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The Baltimore Jewish Home is an independent bi-weekly newspaper. Opinions expressed by writers are not neces sarily the opinions of the publisher or editor. The Baltimore Jewish Home is not responsible for typographical errors, or for the kashrus of any product or business advertised within. The BJH contains words of Torah. Please treat accordingly.

Dear Readers,

Maybe I should have gone into the medical profession. I am not squeamish at the sight of blood, and I find the human body to be absolutely fascinating. It recently occurred to me, that we sometimes take the miracles that take place within us every moment of every day for granted. Recently I heard someone talking about the brain and its functions and I was struck by the fact that because of the brain’s inherent responsibilities, we truly don’t think of the miracles that are occurring within. The brainstem is in charge of the autonomous functions in our body—breathing, the circulation of our blood, digestion. These functions are vital to our existence and so Hashem made them take place without our necessary input. The body knows how to do it on its own. And yet, although it is a comforting thought that we don’t have to concentrate on breathing or moving nutrients from one end of our body to the other, it’s scary.

Our existence is dependent on our bodies working in the proper way. When someone is ill or when one of their normal bodily functions is impaired, that is when they remember the miracles that are within. They look back at the times when their body was working as it should and they can appreciate all that Hashem does for them daily. Think about it on a small scale, when a person gets a paper cut. That cut—which is really very small—is so bothersome and painful. But think about the time when your fingers were

smooth and unblemished. Did you ever stop to think about how valuable your skin is or how wonderful and useful your fingers are? We should spend a few moments every day thinking about the miracles that we take for granted and thank Hashem for our continued health. In the past few decades, the medical community has made tremendous strides in understanding our body and diseases and in creating medications and therapies to combat certain maladies. In one area—along with other diseases as well—doctors have yet to find a cure. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis affect hundreds of thousands of Americans and a disproportionate amount of Ashkenazic Jews. People with these conditions can be crippled by their symptoms and some have to resort to surgery to be able to function in a normal way. Doctors, though, have only been able to help manage their patients’ symptoms and although they are working on finding a cure, for now they have to experiment with the medications they have on-hand to find the right dose that fits the patient.

I know that when I hear of people who are suffering from these conditions, unable to leave their homes or function in a normal way, my heart goes out to them. I only hope that one day they will benefit from a cure sent from Above to the medical community and be able to count all their blessings and appreciate all the miracles that we experience within.

Wishing you a wonderful week,

Yaakov

COMMUNITYAround the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

JEWISH THOUGHT The Child Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Toldos: Lentils & Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENTNotable Quotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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COVER STORYDating Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

A Jewish Disease? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Netanyahu Comes to Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

LIFESTYLES613 Seconds with Shlomo Trachtenberg . . . . . . . . 21

Why Citi Credit Cards are the New ‘IT’ Cards forFree Vacations, Flights and Hotel Stays . . . . . . . . . . 40

In The Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Understanding the Differencebetween Marketing and Branding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Summer Roll or Vietnamese Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

10 Foods to Never Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

13 Ways to Soundproof Your Home . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

NEWSGlobal News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

National News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Israel News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

That’s Odd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Around the Community

Bonei Olam: An Evening of Hope and InspirationBaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

On November 2nd Ben and Shira Ram hosted the Annual Bonei Olam Evening of Hope and Inspiration. This annual event is held to show support and give chizuk to couples facing fer-tility issues. Many young couples are fortunate to start a family without any difficulties, however for many this is not the case. The current statistics is one in every six couples faces the heartbreaking challenges of infertility.

The evening was addressed by Rabbi Zev Schwartz who in a poi-gnant presentation described his feel-ings and emotions at the possibility he and his wife once faced that they would remain Chas V’ Shalom child-less. For the estimated two hundred and fifty men and women in atten-dance there was not a dry eye to be found. Rabbi Schwartz went on to say, where can couples facing similar challenges receive emotional and fi-nancial support? The answer he said is from Bonei Olam.

Bonei Olam was founded in 1999 by Rabbi Shlomo Bochner with a mis-sion to provide whatever means and resources necessary to help childless couples achieve their dreams of par-enthood. From humble beginnings Bonei Olam has grown to currently maintaining 18 regional chapters in 5 countries around the world. Each year Bonei Olam provides millions of dollars in financial assistance to cover the exorbitant costs of fertility treat-

ments and medical procedures facing couples struggling with infertility. To date, 5642 babies, 54 of whom in our own Baltimore community, have been brought into the world through the financial assistance and resources provided by Bonei Olam. Hundreds of genetic research projects and medical breakthroughs spearheaded by or in collaboration with Bonei Olam make the potential of parenthood a reali-ty. Bonei Olam is recognized in the worldwide medical arena for its lead-ership role in reproductive medicine, research and technology. Combined with financial assistance, Bonei Olam programs cover every step of the pro-cess including work up, medication, high-risk pregnancies, and pre-im-plantation, genetic diagnosis, pre-and-post cancer fertility, and education, awareness and adoption assistance. While far reaching and multi-dimen-

sional in scope, Bonei Olam touches ever so closely the lives of its benefi-ciary couples.

Rabbi Schwartz concluded his speech that today he and his wife are the proud parents of two lovely chil-dren. The full circle mission of Bonei Olam was thus brought home to ev-eryone in a truly moving and inspira-tional manner.

Rabbi Bochner, the founder of Bonei Olam, concluded the program with a very moving message, ending off a truly emotional and magnificent evening.

The evening also featured a gen-erous variety of culinary delicacies as well as a truly moving pictorial dis-play of the 54 Bonei Olam babies born in Baltimore.

Thank you to Ben and Shira Ram for so generously offering their home to host the event. Thank you to the

countless volunteers and committee members who devoted many hours of their precious time to ensure the evening would be a success. Baruch Hashem the annual Bonei Olam event was truly a night of Hope and Inspi-ration.

All funds raised will be designated specifically for couples in Baltimore.

The Baltimore Chapter of Bonei Olam is coordinated by Mrs. Bonnie Pollak and Mr. and Mrs. Hillel and Loni Goldman. If you or someone you know is in need of assistance please call 443-320-5848. If you would like to donate, please mail your tax deduct-ible donation to 6609 Shelrick Place Baltimore, Md 21209, or donations can be made online at www.Bonei-olam.org and please reference in the memo section Baltimore.

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Baltimore Celebrates the Unique Mitzvah of Pidyon Peter Chamor Dr. Michael Elman Photo Credit: BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

I was asked to describe the events leading up to today’s pidyan peter chamor, as well as the cele-bration itself. A few years back, my friend, Rabbi Don Moskovitz, made apidyan peter chamor in Baltimore to-gether with Rabbi Nesanel Kostelitz. Shortly thereafter, Don became aware that a female donkey was born to the same farmer who cared for the first donkey. Don approached me and asked if I would be willing to partner in this venture in the hope that this donkey would eventually give birth to a male donkey, making it a peter chamor withkedusha as spelled out in the Torah. He carefully explained the risks and potential costs. It was by no means certain if this donkey would give birth to a male and it could take several attempts to achieve the desired result. I replied that if I declined, it was absolutely certain I would not be able to partake in this mitzvah, so I told him I was in until the end. Thus was born our partnership in this rare and wonderful mitzvah!

Don purchased the female donkey during its first year of life, a time when it could not become pregnant. He fre-quently made inquiry on the donkey’s progress and I continued to write my share of checks for the donkey’s feed and care. A number of months later, we learned the donkey was expecting. The question remained – was it a boy or a girl?

On Motzai Simchas Torah, while we were still in Eretz Yisrael, the answer came in an email message from Don, “You are a 50% owner of a MALE, FIRST BORN, Bouncing Baby Donkey. Mazel Tov. Let’s get together . . .”

When we returned to Baltimore, we started the preparations. Fortu-nately, Don knew all the logistics, which made life easier. However, at the same time, he was in and out of the hospital and was quite weak. It was my hope that his involvement in this mitzvah would be a zechus for a re-fuah shelayma.

I very much wanted to have the pidyan peter chamor at Yeshivas

Chofetz Chaim/Talmudical Acade-my of Baltimore, a school very near and dear to me for a number of rea-sons. I thought this rare and exot-ic mitzvah would make a deep im-pression on the young talmidim of the school. Don agreed. Furthermore, our kohein of choice was Rabbi Na-chman Kahana, the Menahal for the Elementary School. We picked up the phone and asked Rabbi Kahana if he would be willing to serve as the ko-hein. He immediately agreed. We then asked his thoughts about hosting

this at TA, he also thought this was a wonderful idea.

My next call was to the President of TA, Rabbi Yehuda Lefkovitz. Rab-bi Lefkovitz was excited about the prospect of hosting this mitzvah at the school. He asked for a few days to meet with the hanhala so they could discuss the logistics. Several days lat-er he called me to inform me that the entire hanhalawas on board and very excited about this mitzvah. All I can say is they went beyond any expecta-tion that I might have had.

Several other details needed to be sorted out. Don was able to se-cure a sheep, and our friend, Saul Passe agreed to help with transporting the sheep for us. My wife Linda, a party planner par excellence, met with the school and went over the final de-tails of the event.

The celebration was scheduled to start at 10:30. It would be held indoors in the Gym/Multipurpose Room, in

order to deal with the weather and se-curity issues. When I arrived at 10:15, one could feel the excitement in the air. Talmidim, including my grand-son Yehuda Elazar, were busy putting out the programs and tehillim on the chairs. A beautiful banner hung above the stage. The room was decorated

with art projects prepared especially by the talmidim in honor of today’s event. At 10:30, the room began to fill up. Students from grades two through twelve filed into the room to music provided by Yehuda Mond. Dr. Mond was on call in the ICU the night before and he told me he had no sleep, but there was no way he was going to miss this event. In addition to the students, distinguished rabbonimand guests

added to the kovod of the event. At approximately 10:45, the pidyan be-gan with introductory remarks from Rabbi Lefkovitz. I then spoke briefly, thanking the Ribbono Shel Olam for allowing me the zechus to participate in this mitzvah. I thanked Don, for giving me the opportunity to partner

with him. I thanked my wife Linda, for all of her hard work, especially coming on the heals of a large Shab-bos Project event held the week before in a tent in our backyard. Everyone knows that if you want to get anything done in my family, speak to Linda. Fi-nally, I thanked TA and all the wonder-ful people there who worked so had on such short notice to make this mitz-vah so amazing and so special.

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Looking Back: Challah Baking at Weinberg Village

NCSY Summer Programs Info Session

Baltimore NCSY and the Wein-berg Village teamed up to create an awesome Challah Bake 2.0! Each teen was paired up with a resident of the Weinberg Village, and made de-licious homemade challah. Over 100 Challah’s were made by the residence

of Weinberg Village, and the teens of Baltimore NCSY. Maya Alezra, VP of Education, spoke about the impor-tance of Challah, and how it connects to Shabbos. Special thanks to Linda Burstyn for organizing this amazing social action project!

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I then addressed the talmidim, telling them to look at what we do so school should never seem boring. I ex-plained why this mitzvah has become so rare, and told them why I was mo-tivated to participate. I left them with the thought that Hashem has blessed us with many wonderful mitzvos. Our job is to look formitzvah opportunities and to grab them when they present.

As I looked out at the many young children, I saw they were mesmerized by the proceedings and by the cham-or, who was beautifully decorated and featured center stage. I thought back at the many years of hard work with my colleagues during my tenure as Chair-man of the Board of TA. Over one thousand students filled the room and that was not the entire student body. I felt such nachas and was grateful to my successors, Chaim Wealcatch, Dr. Joel Pleeter, Ari Krupp and Peretz Wertenteil, for their work in allowing TA to continue to grow and flourish. I saw the hemshech Hadoros as well. Not only did our sons, Dr. Ari Elman and Dr. Dov Elman attend TA, but now our grandsons, Yehuda Elazar, Akiva Gershon and Daniel Dovid, are students there. They enjoyed com-

ing up to help decorate the donkey. I am pleased that the next generation of Elmans has become active in the school, as our daughter-in-law, Mrs. Inbal Elman, serves as Co-President of the PTA. I was happy to see that the amazing love and dedication of TA’s outstanding rabbeim, teachers and staff towards their students continues unabated as the school seamlessly transitions to the next generation of lay and professional leadership.

Following my remarks, Don Mos-covitz shared his thoughts and divrei Torah about the great mitzvah. He said the donkey, while tamei, is the only animal that needs to be redeemed in such a manner. One reason may be that the donkey helped carry the burden of all the riches for Klal Yisra-el when we were redeemed from Mitz-rayim. Rabbi Yaakov Schwartz, Men-ahel of the Middle School, then led thekehilla in the recitation of Tehillim on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael. This was followed by a moving rendition of Achaynu, led by Dr. Mond. Rabbi Schwartz then recit-ed amishabayrach for cholim.

Next Rabbi Yechiel Spero shared moving divrei Torah about this mitz-

vah. He first reviewed thehalachos, explaining them clearly so that all the talmidim would understand them. He then told over an emotional story that moved every person present. Just as the donkey carries the burden for us, we must help carry the burden for other Jews in need. If we can do so successfully, with Hashem’s help we will bezocheh to see Ben Dovid riding on his chamor, ushering in the Geulah Shelayma.

Accompanied by lively music and dancing, student representatives from the different classes then decorated the donkey. Following this, we welcomed the sheep to the stage.

The time had come for the Pidyan Peter Chamor. Don had carefully pre-pared the text, which essentially has been the same for thousands of years for this mitzvah d’oraysa. We first informed the Kohein, Rabbi Kahana, that we wished to redeem the cham-or. He then verified with us that we owned the donkey, and that indeed it was a first born male to its mother.

Next I picked up the sheep and presented it to Rabbi Kahana. I then made the bracha for the pidyan peter chamor. Rabbi Kahana then made

a borei pri hagafen. Finally, I recited, with great emotion, the Shehechiynu bracha. The ceremony concluded with birkas Kohanim from Rabbi Ka-hana to Rabbi Moskovitz, to me and then to the entire tzibbur. The festiv-ities concluded with lively music and spirited dancing.

Rabbi Lefkovitz told me later that he was thrilled that we chose TA for this mitzvah as it might possibly be the only time the talmidim will see this mitzvah performed. He told me that all eyes of the talmidimwere riv-eted to the proceedings, which clearly made a deep impression on all present.

Rabbi Kahana told us that we need to take the energy of this mitzvah and channel it to our Avodas Hashem in the future.

My take home message is that all mitzvos, are a gift. We need to treat the common mitzvos with the same fervor, intensity and awe as these rare mitzvos. We can never take them for granted, but must try to grab hold of them whenever we can.

4th Annual Bnainu Bowl A Thon a SuccessPhoto Credit: BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

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Jewish Community Football League PlayoffPhoto Credit: Uri Arnson

The Jewish Community Football League – sponsored by Northwest Re-fuse, reached peak levels of excitement in the final regular season week of play. With the outcome of almost every game having significant playoff implications, each team came out with an intensity that hadn’t been seen all season long. At the end of it all, four teams remained: Elle Remodeling, Park Heights Roof-ing, OK Uniform Company, and Y and L Landscaping.

The first round of the playoffs pit-ted #1 seed “Elle Remodeling” against #4 seed “Y and L Landscaping; and #2 seed “Park Heights Roofing” against #3 seed “OK Uniform Company.” With the knowledge that the winner of each game would continue on to the Wasserman and Lemberger Bowl, all four teams came to play.

To read about those games, continue below:

#4 Y & L Landscaping shocks the world; defeats #1 Elle Remodeling & moves on to Wasserman & Lemberger Bowl

Y and L Landscaping 40Elle Remodeling 24

Yoyo Strauss and the number 1 ranked Elle Remodeling, entered the first round of the playoffs with a much deserved confidence as they looked to continue their dominating season with an easy defeat of Dan Gutman and his Y&L Landscaping team. Elle had only lost one game all season long and in their previous matchup, Elle had defeat-ed Y and L quite convincingly. However, Gutman and company had other plans. Starting with the ball, Gutman hit WR Moishe Abramson for a long TD on the second play from scrimmage. That early score set the tone as Y&L forced a quick three and out and Gutman once again, connected with Abramson for a deep score. At the conclusion of Y&L’s first four drives, Gutman had connected with his WRs for four deep TDs (three to Abramson and one to WR Aryeh Pliskin) and after only 10 minutes of play, Y&L was up 24-6. With their backs against the wall, Elle Remodeling regrouped at half time and began a furious comeback attempt to start the 2nd half. But Y&L’s star safety, Josh Erez would have none of it. Erez

continued to control the middle of the field, making play after play, includ-ing a crucial 4th quarter interception. The story of the game, however, was

without a doubt, the strong defen-sive line play of Y&L’s Ben Gut-man and Michael Koshkerman. Gutman exhibited a defensive line strength and determination of epic pro-portions. Often rushing alone against two strong offensive lineman, Gutman consistently provided pressure on the shifty ER QB. Fully complimenting Gutman, Khoshkerman leveraged his unparalleled speed to keep Strauss in check, cutting off his running lanes and forcing him to make highly-pres-sured and contested passes. Khosh-

kerman could be seen laying out for flags left and right as he chased Strauss around behind the line of scrimmage. Their containment of Strauss kept the rest of Y&L comfortable in their zone and capable of playing to their strengths. When the dust had settled, Y&L had won 40-24, and was advancing to the Wasserman & Lemberger Bowl.

#2 Park Heights Roofing defeats #3 OK Uniform Company; heads to Wasserman & Lemberger Bowl

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After defeating OK Uniform Co. 33-12 in the semifinals, Park Heights Roofing advances to the Champion-ship to face Y&L Landscaping. Prog-nosticators have attempted to predict the upcoming statistics and fantasy football impact of the PHR players in the upcoming Wasserman & Lem-berger Bowl. So without further ado: Chaim Finkelstein - QB Captain Finkelstein is arguably hav-ing one of his best seasons at age 25. He threw 4 TDs and ran in anoth-er score in a lopsided victory over OK Uniform Co. This upcoming week, he faces a favorable defensive matchup against Y and L and should be locked in as the top fantasy QB. FEARLESS FORECAST: 517 passing yards, 42 rushing yards, 6 Passing TDs, Rush TD. Rafi Strum. WR-CB The athletic dental student comes into this matchup with 4 TDs in his last two games. The always re-liable Strum is a high-end WR1 and is a must start in every format. FEARLESS FORECAST: 9 Rec. 160 yds. 2 TDs. Ozzie Marizon TE Known for his effort and determi-nation, Marizon could be a low-end TE1 this week in PHR’s pass-hap-py attack. A TD would help his value. FEARLESS FORE-CAST: 3 Rec. 48 yds. TD Abbo Aranbayev WR-CB The speedy receiver from Azerbai-jan has tremendous upside if he can

get past his foot injury. Look for him to be targeted early and often. FEARLESS FORE-CAST: 6 Rec. 95 yds. TD Shlomo Goldberger WR-CB The bearded one is settling in to his role as a reliable pass-catcher for PHR. Look for him to build on his strong performance from last week’s game. FEARLESS FORECAST: 5 Rec. 70 yds. Josh Zaslow WR-CB The rugged redhead comes into this matchup as PHR’s most consis-tent receiving threat. After a dom-inant performance last week, ex-pect a similar outcome in this one. FEARLESS FORECAST: 8 Rec. 142 yds. 2 TDs. Shmuel Moinzadeh WR-DL The “Persian Punisher” looks to con-tinue his explosive play with a favor-able matchup this week. He has all the physical tools to be dominant. We like him as a solid WR2 in this one. FEARLESS FORE-CAST: 6 Rec. 88 yds. TD Jason Mann TE-DL The big, athletic TE is a great play this week. With his combi-nation of size and speed, he has the tools to be the top scoring TE. FEARLESS FORE-CAST: 5 Rec. 66 yds. TD Aharon Dinovitz C-DL Even though we don’t normally include linemen, we feel it necessary after his gutsy performance last week. Battling an infection, the Master of Disaster had a game for the ages. He put constant pressure on the opposing QB, collecting 3 sacks, 2 batted passes and an acrobatic interception. We can all learn a lesson on toughness from this living legend. Yaakov Spatz WR-CB Veteran leader of this crew, the Ageless Wonder looks to cap off his historic sea-son with a championship victory. Always good for 2 TDs, he’s a must-start as usual. FEARLESS FORECAST: 5 Rec. 80 yds. 2 TDs.

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Ohr Chadash Academy Introduces the Fruit of the Month Club

One of Ohr Chadash Academy’s goals is that each student receives what he/she needs and graduates from OCA as an independent, capa-ble, and ethical member of the com-munity. Community is one of three pillars that Ohr Chadash stands on. We are very excited to announce that OCA has reached out to Trader Joe’s, a community grocery store, to partner with us in a new initiative which will even further our goal of showing the students that they belong to a greater community.

We are excited to introduce the Fruit of the Month Club now happen-ing at OCA! On the first Wednesday of every month, Trader Joe’s will supply a new fruit for EACH child to try. This month’s fruit is the manda-rin. Today, children in the elementary school were “inducted” into the Fruit of the Month Club by being given a

mandarin to try. We spoke about the nutrition benefits and why making healthier choices are important. Many of the children were excited to try a new fruit and are even more excited for December to see what the fruit will be. Each child received a “mem-bership card” that states he/she is a part of the Fruit of the Month club. Mandarin packages can be found in 5lb bags at Trader Joe’s for a low price of $5.99!

By teaching children about healthy choices and the various fruits/vegeta-bles available, we are opening their eyes to a whole new experience that they may not get otherwise. We are thrilled to be partnering with Trader Joe’s, and it is our hope that this will guide (and continue) the students to making healthier choices.

Rav Moshe Meiselman shlit”a Visits Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr Hatorah

It was a great kavod for Yeshiva Gedolah Ohr Hatorah have Harav Moshe Meiselman, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Toras Moshe (Yerushalay-im), address the talmidim last Thurs-day night, November 5. The Rosh Yeshiva was in Baltimore for the weekend visiting talmidim, and two of them, Daniel Fink and Uri Rab-inowitz, asked him to speak to the Ohr Hatorah bochurim.

