Crest Lower School

Mothers’ Club and served on the Pine Crest School Board of Advisors. Other members of the Resnik fam-ily have been closely associated with ATJC. Marcy’s mother, Brenda Stone, was a teacher in Tauber Acad-emy for many years. Dr. Barry Resnik also led the Brotherhood as its President for two years and suc-ceeded in revitalizing their programs.

Dr. Amir Baron, ATJC’s Executive Vice Presi-dent remarked, “Marcy has already been an inspir-ing leader for our congregation for many years. We genuinely look forward to implementing her innova-tive approaches to improving our synagogue.” Other offi cers of the board include Neil Bernstein, Victor Cynamon, Dr. Malcolm Dorman, Commissioner Billy Joel, Eugene Kessler, Gary Krevat, Mayor Jeffrey Per-low, Dr. Beny Rub, Rose Rubin, Carol Soffer, Dr. Paul Tartell and Herman Tauber.

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and Cantor David Muchnick, ATJC provides a stimu-lating environment for long standing members as well as newcomers to the area. Encompassing spiritual, social, educational, and cultural programming for all ages, ATJC is the center for Jewish life in Aventura. Friday Night Live services (6:30pm) and Shabbat ser-vices (9:00am – 12:00pm) are opened to the com-munity.

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The Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Broward County once again joined forces with the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation and Memorial Foundation to offer an illuminating pre-sentation titled “Challenging Conversations With Cli-ents.” The speech was subtitled “You Have Prepared the Wealth for the Family … But Have you Prepared the Family for the Wealth?” and was presented by Lee Meyerhoff Hendler, President of the Harvey and Lyn P. Meyerhoff Fund.

“We were delighted to repeat the success of our fi rst joint PAC luncheon and see a signifi cant turnout,” said Mark Krill, Chair of the Professional Advisory Council for the Jewish Community Foundation. “Lee Meyerhoff Hendler provided interesting and challeng-ing concepts that made the professionals in the room give thought to how they handle clients.”

The PAC luncheon was designed specifi cally for wealth managers and other professionals who deal with clients that may be able to create a legacy to important causes, whether through their own personal assets or through a foundation. In attendance were attorneys, ac-countants, and fi nancial advisors throughout Broward County.

Featured speaker Lee Meyerhoff Hendler has signifi -cant experience working with donors and foundations.

She noted that wealth does provide opportunity but it is not always accompanied by wisdom. For those who handle foundations, she believes it is critical to tell the story of the founder, and that a foundation is judged not only by the donations it distributes but also by how it

transmits values and ideals. “Lee’s presentation was both interesting and intrigu-

ing,” said Alan Cohn, Board Chair for the Jewish Com-munity Foundation. “She sprinkled numerous biblical references in her address which made it particularly meaningful for the Jewish Community Foundation.”

Hosted at the Tower Club in downtown Fort Lau-derdale, the luncheon’s Legacy Sponsors were Cypress Trust Company and Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra,

LLC. Founding Sponsors include BNY Mellon Wealth Management; Friedman, Cohen, Taubman & Company, LLC; Goldstein Schechter Koch; Katz Baskies, LLC; and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, The Friedlander Group. Builder Sponsors were Associated Financial Consultants,

Inc., Associated Investor Services, Inc.; Atkinson, Diner, Stone, Mankuta & Ploucha, PA; BB&T Wealth Management; Bernstein Global Wealth Management; Conrad & Scherer; Florida Health Law Center; Gelb-waks Executive Marketing Corp.; GrayRobinson; Greenspoon Marder, PA; Kaufman Rossin & Company, PA; Northern Trust; RudenMcClosky; and the Law Of-fi ces of Sandler & Sandler.

The Jewish Federation of Broward County raises funds to support the crucial work of 30 social and hu-manitarian agencies that help Jews in need in our own community, in Israel and around the world.The Jewish Community Foundation is the endow-

ment arm of the Jewish Federation. The Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation &

Memorial Foundation support the mission of Memorial Healthcare System to provide safe, quality, cost-effective, patient- and family-centered care regardless of one’s abil-ity to pay, with the goal of improving the health of the community it serves.

Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Broward County & Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital & Memorial Foundations

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Nearly 200 enthusiastic Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service fans gathered on May 3 at the Shirley & Barton Weisman Delray Community Center, for the agency’s 2011 Annual Meeting. While they enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, the clear attractions were installing the new Board of Directors, and the opportunity to recognize the collective efforts of the volunteers, supporters, staff and board who ensure JFS’s success. Chaired by Laura Litinsky and Jane Gortz and emceed by Arnie Friedman, the evening celebrated the year’s accomplishments with a video slideshow by Emily Grabelsky, and looked ahead to a bright future.

“We’ve made great strides toward the goals we set last year, with a long and impressive list of programs and ser-vices that we continue to refi ne and enhance to best meet the needs of our community,” said Danielle N. Hartman, on completing her fi rst year as JFS President & CEO. “Opening the Shirley & Barton Weisman Delray Com-munity Center last November was a momentous occasion that opened doors to much needed diverse opportunities for learning, socializing and more.

“This year we’ve also added psychiatry and psycho-

logical testing to our clinical services, and started the Caring Doctors Program for those who cannot afford essential health care,” Hartman continued. “We’ve also made inter-nal improvements including rebranding our image and leveraging partnerships with other community organizations.”

The 2011-2012 JFS Board of Directors slate was approved, and members installed, with Laurence I. Blair beginning a third year as Chair.

“We are very proud of our achievements this year and the progress we have made as an agency,” said Blair. “Amid continuing widespread economic challenges, we’ve pro-vided exemplary service to a greater number of clients with a smaller budget. This is a tes-

tament to the generous, committed efforts of our volunteers and lay leaders. Our more than

300 volunteers have continued their critical role, provid-ing over 25,000 hours of service in the community during the past year. “

Among others installed were those who will now serve on the JFS Board’s Execu-tive Committee: Judi Donoff, Vice Chair Financial Resource Development; Ron Gallatin, Vice Chair Strategic Planning; Lisa Goodman, Vice Chair Food Pantry; Roger Leavy, Vice Chair Personnel; Kenneth Pritzker, Vice Chair Board Development; Jon Kimmel, Treasurer; Natalie Pelavin, Secretary; Ellen R. Sar-noff, Chair, Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County; Jill Viner and Bart Weisman.

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“I have goose bumps.” “Mamash gevaldik,” marveled Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, Rav of Con-gregation Shaarey Tefi la, as he addressed al-most fi fty mashgichim representing two kashrus agencies during Shabbos Parshas Behar at a Shabbaton of appreciation for their ameilus baTorah. “I cannot express deeply enough my hakaras hatov to each of you individually and to all of you as a group” for providing South Florida with strong kosher supervision,” said Rabbi Shapiro.

“Minhag Miami,” the perception that any-thing goes, has clearly gone the way of the horse and buggy, noted Rabbi Avrohom Stone. A seasoned and nationally-respected kashrus expert, Rabbi Stone, who shared davening, Shabbos meals, and a Melave Malka with the mashgichim and their families, noted that the ORB [Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties] and KM [Kosher Miami] have “changed the perception of what kashrus is like in South Florida” in a manner that is “absolutely astonishing.” “The entire world of kashrus sees and notices,” he quipped. Rabbi Stone commented that he interfaces with over 500 factories worldwide on a daily basis, sits on a North Jersey Vaad HaRabbonim, and is a Rabbinic Coordinator for the OU. “Nothing [that I do] compares to the diffi culty in effecting local kashrus,” but the ORB and KM have made it look easy.

“Being nice to mashgichim? Treating them like human beings? This is almost unheard of! Nobody ever makes a Shabbaton just to express their appreciation for their mashgichim,” in-sisted Rabbi Stone. But Kosher Miami and the ORB have done just that. “The world takes in-spiration from how seriously you have brought up the standards,” noting that the ORB and KM have for several years jointly sponsored a two-week mashgiach training course, collaborated on a joint vegetable inspection policy, have a single mashgiach standards and pay rate guide, and are currently writing a unifi ed kashering guide. “If you can do it here [in Miami], we can do it anywhere else,” insisted Rabbi Stone, im-plying that raising kashrus standards in almost

any community is within our grasp.Rabbi Hershel Becker, a local Rov on the

Kosher Miami board, reminded the assemblage that “we are all working together in HaShem’s service. Mashgichim need to know they have support from the rabbis.” When the people cry out “mah nuchal,” “what will we eat,” it is the mashgichim and the local kashrus agencies who must do the right thing and make the right calls to insure that what goes into our mouths is just as kosher as what comes out.

The weekend’s sumptuous intellectual buf-fet included an intense shiur by Rabbi Stone Friday night regarding chometz she’avar alav haPesach, Shabbos table divrei Torah by sev-eral mashgichim, and Rabbi Stone’s Motzoei Shabbos divrei chizuk. But perhaps the high-light of the weekend was breaking into several groups of mashgichim Shabbos afternoon, each group discussing a particular topic relevant to their work. After presenting their conclusions,

Rabbi Stone addressed various points made by the mashgichim, challenged their assumptions and conclusions, and offered insights into reso-lutions of the problems.

The weekend of chizuk provided an unex-pected result. One wife expressed a newly-found level of appreciation for when her husband calls her erev Shabbos to tell her he won’t be home as soon as he originally thought. “I always get so upset,” she said. “Here it is, almost Shabbos, and there is so much to do: fi nish the cooking, bathe the children, clean the house. And now my husband calls to say he’ll be late. But now I see what goes on and better understand the dy-namics at work and the challenges he faces.”

Another result of the Shabbaton was the re-quest by some of the younger wives and wives of less-experienced mashgichim to establish a communications network with the more senior wives as mentors and confi dants. With over twenty-fi ve years’ experience each by at least two of the kashrus administrators, their wives too have decades of experiences living with husbands who work both early and late hours, who have to listen to and argue with disrespect-ful store owners, have meetings in their homes morning and night, are often away, and who deal with unpleasant kashrus situations right up until licht-bensching – and sometimes even dur-ing Shabbos!

Rabbi Stone commented that, at the end of the day, everyone wants good kashrus: the mashgichim, the rabbonim, even the baalei batim. The latter two often meet for seemingly endless hours to work through issues, but it is the mashgichim who, despite whatever chal-lenges they face, whatever wars they wage, will return the next day to “the scene of the crime” to continue their avodas Hashem in helping to keep the world a more kosher place.

Rabbi Moshe Berger is the Operations Manager for the Orthodox Rabbinical Board of Broward and Palm Beach Counties (the ORB). He has over 25 years kashrus ex-perience in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Miami, and Upstate New York and has for many years worked closely with all the national kashrus agencies.

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In November 1943, the U.S. Marines sustained heavy casualties in raiding the Central Pacifi c island of Tarawa.

The main reasons being that no one in the navy knew that the reefs were going to be an obstacle and that the landing vehicles would be sitting ducks for the Japanese. To avoid this disaster from happening again, underwater demolition teams were formed to take hydrographic surveys of the coastlines and to blow up any obstacles in the water.

The Underwater Demolition Teams, UDTs, were personnel taken from ex-isting navy units. They were trained at Waimanalo, Hawaii, and went through a grueling week of training that became a tradition known as Hell Week. At fi rst, they were trained only in shallow water demoli-tions and hydrography, the charting of the un-derwater coastline, and the deep-water demolitions were left to the army. Eventually, their role was ex-panded to the deep water missions as well.

They took part in many amphibious landings in-cluding the invasions of Normandy and Okinawa.

The end of the war signaled the end for most of the teams, as they were not needed in huge num-bers. Still they trained new members, and kept on adding new skills to their operational abilities. These included learning how to use SCUBA gear, rebreath-ers and the Fulton Skyhook- a long rope attached to the end of a plane or helicopter that would be used in extracting men from a combat zone. Entering

and exiting submerged submarines was also added to their training.

During the Korean War, the UDTs kept a low pro-fi le, but contributed greatly towards the war effort. They cleared the way for the amphibious landings, and spent much of their time cutting Korean fi shing nets. They also experimented with new tactics that broadened the scope of their capabilities.

At the beginning of the Vietnam War, some inside the UDTs saw the need for the frogmen to learn how to operate on land. The UDTs would still be around and continue to do their jobs, but some frogmen would join a new team. This team was sanctioned by President John Kennedy, and began operations in

1961. The team was called the Navy SEALs.SEAL stands for SEa, Air and Land. The

Seals are trained in hand-to-hand combat, parachuting, demolitions and were taught foreign languages. This training was called SBI, or SEAL Basic Indoctrination training, and upon completion they would be sent to a platoon and would be deployable to com-bat zones. All of this training was deemed unconventional, and therefore the SEALs were considered part of the Special Forces community.

When they were created there were two units, one on the Pacifi c coast and one on the Atlantic. SEAL Team 1 was based at Coronado, California, and SEAL Team 2 was based in Little Creek, Virginia.

From the beginning of their creation, the CIA would recruit operators from the SEALs. The Special Activities Division (SAD) and the elite

Special Operations Group (SOG), which were under the CIA’s control, date back to the Vietnam War. It was not shocking at all to hear that the killing of Osa-ma Bin Laden was done by the SEALs. Even though there are other anti terrorist groups, namely the Delta Force, the Seals were chosen in all probability for their constant cooperation with the CIA.

The CIA funded programs in Vietnam to train the locals in guerilla tactics against the communists. The trainers of this program, called Operation Phoenix, were SEAL team members. They specifi cally targeted local Viet Cong leaders and were very successful in doing so.

An Inside Look at the

U.S. Navy SEALsU.S. Navy SEALs

Seals in Vietnam

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and were UDTs that were sent to reconnoiter the coastline. Most of the ground troops that were sent in at the beginning were in advisory positions only, and this included the SEALs.

When the U.S. started to send in other conven-tional ground troops, the SEALs started ground operations that took the fi ght directly to the en-emy. They mounted most of their missions at night, and brought ter-ror to the enemy. Many Viet Cong taught their children to be afraid of the “men with green faces,” much like the way our children are taught to be afraid of the boogeyman. The SEALs painted the faces with green camoufl age in order to blend in with the surroundings. Most of Vietnam is jungle and waterways and the SEALs would need to be inserted into the combat zone by special boat units.

Vietnam proved to be a great place for the SEALs to learn and hone their skills. As they were a new unit, many higher commanders de-tested their unconventional ways of waging war. When the SEALs started showing results while the rest of the military was be-ing hit hard, the opinions of the higher ups started to change. In conventional military tactics, planes would saturate the area with bombs or they would use artil-lery to pummel a suspected enemy position. Then the regular units would come in and sweep the area. Of-ten the bombs and shells would hit in empty areas or sometimes land on U.S. troops. Then when the other units would come in, Charlie (the military nickname for the communists) would ambush them. Casualties started to mount and the war was becoming unpopular at home. The SEALs on the other hand, would mount a nighttime raid, and come back reporting that they had killed several enemy men and returned with many prisoners and sacks of captured material, which proved to be a vital source in information on what the enemy was doing. There was even one SEAL, Mike Walsh, who killed three gener-als, one in a hand-to-hand fi ght. Still, when they came home on leave, people would call them baby killers, to which one SEAL responded, “I don’t call someone shooting at me quite innocent.”

Their intense training paid off, and at the height of operations they had over 300 SEALs in Vietnam at any given time. There were only a couple of dozen fatalities by the time they were pulled out in 1972. Compared with the rest of the military, this amazing stat kept them alive during the post war cuts in military spending.

Before we delve further into SEAL history, let’s take a deeper look into their training. The training is considered by top experts as one of the toughest military schools in the world. Many drop out, some

will break bones and sustain other injuries and ev-eryone will experience pain. Most candidates to be-come SEALs know that that’s their goal before joining the navy. Out of 1500 applicants, approximately only 100 make it to BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demoli-tions/ SEALs), and of those only 20 will complete the

training. Candidates must be between the ages of 18 and 28 (although it’s extremely rare, a special waiver can be granted to older applicants) and be in the best physical shape of their lives. Most people think that SEALs are all brawn and no brains, but that can’t be further from the truth. One common denominator that all SEALs have is very good street smarts. The ones that don’t have this skill will fail during BUD/S.

