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By Malka Eisenberg

The Young Israel of Hewlett is continu-ing the message of Purim, uniting Jews with Torah and mitzvoth (commandments) this Shabbat, as they participate, for the third time, in Shabbat Across America and Canada.

The program was initiated in 1997 by NJOP, the National Jewish Outreach Pro-gram, to “get thousands of Jews to celebrate what unites all Jews,” said Larry Greenman, Assistant Director of NJOP. “It’s a campaign to take Shabbos and make it their own.”

The program at YIH currently has 80 signed up for the dinner but, said Chana Freedman, they are expecting more. Friday night will begin at 5:30 pm with a Carle-bach davening for Kabbalat Shabbat led by Jason Mayer, featuring rousing and inspiring singing, followed by a Shabbat dinner with explanations of the customs and observanc-es by Young Israel of Hewlett Rabbi Heshy Blumstein. At 7:30 pm there will be a dessert kumzitz (sing along) for adults and children and at 8 pm a magic show will keep the chil-dren entertained while the adults listen to guest speaker Rabbi David Fohrman, author of “The Queen You Thought You Knew, Un-masking Esther’s Hidden Story.”

Shabbat morning will have Carlebach prayers in the main shul at 8:30 am, with an explanatory service led by Rabbi Blumstein at 9:45 am in a class separate from the main davening. “We will be talking about the pur-pose and power of Tefilah, taking out certain tefillot and explaining them,” said Blumstein. Among the prayers to be discussed will be Adon Olam and Kriyat Shema, he said. He said that he has done this before. “Most people find this to be the most pleasure-full experience with tefillah that they have ever

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Howie Klagsburn and the Gourmet Glatt staff are preparing for the major onslaught shoppers with a wide variety of Pesach products.

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Prepping forPesach

By Karen C. Green

“The perception is that Passover is so expensive,” remarked Gourmet Glatt purchasing manager Howie Klagsburn, referring to the eight page Pesach circular that will reach every household this weekend consistent with the store’s Pesach opening and offerings. “The fact is you can’t buy many of the items at these prices dur-ing the year.” Matzoh ball mix for 99 cents, 2/$4 matzo meal, Quinoa, Shmerling chocolate, 3lb block American cheese, these prices do not exist at any other time of the year, “ continued Klagsburn. We started our preparation before Chanukah this year, the first time we started that early. “ Gourmet Glatt is scheduling its official Pesach opening on March 3rd.

“Passover comes in such a short window, demand is high. I’m buying quantity at one shot. It gives me the opportunity to squeeze manufacturers for crazy prices… crazy low prices that we pass on to the consumer. What creates this perception is that we need everything at one time. If you look at the per item retail, it’s fantastic.”

Last year, Passover came just a few short months af-ter the store rebounded from a fire. This year, on top of the sluggish economy, people are recovering from Super-storm Sandy. Some are still not in their homes, some are home but still under renovation, some can’t host family.

“This community became a model for what a commu-nity can do together. We were born as a nation on Pesach. As a Yomtov it’s the most unifying,” noted Klagsburn.

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Those of you who enjoyed the best of va-riety show television in the 1970s will surely recall Carole Burnett’s famous ear tug as she concluded each show. The signal of affec-tion to her beloved aunt who was part of the viewing audience was accompanied by the melodic “I’m so glad we had this time to-gether.”

As I go to print today, I find this tune to be an apropos expression of my senti-ments. This will be my last issue as Publisher and Editor of The Jewish Star. I will be heading towards a position that takes me back in the direction of politics.

What’s most important to me, both personally and in any profes-sional role, is that I continue in some small way to effect a change in the world. I am very grate-ful to have been the catalyst for the exchange of information and thought provoking ideas, all of which could not have possibly hap-pened without my staff of wonder-ful writers; Alan Jay Gerber, Rabbi Avi Billet, Rabbi Binny Freedman, Rabbi Noam Himelstein, Jeff Du-netz, and Miriam Abraham. A special thanks to my talented friend Juda Engelmayer, who can speak to almost any issue and whose hu-mor is ever present. No kitchen would be complete without my dear friend Judy Jo-szef. I’ve held myself to a two-word limit: You’re extraordinary.

What I will especially miss is the positive feedback that I have received from readers, often in town, or in shul, or while shopping at Gourmet Glatt. Greetings of “great job,” “love your paper,” “keep up the good work,” or a thumbs up has been so heartwarm-

ing and gave me the added incentive to get through every Wednesday. The weekly dead-line and resulting product were both daunt-ing and thrilling at the same time. (Editorial designers Kristen Edelman and Alyson Good-man pull it all together.)

Developing, cultivating and maintaining relationships have always been an integral part of what defines me. (kcgreen326@

gmail.com). The many won-derful chesed organizations that I have become exposed to through the paper’s cover-age have been fulfilling and I look forward to my contin-ued partnership with them in achieving their goals.

I have had the good for-tune of meeting so many people who I previously only knew in passing, including my talented assistant editor Malka Eisenberg. I know the paper will continue to thrive under her direction.

Recently we all have been affected by the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Months

later, many are still working on getting their lives and homes back together. What I took from the experience, and what still resonates in me today, is how incredible and cohesive the Five Towns community is in response to need. The warmth that I experienced will al-ways be with me. We should all take pride in our community and may we all go from strength to strength.

“Seems we just get started and before you know it, comes the time we have to say, ‘So long.’ ”

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from a matzoh supplier looking to schedule a delivery. Klagsburn makes the point that it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. “I’d rather receive a matzoh delivery when it’s not rain-ing,” said Klagsburn, evoking laughter from the staff in the back office.

“Gourmet Glatt is very sensitive and car-ing to the community. Klagsburn and Shloy Rubinstein, grocery manager, are holding prices even when it’s costing us more. They are giving the greatest value for the consum-er’s dollar, “ stressed Yoeli Steinberg.

“We have customers coming in from Mon-treal on Sunday as well as from Connecticut, Boston and from the City. They visit fam-ily and make a day out of it. We cater to so many facets of Judaism, I don’t think there is a store that has what we have, said Klagsburn

“With Yomtov falling on a Monday this year, you’re changing over before Shabbos,” noted Rabbi Berel Wolowik, meat manager. “We have a complete seasoned line of raw, ready to cook/bake/grill products. The se-lection has grown tremendously for the women who don’t want to buy prepared food but want the convenience of serving a fresh gourmet menu. “

“Since last year, the corn feed prices have risen, which has contributed to the rise in wholesale prices of meat and poultry. We are more hard pressed to absorb these dramatic increases so that we don’t pass them on to the consumer. We are aggressively pursuing every angle to secure the best cost for the consumer without compromising quality.”

