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Dear Readers,One of the greatest things about the

summer, I think, is that spending times outdoors gives us an opportunity to ex-plore the world around us. It’s not just that the trees and flowers are beautiful, people as well seem nicer and more receptive to each other. Last week, while at a local park with my kids, I happened to chat with some women. One of them was a Ukrainian grandmother who, through her limited English, managed to tell me that she was Jewish. She became emotional and told me that just three months ago she lost her husband of 55 years. I wished I could speak with her more, but the lan-guage barrier made our conversation bulky and slow. What I was able to get from our conversation is that although she grew up in a country where religion was decimat-ed, she is still proud to be a Jew.

Another woman started chatting with me as she watched two of her children. America will be a better place if more women were like her. She told me that when people see her they think that she’s on food stamps and on welfare. But, she said proudly, “I’m not on food stamps! And my kids are clean and clothed and I’m going to buy a house next year!” She works three jobs—one as an administra-tive assistant, one as a waitress, and one at

McDonald’s. I couldn’t keep up with her. Three jobs and three kids. When does she sleep? “I don’t sleep that much, but I don’t care—I’m going to buy a house,” she said.

She related that workers at McDon-ald’s who work at least 20 hours a week receive full benefits, including health, dental, childcare, 401K. Yes, people make fun of her for “flipping burgers” but she doesn’t care—she’s not taking any hand-outs and she’s going to live the American dream.

I couldn’t stop thinking about our con-versation. First of all, just the fact that McDonald’s, the company that’s been vil-ified in the news so often for paying their workers minimum wage, is so generous to its workers was something new to me. But even more than that, I couldn’t get over this woman’s work ethic. How many of us work three jobs? And she was happy about it—and proud! She couldn’t wait to buy her first home in Orlando next year and eventually settle there when her kids get older.

Imagine if more people were like her. Imagine if more people in our nation had such a work ethic. Imagine if more people weren’t looking to squeeze every last dol-lar out of their government.

America is a land of opportunity; it shouldn’t be a land of entitlements.

On the other side of the Atlantic, a small nation teeming with those who ex-pect entitlements is now—once again—on the brink of financial disaster. A colleague of mine once recounted a visit to Greece to visit his family. He was amazed at how so much of the culture is about hanging out in coffee shops, chatting and debating, for all hours of the night. Most people he met didn’t have jobs; the government was taking care of them. And it’s not just the citizens of Greece who expect things gra-tis. The culture stems from the top. Not only can’t the government sustain itself, they went looking for billions in bailouts, with no idea of how they’re going to pay these loans back. And now, when they’ve defaulted, they expect part of the loans to be forgiven.

We live in a global world, where mar-kets are interconnected. A financial disas-ter on one side of the world creates tremors the world over. Today’s news won’t spell the end of Greece; surely its neighbors will once again bail it out. But we can learn a sobering lesson from the Hellenic nation. A nation seeking perpetual entitlements can’t survive. A strong work ethic and ample opportunity will make us a stronger, healthier country. Wishing you a wonderful week,Shoshana

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This Week We’re Talking to…Orah Day Camp 54

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Letters to the EditorDear Editor,

I completely agree with Rabbi Ru-binstein in his article published last week in your paper, entitled “Eyes Wide Shut.”

Americans have their heads buried in the sand. But it’s not just on college campuses that anti-Israel and anti-Se-mitic sentiment is rampant. Wake up and see it for what it is. We are living in an extremely liberal society. Yes, we can practice our religion openly without fear of reprisal and I am grateful for the graciousness our country affords us. But being liberal across the board means that everyone is able to express their views and practice their beliefs. That includes people who hate you and me and the United States and that includes people who have views that are the antithesis of what our religion is based on. Re-cent legislation should remind us that we shouldn’t get too comfortable in our pa-latial homes.

As Rabbi Rubinstein said, many times anti-Semitism is couched is a dis-like for Israel. Don’t allow them to pre-tend that we don’t see. Call it what it is.A Reader

Dear Editor,It has been a few years since I last ran

in the ING Miami Marathon because of knee injuries. Now, with my new knee, I can’t wait to run again to help the fami-lies of Chai Lifeline.

In November 2001 my wife Robin and I were told that our son Jonah, who was then eight years old, had cancer. During his treatment and beyond, Chai Lifeline stood by our side helping both Jonah and us tremendously. Our son, who is now a healthy twenty-two year old, was cured, but our efforts continue to support Chai Lifeline.

This wonderful organization provid-ed our children with big brothers and a big sister for our daughter, brought us home cooked meals in the hospital and sent Jonah to Camp Simcha, in the

mountains, where he always had a blast. Chai Lifeline has also provided import-ant emotional support to the entire fami-ly, and continues to be a part of our lives.

Every year the camp offers 450 kids a chance to forget about illness and just be kids again.

As the father of a child who had can-cer, I can never do enough to help the organization that was by our side during the entire ordeal. Chai Lifeline addresses the full spectrum of needs, from logisti-cal to social, recreational to psycholog-ical. Chai Lifeline reaches out not only to patients, but also to parents, siblings, classmates, school faculty, and the com-munity as well.

As a hakoras hatov (means of show-ing my gratitude), while running the Marathon on behalf of Chai Lifeline, I hope to raise more than $30,000.00 by race day. Your support is a critical part of this effort and I know that together we can make a difference to these children. All donations are 100% tax-deductible, and the Team Lifeline website

(http://tinyurl.com/pyq2me4) makes donations quick, easy, and secure. Thank you for supporting me, and in doing so, helping children and their families cope with the diagnosis, treatment, and after-math of serious pediatric illness.Best regards,Howard M. Adelsberg

Dear Editor,I noticed that you have been featur-

ing another restaurant every week in your “restaurant review” section. It’s good that summer is a few weeks’ long. Every time I read another article, I prom-ise myself I’m going to head there that week. So far, I have made many prom-ises and have yet to visit these eateries, but there are still many more weeks of summer left!

Thank you for providing us with a wonderful, entertaining publication.Chana Weiss

Dear Editor,I am writing this in the hope that all of

you will call the mayor’s office in support of Introduction 209, which would imple-ment a fee on carry out one time use plas-tic bags in stores.

New York City is a horrible offender when it comes to plastic bag waste. We carelessly throw out 100,000 tons (5.2 bil-lion) plastic bags annually (most of which are thrown out after only one or two uses) and pay other states to take our trash be-cause there’s no place for it to go. On av-erage 500,000,000 of those will find their way to the ocean, where their tiny scrapes of chemical components will swirl around for eternity, as if caught in a toilet that never flushes.

Plastic is forever. Plastic waste is be-lieved to cause the deaths of 100,000 ma-rine animals each year. All of our oceans are choking on billions of tons of plastic waste that will float there forever…caught in toxic gyres that choke and kill sea life.

Dear friends, it’s time for our city to take this courageous and vital step and save our oceans, marine life, sea mam-mals and birds. Simply discouraging the use and promoting the recycling of these bags are not realistic options. New York-er’s can adapt to the slight inconvenience of carrying reusable grocery bags in their

shopping wagons and car trunks. Stores can distribute paper grocery bags as they did in our youth and as Trader Joe’s and other retailers continue to do.

It’s time for New York City to take re-sponsibility and ban massive amounts of plastic in our waste stream. It’s time to fol-low San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington D.C., and the entire state of Hawaii and ban plastic bags in New York City forever. The bans in these areas have had an enormous impact on reducing one of the biggest sources of pollution on the planet and ensuring that we have a clean, healthy world for generations to come.

Please call the mayor to express sup-port for the bill, at the Mayor’s Commu-nity Affairs Unit, 212-788-7418.

We forget that the water cycle and life cycle are one.Joseph M. VaronPast President, New York State Marine Education AssociationPast Treasurer and Board Member, Alley Pond Environmental Center Member, Food and Water Watch

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At the start of World War II, young Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old English stockbroker, found himself in Prague as the Nazis marched on Czechoslovakia. All around him Jewish parents desper-ately searched for a means of escape or a way to save their children. With his heroism, Winton was able to save more than 650 innocent children during this time. Furthermore, he never mentioned it or asked for credit or praise. In fact, very few people were aware of his good deeds because he rarely discussed it. One day, his wife found documents in their attic that revealed the story and for the first time allowed the rescued children to know and thank their savior. She held a moving ceremony in 1988 for all the children who Winton helped survive.

“There are all kinds of things you don’t talk about, even with your fami-ly,” Winton said later. “Everything that happened before the war actually didn’t feel important in the light of the war it-self.” He was humbled by the praise he received, once remarking that it was just nine months in his very long life. It may have been just nine months but his acts of heroism saved countless lives.

Last week, Sir Nicholas Winton passed away at the age of 106.

“In a world plagued by evil and in-difference, Winton dedicated himself to saving the innocent and the defense-less. His exceptional moral leadership serves as an example to all humanity,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu said on Thursday.

“Winton knew how to correctly read the harsh reality and chose to leave his comfortable life and follow the voice of his conscience,” added Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

The story of Winton’s exploits led former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to dub him “Britain’s Schindler,” in reference to the German business-

man Oskar Schindler who famously saved countless Jewish lives during the war.

When Winton returned to Britain from Czechoslovakia and found that there was no one working on the prob-lem of how to get the children out from Hitler’s clutches, Winton borrowed the headed paper of the British Commit-tee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia and underneath typed the words “Chil-dren’s Section.”

He approached the British govern-ment and eventually elicited a promise that it would let the children in, pro-vided he had a foster home arranged for each of them and upon payment of a guarantee — the substantial sum of 50 pounds per child. Winton made lists of 6,000 suitable children, publishing their photographs to try to encourage British families to agree to take them. He arranged trains from Prague to the Netherlands, ferries to take the children across the North Sea. Eight trains and one plane carried 669 children to Brit-ain in the months before the outbreak of war. The largest evacuation was scheduled for September 3, 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany. That train never left, and almost none of the 250 children trying to flee that day survived the war.

“At the time, everybody said, ‘Isn’t it wonderful what you’ve done for the Jews? You saved all these Jewish peo-ple,’” Winton recalled. “When it was first said to me, it came almost as a rev-elation because I didn’t do it particular-ly for that reason. I was there to save children.”

The children from Prague were among some 10,000 mostly Jewish children who made it to Britain on what were known as the Kindertransports (children’s transports). Few of them would see their parents again.

“Inside I was cheering like a foot-ball match, but outwardly I was calm and quiet,” he told the Observer, a Brit-ish publication, years later, when he saw the children in Liverpool and out of danger. “I knew that for every Jewish child safely deposited on the platform that day, there were hundreds more still trapped in Czechoslovakia. And I knew that because I was organizing this emi-gration entirely on my own, I wouldn’t be able to bring out a fraction of those in such terrible danger.”

“Maybe a lot more could have been done, but much more time would have been needed, much more help would have been needed from other countries, much more money would have been needed, much more organization,” Winton later said.

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He also acknowledged that not all the children who made it to Britain were well-treated in their foster homes, and some foster parents used them as cheap domestic servants. He also faced criticism in some quarters for placing Jewish children with Christian fami-lies.

“I wouldn’t claim that it was 100 percent successful, but I would claim that everybody who came over was alive at the end of the war,” he said, quoted in the book, Into the Arms of Strangers.

Germans can Now “Rent a Jew”

The Janusz Korczak Academy launched a headline-grabbing project seeking to create contact between Ger-

man Jews and non-Jewish Germans. The program has been dubbed “Rent-A-Jew.”

Eva Haller, a member of the acad-emy’s board of directors, said in an in-terview that the project has a “provoca-tive name” and aims “to engage young people on the grassroots level.” “Many people in Germany have not had a chance to meet Jews in Germany,” she said. The German Jewish participants are under 30 and have completed their high school degree. There are approxi-mately 20 German Jews involved in the project and the number will continue to grow, said Haller.

The young German Jews are avail-able to speak before schools, religious groups, and other institutions. Haller said the stress of the interactions with non-Jews will “not be to clarify reli-gious or political questions,” but will “build interpersonal contacts for young people.” However, she said, the partic-ipants are trained to answer political or religious questions.

Haller said the academy’s project is “a variation of the Jew in a Box exhibit in the [Berlin] Jewish Museum” several years ago, in which a Jew sat in a glass enclosure with an opening to answer

questions for two hours.The Jew in a Box exhibit sparked

controversy in the capital city and across the globe. Supporters viewed the exhibit as a way for Germans to meet Jews and pose questions about all as-pects of Judaism and the State of Israel. Critics viewed the exhibit as a cheap carnival-like exploitation of Jews.

Germans can “rent Jews” at a web-site created by the academy: www.rent-ajew.org. According to the academy’s website, “Rent a Jew is a project of the Jewish Media Forum, an informal net-work of young Jewish media freelanc-ers, which is advised by the academy and sponsored by the Nevatim Program of the Jewish Agency.”

“There are 100,000 Jews in Germa-ny, but very few people in this coun-try know a Jew personally. We want to change that … and break down preju-dices” about Jews, its website boasts.

The Dark Secrets of N. Korea

In a memoir published in London on Thursday, Hyeonseo Lee gives ex-ceptional insight into the ruthless re-ality of daily life in the world’s most secretive country.

As a youngster in North Korea she was forced to watch executions, de-nounce friends for fictitious transgres-sions, and physically dig tunnels in case of a nuclear attack. But despite the pun-ishing situation, as a child Lee believed that she lived in the “greatest nation on earth.” Her culture brainwashed her to believe that their leader was god-like.

“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe,” she writes in The Girl With Seven Names. “Nearly 70 years after its creation it re-mains as closed and as cruel as ever.”

Lee was raised in Hyesan, a region right next to the Chinese border. She now resides in South Korea and is a human rights activist. Growing up, her

childhood home was adorned with por-traits of North Korea’s revered founder Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il; this is standard in all North Korean homes. Failure to clean and care after them was a punishable offense. At din-ner, gratitude was directed to “Respect-ed Father Leader Kim Il-sung.”

Life in North Korea was laced with fear and anxiety of “big brother.” The faintest hint of political disloyalty was enough to make an entire family – grandparents, parents and children – disappear. “Their house would be roped off; they’d be taken away in a truck at night, and not seen again,” she recalls.

Her worst nightmare became true when Lee was just a teenager. One night, her father, a military man, was arrested by the secret police. Eventual-ly he was released to the hospital but only after being beaten so viciously that he eventually died.

In the mid-1990s, North Korea suf-fered a famine which killed an estimat-ed one million people. This was Lee’s first clue that the country she once be-lieved to be the world’s most prosper-ous had its faults. During that time Lee saw a skeletal young mother lying in the street with a baby in her arms. She was close to death, but no one stopped to assist her.

After that, Lee began to think and contemplate. She fed her intrigue by watching Chinese satellite TV illegal-ly, blacking out the windows so no one would see. She learned about the coun-try across the river from her home, and one night in 1997 she ventured out and crossed the narrow stretch of frozen river with the help of a friendly guard. When her mother finally tracked down her daughter to a distant relative’s home in China, her first words on the phone were, “Don’t come back.”

China, however, was not safe either. Lee lived in fear of being exposed and deported back to North Korea, where she would have been imprisoned or even killed. Out of fear, she would constantly change her name, hence her memoir’s title. After years on the run, Lee finally reached South Korea, where North Koreans are given asylum. But she longed for her family and set out on a dangerous journey to rescue her mother and brother.

The name Lee uses today is not the one she was given at birth, nor one of those forced on her by circumstance.

“It is the one I gave myself, once I’d reached freedom,” she writes. “Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good for-tune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth, and not return to the shadow.”

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Billionaire to Give it All Away

One of the world’s richest people, Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Prince Al-waleed bin Talal, has announced that over the coming years he will donate all of his $32 billion to charity. The money will go to the Saudi prince’s organiza-tion called Alwaleed Philanthropies to work in the fields of “intercultural un-derstanding” and supporting communi-ties in need, he said in a statement.

Programs will include promoting health, eradicating disease, bringing electricity to remote villages, build-ing orphanages and schools, as well as “empowering women.” The prince, chairman of investment firm Kingdom Holding Company, said he has already donated $3.5 billion to the charitable organization.

Alwaleed joins other billionaires who have made similar pledges in re-cent years, such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg. He credited the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their wide range of charitable projects and said his organization has partnered with them on health initiatives. “Philanthro-py is a personal responsibility which I embarked upon more than three de-cades ago and is an intrinsic part of my Islamic faith,” he said in the statement, which came during the month of Rama-dan when Muslims are encouraged to give charity and help the needy.

The prince, who does not hold an official government position, built his wealth through seed money from his father and savvy investments. Kingdom Holding owns stakes in hotels like The Four Seasons, Fairmont and Raffles, as well as companies such as News Corp., Citigroup, Twitter and Apple.

The prince’s two children were present at his boardroom when he made the announcement in Riyadh. Though he did not give an exact timeframe, Alwaleed said his billions would be al-located through a “well-devised plan” throughout the coming years.

Homicide Rates Surge in El Salvador

The month of June was a bloody one in El Salvador. The South Amer-ican country saw 677 murders, more than in any other single month since the end of the country’s civil war in 1992. During El Salvador’s civil war an estimated 76,000 people died during its 12 years and another 12,000 disap-peared. In May of this year, the number of killings wasn’t much lower than this month’s carnage; there were 641 homi-cides. The first six months of 2015 have produced 2,965 murders compared with 1,840 murders during the same period last year.

Experts believe that the surge in vi-olence can be accredited to the coun-try’s ruthless and active street gangs. Recently gangs renewed their clashes with government forces and amongst themselves. Previously, due to a gang truce that remained in place for over a year, the daily average murders fell to about six. But in June it was almost four times that with an average of 22.6 murders every day.

Poor Piloting Led To Feb. Crash

A new and disturbing report de-tailing the last minutes on a February TransAsia Airways flight shows that the pilot mistakenly switched off the plane’s only working engine seconds before it crashed. The plane crash that killed 43 people was flown by Captain Liao Jian-zong, who had failed simu-lator training in May 2014 in part be-cause he had insufficient knowledge on how to deal with an engine flame-out on take-off.

“Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle,” Liao, 41, was heard saying on voice recordings seconds before the crash. There appeared to be confusion in the cockpit as the two captains tried to regain control of the plane after one engine lost power about three minutes

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into the doomed flight. Liao reduced the throttle on the working engine but did not appear to realize his mistake until it was too late. He tried to restart the engines several times before crash-ing upside down in a shallow river in Taipei.

Before impact, the almost new ATR 72-600, which had 58 people on board, crashed-lurched between several build-ings, clipped an overpass and hit a taxi.

Fifteen people survived but all three pi-lots, 40 passengers and other crew died in the second crash involving a Tran-sAsia ATR plane in a year.

After the crash, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration put Tran-sAsia’s ATR pilots through oral profi-ciency tests on how to handle an air-craft during engine failure. All but one of the pilots passed the tests, although some needed more than one attempt.

The lone failure was demoted in rank to vice-captain from captain.

Subsequent to the recent reve-lations about the doomed February flight, TransAsia president Fred Wu an-nounced that the airline would buy an ATR flight simulator, bring in outside experts to evaluate pilots, and launch a safety improvement program with Air-bus.

The Cultural Significance of a Glass of Bubbly

A lot goes into the production of champagne. It starts in the vineyards and continues onto wine cellars and then ends in sales houses. The bubbly industry was just rewarded world heri-tage status by the United Nations’ cul-tural arm.

Unesco has decided that where and how champagne is produced and sold is culturally significant. It was one of 11 sites given World Heritage status by Unesco at a meeting in Germany on Sat-urday.

This status ensures that the sites re-ceive special protection in the future, and it also attracts more tourists and with that financial gain. Unesco said the champagne industry is “a very special-ized artisan activity that has become an agro-industrial enterprise.”

The champagne industry joins the Taj Mahal in India and the Great Wall of China on this exclusive list. The vine-yards of Burgundy, in France, were also given World Heritage status last week. Among the other sites named were Sin-gapore’s Botanic Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress in Turkey, and Maymand cave dwellings in Iran.

Tunisia Declares State of Emergency Following Terror Attack

On Saturday, the president of Tuni-sia declared a state of emergency. The announcement was made in response to a second day of deadly attacks on

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foreigners in the last three months. The government feels that the country is “not safe” and risks collapse from further ex-tremist attacks.

On a nationwide televised address, President Beji Caid Essebsi officially reintroduced urgent security measures for Tunisia that had been lifted in March 2014. Essebsi said an “exceptional sit-uation required exceptional measures” but pledged to respect freedom of ex-pression.

A week ago, an armed gunman stormed a popular Tunisia beach and resort. He attacked beachgoers, tourists, and vacationers, killing 38 people; 30 of the 38 dead in the attack were British tourists. The gunman was tracked down by authorities and killed. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the massacre, a blow to Tunisia’s tourism industry.

“Tunisia faces a very serious danger and it should take any possible measures to maintain security and safety,” the president reiterated. “As we see in other countries, if attacks like Sousse happen again, the country will collapse.”

Tunisia was previously under a state of emergency from January 2011, at the outbreak of the Arab Spring, until March 2014. It initially included a cur-few and a ban on meetings of more than three people.

Essebsi said that this state of emer-gency will last 30 days.

Philippine Ferry Capsizes

A ferry packed with close to 200 people capsized off a central Philippine port on Thursday, officials said, killing at least 60 people, wounding many, and leaving several unaccounted for.

The wooden-hulled boat called the Kim Nirvana tipped over shortly after setting sail from Ormoc city at midday, the coast guard said.

Vegetable trader Reynante Manza, 45, cried as he recounted how the 33-ton vessel suddenly rolled to one side as it reversed course shortly after backing out of the pier of Ormoc, pulling down his wife and many others under the water.

“It rolled while attempting to turn around swiftly. I am alive because I jumped overboard as soon as it hap-pened,” Manza related.

By late afternoon, only a tiny part of the boat’s underbelly was visible and it was surrounded by rescue boats. Rescu-ers pulled 118 survivors from the sea and continue to scour the deep waters where the accident happened, said Philippine National Red Cross chief Richard Gor-don. The vessel was carrying 173 pas-sengers and 16 crew members, and was licensed to carry up to 200 people. Many of the passengers were traders bringing farm produce and other merchandise to the Camotes island grouping, whose res-idents rely mostly on fishing.

An investigation is underway but authorities are clueless as of now as to how the accident happened in relatively calm waters.

“There wasn’t any storm or any gale. We’re trying to find out [why it happened],” Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo said.

He said the boat’s outriggers appar-ently broke in the accident, and added it was possible the crew had committed a navigational error.

HSBC Staff Holds Mock Execution

Six staff members at a London HSBC bank were fired after they filmed a mock Islamic State-style execution video during a team-building day out and then posted the footage online. In the video, staff members wore balacla-vas and stood over a kneeling man in an orange jumpsuit. One member held a coat hanger like a knife.

“We took the decision to sack the individuals involved,” a spokesman for the bank said. “This is an abhorrent vid-eo and HSBC would like to apologize for any offense caused.”

The employees filmed the video on an HSBC team-building day at a go-karting center in Birmingham and posted it on Instagram before deleting it, according to newspaper The Sun, which published the video on its website.

One staff member shouts “Allahu Akbar” in the eight second clip.

The staging recalls gruesome be-heading videos released by ISIS, which has executed over 3,000 people in Syria in the year since it declared an Islamic “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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IsraelWhat Democrats Really Feel about Israel

U.S. political consultant Frank Luntz recently ran a survey that has found that three quarters of highly educated, high income, publicly active U.S. Democrats — the so-called “opinion elites” — be-lieve Israel has too much influence on U.S. foreign policy. He found that almost half of them consider Israel to be a rac-ist country, and fewer than half of them believe that Israel wants peace with its neighbors.

Luntz called the findings “a disaster” for Israel. He summed them up by say-ing that the Democratic opinion elites are converting to the Palestinians, and “Is-

rael can no longer claim to have the bi-partisan support of America.” He “knew there was a shift” in attitudes from Isra-el among U.S. Democrats, and “I have been seeing it get worse” in his ongoing polls. But the new findings surprised and shocked him, nonetheless. “I didn’t expect it to become this blatant and this deep.”