In his typical fashion, he exhort-ed the bochurim to devote themselves as Avdei Hashem. Contrasting Hagar with Rus, the Rosh Yeshiva explained that Hagar never fully cut her ties with Mitzrayim, and is thus always referred to as a Mitzris and/or a Shif-cha, whereas Rus completely severs her psychological ties with Mo’av and as such is zoche to become part of Klal Yisrael. The need to create with-

in ourselves a dveikus to the Ribbono Shel Olam, and leave our personal, worldly desires behind, is essential to the growth of a Ben Torah.

The same lesson is brought out through Eliezer. Even though Eliezer reached great levels, his primary fo-

cus was to serve Avraham Avinu. For that reason he is referred to as “Eved Avraham” or simply “ha’eved”. The ultimate goal of serving the Ribbono Shel Olam purely for His sake was only reached at periodic times, and in those instances the Torah calls Eliezer an “ish.”

After the shiur, many bochurim took advantage of the special oppor-

tunity to talk with the Rosh Yeshiva. The Rosh Yeshiva’s vast knowledge and clarity of thought left them with the special taste of Toras Eretz Yis-rael. Rav Meiselman’s visit joins the growing list of chashuvim who have helped shine the light of Ohr Hatorah in Baltimore.

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It’s Cookie Time

Troop 613 (Ner Tamid) is the only Jewish (and we are Shomer Shabbos) Girl Scout Troop in Baltimore. We have 1 – 5 grade girls (we are up to 21 members in just 2 months). So far we have built rock-ets, baked cookies, and more.

We are selling Cookies. You know those delicious cookies which everybody loves. They are not just Thin Mints. There are also, Thanks a lot cookie, Caramel Delites (Samoas), Lemonades, Cranberry Citrus Crisps, Peanut Butter Patties (Tag-alongs), Shortbread, and Peanut butter sandwiches. You can order through a girl scout or on-line (and enter the name of the scout).

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Torah Umesorah/Baltimore Mechanchim Celebrate Shabbos of Chizuk/Melave Malka Honoring Dr. Larry Katz

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If you have a child or grandchild in an Orthodox day school in Baltimore, chances are his teachers or principals were present at the Hunt Valley Wyn-dham this past Shabbos. Torah Ume-sorah held the First Annual Shabbos of Chizuk for Baltimore Mechanchim (Torah educators) this past weekend. Over 350 people attended an inspi-rational Shabbos featuring speak-ers from the Baltimore area and out of state, including HaRav HaGaon Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh HaYeshi-va of the Philadelphia Yeshiva.

Mrs. Elise Wolf, General Studies Principal at Bais Yaakov served on the committee which spearheaded and or-ganized this event, along with Rabbi Dovid Meister, Rabbi Yosef Neuberg-er-Sgan Menahel of Mechinas Ner Yisrael, Rabbi Shea Rybak, of Torah Umesorah, and several others. Mrs. Wolf said that Torah Umesorah, with its experience in putting together such events, already knows what needs to be checked into. The hotel was very accommodating to their group espe-cially when it came to Shabbos as it pertained to the electronics used in the hotel. No detail was overlooked.

The Shabbos was a huge success. As Maggie Silver, a teacher at T.A. said, “It was a beautiful and inspi-rational weekend where we had the opportunity to hear from people from out of town that we don’t normally get the opportunity to hear and to con-nect to other professionals who value what we do and bring it back to the classroom with us.”

On Motzaei Shabbos, an addition-al 250 people joined their colleagues for workshops and a Melave Mal-ka beautifully catered by O’Fishel Caterers. There, Dr. Larry Katz was honored for his role in supporting, assisting and forwarding the cause of Jewish education. Rabbi Dovid

Meister, who presented the award, first spoke to the educators in the room, praising them for their “ability to educate, sustain, energize and mo-tivate” students. But he emphasized that without the help of a dedicat-ed lay leadership, this could not be achieved.

Speaking of Dr. Larry and Mrs. Sandy Katz he said, “There is one couple that has worked in this com-munity over four decades. We’d like to acknowledge them tonight, not just for one small thing they’ve done but for the mesiras nefesh on their part over the years of service to the mos-dos (institutions) and to the mechan-chim” (teachers.) Rabbi Meister said he could only speak about the tip of the iceberg regarding all that the Katzes had done for the sake of chi-nuch in our community. Among Dr. Katz’s past achievements and titles, were listed his role as executive mem-ber at Bais Yaakov, chairman of the board at T.A., supporter and advocate of Agudath Israel, his leading role on many committees of The Associated, being on the task force to help create Shemesh and helping in many ways to ease the ability of yeshivas to qual-ify for funding, grants and loans.

As chairman of the trustees of the Charles Crane Family Foundation, Dr. Katz enables our institutions and teachers to take advantage of profes-sional development on many levels in-cluding this conference. Rabbi Meis-ter said about the Katzes, “Whenever they were involved with any group or committee, they served in such a way that they were able to do something unique. Dr. Katz has the incredible ability to advance his cause, Jewish education in day schools, by being a role model for people of all walks of life and all persuasions. He was persuasive, led with grace and made

a positive impression,” committing others to the importance of Jewish education.

Dr. Katz also spoke briefly, em-phasizing how his wife Sandy was an instrumental partner to his success.

He said when he retired (after being a professor and dean at the Univer-sity of Baltimore Law School) he

was “lucky to have fallen into a role, which is a dream: giving away other people’s money.”

The last speaker, Rabbi Dovid Katzenstein, Rosh Mesivta of the Ye-shiva of Greater Washington, gave

more chizuk and praise to the educa-tors present, emphasizing that when they teach they are planting and nur-turing seeds which will grow in the future.

The evening culminted with an Abish Brodt led kumzitz and dancing to the music of Ben Zion Weiss.

It is planned that this will be just the first of many future Shabbos of Chizuk events in Baltimore.

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Hapoel Baltimore Soc-cer reached Mid-Season of their 2015 fall soccer sea-son this.

Boys 3+ (3rd Grade and Older) League

At the mid-point of the B3+ League regular season standings, Yerushalayim and Be’er Sheva are tied for first place with 2 Wins, 0 Losses, and 1 Tie. Ti-veria is in third place with 1 Win and 2 Losses and Chevron is in fourth place with 0 Wins and 3 Losses.

The League’s two lead-ing scorers are Yerusha-layim’s Avi Schulman with 4 goals and Tiveria’s Menachem Berman with 3 goals and 1 Assist. Other leading scorers are Yaakov Neuman, Haim Dashevsky, Yechiel Goldsmith, Dan-iel Kholasechi, Moishy Kaplowitz, Daniel Baron, Yosef Pasch, Rafi Feldman, Jordan Elgamil, and Geda-lya Blau.

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ten, 1st and 2nd Grade) League

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the BK12 regular season, Yerushalayim is the league leader with 3 Wins and 0 Losses followed by Chev-

ron with 2 Wins and 1 Loss, Tiveria with 1 Win and 2 Losses, and Be’er Sheva with 0 Wins and 3 Losses.

The league leading scorer with 14 goals is Tzvi Goldman followed by Shimshon Szendro and Tuvia Fleminger, both with 5 goals, and Avra-ham Javaheforoush with 3 goals. Following these four boys are Aaron Kush-ner, Omer Peretz, Moshe Scott, Yoni Bakaev, Zal-man Dashevsky, Shimmy Goldman, David Khosha-yev, Emanuel Kholasechi, Ari Lazewnik, and Doniel Perles.

Girls 4+ (4th Grade and older) League

At the G4+ League regular season mid-point,

there is a three-way tie for first place between Chev-ron,

Tiveria, and Yerusha-layim. Be’er Sheva is in fourth place.

The League’s leading scorers are Yerushalayim’s Rivka Gelberman and Ti-veria’s Meital Shiller, both with 2 goals. The other leading scorers with one goal each are Chevron’s Sarah Javaherforoush and Tiveria’s Yehudis Froeh-lich.

Girls K123 (Kinder-garten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade) League

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season mid-season point, Tiveria leads the league with 3 Wins and 0 Losses. Chevron is in second with 2

Wins and 1 Loss, Yerusha-layim in third with 1 Win and 2 Losses and, in fourth, Be’er Sheva with 0 Wins and 3 Losses.

The League’s two lead-ing scorer are Tiveria’s Miriam Schwartz with 12 goals and Miriam Liebman with 8 goals and 1 assist. The other leading scorers are Aviva Gibber, 8 goals, Rena Caine, 5 goals and 2 assists, Naomi Weil, 4 goals, as well, in order, Es-ther Friedman, Adira Her-man, Perri Klein, Ruthie Weil, and Ahuva Bronfin.


Rav Meiselman, Shlita, Delivered a Shmuez in Baltimore on the Eve of the first yahrzeit of HaGaon HaKadosh Rav Mosheh Twersky, Zatzal, H’yd

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On November 5th, Bais Hakness-es Ohr HaChaim (Rabbi Zvi Weiss) hosted the Rosh HaYeshiva of Ye-shiva Toras Moshe (TOMO), Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, shlita, to deliver a Shmuez on the Parsha.

Albeit with late notice, a respect-able crowd of both alumni and others from the Baltimore community gath-ered to hear Divrei Musar from Rav

Meiselman, shlita.On the Eve of the first yahrzeit of HaGaon HaKadosh Rav Mosheh Twersky, Zatzal, H’yd, the Rosh Yeshiva touched on the point of living our lives to the fullest and understanding that there is an Infinite Power Above that ultimately runs our lives. In addition, if one truly inter-nalizes this point, a person’s middos will shine forth and exemplify the

lifestyle of one who is there to give over to others and will do so effectively. The Baltimore Community is blessed to have so many who have benefitted from the yeshiva’s Torah and honored to have the Rosh Yeshiva in our midst.

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Pirchei Agudas Yisrael of Baltimore Annual Hasmadah Banquet Draws More Than 600 Attendees

Isaac Draiman Photo Credit: BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Jeff Cohn

Annually, Pirchei Agudas Yisrael of Balti-more provides an incentive to the Yeshiva boys of elementary school age to use their Succos va-cation time productively with daily Torah study.

Any boy that completes the contest’s required amount of time is invited to a gala banquet in their honor. Fathers are invited and encouraged to accompany their sons.

This year more than 600 attended the banquet held in the social hall at Shomrei Emuna Con-gregation. O’Fishel Caterers provided the meal and Mr. Samuel Beck accompanied the singing crowd with his keyboard and sound system. Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, Pirchei Director, wel-comed everyone and introduced Rabbi Moshe Heinemann, shlita, who shared an inspirational story encouraging the boys in their studies.

For the evening’s entertainment, the crowd was electrified by the performance and antics of the “Wacky Chad”, an acrobat who jumped and did stunts on his pogo stick about 15 feet in the air, to the delight of the youngsters - and adults! He rode on his 10 foot - high unicycle and jug-gled too.

The program ended with benching and a raf-fle. The event was enjoyed by all. It allowed fathers the opportunity to bond with their sons as well as encourage their efforts. It enhanced our feeling of community and purpose; coming together to show what we value most.


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Shlomo Trachtenberg Conversion Rate Optimization Manager at Laureate Education and Founder of Digital Trax LLC

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Brooklyn NY What shul do you daven at regu-

larly? Derech Chaim – Rabbi Gross How did you get started in the

world of digital marketing?I have a background in business

and I was not sure where I wanted to go with it. After process of elimination I realized that the classic accounting or lawyer type jobs did not appeal to me. A friend of mine suggested I look in to digital marketing as it was a growing field. I found a digital marketing agency in Columbia, MD called WebMechanix that was running a three month training course teaching all the ins and out of every channel within digital marketing. I realized that I wanted a more holistic view of marketing outside of “digital” and managed to find an internship at a

local marketing and sales consulting firm called Brand Launcher. So, half of the week I was learning digital mar-keting and the other half I was learning regular marketing and sales.

Where do you work and can you tell us a little bit about the business?

I work at Laureate Education located in Harbor East and I man-age conversion optimization across a number of national and international universities. Laureate Education owns universities around the world and is one of the biggest universities offering on-line education in the world. A big per-centage of their students are acquired through online marketing. Conversion optimization is testing different varia-tions of elements on a website in order to get the users to take a certain action. For example if you had a e-commerce website and you were thinking of add-ing a live chat function to your cart. However you are unsure whether this would help people complete their pur-chase or it runs the risk of distracting and losing them. So that would be an opportunity to test it out and see how it performs. The test would send 50% of people to checkout cart with live chat and 50% to a checkout cart without and see which one converts more sales.

Aside from my job at Laureate I also

run and own a digital marketing agency called Digital Trax LLC. At Digital Trax we aim to take all of the strategies and technology that is used by big corpora-

tions and adapt and apply them to small and medium sized businesses.

Is there a creative side to the busi-ness?

What I really like most about digital marketing is that there is something for everyone. If you are creative, analytical or good with numbers there is an area that you can excel.

What are the biggest challengers business are running in to and how do you solve them?

The biggest challenge that business owners face is that they know they need to be doing something online to grow their business but they have no idea where to begin, what to do and how to do it. Digital Trax helps identify each businesses goals and target audience and develops custom strategies to reach them online.

Would you recommend a career in this field to a friend?

If it is the right fit then definitely yes. The field is relatively new and con-stantly changing, it’s exciting, but not for everyone.

What is one thing you find unique about the way you oper-ate?

Being data driven, all my mar-keting decisions are based on data. Everything in online marketing is measurable (it’s pretty scary) from

every click to every mouse movement everything can be tracked. So this is one area where you do not go with your gut.

Before we sign off, what advice would you give to someone who is just starting off in the world of digital marketing?

Go broad. Don’t learn only one field of digital marketing, learn everything and know it well. From search engine optimization (SEO) to pay-per-click ad-vertising (PPC) and display advertising learn it all and be on top of the latest within each industry. Try and get expe-rience outside of digital marketing and understand the whole marketing and sales funnel and its’ stages. This will make you much more of a valuable as-set to any business.

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Who’s Got the Power?

Russian President Vladimir Putin sees himself as a powerful force to be reckoned with. Last year he marched into Ukraine and helped himself to a piece of land. This year, he has wig-gled himself into the Syrian conflict and has yet to bow to Western powers.

But it seems that Putin’s power is not just in his mind. In fact, for the third year in a row, Forbes has put Putin in the top spot on its World’s Most Powerful People list. The list, like every year, includes an array of top ranking leaders, innovators, and benefactors. Of the top banana, the magazine wrote, “[Putin is] one of the few men in the world powerful enough to do what he wants – and get away with it.” The Russian leader has suspiciously high popularity ratings in his country despite his involvement in armed conflicts and a bad economic crisis crippling his nation.

Next on the list of world’s most powerful people is German Chancel-lor Angela Merkel, who uses her pow-er to promote unity on the continent and generosity toward the less fortu-nate, Forbes said in calling her “the most powerful woman on the planet for 10 years running.”

The number three spot is occupied by none other than President Barack Obama himself as the current leader

of “the world’s greatest economic, cultural, diplomatic, technological and military power.” However, Forbes mentioned that partisan politics inhib-it Obama from a more effective lead-ership in Washington.

The youngest person on the list was Facebook founder Mark Zuck-erberg (No. 19) at the age of 31. The next youngest person is North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (No. 46) who is believed to be 32. The average age of the world’s most powerful people is 60. There are several individuals on the list in their 60s but Warren Buffet at the age of 85 skews the list heavily.

So who are the powerful peo-ple who run the world, according to Forbes? Here is a list of the top ten for this year.

1. Vladimir Putin2. Angela Merkel3. Barack Obama4. Pope Francis5. Xi Jinping6. Bill Gates7. Janet Yellen8. David Cameron9. Narendra Modi10. Larry Page

Bomb Brought Down Russian Plane

Several U.S. intelligence, mili-tary and national security officials have related that terrorists bombed Metrojet Flight 9268 on October 31 in which all 224 people onboard were killed.

The plane was headed from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, Russia,. But not long after takeoff, it disintegrated midair and crashed in the Sinai Pen-

insula.British Foreign Secretary Philip

Hammond related that his govern-ment still believes “it’s more likely than not” that an explosive device caused the plane crash. “Obviously, we won’t know absolutely for certain until the final analysis of the wreck-age has taken place,” he said. “That could take some time.”

Egyptian officials, who are lead-ing the main crash investigation, ha-ven’t expressed as much confidence in the bomb theory. “All the scenari-os” are still on the table, said Ayman al-Muqaddam, the head of the inves-tigation. “We don’t know what hap-pened exactly,” he admitted.

The Egyptians aren’t the only ones involved in the investigation. Experts from Russia, France, Ger-many and Ireland – countries that are connected in various ways to the Airbus A321-200 that crashed – are also investigating. The U.S. has of-fered assistance by the FBI. At least some of the intelligence intercepts being used to assess what happened to the jetliner came from Israeli intel-ligence, according to a U.S. official briefed on the intelligence as well as a diplomatic source.

The Sinai affiliate of ISIS claims responsibility for downing the plane, but so far has yet to explain how the group was able to do so. As such, many are doubting the group’s claim, as it has used these types of acts as propaganda for their cause.

An explosive noise was heard in the recovered cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder but authori-ties don’t want to say with complete certainty that a bomb caused that sound.

Myanmar Elections Yield Win for Democracy

Early results for elections in Myan-mar show a big victory for the Nation-al League for Democracy (NLD). It was seen as the most democratic elec-tion in the country in the past 25 years. In an interview with BBC, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi said the polls were not fair but “largely free.” Even so, she admitted that there had been “ar-eas of intimidation.”

A quarter of Myanmar’s 664 par-liamentary seats are set aside for the army, and for the NLD to have the winning majority it will need at least two-thirds of the contested seats. But Suu Kyi is confident that her party has surpassed that and has won around 75%. The final results of the election won’t be revealed for the next few days.

The military-backed Union Soli-darity Development Party (USDP) has been in power in Myanmar since 2011 when the country began its transition from decades of military rule to a ci-vilian government.

“Times have changed; people have changed,” Suu Kyi said.

She is constitutionally barred from becoming president because people with foreign offspring are blocked from holding the post, but she said that she will still be making the im-portant decisions while a colleague will be holding the official title. “A rose by another name,” Suu Kyi told the BBC in the first interview since the election.

Results from Sunday’s election are slowly being announced. The election commission says the NLD has taken 78 of the 88 seats announced so far for the 440-seat lower house of par-liament.

Election monitors from the U.S.-based Carter Center, who observed 245 polling stations, described the elections in most areas as “competi-tive and meaningful” with generally

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well-conducted voting and counting. The group noted several problems in-cluding the barring of members of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority from voting, a lack of transparency in the advance voting process and incon-sistency in making preliminary results available at the constituency level.

“Prejudice is not removed easily and hatred is not going to be removed easily... I’m confident the great major-ity of the people want peace… they do not want to live on a diet of hate and fear,” Suu Kyi said.

Taliban Infighting Leads to More Deaths

Over 50 “freedom fighters” died this week when two rival Taliban groups clashed in southern Afghan-istan. Fighters led by the newly ap-pointed leader Mullah Mohammad Rasool clashed with those loyal to Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Man-soor in Zabul province.

Anwar Ishaqzai, governor of southern Zabul province, said the Tal-iban break-off group – known as the High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate – has joined up with fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Le-vant (ISIL) group. “The Taliban fac-tion under Mullah Rasool was backed by the ISIL and Uzbek fighters in the fight,” he related.

Abdul Manan Niazi, spokesper-son for the breakaway faction, de-nied the ISIL association. “We will never join them. Their ideologies are different, they come from a different

background and a different history,” he told Al Jazeera. “These are all false accusations. We can never ask for their support to fight our enemies or re-establish the Islamic rule.” ISIL, which controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria, started building a presence in Zabul earlier this year.

Mullah Mansoor’s followers initi-ated the fight, Niazi accused. “Since

the announcement of our new leader, we’ve been highlighting that we are not in the favor of fighting with each other,” he insisted. “This fight was ini-tiated by them.”

The split into two groups followed the appointment of the main new lead-er, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, within the terrorist group. The Taliban Supreme Council, or Shura Council, said it had

not been consulted, and late last week, the breakaway group elected its own leader, Mullah Mohammed Rasool Akhund. The rift has raised specula-tion over the group’s unity and future.

Last month, Barack Obama an-nounced that he will extend the U.S. military role in the country and keep the current force of 9,800 troops through most of 2016 amid a surge in

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Taliban attacks. Under the new plan, though, the number of U.S. troops would fall to 5,500, starting in 2017.

Top N. Korean Official Suspiciously Absent

A state funeral in North Korea has sparked further speculation of purge rumors after one of Kim Jong-Un’s most powerful aides was omitted from the official funeral committee list.

Marshal Ri Ul-Sol, who died of lung cancer over the weekend, was to be given a state funeral on November 11, and the list of 170 names pub-lished on Sunday – headed by leader Kim Jong-Un – is an official Who’s Who of the top political and military hierarchy. A notable absentee, how-ever, is Choe Ryong-Hae, a member of the ruling party’s politburo standing committee and seen as one of Kim’s closest confidantes. This is surprising because under normal circumstances Choe would be on the list even if he was ill. Experts do not believe that the omission of someone of this stature could possibly be a mistake.

“It’s almost impossible that this happened unless Choe ... was re-moved from key positions,” said

Cheong Seong-Chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think-tank in Seoul. “I suspect that Choe might have been involved in serious trouble such as a major corruption scandal or defamation.”

Seoul’s Unification Ministry, which handles North Korea affairs, also noted the omission in a regular press briefing on Monday. “We cer-tainly view it as unusual given past precedent,” said ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-Hee.

This is the first time Choe’s pres-ence or lack of it has been recognized. He was also noticeably absent when Kim paid tribute at Ri’s wake on Sun-day along with several senior military cadres, according to footage from North Korean state TV.

Up until now Choe was regarded as Kim Jong-Un’s most trusted diplo-mat and was selected to deliver a per-sonal message to Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013. He visited Beijing

again in September as North Korea’s representative at China’s giant WWII victory anniversary parade. Choe was mentioned by state media as recently as October 31, when he made a state-ment about a ruling party congress to be held next year.

Of course Choe’s absence has caused a wave of political purge and executions rumors. Kim Jong-Un is known to be cruel in eliminating even the highest-ranking officials whose loyalty have been brought into ques-tion. Kim had his powerful uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, executed in De-cember 2012 on charges of treason and corruption.

