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THEJEWISHHOMEA PUBLICATION OF THE FIVE TOWNS & QUEENS COMMUNITY october 3 - october 10, 2013 | DistributeD in the Five towns, Queens & brooklynWeekly
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Around thecommunity
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The DRS Family Joins Together in Israel
Three HAFTR High School Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
YOSS Motzei Shabbos Avos U’banim Learning Program Kicks off This Week
Rambam Mesivta Students Perform Chesed Shel Emet
SKA Freshmen Find Happiness and Friendships at Camp Kaylie
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Government Shutdown
What does it Really Mean?
How Chaim Werdyger is Leading the Revival of the Yiddish Language
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>>Letters to the Editor 7
>>CommunityCommunity Happenings 38
>> NewsGlobal 10
National 28
Odd-but-True Stories 34
Government Shutdown: What it Really Means 62
>> IsraelIsrael News 22
>> PeopleThe Yiddish Linguist: How Chaim Werdyger is Leading the Revival of the Yiddish Language 74
The Failure of Operation Restore Hope 78
A World after This: The Story of Lola Lieber 86
>>ParshaThe Shmuz 55
>> Jewish ThoughtEasy Come, Easy Go, by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz 58
>>FamilyReflections on Succos,by Rozi Davis Davidowitz 59
>>HealthThe September Asthma Wave, by David Elazar Simai, MD 68
Troublesome Kids, by Deb Hirschhorn, PhD 69
Pincer Skills for My One-Year-Old 70
Beating the Holiday Weight Gain, by Aliza Beer, RD, MS 72
>> Food & LeisureRecipes: Lite ‘n Delicious Suppersfor Back to School 80
Recipes: The Aussie Gourmet: Back to School with a Hearty Meal 84
Travel: Utah 92
>> LifestylesAsk the Attorney 71
Your Money 96
Don’t Open that Cookbook, by Rivki Rosenwald 93
>> HumorCenterfold 56
>> ArtFrom My Private Art Collection: The Wonderful World of Landscape Art 90
>> Political CrossfireNotable Quotes 66
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Dear Readers,
Now that yom tov is over, it is back to school and back to “real life.” I am sure that many of us are looking for-ward to getting back into the swing of things. I was excited to walk my son to the bus stop early Monday morning (although we just barely missed the bus!). There’s something about the comforts of being in a routine and having a set schedule.
I am the type of person who likes a schedule and likes knowing what to expect. Being back to “routine” was something I was looking forward to, although I did feel some sadness at knowing that the yomim tovim are now behind us and there is a long winter ahead.
Yesterday, I was scheduled for a hearing at the DMV for a traffic violation. Spending just a half-hour at the DMV made me realize that life should not only be about routine.
The judge presided over the small room filled with around fifteen people like myself. He made it clear that the police officer had the burden of proof to prove that the violation was committed. Each hearing was different and yet it was the same. Each person had their own story, their own reason for committing the violation. Some said that they were working to help people after Hurricane Sandy and were speeding to bring them supplies; some said they weren’t aware of the hands-free cellphone rules; some said that the speed signs weren’t posted correctly. But despite the varied excuses that each person had, the police officer and the judge had the exact same response. The police officer drily listed his name and rank, where he was sitting, what the violation was, and why the person was guilty. He read his notes monotonously, without any inflection. The judge then concluded that based on the officer’s testimony, he found the person guilty of the violation. There was no variation. No change. It was all routine.
And that got me thinking. Yes, we look forward to our routines and our set schedules, but it is important to also keep in mind that life is sometimes about the variations in the routines that we have. It’s about mixing things up, keeping things exciting. It’s about looking at work in a different light and bringing your client a fresh perspective. It’s about serving breakfast for dinner and including a fun note in your child’s knapsack. It’s about going on a drive with no destination in mind. It’s about putting “life” into our routine.
Wishing you a wonderful and exciting week,
Shoshana
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To Our Fellow Jew,Last year, during the aseres
yimei teshuva, you wrote us an anonymous letter asking for mechila. You said you took something from our home around 10 years ago. Your words took us aback. We thought we knew everything that goes on in our home; however, you made it clear that we do not. Did you take money or an object? Was it from us or one of our children? Was it from the house while you were a guest here? Or did you just come and take something while we were away or sleeping? No matter what it was, you have suffered with the knowledge that you have done wrong for many years.
We are writing to various papers with the hope that you will see our message to you: YES! We are mochel you! We asked the children (who are now all adults) and they forgive you also. Please do not feel badly that you could not ask forgiveness in person. We totally understand. However, you should know that if you ever want to tell us who you are and what you took – money or object – we will still be mochel you. It took a lot of courage to even write the letter and leave it at our doorstep. We got the money you left as well, and we gave it to tzedaka so it should be a good zechus for us and for you.
May Hashem continue
to guide you to doing the right things always. You are forgiven from us and we are proud of you for doing the right thing. Have a good, gebenchted year.An Awestruck Family from Lawrence
Dear Editor,As a life-long resident
of Washington Heights and member of K’hal Adas Yeshurun (Breuer’s), I appreciated the recent article by Rina Zingmond on Simchas Torah in Washington Heights. As the article points out, it is certainly different but festive and true to the spirit of the meaning of Simchas Torah.
I must point out however a slight to kovod haTorah that appeared in the article. Rav Yisroel Mantel shlita is not the acting rav of K’hal Adas Yeshurun; he is and has been for the past seven years an equal partner of the Rabbinate of K’hal Adas Yeshurun which he shares together with the Rav Zecharia Gelley shlita. It is a full partnership which I can personally attest, from the inner chambers of the Rabbinate, is a model for all of Klal Yisroel on how to mutually bear the mantle of leadership.Sincerely,Ben Ettlinger
Dear Editor, “A Different Future for
NYC” (In News – September 12) is bad news. ”The tale of two cities” is in essence government confiscation of wealth, via taxation from the haves to the have nots growing out of control as advocated by mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. Sooner or later, the producers of wealth will be outnumbered by the takers. We are becoming perilously close to that point. Those who create wealth and income will eventually go on strike demanding that they be able to keep more of what they earned. To end this out of control spiral, government must destroy all its credit cards and be put on a fiscal diet today. A multi-year freeze on spending,
balanced budgets, pay-as-you-go spending means testing for all entitlement programs and real down payments to reduce long term deficits are the cure. If not, our economy will continue into decline. The result will be a standard of living turning from one of affluence to a third world city with almost everyone living in poverty.
For friends of Israel, traditional family values, yeshivas and charter schools, Bill de Blasio is politically treif in the secular world. Voters should consider looking elsewhere in 2013 to select the next NYC mayor. Sincerely, Larry Penner
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O N E Y E A R S I N C E H U R R I C A N E S A N D Y
One year ago we were all struck with an unprecedented crisis. The devastation was terrifying and our community has been through a most difficult year; and for many that struggle continues. But even amidst the destruction, we have hearts filled with gratitude to Hakadosh Baruch Hu as
our community was spared any loss of life. Just as our community rose together as one to rebuild, let us all gather now together as one community, with one voice, and express our gratitude to Hashem.
The children of our community will all complete Sefer Tehillim culminating with a massive siyum where yet again, we will all join together as one.
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PARTICIPATING YESHIVOS AND SCHOOLS: (LIST IN FORMATION)
THE FOLLOWING SHULS FROM ACROSS OUR COMMUNITY WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT:
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Yeshiva of Far Rockawayישיבה דרך איתן ע''ש מרן הגאון רבי אברהם יפהן זצ''ל
This event is being coordinated by with the endorsement and direct guidance of our local Rabbonim.
Congregation Magen DavidRabbi Izhar Azriel
Yeshiva Darchei TorahRabbi Yaakov Bender
Young Israel of WoodmereRabbi Herschel Billet
Beis Medrash Ateres YisroelRabbi Yisroel Meir Blumenkrantz
Young Israel of HewlettRabbi Heshy Blumstein
Yeshiva of Far RockawayRabbi Aaron Brafman
HILI Bais Medrash Rabbi Dov Bressler
Agudath Israel of West LawrenceRabbi Moshe Brown
Congregation Tifereth ZviRabbi Pinchas Chatzinoff
Young Israel of Far RockawayRabbi Saul Chill
Agudath Yisrael of BayswaterRabbi Menachem Feifer
Congregation Kneseth IsraelRabbi Eytan Feiner
Kehillas Bais Yehuda TzviRabbi Yaakov Feitman
Young Israel of BayswaterRabbi Eliezer Feuer
K’hal Nesiv HaTorahRabbi Binyamin Forst
Agudath Israel of the Five TownsRabbi Yitzchak Frankel
Chofetz Chaim Torah CenterRabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg
Yeshiva Ateres ShimonRabbi Mordechai Groner
Congregation Beth SholomRabbi Kenneth Hain
Bais Medrash Ohr ShlomoRabbi Chanina Herzberg
Bostoner Bais Medrash of LawrenceRabbi Yaakov Y. Horowitz
Bais Medrash of HarborviewRabbi Yehoshua Kalish
Sh’or Yoshuv Institute Rabbi Naftali Jaeger
Rabbi Avrohom Halpern
Congregation Shomrei ShabbosRabbi Shimshon Katz
Young Israel of West HempsteadRabbi Yehuda Kelemer
Agudas Achim Rabbi Elisha Horowitz
Yeshiva of South ShoreRabbi Binyomin KamenetzkyRabbi Mordecai Kamenetzky
Beis Haknesses of North WoodmereRabbi Aryeh Lebowitz
Congregation Anshei ChesedRabbi Simcha Lefkowitz
Young Israel of OceansideRabbi Jonathan Muskat
Congregation Bais YehudaRabbi Levi Osdoba
Irving Place MinyanRabbi Ariel Rackovsky
Congregation Bais Ephraim YitzchokRabbi Zvi Ralbag
Agudath Israel of Long IslandRabbi Yaakov Reisman
Sephardic Beit Medrash of BayswaterRabbi Yigal Reuven
Congregation Bais TefilahRabbi Shaya Richmond
Congregation Ohab ZedekRabbi Tsvi Selengut
Young Israel of North WoodmereRabbi Yehuda Septimus
Chabad Lubavitch of Far RockawayRabbi Pesach Schmerling
Kehillas Ahavas YisroelRabbi Dov Silver
Congregation Shaarei EmunahRabbi Yitzhak Simantov
Bais Medrash of CedarhurstRabbi Dovid Spiegel
K’hal Zichron Moshe DovRabbi Aron Eliezer Stein
Bais Avrohom Zev of LawrenceRabbi Asher Stern
Young Israel of Lawrence CedarhurstRabbi Moshe Teitelbaum
Young Israel of Long BeachRabbi Chaim Wakslak
K’hal Chesed V’emesRabbi Shmaryahu Weinberg
Congregation Shaaray TefilahRabbi Dovid Weinberger
Congregation Aish KodeshRabbi Moshe Weinberger
Bais Tefila of InwoodRabbi Pinchas Weinberger
Woodsburgh MinyanRabbi Lewis Wienerkur
K’hal Bnei HaYeshivosRabbi Shmuel Witkin
Chabad of the Five Towns Rabbi Zalman Wolowik
Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid Lawrence
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Netanyahu to UN: Rouhani is Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly and urged them to beware of the warm words of the new president of Iran. He compared the Iranian leader to a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” who was set on building a nuclear bomb to terrorize the world.
In previous jobs, Netanyahu point-ed out, Rouhani had masterminded a strategy for an Iranian bomb behind a “smokescreen of diplomatic engage-ment and very soothing rhetoric.” The new leader of Iran has insisted that his country has no designs on nuclear weap-ons. But the West suspects and Israel is adamant that it does.
The former leader of Iran, Ah-madinejad, terrorized the world with his menacing tone. But, Netanyahu warns, the soft, inviting words of Rouhani are just a “ruse, a ploy” to lull unsuspect-ing western leaders into complacency. “Now I know: Rouhani doesn’t sound like Ahmadinejad,” the Israeli prime minister said. “But when it comes to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the only difference between them is this: Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the interna-tional community.”
In a reference to the seed material for enriching uranium, a critical step for building a bomb, Netanyahu said: “Rou-hani thinks he can have his yellowcake and eat it, too.” He vowed: “Israel will
not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone. Yet in standing alone, Isra-el will know that we will be defending many, many others.”
Last Friday President Barack Obama placed a call to Rouhani, the first direct conversation between the leaders of the United States and Iran in 34 years. And Obama directed Secretary of State John Kerry to work with European allies, China and Russia to pursue a deal with Iran on the nuclear ambitions.
Netanyahu met with Obama on Monday in the Oval Office. He en-couraged Obama to maintain economic sanctions against Iran, and strengthen them if Iran keeps pursuing nuclear ca-pability during talks with the West.
In his speech to the U.N., Netanyahu said that the lesson of the 20th century was that a fanatical regime must not be left to gain unchecked power. “Soon-er or later, its appetite for aggression knows no bounds. That’s the central les-son of the 20th century,” he said. “The world may have forgotten this lesson. The Jewish people have not. Iran’s fa-naticism is not bluster. It’s real. This fa-natic regime must never be allowed to arm itself with nuclear weapons.”
Greek Politicians Arrested in Conjunction
with Neo-Nazi Organization
Greece’s government is swarming with corruption.
Last week, the leader of the ultra-con-servative Golden Dawn party and four other government officials were formal-ly charged with membership in a crim-inal organization with intent to commit crimes. This is the first time since 1974 that serving members of Parliament have been arrested.
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Cordially invites the entire community to a
HACHNOSAS SEFER TORAHat the home of
Mr. & Mrs. Yossi Fischler280 Morris Avenue, Inwood, NY 11096Sunday October 6th, 2013 at 2:30 p.m.
procession at 2:45 p.m. followed by The Seudas Mitzvah at
Yeshiva Ketana Of Long Island321 Doughty boulevard, Inwood, NY 11096
There will be a float, flags, pekalach, and live entertainment for children.
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For more information about our community, please contact:Bais Tefila of Inwood | 312 Sprague Rd. | Inwood, NY 11096 |
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The government began the investi-gation after the suspicious fatal shooting of Pavlos Fyssas on September 18. The suspect arrested for involvement with the death of Fyssas admitted to police that he had stabbed the 34-year-old and iden-tified himself as a supporter of Golden Dawn. Police investigated his cellphone records as well as those of more than 300 other people connected to Golden Dawn.
Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michalo-liakos, party spokesman Ilias Kassidiaris, Yannis Lagos, Nikos Michos and Ilias Panayiotaros were arrested by counter-terrorism police. Michos and Panayiota-ros turned themselves in voluntarily and a sixth parliamentarian, Christos Pappas, is still wanted by authorities. Another 15 people, 13 Golden Dawn members and two police officers, were also arrested on the same charges and are due to appear before a prosecutor and an examining magistrate soon.
Police spokesman Christos Pagonis told the media that the counterterror-ism unit was still searching for the 12 suspects at large, including the missing deputy.
“It is an unprecedentedly dynamic response to a neo-Nazi organization,” government spokesman Simos Kediko-glou said. He suggested that the arrests were a long time coming and a culmi-nation of a strategy to deal with Golden Dawn as a criminal, not a political, force.
“The prime minister and the gov-ernment were determined to deal with Golden Dawn solely through the justice system ... We have succeeded in strip-ping them of their political cover and deal with them as what they really are, a criminal organization,” Kedikoglou said.
Citizen protection minister Nikos Dendias said, “The state has proven it is not helpless in the face of organized vi-olence ... Greek society will not tolerate any storm troopers.”
Upon searching Michaloliakos’ home, police found two pistols, an un-registered shotgun, large amounts of am-munition and over €43,000 ($58,000) in cash.