A prominent U.S. political consultant known best for his work with Republi-cans, Luntz is meeting with a series of high-level Israeli officials this week to discuss the survey and consult on how to grapple with the trends it exposes. “Israel has won the hearts and minds of Repub-licans in America, while at the same time it is losing the Democrats,” he said. On U.S. politics, “I’m right of center,” he added. “But the Israeli government and U.S. Jews have to focus on repairing re-lations with the Democrats,” he urged.

Luntz also asked whether respon-dents see anti-Semitism as a problem in the U.S. Overall, 58% agreed with the idea that anti-Semitism is a problem in America (57% of Republicans and 64% of Democrats), compared to 28% who disagreed. “Non-Jews recognize the problem, even if some Israelis want to minimize it,” he pointed out. Ironically,

the poll also found that 50% of Dem-ocrats and 18% of Republicans (and 36% of all respondents) agreed with the proposition that “Jewish people are too hyper-sensitive and too often label legit-imate criticisms of Israel as an anti-Se-mitic attack.”

Here are some of the key findings of the survey:

• Asked about Israeli influence on U.S. foreign policy, an overwhelming 76% of Democrats, as compared to 20% of Republicans, said Israel has “too much influence.”

• Asked whether Israel is a racist country, 47% of Democrats agreed it is, as opposed to 13% of Republicans.

• Asked whether Israel wants peace with its neighbors, while an overwhelm-ing 88% of Republicans said it does, a far lower 48% of Democrats agreed.

• Asked whether the U.S. should sup-port Israel or the Palestinians, a vast 90% of Republicans and a far lower 51% of Democrats said Israel.

• Asked about which side they them-selves support, 88% of Republicans and 46% of Democrats said they were “pro-Israeli” while 4% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats said they were “pro-Palestinian.”

Iron Dome Gets Secret Face-Lift

Israel’s famous Iron Dome system has gotten a mysterious upgrade. The Defense Ministry announced this week that a series of tests was performed to “widen the capacity and improve the performance” of the system. It added that Israel faces “an unprecedented array of threats” presumably ranging from mor-tars to long-range missiles from a variety of origins.

The Iron Dome system was devel-oped to counter the rocket threat from Gaza, a territory from which Hamas and other organizations have fired an upward of 15,200 projectiles at Israel since 2001. Although the project had many oppo-nents, it was operational in a near un-fathomable four years. The Rafael-made system was built to counter rocket threats from four to 70 kilometers away.

On April 7, 2011, several days after the system was made operational, it inter-cepted a Grad rocket fired from Gaza. Since then, the system has displayed an interception rate of roughly 85 percent, destroying or diverting the incoming projectiles and saving countless lives.

Last summer, Hamas and other ter-ror organizations fired 4,594 rockets at Israel. Of those, the system chose to intercept 799 projectiles – it is designed to focus only on missiles deemed threat-ening to populated areas — hitting 735 and missing 64. Toward the end of the war, Hamas focused on short-range mor-tar fire, which the system was not made to intercept. Other attempts by Hamas have been made to increase the rate of fire so as to overwhelm the system and to acquire heavier and longer rockets that exceed Iron Dome’s limits.

Israel, while pushing Iron Dome’s larger cousin, David’s Sling, to opera-tional status has also increased the per-formance envelope of the existing sys-tem. Nonetheless, particularly in a war against Hezbollah, which possesses more rockets and missiles and which is expect-ed to open a future conflict with a blitz, the army has been preparing the public for a less stellar performance. Uzi Rubin, a former head of Israel’s Missile Defense Organization at the Defense Ministry, has said there are no game-changers in the ongoing conflict with Israel’s foes. “Each side continues to develop the tech-nology it needs,” he said. “Rockets be-get anti-rocket technology. Multi-rocket launchers beget additional Iron Dome batteries. And so on.”

Expert: Israel Will Need to Battle ISIS

Zvi Mazel is currently a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Previously, he was stationed as Israel’s ambassador to Egypt. Mazel, an expert on Egyptian policies and abilities, be-lieves that the Egyptian army is not go-ing to be able to successfully fight ISIS. According to Mazel, the IDF will have to pick up the slack.

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for two years they have been fighting guerrillas in Sinai, unsuccessfully. They are just not experienced enough in guer-rilla warfare.” Eventually, it is very pos-sible that ISIS will take over Sinai – plac-ing them along Israel’s longest border. If that happens, the IDF is going to have to fight ISIS on its own. “Already some of ISIS is in Sinai, operating near the Israeli border,” Mazel pointed out.

The problem is not just in Egypt, but in nearly all Arab countries. “They have huge armies but they fall apart in the face of a threat from a relatively small group,” said Mazel. “Unlike in the north, where there are some groups that hold Hezbol-lah back from opening a front against us, ISIS are true fanatics who are looking forward to fighting Israel.”

The situation in Sinai, in fact, is more tense than in the Golan, where there is an active revolution going on, added Ma-zel. “If the U.S. were to send 100,000 soldiers to Iraq they could beat ISIS,” he added. “But the U.S. does not want to be involved in Iraq again, and neither has it sent any substantial aid to Egypt. In the end, we are going to have to fight them.”

Entebbe Documents Released

Last week marked the 39th anniver-sary of the daring mission to rescue Is-raeli hostages being held in Uganda, and the military operations log for Operation Entebbe was published by the Defense Ministry.

The IDF archives also released the handwritten notes passed between then-defense minister Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in which Peres’s apprehension over the fate of the mission was evident. In one such note Peres wrote to Rabin: “How does the op-eration start? – They say it is impossible, the timing isn’t right and the government won’t approve it – the only question I’ve seen, and continue to see, is how will it end?”

The video of the Israeli hostages be-ing welcomed back home after the rescue was also released. In the film, Peres and the defense leadership are seen waiting

on the runway at Ben-Gurion Airport for the Israel Air Force Boeing 707 with the rescued passengers on board.

Operation Entebbe had the military code-name Operation Thunderball, and was later called Operation Yonatan after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Lt.-Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the only IDF soldier killed during the mission that he led. The soldiers sought to save some 94 Jewish passengers and 12 French crew members who had been aboard an Air France flight that terrorists hijacked while en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The terrorists had released the 148 non-Israeli hostages.

The plane was hijacked on June 27, 1976, after having taken off from a lay-over in Athens. The hijackers included two members of the German group Rev-olutionary Cells and two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the pilot to fly to Entebbe, some 3,800 km from Israel. At Entebbe, at least four others joined the terrorists, supported by the forces of Uganda’s president.

The hijackers demanded the release of 53 prisoners, including 40 terrorists imprisoned in Israel, and ransom money. They set a July 1 deadline, saying that the hostages would be executed if they did not get what they wanted. While ne-gotiations for the hostages’ release were ongoing, the hijackers agreed to delay the ultimatum to July 4.

After complicated training and a green light from the political echelon, commandos from the General Staff Re-connaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) arrived at Entebbe Airport and broke into the old, disused terminal where the hostages were being held. Simultaneous-ly, fighters from the Paratroop Brigade raided the new terminal, taking control of it with almost no resistance. Sayeret Matkal commandos, led by Maj. Shaul Mofaz, later IDF chief of staff and then defense minister, destroyed eight Sovi-et-built MiG fighter jets that were parked in the airport to prevent a pursuit after the Israeli Air Force planes.

The hostages, now guarded by Gola-ni Brigade fighters, led by Col. Uri Sagi, were put on Hercules military cargo planes that then flew to Kenya, refueled, and continued onto Israel.

The mission was carried out success-fully, with 102 of 106 hostages rescued.

Hamas Admits ISIS in Gaza

Although Hamas has spent months denying the presence of ISIS fighters in

Gaza, Hamas has now admitted that the bloody terrorist organization does indeed have cells operating there. The delicate ceasefire in place between Israel and Gaza terrorist factions has been sporad-ically broken by ISIS-affiliated jihadist groups launching rocket attacks against Israel over the past several months

The attacks have been seen both as a direct attack on Israel as well as a challenge to Hamas – and specifically in-tended, security experts say, to provoke an Israeli response against Hamas. ISIS jihadists have also directly engaged in a sometimes violent struggle with Gaza’s Hamas rulers, accusing them of not fully implementing Islamic law and demand-ing imprisoned Salafists be released. Meanwhile, Hamas had officially denied ISIS has any presence in the territory it rules, even as it continues to arrest ISIS supporters.

Last week, for the first time, a senior Hamas official admitted ISIS has a pres-ence in Gaza.

In a TV interview, senior spokesper-son and Political Bureau official Mou-sa Abu Marzouk responded to a recent video message from ISIS fighters in the Syria city of Aleppo, in which the group threatened to overthrow Hamas. “Why do they want to turn Gaza into a sea of blood, and what capabilities does this group have to threaten like this?” Mar-zouk asked. He claimed there were mere “dozens” of ISIS members in Gaza and that they “are not organized,” while vow-ing that Hamas authorities would soon stamp them out.

Most analysts believe ISIS’s pres-ence in Gaza – while still relatively small – is significantly larger than Marzouk’s estimates, ranging from several hundred to a few thousand active members or af-filiated terrorists. Marzouk added that the crackdown against ISIS in Gaza needs to be multi-faceted given that the problem is not just a security issue but an ideolog-ical struggle as well.

Marzouk also claimed that many fam-ily members of ISIS supporters in Gaza had turned to the Hamas security forces to dissuade their relatives from joining the global jihadist movement. His admission came on the same day as ISIS’s branch in Egypt fired rockets at southern Israel.

Biking BlindTwenty-four Israelis spent this past

week cycling through the Czech Repub-lic. What makes this noteworthy is that half of them are completely blind. But what sounds impossible is merely the latest adventure for the group CanVelo. “It was the first time that we biked out-

side of Israel,” said Uri Basha, a leader of the self-funded group of 50. “After we came back, the whole group said that they wanted to do that again.”

CanVelo (a play on the Hebrew words for yes and no) began in 2006 as an orga-nization of the Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind. It now has three regional groups in Israel — north, south and Sha-ron — and one in Manhattan. Members participate weekly in tandem bike rides of 30-40 kilometers in different parts of Israel, with a sighted captain steering in front on each tandem and a blind or vi-sually impaired rider providing power in the back.

Throughout the trips, the captains constantly describe the surroundings to their partners. While abroad, CanVe-lo Sharon visited Prague and its Jewish Quarter and enjoyed river rafting and a ropes course. “There were people on the ropes course who looked at it as analo-gous with their life, and really having no choice but to go forward,” said Ken Milman, a captain, “though some of the sighted people didn’t want to do it be-cause they were afraid.”

Arab-Israeli Teachers Arrested for Recruiting for ISIS

Six Arab-Israelis have been arrested by the Shin Bet after forming a cell of the ISIS terrorist group. The initial investi-gation revealed that the cell members conducted secret meetings in which they learned and discussed ISIS’s radical Is-lamist ideology, while some of them ac-tively worked to recruit friends and fami-ly members and encouraged them to join ISIS in Syria. Several of the group also planned to travel to Syria themselves.

Shockingly, four of those arrested were teachers at a school in the Negev. Investigators say they used their posi-tions to try to brainwash children and encourage them to join ISIS as well. In addition to those arrested, several other teachers and staff members – including

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the head teacher of one Negev school – have been questioned under suspicion of withholding knowledge of their col-leagues’ jihadist activities from authori-ties and not acting to stop them. Several of the suspects had already planned trips to Syria to join ISIS there. They admitted to have disguising their trips as “taking a spiritual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.”

The head teacher – who has not been named – denies having any knowledge of the extremist activity at his school. Security services believe that several Israeli Arabs who previously traveled to Syria to join ISIS were part of the same cell. All suspects were indicted in a Be’er Sheva court on a wide range of terrorism charges.

Male Soldiers to Serve for Less than 3 Years

The mandatory serving time for men in the IDF is going down by four months. As part of its newest reforms of drafting and training of soldiers, the classic full three years of service is being cut down to 32 months. The army has lobbied for an even shorter 28-month service, a re-quest that has thus far been rejected by the Knesset. Female soldiers will contin-ue to serve for two years.

The change is the first in a series of reforms the IDF is expected to unveil in the coming days. The shortened stint was approved by the previous government as part of universal draft legislation that mandated equal service for all citizens, including Charedi men. As cutting the length of service will ultimately lead to fewer troops in the army overall, the General Staff is expected to compensate by cutting what it considers to be unnec-essary training.

Training for combat soldiers through-out the army will drop to six months, in place of the current eight. In addition, each branch of the army will reassess the training necessary for specific positions, with the expectation that they will do away with nonessential elements, such as kitchen duty. This shorter training pe-

riod would allow for additional intakes of new recruits, further boosting the number of trained soldiers in the army.

In addition to cutting training for combat soldiers, the army is expected to lower the health profile requirement for some less demanding units — including artillery, aerial defense and search and rescue units — and push recruits from those units with higher health scores into combat units.

In the near future, according to IDF sources, the IDF will also look to shorten the time period before drafted soldiers are sent for officer training, reduce the number of women soldiers serving in po-sitions outside of the army — in schools and museums, for instance — and in-crease the enlistment rates of the Chare-di community. The IDF will also seek to bolster numbers by cracking down on military dropouts — whose numbers have risen to 16 percent in recent years — and reduce them to a level of under 10%.

Producer of Schindler’s List to Donate Oscar to Yad Vashem

An Oscar awarded for a Holocaust film will find its home in Yad Vashem. The Croatian producer of Schindler’s List, Branko Lustig, has decided to give the Oscar he won for his work on the movie to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Mu-seum in Jerusalem.

The 83-year-old Lustig, a Holocaust survivor himself, said Yad Vashem “is the place where the award should be kept after my death.”

Lustig, who won another Oscar for producing the movie Gladiator, worked in Hollywood for 15 years. In 1993, he was awarded an Oscar for producing Ste-ven Spielberg’s movie, which portrays the life of the German industrialist who saved hundreds of Jews during World War II.

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev

decided to hold a ceremony in Lustig’s honor in which the Oscar statuette would be presented to the museum. Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who is due to arrive in Israel next month for a work visit, was invited to the cer-emony by Lustig and will likely attend.

Lustig was born to a Jewish family in Osijek (then in the Kingdom of Yugosla-via). His father was the head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vil-ma, was a housewife. Unlike his parents, Lustig’s grandparents on both sides were religious, and he prayed with them at the local synagogue regularly.

During World War II, Lustig spent two years in Auschwitz and Ber-gen-Belsen. Most of his family mem-bers were murdered in the extermination camps, but his mother survived the Ho-locaust and they were reunited after the war.

PA Cracking Down on Hamas

Palestinian Authority security per-sonnel have conducted several raids in the past week which have resulted in the arrest of hundreds of Hamas personnel. Most recently, PA forces arrested 21 peo-ple associated with Hamas’s student or-ganization at Najah University. One day earlier, overnight raids led to the capture of 108 Hamas members, including sev-eral senior officials, throughout the West Bank.

Hamas spokesman Husam Badran accused Palestinian security forces of working for Israel and said the group holds Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas personally responsible for the “persecution and terror” applied by his forces. Hamas will continue at-tacks against Israelis in the West Bank, he vowed. Badran also called on all factions to unite against PA measures, “which are tearing at the fabric of the Palestinian people.”

A spokesman for the Palestinian Au-thority security services, Adnan Dameri, said: “We will not let Hamas undermine our security and draw our country to bloodshed; we will not let Hamas carry

out attacks in the West Bank.” The ar-rests were part of one of the biggest mass raids since 2007 when Hamas violently ousted forces loyal to Abbas from Gaza, leaving him governing just parts of the West Bank.

There has been a sharp uptick in vi-olent attacks against Israelis in recent weeks, with at least one of the assailants said to be affiliated with Hamas. Last week, 25-year-old Malachy Moshe Ros-enfeld died of wounds sustained a day earlier in a shooting attack in the West Bank.

A Palestinian man also stabbed and seriously injured a female Israeli Border Police officer outside Jerusalem’s Da-mascus Gate. The assailant, said to be a Hamas member or sympathizer, was shot and captured. A few days earlier, a Pal-estinian assailant opened fire on Israeli troops at a checkpoint in the West Bank. The shooter was killed, and no soldiers were injured in the attack.

NationalU.S. Women’s Team Wins World Cup

It’s a party for the U.S.A, a celebra-tory party! The U.S. took home the wom-en’s World Cup this season.

After making it through a choppy year, the team powered through the final game. Within 16 minutes, they scored twice as many goals as anybody ever had in a women’s World Cup final. After a good fight, the team defeated Japan 5-2, breaking the 16 year famine of winning the World Cup.

The final game was the most watched soccer game in the United States, bring-ing in 25.4 million viewers on Fox, a record for any soccer game—men’s or women’s—in the English language in the country’s history. Nearly 1.3 million viewers watched the victory on Span-ish-language Telemundo, exceeding the record 26.5 million combined viewers that took in Germany’s victory over Ar-gentina in last year’s men’s World Cup.

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“This was an event, the sort of thing that galvanizes an audience,” Ed Dess-er, a sports television consultant and former NBA executive, pointed out.

Despite the myriad fans, women soccer players are still not paid near-ly as much as their male counterparts. The total payout for the women’s World Cup this year will be $15 million, com-pared with the total for the men’s World Cup last year, $576 million—nearly 40 times as much. According to the Na-tional Women’s Soccer League, players’ salaries range from $6,000 to $30,000. And each National Women’s Soccer League team has a salary cap of around $200,000.

“In aggregate, first division wom-en’s soccer players are making 98.6 per-cent less than professional soccer’s male cohort,” according to Fusion, making it one of the starkest gender pay divides in any workplace.

Perhaps this victory will push through a more deserving salary for the hardworking players of the team.

S. Carolina Senate: Tear Down that Flag

On Monday, the fight over the Con-federate flag intensified, as the South Carolina Senate voted 37-3 to remove the flag from the Capitol grounds, clear-ing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse.

The proposal will then head to the House and if the members of the House agree, the flag and flagpole could be removed as soon as Gov. Nikki Haley signs the papers. The flag would be low-ered for the last time and shipped off to the state’s Confederate Relic Room, near where the last Confederate flag to fly over the Statehouse dome is stored.

The vote came at the end of a day of debate in which several white senators said they had come to understand why their black colleagues felt the flag no longer represented the valor of Southern soldiers but the racism that led the South to separate from the United States more

than 150 years ago.As the senators spoke, the desk of

their slain colleague, Clementa Pinckney, was still draped in black cloth. Pinckney and eight other black people were fatal-ly shot June 17 during Bible study at a historic African-American church in Charleston. Authorities have charged a gunman, Dylann Roof, who posed for pictures with the rebel banner, with the murders. Police say he was driven by ra-cial hatred.

“We now have the opportunity, the obligation, to put the exclamation point on an extraordinary narrative of good and evil, of love and mercy that will take its place in the history books,” said Sen. Tom Davis, a Republican.

After the vote, Sen. Vincent She-heen, a Democrat whose suggestion that the flag be taken down while running for governor last year was called a “stunt” by Haley, was given a high-five from a fellow legislator.

“I thought it would happen, but never this fast,” Sheheen admitted.

Republican Sen. Larry Martin, who for decades fought off attempts to re-move the flag from Statehouse grounds, said the church shooting drew him to the same conclusion that his black colleague arrived at long ago — that the rebel flag “has more to do with what was going on in the 1960s as opposed to the 1860s.”

Some Republicans want to keep the flagpole and put a different flag on it. Suggestions have included the U.S. flag, the South Carolina flag and a flag that may have been flown by Confederate troops but does not have the same con-nections as the red banner with the blue cross and white stars.

U.S.-Led Coalition Strikes “Daesh”

In a bold move, U.S.-led coalition aircraft released a flood of airstrikes tar-geting the Islamic State group’s strong-hold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said was one of its most unremitting aerial operations carried out in Syria to date. At least 10 people were killed and many others wounded in the Saturday attacks which triggered succes-sive explosions that shook the city and created panic among citizens.

In a statement, the coalition said

it carried out 18 airstrikes throughout Raqqa province, destroying a number of ISIS vehicles and 16 bridges. An earlier statement said the attacks also destroyed vital ISIS-controlled structures and tran-sit routes in Syria.

“The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities through-out Syria and into Iraq,” said coalition spokesman Lt. Col. Thomas Gilleran, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

“This was one of the largest deliber-ate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria, and it will have debilitating effects on Daesh’s ability to move” from Raqqa, he said.

Daesh is the name Western nations have been using to refer to the Islamic State terrorist group. The terrorists revile the name; they consider the term “Islam-ic State” to be grand. But Western states have been using the word Daesh, which is an adapted acronym of their Arabic name—Dawlat al-Islamiyah f’al-Iraq w Belaad al-Sham.

“Daesh … is similar to another Ara-bic word – das – which means ‘to tram-ple down’ or ‘crush,’ which could there-fore be the source of their dislike [of it],” the British newspaper The Independent wrote. “The group hates it so much, in fact, that they have reportedly threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone who uses it in public.”

The French were the first to use the term. “I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Isla-mists,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said last year. “The Arabs call it ‘Daesh,’ and I will be calling them the ‘Daesh cutthroats.’”

Earlier this year, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott echoed the sen-timent, saying, “Daesh hates being re-ferred to by this term and what they don’t like has an instinctive appeal to me.”

Boston Bomber Wants New Trial

He’s been sentenced to death for kill-ing three people and injuring more than 200 at the Boston Marathon two years ago. But now, less than two weeks after his formal sentencing, Dzhokhar Tsar-naev wants a new trial.

The motion filed by his lawyers did not contain any details on Tsarnaev’s le-gal arguments, saying only that a new tri-al is “required in the interests of justice.”

Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted of 30 federal charges in the bombing. The

same jury recommended the death pen-alty, and a federal judge on June 24 sen-tenced him to death.

During his trial, Tsarnaev’s lawyers admitted that he and his brother plant-ed two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the marathon. They argued that his older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the attack and asked the jury to sentence him to life in prison in-stead of to death.

Tamerlan was killed during an escape attempt several days after the bombings.

Among the arguments expected to be raised in Tsarnaev’s appeal is the defense contention that the trial should have been moved out of Massachusetts because of the emotional impact the bombing had here. Judge George O’Toole Jr. rejected numerous requests from Tsarnaev’s law-yers to move the trial.

Holder: U.S. May Cut Deal with Snowden

In a recent interview, former Attor-ney General Eric Holder said this week that a “possibility exists” for the Justice Department to cut a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that would allow him to return to the United States from Moscow.

In an interview with Yahoo News on Monday, Holder admitted, “We are in a different place as a result of the Snowden disclosures,” adding that “his actions spurred a necessary debate” that prompt-ed President Obama and Congress to change policies on the bulk collection of phone records of American citizens.

Asked if that meant the Justice De-partment might now be open to a plea bargain that allows Snowden to return from his self-imposed exile in Moscow, Holder replied: “I certainly think there could be a basis for a resolution that everybody could ultimately be satisfied with. I think the possibility exists.”

This is a change of tune for the for-mer attorney general who now works as a private lawyer at Covington & Burling, the elite Washington law firm where he worked before serving as the nation’s top law enforcement officer from February 2009 until last April.

As attorney general, Holder presid-

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ed over an unprecedented crackdown on government leakers, including the filing of a June 2013 criminal complaint against Snowden, charging him with three felony violations of the Espionage Act for turning over tens of thousands of government documents to journalists.

Holder had previously said — in a January 2014 interview with MSNBC — that the U.S. would be willing to “engage in conversation” with Snowden and his lawyers were he willing to return to the United States to face the charges, but ruled out any granting of clemency.

“The former attorney general’s rec-ognition that Snowden’s actions led to meaningful changes is welcome,” lawyer Ben Wizner points out. “This is signifi-cant … I don’t think we’ve seen this kind of respect from anybody at a Cabinet lev-el before.”

Despite Holder’s revelations, Mel-anie Newman, chief spokeswoman for Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Hold-er’s successor, immediately shot down the idea that the Justice Department was softening its stance on Snowden. “This is an ongoing case so I am not going to get into specific details but I can say our position regarding bringing Edward Snowden back to the United States to face charges has not changed,” she said in an email.