The Kim dynasty has ruled the im-poverished North Korea for over six decades with an iron fist and zero tol-erance for difference.

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China Choked by Smog

As China continues to combat its smog issue, the problem continues to gradually get worse. On Monday, lev-els of dangerous particulates reached around 50 times World Health Orga-nization maximums, in what envi-ronmental campaigners said were the highest figures ever recorded in the country.

In photos, smog is seen so thick that entire buildings in Changchun, the capital of Jilin province in the northeast, were almost completely in-visible. One image showed a restau-rant’s neon sign seemingly floating in mid-air above traffic, proclaiming in yellow: “Eastern Dumpling King.”

Levels of PM2.5, the tiny airborne particles considered most harmful to health, reached 860 micrograms per cubic meter in the city of around eight million this week. The World Health Organization’s recommended maxi-mum is a 24-hour average of 25 mi-crograms.

“Today’s haze is pretty severe and choking – when I walked out the door I thought someone’s house was on fire,” said one poster in Changchun on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

The official news agency Xinhua quoted a hospital official in the city saying that its respiratory ward had been overwhelmed, with all its beds full.

China’s pollution problem tends to get worse in the winter time when power consumption rises due to an in-creased need for heat. The toxic issue has been linked to hundreds of thou-

sands of premature deaths and has become a major source of popular dis-content with the government. Accord-ing to research, PM2.5 particulates can be linked to heart disease, stroke, and lung ailments such as emphysema

and cancer. Shenyang’s apocalyptic smog was

caused by coal use from its public heating system and by heavy pollu-tion blown in from other provinces, city environmental authorities said on

a verified social media account.The Changchun city government

said on social media on Monday that it was initiating a “level three” emer-gency response, telling schools to stop organizing outdoor activities, and re-

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minding residents to stay indoors and “take health precautions,” without further specifications.

Last month, an environmental group found that nearly 80 percent of Chinese cities had pollution levels that “greatly exceeded” national standards over the first nine months of this year.

Most Jews Feel Safe

A new survey conducted among Jewish community leaders around the world has found that 77 percent reported that their members do not feel threatened in their places of res-idence, including 56 percent of Euro-pean Jews. 21 percent of leaders said their community members felt unsafe – about half of them due to the growth in anti-Semitism, and others because of anger directed at Israel, local crim-inal crime, the economic situation, and the immigration problem in Eu-rope.

Ahead of the Ninth World Confer-ence of Jewish Community Centers (JCC Global), which is being held in Jerusalem this week, JCC leaders were asked whether the current sit-uation in Israel affected them. The findings were surprising: Forty-six percent said the community’s sense of security was unaffected by the cur-rent round of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, while 35% said they felt less secure. Ten percent even reported a higher sense of personal safety recently.

The interviewees were also asked to rank Diaspora Jewry’s challenges.

They revealed that unity within their communities is more important to them than the connection with Israel, preventing assimilation and fighting anti-Semitism. The absolute majority stated, however, that they feel a sense of solidarity with and commitment towards other Jewish communities in the world, which is reflected in the willingness to help and support them at times of trouble.

Participating in the JCC Global conference are more than 400 commu-nity leaders and executive directors of JCCs from Europe, North America, Central and South America, and lead-ers of small communities from India and the Philippines. The countries represented in the conference include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, England, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Mexico, Moldova, Po-land, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, Venezue-la, Paraguay and Israel.

The conference, which is held in Israel every four years, is focusing this year on the urgent issues Jewish communities are dealing with. Partic-ipants are also discussing innovative global cooperation programs between the community centers as part of ef-forts to reassure the Jewish people around the world.

Nazi Volunteers Still Paid by German Govt

Spaniards who volunteered to fight for the Nazis during World War

II are still having their pensions paid by the German government. Accord-ing to a German newspaper, Berlin is still honoring an agreement made with Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, whose regime encouraged volunteers to sign up to fight for Adolf Hitler against Communist Russia between 1941 and 1943.

In a written reply to the recent rev-elations, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government admitted that it was still paying out over 100,000 euro a year in pensions to survivors and relatives of troops from the so-called Blue Di-vision, in whose ranks Spanish volun-teers fought on the Eastern Front. The current annual bill to German tax-payers stands at 107,352 euro which is granted to 41 veterans who were wounded while fighting for the Nazis, eight widows of former fighters, and one orphan of a Blue Division volun-teer.

The agreement to pay pensions to Blue Division veterans was made between Franco’s government and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1962, the newspaper said. The reve-lation follows a similar one last year in the United States, where it was ex-posed that dozens of suspected Nazis, including at least four living benefi-ciaries, received millions of dollars in benefits over the years due to legal loopholes. The House of Representa-tives later unanimously approved a bill that closes these loopholes and stipu-lates that Nazis should be stripped of their Social Security benefits.

World’s Most Expensive Gas Station?

The American taxpayer is on the hook for a $43 million gas station constructed in Afghanistan. The De-partment of Defense cannot explain why the cost was about $42.5 million higher than it should’ve been, accord-ing to a new government report.

“The DOD charged the American taxpayer $43 million for what is likely the world’s most expensive gas sta-tion,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said. “DOD spent $43 million on the gas station, without de-termining it would be a good idea, and now claims it knows nothing about the project.”

The SIGAR report details the plan-ning and construction of a compressed natural gas (CNG) station as part of a larger Downstream Gas Utilization Project designed to take advantage of Afghanistan’s natural gas reserves. The gas station itself was meant to prove that CNG stations were a good alternative to imported gasoline for Afghan vehicles. SIGAR found that in other countries, for example in Pa-kistan next door, the total cost for con-structing a CNG station can be up to $500,000 – not the astronomical $43 million the DOD paid.

“Even considering security costs associated with construction and op-eration in Afghanistan, this level of expenditure appears gratuitous and extreme,” the SIGAR report points out. Beyond the high cost, SIGAR reports that the DOD task force did not look into the feasibility of the gas station and that the infrastructure necessary to support the CNG station was lacking. Additionally, the cost of converting local vehicles to be able to use compressed natural gas is report-edly around $700 – a little more than the average annual income for locals. “In sum, it is not clear why TFBSO [Task Force for Business and Stabili-ty Operations, a division of the DOD] believed the CNG filling station proj-ect should be undertaken,” the SIGAR report says.

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the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, declared that it is “negligent and irresponsible for the Obama administration to spend the American taxpayer’s hard-earned money with such careless abandon.”

“Miracle” Cure Helps Baby Beat Cancer

Genetically engineered immune cells have been used to treat a baby girl with aggressive leukemia in Lon-don. One-year-old Layla Richards was given months to live after convention-al treatments failed to eradicate the disease, but she is now cancer-free and doing well, a response one doctor described as “almost a miracle.”

Specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) treated the girl two months ago and stressed that it could be more than a year before they know for sure whether the therapy has cured the disease or simply delayed its progression. “We have only used this treatment on one very strong lit-tle girl, and we have to be cautious about claiming this will be a suitable treatment option for all children,” said Waseem Qasim, professor of cell and gene therapy at University College London’s (UCL) Institute of Child Health and a consultant immunologist at GOSH. “But this is a landmark in the use of new gene engineering tech-nology and the effects for this child have been staggering,” he said.

Layla was diagnosed with an ag-gressive case of acute lymphoblas-tic leukemia. While cure rates are generally high for the disease, only about 25% of children survive the most aggressive forms. Layla began chemotherapy the day after she was diagnosed and then had a bone mar-row transplant to replace her damaged blood cells.

Despite several rounds of intensive chemotherapy, Layla still had leuke-mia cells in her body when the trans-plant was performed, and seven weeks later the disease returned. Soon after, doctors told the family there were no

other treatments that might cure Lay-la and suggested palliative care. But Layla’s parents, Lisa and Ashleigh, insisted that the doctors keep trying. “We didn’t want to accept palliative care and give up on our daughter, so we asked the doctors to try anything for our daughter, even if it hadn’t been tried before,” Lisa said.

The hospital had been working on an experimental cell-based treatment for leukemia. Researchers at UCL showed that the modified cells had an anti-cancer effect, but it had only been tested on mice with leukemia. After emergency approval by the eth-ics committee, Layla received an in-fusion of the genetically engineered immune cells under special therapy regulations.

A few weeks later, Layla devel-oped a rash that indicated the cells were working. Layla was still clear of leukemia two months later, allow-ing doctors to give her a second bone marrow transplant to replace her en-tire blood and immune system, which had been wiped out by the treatment. A month later, she was well enough to go home.

Paul Veys, director of bone mar-row transplant at GOSH, said: “As this was the first time that the treat-ment had been used, we didn’t know if or when it would work and so we were over the moon when it did. Her leukemia was so aggressive that such a response is almost a miracle.” One other patient is already receiving the treatment under the care of a different medical team.

Clinical trials of the cells, fund-ed by the French biopharmaceutical company, Cellectis, are due to begin in early 2016.

China’s “Two Child” Policy will Add 3M to Population

Around three million extra babies will be born each year after Beijing abolished its hugely controversial

“one child” policy to allow all couples to have two offspring, officials said on Tuesday.

Decades of strict, sometimes bru-tal, enforcement left the world’s larg-est population – 1.37 billion people – aging rapidly and with a shrinking workforce that has heightened the challenges of a slow economic growth.

The rule change was announced after a key Communist Party meeting last month and will allow 90 million more Chinese women a second child, said Wang Pei’an, a vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Half of the women, though, are between 40 and 49, and may not be able to have more children. Additionally, some may be “reluctant” to have more.

Before the change, not all families needed to keep their offspring at one. 50 million women were already enti-tled to have a second baby under vari-ous exemptions – rural families whose first child is a girl, couples where one is an only child, and ethnic minorities.

There were nearly 17 million births in China in 2014 and Wang said the new expanded policy will see around three million extra babies born each year over the next five years. A total of about 30 million people will be added to the labor force by 2050.

“The across-the-board two-child policy in the short term will drive consumption for housing, education, healthcare, housekeeping and daily necessities, stimulate investment in relevant sectors and increase job of-ferings,” Wang pointed out.

China’s family planning policy was instituted in the late 1970s and re-stricted most couples to only a single offspring.

Anti-Immigration Movement Growing in Germany

Germany’s anti-mass migration party, Alternative für Deutschland, also known as the AfD, has seen its popularity surge in the past few months as Germany struggles to deal with a huge influx of migrants. The party is demanding the resignation of Chancellor Angela Merkel and calling for the country to adopt a strong poli-cy on immigration.

This week, 5,000 people joined a rally calling for the immediate closure of Germany’s borders and introduc-tion of visa requirements from mi-grants from the Balkan states, includ-ing Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro. Angry demonstrators chanted, “Merkel must go” and “Trai-tor to the people” under the banner “Asylum has its limits – red card for Merkel.” For those of us who are not huge soccer fans, a red card is shown when a player is being ejected from a soccer match.

Addressing the crowd, Beatrix von Storch, member of the Europe-an Parliament, accused the German chancellor of causing “asylum chaos” in Germany.

Although the main protest was largely peaceful, several counter-pro-tests by pro-migrant activists descend-ed into violence, with around 40 ar-rests.

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Many Missing as Dams Flood Brazilian Town

The equivalent of 25,000 Olym-pic swimming pools of water flooded Bento Rodrigues in Brazil when dams north of the village collapsed last week. While many residents managed to save themselves by running to high-er ground, four deaths have already been confirmed and 25 other people, including children, are missing.

More than 500 people lived in Bento Rodrigues, which lies about four miles south of the burst dams. It is part of Mariana, an old colonial town and a major tourist attraction in Brazil.

Mariana Mayor Duarte Junior said some 500 people were taking part in the rescue effort. “The search goes on. We are doing what we can,” he said.

The thick red mud surge engulfed cars and trains and destroyed homes. The floodwaters and mud have now reached towns up to 40 miles away. On Monday, authorities told search-

ers and people in the community not to come in contact with the mud and to throw out any clothes that may have come in contact with debris for fear of contamination. Drinking water is feared to have been contam-inated.

The cause of the breach is not yet known. The authorities are investi-gating whether low-intensity trem-ors registered in the area could have played a part in the tragedy.

Historic Meeting between Leaders of China and Taiwan

Since the two countries split apart 66 years ago, leaders of China and Taiwan had never met each other for-mally until this week. Chinese Presi-dent Xi Jinping and Taiwanese Presi-dent Ma Ying-jeou came together on neutral ground in the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore, walking to-ward each other in front of a backdrop of yellow, the traditional color of Chi-nese emperors. In order to get around

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China’s refusal to recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty or its government’s for-mal legitimacy, no national flags were present at the meeting.

In brief opening remarks in front of reporters before going into a closed-door meeting, Xi said, “Histo-ry will record this day.” He alluded to China’s long-cherished goals of uni-fication with Taiwan, declaring, “We are one family,” and “No force can pull us apart.” Ma said, “Both sides should respect each other’s values and way of life,” while adding that relations between the sides were “the most peaceful and stable they have ever been.”

When they split in 1949, both sides aspired to absorb the other, with each claiming the mantle of the only legitimate government of all of China, Taiwan included. Communist Party-ruled China still demands that Taiwan eventually be unified with the mainland, by force if necessary,

while many citizens of democratic Taiwan increasingly prefer to simply maintain the separate status the island has carved out over more than six de-cades.

Critics of Ma in Taiwan are wary that his meeting with Xi and similar contacts will pave the way for Bei-jing to assert greater control over the island, further deepening its interna-tional isolation. However, Ma said at a post-meeting news conference that he discussed with Xi the Taiwanese people’s desire for greater participa-tion in global society, particularly for non-governmental organizations. Chi-na refuses to acknowledge the island as anything other than a breakaway province. Pressure from Beijing keeps Taiwan out of the United Nations and other major multinational organiza-tions.

Obama and Netanyahu’s Meeting in DC

“One of the best meetings I’ve had with him,” was how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his sit-down with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday.

Speaking just moments after his two-and-half hour powwow with Obama, Netanyahu said the discus-sion focused mainly on Israel’s se-curity needs and American military aid to Israel, and steps on the ground Jerusalem intends to take to stabilize relations with the Palestinians.

Certain topics were not broached during their meeting. The president did not ask Netanyahu to freeze set-tlements, Netanyahu said. His contro-versial appointment of Ran Baratz as his new communications director did not come up during the meeting, the prime minister added, reiterating that he will “deal with the matter” upon his return to Israel.

“What you saw from the outside is also what transpired on the inside. It was one of the best meetings I’ve had with Obama,” Netanyahu said. “The conversation was in very good spirits and very honest; no one hid the disagreements between us. Rather, we focused on how to go forward,” he added.

Analysts expected the meeting to be tense as it comes after a year

in which the relationship between the two leaders seemed to have been frayed over the Iran nuclear agree-ment and settlement building.

But Netanyahu said that, as op-posed to past meetings, this one was not confrontational. “I did not feel any tension,” he added. “Both the tone and the substance of the meeting were in a spirit of being productive — let’s see what we can do, not let’s see how we can argue.”

Most of the meeting, Netanyahu related, focused on preparations for the renewal of the U.S.-Israel Mem-orandum of Understanding, or MOU, which regulates American military as-sistance to Israel. Israel currently re-ceives about $3 billion in military aid per year, but reportedly seeks about $5 billion.

“We didn’t focus on the exact sum, but I presented our needs,” Netanya-hu said, adding that the president sig-naled understanding and willingness to increase the administration’s aid. The last Memorandum of Understand-ing was signed in 2007, but “today’s Middle East cannot be compared to what it was then,” the prime minister said, explaining that the currently vol-atile situation in the region has created new challenges for Israel.

Is Israel Doing Well in Response to Terror?

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well. The majority of Israelis surveyed

support killing Palestinian terrorists “on the spot.” Fifty-three percent of Israeli Jews agreed with the state-ment: “Any Palestinian who has per-petrated a terror attack against Jews should be killed on the spot, even if he has been apprehended and no longer poses a threat.” However, they do not feel the same if the attack is perpetrat-ed by a Jew.

On the issue of equal punishment for Jewish and Palestinian terrorists, a wide majority (80 percent) of the Jewish public believed that “the home of the family of a Palestinian who has murdered Jews on a nationalist back-ground should be demolished,” while 53 percent were against demolishing the home of a Jew who has murdered a Palestinian in a nationalistically-mo-tivated attack.

Statistics were more consistent within the Arab public, “The majority does not agree that the family home of a Palestinian perpetrator should be demolished (77 percent), but a large majority (67 percent) also opposes de-molishing the family home of a Jew-ish perpetrator,” the survey found.

Israel’s Arab population have ex-pressed their concern of their safety with 78% saying they are “apprehen-sive of being harmed” in the ongoing violence. Interestingly, only 57% of Israeli Jews said they have a sense of fear that “they themselves or someone important to them would be harmed in the current wave of attacks.” 64% have reported not changing their daily habits in response to recent terrorist attacks.

The overall feeling is that penal-ties for terrorists in the Israeli court system are generally too light; 70 percent of Jews said they believed the punishments Israeli courts levy on Palestinians are not harsh enough.

When prompted on the issue of Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount, a majority of respondents (58 percent) answered that in the current state of affairs, “Jews should not be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.”

The public was mostly satisfied with the IDF’s response to the wave of terror, with 93 percent giving it

grades of very good or moderately good. The Israel Police came in sec-ond, with 84.5 percent of Jewish re-spondents awarding it grades of very good or moderately good. The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), mean-while, came in third, with less than three-fourths (72%) giving it a grade of very good or moderately good. A large majority of Jews seemed to re-ject the Israeli government’s handling of the terror, with only 39 percent of them assigning it grades of very good or moderately good.

In summary the Peace Index con-cluded, “Overall, we found a Jewish public that is tense but not hysterical; holding firm yet in certain regards prepared, under the pressure of the incidents, to overturn democratic val-ues; and that does not greatly esteem the policy and statements of the prime minister.”

Obama Not Counting on Two-State Solution

According to Rob Malley, the White House’s senior Middle East ad-viser, U.S. President Barack Obama has admitted there is no possibility of securing a two-state solution be-tween the Israelis and Palestinians. The American president also said he doubts whether he will even be able to get them back around the negotiating table while he is in office.

Ahead of the Washington visit of Benjamin Netanyahu that took place on Monday, Mr. Obama made a “real-istic assessment” that a peace deal will not happen before he leaves office in January 2017, U.S. officials said. This

marks the first time in two decades where the White House “faces a real-ity where the prospect of a negotiated two-state solution is not in the cards,” Mr. Malley told journalists.

The admission came at a time of soured relations between Obama and Netanyahu, who clashed bitterly in the spring over nuclear negotiations with Iran. In an open challenge to the nuclear deal, the Israeli leader accept-ed an invitation to address Congress, where he criticized the White House’s efforts in the nuclear deal.

In March of last year, on the day before Israeli elections, Netanyahu announced that he would not allow for the creation of a Palestinian state were he to be re-elected. U.S.-bro-kered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians collapsed one month later.

At the time, White House spokes-man Josh Earnest said Netanyahu’s comments had forced the White House to “re-evaluate” its strategy for achieving a two-state solution. But in the past few months there has been little progress. “We’ve tried many different approaches over the course of the administration,” admitted Ben Rhodes, deputy national security ad-viser for strategic communication. “Direct negotiations, indirect negotia-tions, the U.S. putting out some prin-ciples. And again, at each juncture, ultimately the parties themselves did not take the sufficient steps forward to reach a negotiated two-state solution.”

Too Many have Been Hurt

While there have been “quiet” days in Israel, the terror wave seems to be unceasing with stabbings, shootings, and car attacks occurring throughout the land.

During the last month, The Ma-gen David Adom (MDA) emergency paramedic service staff stayed on call throughout Israel and provided medi-cal aid to 170 terror victims.

Since the first attack over Sukkos,

eleven lives have been taken. The victims who perished by Arab mur-derers’ hands are Rabbi Eitam and Rabbanit Na’ama Henkin, who were killed in a shooting in Samaria; Rabbi Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Bennett, who were murdered in a stabbing on al-Wadi Street in Jerusalem’s Old City; Haviv Haim, Alon Guverg, and Richard Lakin, who were murdered in the bus attack in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood; Rabbi Yesha-yahu Krishevsky, killed in a car-and-knife attack just minutes after the Ar-mon Hanatziv attack; as well as Sgt. Omri Levi, Avraham Asher Hasno, and Haptom Zerhom.

With the help of Hashem, MDA workers saved the lives of 159 peo-ple who were wounded in attacks. Of these, 21 were severely wounded, 5 moderately-to-severely, 22 moderate-ly, and 111 lightly wounded. These numbers include 51 people who were injured in rock attacks. There are many others – at least 72 known cases – of those who required treatment for trauma during these tumultuous times.

The MDA calls on the public to follow security forces’ instructions, to remain aware of their surroundings, and to call 101 for any medical emer-gencies.

May Hashem continue to watch over our People and our Land.

Netanyahu Appoints Controversial New Media Chief

Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu has confirmed that he did not tell Secretary of State John Kerry that he is going to reconsider his ap-pointment of a controversial new me-dia chief. Ran Baratz has previously called Barack Obama anti-Semitic and has mocked Kerry.

The prime minister wrote on his website that he “would deal with the matter upon my return to Israel.”

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The Week In News Earlier, unnamed Netanyahu aides said that the prime minister told Kerry that he would review the ap-pointment of Baratz, which has yet to be fully ratified. Baratz’s comments about the president and the secretary are deemed “troubling and offen-sive,” said State Department Spokes-man John Kirby. “We understand the prime minister will be reviewing this appointment when he returns from his visit to the United States,” Kirby said.

“We obviously expect govern-ment officials from any country, es-pecially our closest allies, to speak respectfully and truthfully about senior U.S. government officials,” said Kirby, adding that “it’s a rule you learn in kindergarten about name-calling and it’s simply not a polite thing to do.”

Former university lecturer Baratz, 42, was tapped by Netanya-hu as his new National Information Directorate chief. But a slew of his controversial comments then quickly came to light. These included Face-book posts in which he said Obama’s foreign policy vis-à-vis Iran and Is-rael amounted to “modern anti-Sem-itism” and mocked numerous other leading figures including Kerry, who he suggested had the mental age of a child.