Iranian Foreign Minister: Holocaust was Heinous Crime
For years, the former leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeatedly and empathetically denied the Holo-caust, calling it a myth. But just this
week, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif admitted the reality of the Holo-caust, calling it a “heinous crime” and a “genocide.” He said that the appearance of the word “myth” regarding the Holo-caust on the Iranian Supreme Leader’s English website was due only to a poor translation.
“The Holocaust is not a myth. No-body’s talking about a myth,” Zarif told George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” on Sunday when asked about the quote. “If it’s there … it’s a bad translation, and it’s translated out of context… This is the problem when you translate some-thing from Persian to English, you may lose something, as the film goes, ‘Lost in Translation,’ you may lose some of the meaning.”
Of course, an interview with an Iranian leader undoubtedly will lead to criticism of their enemy, Israel. “We condemn the killing of innocent people, whether it happened in Nazi Germany or whether it’s happening in Palestine,” Zarif said. “[The] Holocaust was a hei-nous crime, it was a genocide, it must never be allowed to be repeated, but that crime cannot be and should not be a justification to trample the rights of the Palestinian people for 60 years.”
Zarif, who is serving as Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, met with his Amer-ican counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry in New York last Thursday. Both sides agreed the meeting was construc-tive, with plans for further talks next month in Geneva. Zarif said resolution of the nuclear issue “will be a first step, a necessary first step, towards removing the tensions and doubts and misgivings that the two sides have had about each other for the last 30-some years.”
“There has been 34 years of the building up of this mutual distrust,” Zarif told Stephanopoulos. “We need to move in that direction of removing some of that mistrust, true mutual steps that each side needs to take in order to convince the other side that its inten-tions are positive and for a better future for all of us.”
Zarif told Stephanopoulos that Iran is “prepared to start negotiating” on its nuclear program, while maintaining that the country is not seeking nuclear weap-
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ons. “We know that Iran is not seeking a nuclear weapon,” Zarif said. “Having an Iran that does not have nuclear weap-ons is not just your goal. It’s first and foremost our goal.” The foreign min-ister maintained that his county has a “non-negotiable” right to enrich urani-um for nuclear power purposes but will stop before building nuclear weapons. “We do not need military grade urani-um. That is a certainty and we will not move in that direction,” Zarif said.
Zarif also hit back at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s dis-missal of Iran’s diplomatic efforts at the U.N. General assembly as “a smile attack.” “A smile attack is much better than a lie attack,” Zarif said. “Mr. Ne-tanyahu and his colleagues have been saying since 1991… that Iran is six months away from a nuclear weapon. And we are how many years, 22 years after that? And they are still saying we are six months away from nuclear weap-ons.”
“We are not seeking nuclear weap-ons, so we’re not six months, six years, sixty years away from nuclear weap-ons,” Zarif added.
70 Years since Rescue of Danish Jews
On October 1, 1943, Hitler ym”sh ordered the deportation and arrest of all Danish Jews. But members of the resis-tance in Denmark heard of the order and at great personal risk collectively evac-uated about 7,300 Danish Jews by sea to neutral Sweden. The rescue included many Danish citizens who risked their lives to save their Jewish neighbors. As a result of their efforts, over 99% per-cent of the Jews living in Denmark were saved from the Nazis’ crematoria.
This week, a ceremony was held in a Copenhagen synagogue to com-memorate the evacuation of the 7,300 Jews 70 years ago. On Sunday, Jewish community leader Finn Schwarz told several hundred people it was “almost a miracle” that the October 1943 opera-tion in Nazi-occupied Denmark dodged German patrol boats to deliver the Jews across a waterway to neutral Sweden.
On Tuesday, a light show on a bridge between Denmark and Sweden com-memorated the escape as well.
Exchange Rates Having Strange
Effect in Venezuela
It is almost impossible to get on a flight out of Venezuela but not for the reason you may think. Thanks to a banking loophole, Venezuelans can take advantage of the rights a traveler has to cash in on American dollars at a special exchange rate.
The currency has for a very long time been controlled by a system set in place by the late Hugo Chavez. The difference between official and black-market rates for the local bolivar currency is higher than ever. Greenbacks now sell on the illegal market at about seven times the government price of 6.3 to the dollar. Normally, there are strict limits on how many dollars are available at the 6.3 rate. But, with a valid airline ticket, Venezu-elans may exchange up to $3,000 at the government rate.
Many people are using their cred-it cards abroad to get a cash advance, bringing the dollars back into Venezuela and selling them on the black market at seven times the original exchange rate. The profit made even has a nickname: “El Raspao” or “the Scrape.”
Some are not even flying, leaving many planes half empty. As a result of the high level of unused seats, some air-lines are beginning to overbook at much higher rates than usual.
“It is possible to travel abroad for free due to this exchange rate mag-ic,” said local economist Angel Garcia Banchs. Some Venezuelans do not even bother leaving the country, but merely send their credit cards to friends overseas who swipe the cards and send the cash back home.
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Snowden’s Controversial Nomination
Not many people would put Edward Snowden in the same league as Nelson Mandela or Myanmar opposition lead-er Aung San Suu Kyi. However, fugi-tive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden is in the running for a Euro-pean human rights prize that has been awarded to both of them.
Only seven people are nominated for the prize. Members of the Europe-an Parliament put the names forth for consideration. The nod is likely to up-set Washington officials who wish to try Snowden for espionage. Snowden is currently hiding in Russia.
Snowden was nominated by the Greens in the European Parliament who said he had done an “enormous service” for human rights and European citizens by disclosing secret U.S. Internet and telephone surveillance programs. “Ed-ward Snowden has risked his freedom to
help us protect ours and he deserves to be honored for shedding light on the sys-tematic infringements of civil liberties by U.S. and European secret services,” Rebecca Harms and Dany Cohn-Bendit, the leaders of the left-leaning Greens, said in a statement.
Revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency monitors vast quanti-ties of email and telephone data of both Americans and foreigners and a report that Washington spied on the European Union has caused outrage in European capitals.
The other nominees include Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban last year for demand-ing education for girls, and Russian for-mer oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
a critic of President Vladimir Putin who has been convicted of money-launder-ing, tax evasion and fraud.
October 10 is the day when the win-ner is announced. Not exactly the Super Bowl but we will still tune in…
South Korean Display of Strength
This week, during a visit from U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, South Korea staged its largest military display in a decade. Hagel was there to under-score the United States commitment to South Korea and take account of the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed there.
President Park Geun-Hye warned of the “very grave” threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons program during the display. 11,000 troops and 120 aircraft took part in the event at an air base south of Seoul, which showed off the military’s most advanced weap-onry, including a cruise missile capable of surgical strikes on the North Korean leadership.
“The situation on the Korean pen-insula...is very grave,” Park warned in
her speech at the event marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of South Korea’s armed forces. “North Korea adamantly continues to develop and up-grade its nuclear weapons,” Park said, adding that the South had no option but to boost its military deterrent in re-sponse.
She specifically cited the develop-ment of sophisticated missile intercep-tor systems capable of neutralizing a North Korean strike. “I believe that the true purpose of the military lies not in fighting a war but preventing one,” she said.
Concerns remain over the North’s nuclear program with signs that it is expanding its production of weap-ons-grade fissile material. South Korea
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has cited the growing nuclear threat from Pyongyang to back its request for extending U.S. command of combined U.S. and South Korean forces in the event of war with the North.
Non-Stop Iran to USA? The Iranian news agency, Tansim,
has reported that President Hassan Rou-hani has his sights set on direct flights between the United States and Iran. “The president issued an order to study how it would be possible to establish di-rect flights between Iran and the United States of America, in order to resolve the transportation problems of the [Iranian] compatriots residing in the U.S.,” care-taker of the supreme council for Iranian expatriates’ affairs, Akbar Torkan, was quoted as saying in the report from Teh-ran on Monday.
According to U.S. Census figures, some 414,000 Iranians live in the Unit-ed States, most of them in the California area.
On the last day of the Iranian lead-er’s five-day trip to the U.S., Rouhani addressed a gathering of Iranian expatri-ates in New York where he also hinted at plans at making greater connections with larger groups of Iranian expatriates worldwide. Last week, the Iranian presi-dent and President Obama shared an his-toric phone call where they both agreed on the need for understanding between both nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu has urged President Obama not to loosen sanctions against Iran as it is apparent that despite Rouhani’s pleasant outreach to western nations, the coun-try is still forging ahead with its nuclear weapons program.
Kindergarten Kidnappers Caught
Organized crime took a big hit this week in China. 92 children were suc-cessfully rescued from a gang of kid-nappers operating all over the country.
According to statement from the Minis-try of Public Security, two women were also rescued in the operation against child trafficking.
According to Xinhua news agency, the investigation uncovered a gang op-erating with “clear divisions of work” where kidnappers would seize children in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces for de-liverymen who would then drive them to other regions and into the hands of sellers.
Gangs specializing in the kidnap and sale of young children have been pop-ping up all over the country for some time. Police enquiries were initially sparked by a child abduction case in Henan province, central China, accord-ing to the ministry statement, and later snowballed into an investigation across 11 provincial-level regions.
The arrests were made on Septem-ber 11 but only became public knowl-edge with the release of the ministry statement. Abductions and trafficking in China have caused huge public concern, but despite regular government vows to crack down hard on the crime, incidents still emerge on a regular basis.
Many place the blame for such crimes on the government itself. Traf-ficking of children is blamed in part on the “one-child” policy, which has put a premium on baby boys, with girls some-times sold off or abandoned. Under the policy aimed at controlling China’s vast population of more than 1.3 billion, peo-ple who live in urban areas are generally allowed one child, while rural families can have two if the first is a girl.
South Korea Rejects Boeing’s Jets
Boeing Co.’s bid to supply 60 fighter jets to South Korea was recently reject-ed. Had the sale went through, it would have marked the country’s largest weap-on purchase ever.
Boeing pitched its F-15 Silent Eagle to the country, but South Korean lead-ers said the warplane does not have the
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state-of-the-art stealth capabilities they were hoping for. They feel that the jet would not be able to combat North Ko-rea’s increasing nuclear threats.
Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said officials decided at a meeting on Tuesday to delay naming a
winning bidder for the 8.3 trillion won ($7.7 billion) purchase. He said South Korea is seeking better air power and “fifth generation” fighters.
Boeing said in a statement that it was “deeply disappointed” by Tuesday’s de-cision, adding it “rigorously” followed
the South Korean arms procurement agency’s instructions throughout the en-tire process.
Initially, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and EADS’ Euro-fighter Typhoon competed in the bid-ding process but were quickly eliminat-
ed for exceeding Seoul’s budget cap. North Korea has hundreds of thou-
sands of combat-ready troops along a heavily armed border. Its air force is relatively old and ill-prepared, but has a large number of aircraft that could be a factor if a conflict were to break out.
The 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, therefore the potential of war is highly possible be-tween the Koreas.
Saudi Arabian Cleric: Women Who Drive Have Children
with Disabilities Saudi Arabian women continue their
fight for equal rights. One of the key missions of activists is to change the law that now prohibits women from driving.
One extremely conservative cleric, Sheik Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, for-mulated an absurd conclusion in an at-tempt to sustain the male-only driving law. He claims that women who drive can be at greater risk for have children with disabilities.
He said, “If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically af-fects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards … That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees.”
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Syria Agrees to Surrender Weapons,
Assad Refuses to Resign Syria’s foreign minister, Walid
Muallem, told reporters this week that Syria is “comfortable” with a UN Secu-rity Council resolution on destroying its chemical weapons but will not discuss the future of President Bashar al-Assad.
Muallem told the media that the res-olution, voted by the 15-nation council late on Friday, meant the opposition could be the target of UN sanctions. “I am comfortable with the resolution,” Muallem said. He spoke to the press at the UN headquarters where he was scheduled to give Syria’s address to the UN General Assembly on Monday.
The Organization for the Prohibi-tion of Chemical Weapons will begin collecting and destroying Syria’s arms this week. The UN maintains that chem-ical weapons were used in an August 21 attack in Damascus that left hundreds dead. The U. S. pointed an accusing fin-ger at the government but Assad’s gov-ernment insisted that opposition rebels were responsible for the attack.
Muallem said he was “worried” that opposition groups have chemical weap-ons.
Earlier this week, Obama told the UN General Assembly that Assad must quit. The UN is also hoping to organize a Syria peace conference in mid-No-vember to negotiate a transitional gov-ernment. However, Muallem signaled that there is absolutely no chance that
Assad will resign despite demands of western countries. “There can be no dis-cussion of the future of President Assad. It is in the constitution,” Muallem said.
Muallem said Assad is determined to carry out his complete term and is considering running for re-election in 2014.
Kenyan Mall Massacre Shoppers at Westgate Mall in Nairo-
bi, Kenya, found themselves in middle of a horrific, terrifying nightmare when terrorists stormed the shopping center on Saturday, September 21st.
For the last year, one of the 80 shops concealed a dark secret. It was rented by the Al-Shabaab terrorists or their asso-ciates. It is believed that the Somalian terrorists had been planning the attack for the last year. The group of terrorists had been collecting their weapons and ammunition in the store. Investigators are currently examining how the terror-ists were able to bring weapons into the mall so easily.
There have been 67 people reported dead and the Kenya Red Cross said on Friday that 61 people remain unaccount-ed for. Many are concerned that some of the missing are buried in the rubble of the partially collapsed mall.
Five of the terrorists were killed when Kenyan forces forced their way into the mall after a four day siege. The remaining eight suspects are currently being questioned. Authorities are con-cerned that some of the attackers may have escaped during all the chaos.
On a Twitter account believed to be run by Al-Shabaab, the group promised more attacks. “The mesmeric perfor-mance by the #Westgate Warriors was undoubtedly gripping, but despair not folks, that was just the premiere of Act 1,” a tweet posted on Thursday predict-ed.
The authenticity of the tweet was not confirmed.
Al Qaeda Creates Twitter Account
I seem to be the only one without a Twitter account these days...Even terror-ist organizations feel the need to tweet.
Al Qaeda just joined the social net-work site. An official al Qaeda website, the Shamukh al-Islam website that is in-tended exclusively for members of the terrorist group, opened its first Twitter account last Tuesday. The site is used as a portal for al Qaeda members to com-municate and issue propaganda state-ments.
U.S. officials see this move as an ef-fort to resolve a major split over Syria’s Islamist rebels.
The very first tweet focused on divi-sions between two al Qaeda rebel groups in Syria, al Nusra Front and the Islam-ic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The account, @shomokhalislam, issued 29 tweets, followed one account, and attracted 1,532 followers as of Friday afternoon. Several high-profile digital jihadists were among its followers.
By Sunday, just 5 days after its birth, the account was suspended by Twitter.
IsraelIsrael Arrests
Iranian Spy
On Sunday, Israel’s Shin Bet agen-cy announced that it arrested a Belgian citizen of Iranian origin who was sent by Iran to spy on Israel. Ali Mansouri was posing as a windows and roofing salesman and admitted to interrogators that he was recruited by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force last year for the mission. He was sent to Israel to set up business contacts as a front for spying on Israeli and Western
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targets. Mansouri was promised $1 mil-lion for his espionage role.
On September 6, Mansouri entered Israel on a Belgian passport under the name Alex Mans. He was arrested five days later at Israel’s international airport before boarding a flight to Europe. He was found with photos of sites through-out Israel “that interest Iranian intelli-gence,” including the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Shin Bet said. Some of the photos were released to the media; they included photos of the U.S. Embassy in Israel.
