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Dear Readers,

In our feature story this week, one staff director we spoke with said that no matter how camps have changed from years ago, “It’s still four weeks of utopia – you and the stars and the sky. The stars haven’t changed in all these years.”

I have many memories of camp, having spent eleven summers of my life there. And it’s true: the vast sky with its myriad stars twinkling over-head is something that you can never experience in the city. You get to re-ally connect with nature as you head down dirt paths and hike through the woods. I shared my Kits Kats with bears and raccoons and lived in a tent for three weeks. I can’t count the times I paddled down the Delaware River—nine times in just one sum-mer—and ate marshmallow fluff for days on end. Ahhh, those were the most wonderful experiences—expe-riences that you just can’t duplicate in the city.

Growing up, my parents and

grandparents would preface many comments with the words, “In my days, life was different…” Well, I have to say that camp is very differ-ent than what it used to be. No lon-ger are campers writing home every day and hoping for a package from home (maybe) once a month. Chil-dren are living in luxury; there’s air conditioning, freshly baked cookies, zip lines, heated pools, and trips to exotic and exciting places. Despite the many differences, the friendships they form and the freedom they feel is the same. I know that once my children get older, I will be just as excited for them as they will be as they head onto those buses.

This week, the UN came out with its report on war crimes in last sum-mer’s war in Gaza. When it comes to the UN, we know what to expect. Expect something truly slanted, something that overlooks some facts, highlights others, and then comes to a lopsided conclusion. And because we know what to expect from this international organization, it’s not

too surprising when they come out with certain determinations.

As I was reading excerpts from the report last night, I actually laughed out loud. Consider: the UN is criticizing Israel for firing warn-ing shots to warn civilians to evacu-ate buildings prior to bombings and yet they say that when Hamas makes threats that it will demolish Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport that is con-sidered sufficient warning for any rockets they will fire. The bias on their conclusions is so glaring that it’s hard to believe that anyone will actually take their conclusions at face value. The truth is, though, that Isra-el has many enemies and its friends are few and far between. This report just adds fuel to the embers that our adversaries are constantly fanning. Those who despise us will believe the deceit; our friends, though, will see the commission for what it is: yet another report by the UN not worth the paper it’s printed on.Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana

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OpEd: A Guide to the Perplexed by Larry Domnitch and Lynne Bursky Tammam 64

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Solution Focused Counseling by Morton Kramer 87

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The Aussie Gourmet: Fried Goat Cheese Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette 78

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Letters to the EditorDear Forgetful in the Five Towns,

Thank you for your letter about my last article. I would answer it, if only I could remember what it said. Of course I wouldn’t need to remember what it said if I could find it, but of course that is highly unlikely, not to be confused with Haile Selassie.

But since you said you wanted to put “all funniness aside,” I will give you a piece of genuine advice I received from my friend/neurologist Dr. Irving, when I was concerned about my own mar-bles and Legos and blocks, oh my! He suggested I take up crossword puzzles, which I did. I’ve been doing them for about three or four years now, and al-though I can’t say definitively whether or not they’ve improved my brain function, I do find them relaxing and enjoyable and a lot more fun than getting married.

Hope I’ve helped.Best,Rocky Zweig

Dear Editor,There’s been a much contested debate

in recent years about raising the mini-mum wage, and especially in the past few months. There is probably no greater eco-nomic fallacy than this, usually backed by special interest groups or labor unions. The minimum wage was introduced not as income, something to live on—rath-er as the means for low-skilled workers to advance in their respective fields in consonance with the value of their pro-duction; to gain on-the-job experience. Increased productivity equals increased wages. If their productivity more than exceeds their wages, then they are valu-able workers, and if not, they will be dis-charged.

A mandatory wage hike—as opposed

to one facilitated by the free market—ac-tually hurts the very people it was pur-portedly meant to help. President Obama has proposed a $10.10 an hour wage hike, which means that any worker worth less than that amount will automatically be un-employed. Currently, most working peo-ple don’t earn a minimum wage. Among the minority who do are young people. So who or what protects the worker? In other words, how else do wages increase if not for a mandatory increase? It is through the free market, where there is more than 1 possible employer. Competition in the free market (though imperfect) between employers provides workers with higher wages because employers compete for their services and productivity. But where competition is stifled and monopolies are the rule, and with an artificial wage hike, high skilled workers and workers of la-bor unions benefit at the expense of ev-eryone else. Succinctly put, it is the Law of Demand: when the price of a good or service—such as of workers—increases, the quantity of demand decreases. And African-Americans are hurt by this law the most. As the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman states in his book Free to Choose: A Personal State-ment, “We regard the minimum wage rate as one of the most, if not the most, an-ti-black laws on the statute books.” And a recent Census Bureau report has con-firmed that if the president’s wage hike is realized, somewhere between 500,000 to 1 million jobs will be destroyed.

If we want to be serious about help-ing these workers, we must create a so-ciety conducive to economic growth—a society based on free market principles, or abolish the minimum wage altogether.Best,Rafi Metz

Dear Editor,I was given a copy of your paper this

past weekend because it contained a few pictures of my mother-in-law as well as my grandsons. It was for the “Names not Numbers” program held at HALB. Al-though I appreciated seeing the pictures, I was very disappointed to see that there was no written article about the event. You noted to check pg 43 and sure enough there were a few more pictures. However, I feel that describing what the program was about would have been appropriate. Besides, it might have been nice to men-tion the names of the Holocaust survivors who gave their time to this wonderful project. They do deserve recognition. After all they do have names and are not just a number (ie.pg 43.) I don’t mean to be harsh, but as a child of Holocaust sur-vivors who are no longer alive, I am so appreciative of the projects that are out there for the future generations to contin-ue to “never forget.”Leah Kaye Dear Editor,

Albany has gone to the dogs! The State Legislature under the leadership of Republican State Senate majority leader John Flanagan and Democratic State

Dear Editor,Assembly Speaker Carl Heast-

ie passed and Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation allowing dog owners to have their pets join them to dine alfresco, outside of local restaurants. They also had time to pass several hundred other bills within hours with no time for either debate or actually reading the content contained in the details. Yet both the gov-ernor and state legislature could not solve the issue of finding funding to resolve the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $14.1 billion shortfall in the proposed MTA $32 billion 2015 - 2019 Five Year Capital Plan.

It is time for voters to put both mem-bers of the state legislature and Gover-nor Cuomo on a leash! Tie them to their chairs in the legislative chamber, feed them dog food, no bathroom runs, and make them sit and stay until they deal with real issues of the day.Sincerely,Larry Penner

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Please note: The article, “Housing Reform and its Impact on Overseas Buyers” by Gedaliah Borvick published in last week’s issue, mistakenly stated the new acquisi-tion tax rate as 8% for the first 1,000,000 NIS, then rising to 10%. The new acquisi-tion tax rate for “investment properties” actually starts at 8% for the first 4,800,000 NIS, and then rises to 10%. We regret the error.

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GlobalMega-rich Trend on the Rise

Wishing you were a millionaire? Well, for nearly a million people that wish came true this past year. Accord-ing to a new report, the number of peo-ple worth $1 million or more rose by 920,000 last year, hitting a record 14.6 million. It was the sixth straight year-over-year increase as rising stock prices lifted the value of personal wealth in a few key countries, according to a report from consultant Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management.

More than a third of new million-aires — 345,000 — were in the U.S. The amount of wealth held by millionaires globally — $56 trillion — was also the highest ever. The wealthiest million-aires — those worth $30 million or more — represented only 1 percent of total millionaires, but held 35 percent of the wealth.

A notable addition this year was how the surging Indian stock market helped drive up the number of Indian million-aires 26 percent, the biggest percentage jump among major countries. That coun-try had a total of 198,000 millionaires and is fast closing in on Italy. There were 219,000 Italian millionaires last year.

The U.S. is home to 4.4 million mil-lionaires, the most in the world. Japan ranks second with 2.5 million of them, followed by Germany, with 1.1 million. China, the world’s second-biggest econ-omy, ranks fourth. It has 890,000 mil-lionaires.

N. Korea Has Found the Cure

Thank G-d for North Korea; they will save us all. This week, the country’s of-ficial Korean Central News Agency an-nounced that scientists there developed a vaccine, known as Kumdang-2, that will cure Middle East Respiratory Syn-drome (MERS), the deadly disease that is affecting many in the region, and other

diseases such as Ebola, AIDS, and can-cer. The new drug is made from ginseng and grown from fertilizer mixed with ra-re-earth elements.

South Korea reported its 24th death from the deadly respiratory disease MERS on Friday, as well as a new case, bringing the total confirmed number of cases to 166 this year. Thailand an-nounced its first case of the disease in a man who was diagnosed after he traveled to Thailand from a Middle Eastern coun-try, and it was also detected in Germany earlier this week.

The miraculous new “vaccine” has its own rather jumbled website (available in both Russian and English) which comes loaded with information and “clinical” evidence. Apparently using “the opin-ions of millions of patients,” scientists concluded that the vaccine is “highly effective in preventing and curing the MERS virus and other contagious dis-eases,” the website says.

The website goes on to claim that Kumdang-2 can also be used to treat di-abetes, drug addiction, bird flu, AIDS, heart disease, the common cold, “harm from use of computers,” insomnia, epi-lepsy, cystitis, all forms of hepatitis, tu-berculosis, and various cancers as well as offering “resistance to aging” and “an-ti-radioactive.”

The site claims that the vaccine works by tackling “malicious virus infections” such as SARS, Ebola and MERS which are “related to immune systems, so they can be easily treated by Kumdang-2 in-jection drug, which is a strong immune reviver.”

North Korean citizens are forbidden from traveling out of the country. Even so, the website also states that patients treated with Kumdang-2 “had not con-tracted any infectious diseases, even as they had traveled to the areas hit by those diseases.”

This is not the first time that North Korea has made profound, amazing, hard-to-believe discoveries. In 2013, North Korea told its citizens that archae-ologists from the Academy of Social Sci-ences at North Korea’s History Institute

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in Pyongyang had found proof that uni-corns exist, after discovering a unicorn’s lair.

The government has also claimed that leader Kim Jong-un learned to drive when he was three, and that his father, Kim Jong-Il, was born on Korea’s most sacred mountain as the seasons changed from winter to spring, when Soviet re-cords actually show he was born in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye.

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“Camp Kill Jews” Changes its Name

It’s been many years in the making, but this week, the tiny Spanish village of Castrillo Matajudios — which means

“Camp Kill Jews” — officially changed its name back to Castrillo Mota de Judios (“Jews’ Hill Camp”) following a referen-dum and regional government approval.

The village, with about 50 inhabi-tants, voted to change the name in 2014 after Mayor Lorenzo Rodriguez argued that the term was offensive and that the village should honor its Jewish origins. Documents show the villages’ original name was “Jews’ Hill Camp” and that the “Kill Jews” name dates from 1627, after a 1492 Spanish edict ordering Jews to become Catholics or flee the country. Those who remained faced the Spanish Inquisition, with many burned at the stake.

The name change was approved by the regional government of Castilla y Leon and published in the region’s offi-cial gazette on Monday.

Although Jews were killed in the area, researchers believe the village got its recent name from Jewish residents who converted to Catholicism and want-ed to reinforce their repudiation of Juda-ism to convince Spanish authorities of their loyalty. Others suspect the change may have come from a slip of the pen.

Although no Jews live in the village today, many residents have ancient Jew-ish roots and the town’s official shield in-cludes the Star of David. The mayor also announced last year plans to open a study center on Sephardic Jewish culture.

Mexico Picking up the Immigration Slack

In a surprising reversal from just one year ago, Mexico now deports more Central American immigrants than the United States. The change has come af-

ter the U.S. asked Mexico for help a year ago with a spike in illegal migration, es-pecially among unaccompanied minors. Between October and April, Mexico ap-prehended 92,889 Central Americans. In the same time period, the United States detained 70,226 “other than Mexican” migrants, the vast majority from Guate-mala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Those numbers show a huge reversal from the same period a year earlier, when the wave of migrants and unaccompa-nied minors from Central America was building. From October 2013 to April 2014, the United States apprehended 159,103 “other than Mexicans,” three times the 49,893 Central Americans de-tained by Mexico.

The difference is Mexico’s new Southern Border Program, an initiative that includes sending 5,000 federal po-lice to the border with Guatemala and implementing more border and highway checkpoints. Raids on migrants have in-creased and authorities are focused on keeping migrants off the northbound freight train known as “the Beast,” on which many have suffered mutilation in-juries. In the past, Mexican migration of-ficials looked the other way as thousands rafted across the river at the border and

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then boarded freight trains north.In 2014, more than 46,000 unaccom-

panied minors from Central America crossed into the United States, leading the U.S. government to turn to the gov-ernments in Mexico and Central Amer-ica to try to staunch the flow. Mexico has proved the more efficient in deporta-tions, which is already causing concerns among human rights groups about its new tactics. In most cases, Mexico holds migrants only long enough to verify their nationalities and quickly bundles them aboard buses to take them back to their home countries. “The time that foreign-ers are in immigration [detention] centers depends only on the speed with which the authorities of their [home] countries confirm their nationality,” Mexico’s Na-tional Immigration Institute said.

By contrast, when immigrants are caught crossing the U.S. border illegal-ly, the process of being sent home can take anywhere from hours to years. Mexican nationals are often repatriated quickly — sometimes the same day they are caught — while migrants from other countries often spend at least a few days in U.S. custody before being flown back to their country of origin. The deporta-tion process can take much longer if an

immigrant seeks asylum or if the person is a child traveling alone. For those im-migrants who fight to stay in the United States, the wait for a court date and a fi-nal decision on their case can take sever-al years because of backlog of more than 449,000 cases already pending in immi-gration courts.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, there were about 41,920 requests for asylum in 2014, not all from Central Americans. About 49 percent of requests processed that year were granted.

Canada Passes Ban on Barbaric Practices

Canada has officially banned “bar-baric cultural practices.” The law was completed and approved and went into effect on Thursday. It was passed onto the Senate on November 5, 2014 under the name “Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act” with the goal of providing better protection for immi-grants deemed at greater risk of physical injury, primarily women and girls who had immigrated to Canada.

As a result of this legislation, immi-grants married to more than one wife or who were convicted of crimes against women in their home countries will not be allowed to emigrate to Canadian soil. Individuals currently in the country can potentially be extradited to their home countries even without a previous con-viction if found guilty of bigamy, the law stated.

Civil marriage shall be determined by law, it added, and second marriages shall be considered valid only with the free consent of both spouses in the event of remarriage after a civil divorce. The laws also specifies clearly that 16 is the minimum age for marriage and that the marriage of any two citizens between the

ages of 16-18 can only be finalized with parental consent from both sides.

This legislation brings an end to ar-ranged or forced marriages; they are now deemed a criminal unlawful act. All par-ties – including parents, any religious of-ficials, and any other authority involved in the union – could now be tried, con-victed, and sentenced to up to 5 years’ prison time. This part of the law extends to the ban of taking a child under 16 to a foreign nation for the purpose of forced marriage.

“Despite the best efforts and inten-tions, the reality is that women migrants could cope with violence and abuse,” Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Chris Alexander stated on Thursday.

“Through the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, we con-vey a firm message to those in Canada and those who want to come to Canada that we cannot allow a cultural tradition which deprives people of their rights.”

Update on Flight MH17One year after the fatal crash of Ma-

laysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine,

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a whistleblower has come forward with information. According to a German in-vestigator following the crash, the infor-mation makes the source eligible for a reward of $47 million.

While Western powers have strong-ly claimed that pro-Russian forces shot down the flight with a BUK surface-to-air missile, there has not been any con-clusive evidence to support that. Accord-ing to the Kremlin, it was the Ukrainian military that shot down the Boeing pas-senger jet carrying 298 people.

Now it has been confirmed through an anonymous source that pro-Russian forces had shot Flight MH17 with a mis-sile in Ukraine. It was also reported that the source told the German investiga-tor that the separatists had mistaken the flight for a military aircraft.

Josef Resch, head of Wifka, the com-pany investigating the crash, has refused to name his source. Nor has he revealed the exact information the source provid-ed. According to the German private in-vestigator, a mysterious client hired him in 2014 to find out the truth behind the crash.

The flight crashed in July 2014 and killed all 298 people onboard.

Contaminated Alcohol Leads to Tens of Deaths

The death toll from India’s latest in-cident of mass alcohol poisoning follow-ing the consumption of toxic homemade liquor rose to 102 late on Monday, Mum-bai police said. Authorities are preparing for the number of fatalities to increase.

The first victims began feeling sick on Wednesday morning after consuming the illegal booze.

Authorities are investigating the distribution of the illegal, fatal alcohol. Seven people have been arrested so far

for distributing and selling the alcohol in a slum in the suburb of Malad West, in the north of the city. Two of those were women. Eight police officers have also been suspended for “negligence” for al-lowing the sale to take place in their ter-ritory.

Investigators are analyzing whether high levels of methanol were present in the moonshine, often called “country li-quor” in India. Methanol is a highly tox-ic form of alcohol used as anti-freeze or fuel and is often added to bootleg liquor in India as a cheap and quick method of upping the alcohol content.

It is not uncommon to buy and sell unlicensed liquor in India; illegal alcohol is sold for less than a dollar for a 25cl bottle. However, in big cities like Mum-bai, fatalities due to consumption of il-legal alcohol are rare. Generally these kinds of tragedies happen in poor, rural villages. The last time such an incident occurred in Mumbai was in 2004, when around 100 people died.

Extreme Muslim Numbers Climbing in Europe

Salafism, an Islamic movement based on a literal reading of the Quran, is on the rise in France, Germany and Britain, security officials say, with Salaf-is sharply increasing their influence in mosques and on the streets. The trend worries European authorities, who see Salafism as one of the inspirational forc-es for young Europeans heading to Syria or Iraq to do battle for the Islamic State group. Experts, however, insist that the vast majority of Salafis are peace-loving.

In Germany, there are currently about 7,000 Salafis in the country — nearly double the 3,800 estimated four years ago, the Interior Ministry said last month. About 100 French mosques are now con-trolled by Salafis, a small number com-pared to the more than 2,000 Muslim houses of worship, but more than double the number four years ago.

In Britain the numbers are on the rise, too. Seven percent of Britain’s 1,740

mosques are run by Salafis, according to Mahmood Naqshbandi, an expert on Britain’s Muslims and counter-extrem-ism adviser to the British government who keeps a database of the various cur-rents of Islam in Britain. He says those numbers are steadily growing, especially among young people — and that a quar-ter to half of British Muslims under 30 “accept some parts or all of the Salafi theology.”

Despite the rising numbers and pres-ence, the internet is largely seen as the main route for youth to quickly radical-ize. But radicalization can be cultivated in places where Muslims socialize, like mosques. And there, said a French secu-rity official, it is Salafis who are consid-ered the principal purveyors of radical ideology. Experts say Salafis in France have been waging a campaign of stealth to take over mosques. First they devel-op a following and then begin criticizing the imam in order to win control over the faithful.

Those who practice Salafism — which comes from the word “salafs,” or ancestors — seek to emulate the Is-lam of the prophet Muhammad and his early followers, which they consider the purest form of the religion. Salaf-is, who are Sunni Muslims, are easi-ly identifiable. Men wear beards and robes above the ankle and women often cover their faces.

Secret Saudi Docs Leaked

The infamous WikiLeaks website has released over 60,000 documents that appear to have come from Saudi govern-ment servers. The release is only the first batch of what the transparency group says will be a much larger release. Even so, they’ve already provided an unusual level of insight into day-to-day Saudi di-plomacy — giving a snapshot of the lav-ish spending habits of senior royals and the political intrigue percolating across the Middle East.

Although authentication of all the documents is an overwhelming chal-lenge, the organization has a long track record of hosting large leaks of govern-ment material, and in a statement, the Saudi government acknowledged its

diplomatic servers had been penetrated ahead of the mass disclosure. Many of the documents appear aimed at tracking Iranian activity across the region or un-dermining Tehran’s interests. An undated memo apparently sent from the Saudi Embassy in Tehran made note of what it called the “frustration of the Iranian citizen and his strong desire for regime change” and suggested ways to publicly expose Iran’s social grievances through “the Internet, social media like Facebook and Twitter.”

Saudis also kept a watchful eye on Iran’s friends, real or perceived. One 2012 memo warned that Iran was getting “flirting American messages” suggesting that the U.S. had no objections to a peace-ful Iranian nuclear program so long as it had guarantees, “possibly Russian ones.” Another memo, dated to 2012, accus-es the United Arab Emirates of helping Russia and Iran circumvent international sanctions. A third memo — marked “top secret” — alleges that Iranian fighter jets bombed South Sudanese forces during a 2012 standoff over the oil-rich area of Heglig.

The memo grabbing the most head-lines concerns a 2009 invoice that was found for an unpaid limousine bill racked up by Princess Maha Al Ibrahim, whom Saudi media identify as the wife of senior Saudi royal Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The invoice, from Geneva-based Golden Limousine Ser-vices and addressed to the Saudi mission there, says the princess skipped town af-ter failing to pay a first installment of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.4 million at the time) owed to the company and her hotel. When the bill was brought to her atten-tion, “she declared that the amount was too high” and asked diplomats to handle the negotiations over the payment.

IsraelAnti-Cyberbullying App Developed

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net dangers, an Israeli nonprofit called Red Button has produced the world’s first app that lets anyone, especially kids, easily report negative web behav-ior. The company’s objective is to force sites to remove or ban users engaged in negative behavior, and, where possible, to track them down and make them own up to their deeds.

The Red Button app installs itself as a service on Android devices, and there

is also an add-on version for popular web browsers like Firefox and Chrome. If an individual comes across something or someone they are uncomfortable with – such as a person who is cursing, threatening, intimidating, or inappro-priately discussing personal issues – all they have to do is press a button to be-gin a process that can lead to taking the offending site down or arresting the of-fending individual.

The data gathered by the app – web and IP address, site ownership, identi-fying information of the offending indi-vidual – is forwarded to a group of vol-unteers at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), who collate the infor-mation and file complaints with the ap-propriate sites and/or authorities. Those can include website owners, ISPs, inter-net associations, and even police. Cur-rently the app works only in Israel, but

Red Button is working to develop part-nerships with volunteer groups in other countries to administer reports for users there, as well.

Cyberbullying – the hounding of web users by individuals or groups – has been a major news story in recent years, the result of numerous incidents in which kids who violated the social morés of their peer group were target-ed, with tragic results. The problem

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It was just a year ago when Israel was embroiled in the war in Gaza, destroying tunnels dug by Hamas and heading into booby-trapped homes in search of artil-lery and bombs.

On Monday, the UN Human Rights Council came out with their report on the war last summer. It was expected that the UNHRC will hold a bias against Is-rael; clearly that has been their practice in the past. The Jewish state said it would study the report but rejected the “morally flawed” mandate given to the UNHRC to investigate the war.

There were no true surprises in the published commission. Israel was held mostly to blame, it was reported that Palestinian children were killed during the conflict and that Hamas lobbed thou-sands of rockets at Israeli cities. What was not included in the report, though, was the fact that Israel did not initiate the war and from almost the beginning endeavored to put an end to the fight-ing. Hamas, on the other hand, persisted with the agitation and continued to throw rockets from within residential areas. The sizeable death toll could have been prevented—and Hamas is very much to blame for those many deaths. Even so, perhaps the terror organization is smiling now. Once again, the world is condemn-ing Israel. The body count was well worth it.

“It is regrettable that the report fails to recognize the profound difference between Israel’s moral behavior during Operation Protective Edge and the terror organizations it confronted,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “This re-port was commissioned by a notorious-ly biased institution, given an obviously biased mandate, and initially headed by a grossly biased chairperson, William Schabas,” the statement said, noting the UNHRC’s unforgiving treatment — in relation to major human rights offenders Iran, North Korea and others — of Isra-el’s alleged offenses.

Schabas, the Canadian Jewish pro-fessor who initially headed the HRC pan-

el, resigned in February amid charges by Israel of bias and was replaced by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis.

“Israel is a democracy committed to the rule of law, forced to defend itself against Palestinian terrorists who com-mit a double war crime: They indiscrimi-nately target Israeli civilians while delib-erately endangering Palestinian civilians, including children, by using them as hu-man shields,” the Israeli statement point-ed out.

Last week, Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu predicted that the report would be “a waste of time” and derided the commission of inquiry into the war, calling it an attempt “to blacken [the name] of the State of Israel.”

In the report released on Monday, blame was placed on both parties but as was expected, Israel was said to be more at fault. In fact, in terms of fatalities, the UNHRC accepted the Palestinian death count, which has Israel killing 1,462 ci-vilians out of a total of 2,251 Palestinians who died — a 65 percent ratio. Israel’s internal report, released last week, found that only 56% of the dead were civilians, a figure that supports Israel’s stated em-phasis on proportionality and discern-ment during war.

Additionally, the UN report found that there is “little or no information available to explain why residential buildings, which are prima facie civil-ian objects immune from attack, were considered to be legitimate military ob-jectives” and ruled that “the onus is on Israel” to explain its methods. Israel has in the past pointed out that Hamas oper-atives had hidden in buildings during the conflict and that residents were told to evacuate during the fighting.

Even so, the roof-knocking tech-nique, in which Israel fired warning rounds on some occasions ahead of an attack to warn civilians to evacuate their building, “cannot be considered an ef-fective warning given the confusion they often cause to building residents and the short time allowed to evacuate before the

actual strike,” the re-port said. According to the report, at least 142 families lost three or more members in an attack on residential buildings during last summer’s war, result-ing in 742 deaths.

“The fact that Is-rael did not revise its practice of airstrikes, even after their dire effects on civilians became apparent, raises questions of whether this was part of a broader policy which was at least tacitly approved at the highest level of government,” the com-mission said in a statement.

They didn’t limit their criticism to actions during the war. The commission also voiced concern that a sense of “im-punity prevails across the board for vio-lations … allegedly committed by Israeli forces, whether it be in the context of ac-tive hostilities in Gaza or killings, torture and ill-treatment in the West Bank.”

The report cited a recorded incident in which Salem Shamaly was killed while searching for a lost relative. “Directing attacks against civilians constitutes a vi-olation of the principle of distinction and may amount to a war crime,” the report said. “These acts may also constitute willful killings.”

In terms of Palestinian responsibility during the 50 days of conflict last sum-mer, the report found that the “indis-criminate” targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinian rockets “may amount to a war crime.”

“The hostilities also caused immense distress and disruption to the lives of ci-vilians in Israel,” the commission’s state-ment pointed out. “Witnesses living near Gaza spoke of being disturbed by seeing the bombing from their sitting room win-dows but also struggled to reach shelters in time with their children when the si-rens alerted them to incoming attacks. The indiscriminate firing of thousands of rockets and mortars at Israel appeared

to have the intention of spreading terror among civilians there.

In terms of warnings from Hamas of upcoming attacks, the report said that threats made by Hamas to target Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport were considered to be concrete warnings to Israeli civil-ians.