Netanyahu, who said he was un-aware of Baratz’s comments when he made the appointment, distanced himself from his incoming adviser, calling the remarks “inappropriate” and insisting they “do not reflect my positions or the policy of this gov-ernment.” In a statement, the prime minister said, “Those posts are total-ly unacceptable and in no way reflect my positions or the policies of the government of Israel. Dr. Baratz has

apologized and has asked to meet me to clarify the matter following my re-turn to Israel.”

Netanyahu met with Obama in Washington on Monday for the first time in a year, in what was intended to be a meeting aimed at healing re-lations after the bruising public row between the prime minister and the president over the world powers’ nu-clear deal with Iran.

Fifth President of Israel Dies

Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth pres-ident, died at home at the age of 94 after fighting a long illness. Navon had been hospitalized sporadically at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center for the past several months and was on dialysis.

A twelfth-generation Jerusalemite, Navon’s father’s family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and first went to Turkey before settling in Jerusalem in 1670. He was also a multi-gener-ational Jerusalemite on his mother’s side, whose family, which included renowned kabbalist Chaim Ibn Attar, came to Jerusalem from Morocco in 1742.

Navon had a multi-faceted and fascinating career. He was fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, English, Spanish, Ladino and Yiddish. His excellent Arabic served the state-in-the-making in good stead when he worked as an intelligence agent for Shai, the pre-cursor of the Shin Bet (Israel Securi-ty Agency) in the pre-statehood era. He initially joined the Etzel pre-state Jewish resistance group, but after a brief period switched to the Hagana.

Following the establishment of the State of Israel, Navon served in the Is-raeli embassies in Argentina and Uru-guay and on his return home became

political adviser to founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Always interested in education, Navon, in 1963, became the director of the cul-tural division of the Ministry of Edu-cation and Culture, and two years later threw his hat into the political ring and was elected to the Knesset. On April 19, 1978, 10 days after his 57th birth-day, Navon was elected Israel’s fifth president, the first native son to serve in the position. He was followed by two other “sabra” presidents – Ezer Weizman, who was born in Tel Aviv, and present president Reuven Rivlin who, like Navon, was born in Jerusa-lem.

What also distinguished Navon from his predecessors was that he was the first Sephardi president and the first president with small children. Re-gardless of any position he held at any given time, he loved to stroll through Machaneh Yehuda market and pur-chase a falafel or a pita, eat it in front of the seller, and say it was the best he ever tasted.

Enormously popular among both Jews and Arabs, Navon said on more than one occasion that there are Jews who don’t want to see any Arabs liv-ing in Israel and there are Arabs who don’t want to see any Jews living in this land – but such thinking on either side is pointless because both sides are destined to live on the same stretch of territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu voiced deep sorrow at the passing of Navon and said he had been a full partner in shaping the State of Israel as a free and democratic state.

A Small Town Nation

While some Americans would never trade their big noisy cit-

ies for the comforts of a small town, there are many that insist small towns offer a much better quality of liv-

ing. Recent trends show that more and more people are migrating from major cities to smaller suburbs. In fact, Wallethub reports that small cit-ies are experiencing growth at a rate that is more than twice that of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

To help people narrow down which small city would be right for them, Wallethub compared 1,268 U.S. cities with a population between 25,000 and 100,000. The data measured 22 key metrics ranging from housing costs to school-system equality and restau-rants per capita.

So what’s the perfect city to ex-perience small town life? It’s right around the corner in Princeton, NJ, which ranked number one on the list. Its economy is in great health – number one, in fact. It ranked 7th in education/health and 41st in over-all quality of life, and for those who crave the lights and culture of the big city, Princeton is just an hour and half commute.

There are other wonderful choic-es if you’re looking for life in a small town. Consider these top ten small cities in America:

1. Princeton, NJ2. Littleton, CO3. Dublin, OH4. Brookfield, WI5. Leawood, KS6. Southlake, TX7. Westfield, IN8. Northampton, MA9. Ankeny, IA10. Crystal Lake, ILThe ten worst small cities in the

nation, with a bad economy and poor education, are, strangely enough, all located in California. Seems like the Golden State is not made out of gold.

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Teens Spend Most of their Day Using Media

Media is taking over our lives and particularly the lives of our teenag-ers. According to new research, the average teenager spends close to nine hours a day absorbing media.

Common Sense Media released a comprehensive survey last week out-lining how young people spend screen time; the favorites were music and television. Two-thirds of teenagers said they listen to music every day, and 58 percent said the same about watching television. 45 percent re-ported using social media every day and only 36 percent said they enjoyed that activity “a lot”; twice as many said they really enjoyed their music.

Television is the favorite activity of teenagers in training, with 62 per-cent of respondents ages 8 to 12 say-ing they watched every day, the study said. Tweens said they spend just un-der six hours a day of media time.

Perhaps expectedly, boys are much more likely to play video games than girls. The survey found male teenag-ers spent an average of 56 minutes a day gaming, while girls devoted only seven minutes. Girls spent more time on social media or reading than boys.

So when are these teenagers do-ing their homework or studying for tests? Duh, while they are immersed in media! It seems like they’re mas-ters of multitasking. Half of the teen-agers said they watch TV or use social media either “a lot” or “sometimes” while doing homework, and 76 per-cent said they listen to music while working. Half of the teens say that

listening to music actually helps their work, while only 6 percent said they thought it hurt.

“As a parent and educator, there’s clearly more work to be done around the issue of multi-tasking,” said James Steyer, founder and CEO of Com-mon Sense Media, an organization that monitors youthful media use and gives recommendations to parents. “Nearly two-thirds of teens today tell us they don’t think watching TV or texting while doing homework makes any difference to their ability to study and learn, even though there’s more and more research to the contrary.”

Children who grow up in poor homes generally have less access to computers, tablets and smartphones than wealthier kids, but spend more time on devices when they have one, the study said.

Black teenagers spend more time with media than other ethnic groups, an average of 11 hours and 13 minutes each day. Latinos spend just over nine hours, and whites eight hours, 48 min-utes, the study found.

Economy Numbers are Looking Up

There’s good news for the econo-my for a change. The unemployment rate has dropped to 5%, the lowest since April 2008. A surge in hiring and wages has brought hope to many struggling Americans.

The latest jobless figure is exactly half the rate from its worst in 2009 during the Great Recession. Signs of a strong U.S. labor market may prod

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the Federal Reserve next month to make its first rate hike in nearly a de-cade, analysts said.

However, not all experts are as hopeful. Friday’s “blowout” employ-ment report is “not a trend we’re ex-pecting to continue,” said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “But looking ahead,” she said, “there’s still mo-mentum in the labor market, which is encouraging.”

The report indicated that employ-ers added a net 271,000 new jobs in October with specific increases in the business and professional services, retail, healthcare, leisure and con-struction markets. The job growth was far above the consensus forecast by analysts, who had predicted about new 185,000 jobs.

This news has a major impact on the upcoming 2016 election. If his-torical patterns continue as expected, economic conditions in the next nine months will be among the strongest factors in determining which party wins next November’s election.

Fed Chair Janet L. Yellen said this week that the economy is “perform-ing well” and that a rate hike could come next month. Analysts now ex-pect that the Fed will raise its bench-mark interest rate at its next meeting, December 15-16. The Fed had held off raising rates this fall in part be-cause of slowing global economic growth, particularly in China, and the potential impact on the U.S.

The Age of Happiness

Previous research indicated that most Americans considered them-

selves happiest in their 30s. However, researchers have discovered that sadly that link between age and happiness disappeared in 2010, according to a study published in Social Psycholog-ical and Personality Science on No-vember 5.

New research indicates that ado-lescents have become gradually hap-pier while those in their thirties have reported declining contentedness.

Jean Twenge, psychology profes-sor at San Diego State University, led the study. She and her colleagues an-alyzed four nationally representative surveys from the 1970s to 2014, with a total sample size of 1.32 million peo-ple, to reach their conclusions.

In terms of the reason for the changing disposition of Americans, researchers can only offer theories, rather than definitive answers. One theory is that unrealistically high ex-pectations have set adults up for dis-appointment.

Twenge explained in her paper for The Atlantic, “Big dreams feel great when you’re an adolescent or a young adult just starting out. But somewhere around their late 20s, most people begin to realize reality isn’t going to match up. When those dreams are more widespread than they used to be, the inevitable crash will be too.”

Researchers speculate that an-other possible explanation is that the decrease in stable relationships and marriage have left adults feeling less supported. “With higher individual-ism, young people have more to en-joy, while mature adults may not get the social support they need,” write the authors. “Perhaps new technology such as social media and cellphones has enhanced young people’s lives while having a detrimental effect on mature adults’ SWB [subjective well-being].”

Philadelphia Recognized as World Heritage City

America’s birthplace has been named the country’s first World Her-itage City. In order to achieve the designation, the city needs to be rec-ognized for its impact on the course of human events. There are 260 cities that share the title; some other cities include Jerusalem, Cairo, and Paris.

The Organization of World Her-itage Cities added Philadelphia in a vote at its biennial conference in Arequipa, Peru. Philadelphia, the nation’s fifth-largest city, quali-fied because Independence Hall is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 1776 the Declaration of Inde-pendence was signed at Independence Hall. Just four years later, the Articles of Confederation, which united the 13 colonies, were ratified. Then, in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was debated and signed there with George Washington presiding.

“The universal principles of free-dom and democracy set forth in these documents are of fundamental impor-tance to American history and have also had a profound impact on law-makers around the world,” according to UNESCO’s website.

Three years ago, an association of city government and business lead-ers began campaigning for the honor at the suggestion of Richard Hodges, then the director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeolo-gy and Anthropology, who asked sim-ply: “Why isn’t Philadelphia a World Heritage City?”

John Smith, a lawyer who was in-volved with the campaign through the non-profit Global Philadelphia Asso-

ciation, predicts that tourism will in-crease and that by Philadelphia being a World Heritage City it will generate more opportunities for cultural collab-oration and exchanges. “Philadelphia has a lot going for it, but certainly isn’t as well recognized as New York or Washington in international parlance,” said Smith. “Philadelphia has to start thinking of other ways to establish it-self as a bona fide world city…”

“We think this will be a huge boost to the city’s ego. Once you get foreign cities and foreign countries to believe in you, it’s easier to believe in yourself.”

7 People who Perished in Pearl Harbor Attack Identified

Over 70 years ago, thousands of sailors, soldiers and Marines lost their lives in the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. This week, the remains of seven crew members missing since the USS Oklahoma capsized in the 1941 bombing have been identified, the mil-itary said on Monday. The servicemen were identified using dental records.

In June, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began digging up the remains of nearly 400 USS Oklahoma sailors and Marines from a veterans cemetery in Honolulu where they were buried as “unknowns.” Within five years, officials expect to identify about 80 percent of the crew members still considered missing.

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Altogether, 429 men on board the World War II battleship were killed. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after. The military says advances in forensic science and tech-nology are improving the ability to identify remains.

More than 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Oklahoma’s ca-sualties were second only to the USS Arizona, which lost 1,177 men.

Addressing Senility in Judges

U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal appellate and district court judges are appointed for life. The Constitution grants federal judges life-time appointments for the purpose to maintain judicial independence and prevent the easy removal of judg-es for unpopular decisions. The only way that they’d be asked to leave is if they were impeached by Congress, which has occurred only a few times. As a result, some judges refuse to re-tire even when their job is affected by age-related mental decline. The life expectancy when the Constitu-tion was signed in 1787 was under 40. Now it’s close to double, at 79.

Generally, upon signs of senility such as forgetfulness, an inability to follow arguments, or long delays in deciding cases, colleagues or court ob-servers will file a complaint and enlist peers’ or family members’ help to gen-tly and privately encourage an elderly

judge to seek help or leave. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court

of Appeals, which includes federal courts in California and eight oth-er Western states, has taken a more pro-active approach to the problem of mental decline in justices. They spread awareness and encourage their judges to think about the condition, plan for it, and manage it appropriately if and when it surfaces.

The circuit court provides regular seminars directed by neurological ex-perts to inform its chief judges about the signs of cognitive impairment. There is also a hotline setup where court staff and judges can get advice regarding dealing with signs of senil-ity in colleagues. It has also encour-aged judges to undergo cognitive as-sessments and designate colleagues, friends or family who can intervene if concerns arise about their mental health.

“We’re an organization that is re-quired to police ourselves,” said Phyl-lis Hamilton, chief judge in the North-ern District of California and head of the 9th Circuit’s wellness committee. “If we wish to retain the goodwill and confidence of the public in our ability to render justice by judges who are un-impaired, . . . we have to take steps.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was the oldest person to serve as a U.S. Su-preme Court justice, retiring in 1932 at the age of 90. U.S. District Court Judge Wesley Brown in Kansas was the oldest working federal judge in the country’s history when he died at the age of 104 in 2012.

Illegals Demand Rights

With millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S., an immigrant-rights group proposed a “Bill of Rights” for illegal immigrants last Thursday. The doc-ument was circulated by United We Stay, which is a group of illegal im-migrants, first-generation Americans and human rights activists pushing for changes to immigration law.

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Bill of Rights. They are campaigning for health care, in-state tuition rates for college, wage equality, and a prom-ise of citizenship in the long term. Another demand was to stop arrests and deportations for “all law-abid-ing undocumented Americans.”

“We know we have human rights, even though our very presence is deemed illegal and our existence alien. Now we have our own Bill of Rights and we want it to be the frame-work for every immigration decision

going forward from the local to the national level,” the group said in a statement announcing their demands.

The list also includes a specific demand for “compelled authorization of birth certificates for our U.S.-born children.” That appears to be push-back against the state of Texas, where officials have ruled that parents must present valid ID to get children’s birth certificates — and have deemed the Mexican government’s Matricula Consular ID card not to be acceptable as primary identification. A federal court approved the Texas policy on the basis that there are questions about the reliability of the Mexican cards and that state officials have an interest in making sure only authorized relatives are able to get birth certificates.

The first request on the bill de-mands the eradication of the terms “il-legal” and “alien.” Immigrant-rights advocates say both terms are dehu-manizing, and have offered “undoc-

umented workers” or, in the case of United We Stand, “undocumented Americans,” as their preferred term.

There were 11.3 million unau-thorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2014. The population has remained basically stable for five years, and currently accounts for 3.5% of the na-tion’s population.

Pipeline Officially Cancelled

The much talked about Keystone pipeline has been officially nixed by President Barack Obama. After fight-ing for approval for seven years, the final nail in the pipeline’s coffin came when Obama declared that the pipe-line would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental leg-acy.

Obama’s decision marked a vic-tory for environmental activists who spent years denouncing the pipe-line, lobbying the administration and even chaining themselves to tractors to make their point about the threat posed by supposed dirty fossil fuels. It also places the president and fellow Democrats in direct confrontation with Republicans and energy advo-cates heading into the 2016 presiden-tial election.

The president, in announcing his decision at the White House, said he agreed with a State Department conclusion that Keystone wouldn’t advance U.S. national interests. He lamented that both political parties had “overinflated” Keystone into a proxy battle for climate change but glossed over his own role in allowing the controversy to drag out over sev-

eral national elections.Although Obama in 2013 said his

litmus test for the Keystone Pipeline would be whether it increased U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, his final decision appeared based on other factors. He didn’t broach that topic in his remarks, and State Department officials said they’d determined Key-stone wouldn’t significantly affect carbon pollution levels. Instead, the administration cited the “broad per-ception” that Keystone would carry “dirty” oil and suggested approval would raise questions abroad about whether the U.S. was serious about climate change.

TransCanada, the company be-hind the proposal, said it remained “absolutely committed” to building the project and was considering filing a new application for permits. The company has previously raised the possibility of suing the U.S. to recoup the more than $2 billion it says it has already spent on development.

TransCanada first applied for Keystone permits 2,604 days ago in September 2008 — shortly before Obama was elected. As envisioned, Keystone would snake from Canada’s tar sands through Montana, South Da-kota and Nebraska, then connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to specialized refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.

The Fake Escape

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cupation. Here came his ingenious plan.

The 44-year-old dressed up as an old woman—complete with a mask, wig, glasses and female clothes and endeavored to escape. The disguise looked so real that prison guards only became suspicious when they real-ized that they never noticed the old woman entering the prison. Addi-tionally, the elderly woman seemed a little too tall for her age and gender.

After a quick investigation, they realized the woman was really a man—and one of their wonderful pris-oners.

Police spokesman Andre Veloso said: “The penitentiary guard did not recognize the senior lady and this is why he asked for her ID. He never expected it could be an inmate trying to escape.”

An inquiry is underway to try and work out where Felipe acquired fe-male clothes and the realistic-looking mask, which sells for over a thousand dollars.

Hot Dog!

Ain’t nothin’ but a hot dog – especially when it’s eaten wrapped in a bun and smeared with mustard and relish. But the classic American on-the-go snack is, according to the Na-tional Hot Dog and Sausage Council, not a sandwich.

“Our verdict is…a hot dog is an exclamation of joy, a food, a verb de-scribing one ‘showing off’ and even an emoji. It is truly a category unto its own.”

Well, hot dog!“Limiting the hot dog’s signifi-

cance by saying it’s ‘just a sandwich’ is like calling the Dalai Lama ‘just a guy.’ Perhaps at one time its impor-tance could be limited by forcing it into a larger sandwich category, but that time has passed,” NHDSC pres-ident and ‘Queen of Wien’ Janet Ri-ley says in the release. (Yes, “Queen of Wien” is a thing, apparently.)

“We therefore choose to take a cue from a great performer and declare our namesake be a ‘hot dog formerly known as a sandwich,’” she continues.

Much of its decision in declaring the hot dog “not a sandwich” is the “open” nature of the dish and its im-pact on American history.

Truthfully, I don’t care what you call it. Just slap on some sauerkraut and call it a glorious day.

Eric Brook’s huge birdcage beard is made completely out of his own hair. He was a contestant at the National Beard and Mustache Championships this week.

The Drunk Deputy

Here’s a useful tip: before accept-ing an award from the organization Mother’s Against Drunk Driving per-haps you should stick to drinking wa-ter, or ginger ale, or orange juice, or even milk. But please, please, please stay away from the tequila.

New details were revealed this week about a Florida police officer who was set to receive an award from Mother’s Against Drunk Driving at their banquet this summer. Michael Szeliga, a deputy for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department, was slated to receive the award for making more than 100 DUI arrests. But when Gulfport Police Chief Robert Vincent saw him staggering around outside the awards venue, he told Szeliga he seemed too drunk to go inside.

“I said, ‘You don’t want to embar-rass the sheriff here – that’s probably not too wise,” Vincent recalled. “Ap-parently, he did.”

Szeliga responded to Vincent’s warning with “disrespectful” com-ments, and Vincent subsequently in-formed the deputy’s supervisors that Szeliga was “wasted.” They ordered him to go back to his hotel room, and

he never received his award.Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gual-

tieri said that Szeliga was a good dep-uty but noted the irony of the situa-tion. “When I first heard about it, that was [what] my reaction was. ‘Come on, you’ve got to be kidding me. Re-ally?’”

MADD gives annual awards to law enforcement officers who make a high number of DUI arrests, but not everyone thinks this is a great idea. Defense attorney Jon Ibanez argued in a blog post in the summer that doling out awards for DUI arrests doesn’t re-ally make sense, since not all of the arrests are justified.

“We’re rewarding the wrong ac-tion by the officer because many (and I mean many) DUI arrests are illegal arrests and many do not result in con-victions,” Ibanez wrote. “Not all peo-ple who are arrested for drunk driving are actually driving drunk.”

In this case here, it takes one to know one, and Officer Szeliga certain-ly seems to know drunk people all too well.

The Fortunate Fan

When Trey went to the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game last week,

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he was pumped. He was even more pumped when visiting head coach Dan Bylsma tossed him a hockey puck. But his glee turned to disappointment when an old man snatched the puck midflight. Apparently he never heard of good sportsmanship.

The older fan was immediately booed by the surrounding crowd who noticed him filching the prized puck. When the incident spread on social media, the Penguins took action into their own hands and made a fan for life.

At the end of the game, Trey was showered with a Sidney Crosby jersey, a hockey stock and another puck from Bylsma.

Turns out sometimes it’s good to have things taken from you. ‘Cuz then you can make out like a hockey ban-dit!

Mind Reader

He can read your mind. At least that’s what his mother says.

There’s no doubt that Ramses Sanguino is a really smart child. The 5-year-old who lives in Los Angeles is learning seven different languages, in-cluding Japanese and Russian, and can solve algebraic equations. He can cor-

rectly spell pneumonoultramicroscop-icsilicovolcanoconiosis, the longest English word in the Oxford English Dictionary, forward and backward.

His mother, though, says her child is far more than just a brainy kid. Nyx Sanguino, an artist, claims that he can correctly guess numbers she’s written in secret – sometimes as many as 38 in a row.

“We do have a very close bond which may have something to do with his abilities – but this is beyond anything I would have imagined,” she said. “I don’t know how to explain it.”

Ramses has autism, and Dr. Diane Powell, a neuroscientist and former Harvard Medical School faculty mem-ber, believes the alleged telepathy may provide clues that will help parents to connect with their autistic kids.

“If you have your primary lan-guage compromised, then that would be a perfect setup for telepathy, be-cause here you have a child and a

parent who desperately want to com-municate with one another,” Powell related.

It’s nice in theory but many sci-entists do not believe in the ability to read another’s mind.

When testing Ramses, Powell found that he correctly guessed three out of five random numbers based on his mother’s thoughts. Despite the lack of accuracy, Powell was still im-pressed by his alleged ability.

Regardless of whether Ramses is truly telepathic, Sanguino hopes she can get him into a school for gift-ed children. And I’m sure with his special “gift” he can tell her exactly which one.

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Why Citi Credit Cards are the New ‘IT’ Cards for Free Vacations, Flights and Hotel Stays.

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It’s expensive to live in nowadays and if you are like us, chances are you spending anywhere from one to three thousand dollars are per month on your children’s tuition, grocery bills, gas and insurance, rent, utilities and other miscellaneous expenses.