BUD/S is divided into three phases. Over the

years, it has varied in length and composition, but the basic structure is the same. There are certain axioms among the trainees; “The only easy day was yester-day,” “it pays to be a winner”, and “misery loves com-pany.” BUD/S is unique in that it is the only training course in the U.S. military where offi cers and enlisted

men train together. Phase one is basic conditioning. It’s nine weeks

long with the sixth being the infamous hell week. This is where most candidates drop out. The com-mand doesn’t usually dismiss potential SEALs; they leave under their own volition. They are yelled at,

do a daily four mile run in boots, swim long distances (up to two miles), told to do push-ups until the instructor gets tired and go through an obstacle course that just by looking at it one would become dizzy. Their times must improve or they are told to do it again. In Vietnam, two SEALs, who were on a training exercise fell into the water with their hands tied behind their backs, panicked and drowned. To avoid this, train-ees are taught drown proofi ng at this stage of training.

Hell week is the epitome of SEAL training. Its fi ve and a half days where the tadpole (slang for a trainee) gets four hours of sleep, are cold and wet the entire time, gets little food and are subject to

certain tortures that the instruc-tors call “evolutions.” Surf torture is

where they sit with their heads in the freezing water, arms locked and the surf comes rolling over them. They also learn how to deal with large infl atable boats and when not in the water they carry it with them everywhere they go. Teamwork is the key, as an in-dividual will fail because most of the tasks need to be done in unison. If one person is slacking his boat mates will feel the pain. Part of PT (physical train-ing) is to walk around carrying a 150-pound log over

their heads. “Lucky” boat crews get to carry a 350 pound telephone pole named Old Misery, hence the quote “misery loves company”. The fi nal three weeks of phase one are devoted to learning how to con-duct a hydrographic survey.

Those who survive hell week and phase one move onto the second phase, the diving portion of the intense train-ing. Here they learn to use SCUBA gear (an open circuit unit that creates surface bubbles and are rarely used in combat zones) and Dreagger rebreathers (100% oxygen that gets recycled). Students are taught how to use diving as a means of transportation and how they can use this skill to become combat divers.

The third phase is land warfare. Most navy personnel don’t have basic weapons training and instructors start from the be-ginning. This is where they learn every-

thing from how to shoot a gun and at the end they all become expert marksmen. This is where they concentrate on teaching land navigation, small-unit tactics, patrolling techniques, rappelling, infan-try tactics, and military explosives.

After completing the six month BUD/S train-ing they move onto the 28-week SEAL Qualifi cation

Navy SEAL trainees undergo surf conditioning at the Special Warfare Center at the Naval Amphibious Base on San Diego Bay

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Training (SQT) program. Parachute training takes three weeks, mostly devoted to night jumps. They also learn how to perform the very dangerous HAHO (high altitude- high opening) and HALO (high alti-tude- low opening) freefall parachuting. Here they hone in their combat swimming and land warfare skills, as well as new tac-tics such as CQC (close quarter com-bat) training. Some students are sent to a 26-week medical training course, while others go the scout and sniper school. They are taught how to use SDVs (SEAL Delivery Vehicle), and un-derwater “bus” that can transfer them to their target. They must be wearing SCUBA gear and hours are spent just getting use to the loneliness of the deep. For most SEALs, it takes two years be-fore they go on their fi rst mission, and even then training is still a major part of their vocation.

The best of the SEALs are recruited into the elite DEVGRU (Development Group). Formally known as SEAL Team Six, which was founded in 1980 and was known as a bunch of rouges. Their founder, Dick Marcinko, was a hard-drinking swindler who liked to in-timidate his subordinates. It wasn’t until 1983 that changes for the better started to happen. Under the command of Robert Gormly, the team began to de-velop an elite status and the best men started to join. Although the average ages of a SEALs is the mid-20s, most of Team Six are in their 30s or even 40s. These men are smart and have such fi re discipline, knowing exactly when to shoot, that they are usually the fi rst choice for counter-terrorist operations.

Operation Urgent Fury, the U.S. inva-sion of Grenada, handed the SEALs two missions. One was to take control of the only radio tower in the country, and the second was to rescue Governor-General Paul Scoon, a great friend of the U.S. The assignment was given to SEAL Teams 4 and 6, but they had very little time to prepare. The fi rst attempt to drop SEALs ended in tragedy. Eight SEALs para-chuted in the dark and into the pitching ocean and tried to reach the two boats that were dropped with them. Four of them drowned and their bodies were never recovered.

At the radio station, they had to beat off Grenadian and Cuban troops just to get there, and after beating off several attacks, the enemy started bringing in BTR-60s- a Russian made armored ve-hicle bristling with machine guns. With their communications out, the SEALs, under Kim Erskine, decided to get out of there while they still had a chance, and before they left they blew the tower to smithereens. The SEALs that went to rescue Scoon had a helicopter so badly damaged that it had to evacuate, and in it were half the assault troops and most of the communica-tion devices. Still they proceeded into the mansion

and secured Scoon and his family. Soon their only radio ran out of power, and they had to use the landline inside the house to call in fi re support on the advancing enemy. The assault team under Duke Leonard, had to radio the enemy coordinates to Fort

Bragg, North Carolina, who relayed them to Captain Gormly on the island, who then relayed them to a C-130 gunship. A long process but it worked. They held out all night until they were relieved by Marine Force Recon troops.

In 1989, during Operation Just Cause, the U.S. ousting of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the SEALs were handed three missions. One was to isolate the PDF (Panamanian Defense Forces) on Fla-

menco Island. The second was to capture if possible his private jet at Paitilla airfi eld. The third objective was to blow up his personal boat anchored in Balboa Harbor. There were 48 SEALs assigned to the Pait-illa airfi eld mission, a huge number considering their usual way of conducting operations. As they got out of their boats, the SEALs came under heavy fi re and

instead of capturing the plane they had to blow it up. Four were killed and 13 were wounded, and this mis-sion was heavily scrutinized afterwards because it was given to the SEALs and not other units trained to take airfi elds. The other two objectives met with better re-

sults. Four divers, equipped with C-4 ex-plosives packed in haversack canvas bags, swam towards Noriega’s boat, the Presi-dente Porras, and succeeded in blowing it out of the water.

The Persian Gulf War saw only a lim-ited use of the SEALs, as the overall com-mander, General Norman Schwarzkopf, didn’t fully understand their value. They succeeded in staging a false landing, send-ing in divers to set charges on a beach, thereby fooling the Iraqis as to where the actual invasion was to take place.

In the 1990s the SEALs were active in smaller confl icts in which the U.S. didn’t want to use conventional forces. The kill-ing of Columbian drug king, Pablo Esco-bar, was a joint effort between the U.S. and Columbia in which Escobar’s reign of terror and huge drug network was taken down. SEALs were reportedly involved

in the evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia. Three Bosnian war

criminals wanted for mass genocide were killed or captured in a joint SEAL and British SAS undercover operation.

Operation Enduring Freedom, the invasion of Af-ghanistan, was led by Special Forces including Navy SEAL Teams 3 and 8. Most of their missions were spe-cial reconnaissance (SR) and hunting down Taliban leaders, including the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. One of the fi rst successful operations of the war was when

a CIA Predator Drone spotted Taliban Mul-lah Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa leaving a building. Less than two hours later, SEALs, arrived in Pave Low helicopters, and appre-hended the terrorist.

The SEALs were kept busy the entire time in Afghanistan. Task Force K-bar, com-prising of SEALs, Green Berets, Air Force Special Ops and Special Forces from seven other countries, killed or captures over 200 Taliban and Al-Qaeda leaders. They also de-stroyed networks and tons of weapons and ammunition. In one case, a 12-hour recon-naissance mission ran into a huge enemy network of caves that led to a 9 day clean-ing out party to get rid of all the munitions, thus depriving the enemy of a huge source to attack coalition forces. During operation Anaconda, Neil Roberts, was thrown from his helicopter while under intense enemy fi re. The rescue operations were unsuccess-

ful and several Special Forces soldiers were killed and wounded. The stranded SEAL fought off dozens of enemy for about an hour before he was killed. Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy was killed dur-ing Operation Red Wing while leading his four-man team in June 2005. There was only one survivor, and Murphy was posthumously awarded the Congressio-nal Medal of Honor.

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“ When In Doubt, Empty The Magazine!”

“ Sniper Talk - You can run, but you'll just die tired!”

“ Machine Gunners - Accuracy By Volume!”

“ Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War has Never Solved Anything!”

“ U.S. Marines - Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club!”

“ U.S. Air Force - Travel Agents To Allah!”

“Stop Global Whining!”

“Naval Corollary: Dead Men Don't Testify.”

“ Send Army Rangers - When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight!”

“ Death Smiles At Everyone. Rangers Smile Back!”

“ What Do I Feel When I Kill A Terrorist? Recoil!”

“ Marines - Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity To Die For their Country Since 1775.”

“ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It.”

“Happiness Is A Belt-Fed Weapon.”

“ It's God's Job to Forgive Bin Laden. It's Our Job To Arrange The Meeting.”

“ Artillery Brings Dignity to What Would Otherwise Be Just A Vulgar Brawl.”

“ One Shot, Twelve Kills - U.S. Naval Gun Fire Support.”

“ My Kid Fought In Iraq So Your Kid Can Party In College.”

“A Dead Enemy Is A Peaceful Enemy. Blessed Be The Peacemakers.”

“If You Can Read This, Thank A Teacher. If You Can Read It In

English, Thank A Veteran.”

“If your world is exploding around you, it is probably

Army Rangers”

And finally: “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference

in the world. But the United States Armed Forces don't have that problem.” -

Ronald Reagan

Operation Iraqi Freedom saw the SEALs attack several oil platforms alongside Special Forces troops from England and Poland. As they jumped off their helicop-ters they became entangled in concertina wire. They were immediately engaged by the enemy, but help from above saved them. An A-10 Warthog ground attack plane drove off the enemy and an advancing armored vehicle and the Special Forces team was able to secure the platform with no casualties. The Iraqis suffered fi ve dead and sixteen captured. They also captured the Mukarayin Dam and oil fi elds off the Al Faw Peninsula with similar results.

In April 2009, Somali pirates captured the Maersk Alabama, an American freight-er captained by Richard Phillips. Most of the crew was able to escape, but the pirates held Phillips and moved him to their small skiff. Upon learning of the details, SEAL Team Six parachuted into the ocean and climbed aboard the USS Bainbridge. For fi ve days they shadowed the skiff until it became clear that Phillips’s life was in danger. Three snipers sitting on the Bainbridge’s tail simultaneously shot and killed three pi-rates with a single shot to the head. This was done when they were about 100 yards away and in choppy seas. Phillips was rescued and brought back home.

Then on May 2, 2011, Team Six mounted the operation that changed the war on terror. By killing Osama Bin Laden they proved that no terrorist is safe, and if the U.S. wants you badly enough they will come and hunt you down. The 24 SEALs landed in two helicopters with another platoon of 14 SEALs ready to come in as backup. They came into the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and swept the house until they came to the third fl oor and found Osama near weapons. They shot him twice, once in the head the other a body shot.

This operation involved the largest amount of SEALs since the attack on Manuel Noriega’s plane in 1989. At least, that’s what has been told to the media. Most SEAL missions are classifi ed and probably will never be known. As one SEAL said, “my most important mission took place in a country that I will never be able to tell you about.”

Disclaimer: These articles are meant to be informative only. If you have any questions, comments or feel that I left anything out or have suggestions for future articles, please email me at [email protected]

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ISRAEL REAL ESTATE

Israel: Global Energy Giant?by Gedaliah Borvick

A few months ago we discussed the Israeli company Better Place whose electric car concept is on the verge of revolutionizing the auto industry. I enjoy discussing these topics because technological advances bolster

Israel’s economy, including its real estate market. More importantly, these issues help us see the hand of G-d moving the pawns on the global chess board.

Gas FieldsIn the spirit of “now I’ve seen it all,” Israel is poised to become a leading fuel

exporter. In 2004, Israel discovered a signifi cant gas fi eld named “Tamar” in the Eastern Mediterranean. Tamar is expected to pump enough oil to supply all of Israel’s domestic requirements for at least 20 years. In 2010, another gas fi eld aptly dubbed “Leviathan” (Hebrew for whale) was discovered, which is at least double the size of Tamar.

Oil ShaleLess well-known but potentially more dramatic is Israel’s burgeoning oil shale

industry, led by Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), which is owned by the American telecom company IDT. There has recently been a spate of articles written on this issue in major global papers including The Times of London, The Australian and The Jerusalem Post. In November 2010, banker Lord Jacob Rothschild and Rupert Murdoch purchased an 11% stake in Genie Oil & Gas, the parent company of IEI. Furthermore, Genie’s advisory board includes such luminaries as Michael Stein-hardt and former vice president Dick Cheney. This is big stuff.

Late last year, IEI presented data showing Israel’s oil shale reserves at the equiv-alent of 250 billion barrels. To put that in context, Saudi Arabia, the second largest oil-producing country in the world, has proven oil reserves totaling 260 billion barrels. If IEI’s numbers prove out, Israel will emerge as having the third largest oil shale deposits, after the US and China.

Problems and SolutionsShale oil has historically been environmentally problematic because the mining

process requires tremendous amounts of water and energy. Yet new technologies being developed seek to separate the oil from the shale rock hundreds of meters beneath the earth’s surface using a process that actually produces water, rather than using it up. If Israel can develop an ecologically friendly method for separating oil

from shale, that technique can be exported to other shale oil-rich countries, thereby shifting our oil reliance away from countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Updated reports verifying the scope of Israel’s gas and oil shale inventory will be forthcoming within the year. Other existing challenges will have to be overcome, but the prevailing sentiment is that Israel has a good chance, paraphrasing former Israel ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, “to become a powerful energy giant, and not a weak client state that must be pressured.”

“My Israel Home” is a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy homes in Israel. You may contact Gedaliah Borvick at [email protected]. To read previ-ous articles, please visit his blog at www.myisraelhome.com.

PLEASE NOTE: Although this title appeared in our last issue, the incorrect text for the article was inadvertently used.

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“Everybody says that his donkey is a horse.”“There is no tax on words.”(Two Arab proverbs)

On December 24th 1977, at the very beginning of the negotiations between Israel and Egypt in Ismailia , I had the opportunity to have

a short discussion with Muhammad Anwar Sadat the president of Egypt . “Tell your Prime Minister,” he said, “that this is a bazaar; the merchandise is expensive.” I told my Prime Minister but he failed to abide by the rules of the bazaar. The failure was not unique to him alone. It is the failure of all the Israeli governments and the media.

On March 4, 1994, I published an article in the Jerusalem Post called “Novices in Negotiations” The occasion was the conclusion of the “Cairo Agree-ment.” A short time later, Yasser Arafat, proved yet again that his signature was not worth the ink of his pen let alone the paper to which it was affi xed, and his word was worth even less. Then, as in every subsequent agreement Israel was taken aback when her concessions had become the basis for fresh Arab demands.

In Middle Eastern bazaar diplomacy, agreements are kept not because they are signed but because they are imposed. Besides, in the bazaar of the Ar-ab-Israeli confl ict, the two sides are not discussing the same merchandise. The Israelis wish to acquire peace based on the Arab-Muslim acceptance of Is-rael as a Jewish state. The objective of the Arabs is to annihilate the Jewish state, replace it with an Arab state, and get rid of the Jews.

To achieve their goal, the Arabs took to the bat-tlefi eld and to the bazaar diplomacy. The most im-portant rule in the bazaar is that if the vendor knows that you desire to purchase a certain piece of mer-chandize, he will raise its price. The merchandise in question is “peace” and the Arabs give the impres-sion that they actually have this merchandise and infl ate its price, when in truth they do not have it at all.

This is the wisdom of the bazaar, if you are clever enough you can sell nothing at a price. The Arabs sell words, they sign agreements, and they trade with vague promises, but are sure to receive gener-ous down payments from eager buyers. In the ba-zaar only a foolish buyer pays for something he has never seen.