Although there was no official Ira-nian comment on the spy, Iranian state TV called the arrest an attempt at “an-ti-Iranian propaganda” by Israel before Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders told the Belga news agency in an interview Sunday that Ali Man-souri married a Belgian woman in 2002, quickly obtained Belgian citizenship, and had changed his name to Mans as allowed by law. The couple later di-vorced and he remarried an Iranian woman who lives in Tehran. In 2012, he asked to be stricken off the list of Bel-gians living abroad — even though he kept up contact with the Belgian Embas-sy in the Iranian capital.
iPhone Leaves
Jerusalem Homeless Recently, millions of Apple custom-
ers updated the software on their Apple devices to the new iOS 7 operating sys-tem. It only took a few days for blog-gers to notice that the new world clock options do not give the city of Jerusalem a country. While other cities are listed as a part of their country like “Johannes-burg, South Africa,” or “Jakarta, Indo-nesia,” the capital of Israel has been left open to interpretation.
There are two other cities that are listed by themselves without their home country: Taipei and Vatican City. While Apple Maps does put Jerusalem in Is-rael, the new world clock takes into ac-count that Palestinians claim Jerusalem
to be their capital as well.Other entities have also left the
country that is Jerusalem’s home un-specified. The State Department con-tinues to refuse to denote Israel as the place of birth on the passports of U.S. citizens who were born in Jerusalem. A federal appeals court in July ruled in fa-vor of the State Department in the case of Zivitofsky v. the Secretary of State. The parents of eleven-year-old Men-achem Zivitofsky, a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, took the U.S. government to court after being denied a request to name “Israel” as the birthplace of their son. By contrast, Americans born in oth-er cities like Tel Aviv do receive the Is-rael designation on their passports.
In 2000, the Anti-Defamation League criticized CNN.com for listing on its weather map Jerusalem without a country designation. When CNN later corrected the map, placing Jerusalem in Israel, it also added a qualifying po-litical explanation on its weather map, writing, “The status of Jerusalem, the seat of Israel government, is the most contentious issue in the Israeli-Pales-tinian peace talks. Palestinian and Arab leaders consider part of Jerusalem the capital of the prospective Palestinian state.” It appears that today, CNN.com lists Jerusalem as in Israel with no aster-isk or explanation.
Last year, the website for the London Olympics placed Jerusalem in Palestine, leaving Israel with no capital. The offi-cial website later reversed course and noted Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “It’s a shame a nonpolitical body makes the most absurd political statements,” a for-eign ministry spokesperson commented at the time.
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Hamas Produces Shalit Film
Hamas has come up with another way to exploit the Gilad Shalit saga.
In 2006, Shalit became world famous when he was captured by Hamas ter-rorists and held captive for five years. After much negotiation, Hamas traded Shalit for over 1,000 jailed Palestinian terrorists in October 2011. While many felt the price paid was dangerously high, all of Israel rejoiced in Shalit’s safe re-turn home.
This week, the Hamas Ministry of Culture in Gaza has announced it will be making further use of Shalit to further fuel its propaganda agenda. A film about the capture of Shalit will be produced in order to spread the idea that “violence is the correct form of resistance” to the so-called Israeli occupation.
“The idea for the film is above all motivated by the desire to strengthen the Palestinian national identity,” said a spokesman for the Hamas ministry. Fur-
thermore, Hamas hopes the film will be used in social and cultural activities to emphasize a “culture of resistance and the spirit of sacrifice among the Pales-tinian population.”
Hamas claims that the Shalit ab-duction was an “important event in the history of the Palestinian people and its resistance,” and should be highlighted and used as encouragement.
The film is expected to cost around $100,000, the bulk of which was donat-ed by Iran.
New Report on Israeli Nukes
Israel has never officially com-mented on whether or not it has nu-clear weapons. However, a new report recently published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists concluded that Israel possesses 80 functional nuclear warheads, and has enough fissile mate-rial to at least double that number if the
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need arises. Previous assessments by the American intelligence community agree with the estimation.
The report has been published as the threat of a nuclear Iran takes center stage in world politics. By comparison, India and Pakistan are both estimated to have between 100-120 nuclear warheads.
For the time being, the researchers believe Israel is content with its current nuclear arsenal, and that the Jewish state ceased building additional warheads in 2004. Of note in the report is that the country’s nuclear arsenal is listed as “Deployed Warheads” rather than “Stockpiled Warheads,” suggesting that the weapons are poised and ready for use at a moment’s notice.
Most Israelis Don’t Trust Rouhani
A poll released on Sunday found that the majority of Israelis do not believe the words and gestures the new Iranian president has made recently to the Unit-ed States and the western world. The poll found that 78% of Israeli citizens believe that Rouhani’s recent statements on wanting a dialogue with the United States are not genuine.
12% of those polled responded that they believe that Rouhani’s remarks are genuine and that he truly wishes to be flexible on his country’s nuclear pro-gram in order to gain eased economic sanctions for his country. 10% respond-ed that they don’t know if he is genuine.
Additionally, 59% of Israelis believe that the diplomatic rapprochement be-tween Iran and the West will not lead to an agreement on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. 29% believe that the United States will be able to reach an arrangement with Rouhani; 12% could not answer the question.
The survey also found that 58% of the public supports Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordering the Is-raeli delegation in the United Nations to leave during Rouhani’s speech last week. 30% said they believe that having the Israeli delegation walk out was the
wrong decision and 12% did not know how to answer.
The poll was conducted as Benja-min Netanyahu arrived in New York. The Israeli leader is scheduled to meet with President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Secretary of State Kerry on Monday. He is set to speak to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
As he left for New York, Netanya-hu pledged “to tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and charm offensive of Iran.” “Telling the truth at this time is essential for world peace and securi-ty and, of course, for Israel’s security,” noted Netanyahu.
Yad Vashem Recognizes Egyptian National as
Righteous Gentile This week, the Holocaust memorial
center, Yad Vashem, recognized Egyp-tian national Dr. Mohamed Helmy as a “righteous gentile” for the assistance he gave Jews during the Holocaust. This is the first time the museum gave the honor to an Egyptian national.
Helmy was born in Khartoum in 1901 to Egyptian parents. In 1922, he went to Berlin to study medicine and ul-timately worked in the Robert Koch In-stitute there. In 1937, he was dismissed from the public health system because he was not of Aryan race. He was also prohibited from marrying his German fiancée. In 1939, Helmy was arrested along with other Egyptian nationals but was released a year later due to health issues.
Even though Helmy was targeted by the Nazi regime, he spoke out against their policies and risked his life to help his Jewish friends. He brought Anna Boros (Gutman after she married) to a cabin outside of Berlin to help her hide from the Nazis. When he was under po-lice investigation, Helmy would arrange for Boros to hide elsewhere. “A good friend of our family, Dr. Helmy…hid me in his cabin in Berlin-Buch from 10 March until the end of the war. As of 1942 I no longer had any contact to the outside world. The Gestapo knew that
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Dr. Helmy was our family physician, and they knew that he owned a cabin in Berlin-Buch,” Anna Gutman wrote after the war.
“He managed to evade all their in-terrogations. In such cases he would bring me to friends where I would stay for several days, introducing me as his
cousin from Dresden. When the danger would pass, I would return to his cab-in….Dr. Helmy did everything for me out of the generosity of his heart and I will be grateful to him for eternity.”
Helmy helped Anna Gutman’s mother, Julie, stepfather Gerog Wehr, and her grandmother, Cecilie Rudnik.
He provided for them and attended to their medical needs. He arranged for Cecilie Rudnik to be hidden in the home of Frieda Szturmann. For over a year Szturmann hid and protected the elder-ly lady and shared her food rations with her.
A moment of great danger occurred when the Wehrs were caught in 1944, and during their interrogation revealed that Helmy was helping them and that he was hiding Anna. Helmy immediate-ly brought Anna to Frieda Szturmann’s home, and it was only thanks to his re-sourcefulness that he managed to evade punishment by showing the police a let-ter Anna had allegedly written to him, saying she was staying with her aunt in Dessau.
Dr. Helmy remained in Berlin and was finally able to marry his fiancée. He died childless in 1982. Frieda Sztur-mann passed away in 1962.
On March 18, Yad Vashem recog-nized Dr. Mohamed Helmy and Frieda Szturmann as Righteous Among the Nations, and has been searching for the rescuers’ next of kin in order to present them with the certificate and medal of the Righteous. Meanwhile, their certif-icates and medals were put on display Monday in the “I Am My Brother’s Keeper: 50 Years of Honoring Righ-teous among the Nations Exhibition” at Yad Vashem.
NationalGovernment Shuts Down
On Tuesday, the wheels of govern-ment screeched to a halt when Congress adjourned without renewing funding for the federal government and the White House issued orders to shut down “non-essential” services across the nation.
The Senate retired soon after mid-night on Tuesday morning and the House adjourned at 1am, with both sides refusing to negotiate over changes to Obama’s new health care laws. “It is now midnight and the great government of the United States is now closed,” Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY-Dem) said on the House floor as the ignominious deadline passed.
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* Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) † Ed Mangano and the new Republican Legislative Majority repealed the Emergy Tax their first day in office, LI Herald 12/21/09, Nassau County Public Records, News12.com
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• Planned another 16% hike*
• Passed a tax on heat and electric†
• Stuck taxpayers with a $378 million deficit• Gave himself a generous $65,000 pay raise• Spent nearly $70 million dollars on luxury offices for himself and fellow Democrats
Here’s what it cost the Five Towns the last time Tom Suozzi was in office:
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Approximately 800,000 federal workers were furloughed and many government programs that were deemed nonessential were closed. National parks, the Smithsonian, the IRS, NASA and other offices were closed. President Obama blamed the closure on Congress as he addressed American troops via a video message. “It has failed to pass a budget and, as a result, much of our government must now shut down until Congress funds it again,” he said.
Both sides are pointing fingers as to whose fault it is that no conclusion was reached. Americans are tired of the infighting and only wish that both sides can compromise with one another. Un-til then, they will be missing out on ser-vices and programs that they have often relied upon.
Mob of Bikers Assault Man in Manhattan
A terrifying video taken by a bik-er went viral on Monday. The footage shows a pack of motorcyclists swarming around an SUV and then, when the vid-eo comes to a close, some of the bikers start mobbing the car. Most frightening about the video is that it took place in broad daylight in Manhattan.
On Sunday afternoon, around 30 motorcyclists took part in an unautho-rized daredevil rally called Hollywood Stuntz on the West Side Highway of NYC. The video shows the pack zoom-ing around a Ranger Rover. The car was driven by Alexian Lien, 33; his wife and two-year-old daughter were in the car. At one point, one biker slows down in front of Lien and gestures to him. In an effort to get away from the menacing pack, Lien clips one of the motorcycles. And that’s when things get scary. All at once, the mob of motorcyclists sur-rounds the car. “They take their helmets and start to dent his car, and apparently
his tires are slashed there with a knife,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
Members of the crew tried to yank open Lien’s car, but he sped away. After the 50-block pursuit, Lien finally gets off the highway, but the gang catches up with him and one motorcyclist smash-es his window with a helmet. The mob then pulls Lien out of his car and as-saults him in front of his terrified wife and child, slashing his face and chest.
Police arrested one member of the pack and charged him with reckless en-dangerment. Another member of the pack was critically injured in the chase. Officials say the investigation is ongo-ing as they look for the rest of the mo-torcyclists.
The rally was not authorized and police only heard about it through so-cial media. This is the second year that the rally took place. After this attack, Police Commissioner Kelly said police fanned out around Manhattan looking for trouble and arrested 15 bikers and confiscated 55 motorcycles that were unrelated to the attack.
Obamacare Hits Glitches on Its First Day
It has been a rocky start for the new online insurance marketplaces that have been created for Obama’s healthcare laws. Several states have reported crip-pling glitches in their systems and users have been been kicked out of portals multiple times.
The website for accessing federally run marketplaces, www.healthcare.gov, froze when some consumers tried to cre-ate accounts, the first step in selecting a health plan. Officials said the site got 1 million visits in the last day, five times more visitors than have ever been on the federal Medicare.gov site at one time. And the phone lines were not much bet-ter. Callers seeking information from a federal call center had to wait 20 min-utes or more to get help.
In Maryland, which is running its
own online marketplace, officials de-layed opening the website until noon and reported problems with their call center. Similar problems prevented consumers from getting information on health plans in Kentucky for a while. Other states, including Oregon and Col-orado, have already delayed some en-rollment systems.
President Obama and his allies have warned that there would likely be glitches in the new systems for enroll-ing in health plans. They have reminded Americans that they have six months to select a plan under the Affordable Care Act.
Health and Human Services Depart-ment spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement: “We have built a dy-namic system and are prepared to make adjustments as needed and improve the consumer experience. This new system will allow millions of Americans to ac-cess quality, affordable healthcare cov-erage – without underwriting. Consum-ers who need help can also contact the call center, use the live chat function, or go to localhelp.healthcare.gov to find an in-person assistor in their community.”
Administration officials were hop-ing to minimize problems at a time when the 2010 Affordable Care Act is under increasing scrutiny and height-ened attacks from critics. Some states were reporting successes on Tuesday. Connecticut announced mid-morning that a family of three were the first peo-ple to enroll in health coverage on its state marketplace.
The law is designed to allow Amer-icans who don’t get coverage through an employer to shop for health plans on new state-based insurance marketplac-es.
Insurers for the first time must meet new basic standards and are prohibit-ed from turning away consumers with pre-existing medical conditions. Mil-lions of low- and moderate-income Americans who make less than four times the federal poverty level – or about $46,000 – will qualify for govern-ment subsidies to help with their premi-ums.
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America is made of business-es—large and small. It is a country of dreams and a country where hard work can make a dream a reality. Lately, due to the poor economy, many businesses have been struggling to stay in the black.
But even though many are strug-gling, there are pockets of the country where businesses have a higher chance of survival. A recent study conduct-ed by Forbes listed the best states for business in the U.S. The study looked at six important factors for businesses: costs, labor supply, regulatory environ-ment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. This year, Virginia ranked the number one state for business in the United States; it was ranked second for the past three years.
Virginia ranks first among the states in the regulatory category because of its business-friendly government policies and strong incentive offerings. The tort system is one of the best in the country for businesses. Virginia is also one of 24 right-to-work states, which explains why only 4.4% of its workers are in unions — fifth lowest in the U.S.
Technology companies have been busy expanding in Virginia to take ad-vantage of the largest concentration of high-tech workers in the U.S. Amazon.com has added roughly 2,000 jobs in the area over the past two years for two distribution centers and its cloud com-puting business, Amazon Web Services. Microsoft has invested $1 billion to build and expand a data center in south-ern Virginia.
North Dakota finished a close sec-ond behind Virginia. Utah came in third this year, although it ranked number one last year. North Carolina and Colorado rounded out the top five. Surprisingly, Minnesota jumped 12 spots to number 8 this year based on the strength of an improved economic outlook.
18 Years for NYC Accountant who Aided Al Qaeda
On Monday, Sabirhan Hasanoff was sentenced to 18 years in prison for scop-ing out the New York Stock Exchange as a potential target for al Qaeda. Ha-sanoff is a dual U.S. and Australian cit-izen who was living in New York. He provided financial support to al Qaeda and conducted surveillance of the Stock Exchange for the terrorist organization in 2008. He also sought to travel over-seas to receive military training to fight Americans.
In June, U.S. intelligence officials said that Hasanoff’s arrest was indirect-ly the result of monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency of a “known extremist in Yemen.”
Hasanoff, who had previously worked at accounting firms including KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, pleaded guilty in June 2012, nearly two years after he was arrested on charges of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda.