Three sources familiar with informal discussions of Snowden’s case revealed that that one top U.S. intelligence official, Robert Litt, the chief counsel to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, recently privately floated the idea that the government might be open to a plea bargain in which Snowden returns to the United States, pleads guilty to one felony count and receives a prison sentence of three to five years in exchange for full cooperation with the government.

But Wizner, Snowden’s lawyer, said any felony plea by Snowden that results in prison time would be unacceptable to his client. “Our position is he should not be reporting to prison as a felon and los-ing his civil rights as a result of his act of conscience,” he said.

Granting Snowden clemency would be extremely difficult considering the circumstances. “I’m quite stunned that we would be considering any return of Snowden to this country other than to meet a jury of his peers, period,” said Mi-chael Hayden, former director of both the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush, when asked about Holder’s com-ments.

What Snowden did “was the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of the republic, no question about it,” Hayden added.

BP Oil to Pay Record $18.7 Billion

Back in 2010, the U.S. suffered its worst oil spill ever. On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sunk, and within days 11 people were killed. Footage of the scene captured by underwater camer-as revealed that the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The leak was plugged about three months later on July 15, having leaked an estimated 3.19 million barrels (approx. 134 million gal-lons) of oil.

Now five years later, BP and five Gulf states announced a record $18.7 billion settlement. The litigation against BP claimed tremendous environmental and economic damage. According to the suit, it affected many animals, like dol-phins and birds, and hurt oyster, shrimp and fish catches. The settlement would resolve the states’ natural resources dam-age claims and settle economic claims involving state and local governments in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, according to an outline filed in federal court.

The settlement, if accepted by a fed-eral judge, would end a years-long battle between BP and the U.S. government over Clean Water Act penalties after a judge ruled the company was unaccept-ably negligent.

“If approved by the court, this set-tlement would be the largest settlement with a single entity in American history; it would help repair the damage done to the Gulf economy, fisheries, wetlands and wildlife; and it would bring lasting benefits to the Gulf region for genera-tions to come,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

“Today’s settlement is a game-chang-er for Louisiana, its communities and its families,” Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell added. But he warned that the specific logistics still remain to be determined in a final consent decree expected to be complete in about two months.

The payout is scheduled to be paid

over many years. Louisiana received the largest share of the settlement money — about $6.8 billion.

Reclusive Founder of Burt’s Bees Dies

Burt Shavitz, the old-school bee-keeper who co-founded Burt’s Bees and whose face and wild beard appears on labels for the natural cosmetics, died this week. He died in Bangor, Maine, at the age of 80.

Shavitz started out as a photojournal-ist freelancing in New York. But as TV became popular, he realized his indus-try was drying up. In 1970, he “threw his mattress in his Volkswagen van and, along with a few buddies, drove upstate to the High Falls, New York, area. After a series of heavy rainstorms, Burt decided to drive around and survey the damage. He stumbled upon a swarm of bees on a fencepost,” according to the Daily Beast.

“The year before, a guy that I’d been buying honey from, who was a beekeep-er, had given me everything I needed to be a beekeeper except the bees — a hive, a mask, gloves, a smoker, a hive tool, ev-erything,” Burt told the Daily Beast. “So, there was this fencepost, and I said, ‘My lord, this is an act of G-d! I can’t turn this down.’”

Shavitz was a hippie making a living by selling honey when his life was al-tered by a chance encounter with a hitch-hiker Roxanne Quimby. She was a sin-gle mother who impressed Shavitz with her ingenuity and self-sufficiency. In the 1980s she began making products from his beeswax, and they became partners.

The business partnership ended after Quimby moved the company to North Carolina in 1994. The company contin-ued to expand while Shavitz moved back to Maine. In 2007, Clorox purchased Burt’s Bees for $925 million. Shavitz re-ceived an undisclosed settlement — and 37 acres in remote corner of Maine. He also continued to make appearances on behalf of the company.

“We remember him as a wild-beard-ed and free-spirited Maine man, a bee-keeper, a wisecracker, a lover of golden retrievers, a reverent observer of nature, and the kind of face that smiles back at

us from our Hand Salve,” the company said in a statement.

“Burt was a complex man who sought a simple life in pace with the sea-sons of nature on his land. If there is one thing we will remember from Burt’s life, in our fast-paced, high-tech culture, it’s to never lose sight of our relationship with nature.”

In recent years, Shavitz lived in a cluttered house with no running water. A converted turkey coop that used to be his home remained on his property. He liked passing the time by watching wildlife.

Obama: Fight against ISIS Won’t be Quick

It’s going to be a long, hard battle against the Islamic State group, Presi-dent Obama warned on Monday. The president said that although coalition op-erations against the terrorist group have scored successes in Iraq and Syria, the battle proves to be a “generational” one.

“This will not be quick,” Obama told reporters at a rare visit to the Pentagon where he was briefed by Defense Sec-retary Ashton Carter and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “This is a long-term campaign. ISIL is opportunistic and it is nimble ... It will take time to root them out,” he said.

The briefing comes a little over a year after Islamic State militants burst out of Syria and captured much of north-west Iraq, laying bare the frailty of Iraqi security forces and the vulnerability of the Baghdad government following the U.S. military withdrawal in 2011.

Since last summer, U.S. and allied aircraft have conducted over 5,000 strikes on Islamic State targets in both Iraq and Syria, making it harder for mil-itants to launch large-scale attacks.

Obama highlighted battles where U.S.-aligned fighters have prevailed against the group, including those in the Syrian cities of Kobane and Tal Ab-yad and the Iraqi city of Tikrit. He said Islamic State fighters had lost more of than a quarter of the populated territory they had captured in Iraq.

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But despite the military action, the group continues to control some of Iraq’s most important cities and holds sway in unpopulated areas that are more difficult for government forces to control. In May, Iraqi forces ceded the city of Ramadi to Islamic State fighters when they retreated en masse.

U.S. military personnel on the ground in Iraq have struggled to ensure that Iraqi forces, which remain reliant

on Shiite paramilitary fighters and lack capability in key areas such as logistics, intelligence and air power, can effec-tively take on the Islamic State.

“As with any military effort, there will be periods of progress but there are also going to be some setbacks,” Obama admitted.

Obama, who has sought to limit American involvement in overseas con-flicts, said the fight would ultimately be

fought by local forces, not Americans. Since last summer, Obama has sent about 3,500 U.S. advisers and trainers back to Iraq, but has also vowed to keep American troops out of combat there.

The United States is now “speeding up” training Iraqi forces. “This aspect of our strategy was moving too slowly, but the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government,” he said. Just last month, Obama acknowledged that

the U.S. lacks a “complete strategy” for training Iraqi troops to perform ground missions. In Syria, fewer than 100 reb-els are being trained by the U.S., far fewer than the goal of producing 5,400 fighters a year. Those who are trained are more interested in fighting Assad’s forces than battling ISIS.

American officials are also grap-pling with the widespread appeal of the extremist group, which has recruit-ed fighters from around the world and has inspired attacks across the Middle East and in Europe and beyond. Most of those attacks have targeted Westerners or Shiite Muslims, whom the Islamic State consider infidels.

The president called on the Ameri-can Muslim community to “step up in terms of pushing back as hard as they can.” While the U.S. is now better pre-pared to thwart large-scale terrorist at-tacks like 9/11, the threat from individu-al “lone wolves” or small terrorist cells has increased.

“We’re going to have to pick up our game to prevent these attacks,” Obama said.

NYC to Pay for Pepper Spraying

This week, New York City agreed to pay more than $330,000 to six Occupy Wall Street protesters who claimed a police officer doused them with pepper spray without cause, an incident that helped galvanize the movement during its early days.

Lawyer Mark Taylor, who represent-ed three of the protesters, said on Mon-day that the settlements for each of the six individuals ranged from $52,500 to $60,000.

“We think it’s good compensation for the injuries that occurred to our cli-ents,” Taylor said. “They are settlements that we think reflects the city’s realiza-tion that they were very much liable.”

The deals, which resolve several civil lawsuits filed in Manhattan federal

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court, come nearly four years after Oc-cupy protests swept the country, as ac-tivists called for greater income equal-ity.

According to a spokesman for the city, “It was in the city’s best interest to settle these cases,” although the city did not admit to any wrongdoing.

A video of the pepper spraying in-cident that took place on September 24, 2011 went viral. The police officer involved was docked ten vacation days after the event.

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According to new documents post-ed to the Wikileaks website, the United States regularly spied on senior mem-bers of the Brazilian government.

“The publication proves that not only President Dilma Rousseff was tar-geted but also her assistant, her secre-tary, her chief of staff, her palace office

and even the phone in her presidential jet,” the website states.

This may seem like déjà vu; in 2013 Rousseff canceled an official visit to Washington after information provided by Edward Snowden showed that the NSA had tapped into her phones and e-mail.

Ironically, just recently Rous-seff seemed to have gotten over that wound, as she expressed faith in Pres-ident Barack Obama’s assurance that the United States is no longer spying on friendly countries just last week. However, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Ju-lian Assange insists that the espionage programs are still being carried out.

According to the most recent doc-uments, the NSA snooped on Brazil in order to stimulate American econom-ic interests, rather than to ensure the country’s security.

That’s OddThe Candy Bomber

“If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops, oh, what a world it would be!”

On Friday, it was raining chocolate bars at Scera Park in Utah. Gil Halvors-en, also known as the Candy Bomber, dropped 1,000 sweet snacks attached to tiny parachutes to the children waiting anxiously below as he flew overhead.

The 94-year-old pilot delivered candy to children in Berlin at the end of World War II and in honor of Inde-pendence Day continued the tradition of sweets falling from the sky. He flew a fixed-wing bomber from World War II with two escort planes attending at Fri-

day’s event. Earlier in the day, Halvorsen spoke

to the crowd at the Freedom Festival naturalization ceremony. He spoke about the importance of service and kindness.

“The Dead Sea is dead because it wraps its arms around all of the fresh water of the Jordan and gives out noth-ing. In your community, there are Dead Sea souls who do the same,” he said. Halvorsen urged them to live a life of giving to others.

Drew Reynolds, 9, said she learned in school about Halvorsen and the candy drops during the Berlin Airlift. “When he saw all the kids that were starving, he only had a piece of gum. He wished he could have more for the kids so he start-ed dropping parachutes with candy,” she said.

Halvorsen, a Salt Lake City native, grew up as a farm boy in Utah and Idaho before earning his private pilot’s license in 1941. He joined the Civil Air Patrol and later the United States Army Air Corps in 1942. During World War II, he was assigned to fly transport operations in the South Atlantic Theater.

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“Berlin Candy Bomber” for his flights with the Berlin Airlift over fields in East Berlin. He wiggled the wings of his plane before dropping candy bars and gum tied to handkerchiefs to cheer up the children on the ground.

Although he retired in 1974, Hal-vorsen never retired from his Candy Bomber activities. He has been reacting his flights around the U.S. and Germany for years.

Sailing the sweet skies.

Funny Fruit

It’s not summer without watermel-on, and in Japan, it’s not summer with-out watermelon that don’t look, well, like watermelon.

Need to bring the perfect accesso-ry to your summer picnic? How about a heart-shaped watermelon to delight

your guests? Want something a little more modern? A cube-shaped water-melon may be for you.

Despite the odd shape and the small size, these watermelons are pricey.

Over at the Shibuya Nishimura lux-ury fruit shop in downtown Tokyo, a cube-shaped watermelon which can al-most fit in the palm of your hand sells for 12,960 yen ($105).

Even though you paid through the nose for these fruits, you’d be better off not eating them.

“This fruit is meant to be a feast for your eyes, but they don’t taste very good,” admitted the shop’s senior man-aging director Mototaka Nishimura.

“They should be displayed as orna-ments, maybe mixed with flowers,” he suggested.

In order to achieve the perfect shapes, farmers plant young watermel-ons inside acrylic containers.

While the price may sound high, it’s actually something of a bargain in Japan where people traditionally exchange gifts, including expensive fruit, with clients and relatives a couple of times a year.

A deep-pocketed Japanese de-partment store in April shelled out an eye-watering 300,000 yen for a pair of

mangoes, a record price for the second year in a row. This year’s fruitiest status symbol is a particular brand of strawber-ry, with a single berry selling for around $415.

However, all pale in comparison with the tear-inducing $25,000 price tag for a pair of cantaloupe melons auc-tioned in 2008.

Haven’t they ever heard of Costco?

The New Hot Dog

Move over Joey Chestnut; there’s a new hot dog in town.

Matt Stonie, also known as the Megatoad, won Nathan’s Hot Dog Eat-ing Contest over the weekend, ending Joey Chestnut’s eight-year title reign by downing 62 hot dogs in ten minutes. Chestnut only managed to suck down 60.

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This is not the first record Stonie set this year. In February he became the king of bacon when he set a world record by eating 182 slices in five min-utes.

All hail the chief of the hot dog!

The Power of Words

Vice President Biden is not known for his inspiring words. But recently it was revealed that the vice president’s words changed someone’s life in a most remarkable way.

Branden Brooks, known as Skip, recently tweeted about meeting Biden during an eighth grade class trip to Con-gress in 1994. After taking questions from the students, the then-senator took Brooks aside when he noticed that he stuttered.

Biden admitted to Brooks that he was once a struggling stutterer and overcame his challenge by forcing himself to speak publicly as much as possible.

“It was really inspiring and I just took it to heart,” Brooks, who’s now an attor-ney in St. Louis, Missouri, related.

But Biden wasn’t done. A week lat-er Brooks received a handwritten letter from the senator.

“Remember what I told you about stuttering,” Biden wrote. “You can beat it just like I did. When you do, you will be a stronger man for having won.”

“Also remember, every time you are tempted to make fun of someone with a problem, how it feels when you are made fun of. Treat everyone with respect and you will be respected yourself.”

Brooks posted a picture of the note, which his parents kept in their Delaware home, on Wednesday. He said it still in-spires him and he hopes it will inspire others.

Just an hour later, Biden responded to Brooks’ post. “And it’s still true today, my friend,” Biden tweeted. “Treat every-one with respect and you will be respect-ed yourself.”

Brooks then posted a photo of him-self being sworn in as a Delaware pros-ecutor by Biden’s son, Beau, who died last month of brain cancer. “Took your advice to heart,” Brooks wrote to the VP.

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words, Brooks ran for class president in high school to improve his speaking. He later received a law degree from Boston College and worked as a prosecutor.

Brooks said he’s still moved by Biden’s kind gesture to this day. He says that he hopes by sharing the incident others who stutter will also feel encour-aged.

“It’s incredible and I’m just happy to kind of inspire people who have a speech impediment to follow their dream,” he said.

Thinking out of the (Bread) Box

Want to get your kids to eat more bread during the hot summer months? How about some watermelon bread?

Jimmy’s Bakery in Jiaohsi, Taiwan, has created bread that looks like water-melons—either by the loaf or the slice—cut into fruit-like wedges. According to the bakery, the bread was designed to excite kids about eating bread during the hotter summer months. But this delica-cy is not just for kids. Adults of all ages have been lining up for the loaves that are limited in quantity. In fact, Jimmy’s only make 100 loaves of the fruity bread every day.

Despite the authentic-looking colors, the taste is decidedly not watermelon. The bakers use bamboo charcoal, green tea powder and strawberries to make the perfect looking slice.

Now that’s what we call thinking out of the (bread) box.

The Homeless MusicianWhether it’s Bach or the Beatles, this

homeless man has been serenading the residents of Sarasota, Florida, with his extraordinary piano skills.

One passerby, Aurore Henry, took notice of the bearded mystery man as he sat at the piano effortlessly playing a beautiful rendition of “Come Sail Away.” She was so impressed with his talents that she uploaded the video of his side-

walk serenade to her Facebook page where it garnered a whopping 2.5 million views in just two days.

The city recently installed “public pianos” throughout downtown. Daniel Gould, the 51-year-old virtuoso, imme-diately stated playing, thinking he could earn a few coins with his tunes.

Gould began playing clarinet when he was just a kid, which led him to play the instrument in the U.S. Marine Corps. When he got out of the service, Donald explained that he wanted to teach music, so he studied music education at Spring Arbor University in Michigan where he was originally from.

“I took music theory and ear train-ing, and I had to learn how to play every instrument from the piccolo down to the tuba,” Gould related. “I can write parts like a handbook.”

Unfortunately, he ran out of money just three credits shy of graduating and instead worked odd jobs while starting a family. But that was just the beginning of a downward spiral.

In 1998, Gould’s wife died unex-pectedly. His child was taken from him. He eventually made his way to Florida where he still tries to keep in touch with his musical roots, entertaining passerby with his talented tunes playing anything from Billy Joel to Bach.

Now, after years of living off the streets, there could finally be hope.

A local restaurant named Surf Shack is offering to give Gould an audition to play in their piano bar.

“Yeah it is true. We’re looking to arrange it,” said the owner of the restau-rant, Steve Bishop. “We call it a New York-style piano bar. It’s got a balcony that seats about 50 and a nightclub in-side. We do live piano music just about every night. We’ve been doing auditions for local people and we heard about this gentleman and we’re trying to arrange it. We’re in the early phases here but we are trying to do our homework to touch base with him. Hopefully we’re able to work this out and do some good for him.”

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more frosting, more cookies, more chocolate. But they’re also watching their weight as they stuff the dou-ble-stuffed confections into their mouths.

Now they can have their cookie and eat it too.

This summer, the company is in-troducing Oreo Thins. The new cookie will be 7.5mm thick, as compared to

the original cookie, which is 12.5mm. The shape, circumference and crème-to-cookie ratio will be about the same, so it’ll still be the cookie you know and love to munch. Even better? Oreo Thins will only set you back 140 cal-ories for four cookies, as compared to the original which packs 160 calories into 3 cookies.

Sounds totally dietetic to me.

The Water Saver

As many of you know, California has been experiencing a drought. Residents have been urged to curtail their water us-age and it’s a source of pride for some to showcase their brown, thirsty lawns.

Rob Greenfield, though, has taken it to a whole new level.

The Ocean Beach resident has re-duced his water use by more than 95 percent. “I am living off the grid,” he explains.

Sounds cool, right? Not if you do it Greenfield’s way. He lives in a five-foot by ten-foot home in a neighbor’s back-yard and collects rainwater in drums for his day-to-day needs. And he reuses that water over and over and over.

The same water he uses to wash his hands is used to wash his dishes and then water his garden. In fact, he uses just two gallons of water a day. Surrounding San Diego-area residents use an average of 100 gallons a day—what wasters!

“That 200 gallons from the last rain-storm will last me about three months,” Greenfield exults.

Because he uses so little water, Greenfield does not have a traditional toilet. Instead, he uses a bucket to collect his waste, places leaves on top to mask the smell, and lets it “mature” for a full year for use as compost in his garden.

He also has not taken a shower in two years; he uses the Pacific Ocean as his bathtub.

Greenfield concedes that people think his way of living is “nuts,” but says he wants to motivate others to do their part to help battle the drought.

“I am testing the boundaries of the human experience,” he told ABC.

I heard he’s looking for a room-mate.

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During the last week of the Yeshiva zman, 45 select talmidim of Yeshiva of South Shore had the tremendous zchus of visiting Hagaon Rav Reuven Fein-stein, shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim of Staten Island. Who were these boys? They are called bachurei chemed. Bachurei Chemed is a society within the Yeshiva comprised

of talmidim from grades 4 through 8 chosen by their individual rabbiem for displaying exemplary middos tovos and derech eretz all year long. At YOSS, “Derech eretz kadma laTorah” is not just a lesson that’s taught, it’s a lesson that is lived and given recognition to.

Among the group of bachurei chemed, several were eighth graders who had just recently celebrated their graduation from elementary school. Although they could have remained at home to enjoy the be-ginning of their summer vacation, they chose instead to come to yeshiva in order to spend their morning and early after-noon at MTJ and to meet and hear from one of the gedolei Torah of today. Rav Reuven gave the better part of an hour to speak to the talmidim of South Shore. He gave them a shmuz about the impor-tance of limud Torah, ameilus b’Torah and on never giving up in their learning. Additionally, he spoke about how learn-ing and doing mitzvos must change us. “We must become the Torah we learn, become the mitzvos we do…If you learn Gemorah Brachos, for example , and you still daven and make brachos the same way as before you learned the masechta then you haven’t learned well enough” he said.

Moreover, the Rosh Yeshiva gave more of his precious time to allow each boy to give him sholom aleichem and he gave each one of them an individual

bracha. After their visit to the Yeshiva, the

boys were treated to a brief stop at the famed Staten Island Zoo where they had an up-close view of a wide variety of ani-mals, reptiles, exotic birds and fish. They were able to see the niflaos haBorei up front and personal. It was a very unique learning experience and was a lot of fun

too. The boys also ordered and enjoyed lunch from the local pizza shop.

Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, the trips co-ordinator, commented how each of the boys came back with such an elevat-ed spirit. “It was a well-deserved and meaningful trip the boys will certainly remember for many years to come,” he said.

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As a proud parent of a Mesivta Sha’arei Chaim bochur, I can express the following sentiments with first-hand knowledge. Over the past 4 years, many people have expressed surprise and even skepticism when told that this class had four bochurim in it. “Only four?” “How will they get through and grad-uate?” “They don’t even have enough to play a 3 on 3 basket-ball?” and comments of the like.

Well, b”H, on June 21, these four bochurim did indeed graduate. However they did not just “squeak across the finish line,” as they say. These four mitzuyonim accom-plished more as a chaburah of four than anyone would have ever imagined four years ago. We are not just talking about the breadth of Torah, of complete mesechtos, simonim of halachah, and their other limudim. More so, they be-came a chaburah that shined in all areas. In hasmodah rabbah from the first year

staying for voluntary extra night seder from 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. They grew in middos tovos and a maturity beyond their years. They set the constant exam-

ple for the younger bo-churim which has led to Mesivta Sha’arei Chaim becoming the sought-after makom Torah for serous b’nei Torah that it is. In just these four short years, Mesivta Sha’arei Chaim found them-selves in the predica-ment of having to turn away many dozens of applicants for the up-coming 9th grade year,

b”H for such a “problem.” How did this come about? Well aside

from these four ‘Nachshonim’ who took the brave plunge with an enormous amount of bitachon, the credit goes to several people. First and foremost, the Mesivta Sha’arei Chaim hanholah. The amount of time, effort and, most impor-tantly, care that went from the hanholah to the bochurim cannot adequately be described in this short amount of space.

Suffice it to say, that the Roshei Yeshi-va and the Rebbeim took these four bo-churim under their wings and spared to effort in making them reach their full potential. Whether hiring kollel yunger-

leit to learn with them during 2nd sed-er or having a fully accredited and ac-complished English/Regents program, always looking after their ruchniyus needs, pinpointing each bochur’s strong points to maximize them, as well as identifying their weaker points to help them grow in those areas.

The results speak for themselves. All four of them are going on to elite Beis

Medrash Yeshivos of Rabbonei Shlam-owitz & Kinarik of Lakewood and Rab-bi Ribanowitz of Washington Heights. Their significant accomplishments aside, their further potential as budding

talmidei chachomim is tangible.Ashrei chelkom. Ashrei Far Rocka-

way that has an established mosod haTo-rah to rival that of any city. And ashrei the hanholah and staff that were zocheh to produce such peiros from their avo-das hakodesh.

We are greatly makir tov to you,A Proud Parent

PHOTO CREDIT: BTP OF FRMesivta Sha’arei Chaim’s First Graduating Class

The 2015 summer season has official-ly begun and Ruach Day Camp is where the magic of camp hap-pens. Our eager campers were met with big smiles as they arrived Monday morning to start off an-other spectacular summer. The experiences we offer our campers create friend-ships, lifelong memories, and build skills.

Last week on Lego Tuesday, the campers demonstrated their cooper-ation and teamwork designing a magnif-icent Ruach Day Camp sign built from Legos. Another highlight of the week was our amazing Red, White & Blue

Welcome Carnival. The campers were busy on the inflatable water slides, slip-n-

slides, bounce houses and so much more. What a fun way to start off the 4th of July weekend.