“In addition, the Israeli military dis-covered 14 tunnels extending from Gaza into Israel that were used to attack their soldiers during this period,” the state-ment said. “The idea of the tunnels trau-matized Israeli civilians who feared they could be attacked at any moment by gun-men bursting out of the ground.”

Why had Hamas spent thousands of dollars digging these extensive tunnels? The report said that the probe “cannot conclusively determine the intent of Pal-estinian armed groups with regard to the construction and use of these tunnels. However, the commission observes that during the period under examination, the tunnels were only used to conduct at-tacks directed at IDF positions in Israel in the vicinity of the Green Line, which are legitimate military targets.”

When Hamas executed 21 Palestin-ians accused of serving as Israeli col-laborators, the commission writes that that “constitute[d] a violation of article 3 common to the 1949 Geneva Con-ventions, and therefore amount to a war crime.”

No surprises, extreme bias. It’s good to know that the UN is staying true to its mission.

No Surprises, Extreme Bias in UNHRC Gaza War Crimes Report

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In Israel – with statistics that Red Button says are similar to those found elsewhere – 45% of web users aged 10-17 say that they are victims of online abuse of some sort; only 20% of them report it to anyone. The group said it had received nearly 7,500 reports of online verbal violence in 2014, about one-third of them on Facebook.

Druze Protesters Attack Ambulance Carrying Wounded Syrian Rebels

On Monday, 150 Druze protesters attacked and hurled stones at a military ambulance transporting wounded Syri-ans in the Golan Heights. One of the Syr-ians was killed in the melee, the second time such an event occurred in 24 hours.

Two IDF soldiers who were also in the ambulance, one of them an army doctor, were lightly hurt in the attack. Both Syrians in the ambulance were in serious condition when arriving in Israel. After the attack, both rebels were in crit-ical condition, one of them succumbing to his wounds on the way to the hospital. The two soldiers were taken to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, while the Syr-

ians were airlifted to the Ramban Medi-cal Center in Haifa.

The ambulance, accompanied by a Military Police patrol car, was making its way to Kiryat Shmona when it encoun-tered the Druze protesters near Majdal Shams, where they hurled stones at it. The ambulance managed to escape, and protesters chased it to Neve Ativ. The Druze protesters were threatening that they would not allow Syrian wounded into Israel for treatment. They called for a protest outside the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya where other wound-ed Syrians are hospitalized.

Pro-Assad TV channels in Syria that reported on the attack called the Druze protesters “our heroic countrymen.”

A report on the Syrian government’s official news agency SANA said that “two terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra were killed after the heroes of the oc-cupied Golan blocked and attacked a Zionist ambulance transporting [the wounded] to one of the Israeli enemy’s hospitals for treatment.”

An IDF official denied that the wounded rebels were members of the Is-lamist organization Jabhat al-Nusra.

The spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, strongly condemned the incident, saying, “This is not our way, and we are hurting over the criminal act done by lawbreakers, and call on authorities to act.”

Members of the Druze communi-ty criticized the IDF for failing to learn

from a similar incident early Monday morning and chose to once again go through Druze villages with the military ambulance without taking the proper se-curity measures.

Following the two attacks, the IDF will increase security over dozens of wounded Syrians currently hospitalized in Israeli hospitals out of concern they will also be attacked by Druze protesters.

In the last few weeks, following ten-sions in Syria between the rebels and Druze residents, security was beefed up at the hospital by the police. On Saturday night, a demonstration by Druze citizens protesting the continuing treatment of wounded rebels was broken up.

PLO Official: Retract Recognition of Israel

In the most recent move by the PLO, official Saeb Erekat is calling on the Pal-estinian leadership to consider retracting its recognition of Israel until the Jewish state agrees to recognize a Palestinian state. The PLO officially recognized Is-rael as a state in 1988 under Yasser Ara-fat’s leadership. The recommendation was made in a 56-page report on Pales-tinian-Israeli relations.

Erekat is also insisting the Palestin-ian Authority reject placement of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley as part of a peace deal, rebuff efforts to compromise over the PA’s sovereignty in East Jerusa-lem, and fully support boycotts of goods produced in West Bank settlements. Er-ekat also said that steps should be taken to allow Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join the PLO’s Executive Committee.

The comments came a day after it was announced that the Palestinian unity government was disbanding. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reported-ly tasked Rami Hamdallah, the Palestin-ian prime minister, with forming a new government.

Another Blow to BDSA victory was won this week against

the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

(BDS) movement when supermarkets belonging to the Coop Forum chain in Sweden changed their policy on boy-cotting Israeli products. Three stores in the 655-strong retail chain had previ-ously agreed to remove Israeli products from their shelves but the products will now be returned to the store in the wake of an ongoing campaign by supporters of Israel against the boycott.

The matter began two and a half months ago, when three of the chain’s stores in the northern Swedish city of Varberg, known for its leftist political views, agreed to the boycott of Israe-lis goods. At an annual meeting of members of the coop earlier this year, anti-Israel groups protested and lob-bied for the boycott, with the members agreeing. The story went unreported until two weeks ago, when a local pub-lication noted the decision.

Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Yitzhak Bachman, immediately began acting to reverse the decision, con-cerned that it could spread to the rest of the chain. Bachman pointed out that boycotts were unfair to average work-ing people and against the principle of free trade.

Bachman and thousands of Isra-el supporters appealed to the chain’s management, which this week issued a statement saying that they were op-posed to any boycotts and that the de-cision made by the Varberg committee was unauthorized and would be re-versed.

Speaking to Israeli reporters, Bach-man said that the lesson was “never give up.”

“The thing to do about boycotts is oppose them for what they are, without trying to decide whether we are right or the Palestinians are right. The support we were able to gain among Swedish citizens was essential, as the chain re-alized it couldn’t fight the will of the people,” he related.

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Thousands Attend Funeral for Danny Gonen

Thousands attended the funeral of Danny Gonen this week after the Israe-li man was killed by a Palestinian near

the West Bank settlement of Dolev. His shooter is still at large, with secu-rity forces assessing that the attack was likely a “lone wolf”-style killing and not pre-planned by a terror group.

In her eulogy, his mother, Devora Gonen, praised her son’s integrity and his love of the Holy Land. “Danny, my dear, beloved son,” she said. “I cannot believe that we’re standing here now

and talking about you in the past tense. You were a source of immense pride for me, a pillar to your brother and sis-ters. You were a devoted son to me, and when I needed it, a friend too. And you supported me in everything. You lived your life as a free Jew in your country. You loved the land and you loved the truth. The truth was your banner and you lived by it.”

Gonen, 25, was an electrical engi-neering student and the eldest of five siblings. He was shot several times at point blank range by a Palestinian gunman who flagged down his slowly moving car. He and his friend, Netanel Hadad, had been visiting the Ein Buvin spring near Dolev. Hadad was mod-erately injured and valiantly fought to save his friend’s life.

Hamas praised the killing as “hero-ic,” and spokesman Husam Badran said the day after the killing that “we bless whoever did it.” A group calling itself the “Marwan Kawasme and Amer Abu Aysha Squad,” named for the two ter-rorists who killed three Israeli teenagers last summer, claimed responsibility for the attack, and said it was affiliated with the armed wing of Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanya-hu said the murder proved that Israelis are under constant threat. “We mustn’t let the relative calm mislead us. Efforts to hurt us are underway at all times, and we will continue to fight them using all the means available to us,” he asserted.

At the funeral, Rabbi Yisrael Samet of Lod spoke of Danny’s modesty and said that Danny’s death has transformed him into a martyr. “You held up the fam-ily in recent years; everyone would go to you in times of need. Who now will do everything help his siblings? Who will help friends who ask for help?”

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What Do they Really Think of Us?

“Every human person has something to say about America or knows some-thing about America,” Renee Zografos

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says. “And it wasn’t always positive.”Zografos is the author of Attrac-

tive Unattractive Americans: How the World Sees America. In writing his book, he interviewed more than 1,000 people from around the world over the course of seven years. Their thoughts and views on America were as diverse as the people with whom he spoke.

Zografos, though, came away with a certain sense of how people in other countries view Americans. For instance, people in Scandinavian countries tend to have the most positive view of Amer-icans. While they can be critical of some American practices, overall they have embraced U.S. entertainment and maintain an idyllic “Hollywood” ideal of what Americans are like.

On the other end of the spectrum, Zografos found that people living in Southern European countries like Italy and Greece tend to have a more negative image of Americans. He credits major lifestyle differences as the main cause.

According to his book, Americans never lose sight of their goals, they don’t look back and they want to win. This winning mentality can be off-put-ting to some, but others find it inspiring.

“Before I went to America I was a shy little student afraid of almost everything in this world,” said Sandra from Germa-ny. “But America taught me to be brave and outgoing. Thank you, America.”

There are a lot of positives about America. It’s home to some of the most beautiful national parks, people pride themselves on tradition, and many plac-es exhibit a strong sense of community. Still, some countries continue to make digs at Americans for being loud, selfish and flashy. Despite their insults, Derek from England makes a good point. “I have always wondered why so many folks say that they don’t like America but still keep traveling back there year after year.” So that’s why Times Square is so crowded all the time.

Maria from Chile gave some good advice: “Americans must certainly learn to slow down! Even on vacation they are very stressed.” Time to head to the beach.

The Greek lifestyle doesn’t nec-essarily champion a hard work ethic. Vangelis from Greece can’t seem to grasp Americans’ desire to work hard. “Americans’ philosophy is to live so they can work,” he said. “We work so

we can live, meaning there are other things in life that are more important than working.”

Karin from Sweden was sweet when she spoke about the world leader. “We don’t hate America as a nation. We just hate their attitude toward the rest of the world.” We love you too.

The Fight over the Flag

It’s been waving over the State-house for years. The Confederate flag blows in the breeze in South Carolina; its black, red and white stripes and stars have been flying since the 1960s as an

official protest of the civil rights move-ment. After mass protests, it was moved to the grounds in 2000, as part of a com-promise between a group of black law-makers and the Republicans who have controlled South Carolina since 2001.

For years, the symbol of the South has stirred controversy. South Carolina lawmakers refused to revisit the issue of the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, saying the law that took it off the dome was a bipartisan compromise and renewing the debate would unnec-essarily expose divisive wounds. But opinions have changed and views have swayed this past week, days since the massacre of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston. Republi-cans have joined the call to remove the battle flag from the Confederate monu-ment in front of the Statehouse and put it in a museum.

On Monday, Governor Nikki Haley, a Republican, called for the removal of the flag. She went even further by pledging to call legislators back to Co-lumbia if they don’t deal with it in a spe-cial session in the next few weeks.

“Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state, and without ill will, to

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say it’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Haley said at a press conference on Monday. “One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come.”

Haley’s announcement came days after authorities charged Dylann Storm Roof, 21, with murder. The white man appeared in photos holding Confederate flags and burning or desecrating U.S. flags, and purportedly wrote of foment-ing racial violence.

It took the death of nine people and the outpouring of love and forgiveness to sway the governor. She has deflected questions about the controversial flag for years. For many South Carolinians, the flag still represents noble traditions of heritage and duty, the governor stat-ed, but for many others, it is a “deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppres-sive past.”

“The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag. In no way does he reflect the people in our state who respect, and in many ways, revere it,” she charged.

The governor’s declarations sparked action in other arenas as well on Mon-day: Mississippi House Speaker Philip

Gunn called for the Confederate em-blem to be removed from the state flag, becoming the first top-tier Republican in the state to do so. In Tennessee, both Democrats and Republicans called for the removal of a bust of Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from an alcove outside the Senate’s chambers. And Wal-Mart announced that it is remov-ing any items from its store shelves and website that feature the Confederate flag.

Despite the calls for removal, change won’t be easy. Making any changes to the banner requires a two-thirds super-majority in both chambers under the terms of the 2000 deal that moved a square version of the flag to a monu-ment to Confederate soldiers out front.

America’s Frame is Growing

Years ago, people weren’t as ob-sessed with their weight. It’s interest-ing to note, though, that the average American weighs more today than in

the 1960s. According to new data from the

CDC, the average weight of a U.S. woman is now 166.2 pounds, about the same weight as the average man in the 1960s. In the 1960s, the average woman weighed about 140 – that’s an increase of 18.5%. Men, who weighed an aver-age of 166.3 pounds in the 1960s now average in at about 195.5 pounds, a 17.6% gain.

Despite the disheartening figures, it’s important to note that the normal height of men and women has grown by an inch, making the findings a drop less harsh. The obvious reason for increas-ing weights is that Americans are eating unhealthier high-calorie food and are exercising less.

According to recent data, 35% of Americans over 20 are considered obese, while 69% of adults are either overweight or obese. A 2012 study found Americans were the third-heavi-est people on the planet behind residents of Tonga and Micronesia. The average American was 33 pounds heavier than a Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than a citizen of Japan, and 70 pounds heavier than a person in Bangladesh.

Time to whip out those sneakers and munch on some kale.

Obese Americans Outnumber those who are Overweight

In a related story, Americans should stay away from their corndogs and na-chos this summer. According to a new report in journal JAMA Internal Medi-cine, adults who are obese now outnum-ber those who are overweight.

A tally by researchers from Wash-ington University School of Medicine in St. Louis estimated that 67.6 mil-lion Americans over the age of 25 were obese as of 2012, and an additional 65.2 million were overweight. Their count was based on data collected between 2007 and 2012 as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Sur-

vey, an ongoing study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion.

The NHANES data included infor-mation on height and weight, which are used to calculate a person’s body mass index. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered normal. Someone with a BMI in the 25-to-29.9 range is con-sidered overweight, and a BMI over 30 qualifies a person as obese.

Interestingly, women were much more likely to be obese than overweight, with 37 percent of women in the former category and 30 percent in the latter. Altogether, 2 out every 3 women in the U.S. were above a normal weight.

The proportion of men who were obese was almost as high as women — 35 percent. But that figure was lower than the 40 percent of men who were in the overweight zone. With both groups combined, 3 out of 4 men in the U.S. exceeded a normal weight.

African-Americans had the high-est rates of obesity among both men (39 percent) and women (57 percent). The researchers found that 17 percent of black women and 7 percent of black men were extremely obese, meaning their body mass index was over 40. For whites, 35 percent of men and 34 per-cent of women were obese.

Being overweight or obese in-creases the risk of a variety of chronic health conditions, including Type 2 di-abetes and cardiovascular disease. Ex-tra weight can also make people more vulnerable to certain types of cancer. The more you weigh, the greater the health risk. Exercise, a proper diet and a healthy lifestyle are important factors in keeping weight under control.

New York Says No to BDS

The New York State Assembly reaf-firmed its support of Israel by rejecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement last week. The resolution, which passed in a voice vote, stated that the assembly rejects the BDS movement and all activities in New York which “undermine efforts to achieve a negoti-

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ated two-state solution and the right of Israelis and Palestinians to self-determi-nation.”

“This Legislative Body is concerned that the international Boycott, Divest-ment and Sanctions movement and its agenda are damaging to the causes of peace, justice, equality, democracy and human rights for all peoples in the Mid-dle East,” it says. The resolution also states that the assembly opposes all at-tempts to isolate and delegitimize Israel, including, but not limited to, promoting economic, cultural and academic boy-cotts.

“New Yorkers defend the inalienable right to free speech, [and] recognize that punitive economic measures targeting Israel undermine dialogue, economic cooperation and political reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, which is the necessary foundation for a lasting peace in the Middle East,” the resolution states. “The BDS movement’s policies and tactics negate and undermine the vibrant debate regarding the Israel-Pal-estinian relationship, which is based on a recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish State.”

The resolution was led by Assem-blyman Walter T. Mosley (D-Brooklyn)

and co-sponsored by 74 other members of the assembly from both sides of the aisle. It recognizes Israel’s right to ex-ist as a Jewish state and points out that Israel and the U.S. are allies “sharing a common bond rooted in the values of freedom, democracy and equal rights.” It underlines that New York and Israel have a history of friendship and eco-nomic, cultural, intellectual and politi-cal cooperation and exchange.

New Safety Report Faults NHTSA for Fatal Car Defects

Every day we put our lives and the lives of our loved ones in the hands of

our cars. We assume that whoever is in charge is making sure we are kept as safe as possible. However, recently the U.S. auto safety watchdog has been plagued by internal problems that have prevented the agency from acting to pro-tect the public from deadly auto defects, including faulty GM ignition switches, according to federal investigators.

An official U.S. Department of Transportation report, seen by Reuters and due to be released to the public next week, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) lacks the data needed to identify safety issues, does not properly screen the data it has, and has failed time and again to hold automakers accountable for prob-lems among the more than 265 million cars and trucks on America’s roads.

“Collectively, these weaknesses have resulted in significant safety con-cerns being overlooked,” investigators said.

In the past few years, General Mo-tors Co. ignition switches were linked to more than 110 deaths and defective Takata Corp air bag inflators were relat-ed to at least eight deaths. It is up to agencies like the NHTSA to be on top of these industry problems.

War Hero Finally Back Home

Seven decades ago, on April 13, 1945, Manfred Romer heard a plane flying just a few hundred feet over his head. As he watched it pass, the plane caught fire and disappeared out of view, crashing near his home in Amt Neuhaus, Germany.

“There was a huge plume of smoke,” Romer said, recalling what happened when he was just five years old. “So this is something that just burned in my memory.”

Recently Romer decided to return to his old home to investigate what hap-pened to that plane, and more important-ly, the pilot inside. After about a year,

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Romer ended up in Arlington National Cemetery, standing alongside the pilot’s relatives in a moment seven decades in the making, at what would be the young lieutenant’s final resting place.

“For me it is a very moving day,” Romer said. “Not just today, but all of the days that led up to today.”

The pilot on that fateful flight was John Herb, and his story is not all that

different from thousands of other Amer-ican soldiers still deemed “missing in action” during WII. John didn’t have a wife or children at the time of the ac-cident and his family eventually moved on. The mystery of his disappearance remained unsolved.

“This took me completely by sur-prise,” said Michael Herb, John’s cous-in. “I mean, we knew of John, we knew

his plane was lost. But we thought he was gone forever. We never thought that we would ever see him or hear of him again.”

Romer solved the mystery after meeting with two 85-year-old wom-en who remembered the crash in great detail and actually arrived on the scene soon after Herb’s plane went down. The women had documented the incident,

writing that they came upon the scene of the wreckage and that Herb was alive. But they said he was soon shot and thrown in a shallow grave. Upon hearing this, Romer enlisted the help of his son and several grandchildren and began scouring 50,000 square meters of forest with a metal detector. They found more than 200 pieces of the plane. He then reached out to German authorities who contacted the U.S. Department of Defense.

In June of last year, members of the Missing Allied Air Crew Recovery Team (MAACRT) and the Army’s Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) ac-companied Romer as he led them to the scene of the crash. The search team dis-covered a ring with the initials “JWH” engraved inside. It was Herb’s class ring from Riverside Military Academy. The remains were then sent to a military base in Hawaii where the dental records gave final confirmation.

Herb finally returned to American soil for the first time in 70 years.

Last Thursday, Johnathan Herb was buried with full military honors, includ-ing an escort platoon, colors team, cas-ket team, firing party and a band.

“I was very emotional, and I think that I would be this emotional, to be honest with you, even if he wasn’t a member of our family,” Michael said. “I think that watching this for any soldier that has given his life in the defense of the country is moving.”

9 Killed in South Carolina Massacre

Hundreds packed the church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service held on Sunday, just days after a white gunman shot nine black church members dead in a hate-filled rage.

“We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night,” the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black con-gregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Outside, a mostly-white

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crowd gathered to express their grief and solidarity with those inside.

At the end of the service, the preach-er urged those inside to “hug three peo-ple next to you and tell them, ‘It’s going to be alright.’”

Dylann Roof, 21, was arrested on Thursday and was charged with nine counts of murder. He spent an hour in evening Bible study group at the church before opening fire on those inside. Only three people survived the shoot-ing. One said that Roof kept her alive so she could “tell them what happened.”

Federal investigators were examin-ing a racist manifesto on a website that appeared to have been written by Roof. The site featured white supremacist writings and photos, apparently of the gunman.

On Sunday evening about 150 peo-ple gathered for a prayer vigil outside the church. At about the same time, a line of people joined hands across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, a span that links Charleston with its neighboring suburb of Mount Pleasant, in an event meant to show a united community.

Top Officials Charged with Unfair Treatment of 9/11 Detainees

There were many aftershocks in the U.S. after the September 11 attacks, as the nation struggled to cope with the terror and tragedy. At that time, several Arab and Muslim men were detained in New York and New Jersey.

Former Attorney General John Ash-croft and other justice department offi-cials have been accused of abusing the prisoners and last Wednesday a U.S. ap-peals court reinstated the claim. The sur-prising decision allows the once-anony-mous eight plaintiffs to advance charges that the top officials in the justice de-partment had violated their constitution-al guarantees of equal protection under the law. The “9/11 detainees” all had unresolved immigration statuses and an Arab or Muslim background, although others were also targeted.

According to a justice department inspector general’s report in 2003, the mistreatment of the detainees involved

a “hold-until-cleared” policy imple-mented by Ashcroft; no such detainee was to be released until the FBI cleared the detainee of links to terrorism. As a result, some prisoners were detained for months without formal charges. They were allegedly subjected to abuse at the hands of guards and sent to solitary con-finement.

Previously, a lower court had found that Ashcroft and his co-defendants, former FBI director Robert Mueller and former INS commissioner James Ziglar, had not been sufficiently linked to the abuse of detainees to support the plaintiffs’ claims. In its reversal of that decision, the U.S. Court Of Appeals for the Second Circuit asserted that the justice department officials had put pol-icies into place that were conducive to the abuse, that they knew the abuse was happening, and that they knew the de-tainees weren’t terrorism suspects.

The case was initially brought 13 years ago by the Center for Constitu-tional Rights, a New York-based non-profit. “We are thrilled with the court’s ruling,” said CCR senior staff attorney Rachel Meeropol in a statement. “The court took this opportunity to remind the nation that the rule of law and the rights of human beings, whether citizens or not, must not be sacrificed in the face of national security hysteria.”

Ashcroft served as attorney general from 2001 to 2005, during the first term of President George W Bush. Mueller headed the FBI from 2001–2013.

Who Will Grace the New $10 Bill?

The $10 bill is getting a makeover. For the first time in more than a century, U.S. paper currency will feature the face of a female.

On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced plans to release a newly redesigned $10 bill, set to be un-veiled in 2020. It will feature “a woman who has contributed to and represents the values of American democracy.” No names or hints were given as to the new face of the currency.

The release year coincides with the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote.

“Our paper bills and the images of great American leaders and landmarks that they depict have long been a way for us to honor our past and discuss our values,” Lew related. “This decision of putting a woman on the $10 bill reflects our aspirations for the future as much as the reflections of the past.”

The last women featured on U.S. bills were Martha Washington, who ap-peared on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Pocahontas, who ap-peared in a group photo on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869. The Susan B. An-thony dollar coin, which honored the 19th century feminist, was minted from 1979 to 1981, and in 1999, but the series was halted due to poor public reception.

The Treasury Department will col-lect public input in town hall meetings and via the hashtag #TheNew10 on so-cial media on who and what should be depicted on the bill. The final decision will be made by Lew closer to the re-lease date.

“We’re not just a U.S. currency; we’re the world’s reserve currency,” the Treasury Secretary said. “And I’m excited that using the technology that’s available to us, we can hear from the public.”

Skills are More Important than your Degree

Most likely your parents and teach-ers preached that those who earn a col-lege degree will have a more success-ful career. The notion is that those who attain a college education will be more qualified for jobs, get hired for better positions, be able to pay back loans and other college-related expenses faster, and will be more financially stable—but is that in fact a reality?

According to the latest Allstate/Na-tional Journal Heartland Monitor Poll, modern Americans in the workforce no longer fully believe in the four-year de-gree bachelor’s degree route. What can help lead to a more stable job? Famil-

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Even the older generation is be-ginning to see that trend. “If you don’t have a good grip on technology, it is very hard to succeed,” said 45-year-old Christine Welch of Idaho.

Despite these sentiments, econom-ic studies show that college graduates still earn far more than those without degrees over the course of their career. In the poll, most people still agreed that college was an important foundation for a successful tenure at work. That alone, though, wasn’t enough for success.

The poll divided respondents into two broad groups: younger cohorts, adults aged 18-24, and the older cohorts at 25 and over. Only about 55% of the younger group in the poll thought that a four-year degree was “very important” for a good career. Among older respon-dents, 53 percent agreed.

As far as what does contribute to success, the older respondents put the most emphasis on “a detailed un-derstanding of how to use computer technology” (85 percent very import-ant); “being able to work with people from many backgrounds” (79 percent); “keeping your skills current through training” (also 79 percent); and “having good family connections” (61 percent). For the older respondents, obtaining the college degree ranked next, ahead of other attributes including “being willing

to work long hours” (51 percent very important); “being willing to switch to new jobs and occupations” (48 percent); “being able to create your own job” (45 percent); and “becoming well known in your field and/or your community” (41 percent).

Younger people echoed the older group’s perspective for the most part. They ranked “being able to work with diverse colleagues” (82 percent very important) at the top of the list, followed by “maintaining skills after finishing school” (79 percent); “mastering com-puter technology” (77 percent); “family connections” (59 percent); obtaining the college degree; and “becoming well-known in your field or community” (47 percent).

Music Can be Distracting while Driving

There’s something about the perfect summer day that makes you want to roll

down the windows and blast your favor-ite song, but a recent study may have you turning down the radio.

Israeli Professor Warren Brodsky, director of music psychology in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, has studied the effect music can have on drivers. “The car is the only place in the world you can die just because you’re listening to the wrong kind of music,” the professor related.

Listening to your favorite type of music is equally as distracting as talking on your phone. “Both novice and ex-perienced drivers must be more aware of how music influences their driving behavior and vehicle control,” Brodsky said in a statement detailing his find-ings. “The research is irrefutable that listening to music in the car affects the way you drive.”

Brodsky’s research proves that con-centration levels tend to decrease when a favorite song is on, with drivers often belting out their favorite tune, dancing to the music, playing imaginary instru-ments, or letting go of the wheel to clutch an invisible microphone. Obvi-ously, some of these behaviors can have a negative and perhaps harmful effect on response time while driving.

“Whether it’s Beethoven, Basie or Bieber is irrelevant. Ideally, drivers should choose tunes that do not trigger distracting thoughts, memories, emo-tions, or hand drumming along to the beat while driving,” he stated.

That’s OddSurf’s Up

This piece of news is totally crank-ing.

Sixty-six surfers have set a world re-cord for most people riding a board at once. Surf champions and local heroes were among those who hung loose on a custom-built, 42-foot board off Hun-tington Beach on Saturday. The surfers rode a wave for 12 seconds and broke the previous record set in Queensland, Australia, about a decade ago when 47 surfers rode a wave for 10 seconds. Cowabunga, dude!