U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood said on Monday that Hasanoff appeared to be “a charitable, loving, good fami-ly man” before he became radicalized. “None of that, however, deterred him from planning to leave his family and die fighting jihad against Americans,” Wood said.
Hasanoff’s lawyer, Joshua Dratel, portrayed his client as a family man who was “psychologically lured” into extremism.
Hasanoff, 37, apologized to the court and his friends and family. “I’m very sorry for my conduct,” Hasanoff said. “I should have known better and I don’t have any excuse.”
Prosecutors said Hasanoff cased the NYSE in 2008 and sent a one-page re-port back to a co-conspirator in Yemen. He also acquired items at al Qaeda’s re-quest, including a device that could be used to remotely detonate explosives.
New York-born Wesam El-Hanafi, who was arrested along with Hasanoff in April 2010, is scheduled to be sen-tenced on November 18.
Hasanoff, who was born in China, said he was a member of the Islamic ethnic minority group called Uighurs. His family moved to Australia when he was a child in 1980 as part of a refugee program.
U.S. Sues North Carolina
On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it would sue the state of North Carolina to block a voting law that requires identification at the polls and restricts early voting. Attorney General Eric Holder maintained that the department would prove that the law was aimed at making it harder for mi-norities to vote. More than 70 percent of black voters in North Carolina voted early in last November’s election. “This is an intentional step to break a system that was working,” he said. “And it de-fies common sense.” The Justice De-partment has also filed a suit against a similar law in Texas.
North Carolina passed the law after the Supreme Court struck down a pro-vision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The provision required some jurisdic-tions, including parts of North Carolina, to get federal approval before changing voting laws. The North Carolina law also blocks same-day voter registration and the counting of provisional ballots that are cast in the correct county but the wrong precinct. Civil rights groups sued immediately after North Carolina passed it in August.
Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, said that the voter ID requirement would not go into effect until 2016, and that the state would begin issuing free voter IDs on Jan. 1, 2014.
He pointed out that the state requires identification to buy tobacco and Su-dafed, and said that the state’s ballot boxes deserve the same protection. “I
firmly believe we did the right thing,” he said. “This is good law.”
Holder said that the North Carolina law is “inconsistent with our ideals as a nation.” Proponents of North Carolina’s law have said that it is essential in pre-venting the rampant voter fraud in the nation.
American Journalists Investigate
Assassination ProgramJeremy Scahill announced that he
will be working with Glenn Greenwald to produce a report on the National Se-curity Agency’s role in Washington’s as-sassination program. The two American journalists are known for their investi-gations into the U.S. government.
Scahill is a contributor to The Nation and Greenwald is based in Rio de Janei-ro and has written articles about U.S. surveillance programs based on docu-ments leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Scahill is also the author of Dirty Wars, a book also about the assassinations program.
Scahill said their joint project focus-es on “how the National Security Agen-cy plays a significant, central role on the U.S. assassination program.”
No further details were provided.
How Americans Spent their Money in 2012 The Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
vealed a report that listed all of Ameri-can spending in the year 2012—rich and poor alike.
The Bureau presented the informa-tion in a color wheel that showed that poor Americans spent 60% of spending on food, clothes, and housing. The bot-tom 20% spent more on housing, health care, and food in percentages than the top 20% of the population. Since the top 20% spent less of their income on the basics, they had more left over for lei-
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sure and entertainment.
Another 17% was spent on transpor-tation, 7% on healthcare, and another 11% on other types of insurance.
When looking at the pie chart one can’t help but notice a huge void…where’s the huge piece of pie spent on tuitions??
Lack of Communication in Arizona Forest Fire that Claimed 19 LivesAfter a three-month investigation
into the deaths of 19 hotshot firefighters killed in Arizona while fighting a forest fire, it was revealed that there was poor communication between the men and support staff.
The 19 men were a part of the Gran-ite Mountain Hotshots. All but one member of the crew died while at battle with a blaze on June 30 while protecting the small former gold rush town of Yar-nell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoe-nix, from an erratic lightning-sparked wildfire.
The investigation also revealed that an airtanker carrying flame retardant was hovering overhead as the men died.
The 120-page report was released on Saturday to the men’s families ahead of a news conference in Prescott, Ari-zona. The report found improperly pro-grammed radios, vague updates, and a 30-minute communication blackout right before the flames overwhelmed the brave men. Otherwise, the report noted that all procedures were followed properly.
The fire destroyed more than 100 homes and burned 13 square miles; it was not fully contained until July 10. This is being regarded as the worst fire-fighting tragedy since September 11, 2001.
“Nobody will ever know how the crew actually saw their situation, the op-
tions they considered or what motivated their actions,” the report said.
For some family members the in-vestigation served as a sense of closure from the tragic experience but others say it did nothing to ease their deep pain. “No matter what the report says, it won’t bring him back,” Colleen Tur-byfill said of her son, Travis. “I miss him, and it’s unbearable pain. It doesn’t go away. Sometimes I can’t breathe, but this report isn’t going to help that one way or another.”
Forbes’ Richest Americans List
It’s that time of year again…Time for Forbes to rank America’s richest.
It’s no shock that Bill Gates is Amer-ica’s richest man for the 20th year in a row. With a net worth of $72 billion, he reclaimed the crown of world’s richest from Mexico’s Carlos Slim.
In second place was Warren Buffet who added another $12.5 billion to his wealth this year.
In a big comeback, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it to the top 20 this year after not making the cut last year. The biggest percentage earner was Workday’s David Duffield, whose for-tune more than tripled to $6.4 billion.
The combined worth of the 400 wealthiest Americans is a record $20.2 trillion. The average net worth of list members is a staggering $5 billion. There are 20 newcomers to the list and only 30 people were knocked off the list from last year.
If you’re wondering what it takes to make the cut…the minimum net worth needed to make the Forbes 400 list was $1.3 billion. The last time it was that high was in 2008, right before the finan-
cial crisis began to unravel. The 10 richest people in America
are:1. Bill Gates ($72B)2. Warren Buffet ($58.5B)3. Larry Ellison ($41B)4. Charles Koch ($36B)5. David Koch ($36B)6. Christy Walton & Family
($35.4B)7. David Walton ($33.8B)8. Jim Walton ($33.8B)9. Alice Walton ($33.4B)10. Michael Bloomberg ($31B)
Smoke Jumping Exercise Ends Tragically
In a tragic accident, Mark Urban, 40, of Boise, Idaho, a veteran smoke-jumper for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, has died. Smokejumpers are trained to jump out of airplanes and parachute into wild terrain in order to fight wildfires.
It was unclear if an equipment flaw, medical emergency or weather condi-tions caused the death on Friday, said Bureau of Land Management spokes-man Ken Frederick. It is the first fatality in 13 years for the smokejumpers.
Urban was one of a team of high-ly skilled federal firefighters jumping from a plane about 45 miles east of Boise in an exercise designed to main-tain their parachuting proficiency. He was the second firefighter to jump out of the aircraft during the practice “when something – we don’t know what – went wrong,” an official said. An investiga-tion of the incident by U.S. fire manag-ers is underway.
This incident is the thirty-third death of U.S. wild land firefighters this year. Urban was a 10-year veteran and train-er based in Boise with roughly 80 other smokejumpers. The 450 smokejumpers with the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are season-ally required to parachute from planes at least once every two weeks to hone their skills.
Urban had tallied 324 jumps, in-cluding 102 into fires, since joining the Great Basin Smokejumpers in 2003. “It’s tragic. He was a very popular and
well-respected member of the crew and everyone has been hit hard by his death,” Frederick said.
Malala Yousafzai Honored by Harvard
UniversityHarvard University’s Peter J. Gomes
Humanitarian Award has been given to a Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban as-sassination attempt. Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken proponent for girls’ edu-cation, was at Harvard on Friday to ac-cept the award. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said she was pleased to welcome Malala because of their shared interest in education.
Malala was shot in the head last Oc-tober. Militants said she was attacked because she criticized the Taliban, not because of her views on education.
The 16-year-old spoke nostalgically about her home region, the Swat Valley, and said she hopes to return someday. She called it a “paradise” but described a dangerous area where militants blew up dozens of schools and sought to discourage girls from going to school by snatching pens from their hands. Students, she said, reacted by hiding their books under their shawls so peo-ple wouldn’t know they were going to school.
“The so-called Taliban were afraid of women’s power and were afraid of the power of education,” she told hun-dreds of students, faculty members and well-wishers who packed the Sanders Theater for the award ceremony.
Malala highlighted the fact that very few people spoke out against what was happening in her home region. “Al-though few people spoke, the voice for peace and education was powerful,” she said.
Malala said she hopes to become a politician because politicians can have influence on a broad scale.
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That’s OddMillions of Miles:
Man Drives 3 Million Miles in 1966 Volvo
In 2002, Irv Gordon made headlines when he put a world-record 2 million miles on the odometer of his cherry red 1966 Volvo. Now he’s back making news with another million miles and another milestone. The retired science teacher from Long Island has put 3 mil-lion miles on his odometer—a distance that is equal to six round trips to the moon and back. “It’s just terrific,” Gor-don told the TODAY anchors alongside his Volvo in Rockefeller Plaza on Tues-day. “I’m getting used to it. It’s the third time around.”
On Sept. 15, Gordon’s trusty Volvo passed the 3 million-mile mark during a road trip on Seward Highway in Alas-ka, one of only two states Gordon had not yet visited. Gordon, 74, set a world
record in 1998 for most miles driven by a single person in a noncommercial vehicle at 1.69 million, and he hasn’t stopped since.
Remarkably, the car still has the original engine from when he bought it. “It’s got a lot of memories, you bet,” he said. “You buy a quality car to begin with, and then you just follow the own-er’s manual. The people that wrote the book are the people that built the car.”
Gordon bought the red coupe brand new in 1966, reaching 500,000 miles in only 10 years, helped by a 125-mile round-trip commute to work every day. The first two times Gordon hit a mil-lion-mile mark came on trips to New York City. The Volvo hit seven digits on a drive to Central Park in 1987, and reached the two-million mark in 2002
on another trip to the Big Apple.When asked how much would it take
for Gordon to give up his trusty travel companion, he joked, “A dollar a mile (on the odometer), you can take it home tonight.”
Gordon has also driven in five Eu-ropean countries with the car, and the only state he has yet to drive in is Ha-waii. “The best way to explore America is by car,” Gordon said in a news release from Volvo. “I challenge everyone to go out and see as much as possible. Find your own journey and reason to believe because you only have one life to live. No matter how many roads I’ve been on, there’s always one I haven’t taken. That’s what makes it exciting.”
Time to hit the road.
CEO Lives on $4.50 a DayA qualifying American receives an
average of $4.50 a day for food from food stamp programs, according to The New York Times. Can you survive on less than $5 a day? Recently, Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich announced that he is challenging himself to live on that budget. As he experiments, he is blog-ging about his self-induced restrictions on LinkedIn. He took on this challenge in an attempt to raise hunger awareness.
Shaich set out to shop for food for the week with his weekly budget of $31. He couldn’t afford coffee, fruit, yo-gurt, or milk so he will be having cereal without milk for breakfast every day. His lunch will be lentils and chickpeas and dinner will be pasta. For snack, he bought carrots.
After three days of this diet, Shaich reported that he felt “bloated and weak.”
By the fourth day, Shaich said his thoughts were “consumed by food.” “When is my next meal? How much food is left in my cabinet? Will it get me through the week? What should I spend my remaining few dollars on? What would I eat if I had no budget at all?” Shaich wrote.
Shaich also noticed that his hun-ger was affecting his relationship with his wife, Nancy: “I snapped at her for over-portioning my spaghetti. I felt so
much anxiety about the possibility of running out of pasta that I completely overlooked my wife’s good intentions in helping to prepare my dinner. I have to imagine that this is a common source of conflict in households marked by food insecurity.”
Panera Bread is a chain of bakery-ca-fes, with more than 1,650 in the U.S. and Canada. The company’s non-profit foundation, Panera Cares, is a collection of five cafes that offer free food and op-erates on donations. Currently, it is es-timated that each location serves 3,500 people each week.
According to Business Week, in the fiscal year 2012 Ron Shiach earned more than $4.4 million in compensation for his position as Chief Executive Offi-cer of Panera Bread Co.
I wonder if he could get a free lunch (or two) at one of his restaurants.
Man Gets a Nose Job on his Forehead
A man from China came out of sur-gery with an extra appendage—and he was happy about it!
A skilled surgeon from China, Doc-tor Guo Zhihui, constructed an extra nose out of the man’s rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his fore-head to prepare for a transplant. This is the first procedure of its kind.
Guo is a plastic surgeon at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China’s southeastern province of Fuji-an. He dedicated nine months to refin-ing the implant for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged. The nostrils of the nose are diagonally upward on the left side of the man’s forehead. This is just part one to a corrective nose sur-gery. Guo will remove the nose from the man’s forehead while leaving a section of skin still connected, and then rotate and graft it into position.
The striking image of the man’s forehead has been circulating the inter-net and getting lots of media attention in China. Despite it looking odd, it is an innovative procedure that will hopefully
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lead to a new nose for the patient.“We were just interested in helping
the man and did not expect it would stir up this much attention,” Guo said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We sculpted the nose three-dimension-ally, like carpenters.”
In August 2012, the patient lost part of his nose in an accident. At that time, he did not have any reconstruction sur-gery because he couldn’t afford it. Un-fortunately, an infection eventually ate away much of his nose cartilage and he was forced to get surgery.
Is Fast Food No Longer Fast?
Could it be that fast food is getting slower?
A recent performance study released on Monday shows that the average wait time for customers at drive-thrus at ma-jor chain restaurants rose to over three minutes, a speed that is eight seconds longer than a year ago.
The study was conducted amongst six major chains including Burger King, Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Wendy’s. Wendy’s proved to be the speediest chain, while McDonald’s posted its slowest showing in the history of the 15-year study. Burger King was the only participant in the study to actu-ally speed things up for customers.
So what exactly is holding up the fries for the fast-food patrons? “Driving this increase in speed of service time is these more complex menu items,” said Sam Oches, the editor of QSR, which covers quick-service and fast-casual restaurants. “Consumers are demand-ing more fresh, upscale menu items from fast-food restaurants and as these chains are answering that demand, the new menu items take a little more time to assemble.”
More complex items such as the Mc-Donald’s Premium McWrap and Taco Bell’s Cantina Bell require employees to use additional ingredients and require additional procedures before reaching the customers’ plates. Another factor in longer wait-times is busier drive-thrus. The average number of vehicles in line rose 9 percent this year to 2.82 cars. Chick-fil-A had the longest average line at about six cars.
Longer wait-times may mean better service. In the early 2000s, only about 60 percent of some chains’ orders were filled accurately. This year, accuracy was about 87 percent, with Chick-fil-A being the chain filling the most accurate
orders. Oches says that companies should
keep on keeping their eye on their bot-tom line. For their customers, it’s all about the experience. “The experience is what’s important and going into that is accuracy and customer service, be-cause if the drive is slower by 20 to 30 seconds, customers will forgive you as long as they get a good experience,” he said.
Yes, I’d like a double burger with onions, peppers and tomatoes. Oh, and hold the bun, please.
Slow Down! If You’re Driving, That Is…
Sometimes we speed through a red light camera and don’t notice the ticket we get. And sometimes we park in the wrong place and come out to find an orange envelope on the windshield. But it’s very difficult (though not impossi-ble, apparently) to get a speeding ticket while your car’s in the shop.
Canadian resident Sheila Taschuk took her Honda Element into a repair shop that needed to keep the car for two-and-a-half weeks. She was very surprised when she received a speeding ticket for a violation that occurred when the car was supposed to be at the shop.