What if you could take that ev-eryday spending and turn it into free hotels and vacations and extra cash? Wouldn’t it make the burden easier? Too good to be true you say, well, there are literally tens of thousands of people doing just that, and they are doing so by taking advantage of the numerous credit card bonus offers available when you sign up for new credit cards (otherwise known as cred-

it card churning) and then turn those extra bonus rewards into cash or free vacations.

And by now, if you follow our blog and social media accounts, you are probably aware of all this.

A brief synopsis for newcomers: Credit card churning is the ‘art’ of ap-plying for and receiving multiple cred-it card approvals for their hefty sign-up bonuses for the purpose of earning miles and points towards upcoming personal, business or family vacations and trips.

Recently however, both American Express and Chase have restricted how many credit cards you can sign up for at any given period which has reduced

the opportunity to earn free miles and points and subsequently reduced the value of both of their rewards pro-grams. But there is good news for consumers as CitiBank has recently entered the rewards game partnering with a number of airlines and hotel chains so that Citi Thank You Points are now transferable into eleven air-lines and hotel programs including the Hilton, Virgin America and Virgin At-lantic. And CitiBank hasn’t yet imple-mented policies restricting how many credit cards consumers can apply for, making Citi ThankYou Points and oth-er CitiBank airline rewards cards the new IT cards for vacation seekers or those who want to earn some extra

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Sweet Potato Pie

In TheK tchen

Sweet Potato Pie

Ingredients2 cups peeled, cooked sweet potatoes1- ¼ cups sugar½ stick melted margarine2 eggs1 teaspoon vanilla extract ¼ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon¼ teaspoon ground ginger1 cup soy milk9-inch unbaked piecrust3 egg whites

DirectionsPreheat the oven to 350°F.Combine the sweet potatoes, 1

cup of the sugar, margarine, eggs, va-nilla, salt, and spices. Mix thorough-ly. Add the soy milk and continue to mix. Pour the filling into the piecrust and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Place the pie on a rack and cool to room temperature

before covering with meringue.For the meringue: using an elec-

tric mixer, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form; beat in the remain-ing 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Continue beating until the sugar dissolves and the mixture is glossy and stiff, but not dry. With a rubber spatula, spoon the meringue onto the pie, forming peaks. Make sure the meringue touches the crust all around. Sprinkle with a pinch of granulated sugar. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until delicately browned. Cool and serve.

Pumpkin PieIngredients 1 ready-made graham cracker

piecrust 4 tablespoons melted margarine 1-3/4 cups pumpkin puree 3 eggs 1-3/4 cups soy milk 1 cup dark brown sugar

1-¼teaspoons cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg ½ teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon allspice ¼ teaspoon cloves ¼ - ½ teaspoon salt

DirectionsPreheat oven to 350°F. Combine the margarine, pump-

kin puree, eggs, soy milk, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, all spice, cloves and salt and mix well. Pour the mixture into the piecrust. Place the filled pie on a cookie sheet (to catch any dripping). Bake for about 50 minutes, until knife inserted into center comes out clean.

Easy Classic Apple PieIngredients I box refrigerated piecrust, softened6 cups thinly sliced, peeled apples

(approx. 6 medium apples)¾ cups sugar2 tablespoons flour¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon¼ teaspoon salt1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg1 tablespoon lemon juice

DirectionsHeat oven to 425°F. Place 1 pie-

crust in ungreased 9-inch glass pie plate. Press firmly against side and bottom.

In large bowl, gently mix rest of the ingredients; spoon into the pie shell. Top with second crust. Wrap excess top crust under bottom crust edge, pressing edges together to seal; flute. Cut slits or shapes in several places to let air escape.

Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Cover edge of crust with 2- to 3-inch wide strips of foil after first 15 to 20 minutes of baking to pre-vent excessive browning. Cool before serving.

Serve with scoop of vanilla ice cream.

A Slice of Something NicePumpkin Pie Easy Classic Apple Pie

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

After being courted by several candidates, conservative billionaire Paul Singer has decided to endorse Marco Rubio. Now instead of having a button that says, “Donate,” Rubio’s website just says, “We Good.” - Jimmy Fallon

While we condemn Palestinian violence, we must recognize this painful truth: that Israeli policy has encouraged it. Israel has encouraged it by penalizing Palestinian nonviolence, by responding to that nonviolence by deportations, teargas, imprisonment, and the confiscation of Palestinian lands. Hard as it is to say, the Israeli government is reaping what it has sowed.- Liberal American-Jewish journalist Peter Beinart, who claims to be “pro-Israel,” in a speech at a Beth Chayim Chadashim Progressive synagogue in Los Angeles

I used to hate Darth Vader, but now I kind of feel a little bit sorry for him knowing what he went through to get to that point.- Sen. Marco Rubio, when asked a question related to the upcoming “Star Wars” movie during a campaign stop in New Hampshire

The book’s pretense of scholarship involves 151 footnotes, only one of which is even remotely pertinent to the book’s lurid assertions. Almost all contain irrelevant tidbits (“Reagan’s hair was actually brown”). At the Reagan Library, where researchers must register, records show that neither O’Reilly nor Dugard, who churn out a book a year, used its resources. The book’s two and a half pages of “sources” unspecifically and implausibly refer to “FBI and CIA files,” “presidential libraries” and travel “around the world” … The book’s perfunctory pieties about Reagan’s greatness are inundated by its flood of regurgitated slanders about his supposed lassitude and manipulability. This book is nonsensical history and execrable citizenship, and should come with a warning: “Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.”-George Will’s review of Bill O’Reilly’s new book, Killing Reagan

You’re a hack! - Bill O’Reilly, when George Will came on his show, “The No Spin Zone,” to defend his criticism of O’Reilly’s book

A new survey found that three out of four children under the age of four have their own smartphone. You can tell it’s bad; last night I told my daughter it was time for bed and she tried to swipe left on me.- Jimmy Fallon

“Crippled America” outlines Donald Trump’s plan to make America great again. Though the book doesn’t say specifically when he’s leaving.- Seth Myers

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Some people believe in the Bible like I do and don’t find that to be silly at all, and believe that G-d created the Earth and don’t find that to be silly at all. The secular progressives try to ridicule it every time it comes up and they’re welcome to do that.- Ben Carson responding to recent media critisim over his comments that Joseph built the Egyptian pyramids in order to store grain

He just became very hardline and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with.- Former President George H.W. Bush, talking about Cheney as his son’s vice president, during interviews for Jon Meacham’s forthcoming biography Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

I took it as a mark of pride. - Cheney, responding to George H.W. Bush’s criticism

The doctor called the “Father of Botox” has passed away at age 70. His patients are grief-stricken but have no way to express it. - Conan O’Brien

SeaWorld is phasing out its killer whale show. Or as Fox News reported it, “More killers set free under Obama.” - Conan O’Brien


Monkeys belong in the wild—not in the hands of football players who acquire exotic animals just to make a splash on Instagram. This baby capuchin was torn away from his mother shortly after birth and needs special care that can now only be provided by wildlife experts who will be able to ensure that he gets the love and attention he deserves.- PETA Deputy Director Brittany Peet after Cowboy’s wide receiver Dez Bryant posted a photo on Instagram with his new monkey

I am a monkey fan. I can stand in a zoo and look at them all day long and die laughing. - Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, when asked about star receiver Dez Bryant’s choice of pet

This is the least we can do for Martyr Halabi.- Mayor Muhammad Hussein of the PA controlled town of Surda-Abu Qash, at the street naming ceremony in honor of the terrorist who last month murdered Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Bennett and injured Bennett’s wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son

Apple is reportedly working on a new protection system that will reduce the number of iPhones with cracked screens. The system is called “Alcoholics Anonymous.” - Conan O’Brien

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Dating Dialogue

What Would You Do If…Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LMSW of The Navidaters

Wouldn’t it be great if every stage of life came with an instruction manual, providing us with a specific set of rules that allowed us to always make the right choices without ever second guessing ourselves, knowing in our hearts that we nailed it? Imagine the freedom, confidence and peace of mind such a system would engender.

Unfortunately, such a play-by-play system is a stretch of the imagination, a fantasy, if you will. There are many junctures in life that are challenging and leave many of us scratching our heads as we ponder our various options in our often desperate attempt to “get it right.” Ultimately we all want to live with fewer regrets and many more homeruns. In our attempt to get it right, often after a date or when confronted with a serious relationship issue, we tend to seek advice from the following people: The Rebbetzin, The Dating Mentor, The Mother and The Single Friend. We thought, “Wouldn’t it be great to cut to the chase and have everyone’s opinion in one place?” And hence, the “What Would You Do If” column was born!

Every week, The Jewish Home will feature our fabulous panelists (Rebbetzin, Dating Mentor/Kallah Teacher, Mother, and Single Woman) as they respond to real dating and relationship scenarios. Each panelist will share her distinct and unique perspective on the topic at hand. As dating and relationship coaches and therapists, The Navidaters will then give our take on the situation in what we call “Pulling it All Together.”

This endeavor is designed to be interactive. We encourage you, our readers, to get involved in the experience and share a dating or relationship predicament you may be facing. Whether you are single, part of a couple, engaged or a parent of the aforementioned, send us an e-mail. Share your story and the advice you are seeking. We will turn your anonymous story over to our panelists. No situation is too silly, too serious, too mundane, too weird, too eccentric or too shameful. Our panel’s feedback awaits. Without further ado, What Would You Do If?...

My daughter, Nechama, is any mother’s

dream come true. She is beautiful both on the in-side and the outside. Rais-

ing her was always a joy and I feel so blessed to be her mother. Nechama has been

dating now for close to two years. Honestly, I believed that she’d probably be one of the first girls from her grade to get

engaged. People approached us about shidduchim for her before she even graduated high school! By the time she came home from Israel, I had a long list of people anxious to go out with her. I’ve heard so many stories about parents struggling with this stage of their child’s life, and

my husband and I both felt confident that for us, it would be a walk in the park.

Meanwhile, though Nechama has no shortage of boys to go out with, she hasn’t gone out with anyone more than twice. And even twice took a lot of convincing from us that she give this one or that one another chance. Basically, she comes home from each date with an immediate “not for me” response when we ask how it went. At first we figured, “OK, we haven’t hit the mark yet.” But after so much time, we’re starting to think that maybe there is something going on with Nechama. After all, is it even possible, after so much dating, that absolutely no one has any potential to explore? If Nechama is not realistic about her dating expec-tations, how do we approach this with her?

Sincerely,C. R.

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The Panel

The Rebbetzin

Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, MS

As parents, it’s crucially import-ant for you to know whether

Nechama is interested in getting married in the short term future. Perhaps she has other goals and in-terests right now such as completing school, getting established in a pro-fessional field, and maturing. She might simply be enjoying this time of her life without the pressures of a family and multiple commitments. She might be anxious as well.

That being said, I don’t think par-ents should open up this discussion. Apparently Nechama is not confiding in her parents about what is going on inside of her. She is not sharing any reactions to the young men she dates with you and your husband. Sorting out where she is, what she wants in a spouse, what the common issues she has with the men she meets, and what the particular issues she finds with the individual men she meets is going to have to be done by a third party. Gently encouraging her to talk to a trusted teacher, mentor, rav or shidduch coach is advisable. A neutral, seasoned advisor will be much more effective in helping her ascertain where she is going right now and how to move forward in terms of dating.

Although it is wonderful that so many shidduch suggestions have come Nechama’s way since high school, please keep in mind that she may feel pressured by all of this. Perhaps there are expectations of her that she does not want to meet and cannot meet. If she has been getting so many suggestions, it’s probably because she presents as a girl with a wonderful package of at-tributes, both personal and familial. She may not think she is truly wor-thy of people’s high regard. Perhaps she feels people are interested in her because of her looks or family’s so-cial position. How she feels about many of these matters will have to be explored with someone else. You may suggest this with a script like: “You may want to talk to someone else after each and every dating ex-perience. Sometimes parents are

too close to the children they love to be an effective sounding board. Why not think about choosing some-one to talk to, Nechama?”

Your daughter is probably already speaking to someone she trusts. By telling her that you think it is a good idea, you will ease future communi-cation. Normalize consultation with advisors and be patient as she moves through a process of self-knowledge and formulation of her own priori-ties and deal breakers.

Getting to know Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, MS...

Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz is a

veteran community activist. She

has spent more than twenty years

in social services both as an ex-

ecutive and as a board member of

non-profits. She is a founder of Ra-

chel’s Place, a shelter for homeless

girls in Brooklyn. Rebbetzin Horow-

itz has a career counseling practice

and is a freelance writer for print and

digital media. A columnist for Ha-

modia and Binah Magazines, she

has been published in several an-

thologies and in Poetica Magazine.

Rebbetzin Horowitz is currently the

program coordinator in the Career

Services Department at Touro Col-

lege’s Flatbush campus and serves

as the Rebbetzin of Congregation

Agudas Achim of Lawrence. She can

be reached at (718)594-0154.

The Mother

Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, PA

Your question resonates with me. I have a niece, now happi-

ly married and a mother of six, who could very well have been Necha-ma. Penelope (not her name) was every mother’s dream. Talented, beautiful, G’mach Head, valedicto-rian, scholarship awardee. When Penelope returned from seminary (top tier), she was at the top of every shadchan’s list. All her young cousg-ins would bristle with excitement at the thought of Penelope’s imminent engagement. Alas, five long years

and over one hundred boys later, Penelope was still single and blithely dating. She was still beautiful and talented, but now she had a college degree, a lucrative career and a re-spectable bank account. She had a designer wardrobe and took exciting trips with her cadre of single friends. Life was beautiful or was it really?

Sometimes, the reason the best and the brightest take the longest to settle down is not for lack of finding Mr./Ms. Right; there are plenty of qualified candidates out there. And for the most promising young people there is a bountiful supply of shiddu-chim. I suspect the reason Nechama has not “hit the mark” is that she may not be ready to get married. Maybe she feels she needs more time to complete her education, explore career choices, prioritize what’s im-portant in her future life mate. If she is indeed special, she may be biding her time to prepare herself – emotionally, spiritually or practical-ly for the role of a lifetime. Whether she is conscious of her hesitation or not, she may not be able to articu-late her uncertainty to you, her anx-ious mother. Often, a dating hiatus (or break) may help her introspect, recharge and refresh her perspec-tive on finding the Right One. (It worked for Penelope.)

The specter of the shidduch crisis has pushed many well-intentioned parents into panic mode; many chil-dren start dating out of peer pressure and are forced to make life-altering decisions before they are emotional-ly ready. If ever we need to tap into our bitachon, it’s when our children enter “parshas shidduchim.” Give

your child the time, support, and emotional space to make rational, educated decisions regarding every prospective shidduch. And remind yourself every day that Hashem is the Ultimate Shadchan.

Getting to know Sarah Schwartz Schreiber...

Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, moth-

er of several and grandmother of

“not enough,” is a native Los Ange-

lino. Decades back, she married and

settled in Midwood (aka Flatbush).

Since then, Sarah has worked in sev-

eral professional arenas – first as a

medical writer and a pharmaceu-

tical copywriter. Sarah eventually

pursued her lifelong ambition and

became a physician assistant. Cur-

rently, Sarah can be found triaging

patients in the busiest labor and de-

livery room on the East Coast. Of all

the jobs she’s held, Sarah considers

her role as wife and mother to be the

most thrilling and fulfilling vocation

of all.

The Dating Mentor/Kallah Teacher

Rochel Chafetz, Educator/Mentor

First of all, Hashem runs the world so we don’t understand why for

some girls it takes a little longer. Maybe there is some self-work that has to be done. You mentioned how these men seemed wonderful to you. Is it possible that you set the stan-dards for your daughter too high and perhaps she doesn’t even really know yet who she is and what she really wants and how she feels? You are not the one that has to determine if these men are wonderful. Necha-ma has to feel the connection. She has to feel that she is in charge – not you. She is the one who has to feel the right chemistry. Maybe she is distracted by your excitement over these young men that she doesn’t even have a chance to look at her own feelings.

I think you need to take a step

I suspect the reason Nechama has not “hit the mark” is that she may not be ready to get married.

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back and allow Nechama to be more involved in the decision making pro-cess. Ask her what kind of attributes she is looking for. Give her the in-formation you’ve received and make it a discussion where she feels she is in the lead. You might want to say something like, “We’ve heard this and that, but what do you think?” That way she can feel the decisions to go out with a particular individual is hers, not yours, and that she is not dating anyone for you.

I’m sure she feels what you have expressed in this letter. All children feel and know much more than we think they do. Nechama may even benefit from doing some of the re-search on her own, so that she feels more in charge, especially if Necha-ma is the type of young lady who has always done what everyone else wanted her to do and as a result, per-haps she doesn’t even know how she feels. Start asking her questions to encourage her to think about who she is, what her goals are, what she

dislikes, and what makes her happy or sad. Other important conversa-tions might be asking where she sees herself in five years, ten years, etc.

Remember, though you are her parents, she is not an extension of you. You gave her the tools. Now she needs to use them, but you have to step back and allow that process to happen. Very possibly she will pick someone on her own and fall for him big time! Hatzlacha!

Getting to know Rochel Chafetz...

Rochel Chafetz has been in Chi-

nuch for over 30 years, teaching

Chumash to grades 6 through 12.

She taught in Prospect Park Yeshiva

for 25 years, in Rabbi Wallerstein’s

school for at risk teenagers, and is

currently teaching at SKA. Rochel

is a mentor for teenage girls, which

ultimately leads to coaching them

through their dating years. She is

now also a Kallah teacher. Rochel not

only teaches them Taharas Hamish-

pacha but also helps them navigate

their Shana Rishona. Rochel is also

an inspirational speaker and gives

weekly shiurim to women of all ages.

She volunteers in the organization

Sister to Sister for divorced women

and is a “sister” to two very special

young women. Rochel Chafetz can

be reached at (917)599-8208.

The Experienced Single Woman

Irit Moshe (pen name)

First and foremost, does Nechama know who she is and what she is

looking for? Secondly, has she ver-balized to you that she would like you to be the “picker of men” for her? If you can’t answer these questions with a resounding “yes,” then take a step back and get her a dating coach. For Nechama to know what she is looking for, she needs to know who she is first. For you to be picking men for her to date, she needs to be able to convey who she is and what qualities she is looking for in the man who is suited for her and her needs.

I think you need to take a step back and allow Nechama to be more involved in the decision making process.

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The panel has spoken. Reb-betzin, Mother, Shadchan and Single have provided

unique insights with regard to your role as Nechama’s mother in this shidduch parsha of her life. All the panelists are wisely tuned into Nechama’s potential internal dialogue. Some wonder if she is not ready to date and get mar-ried and have surmised various possibilities. Others have sug-gested that she may be distract-ed by what you want for her and wonder if your own emotions are playing interference. It was advised that you step out of the situation and encourage her to speak to a third party; let her feel that she is in charge so that this feels more like her decision and less yours. And yet, it was also advised that you speak candidly with her while letting her know that you support her regardless of whatever her true intentions may be.

As dating and relationship coaches and therapists, we have had the honor of working with

parents of singles. Like so many loving and caring mothers, you want your daughter to find the right man and settle into a warm, nurturing and healthy relationship. And with love comes concern. You have watched Nechama date for two years now without having seen her take the next step toward any form of commitment and you are left wondering if there is some sort of issue going on and you are not sure of your next step. You reached out for help! What a won-derful beginning.

You have done a remarkable job raising Nechama into the ex-traordinary young woman she is as evidenced by the way you have handled the situation until and including now, and the fact that everyone (and their mother) is interested in dating Nechama. I don’t think we could find one mother in the frum community who has not had a worry about seeing her daughter (or son) get

married. If you can find her, please send her my way so she can tell the rest of us her secret.

You end your email with the fol-lowing question: “If Nechama isn’t real-

istic about her dating expectations, how do we

approach this with her?” Here-in may lie the solution. Inherent in your question is your theory that Nechama isn’t realistic about her expectations. When you speak with her, do not let your theory guide the conversation. As a matter of fact, place your the-ory on the backburner for now. Remember when your mother had a theory about you? Make a casual appointment to talk, may-be invite her out to lunch. Lead with the notion that she has your support and understanding and then talk to her about what is go-ing on for her. Your angle cannot be that she is possibly unrealistic about a potential suitor, rather your angle is that of a nonjudg-mental explorer. See where the conversation takes you. If she is completely closed to the conver-sation, you can politely suggest she speak to someone else. If she is open, then wonderful! If you are wincing at the thought of let-ting go of your expectation for her to get married in the immi-

nent future and/or you are think-ing, “You know, I honestly don’t support my daughter not being ready to date,” you may want to consider talking to a dear friend, rebbetzin or therapist during this time to provide you with an outlet to express your disappointment and work through your own feel-ings. That person cannot be your daughter.

It seems that until now you have been taking a backseat and haven’t voiced your concerns. In some families, everything is up for discussion, while in other families, issues surrounding dat-ing and relationships might be kept more private. I wonder where on the open/private pendulum your relationship with Nechama lies. I wish you continued nachas from the fabulous daughter you have raised!

The Navidaters are dating and rela-tionship coaches and therapists located in Lawrence, NY. Our services include date debriefing, dating skills applica-tion, couples counseling, premarital counseling and marital counseling. If you have a dating/relationship sce-nario you would like to be anony-mously featured in “What Would You Do If,” please email [email protected]. Check out our website at thenavidaters.com and call us at 516.224.7779 to schedule an appoint-ment.

What makes “her man” differ-ent from all the other menschen out there? She is a unique, beautiful person and so she needs to find that unique beautiful man who matches her and who speaks to her unique-ness. Lend yourself to the process and never make her feel bad about taking her time in finding a healthy, loving and worthy husband, who is as beautiful and unique as she is. Locating this man may take time and that may mean sifting

through a lot of suitors to find him. But it will be worth it in the end, be-cause she’s worth it.

Getting to know Irit Moshe...

Irit Moshe (pen name) is a

39-year-old woman who has dated

in the Orthodox world some twen-

ty years ago and is now “back on

the market,” divorced with children.