About 5,000 spectators crowded the sand and the Huntington Beach pier to watch the epic attempt.

Texting-Only Lanes

Make way for the texting lane. It seems that people nowadays are

glued to their phones. How many times have they smacked into you in middle of the street because, “Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t see you,” as they text away?

One college has the solution to the stuck-to-their-iPhones generation. Utah Valley University has given stu-dents a designated lane for texting while

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The Week In Newswalking. The neon green lanes painted on the stairs to the gym were intend-ed as a lighthearted way to brighten up the space and get students’ attention, spokeswoman Melinda Colton said.

And it worked. A picture of the lanes — which divide the stairs into sections for runners, walkers and texters — cre-ated widespread buzz on social media this month after it was posted online.

Though the lanes are limited to the school’s recreation center, 22-year-old student Tasia Briggs wouldn’t mind seeing them catch on across campus.

“There’s nothing worse than walk-ing behind someone who’s texting, and you can’t get around them and go any-where,” Briggs said. She added smart-phone messaging — whether through texts, Twitter, Snapchat or Instagram — is a big part of how her generation communicates, and it’s cool to see the college acknowledge it.

Although other colleges have yet to follow suit, it’s not the first time “tex-ting only” walking lanes have been im-plemented.

The Chinese city of Chongqing last year created a smartphone sidewalk lane that was intended to be ironic while also reminding people that star-ing at phones while on the go can be dangerous.

Officials said they got the idea from a similar stretch of pavement in Wash-ington, D.C., created by National Geo-graphic Television as part of a behavior experiment. The smartphone lanes at-tracted attention there too, but people using their phones generally didn’t notice them—they’re too busy with their virtual friends to notice anything around them.

You know what they say: Don’t text away; you can lose (real) friends that way.

Pizza for a Mile

Mama mia! This pizza is longer than the lines we wait on on a Saturday night on Central Avenue.

It took 18 hours for more than 60 of Italy’s best pizza-makers to bake the longest pizza ever—1.59545 kilo-meters, almost a mile long, at Milan’s world fair, Expo 2015.

But their pizza prowess was not in vain. On Saturday, the Guinness World Records awarded them with a procla-mation for making the world’s longest pizza. Expo organizers said the re-cord-setting pie, made with 1.5 tons of mozzarella and 2 tons of tomato sauce, weighed some 5 tons in all.

The creation topped the record of a 1.1415-kilometer-long pizza made in Spain.

Fair-goers were able to eat slices of the Milan pizza for free. Slices of long, rectangular pizzas with various toppings are a popular street food in Italy.

To be Lucky and to Have Lost

He was lucky—until he was not. Walid Aboroomi has seen much luck

with his lucky lottery numbers: 7-1-5.

Over the years, he’s won tens of thou-sands of dollars. Last month, the lucky numbers earned him another $92,000—until he lost his tickets. All 184 winning tickets, worth $500 each, disappeared.

The Floridian searched high and low, even calling his garbage hauler to see if he could salvage the Florida Cash 3 tickets. (He couldn’t — his trash is taken to an incinerator.)

“Finally, I gave up. I was crying, crying like a baby,” said the 50-year-old man.

Aboroomi has had a lucky streak over the years, winning well over $1.5 million from various lottery games. In fall 2004, he won $500,000 in a scratch-off jackpot. The next year, he won $1 million playing the Virginia Million Dollar Madness scratch game. He lat-er won $71,000 in the Virginia Pick 3 with his lucky numbers, and another $100,000 with those same numbers in 2007.

“Yeah,” Aboroomi admitted, “I’m not hungry.”

His latest luck with 7-1-5 came May 28, when he said he noticed the time: 7:15 p.m. A license plate in the parking lot had the number 715. Incidentally, that’s his birthday: July 15.

“Everything was 715,” said Abo-roomi, who emigrated from Israel 27 years ago. “It was blowing my brain.”

Maybe it blew his brain too hard and he forgot where he put his stash… Bet-ter luck next time.

A Tale of Two CollegesIn some circles there is much pres-

sure for success. In fact, some people will lie to get ahead and others may just invent achievements to impress their family and friends.

The most recent story to hit the news

involves a high school senior, Jung Yoon Kim, who also goes by the name Sara, who is graduating this year from Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci-ence and Technology in Virginia, one of the top schools in the nation. In an effort to amaze her peers, Sara announced that two universities—Harvard and Stan-ford—wanted her to enroll so badly that they offered her a dual program in which she could head to Harvard for two years and then complete her degree at Stan-ford. Mark Zuckerberg, she added, had actually called her to urge her to enroll at Harvard, his alma mater. If that’s not all, the schools were offering her thou-sands in scholarships, according to Sara.

When Sara made the stunning an-nouncement, it made news here and across the ocean in Korea, where they dubbed her “Genius Girl.”

But then, because her story seemed too good to be true, well, people real-ized that it wasn’t true when they started doubting the veracity of her tale.

Both officials at Harvard and Stan-ford admitted that she was not accept-ed at their prestigious institutions. “We have been made aware of three admis-sions letters and multiple email commu-nications that were allegedly sent to Ms. Jung Yoon (Sara) Kim confirming her acceptance to Harvard University,” Har-vard officials said. “None of these com-munications were sent by Harvard, and we can confirm that they are all forger-ies. There is no program in existence through which a student is admitted to spend two years at Harvard College and two years at Stanford University.”

Stanford University seemed to echo Harvard’s sentiments. “Stanford does not have any program offering under-graduate admission to both Stanford and another university. A letter of admission that was provided to news media in this case was not authentic and was not is-


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sued by Stanford University.”What made Sara make up such an

egregious tale? Teachers and students at Thomas Jefferson have admitted that pressure at the school is off the charts. “We celebrate the accomplishment of students who get into all eight Ivies,” Brandon Kosatka, the school’s director of student services, said. “That’s the bar, and our kids are shooting for that.

They don’t like to be the second-best. If that’s the bar, then, yes, that creates anxiety for them.”

An unnamed student at the school said that getting good grades isn’t enough. “You’re going to have pressure to do well,” the student said. “But you also need to play 17 different sports and instruments.”

Doesn’t take a genius to realize that

that’s way too much pressure for young kids.

The Paper GownsHere comes the bride. All dressed

in white…toilet paper.Yes, some wedding gowns are

adorned with sequins, appliques, tulle, silk, lace and satin. Their long trains, full skirts and ruffles are the envy of all. Although these gowns are just as glamorous, they aren’t made of fine material. They’re made of toilet paper.

The gowns were showcased at the finale of the annual Cheap Chic Wed-dings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Con-test in New York on Wednesday. Ten designers vying for a $10,000 prize painstakingly put them together from the most basic materials.

The rules were simple, contest co-creator Laura Gawne related. “They have to use Charmin toilet paper, any kind of tape, any kind of glue and they can use needle and thread,” she said.

“No closures, no Velcro, nothing. No attachment of fabric, nothing,” her co-creator, Susan Bain, added.

The sisters Bain and Gawne began the competition to promote their wed-ding site. The contest, now in its 11th edition, is held in conjunction with toi-let paper brand Charmin. The gowns were obviously soft and fuzzy.

This year, the contest was held at bridal store Kleinfeld, which will turn the winning dress into a ready-to-wear gown.

Before the show began, designers applied the final touches as models held onto toilet rolls needed for the add-ons.

“We have 4,585 petals that were all hand-cut and traced,” Carol Touch-stone, who came in third place, said of her floral dress. “We used tape, glue and Charmin.”

The winner was a tuxedo-style hal-terneck dress with a removable jacket, accessorized with a top hat and bow tie, by Donna Pope Vincler. She said it took her about three months, 22 rolls and lots of tape and glue to make.

“It’s amazing how strong glue and toilet paper can be. After I made it I was hitting on it like a drum ... it’s very sturdy,” she said. “I don’t even know how many layers [there are] – I just did it until I thought it would stay togeth-er.”

Now these brides can roll down the aisle.

The Week In News

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The Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) held its annual free concert & fair on Tuesday, June 23 on Reads Lane in Far Rockaway. Uncle Moishy performed his classic hits, much to the delight of the all the children present. The children were also treated to free blow up rides, carnival games, and many other giveaways. Warren Levi of Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness was on-hand to dazzle the children and to teach them valuable techniques. Warren emphasized basic life skills, such as man-ners, listening and focusing their atten-tion. Warren and his friendly instructors helped instill self esteem in the young children and the older children learned traditional karate skills.

The JCCRP was thrilled to have our local elected officials on-hand and are extremely grateful for their sponsorship of this event. The JCCRP would like to extend many thanks to event sponsors: Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, Council-man Donovan Richards, Queens Bor-ough President Melinda Katz, Brach’s, Cross River Bank, David’s Famous Piz-za, 5 Towns Jewish Times, Gourmet Glatt Emporium, Judaica Plus, Kosher World Pizza, Pip Printing, Russo’s Pharmacy, Seasons, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital,

Traditions Eatery, The Jewish Home, and Warren Levi Karate.

The JCCRP would also like to thank the NYPD’s 101 Precinct and the FDNY for participating. The children truly en-joyed their presence. A special thanks to Yoni Dembitzer, the community’s Police Liaison, and Pesach Osina for helping to arrange the concert.

The JCCRP is a proud affiliate of Met Council and a beneficiary agency of UJA Federation of NY. The JCCRP provides a range of services for any clients who need assistance in social services or re-source directing within the community. Please contact the JCCRP for further in-formation; we are located at 1525 Cen-tral Avenue (entrance on Foam Place), Far Rockaway, NY, 11691— Call the JC-CRP at (718) 327-7755—or visit them on the web at www.jccrp.org

JCCRP Annual Free Concert & Fair

Around The Community

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Allstate Insurance agent Menachem “Monte” Rosenzweig, whose office is located at 291 Burnside Ave Lawrence, NY, has received the Agency Hands in the Community Award for his commit-ment to volunteering in the commu-nity. With this award came a $1,000 grant from The Allstate Foundation for Achiezer, where Menachem volunteers.

“Menachem is an active and respect-ed member of the business community, protecting customers with insurance and financial services products,” said Don Rubbo, New York regional sales

leader at All-state Insurance Company. “He also makes it a priority to dedi-cate his time and efforts to make a difference in people’s lives. Menachem ex-

emplifies the full spectrum of what it means to be an Allstate agent and has truly become a name and face in his community.”

Lawrence Agent Menachem “Monte” Rosenzweig Receives Allstate Agency Hands in the Community Award

L-R: Ethan Felder, Yoni Goldberg, and Moshe Keller

At the DRS Graduation

Valedictorian Daniel Aharon delivering his speech L-R: Yoni Goldberg, Josh Fink, Joseph Miller, Yoni Friedman, and Eli Goldberg

The streets are abuzz with excite-ment for the upcoming event of the sea-son which will take place this Wednes-day. Queens Hatzolah will be putting on a star-studded show at the New York Hall of Science for the Premier Men’s Event on July 1st.

Organizers expect it to be massive, with men from across Queens joining together for an evening of amazing food and enjoyment. Greenwald Caterers is pulling out all the stops for this BBQ to create a huge, lavish spread of delicacies in anticipation for a sold-out crowd.

Of course, no one will be disappoint-ed by the exclusive performance by su-perstar LIPA! He will be joining us for the event and promises to keep everyone entertained and delighted.

And don’t forget the impressive line-up of sleek prizes for the raffle, which will include iWatches, plane ride around NYC, awesome gift certificates, and

more. Most important is the wonderful

cause – Queens Hatzolah. With over 180 members stationed throughout Queens, Hatzolah is truly a community organi-zation in every sense of the word. Its members are among the most dedicat-ed volunteers anywhere; each of them drops everything to respond to another Jew in need.

This event will be the first-ever com-munity-wide event for Hatzolah. It is expected to raise much-needed funds to help cover the $1,000,000+ annual budget and enable them to make crucial upgrades to its equipment to help keep us all safe and healthy.

Now is the time to RSVP online at QueensHatzolah.org for this one-of-a-kind event and show your support to Hatzolah and its members.

Don’t miss the big event this Wednesday!

Calling All Men! Inaugural Hatzolah Men’s Event – This Wednesday!

Due to popular demand, the Brook-lyn Jewish Xperience (BJX) Torah Cen-ter on Avenue K is hosting a unique four week summer series that will benefit the Brooklyn community and positively transform all who participate. Beginning July 8th, four renowned speakers will of-fer unique presentations on fascinating topics that intrigue every thinking per-son. The presenters include Rav Morde-chai Becher, senior lecturer at Gateways Organization; Rav Label Lam, renowned lecturer and educator; Rav Aaron Rapps, Rosh HaYeshiva at Manhattan Beach; and Rav Yitzchok Fingerer, Morah d’As-ra of the BJX Torah Center. The series is unique because each expert presenter will only have thirty minutes to cover their weighty topic. “Essentially, you will hear four fantastic speakers each Wednesday evening, but they will have just thirty minutes to explicate the topic,” explained Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, executive direc-tor of BJX. “This series is tailored for business men who because of their work

schedule aren’t able to participate in sim-ilar presentations during the year. Now they will have the opportunity to hear from phenomenal speakers. The pace will be quick. The topics will address important concepts like business in hala-cha, free will, why bad things happen to good people, secrets towards achieving success and happiness, tips on improving relationships, science and evolution, and other topics. Everyone will emerge with yedios and acquire tremendous knowl-edge and inspiration. This summer series will be very impactful,” Rabbi Fingerer concluded.

Over the course of year, the BJX of-fice has received phone calls and emails from people in the Flatbush community who sought answers to compelling ques-tions on a wide range of topics. The cost for the four week series is $50. Sponsor-ship opportunities are still available.

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As many were busy with graduation ceremonies, summer camp preparation and Father’s Day separations (ala Hall-mark), members of the local community and beyond were fortunate to take part in a groundbreaking program at the Young Israel of Wavecrest & Bayswater.

This past Sunday, Five Towns Mar-riage Initiative (FTMI) hosted a program entitled “Resolving Family Financial Challenges, Investing in Marital Bonds” in association with Mesila.

This exciting, innovative program was designed to address the challeng-es couples face from the extraordinary financial burdens of our time, opening with keynote speeches from both Morris Smith, former manager of Fidelity Ma-gellan Fund and Member of Mesila International Advisory Board, and Dr. David Pelco-vitz, noted author, educator and Chair in Psychology and Jew-ish Education at the Graduate school of Yeshiva University.

Mr. Smith was able to help the crowd understand the na-ture of bringing basic business tools and simple budgeting techniques into our daily lives and using these tools to help to teach us to live within our means and give us direction and concepts that give struc-ture to what otherwise can seem like an overwhelming problem. Clearly these is-sues have only become compounded with our current economy, very expensive cost of living in the great New York area, and the skyrocketing costs of yeshiva tuitions.

Dr. Pelcovitz helped the group under-stand the common nature of discord and discomfort we can all feel with our rela-tionship to money, control, distress and uncertainty. A large part of the message of the entire program was understanding just how many resources our own com-munity can offer for those in need, and even just understanding the scope and commonality of the issues individuals, couples and entire families face in man-aging money in their daily lives, especial-ly within our religious community.

We were privileged to take part in a workshop from Rabbi Nechemia Pansky, Mesila family counselor, on the topic of “Budgeting Made Easy,” where the en-tire audience was able to learn to work through creating a basic budget “hands-on” with worksheets and examples and clarification of getting started with the actual process.

David Mark, MS, LMSW and certi-fied Gotteman therapist, led a workshop on Solving our Solvable Financial Prob-lems offering several proven techniques

that couples could utilize to help cope with the otherwise very argument-prone and divisive topic of money, working in ways to draw close and utilize financial challenges as opportunities to turn toward and not away from one another. While we tend to look at our daily challenges as burdens and negative experiences, we know that Hashem only challenges us to help us grow.

Rabbi Shulem Abramcyk, noted edu-cator and Mesila Lakewood Branch head, lead a hands-on workshop on the topic of “Educating our Children with Healthy At-titudes to Money.” Just as we know that with every problem we have to consider earlier solutions and intervention at the earliest possible time, learning to teach

our children very early on responsible attitudes toward money and finances and helping them understand its value and its appropriate management from even a very young age can have a dramatic ef-fect throughout their youth and certainly into their marriage and family years.

The program concluded with a group question and answer session from all the panel members including both keynote speakers and workshop leaders. This was truly a very inspiring event and one that may very well have been unprecedented in both its scope and depth. As much in-formation was covered both in terms of outlook and tools for helping couples and families manage money and ease the burden of financial management and its associated potential stress, it seemed to all those in attendance that there was so much more to discuss and learn from those wonderful resources within our community locally, regionally and inter-nationally.

The entire event was captured on both video and audio and Five Towns Marriage Initiative plans on offering in the very near future both video and au-dio options of the program for those who either attended for review or have yet to experience the event. For more informa-tion, please contact us at the phone num-ber or email contact listed at the end of this article.

Special thanks to all those of Mesila including Rabbi Shmulie Margulies, Me-sila director and founder, and his faithful assistant; Sara Eisen, residing and work-ing in Israel, who truly made this entire event possible; Mr. Morris Smith, who in conjunction with his relationship to both Mesila and Achiezer locally has been an

amazing gem for this community and had literally a wealth of pragmatic, insightful information to share with the group.

We give great thanks to Dr. David Pelcovitz who has been an absolute pillar of both our local and greater regional and national/international community and who is always first in line to offer assis-tance for anyone and nearly anything in need with a heart of gold, tremendous compassion and absolutely brilliant in-sight. David Mark, MS, LMSW is the only frum certified Gotteman marital therapist in the country offering an un-precedented blend of science, Torah-true values and penetrating analysis with years of experience of helping couples find their way through the toughest of sit-uations and life challenges. Mr. Mark will be hosting a focused workshop for a lim-ited number of couples on August 16/17 (Sun/Mon) in Long Beach, NY, and this will be an amazing opportunity for cou-ples looking to enhance their marriage and work through any challenges to find a tremendous opportunity for growth. For more information please contact us at our number or by email as listed below.

We cannot thank enough those devot-ed talmidei chachamim and trained Me-sila workshop leaders, Rabbi Nechemia Pansky and Rabbi Shulem Abramcyk of Mesila’s Lakewood division, who graced us with tremendous insight and invalu-

able tools for coping and approaching all issues concerning money and finances.

Mesila is an international organiza-tion dedicated to promoting the financial health of Jewish families, businesses, and communities through education and counseling. For more information, go to www.mesila.org or write to [email protected].

Five Towns Marriage Initiative (FTMI) is a local, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting marital harmony and wellness. FTMI helps couples strive toward a balanced, stress-free and happy family life by providing education, tools and resources to encourage couples to work together to find solutions to live together happily and in ever increasing closeness. The organization serves to enable individuals and couples to truly accomplish their ultimate purpose in this world with their spouse and family as a pivotal and indispensi-ble means to achieving all they possibly can in this world.

FTMI produces a weekly Shalom Bayis Newsletter that it distributes throughout the local Five Towns/Far Rockaway communi-ty that brings together divrei Torah and the weekly parsha, middos articles and stories to help bring forth aspects of integrating shalom bayis into our daily lives. We provide a daily dial up shalom bayis inspiration line with 2-5 minute divrei Torah on timely topics including the parsha and shalom bayis. We host a 3x/week Shalom Bayis Hotline to address basic issues and act as a referral source to therapists in the area.

FTMI works closely with local therapists to offer reduced rates and attempts to offer financial assistance where needed to enable those unable to afford intervention the services they require. FTMI also continues to host community-wide programming in attempt to educate, inform and encourage couples and families to lead happier lives, with reduced stress and a stronger focus on Torah ideals.

FTMI does not limit its services to just the local community but attempts to assist anyone in the area, regionally, nationally and even in-ternationally in any and every way we possi-bly can. We attempt to defray most of the costs for our programming in an attempt to make these more accessible to the entire community.

Individuals or companies interested in sponsoring our programming, newsletters, inspiration line, hotline and anonymous spon-sorship of couples and for information includ-ing registration for our upcoming August 16 & 17 (Sun/Mon) two day Marriage Workshop with David Mark in Long Beach, NY, can call us at 516-430-5280 or email us at [email protected].

Investing in our Marital Bonds

Dr. Dovid Steiner (FTMI), Dr. David Pelcovitz, Mr. Morris Smith, Rabbi Shmuel Margulies (founder and director, Mesila)

Dr. David PelovitzDavid Mark, MS, LMSW Mr. Morris Smith

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As another terrific school year comes to an end and students are packing up their bags for the summer, the incoming class of Midreshet Shalhevet met at the home of Principal Mrs. Esther Eisenman for a delicious brunch. The girls were treated to an exquisite array of pancakes, bagels, yogurt parfaits, assorted pastries, iced coffees, and cereal. Incoming stu-dents from various neighborhoods and elementary schools joined together to get to know each other. Some even dis-covered that they would be spending the summer together at the same camp!

Members from Shalhevet’s G.O. joined the party as well and introduced a game of human bingo, helping the girls learn fun facts about one another. Each stu-dent then created their own Shalhevet Class of 2019 tie-dyed shirt. Mrs. Eisen-man shared some divrei chizuk before wrapping up the beautiful morning.

Shalhevet is excited to welcome the Class of 2019 and is looking forward to another wonderful year ahead! Shal-hevet also wishes all of their graduates continued hatzlacha in their academic pursuits, whether here or in Israel.

Welcoming the Class of 2019 at Shalhevet

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Jeffrey Calais, golf professional at the Lawrence Yacht and Country Club, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Jon Leibenhaut

Mayor Giuliani Stops by to “Play Golf”

Mayor Rudy Gi-uliani stopped by to visit the JCC of the Greater Five Towns’ Play Golf program for youth and young adults with special needs. An avid golfer himself, the former mayor enjoyed meeting the volunteers and participants. Mr. Giuliani, who has a family member with special needs, was impressed with the program. The Play Golf program, now in its sixth season, takes place in the spring and fall at the Lawrence Yacht and Country Club.

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The excitement and enthusiasm fills the atmosphere as the final preparation for the upcoming hachnosas sefer To-rah is underway. The Sulitze Kehilla,

as well as the whole Far Rockaway community, is eagerly awaiting this grand celebration which will iy”H be taking place this coming Sunday, par-shas Balak, June 28.

The sefer Torah was written l’iluyi nishmas our dear and beloved Rebbe zt”l who was known by all with his great tzidkus, tremendous ahavas Yis-roel and as a devoted manhig to all. As a direct result, the bnei hakehilla viewed it as a great z’chus to contribute to the sefer Torah, especially since the proceeds are also being used to publish

the Rebbe’s chiddushei Torah. The bnei hakehilla all know what

the rebbe zt”l had written in his tza-va’ah:

The chiddu-shei Torah that Hashem gave me the z’chus to write should be printed imme-diately (if pos-sible during the shloshim, but it will probably be difficult). And should there be one of my be-loved friends or members of the Beis Hamedrash who will take upon himself the expenses of

publishing the sefer, I will be greatly thankful. And if Hashem finds me de-serving, I will intercede for all who do kindness for me and for my family.

It is therefore no wonder that the tzibbur took this opportunity to respond with such warmth and enthusiasm to the writing of the sefer Torah and the Rebbe’s seforim enabling the founda-tion of the Machon Tiferes Ha’Avos that is working diligently to publish the Rebbe’s seforim.

The Machon has indeed succeed-ed baruch Hashem in publishing a

“Zemiros l’Shabbos v’yom tov” with Torah and min-hagim from the rebbe zt”l and the Sefer minhagei mai’hariv, minhagim that the Rebbe wrote from his father, zt”l Hy”d, and chiddushim on Pirkei Avos which was published in honor of the hachnosas sefer Torah and will be pre-sented on Sunday iy”H.

The Machon is current-ly working on a Hagadd-ah Shel Pesach which will iy”H be ready for the com-ing Pesach, ha’baah aleinu l’tova.

Last and foremost, the Machon is putting great efforts into publishing the Rebbe’s Sefer Tiferes Avos that the Rebbe zt”l had written on Tanach, Shas, Shulchan Aruch, Rambam and on many other facets of Torah, which is saturated with yiras Shamayim and dveikus l’ha’Borei Baruch Hu.

As it is nearing the second yahrt-zeit of the Rebbe zt”l, on this coming Sunday, the entire kehilla, chassidim, and yedidim are preparing to escort this special sefer Torah into the Reb-be’s Beis Hamedrash on the day of his yahrtzeit.

The kesivas ha’osiyos will be taking

place in the home of the Rebbe shlita, from which the sefer Torah will then be escorted with joyous celebration to the Beis Hamedresh.

May the z’chus of the great mitzvah of kesivas sefer Torah be a z’chus for the neshama of the Rebbe zt”l, and he should be a meilitz tov for all.

Sulitze Hachnosas Sefer Torah This Sunday

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Shaaray Tefila third graders win the World Series

Team build-ing and creating a positive atmo-sphere are hall-marks of Yeshi-va Har Torah’s mission. One of the unique staff events is the faculty birthday parties that are held every oth-er month. There is always a va-riety of treats and birthday cards that everyone signs for each of the faculty members with a birthday during that two-month period. This past week was the last faculty birth-day party of the school year – and was by far the most popular yet! The faculty and staff were treated to a visiting soft

serve ice cream truck serving different flavors of ice cream, cotton candy and popcorn. YHT is committed to making sure the faculty have opportunities to bond and partake in celebrations like these together.

Staff Celebration at Yeshiva Har Torah


While their students are vacationing during the months of July and August, the faculty and staff members of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (Lev Chana Preschool, HALB Elementary School, SKA High School for Girls and DRS High School for Boys) have a spe-cial opportunity to enhance their educa-tional technology skills with a variety of workshops.

Under the direction of Rabbi Dr. Jef-frey Rothman, HALB principal of aca-demic initiatives and advanced learning, and with the assistance of HALB’s ed-ucational technology integrators Rabbi Aaron Fleksher, Mrs. Rivky Watman and Mrs. Estee Lightstone, the Insti-

tute is offering beginning and advanced sessions on iPad apps; Google Drive, Forms and Docs; Haiku Learning Man-agement System; iMovie; Screencast-ing; Voicethread; and Social Media apps among others. The SMART Board Notebook software workshops are being given through the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education.

This is an incredible opportunity for HALB teachers of all subjects to ex-pand their educational toolkit and expe-rience the potential for the teaching and learning in the classroom. Last summer, over 75 faculty members – from K-12 – attended 200 workshops. We look for-ward to a strong turnout once again!

HALB Summer Educational Technology Institute: Mastering 21st Century Tools

Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s Gradua-tion Class of 2019 had their first offi-cial MAY activity last Thursday eve-ning. At the annual Freshmen Orien-tation Dinner, the incoming freshman met each other, their Rabbeim, and the hanhalah of the Yeshiva. They had their first taste of the tremendous ach-dus and camaraderie enjoyed by their more senior schoolmates.

Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, Menahel, opened the program explaining the difference between elementary school and high school and the expectations of Mesivta bochurim. He reminded the boys that regardless of which one of the 13 different elementary schools they represented, they were now Me-sivta Ateres Yaakov talmidim.

Students also heard from Gener-al Studies Principal Rabbi Sam Ru-dansky, who gave an overview of the General Studies department, from Rab-bi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel/Principal, who discussed the myriad extracurricular activities available at the Mesivta and the Mesivta’s focus on college readiness, and from Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz, Mashgiach Ruchani, who addressed the primacy of limud haTorah at the Mesivta and the focus on growth in Torah and yiras shomay-im. Representatives of the Mesivta Stu-dent Government were in attendance and addressed the incoming talmidim as well.

Rabbi Yaffe remarked, “We be-lieve that it is healthy for the incom-ing freshman class to get together to meet each other now, before the new year starts with all of its hectic new

experiences. In this way, they become accustomed from the outset to the fact that MAY talmidim are one cohesive unit. The orientation dinner was a great start and I was exceedingly impressed with the great middos of our entering students. I expect that this cohort will distinguish themselves in our yeshiva and be sources of pride to their families and Klal Yisrael.”

As a component to this inaugural event for the class of 2019, Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, the Mesivta’s new Direc-tor of Student Activities, directed a team-building activity to engender ca-maraderie among the new class. Boys were arbitrarily split up into groups and given a bag of random items with which they were tasked to build one of the keilim of the Bais HaMikdash. The creativity soared, the competition mounted and new friendships were built. The menorah, the mizbeiach and the kiyor were just some of the proj-ects that were completed within the 10 minute timeline. Winners will receive free breakfast at the beginning of next z’man.

Concluding the program, pictures were taken of each student with the Menahel as they received their summer assignments in both limudei kodesh and limudei chol and wished each other a good summer.

MAY Class of 2019 Has Arrived

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In the last two weeks, Yeshiva Ket-ana Zichron Chaim U’Bina has been the scene of a whirlwind of activity in its general studies programs.

On June 1, the seventh graders held their second science fair of the year. Besides for our winning entries

on density, dry ice and popcorn’s ab-sorption of liquid, Shragi Harris led a group of boys in a fascinating study on “Who can hear sounds of different pitches?” It was humbling to hear that people of a certain age can no longer hear many sounds in pitches that were

easy to hear when we were teenag-ers. One more reminder of the joys of old--or middle--age.

On June 4, Mrs. Gruza and Mrs. Bernstein took their students on an informative and interactive visit to the Queens Botanical Gardens. As a

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On June 10, Mrs. Susan Bernstein’s second graders had a great deal of fun with their book reports, entitled “Book in a Bag.” The boys dressed up as characters who might have stepped out of their novels in order to regale us with the story of the book they were in-habiting. As each child related a short summary and critique of a novel, the audience of parents and fellow students sat attentively. The yeshiva thanks Mrs. Bernstein and all the parents who helped make the afternoon a delightful one.

Our fifth grade state fair was held on June 15. The fifth graders had sent away to the chambers of commerce in the states they had chosen to cull in-formation on their states such as tour-ist attractions, populations, geography and current events. The students also researched current events as well as historical events, with a concentration on the Jewish history. They then wrote up their reports and created gorgeous showboards. On June 15, the boys brought in visual aids along with their showboards and taught our younger students all about their states. One es-pecially interesting showboard, execut-ed by Akiva Bolsom, highlighted the halachic discussion of Shabbos zmanim in Akiva’s state of Alaska.

In this past week, our pre-1As held their ABC parties. Our parents found out how their young sons learn and play when they squeezed themselves into small chairs and engaged in typi-cal pre-1A activities that celebrated the alphabets that their boys had recently mastered. Especially interesting was noting that in one class a full third of the class had fathers participating in the ABC party because moms were at work. Wonderful role models, all.


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Congratulations to all the students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School who par-ticipated in the Math Olympiads. Thir-ty five students (a HANC record!) in 4th-6th grade participated in the Math Olympiads this past school year and all 35 were honored at the annual Awards Breakfast. Each of these students made a special commitment to the further-ance of their math education by learn-ing “extra” math in the morning with Math Olympiad advisor Mrs. Spitalnik.

Eleven students earned a Math

Olympiad patch for ranking in the top half of all the participants in the U.S., and Gaby Lovy, a 6th grader, earned a silver pin for scoring in the 10% of the country! Gaby also won a trophy as the overall HANC leader. Yaron Rahmani scored the highest amongst the fourth graders, Eli Nenner scored the highest amongst the fifth graders, and Moshe Wieder came in second place for the sixth graders.

We are so proud of all our students for their hard work and dedication to learning!

Math is Fun

The Orchos Tzaddikim differentiates between two kinds of worry. One type of worry concerns worldly matters. Re-garding such worries, one is advised to minimize them as much possible and ask for Hashem’s help to give them to have the strength to endure. The other type of worry regards that over the future in the World to Come. The Orchos Tzaddikim gives such a person a bracha that Hash-em should add worry to his worrying. This is to say that such worries are help-ful and worthwhile.

In Mishlei it says that a person who is always afraid is praiseworthy. The fear that King Shlomo refers to in his Sefer Mishlei is the worry that a person can have that even if he currently is righ-teous, he might fall into sin one day. Yaa-kov Avinu was told by Hashem that he would be guarded wherever he went, and yet even still he was constantly afraid, scared that he might come to sin. Even though he had a guarantee from Hashem

for protection, he knew that there was still a benefit to worrying which would lead to him being extra careful, specif-ically in matters pertaining to the next world. Dovid Hamelech was complete-ly righteous, but he was always worried that he might not come to experience that which is set aside in the Next World for the tzaddikim. He feared that maybe his deeds found fault in Hashem’s eyes and would not be deemed acceptable.

We see how these individuals who were considered to be far holier than those in our generation were constant-ly worried if their actions measured up and if they were worthy of attaining the Next World. We, who are so far removed from their level, sometimes assume that we have the World to Come in our laps. We figure it’s coming to us as we com-pare ourselves to the world around us. It does not take much to be set apart from the world around us, which degenerates at such a rapid pace. Yet while it’s true

that we may be safely able to consider ourselves living a more spiritual life than those nations around us with their im-morality, this hardly means that we have lived up to our potential and capability.

We are not just judged on our ap-proach and accomplishments in this world compared to the other nations of the world not living by Torah ideals, but we are being judged based on who we are and who we have become compared to who we can possibly be. We can truly never feel complacent and confident that we have done all that we can and have achieved our complete potential. The next world will be the time to relax, but here is the time to accomplish and we have a big job ahead of us. Achieving our potential starts with recognizing our strengths and working to utilize them to serve our Creator.

Let’s put a focus on this for our mar-riage as well. Take the time to figure out what we can to bring into our marriage

that which we have not done already. What about our easygoing personality can we use to make our marriage feel special? Or maybe it’s our talkative na-ture that can be used to add more spice to our dinner conversations together with our spouse. Think of how we can strengthen our marriage by working with the strengths we already have, and take the time to worry enough to care to make our marriage all it can possibly be.

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

Five Towns Marriage Initiative Working with the Strengths we Have

It takes years to build up the finan-cial savvy to navigate the stock market, but Sruli Guttman is clearly ahead of the game. He came in as the individual first place winner for Nassau County in the SIFMA Foundation’s 2015 Long Island Stock Market Game. The SIFMA stock market competition is open to all high schools on Long Island. Sruli Guttman, Daniel Iliyasayev, Coby Neumann, Ja-cob Fuld, Akiva Sasson, and Jesse Katz, under the guidance of their outstanding and dedicated teacher, Mrs. Shera Chu-bak, learned how to evaluate stocks by doing research on how to decide how many shares to buy and when to sell.

Their team, representing HAFTR High School, came in as number one in the competition surpassing over 35 other high school teams!

All team members and their teach-ers were invited to a congratulatory ceremony at the Garden City Hotel, where medals were awarded and Sru-li delivered the acceptance speech for HAFTR High School. It was a true kid-dush Hashem in the way that the boys represented themselves and their yeshi-va. The boys proved that even the most challenging of goals is attainable with diligent work, patience and team spirit.

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The eighth grade of Yeshiva Darchei Torah enjoyed a graduation trip rafting down the Lehigh River in the Poconos


As a culmination of the 2014- 2015 Madraigos Guys Lounge season, week-ly participants enjoyed a barbecue at Madraigos and a Mets vs. the Blue Jays game. The exciting game, which went into extra innings, ended with the Mets winning on a walk-off single in the bot-tom of the 11th. A special highlight was when the Mets welcomed Madraigos on the scoreboard. One Lounge par-ticipant described the evening as “the best night ever!” The evening was a celebration of a successful year at the Lounge and the growth that everyone demonstrated. “It really was a special night to go along with a truly special year,” commented Yehuda Alcabes,

LMSW, CASAC-T. The Lounge is open three nights a

week, with separate nights for boys and girls. Each night has a different demo-graphic with a unique focus that meets

the specific needs of the participants. While The Lounge continues to focus on our youth at-risk, Madraigos has ex-panded their programming to include programs specifically designed for lo-cal teens and young adults who are en-rolled in mainstream yeshiva programs without any significant social or emo-tional issues.

The Lounge provides weekly fun and great food while offering a ven-ue to engage in valuable discussions with trained social work staff. Group discussions on relevant topics are thought-provoking and empowering. The goal is to highlight the strengths of participants and allow their opin-

ion to be heard and received. Through the genuine interest shown to each and every participant, members feel they have someone who they can approach on anything from daily struggles to major crises. These relationships have a profound effect on the participants, giving them confi-dence and belief in themselves. Youth have a place where they can relax, feel safe, and grow at

the same time.Madraigos is looking forward to the

guys returning to The Lounge next year and welcoming many new participants for the 2014-15 season. Madraigos

wishes all graduates well in their future endeavors. For more information about The Guys Madraigos Lounge, please contact Yehuda Alcabes at (516)371-3250 or visit www.madraigos.org.

Even though schools are out of for the summer, Madraigos continues to offer youth programming in our new GNO – GUYS NIGHT OUT. Directed by Eli Press, GNO is planning excit-ing trips and activities on Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting June 30th. To register, please contact Eli Press at (516)371-3250 ext. 9 or email [email protected].

Madraigos, a 501c-3 not-for-profit organization, offers a wide array of in-novative services and programs geared towards helping teens and young adults overcome life’s everyday challenges

one step at a time. Our goal is to pro-vide all of our members with the neces-sary tools and skills to empower them to live a healthy lifestyle and become the leaders of tomorrow.

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Seudas Praida of the 12th grade shiur in Mesivta Shaarei Chaim of Far RockawayPHOTO CREDIT: AKP PHOTOS AND BINYOMIN PERLSTEIN

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It is that time of year where students pack up their desks, clean out their lockers, and say goodbye to teachers and friends for the summer. For nurs-ery, kindergarten and grade 8 students, a new leg of their academic journey is about to begin. During the nursery school “moving-up ceremony,” stu-

dents’ families at YCQ were treated to a presentation depicting everything they learned from their morot throughout the year preparing them for kindergarten.

The kindergarten classes performed a play with singing and dancing for their families. The performance in-corporated all the different things their

morot taught them during the school year. They are very excited to begin grade 1 in the fall.

With family, friends, teachers and administrators look-ing on, the grade 8 students stood with pride in their caps and gowns as the received their di-plomas at the YCQ c o m m e n c e m e n t ceremony. Valedictorians Dina Inoya-tov and Jonah Rocheeld addressed the graduates and the audience with well-thought out dvrei Torah and words to their fellow classmates wishing success in their future endeavors. The saluta-torians, Mordechai Flamenbaum and Rachel Aranov, lead Tehillim to set the tone for the evening’s events. The boys’ choir under the direction of Rab-bi Moshe Hamel sang beautifully, and the girls performed dance routines led by their instructor, Mrs. Tzerel Gold-

schmiedt. Principal Rabbi Mark Lands-man and Assistant Principal General Studies Mrs. Lauren Golubtchik spoke to the students about their time here at YCQ and the privilege it had been watching them mature from small chil-dren beginning their education into the beautiful young men and women they have grown to be. They closed by wish-ing hatzlacha to the students in their chosen high schools and mazal tov to the parents who have supported them in all they do.

YCQ’s Graduating Classes

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The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) announced recently that Shulem Rosenbaum, an alumnus of the Lander College of Arts and Scienc-es-Flatbush (LAS), was a winner of the 2014 Elijah Watt Sells award bestowed upon the top scorers on the Uniform CPA examination.

The award is presented to indi-viduals who have a cumulative average score of above 95.5 on all four sections of the CPA exam on their first attempt. Rosenbaum was one of only six winners in New York State and is the second Touro student or alumnus to win the award.

“This is a truly extraordinary ac-complishment,” said Barry Bressler, dean of the undergraduate School of Business at LAS. “Of the 91,384 indi-viduals who took the test, there were just 60 candidates nationwide who were up to that standard. That’s about six out of 10,000, which is even better than the top one tenth of one percent.”

After he completed the multi-ple-choice section of the Financial Ac-counting and Reporting (FAR) exam, the first of the exam’s four sections, Rosenbaum, 29, said he believed that he had “hit it out of the ballpark.” His confidence wavered, however, during the task-based simulation section.

“I was devastated,” he said, think-ing that he had failed to receive a score of at least 75, the passing grade. “I was close to tears.”

His concerns were unfounded; he said he was “shocked to my core” to learn that he had received a score of 97. He was similarly successful for the other sections, scoring a 99 (the highest possible score) for Auditing and Attes-tation (AUD) and a 94 on the Regula-tion (REG) and Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) exams.

Rosenbaum did not take a direct path to accounting. He had a job teach-ing students with learning disabili-ties and eventually enrolled in Tou-ro’s School of Lifelong Education in Brooklyn before transferring to LAS, the school’s flexible schedule allowing

him to continue to work full time. He planned to become a lawyer, but when the economy took a turn for the worse he decided to major in accounting in-stead, though he still hopes to attend law school one day.

“I thought if I ever go into busi-ness on my own that I would know what I’m doing,” Rosenbaum said. “Accounting is the essence of business. It allows you to learn the fine principles of how to run a busi-ness and is definitely the best business un-dergrad degree.”

While he was a student at LAS, Rosenbaum was named a “Superior

Scholar” by the New York State Soci-ety of CPAs and graduated in 2013 with a 4.0 grade point average. He was hired by Roth & Company, a New York-based accounting firm, and received a promotion when the AICPA announced the results of the Uniform CPA Exam.

Rosenbaum grew up and still lives in Borough Park with his wife and four children, where he counts himself as a member of the Chasidic community. As the first in his family to pursue higher education, he said he hopes his award will help others like him realize the op-portunities available to them.

“There’s a certain perception among some that Chasidic people can’t get a good education and won’t be success-ful,” says Rosenbaum. “However, there are many successful Chasidic profes-sionals who took advantage of Tou-ro’s opportunity for a higher education which allowed them to overcome in-herent hurdles and challenges without compromising their values.”

LAS Alum Shulem Rosenbaum Wins Elijah Watt Sells Award for Top Performers on CPA Exam

One of the many wonderful things about being a sixth grade girl is that you and your classmates start turning 12 years old and celebrating becoming a bat mitzvah. In recognition and cel-

ebration of this important milestone, the sixth grade girls at HANC Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary Schoolhave been working on a year-long bat mitzvah curriculum.

Over the last few weeks, the students finished their curriculum by focusing on mitzvot special to women, including lighting candles and baking challah. The students crafted pages for each mitz-vah in their “Bat Mitzvah Scrapbooks”

and they made a beautiful project to go along with it. For candle lighting, the students created exquisite pearl-covered candlesticks, and for challah baking, the girls were privileged to have Mrs. Pearl

Baylus, noted speaker, visit and tell them special stories related to chal-lah and helped them bake their own challah. The students also celebrat-ed their Jewish Identity by do-

ing research about their Hebrew names and then making beautiful bracelets us-ing the Hebrew initials of their name.

The Bat Mitzvah program conclud-ed with a lunch program during which the students performed a song and dance spoke about the significance of their He-brew name while enjoying a delicious luncheon.

Mazal tov to all the students!

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Tomchei Shabbos Yad Yeshaya, founded in 1985, currently provides 285 local families with food before every Shabbos and every yom tov. The weekly packages include challah, grape juice, chicken, gefilte fish, potatoes, eggs, and more.

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By Dov LevyThe famous Woodbourne Shul at

457 Route 52 proudly announces the opening of its summer 2015 vacation season. The shul reopened to the public for weekends as of Shabbos Parshas Shlach, June 13th, and full services began on Wednesday of Parshas Chu-kas, June 24th. As always, the shul will provide the public with dozens of min-yanim round-the-clock, numerous shi-urim both daily and weekly, as well as light refreshments.

This unique blend of Torah, avodah and gemilus chasodim are the hallmark of the charismatic Rabbi Mordechai Jungreis shlit”a, Niklesburg Rebbe. Beginning in 2010, the Rebbe revital-ized the decaying building and trans-formed it into a booming center of life servicing the entire Sullivan County and beyond.

The Historic Congregation Bnai Is-rael building has become a major draw for summer vacationers looking to grab a minyan and a bite on the go. Of course, there are many, many regulars as well. Under the magnetic leadership of Rabbi Jungreis shlit”a, the 93-year-old building, now listed on the Nation-al Register of Historic Places, has been brought back to life as tens of thou-sands of people pass through its doors each summer.

From its humble beginnings in 2010 when the Rebbe hung up a sign announcing “Minyanim Going on Now!” the shul has grown exponen-tially with each passing season. The naysayers who politely told the Rebbe his idea was crazy and the plan would never get off the ground were quickly

proven dazzlingly wrong. Last year major renovations were undertaken as the shul threatened to collapse under the strain of so many worshippers. Re-strooms were added to relieve the long lines that can form at busier time (es-sential at all times…) and floor beams shored up and replaced.

Despite his incredible devotion and exhaustive efforts, Rabbi Jungreis sees himself not as the shul’s rabbi but more as a gabbai, a steward who oversees the public domain. “This is not my shul—it’s your shul, it’s everyone’s shul. This is Klal Yisroel’s shul!” Indeed, the trademark sign hanging on the large menorah outside greets every arrival with a cheerful “All Are Welcome!” The Rebbe’s legendary warmth is part of the very fabric of the shul. Many people openly admit that they visit the Bnai Israel chiefly to experience meet-ing the Rebbe and enjoy his heartfelt blessings.

As in previous years, the shul will be open for full services from early morning until after the last Maariv—usually 2 AM or later. You can also enjoy a bite, cold and hot drinks, Daf Yomi shiurim, and the delicious Thurs-day night cholent along with the equal-ly enthralling weekly shiur by the in-imitable Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss. Don’t forget to stop and say hello to the Rebbe and receive his affectionate blessings!

As we go to the press, the exciting news broke that a deal has been suc-cessfully concluded to purchase the lot adjacent to the shul! After years of talks, in recent weeks a benevolent lawyer generously offered his help and

negotiated a closing on behalf of the shul with the non-Jewish owner.

Hopefully, we will benefit from this development immediately as the addi-tional property will allow for extending the kitchen and other facilities. More

significantly, the addition of this lot opens up the opportunity for expand-ing the shul to accommodate the ev-er-growing crowd of worshippers and visitors in future summers.

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Keeping Jerusalem United With Jewish Life: Celebrating the 36th Anniversary of Ateret Cohanim

(L-R)Josh Frumkin and father Dr. William Frumkin, 6th generation descendent of Israel, Dov Frumkin, founder of the Yeminite Village in the Silwan; Guests of Honor Mati Dan HaKohen, Founder & Chairman of Ateret Cohanim, and wife Etya; Dr. Gail Frumkin Notovitz, 6th generation descendent of Israel Dov Frumkin; Shani Hikind, Executive Vice President, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim; Drora and Dr. Paul Brody, Executive Council Member, who introduced the Frumkin family to Ateret Cohanim; Dr. Joseph Frager, Chairman Executive Council

Dynamic guest speaker Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, holding Israeli flag, who captivated the large crowd at the gala Dinner celebrating the 36th Anniversary of Ateret Cohanim, is flanked by (from left) Councilman Bruce Blakeman; Shani Hikind, Executive Director, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim; Founder & Chairman Ateret Cohanim, Mati Dan HaKohen; Executive Council Member Dr. Paul Brody (holding flag); Chairman, Exec. Council, Dr. Joseph Frager; Chairman JCCWatch, Richard Allen; and long-time Ateret Cohanim supporter, Simon Falic.

(L-R) Dr. Paul Brody, Executive Council Member, American Friends Ateret Cohanim; D. Bernard Hoenig, Esq. and wife Ann, Ohev Yisrael Awardees; keynote speaker Amb. John Bolton; guests of honor Mark and Naomi Rubin of Lawrence celebrating the Chanukat HaBayit of Beit Rubin in the heart of the Old City of Yerushalayim; Chairman, Exec. Council, Dr. Joseph Frager; Dinner Coordinator & V.P, Mel Wadler; and long-time supporter Simon Falic of Miami Beach.

When the month of June rolls around, most high school students are gearing up for written exams in the form of finals and/or regents. The business law class at Ezra Academy does take a written exam, but their performance grade is generally the one most of the class focuses on. The class has an intra-mural event in which teams play in ex-temporaneous trials composed of three people per team. The top four teams ad-vance to a semi-final round and the top two teams advance to the finals.

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As in years past, the Sloatsburg Rest Area on the NY State Thruway will be available this summer; first week of prayers will open Thursday June 25, 2015 as a convenient Mincha/Maariv location on Thursday evenings for those travelling upstate. The area is located on the northbound side of the New York State Thruway, between exits 15A and 16. Community leaders, askonim, have been working tirelessly together with NY State Police and the Thruway Authority to ensure that the area will be available for those seek-ing tefilla b’tzibbur on their way to the mountains.

Community leaders Rabbi Bernard Freilich, Rabbi Abe and Joel Fried-man have met with captains of the State Police and Thruway Authority to establish the ground rules and prepare the area. Rabbi Abe Friedman, a com-munity leader and Law Enforcement Chaplain, said, “We are grateful to the authorities for allowing us to use this public area. The public is asked to obey all the rules. It’s a tremendous opportu-nity for our community to make a true kiddush Hashem.”

Minyanim at the Mincha/Maariv area will begin at 5:00 and will go on until 11:30 PM on Thursdays. Thruway personnel, along with Rabbi Abe and Joel Friedman, will be personally su-pervising the area during those times. Their late father, a noted leader, Rabbi Morton Friedman, a”h, began the tra-dition many years ago and his sons are now proud to be able to continue his legacy. The designated area is named “Tfillas Mordche” in his honor.

According to Rabbi Friedman, “If everyone cooperates with the simple rules listed below, we will be able to maintain utilizing the area for a long time to come.”

The public is asked to obey the fol-lowing rules:

1. All vehicles should be parked on the upper level of the parking lot only. The upper level has been designated as the minyan area as it is more private and will not disturb other travelers.

2. The Sloatsburg area is to be used for prayer only. The selling of food or merchandise will not be tolerated. So-licitations of tzedaka (collection for charity) will not be allowed. A Thru-

way inspector will be present at all times to enforce rules.

3. Never leave young children un-attended in a vehicle, even just for a moment. They should be supervised at all times.

4. Vending machines filled with ko-sher food will be available on the upper

level of the building.5. Slow down and proceed with

caution when approaching upper-deck area. Yield to pedestrians when parking your vehicle.

Wishing you all a safe and enjoy-able summer!

Sloatsburg Minyan Area Opens This Week


YLX: The YID Learning Experi-ence, a year-round learning program for local yeshiva high school boys, was founded by Rabbi Aryeh Dachs and Rabbi Elchonon Kuritsky two years ago. Last summer they embarked on a new project: to create a night program for high school yeshiva boys who stay home for the summer. “We saw all these guys kind of just hanging around at nights. During the day most of them are busy working in day camps … but after around 3-4 o’clock they have noth-ing to do. We figured this could be a great opportunity to use this laidback summer atmosphere to reach and inspire these young people in a way that we simply cannot during the school year,” explains Rabbi Dachs.

Rabbi Aryeh Dachs and Rabbi Elcho-non Kuritsky are on a mission to expose high school boys to especially stimulat-ing, interesting, and thought-provoking sugyos. Their hope is that exposure to a unique and enjoyable learning experi-ence will make a strong impact on their relationship to Torah learning.

Aside from the preparation of the actual material they are determined to find exceptional chavrusos to keep their

participants engaged. Rabbi Kuritsky explains, “In learning, it’s crucial to have give-and-take – for the guys to ac-tually contribute and be involved in the process; only a good and experienced chavrusa can do that.”

Rabbi Dachs is quick to note that the learning material and exceptional chavrusos are not enough to draw teen-agers on summer vacation to come out at night. Many local food establishments including Traditions, Carlos & Gabby’s, Mike’s Burgers, and Pizza’le have part-nered with YLX and agreed to sponsor food to complement the learning. Food will be available nightly, and this year Seasons, continuing their renowned community service, agreed to sponsor a weekly barbecue. This barbecue will be held along with basketball on Thursday nights at Inwood Park. “We are com-mitted to the guys just enjoying them-selves too. We feel it is extremely ben-eficial for guys to get out of their house and get together for good, wholesome fun at night.”

Benji Terrebello a participant from Cedarhurst, sums up what it is that YLX has to offer. “They have a perfect bal-ance—the learning is serious but they

manage to keep the atmosphere chilled and inviting.”

Rabbi Dachs encourages even the most cynical teen to try it out and says, “Bottom line is I don’t recall a single person that did not enjoy themselves at YLX.” There is no charge for YLX and no registration or commitment is neces-sary.

Bais Medrash Heichal Dovid, un-

der the leadership of Rabbi Mordechai Stern, has generously opened their doors to YLX. YLX Summer will be held in their social hall every weeknight Monday thru Thursday from 8:00 – 9:30 pm beginning June 29th.

For more information, Rabbi Dachs urges you to contact him at [email protected] or call him at 410-258-5134.

YLX Gears Up for another Fantastic Summer

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By Elliot SchreiberIf you are like me, you are the kind of

person who has a hobby, and if you want to know what mine is, it’s credit card churning. Credit card churning is the “art” of applying for and receiving mul-tiple credit card approvals for their hefty sign-up bonuses for the purpose of earn-ing miles and points towards upcoming personal, business or family vacations and trips.

Say, for example, credit card X offers you an initial signup bonus of 50,000 air-line miles when you spend $2,000 within three months, and credit card Y offers you 30,000 hotel points when you spend $1,000 within the first three months. A churner would sign up for the first card, spend the necessary money to earn the bonus miles, put aside or cancel that first credit card, and then move onto the next card with the hotel points bonus offer.