There is another rule in the market as well as across the negotiating table: the side that fi rst pres-ents his terms is bound to lose; the other side builds his next move using the open cards of his opponent as the starting point.

In all its negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs, Israel has always rushed to offer its plans, and was surprised to discover that after an agreement had been “concluded” it had become the basis for fur-ther demands.

Most amazing is the reaction in such cases. Israe-li politicians, “experts” and the media eagerly pro-vide “explanations” for the Arabs’ behaviour. One of the most popular explanations is that these or other Arab pronouncements are “for internal use,” as if “internal use” does not count. Other explanations invoke “the Arab sensitivity to symbols,” “honour,” “matters of emotion” and other more patronising sayings of this nature. Does Israel possess no “sen-sitivities” or does it have no honour? What does all this have to do with political encounters?

It is therefore essential, as the late President Sa-dat advised, to learn the rules of the oriental bazaar before venturing into the arena of bazaar diplomacy. The most important of all the rules is the Roman saying: “If you want peace -- prepare for war.” Nev-er come to the negotiating table from a position of weakness. Your adversary should always know that you are strong and ready for war even more than you are ready for peace.

In the present situation in the Middle East and in the foreseeable future “peace” is nothing more than an empty word. Israel should stop speaking about “peace” and delete the word “peace” from its vo-cabulary together with such phrases as “the price of peace” or “territory for peace.” For a hundred years the Jews have been begging the Arabs to sell them peace, ready to pay any price. They have received nothing, because the Arabs have no peace to sell, but they have still paid dearly. It must be said in all fairness that the Arabs have not made a secret of the fact that what they meant by the word “peace” was nothing more than a limited ceasefi re for a limited period.

Since this is the situation, Israel should openly declare that peace does not exist as an option in the Arab-Israeli confl ict, and that it has decided to create a new state of affairs in the Middle East , compelling the Arab side to ask for peace; and pay for it. Unlike the Arabs, Israel has this merchandize for sale.

From now on Israel should be the side demand-ing payment for peace. If the Arabs want peace, Israel should fi x its price in real terms. The Arabs will pay if they reach the conclusion that Israel is so strong that they cannot destroy it. Because of this, Israel s deterrent power is essential.

Therefore, if anyone asks Israel for plans, the answer should be: no “plans,” no “suggestions,” no “constructive ideas,” in fact no negotiations at all. If the Arab side wants to negotiate, let it present its plans and its “ideas.” If and when it does, the fi rst Is-raeli reaction should always be “unacceptable! Come with better ones.” If and when the time comes for se-rious negotiations, once the Arabs have lost all hope of annihilating the Jewish state, here are ten rules for bargaining in the Middle Eastern bazaar:

. Never be the fi rst to suggest anything to the other side. Never show any eagerness “to con-clude a deal.” Let the opponent present his sugges-tions fi rst.

Always reject; disagree. Use the phrase: “Not meeting the minimum demands,” and walk away, even a hundred times. A tough customer gets good prices.

Don’t rush to come up with counter-offers. There will always be time for that. Let the other side make amendments under the pressure of your total “dis-appointment.” Patience is the name of the game: “haste is from Satan!”

Have your own plan ready in full, as detailed as possible, with the red lines completely defi ned. However, never show this or any other plan to a third party. It will reach your opponent quicker than you think. Weigh the other sides suggestions against this plan.

Never change your detailed plan to meet the oth-er side “half way.” Remember, there is no “half way.” The other side also has a master plan. Be ready to quit negotiations when you encounter stubbornness on the other side.

Never leave things unclear. Always avoid “cre-ative phrasing” and “creative ideas” which are exact-ly what your Arab opponent wants. Remember the Arabs are masters of language. Playing with words is the Arab national sport. As in the market, so also at the negotiating table, always talk dollars and cent

Always bear in mind that the other side will try to outsmart you by presenting major issues as unim-portant details. Regard every detail as a vitally im-portant issue. Never postpone any problem “for a later occasion.” If you do so you will lose; remember that your opponent is always looking for a reason to avoid honouring agreements.

Emotion belongs neither in the marketplace nor at the negotiating table. Friendly words as well as outbursts of anger, holding hands, kissing, touching cheeks, and embracing should not be interpreted as representing policy.

Beware of popular beliefs about the Arabs and the Middle East -- “Arab honour” for example. Re-member, you have honour too, but this has nothing to do with the issues under negotiation. Never do or say anything because somebody has told you that it is “the custom.” If the Arab side fi nds out that you are playing the anthropologist he will take advantage of it.

Always remember that the goal of all negotia-tions is to make a profi t. You should aim at making the highest profi t in real terms. Remember that every gain is an asset for the future, because there is always going to be “another round.”

The Arabs have been practising negotiation tac-tics for more than 2000 years. They are the masters of words, and a mine of endless patience. In con-trast, Israelis (and Westerners in general) want quick “results.” In this part of the world there are no quick results, the hasty one always loses.

Moshe Sharon is Professor of Islamic

History at the Hebrew University

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Dear Friends, Have you ever sat down to a Glatt Kosher dinner

together with 10,000 people in the same room, who all care passionately about the future of Am Yisroel and the State of Israel?

I just returned from attending the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, DC. For those who have never attended such an event, let me just say that this is a transformative experience.

As we approach the Yom Tov of Shavuos, we are reminded of the importance of Jewish unity. When the Torah describes the Jewish people’s arrival at Har Sinai in the desert it states, “Vayichan sham Yisrael neged hahar” – “and Israel encamped there, opposite the mountain,” using the singular verb Vayichan.

Rashi is bothered why the word “vayichan” is written in singular tense if it refers to all of Bnei Yisrael. Rashi answers, by citing The Mekhilta who notes the use of the singular, to say that the Jewish people camped at Har Sinai as though they were an individual, “Kish echad b’lev echad” – “as one person with one heart”.

10,000 people traveled from all over the country came to Washington “Kish echad b’lev echad”, united as one with a common goal - to show solidarity and sup-port for Israel. They were Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and unaffi liated Jews, but they all shared a burning love for Israel and the future of Am Yisroel. When you experience in person that kind of unity and selfl ess dedication, you literally feel in every bone of your body that AM YISROEL CHAI - the Jewish People are alive.

With Warm Wishes,

Rabbi Moshe Scheiner

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Our children don’t realize how good they have it! A two month summer vacation certainly doesn’t exist is the “real world”.

However, students get out of the routine of studying and the discipline of getting up early. They have to spend weeks reviewing subjects like math at the beginning of each school year. Are the advocates of year-round school correct?

A well-planned summer vacation provides op-portunities for students to do important things they just don’t have time to do during the school year. This is doubly true for Jewish day school stu-dents who take twice as many core subjects as their public school counterparts.

The essential elements in a teenager’s summer should include;

Reading- The college counselors aren’t lying when they say that there is no substitute for regular reading when it comes to SAT scores. Many students don’t have the time to read voraciously during the school year. Whatever they are interested in- just get them to read!

Work- Work builds character- meeting the ex-pectation of supervisors, doing your best, getting along with co-workers, etc. The small paycheck that

teenagers receive (“Who is FICA and why did he take all my money?”) also sends an important message to them about the importance of pursuing higher edu-cation and obtaining degrees.

Non academic talents- Those they may take an instrument (for example) once a week during the school year, students have the time to get really good at something they love over the summer. These hob-bies add spice to life, make them interesting people to potential employers and spouses, and can some-times develop into careers.

Explore possible professions- Unfortunately, doing well at school only teaches one that they are good at “doing school”. Whether exploring careers through the internet, shadowing professionals or ac-tually performing an internship, being able to iden-tify possible career paths (or reject them) is priceless.

Physical activity- most of our children don’t get daily physical activity during the school year. In this era of epidemic childhood obesity, it is an important lifeskill. This is all the more so true for traditional Jews, whose diet includes two weekly large Shabbat meals and frequent, elaborate smachot.

Most important is religious maintenance. Most of a teenager’s waking hours are scripted dur-

ing the school year. With-out this structure, teens can fall in so many ways. Every teen’s summer plans should include daily prayer and a religiously appropriate wardrobe (Kippah, modest clothing, etc). Those long shabbos afternoons can be productive or destructive, depending on how well they are planned.

The opportunity to recharge one’s batteries and start fresh in the fall is perhaps the greatest benefi t of summer vacation. There are certainly years where I have wished I could have such a “reset” button in December or February.

However, a bad summer can undue all the good accomplished by parents’ hard-earned tuition dollars and students’ many school-year accomplish-ments. Make this summer growth-fi lled and produc-tive!

Rabbi Perry Tirschwell is the Head of School of the Weinbaum Yeshiva High School in Boca Raton. He welcomes comments at [email protected].

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SYRIA to End Nuclear SecrecyAccording The Associated Press, Syria is pledging

full cooperation with U.N. attempts to probe compel-ling evidence that it secretly built a reactor that was to be used to make nuclear arms.

Syria’s sudden readiness to cooperate comes after a recent IAEA report that “assesses that the building de-stroyed in the Israeli raid... was a nuclear reactor.” It also seems to be an attempt to derail the U.S.-led at-tempts to have Damascus referred to the U.N. Security Council amid already strong international pressure on the Syrian leadership to end its crackdown on pro-de-

mocracy demonstrators.Syria’s maneuvering will complicate Western at-

tempts to bring its nuclear secrecy to the attention of the Security Council. Still, Washington said it re-mained committed to trying.

Syria has denied hiding a nuclear program. But it has refused to allow IAEA inspectors to revisit the bombed site after an initial mission found traces of uranium and other materials that strengthened sus-picion that the site was nuclear.

JERUSALEM - Netanyahu: UN Statehood for PA is Like Declaring the World is FlatPrime Minister Netanyahu has told the

Knesset Foreign Af-fairs and Security Committee that there is no way to prevent the Palestinians from declaring statehood in the UN. However, he added, “If the United Nations in September declares the Palestinian Au-thority to be a state, it might as well decide the world is fl at.

He said Israel cannot stop the resolution from going forward and has few friends in the international body, but a veto from any member of the United Nations Security Council would block the proposal from reaching the General

Assembly, whose anti-Israel majority likely would approve it.

A recommenda-tion for a new member of the United Nations must come from the Se-curity Council, whose permanent members are the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia. U.S. Presi-dent Barack Obama stated last week that it

would be a mistake to declare the Palestinian Authority as a state without negotiations, but he has not specifi cally stated he would order a veto when the Arab League proposal comes up for a vote.

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NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani Leads New National Poll Is Rudy gearing

up for another run?A new CNN/

Opinion Research Corporation national poll shows the former New York City mayor atop the still-forming Republican primary fi eld.

The survey shows Giuliani getting 16 percent of independents and Repub-licans, with Mitt Romney a point behind at 15 percent and Sarah Palin at 13 per-cent.

Neither Palin nor Giuliani are con-fi rmed candidates for the 2012 nomina-tion. Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nomi-

nee, has increasingly sent signals that she might jump in, and has launched a bus tour for the fi rst time since the 2008 race.

“Giuliani has the top spot in a 12-can-didate fi eld, but he

doesn’t generate a lot of enthusiasm. Only about a quarter of Republicans na-tionwide said that they would be enthu-siastic if Giuliani won the nomination,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Hol-land. “But he’s not alone — only a quar-ter would be enthusiastic if Palin got the party’s nod, and only one in fi ve would feel the same way if Romney became the GOP’s standard bearer in 2012.”

ISRAEL - IDF to Move to a More ‘Comfortable’ Combat UniformThe IDF Techno-

logical and Logistics Directorate has de-cided to replace the combat uniforms with ones worn by US Ma-rines in Afghanistan and Iraq. This comes after years of com-plaints by IDF soldiers that the combat uniforms they wear during exercises, operations and on their bases are un-comfortable.

At fi rst glance, the new uniforms are similar to those currently used. The

main difference is that the new model is wrinkle- free and has extra pockets and more “breathing holes”.

“We are trying to make combat more comfortable for sol-

diers and more practical with the new uniforms,” an IDF source said.

Whether soldiers will be able to keep their new shirts untucked or not has not yet been decided.

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ISRAEL - Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer Considers IMF Chief PositionBank of Israel Governor

Stanley Fischer is consider-ing whether to become a candidate to head the Inter-national Monetary Fund, ac-cording source familiar with the situation.

“He will be talking to decision-makers throughout the world the next two weeks and then make a decision,” the source told Re-uters. “If there will be more and more voices and more and more support from different countries, he would consider it.”

Zambian-born Fischer, 67, is a former

deputy managing director of the IMF. He has been widely credited with helping Israel’s economy weather the global fi nancial crisis by starting to lower Israeli interest rates sharply in 2008. He has since raised rates 10 times to contain infl ation and prevent an over-heating economy set to grow

another 4.5 percent in 2011. “It’s one of the best jobs in the interna-

tional system but I have a terrifi c job at the mo-ment,” Fischer said in an interview, referring to his post as head of Israel’s central bank.

JERUSALEM - Olmert Urges Netanyahu to Make Radical Concessions As if Former prime minister Ehud

Olmert has not caused enough damage as Prime Minister he has now slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an opinion piece he wrote for Yediot Aha-ronot.

“ P e a c e will not be achieved with speeches to Congress or the Knesset, but rather with the courage to make deci-sions that will change a reality that is increas-ingly creating a substantive threat on the State of Israel’s stature, on the internation-al support it receives, and on its future as a Jewish democratic state,” Olmert wrote.

Olmert, who has not ruled out a po-litical comeback if he is cleared in the criminal investigations against him, said

Netanyahu should withdraw to borders based on the pre-1967 lines, and give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

In his own negotiations with Palestin-ian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,

Olmert offered 100 % of West Bank land (mi-nus 6.8% in land swaps), 10,000 Pales-tinian refugees returning to within Israel’s fi nal border, and the holy basin around Jerusalem’s Old

City coming under joint Israeli-Palestin-ian-American- Jordanian-Saudi control.

“The two-state solution is vital for Israel’s security and existence,” Olmert wrote. “The basis of the 1967 lines is the key to this, and we have nothing to fear in this context.”

FRANCE - G8 Leaders Omit Mention of 1967 Borders in Middle East Statement – Thank You Canada

After Canada’s ob-jection to a specifi c mention of the 1967 borders in a statement issued by world lead-ers calling for resump-tion of Israel-Palestin-ian peace talks, The G8 leaders had to soften their blow.

Canada’s right-leaning Conser-vative government has adopted a staunchly pro-Israel position in inter-national negotiations since coming to power in 2006, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying Canada will back Israel whatever the cost.

While most of the other leaders

wanted a mention of the 1967 bor-ders, “The Cana-dians were really very adamant, even though Obama ex-pressly referred to 1967 borders in his speech last week,”

one European diplomat said. Harper has made his position

on Israel very clear, saying last year: “When Israel, the only country in the world whose very existence is under attack, is consistently and conspicu-ously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand.”

EGYPT - After 4 Years, Egypt Reopens Its Border with Gaza In a move

to bolster the Hamas govern-ment in Gaza and deal a set-back to Israel, Egypt has lifted a 4-year-old block-ade of the Gaza Strip, greatly easing travel and weapons smug-gling restrictions on the 1.5 million residents of the Pal-estinian territory.

Israel and Egypt imposed the blockade after the Islamic militant Hamas seized control of Gaza in June 2007. The closure aimed to weaken Hamas. But the Iranian-backed group remains fi rmly in power.

In Israel, fears were heightened that militants and weapons will soon pour into the terri-tory. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said the Rafah opening puts “additional re-sponsibility on the Egyptians about what happens in

Gaza.” “Mubarak is gone, there is a new

government and we already see how Israel-Egypt relations are substantially deteriorating,” an Israeli lawmaker said.

“A signifi cant security breach was created today under our noses.”

ISRAEL - IDF Intelligence Gets First Yeshiva Student Offi cers Two charedi yeshiva

students fi nished an IDF Intelligence course specially designed for charedi soldiers and received their offi cer ranks.