The Magic of Ruach Day Camp

This Tisha B’Av marks the 10th an-niversary of the expulsion from Gush Katif. For years, the residents of Gush Katif were known for their generosity to the poor of Israel and their extraordinary productivity. A self-contained bloc of settlements, they were responsible for 15% of the entire country’s agricultural exports. Fully 97% were employed. The day after the expulsion, 85% were in-stantaneously unemployed.

Sadly, while there was a plan for removing them from their homes, there was no plan for the day after. Overnight, these productive individuals had no jobs and no businesses. Depression, trauma and other emotional, psychological and even health issues ensued.

JobKatif was founded by Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon to help the evacuees become independent, self-supporting individuals once again. To date, JobKatif has helped 2,650 people re-enter the work force.

A worldwide achdut campaign is now underway to assist many of the remaining unemployed Gush Katif evacuees re-enter the work force.

While we cannot solve the injus-tice that was committed to these people, nor right the wrongs of the past, we can

unite together during the Three Weeks. How? Every member rabbi of the RCA

and OU, in collaboration with Nation-al Council of Young Israel, can take responsibility for just one Gush Katif evacuee. By doing so we can help repair one of the most the painful chapters in modern Jewish history.

A donation of $2,200 will help en-sure that a single Gush Katif evacuee currently unemployed can once again enjoy independence, self-pride and dig-nity. There remain 330 who still need our help.

This is an historic moment for Klal Yisrael. Before Tisha B’Av, when we petition Hashem for rachamim for our-selves in the face of imminent danger to Israel’s existence, it is imperative that we demonstrate our care and concern for each person from Gush Katif. We can-not be callous to their pain any longer. Let us pray that the dignity we pledge to accord them will be a zechut for us all in these perilous times.

Visit jobkatif.org.il/en/ for more in-formation or to donate.

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It was fun with sports at Machane Hakayitz this week

Imagine summer memories that will last forever! Now imagine that your con-tributions to OHEL’s Camp Scholarship Fund can double the fun for hundreds of children. Once again, thanks to a gen-erous anonymous family foundation, a gift to send one child to camp will send two. The foundation will match every camp scholarship gift, up to a to-tal of $100,000, for children in OHEL’s Domestic Violence Program, children living with OHEL foster families, and children with developmental disabilities whose parents cannot afford summer camp fees. Over 300 children are receiv-ing full or partial scholarships to OHEL’s camping programs this summer,

Surely you remember how much fun you had while attending camp. Now imagine Adin, a 12- year-old on the autism spectrum who loves fishing and computer games; and Toby, an eleven-year-old with multiple disabilities who longs to feel accepted among her peers; and Devorah, a ten-year-old Camp Kay-lie alumnus whose Dad just lost his job. They are part of the OHEL family of children who are depending on your scholarship gift so that they can attend camp.

For OHEL’s children, camp and summer recreational programs are not a luxury, but a much-needed opportunity to enjoy a normal, healthy summer away from the challenges of home and school. Camp provides opportunities to make new friends, build self-esteem, try new activities, develop skills and confidence, and simply have fun. There is no govern-ment funding for camp; without the sup-port of generous friends, many children would miss the chance to make the most of the summer. And camp is also so important to parents – it provides much needed respite and a chance for parents to spend time with other children.

For the fourth year in a row, a fam-ily foundation wishing to remain anon-ymous has promised to match camp

scholarship gifts. For summer 2015, the challenge has been increased from $50,000 to $100,000. A contribution of $180 to the Camp Scholarship Fund in-stantly becomes $360; a contribution of $500 instantly becomes $1,000; a con-tribution of $3,600 instantly becomes $7,200.

OHEL ensures that camp place-ments meet children’s unique needs and interests. Many will attend Camp Kaylie at OHEL a fully inclusive sleep-away camp where children of all abili-ties bunk, play and learn together. Oth-ers will attend OHEL Bais Ezra end of summer camps or other Jewish camping programs where they can feel safe and enjoy a great summer adventure in en-vironments designed to help them make the most of the special joys of summer—sports and athletics, swimming and boat-ing, games, creative activities, outdoor exploration, picnics and barbecues and trips to nature preserves, zoos, amuse-ment parks and other outdoor sites and venues. Children receiving scholarships are from your neighborhoods – they are from the five boroughs, Nassau County, Rockland County, Lakewood, Passaic, Teaneck, Edison and other New Jersey cities.

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R’ Shimshon Pincus tells a story of a king’s palace that was on fire. All the peo-ple of the town ran to the palace to help put out the flames and when they arrived they saw all of the king’s dazzling trea-

sures laid out in plain sight in the street. Their hopes of salvaging the palace were dashed when they understood how much damage must have been caused as it was clearly already necessary to remove the

most hidden treasures of the palace.The amount of luxuries we live with

today is without parallel in history. We take for granted that our running water and plumbing replace gathering water

from a distant well, or having to venture out into the cold, dark of night to use an outhouse. While we can and should view these conveniences with appreciation, we should also be slightly wary.

The Chofetz Chaim points out this world is designed for hard work and only in the next world will we come to under-stand what represents true luxury and convenience. To the extent that we enjoy any convenience in this world, in some way this could detract from the very re-ward that is in store for us in the World to Come. This doesn’t mean that we have to nullify any physical pleasure or enjoy-ment from this world, but we do have to remember our purpose and what purpose the physical serves for us in this world.

We need to view any benefit we derive from the world as the grace of Hashem and simply a byproduct of using the necessary tools that are provided to us in this world to enable us to enhance our service of Hashem. If we make our focus Torah and mitzvos and all things eternal, then utilizing and even deriving benefit from the physical is truly only in the service of the true purpose of this world and not only does this elevate all things physical but can work to achieve our ultimate goal of striving for eternal greatness. In that sense, the very acts we do in this world toward building our true “home” and “dwelling” with Hashem truly lead to our eternal home in the next world. So too, the foundation of peace and seeds we sow in this world lead to an even greater, everlasting peace for us, our spouse, family, community and all of Klal Yisroel in the World to Come.

Let us constantly keep in mind, al-ways be grateful for and remind our-selves what we are living for. We must never get “caught up” in the physical, but always remember to use the physical as a tool to serve the spiritual. If done prop-erly, we can thus create a home in this world that will bring Hashem pleasure and that will enable us to merit a portion in the World to Come with all of our trea-sures intact.

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 anon-ymous 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].

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On June 22, six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire presented a check for $441,318 to United Hatzalah, a nonprofit emergency medical services organization in Israel, as part of the Amar’e Saves campaign. Throughout the 2014-2015 season, Amar’e Saves asked young people to create teams of friends and family, each of whom pledged to make a donation for every point Amar’e scored. While playing for both the New York Knicks and Dal-las Mavericks, Amar’e racked up a total of 719 points this season and drew the support of nearly 600 participants to the campaign.

United Hatzalah’s Vice President Michael Littenberg-Brown said, “The money we’ve raised will save countless lives, but the real goal was to encour-age young people to become involved in saving lives and forge a deeper con-nection with Israel.”

United Hazalah Founder and Pres-ident Eli Beer added that the money raised would supply enough medical equipment and new “ambucycles” to save as many as 4,200 lives. “We are very grateful for the amazing support and generosity of Amar’e and his fans. This will help us tremendously to save lives by being the first to arrive on scene after car accidents, terrorist attacks and other medical emergencies. Our volun-teers are very grateful,” he said.

Stoudemire, who is part owner of the professional Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem, considers himself culturally Jewish and visits the coun-try often. He first learned about United Hatzalah, however, last year through his work with New York financier Da-

vid Kleinhandler. “It’s kind of a beau-tiful place to connect yourself with,” Stoudemire told PIX11 News last week, “because of all the history that took place in the land of Israel.”

Stoudemire was most impressed with United Hatzalah for its efforts to decrease response time using a fleet of ambucylces—medically equipped mo-torcycles—and a cutting-edge, GPS-based mobile dispatch application. “In today’s society, which is so fast, we need to be doing something about sav-ing lives quicker, and United Hatzalah is doing that,” said Stoudemire at the launch of the Amar’e Saves campaign last October. With a network of 2,500 trained volunteers across Israel, the or-ganization routinely responds to emer-gencies in as few as 90 seconds.

“You’re truly saving lives,” said Stoudemire, “and to do it in a way that’s fun to me, to play basketball, it’s a win-win.”

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The American Association of Criti-cal-Care Nurses (AACN) recently pre-sented a bronze-level Beacon Award for Excellence to Mercy Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit.

The Beacon Award for Excel-lence—a significant milestone on the path to exceptional patient care and healthy work environments—recogniz-es unit caregivers who successfully im-prove patient outcomes and align prac-tices with AACN’s six Healthy Work Environment Standards. Units that earn this three-year, three-level award with a gold, silver or bronze designation meet national criteria consistent with Magnet Recognition, the Malcolm Baldrige Na-tional Quality Award and the National Quality Healthcare Award.

“Our nurses play a vital role in pro-viding care in an environment devoted to compassion and top quality, said Beth Vlahavas RN, MSN, vice president of patient care services and Chief Nurs-ing Officer. “We are very proud of this great designation.”

AACN President Teri Lynn Kiss, RN, MS, MSSW, CNML, CMSRN, applauds the commitment of the care-givers at Mercy for working together to meet and exceed the high standards set forth by the Beacon Award for Ex-

cellence. These dedicated health care professionals join other members of the exceptional community of nurses who set the standard for optimal patient care.

“The Beacon Award for Excellence recognizes caregivers in stellar units whose consistent and systematic ap-proach to evidence-based care optimizes patient outcomes. Units that receive this national recognition serve as role mod-els to others on their journey to excellent patient and family care,” she explains.

Mercy is a recipient of the American Nurses Credentialing Center Pathway to Excellence® designation. For the sec-ond consecutive year, Mercy was ranked as a Top Performer on Key Quality Mea-sures® by The Joint Commission, based on an aggregation of 2013 data. Also, the hospital was presented with the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. In addition, in recognition of its ongoing commitment and success in implementing excellent care for stroke patients, Mercy earned its third consecutive Get With The Guidelines®—Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke As-sociation.

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Recognizes Intensive Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center

On Monday Assemblymembers Todd Kaminsky and Phil Goldfeder wrote a letter to the New York State Department of Transportation (“NYS-DOT”) calling on them to reconsider excluding NY 878 in this year’s acceler-ated paving projects. The State recently announced the allocation of $75 million for repaving 428 miles of New York State roadway – noticeably absent from the project list is NY 878.

The letter to Director Joseph Brown, Region 10 Director of the NYSDOT, said, “NY 878 serves as a designat-ed evacuation route for…South Shore and Queens residents…in the event of flooding or other natural disasters….We strongly believe that more work must be done to make this road safe and easy to travel.”

“It is ridiculous that the first thing

to flood, with even the mildest rains, is the designated emergency evacuation route,” said Assemblyman Todd Kamin-sky. “Between the crater-like pot holes and incessant flooding, this road is on life support and in desperate need of a major overhaul. I urge NYSDOT to re-consider this vital project for accelerated paving and to immediately fund a com-plete reconstruction of NY 878.”

“The 878 is one of only three evacu-ation routes for the 130 thousand fami-lies living in Rockaway. The state’s pol-icy of deferred maintenance allows this vital route to continue to deteriorate and puts our lives at risk. Rockaway families pay their taxes just like every other New Yorker and we deserve to see a portion of the state road repair funds dedicated to our critical infrastructure,” said As-semblyman Phil Goldfeder.

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Students, faculty, staff, and alumni from the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work gathered with communi-ty leaders and other invited guests at the Lander College for Women-The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School recently to celebrate reaffirmation of the school’s national accreditation for eight years – ending in February 2023.

The School received a perfect score from the Council on Social Work Educa-tion, the profession’s exclusive accredi-tation authority.

The festive occasion was marked by congratulatory remarks from Touro Pres-ident & CEO Dr. Alan Kadish and a host of other well-wishers – following a warm welcome from Founding Dean Dr. Ste-ven Huberman, who reminded the guests “the essence of Touro means no person should be alone.” The Dean invoked memories of numerous alumni who have been through the school’s doors since its founding in 2006 and their many contri-butions helping others.

“Touro means being a surrogate fam-ily to those who do not have a family,” he continued, acknowledging the fac-ulty’s significant support of its students and influence on the School’s success. “Tonight is about you and your accom-plishments.”

The audience was treated to a short

video narrated by Dr. Huberman in which he told how he was abandoned by his father at age one, raised by his moth-er, who was disabled, and helped along by a guidance counselor-social worker. “I never would have made it [without her],” he said. “One person can make a difference. I and every member of the faculty have to embody the values of try-ing to make a difference in one person’s life.”

Dr. Kadish read excerpts from the ac-creditation site visit report that noted the school’s strengths – which the President termed “remarkable” – including Dean Huberman’s leadership, the dedication of the faculty, and the diversity of the school.

Dr. Kadish discussed a passage from the Talmud, Ethics of the Fathers, about the interconnectedness of leaves, roots, healthy trees and storms, concluding that Touro has created a school with strong roots that will “allow us as professionals and individuals to survive the storms of life. We’ve made a school and a commu-nity that are built to last.”

Concluded Dr. Kadish: “I have every bit of confidence that…we will continue to make extraordinarily valuable contri-butions to the community that will lead to trees that will suffuse society, and do a tremendous amount of good for those

who are unempowered, underprivileged and who need our help.”

Other speakers offering congratulato-ry remarks included Rabbi Doniel Land-er; David Mandel, Chair of the school’s Professional Advisory Committee; Dr. Frank Baskind, Past President of the Council on Social Work Education; and Dr. Nadja Graff, Vice President of Tou-ro’s Division of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Graff read aloud a signed proc-lamation from New York State Senator Terrence P. Murphy, honoring the school for its “highest rating in social work ed-ucation” and its “perfect score” in its re-

view.The Graduate School

of Social Work held its first commencement in 2008. Today the School has 320 graduate students at its lo-cations in midtown Man-hattan and Brooklyn, and 425 alumni. It has over 100 clinical partners in Greater New York and New Jersey and has achieved excel-lence in its four specializa-tions: severe and persistent mental illness, serving military veterans and their families, aging, and Jewish social services.

Students become involved in advoca-cy as part of their education, making an-nual trips to Albany and Washington D.C. to support the interests of social workers, and also participate in New York City’s annual midnight count of the homeless, offering to take them to shelters.

In concluding remarks, Dean Huber-man told the audience that the purpose of the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work was to create “good trou-ble makers, activists who want to create a more just society, and called on those assembled to be change agents for social justice.

Dr. Alan Kadiah, President and CEO of Touro College and University System, with Dr. Steven Huberman, Dean of the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work

Touro College Graduate School of Social Work Celebrates “Remarkable” Strengths Leading to National Accreditation

Around The CommunityHachnasas Sefer Torah in the Sulitz Bais Medrash

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Friends and Fun at Camp Avnet PHOTO CREDIT: IRA THOMAS CREATIONS

The International Young Israel Movement – Israel Branch (IYIM; www.iyim.org.il), the Gush Katif Com-memoration Center and Friends of Gush Katif are organizing a unique and power-ful summer program entitled, “10 Buses for 10 Years: Remembering Gush Katif.”

This interactive trip, marking the ten year anniversary of the withdrawal from Gush Katif, stands strong with a mission to take ten busloads of visitors, both Is-raelis and tourists alike, to several of the new Gush Katif communities. The hope is to show solidarity to the former resi-dents and that we are still here with them and for them.

Visitors will also have the opportuni-ty to meet with former Gush Katif resi-dents, hear their stories, and see what has been accomplished in the new commu-nities. Visitors will additionally tour the powerful Gush Katif Commemoration Center – one of three National Heritage

Centers recognized by the Israeli Gov-ernment. The Center introduces the story of settling rural Gush Katif in all aspects: establishment, coping with terror, the struggle, displacement and renewal.

“Ten years is a long time in the collective memory,” commented Dan-iel Meyer, IYIM’s Executive Director. “These people who we hugged and cried with in the summer of 2005 have large-ly receded from public eye and public memory. IYIM is proud that we have continued to stand with them and assist them on their journey for the past de-cade. We are launching this program to expand our support from personal back to national and International. This very special group of people is a living exam-ple of King Solomon’s timeless words: ‘A time to destroy, a time to rebuild;’ we have so much to learn from them.”

The former residents are excited about the upcoming program and look forward to welcoming the visitors and speaking about their experiences and new lives.

“We’re delighted by the Internation-al Young Israel Movement’s initiative of bringing ten buses of visitors to tour the Katif Heritage Center in Nitzan and visit renewed Gush Katif communities. We’re convinced that this tour will strengthen their feelings of partnership with the people of Gush Katif and make clear that this…must never happen again,” re-marked Dror Vanunu, International Co-

ordinator of The Gush Katif Committee.“It’s wonderful to see so many peo-

ple coming to learn about Gush Katif,” stated Shifra Shomron of the Friends of Gush Katif Public Relations Depart-ment. “Ten years later, we still have a long path ahead of us, but we’re rebuild-ing our homes and our lives and thank

everyone helping us in keeping the heri-tage of Gush Katif alive.”

Registration is now open. Please contact [email protected] or refer to the International Young Israel Move-ment website at http://www.iyim.org.il/10buses for details and sign-up infor-mation.

10 Buses for 10 Years: Remembering Gush Katif

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky announced today that graffiti plas-tered across the Long Island Railroad (“LIRR”) Inwood station has been re-moved. After hearing from local resi-dents of Lawrence and Inwood about a surge in graffiti that included obscene and foul language, Assemblyman Ka-minsky immediately contacted the Long Island Railroad (“LIRR”) and requested that they immediately remove the of-fending graffiti. By June 26, the graffiti had been removed.

The Inwood station sees heavy foot traffic by daily commuters and the un-derpass is frequented by families and children who utilize the walkway to access Seasons Express, a new grocery store across the street. In light of the disturbing graffiti, Assemblyman Ka-minsky contacted the LIRR, who re-sponded immediately by dispatching a

team to repaint the site.“I applaud the LIRR for their com-

mitment to the people of Inwood by tak-ing swift action to remove this graffiti,” said Assemblyman Kaminsky. “Ob-scene graffiti has no place in our com-munity and I will continue to work with the LIRR to ensure that families have clean and safe public spaces.”

“I went to see what kind of clean up was done today, and I was quite im-pressed by how quickly the Long Island Railroad got to work. Thanks to Assem-blyman Kaminsky for being on top of this and getting our problem solved,” said Zahava Nussbaum, a Lawrence resident. “There is usually so much red tape involved in these kinds of issues. The Assemblyman made our walk to Seasons Express, and those using the train, a pleasant one.”

Kaminsky Cracks Down on Graffiti at Inwood Train Station

What we can learn from shopping

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The widely respected Wine Enthusi-ast magazine has awarded top ratings to a bevy of wines from the Golan Heights Winery. The tasting scores and ratings will published in the September issue.

• The Golan Heights 2011 Merlot was placed on the magazine’s Editor’s Choice list. Editor’s Choice wines are those that possess unique qualities that merit special attention in the eyes of the tasting panel. The full bodied and flavorful wine scored an outstand-ing 93/100 in a blind tasting.

• Only the finest wines are se-lected as Wine Enthusiast’s Cellar Selection, wines that are deemed highly collectable. Golan Heights Winery’s Yarden Cabernet Sauvi-gnon 2011 is one such wine with a spectacular score of 93/100.

• Golan Heights Winery’s on-going commitment to pro-ducing excellent wines at af-fordable prices was evident with not one but five wines assigned to the Best Buy list:

• Gilgal Cabernet Sau-vignon 2011 is a flavorful, drinkable Cabernet presenting good body and a long finish. With black current and cherry fruit notes, this elegant wine has excellent potential for ag-ing for years to come.

• Hermon Indigo 2013 not only displays a unique deep purple color, this fresh, young and fruity wine, with plum fruit notes and a hint of smoke, is a fun to drink and enjoy every day.

• Gilgal Sangiovese 2012 has me-dium body, great structure and shows a range of fruit scents balanced out with potpourri and spice characters. This en-joyable Mediterranean wine has good acidity structure and is the perfect bev-

erage for the long summer days.• Gilgal Cabernet Merlot 2012 com-

bines cherry, orange zest and berry notes with a hint of fresh herbs. A equal blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Mer-lot grapes, this complex wine presents medium to heave body with a satisfying flavor.

• Herman Red 2013 , one of Golan Heights Winery’s most popular and best

value wines is wonderfully versa-tile, pairing equally well with a hamburger fresh from the barbe-que or a hearty serving of lasagna. Ready to drink now, the Hermon Red will stay in excellent drinking condition for about 4 years from vintage.

Golan Heights Winery, the leading premium winery in Israel, is uncompromising in its quest for quality and ex-cellence. From individual-ized handling of the various vineyards, to significant technological investments in growing and produc-tion, nothing is overlooked throughout the entire wine-making process. This com-mitment to innovation and attention to detail has gar-nered international attention

throughout the winery’s his-tory.

Anat Levy, CEO of Golan Heights Winery, said, “It’s a great honor for so many of our wines to receive such high scores. This highlights our commitment to bringing the best in Israeli winemak-ing to the world stage. This recognition allows even more people around the world to discover superb wines the Go-lan Heights region has to offer.”

Israeli Wines Win on the World Stage…Again

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Congregation Magen David of Belle Harbor hosted the entire Belle Harbor community to an evening of chizuk and emunah on Wednesday, June 24. Rabbi Gavriel Sassoon, who lost seven of his children in a tragic fire, shared with the community his personal story and how he was able to remember that everything is min hasha-mayim.

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We provide adults and children in the Rockaways and nearby communities with a wide range of inpatient and outpatient care. Rehabilitative services are available for patients who are recovering from surgery, injury or stroke, or are living with a chronic condition. The department’s highly qualified and caring staff works together with the patient and his or her referring physician with the goals of restoring function, improving movement and alleviating pain.

Every physical medicine patient at St. John’s receives a goal-oriented and personalized treatment plan that is developed by a board-certified physiatrist. Our physiatrists partner with New York State-licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists to provide treatment and coordinate each patient’s individualized care.

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The Young Israel of North Bellmore, Long Island, presented the 2015 Mannis Family Youth Service Award to Miss Natalie Weiss at a special graduation kiddush at the synagogue on June 20, 2015. The award is given to graduating high school seniors in the Young Isra-el who show leadership qualities in the synagogue, their school, and in the com-munity. It is a scholarship sponsored by founding member Mrs. Vicky Mannis.

Natalie participates and helps in many aspects in the synagogue, includ-ing junior congregation, and Sisterhood classes and holiday celebrations. She is an active member in the National Council

of Synagogue Youth. In her school she is in the Music Honor Society, the Science Honor Society, the National Honor Soci-ety, and is a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student, as well as being a member of various clubs.

Natalie volunteers in the emergency room of the Nassau University Medical Center, is studying to be an EMT, and is in a local volunteer ambulance corps. She plans to attend the School of Engi-neering at Stonybrook University in the fall.

The Young Israel of North Bellmore is proud to present Natalie with this well-deserved award.

Young Israel of North Bellmore Presents Service Award to Natalie Weiss

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The Hewlett-Woodmere Library at 1125 Broadway in Hewlett is presently

hosting in its main art gallery a pho-tography exhibit of images taken by Simeon Hook of Woodmere, NY. The exhibit consists of 60 photographs and is titled “Destinations Near and Far.” Recently retired, Simeon is devoting

much of his time pursuing his life-long passion for photography. He has trav-

eled extensively in the Unit-ed States and has visited more than 25 countries. While he is interested in all types of subject matter, his background in ar-chitecture (B. Arch.) and City and Regional Planning (MS and PhD) coupled with his travel have predisposed him to “travel photography” with an empha-sis on architecture and land-scape. The photos in the exhibit, many of which are award-win-ning and published, have been displayed in other galleries

and exhibits and represent a sample of more than 12,000 images in his files.