Some background: many financial instructions and banks offer credit cards that come with significant signup bonus-es. They do so in order to encourage the public to use their credit card and there-by generate ongoing revenue due to its continuous usage. Churning credit cards is the method of using credit cards specif-ically for the signup bonuses and once those bonuses are earned, moving onto the next offer and bonus, and essentially discarding the card for later use.

Credit card churning is so popular that there are a number of educational fo-rums, blogs and even a Frequent Travel-er University that are geared towards helping people understand how to churn credit cards towards specific travel goals. I attended one in Washington, DC, last year, and I can personally tell you there was close to a thousand people in atten-dance at the two-day event.

In fact, during this past year alone, due to my churning habits, I have flown to Florida on more than 20 occasions and each time did not have to pay out of pock-et for my flights and hotel stays using the miles and points I generated to cover the cost of my trips. And in addition to

covering the cost of my Florida trips this past year, I took an anniversary trip with my wife and traveled to Las Vegas, and due to unfortunate family circumstances, flew as well with my extended family to Los Angeles, and on both occasions did not pay for my airfare and hotel stay.

The banks are pretty lenient when it comes to allowing consumers to apply for multiple credit cards and don’t re-strict the bonus offers on the continuous usage of the credit card. However, very recently, Chase bank has decided to do otherwise.

Less than two weeks ago, Chase is-sued a new approval policy, and you’d be surprised to learn their policy revision did not have anything to do with one’s credit score, debt-to-income ratio or length of credit history. Chase’s policy change dealt specifically with consum-ers who had opened five or more credit card accounts across all banks (not just Chase credit cards!) over the past two years, stating anyone who applied for multiple cards during this team period would be denied for specific Chase cred-it cards, namely Chase cards that qualify for Chase Ultimate Rewards points.

A popular blogger with more than twenty thousand followers verified this new policy with a Chase representa-tive who stated, “If you’ve opened 5 or more new credit card accounts with any bank over the past 24 months you will NOT be approved for a Chase branded card.”

So it looks like for the time being, consumers like me will no longer be al-lowed to churn, earn and burn Chase Ul-timate Reward credit card offers.

The cards included in this new policy are:

• Chase Freedom• Chase Ink Cash• Chase Ink Plus• Chase Sapphire Preferred• Chase SlateI expected Chase to start cracking

down on bonus offer freebies, as Chase is known for their strict financial poli-

cies, and individuals and business have reported having their personal and busi-ness bank accounts shut down due to in-ternal regulating policies that Chase rep-resentatives ultimately never discloses. So it’s no secret that Chase is taking the lead in restricting consumers from open-ing cards purely for the sake of earning credit card bonuses, which ultimately cost Chase money. I guess the $25 bil-lion bailout of taxpayer funds during the financial crisis and the approximate-ly $3.1 billion returned to shareholders in the first quarter of 2015 wasn’t and isn’t enough money for executives and share-holders at the financial behemoth.

The good news is that as of yet, Chase hasn’t restricted the policy to co-branded credit cards, which are cards with specific mileage or point programs, that are backed by Chase Bank. So for the time being, this policy change does NOT seem to apply to other Chase cards, including:

• Chase British Airways• Chase Fairmont• Chase Hyatt• Chase IHG

• Chase Marriott Rewards Premier (Personal)

• Chase Marriott Rewards Premier (Business)

• Chase Ritz-Carlton• Chase Southwest Rapid

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Plus• Chase United MileagePlus

Explorer (Personal)• Chase United MileagePlus

Explorer (Business)• Chase United ClubBut it’s not farfetched to say that

Chase (and others) will eventually look to eliminate all churning opportunities that don’t benefit in their exclusive fi-nancial gain. When and if that happens, I’ll be looking for a new hobby. But I highly doubt the one I find to replace credit card churning will come close to being as lucrative….

Elliot Schreiber is the Director of Marketing at PEYD.

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Keeping Jerusalem United With Jewish LifeCelebrating the 36th Anniversary of Ateret Cohanim

Pic1: (L-R)Josh Frumkin and father Dr. William Frumkin, 6th generation descendent of Israel, Dov Frumkin, founder of the Yeminite Village in the Silwan; Guests of Honor Mati Dan HaKohen, Founder & Chairman of Ateret Cohanim, and wife Etya; Dr. Gail Frumkin Notovitz, 6th generation descendent of Israel Dov Frumkin; Shani Hikind, Executive Vice President, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim; Drora and Dr. Paul Brody, Executive Council Member, who introduced the Frumkin family to Ateret Cohanim; Dr. Joseph Frager, Chairman Executive Council

Pic2Dynamic guest speaker Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, holding Israeli flag, who captivated the large crowd at the gala Dinner celebrating the 36th Anniversary of Ateret Cohanim, is flanked by (from left) Councilman Bruce Blakeman; Shani Hikind, Executive Director, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim; Founder & Chairman Ateret Cohanim, Mati Dan HaKohen; Executive Council Member Dr. Paul Brody (holding flag); Chairman, Exec. Council, Dr. Joseph Frager; Chairman JCCWatch, Richard Allen; and long-time Ateret Cohanim supporter, Simon Falic.

pic3 Guests of Honor Mark and Naomi Rubin of Lawrence (standing 8th & 9th from left), celebrating the Chanukat HaBayit of Beit Rubin in the heart of the Old City of Yerushalayim, at the Ateret Cohanim Dinner, are flanked by their beautiful family (standing from left), and (standing from right) Dr. Paul Brody, Executive Council Member, American Friends of Ateret Cohanim; Chairman, Exec. Council, Dr. Joseph Frager; long-time supporter, Steve Adelsberg; Dinner Coordinator & V.P, Mel Wadler; long-time supporters Simon Falic and Saadia Shapiro, Esq.; keynote speaker Amb. John Bolton; and Chairman Mati Dan, guest of honor. Seated (L-R): D. Bernard Hoenig, Esq. and wife Ann, Ohev Yisrael Awardees; Executive V.P., American Friends, Ateret Cohanim, Shani Hikind; and Etya Dan, wife of Mati, guest of honor.

Pic4(L-R) Dr. Paul Brody, Executive Council Member, American Friends Ateret Cohanim; D. Bernard Hoenig, Esq. and wife Ann, Ohev Yisrael Awardees; keynote speaker Amb. John Bolton; guests of honor Mark and Naomi Rubin of Lawrence celebrating the Chanukat HaBayit of Beit Rubin in the heart of the Old City of Yerushalayim; Chairman, Exec. Council, Dr. Joseph Frager; Dinner Coordinator & V.P, Mel Wadler; and long-time supporter Simon Falic of Miami Beach.

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This is as much about reckless abandonment of the facts as it is doubletalk.

A Guide to the Perplexed

One can easily be perplexed by the Obama administration’s lack of accountability in their

ongoing negotiations with Iran to curb their nuclear program.

Marie Harf, the newly appointed State Department spokesperson for the Iran negotiating team, was asked at a press conference on May 21 about a recent New York Times report that Iran had increased its stockpile of enriched uranium by 20 percent over the past eighteen months. Harf replied that “our team read that story this morning and was quite frankly perplexed because the main contentions of it are totally inac-curate.” Harf, who called the report a “manufactured controversy,” also stated that “under the JPA (Joint Plan of Ac-tion) Iran can fluctuate its numbers in terms of its stockpiles. They can go up and down as long as at the end of the fixed date they are back down below a number.”

This statement contradicts White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest who stated on March 2 that the admin-istration has not only halted progress in the Iranian nuclear program but is “actually rolling it back in several key areas, including reducing and eliminat-ing their stockpile of highly enriched uranium.”

This is as much about reckless aban-donment of the facts as it is doubletalk. Since 2003, Iran has reneged on all the nuclear agreements it has signed.

According to Ernest Moniz, the nuclear scientist who is playing a key role in the international negotiations,

“The world failed to follow through on a tough agreement with Tehran a de-cade ago when Iran had less than 200 centrifuges and virtually no enriched uranium.” Added Moniz, “Iran now has

nearly 20,000 centrifuges and 10,000 kilograms of enriched uranium” (Chris-tian Science Monitor, 4/27/15).

What is perplexing is that the Obama Administration continues to negotiate with an entity which violates its word even as it negotiates. What is even more

perplexing is that the U.S. administra-tion is racing toward signing an agree-ment on June 30 when it has no means of verification as to what Iran possesses.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly acknowledged

that they do not have access to military sites, technology, and research in Iran that are critical to its development of nuclear weapons. The IAEA published a February 19 report documenting the

still unresolved concerns about Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons activity and possible military dimensions of their nuclear activities. According to the report, Iran has conducted clandes-tine operations at its Parchin Military Complex, southeast of Tehran, and at

other military sites which have never been accessible to its inspectors. This was even as the P5+1 group – the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Ger-many – continued to approach the late March deadline for a proposed nucle-ar agreement that would allow Iran to keep much of its nuclear infrastructure intact. Most disturbingly, it was report-ed on June 14 that the U.S. will drop its demand for information about the past military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program before signing an agreement. (Algemeiner, 6/14/15)

Recently, IAEA Director Yukiya Amano said Iran had responded to just one of a dozen inquiries related to the twelve technologies it is developing related to nuclear weapons. The IAEA “further corroborated” information in-dicating that Iran “has carried out activi-ties that are relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device” (Wash-ington Post, 3/24/15). Amano also stat-ed the IAEA has information that Iran

conducted experiments in a high explo-sive chamber at the Parchin Military Complex to which their inspectors have no access. On two occasions, according to Amano, they had been given access to a small portion of the complex. The IAEA “thinks” they have identified the rest of the “area.” Iran has declared 18 nuclear facilities and nine other loca-tions where nuclear material is used and that the IAEA cannot provide credible assurance about undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran and there-fore cannot conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is involved in peaceful activities.

If the IAEA has limited access to Iranian nuclear sites, what legitimacy is there to negotiations with the U.S. and the P5 over their nuclear program?

Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reiterated that Iran will not allow the inspection of its military sites or the interviewing of its nuclear scientists as part of any potential deal on its nuclear program (The New York Times, 5/21/15).

An agreement with a nation that has demonstrated no credibility whatsoever is soon to be finalized. It is perplex-ing that the administration continues to place its trust in its lead negotiator Wen-dy Sherman, whose failed efforts with North Korea allowed a rogue nation to develop nuclear weapons.

Most members of Congress see the folly of the current nuclear negotiations, as do the leaders of most Arab nations who are all too familiar with the dynam-ics of Iran and the Middle East. Former American Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, in a recent speech at Great Neck Synagogue, phrased the diplomacy in which the Administration is engaged as “delusional” (5/3/15.) Bolton stated, “The inability of the Americans to confront Iran has result-ed in twelve years of ineffective diplo-macy that have allowed the Iranians to deepen and broaden their nuclear infra-structure.”

That is truly perplexing.

Lynne Bursky-Tammam is Chairperson of the Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee. Larry Domnitch is an educator, author, and regular contributor to The Jewish Home.

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We all have fond memories of summer camp. Singing around the campfire, participating in

color war, developing lasting friend-ships, enjoying the fresh country air. But most of us have moved onwards. Sometime after we became staff mem-bers, we regretfully packed away our sweatshirts and went on to spend the summers working at a “real” job or per-haps going to school. Eventually, camp became a distant, fond memory.

But there are those among us who have made camping their calling. They’ve stayed in camp as Directors or Head Counselors or some other adult staff positions. They may already be parents and grandparents, but they’re still going to camp every summer.

What’s it like to be in camp after all these years? Here is what some Head Staff members told us:

It’s a Full Time JobIf you think that Camp Directors

start working in June and go on vaca-tion in September, you are mistaken.

“It takes us about a month to close up once camp is over,” says Rabbi Newman, Director of Camp Chaviva, “and then the day after Sukkos the phone calls for next season start com-ing in! It’s constant, constant, con-stant!”

Rabbi Yehuda Friedman, mainte-nance director at Bnoseinu and Camp Staff member, says he personally trav-els up to camp once a week all year long to supervise the security staff who are doing renovations throughout the year. Just last week, he drove up at the unearthly hour of 4:00 AM to meet a repairman at 7:00 about fixing a leak in the pool. “The people involved in camping,” he reveals, “put in tremen-

dous effort.” Binyomin Daiches, Assistant Direc-

tor at Camp Dora Golding, says, “Run-ning a successful program requires full time attention. Here’s just one example. Imagine when you make a family sim-cha how much time you spend on seat-ing arrangements. Now multiply that effort to assigning bunks to hundreds of kids for four or eight weeks. It’s a huge job!”

And Rabbi Ronnie Greenwald of Camp Sternberg agrees. Closing up a camp, he adds, is a huge undertaking. “We don’t just turn off the water,” he explains. “We need to turn off all the pipes. Then we have to move thirty or forty heavy picnic tables indoors. And a hundred and twenty garbage bins.”

The process, he says, depends upon the well-coordinated efforts of many staff members.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Once upon a time, campers were happy playing punch ball or hiking to a local park. Things have gotten consid-erably more sophisticated. Today the activities have a little more pizzazz and the trips are somewhat more exotic.

“Over the past few years,” says Alex Gold, Director of Camp Dora Golding, “we’ve introduced water rock climbing, aqua tri-cycling, and we’ve also built a professional football field and running track.”

Rabbi Friedman adds that camps

Camp Staff Give Insight into What Goes into a Wonderful Summer

BY MALKY LOWINGER

The Camp Experience

“It’s still four weeks of utopia – you and the stars and the sky. The stars haven’t changed in all these years.”

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105are becoming more “comfortable” than ever. Often, campers will have refriger-ators available to them. “When I grew up,” he recalls, “there wasn’t even air conditioning in the dining room.” To-day, it’s being installed in many bunk-houses at a considerable expense.

“There are more trips than ever,” adds Rabbi Newman, “and they bring in stuff like water slides for the kids to enjoy.”

Still, he says the main elements of camping remain constant and eternal. And those are the friendships that last a lifetime. “It’s still four weeks of utopia – you and the stars and the sky. The stars haven’t changed in all these years.”

According to Rabbi Greenwald, “We’re still on the same mission since we started so many years ago. And that is to develop a child’s self-esteem and maturity as well as her spiritual growth.

We still believe in that stuff,” the vet-eran camp director asserts.

Luxury or NecessityThere’s no way around it.

Camp is an expensive proposition. So much so that many parents decide that their children forego the experience entirely. With so many excellent and well-run day camps to choose from these days, is camping a luxury or a necessity?

“I believe,” says Alex Gold, “that sleepaway camp is the best thing you can offer your child. Yes, it’s a bit more expensive than day camp but the rewards that come with it are unpar-alleled. The skills that they acquire and the friendships they make – these are things money can’t buy.”

What Every Parent Should KnowAt camp, children have an opportu-

nity to broaden their horizons and meet new friends. “Get your kids out of Flat-bush!” says Rabbi Newman. “Don’t place them in a bunk with their school friends. Let them meet other kids from Denver, L.A., Baltimore, and Chi-cago. Let them meet kids from other neighborhoods. That’s what camp is all about!”

What about the homesick child? How does a parent respond when their kid is sobbing into the phone? “Look,” says Rabbi Newman. “All camps today are run by professionals who know what they’re doing. We’ve dealt with this before and ninety per-cent of the time they are just fine.” He adds that sometimes it happens that “your daughter calls home saying she’s miserable and meanwhile the counselor says she’s having the time of her life!”

Having said that, he also cautions parents to know their child. “There are kids who just don’t like camp,” he says.

“Don’t send them. J u s t

because you were a great camper back in the day doesn’t mean they’re going to love it. Please don’t force them and certainly don’t relive your own experiences through them.”

Alex cautions parents to “put on a strong front when saying goodbye to their kids. Avoid saying things like, ‘I’ll miss you so much, I don’t know what I’ll do without you.’ Instead, the parent should instill confidence by say-ing, ‘It may be a bit hard at first but I

am so proud of you. Just think of the great times you’ll have!’”

Dov Perkal of the Shma Camps has developed an innovative solution to help children adapt to camp. “We offer a three day experience,” he says, “where we give kids who’ve never been

in camp before an opportunity to join us for three days. They get a little

taste of what it’s all about and it creates a certain comfort level. Boruch Hashem, we’ve found that our success rate from this program is about 97 percent!” He adds, “It’s a great idea for

the kids, for the parents, for all of us!”

Fifty Six Days of TriageThere’s no downtime when you’re a

Camp Director. “I’m on shpilkes,” ad-mits Rabbi Newman, “from the minute those kids get up to camp until the last bus pulls out at the end of the summer. The achrayus is tremendous. I’m re-

sponsible for five hundred people. Sure we have a wonderful and responsible staff. But ultimately everything, from the plumbing to the trips to the chrain on Shabbos, goes to the Camp Director. The eight weeks are like fifty six days of triage. You’re constantly on. You never really rest.”

But he wouldn’t have it any other way. “You have to thrive on the energy

and the excitement,” Rabbi Newman says. “I’m a camp guy through and through.”

So is Rabbi Friedman. “I went from being a camper to a staff member to working in the camp system. I very much enjoy it here and one of the best fringe benefits is that it’s a great atmo-sphere for my family during the sum-mer. My kids love it, too.”

For Alex, it’s all about giving back. “I always loved camp as a child and made my best friends in camp. I wanted to give back what I gained from summer camp as a boy, and what better way than to run a camp?”

He admits, though, that it’s not all fun and games and the responsibility is enormous. “I basically don’t sleep for eight weeks straight as I’m always mak-ing sure everyone is safe and sound. When I get the call that the last bus ar-rived home safely I finally breathe.

“And that’s when I thank Hashem that it all worked out well.”

“The skills that they acquire and the friendships they make – these are things money can’t buy.”

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I don’t know how it is in the Five Towns or Queens, but here in Brooklyn folks seems remarkably

parsimonious with their Sabbatical salutations. In fact, over the past five years, I’ve kept track of how many people have said “Good Shabbos” to me without my having initiated it:

Sunday: 1 (Squeegee guy)Monday: 0Tuesday: 1 (Carlbachian Dude)Wednesday: 1 (collector on the

corner of East Broadway and Essex Street)

Thursday: 0Friday: 2Saturday (AKA Shabbos): 8My nephew, Dovid Stulman, who

is an actuary and is therefore very smart and probably knows more or less when I will meet my ultimate demise (I haven’t asked him; I’m not sure if

I want to know) informs me that over the course of five years, these statis-tical anomalies are insignificant. In other words, statistically speaking, just

as many people have said “Good Shab-bos” to me on Thursday as on Saturday (AKA Shabbos). Perhaps this warrants delving into. A good delve is almost always warranted, don’t you agree?

I’m sorry to report that in my expe-

rience, this lack of Shabbos etiquette tends to be most prevalent in my own home turf, e.g. the Borough of Kings. Seems to me folks were more apt to

greet me on the Sabbath during the 177 days in which I resided in Lawrence (wife #3). In fact, I found Lawrence to be quite warm and friendly in gener-al, even on a Tuesday. People seemed calmer somehow, more chilled. Per-sonally, I think there’s a direct cor-relation between one’s demeanor and one’s ability to find parking. And while there are times when Central Avenue can be a bit crowded, when it comes to parking, there ain’t nowhere on G-d’s green earth that’s as bad as the Big Three in Flatbush: Coney Is-land Avenue (specifically between J & K) and Avenues J and M. I live near Kings H i g h w a y , and that’s no picnic either. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your point of view), I have a handicapped parking permit because of my pul- monary limita-tions and finding somewhere to leave my car in Flatbush is still a pain in the neck.

I’ve always found geographical dif-ferences in peoples’ demeanors fas-cinating. What do I mean by that?

Glad you asked. Many years ago I went to Newport, Rhode Island, for Pesach. In Newport, if anyone sticks his little pinky toe into the street, traffic comes to a standstill. Literally. The second

you step off the sidewalk, whether or not you have the right-of-way, cars come to a complete halt. As opposed to Brooklyn where, if a driver sees you in the gutter, he’ll make sure to speed up so that he can make it through the intersection without having to deal with some pesky pedestrian.

I’ve never been to LA, but from what I’ve been told, people there pret-ty much walk around in these smiling semi-comas. Happy, laid-back and se-rene. Why? How? Don’t they know the Big One is coming??

But getting back to Shabbos. I think we Flatbushians (and Boro Park-ers, too) are simply spoiled. We don’t realize that this cloistered little enclave of frumkeit of ours is fairly unique on the planet. I’ll bet Jews in far-flung places like Milwaukee or Seattle, Dal-las or Atlanta greet each other heartily on Shabbos. Indeed, I once heard a CD of Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky wherein he discusses a young lady from At-lanta who was visiting Flatbush for a Shabbos. As she walked merrily down the street, she said “Good Shabbos” to every Jew she passed in her lilting southern drawl. After being ignored for the fifth or sixth time, she blurted

in frustration, “I’m sorry; I thought y’all were Jewish!”

My son-in-law Yehuda is a very unique individual. He’s one of my fa-

vorite people, mostly because he lives with

my daughter. But besides that, he’s

extremely bright, funny and has a rather unique way of looking at the world. Every once in a while he’ll try an experiment: he’ll walk down the street on a Shabbos afternoon and loudly, clearly, and cheerfully greet ev-eryone he passes with a heartfelt “Pa-jama!” I’ve been with him a few times during one of his pajama outings, and he always gets one of two reactions: either he’s ignored completely, or the he’ll get a mumbled “Good Shabbos” in response. Point being not a soul pays any attention to what’s being said to them.

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I moved back to my roots in Boro Park between wife # 2 and wife #3. That was a trip-and-a-half.

When I grew up there, my neighbors’ names were Nicky and Vinnie and Joey. These days, I’m pretty sure you won’t find a Vinnie anywhere north of 65th Street. Now it’s all Meilach and S’rool and Luzer.

My mom a”h lived on 50th Street between 12th and 13th till about a year before she was niftar in 2013. She was a veritable island of good, old-fashioned American-style Yid-dishkeit in a sea of shtreimlach. She was also very popular with friends and relatives alike who were spending the day shopping on 13th Avenue and were looking for a centrally located bath-room!

My apartment was on 57th Street between 14th and 15th Avenues. I didn’t want to daven in a heavy-du-ty chassidishe shtiebel, so I decided to go where I grew up, the Agudah of Fourteenth Avenue. Only it’s not on 14th Avenue anymore, it’s on 50th Street right off 16th Avenue. Whatev-er.

First week I walked there was an exercise in mixed feelings. While a wave of nostalgia did indeed sweep over me on my way to shul that first

Shabbos morning (I davened more lo-cally Friday night), I kept waiting for someone to acknowledge my presence while walking down Fifteenth Ave-nue. Ah nechtiger tugg. Not a soul. And that is not an exaggeration. So I started saying “Good Shabbos” first. I got a handful of murmured respons-es. So I upped my volume a bit. Fi-nally, when I was almost yelling and could no longer be ignored, I started getting some answers, albeit mumbled ones. What’s up with that?

Seems to me we all need to take a step back and start thinking a little more about bein adom l’chaveiroh. I always try to be dan l’kaf zechus. I figure whoever isn’t answering me is rushing to catch a minyan or a shiur or is late to pick up his kid from a Shabbos party. But it does get rather disheartening after a while. We have built these wonderful communities in which serving the Ribbono Shel Olam is less complicated than almost any-where on earth. Kosher food, kosher restaurants, shuls, shiurim, rabbonim to answer shailos, all a stone’s throw from your front door. Amazing. And the truth is we haven’t forgotten our neighbors! There are gemachs ga-lore, soup kitchens, and people being osek in vital local causes, providing services for others who might be less

fortunate. And yet somehow we seem to have forgotten the basics.

I’m reminded of the famous sto-ry about Harav Yaakov Kamenetsky, zt”l. While his children were sitting shiva after his petirah, a nun walked in. Needless to say, everyone in the room was somewhat taken aback. The nun went on to explain: “Being a nun in Monsey, I was pretty much ignored by most of the Jews I passed in the street. Except Rabbi Kamenetsky. He never failed to greet me with a smile and a pleasant hello. How could I not come and pay my respects to this won-derful man?” Talk about a kiddush Hashem!

Greeting someone b’sever panim yafot. Seems so easy, right? And it is! So next time you’re walking down Central Avenue or Bedford Avenue or Main Street on a sunny Shabbos after-noon, remember the Nike commercial and…just do it!

Rocky Zweig has been writing since he was sixteen and was the Editor-in-Chief of the late and decidedly unlamented Modieinu, the mimeographed (remember mimeographs?) newspaper of the Tenth Avenue Pirchei of Boro Park, where he wrote everything from stories to news ar-

ticles to hashkafa articles to...yes (now it can be told!)...letters to the editor. Rocky was sixteen a very long time ago. He is the proud father of three marginally neu-rotic children. He has been married three — count ‘em — three times and has final-ly determined that he’s probably not very good at matrimonial bliss. He lives in his Fortress of Solitude in Flatbush with a small menagerie: Clarice, a European Starling; Rabbi Horatio LeZard, a Beard-ed Dragon; an aquarium filled with Lake Malawi African Cichlids; and a ten gallon tank that functions as a Home for Unwant-ed Goldfish, or H.U.G., collected over the years by his grandkids and great nieces and nephews at myriad street fairs and carnivals (rather than face the unpleas-ant task of flushing these unfortunate pi-scine creatures when they are eventually, inevitably ignored by their own obnox-ious progeny, the parents simply call Un-cle Rocky who then feeds them and cares for them until their ultimate natural de-mise three or four or even ten years down the pike). So apparently Rocky seems to get along better with animals than with his fellow homo sapiens. Or sapienses. Or whatever.

Rocky’s column will be appearing ev-ery other week in The Jewish Home. Rocky can be reached at [email protected].

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Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn’t know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 + $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?

See answer on next page

Riddle!

On the Money

$ “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” -Oscar Wilde

$ “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”- Arnold Schwarzenegger

$ “Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” - Jackie Mason

$ “If you want to know what G-d thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.” - Dorothy Parker

$ “If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” - Benjamin Franklin

$ “It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.” - Kin Hubbard

$ “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” -Spike Milligan

$ “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” - Bob Hope

$ “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” - Earl Wilson

$ “Money often costs too much.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

$ “Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.” - Earl Wilson

A businessman was in a great deal of trouble. His business was failing, he had put everything he had into the business, he owed everybody—it was so bad he was even contemplating taking his own life. As a last resort he went to a rabbi and poured out his story of tears and woe.

When he had finished, the rabbi said, “Here’s what I want you to do: Put a folding chair and your Tehillim in your car and drive down to the beach. Take the chair and the Tehillim to the water’s edge, sit down in the chair, and put the Tehillim in your lap. Open the Tehillim; the wind will riffle the pages, but finally the open Tehillim will come to rest on a page. Look down at the page and read the first thing you see. That will be your answer; that will tell you what to do.”