Since this special course began, nearly two years ago, close to 200 charedi and reli-gious soldiers ages 22 to 27 have enlisted into the Military Intel-ligence Branch. The project consists of pro-fessional training, including learning to be-come a programmer, a computer network supervisor, and a software analyst, allowing them to integrate in the job market.

“I went to the best yeshivas un-til I was 25, but it was clear to me that one day I’ll enlist,” said Yisrael. “I come from a charedi fam-ily, but my grandfa-ther is a Holocaust survivor… My wife’s family reacted a little differently to my de-

cision. I had to explain it more.”The two are now the fi rst and only

charedi offi cers in the Military Intelligence Branch, which gives them great satisfaction. “It’s a small piece of history,” said Dudi.

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“I tell you what; Hawaiian, Kenya, Irish – this guy truly is the Epcot Center of presidents.”

– Jimmy Kimmel, on President Obama

“This weekend Sarah Palin begins a na onwide bus tour, which I think is a good way for her to learn the names of all the states.” –Jay Leno

“Herman Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, announced that he’s running for president. And this is cool — if his campaign isn’t over in 30 minutes or less, you get your pizza for free.’’ -Jimmy Fallon

“I don’t want to say Tim Pawlenty is bor-ing, but Joe Biden is accusing him of iden ty the .” – Jay Leno.

“President Obama visited the Irish village where his great-great-great-grandfather was born. Of course, that was always disputed by his great-great-great-grandfather’s archri-val, Donny McTrump.” –Jimmy Fallon

“Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels emailed his supporters over the weekend to tell them he’s not running for president. In response, his supporters were like, ‘Dad, we live in the same house. Couldn’t you just tell us in person?” –Jimmy Fallon

“Last night at a Texas Ranger game, ex-President Bush almost got hit with a foul ball. He vowed revenge on the player, but we all know Obama will be the one to actually get him.” –Conan O’Brien

“President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.” –Jay Leno

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and close to 50 high school stu-dents from the local Yeshiva’s, including Wein-baum, Hebrew Academy, Toras Chaim and Shaa-rei Bina. It was an AMAZING Shabbos and a wonderful expe-rience by all who attended. For many of the high schoolers it was their fi rst Yachad shabbaton. They became entrenched in the spirit right from the beginning – singing, dancing, schmoozing with the Yachad mem-bers, b’yachad – it was a beautiful sight. There were d’var Torah’s by the Yachad members, there was improvisation from everyone – advisers, high schoolers, Yachad members alike. Friendships were made over this Shabbos

that will continue for years. As one parent of a 16 year old Yachad member said, “Yachad has given my daughter a social life”. Special T-shirts were

given out to all the participants as a keepsake of this outstanding Shab-bos and as Mutti, one Yachad mem-ber said, “The t-shirts are awesome! We look forward to more Shabbatons. Everyone should come!!!! There is nothing left to say. Come join us as a Yachad mem-ber, high school students, adviser –

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ONE ISRAEL FUND Life in Judah and Samaria

The State of Israel spent the fi rst 30 years of its modern existence reclaiming its territory, and the next 33 years negotiating

the terms on which it would be returned to the neighboring countries which had made war on it, as well as an entirely new terrorist state created in the name of peace and maintained in the name of war.

33 years after the country’s fi rst ‘hawkish’ conservative PM allowed himself to be brow-beaten by Jimmy Carter into turning over terri-tory three times its own present size to an Egypt whose new leaders are now disavowing the ac-cords-- its current ‘hawkish’ conservative PM is readying himself to offer a whole new raft of concessions in the hopes of preempting a unilat-eral solution by Obama or Abbas.

For all the furious New York Times articles, there is little to distinguish Israel’s hawks from its doves once they take up their residence in Beit Aghion on the corner of Lord Balfour’s street. Like their American counterparts, they rapidly trade in the rhetoric about an “Undivided Jeru-salem” and “War on Terror” for the burden of realpolitik built on a copy of the Art of Appease-ment.

The governing mandate of every Israeli PM since 1992 (and perhaps even earlier) has been to try and make a deal with the Palestinian Arabs work. The folly of this has been amply demon-strated time and time again, fi lling Israel’s cem-eteries and hospitals, destroying its security and international standing, and dividing its people against themselves. And yet all these factors have only spurred on the perception that the deal

must be somehow made to work. Somehow.

The doves have tried multilateral negotiations. The hawks tried uni-lateral concessions. The sum total of their efforts is the creation of two ter-rorist states, one recognized by the international com-munity, one by the far left, and both at war with Israel inside its own bor-ders.

The fi rst state is run by the KGB trained funder of the Munich Massacre and backed by the international com-munity. The second state is run by the local af-fi liate of the Muslim Brotherhood and funded by the Muslim world. These two states, popularly known as the Palestinian Authority and Hamas run Gaza, differ only in their tactics, not their aims. Neither are anything but unelected leaders of terrorist groups dedicated to Israel’s destruc-tion.

Almost two decades of negotiations have led to nothing but eighteen years of terror. A state of affairs ignored by everyone except the peo-ple living on the fi ring line, their family sedans scarred by bullets, their kindergartens equipped with bomb shelters and their children equipped with emergency cell phones to check in after every attack. As the international community, the media and the government push forward for more con-cessions and ne-gotiations, they have no way to push back ex-cept through the occasional un-heard protest.

Year after year, and leader after leader, the Israeli response has been to

push forward in the hopes of fi nding light at the end of the tunnel. But the tunnel has only gotten darker and narrower. And it is growing obvious to even the dimmest observer that the tunnel of peace is really a dead end. Talk of a ‘break-through’ keeps alive the hope that Israel can slim down enough to squeeze through a pinhole that simply doesn’t exist.

Israeli leaders are surrounded by technocrats and diplomats who favor retreating from terri-tory, rather than from bad policies. So the land goes, the people die and the bad policies remain.

Though Rabin had remained dubious about the illegally negotiated Oslo Accords, the inevi-tability of an agreement has been adopted by the entire political establishment. Even the ‘hawks’ spend most of their time moving border lines on a map to fi nd some acceptable formula for a Palestinian state. No one asks anymore whether there should be a Palestinian state. Only how big it should be. And how many Israelis should be evicted from their homes in the name of a last-ing peace.

But few Israelis believe in a lasting peace any-more. Instead they expect that some form of ne-gotiated sep aration will keep their sons at home and away from the fi refi ghts in Gaza and the West Bank. Never mind that such a separation is even more of an illusion. Barak’s unilateral with-drawal from Lebanon and Sharon’s unilateral pullout from Gaza put Hezbollah and Hamas into power and brought on the Second Lebanon War and the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit.

Caught between Israelis who want security and an international community that demands passivity, the government has innovated Passive-Aggressive Warfare. Israel’s security barriers meant to stop suicide bombers, traded in the

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bombings for constant shelling instead, now its new Iron Dome defense system is meant to stop the shelling, which doesn’t mean an end to terror, but the begin-ning of another form of terror. From security measures to drones to counter-missile defenses, Israel is revolutionizing the passive-aggressive war on terror. And minimizing the pain of its self-de-structive policies with new tech-nological feats that address the symptoms, not the problem.

Even fewer in Israel’s political establishment believe that terror-ism will ever end. The obligatory Rabin festivals and video clips have taken on the air of a hip-pie festival, charmingly idealistic and completely unrealistic. Not even the left be-lieves anymore. Whatever idealism it ever pos-sessed has been replaced by a dedicated climate of hate. The New New Left is no longer inter-ested in peace, but in assigning blame for the war. Haaretz columnists drag forward everyone from Netanyahu’s wife to the settler boogeyman,

while their grandchildren don keffi yahs and stone Israeli soldiers in the company of protest tourists from Norway and Scotland.

The logic of pushing forward to an agreement has little to do with stopping terrorism anymore. Not when all it takes to make your own terrorist group is a dozen friends and a Dubai bank ac-

count. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas are umbrella groups supported by numberless mili-tias, any of whom can form their own terrorist group at any time, or moonlight between working as police, running a protection racket and their own splinter ter-rorist organization for which the offi cial leadership claims plau-sible deniability.

Israel’s culture minister said this week that her nephew was murdered by a terrorist disguised as a security offi cer. But the dif-ference between terrorists and security offi cers in the Pales-tinian Authority is that they’re called security offi cers when they draw paychecks from the US and

the EU, and terrorists when they murder Israeli civilians. This formal distinction allows West-ern diplomats their own plausible deniability, pretending that they aren’t funding terrorism. When that’s exactly what they’re doing and have been doing since Arafat got his fi rst aid package. But if they were to admit that Palestinian security

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forces are nothing more than terrorists in uniforms, they would also have to admit that the Palestinian Au-thority government is nothing more than terrorists in suits.

At stake is Israel’s legitimacy, or at least that’s how the politicians see it. To maintain its legitimacy in the international community, its relations with the United States and Europe, it must continue working toward an agreement. But the more it has labored over an agreement, the more the boycotts and the culture war have grown. The withdrawal from Gaza has done far

more to feed hate against Israel, than any combination of checkpoints and security measures. Every effort to pre-serve Israel’s legitimacy endangers it further.

Israeli leaders search for some magic formula that will either achieve a peace agreement or convince the world that the gangs of suit decked Palestinian Muslim terrorists are not serious about peace. This futile brand of alchemy, with the goal of turning hate into gold, is futilely perverse. No amount of negotiated failures will ever convince international diplomats that the Palestinian Arabs aren’t serious about peace.

For Western diplomats, a Palestin-ian state isn’t the goal, but the means of convincing the Muslim world that

they are serious about their concerns. For Muslim leaders, a Palestinian state isn’t the goal either, it’s only a means of diverting attention from their domestic misery. It isn’t even the goal for Palestinian leaders who have shown no ability or interest in running a state.

If a Palestinian state were declared tomorrow, re-gardless of what papers were or weren’t signed, this state would still be economically dependent on Israel and on Western aid, and it would still be full of ter-

rorists taking potshots at Is-raelis.

The 1967 borders are as legally and demographically random as any other. The ‘Green Line’ is nothing but a convenient talking point. With all the territory back to the 1967 borders in terrorist hands, their attention would turn to the territory beyond it. 1967 would give way to 1948. New terrorist attacks would be carried out in the name of claiming even more land for the ‘refugees’. Israeli Arabs whose MK’s already preach terrorism and align themselves as Palestinians would quickly scramble on board. And the international community would demand new concessions. And even-tually a One State Solution.

Israelis have learned not to think about the future to avoid confronting this real-ity. The discredited leader of the last decade becomes the savior of the next, only to be discredited yet again. Peres, Barak and Netanyahu rise

from the ashes of their failures. The discredited plans of the last government become the template for the failures of the next. Each leader denounces the past, but refuses to part ways with it. As a dog returns to its vomit, so Israeli leaders repeat the folly of the past.

Netanyahu’s proposal will take the position of the kid who punches himself in the face half as hard as the bully would, in the hopes of dissuading the bully from beating on him. Or in the even fainter hope of gaining the sympathy of some well meaning observer. And every time Israeli leaders have tried this, the bul-ly hits them twice as hard anyway, while the observers cheer on the bully. The observers hope that cheering on the bully will save them from his wrath. And Isra-el’s leaders still think that they can minimize the pain, and outmaneuver the bully and the observers through some clever deal making.

The bully is Islam. His shouts about historical justice are motivated by a violent inferiority complex. Despite his belligerence, he is weak. But America, Eu-rope and Israel suffer from national inferiority com-plexes that prevent them from standing up to him. So the bully rampages about the global playground. There is no use bargaining with him. Even less use ap-peasing him. You can either stand up to him, or keep getting beaten by him. For all the idealistic songs and images of fl owers in gun barrels, there has never been a third way.

The Israeli fl ag is the symbol of the House of Da-vid, a lad who built a nation by standing up to Goli-ath. To be worthy of the fl ag, is to be worthy of the act. Israel survived by standing up to the armies of Islam. Not willingly, but reluctantly. After all other op-tions had been exhausted. Now it faces a political war in which all the diplomatic options will never be ex-hausted, until its enemies overreach themselves with a full invasion. And by then Israel may no longer be capable of defending itself.

Reprinted with permission from the writer Daniel Greenfi eld of www.sultanknish.blogspot.com


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“Ssshhh. Don’t let the children hear.”

How many of us have tried to shield our children from arguments and marital confl ict? Even when tension in our

homes is thick enough to cut with a knife, we persist in the fantasy that “what our children can’t hear can’t hurt them”.

Chazal teach us that there are three part-ners in each marriage: H-Shem, man, and woman. In order for our marriages to be suc-cessful, all three must work in concert. The essence of shalom bayis is continuous support, interaction, and love.

This concept was illustrated by the Maha-ral. (N’siv Hatorah, perek 4). He quotes the Gemara (Sanhedrin) that states that the genera-tion of Reb Yehuda bar Elaye was a more righ-teous generation than that of Moshe Rabbenu and Yehoshua. The generation was exceedingly poor, and six men would be covered with one blanket. And yet, they were able to learn Torah without interruption.

Reb Chaim Shmulevitz, z”tl explains that the only way that six people could be covered by one blanket is that each person would be concerned only with the welfare of the other fi ve. Pulling the single blanket towards him would cause constant struggle and no one would be warm. But if each person would gen-erously give the blanket to the other fi ve, all would fi nd comfort.

In most marriages, couples quarrel when each spouse fails to see eye-to-eye with the other. This is to be expected. However, marital con-fl ict is not the result of diverging opinions, but rather how married couples deal with these dif-ferences. In a healthy relationship, couples can disagree vehemently without losing the respect they have for one another. In a dysfunctional marriage, actual or perceived disagreements can quickly escalate. Even if the escalation is non-verbal, children see it, feel it, and internalize it.

In a well functioning marriage, the husband and wife are concerned with the welfare of the other. Because they are generous in spirit, they

seek to share the blanket as the six men in Reb Yehuda bar Elaye’s generation. They love and respect their partner. On the other hand, marriages where each partner is symbolically pulling the blanket towards himself or herself inevitably become fi lled with strain and dis-cord. The worse it gets, the more it affects a child’s emotional security.

The connection between marital discord and children’s mental health has been well estab-lished. More than 30 years ago, the National Survey of Children reported that more than half of all elementary school children felt afraid when their parents argued. It became clear that the higher the level of confl ict within the mar-riage, the greater the level of fear experienced by the children. Other studies have shown that children’s internal perceptions of their parents’ marriages affected their long-term emotional ad-

justment. The level of tension and confl ict ap-pear to be the signifi cant factor in the child’s emotional security.

Of course, none of this is news to Rabbanim, educators, mental health professionals, or any-one who works with children. We understand that children are astute and sometimes, uncon-scious, observers of family dynamics.

At Madraigos, we work directly with the teens and young adults whose emotional in-security has caused their lives to spin out of control. The structure of Madraigos’ programs and the unconditional support of the staff give our members the tools and skills to make bet-ter choices and responsible decisions. As they gain confi dence in their abilities, they develop emotional resilience that allows them to better cope with the underlying chaos of their lives. In addition, we provide support to parents so they can recognize destructive patterns and of-fer suggestions for effective change.

For the past seven weeks, we have been pre-paring ourselves to receive the Torah anew. As we counted the days of sefi ra, we had a unique opportunity to refl ect and work on our personal character defects. The Torah tells us that we ap-proach the holiday of Shavuos k’ish echad b’lev echad, as if we are one person with one heart. There was no separation at all; only one nation with one goal to serve H-Shem. What an inspir-ing message for families: we can overcome strife and be k’ish echad b’lev echad, like one person with one heart, to help our children successfully navigate their journey through life.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Yom Tov.

Rabbi Dov Silver is the Founder and Executive Vice Presi-dent of Madraigos. Madraigos is a 501c3 not-for-profi t organization that provides a wide array of innovative pro-grams and services for hundreds of teens and young adults who engage in at-risk behaviors. Madraigos has offi ces in New York and Chicago, and is a resource for communi-ties across the country. For more information, visit www.madraigos.org

Parents’ Strife Colors Childrens World by: Rabbi Dov Silver – Madraigos

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Website to Help Sit ShivaMay 2011 : There is no time more diffi -

cult for a family than when they lose a loved one. ShivaConnect.com is a free resource created to help Jewish mourners fi nd information about sitting shiva and to conveniently send funeral & shiva details to family and friends.