Sheila said that the shop, Boyd Auto-body & Glass, “denied that the vehicle had left the shop at all. And I said, ‘Well, it’s a little bit hard to argue when I have a photo of my vehicle in the oppo-site end of the city.’” Boyd asked Sheila to
fax a copy of the ticket for review, and a rep from Boyd’s Accounts Payable de-partment called promising to reimburse her for the ticket but claimed that they did not know what happened to the ve-hicle at the time.
However, Sheila’s main concern was that someone was driving her car around in an unsafe manner. “If my vehicle had been involved in an accident or hit a pedestrian or anything like that without my knowledge, I would have been ex-tremely upset,” the car owner said.
When she did pick up her car, Sheila noticed an extra 750 to 870 miles on it, but unfortunately it could not be proven because the shop did not note the mile-age on her invoice. She was told that an-other Honda Boyd had in the shop was scheduled for subcontracting hail repair work done by a company called Hail Specialist. The hail specialist picked up the wrong vehicle, only realizing the mistake when they were at their shop, and they eventually returned Sheila’s car to Boyd.
Tip to consumers: if your auto shop needs two weeks to fix your car, they may just be using it for their next road trip.
Rivera Leaves Personal Note in Fenway ParkMariano Rivera made one of his
last games count. The baseball play-er played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees.
Rivera announced on March 9, 2013 that he will be retiring at the end of the season. Between innings during his last game against the Red Sox, Rivera spoke with fans in the Fenway Park bleachers and signed autographs. This was his last time playing in Fenway Park.
Rivera didn’t get to pitch at all during the three-game set, which the Red Sox swept by beating the Yankees 9-2 on Sunday night. The Yankees, win-ners of the past two AL East titles and 13 of 17, were eliminated from winning the division.
Rivera and the Red Sox exchanged an emotional goodbye. The team gave him several gifts including a heartfelt poem. In return, Rivera inscribed a mes-sage on the inside of the visitor’s dug-out. He wrote:
Mariano RiveraLast to wear #42Thank you for everythingIncluding playoffs, Rivera was 15-7
with 64 saves and a 2.59 ERA in 127 games against Boston in his 19-year-ca-reer, starting with two innings of score-less relief on Sept. 10, 1995.
Before the game, Rivera said, “Hopefully, it’s not the last time.’’
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When someone enrolls at DRS, he not only becomes a student, but a member of the DRS family forever. Even after grad-uating high school, DRS alumni still feel a special sense of belonging to their high school alma mater. That’s why many DRS graduates who learn in Israel for a year or two after high school find themselves at the Annual DRS Simchas Beis HaShoeva reunion on Chol HaMoed Sukkot every year in Eretz Yisroel. This year, DRS held its 10th annual Simchas Beis HaShoeva event, inviting all DRS alumni and HALB families spending their chag in Israel. The annual event, at Yerushalayim’s OU Center, brings DRS students and rabbeim together for a special night of great food, dancing, and divrei Torah. This year, the event was honored to have DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky and his family join them. The graduates were surprised by a special video presentation filled with messages and good wishes from their for-mer teachers and rabbeim back at home. The sense of connection and family will continue at the DRS reunion in Israel this January.
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It’s the week fathers and sons have been waiting for. Motzei Shabbos Parshas Noach is the night when Yeshiva of South Shore kicks off its annual Motzei Shabbos Avos U’Banim Learning Program. The event is held at the yeshiva 30 minutes after the zman and at 2 satellite locations, the Shteeble (Congregation Beis Medrash) of Cedarhurst and Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, 45 minutes after the zman. Approximately 350 boys come to learn every Motzei Shabbos!
A few years back, Yoeli Steinberg of Gourmet Glatt approached Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, the Learning Program Director, and offered to sponsor all the
snacks/food for each location for the entire season. What a generous offer that was! Gourmet Glatt has graciously been sponsoring the program ever since.
“The real incentive for the kids is the learning of Torah and the bonding with their fathers or grandfathers, but kids love nosh (OK, Dads do too!) and it really is an added incentive. The yeshi-va is grateful for Gourmet Glatt and its staff; Yoeli, Moshe and Shloy for their kindness,” said Rabbi Drebin.
So where will you be this Motzei Shabbos? Snacks, stories, raffles and prizes, it’s all happening at a YOSS Learning Program near you; we hope to see you there.
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On Monday, September 16th, the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula’s (JCCRP) Kosher Client Choice Food Pantry ran a food distribution funded in part by the Red Cross. The JCCRP was able to arrange for extra items to be included in addition to the regular food pantry items for the Jewish community’s needs for Yom Tov.
Over a hundred clients and represen-tatives from local kollels and shuls came to the pantry to choose from a selection of grape juice, gefilte fish, chicken, Lon-don broil, potatoes, carrots, onions, and other fresh vegetables.
The distinction of the JCCRP’s Cli-ent Choice Kosher Food Pantry is that it allows clients the dignity and respect they deserve by allowing them to select their own groceries, similar to a typical supermarket. With individualized atten-tion, the clients are able to walk through
the pantry, one or two at a time, and se-lect various items on their own or with a pantry worker.
The JCCRP and the Kosher Food Pantry are able to do this special distribution for members of our commu-nity who are in need, due to the gener-osity and support of the Red Cross and Brach’s Supermarket.
The JCCRP is a proud affiliate of Met Council and a beneficiary agency of UJA Federation of NY. The JCCRP pro-vides a range of services for any clients who need assistance in social services or resource directing within the communi-ty. Please contact the JCCRP for further information: located at 1525 Central Avenue (entrance on Foam Place), Far Rockaway, NY, 11691— call the JCCRP at (718) 327-7755—or visit them on the web at www.jccrp.org.
JCCRP Helps Community Members with their Yom Tov Needs
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HAFTR High School is proud to announce that three students have been named Semifinalists in the 59th annual National Merit Scholarship Program: Isaak Garber, Matthew Goldstein, and Jake Kaufman. About 1.5 million ju-niors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2014 Scholarship Program by taking the 2012 PSAT, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists,
>representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. Officials of National Merit Schol-arship Corporation (NMSQ) announced
the names of approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in this year¹s National Merit Scholarship Program. These ac-ademically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,000 National Merit Scholarships worth about $35 million that will be offered next spring.
HAFTR has the distinction of hav-ing the highest number of Semifinalists from Long Island yeshivas. Congratu-lations to our outstanding scholars and their families.
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Five Towners enjoy Adventureland on Chol Hamoed
The kehillah of Congregation Tifereth Zvi in Cedarhurst joined their mara d’asra, Rav Pin-chas Chatzinoff, for their annual leil Hoshana Rabba tisch in the rav’s sukkah.Photos by Ira Thomas Creations
Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, Judaic Studies Principal, Isaak Garber, Jake Kaufman, Matthew Goldstein, Ms. Naomi Lippman, General Studies Principal
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The weather was glorious, the grounds were beautiful, and the stu-dents were delighted! All beginnings are hard, but the ninth graders at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls had the opportunity to start the new school year in a relaxed and con-vivial atmosphere at their Freshman Retreat on Monday and Tuesday, Sep-tember 9 and 10, upstate at Camp Kay-lie. Two days of making new friends,
meeting their grade level advisors, and freshmen faculty members in a cozy setting and having a very enjoyable time gave the girls a comfortable foun-dation to their first year of high school.
Cupcake wars, duct tape boating, and other fun activities together with go-karting and swimming enabled the girls to mingle and meet students from other elementary schools. The evening’s educational component ,
“Choose Happiness,” presented by Ms. Raizi Chechik, Principal Grade 9-10, focused on recognizing the positive in all experiences and how to promote re-siliency. At the evening bonfire, Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, shared her personal and professional Hurri-cane Sandy experience as an illustra-tion of the power of resiliency. Rabbi Daniel Eisenbach, Mashgiach Ruchani, Ms. Erica Chaimowitz, Admission Li-
asion and GLA, Mrs. Sheila Leibtag, Social Studies teacher and GLA, Ms. Leah Pariser, Chesed Coordinator and GLA, Mrs. Beaty Menchel, Limudei Kodesh teacher, our dedicated G.O and others joined Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, Director of Student Services and the or-ganizer of this wonderful event, at the retreat.
SKA’s class of 2017 is off to a great start!
Not a Retreat but an Advance! SKA Freshmen Go to Camp Kaylie
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Shalom Task Force, an organization which promotes peaceful family relation-ships, named Dr. Alan Singer, an experienced non-profit administrator, as its executive director.
Dr. Singer joins Shalom Task Force from Lincoln Square Synagogue, where he has been executive director. Prior to that, he was executive director of Congregation Shearith Israel; administra-tion and finance director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry; executive director of the Jewish Federation of Raritan Valley; and youth and families program director at the Baron Hirsch Synagogue in Memphis Tennessee. He has served as an adjunct professor in Clinical Social Work at Rutgers University Graduate School of Social Work, and of Child Psychology at Touro College. He has also been a clin-ical social worker for the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and Jewish Family Services of Middlesex County.
Dr. Singer holds a PhD in Social Policy and Administration from Rutgers University, an MSW from Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and a bachelor of
arts from Yeshiva University. He is a pub-lished author and columnist, and has been
interviewed numerous times by both print and electronic media.
Shalom Task Force is a New York-based organization which strives to prevent domestic vio-lence in the Orthodox Jewish community and promotes peaceful family relations.
“We are delighted to have someone of Dr. Singer’s caliber assuming the top executive position at Shalom Task Force,” said Nechama Wolfson, president of Shalom Task Force. “We know his con-tributions will be indispensable to our plans to promote and expand our organization.”
Dr. Singer said, “With the divorce rate hovering at 50% and children of divorce twice as likely to see their own marriages dissolve, who could not marvel at the accomplishments of Shalom Task Force. For two decades, Shalom Task Force has strengthened the very foundation of our Jewish community......the family. This organization’s extraordinary accomplish-ments are an inspiration and it is truly an honor to be serving at its helm.”
Shalom Task Force Names Dr. Alan Singer Executive Director
Before Sukkos, the students of Me-sivta Yam Hatorah had the privilege of having a hands-on workshop with Rabbi Dovid Bergida on the laws of lulav and esrog. The knowledge gained at this workshop enabled our students to be meticulous in this mitzvah. This work-shop was the first of a series of work-shops that the Mesivta will be offering this year. These include workshops on safrus, gid hanasheh, and much more. The goal of these workshops is to broad-en the students’ knowledge of hala-cha by providing them with visual and hands-on experiences.
Exciting Pre-Succos Workshop at Mesivta Yam Hatorah
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Mercy’s expertise continues to expand, with several new, high-quality, outpatient pro-grams.
Our renowned inpatient reha-bilitation program now offers ambulatory services. This beauti-ful new facility comprehensively addresses all rehabilitation needs. Highly trained physiatrists, phys-ical and occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists are able to diagnose and treat a wide variety of disabilities.
Mercy’s brand new Balance Center provides state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities to address falls and injuries in older Americans due to balance problems/dizziness. More than 90 million Americans have experience such problem in their lifetime. Mercy’s Balance Center offers painless rapid test-ing to quickly pinpoint treatable causes of dizziness and loss of balance, and specially trained vestibular therapists supply ther-apeutic options for these serious
illnesses.The hospital’s stellar Radiology
and Imaging Department now includes PET/CT scanning, a critical test in managing can-cer and other illnesses. And, our two new low-radiation, 64-slice CT scanners perform sophisti-cated exams very rapidly with convenient appointment times throughout the day and eve-ning. Plus, Mercy is a lead-er in providing comprehensive breast health care - with screen-ing, diagnosis, treatment and fol-low-up all at one location in our Women’s Imaging Center. Also, highly-skilled radiologists and breast surgeons provide a com-plete range of treatment options, and the latest full reconstructive procedures. To assist newly-di-agnosed, living with, or survi-vors of cancer, Mercy has part-nered with the American Cancer Society to give a free Patient Navigation Program.
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On Monday, October 7 at 8pm, Connie Krupin, author of A Time to Be Born: A Jewish Baby Journal, will present insights into Jewish last names and sign copies of her book. Ever wonder where your last name came from? Why there are so many Jewish Schwartzes, Weisses and Kleins? Take the ultimate “Jewish Genealogy” journey through history with author Connie G. Krupin to learn the origins of our Ashkenazi and Sephardic surnames. Discover what our names mean, what they tell us about our great grandparents and what they reveal about ourselves!
Books will be available for purchase throughout the event. There will be a 10% discount on all purchases made at the event and 10% of profits will be donated by Connie to the Levi Yitzchak Library.
Register today and Connie will try to research your name for the event! Couvert: $10, suggested donation
On Sunday, October 13 at 9:30am, the Levi Yitzchak Family Center/Library will be hosting its Inaugural Breakfast. Join us and learn more about what the library has to offer you. The breakfast is being chaired by Mr. and Mrs. Ben and Lynda Brafman, the committee also includes Mr. & Mrs. Avi & Danielle Aronovitz, Mr. & Mrs. Joey & Samantha Hain,
Mr. & Mrs. Zev & Aviva Golombeck, Mr. & Mrs. Zevy & Evy Guttman, Dr. & Mrs. Barry & Atara Habib, Mr. & Mrs. Sholom & Pessy Jacobs, Mr. & Mrs. Ari & Ruthy Jungreis, Dr. & Mrs. Steve & Marjorie Kellner, Mr. & Dr. David & Caroline Levy, Mr. & Mrs. Melly & Rochelle Lifshitz, Dr. & Mrs. Daniell & Leora Mishaan , Mr. & Mrs. Uri & Wendy Ottensoser, Dr. & Mrs. Evan & Lisa Pockriss, Dr. & Mrs. David & Orly Simai, Dr. & Mrs. Jeff & Nicole Spivak, and Mr. & Mrs. Avram & Elana Weissman
Community support provides a vital source of revenue, offsetting costs for the many exceptional programs and facility improve-ments that make the LYL such a unique place. In addition, your donation also provides mem-bership for families who would not otherwise have access to Jewish books and programs. To donate, visit www.lylibrary.org, call 516-374-BOOK (2665), or e-mail [email protected].
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The Ramat Givat Zeev neighbor-hood north of Jerusalem is gaining momentum. In light of the heightened interest in the neighborhood among the Orthodox community in the United States, the developers have decided to hold an additional sales event to give more people the opportunity to join the new community.
The event will take place in a unique format and will consist of two parts. The first will be a sales fair, where par-ticipants will be introduced to the many advantages of the project, which is be-ing built exclusively for Anglo immi-grants. The fair will be attended by all the professionals involved in the proj-ect, such as the architects, interior de-signers, lawyers, sales representatives and service representatives, who will be able to answer any questions that potential buyers have.
It should be noted that the previous sales fair held in the United States sev-eral months ago was highly successful. Over a mere two days, dozens of homes were sold. That event generated a wave
of increased interest and requests for a second sales event to be held.
The second part of the sales event will be a formal dinner for all those who have already signed contracts for homes in the project. The profession-als behind the project will address the dinner and provide a summary of the uniqueness of each aspect of the neigh-borhood. Likewise, Harav Shmuel Bra-zil, Rosh Yeshivas Ziv HaTorah, who is moving his yeshivah and kehillah to Ramat Givat Zeev, will attend the din-ner. The news that Rav Brazil will be joining the neighborhood was widely welcomed, as he will set the spiritual tone for the community. The evening will conclude with enjoyable entertain-ment for the guests.