Romaine lettuce and potatoes are the big-gest sellers produce wise with respect to the holiday. The frost in California has had an adverse effect on the crop. “ We are com-ing off a very hard produce winter. Sandy hit at the same time that there was frost in California. ‘Hardware produce’ was affected. Squash, greens, all kinds of lettuce, onions as well,” said Ziggy Kohn, produce manager. “Prices of grapes are coming down, We were very nervous about the price of Romaine. We increased our offering of pre-checked vegetables, spinach and fancy greens.”

Why is this year different from last year?

With the first Seder falling on a Monday night people are changing over before Shab-bos. Two Shabbasos means additional prepa-ration and additionally, one and a half days of Chol Hamoed require less food for travel.

The concept of Gourmet Glatt, always fresh, includes cleanliness of the store, friendliness of the employees, ten registers, and extend-ed hours. “Hours are extended even beyond printed hours”. Concessions that are open for Pesach, Ossies and Chap-a-Nosh have a complete line, and the coffee concession will be serving hot coffee. The advantage of shop-ping early is a greater selection of products, with fewer crowds, and guaranteed peace of mind,” stressed general manager Yoeli Steinberg.

had. It’s interactive. They can ask questions that they are afraid to ask in other settings.” Freedman noted that there will be a free Kiddush-buffet luncheon Shabbat morning after davening and Rabbi Fohrman will again speak while the children will watch another magic show. Reser-vations are required.

“Last year it was smaller,” recalled Freedman. “We only had Friday night dinner with 50 people. We are trying to step it up, trying to get more people in-volved.”

“Our shul is unique,” stressed Blumstein, the rabbi at YIH for 14 years. “We are Ortho-dox but very open to outreach and kiruv. In the past, when people came, they felt the love and warmth (of the shul). We felt that we

should open this up to the greater communi-ty, so we decided to join with Shabbat Across America. We had events before where we

opened the shul many times to com-munal meals. We generally attract about 50.” When he heard that 80 were attending he exclaimed, “Good, excellent!” and when he heard that more were expected he exclaimed, “Great!”

“It’s an opportunity to eat togeth-er, sing together and dance together,” he said. “I hope we will be able to attract people and, eventually, they would become regulars in our shul. The whole community is welcome

and we would love to see you.”“It’s run across the board,” said Green-

man, of the Shabbat Across America and Canada Program. “It’s not exclusive to a denomination; Orthodox, Conservative Re-form, Hillel, Chabad. It’s also being done

internationally this year, in Tel Aviv, Greece, Mexico, Japan. It’s the 17th annual one. It’s captivated so many people. Many don’t have the opportunity to experience Shabbat. Many do not regularly cel-ebrate Shabbat. It’s an opportunity to join with friends and extended family. It excites people.” He noted that when people see the poster in the shul listing several hundred of locations they think, “maybe my mom or nephew is there.” He said that they provide tools for the syna-gogues, outlines to the beginner’s service, have the prayers Carlebach style, upbeat, and have the hosts of the Shabbat meals present who are more familiar with the rituals, or the Rabbis, ex-plaining. He noted that the first time they hear Ayshet Chayil it might intrigue them.

“Shabbat unites all Jews,” added Green-man. “It’s an opportunity to feel connected.

Hundreds of thousands do it regularly. Tens of thousands do it one evening each year to feel connected. They may point to it as the

point that spurred them to find out more.

“We are thrilled that the YIH is participating,” continued Green-man. “Rabbi Blumstein has a lot of energy and vitality; he will trans-form Friday night for the partici-pants. We follow up and get feed-back. How it impacted. It helps assess our successes and begin planning for next year’s event.”

Over 900,000 Jews of all types have participated to date; about

700 synagogues world wide will be holding this program this year. The cost of the dinner at YIH is $10 for attendees 13 and up. Chil-dren are free. To register call Chana Freed-man at the Young Israel of Hewlett at (516) 295-2282.

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Howie Klagsburn (left) and Shloy Rubinstein have Pesach and matzoh at hand.

Anyone following politics in Israel over the past few months, and especially the campaigns for Knesset mandates,

saw the true face of Israel’s complicated internal predicament. To those outside of Israel’s daily life, its story is one of existen-tialism because of an ever-looming threat from seemingly trigger-happy neighbors. And not just Hamas in the south and Hizbullah in the north. There also is the nuclear threat posed by Iran, and whether Syria will launch attacks on Israel as a way of giving its rebellious citizens a different outlet for their anger.

If we accept the current world view of events, Israel is a country mired in a muck of its own mak-ing: an unwillingness to come to a peaceful coexistence with the hundreds of millions Arabs living alongside and within missile-shot of the small state. This is an ab-surd view, of course, but that is for another column to address.

Whether Iran will have nucle-ar capabilities or just when Syr-ia’s civil war will begin to become Israel’s problem, or what Hamas and Hizbullah may be up to are not, in fact, the biggest problems facing Israel. What is the biggest problem can be seen in the January election results. When properly analyzed, the results graphically demonstrate what really can stand in the way of Israel’s ability to continue striving forward, to continue innovating for the world, to continue being a beacon of de-mocracy and freedom in a part of the globe that is becoming ever more unfriendly to western values.

Israel must deal with all of the security concerns unique to its situation, of course. It also must cope with the burdens that come from being the birthplace and focal point of the three major monotheistic re-ligions. Like every other enlightened soci-ety, however, it also has to face all of the traditional mundane issues, such as educa-tion, food, water, jobs, taxes, traffic, smog,

and garbage collection — and it is in the mundane realities of life that we find the issues that had the greatest impact in the last election.

One issue in particular looms large — what sometimes has been referred to as “the tyranny of the minority.” Because of Israel’s strangely constructed electoral sys-tem, which makes it almost impossible for any one party to ever get a clear majority, small parties with few seats wield enor-mous power.

The fact that the political parties that came in with the most support nationwide

were ones that opposed what many see as the burdensome and selfish agendas of the religious right should not be a shock. Any-one living in Israel and working understands the financial bur-dens wrought by the mandated social responsibilities toward the ultra Orthodox communities who take from the state but op-pose national service. They often advocate against the state itself, but nevertheless, they want to maintain a flow of public assis-tance to maintain their lifestyles

without risking joining the outside world. The poverty rate in their communities is high, so the encumbrances are felt by the working class.

Whenever I write along these lines, I tend to attract the most criticism. It seems self reflection is the hardest characteris-tic for Jews to deal with. This is a more profound problem the more Orthodox one seems to be. Such people dig deep in their beliefs and see any deviation as an attempt to dilute the faith or practice.

In any case, unless Prime Minister Bin-yamin Netanyahu takes bold steps to cre-ate a coalition that excludes the religious parties, the tyranny of the minority will continue.

And that is why there is an even more important election to look at — an

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L ast week, the Weekly Standard reported that Al Sharpton met with the president to give advice on the economy:

Barack Obama met with Al Sharpton and other “African American leaders” to dis-cuss the president’s “plan to strengthen the economy for the middle class and continue to build ladders of opportunity for those striving to get there,” according to the White House.