After a year of intricate web design and program-ming, a mourner or caring friend can now easily enter pertinent information on a private Shiva Reg-istry. Much more than an online Jewish obituary, it includes funeral and shiva dates, times, places, in-teractive directions, mourners’ contact information, food notes, synagogue affi liations, family charitable requests and who to call if you have a question. A direct link to the personal Shiva Registry can then be emailed, tweeted or posted on Facebook.

With “just a click,” family and friends learn sit-ting shiva details, fi nd local delis and send shiva plat-ters, view and post food already sent, make charitable donations, fi nd helpful resources, read eulogies and send thoughtful messages to mourners. Each “Shiva Registry” is typically viewed by more than 100 visi-tors, making it easy for them to express their con-dolences. It helps mourners by minimizing stress, unnecessary phone calls, confusion and wasted food.

Shiva Connect.com has educational articles

that are of interest to Jews and non-Jews about shiva customs and traditions, visiting mourners, Jewish prayers, poems, preparing your home for sitting shiva, kaddish, etc. Another unique feature is the “Yahrzeit Reminder” which is emailed each year to subscribers.

ShivaConnect.com was developed by Sharon Rosen, who turned to the internet for help when her beloved Mother passed away. She searched for local fu-neral homes and websites to learn about sitting shiva. Emails were sent to friends thanking them for their support and to tell them of her mother’s passing. An-other was sent with fi nal arrangements information and one more with location, days, and times for sit-ting shiva. She found the internet to be the best way to quickly communicate, at such a diffi cult time.

Stress grew as the phone kept ringing with ques-tions about food. Friends continued to call asking

what was needed, when to send it and people from out of town called not knowing where to order from. An abundance of food was delivered, platters were taken back to delicatessens for overnight refrigera-tion and others were donated to a local shelter.

Exhausted and overwhelmed by this experi-ence, Sharon thought, “There must be a better way!” and conceived the idea of an all- inclusive online resource to conveniently provide information, assis-tance and coordination of the bereavement period.

ShivaConnect.com has begun to list a wide range of helpful resources and is expanding throughout the United States. Jewish charitable organizations, Syna-gogues and Hospices are offered complimentary list-ings and a direct link to facilitate memorial donations. Other resources include: funeral homes, bereavement groups, senior living facilities, nursing homes, geri-atric care services, realtors, movers, consignment shops, legal assistance, fi nancial and insurance con-sultants and pre-need planning.

Sharon’s vision of creating a comprehen-sive website to help others is now a reality.ShivaConnect.com is a tribute to her Mother, who always gave love and support to family and friends.

New Personal Assistant Service Designed

For Everyday People Coming To South Florida

This type of service was once only af-forded by wealthy individuals; EXLINE is bringing it to the masses.

Hallandale, Florida, May 11, 2011 – Express Line, Inc. or EXLINE for short is pleased to announce one of the fi rst com-panies of its kind in South Florida. The service enables everyday people such as parents, professionals, business owners, elderly individuals or other busy people to have access to their own team of personal assistants to perform their errands on their behalf.

Recently due to the increasing demands of the workplace and family life EXLINE saw a need that people from all types of different backgrounds share. They need more time to handle their individual, family, work and communal workloads. This com-modity of time is something that is limited and peo-ple look to become more effi cient. Thus the current EXLINE service was developed.

The concept is simple. The customer pays a small monthly membership fee of $5 a month to have ac-cess to EXLINE’S team of personal assistant when they need them. Then when they use any of EXLINE services they pay only $12 an hour; “Any Service, One Flat Rate”.

EXLINE offers the following services; Grocery

Shopping, All Other Shopping, Cleaning & Maid Service, Car Waiting, Pet Sitting,

Elderly Assistance, Helpers, Transportation, House Sitting, Appointment Setting, Internet Research, Substitute Workers, Restaurant Takeout and Delivery, Dry Cleaning Drop-

off/Pickups, Prescriptions Drop-off/Pickups, Postal/Print Runs, Courier/Messenger Service, Gift/Flower Delivery, Movie Rentals/Returns, Event Tick-ets Pickup, Hurricane Preparation, Merchandise Re-turns/Exchanges and House Checks.

EXLINE offers new customers with a “Free 30 Day Membership” to try out service. To sign-up or for more information about EXLINE services, please visit http://www.myexline.com.

“We are focused on enabling everyday hard working Americans to have more time available for the things that matters most to them; such as family, work and hobbies,” said Shawn Snow, CEO of EX-LINE. “Our number one priority is providing excep-tional customer service to our customers.”

According to a recent study of the U.S. work force released by the Families and Work Institute, the average worker spends 44 hours per week on the job, and 36% of workers say they often feel com-pletely used up at the end of the workday. And there is certainly no rest for the weary at home: 85% of

workers have daily family responsibilities to go home to, while 78% of married workers have spouses who are also employed. Weekends are consumed by er-rands and housekeeping; 70% of all parents feel they don’t spend enough time with their children.

About EXLINEThe company Express Line, Inc. or EXLINE for

short has been in operation since 2001. We started a shopping service to make extra money while still in college. For many years this continued and was offered and limited to a few select individuals. The company has recently expanded with the goal of reaching the masses with our unique service offering.

For more information about EXLINE ser-vices, please visit http://www.myexline.com.

EXLINE is headquartered in Hallandale, Florida. For information call 305-300-0364.


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Charitable planning is one of the major components in a formal fi nancial plan. Times are hard today, in the United States and

especially in South Florida, as compared to the recent past. Charities are hurting, as many of their past contributors are giving less because they are earning less or they fear that they will earn less in the future.

The holiday of Shavuos is coming up. It is the time that we received the Torah. Even most profes-sionals working in the fi nancial services industry do not readily associate Shavuos with fi nancial plan-ning, so let me explain.

Residents of Israel only keep one day of Shavuos. The rabbis added the extra day for those who live

outside of Israel’s boundaries as given by the Torah. Those are the pre-1967, the pre-2000 years ago boarders which totaled more than twice the size of Israel today including all of Judea and Samaria, as well as parts of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. South Florida is unquestionably outside those boarders so we must keep the holiday for two days. The fi nancial planning aspects appear to be heavily incorporated into the davening on the second day.

The Torah reading the second day begins with the rules of tithing. As the holiday coincides with the fi rst full harvest of the season it is important to review the tithing rules. Tithing should be a part of everyone’s fi nancial plan as we should never forget that when Hashem gives us all that we earn and he

gives us the responsibility to properly administer the portion that should be given to others.

After the Torah reading and the Haftorah the Rabbi usually gives an inspiring sermon followed by Yizkor. Many synagogues will have an appeal before Yizkor, or if not then many will commit to the giv-ing of charity at that point, as giving charity in the remembrance of a loved one benefi ts the giver as well as the soul of the one being remembered.

We read the Book of Ruth on the second day as well. This is where you can see fi nancial planning with emphasis on charitable giving put in action. There was a famine in the land so Elimelech took his family to live in Moav. Rashi and other commentators explain that Elimelech was wealthy and a leader in

KosherSales – Trusted sales and sales man-agement advice your grandmother would be

proud of. Real sales, successful sales are done through Relationships; and relationships don’t last without trust. Sales is a pas-sion of mine rooted with the

satisfaction of coming through for someone, delivering on a promise, and helping another hu-man being in doing so. The best way to

learn or sharpen your craft is to teach and if you love something you want to keep

getting better at it.. I hope you enjoy read-ing this column as much as I enjoy writing it.

If you have ever been part of a sales team, you have had your sales manager ask whether or not you followed up on the big account/potential

customer. What you WON’T hear is, “Kevin, were you persistent with the Peterson account?”

Following up after a meeting, networking event, or sales call is no different than making sure your child makes their bed. Like most parents, you “follow up” two, four, six times. (Before you capitulate and end up doing it on your own.) If instead of following up, you are persistent, you are far more likely to produce a better outcome.

Whoever calls up a customer and says, “Hello, April? It’s Mike Broduer here following up after our meeting last week. Have you had a chance to look over the quote/proposal?” will be more likely to end up on a sales job ad board with the caption “I fol-lowed up” than to actually have made a sale. Has your response from that customer ever been, “Mike! Why yes I have reviewed it, and we are ready to give you the business!!!” EVER??? That never happens and do you know why? Because if he HAD reviewed it and WAS ready to move forward, he would have called YOU.

As sales professionals, the hardest thing for us to

do is be in front of the customer 24/7, to be the fi rst person they think of each and every time they need to purchase the service or product in our particular industry. So how does one do this without being ob-trusive and in their face?

Advertising? Yes, some publications (such as the South Florida Jewish Home) are well worth the money if your com-pany has managed to zero in on your

target audience. However, too many companies do not have a clear focus. They throw away hundreds of thousands - even millions - of dollars in fruitless efforts

to reel in new customers by assailing the wrong people with ads.

Calling the customer every morning, afternoon, and evening? If you look up the word “obtrusive” on Wikipedia, you will likely see an image of a smiling salesman making his umpteenth unproductive follow-up phone call and annoying potential customers in the process.

Salesman A and Salesman B illustrate perfectly the fi ne line between following up and being persistent.

Screaming Motors Co. makes motors for the ob-noxious muscle cars that gleefully give us all head-aches when the light turns green. They have also pat-ented the perfect migraine-inducing muffl er - truly a niche market. Salesman A calls or stops by once a month to drop off his company’s catalog for oil and motor parts. He is a very friendly guy and a pleasure to deal with. Salesman B does the same thing, but as he drops by, he casually mentions to the owner that the Chicago Bears were lucky to get a new quarter-back. (He noticed a Bears banner behind the owner’s desk.) Salesman B also sends an inspirational quote a few times a week and occasionally emails news clip-pings that are relevant to the Screaming Motor indus-try. And Salesman A - well, he is a nice guy.

The day comes when the current provider of en-gine parts for Screaming Motors fi les for Chapter 11;

Screaming Motors is in need of a supplier to help them maintain their national contract. The owner has catalogs on his desk from Salespeople A and B; the catalogs and prices are nearly identical. Who do you think he is MORE likely to call? (Hint, it’s B)

Persistence – in getting noticed, in sharing a joke, in building a relationship - will trump the follow-up phone calls on any day

If you make sure on the same day, every week for as long as it takes; you place a call, send an email, or mail a joke to the prospect, they WILL respect your persistence. Follow up is just annoying and turns the buyer off.

The next issue will focus on standing out even more; what is going to make you different.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot

and hang on. - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Or….just be persistent.

Elliot Grossbard is VP of Sales and Co-founder of WeSupplyYou.com, a company that offers a personal touch while supplying businesses with offi ce supplies and products. With 17 years of sales and sales management experience, he has built sales cul-tures and run sales departments in different industries. A proud father of three and a devoted husband, you can reach Elliot for 20 – 60% savings on ink/toner and paper as well as sales guid-ance by contacting him at: koshersales@gmail, [email protected] on Twitter @koshersales or on the web @ www.wesupplyyou.com

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Learn Financial Planning From Shavuos and the Book of RuthBy: Gerald L. Mayerhoff, CPA, PFS

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(and 2 as you read this), we fo-cus our attention on Games 3-5

in Dallas. We contemplate, like every Jew and every news item, on how this impacts us. With over 600,000 Jews in South Florida, the second largest market for Jews outside of Israel, the Miami Heat has the second largest fan base of any NBA team. They soundly de-feated the Sixers (275,000 Jews) and Boston (260,000 Jews) and Chicago (265,000 Jews) and face Dallas (90,000 Jews) who had a much less Jewish path to the fi nals. They defeated Portland (20,000), Los Angeles (560,000) and Oklahoma City (1,750). So, even if we subtract the 80,000 Cleveland Jews (and, Charles Bark-ley who claims to have among his friends Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and several Jews--probably an accountant, lawyer or agent), the Jewish fans of the Miami Heat still outpace the Maverick’s Jewish fan base by more than a 4-1 margin.

Both teams play in an American Air-

lines facility, bringing at least $40 million in marketing benefi t to the airline (if it only goes 4 games), making its $42 million deal (payable over 20 years) with the Miami Heat a real bargain—they pay $195 million over 30 years for the Dallas rights.

And, Mark Cuban (worth $2.9B, accord-ing to Forbes) has over 50 kosher restaurants to choose from during his fi ve days in Miami. Micky Arison (worth $5.9 B, twice Dallas’ Cu-ban—isn’t that how we Jews keep score?) will have a much more limited selection, two ko-sher restaurants (one being a grocery store) to choose from during his stay in Dallas. Cuban will have his choice of over 100 minyanim, and another 36 if he wishes to daven with

Chabad. Arison can choose from among 7 minyanim. While both Cuban and Arison are generous contributors to Jewish causes, locally and nationally, as well as strong sup-porters of Israel, the Heat’s Lebron James is alone among the players to have donated six fi gures to Jewish causes—granted, that was to secure a Championship, but it is no sin to give tzedaka with an ulterior motive.

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Israeli banking magnate and owner of Miami’s Carnival Cruise Lines (and the Miami Heat).

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I stood there, with my hand on the lever, and thought to myself that it would be appropriate to say the bracha “Shehechiyanu.” Yes, I was in

Israel, and no, it wasn’t my fi rst time at the Kotel. Instead, my hand was on a lever that would send 9.5 million gallons of water a day down the Jordan River and on to Lake Kinneret, Israel’s main water source. This is the story about the Shamir Water Drill in Northern Israel, and its important contribution to the water situation in Israel.

Water is a critical issue in Israel, and years of drought have taken their toll on the entire region. Existing underground aquifers have been over-used and are no longer a reliable source for water.

Furthermore, decades of neglect have caused many of these important sources of water to become polluted and unusable for all purposes. Pumping wa-ter from the Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret), the largest body of usable water in Is-rael, has caused the Kinner-et’s level to sink to its low-est point in years, and it is fast approaching the “black line” beyond which, water experts say, all pumping must stop, or the water will become salinated and for-ever unusable.

Israel is looking to increase its water supply with the construction of six new desalinization plants along the Mediterranean Sea. The initial two plants are now operating, but the remaining plants are not scheduled to come online and be fully functional until about 2016. Other water comes from recycling waste water and storing it in the more than 220 reservoirs built by Jewish National Fund (JNF). Israel has become the

leading country in the world in recycling its waste water, and this now contributes about 50% of the water needs for agricul-tural use. Overall, recycled waste water has increased Israel’s water supply by 12% but there is still a huge gap in consumption versus availability. Therefore, the search for alternative sources of water continues.

Much of the funding for that search comes from JNF through its JNF Parsons Water Fund which is helping to maximize the water resources available to Israel, and fund research projects related to water conservation and usage, such as the drill in northern Israel’s Shamir region.

About six years ago, during a routine survey of the area, Israeli geologists dis-

covered the existence of an underwater aquifer deep in the ground under Kibbutz Shamir, in the Upper Galilee. Unfortunately, The Israel Water Authority did not have the money in its budget to drill and test the amount of available water or its quality, in order to determine whether it was economically feasible to pump.

The Water Authority decided to transfer the de-velopment rights to the Galilee and Golan Heights Agricultural Associations, owners of the land on

which the site is located. Although would-be de-velopers quickly began a fundraising effort, and despite fi nancial com-mitments from the Israel Water Authority and the Agricultural Associations, they fell short of their tar-get of more than 100 mil-lion shekels – the capital required for the project’s implementation.

Thus, fi ve years passed from the time of discovery of the new wa-ter source – years that

were also fi ve of the worst drought years in Israel’s history.

Frustrated, the Water Authority in 2009 turned to JNF and its Parsons Water Fund with a request to consider supporting the immediate implementation of the Shamir project. A series of meetings with all the partners in Israel ensued while the research team in-vestigating the Shamir Drill water quality announced they had identifi ed water treatment methods that would enable the water to be used for both drinking and agriculture.