In fact, the event is a precedent, be-ing carried out for the first time by an Israeli-based developer operating in the United States. In keeping with its com-mitment for the highest level of service and constant oversight, Chish Nofei Is-rael is bringing all of the professionals as well as the marketing team from Is-
rael to the United States to accompany the buyers in building and designing their new homes down to the last detail. In this framework, buyers will receive extensive and detailed explanations of the construction and design options available so that they can choose the details based on their personal taste and needs.
It’s not for naught that Ramat Givat Zeev is generating a wave of interest. The project, which is Chish Nofei Isra-el’s flagship location, has been defined by the rabbanim in America as the most suitable option to realize the dream of Orthodox Jews in the America to make aliyah to Israel. The project offers ex-
clusive advantages to ensure a comfort-able acclimation to the new surround-ings, emphasizing the construction of a homogenous, warm community that includes a plethora of community insti-tutions that suit the mentality of the res-idents. Ramat Givat Zeev is being built on the highest standards, with rich tech-nical specifications, large green parks and shopping centers. Likewise, the neighborhood, just north of Jerusalem, combines a suburban setting nestled in the breathtaking Jerusalem Hills, with its pristine air and beautiful scenery along with the convenience of being close to the major Torah and chassidic center in the capital city.
Anticipation Mounting for Ramat Givat Zeev Sales Event in U.S.
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This year’s freshmen class at Ram-bam Mesivta continued the school’s tra-dition of Chesed Shel Emet by spending the day cleaning up a cemetery during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah. The talmi-dim boarded the bus with the determi-nation to make a difference and pay respect to those who came before. In conjunction with the Hebrew Free Buri-al Society, and Head of Volunteer Ser-vices, Rambam alumnus, Andrew Parv-er, Class of 2001, this act of chesed has become an annual event at the Mesivta for incoming freshmen classes.
The volunteers spent the afternoon raking leaves, straightening tombstones, picking up garbage, and assisting in creating a serene and respectful envi-ronment for the denizens of Silver Lake Cemetery in Staten Island. The ceme-tery has been in the care of the Hebrew Free Burial Society for over 100 hun-dred years and relies on volunteers like the Rambam Mesivta boys to maintain its dignity.
Upon their return to Rambam, it was evident that this experience had a pro-found impact on the talmidim. Fresh-men who went on this chesed mission, unsure how they would react to what
would be on some level a strenuous day both physically and mentally, emerged standing tall and firm in the recognition that they could go outside their comfort zones in an effort to do chesed. They re-marked, “It was an meaningful day” and they “Would appreciate going back and helping again.”
Appreciating what one has, helping others, acts of chesed: the hallmark of a Rambam Mesivta education, b’emet.
While the rest of Rambam Mesiv-ta’s ninth grade was engaged in a cem-etery restoration chesed trip, the Ko-hanim who remained behind spent the afternoon engaged in Random Acts of Kindness. Recognizing that during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah people are espe-cially busy, they went to the parking lot of Amazing Savings to help carry pack-ages, load cars, and return carts.
People greeted the boys’ question of “How can we help?” with disbelief, laughter, and ultimately, appreciation. They were impressed with the maturity of the boys, the commitment to helping, and their kind manners. The boys were offered many tips but politely refused them all, making it clear that they “were just there to help.”
The holidays have passed, and now it is back to the regular schedule. We spent so many days in prayer, listen-ing to the shofar, sitting in the sukkah, shaking the lulav, and then culminating by dancing with the Torah. Throughout this time, we explored our inner selves, strengthened our bond with our Creator and His Torah.
During the holiday we have so many different tools to help us experience elevation. Now the task is to elevate ourselves and to continue to stay on a high spiritual level throughout the long winter months. People commonly will say, the yamim tovim are over, now it’s time to get back into things. For a per-son that spent the time selling esrogim, he doesn’t simply view it as a yom tov that’s over. He made a nice amount of money from the sales, and it hasn’t just passed him by (Rav Shimshon Pinkus). We also gained a tremendous amount from these holidays. It may not be in the form of physical cash or that we “hit it rich,” but throughout the holidays we were given a jumpstart of Divine assistance to come closer to Hashem, to repent, and to improve our ways.
We should not simply allow these important holidays to pass on into his-tory. We come out now at a point much farther along than we were at by the beginning of Elul. For that reason, it’s much easier for us to tap into the changes we’ve made and continue to grow from this point forward. We stand to lose if we don’t and gain so much if we absorb what we could gain. During the mussaf prayer of the holidays we insert a special request when we state “V’hasianu Hashem Elokainu es birkas
moadecha” that Hashem should “load us up” with the blessings of His holiday. We ask for this every day of Sukkos, since we want the blessings of the yom tov to last all winter long (R’ Yaakov Feitman).
We can use these coming months to focus on one area in our marriage. For one person it might be coming home with a smile, for the next it might be speaking with more kindness, and for the next it can be refraining from an action that bothers one’s spouse. If we choose one area in our marriage, and work on it with the perspective of keeping the inspiration from the yamim tovim, with Hashem’s help we will succeed in our plans for improvement, and by the next time a yom tov comes around we will be able to state with con-viction that we have used the inspiration of Sukkos and the Yomim Noraim to make a long lasting change in our lives.
Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, work-shops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sun-day, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 10:00-11:00 p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email [email protected]. HaRav Moshe Meir Weiss will be speaking at a Keynote Event with breakout sessions this upcoming Sunday, Tzom Gedalia, at the White Shul starting at 10:15am for men and women. Babysitting onsite will also be available and there is no charge for those attending.
This year’s freshmen class at Ram-bam Mesivta continued the school’s tra-dition of Chesed Shel Emet by spending the day cleaning up a cemetery during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah. The talmi-dim boarded the bus with the determi-nation to make a difference and pay respect to those who came before. In conjunction with the Hebrew Free Buri-al Society, and Head of Volunteer Ser-vices, Rambam alumnus, Andrew Parv-er, Class of 2001, this act of chesed has become an annual event at the Mesivta for incoming freshmen classes.
The volunteers spent the afternoon raking leaves, straightening tombstones, picking up garbage, and assisting in creating a serene and respectful envi-ronment for the denizens of Silver Lake Cemetery in Staten Island. The ceme-tery has been in the care of the Hebrew Free Burial Society for over 100 hun-dred years and relies on volunteers like the Rambam Mesivta boys to maintain its dignity.
Upon their return to Rambam, it was evident that this experience had a pro-found impact on the talmidim. Fresh-men who went on this chesed mission, unsure how they would react to what
would be on some level a strenuous day both physically and mentally, emerged standing tall and firm in the recognition that they could go outside their comfort zones in an effort to do chesed. They re-marked, “It was an meaningful day” and they “Would appreciate going back and helping again.”
Appreciating what one has, helping others, acts of chesed: the hallmark of a Rambam Mesivta education, b’emet.
While the rest of Rambam Mesiv-ta’s ninth grade was engaged in a cem-etery restoration chesed trip, the Ko-hanim who remained behind spent the afternoon engaged in Random Acts of Kindness. Recognizing that during the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah people are espe-cially busy, they went to the parking lot of Amazing Savings to help carry pack-ages, load cars, and return carts.
People greeted the boys’ question of “How can we help?” with disbelief, laughter, and ultimately, appreciation. They were impressed with the maturity of the boys, the commitment to helping, and their kind manners. The boys were offered many tips but politely refused them all, making it clear that they “were just there to help.”
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Yeshiva University’s Presidential Fellowship in University and Community Leadership Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
With more than 150 alumni in an array of professional and communal careers and 15 stel-lar new graduates taking the reins this fall, Yeshiva Univer-sity’s Presidential Fellowship in University and Community Leadership is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Three local graduates—Share Feltheimer of Lawrence, NY; Daniel Schoenfeld of Woodmere, NY; and David Berger of West Hempstead, NY—will serve as Fellows this year.
The highly competitive program was established by President Richard M. Joel in 2004, shortly after his arrival at YU, with the goal of transforming the Uni-versity into a leadership incubator for the Jewish people. Under the supervi-sion of YU Senior Vice President Rabbi Josh Joseph, the Fellowship places ac-complished top-level YU graduates in key departments and schools through-out the institution, where they develop and oversee thoughtful and innovative projects to improve the University. They also receive close mentorship from se-nior University staff and cultivate a broad knowledge base and skill set to engage with the larger Jewish commu-nity.
“When I started the Fellowship, I knew it was a win-win,” said President Joel. “On the one hand, some of our best and brightest students would maintain their direct involvement with this insti-tution and benefit it in wondrous ways, and more importantly, these budding young professionals would receive chal-lenging and meaningful experience in the field of Jewish organizational work which would launch them in the careers and personal paths of their choice. Ten years later, the Presidential Fellowship, under the guidance of Rabbi Joseph and Allison Rubin, has achieved all of that and so much more.”
Berger decided to apply for the Fel-lowship so he could help shape the Cen-ter for the Jewish Future missions he at-tended as an undergraduate. In the CJF’s Department of Jewish Service Learning, he’ll be doing just that as he organizes missions to destinations around the world. “I’m hoping to pursue a PhD in political science and feel this is a great
place to gain important skills along the way,” Berger said.
In addition to their departmental mentors and weekly graduate seminars with leaders from many backgrounds, including philanthropists Michael Steinhardt and Ronald Stanton, author A.J. Jacobs and human rights activist Brooke Goldstein, Presidential Fellows benefit from the guidance of communal lay leaders. The Fellowship also enables participants to hone professional career skills in a challenging but familiar work environment. Feltheimer, who is posi-tioned in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs, will be working on projects that range from event manage-ment and promotion to digital media and media relations. “I contributed to the YU mobile application and have the opportunity to think of new and excit-ing ideas to make it even better after the launch,” Feltheimer said.
For Schoenfeld, a political science graduate now working in the Dean’s Of-fice of Yeshiva College, helping shape student experiences has been a reward-ing part of the Fellowship. “I want to do my part to ensure that YU is serving all its students across the cultural, religious and academic spectrum,” he said. “See-ing how deeply the deans care about all the students, and how much they do to help them succeed, has been great.”
In addition to Feltheimer, Schoen-feld and Berger, this year’s Presiden-tial Fellows include Mordechai Czarka of Chicago, IL; Yitzy Frankel of Los Angeles, CA; Danny Goldberg of St. Louis, MO; Malkie Krieger of Monroe, NY; Talia Lautman and David Muller of Cleveland, OH; Adam Neuman and
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“Even though each Fellow carves
out his or her own experience, it’s clear that both individually and collectively, this program shapes Yeshiva’s present and our community’s future,” said Rab-bi Joseph.
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During the course of the first week of school, over 80 Rambam talmidim helped launch Rambam Mesivta’s Masmidim Program. Talmidim look-ing for additional learning opportunities spent the evenings and lunch periods partaking in the school’s optional learn-ing program.
The initial event, held on the second night of school, featured an hour of “open learning” in the Bais Medrash, with Assistant Principal, Rabbi Avi Haar, and Rambam Rebbe, Rabbi Yaacov Weisenberg, learning with the over 40 talimidim. Following delicious snacks of gummy worms, and assorted chips, and even healthy snacks (there was one bowl of fruit!), Carlos and Gabby’s Wings, fries, and popcorn chicken arrived. Rabbi Wiesenberg then spoke on the topic of “Yom Kippur and You” which was then followed by more learning and Maariv.
Optional Lunch Learning contin-ued throughout the week with Rabbi
Yossi Ziskind discussing Halacha on Monday; Rabbi Boiangiu’s Tuesday Sefer Ha-Chinuch shiur; Rabbi Jonathan Muskat’s Parsha shiur on Wednesdays; and Rabbi Haar’s Mishnayot shiur rounding out the week on Thursday.
The kick-off week concluded Monday night with more night learning, snacks, Carlos and Gabby’s and divrei Torah when the Bais Medrash was once again booming with the sounds of young men eager to grow. Gemara Iyun Rebbe Rabbi Aryeh Young was seen learning with his talimidim, and Bais Medrash and Rambam Adult Learning Rebbe Rabbi Yitzy Werblowsky delivered an informative and interesting shiur/Q&A session on “Sounding Off: A Note on Halacha and Music.”
The Rambam Mesivta Masmidim program highlights the school values of learning Torah, a sense of commu-nity and chevra and kesher with the Rebbeim and it should only continue its auspicious beginning.
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Young Israel of Oceanside Finally Restored on the Heels of Rosh HashanaBy Miriam Baum Benkoe
It’s been a grueling ten months since the Young Israel of Oceanside was hit hard by Storm Sandy. The devastation, including the ruin of three sifrei Torah, basically took out most of the building with the exception of the Beit Midrash, located on the second floor. The mem-bers of the congregation (male and fe-male) have been literally squeezing into the minimal space of the Beit Midrash every Shabbos and Yom Tov in order
to daven as a kehilla. Some members began to daven in the hashkama min-yan in lieu of sitting in cramped quar-ters during the regular minyan. Many women just refrained from attending on Shabbos, because there simply weren’t enough seats to accommodate them in the Ezrat Nashim.
Not having our ballroom and lower level rooms available to us has also impeded the annual programs of
the Youth Department, Sisterhood and General Organization of YIO. We were grateful to the Young Israel of West Hempstead for allowing us to use their meeting room for our Annual Sisterhood Paid Up Membership Event. Other ac-tivities took place in private homes, too. As my father, a”h, used to say, “Mir gefund zich an eitzah,” we become re-sourceful and make do.
B”H the main sanctuary, even with last minute needed work, has been readied for use in time for Yamim No-araim. The supervision and ongoing day-to-day operations of repair was a monumental task. The membership of YIO is greatly indebted to two out-standing individuals in our community who have been practically living at the shul in order to oversee this huge proj-ect. These men are Dave Welner, former president and member of the Board of Trustees, and Barry Boshnack, house chairman. Dave is also the man with the drive at the helm of the initiative to get young families to move to Oceanside
and help our community grow. There were other people in the décor process and in selecting the materials for the re-construction. The results are breathtak-ing. Our shul now is just too beautiful for words. There are new porcelain and ceramic tiles throughout the corridors, elegant wood trim and new bookcases tastefully stained, a new, sleek designed mechitzah, a modern new washing stand, hand painted murals in the lower level, and also along the circular skylight over the shulchan, newly refinished pews with attached “shtender” type shelves on which to place your siddur, machzor and chumash, new sconce lighting, and refinished bathrooms, including a fami-ly bathroom. On the outside of the build-ing, there is a new covered patio area for strollers, wheelchairs and carriages. I popped in to take a few pictures of our “wonderland.” In addition, our mikveh was also remodeled and is already open. B”H, it seems like a miracle happened in Oceanside.
Rambam High School students volunteer their time to decorate the sukkah of OHEL Bais Ezra’s Lawrence residence
Shalhevet and Shulamith Long Island students volunteer their time to decorate the suk-kah of OHEL Bais Ezra’s Woodmere residence!
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After weeks of anticipation, the Far Rockaway/Lawrence weekly Likras Shabbos groups are set to re-sume on Erev Shabbos Parshas No-ach, October 4, 2013. Likras Shab-bos is a nationwide program that encourages boys to learn hilchos Shabbos between Succos and Shavuos. After learning from the illustrated seforim, Me’orei Hilchos Shabbos, participants enjoy fresh potato kugel and soda. A raffle for a new sefer is held every week.
There are several groups around the neighborhood where boys from grades 4-8 will be gathering to learn Mileches Dosh. In the Beis Medrash Koton in Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv boys grades 4-8 meet 40 minutes before candle lighting and are taught by Rabbi Benyam-in Jacobi. Two more groups begin one hour before candle lighting in both of the Ezros Nashim in Yeshi-va of Far Rockaway. One group is for boys in grades 4-5 and is taught by Rabbi Yoni Posnick. The other is for 6-8 graders and is taught by Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Knobel.