This is not the first time the MSNBC host has met with/given advice to the president, but the question becomes why? Why is Barack Obama, who is supposed to be the leader of the entire country, meeting with a man with such a history of hatred?

Syndicated colum-nist Stanley Crouch seemed to justify the action in a column ear-lier this week by saying there is a new Sharp-ton:

I had to explain all this to a young black scholar who dismissed the reverend with the charge of being a sell-out because he now has access to President Obama and espouses mainstream liberal views on MSNBC.

I told him that Sharpton has evolved in a number of ways

over the years, maturing and recognizing complexity. None of that excuses his shame-ful participation in the Tawana Brawley mess, a big lie that pimped historical black female suffering to new levels of hustle and sentimentality.

But Sharpton has changed impressively in the quarter century since. He has done some-thing quite remarkable, adhering to the non-violent activism of King while disengaging himself from academic militants like Cornel West and aging separatists like Louis Farra-khan.

Mr. Crouch likens Sharpton to President Lyndon Johnson who “redeemed himself from being a segregationist, simply and powerfully, by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”

Crouch seems blind to the fact that Sharp-ton, despite all of his bigotry, never did any-thing to apologize or redeem himself from his racial and anti-Semitic deeds.

Sharpton never apologized for Tawana Brawley or slandering DA Pagones with the unfounded charge that Pagones was the rap-ist. In fact, he refused to apologize saying:

“I did what I believed. They are asking me to grovel. They want black children to say they forced a black man coming out of the hard-core ghetto to his knees….Once you begin bending, it’s ‘did you bend today?’ or ‘I missed the apology, say it again.’ Once you start compromising, you lose respect for yourself.”

Sharpton never apologized for saying the “Central Park Jogger” was raped by her boyfriend, and leading demonstrations call-ing the victim, who was raped and beaten to within a hair of death, a whore.

He certainly never apologized for the anti-Semitic Pogrom he led in Crown Heights and how he helped to build tensions with his now famous comment:

If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

How he added fuel to the already started violence by spreading a rumor that the Ha-sidic ambulance crew had ignored the dying black child in favor of treating the Jewish men (the cops at the scene told the driver who to pick up).

Sharpton never even apologized for his ac-tions on the second night of violence. Accord-ing to the sworn testimony of Efraim Lipkind, a former Hasidic resident of Crown Heights, Sharpton started agitating the crowd.

“Then we had a famous man, Al Sharpton, who came down, and he said Tuesday night, kill the Jews, two times. I heard him, and he started to lead a charge across the street to Utica.”

This is the man who has been rehabilitat-ed by the White House and the press, despite never acknowledging his actions inciting the anti-Semitic violence at Freddy’s Fashion Mart which ended in the firebombing deaths of Angelina Marrero, Cynthia Martinez, Luz Ramos, Mayra Rentas, Olga Garcia, Garnette Ramautar, and Kareem Brunner.

Freddy’s had a Jewish owner and Sharp-ton didn’t like the fact that an African-Amer-ican-owned record store was losing its lease and blamed it on Freddy’s. The fact that the fashion mart was not the landlord and had nothing to do with the record store didn’t matter to Sharpton.

At a rally recorded on September 9, Mr. Sharpton is heard telling a crowd:

“I want to make it clear to the radio audi-

ence and to you here that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street.”

Ironically, Sharpton was the interloper; he was living in Hollis, Queens at around the time Freddy’s opened in Harlem, and living in New Jersey when Freddy’s was burned down.

When other white-owned businesses fled the neighborhood as the population became more African-American, Fred Harari, the owner of Freddy’s, continued to serve the neighborhood.

But this supposedly changed man, Al Sharpton, led protests beginning in August and on the morning of Friday, December 8th when Roland James Smith, Jr., who had been part of Sharpton’s protests, walked into Freddy’s Fashion Mart, pulled out a gun, or-dered all the black customers to leave, spilled paint thinner on several bins of clothing and set them on fire -- a fire that resulted in kill-ing seven people plus Smith. The only Afri-can American left in the store was Freddy’s security guard Kareem Brunner, 22-years-old, who was ordered to stay by the mass murderer Smith.

Al Sharpton cannot be forgiven for his role in the pogrom at Freddy’s or any of his other bigotry because he has never acknowl-edged his role, nor has he ever apologized (even though his actions/speeches, etc. were caught on tape).

According to Barack Obama, Sharpton has been rehabilitated enough to give advice to the president. According to Stanley Crowder of the Daily News, he is a changed man.

Al Sharpton is a Baptist Minister who to this day regularly breaks the ninth com-mandment, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor, and he has incited riots that lead to the deaths of innocents.

A real preacher would not have incited vi-olence but called for peace. A real “changed man” would have waited for the truth before leading protests as he did as recently as this summer in the tragic case of Trayvon Mar-tin and George Zimmerman. A real “changed man” would admit his wrongdoings and apologize for inciting hatred.

Al Sharpton is no “changed man,” but he has been rewarded for his lack of remorse with an undeserved halo of respectability by the likes by MSNBC, Stanley Crouch and by the President of the United States.

Shame on them all!!!

Letters to the editorTwo ‘nos’ on #6

Dear Editor:Has anyone taken a close look at the traf-

fic plans for the mega medical center be-ing planned in Woodmere? The details are shocking.

This mega-medical center would pack hundreds of additional cars onto Peninsula and Branch boulevards, and on Rockaway Boulevard, while creating maddening traffic gridlock. Cars would be forced onto residen-tial streets throughout our community for as long as this proposed regional medical center would plague our community.

Just imagine: No safe place for the kids to play, or to take a walk on Shabbos. Just a steady stream of cars heading to this regional medical center, seven days a week, 365 days a year. There is no way we can let this hap-pen. Isn’t there enough traffic that we deal with? This is a precious residential neighbor-hood. Tell Mount Sinai to send their patients elsewhere. Join me on March 20 to vote NO on this mega-medical center.

My street – nor yours – will be turned into another Long Island highway.

Josh JusticWoodmere, NY

Dear editor The members of the School Board #15 (

Five Towns ) who voted for the sale of the # 6 school to Simone to create a Mega-Medical Center, did a major disservice to all the resi-dents of our community.

As an exercise physiologist, with over 40 years history advocating for increased ex-ercise and fitness for our children, I add my voice to all those who are outraged at the prospect of losing a vital community asset- the # 6 school playground and ball field.

For over 15 years I have been coming to the # 6 school field to play ball with my children and grandchildren, and to see base-ball games and soccer practice by numerous neighborhood after school groups using the field. Where will all these children go to now? The Middle School field is overcrowd-ed, Grant Park is saturated and everyone can’t go to Cedarhurst Park.

We need the # 6 School field to remain open for the use by the children of our com-munity. With more and more children be-coming overweight and less fit, it defies logic to want to reduce their exercise opportunity even further by removing this necessary neighborhood ball field.