A year later the businessman went back to the rabbi, bringing his wife and children with him. The man was in a new custom-tailored suit, his wife in a mink coat, the children shining. The businessman pulled an envelope stuffed with money out of his pocket and gave it to the rabbi as a donation in thanks for his advice.

The rabbi, recognizing the benefactor, was curious. “You did as I suggested?” he asked.

“Absolutely,” replied the businessman.“You went to the beach?”

“Absolutely.”“You sat in a chair with the Tehillim in your lap?”“Absolutely.”“You let the pages riffle until they stopped?”“Absolutely.”“And what were the first words you saw?”

“Chapter 11.”

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1. Which of the following is true about Alexander Hamilton, who is being taken off of the $10 bill and is being replaced by a to-be-determined female?

a. He was one of 39 signers of the U.S. Constitutionb. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury c. He created the First National Bankd. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, a British sympathizere. All of the above

2. Coins generally stay in circulation for 25 years. Match the following bills with their lifespan (according to the Federal Reserve):

3. What was the largest bill every printed?a. $1,000b. $5,000c. $10,000d. $100,000

4. If you laid down pennies in a line, how much money would it take to lay out 1 mile?

a. $96.25b. $244.17c. $844.80d. $2,323.60

5. What does “E Pluribus Unum” mean? (For all you “high rollers,” that phrase is printed on every $1 bill. When nobody is looking take one out of your pocket and see for yourself.)

a. One from manyb. One for all c. One is too littled. A nation of onee. One bill, many things to do with itf. Do not bend, gonna make it hard to stick in a vending machine and

get those pretzels you’re eyeing

6. Match the government’s per-coin cost for each of the following four coins:

7. According to a 2002 study published in the Southern Medical Journal, 94 percent of bills contained potentially disease-causing bacteria. How long can these bacteria remain on a bill for?

a. 3 hoursb. 17 hoursc. 3 daysd. 17 days

8. Parker Brothers prints $30 billion each year in Monopoly cash. How much cash does the U.S. government generally print per year?

a. $975 millionb. $5 billionc. $25 billiond. $70 billion

Answers:1. E2. 1-b, 2- c, 3-a, 4-f, 5-d,6-e3. D- In 1934, a $100,000 bill was printed. President Woodrow Wilson

was depicted on the bill. It was used between banks and never entered the general population currency.

4. C5. A6. 1-c, 2-d, 3-a, 4-b … that’s government my friends!7. D- That’s right, bacteria can stay on a bill for 17 days. Money may

not be able to buy you happiness, but it sure can buy you the flu!8. A- The U.S. government prints approximately $975 annually to re-

place warn out currency.

Scorecard:6-8 correct: You are on the money! Hey, if you are a female, maybe

you should audition for the $10 bill.3-5 correct: Being in the middleclass is not too shabby these days. 0-2 correct: Who needs that bacteria-carrying ugly green art any-

ways?! You seem to be doing really fine without it!

ANSWER TO RIDDLE: The $9 paid by each guest accounts for the $2 that went to the bellhop. The $27 is the room’s fee plus the bellhop’s money. If you add $27 plus the $3 kept by the guests, it adds up to $30.

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

Know Your Greenbacks Trivia

1. Penny A) 4.6 cents

2. Nickle B) 10.5 cents

3. Dime C) 1.8 cents

4. Quarter D) 9.4 cents

1. $1.00 A) 4.5 years

2. $5.00 B) 5.8 years

3. $10.00 C) 5.5 years

4. $20.00 D) 8.5 years

5. $50.00 E) 15.0 years

6. $100.00 F) 7.9 years

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Though differences are “par” for the course, we are meant to exist as one, to create unity and harmony, peace among the paradoxical.

Yehudit Bat-Ayin

Torah Thought

Parshas ChukasA Parah-dox

Parshat Chukat. A chok. No joke. But certain-ly…a riddle. A riddle which we actually read all about twice yearly, in this parsha, and ear-

lier in one of the four important extra parshaot. And so, as many a parsha sheet has queried, we ask, “How is it, that the identical matter can be capable of both—purifying the tameh while ‘tameying’ the pure?”

Yes, Parah Adumah, the completely red, young, unworked heifer. This mystifying mitzvah matter, when blended and burned along with an incompre-hensible addition of ingredients, creates a perplexing potion with the ability of at once purifying the tameh, the ritually unpure, while simultaneously rendering unpure the kohen who sprinkles it, as well as others involved in its preparation.

And the answer (not provided on those same par-sha sheets): it’s a parah-dox!

Ouch! But once your ears have adjusted to the painfully parah-ly parsha pun, perhaps you will con-sider the seriousness of the fact in a pair of points.

One. It is in fact a paradox, one of those brain-tickling

facts pondered by the puzzlers among us. If the cover of this illustrious magazine were to state, “All new and improved methodically researched content,” while in-side its pages, each article claimed, “Cover story cov-er-ups. All lies!” some of us might go back and forth wondering which could be true. One? Neither? Both? How?

Most of us, though, comprehend, that this is a world of paradoxes. The same food that tastes soooooo goooood, is bad for us. The more expensive moisturizer causes wrinkles. The parent, who spends little time with her children, has only nachat from them, while unfortunately the reverse may be true for the one who strives to practice the perfect parenting pointers.

But particularly, as, we have long known … ours is a nation of paradoxes. We are told to give ma’aser so that we may become rich. Though counterintuitive, the more we give, the more we receive. As a nation we have been persecuted throughout the generations, yet have risen to the greatest of heights in every field, as well as in character. We can be both, as it states in next week’s parsha, “Am l’vadad yishkon u’ba’goyim lo yischashav, a nation that dwells alone, not considered by the nations,” as well as, “V’yashev Yisroel l’betach badad,” living secure alone.

And ours is a land of paradoxes… In this land, outnumbered by enemies who seek to destroy us, we are magnificently victorious, “Rabim b’yad me’atim,” many falling in the hands of few. We let the land lay fallow every seven years, resting so that it may in-crease in bounty.

There are some paradoxes where one reality dis-counts the other, while some where two opposing realities exist simultaneously. Such is our nation. “Yisroel oraisah kudsha brich hu chad hu.” A nation, the Torah, the Holy one Blessed be He, are one. And,

“Shivim panim laTorah.” This oneness is multifaceted.Yet paradoxical does not mean hypocritical. We

are not meant to profess, “Do as I say, not as I do.” We are not meant to learn Torat emet while practicing oth-

erwise. We cannot say in every one of our tefilot, “Oh, build for us our holy Yerushalayim,” while b’mheirah rushing to procure the best contractor for building our summer resort mansion.

Though differences are “par” for the course, we are meant to exist as one, to create unity and harmony, peace among the paradoxical, particularly within our precious people.

Two.The second response to this notable question is that

the question itself requires reframing. The Parah Ad-umah does not in fact cause the pure to become tameh. One may touch it, toss it, or be sprinkled with it with no consequence. It is only when one is involved in purifying another with the ashes of the Parah Adumah that he is rendered figuratively “unclean,” and then only until nightfall.

I believe that it is crucial that we comprehend this reality. All that is good, even purely and sublimely so, has its cost. Imagine the man who oversleeps one morning, misses his minyan, his shiur, and his daily Starbucks, along with the 8:00 train to get him to the World Trade Center on “time,” for what he expects to be work. Imagine this man, a month after 9/11 be-moaning the daf ha’yomi that he missed. It is that

missed daf for which he is grateful. It is davka the lack that caused the gain.

Yet we do it all the time. “Oh, remember that de-licious squash and watermelon that we ate in Mitzray-im?” Or here in Israel, from where I write, I hear, “Remember how poooooliiiite everyone was in New York?” Helloooooo. Reality check. You are on your way to the land of ultimate good. You have been en-slaved. And now you are free. Free to think objective-ly, rationally, and appreciatively.

We know this, those of us who joyously spit the pits of the sweetest of cherries. We cherish this, those who do not bemoan dirty diapers or nighttime wake up nudges. We pinch ourselves as we count and recount our blessings, “She’hecheyanu l’zman ha’zeh.” Each knot and overlap on the back of our tapestry is neces-sary for the magnificent artwork we can display.

We look out at the awesome blessing of Eretz Yisrael to which “shavu banim l’gvulam.” And even as we read this parsha and contemplate reinstating a most enigmatic mitzvah, we see all around us the ful-fillment of the nevuot in the return to our home, the joyous song in the mountains of Yehudah, and the streets of Yerushalayim. Though, within all that we see is all that we cannot begin to comprehend, even in the daily pain, we are aware of being part and parcel of an overwhelmingly miraculous process.

Perhaps this process is alluded to as we grapple with the Parah Adumah, the tameh and tahor, pure and impure, life and death, time for war and time for peace. Shall we be able to select for ourselves, within the confusion of opposing realities, the choices that lead us to life? Shall we be able to use our time, en-ergies and resources for the good that is truly good, not just sweet tasting? Shall we perhaps even see, when our highly recommended contractor botches the job, that perhaps this may be part of the “niknet be’yesurims” that lead us to ultimately build our true homes?

It is said that when Mashiach arrives, we will re-ceive a Parah Adumah. I’d like to posit that in order to “get” a Parah Adumah, we have to get the Parah Adumah. We have to be able to hold opposing realities in our minds and hearts, ours, and those of our equally legitimate brothers, who too strive for truth and pu-rity, simply from a differing vantage point. We have to be able to see what is around us, the goodness and the challenges of our times, without our heads in the sand. We have to appreciate the magnificent bounty with which we have been blessed, while using it and all of our potential to correct what we can.

And then … in this, “Eretz asher ar’eka,” in this “land that I will show you,” more and more will grad-ually be revealed. The conundrums will be compre-hended, the paradoxes plain.

And … with the fulfillment of “Y’varechicha Hashem m’Zion u’re’aih b’tuv Yerushalayim” we will be able to see clearly, and as with a finger point with no ambiguity, “Ahhh! Zos chukat haTorah!””

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Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Chukas

Torah Thought

Being able to destroy an enemy by pronouncing a holy word – the name of G-d, so to speak – is a completely different and supernatural event.

Over all of the millennia since the incident described in this week’s parsha regarding

Moshe striking the rock instead of speak-ing to it, the great commentators to To-rah have struggled to make this incident more understandable and meaningful to us ordinary mortals. At first glance, the punishment does not seem to fit the crime. Because of this, many of the com-mentators have seen the incident of hit-ting the rock instead of speaking to it not as an isolated incident, but rather as the straw that broke the camel’s back, so to speak.

Maimonides explains it as the accu-mulation of incidents where Moshe al-lowed human anger to overtake his other-wise unquestioned loyalty and obedience to G-d’s word.

Abarbanel also sees it as the culmina-tion of preceding events in the life and ca-reer of Moshe. Other commentators, such as Rabbi Meir Simcha Cohen of Dvinsk, Latvia, hesitant to place the entire burden of this strange incident on Moshe alone,

attributes the fact that Moshe would not lead the Jewish people into the land of Israel as being not so much a punishment of Moshe but a reality that for this new generation of Jews. They never experi-enced Egypt and since they saw Moshe as a distant almost supernatural person-ality, Moshe could no longer be effective as the leader of Israel.

The incident described in this week’s parsha is the catalyst for his not entering the Land of Israel, but not really the true cause of his exclusion from further lead-ership of the people. In effect, this lat-ter line of thinking portrays Moshe, the greatest of all humans, as being subject to the grinding gristmill of generation-al history and events. However we will

deal with this incident, it will always re-main rationally perplexing to us.

There is a debate amongst the think-ers and scholars of Israel as to whether the youthful Moshe is to be held blame-less for slaying the Egyptian taskmaster. Rashi points out to us that Moshe slew him by the use of his tongue, pronounc-ing the ineffable name of G-d, so to speak. Moshe then came to realize the power of words, especially of holy and sacred words.

That is why he composed the final book of the Torah in order that those holy words would have an eternal and power-ful effect in guiding and teaching all later generations of the Jewish people. Being able to kill someone with a stick, a spear,

a gun or a bomb is unfortunately a nat-ural and everyday occurrence in human life. Being able to destroy an enemy by pronouncing a holy word – the name of G-d, so to speak – is a completely dif-ferent and supernatural event. Perhaps this is the basis for understanding the punishment of Moshe for hitting the rock instead of speaking to it. Hitting the rock, miraculous as it may seem to some, will be interpreted by others as somehow be-ing natural and ordinary, a magical trick.

Hitting the rock employs man-made tools and thus when human action is in-volved the presence of G-d is often hid-den, if not even disregarded. Speaking to the rock, like speaking to the Egyptian taskmaster in holiness and faith, is not subject to rational interpretation. That would have been the supreme sanctifi-cation of G-d’s presence, so to speak, in human events. And, alas, perhaps therein lies the shortcoming that Heaven saw in Moshe’s response to the lack of water in the desert for the Jewish people.

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Basil is not your typical kosher dairy restaurant. In place of where you would expect to find

the typical quick-service or casual pizza joint or traditional Italian-style restaurant, Basil redefines the kosher dairy dining experience as one of ul-timate, sophisticated, artistic gastronomy. It is an excellent restaurant that “just happens to be ko-sher” and not a kosher restaurant that “just hap-pens to be excellent.” Under the helm of executive chef Jose Edgardo Soto, Basil prepares the fresh-est, most superb food found in Brooklyn—kosher or not. By incorporating the principles of art with the complex science of cooking, Soto has created a menu that combines modern food concepts with traditional technique, full of contemporary dishes that are mind-bogglingly good.

A native of Crown Heights, Soto makes it his goal to give back to his childhood community by achieving new heights in the culinary sphere and proving what a kid who grew up just down the street could accomplish. As Soto points out, the purpose in his defining the restaurant into what it has become is not to create delectable kosher fare that stands out amongst its counterparts (which it does), but simply to feed people and pay it back to his hometown. Everything is made from scratch and in-house. They make their own mozzarella and mascarpone cheese, churn their own butter, and smoke their own sea salt (which, by the way tastes really awesome) with a variety of infused flavors including grapefruit, vanilla, and truffle. And the

fish you get at Basil is some of the freshest kosher fish you’ll find in New York. They are also avid fans of using unusual ingredients not commonly found in many other kosher establishments—in-cluding a variety of gourmet mushrooms. The fare you’ll find at Basil is not what you would make at home, yourself, or probably even dare to try or find at any other kosher restaurant.

I had the privilege of watching Chef Soto as he prepared a couple of his unique “specialties of the house,” starting with the leek and cheddar omelet. Soto prepared the omelet by combining both tra-ditional French and Japanese omelet-rolling cook-ing methods to create a masterpiece egg dolloped with a pat of house-churned smoked salmon butter and smoked sea salt. Soto’s personal take on the classic Tuna Niçoise was also quite refreshing and different. The pan-seared tuna was well comple-mented by the garlic and anchovy cream sauce and beautifully accented by the pan-seared egg, fried crispy olives, and peanut potatoes that embellished the gorgeous plate. But it was the fermented soy and black bean pizza that “wowed” me the most. By far one of the most unusual pizzas I have ever tasted and one of the most delectable as well, the experience of eating the pizza was reminiscent of a campfire experience, where I felt like I could al-most taste the smokiness of the burning wood logs. The pizza, which is made of a fermented soybean and black bean puree and topped with smoked ja-lapeño peppers, hen of the wood mushrooms, feta

and an egg-easy up, which Chef Soto broke across my pizza, packed the perfect spicy kick, with a great smokiness that was complemented by the crisp, brick-oven baked crust. The pizza alone is reason enough to return.

Basil is under the kosher supervision of the Vaad of Crown Heights and is located at 270 Kingston Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213. Phone: 718-285-8777. Reservations not accepted.

Alex Idov

Restaurant ReviewAlex Idov

The Kosher King of New York

Basil Pizza and Wine Bar

Alex Idov, the Kosherologist, is a food blogger who runs the blog “Kosherology” and is a contributing food columnist for numerous Jewish publications across the U.S. He is currently attending Kennesaw State University near Atlanta, Georgia, for his bachelor’s degree in Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality. Visit his website at www.thekosherologist.com.

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Cheese Mixture Ingredients2 packages cranberry pecan

goat cheese (Natural and Kosher brand)

½ cup all-purpose flour2 eggs, beaten¾ cup plain panko crumbs1 tablespoon black

sesame seeds¼ cup canola oil

PreparationSet up three dishes on the

counter: Fill the first with flour, the second with the egg, and the third with the panko crumbs mixed with the sesame seeds.

Slice the goat cheese into quarter-inch rounds and form each slice into disc about the size of a quarter. Coat each disc in flour, then in egg, then in the panko crumb mixture. Once they’re all coated, set them aside while your pan heats up.

Place a sauté pan over medium heat and bring ¼ cup oil to 360°using an oil thermometer. Once the oil is hot, place the coated discs of goat cheese into the pan and cook until golden brown on both sides, about 1 minute. Drain on paper and cool. Set aside and prepare dressing.

Dressing Ingredients1 tablespoon shallots (about ½ a small shallot)3 tablespoons raspberry preserves2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar1/3 cup olive oilSalt and ground black pepper

PreparationPlace shallots in food processor and mince finely;

add preserves and vinegar. In a steady stream while machine is running add the olive oil. Add salt and pep-per to taste. You can do this by hand with a whisk but it is a smoother consistency in a food processor.

SaladIngredients3 cups mixed greens½ cup honey glazed pecans or terra chip stixs,

(optional)

PreparationPlace salad greens on a large platter, add the cheese

rings around them and drizzle with dressing.Top with pecans or terra chip stix, if using.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain ad-ditional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com, or at (516) 295-9669.

In The KitchenNaomi Nachman

I love goat cheese in any shape or form. I have melted it into

sauces, spread it on bread, or crumbled it on top of pasta. My favorite way to eat it, though, is in this recipe. I make croutons out of the goat cheese and eat it with this delicious salad. I recently discovered the Natural and Kosher brand cranberry pecan goat cheese flavor. It’s perfect for this salad, adding another layer of flavor.

Fried Goat Cheese Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette

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HEIRLOOM TOMATO WATERMELON SALAD WITH SPROUTS AND HONEY VINAIGRETTEby Chef Kevin Goode, Rare Group (Miami, FL)

This recipe was reprinted from the 2015 Edition of Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine.Elan Kornblum, a.k.a. “The Restaurant Guy,” is the publisher of Great Kosher Restaurants International Magazine and its accompanying web-

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assorted colors cut into wedges depending on the size 1 English cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into 1/8-inch diced3 avocadoes, halved, pitted, peeled,

scooped into small shaped balls with a melon ball scooper 3 cups of assorted sprouts: sunflower sprouts,

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Thai basil, thyme kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

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Parshas ChukasDavening: The Third System

R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

The Shmuz

“And the Canaanite king of Arad who dwelled in the south heard that Is-rael had come by the route of the spies, and he waged war against Israel and took a captive from it” - Bamidbar 21:1

The Reputation of YisraelWhen Hashem took the Jewish

nation out of Mitzrayim with an “out-stretched arm,” most of Creation wel-comed the news as a defining moment in history. The nation of Amalek, how-ever, laid plans to attack Yisrael. The posuk describes the “Canaanite king” who sat in the south and heard that Yisrael was coming. But Rashi points out that it wasn’t the Canaanite nation that lived in the south of Israel; it was Amalek. Why are they referred to as the “Canaanite”?

Rashi answers that according to the Medrash, the nation that attacked was Amalek. However, when they came close, they stopped speaking their mother tongue and switched to the lan-guage of Canaan. Their reasoning was that the Jews would hear them speak-ing and would assume that it was Ca-naan that was attacking them. The Jews would then daven to Hashem to save them “from Canaan.” Since these oppo-nents were not from Canaan, the tefill-ah wouldn’t work. But their plan failed because the Jews recognized something unusual. Yes, their enemies were speak-ing the language of Canaan, but they were dressed as Amalekim. Therefore, the Jews davened in neutral language: “Hashem, save us from this nation.” As a result, their tefillah was effective.

It is clear from this Rashi that had the Bnei Yisroel davened incorrectly and said, “Hashem save us from Canaan,” their tefillah would not have worked. However, they were saved because they realized the trick and davened in a man-ner that included all possibilities.

This Rashi is very difficult to under-stand. What difference would it make what expression the Jews used? Hash-em would know what they meant. The Jewish nation was in trouble, faced with an enemy attacking, and they called out to their Creator. Why would it matter whether they referred to the attackers as Canaan or Amalek? Hashem would know what they were referring to, and if

they were worthy of being saved, Hash-em would listen.

The answer to this question cuts to the very underpinning of how prayer works.

Why Daven?One of the most basic question that

a person should ask about tefillah in general is: “Why should we daven?” Hashem is the ultimate Giver. Hashem is infinitely more generous and benev-olent than any person. He loves every one of His cre-ations more than we can ever imagine. That being said, why should we ask Hashem for anything? If what we are asking for is truly good for us, then Hashem would have given it to us already. And if it isn’t good for us, why should we ask for it?

The answer to this question is based on understanding that tefillah functions in three distinct systems.

The Growth SystemThe first is the “growth system.” By

davening, we change ourselves. Tefillah is a method that allows us to recognize certain truths and to live them.

The reality is that we mortals get caught up in the ways of nature and tend to forget that Hashem is present and that it is He who runs the world. When we need something and recog-nize that we are incapable of filling that need, that forces us to reach out to our Creator. We then come to the core real-ization that He alone is in charge. That process changes us and helps us grow. So, it could well be that before we dav-ened, we weren’t worthy of having our requests granted, but via the process of davening we changed, and now we mer-it it. For this reason, Hashem will often hold back things specifically so that man should ask because that is what he needs to grow. This is the first system of prayer, whereby a person changes as a

result of davening.

The Mercy System The second system of davening is

the “mercy system.” Our relationship with Hashem is that of a child to a father. Hashem loves us and has great compas-sion on us. The second system of daven-ing takes advantage of that relationship. We call out to Hashem to help us not be-cause we are worthy, but rather as a son who calls out to his father and asks him

to have mercy. This system recognizes that we may well not be worthy of receiving that which we ask for—not before davening nor after—but we ask Hash-em to overlook who we are and to give us what

we need. We attempt to arouse the mid-dah of rachamim.

The Avodah System Chazal tell us that Hashem said to

Moshe, “I will teach you something that you will need to know as the leader of this nation. There will be times when the Jewish people will be in trouble, and even their own merit and the merit of the Avos will not help them. When this happens, you are to call out the thirteen attributes of Hashem. Say the words, ‘Hashem, Hashem, Kel rachum v’cha-nun. . .’ and I will forgive their sins.”

The question is: how does this work? Klal Yisroel didn’t change via that tefillah. They didn’t become more worthy because of it, and if it is just an issue of arousing Hashem’s mercy, why those specific words said in that specific manner?

The answer to this is that Hashem created certain systems of avodah that affect the world. Just as there are laws of nature and physical actions that affect the world, so too Hashem created an up-per world and various actions affect it. In the time of the Bais HaMikdash, if a person lived through a Yom Kippur,

the korbonos of that day brought him forgiveness. Even if he wasn’t attuned to what was going on, even if he wasn’t in Yersuhalayim, and even if he slept through the entire day, just the fact that he was alive while the Kohain Gadol did the avodah brought him a certain level of forgiveness for his sins.

However, there are certain rules to the system. The process is demanding and exact. Any deviation and it doesn’t work. Much like an otherwise-perfect radio can’t function if it is missing just one transistor, so too in the avodah. Any missing detail and the system doesn’t function.

This seems to be the answer to this Rashi. The Amalekim were very sophis-ticated and were aware of the powerful functioning of the upper world, and they did their best to interrupt the Jews’ use of that system. They tried to trick the Jews so that they would daven in-correctly and thereby negate the third system of tefillah, which might have made all the difference as to whether the tefillah worked. Even though the Jews davened with kavanah and Hash-em knew what they meant, that tefillah would not have carried the full power because it was inaccurate and couldn’t utilize the third system of davening.

This concept is very relevant to us. While we strive to make our davening passionate and vibrant, the reality is that there will be occasions when we will find it difficult to concentrate or to feel a real emotional connection to Hashem. It is at those times that we need to remem-ber that Chazal used a highly defined system to create the tefillos that we say. The effect of the words themselves is well beyond anything that we can imag-ine. While it is not the ultimate goal in davening, just mouthing the words can have a huge impact and change our des-tiny.

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Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

The Observant Jew

We have a tendency to put people in “boxes” to try to understand their essence.

Summer is upon us and many people will soon be taking to the road for family trips, driv-

ing up to camp, and bungalow colony runs. Old-timers like me will remem-ber that car trips didn’t always include six USB cords, extension cords into car outlets, and the need for multiple sets of headphones for each child.

We got through our trips without technology (other than a radio that would pick up a station for a short while until you moved out of range or perhaps a snazzy 8-track or cassette player) by looking out the windows. One of the most popular games was the license plate game in which you see how many different state license plates you could spot along the way. Who knows? May-be that was the beginning of my being an observant Jew!

One thing you’ll notice, though, if

you look at license plates, is that many people have vanity plates. A vanity plate is one that is selected by the car registrant and has some special mean-ing. However, since you’re limited to seven or eight characters, most often vowels fall away and some letters or numbers do double duty, like using the number 8 to make the “ate” sound, as in L8R to mean later. (Hey! Maybe this was a precursor for texting…hmmm.) This makes it a game to figure out what they mean, like the title of this piece which is written in that style.

Well, one day I was driving and I saw a license plate that said SILVGRP. I said to myself, “I guess he works for,

or owns, a business called “The Silver Group.” It sounded officious enough. But then I thought about it. How did I know it was “The Silver Group”? May-be it was a Mexican farmer who sells

raisins (si, love grapes!) or a grandpa who moved from Staten Island to Las Vegas.

Now, sometimes it could be even more obvious. MNFSTEL would be someone who felt like Superman, (Man of Steel) but then again, he could make

tin cans or cars. It hit me that the only person who really knows what the plate stands for and what it’s meant to convey is the one who ordered the vanity plate.

It reminds me of a story. After delivering a class

at Yeshivas Kol Torah, R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach z”l went to visit a child in the hospital. On the way,

he asked the driver to stop at a kiosk, where he wanted to buy a candy bar for the boy.

Picking one up, the sage turned the snack this way and that, scanning the label. Seeing this, the driver comment-ed, “I know that candy bar. It has a very good hechsher (kosher certification.)”

“Thank you, but I wasn’t looking for the hechsher,” said the Rav with a smile, “I want the boy to enjoy it, so I was looking to see if it tastes good.”

The fellow assumed that clearly a sage of R’ Shlomo Zalman’s stature was most interested in the halachic sta-tus of the food. He didn’t consider that he might be thinking of the boy’s emo-

tional or gustatory reaction to the candy. He was surprised, but he shouldn’t have been.