With the generous help of major donors, the JNF

Parsons Water Fund was able to provide the develop-ers with a philanthropic loan for the remaining cost of completing the Shamir Drill. JNF is providing 30% of the cost, the Israel Water Authority is providing 50% of the cost of the project and the water associations will provide for the 20% balance. The drill shafts go to a depth of 1,400 meters (almost one mile deep).

During the recent KKL (Keren Kayemet L’Yisroel) World Conference in Israel, I traveled up north to view the drill site myself. When I arrived at the drill site on Thursday, March 24, together with other participants from the KKL World Conference, we were greeted by

Shabtai Glass, the chief project engineer and techni-cal manager of the drilling site, with the news that the second shaft had been completed, and the drill tower had been moved that week to the site of the third shaft to be drilled, about a mile away. Shabtai revealed that based upon the fi ndings produced by the fi rst two shafts, that the underground aquifer has the capacity for producing 25 million cubic meters of water a year. When Joe Hess, JNF Vice President for Government Relations asked Shabtai how long the water could be expected to produce at such a rate, Shabtai replied “until my grandchildren’s grandchildren”.

As of this writing, Shamir Drills 1 & 2 are opera-tional and are pumping 400,000 gallons of water per hour (9.5 million a day) into the Kinneret. Upon the completion of Shamir Drill 3, expected to be com-pleted at the end of 2011, it is estimated that the com-bined three drills will add 8.2 billion gallons of water to Israel’s water economy.

Along with Harold Cohen JNF COO, we went to the site itself, traveling across fi elds of mud and rutted trails. At the site we found the completed fi rst shaft, with a fence already surrounding the site to protect it against damages. At the second site, Shabtai invited us to “turn on the water”. What we experienced was a rush of water that was truly a moment for saying “Shehechiyanu.”

The Shamir Water Drill: Water for Future Generations

By: Isaac Blachor, JNF Vice President for Israel Relations

Isaac Blachor JNF Vice President Israel Relations and Harold Cohen, JNF COO at the Shamir Drill Site - March 24, 2011

The water gushing forth from the Shamir Drill Site

L to R Isaac Blachor, Shabtai Glass and Harold Cohen at the Shamir drill site

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Dear Parents,Before you head to the beach or the pool,

review these tips from the American Acad-emy of Pediatrics (AAP) on sun exposure, water safety and heat stress.

Fun in the SunBabies under 6 months:

The two main recommenda-tions from the AAP to prevent sunburn are to avoid sun exposure, and to dress infants in lightweight long pants, long-sleeved shirts, and brimmed hats that shade the neck to prevent sunburn. However, when adequate clothing and shade are not available, parents can apply a minimal amount of sunscreen with at least 15 SPF (sun protection factor) to small areas, such as the infant’s face and the back of the hands. If an infant gets sunburn, apply cold compresses to the affected area.

For All Other Children:The fi rst, and best, line of defense against harmful

ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure is covering up. Wear a hat with a three-inch brim or a bill facing for-ward, sunglasses (look for sunglasses that provide 97% -100% protection against both UVA and UVB rays), and cotton clothing with a tight weave.• Stay in the shade whenever possible, and limit sun

exposure during the peak intensity hours - between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

• On both sunny and cloudy days use a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or greater that protects against UVA and UVB rays.

• Be sure to apply enough sunscreen - about one ounce per sitting for a young adult.

• Reapply sunscreen every two hours, or after swim-ming or sweating.

• Use extra caution near water and sand (and even snow!) as they refl ect UV rays and may result in sunburn more quickly.

Heat Stress in Exer-cising Children

• The intensity of activities that last 15 minutes or more should be reduced whenever high heat and humidity reach critical lev-els.

• At the beginning of a strenuous exercise program or after travel-ing to a warmer climate, the in-tensity and duration of exercise should be limited initially and then gradually increased during a period of 7 to 14 days to ac-climatize to the heat, particularly if it is very humid.

• Before prolonged physical activity, children should be well-hydrated and should not feel thirsty. For the fi rst hour of exercise, water alone can be used. Kids should have water or a sport drink always available

and drink every 20 minutes while exercising in the heat. Excessively hot and humid environments, more prolonged and strenuous exercise, and co-pious sweating should be reasons for children to substantially increase their fl uid intake. After an

hour of exercise, children need to drink a car-bohydrate-electrolyte beverage to replace electrolytes lost in sweat and provide car-bohydrates for energy.

• Clothing should be light-colored and lightweight and limited to one layer of

absorbent material to facilitate evaporation of sweat. Sweat-saturated shirts should be re-placed by dry clothing.• Practices and games played in the heat should be shortened and more frequent

water/hydration breaks should be instituted. Children should seek cooler environments if they feel excessively hot or fatigued.

Pool Safety• Never leave children alone in or near the pool or spa,

even for a moment.• Install a fence at least 4 feet high around all four sides

of the pool.• The fence should not have openings or protrusions

that a young child could use to get over, under, or through.

• Make sure pool gates open out from the pool, and self-close and self-latch at a height children can’t reach.

• If the house serves as the fourth side of a fence surrounding a pool, install an alarm on the exit door to the yard and the pool.Keep rescue equipment (a shepherd’s hook - a long pole with a hook on the end - and life preserver) and a portable telephone near the pool. Choose a shepherd’s hook and other rescue equipment made of fi berglass or other materials that do not conduct electricity.

• Avoid infl atable swimming aids such as “fl oaties.” They are not a substitute for approved life vests and can give children and parents a false sense of security.• Children ages 1 to 4 may be at a lower risk of drowning if they have had some formal swimming instruction. However, there is no evidence that swimming lessons or water survival skills courses can prevent drowning in babies younger than 1 year of age.• The decision to enroll a 1- to 4-year-old child in swimming lessons should be made by the parent and based on the child’s developmental readiness, but swim programs should never be seen as “drown proofi ng” a child of any age.

• Whenever infants or toddlers are in or around water, an adult – preferably one who knows how to swim and perform CPR – should be within arm’s length, providing “touch supervision.”

• Avoid entrapment: Suction from pool and spa drains

can trap a swimmer underwater. Do not use a pool or spa if there are broken or missing drain covers. Ask your pool operator if your pool or spa’s drains are com-pliant with the Pool and Spa Safety Act. If you have a swimming pool or spa, ask your pool service represen-tative to update your drains and other suction fi tting with anti-entrapment drain covers and other devices or systems. See PoolSafely.gov for more information on the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act.

• Large infl atable above-ground pools have become in-creasingly popular for backyard use. Children may fall in if they lean against the soft side of an infl atable pool. Although such pools are often exempt from local pool fencing requirements, it is essential that they be sur-rounded by an appropriate fence just as a permanent pool would be so that children cannot gain unsuper-vised access.

Boating Safety• Children should wear life jackets at all times when on

boats or near bodies of water.• Make sure the life jacket is the right size for your child.

The jacket should not be loose. It should always be worn as instructed with all straps belted.

• Blow-up water wings, toys, rafts and air mattresses should not be used as life jackets or personal fl otation devices. Adults should wear life jackets for their own protection, and to set a good example.

• Adolescents and adults should be warned of the dan-gers of boating when under the infl uence of alcohol, drugs, and even some prescription medications.

• Open Water Swimming• Never swim alone. Even good swimmers need bud-

dies!• A lifeguard (or another adult who knows about wa-

ter rescue) needs to be watching children whenever they are in or near the water. Younger children should be closely supervised while in or near the water – use “touch supervision,” keeping no more than an arm’s length away.

• Make sure your child knows never to dive into water except when permitted by an adult who knows the depth of the water and who has checked for under-water objects.

• Never let your child swim in canals or any fast mov-ing water.

• Ocean swimming should only be allowed when a life-guard is on duty.

Wishing you a safe and enjoyable summer,

David Elazar Simai M.D.

Dr. David Simai is a Board Certifi ed Pediatrician. He can be contacted at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected] for consultations or to schedule public lectures.

NOTE: The above mentioned information is not in-tended to diagnose any specifi c disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned diseases.

Summer Safety Tips - Sun and Water Safety

David Elazer Simai M.D.

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JUNE 2, 2011FORGOTTEN HEROES Highlights of Jewish Heroes who made a difference in defending their countries

Peter Z. Malkin - The Man who Apprehended Adolf EichmannBy: Avi Heiligman

On the night of May 11, 1960, Ricardo Clement was coming off the #203 bus and walking to his home on Garibaldi

Street in the San Fernando suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was running late and his wife and kids were waiting for him. Suddenly as he walked, a burly man approached him and asked, “Un momentito, señor.” Clement then appeared about to grab for a gun, and three men wrestled him to the ground. The three attackers picked him up, one by his legs, another holding his body and the third cradling his head, and carried him to a waiting car. He was squealing the whole time, and in the car, another big man sat on him to prevent him from escaping. He was told that if he moved he would get a bullet in his head. Clement then said in German under his breath, “I am resigned to my fate.” His kidnappers knew at that point that they had their man. Clement was really Adolf Eichmann, the man who coined the Final Solution and had sent many Jews to their deaths. His kidnappers were Mossad agents handpicked for this special job. The man who had approached him was Peter Zvi Malkin, who spoke the only words of Spanish that he knew.

Zvi Malchin, (he changed his name later in life) was born in

1927 in Lower Silesia, a province of Germany prior to 1945, cur-rently Zolkiewka, Po-land. He was from an orthodox family that left in 1936 to move to Palestine. His sister and her three children were killed by the Nazis dur-ing the Holocaust. He vowed vengeance and soon was given the chance.

He started in un-dercover operations when he joined the Hagana at the age of twelve. He joined the Mossad soon

after the State of Israel was founded. All undercover agents need to be a master of disguises and Peter was no different as he often posed as a painter while gathering intelligence. In actuality, he really was a paint-er and was joking when he said, “Was being a painter my cover story for the Mossad, or was being in the Mossad my cover story for being a painter? Sometimes, I’m not sure.” As was the case with many agents, he had at least two

passports. One said he was born in Poland and the other declared that British-mandated Palestine was his birthplace. The capture of Eichmann was just one of many missions that made him known as one of the best agents that the Mossad has ever had.

There were seven people involved in Eichmann’s kidnap-ping and they all have a different version on how it actually hap-pened. This is based on Malkin’s account in his book entitled “Eichmann in My

Hands.” After they had thrown Eichmann in a car and drove him to a safe house, Malkin asked him why he killed his sister and her three chil-dren. Eichmann just sat there stone faced and didn’t answer right away. Finally, he said, “But they were Jewish, weren’t they?” He was then taken on a commercial fl ight to Israel where he stood trial. He was executed on May 31, 1962.

After this amazing episode, Malkin continued his career with the Mossad. During the 1970s, he went back to South America to hunt for Nazi criminal Josef Mengele. His search led him to Brazil, and although he couldn’t locate Mengele, he uncovered a Soviet agent. This agent was wanted by the CIA for many things, including

buying U.S. army materiel and bribing Brazilian offi cials. The one problem was that they couldn’t locate him, but Malkin somehow got his pass-port and visa and the Soviet was apprehended.

In his 28 years of undercover work, he never killed anyone. He once said, “My most impor-tant weapon wasn’t a gun- it was my brain.” He undertook hundreds of missions including un-masking Israel Be’er, one of Ben Gurion’s aides as a Soviet spy. He also went to Egypt in the 50s and discovered Nazi scientists taking refuge.

After he retired, he moved to New York and settled in the Lower East Side. He died March 1, 2005 at the age of 77.

If you have any questions or comments, you can email Avi at [email protected]

Eichmann trial courtroom - note Eichmann in a booletproof cage

Book published by Peter Malkin telling the story of Eichmann’s capture

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PARENTING TODAY

Dealing with Peer Pressure

BY BENJIE STERN

Why’d the monkey fall outta the tree? ‘cause he was dead...

Why’d the other monkey fall outta the tree? ‘cause he was dead too...

Why’d the third monkey fall outta the tree? Peer pressure...

Peer pressure is one thing that all teens have in common. They can’t escape it. It is everywhere. Whether it is pressure to

conform to a group norm or pressure to act, peer pressure is something everybody has to deal with at some time in his or her life.

Peer pressure may be fairly straightforward, with some teens pressuring others to take part in certain activities. In some cases, though, peer pressure is a little more subtle, with clues given to teens that they won’t be “cool” if they don’t participate, even without the overt pressure to do what everyone else is doing. Here are some statistics about peer pressure:

The Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge Base reports that right around 30% of teens are offered drugs in middle school and high school.

According to the National Household Survey

on Drug Use and Health from the U.S. De-partment of Health and Human Services, 74.3% of high school students have tried alcohol.

3.1 million teenagers smoke, according to the American Lung Association.

The Kaiser Foundation reports that about 50% of teenagers feel pressured with regard to relationships.

How successfully a teenager can handle peer pressure depends a great deal on how they feel about themselves and their place in the world. There are certain “risk factors” for peer pressure, personality traits that make them more prone to give in to peer pressure.

Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fi t in, or because they worry that other kids might make fun of them if they don’t go along with the group. Others go along because they are curious to try some-thing new that others are doing. The idea that “everyone’s doing it” can in-fl uence some kids to leave their better

judgment, or their common sense, behind.A study conducted by the National Cen-

ter on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University demonstrated that sit-ting down together as a family during the evening meal directly affected teen’s grades and self-esteem. According to the study, teens that only eat dinner at home with their fami-lies twice a week or less were more likely to try marijuana, smoke a cigarette, or try alcohol com-pared with teens who eat at home more regularly. Even if you or your child doesn’t make it home in time for a regular meal, just sitting with him or her while she eats and listening to your teen talk about his or her day can make a difference. The more you are there, the more that you show you are interested in your teen’s life, the better they will feel about themselves and the less they need to go elsewhere to feel accepted; and the more likely they will be to make good choices when peer pressure is at its worst.

The key is for the parent to make the child feel that his parent is interested in him and the child is more important than the other things go-

ing on in the parent’s life. A child feels safe and protected if he knows that he is the focus of his parent’s world. The parent must give the child at least a little bit of “uninterrupted full attention” time.

It is not the amount of time we give our children each night that matters; rather it is the

attitude and spirit with which it is given. The moment the child is in your company, the child needs to feel that in your eyes, at that moment, he is the most important person in the world, and indeed he should be. If a teenager feels un-derstood and secure in our love, they will not have to worry about the acceptance of others with risk of making poor decisions. Uncondi-tional love despite their imperfections is the type of love they need to get them through a day full of struggles. They will always feel secure through all the tribulations of the day, knowing that they have a safe haven, a house of refuge, which they can always run to at the end of the day. This will give our children the resiliency to take on the challenges of life head on and be proud of the values that their family stands for.