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This week, we spoke with Orah Day Camp’s camp director, Mrs. Malka Fishman. Joining Malka were program director Mrs. Nechama Sittner, co-program director Mrs. Nechama Strauss, preschool director Mrs. Miriam Furman, and upper camp director Mrs. Ruchie Dunn.

TJH: Tell us about Orah: when did it first open?MF: Orah Day Camp is the oldest girls’ day camp

in the Five Towns/Far Rockaway. It started in the 1970s when there was a clear need for a girls’ camp in the area. We opened when Bnos Bais Yaakov was still on Hartman Lane.

I’ve been here for 16 seasons. When we started, we had 198 campers. Then, we moved to the Beach 9th location, and we grew to 275 campers. Now, we’re at 620, boruch Hashem!

Where do your campers come from?

MF: We have campers from nurs-ery through 7th grade. Girls come from the Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Queens, Brook-lyn, Long Beach, Oceanside—and more neighbor-hoods too!

We have lots of new campers every year from ev-ery neighborhood. That’s what makes our camp so di-verse and special.

Tell us what makes Orah so unique.N. Sittner: Every year we have a theme. This

year’s theme is “kol atzmosai tomarnah Hashem mi

kamochah.” Each week, we choose another body part and plan activities around that theme. Last week, we focused on “eyes.” This week, we focused on “ears.”

RD: That means, that every morning, during morn-ing ruach, Mrs. Sittner will sing different songs (like an Orah Day Camp-version of the hokey pokey) with the whole camp.

N. Sittner: It also means that we have a special main event on Wednesday or Thursday of each week that is related to the theme.

N. Strauss: Last week, for “eye” week, we had magicians come for “optical illusions.” This

week, for “ear” week, we had the entire camp prepare handmade musical instruments. To-gether, as a camp, we performed our own musical story using our instruments.

MF: A lot sets us “head and shoulders” above other camps.

One thing is our spacious grounds. Our campers really get to play sports. And not just machanayim or typical “girls’” sports.

We want our girls to play team sports prop-erly, to know the rules. We have sports every

day, including field hockey, soccer, and base-ball. We want the girls to learn sports.

We swim twice a day in our huge in-ground outdoor pool. Our head lifeguard, Mrs. Leah Man-

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Orah Day Camp by the Numbers...

620 campers go to Orah Day Camp each day

198 campers went to Orah Day Camp during its first summer

96 lbs. of challah dough baked each week

1,316 slices of campers’ favorite lunch – pizza, of course! –

served every Friday

47 gallons of sunscreen, applied for the twice daily swim.Sunscreen is the

perfume of Orah Day Camp!

271 deep water swim tests attempted

812 scoops of Marino’s ices, er, “eye”ces, eaten for “eye” week!

C ountless smiles!

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

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del, has more than 30 years of experience. She’s also an EMT, and a teacher’s teacher: she teaches l i f e g u a r d s . Most of our l i f e g u a r d s are WSI-c e r t i fi e d ; more than 90 percent have been with us for years.

Our campers have instructional swim in the morning and free swim in the afternoon. The word around town is, If you want your daughter to learn to swim, send her to Orah Day Camp.

Another important thing about our camp: our staff comes back. They always say how much they love it here. They’re happy to be here. And we believe that if you’re a happy staffer, you’ll be committed to your happy campers. And your campers will be happy!

The secret “part” of Orah’s success is the most dedicated administration staff. It is a labor of love. Preparations for summer begin in October and con-tinue throughout the year, with one goal in mind: that all the campers have a safe and happy summer. In fact, all our head staff worked in different capacities in the camp. They know the importance of sports and vari-ous specialties and how to make activities work. Mrs.

Ruchie Dunn, director of the up-per division, used to be in

charge of science in the summer!

What are the major dif-ferences in the different divi-sions?

RD: I’m the director of

the upper divi-sion of the camps.

That’s our group for 3rd to 7th grade. I’ve

had the pleasure of see-ing my campers moving up to

staff!We believe that the older campers

have different needs from the younger ones. So the older division will go on late night trips, for example. They take ad-vanced art. They take surprise trips during the day: frozen yo-gurt, bowling—you name it.

MF: I’m the pre-school director. When it

comes to the lower division, I try to gear all activities to their age. They have a separate art room and baking room. They take creative movement and music and even their own swim instruction. We have a number of indoor and outdoor playgrounds for them as well.

What does a typical day’s schedule look like?MF: As campers arrive, Mrs. Nechama Sittner

opens with morning ruach to get everyone full of ex-citement for the coming day. Campers then daven and go to their first activities. They love their morning instructional swim! If it’s a trip day, we leave in the morning.

In the afternoon, they enjoy special shiur, more ac-tivities, free swim, and then dismissal of happy camp-ers.

Sounds like fun! What’s next week’s theme? Can you let us in on it?

MF: We’re onto NOSE for NEWS! Men-tion that you read about us in The

Jewish Home, and we’ll give you a special prize!

We love being part of camp shtik. Anything else you want our read-ers to know about you?

NS: We’re the HEADquarters of fun

this summer. We’re re-ally the place to be.

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Those who know me will testi-fy that I am not a person who enjoys shopping. There are peo-

ple who simply love to go shopping. In fact there is an entire human activity, bordering on an industry, called “going shopping.” And there are many prac-titioners of this activity and I am not merely speaking of window shopping, which is an entirely different genre by itself, but I am talking about real shop-ping – going into a megastore and fac-ing the daunting challenge of choices.

My wife has been homebound for the past few weeks, recovering, thank G-d, from a hip replacement, so the burden of shopping has fallen upon my frail shoulders. I pretty much restrict my forays to food markets and pharma-

cies. But even there, I am almost always overwhelmed by the variety of goods that are available for purchase.

Since I am not an expert, I am cer-tain that I always take the wrong item and the wrong brand at the wrong price. Now that is truly a hapless feeling but in writing these essays I have always at-tempted to be honest about myself and about others. So a hapless feeling it is. There are simply too many choices, too many brands of the same item to allow one to have a feeling of comfort and assurance after completing one’s pur-chase.

In the words of the great rabbis: “You have bestowed upon us such an overabundance of good that we are un-able to absorb it.” And there is always that “special” lurking at the check-out counter, something you know you didn’t need and had no intention in buy-ing when you walked into the store that somehow now seems irresistible. Shop-ping is truly a harrowing experience. I know of no one who leaves a store fully satisfied and completely content with

the purchases of the day.Somehow I see in the challenge of

shopping a metaphor for life generally. We are faced with a myriad of choic-

es daily. We hardly take notice of those that we consider to be only of minor im-portance or habitual in our behavior pat-tern. But when it comes to major choic-

es in life, we certainly agonize over them.

Some choices con-sole us that whatever we do will turn out right in any event. Other choices depress us since we realize that whatever we choose is not really beneficial to our physical, moral and spiritual well-be-ing. The great rabbis have taught us that we

should choose that which is least harm-ful and that which is most beneficial.

The rub in that is that many times we are unaware of the consequences

that may flow from those choices and we are unable to judge what is the least harmful or most beneficial. I know rab-binic friends of mine who regret having turned down a certain unique position and I know others who regret having ac-cepted a certain rabbinic position. And that regret unfortunately lasts a lifetime and colors one’s view of the profession and of the people that one will encoun-ter due to that decision.

Now I realize that this is a far more consequential and more difficult choice than buying the wrong brand of coffee. Nevertheless, the feelings of frustration and angst regarding doubtful choices, whether major or minor, are fairly sim-ilar. We are always haunted by the fact

that we, most likely, have made some bad choices in our lifetime.

The great Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai was offered fateful and histor-ic choices by the then-general and fu-ture emperor of Rome, Vespasian. By choosing to save the scholars and ye-shiva of Yavneh, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai guaranteed the survival of Torah and of the Jewish people for the ages. Yet the Talmud relates to us that when this great rabbinical personage lay on his deathbed, he expressed doubt as to whether he merited immortal life.

The great men of the mussar move-ment of nineteenth century Lithuania derived from this that one must live one’s life according to the choices that one has made but that rarely if ever is one truly certain that one has made the right choices. Throughout our lives we are always going shopping, facing nu-merous choices but always having to pay for those choices at the ultimate checkout counter of life.

Thus, many like me may attempt to avoid going shopping, but all of us are, in the long run, the customers who make the final choices that govern not only our eating habits, clothing and oth-er goods and services but also the ulti-mate and definitive choices that govern our lives.

Shabbat shalom.

Rabbi Berel Wein

Going Shopping

Torah Thought

Throughout our lives we are always going shopping, facing numerous choices but always having to pay for those choices at the ultimate checkout counter of life.

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“Pinchas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aharon HaKohain, appeased my an-ger against the Bnei Yisroel by taking My revenge amongst them, and now I do not have to destroy the Bnei Yisroel in My vengeance.” — Bamidbar 25:11

The nation of Moav heard about Bnei Yisroel coming, and they were seized with fear. For many

years, they had known “all that Hashem had done for the Jewish people while taking them out of Mitzrayim,” and they were well aware that the land of Is-rael was consecrated for the Jews. Now the inevitable was coming to fruition.

Recognizing that there was little hope in waging war against the Jews, Balak, the king of Moav, hired Bilaam to curse the Jews. However, not only did Bilaam not curse the Jews, he gave them a bracha, saying the prophetic words: “Ma tovu ohalecha Yaakov.” When Balak confronted Bilaam about this, Bilaam’s truthful response was, “It is not in my power to curse them. But if you want advice in fighting this nation, you must get Hashem to be angry with them. Their G-d hates promiscuity. If you can get them to sin, you can con-quer them.”

With that was launched a fatal at-tack against the Jews. Balak sent out the bnos Moav to entice the Jewish men. The plot was successful and thou-sands of Jewish men succumbed. At the height of the debacle, Zimri, the head of Shevet Shimon, took a Moabite woman into the very camp of Israel and public-ly committed a sin with her.

When Pinchas saw this, he stood up, and at the risk of his life, miraculously killed them both.

After the events, the posuk describes Hashem saying, “Pinchas took my re-venge amongst the people, and now I do not have to destroy the Jewish nation.” The Siforno explains that because the entire nation saw what had transpired and didn’t act, they all deserved to die. By acting in public for all to see, Pin-chas atoned for their sin, and now Hash-em didn’t have to kill out the nation.

This Siforno is difficult to under-stand on two levels. First, what was the

sin of the Jewish people? They weren’t accused of doing acts of immorality. Their “crime” was in not protesting an act done in their midst. Where do we see that the punishment for not giving rebuke is death?

Even more troubling is what seems to be a grave inequity. If Pinchas had not killed Zimri, then H a s h e m would have had to wipe out an en-tire nation. P i n c h a s ’s act of kill-ing one man evened out the score so that now the death penalty against the generation didn’t have to be carried out. How does killing one man equal the death of millions?

The answer to this question can be best understood with a mashal:

In the Royal Throne RoomImagine that you are in the royal

throne room when a commoner enters and requests an audience with the king himself. The monarch in a very gener-ous act grants the request. The peasant then asks for even more. He requests permission to step forward and whis-per something highly confidential into the king’s ear. The monarch charitably grants even this appeal. The common-er steps forward, leans over, and with a resounding smack, slaps the king squarely in the face. The guards jump forth and grab him. Every person in the throne room is in utter shock and dis-belief. The affront to the king is appall-ing. Such an act in the royal chambers to the king himself is an affront beyond description.

There is little question that this per-son has lost his lease on life. Likely, he would be killed on the spot.

Let’s take this same scenario but instead of a commoner, it is the king’s son who hits him. Now the affront is increased dramatically. Not only was

such an act committed, but it was done by nobility, by someone respected in the kingdom, by someone who is expected to love and honor the king. The affront would now be outrageous.

To fully appreciate the gravity of what was happening in Zimri’s time, we

need to add one more dimension. I m a g i n e that at the time of the act, the en-tire royal family was gathered for an affair of state. All of the sons and d a u g h t e r s of the king

together with their spouses, the king’s brothers, and their children are there. Included are the dukes and earls, the ministers and advisers — the entire as-semblage representing all of those who love and support the king.

The king’s son stands up, walks to the throne and sharply smacks the king. Then he sits back down in his seat — and no one says anything. Not a single royal responds. No one protests. No one comes to defend the honor of the king. Now this situation has intensified exponentially. Not only is the affront it-self dramatic, the marked silence of the king’s friends is even worse. How can you not speak up? How can you not de-fend the honor of the king?

This seems to be the answer to the question. When Zimri publicly commit-ted this sin, it was a colossal affront to the honor of Hashem. He was a nasi, one of the leaders of the generation. For such a man to commit this crime was horrific, but the silence of Bnei Yisroel was even worse. How is it that no one protested? Wasn’t there even one per-son loyal to Hashem? Isn’t there even one individual who will defend the king’s honor? The chillul Hashem was beyond description, and every person standing there was a part of it and made it even worse.

By Pinchas standing up and acting,

not only was he defending the honor of Hashem, he was taking off a powerful claim against the entire nation. Before Pinchas acted, every person there was a part of the silent majority, and by tac-it agreement were part of the chillul Hashem. Now that Pinchas stood up to defend the honor of Hashem in front of them, they became inactive participants in that act as well, and so they were re-deemed.

A Member of the Royal FamilyThis concept is very relevant to us

in realizing what it means to be a Jew. By dint of being born Jewish, a child now enters the ranks of Hashem’s peo-ple. We represent Hashem; we are His Chosen Nation and His children. That comes with tremendous rights and re-sponsibilities. When a Jew acts in a manner that is proper, it brings great honor to the King, and that person is rewarded accordingly. However, when a Jew acts in a manner not befitting his station in life, it isn’t considered the act of one individual, it is the act of a rep-resentative of Hashem himself, and that single action becomes magnified many times over. When that act is done in public, there are two issues to deal with: the act itself and the reaction of those witnessing, especially if those around are themselves of royal lineage.

One of the most fundamental obli-gations of a Jew is in kiddush Hashem. By acting as the Torah directs us, we bring more honor to Hashem. By act-ing in a manner that is inappropriate, we bring dishonor to Hashem. Because we are children of Hashem, what we do reflects onto Him. This greatly magni-fies the significance of our every move. When we recognize our royal lineage, we can understand our great potential to accomplish as well as the grave respon-sibilities we have in life.

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To Americans, the 2008 financial crisis, while vicious in its time, is a period that has been

basically put behind them. The stock market is at re-cord highs, unemployment rates are at manageable levels, and billion dollar startup companies are all the rage. Yet, for all the rosy economics taking place here, many parts of the world still find themselves standing on shaky fiscal grounds which were founded during the last financial crisis. The world finds itself losing sleep over its security and Islamic caliphates in the

Middle East while also worrying about another global recession brought about by unstable economies in countries like Greece, whose instability directly affects its sister states in the European Union and indirectly affects the entire, interconnected global marketplace.

Indeed, the ongoing saga that is the economy of Greece begins with the 2008 financial crisis, perhaps way before then. The country’s culture is one which does not encourage taxpay-ing and overall rule abiding. Generous entitlements have long been the norm in Greece; workers there get paid for an unmathematical fourteen months a year—a form of bonus payment—and the retirement age for the country’s un-derworked civil servants can be as low as 50, after which retirees enjoy a gen-

erous pension. When the irrational exuberance that overtook the world in the early millennium imploded along with some of the world’s biggest banks, Greece was far from spared; on the contrary, the country’s lack of a solid economic foundation caused it to be one of the sickest economies of the world.

It was back in 2001 when Greece became the 12th—and last—country to join the Eurozone.

To join, a country had to demonstrate that it had achieved “economic convergence” with the other Eu-rozone members—a requirement meant to ensure that different countries would not jeopardize the common currency.

When Greece was accepted, Finance Minister Yannos Papantoniou heralded it as a day that would place Greece firmly at the heart of Europe. But things were not what they seemed.

One of the economic convergence requirements

was that a country not have a budget deficit of more than 3% of GDP, or gross domestic product. All countries had to stick to that requirement, although it hasn’t been followed by all Eurozone countries throughout the years. Greece, though, seemed to ig-nore the requirement completely.

In March 2004, when the center-right govern-ment of Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis took power, it took a look at the books. What they saw surprised and shocked them. Instead of a budget deficit of 1.5%, the country was carrying a deficit of

8.3%—five and a half times higher than thought.After the revelation, the government was faced

with a dilemma. The Olympics were coming to town, bringing back the country to its glory. Should they reveal this devastating news to the Greeks and the world? They opted to cover it up. But by 2007, the financial markets in the United States started collaps-ing, and in 2008, Greece, already tottering on the fi-nancial brink, needed help.

Its sisters in the Eurozone came to its aid and they received a 110 billion euro bailout loan in May 2010. Government workers were laid off, unemployment

The Crumbling of the Greek EconomyBY NACHUM SOROKA

“What the Greeks wanted

to do, once the lights went

out and they were alone

in the dark with a pile of

borrowed money, was turn

their government into a piñata

stuffed with fantastic sums

and give as many citizens as

possible a whack at it.”

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rose, tax revenues decreased. Protests were rampant throughout the land. Prime ministers were voted out of office.

By February 2012, despite the loans, the country was still hurting and it accepted another bailout loan, bringing the total borrowed to 246 billion euros. The amount owed to the international lenders was now 135% of the country’s GDP. Unemployment rose to near 30%. Youth unemployment soared over 50%.

At the end of June of this year, Greece defaulted on a repayment to the International Monetary Fund. The banks started to run out of money. Capital con-trols were introduced, limiting the amount of money people could withdraw each day.

In order to move forward, a deal to lend the coun-try more money and cancel some of its debt is need-ed. What’s happening now is both sides pledging to renew talks. Talk, though, is cheap, and real reform is needed now.

Greece had—and still has (for now)—one important thing going for

it: its membership in the European Union. In 2001, when Greece became the twelfth member of the EU, it adopted its uniform currency, the euro. As a member of the Eurozone, Greece is entitled to bor-row money from its sister states at the same rates as the strongest members of the EU, such as Ger-

many. Moreover, any weakness in the economy of one Eurozone member state logically has direct con-sequences on all the members. Thus Greece found itself the beneficiary of generous bailout packages from the EU, the ECB (the Eurozone’s central bank), as well as the IMF, which lends money to national governments.

The largesse of other coun-tries was only able to help tem-porarily stop Greece’s woes; it couldn’t change the looming and increasingly growing pension and other public liabilities. More im-portantly it couldn’t change the country’s mindset about money. And the bailout packages were just that: temporary bailouts which had to be repaid, hopefully by the time the country got itself back on a healthy trajectory.

Yet, the package handed to Greece by the troika, or its bene-factors, came with its own set of conditions which intended to en-sure that the country wouldn’t lead itself down the same path that almost brought it to bankruptcy in the first place. These covenants imposed a number of austerity measures from pay freezes to privatizing certain sectors in order to scale back the country’s

oversized and burdensome public segment. Increas-es in the highly flouted VAT tax in the country were also agreed to as part of the bailout.

In the end, however, the generous packages of-fered by the three were not enough to help stabilize

the Hellenic economy, and Greece has found itself unable to repay those commitments, teetering once again on the verge bankruptcy. In the words of noted financial author Michael Lewis, “As it turned out, what the Greeks wanted to do, once the lights went

Greece’s Tsipras and Germany’s Merkel are on two sides of the austerity talks

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out and they were alone in the dark with a pile of borrowed money, was turn their government into a piñata stuffed with fantastic sums and give as many citizens as possible a whack at it.”

The bailouts were finalized in 2010 by then-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who found himself forced to concede to some very un-Greek terms in the face of extremely unsavory alternatives. Papandreou was ousted in the early part of this year, and the Greek people stood behind the left wing Syriza party and its head, Alexis Tsipras, who vowed that austerity had no place near the Acropolis. Tsip-ras, a former Communist, made the abolition of the imposed privatization of Greek industry one of his new government’s top priorities. The prime minister, along with most Greeks, does not believe that his country is bound to agreements made by former gov-ernments. Instead, he has been insistent on coming to terms on less draconian austerity measures.

On Tuesday, June 30, a €1.5 billion debt pay-ment was due to the IMF. Tsipras’s gov-

ernment’s refusal to negotiate an agreement with the IMF led to a Grecian default on that debt. Later this month, another €3.5 billion is due to the ECB. If the EU and Tsipras fail to come to terms by then, Greece will default on that as well.

Syriza and Tsipras represent the majority of Greeks in their refusal to be dealt with strictly. On Sunday, a referendum there called by Tsipras ended with over 60% of the country voting to refuse bail-out packages offered by the EU on the grounds that imposed austerity will do more harm to the country

than a loan would benefit it. To be fair, the Greek view that austerity is not the

proper path to a stabilized economy is not only based on a cultural outlook that rules are malleable and meant to be rewritten. Many Greeks believe that an economy cannot be rebuilt through contraction and austerity; investment must be made in order to allow for businesses to grow and strict GDP impositions must be replaced with the belief that a healing econ-omy needs patience as it grows sea legs. “There’s

been too much focus on austerity,” Alexis Macridis, CEO of Chryssafidis, an industrial parts importer in Athens, insists. “Without growth, we’re stuck in a negative feedback loop of high unemployment and no investment.” In contrast, the EU, led by the Ger-mans, holds of the German ideal that rules-based governance is the foundation for the Eurozone’s le-gitimacy, says Dan-iela Schwarzer, di-rector of the Europe Program at the Ger-man Marshall Fund of the United States, a Berlin-based think tank.

Angela Merkel’s Germany represents the other side of the great debate over Greece. The Ger-mans themselves have a story to tell when it comes to re-covering economies and austerity. Back in the late 1990s, Germany was often referred to as “the sick man of Europe.” Then-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder led his country to the top of the economic heap by means of drastic welfare and pension cuts and by strengthening the private sector. The coun-try’s unemployment rate dropped 100% and now Germany enjoys its position of being Europe’s finan-cially fittest. That allows it to call the shots when it comes to propping up weaker countries like Greece

and it believes that doing things the austere and Ger-man way is how everything should be done.

Sunday’s “No” vote by Greece to an EU bailout package may mean much more than just a payment default on the country’s existing debt; it may mean that Greece will have to exit the euro. The EU can’t continue to have a member which is in constant need of bailout money and has repeatedly demonstrated its unwillingness to yield on certain key issues involved with their loan agreements.

On Monday, Beppe Grillo, the outspoken leader of Italy’s anti-austerity 5-Star Movement, said what was on everybody’s mind. “How does Greece come out of this? In the long term, they will have to confront an exit from the euro,” he related.

While a “Grexit,” or Greek exit, from the Union may have certain large legal and economic repercus-sions, most European nations agree that a unified Eu-rope may not always be the best option.

More than just affecting European coun-tries, many wonder whether a failure

to reach a consensus in Greece will have repercus-sions for the global economy. After all, Greece is still an EU member and its financial woes should be contagious for all Euro countries. Furthermore, if there is one lesson learned from the worldwide

recession of 2008, even by nations like Greece, it’s that fi-nancial instability in one part of the world can no longer be isolated. For now, though, the markets haven’t seemed to care much about the prospects of a Grex-it. Worldwide mar-kets on Monday, the day after the Greek referendum, did not drop as much as they had in previous weeks, signaling that

perhaps the world has already come to terms with a Greek-less Euro.

Calling Sunday’s referendum in the face of Eu-ropean pressure was indeed an amateurish move by Tsipras, and by Tuesday he seemed to have come to his senses. Already having lost his finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, a hard-left academic who led the fight against austerity, the day after the referendum, Tsipras requested another shot at coming to terms with his creditors. Whether or not they can take him seriously this one last time remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, on this side of the world, America has to deal not only with Greece as a potential source of financial instability, but with another state that is much closer physically and politically and as inter-connected with the U.S. economy as another state can possibly be.