Due to much demand, we are pleased to announce that an addi-tional group has been formed spe-cifically for mesivta bochurim who are interested in learning hilchos Shabbos on a higher level. They will be meeting in the Otzer Hase-forim of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and will be taught by Rabbi Pin-chas Birnhack from the Sefer Klo-lim B’Hilchos. The bochurim will have an opportunity to be tested on their knowledge of the halachos at
the end of the year with the possi-bility of earning between $50- $150 based on their grades.
The start of the new season comes on the heels of the highly successful siyum which was held before Rosh Hashana. The re-nowned Rebbee Hill of Lakewood kept the audience of over 100 boys spellbound as he shared a meaning-ful story with them. The partici-pants enjoyed the delicious food of Silver Creek caterers as they were praised and inspired by Roshei Yeshiva and rabbonim from the Far Rockaway/Five Towns area, including Rabbi Yaakov Bender, Rabbi Binyomin Forst, Rabbi Ey-tan Feiner, and Rabbi Spiegel.
Likras Shabbos learning has been in Far Rockaway/Five Towns for three years. It has grown from one group of 15 boys in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway to multiple groups around the community attracting almost 130 boys. We are excited for and anticipating more growth this year. Now is a great time to join.
If you have any questions re-garding the schedule for Likras Shabbos this season or if you would like to sponsor or dedicate a week of Likras Shabbos, please contact Rabbi Ephraim Perlstein at (646) 346-0269.
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Rabbi Ephraim Perlstein, Rabbi Yoni Posnick, and Shmuel Lesser (dedicated sponsor) at the siyum
Rabbi Yaakov Bender and Rabbi Binyomin Forst at the siyum
Rabbi Bender addressing the boys and Dais at the siyum
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“And Hashem said to Noach, “The end of all flesh has come before me since the land is filled with robbery through them, and I will now destroy the land.” – Bereishis 6:13
In this posuk, Hashem appears to Noach, telling him that the world has turned to evil and He will now destroy all of life. Noach, his family, and the animals that remained pure will be the core of a new world. The reason for this destruction is stealing: “since the land is filled with robbery.”
Rashi is troubled that thievery is being treated as the pivotal point of the world’s existence. There are many sins that are worse. Rashi seems to an-swer this by saying that stealing was the crime that sealed their fate. Grant-ed they were involved in other iniqui-ties, but this was the one that actually demanded justice.
This Rashi is difficult to under-stand, as we know that stealing is not one of the most severe sins. There are three cardinal sins that a Jew is obli-gated to give up his life not to commit: idol worship, adultery, and murder. While stealing is certainly a serious crime, it isn’t amongst these. In fact, it isn’t even in their league. If so, why would this be the reason that spelled the doom of that generation?
And even more to the point, in a previous posuk, Rashi told us that the main crimes then were idol worship and illicit relations. The Torah tells us “all flesh was corrupted.” Rashi explains that (because of man’s im-morality) “even the animals changed their ways and were mating outside of their own species.” It is clear that these more serious sins were rampant. How then can we understand Rashi’s statement that stealing was the crime that caused their destruction?
This question can best be answered with a mashal.
Different Scales of Measure
Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries on the planet; the average working man there earns about 180 dollars a year. Imagine that I walk into a Savings and Loan Company in
the United States and say, “I am look-ing to take out a mortgage on a new home.”
The loan officer will ask me, “What is your income? What assets do you have?”
I respond, “My friend, no need to worry. Why, I earn as much as ten men
in Bangladesh. In fact, I don’t like to brag, but actually, I earn as much as hundred men there!”
Needless to say, I wouldn’t secure a loan. Because earning 1,800 dollars a year or even 18,000 dollars a year in our economy is below poverty level.
This is an example of different scales of measure. In a third world country where much of the population is starving, earning your daily bread and water might qualify you as well off, whereas in a more affluent world, it would be quite poor. More than ob-jective wealth being the determinant of your status, it is the standard against which you are being measured. When the bar is raised, it becomes much more difficult to be considered accept-able.
So too, in the system of Hashem’s judgment, there are different stan-dards of measure. There is din – strict judgment – and there is rachamim – the mercy system. Strict din demands perfection. There is no room for short-comings and no place for excuses; you are responsible. You did an act that brought about a result, so you are accountable – utterly, completely and totally. No mitigating factors, no extenuating circumstances, you are guilty as charged.
Rachamim is very different. This system introduces understanding: “there were compelling factors.” “It was a difficult situation.” “There are
few people in this generation who would have done much better…”
In the Heavenly system of judg-ment, there is a balance between ra-chamim and din. At one point, the bal-ance may be 60% rachamim, 40% din. At another point, it might be 80/20. If strict din would be in place, no mortal
could stand. Even the Avos, the great-est humans who ever lived, would not have passed.
Certain times and actions change the balance between rachamim and din. Much of our davening focuses on asking HASHEM to judge us more favorably, to introduce mercy into the deliberation. On the flip side, there are certain actions that strengthen the middah of din, moving the balance over to more strict judgment.
This seems to be the answer to Rashi. It isn’t that stealing is a more severe crime than immorality — it is less severe. However, there is an el-ement to stealing that awakens din. Stealing from a person demonstrates a total disregard of his rights — it is as if he isn’t a person. I can take away his property, even his very sustenance. Chazal tell us, “As a person acts to-wards others, Hashem acts towards him.” Because robbery is an abroga-tion of a person’s rights, it causes a change in the way that Hashem judg-es. It is as if Hashem says, “If you act that way towards others, then I will act accordingly to you.” Therefore, stealing changes the way that Hashem judges because it causes the middah of din to react more strongly.
The other sins that the generation were involved in had much more seri-ous consequences, but they didn’t in-clude a lack of respect for others and therefore didn’t carry this element of
changing the system of judgment. It was stealing alone that sealed their fate because it changed the system of judgment.
Living in the 21st CenturyThis concept is especially appli-
cable in our times. Never before in the history of humanity has so much wealth been accessible to so many. Kings of yesteryear could not envision or imagine the luxuries that the com-mon man today takes for granted. Yet it seems to be more difficult than ever to earn a living. The great test of life is not earning a living; but how you earn your living. Are you honest? Are you scrupulous? Do you have stan-dards and immutable rules?
While the primary motivation for honesty in business is that it is the right way to act, this Chazal demon-strates to us another reason: it changes the way that Hashem acts towards us. It would be difficult to imagine the man who can say to Hashem, “I am entitled to earn a living! Based on my calculations of what You have given me and what I have done for You, You owe me.” Therefore, it is ill-advised for a person to enter into “calculations with Hashem,” demanding his needs. Far wiser is the man who recognizes that we exist because of mercy. Before Hashem creates us, we do nothing to deserve being created, and after Hash-em creates us, we aren’t any different. We depend upon Hashem’s mercy.
If we wish to gain favor in Hash-em’s eyes, then we need to utilize the systems that He has created. By re-specting other people and being scru-pulously honest in our business deal-ings, we make it far more likely for Him to judge us with mercy and take care of us, His beloved people.
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Answer to riddle: 8—four children—two boys and two girls; their mother and father; and one set of grandparents.
moshe was at his golf club and his car was in the shop being detailed. he sheepishly asked his nemesis yankel for a ride home.
“sure,” says yankel, “i’ll give you a lift in my brand new rolls royce, parked right in the front.”
as they’re driving along, moshe says, “yankel, what’s that thing on the dashboard ticking all the time?”
“That’s my digital clock.” a few minutes later, moshe asks, “and what’s that thing on the
dashboard moving up and down?” “That’s my tachometer,” says yankel. Then a few minutes after that, moshe starts to ask, “But what’s
that....” “hold on a minute, moshe,” says yankel, “i can see you’ve never
been in a rolls royce before.” moshe responds, “never in the front seat.”
a family photo has one grand-father, one grandmother; two fa-thers, two mothers; six children, four grandchildren; two broth-ers, two sisters; three sons, three daughters; one father-in-law, one mother-in-law, and one daugh-ter-in-law.
what is the least number of people the photo can have?
Answer below
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• The first starbucks sold 8oz. cups of coffee. over the years, they have dropped the 8oz. size and have added 12oz., 16oz., 24oz. and 30oz.
• a grande coffee (320 milligrams of caffeine) has four times the amount of caffeine than red Bull.
• starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year, which is enough to fill 155 olympic sized swimming pools.
• over a course of one year, starbucks uses 2.3 billion paper cups.
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in 2010, starbucks had 137,000 employees—that is twice the population of greenland.
• statistically, since 1987, starbucks has added two stores per day.
• There are 87,000 different drink combinations available at starbucks.
• santa fe springs, california, wins the prize for the most stores within a 25-mile radius. They have 560 starbucks!!
• The first owners of starbucks almost named the company after the boat in the book moby dick – pequod.
• starbucks spends more than $300 million on healthcare for its employees, which is more than what they spend on coffee beans.
• The largest size drink at starbucks is a trenta, which holds 916 milliliters. The
average stomach can only hold 900 milliliters.
• The average starbucks customer visits six times per month and the extreme starbucks customer visits sixteen times per month.
• in 1999, starbucks opened the first store in Beijing, china. since then, there are 376 stores in china. They are projected to have 1,000 starbuck stores by 2015.
• starbucks has a “10 minute rule” which requires stores to open 10 minutes before the posted opening time and to close 10 minutes after the posted closing time.
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WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE TRIVIA1. As one of America’s most iconic food joints, you’d think that Dunkin’ Donuts was started by one of the founding fathers, but it wasn’t. Who is the founder of Dunkin’?
a. an irishman named duncan o’neilb. a christian named duncan smithc. an italian named giovanni gallod. a nice jewish boy from massachusetts,
the son of european immigrants, named wil-liam rosenberg
2. Kopi Luwak is the world’s most expensive coffee (up to $600 per pound). How is it made?
a. it is made from coffee beans that are eaten and then excreted by a sumatran wild cat
b. The beans are cut and dried for 6 months in the sun
c. it is made from extremely bold beans that are grown in the african tribal region of kopi. control of the bean fields is one of the major points of contention in the tribal con-flicts. as such, they are rare and very expen-sive.
d. its coffee beans go through a three step process where they are chopped up and replanted twice before being used to make coffee.
3. Which of the following is the only commodity that is globally traded more than coffee?
a. goldb. oilc. steeld. wheat
4. Which country drinks the most coffee per capita?
a. israel b. usac. italyd. englande. finlandf. Brazil
5. Why was the founder of Keurig once hospitalized?
a. while working on an early prototype of the machine, he was testing out heating tubes and sustained severe burns.
b. she was having her triplets delivered. (The second year after she started the com-pany.)
c. he drank too much coffee.d. he was skydiving and his parachute
didn’t inflate (but his instructor’s did and he was able to evade serious injury).
6. All of the coffee in the world is grown in the area between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. What is this area known as?
a. java lineb. Bean Beltc. coffee circled. roast circle
7. A single cup of coffee with nothing else in it (i.e. sugar, milk, etc.) contains approximately how many calories?
a. 0b. 20c. 35d. 70
8. How did the coffee drink called “cappuccino” get its name?
a. it was made up by a goofy employee at starbucks who until this day claims, “uh, dude, the name just came to me in a dream...bro.”
b. “cap” means light in italian and “puc-cino” means brown. since the drink is light brown it is called cappuccino.
c. cappuccino means foam in italian and the drink is very foamy.
d. The drink got its name because of its resemblance to the brown hoods worn by capuchin monks
Answers:1. d-due to poverty, william rosenberg
was forced to leave school by eighth grade to help support his family that had lost their store in the great depression. he worked as a salesman for various food-related businesses. after world war ii, he started a company that delivered meals and coffee to factory work-ers on the outskirts of Boston, massachu-setts. within a short time, he had 200 cater-ing trucks, 25 in-plant outlets and a vending operation. noticing that forty percent of his revenues came from coffee and doughnuts, he started a retail shop that specialized in those products, opening his first coffee and doughnut shop, the “open kettle” on memo-
rial day in 1948, later renaming “dunkin’ do-nuts.” in 1955, upon opening his sixth shop, he decided on the concept of franchising his business as a means of distribution and ex-pansion.
2. a-The the process is said to improve coffee through two mechanisms: selection and digestion. selection occurs because the cats choose to eat coffee berries containing
better beans. once the beans are eaten, fermentation occurs in the cat’s di-
gestive tract. 3. B-oil is the only global
commodity which is traded more than coffee.
4. e- The average finn drinks 12 kilograms of cof-fee per year. americans
consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, or equiva-
lent to 146 billion cups of cof-fee per year; making the united
states the leading consumer of coffee in the world. But we are not the per capita leader. (i guess we can’t always be #1 in ev-erything.)
5. c- according to the Boston globe, one day in the spring of 1995, keurig co-founder john sylvan checked into Boston’s Beth israel hospital with heart attack symptoms. after numerous tests, doctors determined that he wasn’t having a heart attack and did not have a brain injury. eventually, he was diagnosed with caffeine poisoning. at the time, he was drinking approximately 30 or 40 cups of cof-fee a day.
6. B- Brazil is the largest producer of cof-fee.
7. a8. d-cappuccino means “small hood” in
italian. The coffee beverage has its name be-cause it resembles the color of the hooded robes worn by monks and nuns of the capu-chin order.
Wisdom key7-8 correct: you are good. you should
treat yourself to some good raw kopi luwak coffee!
4-6 correct: you are a “grande.” (Before you get excited, it doesn’t mean you are amazing and grand. in starbucks parlance it means you are in the middle.)
0-3 correct: you are totally decaf, dude.
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The nature of my articles is that I take note of things I observe or that happen to me and learn a
lesson from them. I often say that we all have these moments of insight and these quasi-subliminal messages from Hashem; we just don’t home in on them as much as we might.
Well, this time, I’m writing about something that didn’t happen to me, but to someone else. I was visiting a shul and a young speaker related an unusual experience. “Daniel”* said he was sit-ting at a restaurant with his friends when a fellow wandered in off the street play-ing a harmonica and dancing a little jig. The unusual fellow came over to their table playing a tune on his harmonica and dancing, then said, “The secret to happiness is to be happy with what you have, not with what you want.” Then he turned and left the restaurant without going to any other tables.
The young men were quite taken aback, but decided that since he came to them and told them this insight, there must be special meaning in it for them and they should try to incorporate it in their lives. At that point, the youthful speaker proceeded with the rest of his speech and did not refer back to the story nor tie it in.
At that point, I decided that though the story hap-pened to him, it had been recounted to me so that I might reflect upon it. It was indeed unusual for a musician to come in off the street, approach only a single table, and then offer a piece of wisdom without asking for anything in return or being thrown out on his musical ear by the restaurant owner.
While I won’t go quite as far as to say this was Eliyahu HaNavi coming to deliver this morsel of truth, I’m sure that the fellow was sent by G-d to teach them, and in turn, all of us.
Yes, we all know that we are to be happy with what we have. After all, “Who is wealthy? He who is happy with his lot.” But what the man was saying was that this was not just a prop-er ideal to strive for, but a tool for our selfish sides that wish to be happy. If I
want to enjoy life, the trick is to look at what I have at the moment and be happy about it. Not because I am so spiritual and lofty that I want nothing else, but precisely because I want the pleasure of being happy. If I want that, the way to do it is to concentrate on what I have, which will make me happy, as opposed to what I do NOT have, which will make me sad.