Some kids give in to peer pressure

because they want to be liked, to fi t

in, or because they worry that other

kids might make fun of them if they don’t

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41 ON THE BAY4101 Pinetree Drive Miami Beach, FL 33140305-535-4101Rabbinic Supervision: Kosher-Miami

ASIA Sushi, Wok, Grill7600 W Camino Real Boca Raton, FL 33433561-544-8100Supervision: ORB

ASI’S4020 Royal Palm Ave Miami Beach, FL 33140305-604-0555Supervision: Kosher-Miami

ASI’S GRILL AND SUSHI BAR4020 Royal Palm Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33140305-604-0555Supervision: Kosher Miami

AT HAGI5800 Stirling Road Hollywood, FL 33021954-981-7710Supervision: ORB

AVENTURA PITA18129 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL 33160305-933-4040

AVIGDOR’S MOZART CAFE4433 Stirling Road, Hollywood, FL 33021954-584-5171Supervision: ORB

B & H PIZZA233 95th Street Surfside, FL 33154786-245-5557Supervision: Kosher Miami

BAGEL TIME3915 Alton Road Miami Beach, FL 33140305-538-0300Supervision: Circle K

BOCA PITA EXPRESSMiddle Eastern Israeli cuisine & grill7185 N. Beracasa Way Boca Raton, FL 33433561-750-0088Supervision: ORB

BON AMI CAFE5650 Stirling Road Hollywood, FL 33021(954) 962-2070Supervision: ORB

CAFE EMUNAH3558 North Ocean Dr. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308954-561-6411Supervision: ORB

CAFE VERT9490 Harding Ave. Surfside, FL 33154305-867-3151Supervision: OK

CHAI WOK1688 NE 164 Street North Miami Beach, FL 33162305-705-2110Supervision: Kosher Miami

CHINA BISTRO3565 NE 207th Street Aventura, FL 33180305-936-0755Supervision: Kosher Miami

CINE CITTA MIAMI9544 Harding Avenue Surfside, FL 33154305-407-8319Supervision: OK

DAIRY BITES660 W Hallandale Beach Boulevard Hallandale, FL 33009954-457-2700Supervision: Kosher-Miami

DECO SUBS3919 Alton Road Miami Beach, FL 33140305-672-7285Supervision: Kosher-Miami

ELIES CAFE145 East Flagler Miami, FL 33131786-594-0196Supervision: Kosher-Miami

ELSIE’S CAFELocated in the North Miami Beach JCC18900 NE 25th Avenue North Miami Beach, FL 33180305-778-5946Supervision: Kosher Miami

EUROPEAN CORNER CAFE7300 Camino Real Boca Raton, FL 33433561-395-1109Supervision: ORB

FRESH CAFE2214 NE 123 Street North Miami, FL 33181305-891-8848Supervision: Kosher Miami

GIGI’S CAFE3585 NE 207th Street Aventura, FL 33180305-466-4648Supervision: Kosher Miami

GRILL TIME16145 Biscayne Blvd. North Miami Beach, FL 33160786-274-8935 | 305-491-3325Supervision: ORB

GRILL TIME RESTAURANTFusion Steak House8177 Glades Road Boca Raton, FL 33434(561) 482-3699 | Fax: (561) 487-4044Supervision: ORB

HARBOUR GRILL9415 Harding Avenue Surfside, FL 33154305-861-0787Supervision: Kosher Miami

HOLLYWOOD DELI6100 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, FL 33024(954) 608-5790Supervision: ORB

JCC CAFE American9801 Donna Klein Blvd at Cultural Arts Center BocaRaton, FL 33428561-852-3200 x 4103 |Supervision: ORB

JERUSALEM PIZZA761 NE 167th Street North Miami Beach, FL 33162305-653 6662 |Supervision: Kosher Miami

JONA’S GRILL & BAR2520 NE 186th Street North Miami Beach, FL 33180305-466-0722Supervision: Kosher-Miami

JONAS PIZZA2530 NE Miami Gardens Drive NorthMiami Beach, FL 33180305-918-8998Supervision: Kosher-Miami

JON’S PLACE OF BOCA Pizzeria22191 Powerline Road Boca Raton, FL 33433561-338-0008Supervision: ORB

JP BISTRO Pizzeria5650 Stirling Road Hollywood, FL 33021(954) 964-6811Supervision: ORB

KIKAR TEL-AVIV RESTAURANTChinese and Continental CuisineCarriage Club North 5005 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33140305-866-3316Supervision: OK Laboratories

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KOSHER BURGER5021 State Road 7, Davie, FL 33314954-534-1158Supervision: ORB

L’CHAIM MEE CHINA ORIENTAL RESTAURANT3940 North 46 Avenue Hollywood, FL 33021954-986-1770Supervision: ORB

LEVY’S KOSHER OF HOLLYWOOD3357 Sheridan Street Hollywood, FL 33021954-983-2825Supervision: ORB

LUL GRILL CAFE18288 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160305-933-0199Rabbinic Supervision: OK

MAOZ VEGETARIANTown Center Mall6000 Glades Road #1175 Boca Raton, FL 33431561-393-6269 | Fax: 561-393-6532Rabbinical Supervision: National Orthodox Rabbinical Organization

MILKY CAFÉ4579 N Pine Island RoadSunrise Fl 33351954-533-5325Supervision - ORB

NEWTIMEMoroccan and Spanish cuisine2120 N.E. 123rd Street North Miami Beach, FL 33181305-891-6336Supervision: Kosher Miami

ORCHIDS GARDEN9045 La Fontana Boulevard Boca Raton, FL 33434561-482-3831Supervision: ORB

ORIGINAL PITA HUT5304 41 Street Miami Beach, FL 33140305-531-6090Supervision: ORD

PISTACHIO GOURMET GRILL740 41 Street Miami Beach, FL 33140305-538-1616Supervision: Kosher Miami

PITA GRILL CAFE658 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd. Hallandale, FL 33009954-455-2118Supervision: ORB

PITA LOCA601 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139305-673-3388Supervision: Kosher Miami

PITA PLUS2145 Stirling Road Hollywood, FL 33312954-241-2011

PITA PLUS1883w3 Biscayne Boulevard Aventura, FL 33180305-935-0761

PITA PLUS3801 N. University Dr. Sunrise, FL 33351954-741-5844

PRIME SUSHI726 Arthur Godfrey Road Miami Beach, FL 33140305-534-0551Supervision: Kosher-Miami Cholov Yisroel

PRIME SUSHI18250 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160786-284-8430Supervision: Kosher-Miami

RARE STEAKHOUSE468 W 41st Street Miami Beach, FL 33140305-532-7273Supervision: Kosher-Miami

RITZ RESTAURANT1678 NE Miami Gardens Dr. North Miami Beach, FL 33179305-354-9303Supervision: Kosher-Miami

SAGI’S MEDITERRANEAN GRILL22767 US Highway 441 Boca Raton, FL 33428561-477-0633Supervision: ORB

SARA’S3944 N 46th Street Hollywood, FL 33021954-986-1770Supervision: ORB

SEVENTEEN1205 17 Street Miami Beach, FL 33139305-672-0565Supervision: Kosher-Miami

SHALOM HAIFA RESTAURANT18533 W. Dixie Hwy Aventura, FL 33180305-945-2884Supervision: ORB

SHEM TOV’S PIZZA514 41st Street Miami Beach, FL 33140305-538-2123Supervision: Kosher Miami

SUBWAY18900 NE 25th Ave North Miami Beach, FL 33180305-663-9883Supervision: Kosher-Miami

SUNRISE PITA & GRILL2680 N University Dr. Sunrise, FL 33322954-748-0090

SUNRISE PITA TOO5650 Stirling Rd. Hollywood, FL 33021954-963-0093Supervision: ORB

TASTI CAFE4041 Royal Palm Ave. Miami Beach, FL 33140305-675-5483Supervision: Kosher Miami Dairy

THAI TREAT & SUSHI & BOMBAY GRILL2176 NE 123rd Street North Miami, FL 33181305-892-1118Supervision: Kosher-Miami

THE FAMOUS PITA BURGER BAR18798 W Dixie Hwy North Miami Beach, FL 33180305-682-9692Supervision: Kosher-Miami

WEBER CAFE3565 NE 207th Street Aventura, FL 33180(305) 935-5580Supervision: Kosher Miami

WEST AVENUE CAFE959 West Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139305-534-4211Supervision: Kosher Miami

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1. SET THE STAGE FOR SUCCESS - With final exams just around the corner, the time is ripe to start planning for your child’s success. Without a doubt, the best way to prepare for tests is to put forth effort throughout the lessons that precede it. The most successful test-takers tend to be students with good attendance, consistent homework, and solid study habits. At this point of the year as teachers are finish-ing up and extensively reviewing, make sure that your child is in school every day and is doing all of the assignments that he or she is asked to do!

2. KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT - Most teach-ers share information about their tests well before the test date. If not, call the teacher and ask! Some things you want to find out as specifi-cally as possible: What subject matter or skills are being tested? What’s the format? (essay, short answer, multiple choice, a combination...) How will the class prepare in school? How is it graded? Are there any specific ways you can help your child prepare? With this information, you can create practice tests for your child or if your child is capable, he or she can do so recip-rocally with a friend. (This is even better because making up questions is a fantastic processing activity which will improve your child’s retention of the material.) Your child’s confidence will be in proportion with his or her success on these “tests”.

3. USE THE FIVE SENSES - Children who have difficulty preparing for tests, especially in memorizing, can employ their senses to make information more memorable. Work out hand motions or dance steps, draw pictures or dia-grams, think of an associated smell or taste, sing the information to a catchy tune or devise a clever rhyme of pneumonic device. The more parts of the brain the information is stored in, the more permanently lodged it will be.

4. MAKE NOTE CARDS - Teach your child to organize the information in bite sized bits. Divide the facts into a set of categories that is appropriate for the subject matter (such as the Five W’s for history or divrei hamaschil, maa’marei chazal and pesukim for chumash)

and make different colored cards for each. Put the ques-tions or terms on one side with the answers or details on the back. Flash cards provide a quick and easy study tool and your child will come to comprehend the information more deeply if he or she catalogues the information independently – so help devise categories if needed but don’t do the work!

5. PLAY GAMES - Many children don’t use their studying time effectively because studying is a chore and their homes are filled with far more enticing distractions! Try turning study-ing into a game. Flash cards are easy to use in games like Jeopardy or Go Fish. One of my daughters scatters her cards on the floor and jumps form card to card! If you and your children can think a bit out of the box, studying can become a great experience (…or at least a pleasant one!)

6. CONSIDER YOUR CHILD’S PAST PER-FORMANCE - If they are available, read through old tests to find specific areas in which your child seems to falter. Then, instead of wast-ing time drilling what your child has already mastered, you can provide exercises that rein-force that subject; make them up, or find them online (www.echinuch.org or www.edhelper.

com are great sites!) Aim for activities that resemble the teacher’s testing style if you can.

7. AVOID CRAMMING - Encourage your child to study over a period of time rather than to cram the night before. You can help your child map out a study schedule including which test to study for,

when and for how long. Many children are willing to stick to a schedule – they simply do not know how to organize one.

8. BUILD BRAIN POWER - National polls of teachers consistently report teach-

ers saying that the students who struggle the most on testing days are the ones who didn’t have enough sleep the night before or a good breakfast on the day of the test. To keep your

child from exhausting his or her energy before the test even begins, make sure she has every-thing that is needed (pencils, an eraser, paper, etc.) packed up the night before; he or she will enter the test relaxed and focused.

9. THERE IS A BEST WAY TO TAKE A TEST! - Teach your child to read the test all the way through, answer the questions he or she can complete confidently first, and then to return to the rest of the questions afterwards. This will build your child’s confidence during the test, allow him or her to manage her test taking time best and help lay the groundwork for a lifetime of good study skills.

10. JUMP RIGHT INTO PREPARING FOR THE NEXT ONE! - After the test, be sure your child hears that you are proud and pleased with the efforts you saw even if the results are not what you had hoped for. As in every area of life, achievement on tests is a process and not an instant product! You will provide fertile ground for your child to grow if your child knows that as long as he or she puts forth real effort, you will be cheering him or her on! Good Luck!

Mrs. Estee Hebel, MsED is the General Studies Principal of Shalom Torah Academy, a preschool through eighth grade day school, in Morganville, To learn more about her work-shops or to schedule one, you can contact her at [email protected].

Parenting TIPS

Mrs. Hebel’sTop Ten Tips

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1. BE ON THE WATCH FOR RED FLAGS - For children who care about their grades (hopefully!) tests can be very stressful. Children may not express their feeling verbal-ly, but you can hear it loud and clear through their behavior. General irritability, lethargy or excessive complaining in the days preceding a test may be red flags of unexpressed anxi-ety. Step one is to help your child put the feel-ings into words by saying things like, “You seem pretty worried.” It’s always easier to deal with an emotion that is understood and acknowledged.

2. START WITH YOU - If you yourself are genuinely concerned about your child’s upcom-ing test, be very careful not to express it around your child, otherwise you will communicate to your child that he or she is right – that there is a disaster brewing! Even if your child seems calm, take care. It is very easy for parents to unintentionally transfer their nervousness to their children. You can worry the calm child and you can really terrify the already nervous one!

3. BE A ROLE MODEL FOR COPING. - As often as you can, openly share when you are feeling nervous about something. Then let your child hear you work through it. You can say things out loud like, “I feel nervous about…, but I’m going to do the best I can” or “ I am worried about … working out well, but of it does not, it’s not the end of the world.”

4. PROVIDE EMOTIONAL BOOSTS - If your child seems stressed by tests, provide what you want when you are stressed – lots of TLC and lots of understanding. Not only should you pump your child with your belief in his or her ability to succeed, but you can also practice positive thinking together. As many times as you can, encourage your child to say “I’m going to do my best” whenever thoughts of “I can’t do it” come to mind.

5. BUILD CONFIDENCE - The best antidote for fear of failure is reassurance of success! Study with your child until he or she is well pre-pared, or for older children, guide them through the process. Keep the studying to a predictable

and calming routine; a quiet room at a set time in a set way, with minimal distractions. Then create practice tests so your child can see that success is in arm’s reach.

6. REDEFINE “SUCCESS” - Doing your best is real success. It is critical that your child knows that you are proud of genuine effort and that your love is unwavering, whatever grade he or she brings home. More pressure than he or she can cope with will reduce your child’s ability to think, learn, and perform. For all that we want our children to excel, keep a healthy perspective; consider how important this test is in the full scope of his or her life and set goals accordingly.

7. TEACH RELAXATION SKILLS - There are many different relaxation techniques your child can learn such as deep breathing, counting, closing his or her eyes and creating a mental image (in this case, of coping well during a test) or positive self-talk. Practicing them with

your child in advance can be a bond-ing activity for you and your child, one which he or she will probably remember and appreciate forever. If you need more guidance you can go online and easily research any technique and find step by step guidance.

8. EMPLOY STRATEGIC PLANNING - Your child can be worried about a host of things, including the fact that he or she is too worried! Work together to create a list of situations that might come up during the test, from not having enough time or not knowing an answer to get-ting panicky, freezing up or feeling sick. Then brainstorm solutions. For example, if your child can’t recall and answer, he or she will move on without it or for panic, he or she will take several deep breaths. Just having a plan is empower-ing and calming, plus it can prevent full blown anxiety when your child recalls the plan and employs it.

9. AVOID THREATS AND REWARDS. - Believe it or not, rewards can add to test anxiety just like punishments, because the thought of failing to earn the reward can be skewed by a child’s mind into a form of failure! While prizes or consequences can motivate some children to work harder, they are certainly not a good idea for an anxious child. If you want to reward suc-cess, an unexpected gift after the test conveys your pride without any of the pressure before-hand.

10. TAKE ACTIONS IF NEEDED - If your child’s anxiety seems extreme or is affecting his or her ability to function in other areas, you need to address it. It is absurd for any child to suffer needlessly from tests and this anxiety may be indicative of a larger problem, something you want to work on in its infancy. Start by talking to your child’s teacher about how the problem manifests itself at school and what she can do to help. Then, speak to the school guidance counselor. Lastly, if needed, seek professional help outside of school. Anxiety is a difficult thing to live with; helping your child to overcome it young is a priceless gift.

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FOR HELPING YOUR CHILD

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On the ballot in San Francisco this fall will be a proposal making it a crime to circumcise male children. If the measure

passes, anyone convicted of circumcising a baby boy could be fi ned up to $1,000 and sentenced to a year in prison. Even for San Francisco, this is madness.

The circumcising of newborn boys is perhaps the most familiar type of surgery in the Unit-ed States. According to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US hospitals perform the procedure more than 1.2 million times each year. While there are wide variations by ethnicity and region, and while circumcision rates have declined in recent years, the great ma-jority of American men are circumcised. And in nearly every case, the decision was made for them in their infancy by their parents -- just like the decision to breastfeed or bottle-feed, or to use cloth or disposable diapers. Even in the most childless major city in America, it’s hard to see voters approving what would be an egregious in-fringement on parental rights.