Last week, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, governor of Puerto Rico, announced that a $72 billion bond pay-ment coming due for his government is “unpayable.” The island ended up coming to terms over the week-end on its most pressing obligations, but its financial woes are just beginning to be realized. While Puer-to Rico is not by law allowed to file for municipal bankruptcy, as it is not part of one of the U.S.’s fifty states, many are calling on Congress to allow for it to do so. For ordinary Americans, a sickly Puerto Rico will have a greater direct impact than a Greek exit from the Eurozone. More than half of U.S. mutual funds, where Americans park their retirement mon-ey, have some sort of stake in Puerto Rican debt. As Puerto Rico goes, so may go one’s 401(k).

As for Greece, its banks remain closed, ATM withdrawals within the island are limited to less than $70 per day, and its government can’t seem to make up its mind as to which side of the financially stable world it wants to be. One could only hope that what-ever course this drama ends up taking, it doesn’t end up back here in another few years.

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78T 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

A man walks up to you with a locked safe and tells you that it is filled with cash. He forgot the combination and promises to give you $500 if you get the safe open for him. He does know that the

combination is three 2-digit numbers which can be written like

this: xx-xx-xx

He also remembers the following about the combination: The total of the three numbers is 39.The second number is half of the third number.The first number is the third number minus 1.

Can you open the safe for him?See answer on next page

your RESUME TRANSLATOR

Yankel is on a tour in Israel and attends a recital and

concert at the famed Avraham Gootstein

Auditorium. He was quite impressed with the

architecture and the acoustics.He inquires of the tour guide, “Is

this magnificent auditorium named after Avraham Gootstein, the famous Talmudic scholar?” 

“No,” replied the guide. “It is named after Avraham Gootstein, the writer.” 

“Never heard of him. What did he write?” asks Yankel.

The guide replies: “A check.”

“I’m willing to relocate” – I’ve just been evicted again.

“I have a stable personal life”—I’ve been living with my parents for the past 47 years.

“I have years of experience in this field”—I have been surfing from “first 3 months draw” to “first 3 months draw” forever.

“I’m extremely professional”— I know how to use the calendar app on my iPhone.

“My background and skills match your requirements”— At that miserly salary, you’re lucky to get anyone.

“I am adaptable”— I’ve changed jobs a lot.

“I am high-energy”—I can’t sit at my desk for more than 5 minutes.

“I am eager to hit the ground running”—I will seem like a rock star the first day and probably call in sick on the second day.

“I’m highly motivated to succeed”— The minute I find a better job, I’m outta here.

“I have formal training”— My probation officer says I’m a natural student.

“I interact well with all co-workers”—I’m that guy who thinks he’s really funny.

“I have a pleasant phone manner with lots of experience”— I’m always making personal phone calls.

“I look forward to hearing from you soon” – Like, I’m gonna hold my breath waiting for your form letter thanking me for my interest

and wishing me luck in my future career.

Riddle! You Gotta be Kidding!

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1. Which member state of the EU has the largest population?a. Italyb. Germanyc. Franced. Britain

2. Which of the following countries does not have a land border with Greece?

a. Italyb. Albaniac. Bulgariad. Turkey

3. Which is the capital of Greece?

a. Patrasb. Volosc. Athensd. Larissa

4. Which of these countries is a member of the EU but does not have the euro as its official currency?

a. Britainb. Italyc. Switzerlandd. Belgium

5. How many countries are part of the EU?a. 12b. 16c. 23d. 28e. 32

6. Which of the following countries was not a founding member of the EU?

a. Luxembourgb. Netherlandsc. Austria d. Belgium

7. What is the unofficial capital of the EU?a. Parisb. Brussels

c. Berlind. Rome

Answers:1. B2. A3. C4. A5. D6. C7. B

Wisdom key: 6-7 correct: Good

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3-5 correct: You are in the middle class…something that doesn’t

really exist in Europe.0-2 correct: You really don’t know

much about the EU and lost this game. If you are from Greece, you get a prize anyways…be-cause isn’t everyone entitled to everything?!

ANSWER TO RIDDLE: The combination is 15-08-16. 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

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Rocky Zweig

The Rocky Rant

And we rolled home with a couple dozen frogs and filthy clothes and brambles in our eyebrows and our mothers just sighed and smiled.

When did Friend Become a Verb?

It’s ironic that now that I’m in my curmudgeonly stage, where I can literally go days without having a

meaningful conversation with another human being short of asking La’Qisha at Walgreen’s where the Band-Aids are, I find myself with more friends than ever before.

I was a nerdy kid in elementary school, but not a brainy one, and that’s a bad combination. You see, if you’re a nerd and you’re brainy, you get to have nerdy, brainy friends. But I was a nerd sans the brainy part. It wasn’t that I was dumb; I just didn’t care about anything. Not science, not history, not geography, certainly not math…ugh!

While the teachers were yapping away, I was usually staring out the win-dow thinking about ways I could get back at my brother for conning me out of my Coca Cola truck or figuring out how I could convince my little sister to stick her hand into boiling water to make wax fingers (turns out it wasn’t all that difficult). The only subject I did okay in was English, which is probably why I grew up to be a world renowned writer. In fact, I couldn’t possibly know English any gooder.

But I did make one lifelong friend in grade school, even if it was almost inevitable. Our families were so close and so amazingly in synch, it was ri-diculous: he and I were the same age, our brothers were the same age, and our sisters were the same age. We were like one big happy family. His name was Mikey.

Mikey was maybe a little smarter than I and was defi-nitely a better ball player

(not saying much at all), but he was painfully shy, an adjective that has never been used to describe Yours Tru-ly. So if I happened to worm my way

into a conversation or if I became rea-sonably well-acquainted with some-one in school who didn’t seem overt-ly brain damaged, Mikey was able to come along for the ride.

We became so close that some folks actually thought we were brothers, a ludicrous notion considering what we looked like. I was Huck Finn in a yar-mulke: bright red hair, blue eyes and freckles. Mikey had his mom’s olive complexion, dark hair and eyes.

Summertime was when our cama-raderie was truly in full bloom. Let me just preface this this by telling all you millennials who grew up with car seats, bike helmets, kneepads and don’t-talk-to-strangers sensibilities: none of that existed in the late 50’s - early 60’s. Day camp in bungalow col-onies was unheard of. When a kid left his bungalow in the morning, he was gone for the day except for perhaps a brief return for lunch. Cell phones? We didn’t even have regular phones in the bungalows! There was one booth in middle of the colony for everyone and that was our connection to the outside

world except for the Dugan’s truck that came around once a week sell-ing bread and cup-cakes. And aside from standing on the bungalow porch and yelling his name, there was no way for a mom to reach her little angel until he eventually showed

up on his own. Yet somehow mothers didn’t go insane if little Shloimie or Chaim Yankel or Rivkie came home half an hour later than he or she was

supposed to.Because Mikey was not a bad ath-

lete, when the guys were playing ball he stood a good chance of being cho-sen. Me? I’m sure you’ve heard of the proverbial snowball’s chance in you-know-where? My position was always “left out.” But my pal wouldn’t desert me and he knew I always had a day planned where we would get just as dirty and sweaty as everyone else. At the first crack of the bat, my small band of misfits and I headed for the solace of the woods.

Ah, the woods! Bugs, rocks, trees, and mud — lots of mud! This is where we dorky types found refuge from the sun of the outfield or the pitching mound. You turned over a rock and you knew something creepy would come slither-ing out. You know…kinda like dating. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Zal (my cousin) and Steph (Mikey’s cousin) probably thought it was a little gross, but they hung with us anyway. We were on our way to The Pond.

The Pond was kind of sudsy and smelled like…like…it smelled real-ly bad. But none of us had any com-punctions abut sticking our hands in. We were looking for frogs or turtles or snakes and this tiny pond (calling this oversized puddle a pond was a bit of a stretch — any one of us could have broad-jumped it) was teeming with life.

We would spend most of the af-ternoon catching frogs. We would eat blueberries, raspberries and blackber-ries right off the bushes. We would throw these thistle-y looking thingys that stuck to each other’s clothes and hair and had an absolute blast. And we rolled home with a couple dozen frogs and filthy clothes and brambles in our eyebrows and our mothers just sighed and smiled.

And then something happened. I think it’s called “life.” Can’t remember the last time some-

one threw a thistle at me. What hap-pened to my inner Huck Finn? Well, I’m glad to report that at least Mikey and I are still touch. Only it’s Mike now. I guess somewhere along the way he figured being called Mikey as an adult was a tad unseemly. Oh, and

like being called Rocky at 64 is seemly! Anyway, Mike and I get together for lunch every once in a while these days. We should probably do it once or twice a month, but we don’t. In fact probably 90% of the time we do hook up, he’s the one that initiates it. I’m a terrible human being.

We still have some things in com-mon. He’s retired because he’s smart and I’m retired because I’m sick. He goes shopping, I go shopping. He plays the market. I’m not very diversified…I watch Facebook. That usually doesn’t take too long. He goes to learn, I think about going to learn (I go Tuesday nights) Oh yeah, he has one of those um…whatchamacallits…wives! He

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has a wife! Right. I knew there was something. Some years ago, he had a heart attack and I had a lung attack. So the first thing we cover is our medical situations. We’re like one of those “Oy, you think you’ve got problems…” jokes with two guys sitting on a park bench, come to life.

So there it is: Mike and LaQ’isha are the general extent of my physical human contact. I do go to the gym pretty much every day, but I rarely talk to anyone during my quest to become an Adonis. And I’ll go to Bagel Hole occasionally, but if you don’t speak Spanish, it’s rather difficult to have much of a chat there, either. But you’ll note I said physical human contact. You see, when it comes to cyber-hu-man contact, I’ve got more than I can handle!

I’ve got friends who I friended through other friends who were friend-ed by friended friends who friend-ed other friends who were friended by friends’ friends! I have friends in Rwanda and Ramat Bet Shemesh, Wales and Wisconsin, Bulgaria and Bensonhurst. And why shouldn’t I friend a total stranger in Rwanda? Maybe he’s a really nice person like that fellow in Nigeria who’s going to transfer 250,000.00 USD into my ac-

count because Mr. Clive Goodwin, Esq., instructed him to do so forthwith.

Where else can I post pictures of my eineklach one day and then rip Obama to shreds the next? Where else can I rail against the California Smelt (it’s a little fishie; you can Google it) one minute and defend Don-ald Trump’s hair five min-utes later? I still can’t find my mayo, but my mind is definitely get-ting a workout just remem-bering who is who (who is whom?)!

I actually got kicked off a thread a few weeks ago. It was a heavy-duty political discussion and my head was about to explode so I decided to inject a tiny bit of profundity:

Did you know, I said, that prunes are not called prunes anymore? They are now known as dried plums?

Silence. Followed by…Huh? Don’t you see the correlation? Ar-

bitrarily labeling people, arbitrarily labeling fruit…where will it ever end?

They had no idea what I was talking about which was a good thing, since neither did I. I was asked to leave.

So I guess the bottom line is that I’ve found a place where I can interact with others without ever ac-tually interact-ing with them, if that makes any sense. And that’s definitely a good thing. Because while I always try to be my usual jovial, agreeable self, at least online there’s no pos-

sible way I can pepper spray anyone!

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

to hashkafa articles to...yes (now it can be told!)...letters to the editor. Rocky was six-teen a very long time ago. He is the proud father of three marginally neurotic chil-dren. He has been married three — count ‘em — three times and has finally deter-mined that he’s probably not very good at matrimonial bliss. He lives in his Fortress of Solitude in Flatbush with a small menag-erie: Clarice, a European Starling; Rabbi Horatio LeZard, a Bearded Dragon; an aquarium filled with Lake Malawi African Cichlids; and a ten gallon tank that func-tions as a Home for Unwanted 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 unpleasant task of flushing these unfortunate piscine creatures when they are eventually, inevitably ignored by their own obnoxious progeny, the parents simply call Uncle Rocky who then feeds them and cares for them until their ultimate natural demise three or four or even ten years down the pike). So apparently Rocky seems to get along better with animals than with his fellow homo sapiens. Or sapiens-es. Or whatever.

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

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For many of us, the title of this piece will conjure up imag-es of summer camp, bonfires,

and arms around the shoulders of our friends. For others, it may be the lilting sounds of Uncle Moishy or whichev-er other singer sang the words that so many of us know:

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow;

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend

And together we will walk in the ways of HaShem.

V’ahavta l’rayacha kamocha, zeh klal gado-o-o-o-l baTorah…

I know, you’ll be singing this all day now and have me to thank for it. But I’m not here just get the song caught in your head. I’m here to discuss what it means and what it means to me.

I’m not sure of the origins of this song, though the beginning words are attributed to Albert Camus, a philoso-pher who is a hero to atheists. I find it ironic that what may be his words have become a motto used by Jewish children to convey a camaraderie and brotherhood in learning about Hashem together. Hashem does little jokes like that all the time and I personally enjoy His sense of humor.

Interestingly, and it’s something I would not have known had I not been

researching for this article, his version of atheism is much more tolerable than what we find today. He did not believe

in G-d, but he also had no need to force his disbelief onto those who do believe. He was not saying that people who were religious were wrong or poisoning the world, only that he, himself, did not be-lieve.

The truth is that this ap-proach could benefit every-one. It’s not just atheists who shouldn’t force things. When Torah and mitz-vos are used as a club or battering ram, which un-fortunately hap-pens too often by people who don’t understand the love of Hashem for people, they have the effect of turn-ing people off and pushing them away. Derache’ha darchei noam, the Torah’s

ways are supposed to be pleasant and if someone is teaching it any other way, they’re missing the point.

The words of this song, therefore, are a reminder that you don’t have to force your opinion on someone else, nor do you have to accept theirs. It’s possible to, according to this song, walk side by

side with people you don’t agree with, and re-main peaceable. And, once the Jewish attitude was attached to it, it reminds us that none of us know all there is to know and we need to keep learning about HaShem along with everyone else.

This is an important concept at this time of the Three Weeks when we know the Bais HaMikdash was destroyed because of sinas chinam, free hatred, in which people felt justified in hating others because they didn’t believe as they did. Ironically, today people feel we need to be more tolerant of people who are less religious, but historically the problem was that people hated those who were more religious or observant than themselves. I don’t think either problem is solved, but I don’t have a solution either, so I’m glad that’s not the main thrust of my article.

What got the song playing in my head one day was when my mother-in-law was driving somewhere with us and said, “I’ll just follow you.” Now, if you’ve ever been the lead car of a convoy, you know this means you have a new measure of responsibility. You can’t just look at the road and change

lanes whenever you want. You can’t speed up indiscriminately because the person behind you might get lost. You have to signal properly and keep look-ing back to make sure whoever you’re leading is right behind you. Being the leader means giving up a certain amount of freedom because the followers may not be able to do the same things you can.

And, while as the song says we may choose whether or not we follow, we don’t always get the choice whether or not to lead. We are constantly under surveillance. People see what we do and are influenced one way or another. Whether it’s our children, neighbors, co-workers, or strangers, our actions set a precedent for others. We may not even realize we’re being watched, but we are.

If we sit around a Shabbos table or at the pool or on the porch and schmooze about other people, do we have any rea-son to suspect our children will not do the same? If we get angry on the road, won’t our passengers or other drivers pick up this behavior? And if we act politely and considerately, won’t others follow suit? (Well, they may not, but at least it won’t be because of us!)

So, when you hear that song tin-kling in your head, and you come to the words, “I may not lead,” remind your-self that it’s really not likely the case. You will always be leading, showing someone the way, and subconscious-ly deciding whether they will make it safely to their destination, or instead, end up taking a wrong turn because you weren’t looking out for them.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar To-rah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeech Writer.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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Don’t Walk Behind Me, I May Not Lead

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Memphis Hebrew Academy (shalom, y’all) I was also a

graduate student at Memphis State (now U. of Memphis). I once heard a guest lecture from a man who was the head of pupil transportation for the Memphis public schools. He spoke about being the first at the garage before the buses went out at 5:30 a.m. so that he could ask the drivers if they had what they needed to do their job safely and well. Then he would ride along on the routes and get off where he saw parents waiting with their kids. He wanted to ask them if they were getting the best service possible. And then he would make sure that ev-ery comment was followed up on, act-ed on, and acknowledged. He asked us, “Do you know why I do all this? Why I breathe gas fumes at 5 a.m. when I could walk into a paneled office at 9? Because my goal is to be the superintendent of a large school system. My goal is to be a leader. And to be a leader I must first be a servant.” He became the next superin-tendent of Memphis public schools.

Almost every job description says that leadership qualities are desirable. When changing jobs later in a career when transferrable skills are so crucial for success, nothing can get an employ-er’s attention like examples of proven leadership. So job hunters search their past with a candle and feather, looking for any crumb of leadership. But most are looking in the wrong places. That’s because, to borrow a metaphor from Thomas Edison, leadership opportu-nities show up all the time and people ignore them. Because they show up at inconvenient hours wearing greasy work clothes, asking for some help doing the sweaty, dirty stuff that nobody thinks is important.

Money guru Dave Ramsey writes in his book, Entreleadership, that the workplace of today demands flexibili-ty, responsibility, and initiative, the key components of leadership, in every po-sition. You have to bring the same drive to your job that you would bring if you owned the company. But that doesn’t begin when they give you a reserved parking space. It begins when you show up on the first day. Its source is the un-derstanding that you are not there to ac-quire a paycheck. You are there to serve:

to serve the clients, the customers, your fellow workers, your boss and the com-pany’s goals. People used to say that the best way to get along at work is to keep your ears open and your mouth shut. The “ears open” part is still a good idea. But your mouth should be busy asking ques-

tions while expressing support, confi-dence, and respect. And then your hands need to take the initiative and back up your words.

Ramsey tells of a customer service rep in his company who took a call from a frantic customer who had ordered w o r k b o o k s for a seminar and they ar-rived soaked with water. The trucking company was responsible but the program was tomorrow and without the workbooks it would be a disaster. The rep said it was no prob-lem; they would FedEx the workbooks at no charge. When Ramsey found out that she had spent thousands of dollars of company money without authoriza-tion he called her in to thank her. He said she had done the exactly right thing but since there was no official policy to guide her, how did she know what to do? She said that she knew that company policy was to serve the customer in the best way possible. She took the initiative and turned those words into actions. Her job description may have been “service rep,” but her role was corporate leader.

“The workplace of today demands flexibility, responsibility, and initiative, the key components of leadership.” Read that carefully and thoughtfully be-cause you won’t find those traits waiting for you in the desk drawer at your new job. You have to develop them yourself by actively seeking opportunities at

home, in school, anywhere in your life where you can exercise your flexibility, responsibility and initiative muscles, the sooner and more often, the better. And you have to start using those very same muscles the moment you set your sights on entering the workforce. Whether you

are seeking training, education, or ex-perience, whether you are building con-nections to potential employers, prepar-ing for an interview, or starting your own business, flexibility, responsibility, and initiative are the foundations of success. Think of it this way: there is a very im-

portant compa-ny out there. The name of the company is You, Inc. and if you will take on a leadership role, there is a good chance that the com-pany will suc-ceed.

There are countless options available for earn-ing degrees and getting training. Some of them deliver great value, some less, but none of them deliver future success.

They place tools, hopefully good tools, in the hands of each student. The stu-dents who exercise personal leadership take those tools and build their own road to success.

Entrepreneurs often look like for-ward-thinking, initiative-taking leaders who will build fortunes and take over the world. Yet their projects often fizzle into nothing, leaving others scratching their heads and wondering why such smart, creative people don’t get ahead. Most often, the failure comes from a lack of personal leadership, from not stepping up to supply the 99% perspiration that makes the 1% inspiration move forward to success.

But for a lot of people, stepping up to become a leader is scary. Years ago, the U.S. Army had a recruiting slogan that encouraged people to become “An Army of One.” They meant that becom-ing a soldier would demand developing all of your talents, accepting all kinds of responsibilities. Nowadays, every job requires becoming an “army of one”… and you’re the commanding officer. That might be scary, and there’s no uniform with shiny buttons. But becoming a real leader, starting with leading yourself, is the road to real success.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 West to East in BinyaminWe start with a tour of the amazing town of Talmon with the parents of Gilad Shaer Hy”d. Jeeping in the hills of the Maccabean Revolt, including Givat HaYekevim and its underground antiquities. Ulpanat Dolev for at-risk girls hosts us for lunch, then to Neve Tzuf and their newly opened Taggart Fort. End our day at Domaine Ventura in Ofra for a wine tasting straight from France.

TUESDAY, JULY 14Emek DotanWith special IDF escort we will enter the area where the Brothers sold Joseph and Israel left 10 years ago during the ‘Disengagement’. After our tour we will lunch overlooking the Dotan Valley at Maoz Tzvi, meet the modern shepherds and artists and hear from a founding member of Mevo Dotan. End our day at Katzir and peek at what may be Choreshet HaGoyim of the Prophet Deborah’s nemesis Sisera. Today meets the Tanach on this amazing unique day.

SUNDAY, JULY 19 Jerusalem From Every AngleBegin at Nebi Samuel with its 3,000+ history. Then via Beit Hanina to Tel El Ful, possibly our first (monarchy) capital. Over to Mt. Scopus and the Mount of Olives ridge and views, with a dairy lunch at Kidmat Zion. Then Ramat Rachel where a First Temple era palace was found. A great informative day with Jerusalem, as always, at its heart.

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In my previous article I attempted to draw attention to the concept of pro-cess addictions and highlighted inter-

net addictions in particular. For this arti-cle I would like to hone in one step deep-er and look at one particular aspect of the internet: social media. While we are all aware that social media has become a reality in many people’s everyday lives and we also intuitively realize that it has potential to have detrimental effects, I feel it important to delineate some of its prevalence and its adverse effects.

As far as prevalence goes, research has shown that on average in the 14-19 demographic, 3-plus hours are spent each day on social media. For those aged 20-29, it’s two hours a day. Additional-ly, research has shown, over an hour is spent cyber-loafing each day at work, resulting in massive monetary losses to American companies. Clearly, these numbers are staggering and point to a compulsive and pervasive problem.

I’d like to share two vignettes to per-

haps highlight some of the issues sur-rounding our obsessive and compulsive use of social media. For many years I had the privilege of working as a rebbi in Priority-1’s alternative high school,

TALC, for teens at risk. In my earlier years, my colleagues and I found that we were able to create deep and mean-ingful connections with our students and through these relationships have a large impact on their lives. At a certain point, around five to seven years back, there seemed to be a dramatic shift. For some reason we began to struggle in forming those deep bonds. Our students seemed to develop an ambivalent attitude toward the staff, in stark contrast to our past

students who craved our attention. We racked our brains to develop a hypothe-sis as to what the shift was, and one day it occurred to us: we had been replaced. We had been replaced by social media.

No longer were we their source of con-nection and validation. No longer did they need our attention and praise. With the advent of Facebook, 100 likes from “friends” trumped the praise and com-pliment from a rebbe. Those who were lonely or in need of a shoulder to lean on now had an endless social network to provide support. This would all seem fine and well, except that we intuitive-ly know that these relationships are not meaningful. Sure they provide a quick fix and an instant self-esteem boost, but these effects are not long-lasting. Likes and friends on Facebook, or followers and shares on Instagram, cannot replace a real, substantive relationship.

The second vignette is from a wed-ding I attended this past week. It was a magnificent wedding in every sense. The hall was beautiful, the food de-licious, the bride and groom radiant, and the families absolutely joy-ful. The one downside to the wedding was that my phone was out of battery and thus I was actually forced to be “present” at the wedding. As I took in everything around me, I could not help but notice how much people were glued to their phones. Taking pictures of food and drinks, pictures with friends, self-ies, Facebook posts, twitter feeds, and Instagram posts. Everywhere I turned faces were illuminated by the glow of a screen. Rather than enjoying the present moment and being mindful of the here and now, many people seemed distant, overly concerned with some sort of pro-jected image of themselves. This infat-uation with a projected public persona results in a chronic dissociation with the present, a disconnect with our immedi-ate environment. In an attempt to cap-

ture the present moment, it actually gets lost in the World Wide Web.