Currently being eligible, and “on the

scene,” she feels her anonymity is

important, both for her marketabili-

ty, as well as the sanctity of any of

her past and future relationships

she may be discussing with you, the

readers. Irit’s background as a shad-

chon started back in her early 20’s,

when she first succeeded in setting

up several matches, who now have

thriving families of their own. In her

late 20’s, she worked in the secular

world as a social work-

er for several years

with the ill and geri-

atric communities. In her late 20’s,

after her divorce, she experienced

living within various Jewish circles,

both on the east and west coasts and

has observed the distinct differences

in dating styles per coastal region.

At present, Irit works as a certified

life and dating coach, aiding other

shadchanim with thinking “outside

the box” as well as coordinating local

events. Irit looks forward to hearing

from you and learning about your

dating experiences and dilemmas

plus sharing with you some of her

own.

Pulling It All TogetherThe Navidaters; Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

Jennifer Mann

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Libby Lane of Baltimore, Maryland, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 24 and has been living with the condition for 10 years.

“It would be very hard to manage alone without the help of

friends and family. I can’t imagine not having support. I’ve had to learn what I can and cannot do and how to say no to overexerting myself. Being open about it with my friends really helps.”

Crohn’s disease and ul-cerative colitis are the two most common Inflamma-tory Bowel Diseases (IBD) and are estimated to af-fect as many at 1.6 million Americans, with 700,000 new cases diagnosed yearly.

Men and women are equal-ly likely to be affected, and while they can occur at any age, they are most common-ly diagnosed in adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35, with a second smaller peak of in-cidence occurring near 50 years of age. Research has shown evidence of a genetic predisposition to a chronic Inflammatory Bowel Dis-ease (IDB) among Ashkenaz-ic Jews.

Crohn’s and colitis are both chronic, life-long con-ditions that cause inflam-mation and damage of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which is normally respon-sible for digestion, nutrient absorption, and waste elim-ination. Although both dis-eases share many similar symptoms, they target dif-ferent parts of the digestive tract. Crohn’s disease can cause inflammation in any area of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus,

and often spreads deep into affected tissues, while ulcer-ative colitis causes inflam-mation and sores (ulcers) specifically in the innermost lining of one’s large intestine (colon) and rectum.

The causes of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative coli-tis are not well understood. While diet and stress may aggravate it, they do not cause it. Both conditions tend to run in families, but researchers have been un-able to establish a clear pat-tern of inheritance. Accord-ing to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), studies have shown that five to 20 percent of affected individuals have a first-degree relative (parent, child, or sibling) with one of the diseases. Not surpris-ingly, the risk is higher when both parents have IBD. The risk is greater with Crohn’s disease than with ulcerative colitis, and both are most common among people of

eastern European back-grounds, particularly Jews of European descent.

Interestingly, unidenti-fied environmental factors also seem to play a role. Crohn’s disease is more com-mon in developed countries than in undeveloped coun-tries, in urban than in rural areas, and in northern than in southern climates, but re-searchers have not been able to pin down why.

At this point, most doc-tors believe that the presence of susceptibility genes cou-pled with unidentified envi-ronmental factors triggers the immune systems of IBD patients to initiate a harmful and inappropriate inflam-matory response to benign or beneficial cells. Without intervention, the inflamma-tion does not subside, and it leads to chronic inflam-mation, ulceration, and a thickening of the intestinal wall, eventually causing the patient symptoms. Shared

symptoms of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis include persistent diarrhea, abdom-inal pain, rectal bleeding, weight loss, fever, and fa-tigue. Symptoms of IBD vary from person to person and alternate between active and inactive periods.

Dr. Erica Sneider is a board-certified colon and rectal surgeon at Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates in Lake Success as well as Huntington. According to Dr. Sneider, Ashkenazi Jews have a higher prevalence of Crohn’s disease than any other ethnic group, and, in Western countries, are three to five times more likely to be diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

Why do the conditions discriminate? No one is re-ally sure. The most accept-ed explanation, explains Dr. Sneider, is that Jews are predisposed to these condi-tions because of the “found-

A Jewish Disease?A Look at Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, Conditions that Affect the Ashkenazi Population By Tamar Sullivan

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Libby Lane of Baltimore, Maryland, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the age of 24 and has been living with the condition for 10 years.

“It would be very hard to manage alone without the help of

friends and family. I can’t imagine not having support. I’ve had to learn what I can and cannot do and how to say no to overexerting myself. Being open about it with my friends really helps.”

Crohn’s disease and ul-cerative colitis are the two most common Inflamma-tory Bowel Diseases (IBD) and are estimated to af-fect as many at 1.6 million Americans, with 700,000 new cases diagnosed yearly.

Men and women are equal-ly likely to be affected, and while they can occur at any age, they are most common-ly diagnosed in adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35, with a second smaller peak of in-cidence occurring near 50 years of age. Research has shown evidence of a genetic predisposition to a chronic Inflammatory Bowel Dis-ease (IDB) among Ashkenaz-ic Jews.

Crohn’s and colitis are both chronic, life-long con-ditions that cause inflam-mation and damage of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which is normally respon-sible for digestion, nutrient absorption, and waste elim-ination. Although both dis-eases share many similar symptoms, they target dif-ferent parts of the digestive tract. Crohn’s disease can cause inflammation in any area of the digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus,

and often spreads deep into affected tissues, while ulcer-ative colitis causes inflam-mation and sores (ulcers) specifically in the innermost lining of one’s large intestine (colon) and rectum.

The causes of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative coli-tis are not well understood. While diet and stress may aggravate it, they do not cause it. Both conditions tend to run in families, but researchers have been un-able to establish a clear pat-tern of inheritance. Accord-ing to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), studies have shown that five to 20 percent of affected individuals have a first-degree relative (parent, child, or sibling) with one of the diseases. Not surpris-ingly, the risk is higher when both parents have IBD. The risk is greater with Crohn’s disease than with ulcerative colitis, and both are most common among people of

eastern European back-grounds, particularly Jews of European descent.

Interestingly, unidenti-fied environmental factors also seem to play a role. Crohn’s disease is more com-mon in developed countries than in undeveloped coun-tries, in urban than in rural areas, and in northern than in southern climates, but re-searchers have not been able to pin down why.

At this point, most doc-tors believe that the presence of susceptibility genes cou-pled with unidentified envi-ronmental factors triggers the immune systems of IBD patients to initiate a harmful and inappropriate inflam-matory response to benign or beneficial cells. Without intervention, the inflamma-tion does not subside, and it leads to chronic inflam-mation, ulceration, and a thickening of the intestinal wall, eventually causing the patient symptoms. Shared

symptoms of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis include persistent diarrhea, abdom-inal pain, rectal bleeding, weight loss, fever, and fa-tigue. Symptoms of IBD vary from person to person and alternate between active and inactive periods.

Dr. Erica Sneider is a board-certified colon and rectal surgeon at Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates in Lake Success as well as Huntington. According to Dr. Sneider, Ashkenazi Jews have a higher prevalence of Crohn’s disease than any other ethnic group, and, in Western countries, are three to five times more likely to be diagnosed with ulcerative colitis.

Why do the conditions discriminate? No one is re-ally sure. The most accept-ed explanation, explains Dr. Sneider, is that Jews are predisposed to these condi-tions because of the “found-

A Jewish Disease?A Look at Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, Conditions that Affect the Ashkenazi Population By Tamar Sullivan


er effect,” which in short is the loss of genetic variation when a new population forms from a very small number of individuals. Ashkenazi Jews generally originate from a population that was geneti-cally isolated from the larger population for many gener-ations, and even very small mutations can amplify over long periods of time.

Furthermore, Dr. Sneider points out, people in under-developed countries who move to developed countries are at a significantly higher risk for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and the risk is far higher for Ashke-nazi Jews. Their first gener-ation children are even more at risk. While Israeli Ashke-nazi Jews have a higher inci-dence of IBD than Sephardic Jews, they have an overall lower incidence than Ash-kenazi Jews in the U.S. and Northern Europe.

Because there are so many unidentified factors,

Dr. Sneider doubts that a geneticist could predict the risk of IBD for a couple’s off-spring. While there are ge-netic markers of susceptibil-ity, many of the carriers will never develop IBD. Little, if anything, can be done pre-ventatively.

Diagnosis of Inflamma-tory Bowel Disease is made through a number of tests including colonoscopy, up-per endoscopy, imaging of the small bowel, blood tests, and pathology. Once a diag-nosis is made, a lot can be done to treat the symptoms and the underlying condi-tion in the hope of going into remission. According to Dr. James George, M.D., a re-nowned gastroenterologist practicing in Manhattan, treatment should include exercise, stress manage-ment, and a healthy diet in addition to medication and/or surgery when medically necessary.

Because IBD is a chron-

ic condition like diabetes or hypertension, he explains, there are many different ways to feel better and im-prove, but everyone’s disease is unique and what might work for one person might not work for another.

For example, he contin-ues, there are many different drug and drug combinations

that could help IBD patients. They all work differently, all have a different set of side ef-fects, and many suppress the immune system’s inappro-priate assault of the GI tract. Any given medication works for about 40 to 60 percent

of patients, so sometimes it takes awhile to find what works.

One thing Dr. George makes very clear is that stress is “probably the most important factor in instigat-ing an attack… Stress pro-motes an exacerbation of the underlying IBD.” It follows, then, that stress manage-ment may be as important as any other medical therapy available.

Most IBD experts also agree that changes to pa-tients’ diets have been stud-ied extensively but that all studies have resulted in in-conclusive outcomes. Some patients have turned to a particular diet known as the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and believe it was what put their IBD into remission. One NY-based food store, Wellbee’s, has made it its mission to pro-vide SCD-approved foods to customers nationally.

“The SCD is a very re-strictive diet outlined by Elaine Gottschall in her book, Breaking the Vicious Cy-cle. It’s staunchly sugar-free, gluten-free, starch-free, yeast-free, and lactose-free,” explains Esther Russ, a long-time staff member of Well-bee’s. The premise of the diet is to starve and kill the

bad bacteria in the gut that feeds on sugar and complex carbohydrates, allowing the intestines to recover from their chronic inflammation.

Despite anecdotal ev-idence and a quieting of symptoms, the SCD has yet

to show evidence of muco-sal healing and an objective reduction of inflammation. Additionally, according to world-renowned IBD expert William Sandborn, MD, there is a very poor correla-tion between symptoms and objective evidence of inflam-mation. Any symptomat-ic improvements achieved through diet may not cor-respond to a decrease in inflammation, which ulti-mately is the greater danger for patients. Therefore, the effectiveness of the diet is not supported by scientific studies and should be used only in consultation with gastroenterologists and in conjunction with proper medical therapies.

Additionally, and es-pecially with pediatric pa-tients, one needs to consider and weigh the psychological impact of imposing such a restrictive diet on a child. As it is, children with IBD often feel isolated, as they may no longer relate to their peers. While their peers are concerned with age-appro-priate worries, children with IBD often have more mature concerns, including pain, hospitalizations, and surger-ies. Adding a diet that large-ly will separate them from their peers and families may

significantly exacerbate their sense of isolation.

In fact, because of the life-altering changes IBD brings with it, there is a huge psychosocial component to these conditions for adults as well.

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Aliza Rosenbaum was diag-nosed with colitis three years ago when her youngest son was two. No one in her im-mediate or extended family has it. Coping was and still is a challenge for her.

“When you’re flaring – that means when you are in an active period – you’re suffering from this invisible disease. You look completely fine on the outside, but on the inside you feel exhausted and weak. You’re running to the bathroom every ten seconds, your nutrients are being de-pleted, and you feel like you have the flu constantly. You don’t get sympathy or sup-port if you aren’t open about it, but because it’s such an embarrassing condition, it’s hard to talk about it, espe-cially with people who don’t have it.”

Aliza finds it challenging to function and do fun activ-ities with her children with her limited amount of ener-gy. Even carpool and get-ting kids out the door in the morning is challenging.

“It’s hard not to be nega-tive about it. I always have the fear of flaring in the back of my mind, wherever I go. It affects how we make vaca-tion plans and what we do as a family.”

The need for pa-tient-to-patient and group support is one that Marci

Reiss, LCSW, virtually sin-glehandedly addressed

through the founding of the LA-based

IBD Support F o u n d a t i o n (IBDSF).

“At the IBD Support Foun-

dation, our

goal is to prevent IBD pa-tients from ever feeling alone because of their disease.”

IBDSF provides a wide range of services aimed at easing the anxiety and social isolation that often accom-panies Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, including providing medical refer-rals, connecting patients to one another, engaging in school advocacy, and offering support groups, nutrition-al education, and hospital visitations. If a patient can connect with other patients in his peer group, the debili-tating loneliness, embarrass-ment, and isolation of living with IBD can be minimized. IBDSF’s services extend na-tionally and internationally, and there is even an IBDSF Chapter at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Ms. Reiss stresses that one of the most important determinants for living suc-cessfully and healthily with IBD is treatment by IBD ex-perts. There is a difference between a general gastroen-terologist who cares for all gastrointestinal diseases and an IBD expert, who has spent additional years of training focusing on Inflammatory Bowel Disease and whose practices consist largely of complex IBD patients.

“There is a very broad range of expertise in IBD,” she explains. “Going to an IBD expert can make all the difference in the world.” IBDSF works closely with a number of excellent IBD Centers nationally, including University of California San Diego, the Mayo Clinic, and Vanderbilt University Med-ical Center. Other excellent centers include University

of Chicago and Mount Si-nai Hospital in New

York. If you are not close to an IBD Center, one should consider

being evaluated

at an IBD Center for a con-firmation of diagnosis and a treatment plan, and then uti-lize a local gastroenterologist for monitoring and routine care.

In the frum community in particular, the psychoso-cial hardships of living with Crohn’s disease and ulcer-ative colitis are magnified because of the communal stigma of speaking openly about the disease for fear of possible shidduch rejections. In order to maintain some anonymity, some patients are connected with others for support outside of their immediate community. The issue of disclosure in shiddu-chim is a delicate one and one that Ms. Reiss deals with on a regular basis, consulting reg-ularly with Rabbi Gershon Bess in California for halachic shailos.

“Parents are concerned when a prospective shidduch has Crohn’s disease or ulcer-ative colitis. I tell them that if the condition is well-man-aged by IBD experts and the patient is in a healthy place hashkafically and psychologi-cally regarding the condition, they are in a good place. IBD becomes much more signifi-cant in marriage if a patient is irresponsible or in denial about his or her condition and is not following proper medical treatment.”

Dr. Chaim Abittan, a gastroenterologist in Great Neck, has had patients refuse to take medication or admit that they have IBD because they are in shidduchim.

“I think people are scared when they hear that they or their prospective shidduch has Crohn’s disease or ulcer-ative colitis because all they hear are horror stories and hospitalizations,” the doctor relates. “What they don’t hear about are the many, many responsible IBD pa-tients who can and do live long and happy lives.”

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The Child WithinRabbi Eli Scheller

It Could Have Happened To You

The wedding hall named Ateres Chynka in Brooklyn can hold about 500 adults. On this day of Chol Hamoed Sukkos there were close to 1000 children in the room, all boys. Thankfully, the sugar had not yet been served. The local Pirchei had spon-sored a morning father/son learning program and had offered, as the carrot on the stick, afternoon food, prizes, and performances by a magician and a master storyteller. I had come with my son to participate in the day’s activi-ties. As the first afternoon performance was to begin the room was relatively quiet and stayed that way until the magician asked for a volunteer from the audience. 750 little hands shot up in unison, joined by 750 choruses of ‘Me! Me! Me!’ As I watched the boys I noticed that the aggressive hand rais-ing techniques had not changed much since my childhood days. The magi-cian tried to narrow the field of candi-dates and said, ‘For this trick I’ll need someone strong, and someone who can sing, as well. And most import-ant,’ he said, ‘I need someone who is smarter than me!’ I looked around, and to my surprise, 750 hands remained upraised.

I tried to imagine this scenario in a college classroom with a professor asking for volunteers from among his college students. At the first request, perhaps 20 percent of the students would offer their services. If the pro-fessor proceeds to add further qualifi-cations such as artistic talent or phys-ical strength, that 20 percent would no doubt drop to only a few percent. I looked at my son and wondered if in the next 15 years he’d be one of the majority to go from ‘Me! Me! Me’ to ‘Him! Him! Him!’, and if so, why?

Ken Robinson is a British profes-sor of education and a noted author and lecturer. In one of his lectures he describes a study of creativity that in-volved 1500 preschool children. The researchers gave children paper clips and asked them to imagine other uses for the item that did not involve hold-

ing sheets of paper together. The re-searchers had previously determined that a person who could think of fifty or more uses for a paper clip would be considered a creative genius. They were surprised to learn that 98% of young children achieved this level. This was a longitudinal study and the test was given to the same group of children at age 10 and age 15. The number of creative geniuses had dropped to 50% and 30%, respective-ly. By young adulthood the number of people who achieved the level of cre-ative genius dropped to 2%! What had changed over the years?

Dr. Robinson goes on in his talk to explain that children are born with the ability to see things from many angles and are naturally creative. They can see lots of solutions to a problem and thus achieving high scores on the pa-per clip test was something that comes naturally. When children are educated in school they begin to learn that there is only one way to answer questions or to solve problems. Slowly but surely their natural creativity is stifled.

I witness this idea every morning around 6AM, after I’ve used up all my snooze button chances. I slowly make it down to the basement where my three children have been up since 5AM creating a new universe, differ-ent from yesterday’s universe, out of a combination of Legos, Clics and Mag-na Tiles, all held together by paper clips. Children are full of passion and zest for life since creativity and ener-gy go hand in hand. For a child, life is exciting because there is so much to learn.

In the Bereshis story of Yosef and his brothers, Binyomin is taken captive by Yosef, the viceroy of Egypt. Yehu-da had assured his father Yaakov that Binyomin would return home safely. Yehuda stands up for his youngest brother and tells Yosef the following, “Ki aych elleh el avi v’hana’ar enenu iti - How can I return to my father (Yaa-kov) when the ‘na’ar’ (young man) is not with me?” The simple meaning of

this verse is that Yehuda cannot bear the thought of facing his father back in Canaan without his younger brother at his side. The Chassidic Rabbis offer a deeper explanation. Yehuda’s rhetor-ical question is one that all of us have to ask ourselves after our lives of 120 years. How can we ascend and stand before our Father in Heaven when the ‘na’ar’ is not within me? Hashem has given us all a gift of youth and we can’t let that flame wither.

As adults we become too comfort-able with routine. We allow ourselves to do things on a daily basis because that’s how we’ve done them for years. We don’t allow ourselves to achieve new skills because we have convinced ourselves those skills are beyond us.

750 boys knew they could sing. They knew they were strong. They knew they were smart. No one had con-vinced them otherwise.

We must constantly question our actions and test our capabilities. A grown up gets comfortable with the situation he is in and hopes it remains the same. A child challenges the sta-tus quo. The adult within you looks at things the way they are and asks ‘Why?’ The child within thinks of things that never were and asks, ‘Why not?’

Rabbi Eli Scheller is the author of the popular series ‘A Minute Vort’ on the parsha. To receive his weekly dvar torah email [email protected]

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Understanding the Difference between Marketing and Branding

Digital World

Marketing is one of those fields that are filled with jargon and buzz-words. With so many new terms, tactics, and s t r a t e g i e s , many busi-ness own-ers scratch their head and wonder, “why can’t someone just tell me what I need to do to grow my business?”

Two of the most vexing terms are “marketing” and “branding.” What is the difference between marketing and branding? Aren’t they basically the same? Don’t they overlap?

These two terms might seem inter-changeable on the surface, but dig in deeper and you’ll see that the differ-ences are vital to building your strate-gy and growing your business.

The Difference between Market-

ing and BrandingMarketing is direct response fo-

cused. You create a campaign, post an ad, and wait for a r e s p o n s e . There is an end goal in mind; a spe-cific action

you want the viewer to take.Branding is the messaging that

plants your business in the mind of the customer. There is no specific end result that comes from branding. In-stead, you brand your business with the goal of keeping your company top of mind so when a customer needs your service, you’re the first one she calls.

Putting the Differences to WorkIt’s one thing to know the differ-

ences. It’s another thing to see them

in action. Here are three of the most effective ways you can use both strat-egies to grow your business.

Marketing Your Business (Since most of the readers who

will benefit from this article do busi-ness locally and not nationally, I de-cided to focus the strategies and tactics discussed here towards their needs.) Marketing requires promotion so that you can sell your products or services. That requires promoting your cam-paigns in the right place at the right time to the right people. Three of the best ways to do that are:

Local Search Engine Optimiza-tion (SEO). Local SEO goes a step beyond basic SEO. Instead of trying to rank high for broad keywords, you hone in on your specific region. This way, your website appears at the top for people looking for what you have to offer in your area.

Targeted Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Campaigns. Think of PPC campaigns as a way to jumpstart your SEO. You choose the keywords you want to rank high on, make your bid, and watch the traffic pour in.

Optimize Your Listings on Re-view Sites Review sites such as Yelp are quickly becoming the new search engine for local businesses. People take to Yelp to find the products or ser-vices in their area that are most loved and recommended by their friends, family, and neighbors. So make sure to identify the review sites that people use in your industry and fill out your profile and monitor your reviews.

Each of these channels allows you to set up a campaign that has a direct goal of selling something to the con-sumer at the end.

Branding Your BusinessBranding your business requires

a different approach. With branding, you want to be seen and heard, but you don’t necessarily have an agenda to push for the sale. Three of today’s best strategies for branding include:

Targeted Facebook Ads. On Facebook, you only pay for clicks. That means that when people see but not engage with your ad, you’re get-ting free publicity, increasing brand

awareness. Additionally you can take advantage of Facebooks demograph-ic targeting. You can show you brand and ads specifically to prospects that fit your exact target audience.

Ads on Targeted Industry Web-sites. Similar to Facebook ads, you can display your ad on targeted indus-try websites without being charged until someone clicks. Again, you get more free publicity and only pay when someone takes action with your busi-ness.

Sponsored Social Media Up-dates. Be seen and heard with spon-sored social media updates. Simply post something insightful and inter-esting. Then, “boost” your post so that it’s shown in more newsfeeds. This strategy is becoming increasingly im-portant as social media platforms up-date their algorithms.

Measuring SuccessYou know the strategies, but how

well do they work? More importantly, how well do they work for your busi-ness?