The health benefi ts of circumcision are clear, if modest. The Mayo Clinic website refl ects the medical consensus, noting that circumcised men and boys generally have a lower risk of urinary tract infections, penile cancer, and sexu-ally transmitted diseases; and that circumcision makes genital hygiene easier. At the same time, Mayo endorses the view of the American Acad-emy of Pediatrics, which doesn’t consider the advantages of circumcision compelling enough to recommend that infant boys be circumcised as a matter of routine. The academy’s bottom line is commonsensical: “Because circumcision is not essential to a child’s health, parents should choose what is best for their child by looking at

the benefi ts and risks.”In short, circumcision is something about

which reasonable people can and do disagree. But there is nothing reasonable about the fanat-ics trying to make it a crime.

The ballot campaign in San Francisco is be-ing spearheaded by a group of self-described “in-tactivists,” political crusaders obsessed with the preservation of foreskins. Their mania might be laughable if not for two things: (1) they hijack terminology used to describe a dreadful type of violence against girls and women, and (2) they are attempting to criminalize a fundamental rite of Judaism.

Promoters of the San Francisco initiative call it the “MGM bill.” The initials stand for “male genital mutilation,” a dishonest phrase meant to link the safe and medically unobjectionable pro-cedure of male circumcision with the frightful cruelty of female genital mutilation.

The two are not remotely comparable. “Fe-male genital mutilation has no known health benefi ts,” the World Health Organization and nine other international organizations stressed in a 2008 report on the scourge, which persists in much of Africa and the Middle East. “On the contrary, it is known to be harmful to girls and women in many ways.” It is painful and trau-matic; it makes childbearing “signifi cantly” more risky; and it leads to higher rates of post-partum hemorrhaging and infant death. Long-term con-sequences of female genital mutilation “include chronic pain, infections, decreased sexual enjoy-ment, and psychological consequences, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.”

By contrast, the WHO report emphasizes, “male circumcision has signifi cant health ben-

efi ts that outweigh the very low risk of complica-tions.” Of particular importance in regions rav-aged by AIDS, “circumcision has been shown to lower men’s risk for HIV acquisition by about 60 percent.” Precisely because circumcision is so be-nign, WHO and the other agencies are at pains to distinguish it from female mutilation, which is always dangerous.

Dangerous in quite a different way is the San Francisco initiative’s assault on Jewish religious liberty. Circumcision is the oldest practice of the world’s oldest religion. Irrespective of any medi-cal value, it is the sign in the fl esh that for nearly 4,000 years has marked Jewish males as heirs to the ancient pact between Abraham and God. Many Muslims also circumcise their sons for re-ligious reasons.

But the law proposed by the “intactivists” ra-diates hostility to traditional religious belief: “No account shall be taken of the effect on the person on whom the operation is to be performed of any belief on the part of that or any other person that the operation is required as a matter of custom or ritual.”

The campaign to enact a law banning the most enduring obligation in Jewish experience amounts to what the American Jewish Com-mittee calls a “direct assault on Jewish religious practice in the United States. . . . unprecedented in American Jewish life.”

Fortunately, even in California most ballot issues are rejected. When San Franciscans vote this fall, the disgraceful anti-circumcision initia-tive deserves a decisive defeat.

This article originally appeared in The Boston Globe.

The San Francisco initiative is an assault on Jewish religious liberty.

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Q & A: WHAT IS SHAVUOT AND HOW IS IT CELEBRATED?

The Torah calls Shavuot the “Festival of Weeks” (Numbers 28:26). The very word “Shavuot” is Hebrew for “weeks”; it refers

to the seven weeks that one counts from the second day of Passover (when the Omer [barley] offering is brought) until the holiday of Shavuot. It is one of the three Regalim, holidays, (Pesach and Succot are the other two) where every man in the land of Israel was commanded to come up to Jerusalem to celebrate the festival when the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, stood in Jerusalem.

Torah is the life blood of the Jewish people. Our enemies have always known that when we Jews stop learning Torah, our assimilation is inevitable. Without knowledge there is no commitment. One cannot love what he does not know. A person can-not do or understand what he has never learned.

A Jew is commanded to learn Torah day and night and to teach it to his children. If a Jew wants his family to be Jewish and his children to marry other Jews, then he must integrate a Torah study program into his life and implement the teach-ings into his home and his being. One can tell his children anything, but only if they see their parents learning and doing mitzvot, will they inherit the love for being Jewish. Remember: a parent only owes his child three things -- ex-ample, example, example.

How can we utilize this opportunity to grow and strengthen our self-identity as Jews? Just as a baby crawls, then toddles and then walks, likewise with the mitzvot (commandments). A person should undertake one more mitzvah, do it well and then build on it. For some mitzvot that you might enjoy taking on...

A FEW SUGGESTIONS

1. Read the Torah! The Almighty gave it to you as a gift. It is the instruction book for liv-ing -- how to be happy, choose the right spouse, make your marriage work, raise your children with values, get more joy out of life. I highly recommend the Artscroll Stone Chumash (Five Books of Moses).

2. Attend a Torah class -- or if you wish to

listen to recorded classes, try 613.org or AishAu-dio.com to download over 2,000 classes for your mp3 player! Buy a copy of Pirkei Avot, (Ethics of the Fathers), and read one page a day. It con-tains concentrated wisdom about life.

3. Make sure you have a Kosher mezuzah on

at least your front door. (A Jewish home should have mezuzot on all doorposts except for the bathrooms). Learn the deep, inner-meaning of mezuzah and refl ect on it when you look at the mezuzah. To Be a Jew by Rabbi Hayim Donin nicely explains a lot of things.

4. Pick one non-kosher food item that you won’t eat -- just because you’re Jewish.

5. Say the Shema and the three following

paragraphs at least once a day. Learn what the words mean and the ideas included. It will change your outlook and attitudes. Artscroll publishes a book on the Shema -- or look at the commentary in the Artscroll Siddur. Lisa

Aiken’s book, Hidden Beauty of the Sh-ema, is spectacular!

6. Do something to make Shabbat

special -- light two candles with the blessing before sundown, have a Shab-bat Friday night family dinner and make Kiddush and HaMotzei (the prayer be-fore eating the Challahs -- the special loaves of bread). You might want to buy Friday Night and Beyond by Lori Palat-nik which is a hands-on guide for the novice wanting to enjoy Shabbat.

The Talmud says, “All beginnings are

diffi cult.” If you need help or have ques-tions, please feel free to call me at (305) 535-2474 or e-mail to: [email protected] For the books or mezuzot, try your lo-cal Jewish book store, call toll-free 877-758-3242 or JudaicaEnterprises.com.

On Shavuot there is a custom to stay up all night learning Torah. Virtu-ally every synagogue and yeshiva have scheduled learning throughout the night

ending with the praying of Shacharit, the morn-ing service. The reason: the morning the Jewish people were to receive the Torah on Mt. Sinai, they overslept. We now can rectify the tendency to give in to our desires by demonstrating our resolve through learning the whole night. It is a meaningful experience to share with your chil-dren. It would be wonderful if you could fi nd a synagogue, JCC or yeshiva with a program that night; at very minimum, how about reading the story of the giving of the Torah to your family (Exodus 19:10 -20:23).

Chag SameachRabbi Kalman Packouz

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The Aussie Gourmet The Aussie Gourmet Recipe

CREAMY FRUIT BLINTZES

I have so many memories of walking into my

grandparent’s apartment and smelling the cheese blintzes my Bubby used to make. She made the most delicious crepes and she would fi ll them with an amazing cheese fi lling. She always used to garnish them with strawberries. I took her idea and rolled them

into one. I put the fruit straight into the cheese mixture. It was a winning combo. I have used fresh strawberries, blueberries, even diced-up peaches. Another of my favorite crepe combos is to fi ll the crepe with some ground almonds and raspberry jam, then serve them with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream.

The crepe batter is very versatile. It’s not sweet, so you can make chicken, potato and/or mushroom blintzes with it too. Don’t leave out the step of letting the batter rest for at least 15 minutes. This helps make the gluten stretch - making for a better batter. Another helpful hint: buy a crepe pan and only use it for crepes to prevent scratching the surface area and ruining the crepes. I wash mine with warm water and soap and rub it with my fi ngertips.

Naomi Nachman moved from Australia approximately 19 years ago and, in 2004, started “The Aussie Gourmet.” She can be reached at [email protected].

METHOD: 1. Mix in a food processor and let stand for 15 minutes2. Pour approximately1/4 cup crepe batter in a 9-inchh

crepe pan swirling with your wrist to cover the surface area of pan and cook until set.

3. Flip out of pan onto a plate. 4. Repeat until the entire batter is fi nished.

• 3 eggs• 1-cup fl our• 11/2 cups water• 1-teaspoon oil• ½ salt

INGREDIENTS:

1. BLINTZES

2. FILLING

• 1 egg yolk • 2 tablespoons sugar • 1 (8-ounce) package cream

cheese, softened • 2 cups (12-ounce carton) dry or

creamed cottage cheese • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract• Strawberry, blueberry or fruit

of choice

METHOD:1. In the bowl of an electric mixer combine egg yolk and sugar; beat until thickkk

and yellow. Add cream cheese, cottage cheese and vanilla extract; mix well.Refrigerate until ready to use.

2.Spread 3 tablespoons of fi lling on browned side of each blintz. Add in somee fruit of choice on top of cheese mixture. Fold two sides in over fi lling, andd roll up from bottom, overlapping edges and covering fi lling completely.

INGREDIENTS:

FISH QUESADILLAS

MMETHOD: 1. In a small bowl mix garlic powder and cumin.22. Sprinkle some spice mixture on the fi sh and sear on a grill pan for a fewww

minutes on each side until cooked through. Fish may break apart butt that is okay.

33. On a tortilla spread salsa to cover the whole surface. Take a handful offf ffcheese and spread over the salsa. Place fi sh over the cheese then coverrr with another plain tortilla.

44. Melt some butter on a sauté pan. Once butter has melted place tortillaa on it and cook for a few minutes on each side and the cheese has melted.

5. Slice into wedges like a pizza. Serve with guacamole or salsa.

• 1 pkg fl our or corn tortilla• 1 jar salsa• 1 8oz pkg shredded mozza-

rella cheese

• 2 pounds fl ounder• 1 tablespoon Cumin powder • 1 tablespoon Garlic powder• Butter

INGREDIENTS:

A quesadilla is a fl our or corn tortilla fi lled with a savory mixture containing cheese and other ingredients, and then folded in half to form a half-moon shape. It is a dish that originated in Mexico.

The word quesadilla derives from the Spanish word queso, meaning cheese. Once the quesadilla is cooked, it is traditionally cut into slices, or wedges.

Any time you can get the kids to eat some fi sh it is always a good thing, as children are generally apprehensive about eating fi sh products. This recipe is great as it is a fun dish to create and the children have input in its creation. Each child can tell you what they want to put in their quesa-dilla. You can give them (or your hubby) options for what to put inside. I put out a variety of bowls containing sautéed mushrooms, peppers, slices of avocado, corn, black beans, sliced tomatoes, and the grilled fi sh, and each person gets to pick from these fi llings what they want in their own quesadilla.

As a low fat option, you can use a roll-up wrap and use a panini-maker to toast it up.

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JUNE 2, 2011HOMEMAKING TIPS

1. Treat your fl owers well. Take care of your fl owers by cutting them at a 45 degree angle and removing all leaves below the water line. This eliminates the growth of bacte-ria and helps water get absorbed into the stem. Re-cut and change the water in the vase every 2 days. This is the simplest way to ensure that your fl owers will actually last!

2. Foliage is your friend. It is simply a myth that leaves and foliage will make your ar-rangement look cheap. Adding different foliage gives your arrangement depth, color and dimension and will give it a lush look. Plus it will make your arrangement larger without having to add expensive fl owers.

3. Use appropriate vases. If you want to highlight one or two fl owers, simply put the fl owers in a vase with a narrow opening. Even if the vase is large, the arrangement will look proportionate because the neck of the vase is narrow. This way the fl owers will be appropriate for the vase.

4. Cluster your fl owers. Even inexpensive fl owers look good when they are packed tightly and condensed. Flowers such as carnations look amazing when they are kept to one or two colors and arranged into a tight arrangement.

5. Look at what’s around you. It is spring! A fl ower lover’s favorite season. Cut down some branches from your backyard. Lilacs, tulips, and hydrangeas grow in abundance! Use what you have; you will be surprised what you can fi nd!

6. Think beyond the vase. Anything that can hold water is a vase! Use things like teacups, Perrier bottles, jam jars, tea tins, etc. If something strikes your eye that is not waterproof you can always line it with a container that is waterproof thus creating an instant vase.

7. Tie up loose ends. ALWAYS tie your fl owers before you place them into a vase. This ensures that the shape that you create for them actually stays. You can tie the stems with a product call bindwire, which is a favorite of mine, or fl oral tape, wire or rubber bands. If your vase is clear, you can conceal your tied up stems by wrapping a large leaf around the inside of the vase.

8. Add fruit and vegetables. This is a tip that the pros know well! Food and fl owers are a natural combo. Accent your arrangements with fruit or vegetables that speak to you. Simply attach the fruit to a skewer or stick and include it in your arrange-ment. I recommend using mini pears, clementines, grapes, limes and lemons, mini artichokes and baby eggplant. Herbs like mint and rosemary will make your arrangement beautiful and smell delicious too!

9. Give it a lift. If you fi nd that your stems are too short for a tall vase, fear not! Simply add decorative rocks or marbles to the bot-tom of the vase to add height.

10. Ignore the rules. Have fun! Let your imagi-nation guide you, use whatever inspires you in your ar-rangements, and let nature be your guide.

It is no coincidence that Shavuos is the absolute best season for fl owers. All the fl owers are lush and blooming during this chag. So fl ower lovers, enjoy the holiday – this one’s for you!

Originally educated in the interior design industry, Shiri Feldman has a keen understanding of color, texture, and proportion that she likes to entz with her passion for artistic fl oral design. Shiri can be reached at [email protected]

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the tribe of Yehudah. As economic times in Israel were hard and getting harder he was approached by many impoverished people for support. By moving out of Israel to Moav he avoided his duty to support the poor. As a result his fortunes dwindled. After he died his sons did not return to Israel either so they too witnessed the loss of the rest of the family wealth and died. Naomi recognized this so after the death of her two sons she returned to Israel impover-ished together with Ruth. We see that Elimelech’s fi nancial plan served his short term goals but miserably failed his long term goals.

The story then turns to Ruth gleaming in the fi elds of Boaz. Boaz was a cousin of Elimelech who was also a leader in the tribe. He may have been the judge who was the actual leader of the generation. We see that he remained in Israel follow-ing all the rules for tithing and leaving portions for the poor. He even told his fi eld workers to pull some of the harvest out to let Ruth take and not to embarrass her. When he walked past the people they blessed him in the name of Hashem. It appears that his harvest was now abundant because he followed the Torah as his guideline. He was rewarded with inheriting all that belonged to Elimelech and his sons, including his marriage to Ruth and his lineage to the kingship of David. Clearly Boaz’s fi nancial plan was greatly successful.

Giving charity should be done as part of a fi nancial plan including an ac-counting to assure that at least tithing is given. As we see from the book of Ruth it is not something to be taken lightly. You should do the calculation and you should catch up if you are behind. The opportunity to use Yizkor to catch up is one of many options available for your charitable giving. If you have any ques-tions you should consult your tax and/or fi nancial advisor. All of the fi nancial professionals I know in South Florida would welcome the opportunity to discuss this. I would be happy to meet and discuss this on a professional level. Please call me and leave a message if you wish to make an appointment at (954) 829-8611.

Chag Sameach.This article is intended to discuss current tax issues and should

not be relied upon as personal tax advice. You should consult your qualifi ed tax advisor to discuss your personal tax situation.

Gerald L. Mayerhoff, CPA, PFS practices tax and accounting in Hollywood, FL fo-cusing on taxation of individuals, trusts, estates and closely held businesses. He is a Certifi ed Public Accountant in the states of Florida and New York, holds the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) designation from the American Institute of Certifi ed Public Accountants and a Master’s of Science in Taxation from Pace University. He can be reached at [email protected] or (954) 829-8611.

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