And with so many of our residents yeshiva students, where exercise and fitness training have culturally not been a priority, losing this park will be additionally devastating. But this issue truly cuts across any religious or cultural divide and unites us all! Our chil-dren, regardless of their background need the park for their health!

We need to vote this ill conceived plan down on March 20 and demand from our representatives on school board # 15 to put our community’s interest first. I live down the block from the # 6 school on Barnard and I see daily the traffic backups and bottle necks created by the slightest increased traf-fic from trucks and construction on Pennin-sula Blvd. I can’t imagine the daily nightmare that awaits us with hundreds of patients, doctors, nurses, technicians, medical and pharmaceutical salesmen/women that will be coming and going and swarming all over our streets looking for parking places.

There are better options for the school district and our community that will not im-pact so detrimentally on our quality of life.

I will vote a resounding NO on March 20. I urge all of you to join me

Dr. Alex Sternberg MPH,Sc.D, M.Sc.Brooklyn, NY

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Feeling dizzy? Something doesn’t feel right? Why take risks with your life? The healthcare facility proposed for the Number 6 School in Woodmere will have an

urgent care center where you can come to see a doctor immediately. Get the care you need.

• Reuse the existing building and eliminate all entrances from surrounding residential streets

• Millions in tax cuts for local residents

• No cuts in services for all schools

• As many as 150 jobs for local physicians and healthcare employees

• No school buses and cars blocking traffic

• Better healthcare – the best of Manhattan and the best of our communities working together

• Neighboring residential parking will be protected. All employee and public parking will be contained on-site

• Preserves and enhances the playground

• Creates beautiful open public spaces with abundant landscaping

VOTE YES ON MARCH 20.IMMEDIATE CARE SAVES LIVES.

HERE’S THE TRUTH:

FACT: SEEING A DOCTOR

IMMEDIATELY CAN STOP A SMALL PROBLEM

BEFORE IT BECOMES A BIG ONE.

THE LIFE YOU SAVE COULD BE YOUR OWN.

Come to our informational meeting on Wednesday evening, March 6, 7:30 p.m.The Woodmere Club - 99 Meadow Drive - Woodmere NY 11598

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Purim is now behind us and the next time we are going to witness a full moon is exactly one month from now,

Pesach. With that exciting thought in mind, I was taken by an essay written by Dr. Adele Berlin in her work, “The JPS Commentary: Esther” [The Jewish Publication Society, 2001] wherein she details the thematic and historical link between the Exodus and the Book of Esther. Please consider these details as narrated by Dr. Berlin and compare them to what you yourself learned of this in school.

“Passover is not mentioned in Esther. But Haman’s decree was promulgated on the 13th day of the first month [3:12] that is 13th of Nissan, just one day before the eve of Passover. Midrash Leqah Tov, in its com-ment on 4:17, dates Es-ther’s fast to the 13, 14, and 15 days of Nissan, thereby making the beginning of Passover a fast day. Ahasuerus’s

sleepless night [6:1] was on ‘the night of watching’ [Exodus 12:42], that is, the night of the Exodus. And Haman was impaled on the 16 of Nissan, during Passover.” Berlin continues further on this theme.

“This tradition, which occurs in bits and pieces in other midrashim, is perhaps most familiar from references in piyyutim at the end of the seder: ‘Az rov nissim,’ by Yanai,

mentions that among the events that hap-pened on the night of Passover was the writ-ing of Haman’s edict and the king’s sleepless night.”

“Later generations linked Pharaoh and Haman together with later tyrants who sought to harm the Jews. The famous Spanish-Jewish poet Yehudah Halevi drew an analogy between the escape of the Israelites at the Red Sea and the Purim story in his poem, ‘adon hasdekha bal yehdal,’ which was incorporated into the morning service in the Sephardic liturgy on the morn-ing preceding Purim. Indeed, Midrash Leqah Tov says:

‘The month during which miracles were performed for our fathers, in Egypt, at the sea, and at the Jordan.’ Clearly, in rab-binic tradition, the deliverance of the Jews in the Book of Esther is seen in terms of the deliver-ance of the Jews from Egypt.”

As we move on to our preparations for Pesach we should be mindful of Dr. Berlin’s timely teachings that link the holidays of Pu-rim and Pesach within the tradition of our quest for freedom and divine salvation as demonstrated by both these holidays.

This coming Shabbat we again read and learn of that sad chapter in our history con-cerning the Golden Calf. In addition to this episode, we also have the readings concern-ing the red heifer. Taken together, these two

episodes teach us a lesson made so eloquent in the teachings of Rabbi Aba Wagensberg in his work, “Inspiring Change: Torah Lessons

on Expressing Your Innate Po-tential” [Feldheim, 2011].

In the sixth chapter en-titled, “The Empowering Para-dox” the rabbi weaves together both episodes and thereby eloquently teaches us the fol-lowing: “Rashi uses a story to illustrate the inner dynamics of the red heifer. Once upon a time, a king was sitting on his throne. Stretched out before him was his imperial carpet. Suddenly, a baby came crawl-ing into the royal throne room – without a diaper. The baby sat down upon the carpet and relieved himself, right in front of the king! A stench began to fill the room. Angrily, the king’s attendants asked, ‘Who is responsible for this baby? Let the mother come and clean the

mess.’”“Based upon the principle that a mother

is responsible for the damage caused by her child, Rashi concludes, ‘In this way, the red heifer atones for the Golden Calf.’ A calf is a baby cow. As a result of this baby cow, the Jewish People became soiled with idolatry. Our defilement was disgusting; a terrible stench filled the world! The mother of the calf, who must clean up the mess of her baby, is the red heifer. Thus, the red heifer is used

to ‘clean up’ the spiritual mess caused by the sin of the Golden Calf.”

Rabbi Wagensberg then goes on to ask the following questions:

“This is an interesting parallel, but how does the mitzvah of the red heifer atone for the sin of the Golden Calf?” He then com-pares idolatry to spiritual adultery and fur-ther asks the following:

“How does the technical mitzvah of the red heifer rectify such enormous spiritual damage?”

I leave it to you, the reader, to explore the answer and to further learn from the learned teachings of Rabbi Aba Wagensberg, among which can be found many that directly relate to the Exodus experience that can be applied at the seder table this coming Pesach.

FOR FURTHER STUDY“Journey in Talmud” by Rabbi Imman-

ual Bernstein deals with a very interesting method of ‘sugya analysis’ in the study of the Talmud. Requiring a basic background in Gemara learning by the reader, Rabbi Ber-nstein goes into great, yet uncomplicated detail in explaining 22 basic halachic issues. Examples include the principle of following the majority, understanding sfek sfeka, the origins and parameters of mitzvos deraban-an and the influence of prophecy within the halachic process. Other issues and topics deal with brachos, and Shabbos and the holidays.

Read and study this book and you will surely become spiritually enriched and hala-chically smart.