We have a tendency to put people in “boxes” to try to understand their es-

sence. But we can’t. People are com-plex. You might have someone that you think is wonderful, a particular Rav, for example. Then, you see him do some-thing you don’t like or hear him express an opinion you feel is wrong or unfair. Your entire perception of him chang-es. You don’t know why he said or did what he did, and you’re not giving him a chance to explain. You’re simply mak-ing your determination of the events as you see them and assuming them to be correct.

Maybe there’s someone of whom you have a low opinion. Then you find out that he is regularly involved in a certain chesed project or attends a cer-tain shiur, and you suddenly realize, “I

didn’t know that about him.” You begin to realize that though you think you un-derstand the complex meaning behind his actions, that’s just being vain. You really have no idea what makes him or anyone else tick.

The fact is, when it comes to what other people are thinking, what they mean by their words or actions or what they hold dear, you can never be sure you know the truth unless they spell it out for you.

Author’s Note: The title HVLHVLM stands for Hevel Havolim, Vanity of Vanities, the opening words of Kohe-les (Ecclesiastes) which remind us how much we have to learn about life.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.

Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail [email protected] and put Subscribe in the subject.

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Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the greatest generals in the history of warfare, yet he lost everything in a single battle. Several European countries had been trying to get rid of him

for over a decade and they almost succeeded in the year before the Battle of Waterloo. However, he escaped from the island where he was being held and set about to conquer his enemies. The battle was to have an impact for European Jewry that was to last a century.

France had been devastated by the Reign of Terror in the last decade of the 18th century. When Napoleon came on the scene many French-men saw it as a way to get back to world dominance. Through a series of battles, the emperor, officially called Napoleon I, brought France many victories but also created many enemies. However, in 1812, his invasion of Russia ended in an epic defeat and two years later a coa-lition of allied armies forced him to abdicate. Louis XVIII regained the French throne but was a weak monarch. In 1815, when Napoleon escaped British detention from the island of Elba with just a thousand soldiers, it didn’t take long to regain the confidence of his countrymen. A new coalition was eventually formed to stop Napoleon once and for all.

This was the seventh coalition to face Napoleon’s army and it con-tained soldiers from many countries. The main four were Great Britain, Prussia (the kingdom before the German Empire was established in the late 1800s), Russia and Austria. Their objective was to defeat the French as quickly as possible but in June 1815 only the British, under the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussians, under Gebhard von Blucher, were in Belgium to face the French. Napoleon’s strategy was to divide and conquer. He knew that his army was too small to defeat them all on the battlefield at the same time so he went after the British first and sent a small force to distract the Prussians. The day before Waterloo, Napoleon defeated the Prussians but failed to annihilate them and he didn’t even know they were heading to-wards the British to link up for one final decisive battle.

There was a heavy rain the night before June 18, 1815, and

this caused the French to delay their attack by sev-eral hours. The horses and cannons would have gotten stuck in the soft ground. However, this delay al-lowed for the Prussians to reach the battlefield before the battle ended, thereby swinging the advantage in the allies’ favor. An-other advantage for the allies was that they chose the battleground and took the heights on a ridge waiting for the French to attack. The French, though, did have the initial advantage of numbers with 30,000 more

troops. Commanding the French troops under Napoleon was Marshal Michel Ney, who quickly switched allegiance from Louis XVIII as soon

as he was given the chance.Napoleon strangely did not

give orders that morning of June 18 so Marshal Ney gave the order to attack a farm-house. Named Hougoumont, it overlooked the battlefield and was fiercely defended by the British. A small force of 30 Frenchmen managed to en-ter the house but was quickly wiped out. Fighting for Hou-goumont continued all after-noon and withstood a shelling that Napoleon hoped to de-stroy the bastion. The French turned their attention to anoth-er farmhouse that was near the center of the battlefield. Called La Haye Saint, it was defend-ed by German troops who had fled to England to escape Na-

poleon. La Haye Saint held out until later in the day.French artillery opened up on the British lines at noon to prepare

for an infantry attack. Napoleon’s first attack failed to break the British line and Wellington counterattacked with his cavalry. Lord Uxbridge led the attack of British heavy cavalry that until that point remained unseen behind a hill. The French checked the advance with their horsemen and

routed the Brits. The French were low on infantry re-serves and at 4 PM decided to attack the center again but this time with 12,000 horsemen called lancers.

It was one of the largest cavalry charges in history and the British had a defense for it called an infantry square. Rows of soldiers two to four ranks deep with bayonets affixed were lined up in a square facing the out-side. The middle was hollow but the bayonets scared the horses away. In this way the infantry was able to pick off the horsemen one by one. French artillery, though, caused problems for the British where the cavalry charge had failed. British cavalry was of no help as they had been decimated by earlier charges. Witnesses counted twelve French cavalry charges that attacked after an ar-tillery barrage against the British squares but could not

penetrate the lines. Both sides suffered heavily.The British were at their breaking point and only the arrival of the

Prussians could save them from defeat. Before the Prussians were able to reach the battlefield, the French stormed La Haye Saint in one last

Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman

THE DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON200 Years since the Battle of Waterloo

Napoleon in front of his Old Guard at Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was Napoleon’s last stand

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desperate effort to control the center of the battlefield. The defenders of the farmhouse were very low on ammunition and couldn’t be resupplied. La Haye Saint fell as only a handful of soldiers made it back to the British lines.

As dusk began, an army was seen approaching. Na-poleon hoped it was the 33,000 men he had sent to pursue the Prussians a day earlier. For Wellington

and the British, the sight of Blucher and the Prussian Army was the turning point of the battle. Napoleon, in an effort to keep the morale up in his tired ranks, decided to spread the rumor that they were French troops but it didn’t help. The Prussians attacked in a flank move to support Wellington’s main line and the allies slowly regained the upper hand. This put Napoleon in a bind: his troops were exhausted and his reinforcements weren’t going to make it to battle.

What Napoleon did have was the Old Guard. They were seasoned troops who were fiercely loyal to the emperor and would fight to the death. There was no retreat. The Old Guard easily defeated the thin line of British troops and expected everyone else to flee. Then, thousands of British soldiers who had been lying out of sight over the crest began fighting the French. The rest of the British Army charged and forced the Old Guard to retreat in the first time of their history. The French Army retreated.

This was Napoleon’s last battle.

European Jewry were being discriminated against but under Napo-leon’s rule they were left alone. Sometimes given royal funds to build shuls, it all stopped with the defeat at Waterloo. Monarchy

reigned supreme in Europe until WWI. Even though many Jews served in

the Prussian Army, the government created laws to make life difficult for Jews living in their empire. Jews living in the French empire enjoyed re-ligious freedom under the rule of Napoleon but it stopped after his down-fall.

Many Jews served on both sides of the battle. Dr. Georg Hartog Gerson was a German field surgeon serv-ing the allied armies. He is credited with saving many lives as the casualties for the allies were 24,000. Si-gismund Samuel Hahn was a Jewish lieutenant decorat-ed for bravery at Waterloo. Fittingly he is buried near Gerson in a cemetery in Germany.

Napoleon surrendered and was exiled to St. Hele-na in the South Atlantic. He blamed his generals for the loss and is remembered for the loss at Waterloo. Even

though he had won battle after battle against European powers it was this battle that sealed the fate of France and the rest of Europe for the next century. 200 years later, the Battle of Waterloo is still being remembered as one that changed the course of history.

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

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He came in very agitated. Per-haps it was because he took himself rather quickly off his

meds – something a person should nev-er do. Medication is strong stuff and plays with your brain; you can only go off of it on the schedule customized for you by your psychiatrist. (A few excel-lent ones are here in the Five Towns; I recommend them.)

Or perhaps it was because Life had dealt him a difficult hand, made worse recently. He was glowering and loud. When, in addition to a list of other complaints, he started to attack me for advice I had given, something I do oc-casionally when I think it will be ther-apeutic, there was really only one thing I could do.

Breathe.I inhaled deeply and slowly, feeling

the fresh air permeate my body. I held it in to the count of seven as recom-mended by the breathe2relax app on my phone (and which I have been recom-mending enthusiastically) and let it out s-l-o-w-l-y. And then I did that again. And again, listening all the while and rather intently to my client.

And a funny thing happened. Little by little, he calmed down, himself. His voice quieted; his rush of words cur-tailed; his breathing slowed. “I’m hurt,” he finally said. “Sure you are,” I replied. “It’s no wonder, with everything piling on you like that.”

He didn’t believe I’d actually said something supportive – that is typical of people who feel like the world is caving in on him: He reiterated his complaints. So I repeated, in slightly different terms, my response, adding, “I agree with you. I think you’re justified to be upset.”

Regarding his anger at me, I wanted to make sure that I understood it, so I paraphrased what he said and conclud-ed: “Am I understanding that right? That’s why you are angry with me?” The gentleman gave a deep sigh and said softly, “Yes.”

With the item on the table before us, it was pretty apparent to this bright, articulate man that I had been trying to be helpful. When advice backfires, it doesn’t have to be someone’s “fault” and it doesn’t require blame or anger. It’s just unfortunate.

What are the take-aways that you can apply in your own life?

• Breathing consciously, slowly, and deeply should be part of your life

It was conventional wisdom that yo-gis such as the Dali Lama seemed hap-py. But then researchers decided to hook up electrodes to the scalp of long-time meditators, those who had practiced the deep breathing with a clear mind for

thousands of hours over the years. The scientists learned that these people had a preponderance of alpha-waves. Alpha waves are associated with a relaxed, but alert mental state.

The act of mindful breathing has been shown to also lay down neural circuits between the left hemisphere prefrontal cortex – our thinking cen-ter – and the amygdala. The amygdala is the seat of emotional memory while language and making meaning out of our existence through words is located in the left cortex. The amygdala has no words. That’s why a baby who cries certainly has a reason but he would not be able to explain it to you (even if he had language). In fact, even if he in lat-er years remembered an event that hap-pened in his first year, he would have no words for it.

This explains why children under two may have powerful emotions and may have already acquired good enough speech to ask for milk – or argue why they should be given a cookie – yet cannot make sense of their emotions: The left hemisphere’s meaning-making function has not yet matured. Explain-ing their feelings requires both the full development of the cortex on the left side and also strong connections to the emotions taking place in the amygdala.

These connections do not develop in everyone. In calm families where peo-ple slow down and think before react-ing – as the Torah says we should do – people may very well have developed those neural connections through the role models in their lives. For the rest of us not so fortunate, that may not be

the case.That is where the deep breathing

comes in. The latest research shows that it can be therapeutically beneficial to re-duce or even eliminate PTSD symptoms (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and has routinely been helpful in Anxiety Disorder and Depression. This makes

sense: It is as if the thinking cortex was able to “tell” the amygdala to be calm, that things would be all right. That is the significance of those feedback loops be-tween the cortex and the amygdala.

• When confronted by someone, take care of yourself first

This may be another understand-ing of im ain ani li, mi li. How does one who is attacked take care of him-self anyway? I will tell you how not to: Don’t argue back. As you have proba-bly discovered, arguing just escalates and inflates bad moods. It disengages the prefrontal cortex (there it is again!) so that basically you are on automatic. Unfortunately, the automatic is purely emotional.

The best solution is to breathe and when possible, disengage. Putting it another way, although arguing back sounds on the surface like protecting yourself, it isn’t. It’s the opposite.

• Sometimes, getting deeply calm is contagious

Research shows that a great deal of our communication is through body lan-guage – and it is 99% unconscious. For example, if you see a group of people chatting for some minutes at a meeting, you may notice that each and every per-son has their arms crossed and/or their feet positioned in the same way.

We are used to reading terrible news accounts of stampedes at sporting events in which people are killed. This is because one person’s fight-flight-freeze reaction was activated (you can guess where – in his amygdala) and this becomes contagious. Suddenly, every-one is running.

The good news is that calm is also contagious. Try this experiment: Let’s say you are talking to someone who is upset. Notice that they are breathing shallowly and rapidly. Make an effort to do what I did – take deep, slow breaths – and see what happens to them. You may be pleasantly surprised.

• Sometimes the best time to be supportive is in the middle of a machlokes

Obviously, you can’t fake support. You either feel it or you don’t. If you don’t, the other person will pick that up very quickly. On the other hand, even if you did agree with someone, who feels like being supportive of that person when he is attacking you? That’s pret-ty unnatural. The natural response is to attack back, right? But that may not be the most helpful response. (There’s that the fight response.)

John Gottman, the eminent re-searcher of couples’ quarrels, found that couples who have happy, long-term marriages will give each other compli-ments or other ways to reach out even in the middle of arguments! This makes sense. The message the other person gets is: I am not rejecting you or your valid point; we’re just having a little spat. It puts the machlokes in proper context. It’s not something that should ever drive a wedge in the relationship.

Perhaps “doin’ what just comes nat-urally” – and automatically – may be another face of the yetzer hara. Every one of the suggestions above is exact-ly the opposite of what is “natural” to do. After all, if Hashem gave us a brain, maybe that’s what it’s for: Doing the opposite of “natural.”

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Fami-ly Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—To-gether, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 dis-count on every visit to her Woodmere office. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tues-days at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely option-al lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her web-site at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

Dr. Deb

Breathing

Make an effort to do what I did – take deep, slow breaths – and see what happens to them.

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Finding solutions to resolve prob-lems – children, adolescents and adults can see positive change

in their lives in a short time. Struggles with decision-making, strained relation-ships, crises, time management, family loss, financial loss, etc. can make life miserable.

By shifting our focus towards solu-tions, rather than the problems and their history, the attention is placed on who is doing what when the problem is not present. Persisting with the problem has no benefit without positive conse-quences. It only has value in letting us know what has happened so that we can pursue a positive outcome. Placing culpability away from ourselves gives us some temporary relief, as someone or something else is at fault. But it pre-vents us from finding the resources and strengths to prevent the problem from reoccurring. We can’t expect to make other people or events change, but we can change how we deal with them and how we accept it.

Walter and Pellet in their work (1992) contend that the process is ac-complished by focusing on what is right and working on successes as the key to making change happen. They relay the story of the baseball player who was in a batting slump. He was watching a video of himself striking out. When his manager came in and asked what he was doing, he explained that he was watch-ing himself striking out so he could see what he was doing wrong. The manag-er told him to stop and watch a video when he was hitting the ball to see what he was doing right and do more of that. Discovering what is positive in our lives or what we would like to have happen will set the stage for making it happen.

Let’s look at some common prob-lems in our home, school, and work-places and how real change can happen when the focus shifts from the problem to finding solutions.

Home Environment Raising children today, as our par-

ents raised us, is becoming more and more challenging. Our families are generally larger, with presumably less time to tend to each child. We no longer consider that “children should be seen and not heard” and that a quick spank-

ing helps. The mantra is to encourage self-confident children by encouraging self-expression. However, freedom of expression without a rule of communi-cation boundaries can risk having rebel-lious children.

Allowing too much freedom can be

like driving a car without brakes. Par-ents are more and more uncertain as to when to be lenient or when to apply a strict approach. Certainly if you have children who are happy and healthy, you want to maintain that confidence. Overwhelmed with challenging situa-tions without success, parents will lis-ten to anyone with opinions. What can make it worse is when children spot parents struggling with them the stage is set for out-of-control children.

Parenting strategies more common-ly focus on explanations for misbehav-ior in an effort to solve the problem. Using a solution-focused approach to raising children the interest is not on why a specific problem happens but rather how to change it. We go to the doctor to be healed not to find out why we are sick.

Judy, a mother of two children ages three and six, is employed outside the home as an assistant teacher at the ABC Child Care Center. She is described by her employer as happy, friendly with the staff and children, and capable! She

is able to perform tasks productive-ly, without stress. Judy is comfortable with her job. The head teacher reported that Judy aptly assists her in managing the classroom, as well as taking lead responsibility for three special needs children identified with behavioral dif-

ficulties. At home, though, she is described

differently by her husband, Chaim, of-ten unhappy and edgy with him and ex-citable with the children. Judy reported that she feels more pressure at home to get things done; preparing supper, dis-persing the kids’ fights, cleaning messes

and tending to their bedtime on sched-ule. She noticed how her employer chronicled her competent performance at work. How she employed good man-agement skills and “know how” with ease.

Once Judy observed herself acting differently at work than at home, given similar circumstances, it became easier to change herself. She was able to get Chaim’s involvement, from being as she described “detached and lazy,” to join her using a team approach and prepara-tion planning, the format she practiced at work. Focusing on positive solutions, rather than reasons for Chaim’s laziness and the children’s misbehavior, had a profound effect on the outcome. Judy’s situation improved. Chaim recognized the difference his involvement meant to Judy and the pleasure he lost with his detachment. Just thinking that she was the only person responsible for the chil-dren’s welfare overwhelmed her. Enlist-ing her husband’s help and his empathy helped Judy recognize that she was not in it alone and assured her that he cared about her and the children. Tak-ing a solution-focused approach, they worked out a successful plan that in-cluded a family outing to the pizza store one night a week, Chaim’s support for one hour in the evening to relieve Judy, and additional help from a local high school student to get the children to bed on time when Chaim was learning or coming home late from work.

Discovering what is positive in our lives or what we would like to have happen will set the stage for making it happen.

Morton Kramer

Health & Fitness

Solution Focused Counseling


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Work Environment Sarah came for counseling out of des-

peration. Sarah is employed as a book-keeper at a large construction company. Her boss was not easy to get along with. He likes to micromanage. He watches the clock, meeting Sarah at the door if she returns minutes late from a lunch break, watches who empties the waste-basket and never praises good work. Sarah reported that if she didn’t need the income desperately, she would have left long ago. His negative attitude had made her miserable. In other areas of her life, Sarah reported no problem dealing with people. As a successful chair of her lo-cal school board and a good friend, Sar-ah is regarded as an asset: able to share responsibilities, write meeting minutes and agendas for the group, and readily offer a lending hand to co-workers and friends.

In a counseling session, Sarah rec-ognized that her boss’s attempts to mi-cromanage was his way of actually managing his business. She was able to recognize that she could extend her willingness to share information and her caring nature with her boss, as she did with the school board and friends. A family business that he inherited, her boss had little knowledge about what Sarah was actually doing and microman-aging was his way of validating himself as the authority in the company. Sarah

decided to take a few minutes every so often to stroke his ego and to share what she was doing with details related to her work. Soon after her boss lost interest in the details of her work but was pleased that Sarah included him in the process. Sarah reports that now her boss has gained more trust in her and less reason to complain about trivial things. As she describes, she has him “eating out of her hand.”

School Environment Mayer is a first grade student at the

local Yeshiva. He was having a lot of difficulty keeping up with the group, particularly forming words with letters and vowels in Hebrew. Since reading is a major function in his class, Mayer felt so much pressure, particularly when a classmate called him dumb. The school met with Mayer’s parents to discuss the problem and to recommend a Board of Education evaluation. When meeting with the psychologist for a fact-finding intake and to administer the evaluation, the parents reported that they felt as if they have failed Mayer. The teachers de-scribed being frustrated, waiting for the parents to do something about the prob-lem. With my experience operating an evaluation site, schools wait for parents to do something, while parents blame the school for not doing enough, result-ing in arguments, hurt feelings, frustra-

tion and defensiveness. In this situation, the worst part was that Mayer felt all the pressure and frequently did not want to go to school. Testing revealed that Mayer presented at the average range of intelligence with no ostensible reason for the difficulty in reading, at least not based on testing results.

Fortunately those involved recog-nized that Mayer’s problem needed to be dealt with immediately. Speculating cause of his difficulty was all they could go on, which is time and again the case. Exhausted and perplexed, his parents, teachers, and the Board of Ed evaluator, who saw Mayer in their respective set-tings, came up with an action plan. The evaluator suggested to observe Mayer over a week, then meet again and come up with a viable plan. The focus of the group was to achieve an affirmative out-come. Enlisting the former pre-school teacher’s support, for how she had relat-ed positively with Mayer, and concen-trating only on current accomplishments and positive interactions at school and at home, Mayer was reading at grade level by year-end. To quote Charles Franklin Kettering describing the Wright broth-ers’ successful aircraft flight, “[They] flew right through the smokescreen of impossibility.”

Since its geneses in the mid-1980s, solution-focused counseling has proved to be an effective intervention across the

range of problem presentations by de-veloping a picture of the “solution” and discovering the resources to achieve it.

Morton Kramer is a senior executive with extensive experience in managing service delivery systems. He is a rehabilitative and disabled child care specialist with over 25 years’ experience He consults to child de-velopment programs for young children throughout the country. He founded and op-erated the first integrated classroom model for children with disabilities in a partnership with Project Head Start in New York City. A former Head Start Administrator and a Federal Program Compliance Reviewer, Mr. Kramer has traveled extensively throughout the United States supporting the needs of clients and employees with technical assis-tance. He is currently developing a software data management program for the child care industry. Possessing a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology, Mr. Kramer began his career as a Mental Health Specialist in Head Start programs and has extensive ex-perience as a clinical therapist, diagnostic evaluator and parent and staff trainer in various clinical and educational settings in the New York metropolitan area. Mr. Kramer is an accomplished artist and member of the NYC Art Student League.

He is available for private counseling and managerial consulting and can be reached at [email protected] or (516)884-4374.

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School is over and summer is here! It’s that stressful time for parents when they must pack a superabundant amount of clothing, items,

and most importantly, food, for their kids who will soon be away at camp.

Summer is an extraordinary season where children have amazing mem-ories in camp, and their parents enjoy the well-deserved sereni-ty at home. However, food and nutrition have an interminable affect on this seemingly care-free time of year. Many kids come back from camp stronger and lighter, while others return plumper with atrocious eating habits. Three unique aspects of this battle must be addressed. The first stage of summer nutrition is the packing phase, where anxious parents pack pounds upon pounds of food for their excited kids. The next level is when the kids are actually away at camp where they must make wise choices when they supplement their meals with snacks and beverages. The final ob-stacle our children must face is the meals served in camp. With careful sagacious planning, we can make this summer the most fantastic and healthiest summer yet!

First, parents must know which snacks and drinks to choose when they go on that long-awaited big shop at the local supermarket.

• The best foods possible are the healthy one hundred calorie snacks. These snacks outwardly look and taste like the guilty pleasures we have come to love such as popcorn, pretzels, baked chips, but these one-hundred calorie snacks are a healthier alternative to some of our favorite nosh. Also, fiber crackers are very nutritious and great for the body.

• Dehydrated fruits such as Apple Crisps and berries taste great and are much healthier than any sugar snack. The same applies to all natural fruit leathers. They are easily transported and taste like candy without any added sugar. Craisins are also awesome and come in 100 calorie packets!

• Sugar snacks should be avoided. Little bags of these snacks are loaded with calories and sugar!

• When you have to choose drinks, only choose water! Water is the number one, best drink you could possibly buy. Seltzer is also really good along with the copious amount of flavored

seltzers. Especially in the intense heat, when your child is playing sports or hiking, water is crucial!

The bags are all packed and the kids are off to camp! How do they supplement their meals with

healthy foods? • The snacks we

discussed previously are great! Children

should turn to their stash of healthy nutritious snacks and drinks in between their

camp meals. • The camp

canteen can present a formidable obstacle to our

goal of a healthy summer. Train your children to buy the ices or sorbet rather than the ice cream. Greasy fried foods, such as French fries, should be avoided! Fruits, vegetables, and salads will always be great alternatives to the fattening deep-fried foods at the canteen.

Now we can discuss the most import-ant part of summer eating: the meals.

• Breakfast: Camps ubiquitously serve cereal, milk, and a juice drink for breakfast. Sugar cereals are the enemy and should be avoided at all costs!

• Bring your own cereal. The identifying characteristics of a healthy cereal are that it should be high in fiber and unsweetened, such as Fiber One, Special K, and Puffins.

• Oatmeal is awesome. Buy the plain or low sugar varieties.

• Make sure to pack your children with brown rice cakes. They are delicious, filling, and

healthy. Whole wheat Melba toast is also very nutritious.

• We have so many choices for a healthy breakfast, but

we must keep in mind which foods are off-limits most of the time, to be eaten only once in a while. These include French toast, pancakes,

and fruit juices.• Fruit, low-fat

milk, low fat cottage cheese, hard-boiled eggs, and yogurt are

just some examples of good breakfast foods.

It’s time for lunch! Camps generally serve foods that are very caloric and high in fat at lunch. Here’s a guide how to approach it properly:

• Salad, salad, salad! This is the best option for lunch. It can be combined with the other options listed here.

• Bring tuna fish or sardines; they are healthy and the omega 3 fatty acids are very beneficial for your body.

• Grilled cheese is fine as long as you take the right portion. Try to have only half the bread. Cottage cheese is very healthy too.

• Stay away from the lasagna and macaroni and cheese.

Dinner is very hard to plan out and pre-prepare food for your children, so the most important term to remember here is portion sizes.

• Camps will commonly serve chicken or meat, along with soups and vegetables.

• Whichever choice your kids make, they must remember that the dish is healthy as long as it’s the right size. Try to avoid taking a second portion.

• Avoid the creamy soups, however, a vegetable or broth-based soup is fine.

• Try to complement your main dish with vegetables

and other healthy side dishes offered.

• S t a y away from eating more than just a m o d i c u m of food after

dinner because all the food eaten

will not be burned off since you will be

going to sleep. Camp is a place where kids make

new friends, experience amazing things, and have a lot of fun. It is important, however, to make sure to continue a healthy lifestyle in camp by eating right. The aforementioned advice should be taken to heart. It is completely tenable to have an enjoyable nutritious summer without a drastic lifestyle change or narrow diet. While food choices and portion sizes are extreme-ly important, make sure to encourage your children to stay active by participating in organized sports, swim-ming, hiking, and exercising. The level of activity in children is directly correlated to their metabolism. By eating right and exercising, our children can come off the buses after the memorable summer feeling great and looking healthier.

Have a great summer!

Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at [email protected].