These two observations call atten-tion to how much disconnect our con-nectivity brings. As the world becomes ever smaller and we become progres-sively more “connected” with others paradoxically we seem to become more fragmented and alone. Humans are so-cial creatures that crave relationships. However, these relationships must be meaningful and substantive. If we in-dulge our craving with a fraud, it invari-ably will lead to disappointment. Studies have backed up this information with re-peated findings of a positive correlation between social networking usage and depression and anxiety. There is no real substitute for reality. As my rebbe always says, for something immaterial a fake will do. If I offered you fat-free, sug-ar-free, dairy-free, carb-free ice cream that tasted as good as Haagen Dazs, it would not matter that it was not the real thing. If it looks like ice cream, feels like ice cream, and tastes like ice cream, then it’s ice cream. But if a groom offered his bride a cubic zirconia that looked exact-ly like an actual beautiful diamond, one that was such a good replica it would fool even the best of jewelers, certain-ly she would cringe at the offer. Why? Because for something meaningful, only the real thing will do.

In order to experience real relation-ships and life to its fullest it requires presence of mind and spirit. One must disconnect to truly connect.

Simcha Lebowicz, LMSW, CSAT-C is the Clinical Director of Project Extreme and is in private practice with Tepfer and Asso-ciates in Brooklyn and the Five Towns. He could be reached at [email protected] or at the practice at 516-426-5415.

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Health & Fitness

With the advent of Facebook, 100 likes from “friends” trumped the praise and compliment from a rebbe.

Social Media: Our Disconnected Selves

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“Say What?”Compiled by Nate Davis

Notable Quotes

There are reports that Amazon may be able to launch its drone delivery program within the next year. So if you hear your doorbell and see a robot hovering near your house, it could be the end of the world . . . or the 12-pack of Brita filters you ordered. – Jimmy Fallon

Chris Christie launched his presidential campaign in the gymnasium of his old high school. He wanted to launch it in his school’s cafeteria but there’s still a restraining order. – Conan O’Brien

Trump is running for president and he’s wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush’s birth certificate. – Jimmy Fallon

Greece has closed their nation’s banks today in response to its escalating financial crisis. Greece said, “We’ll bounce back. We’ve just had a rough 2,000 years.” - Conan O’Brien

When the new iPhone came out it was way bigger than the last one, and I think because I got that new phone it was a strain to use it—you have to stretch further to hit the buttons, and I honestly think that’s how I ended up developing it.- San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner explaining in an interview how he developed tennis elbow during last season

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I always promised you I would see you on the outside. I’m a man of my word. – Recently disclosed excerpt from a letter that Richard Matt sent to his daughter shortly before he and David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility

Hold on, hold on, wait! Sorry, there’s an incident out here. - KTVU reporter Cara Liu on live TV when her crew was robbed at gunpoint while she was reporting from Pier 14 in San Francisco, the location where an illegal immigrant killed a random woman last week

[Jeb] Bush always seems embarrassed at his ambition, embarrassed you’d think he wants power. This is an odd quality in one who wants power.- Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

The Dead Sea is dead because it wraps its arms around all of the fresh water of the Jordan and gives out nothing. In your community, there are Dead Sea souls who do the same. - Gail Halvorsen, 94, also known as the “Candy Bomber,” urging people to engage in kindness, before taking flight to drop 1,000 chocolate bars into the waiting hands of thousands who gathered for the event in Scera Park, Utah, last weekend

Rick Perry failed at the border. Now he is critical of me. He needs a new pair of glasses to see the crimes committed by illegal immigrants.- Tweet by Donald Trump responding to Rick Perry’s criticism of his comments about illegal immigrants and taking a swipe at Perry’s new bespectacled look

So many people have jumped the White House fence recently that the Secret Service is putting metal spikes on it. This is the latest in security technology — from 1325. It’s impenetrable, unless you use a ladder. We’re now protecting the president’s life the same way we keep pigeons from sitting on ATMs. – Jimmy Kimmel

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It is unacceptable and a slap in the face of a close ally that the United States will have an embassy in Havana before one in Jerusalem.- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) upon the announcement that the U.S. will open an embassy in Cuba

After Donald Trump’s derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially canceled “Celebrity Apprentice.” Donald Trump isn’t even president yet and he’s already made America a better place.- Conan O’Brien

Macy’s has severed ties with Donald Trump and no longer will carry his men’s wear collection. From now on, men who want to look like Donald Trump will have to hunt and kill their own hairpiece. – Conan O’Brien

You probably know that the U.S. leads the world in the most Olympic medals won, the most number of Nobel Laureates and the most billionaires. But we also lead the world in some other ways. Not to brag but we have the most incarcerated people in the world. G-d bless the prison industrial complex. When it comes to obesity, we lead the global Mickey D’s line. A third of us can’t even see our own toes… We got 90 guns per 100 persons. Sorry Yemen, we beat you in drones and guns. Americans consume 80% of the world’s painkillers. Makes sense though, racism in this country is a big pain… Credit card debt? Grab your visas because we lead the world in that too! Just think of all the air miles. So if anyone ever tells you that America is not that great, just say: G-d bless the country with the most deaths by lawnmower. – Text of Al Jazeera America’s July 4th tribute, with “G-d Bless America” playing in the background (in a video which would be slightly comical as a spoof, if it wasn’t produced by a media company which is a shill for terrorist organizations)

Mr. Booth, I have a question for you—did you go to Nautilus for Middle School?- Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer to an accused burglar being arraigned in her courtroom, upon realizing that they had been classmates and friends as children

Oh, my goodness! Oh, my goodness!- The accused burglar, who burst out crying

I’m sorry to see you here. I always wondered what happened to you, sir…I hope you’re able to change your ways. Good luck to you. – A visibly shaken Judge Glazer at the end of the proceedings

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump said yesterday that he has better hair than Senator Marco Rubio — a claim that was recently disproven by wind. – Seth Myers

Doug Died. – The complete obituary in the local newspaper for Douglas Legler of North Dakota

He said over and over, when I die I want my obituary to just say “Doug Died.” Other people’s obituaries would say, “He was the president of this, a director of this” and Dad would say, “What, couldn’t they hold down a job?” He was very lighthearted and had a great sense of humor. - Janet Stoll, Legler’s daughter

He made me hungry.- Eight-time Nathan’s Hotdog Eating champion, Joey Chestnut, vowing to win the July 4th competition next year after he was defeated by newcomer Matt Stonie by two hot dogs

I heard on the radio that there is a Cabinet mtg this am. Is there? Can I go? If not, who are we sending?- One of Hillary Clinton’s recently disclosed emails to an aide in 2009, showing that she had a hard time penetrating the Obama inner circle in her early days as Secretary of State

Because to me he ain’t do no wrong — he just shot a cop.- Stephanie King on Milwaukee’s local news station WISN explaining why she hid 20-year-old Najee Harmon in her home after he shot a police officer

The U.S. might arrive at some agreements with us within the framework of the Group 5+1 , but we should never hold a positive view of the enemy.- Commander of the Iranian Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan 

There’s a huge financial crisis in Greece. They’re in terrible trouble. Greece announced they’re going to default on their nearly $1.8 billion loan. Who would have thought the country that invented the philosophy major would be broke? – Conan O’Brien

How about instead of some ice cream, a question?- A reporter’s response to Hillary Clinton when she asked a group of reporters trailing her in an ice cream shop whether they wanted ice cream

Enjoy your ride, ‘cuz we sure will!- A sign recently discovered in the back of a police transport van in Baltimore which has evoked anger in light of the Freddy Gray incident

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Charles Krauthammer

Political Crossfire

With every concession, Obama and Kerry made clear they were desperate for a deal.

The Worst Agreement in U.S. Diplomatic History

The devil is not in the details. It’s in the entire conception of the Iran deal, animated by Presi-

dent Obama’s fantastical belief that he, uniquely, could achieve detente with a fanatical Islamist regime whose foun-dational purpose is to cleanse the Mid-dle East of the poisonous corruption of American power and influence.

In pursuit of his desire to make the Islamic Republic into an accepted, nor-malized “successful regional power,” Obama decided to take over the nuclear negotiations. At the time, Tehran was reeling – the rial plunging, inflation skyrocketing, the economy contracting – under a regime of international sanc-tions painstakingly constructed over a decade.

Then, instead of welcoming Con-gress’ attempt to tighten sanctions to increase the pressure on the mullahs, Obama began the negotiations by loos-ening sanctions, injecting billions into the Iranian economy (which began growing again in 2014) and conceding in advance an Iranian right to enrich uranium.

It’s been downhill ever since. Des-perate for a legacy deal, Obama has played the supplicant, abandoning ev-ery red line his administration had de-clared essential to any acceptable deal.

Inspections They were to be anywhere, anytime,

unimpeded. Now? Total cave. Unfet-tered access has become “managed ac-cess.” Nuclear inspectors will have to negotiate and receive Iranian approval for inspections. Which allows them de-nial and/or crucial delay for concealing any clandestine activities.

To give a flavor of the degree of our capitulation, the administration played

Iran’s lawyer on this one, explaining that, after all, “the United States of America wouldn’t allow anybody to get into every military site, so that’s not appropriate.” Apart from the absurdity of morally equating America with the world’s foremost state sponsor of ter-rorism, if we were going to parrot the Iranian position, why wait 19 months to do so – after repeatedly insisting on free

access as essential to any inspection re-gime?

Coming clean on past nuclear activity

The current interim agreement that governed the last 19 months of nego-tiation required Iran to do exactly that. Tehran has offered nothing. The admin-istration had insisted that this account-ing was essential because how can you verify future illegal advances in Iran’s nuclear program if you have no base-line?

After continually demanding access to their scientists, plans and weaponization facil-ities, Secretary of State John Kerry two weeks ago airily dismissed the need, saying he is fo-cused on the future, “not fixated” on the past. And that we have “absolute knowledge” of the Irani-an program anyway – a whopper that his staffers

had to spend days walking back. Not to worry, we are told. The ac-

counting will be done after the final deal is signed. Which is ridiculous. If the Iranians haven’t budged on disclos-ing previous work under the current sanctions regime, by what logic will they comply after sanctions are lifted?

Sanctions relief

These were to be gradual and staged as the International Atomic Energy

Agency certified Iranian compliance over time. Now we’re going to be re-leasing up to $150 billion as an upfront signing bonus. That’s 25 times the an-nual budget of the Iranian Revolution-ary Guard. Enough to fuel a generation of intensified Iranian aggression from Yemen to Lebanon to Bahrain.

Yet three months ago, Obama ex-pressed nonchalance about immediate

sanctions relief. It’s not the issue, he said. The real issue is “snap-back” sanc-tions to be reimposed if Iran is found in violation.

Good grief. Iran won’t be found in violation. The inspection regime is laughable and the bureaucratic proce-dures endless. Moreover, does anyone imagine that Russia and China will re-impose sanctions? Or that the myriad European businesses preparing to join the Iranian gold rush the day the deal is signed will simply turn around and go home?

Non-nuclear-related sanctions The administration insisted that the

nuclear talks would not affect separate sanctions imposed because of Irani-

an aggression and terrorism. That was then. The administration is now leaking that everything will be lifted.

Taken together, the catalog of ca-pitulations is breathtaking: spot inspec-tions, disclosure of previous nuclear ac-tivity, gradual sanctions relief, retention of non-nuclear sanctions.

What’s left? A surrender document of the kind offered by defeated nations suing for peace. Consider: The stron-gest military and economic power on earth, backed by the five other major powers, armed with what had been a crushing sanctions regime, is about to sign the worst international agreement in American diplomatic history.

How did it come to this? With ev-ery concession, Obama and Kerry made clear they were desperate for a deal.

And they will get it. Obama will get his “legacy.” Kerry will get his Nobel. And Iran will get the bomb.

(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-ers Group

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Political Crossfire

Congress’ Iran Moment

They expect a bad deal, accompanied by the argument that it is better than nothing.

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On the morning of April 14, speaking to a meeting of about 55 senators, Secretary of State

John Kerry argued against passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, claiming it would complicate ne-gotiations. (The White House had al-ready issued a veto threat.) Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Foreign Rela-tions Committee, challenged Kerry to explain how inspections would work under the just-announced nuclear frame-work agreement. Kerry fumbled his re-sponse. “He could not answer questions in this fundamental area,” recalls Corker. “At that moment, significant concerns emerged on both sides of the aisle.”

Shortly after noon, the White House lifted its veto threat, not in a change of heart but as a concession to reality. The legislation had bipartisan, veto-proof support in the Senate. This has been the White House’s consistent political chal-lenge: Its attempts to reassure have mul-tiplied unease.

Now (it seems) we are about to see the Iran Nuclear Agreement Re-view Act in action. The law dangles an incentive for the Obama administration to conclude a final deal by July 9. If it meets that deadline and provides all the relevant documentation, Congress gets just 30 days to act on a resolution of dis-

approval. If the timing slips past July 9, Congress has 60 days to act.

To borrow a metaphor from another contemporary controversy, members of Congress and advocates have reached the “speak now or forever hold your peace” portion of the ceremony. Corker has sent a letter urging President Obama to buck up in negotiations. An A-list

group of diplomats and experts (includ-ing some former members of the Obama foreign policy team) has set out the min-imal conditions for an acceptable deal.

Days from the possible announce-ment, Corker remains open but is not encouraged. “All along the way,” he told me, “I’ve tried to be an honest broker.

I’ve raised concerns, and think it has had an effect. But the current direction [of negotiations] is scary.” Members of Congress, he thinks, will be assessing whether the administration holds firm and secures agreement in several areas.

The first is inspections. Having aban-doned the goals of preventing enrichment and of completely dismantling Iran’s nu-clear infrastructure, the Obama adminis-tration, says Corker, has embarked on a policy of “managed proliferation.” The Iranian nuclear program will advance under international supervision designed to ensure that a breakout to nuclear weapons would take at least a year. This type of agreement – allow-ing some nuclear capabili-ties and achievements but not others – is more difficult to enforce. “The margin for error is vastly different,” says Corker. Spot inspec-tions and access to military facilities are essential.

The second area is known as “possible military dimen-sions.” Iran must come clean about past nuclear research with military goals. Given that Iran will never admit it was trying to build a nuclear weapon, this is a sticky point. To do its work, the Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency needs to know what Iran has done in the past. And this requires the IAEA to have unfettered access to documents and scientists, in or-der to reconstruct Iran’s illicit program. Expert testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee was particularly insistent that accounting for past military dimensions is essential to prevent future breakouts.

Third is the manner in which sanc-tions are released – phased along with

Iranian compliance, not granted in a lump sum, and automatically reimposed if Iran tries to game the system.

It is possible that the Obama admin-istration will back away from an agree-ment that does not secure these and other important goals. But most members of Congress I’ve surveyed believe the ad-ministration has too much invested to say “no.” They expect a bad deal, ac-companied by the argument that it is bet-ter than nothing.

That is not an obvious or easy de-termination. Down the path of “man-aged proliferation,” Iran will continue research and development on advanced centrifuges and ballistic missiles, contin-ue to move (with international help) to-ward an industrialized nuclear program, and eventually (in perhaps a decade) arrive at immediate breakout capability with a strong economy that is funding terrorism and a bid for regional hege-mony. This is the outcome if Iran doesn’t cheat.

The alternative – the long-term con-tainment of Iran through both the threat of sanctions and the threat of force – is fraught with dangers and uncertainties as well. So members of Congress will

face one of the hardest choices of their careers. And if the final stage of negoti-ations consists mainly of American con-cessions, the Obama administration may have another revolt on its hands.

(c) 2015, The Washington Post Writ-ers Group

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5 Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman

Moe BergThe Catcher and the Spy

Successful spies are usually people from inconspicuous backgrounds and are unknown to the general

public. Moe Berg definitely was not anonymous to the American public but Europeans had no clue that he was a catcher in the American League. De-spite his fame, Berg was a mysterious genius who, along with his many tal-ents, made the perfect person to find out the answer to the burning question: Were the Germans close to building an atomic bomb?

During WWII the American spy agency, called OSS (Office of Strate-gic Services and the grandfather of the CIA), was in its infancy but needed to compete with other belligerent intel-ligence services. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Wall Street lawyer William Donovan to head the organiza-tion. Donovan then recruited Berg who at that time had been on worldwide missions – some of

them secret. Donavan needed a smart yet fearless spy for some missions that were directly handed down from the president.

Moe Berg was born in 1902 to a Jewish family living in Harlem (in those days it was

predominantly Jewish and Italian). He played baseball in high school and was a starting infielder, third base and short-stop in college. For the most part Berg was enrolled in Princeton but for his first year of college he was in NYU—a fact that he never told people. In addition to his baseball career and helping the team to an undefeated season, he studied sev-en languages. Later on he knew a total of sixteen languages including German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Latin and Sanskrit. These would help him fit in with the enemy during his spy

career. The day after a col-

lege game in Yankee Sta-dium, Berg was signed to a major league contract with the Brooklyn Rob-ins (later the Dodgers). Wanting to draw Jew-ish fans to their games, Berg was a perfect fit at shortstop and was with the team for the rest of the 1923 season. He went to Paris in the offseason to study languages and history at the world famous Sorbonne Universi-ty. However, he was

sent down to the minors for two years to improve on his hitting. Berg start-ed the 1926 season with the Chicago White Sox late because he was taking classes in Columbia Law School. Af-ter a rash of injuries as catcher, he was asked to go behind the plate and stayed at that position for the rest of his career. Over the next few years, he played on three teams while playing me-diocre catcher and was benched a few times. He also finished up his law degree during the offseason and finished second in his class.

In 1934, a group of players including future Hall of Famers Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foss, Earl Averill and Lefty Gomez were asked to go on a barnstorm-ing tour of Japan. Berg was also asked to join and he readily accepted. This would be his second tour of Japan as he had been there two years prior to coach baseball seminars. This time, though, he was given a special letter by Secretary of State Cordell Hull which said that no American official should impede on Berg no matter the strangeness of his actions. Berg also packed along a 16mm movie camera.

Upon their arrival, Berg gave a wel-come speech to their hosts in Japanese and translated the response in English for the Americans. In a group photo of the All Stars and some of their Japanese counterparts that was autographed by all, Berg signed it in both English and Japanese. Before the fifth game, though, Berg was nowhere to be found. Using the excuse to visit the ambassador’s daughter in a hospital, Berg snuck up to the roof. Wearing a black kimono, he filmed downtown Tokyo. He never made it to the game or saw ambassa-dor’s daughter. Eight years later this was the most recent film that would be

used to plan a surprise air raid over To-kyo.

Back in America, Berg was signed by the Boston Red Sox. He played five seasons for them and was their coach for two more years. In 1941 he decided to leave baseball and work for his coun-try that had just experienced the bomb-

ing of Pearl Har-bor. He was given the post of good-will ambassador to Latin America and before he left he gave a radio address to the Japanese. Speak-ing in Japanese he told them that as a friend of theirs they could not possibly win the war with the U.S. and they should convince their government to stop the fight-ing. The next day, President Roos-evelt called Moe

to thank him on behalf of the nation for the address.

After several months in South Amer-ica, Berg returned to the U.S. because he felt that his talents were being wasted. He opted to join the OSS in June 1943 and was assigned to the Special Intel-ligence (SI) branch in the Balkans. In Yugoslavia there were a two powerful resistance groups and the OSS wanted to know which one was the strongest. Berg parachuted into the country and met with both Draza Mihailovic and Jo-sip Broz Tito. Berg recommended that the U.S. send in support for Tito’s group even though they were Communist be-cause they were in a better position to cripple the Nazis. It is estimated that 2,000 Jewish partisans fought with Tito, and he ordered his forces to help Jews escape Nazi territory.

Berg came back to the U.S. to prepare for his next assign-ment. He was to go to Italy and

bring back scientists and physicists to

Being a history buff elicits many questions from people. One of

the frequent ones is who is my favorite person in history. For me, the

answer is clear. Moe Berg without question is my favorite, and yes,

I’ll have lunch with him too.

For my 200th article in TJH I felt it appropriate to go back to my

first article for the publication and write about this most colorful

character who saved countless lives with his important information.

Moe Berg’s passport

The famous catcher who was a spy

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the U.S. to continue their work under Allied watch. He interviewed several scientists and was told that the Ger-mans prevented them from continuing atomic research but the German scien-tist Werner Heisenberg might be work-ing on the project. Before traveling to Switzerland to try and work out a meet-ing with Heisenberg, Berg stopped in

Florence, Italy. Dressed as a German officer speaking a specific dialect of German and garnering salutes from German soldiers, he walked around the Galileo munitions factory taking

mental notes which he passed onto his superiors.

The logistics of meeting up with Heisenberg were complicated. He hadn’t left Germany the entire war, and it would be impossible for Berg to go there himself. A plan was hatched to lure Heisenberg to neutral Switzer-land to give a theoretical physics lec-

ture with Berg in attendance. H e i s e n b e r g agreed to come on the condition that no politics were to be dis-cussed. At the talk on Decem-ber 18, 1944, Berg was in the front row with a secret weapon. In a shoulder holster he had a pistol which he snuck past secu-rity. If he deter-mined that the Germans were

close to making the atomic bomb, Moe was instructed to assassinate Heisen-berg. After the lecture, Moe inched his way towards Heisenberg. Heisenberg was quoted as saying, “Well, we are

losing the war, but how nice it would have been if Germany had won it.” Moe cabled Washington with the de-featist remarks. General Groves im-mediately went to the president, who said, “Fine, just fine. Let us just pray Heisenberg is right. And General, my regards to the catcher.”

Heisenberg was right; the Germans weren’t even close to building a bomb. It was later discovered that Heisen-berg did not report all of his findings to Berlin, and for this Hitler made things “very uncomfortable” for him. Just from knowing from Berg that the Germans weren’t close to obtaining the atomic bomb changed the course of the war as the Allies didn’t have to plan for nuclear fallout.

A worldwide traveler before the war, Berg had no problem find-ing his way around the parts of

Europe that the Allies controlled incog-nito. One time he was in Italy getting ready for an undercover mission when a fellow major leaguer who was serv-ing in the U.S. Army recognized him. Berg didn’t give him as much as a wave because he needed to keep to his mentality completely on the mission.

Another time he was in France visiting an American Army base. He

joined a pickup game when one sol-dier said, “I can tell that you are a pro.” After another throw, he said, “You’re a catcher.” Then after a third throw, the soldier said, “And your name is Moe Berg.” It tickled his fancy that people recognized him so many miles away from home.

The meeting with Heisenberg was the climax of Moe Berg’s career. After the war there wasn’t much for him to do as the OSS was disbanded. It was restarted two years later as the CIA and he joined them to spy on the So-viet atomic project. Berg begged them to send him to Israel on assignment but the request was turned down.

Some of his spy stories were never made public as he died in 1972 before he was able to write his memoirs. The story of this incredible athlete, scholar and spy may never be complete which makes him the perfect forgotten hero. The Boston Globe headlined his obit-uary with the words, “Goodbye Moe Berg in any language.”

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contribu-tor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for fu-ture columns and can be reached at [email protected].

Berg poses with Allied military officials in Oslo, Norway, in June 1945

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102Alex Idov

Restaurant ReviewAlex Idov

Redefining Pizza

Posh Tomato

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.

Posh Tomato, a growing franchise of thin-crust artisan pizza boutiques, currently boasts two kosher locations in Brooklyn—one in Midwood and one in Gravesend—and the great news is they are grow-

ing their kosher locations into Jewish neighborhoods throughout the NY tri-state, starting with Deal, NJ. Posh Tomato is a new level of pizza artistry aimed to provide top quality artisan, personal pizza—made

from fresh, locally sourced ingredients and prepared fresh for each individual customer in under five min-utes. With over 20 unique, creative varieties of pizza and multiple topping combinations, there is a pizza for every palate. The Posh pies range from classic pies to health conscious salad pies—and even dessert pies. Some of their popular pies include their smoked mac and cheese pie, French onion pie, Mexican pie, Hawaiian BBQ Pizza, Caesar salad pizza, and their magnificent mushroom truffle pie. Their tailored piz-zas, which allow you to choose your own topping combination, offer the chance to try unusual topping options. You can be as creative as you want to. All of the pies and base ingredients—including all of their sauces—are made in-house, from scratch.