Alan Jay Gerber

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To the community,The Mount Sinai Medical Center Multi-Specialty Medical Facility planned for Woodmere will offer enhanced coordinated care and urgent care. What does this mean for you? Simply put, it provides the highest level of medical care and treatment that a world-class medical provider can give, with the convenience of being close to home.

What is coordinated care and what are the benefits?Medical care today often begins with a visit to a patient’s primary doctor who provides referrals to specialists as needed. The patient then must make multiple visits to different doctors to receive his or her diagnosis and treatment. This results in many missed days of work and lots of inconvenience.

Coordinated care changes that experience. Specialists and primary care physicians are in the same facility. The patient moves seamlessly from the primary physician to the specialist in one visit. More importantly, the doctors share one common electronic medical record for each patient so that they each have all of the information about their patient. This greatly reduces the mistakes caused by incomplete information about a patient’s history and medications. Patients benefit in many ways. They get better care, fewer mistakes, lower costs and the elimination of duplicated tests.

For example, a woman is given a prescription for a mammogram by her OBGYN. She then makes an appointment with the mammography center for a later visit. She may be called back to be re-imaged or may need to consult a surgeon for a needle biopsy. The process takes several anxiety-ridden weeks and multiple visits. In a coordinated setting, the initial visit imaging and biopsy can all take place on the same day, in one extended visit. In addition, patients appreciate the one-stop shopping medical experience of an integrated multi-specialty practice. They like the convenience of a doctor's visit that includes on-site specialist referrals, clinical lab testing and radiology services -- all under one roof.

What is Urgent Care and what are the benefits?Life’s little emergencies don’t always happen during regular business hours. Most patients prefer to visit their primary care physicians, but in an emergency, when they are unavailable for an immediate appointment, or on weekends and holidays, the doctor is always in at facilities of this kind. The Urgent Care Center allows patients to walk in without an appointment during an extended range of hours and receive prompt treatment for injuries and illnesses that are not life-threatening. This means no more needless anxiety about the seriousness of your condition or long waits in a hospital emergency room. Medical records of existing patients at the facility are readily accessible to the Urgent Care staff, cutting additional time and hassle of filling out more paperwork. In addition to the added convenience, this alternative drives down medical costs by avoiding costly ER co-payments.

What are the benefits to local doctors?Mount Sinai plans to recruit as many local doctors as possible to fill the 60 positions at its proposed medical facility at Lawrence's Number Six School. Doctors practicing locally will be recruited from current positions in the community, and that will allow patients to continue their relationships with their doctors.

These are difficult times for physicians because of the many changes in insurance and medicine. Doctors are concerned about their economic future and loss of autonomy. This center will create a medical group with significant self-governance, lower overhead and Mount Sinai’s reputation in helping to maintain physician income, which we expect would stay the same or increase in the long run.

For non-participators, the medical center welcomes their patients for urgent care visits, specialist referrals and ancillary testing, promptly communicating results to local doctors. They can view the new center as an extension of their practice and share in many of the benefits. The group practice is not looking to recruit patients referred to them by outside physicians. Times are changing. This full-service multi-specialty practice is a new model that provides better coordination in the delivery of healthcare services both for doctors and the community at large.

Simeon Schwartz has been a practicing hematologist and oncologist for 30 years and is also president of WESTMED Medical Group and CEO of WESTMED Practice Partners. He is lead design consultant for Mount Sinai Hospital on the proposed adaptive re-use of the abandoned School Six property in Woodmere, NY as a comprehensive outpatient medical office serving the Five Towns community.

To learn more please attend informational meeting on March 6, 7:30 pm at The Woodmere Club, 99 Meadow Drive, Woodmere

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New Outpatient Facility Offers Many Benefits to Community

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SELL THE NUMBER SIX SCHOOL?

A March 20th referendum asks voters if the Lawrence School District 15 should sell the Number Six School in Woodmere to Simone Healthcare Development. The Community Coalition of The Five Towns wants to preserve our community.

FACT: Simone Healthcare Development will turn the Number Six School and its 6.7-acre site into a “Mega-Medical Center” serving thousands of outpatients daily.

FACT: Patients, employees and service crews from all over the region will be coming and going through our neighborhoods from early in the morning until late at night. How safe will our families feel?

FACT: This Mega-Medical Center will pack thousands of additional vehicles onto Rockaway Turnpike and onto Peninsula and Branch Boulevards, causing maddening traffic gridlock – with cars, delivery trucks, laboratory pick-ups, service crews and salespeople. Cars and trucks will be forced onto residential streets throughout our community.

FACT: This is the wrong location for a “Mega-Medical Center” – including an urgent care center – that will be open seven days a week and 14 hours a day. It will forever damage the quality-of-life in our quiet, residential neighborhoods.

FACT: This project will rob our children of their ball fields and our community of precious open space. To create parking for its Mega-Medical Center, Simone Healthcare will blacktop acres of ball fields now enjoyed by our children and area families.

FACT: The Mega-Medical Center would permanently damage residential property values, forcing fami-lies to sell; their homes converted into medical offices, adding even more traffic.

FACT: There is no binding agreement to limit the number of doctors, hours of operation, or size of this huge medical facility. If approved, Simone will maximize revenues without any concern for our community.

FACT: Our community is getting ripped off. The additional tax revenue from this huge healthcare complex would only offset our property taxes by a measly $35 per family.

POLLS OPEN: Noon to 9:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 20

Residents of Woodmere, North Woodmere, Lawrence and Cedarhurst VOTE NOat Lawrence Middle School, 195 Broadway, Lawrence

Residents of Atlantic Beach VOTE NOat Atlantic Beach Village Hall, 65 The Plaza, Atlantic Beach

Residents of Inwood VOTE NOat #2 School, 1 Donahue Avenue, Inwood

— HERE'S WHY!

Community Coalition of The Five TownsOPPOSE OVERDEVELOPMENT OF THE NUMBER SIX SCHOOL

Contribute to CC5T — P.O. Box 104, Cedarhurst, N.Y. 11516

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A s I sit at my computer to write this week’s column, my usual, “OMG I’m never going to get it in under the dead-

line,” is tinged with a bit of melancholy. My good friend Karen Cohen Green, is moving on from her position as publisher and editor of The Jewish Star. I’m going to miss her. She stepped into a completely unfamiliar world, and may I say, she did it with grace, confi-dence and a good deal of hard work. At any

given time she was off to cover a function, an opening, an election etc. Whether Saturday, Sunday, or any given night, coming home after 11 PM wasn’t out of the ordinary. She is constantly evolving. She is committed to her community. Her contribution to the pa-per is just another layer of that. She brought people issues, serious issues and feature is-

sues to the front page. She encouraged her readers to discuss, debate and be actively involved. When she took on the role as pub-lisher, she asked me “Judy, would you like to write an article containing a recipe and a little information about it?” Last time I had written a recipe to be printed and distribut-ed, it was in 1993 when all the moms in my son’s kindergarten class were asked to submit a recipe for a Mother’s Day Cookbook. Not

quite confident I could pull this off, I said I would give it a try. I had a week; deadline was Monday at 10 AM. Monday at 10 AM, I called Karen and said I would need a few more hours. Wednesday at 10 am Karen called and said the paper would be printing in about five hours.