Measurement is the key to all investment. It shows where you’re spending money in the right way or where you should stop investing your resources.

To measure your marketing suc-cess, look at your traffic and conver-sions analytics. The goal is to have your customers take a specific action as a result of your marketing. With that goal in mind, you can determine how successful a marketing campaign is by analyzing your Google analytics or dynamic call tracking.

Measuring your branding success might seem a little harder, but it’s not if you know where to look. Monitor how many times your brand name searches for your business increase. Link your Google webmaster tools to Google an-alytics, and then run a search query re-sult. Are more people looking for your business by name? Then your brand-ing efforts have worked!

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Last week I had the good fortune to accompany my husband on one of his business trips to Phoenix, Arizona. I am a true travel junkie and am always on the lookout for any opportunity to travel. Whenever we travel I use the free app called “Kosher GPS,” which locates kosher restaurants, minyanim and mikvaot in any community in the United States based on my location.

Once we settled into our hotel and my husband went off to

his conference, my job was to find the local restaurants. To my surprise, several came up in Phoenix. The Phoenix community has a variety of restaurants, including Chi-nese, Israeli, pizza and vegan,

all under the Vaad HaKashrut of Greater Phoenix. We ate at most places and they were all fantastic. In particular, Fresh Mint is a vegan eat-ery and was one of the most unique restaurants I have ever eaten at. Of the many delicious dishes I ordered at Fresh Mint, the Summer Roll (often known as Vietnamese Roll) was our favorite.

When I returned home, my mission was to make my own version of this roll.

SUMMER ROLL OR VIETNAMESE ROLLIngredients10 spring roll rice paper

wrappers1 large carrot, peeled

and julienned2 large Persian

cucumbers, julienned1/3 cup chopped

purple cabbage1-2 cups cooked rice noodles

1 avocado, slicedHandful fresh cilantro or

mint or basil5 large green lettuce leaves

(romaine or butter), torn in half

10 pieces kosher crab sticks or 10 slices of smoked salmon or tofu

Sesame seeds for garnish (optional)

DirectionsPrepare the rice pa-

per wrappers: Pour warm water into a large bowl or 9-inch square or round bak-ing pan. Working with one at a time, dip the rice paper wrapper into the warm water for 10-15 seconds (or what-ever the package suggests). You want the wrapper to be soft, yet still slightly firm and pliable. Immediately remove from the water, pat or shake the wrapper slightly dry and place flat onto a work surface

such as a large plastic or ce-ramic cutting board.

Filling and rolling: Place the prepared rice wrap-per on the ceramic board. Put down the lettuce as your first layer across the rice paper leaving a small border open at the top. Then add the car-rot, cucumber and cabbage to the bottom 1/3 of the rice paper. Then, a small amount of noodles, avocado and fresh herbs. Lay a slice of crabstick in the middle of the vegetable filling. Do not overstuff the roll.

Roll everything up tight-ly. Gently pull up the bottom and roll over the filling, tuck-ing in the sides as you go. It’s basically like you’re rolling a blintz. Remember, you want a very tight roll.

After rolling, cut into 6-8 pieces, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and serve with peanut sauce.

EASY PEANUT DIPPING SAUCEIngredients¼ cup creamy peanut butter1 tablespoon hoisin sauce2 teaspoons soy sauce1 clove garlic, mashed (or

about 1 teaspoon minced)1 teaspoon Sriracha sauce

or a sweet chili sauce, optional for spice

1-2 tablespoons warm water, or more as needed

DirectionsPrepare the dipping

sauce: You can whisk ev-erything together in a bowl or use a food processor. Add all ingredients to a medi-um bowl (except water) and whisk until smooth. Add 1-2 tablespoons of warm water or until you reach desired thinness. Pour into a serving bowl/ramekin and top with garnish.

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 additional 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.

By Naomi Nachman

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TJH Centerfold

Riddle me

this?John, Tiny, and Ron are the

gunner, commander, and driver of a three-man tank crew, although

not necessarily in that order. Even though there is one official

gunner, they all had guns. In one battle, the gunner, an only child,

“took out” the fewest enemies. Ron, who is married to John’s’ sister,

“took out” more bad guys than the commander. What position did

each soldier occupy?

See answer below

You gotta be kiddingA sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said, “I have a nice, easy job for the

laziest man here. Put up your hand if you are the laziest.” 24 men raised their hands. The sergeant asked the other man, “Why didn’t you raise your hand?” The man replied, “Too much trouble raising the hand, Sarge.”

Military Slang (Match each word with the correct definition)

Answer to riddle: Tiny is the gunner, Ron is the driver, and John is the commander.

Ron can’t be the gunner because he did not kill the least amount of enemies. Like-wise, John is not the gunner because he is not an only child; thus the gunner must be Tiny. Likewise, Ron “took out” more than the commander, which must make him the driver while John is the commander.

U.S. Army Answering MachineWe’re sorry, but all of our units are out at the moment, or otherwise engaged. Please leave a message with your country, name of organization, region, specific crisis and a number where you can be reached. As soon as we have sorted out Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and ISIS, and of course upon completion of our daily compulsory Consid-eration of Others Training, we will return your call.

Please speak after the tone, or if you require more options, please choose from the following options: If your crisis is small and is located near the sea, press 1 for the United States Marine Corps.

If your concern is distant, with temperate climate and good hotels, and can be solved by one or two low-risk high-alti-tude bombing runs, press 2 for the United States Air Force. Please note that this service is not available after 1630 hours or on weekends. Special consideration will be given to customers requiring satellite or stealth technology who can provide additional research and development funding.

If your inquiry concerns a situation which can be resolved by a parade with flags and a really good marching band, please write, well in advance, to the United States Navy. Please note that Tomahawk missile service is extremely

limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If your inquiry is not urgent, press 3 for the Rapid Deploy-ment Force.

If you are interested in joining the U.S. Army, and you wish to be shouted at, paid little, have premature arthritis, put your family in a condemned hut miles from civilization, and are prepared to work your head off, risking your life in all weather and terrains, both day and night, while watching Congress erode your original benefits package, then please stay on the line. Your call will be answered shortly by the next available bitter passed-over for promotion Army recruiter located in a strip mall down by the post office.

Say it Like a Marine• “The Marine Corps: When It

Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight”

• “Marine Sniper: You can run, but you’ll just die tired!”

• “Marines: Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity to Die for their Country Since 1775”

• “It’s G-d’s Job to Forgive our Enemies – It’s Our Job To Arrange The Meeting”

• “Do Draft Dodgers Have Reunions? If So, What Do They Talk About?”

• “Machine Gunners: Accuracy by Volume”

• “A Dead Enemy is a Peaceful Enemy – Blessed Be the Peacemakers”

• “Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, War has Never Solved Anything.”

1. Fitty 2. Hit the silk 3. Klicks 4. Moonbeam 5. Rack time 6. Bravo Zulu 7. Soup sandwich8. Got your six9. Fruit Salad10. Blue Falcon 11. Crumb catcher 12. Fang 13. Grape 14. Oxygen Thief 15. Puddle Pirate

A. I’ve got your back

B. Well doneC. FlashlightD. An easy assignmentE. To sleepF. The display of medals and ribbons

on one’s uniformG. A soldier whose performance is

unsatisfactoryH. M2 .50 caliber machinegunI. MouthJ. BackstabberK. Member of the Coast GuardL. RebukeM. Ejecting from an aircraftN. Someone who’s useless or talks

too muchO. Kilometers

Answers1-H2-M3-O4-C

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Wisdom key13-15 Correct: Bravo Zulu!9-12 Correct: Your fruit salad

ain’t bad!5-8 Correct: You spent too

much time “rack timing” it while you were in the Ser-vice

0-4 Correct: You’re a total grape. You probably spent your time as a puddle pirate.

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TJH Centerfold

Riddle me

this?John, Tiny, and Ron are the

gunner, commander, and driver of a three-man tank crew, although

not necessarily in that order. Even though there is one official

gunner, they all had guns. In one battle, the gunner, an only child,

“took out” the fewest enemies. Ron, who is married to John’s’ sister,

“took out” more bad guys than the commander. What position did

each soldier occupy?

See answer below

You gotta be kiddingA sergeant was addressing a squad of 25 and said, “I have a nice, easy job for the

laziest man here. Put up your hand if you are the laziest.” 24 men raised their hands. The sergeant asked the other man, “Why didn’t you raise your hand?” The man replied, “Too much trouble raising the hand, Sarge.”

Military Slang (Match each word with the correct definition)

Answer to riddle: Tiny is the gunner, Ron is the driver, and John is the commander.

Ron can’t be the gunner because he did not kill the least amount of enemies. Like-wise, John is not the gunner because he is not an only child; thus the gunner must be Tiny. Likewise, Ron “took out” more than the commander, which must make him the driver while John is the commander.

U.S. Army Answering MachineWe’re sorry, but all of our units are out at the moment, or otherwise engaged. Please leave a message with your country, name of organization, region, specific crisis and a number where you can be reached. As soon as we have sorted out Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and ISIS, and of course upon completion of our daily compulsory Consid-eration of Others Training, we will return your call.

Please speak after the tone, or if you require more options, please choose from the following options: If your crisis is small and is located near the sea, press 1 for the United States Marine Corps.

If your concern is distant, with temperate climate and good hotels, and can be solved by one or two low-risk high-alti-tude bombing runs, press 2 for the United States Air Force. Please note that this service is not available after 1630 hours or on weekends. Special consideration will be given to customers requiring satellite or stealth technology who can provide additional research and development funding.

If your inquiry concerns a situation which can be resolved by a parade with flags and a really good marching band, please write, well in advance, to the United States Navy. Please note that Tomahawk missile service is extremely

limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

If your inquiry is not urgent, press 3 for the Rapid Deploy-ment Force.

If you are interested in joining the U.S. Army, and you wish to be shouted at, paid little, have premature arthritis, put your family in a condemned hut miles from civilization, and are prepared to work your head off, risking your life in all weather and terrains, both day and night, while watching Congress erode your original benefits package, then please stay on the line. Your call will be answered shortly by the next available bitter passed-over for promotion Army recruiter located in a strip mall down by the post office.

Say it Like a Marine• “The Marine Corps: When It

Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight”

• “Marine Sniper: You can run, but you’ll just die tired!”

• “Marines: Providing Enemies of America an Opportunity to Die for their Country Since 1775”

• “It’s G-d’s Job to Forgive our Enemies – It’s Our Job To Arrange The Meeting”

• “Do Draft Dodgers Have Reunions? If So, What Do They Talk About?”

• “Machine Gunners: Accuracy by Volume”

• “A Dead Enemy is a Peaceful Enemy – Blessed Be the Peacemakers”

• “Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, War has Never Solved Anything.”

1. Fitty 2. Hit the silk 3. Klicks 4. Moonbeam 5. Rack time 6. Bravo Zulu 7. Soup sandwich8. Got your six9. Fruit Salad10. Blue Falcon 11. Crumb catcher 12. Fang 13. Grape 14. Oxygen Thief 15. Puddle Pirate

A. I’ve got your back

B. Well doneC. FlashlightD. An easy assignmentE. To sleepF. The display of medals and ribbons

on one’s uniformG. A soldier whose performance is

unsatisfactoryH. M2 .50 caliber machinegunI. MouthJ. BackstabberK. Member of the Coast GuardL. RebukeM. Ejecting from an aircraftN. Someone who’s useless or talks

too muchO. Kilometers

Answers1-H2-M3-O4-C

5-E6-B7- G8- A9-F10- J11-I12- L13- D14- N15- K

Wisdom key13-15 Correct: Bravo Zulu!9-12 Correct: Your fruit salad

ain’t bad!5-8 Correct: You spent too

much time “rack timing” it while you were in the Ser-vice

0-4 Correct: You’re a total grape. You probably spent your time as a puddle pirate.

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Fast forward just over a half a year later: the Iran deal is done and Ne-tanyahu is back

in America to meet with an emboldened president who is waiting out finishing his term. But this time around, when the two leaders met this past Monday, relations

seemed much warmer than any other time in recent memory. Obama didn’t ap-pear to be in lecturing mode and Netanyahu’s purpose was not solely to affirm his commitment to Israel’s secu-rity – no matter what.

Indeed, this week’s meet-ing was seen by many as a “patching up” of the U.S.-Is-

rael relationship and focused on military packages being sent to Israel to help stabi-lize the region, particular-ly in light of the newfound resources allowed to the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror, Iran. Obama was frank about the differences he has with the Israeli prime minister but noted, “We don’t have a disagreement on the need to making sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, and we don’t have a disagreement about the im-portance of us blunting and destabilizing activities that Iran may be taking place,” the president asserted. “And so we’re going to be looking to make sure that we find common ground there.” The region is also being ravaged by radical Islamist groups, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, as well as by the deadly civil war taking place in neighbor-ing Syria, and both leaders put aside their differences to address the most press-ing security concerns there. The meeting, which was de-scribed by Netanyahu’s aides as “good,” went forty-five minutes over schedule, a sign that the discussions were productive.

Netanyahu’s visit comes

in the midst of the most re-cent outbreak of violence by Palestinians and in the wake of President Obama’s exploitation last week of the past two months’ of violence as evidence for the neces-sity of a two-state solution.

“Over time, the only way that Israel is going to be truly se-cure, and the only way the Palestinians are going to be able to meet the aspirations of their people, is if they are two states living side by side in peace and security,” Obama said on Friday. The president’s comments were a strong insinuation that the blame for the unrest ul-timately lies with Israel and Netanyahu, who he says has been unwilling to sit down to discuss the possibility of moving forward with plans for a sovereign Palestinian state and instead has al-

lowed more construction of Israeli housing on so called “disputed” lands. His com-ments on Friday echoed ones made earlier in the week by Secretary of State John Ker-ry. “There’s been a massive increase in settlement over

the course of the last years ... and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing,” Kerry said on Tuesday.

Israel insists that the re-cent uptick in violence is not a result of any frustration on the part of the Palestinians; it is because of the Palestin-ians’ fundamental ideology regarding the place of any Jewish state in the Middle East. “They don’t want us here; if they are frustrated, that frustration will contin-ue – we will continue to be here,” was Netanyahu’s re-sponse to Kerry. “Make [Ab-

Netanyahu Comes to

Washington

A Softening in the U.S.-Israel Relationship

By Nachum Soroka

Global politics is a strange enterprise. It was only a few months ago that Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu happily played the Republican Party’s pawn in its power struggle with the Obama White House by addressing Congress over the Iran nuclear deal. The ad-dress was viewed by Democrats as subversive to the U.S.’s agenda and as another example of Netanyahu’s blatant disregard for President Obama’s authority in the U.S. government. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said then that Netanyahu’s speech left her “near tears” and that she was “saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States.” Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s gratefulness to the Obama administration at the time stating, “I regret that some see my appearance here as politi-cal,” he said. “I know that no matter which side of the aisle you sit on, you stand with Israel,” but the overall consensus then was that White House-Israeli relations – which had been icy for some time already – had reached a low point.

“Our friendship is strong and our alliance is strong with shared interests and values.”

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Fast forward just over a half a year later: the Iran deal is done and Ne-tanyahu is back

in America to meet with an emboldened president who is waiting out finishing his term. But this time around, when the two leaders met this past Monday, relations

seemed much warmer than any other time in recent memory. Obama didn’t ap-pear to be in lecturing mode and Netanyahu’s purpose was not solely to affirm his commitment to Israel’s secu-rity – no matter what.

Indeed, this week’s meet-ing was seen by many as a “patching up” of the U.S.-Is-

rael relationship and focused on military packages being sent to Israel to help stabi-lize the region, particular-ly in light of the newfound resources allowed to the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror, Iran. Obama was frank about the differences he has with the Israeli prime minister but noted, “We don’t have a disagreement on the need to making sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, and we don’t have a disagreement about the im-portance of us blunting and destabilizing activities that Iran may be taking place,” the president asserted. “And so we’re going to be looking to make sure that we find common ground there.” The region is also being ravaged by radical Islamist groups, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, as well as by the deadly civil war taking place in neighbor-ing Syria, and both leaders put aside their differences to address the most press-ing security concerns there. The meeting, which was de-scribed by Netanyahu’s aides as “good,” went forty-five minutes over schedule, a sign that the discussions were productive.

Netanyahu’s visit comes

in the midst of the most re-cent outbreak of violence by Palestinians and in the wake of President Obama’s exploitation last week of the past two months’ of violence as evidence for the neces-sity of a two-state solution.

“Over time, the only way that Israel is going to be truly se-cure, and the only way the Palestinians are going to be able to meet the aspirations of their people, is if they are two states living side by side in peace and security,” Obama said on Friday. The president’s comments were a strong insinuation that the blame for the unrest ul-timately lies with Israel and Netanyahu, who he says has been unwilling to sit down to discuss the possibility of moving forward with plans for a sovereign Palestinian state and instead has al-

lowed more construction of Israeli housing on so called “disputed” lands. His com-ments on Friday echoed ones made earlier in the week by Secretary of State John Ker-ry. “There’s been a massive increase in settlement over

the course of the last years ... and there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing,” Kerry said on Tuesday.

Israel insists that the re-cent uptick in violence is not a result of any frustration on the part of the Palestinians; it is because of the Palestin-ians’ fundamental ideology regarding the place of any Jewish state in the Middle East. “They don’t want us here; if they are frustrated, that frustration will contin-ue – we will continue to be here,” was Netanyahu’s re-sponse to Kerry. “Make [Ab-

Netanyahu Comes to

Washington

A Softening in the U.S.-Israel Relationship

By Nachum Soroka

Global politics is a strange enterprise. It was only a few months ago that Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu happily played the Republican Party’s pawn in its power struggle with the Obama White House by addressing Congress over the Iran nuclear deal. The ad-dress was viewed by Democrats as subversive to the U.S.’s agenda and as another example of Netanyahu’s blatant disregard for President Obama’s authority in the U.S. government. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said then that Netanyahu’s speech left her “near tears” and that she was “saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States.” Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s gratefulness to the Obama administration at the time stating, “I regret that some see my appearance here as politi-cal,” he said. “I know that no matter which side of the aisle you sit on, you stand with Israel,” but the overall consensus then was that White House-Israeli relations – which had been icy for some time already – had reached a low point.

“Our friendship is strong and our alliance is strong with shared interests and values.”


bas] accountable and stop trying to justify him in any way – not with settlements, not with the peace process, not with anything,” Netanya-hu stressed.

Yet the American pres-ident and the Israeli prime minister seem closer than ever with regard to the cre-ation of a Palestinian state. At the time of his recent re-election, Netanyahu took the strong stance of nev-er allowing such a state on his watch, a position that was loudly criticized by the Obama administration. But since then, Netanyahu’s posi-tion seems to have softened, and he insists that his cam-paign rhetoric was taken out of context. At the meeting on Monday, Netanyahu told the president, “I want to make it clear we haven’t given up on our hope for peace,” adding, “Our friendship is strong and our alliance is strong with shared interests and values.”

The White House as well has backed off of any strate-gy involving an Arab state for now, and instead is looking to stabilize the region before creating any lasting changes there. The administration announced ahead of Net-anyahu’s visit that there is no likelihood for a peace deal happening before the pres-ident leaves office in 2017. “The president has reached the conclusion that, barring a major shift, the parties are not going to be in the

position to negotiate a final status agreement,” said Rob Malley, President Obama’s senior Middle East adviser. The White House “faces a re-ality where the prospect of a negotiated two-state solution is not in the cards,” Mr. Mal-ley told journalists.

To be fair, the newfound softness coming out of Wash-ington is accompanied by much finger pointing at the Netanyahu government for not allowing any significant inroads to be made regarding a peace deal. White House spokesman Josh Earnest has previously claimed that Net-anyahu’s campaign talk was leading the White House to “reevaluate” any possibili-ties for a deal, and the dep-uty national security adviser for strategic communication, Ben Rhodes, reproached, “We’ve tried many different approaches over the course of the administration: Direct negotiations, indirect nego-tiations, the U.S. putting out some principles. And again, at each juncture, ultimately the parties themselves did not take the sufficient steps forward to reach a negotiated two-state solution.”

What is now referred to as the “two-state solution” dates back to a United Na-tions’ resolution in 1974 which called for “two States, Israel and Palestine … side by side within secure and recognized borders” together

with “a just resolution of the refugee question.” In truth, however, the notion of two states dates back to even before the State’s creation, when in 1937, the Peel Com-mission report, authored by Lord William Peel of Great Britain, recommended that due to the unsustainable na-ture of the British Mandate of Palestine, the land should be divided evenly between the Jewish and Arab factions there.

As would become the case for the rest of the 20th centu-ry, Lord Peel’s recommenda-tion was rejected by the Arab groups, led by Hitler’s ally, Hajj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. In con-trast, the Twentieth Zionist Congress, while wary of the narrow borders assigned to the Jews by the report, ap-proved the Commission’s proposal, if only equivocal-ly. David Ben-Gurion said at the time that although “there could be no question ... of giv-ing up any part of the Land of Israel, ... it was arguable that the ultimate goal would be achieved most quickly by ac-cepting the Peel proposals.”

The Zionist leaders felt that it was prudent to accept the deal which was being offered to them at the time and focus on the country’s actual bor-ders at a later time.

Indeed, it was the Peel Commission report which laid the groundwork for the ultimate UN Partition Plan in 1947. The UN’s plan called for two sovereign Arab and Jewish states with Jerusa-lem to be held under inter-national control. Once again, Zionist groups accepted the UN proposal while Arab groups did not, leading to the War of Independence in 1948 and the mass exodus of 711,000 Arabs from Israel.

It was only after the Is-raeli military victories in 1967 that the PLO began to backtrack on its decades’

long recalcitrance to any Jewish presence in the land, and Yasser Arafat’s delegate to Britain, Said Hammami, articulated the Arabs’ will-ingness to recognize the 1947 Partition Plan in various me-dia outlets.

Coupled with this new-found willingness from the Arabs to “return to the ta-ble” was their insistence that Israel completely reset the clock to 1947 and allow the over 700,000 Arabs who left at the time to return along with their offspring. The PLO claimed that this was a right granted to them as a “basic human right” apply-ing to all refugees and as out-lined in the Universal Decla-ration of Human Rights from 1951. But Israel has called the claim out to be no more than a political move, as the 1948 war was instigated by the Arabs themselves. Further-more, it suspects that the re-turn of Arabs to Israel would be done with the intention to create an Arab majority there and thus defeat the Is-raeli Jewish population with-out starting another war.