Aliza Beer, MS, RD

Health & Fitness

Summer FoodCamp Survival Guide

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Notable Quotes

So barbaric that this should still be allowed. No conservation laws in effect wherever this is?- Tweet sent by noted liberal author and professor Joyce Carol Oates, along with an image of Steven Spielberg posing with a massive dead “dinosaur” on the set of Jurassic Park

I’ve done a lot of heavy lifting for this guy and I’m not going to do this. He’s on his way out. I may be on my way out, too, but I want to keep my friends.- Minority Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) explaining why she refused to support President Obama’s controversial trade bill

The only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets enough “oomph” to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen. – Karl Rove, Fox News

I sleep.- Susannah Mushatt Jones, age 115, sharing the secret to her longevity with the Daily News, upon being crowned the world’s oldest person this week

You can run, but you can’t hide. – Words on the t-shirt fugitive criminal Tieren Watson, 26, was wearing when he was apprehended by local police and federal marshals in Little Rock after several days on the run

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An English couple has become the world’s oldest newlyweds at the ages of 91 and 103. The couple registered at Bed, Bath & the Great Beyond. – Seth Myers

In England, the world’s oldest bride and groom tied the knot. She’s 91, he’s 103. Men are unbelievable. He couldn’t find someone his own age?... They’re the world’s oldest newlyweds, but I like to think of them as the world’s newest oldlyweds. – Jimmy Kimmel

Obama’s attitudes toward Islam clearly stem from his personal interactions with Muslims…I could imagine how a child raised by a Christian mother might see himself as a natural bridge between her two Muslim husbands. I could also speculate how that child’s abandonment by those men could lead him, many years later, to seek acceptance by their co-religionists. - Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and current Knesset member Michael Oren in an article titled, “How Obama Opened His Heart to the Muslim World”

From the moment he entered office, Mr. Obama promoted an agenda of championing the Palestinian cause and achieving a nuclear accord with Iran. –Ibid., in a Wall Street Journal op-ed

It’s an odd situation that you have Israel here surrounded by a gazillion people here, and somehow they’re the underdogs. I think Israel is so efficient in defending itself and so good at it, that to the rest of the world it looks like bullying. It’s mystifying.- Jay Leno, in an interview with the Jerusalem Post, while on a recent trip to Israel

You want to make yourselves as strong and defensible as possible, but for a lot of people, it’s been flipped around the other way. They don’t realize how small Israel is compared to the rest of the world. – Ibid

I always considered Israel as not only the only democracy in the Middle East. I think it’s the purest, because every Israeli voter seems to have his own political party. – Ibid

A new study suggests that marriage is more beneficial for men than women. The results of the study were shouted at me through a locked bedroom door.- Seth Myers

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I want to remind everyone that there are just three days left until Father’s Day. But more importantly, there are 324 days left until next Mother’s Day. – Jimmy Fallon

Donald Trump announced that he’s running for president. During his speech he told the crowd that if elected he would be “the greatest jobs president that G-d ever created.” Then G-d said, “Hey, don’t drag me into this publicity stunt.”- Jimmy Fallon

Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending to be black. Now her brother says he knew about it but she asked him not to blow her cover. Unfortunately, her cover had already been blown by G-d when he made her a blond-haired, blue-eyed white lady. – Jimmy Fallon

This morning Rachel Dolezal, the white NAACP leader who claimed for years that she was black, made an appearance on the “Today” show. I don’t think she’s learned her lesson because for the first hour she pretended to be Al Roker. – Conan O’Brien

Over the weekend, Hillary Clinton supported raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. She said every American should be able to afford to attend one of her speeches. – Conan O’Brien

Hillary Clinton signed a note this week for a nine-year-old boy, explaining to his teacher that he was missing school to meet her. In exchange, the kid wrote Hillary a note saying his dog ate her emails. – Jimmy Fallon

Last night the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to win their first NBA title in 40 years. Andre Iguodala of the Warriors was named the MVP, which is great news for everyone except whoever has to engrave that name on a trophy. – Jimmy Kimmel

According to a new study, the recommendation that people need eight glasses of water per day is a myth. I think we figured that out when we never once drank eight glasses of water and still survived. – Seth Myers

The commission cannot conclusively determine the intent of Palestinian armed groups with regard to the construction and use of these tunnels. - From the UN report on the Gaza conflict last summer, concluding that there is no conclusive evidence that the tunnels from Gaza into Israel were constructed to terrorize Israeli citizens It is regrettable that the report fails to recognize the profound difference between Israel’s moral behavior during Operation Protective Edge and the terror organizations it confronted. This report was commissioned by a notoriously biased institution, given an obviously biased mandate, and initially headed by a grossly biased chairperson, William Schabas. – Statement by Israel’s foreign ministry in response to the biased UN report

The world’s oldest person has died. Again. Third time this year. Someone is killing the world’s oldest people and we do nothing about it. – Jimmy Kimmel

We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I’m proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman. – Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state without ill will to say it is time to remove the flag from our capitol grounds. This flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the State House in the aftermath of the racism-charged Charleston shooting

I just wanted everybody to know, I forgive you. You took something very precious away from me. I will never talk to her ever again. I will never be able to hold her again. But I forgive you, and have mercy on your soul. … You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people. If G-d forgives you, I forgive you. - Nadine Collier, daughter of Ethel Lance, who was killed in the Charleston shooting, expressing that she forgives the shooter

I told the story correctly for years before I told it incorrectly.- Brian Williams responding to Matt Lauer (NBC) questioning him about his infamous lie that he was shot down in a helicopter while covering the Iraq invasion

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Charles Krauthammer

Political Crossfire

Our objective right now is to defeat the Islamic State and to ensure the fall of the Assad regime.

It’s time for a new strategy in Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified

Syria or Iraq will never be reconstitut-ed, that the Sykes-Picot map is defunct.

We may not want to enunciate that policy officially. After all, it does contradict the principle that colonial borders be maintained no matter how insanely drawn, the alternative being almost universally worse. Nonetheless, in Mesopotamia, balkanization is the only way to go. Because it has already happened and will not be reversed. In Iraq, for example, we are reaping one disaster after another by pretending that the Baghdad government – deeply sec-tarian, divisive and beholden to Iran – should be the center of our policy and the conduit for all military aid.

Look at Fallujah, Mosul, Ramadi. The Iraqi army is a farce. It sees the

enemy and flees, leaving its weapons behind. “The ISF was not driven out of Ramadi. They drove out of Ramadi,”

said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Our own secretary of defense admitted that the “the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight.”

We can train them forever. The problem is one of will. They don’t want to fight. And why should they? They are led by commanders who are corrupt, sectarian and incompetent.

What to do? Redirect our efforts to

friendly forces deeply committed to the fight, beginning with the Kurds, who have the will, the skill and have demon-

strated considerable success. This year alone, they have taken back more than 500 Christian and Kurdish towns from the Islamic State. Unlike the Iraqi army, however, they are starved for weap-ons because, absurdly, we send them through Baghdad, which sends along only a trickle.

This week, more Kurdish suc-cess. With U.S. air support, Syrian Kurds captured the strategic town of Tal Abyad from the Islamic State. Which is important for two reasons. Tal Abyad controls the road connecting the terror group’s capital of Raqqa to Turkey, from which it receives fighters, weap-ons and supplies. Tal Abyad is “a lung through which [the Islamic State] breathed and connected to the outside world,” said Kurdish commander Haqi Kobane.

Moreover, Tal Abyad helps link iso-lated Kurdish areas in the Syrian north into a contiguous territory, like Iraqi Kurdistan. Which suggests that this ter-ritory could function as precisely the kind of long-advocated Syrian “safe zone” from which to operate against both the Islamic State and the Bashar al-Assad regime.

More good news comes from anoth-er battle line. Last week, the Free Syr-ian Army’s Southern Front, backed by and trained in Jordan, drove the Syrian government out of its last major base in eastern Daraa province, less than 60 miles from Damascus.

These successes suggest a new U.S. strategy. Abandon our anachronistic fealty to the central Iraqi government (now largely under Iran’s sway anyway) and begin supplying the Iraqi Kurds in a direct, 24-hour Berlin-style airlift. And in Syria, intensify our training, equip-ping and air support for the now-de-

veloping Kurdish safe zone. Similarly, through Jordan, for the FSA Southern Front.

In theory, we should be giving sim-ilar direct aid to friendly Sunni tribes-men in Iraq whose Anbar Awakening, brilliantly joined by Gen. David Petrae-us’ surge, utterly defeated the Islamic State progenitor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, in 2006-07. The problem is, having been abandoned by us once, when Obama liquidated our presence in 2011, why should the Sunnis ever trust us again?

As for the Iraqi army, we can go through the motions, but the best we can hope for is wobbly containment, ul-timately guaranteed by Iranian proxies. Not a happy prospect, but the best that we can do having forfeited our domi-nant position in Iraq in 2011.

At the time, Iraq was a functioning state. That state is now gone. We should not expend treasure or risk blood trying to resurrect it. Our objective right now is to defeat the Islamic State and to en-sure the fall of the Assad regime. That does not require an American invasion. It does require recognizing reality and massively supporting our few genuine allies on the ground.

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter testified that we won’t quite meet our objective of training 24,000 Iraqi troops by this fall. Why? A recruitment problem. Iraqis don’t seem to want to join. We are 17,000 short.

It’s a fool’s errand anyway. If we need to pretend to support the Baghdad government, fine. But our actual strate-gy should be to circumvent it and help our real allies carry the fight.

(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-

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A New Strategy for Iraq and Syria

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Donald Trump has already suc-ceeded by provoking this col-umn. Any form of public com-

munication that puts “Donald Trump” within five words of “president” – which, darn, I just did – is a victory for the reality TV star turned presidential aspirant.

But Trump, it is now clear, will not go away by being ignored. If polling support – really, at this point, vague impressions and name recognition – is the selection criteria for participation in Republican debates, Trump is like-ly to be part of them. This would not only foster a circus-like atmosphere, it would, by definition, exclude a more serious candidate. Imagine losing Ohio Gov. John Kasich, for example, to make a seat for Trump. It would seriously un-dermine the deliberations of the Repub-lican Party in choosing its most visible leader.

But doesn’t Trump deserve a chance to make his rambling, egomaniacal case? Some fraction of Republicans might be attracted to a populist, an-ti-establishment businessman, who, in private settings, is more serious than his cartoonish public image (it would

be hard not to be). I have talked to Re-publican officials in early primary states who have enjoyed perfectly polite and rational calls and notes from Trump.

Yet the whole process of applying political scrutiny to Trump is difficult, given his aversion to systematic po-litical thought. He communicates in a series of eruptions, gestures and tweets that generally assert the need for his own leadership while dismissing rivals as fools and worse. He calls Jeb Bush’s intelligence into question and ridicules Rick Perry for excessive sweating. He

is a Ted Cruz birther. His opponents are “losers” and “morally corrupt” and “selling this country down the drain.” They are “clowns” and “stupid people” and often, by his account, physically ugly.

On the issues, we don’t get argu-ments, we get impulses. “I’ve built a multibillion-dollar empire,” he says, “by using my intuition.” Like many public figures who refuse to use written speeches, he believes that everything crossing his mind is worthy of expres-sion, without being edited or organized for the benefit of others. So we get a spew of Trump’s gut feelings. They tend to be resentful of outsiders. They assume that Barack Obama was the beneficiary of affirmative action. “How does a bad student go to Columbia and

then to Harvard? ... Let him show his records.”

But mostly Trump’s gut tells him (and thus, automat-ically, us) that political and scientific elites are evil and scheming, both composed of idiots and capable of sophis-ticated conspiracies. He has falsely and dangerously as-serted a connection between vaccines and autism, rooted in practices set by “pharmaceu-tical companies, because they probably make more money.”

He has described a “GLOBAL WARM-ING HOAX” of an extent so vast it could only be revealed by capital letters. He famously asserted that public offi-cials were engaged in a conspiracy to conceal the circumstances of Obama’s birth. And when one official tragically died, he pressed the claim to her grave. “How amazing,” Trump tweeted, “the State Health Director who verified cop-ies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.”

Trump’s policy agenda is too skel-etal or absurd to analyze. He will pick

better generals to defeat the Islamic State. He will slap a 25 percent tariff on Chinese goods. He will build a wall across the continent and make Mexico pay for it.

There is little chance that Trump

will have much influence when actual votes are tallied – even the most celeb-rity-blinded Republican is unlikely to forget Trump’s political contributions to Harry Reid – but there is plenty of time for mischief between now and then. And the largest risk, in the end, is

not to Republicanism but to populism. Trump’s form of populism promises

not reform but deliverance. The answer to every problem is a leader who can make deals, knock heads and get re-sults. The defects of democracy, in this view, are remedied by the strongman. It is not a coincidence that Trump ex-presses admiration for Vladimir Putin. “He’s doing a great job,” says Trump, “in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period.”

This is populism as Caesarism. The fact that Trump is laughable in the role of Caesar does not make the argument less pernicious. And it tells you a lot about the blind anger of the antiestab-lishment right that Rush Limbaugh is more favorable to Donald Trump than to Jeb Bush.

(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-

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Michael Gerson

Political Crossfire

A Campaign of Bombast and Ridicule

He communicates in a series of eruptions, gestures and tweets that generally assert the need for his own leadership while dismissing rivals as fools and worse.

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The Basics of Index Funds

Index funds have become an increas-ingly popular investment. But are they right for you?We all remember the story of the tor-

toise and the hare. It was in this tale that we learned a valuable lesson: slow and steady wins the race. The tortoise was not a glamorous creature and he may have lacked pizzazz, but in the end, he won.

In a way, index funds are the mod-ern-day tortoise in the race for a solid investment plan. Nothing flashy, just steadily keeping pace with a particular index, and if, by chance, that index does well, then the fund excels also.

Index funds, which are a type of mu-tual fund, are a pretty simple concept in the world of investments. In an index fund, stocks are grouped together from companies included within an index, for instance, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The percentage of stock is kept the same as the indexes themselves in an attempt to mirror the index.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIJA) is a price weighted index of 30 of the largest, most widely held stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged group of securities consid-ered to be repre-sentative of the stock market in general.

Whether or not you want to invest in an in-dex fund depends on the type of in-vestor you are. Keep in mind that index funds are different from normal mutual funds. Most mutual funds are actively managed so a fund manager is constant-ly picking new or different stocks to go into the fund. This active attempt to beat the market is based mostly on timing and choosing the right stocks and bonds. Under some conditions, an actively managed account may achieve gains a passively managed account would not.

Index funds, on the other hand, are a pas-sive investment, meaning they are not actively managed.

But one of the most attractive parts of index funds stems from the lack of ac-

tive management. Because they don’t require the same constant ad-ministration and attention as an actively managed mutual fund, their expense ratios are generally lower.

Some say if you can’t beat a market, you might as well join it, which is one of the biggest attributes of an index fund. Keep in mind that while an index fund is designed to match the overall gains of the index it follows, it will also participate in the declines. And while the fund tries to mirror an index, the return on the fund will always be slightly less due to man-agement fees.

So are index funds for you? That

depends on your investment style. As al-ways, you should check with a financial professional before investing, and decide if index funds fit in with your overall in-vestment strategy. But in the end, index funds offer an alternative way to poten-tially increasing your wealth and achiev-ing your financial goals.

Investing involves risk, including loss of principle. An investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth less or more than the original investment price. An investor should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of a mutual fund before invest-ing. The fund prospectus contains this and other information about the fund. Contact your advisor or the fund compa-ny for a copy of the prospectus, which should be read carefully before investing.

Written by Securities America for distribution by Oded Joseph Jacobowitz. Oded is a local financial and life insurance advisor with 17 years of experience and can be reached at (516) 668-1871.

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June is graduation season, and odds are good that you’ve spent some time seated on a cheap

folding chair or arena bleacher watch-ing someone proceed down an aisle in an expensive cap and gown. Com-mencement speakers will thank the fac-ulty, staff, and parents who made it all

possible. But how many of them thank the folks in Washington who drafted Internal Revenue Code Section 170(c) back in 1917?

John Paulson is a hedge fund man-ager who owns a 28,500 square foot Manhattan townhouse, a $41.3 million Southampton estate with two pools and

two guesthouses (because one of each wouldn’t be enough), and a $49 mil-lion Aspen ranch. Back in 2007, he bet against the housing bubble and made close to $4 billion when everyone else was losing their shirt. Forbes magazine ranks him #113th-richest billionaire in the world, with a net worth of $11.2 billion.

So, a couple of weeks ago, John Paulson reached into his couch cush-ions and found $400 million he didn’t need. He gave that money to his alma mater, Harvard University. (Harvard has a $32.7 billion endowment, which means they don’t need it either, but that’s a different story.) Harvard will use the money to expand their engi-neering school and rename it in Paul-son’s honor. And here’s where that tax code section 170(c) comes in — it lets Paulson deduct the gift from his 2015 tax return and save $100 million or so.

Paulson isn’t the only rich guy to donate millions to see his name on the wall of a building. Last month, another Wall Streeter named Stephen Schwarzman ($12 billion net worth) found $150 million in the spare change jar on his bedroom dresser that he wasn’t using. He gave it to his alma mater, Yale University ($23.9 billion endowment), which will use the mon-ey to transform the Commons build-ing into a performing arts center. If you guessed that Yale is renaming it “the Schwarzman Center,” give your-self 10 points. And if you said, “Wow, Schwarzman’s gift will save him $40 million or so in taxes,” give yourself another 10.

Wall Streeters aren’t the only guys getting in on the action. Back in March, a California venture capitalist named Mark Stevens ($1.6 billion net worth)

found $50 million in the console be-tween the front seats of his car. He gave it to his alma mater, the University of Southern California ($4.6 billion en-dowment), to build a biology lab. If you guessed it’ll be called the “Mark and Mary Steven Neuroimaging and Infor-matics Institute,” you know a lot more about biology than we do. And while we can’t know exactly how much the gift will amputate from the Stevens’s taxes, we can be sure it’s a lot.

We’re having fun here with the amounts these guys can give. But we’re not making fun of their tax breaks. That’s what lets a John Paulson say to himself, “Hmmmm, I’ve got $400 mil-lion I’m willing to part with,” and give it all to the school of his choice, rath-er than a smaller after-tax amount. It’s what lets your neighbor say, “I’ve got 500 bucks I’m willing to part with” and give it all to his alma mater. Americans as a group give nearly $40 billion per year to educational causes. And the tax breaks that encourage that generosity really do help make it possible for you to enjoy those graduation speeches you sat through earlier this month.

You know what else guys like John Paulson, Steven Schwarzman, and Mark Stevens all have? Tax plans. They know they can’t just wait until April 15 to figure out how much they owe — not if they want to give build-ings to universities. Shouldn’t you take a page from their success and get a plan of your own? Plan now and see how much more you might be able to give!

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

Allan J. Rolnick, CPA

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Pomp and Circumstance

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Don’t even say it! It is June’s obsession. Just about anything you are busy with is directed

toward this.You get into your car and you drive

to the nearest army and navy store, of course. There are still tons of items on the list that haven’t been checked off. Then you go to just about every other store in the neigh-borhood for some random item as well.

Oh, and don’t forget CVS or Duane Reade. Ba-sically every toi-letry they carry has to make it to some-where in Pennsyl-vania or Sullivan county.

Sneakers – need I say more? What-ever worked perfectly well a month ago is now no longer appropriate for any sport, at all. Your child’s foot hasn’t grown an inch but a new pair of sneakers is absolutely required. And of course a backup pair is a must.

Just as you think your list is nar-rowing down, the miscellaneous list comes out. No, I don’t mean the lit-tle items like stamps and stationery, though, that certainly is bought too. And yet whether it’s actually ever used is a whole other discussion. I mean the fan. And certainly the refrigerator and the Foreman grill. I was so sure they had said meals were included!

As the shopping tapers down—no I didn’t say ends because the kids always remember just one more thing that they need—the nametags come out! I’m not sure why they need to identi-fy their stuff. They’ve all brought the exact same things so what’s the differ-ence whose they wear? But it certainly keeps us busy at home.

Sometimes you get a little teary-eyed just thinking of your child going away but it’s honestly nothing compared to the pools your kids shed once the bunk assign-ments come out. The drama is truly heart-breaking.

And yet, why anyone bothers agonizing is be-

yond me. The policy is etched in stone: “We don’t make any bunk changes!”

Everyone lives for D-Day or more accurately T-Day. The day the trunks are picked up. That’s it, the marathons over. We can take a breath except, of course, if you’re not part of early morn-ing pick up then you have to go through the whole day worrying if they forgot

about you!So the trunk is

finally picked up. O.K. It wasn’t till midnight, but hoo-ray.

Hooray?! Not exactly. The kid who promised to sit with your kid on the bus just called! The drama begins... They also

promised so and so... Why can’t the au-thorities make those assignments too?! That kind of keeps you busy the last few days you have your child at home!

And then there’s the home stretch... back to the stores... the supermarket.... Because we haven’t yet completed the all-important survival kit: the snacks! The junk, the fruit bars, and the pop top cans of pickles and hearts of palm. Once that’s done and the hockey stick is laid out for the morning, everyone can go to sleep in anticipation of the last leg of the June journey –send off!

The bus stop is the final stand. There are those kids who never look back and others practically hanging out the window. And there are those parents dragging on the fender having a hard time letting the bus leave and there are those parents doing a free-dom jig.

And the kids are finally on their way – off to Camp. There I said it: that dirty June word. And so June has

passed! And before you know it, we will be facing

July’s dirty word: you got it: visiting day!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relation-ship counselor and

career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or [email protected]

Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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Physical Therapist Assistants (PTA’s) & Occupational Therapists Assistants (COTA’s)

For 200+ bed Nursing Home in QueensMust have Hospital or Nursing Home experience


COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE

4 Houses. Brnd New Construction. 4 rs. 5BR, 3 full bths + 2 half bths. EIK, LR/DR, den area off kit. Lndry on 2nd r. Full bsmnt w/ half bath. 4th oorhas prvte brs and bth. Prvte drvwy. Call Chaya Moller for a showing. 516-506-3347$625K

Charming, updated home on oversized lot. Granite EIK, SS appl,hrdwd rs, n. bsmnt w/ wine cellar. Lrg shop/office permitted on premises. Many possibilities. Call Sherri 516-297-7995$545K

Young, legal, 2 family semi-detached, 3 over 4 bdrms. 5 full bths.1st r is a duplex w/ a huge eat in kitchen w/ radiant heat. Large mstr bdrm with bath. W/D hookup in both apts. Call Sherri 516-297-7995 $699K

APARTMENT RENTALSFAR ROCKAWAY

COMING SOON!NEW! Residential Office on

Central Avenue across from Seasons!Looking to hire agents for

our NEW office!

Plainview Ave.

Far Rockaway

322 Felter Ave., Hewlett

OPEN HOUSE 6/21 12PM-2PM

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

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NURSING SECRETARY FULL TIMEFor 200+ bed Nursing Home in Queens.

Must have prior Hospital or Nursing Home as well as Bookkeeping experience.


Growing Sephardic Brooklyn Girls Elementary School

Seeks for the upcoming school year:• A dynamic and creative grade 5 Limudei

Kodesh Morah For an Ivrit b’Ivrit class• General Studies teachers who are Certified for

Pre-1A, Grades 2 and 5• Minimum 2 years experience required

• Excellent Salary, BenefitsEmail resume: [email protected]

Seeking a warm, capable Preschool Teacher for Preschool in Port Washington (near

Great Neck) Good pay, beautiful facility and atmosphere. Please email your resume

[email protected]

5Towns Boys Elementary School seeking TEACHERS AND

MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA TEACHERCompetitive pay and excellent working

environmentSend resume to [email protected].

Due to demand, The Ganger Early Childhood Center of Torah Academy for Girls is seeking a

warm, experienced Pre-School Teacher for its newly opened nursery class for the

September 2015 school term. Please fax resume to 718-868-4612

or email [email protected].

LOOKING FOR A REGISTERED NURSE to work part time (3 hrs/wk) with adults who

have developmental disabilities. Strong health assessment skills needed. Current NYS RN license

and a minimum of 2 years of post graduate hospital experience required

Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email resume to [email protected] to apply.

Professional Shaitel Macher in Far Rockaway looking for part time / full time help.

Please call or text 347 409 6907

FULL TIME RESIDENCE MANAGER to work in a residence with men with

developmental disabilities. Responsibilities include supervising all aspects of client

care, programming, staffing, and facilities management. Bachelor’s and experience working

in this field required.Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email your resume to [email protected] to apply

CATAPULT LEARNINGTeachers for Title I in Boro Park and

Williamsburg Chassidic boys schools*College/Yeshiva Degree Required

*Strong desire to help children learn*Excellent organizational skills

*Small group instruction*Competitive salaryEmail resume: [email protected]

Fax# (718) 381-3493

MISC.

Discounted tickets to Six Flags Great Adventure Theme Park And Safari

Valid for any operating day for only $40Contact Yehoshua @ 917- 923-0011

Looking for donation of car or minivan in good running condition.

Tax exempt receipt available for full market value. Please call 347-342-8196

YNM/5towns Sheital Gemach is in desperate need of wig donations.

Anyone who has wigs/falls they no longer need- There are many women who you can

make very happy. Tizku l’mitzvos!

TJH ClassifiedsHELP WANTEDHELP WANTED

DUE TO EXPANSION, TORAH ACADEMY FOR GIRLS IN FAR ROCKAWAY IS SEEKING TO FILL THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS.

Pre-School & Elementary School Assistants

Elementary General Studies: qualified, experienced teacher for 5th grade

Junior High General Studies: qualified, experienced teacher, 6th grade, Language Arts & Social Studies

Please fax resume to 718-868-4612 or email [email protected]

HELP WANTED

FOR SALE: TOYOTA AVALON XLS 2007Only 58k miles!! Runs beautifully. Upgraded premium JBL audio, 12 speakers. Premium wheels. $10,500 - more than $2,000 below

KBB value! FCFS. Video of car and contact info at

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TJH ClassifiedsPost your Real Estate, Help Wanted, Services, Miscellaneous Ads here. Every ThursdayEmail ads to: [email protected] valid credit card infoDeadline Monday 5:00pm

Traditional 5BR, 3.5BA Col, Gourmet Eik, Lux MBR Ste, Breathtaking Views...$1.8M

Elegant 4BR, 4.5BA CH Col, Beautiful Woodwork, Den, 1/2 Acre, Patio…$1.3M

www.pugatch.com

Carol Braunstein Call or Text (516) 592-2206 [email protected]

Outstanding CH Colonial, 3BR, 2.5 Baths, Eik, FDR, Fin Bsmt, SD#14…$649K

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If You Are Interested In Buying, Selling Or Leasing Call The Local Commercial EXPERTS 516-295-3000

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Lovely 3BR, 2.5BA Split On O/S Ppty, Eik, Den, Low Taxes, SD#15...$645K

CALL ME FOR A FREE MARKET ANALYSIS FOR

YOUR HOME!!!

C o m m erc ia l P ro p er t y FO R SA LE

6,000 +/- SF Building

2 Overhead Doors

Ideal Auto Garage

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Near LIRR Station & More

Call Lori For Details!!!

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Early Intervention ServicesFor children birth - 3 years with special needs

ServicesProvidedl Evaluationsl Feeding Therapy l Special Educationl Nutrition Counseling l Service Coordinationl Family Support/Counseling l Speech/Language Therapyl Physical & Occupational Therapy l ABA Program – Center & Home ServicesRoutines Based Interventions & Collaborative Coaching

TO REFER YOUR CHILD TO THE EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM CALL 311.

This Early Intervention Program (EIP) is a public program for children under the age of three who are either suspected of having or at risk

for developmental delays or disabilities. EIP is funded by NYS and NYC. All EIP services are provided at no cost to parents. Health insurance may be used for approved services. A child’s

eligibility for the program can be determined only by state-approved evaluators under contract, and all services must be authorized

by the NYC Early Intervention Program.

For more information about CHALLENGE: T. 718.851.3300 W. challenge-ei.com

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