I managed to write a paragraph describing how I loved to be creative as a kid and always loved imagining that I owned a bakery, followed by a recipe for dreidle cake pops. The follow-ing week Karen asked, “What recipe will you be writing about this week?” “This week?” I stammered, “I have to write another article and recipe?” “Yes,” she responded, “this is a weekly column.” Not one to turn down a challenge, I decided to rise to the occasion. Al-though I was managing a clothing store three days a week, working as a personal chef and catering parties, I added “columnist” to my resume. Again, I panicked, because by Sun-day night I still didn’t have an idea of what to write about. As the weeks went by, and I received positive feedback, I gained some confidence. Some actually went so far as to say that I had a flair for writing. I held my-self back from laughing. “They like me, they really like me,” I thought, remembering the line Sally Field exclaimed when she received her Oscar. I’m always told I look just like her; maybe this was a sign I shouldn’t quit. So began a weekly saga of finding a recipe of

mine that would appeal to the readers, and then come up with a short humorous story to go along with it. Each week I gained a little more confidence and, as people kept telling me they loved reading my column, I started giving shout outs to friends and neighbors. I got creative and researched facts about each dish, then I researched funny facts, looked up quotes from famous actors, historians and politicians which related (however remote-

ly) to the recipe. Every now and then, ok, almost every week, I spoke about hilarious stores from my husband’s past. Sometimes I spoke of my past, but they didn’t seem to have the same comedic value as his.

It’s been over a year, and each week, I still complain that I’m run-ning out of recipes and stories. I

still never manage to make the 10 AM Monday deadline, can’t even make

it 10 AM on Wednesday. But somehow I make it in by the time production starts. And it never fails, after every column I fin-ish, I think of Karen and silently thank her for giving me this opportunity, for believing in me, for pushing me to dream big about my catering business and for putting up with someone who is totally unprofessional when it comes to writing for a newspaper. By the way, Karen, my favorite perk was ending up in the Braves’ locker room at Citi Field to in-terview the players, but that’s a whole article in itself….

Of all dishes that I serve, Karen picked one of the easiest I make as my last recipe printed under her. It’s not even a recipe made from scratch, but I must admit it tastes like it is. Below find the recipe to Mushroom Barley Soup with fillet steak.

Not to stray away from my usual facts about the dish, here you go:

Soup can be simple yet complex….as is Karen.

Soup is the food of the people, Karen is the voice of the people.

Soup is the product of resourcefulness. You can make a meal out of what you have on hand. Karen is a paradigm of resourceful-ness.

It’s with a heavy heart that I bid you sha-lom, Karen. It won’t be the same with out you. I wish you much mazal in the field that you truly love, politics and government. Thanks for believing in me. You will be missed.

You might not be publishing papers any-more, but I’m sure we’ll be reading about you.

Mushroom Barley Soup Ingredients;n 2 boxes Streit’s Mushroom Barley Soup

mixn 12 cups of watern 2 carrots, peeled and dicedn 2 stalks of celery, washed and dicedn 10 ounces fresh mushrooms washed and

cut into slicesn 2 Bloch’s meat flavored cubes (can be

found at Gourmet Glatt)n 1/8 t. black peppern 1 lb. fillet steak cut into chunksBring the water to a boil and add the large

soup packetsOnce water comes to a boil again, add the

rest of the ingredients, except for the meat. Lower to medium flame and cook for half an hour, then add the meat. Cook for an ad-ditional 50 minutes and add the two flavor packets and let simmer for an additional ten minutes.

Judy Joszef is a pastry and personal chef as well as a party planner. She can be reached at [email protected]

Who’s in the kitchen

Shalom Karen-and thanks

Judy Joszef

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I’m sitting on the plane on my way back from the Rock N Roll half marathon week-end in Pasadena, California in which Team HASC actively participated. The last three days have been magical and I find myself re-flecting on one of the most exhilarating and inspiring experiences I’ve ever witnessed. It’s been some time since I’ve had such nachas and joy, so fully choked up with emotion.

Three months ago, when my wife ex-pressed a desire to run with Team HASC to help raise funds for the incredible camp in which our son, Eli, lives during the summers, there was no question that, B’Ezras Hash-em (with G-d’s help), it was going to hap-pen. But was I, too, going to have the z’chus (merit) and honor to participate in such an awe inspiring event? As a Rebbe in a Yeshiva, my ability to attend was very much up in the air. Baruch Hashem, with the help of fam-ily, friends and many volunteers, supervision for our children was arranged and the school where I teach made sure that my classroom

was covered. For my wife and me, a weekend away is

indeed a very rare occasion. A weekend away with the amazing and special people of Team HASC, who work at a place called “Heaven on Earth” was far more than I could ever have asked or ever imagined. The excitement and the emotions were palpable from the moment of our arrival. We were greeted by the warm Team HASC committee and staff that worked tirelessly for months arranging all the details of the weekend. From the head staff, directors, counselors, volunteers and countless others, the goal was clear: the en-tire event and all details were painstakingly arranged for the precious Neshomos of Camp HASC. Those of us who have experienced Camp HASC don’t require any further intro-duction or illumination. Camp HASC is noth-ing short of a living miracle, a testament to the spirit of its visionary founders who, some 40 years ago, had the foresight to grasp what it would mean for children, teenagers and even adults with special needs, to enjoy the summer camp experience.

Our Shabbos was filled with ruach, the spirit in the room vibrant. As we sat with Reb Shmiel Kahn, Rabbi Shlomo Stern and their wives, we noticed the pride on their faces as over 140 current and past staff took a weekend off to fly across the country to improve the quality of life of their beloved campers. One dedicated counselor, whose schedule did not allow him to spend Shab-bos in California, flew in after Shabbos and arrived in time to push his camper during the marathon. Immediately after the race, he was back on a plane. We need to understand the gravity of the chesed being shown by this group of unpaid, all volunteer group of spe-cial angels. Indeed, we have a lot to be proud of in our own communities and schools.

Counselors and other volunteers pushed jogging wheelchairs, some running while pushing. HASC volunteers lifted their camp-ers out of their wheelchairs and urged those who could walk somewhat, albeit clumsily, to actually walk and even trot: a true sense of running in the marathon.