Most recently, the UN and the major world powers have embraced the Arabs’ call for a return to the origi-nal two-state solution and lay the blame on Israel and its allowance of so-called “set-tlements” in areas claimed by the Arabs. Yet, there have been countless times in the past twenty years when nu-merous Israeli prime min-isters, including leftists like

Ehud Barak and conserva-tives like Ariel Sharon, have offered Palestinian leaders everything they publicly de-sired and were met with ji-had in response.

If the solution to Israel’s problems does not lie in the creation of two states, what is it then? Any reluctance on Netanyahu’s part towards al-lowing the creation of a Pal-estine is not because he is op-posed to the idea. One state is most definitely not the res-olution to the unceasing con-flict. Israel has no reason nor the faintest desire to occupy itself with governing a group who has no desire to be gov-erned itself. The country has spent nearly seventy years defending its citizens from ji-had emanating from squalid refugee camps. It is doubtful that it hopes the next sev-enty years will be the same. As such, some say that two self-governing states, living side by side, seems to be the only viable route to end the conflict.

Indeed, such is the grim reality Israel faces today, as it has in the past. Towards “peace” and the relinquish-ing of fairly earned land built by the labors of its people to be surrounded by an even hungrier and dead-lier foe; or onward with the seventy year long struggle to maintain the semblance of a nation carrying on with its day-to-day tasks, but with terror – and the critical gaze of the world – looming over-head.

The Peel Commission

Husseini leaving the Peel Commission

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101The Jewish Home | NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Drop that spoon! Ev-eryone deserves the occasional indul-

gence, but before you dig in, there are a number of foods you should steer clear of to avoid damaging effects on your body, skin, and waist-line. The following list of foods pack on the pounds, zap energy, trigger inflammation, and crowd out the more nutri-tious foods in your diet.

1. Margarine: Most brands of stick margarine are loaded with trans fat, the toxic fat that increas-es bad cholesterol, lowers good cholesterol, promotes clotting, and damages blood vessels. And, at 100 calories per tablespoon, this isn’t doing your waistline any good either! As an alterna-tive to stick margarine, you might use a “soft tub” variety of one of the reduced-calorie, trans-fat-free brands. If you prefer the taste of butter, use a small amount of whipped butter sold in tubs, because the more air means the less calories and fat.

2. Soda: One hundred percent of the calories in regular soda come from sugar or high fructose corn syrup. These empty liquid calories are largely respon-sible for fueling our nation’s

obesity epidemic. Drinking soda also damages your teeth and promotes cavity forma-tion. Instead of guzzling soft drinks to quench your thirst, try good old-fashioned water or naturally flavored seltzers.

3. Bagels: Starchy white bagels, and all the flavored varieties, are made from refined wheat and have been stripped of the fiber and nu-trients that give whole grains their health benefits. Refined white flour is linked to weight gain, heart disease, and diabetes. Another big issue is their size! Bagels have grown in size over the years and are very dense, which means they are very caloric. The standard bagel is about 400 calories, equal to about 4 slices of junky white bread. Opt for a whole grain English muffin or a mini bagel instead. For the times when nothing else but a real bagel will do, choose whole wheat or oat bran and scoop out the insides really well.

4. Dairy: Whole milk is loaded with saturated fat, the type of fat that raises bad cholesterol levels, promotes inflammation, and may con-tribute to clogged arteries. Switch to skim (fat-free) or one percent milk and dairy products. Making this switch

helps, but you’re still not es-caping a few other unhealthy things, namely recombinant bovine somatotropin, or bovine growth hormone. This hormone is a genetically engineered synthetic hor-mone given to cows to boost their milk production and may introduce health risks not only to the cows, but to the humans consuming these dairy products. Try switch-ing to organic dairy products when possible.

5. Microwave Popcorn: Movie theater popcorn may be bad for you because of the oils it’s popped in, but at least it doesn’t cause “pop-corn-lung,” otherwise known as bronchiolitis obliterans, which is an inflammatory obstruction of the lung’s bronchioles caused by chem-ical particles or respiratory infections. Butter flavored microwave popcorn doesn’t really get its flavor from but-ter, but from chemicals and flavoring agents. Diacetyl is one such agent that has been linked to respiratory risks and Alzheimer’s disease. Popcorn itself is an OK snack, but the chemicals coating the inside of the bag are not. These chemicals also produce perfluorooctinoic acid, which the EPA considers a likely carcinogen. Try this healthy version instead: toss popcorn kernels in a brown paper bag, double fold the top of the bag, and pop as you would the processed stuff.

6. Artificial Sweeten-ers: While we love our artifi-cial sweeteners because they are zero or low calorie, the re-ality is, we don’t really know

how bad they are us. They can significantly increase our risk for health problems, such as weight gain as well as metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and heart disease, in addition to possible risk to our GI tracts. Basically, the less the better of these sugar substitutes.

7. Shelf Stable Con-diments: There’s a reason these foods can skip the refrigeration, they have been engineered not to deteriorate with preservatives and addi-tives such as food coloring, sweeteners, salt, trans fats, and chemical agents. Any fiber, good fats, and nutri-ents are stripped out in the process.

8. Anything Deep Fried: One of the problems with eating deep fried foods is that cooking foods at such high temperatures may cause them to form toxic chemical compounds that we then eat. Too many French fries will not only increase your waist-line, they will increase your risk of a stroke and certain cancers, including breast, esophageal, head and neck, lung, pancreatic, and pros-tate. Men who eat fried foods once or more a week increase their risk for prostate cancer as much as 30-37 percent!

9. Processed Baked Goods: Those pre-packaged mini muffins, doughnuts, cookies, and cakes will add tons of calories and loads of unwanted sugar to your diet. Plus, they are not easy for our bodies to digest. They are filled with preservatives and sugar, which increases inflammation in the skin and

can make you look puffy and bloated. It will also spike your insulin level, leading to a host of other issues.

10. Processed Meats: Ac-cording to researchers, eating processed meats will lead to an early death. Processed meat, including hot dogs, salami, bologna, have been found to increase your risk for cardiovascular diseases as well as certain cancers. Re-searchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who regularly eat about 2 oz. of processed meat, equivalent to one hot dog or 1-2 slices of deli meat, have a 42 percent greater risk of heart disease, as well as a 20 percent risk of developing diabetes. Processed meats have 4 times more sodium than unprocessed meats and 50 percent more nitrate preservatives.

So there you have it – the top ten worst foods you could possibly eat. Following nu-trition guidelines and eating healthy foods does make a difference. People who eat five servings of fruits and vegeta-bles every day live longer than people who don’t. If you must eat the aforementioned foods, keep it to a very rare occasion, and purge your diet and pan-try from these unhealthy of-fenders.

Aliza Beer is a registered di-etician with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been fea-tured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at [email protected].

10 Foods to Never EatBy Aliza Beer, MS, RD

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13 Ways to Soundproof Your HomeSubmitted by: Ben Schwartz | Founder

VacancyFillers.com

Real Estate

Noise. There seems to be plenty of it, no matter where you live. In the city, it’s the cacophony of sirens, honks and upstairs neighbors. In the country, it’s mowers, trimmers and blowers, along with next-door neighbors at work or play. Even if you live in a quiet neigh-borhood, laundry and dishwashers, hair dryers and even showers can make your house a noisy place. If you work at home, you know how important a quiet envi-ronment is, especially when the kids are enjoying that fabulous new home theater.

So what’s the best way to address noise problems at home? Take a three-part approach: Reduce noise transmis-sion from outside and other parts of the home, reduce the noise that your house-hold generates, and use sound-absorbing materials to lessen the effect of noise that you do generate.

Hang fabrics & panelsThe materials used in decorating the

house can help mitigate noise. The basic idea is to eliminate some of the hard sur-faces that tend to bounce noise vibration in all directions. Heavy drapes will ab-sorb a great deal of sound as well as stop noise transmission from the outside. For walls, try acoustical fabrics or panels. They are available in dozens of styles and textures but tend to be pricey. Choos-ing upholstered furniture, area rugs, and wall-hung quilts may be a less expensive way to go. When selecting a new floor, opt for products that will absorb sound, such as carpeting or cork flooring. Use sound-absorbing tiles at the ceiling.

Add insulation & drywallAdding insulation to walls or ceil-

ings is a great way to turn down the vol-ume of daily living. Good candidates for additional insulation include the walls of a master suite, bathrooms, family rooms and guest rooms. Of course, this presup-poses that you’re willing to remove dry-wall or at least cut holes in the walls to blow in insulation. Denim batts are an ef-fective sound (as well as a good thermal) insulator. They contain no VOCs, are fire resistant and green, too. Blown-in cellu-lose also works well. Adding a layer or two of drywall will significantly reduce sound transmission. Even more effective is acoustical drywall, such as QuietRock,

which can reduce sound transmission by 25 to 40 percent compared to the same wall built with standard drywall.

Try sound-dampening underlaysWhen installing new flooring, you

can limit noise transmission with a sound-dampening underlayment. Un-derlays are typically dense sheets that are rolled over the entire floor and taped along the seams. They are most effective when the flooring is installed without fasteners. There are sound-dampening underlays for every flooring type, includ-ing ceramic tile, carpeting, luxury vinyl planks and engineered wood, so be sure to choose the correct one.

Weatherstrip your windowsWindows and doors are often the

weakest link in your sound defense be-cause noise is like water and can infil-trate through any opening. Weatherstrip all points where sash meets jambs, head-ers and sills. Use an acoustical caulk sealant to fill the tiny gaps around mold-ings. Heavy or insulated drapes drawn over windows at night will also help qui-et street noise.

Install solid-core doorsReplace hollow-core doors with sol-

id-core doors. The more mass in a barri-er, the higher its ability to reduce sound transmission. While a well-fit solid door will significantly reduce sound transmis-sion, it will not eliminate it. For that, the gaps around the door at jambs, header and sill must also be sealed — typically with gasketing.

Apply duct wrapYour plumbing also contributes to

noise. Water running through pipes is un-avoidable, but by insulating those pipes you can cut associated sounds in half. The same is true for air ducts. Duct wrap will suppress the whoosh of air rushing through ducts — and will also save on your energy bills. Apply duct mastic to all joints to stop air leaks before wrap-ping them with insulation.

Adopt a shoes-off policyThere are many low-cost ways to re-

duce noise generation inside your home. One of the easiest — adopting a shoes-off policy — costs nothing. The differ-ence between someone walking across a floor in stocking feet as opposed to boots

or hard-soled shoes is significant, wheth-er you’re in the room or one floor below. If you feel uncomfortable asking friends to go around in stocking feet, keep a sup-ply of slippers in the front hall closet. At the very least, have family remove shoes.

Opt for a quiet dishwasherWhen buying appliances and outdoor

power equipment, check out the sound rating, which is measured in decibels, or dB for short. The differences in dB rat-ings can be surprisingly large. For exam-

ple, a quiet dishwasher may have a rating of 45 dB. According to sensorynutrition.com, a dishwasher with this rating would be an acceptable choice for a home with an open floor plan. A dishwasher with a dB rating of 55, however, would be twice as loud and would make conversation difficult.

Use sound-reduction padsPut rubber pads under countertop

appliances, such as mixers and blenders. Isolating motor-driven machines from hard surfaces cuts the decibels. The same principle can be used to reduce noise from air-conditioning units, furnaces, sump and pool pumps, compressors, sta-tionery power tools, generators and the like. There are many sources for rubber, neoprene and cork sound-reduction pads.

Tighten floorsSqueaky floors and stair treads can

be a real nuisance. Although there are lots of tips out there involving substanc-es like talcum powder, the long-term solutions almost always involve tight-ening up the floor or stair assembly. On first floors, if the joists and subfloor are accessible from the basement or crawl space, tightening is possible from below. Use shims and/or long screws to prevent floor boards and treads from rubbing against other boards and creaking when walked upon. The same goes for stair treads that are accessible from below.

Remove squeaky flooring

You can also tighten existing floors from the top, but the fastener heads will be visible. If you plan to carpet or paint the floor, this won’t matter. If you aren’t, try using ringed nails, setting the nail heads and puttying over the holes with filler that matches the floor finish. What-ever you do, don’t install a new floor over an old one that squeaks. The prob-lem will likely remain. Instead, remove the old flooring down to the subfloor. With the subfloor exposed, drive screws to hold it tight to the floor joists. Then install your new flooring.

Consider an isolated floorFor rooms where lots of noise is gen-

erated, such as a music practice room, media room or home gym, consider an isolated floor over the existing floor. Use stud and joist isolators (they may be slid over framing at regular intervals) to re-duce noise transmission from one floor assembly to the next. Then proceed to add sound insulation under the new floor and to wall and ceiling cavities.

Choose a DC-operated garage door

Automatic garage doors can gener-ate an incredible amount of noise, par-ticularly in rooms built over the garages. Choose a quiet garage-door opening sys-tem, such as a direct-drive opener with a direct-current (DC) motor. Direct-drive openers have fewer moving parts, and the DC technology allows soft starts and stops. For existing belt- and chain-driven openers, ensure that the door and springs are balanced and that the hinges and wheels in the door tracks are lubricated.

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Toldos: Lentils & LifeRabbi Shmuel Silber

A Parsha Thought

Now Jacob cooked a pottage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, “Pour into [me] some of this red, red [pot-tage], for I am faint”; he was therefore named Edom (Genesis 25:29-30).”

Esav returns from a long day of hunting and finds his brother prepar-ing lentils. He is so hungry that he agrees to barter his birthright for a bowl of “pottage.” This episode is apparently so important and pivotal that it solidifies Esav’s identity. Al keyn kara shemo Edom, he (Esav) was therefore named Edom. Esav asked for the “red” pottage and therefore, his offspring become known as Edom (red). How are we to understand this? Why is Esav’s identity forged by this episode? What is the significance of this pottage?

The Midrash (Bereishis Rabba 63:13) states that pottage or lentils is a type of food normally consumed by mourners. Rashi elaborates and ex-plains that the roundness of the lentil represents the cycle of life of which

death is a part. Avraham passed away Yaakov was preparing the mourner’s meal of lentils for his father, Yitzchak. The Midrash relates that when Esav came home and saw Yaakov cooking lentils, he asked Yaakov, “What is the meaning of this food (i.e. why are you cooking this particular item)? He (Yaakov) responded, ‘the Elder (Avra-ham) has died.’ He (Esav) responded, ‘If strict justice has been visited upon the Elder, there is no justice, there is no judge’.”

It appears from this Midrash that Esav was outraged over Avraham’s death. Esav felt that Avraham’s righ-teousness and dedication to God should have allowed him to escape this final decree.

The Beis HaLevi (Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik, 1820-1892) finds this Midrash difficult. Did Esav expect that his grandfather would live forever? Avraham was 175 years old; he led a good, meaningful and full life. How are we to understand Esav’s in-dignation over Avraham’s death?

The Beis HaLevi explains that Avraham had passed down many im-portant ideas and ideals to his family. He shared with them his vision for spreading monotheism, love of God and respect for the other. Avraham also shared with them the difficulties and turbulent times that lay ahead. He

explains that God had told him how his descendants would be “strangers in a strange land and they will be worked and afflicted for four hundred years.” Avraham knew (and shared with his children) that the years ahead would be filled with much grief and chal-lenge. Esav understood that as the first born he stood to inherit the Abraham-itic mantle. With this mantle would come all of the above-mentioned chal-lenges. Esav did not want the burden, Esav did not want the responsibility, Esav did not want this destiny. But he couldn’t just say, “I’m not interested” as that would look cowardly and show a lack of courage. Instead, he used Avraham’s death as a pretext to claim that there is no order or justice in this universe and therefore, I want no part of this tradition. This also explains why Esav was willing to part with his birthright for a bowl of lentils – he was

looking for an out, he was looking for some way to escape responsibility.

Esav is known as Edom, after the redness of the lentils for which he sold away his destiny. This was his fun-damental flaw – he created a fictional reality that would allow him to escape responsibility.

It is normal to be overwhelmed and sometimes even frightened when taking on new responsibilities. There are times when we know what we want to do, we know what we want to be but when we see all of the work and effort it entails, when we see the potential for failure we want to run the other way. All too often, we run from our destiny, we avoid taking respon-sibility and in order to justify these decisions we create alternate realities for ourselves. We tell ourselves that certain accomplishments are beyond reach, because this exempts me from trying. We tell ourselves that we can-not change, because then I feel no pressure to become more. We give up beautiful life opportunities for mere bowls of lentils. We must remember that we are the descendants of Yaakov. We embrace the holiness that others so quickly discard.

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Thanksgiving 2015Dinner (Serves 12-14)

Pick Up a Delicious Kosher Thanksgiving Meal!

Freshly roasted herb encrusted Whole turkey or turkey breast

(14-16 lbs, serves 12-14)Orange-Cranberry Stuffing • Poultry Gravy

Honey Lemon Cranberry SauceButternut Souffle or Potato Kugel

Roasted Fall Vegetables (Includes Potatoes, Carrots, Red Onions, Baby Green Beans)

Freshly Baked Corn MuffinsFreshly Baked Pumpkin, Apple or Cherry Pie

$19995 $19995

Whole Turkey Turkey BreasTWHOLe tuRKeyS CAn Be HAnd-CARVed FOR An AddItIOnAL $15 PeR tuRKey

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410-602-2224GreensprinG shoppinG Center 2839 Smith Avenue • Baltimore, MD 21209 SUNDAY NooN–8:45PM | MoNDAY-ThUrSDAY 11AM–8:45PMFriDAY 8AM To APProxiMATelY 3 hoUrS BeFore cANDle lighTiNg

deAdlines: Orders: sun., nOv. 22 by 5pm • pick up: Wed., nOv. 25 11Am–6Pm

A La Carte Orange-Cranberry Stuffing ....$699/lb.Poultry Gravy .............$495/pt. $695/qt.Cranberry Sauce...................... $895/pt. Butternut Souffle (Feeds 6-8) .......$695/ea.Butternut Souffle (Feeds 12-15) ..$1795/ea.Potato Kugel (Feeds 6-8) ..............$595/ea. Potato Kugel (Feeds 12-15) .$1495/ea. Roasted Fall Vegetables ..........$799/lb.

Corn Muffins ...........................75¢/ea.Pumpkin, Apple or Cherry Pie .................................$995/ea.Freshly Roasted Herb encrusted turkey Breast ..... $1699/lb.Apple Corn Bread dressing .....$799lb.Roasted Vegetable dressing .....$899lbGarlic Sauteed French Beans ............................................$899lb

Thanksgiving Specials1. Freshly roasted herb encrusted Whole turkey (14-16 lbs, serves 12-14)Orange-Cranberry StuffingPoultry Gravy $10995 2. Freshly roasted herb encrusted boneless turkey breast (Serves 10-12)Orange-Cranberry StuffingPoultry Gravy $10995 3. apple basted turkey breast With roasted Vegetable dressing.(Serves 10-12)Poultry Gravy $12995 4. indiVidual thanksgiVing Meals, sealed & double Wrapped $2995

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Place your order buy 2pm November 14, and we will pay your sales tax

We WiLL be CLosed

ThAnksgiving dAy, ThursdAy, nov. 26

Pizza & Toppings

Tov Pizza will be offering FREE

VEGETABLE toppings (up to 3) on

our 12” pizza every Monday and

Tuesday until the rest of the year.

Customer must request offer when

ordering using code word: FREE

TOPPINGS BJH.

Due to circumstances beyond our con-

trol, until further notice toppings on

Saturday night will be available start-

ing 9:00pm. We apologize for any

inconvenience.

PricingWith the cheese and vegetable market

being very volatile, we at Tov Pizza

know that our prices on a “slice of

pizza” and a “12 inch pizza” are less

expensive than the other kosher pizza

shops on Reisterstown Road.

A Tov Pizza slice costs $2.36, others

range from $2.50 - $2.69 + tax. A

Tov Pizza 12” pizza pie costs $11.36,

others range from $12.50 - $12.95 +

tax. Tov Pizza will do its best to hold

prices until 2016.

Parking & Safety

When entering the parking lot, Please

watch for pedestrians and follow the

arrows. When leaving the parking

lot, proceed with caution and follow

the arrows. Please do NOT make the

other car back into traffic.

If you see a car with out of town

plates, assume they did not read this

and will do the wrong thing. Please

show them Baltimore hospitality.

Upcoming at Tov Pizza• Don’t miss our good friend Avi

Frier, who will be performing live

at Suburban Orthodox this Motzei

Shabbos. Come in Saturday night

after the show with either a ticket

stub or the code word, and you’ll

get FREE FRIES FROM OUR FRYER,

COURTESY OF AVI FRIER! With any

purchase.

• If your shul has Avos U’Banim

Motzei Shabbos learning coming up

and would like to have Tov Pizza,

please have your coordinator contact

us as soon as possible.

• Menu changes and concepts will

take place early in 2016.

• If you would like to participate

in our “focus group” please email

Baruch at [email protected] put

“focus group” in the subject line.

Meetings should be fun and food will

be free.

www.tovpizza.comcheck Us out on Facebook!

410-358-52386313 Reisterstown Road Baltimore, mD 21215

aLL tHE NEwS tHat’S tov to pRiNt!

BaLtimoRE’S BESt KoSHER pizza

410-358-5238www.tovpizza.com 6313 Reisterstown Road Baltimore, mD 21215

miNcHa DaiLY 2:30pm

credit cards good on delivery with advanced authorization.

tov pizza reserves the right to resolve all issues pertaining to its coupons.

Sun: 11:00-9:00 mon-weds: 11:00-8:30 thurs: 11:00-9:00 Fri: 11:00-2:00 Sat: 1 Hour after Shabbos-midnightKitchen closes 15 min. Before closing time

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Employment OpportunityWe have 2 part time positions available.

Applicants must be friendly. Must be at least 16 to apply. Come in for application.

Tov Pizza news and last minute specialsIf you would like to receive Tov Pizza updates and

specials send an email to [email protected] and put “specials” in the subject line.

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