On my visit to the Avenue M location in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, I thoroughly enjoyed trying a few of Posh Tomato’s signature pies. I opted to try the “star” pizza: the mushroom truffle pie, as well as the Hawaiian pie. Bear in mind Posh Tomato’s pizzas are in essence all about the crust, while the crust is really acting as an accent to the toppings that give the pie its unique character. Obviously, there is no pizza without the crust, but it’s the toppings that make the difference. The crust of the pizza is crisp, light, and delicate—a complete different flavor and textural experience than the pizza we have become accustomed to enjoying in the typical kosher pizza store; this is not your average kosher pizza store. The mushroom truffle pie, crafted with fresh pulled mozzarella, goat cheese, roasted baby portabella mush-rooms, and drizzled with white truffle oil was simply put: awesome. The balance of flavors was incred-ible. The Hawaiian pie was just as delectable. The sweet flavors of the pineapple and sweet sauce paired extremely well with the red onion, peppers, and cheese to create a slightly tropical, exotic pizza.

Be sure to end the experience on a sweet note and try one of their amazing dessert pies. The chocolate pie, which is the standard thin crust pizza covered in a chocolate ganache, cinnamon dust, marshmallows, and a chocolate drizzle, is sweet deliciousness.

Posh Tomato is under the kosher supervision of Kehilla Kashrus. Current kosher Locations: 1701 Avenue M, Brooklyn, NY 11223. 347-275-7720. 502 Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY 11223. 718-676-9353.

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Baked Ravioli

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

Yikes! It’s almost the Nine Days. That means my carnivorous

family will have to go with eating dairy during the week. It’s

always a challenge to come up with delicious and easy dishes to serve

the hungry troops during this period. These two pasta dishes have been

a favorite with my family and friends for several years. Both the sauces

are easy to prepare in larger quantities and can be frozen ahead of time.

Ingredients1 box Tagliatelle (fettuccini)1-½ cups walnuts, slightly toasted 3 cloves garlic, crushed1 cup flat leaf parsleySalt and pepper¼ cup extra virgin olive oil ½ cup parmesan cheese grated, divided in half2 tablespoons unsalted butter

PreparationPulse walnuts in a food processor several times,

and then add the garlic and pulse until it’s small ground. Add a pinch of salt and the parsley and pulse

until well combined, but not too smooth. While the food processor is running, slowly drizzle in the oil into the walnut mixture.

Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl, add half par-mesan cheese and stir together and season with salt and pepper.

To assemble: Boil noodles and drain, reserving a ¼ cup of pasta water.

Place noodles back in pot, add reserved pasta wa-ter and butter, cook on low heat until water is gone. Remove from heat and stir in the walnut pesto sauce. Place on a large platter and sprinkle on remaining Par-mesan cheese as a garnish.

Ingredients2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 3 cloves garlic, minced Coarse salt and ground pepper 1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme or oregano 1 (28 ounce) can whole tomatoes 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes 2 pounds store-bought ravioli (I prefer the NY Pasta

Authority brand)1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Preparation Preheat oven to 425°F. Heat oil in a large saucepan

over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, and season with salt and pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add thyme and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, until sauce is thickened.

Meanwhile, cook ravioli in a large pot of boiling salted water just until they float to the top. You can also follow directions on the back of the ravioli pack-age. Drain pasta; return to pot.

Toss sauce with pasta. Pour pasta into a large gra-tin dish or 9-by-13-inch baking dish, and sprinkle with cheeses. Bake until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly before serving.

Chef’s Note: To make this dinner even easier, you can buy your favorite brand of marinara sauce and pour that directly over the prepared ravioli.

Tagliatelle with Walnut Pesto Sauce

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80 Great Kosher FoodElan Kornblum

STRIPED BASS VERACRUZby Chef Avram Wiseman, Dean of Students, CKCA (Brooklyn, NY)

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INGREDIENTS1 ea. striped bass filet, boneless ½ medium onion, small dice 2 garlic cloves, minced½ lemon, juiced4 oz. fish stock3 TBS tomato juice½ jalapeno pepper, diced2 tomatoes, diced, canned5 stuffed green olives, quartered ½ tsp sugar1 cinnamon stick1 sprig fresh thyme1 tsp capers½ cup seasoned flour1 TBS chopped cilantro3 sprigs cilantro for garnish¼ cup olive oilSalt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONSSeason the flour to taste with salt and pepper. Dredge the filet in the seasoned flour and pat off

the excess. Place the filet into a heated sauté pan coated with the oil. When one side is a golden brown color,

turn the fish to brown the other side. Remove the filet and reserve. Pour out excess oil and add the onions, garlic thyme, cinnamon and sweat over low heat. Add all other ingredients except cilantro and bring to a slow simmer. Replace the fish filet into the sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes. Add the chopped cilantro.

Place the cooked fish on a plate and top with the Veracruz sauce. Garnish with cilantro sprigs and serve immediately.

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Dear Readers,Last week I discussed some general

information about Lyme disease, how you can contract Lyme disease, and the best way to remove ticks from the skin.

Today, I would like to share the warning signs of this disease.

General Symptoms of Lyme Disease in its Early Stage Include:

Flu-like Symptoms – fevers, chills, muscle soreness and fatigue in the first days or weeks after the tick bite.

Bull’s-eye Rash – Erythema MigransLuckily, in about 80% of infected

patients within 3-30 days after the tick bite, the body will show a distinctive rash that can be easily identified as Lyme disease.

The rash is red and circular, out-wardly expanding and usually pain-less. Classically, the innermost portion remains dark red and the outer edge remains red; the portion in between clears, giving the appearance of a bull’s-eye. The rash can appear any-where on the body, not just in the vicin-ity of the tick bite.

Having worked as a pediatric at-tending in Kiryas Joel in Monroe, New York, for six years, I came across about two dozen cases of Lyme infection in kids. I must say that Lyme disease, like other diseases, does not always follow the textbook description.

I distinctly remember two cases in which I was consulted by patients who had a red circular rash without a clear or pale center that were subsequently confirmed to be Lyme disease.

So if you see a rash that is suspi-cious, even if it doesn’t look like the classic rash of Lyme disease, be safe and show it to your physician.

Joint Swelling/Lyme ArthritisMoishe C., a teenager, who en-

joyed dancing feverishly on Simchas Torah, came limping to my office on isru chag. Upon examination, he was found to have a swollen right knee. I first thought that Moishe may have been a bit too “leibidik” while dancing during the preceding days, but I was

puzzled by the fact that he had swelling on only one knee.

Luckily (with great Divine inter-vention), I tested his Lyme titers which were positive and a few days lat-er Moishe’s knees were back to them-selves.

Lesson to be learned: in our area, where Lyme disease is endemic (prevalent), think about Lyme disease with any joint swelling that cannot be fully accounted for by other causes.

The swelling occurs most common-ly on the knees followed by the ankles, hips and elbows.

HeadachesOne of my physician friends once

shared a story with me that illustrated how painful and dangerous Lyme dis-ease can be. Her 12-year-old boy had developed “migraine headaches” that were only partially responsive to pain medicines. His routine blood tests and examination did not reveal any abnor-malities. After a few weeks elapsed, she consulted with a neurologist who ordered an MRI scan of the head which was negative. His headaches wors-ened for the next two months. A few days prior to his bar mitzvah, he could barely get out of bed. At this point his frightened and desperate mother took him to the local emergency room for a full evaluation. The doctor there per-formed a lumbar puncture to rule out meningitis.

The mother was asked to fill out the laboratory test requisition. She told me how nervous and emotional she was. While filling out the forms she tried to check off as many tests as she could and luckily (again, guided by Di-vine intervention), she checked off the Lyme Test Panel (to put things into per-spective, as a pediatric resident, I per-

formed close to 100 lumbar punctures and maybe only once I was instruct-ed to test for Lyme disease). Usually

Lyme disease is caught much before it spreads to the brain. Her son had Lyme disease that went ignored for months, and with G-d’s help he ful-ly recovered after a few

weeks of IV antibiotics.Lesson to be learned: Lyme disease

can cause persistent headaches with or without fevers.

Late Symptoms of Lyme Disease:Neurological & Cardiac DeficitsCan cause a “Bell’s palsy” which

paralyzes the facial muscle on one or both sides of the face and leaves the distinctive “facial droop.”

Polyneuropathy – involves shooting pains, numbness, and tingling in the hands or feet.

A neurologic syndrome called “Lyme encephalopathy” is associated with subtle cognitive problems, such as difficulties with concentration and short-term memory.

Heart block - If Lyme disease spreads to the heart, a person may feel an irregular or slow heartbeat. (Rarely, this may happen in the early stages of the disease, but most of the time this is a very late stage problem.)

Do Not Panic!Dear readers, the point of the ar-

ticle is to educate you and make you aware of common illnesses. Diagnos-ing Lyme disease can be tricky, but I sincerely believe that most of you don’t have to rush to your physicians and demand a Lyme test after reading this article.

I do, however, hope that after read-ing this information you will take it to heart to mention to your physician on

your next sick visit if you have recently gone camping or removed a tick from your or your child’s skin. Your physi-cian will couple this information with your symptoms and physical exam and will be able to easily diagnose you.

I firmly believe that as a pediatri-cian, to diagnose a medical problem quickly and effectively is dependent on the quality of history received from patient and the parent. For example, in the above mentioned case, if Moishe’s mom would have informed me that she had removed a tick from his skin a month prior to his knee swelling mak-ing the diagnosis would have been a simple task.

The Good News!If caught early, Lyme disease can be

treated with a course of a simple antibi-otics such as Amoxicillin. Please part-ner with your physician to prevent this dangerous disease from affecting you and yours.

So put on your hiking shoes and en-joy your hiking trips, but don’t forget to inspect your loved ones every evening to ensure that no one else is sharing in your precious children!

Wishing you a safe and tick-free summer,

David Elazar Simai, M.D.

Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pedia-trician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhas-set University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contact-ed for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected].

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This arti-cle is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

David Elazar Simai, MD

Health & Fitness

All You Wanted to Know About Lyme DiseasePart II

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JULY 9, 2015Terry Real is a good man. He is

a therapist and author of some great books about how boys are

raised in our society, including How Can I Get Through to You: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Wom-en, and I Don’t Want to Talk about It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression.

But as Real admits in his seminars and on the pages of his books, he wasn’t always so nice.

He was raised – as so many boys are – to hide feelings, especially pain, and to put on a tough front. Eventual-ly, the front becomes so familiar to the person wearing it that it feels real and what is inside gets lost. The inside stuff includes vulnerability and pain. It is for that reason that men often can’t relate to the pain their wives feel – and worse, they often inflict more of it on them.

What’s more, they are so unaware of the tender parts of themselves that they (ludicrously) believe there is something wrong with their wives who actually feel feelings. Sometimes they go so far as to make accusations to these women of being “hypersensitive” when the re-ality is that they lack normal sensitivity themselves.

The irony is that, deep inside, they are good people. They mean well: they give to tzedakah; they pick up their kids from school; sometimes they even help with homework. Once in a while they actually remember birthdays; they can say sweet and loving things; and they will take vacations with the family. (We won’t speak about the countless argu-ments that happen on those vacations, arguments over silly things and not-so-silly things.)

I am sure that even Bernie Madoff was good to his family at times. Maybe he even took little old ladies across the street.

The problem is that being good isn’t good enough. Being good deep, down inside – the shining soul that the women in their lives were attracted to in the first place – is insufficient for a good mar-riage or any good relationship. What’s missing is doing good; what’s missing is the niceness the rest of the time. Nice-ness counts when the chips are down.

Here’s an example:Charles and Nancy had a rough

twenty-year history. Charles was suc-cessful in business and found that al-though Nancy had been a success in her

own right, when it came to being a team, Nancy didn’t seem to cut it for him. There were always things that he found fault with. Making matters worse, Nan-cy objected to his driven, business-only focus. Dates and fun were few and far b e t w e e n . When they did hap-pen, Charles would use them as an opportunity to grumble. As the years rolled on, Nancy took opportunities to socialize with friends more and more. Of course, this gave Charles one more thing to object to. He never saw his role in chasing her away.

I was called in to help put a mar-riage back together that was hanging by shreds. Nancy had already filed for di-vorce but was willing to hold off if ther-apy would work. Charles was amazing. He grasped the notion of examining his feelings; he actually embraced it. This was helpful because he was able to rec-ognize that often, when he thought he was angry at someone for some valid reason, what was really going on was that he felt disrespected or ignored. And he came to see that this feeling of his was not based on the actual intentions of the people he was upset with. He re-alized that he would automatically in-terpret badly any behavior that smacked of the disrespect that haunted him from

his family of origin. He learned, amaz-ingly enough, to be dan l’chaf zchus.

There was work to be done with his wife, however. She would have heart palpitations just thinking of him. To

her, he was a menacing figure. We did a lot of healing work which included deep breathing, visualization, and hyp-nosis. We also worked on being asser-tive. Still, after some months of parallel

work, Nancy did not want to give the marriage a try. As she said, “After 20 years of torture, I can-not believe that Charles is a reformed man.”

C h a r l e s had an op-portunity to

prove to her that now he was different – but he failed his test.

When Nancy told him that she want-ed to go ahead with the divorce, Charles was at first gracious, but after a week, the sting of rejection set in and he be-came a living tornado, erupting non-stop in the privacy of their home. “See,” Nancy said, “I was right not to trust the changes.”

Ironically, had Charles stuck to be-ing dan l’chaf zchus, he might actual-ly have won over Nancy. If he would instead have said to Nancy, “I hurt you way too much for you to ever feel safe with me and I am so very, very sorry, but I understand,” then perhaps Nan-cy would have realized that this really was a new Charles. After all, during the months of us working together, Charles had not been tested on big things so it stands to reason that Nancy would be

mistrustful. But divorce is a big thing and that would have provided a beau-tiful opportunity for him to regain her trust in one fell swoop.

This was a when-the-chips-are-down story, and I use it to illustrate a principle that I share with young people on the dating scene. No one wants to be married to a Charles, no matter how good a person he is deep inside. He has to be nice, too, and that has to be fairly constant, even when crises emerge.

For people raised in homes where tempers flared; blame, criticism, accu-sations, and fault-finding were rampant; and praise and validation were in short supply, having good middos is a lot of hard work. But the hard work does not let any of us off the hook; it’s required of us. Proof that this is so comes from Pirkei Avos as I learned in a shiur by Esther Wein recently.

In Chapter 5, Mishna 22, we are ad-vised to be students of Avraham and not Bilaam. The explanation of this is that we are to have the good middos (char-acter traits) of our forefather and not the bad ones of the other nations’ proph-et. But the question that immediately comes to mind is why aren’t these char-acteristics ever mentioned in the Torah itself? The answer is that good middos are a requirement for even beginning to learn Torah. That is why it also says, “Derech eretz kadma l’Torah”: correct behavior comes before Torah.

Is Charles reading this? My mes-sage to you is: don’t give up! Don’t lose hope! Keep working on your middos until you will have become good inside and nice outside as well.

What counts is good behavior, not just “being” good.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, is a Marriage & Fam-ily Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—To-gether. Attend the Food For Thought lec-tures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a love-ly optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

Dr. Deb

Being a Good Personisn’t Good Enough

No one wants to be married to a Charles, no matter how good a person he is deep inside.

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Francisco Jose de Goya was born in Spain on March 30, 1746 and died in France on

April 16, 1828. De Goya was a painter and an illustrator. His father was a guilder. His wife, Josefa, was a sister to one of his art teachers.

De Goya became famous for his magnificent portraits of the royal court and developed into a much sought after artist. He considered himself the likes of a reporter. “The object of my work is to report the ac-tuality of events,” he once said. With this in mind, he painted in order to capture images and document his-torical moments.

His life as an artist began with his studies at the age of fourteen when merely a teenager and developed it into a profession as a commissioned artist for the nobility. At first he would copy the work of previous well-known master artists. In the year 1779, he be-gan working for the royal court and created many interesting works of art for Spain’s royal family.

He also began to paint pictures for a factory in Madrid, Spain, which pro-duced woven tapestries. He chose his themes for the paintings from scenes of everyday life.

His reputation as an artist gradual-ly expanded as he became known for his keen eye and concentration on de-tail in all of his works. Whether it was the details in clothing or features of the face, he carefully drew and painted each specific element of the subject.

De Goya was accepted with high regard into the Royal Academy of San Fernando. Unfortunately, in 1792, he suffered from an illness which caused him to become deaf. This change in him affected his style as well. Despite his deafness, in 1795 he was appointed the director of the Royal Academy.

De Goya was not happy about the political situation present at the time and his unhappiness showed in his drawings. He produced eighty prints in 1799 which expressed his deep feel-ings.

Amongst his most famous works is a painting of the royal family of King Charles IV which he was commis-sioned to do in the year 1800.

He also was a painter for the court under Napoleon’s rule. He created many drawings which depicted the war years. When Ferdinand VII came into power, de Goya was retained as the court artist because of his great tal-ents.

De Goya had risked being punished many times because he was not afraid to express his feelings about politics in his paintings. Finally, in 1824, while suffering from poor health conditions Francisco decided to move from Spain to France where he remained in com-plete peace, away from controversy until his death in 1828.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a pro-fessional art educator, artist and design-er. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions and suggestions for future columns.

From My Private Art CollectionRebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

Francisco Jose de GoyaA Royal Artist with Attention to Detail

Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga by de Goya

A self portrait of de Goya

Two Boys and a Mastiff by de GoyaMaría Antonia Gonzaga by de Goya

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Allan J. Rolnick, CPA

Your Money

What Goes Around Comes Around

Ask anyone what makes them happy. (Go ahead, see who’s around and ask them.) We’re

pretty sure they didn’t say “paying tax-es.” Most of us just grumble and pay up. But millions of citizens from all walks of life express their unhappiness by choos-ing not to pay. The IRS currently has over 12 million accounts in collections, with state and local governments manag-ing millions more. That’s a lot of money not getting paid.

Of course, tax collectors are hardly powerless to collect those debts. They can garnish wages to pay back taxes. And they can seize property. Usually, this means financial assets like bank ac-counts, investments, and retirement ac-counts. But it also includes physical as-sets like houses, cars, and boats they can sell to raise cash. The IRS has seized less obvious assets, too, such as the contents of an Alabama scofflaw’s hair salon, a pair of Boston parking spaces that sold for $280,000 each, and even $2 million worth of annuity payments that used to be New York Mets slugger Darryl Straw-berry’s deferred salary.

Now we’ve learned that a Florida tax collector is taking aim at an even bigger target. Last month, Escambia County Tax Collector Janet Holley filed suit to seize the 200-foot-tall Skyview Ferris wheel, which has thrilled riders since 2013 near Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park.

The Ferris wheel features 42 cli-mate-controlled gondolas, including a VIP car with leather seats and glass floors. And it’s enjoyed a scenic ride of its own. It originally opened in Paris, across from the famed Louvre museum. Then it moved to Bern, Switzerland. Then it crossed the Alps and the Atlantic for a year-long stop in Pensacola, Flori-da, before finally settling in “the ATL.”

Here’s where taxes step aboard. When the wheel landed in Pensacola, it became subject to Escambia County property tax. The county assessed the wheel’s value at $11.4 million, then billed the ride’s op-erator $237,000. That company, Expo 60 Ventures LLC, has since gone out of business and dissolved. However, Flori-da law lets the tax on tangible property follow the property, in addition to the owner, which makes the wheel itself still

subject to seizure. What’s worse, interest and penalties have rolled the bill up to $350,000!

The wheel’s current operators are quick to defend Atlanta’s newest over-priced tourist trap scenic attraction. A spokesman says, “This is a vendetta by a public official who’s up for re-election in Pensacola, Florida. Pensacola has always been angry that this wonderful icon left their city and came to Atlanta.” Having said that, they also paid $50,000 towards the debt. “Our only contention is that they’re charging some ridiculous penal-ties and interest and things like that on the taxes, and we’re willing to pay those as soon as the court tells us that that’s what we have to pay,” he added. (Doesn’t exactly sound “willing” when you put it like that!)

Of course, the county doesn’t real-ly want to take possession of the Ferris wheel, not any more than the IRS real-ly wanted a couple of parking spots in Boston. They just want their money. (We can just imagine Pensacola’s roughest, toughest repo man gulping in disbelief when he gets this assignment!)

Ferris wheels are fun, but in the end you just wind up back where you start-ed. That’s fine for a scenic ride, but it’s not good enough when it comes to your taxes. What you need is a plan. Whether you’re running a business, managing a portfolio, or just raising a family, make sure to have one — and you can save the thrill rides for the amusement park, not the IRS!

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].

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Sheva Brachot and How They Roll

After all, you have the rest of your life to be an anonymous nobody. This week – it’s all about you!

So, people leave a non-Jewish wedding and

everyone stands there throwing grains of rice after the bride and groom. But with us it’s different. We throw ourselves after the bride and groom, con-tinuously, for the next seven days. They just can’t shake us.

We call it sheva brachot! Seven bless-ings. But are they feel-ing blessed or persecuted? Do the bride and groom love this endless round of celebrations or are they hoping every-one would just go home?

“They” do a romantic honeymoon trip to somewhere exotic. We drag “ours “to Shloime’s kosher restaurant and bring half the neighborhood along to ogle.

Of course we do give them a little private time. After all, she needs some space to fig-ure out how to dis-seminate her gor-geous head of hair evenly beneath her new gorgeous head of hair. More importantly, she needs time to decide which of her new-ly purchased outfits would look best for day 1, 2, 3,4,5,6, or 7 of marriage on display.

Now let me say this: there are certainly some amazing advantages to sheva brachot. One is that the cel-ebration doesn’t end abruptly. Other-wise, one minute you’re the bride and groom, and the next minute you’re just another old married couple!

You don’t suffer the syndrome of all dressed up and no place to go. You’ve got parties galore waiting for you.

You are hailed as a queen and king for a week straight. After all, you have the rest of your life to be an anonymous nobody. This week – it’s all about you!

And honestly, all day you, the new

couple, can do whatever you like and hang out together.

But as the sun sets you better be heading to Brooklyn or Queens or New Jersey—wherever the meal is being held. Because 15 of your parents’ clos-est friends, from that particular area, just chipped in to make your parents

happy and even came out to give you a blessing. So now, you certain-ly wouldn’t want them to go the other way on that blessing thing!

The speech-es are all about ... you. The humor is all about … you. And the celebra-tion is all about … you. So how can

that be bad?Look at it his way: “They” get one

day of rice – thrown at them no less. You get seven nights of rice – prepared in every possible delicious fashion.

So take my advice: enjoy the atten-tion. You’ll be alone together and fig-uring it all out before you know it. It’s great to have all those blessings work-ing for you!

And that’s how the shevah brachot roll!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relation-ship counselor and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or [email protected]

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Milky Forst ProPerties inc.

420 central ave., cedarhurst, ny 11516

Avrohom “Avi” SobelLicensed Real Estate Salesperson

Office: 516.239.0306Cell: 347.524.6530

Email: [email protected]

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HELP WANTEDYeshiva Ketana of Long Island seeks warm, energetic and reliable assistant for full time

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Seeking dedicated and motivated Elementary School General Studies Teachers, PM Sessions.

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Local 5towns school seeking asst teachers for the pm. Please send an email

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Male General Studies 6th grade teacher For Sept. ‘15. M-Th afternoons

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LOOKING FOR A REGISTERED NURSE to work part time (3 hrs/wk) with adults who

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Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email resume to [email protected] to apply.

CATAPULT LEARNINGTeachers for Title I in Boro Park and

Williamsburg Chassidic boys schools*College/Yeshiva Degree Required

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JULY 22WEDNESDAY 5:30 PM -7:30 PM

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JAMESWOOLSEYFormer Director of theCIA and Chairman of theFoundation for Defense ofDemocracies

ALANDERSHOWITZHarvard LawProfessor

STEVENEMERSONFounder of TheInvestigativeProject onTerrorism

FRANKGAFFNEYFounder of theCenter forSecurity Policy

KASIMHAFEEZFounder of“The IsraelCampaign”

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PETEHOEKSTRAFormer U.S.Congressman andChair of the HouseIntelligence Committee

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