Two Team HASC counselors were push-ing a boy with special needs in a jogging wheelchair. They were about 100 feet from the finish line and they instinctively unbuck-led their camper. They pushed the wheel-chair aside, and struggled together with the camper hand in hand, stride for stride, as they crossed the finish line with their arms

raised. The crowd roared with cheers and I felt my eyes swell up. What an incredible display of devotion, self-sacrifice and love. We are so proud to have the Z’chus to be a part of such an amazing organization. The entire staff defines what it means to be the ultimate role models of giving and selfless-ness towards one another. Disregarding any physical or mental disabilities that they may have, 12 campers in total with special needs crossed the finish line on their own accord. Among the finishers was a camper who is stricken with cerebral palsy. He walked with his counselors over the finish line. Another with a prosthetic leg, raced through the finish line on crutches with his counselors cheering right beside him. As each camper crossed the finish line, tremendous cheers and thunderous applause erupted spontane-ously from strangers and spectators watching this incredible sight unfold before their eyes.

To all who are associated with this holy place, you have made us so proud and in-spired us greatly on this special weekend. This special place is truly a Kiddush Hash-em of massive proportions. Let us hope that through your incredible actions that Im Yirtzeh Hashem, G-d willing, Camp HASC will be in Yerushalayim where all will be healed, and everyone will know that you are from the true heroes of Klal Yisroel.

Mar 1YOUNG ISRAEL OF HEWLETT/CONGREGATION AHAVAT YISRAEL PARTICIPATES IN THE 17th ANNUAL

SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA AND CANADA PROGRAM

-- Participants Join Over 70,000 North Ameri-can Jews in Major Effort to Revitalize Sabbath Observance

Conceived and organized by NJOP in 1997, SHABBAT ACROSS AMERICA AND CANADA represents a united effort by the entire Jewish community to renew interest in the fourth of the Ten Commandments – observing a weekly day of rest.

Mar 2Cong Beth Sholom Annual DinnerTHE 61ST ANNUAL TESTIMONIAL DINNER OF CON-GREGATION BETH SHOLOM SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013—8:15PM GUESTS OF HONOR MELODIE & MARTY SCHARFDinner Chair: Lester Henner [email protected] Co-Chair: Rob Satran [email protected] Co-Chairs: Annette Satran & Monica GlaubachJewels & Dividends Co-Chairs:

Nancy Hain, Estee Kornblum & Carrie OlinerRaffle Co-Chairs: Mordy Lent & Rony OvedCall Shul Office for Info/Reservations: 569-3600 x 21 Or visit our website: www.bethsholomlawrence.org. The office will be open this Sunday from 9:15—11AM to take your reservations & dinner ads

& to purchase raffle tickets.

Mar 3The ASKOU OUTREACH

program of OU Kosher will present its first OU Kashrut Shiurim

Weekend when it visits Washington Heights on Shabbat, March 2, Parshat Ki Tisa, and Sunday, March 3. Usually when ASKOU OUTREACH visits a community, it is for one session, which may have several speakers. This program will expand to cover the entire weekend.

All sessions will be held at the Mt. Sinai Jew-ish Center, 135 Bennett Avenue. They will feature Rav Hershel Schachter, Halachic Consultant for OU Kosher and Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University; Rabbi Chaim Loike, OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinator and bird expert; and Rabbi Yosef Eisen, Rabbinic Administrator of the Vaad HaKashrut of the Five Towns and Rockaway.

There is free admission and the program is open to both men and women.

Mar 92nd Annual Dinner for Gush Katif Museum of Jerusalem 2013

“ALWAYS REMEMBER, NEVER FORGET” 8 PM Razag Ballroom, Crown Heights Keynote Speaker, Gov. Mike Huckabee. Event

Chairman, Dr. Joe Frager; Committee Chairman, Dr. Paul Brody. Guests of Honor: Rabbi David Al-gaze, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Helen Freedman of AFSI and Rabbi Sholom Ber Drizin. For Reserva-tions: 718-2081-770 or www.gushkatifmuseum.org

Courtesy of Alyssa Sterba

Last week Alyssa Sterba had the most amazing time, finishing the Pasadena Marathon with Team HASC. Her son, Garrick, has been a camper in Camp HASC for 11 summers. Each year is better than the one before. She signed up to run the marathon because she wanted to see all the people that have a hand in Garrick’s growth during the summers. She met the most wonderful people that work in Camp HASC. From the medical team in the infirmary, to Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapists.. to the counselors. To see the love and respect each of these people give to the campers was just amazing.

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A parent’s perspective

election for the real heart of Israel, and the one that may truly determine whether it will be able to survive as a nation united.

In June, Israel will elect a new Ashkenazi chief rabbi. More than the politics of govern-ing, the politics of the rabbinate and what it means to the Jewish state will set the tone for the real future of Israel. As it is, about half of the citizens of Israel feel that they are not really part of the country, and the way the current rabbanut sets rules, dictates law,

and forms policy on mar-riage, divorce, kashrut regulation, and Jewish identity, all serve to ei-ther bring people closer, or push them farther away. For example, not much has been done, or some can argue that we have actually regressed, when it comes to de-fining “who is a Jew,” which more accurately in Israel must be called “who is a rabbi”; the rig-

idly right will accept only their own when it comes to conversions or even life-cycle is-sues, and the Knesset endows the rabbanut with such power.

For the past ten years now, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi has been Rabbi Yona Metzger, who has held firm against the modern Ortho-dox and the non-Orthodox Jewish streams.

That alone is fracturing the country as re-

sentment grows over laws and rules no one but the religious right can live with comfort-ably.

The chief rabbinate, of course, must rep-resent Jewish law, but it needs to also recog-nize that it represents a mix of people who make up the country, and that Jewish law is not black-and-white. There are halachically acceptable diverse opinions on all sorts of matters.

Sadly, the people who work for the coun-try, fight for it, and contribute to its place as a global leader in innovation, science and technology, and medicine, are by and large dismissed by the rabbanut as irrelevant. Tol-erance is important, but the chief rabbinate has little for anyone who may not look or act as its minions do.

Metzger has politicized his role as a means to control money, jobs, and even parliamen-tary legislation — and the public seems to have had enough. The kashrut situation is an example of this, where some of the most rep-utable eating establishments are now push-ing back, refusing to cave in to the growing overwhelming demands that the rabbanut imposes for financial gain. Collectives of res-taurant owners are now rebelling against the Jewish religious authorities who insist that they are the only ones who can certify res-taurants as being in compliance with Jewish dietary laws — and who use such criteria for decertification as, for example, whether a restaurant hosts a New Year’s Eve party.

Many owners are now organizing and taking the rabbanut to court to challenge

its special authority. The argument was that the system was once based on trust between the customer and the owner of the establish-ment, without the monopoly and without all the other commercial interests of the chief rabbinate — like the need to hand out jobs, many of which are paid kashrut inspector slots.

The last chief rabbi to seek unity and bro-admindedness was Rabbi Isser Yehuda Un-terman, who stepped down in 1972. Since then, the rabbanut has grown more political and dominant than rabbinical and learned.

The question of “who is a Jew” is perhaps the most difficult situation now.

With the influx of new immigrants ever since the late 1970s, and especially several waves of Russian immigrants, new issues of who is a Jew arose. There also was the large scale immigration of Ethiopian Jews.

Many of these people were converted by rabbis — Orthodox and non-Orthodox, it matters not — of whom the rabbanut did not approve. These people came to Israel, had children there, and today literally many hun-dreds of thousands of people live as Jews, practice as Jews, serve in the military and support the country, yet the rabbanut seeks to invalidate their conversions and declare these people and their offspring as non-Jews. It is all done to satisfy the whims of some of the rigidly right religious parties, and to force new conversions through rabbis the rabbanut chooses, in order to demonstrate its power and extend its political patronage in order to maintain that power.

In June, the country will see a campaign that can get a nasty as any political race, but the people of Israel deserve a chief rabbi who is not only a true Zionist and believer in the cause of the Jewish state, which many un-der the auspices of the current rabbanut do not, but someone who can deliver tolerance and unity. Israel has so many enemies, yet the internal fractures created between the unyielding hardline right-winged groups and everyone else can do far more damage to the state that any outside influence.

Sinat Chinam, baseless hatred, is a major contributing factor to the fall of the Second Temple and the eventual exile of the Jews from their land of Israel. The ultimate cause, the Talmud tells us, was a “tyranny of the mi-nority,” with one extremist rabbi preventing action that could have averted disaster.

Without someone who can unify the peo-ple, create harmony among the streams and the secular, and acceptance of diversity as legitimate, Israel can easily extinguish itself.

A man named Rabbi Dovid Stav has put his name into the ring to become the next Ashkenazi chief rabbi. He believes in Zion-ism, embraces tolerance, and wants to heal the fractures. He sees Israel as it should be, unified and strong, and his ideals are what is needed to bring Israel’s society truly into this 21st century.

This is the existential fight Israel’s citizens must win.

Juda Engelmayer is an executive at the New York PR firm, 5W Public Relations.

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The term “Kodesh Kodashim” appears in the Torah 18 times – twice in Parshat Ki Tisa. However, not one of these times

does it refer to the Holy of Holies, the section of the Mishkan/Tabernacle which houses the Aron/Ark.

The “Holy of Holies,” as it were, is called “Kodash HaKodashim,” with the letter “heh” defining the definite article as being “THE”

Holy of Holies – the room designated as the holiest place in the world.

In addition to the 18 Torah references, “Kodesh Kodashim” ap-pears five more times in the Bible. The phrase referring to the back room of the Mishkan appears nine times, thrice in the Torah and four times in DIvrei HaYamim (Chronicles).

Referencing Rabbi Akiva as the source, the

Midrash describes the book of Shir HaShir-im (Song of Songs) as being “Kodesh Ko-dashim,” the holiest of the books of the Bible (Shir Hashirim Rabba 1, Medrash Tanchuma Tetzaveh 5, etc.)

The difference between the Holy of Ho-lies (Kodesh HaKodashim) and the holiest of things (Kodesh Kodashim) is literally one letter “heh” in the Hebrew. How could the same term be applied twice, meaning differ-

ent things, with only one letter distinguish-ing between them?

The truth is, this concept is not foreign to us. There are bosses, and there is The Boss. There are Avot (ancestors), and there are The Avot (the Forefathers). There are gods, and there is The One and Only G-d. The list goes on.

Is there a common theme to all of the things described as “Kodesh Kodashim” (the holiest of things) in the Torah?

The simple answer is yes, as almost every-thing described as being the holiest of things are part of the Mishkan. Sometimes it refers to the large Mizbeyach (altar) where animal sacrifices were burned (Shmot 29:37; 40:10). Sometimes it refers to the inner Mizbeyach, where spices were burned (30:10,36).

At times the “holiest of things” refers to all the vessels of the Mishkan (one reading of Shmot 30:29), the Lechem HaPanim (show-bread) that was placed on the Shulchan (Table) in the Mishkan (Vayikra 24:9), or the fire representing the sacrificial order associ-ated with the Mizbeyach (Bamidbar 18:9).

In the book of Vayikra the holiest of things is the term used to describe Mincha offerings, a Sin offering, the Asham offering (mostly in chapters 6, 7 and 10).

The only other reference in the Torah is to the concept of a Cherem – items that are essentially consecrated to the Mishkan or to G-d (Vayikra 27:28) when they are excluded from profane use. Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch describes this designation as a person taking property given to him by G-d and re-

turning it to its original owner.G-d in turn, as the Talmud (Arachin 29a)

points out, has designated this Cherem to the Priests, who may personally use it as uncon-secrated items – unless the designator spe-cifically claimed the items for Temple use.

Something that is “Kodesh Kodashim” specifically, however, is “a sacred thing from which other sacred things derive their sanc-tity.” According to Hirsch, everything that is described as Kodesh Kodashim “relates di-rectly to man’s actions, to the Torah and to man’s relation to it.” It is the consecration of actions that is the main foundation and basis of the Sanctuary, as it is the source of the consecration of all of man’s other relations.

The Mizbeyach plays such a significant role in the consecration of active man. This is why both Mizbeychot stand in the center – of the Mishkan itself and the outdoors, respec-tively – directly opposite the Aron. It consti-tutes the true center of the area in front of and around the Sanctuary.

In his commentary on Shmot 29:37, Hirsch argues that, “In Judaism, the concept of holi-ness is inseparably connected with sanctify-ing. Nothing becomes holy so that holiness should be concentrated in it, while all else is left to the realm of the unsanctified. Every-thing becomes holy in order to sanctify.”

In a sense there is an ideal holiness which is unattainable: The Holy of Holies, the Kodesh HaKodashim. But there is also a holi-ness that is attainable, which is inspired by the ideal, and that is Kodesh Kodashim, a ho-liness that is largely dependent on actions.

Whether it is an action that brings one close to G-d through the Mizbeyach, or one that assigns exclusion from profane use to define its sanctification, it is the person who creates this admirable level of holiness that draws in-spiration from the Holy of Holies itself.

Our task is to take action: to assign holi-ness to our endeavors. To make our davening a holy experience. Our learning a holy expe-rience. Our performance of every mitzvah, each into its own unique experience. It will be what elevates our Shabbos to a day of Ke-dusha, on top of a day in which we exclude the profane.

Perhaps we can now understand why Shir HaShirim is referred to by Rabbi Akiva as “Kodesh Kodashim.” Shir HaShirim is a love song, some claim an allegory to the love be-tween G-d and the Jewish people. And love can be quite mundane and physical. But love also has the potential to be holy, to sanctify, and to elevate, and to consecrate man to his beloved, or more poignantly, to his G-d.

May we be blessed to achieve that level of love that is Kodesh Kodashim so we may yet merit to once again admire the ultimate holiness that comes from the Holy of Holies, the Kodesh HaKodashim, with the building of the everlasting Temple in Jerusalem.

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