As I was thinking about this piece, I was reminded of a story that took place during Hurricane Sandy. A friend of mine was helping pump water out of people’s homes in the Five Towns and people from Monsey sent basic neces-sities with him. People sent things like socks, scarves, hats, and so on. One fellow, thinking of the boredom these
children must be enduring and the anguish their parents must be e x p e r i e n c i n g which was ex-acerbated by the boredom, sent along some pads of paper and boxes of cray-ons. My friend
Avi said that when he saw some kids who truly had nothing, he wanted to do something for them and he remembered the bags he had. He reached in and pulled out the paper and crayons and gave it to these children who had lost so much. The joy on their excited faces was boundless and he was taken aback by how happy these simple things made those kids.
Just a week earlier, these kids might have been playing some fancy electron-ic game, using an expensive device that made crayons and paper seem obso-lete. Yet, when this was all they had, it brightened their day because they were able to concentrate on what they had, not what they didn’t.
I noted that in the story, the man was playing a harmonica. This was signifi-cant to me and I’ll tell you why, as I told
Daniel when I got permission to make his story my own.
The harmonica is carefully manu-factured to produce melodious notes both when you blow into it, like most instruments, and when you inhale and suck air into it. It doesn’t make a sour note when the air is going the “wrong” direction. On the contrary, an integral part of playing harmonica is knowing how to hit those notes that can only be made when you play the thing “back-wards.”
In life, things don’t always seem to go our way. Sometimes we’re blown away by the good we have, and some-
times we feel like the life is being sucked out of us. The trick to happi-ness, as this musician said, is to be able to find the harmony in all those events, knowing that the world is made specifi-cally to create a fabulous symphony of which we’re all a part, and recognizing that both the high notes and the low notes are necessary parts of the score.
Jonathan Gewirtz is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world. He also operates Jew-ishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion.
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I remember when my father would see an old door laying in an empty lot. He would always drag it home.
It didn’t matter the color or the size. We would put it down in the cellar and save it to make the sukkah. They certainly were colorful. Not so matched in height either, but who cared. During the year, Papa would paint them and fit them into each other. He could do anything! And then we would decorate the sukkah with paper “kyten,” little pieces of colored papers, chained one through the other to make a long, swaying, colorful deco-ration. My brother would take eggs, tap two holes in them at either end and then blow out the runny insides. After-wards, he’d in-sert a fan-like paper sticking through each end, to look like wings and create flying little white doves all around the suk-kah.
How many times it rained and the color ran off the paper onto the beautiful white tablecloth! That tablecloth would retain the smell of Clorox until the next Succos, tinged with the scent of stuffed cabbage and the gefilte fish.
I remember my brother hoisting down the hot soup in a shopping bag with a rope from the window upstairs to the sukkah below. I ran back and forth as the soup swayed in the air, trying to grab hold of that hot pot. We didn’t have bamboo sticks or roll out schach. Our roof was fresh cut stalks. These were full of feathery leaves that blew into the soup as we ate it.
The assortment of doors that held the sukkah together shook and rocked, the “kyten” swerved around. The bird-like eggs and the single bulb all created the ambiance. From soup to nuts every-thing was homemade.
Today you can buy the sukkah, the trim, the food, the desserts, the bamboo roof—everything ready-made.
Well, not this year! This year we were more reminiscent of the past.
When we went to get out the box-es of decorations for the sukkah, they were buried in the bottom of all the boxes in the garage. Where else would
it be when you need something?! Of course, at the bottom of something. But did it have to be at the bottom of every-thing?! Oh well, we had to get to it! So I found the new broiler I’ve been look-ing for and the folding beach chair—of course that I looked for all summer! And I found the afikomen presents my grandchildren are still asking for and the paint and wallpaper I needed for the den. I found numerous books and stuff that I replaced already, and voila, I reached the beautiful, colorful, excit-ing, damp, torn, soggy boxes of sukkah decorations!
I couldn’t believe it was ruined and crushed. The authentic-looking plastic
fruit and the shiny magnifi-cent lighting fixtures were all ruined!
“Kids, start coloring, cut-ting, trimming, sewing, past-ing—we have to make all the decorations all over again!” I shouted.
This year because of Hurricane Sandy and the devastation it brought to our garage, our sukkah decorations were “homemade.” The kids were “blowing eggs.” They were coloring, cutting, composing and creating that “sukkalah a clayna,” small, intimate sukkah of yester year. Though the suk-kah we have is bright and shiny, large and impressive, when everything’s all finished, these homemade decorations surely helped connect us to the sukkahs of my childhood and our roots.
There was a song my mother sang to us about a small sukkalah on a windy night. A little girl sits with her zaidy. Her head buried in his chest, weeping into his vest. “Oh, Zaidy, the sukkah is going to blow away,” she cries, “then we won’t have Succos anymore.” “Foolish girl,” he says, “this sukkah has been standing for 2,000 years. It will never falter. It will be here next year again and the years after and after.” A beau-tiful tune accompanies these words. We sat, my brothers, my children, their children, and all those who were in our sukkah, with tears in our eyes.
To this day my grandchildren sing this song. May it go on forever.
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O n Tuesday, October 1, Americans woke up to their favorite morning TV hosts shouting about a government shutdown. Before Tuesday, rumblings about the shutdown were heard across the nation but no one believed that
it would really take place. Hey, Toto, we’re not in Greece anymore, right? Wrong. On Tuesday we were told that both the Republican and Democrat parties could not agree to terms and that nonessential government services and offices would be sus-pended and closed until further notice.
So what exactly does it all mean? How does a government, especially of a first-world country, just “shutdown”? What does it mean for the average American? How did we come to this? And why can’t those Republicans and Democrats just find a way to all get along?
Shutdowns: Nothing NewBelieve it or not, this is not the first time that our government has (almost)
ground to a halt. There have been 17 shutdowns since 1976. The longest shutdown occurred in 1995-1996 and lasted for 21 days when Bill Clinton fought with Repub-licans over budgetary matters. In the 1970s there were six shutdowns—all lasting longer than eight days—and in 1982, there was a one-day shutdown when Congress
couldn’t agree on funding the Nicaraguan Contras.
Why does this keep on happening? The short an-swer is that Congress some-times has trouble agreeing with itself, especially when it comes to funding. Ev-ery year, there are parts of the federal government that need to be funded in order to operate. If Congress can’t agree on how to fund them, they have to shut down.
Each year, the House and Senate are supposed to agree on 12 appropriations bills to fund federal agen-cies and set spending priori-ties. Unfortunately, due to
partisan bickering and priorities, it has become harder and harder to pass these bills. In recent years, Congress has resorted to stopgap budgets to keep the government funded, also known as “continuing resolutions.” The last one passed on March 28, 2013 and ended on Monday, September 30, 2013.
The Beast in the RoomWhen the sun rose in the east on Tuesday, October 1, the Democrat-controlled
Senate and the Republican-controlled House were still not able to come to terms to what a new stopgap should look like. The standard issues were present: What should be funded? Where should cuts be made? Why is this program necessary? Too much spending helps our economy...too much spending hurts our economy, etc.
But on the morning of October1, it wasn’t just about funding federal agencies. For two years, both Republicans and Democrats had the date of October 1 circled on their calendars: it is was the date that the essential provisions of Obamacare were to take effect.
Add Obamacare to the ever-present toxic concoction of partisan budgetary battles and it’s no wonder that the result was a government shutdown. Obamacare was the shadow lurking in the corner and was essentially the reason why both sides couldn’t come together.
So focused are they on Obamacare that Republicans were willing to pass a bud-get to fund all portions of the federal government except Obamacare. Over the weekend, they did just that. They passed a funding bill that would delay Obamacare for one year and would fund the rest of the federal government. However, the Sen-ate rejected the measure. After a few back-and-forths, by 1am on Tuesday, both sides threw in the towel and a government shutdown was declared.
What is Shutting Down?When the government shuts down it doesn’t exactly mean that all things grind
to a halt. There are laws and regulations that separate federal workers as “essential” and “nonessential.” Once a government shutdown is implemented, essential work-ers are expected to stay on the job (although they won’t be getting paid until the shutdown gets lifted) and the nonessential workers are sent home after a half day of work, preparing for the closure.
Obviously, many government functions are important for ensuring the safety of Americans. The U.S. military, embassies, border patrol and federal prisons are all kept open. Air traffic control stays open as well, as do offices involved in law enforcement and emergency and disaster assistance. Agencies involved in benefits
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that are written into permanent law (such as Social Security and veterans’ benefits) stay open. For now, unemployment benefits and food stamps will continue to oper-ate as will the postal service and Federal Reserve. Members of Congress will con-tinue to see their paychecks, although their staffers will be divided into nonessential and essential workers.
Other agencies, though, are affected. The Justice Department will suspend many civil cases. The National Park Services closed more than 400 national parks and museums, including Yosemite, Alcatraz and the Statue of Liberty. Most pass-port agencies will be open, although some activities may possibly be interrupted. The Department of Agriculture will cut off support for WIC (Women, Infants and Children program). Most states have the funds to continue funding the program, although funds may run out at the end of October.
It’s interesting to note the District of Columbia is the only city barred from spending funds during a government shutdown, save for select services such as the police, EMS and firefighter units. During the shutdown in 1995-1996, trash collec-tion and street sweeping came to a halt in the nation’s capital. But this time around, Mayor Vincent Gray has vowed to label all city services “essential,” therebypassing the law.
In all, the government estimates that roughly 800,000 federal workers were sent home during the shutdown. Approximately, 1.3 million “essential” federal work-ers, 1.4 million active-duty military members, 500,000 postal workers and other employees are still on the job.
Who Will Blink FirstIt is impossible to say how long the shutdown will last and how it will end. But
in a town in which politics reigns supreme, it is likely that the party that “blinks first” will lose. It is essentially a game of “chicken.”
President Obama has taken a hard line. In an interview with National Public Ra-dio in the hours before the shutdown took effect, President Obama said, “I shouldn’t have to offer anything.” He further declared: “Let’s be clear, we’re not going to delay the Affordable Care Act.” The president’s strategy appears to be to try to get public opinion on his side. To that end, he has implicitly sought to pin the shutdown
on the Tea Party. “Let me be more specific. One faction of one party in one house of Congress in one branch of government shut down ma-jor parts of the government all because they didn’t like one law,” he said in a Rose Garden address shortly after the shutdown began.
Some predicted that the shutdown would have a short and quick demise. This, they said, depended on House Speaker John Boehner. If he intended to force the shutdown to prove
to Tea Party conservatives that he stands by them in the Obamacare dispute, then his mission is now accomplished, and he can come to the table ready to end the shutdown.
But as of midday Tuesday, many saw that a quick end to the shutdown was improb-able. The Democrat-con-trolled Senate rejected the House demand for a conference committee to discuss terms of contin-ued government funding. In response, prospective House conferees held a photo-op that consisted of them sitting across from some empty chairs. Obama, the adult in the sandbox, chided, “That’s not how adults operate” during his midday Rose Garden appearance.
Many are now predicting that the shutdown will last at least week and have pointed at the last government shutdown which began with a five-day federal work interruption in November 1995 and then followed with a shutdown from December 16, 1995 to January 6, 1996. “I’m projecting that the shutdown will last at least a week because it will take that long for the impact of the shutdown to start to be felt and, therefore, to make ending it more politically acceptable,” Stan Collender, a veteran federal budget expert, wrote on his blog. People won’t be frustrated until next Monday, when reality will hit and they’ll realize that some of their paychecks won’t be coming and their trips to national parks will be curtailed. “This is the point at which there will start to be real pressure on members of Congress as the impact of the shutdown finally hits home for many people and the prospect of lost wages and less business becomes a reality,” he concluded.
In fact, William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, urged House Republi-cans to maintain their stance for at least a week or possibly until October 17 when Congress will have to raise the debt ceiling again. He said that in a political game of blackjack, House Republicans “have a hand they could easily make worse by panicking, and which could be good enough for a win or draw if they keep calm.” Let members go home to their districts for a few days, he suggested, so they can hear what their constituents are saying. Certainly, a standoff on the debt ceiling will have more of a damaging effect on the economy than a government shutdown. “It would be far more dangerous than a government shutdown, as bad as a shutdown is,” said Obama.
Time Will TellThe last government shutdown lasted for 21 days. During that time, President
Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich were in daily contact for more than a month, and both those politicians loved talking policy, even though they disagreed most of the time. This time around, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner didn’t speak for the ten days leading up to the shutdown. On Monday, Obama did call Boehner and other congressional leaders—but Boehner said the president clearly wanted to highlight that he was unwilling to negotiate. “The ideo-logical clash between House Republicans and the president is very deep,” William Galston, who was a White House adviser to Clinton during the shutdown, noted.
So when will this government shutdown finally end and what impact will it have on our economy and nation? Time will only tell which side will blink first to end the fighting between the parties and start the wheels of our government turning again.
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Notable Quotes
“Say What?”
Even if the government shuts down, Americans don’t care. The last time Americans cared about anything was when they shut down the Twinkie factory. - David Letterman
If the government does shut down, nonessential White House employees will be sent home without pay — so more bad news for Joe Biden. - Jay Leno
Uh, yes, ma’am, you’re probably not going to believe this, but I’m a prisoner in a van, and I’m here with a couple of these other cats. A couple of the guys that were in the van jacked the van...We’re in Oklahoma somewhere. I don’t know because we’re not on a road and I’m not from here...I just don’t want to get shot by no cops or nothing. - Portion of 911 call made by prisoner Joshua Silverman when a prisoner transport van he was in was left unattended by guards and driven away by one of the prisoners. (The prisoners broke a partition in the van and gained access to the front section and drove away.)
The permanent political class is handwringing and howling that if there’s a government shutdown the media will blame Republicans for it. Here’s a little newsflash, GOP establishment: Whenever anything bad happens, the media blames Republicans for it. That’s not an excuse to roll over and play dead. It’s a call to follow the advice I give my daughters: Woman up, stand your ground, and fight like a girl!- Sara Palin
Since 1976 there have been 17 government shutdowns. The longest was during the four years that Jimmy Carter was president. - Jay Leno
This whole government shutdown thing comes down to who will blink first. Well, we know it won’t be Nancy Pelosi. We know that for sure because she hasn’t blinked since the last shutdown. - Jay Leno
Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz gave a 21-hour speech on the floor of the Senate. During his protest, Cruz actually read from the book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. Democrats were like, “When will this end?” But then Chris Christie said, “When do we get those eggs and ham?”- Jimmy Fallon
In his effort to try to stop Obamacare, Texas Senator Ted Cruz spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes nonstop. That’s impressive, but still eight hours short of the record held when somebody asked Joe Biden, “Hey, what’s new?”- Jay Leno
The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, “If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.” - David Letterman
The post office wants a three-cent increase to 49 cents. They say fewer and fewer people are using the post office and they’re losing money. See, that’s government thinking. Only the government would think, “Hey, I know how to attract more customers. Let’s raise the price.”- Jay Leno
Now, I know Rouhani doesn’t sound like Ahmadinejad, but when it comes to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the only difference between them is this: Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf’s clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A wolf who thinks he can pull the wool over the eyes of the international community.- Prime Minister Netanyahu addressing the U.N. General Assembly
Rouhani thinks he can have his yellowcake and eat it, too.- Ibid.
President Obama is now making his case for raising the debt limit. He said raising the debt limit does not increase debt. You know, like raising the speed limit does not increase speed.- Jay Leno
The shutdown will affect some national parks and museums. They’re going to close the Smithsonian. So if you have tickets, forget it. You’re not getting in. They’re going to close the National Air & Space Museum. They’re closing the Hillary Clinton Pantsuit Museum. - David Letterman
O.J. Simpson has been arrested in prison. He was caught stealing cookies from the prison cafeteria. Do you get the feeling that O.J.’s not even trying anymore? But O.J. is vowing to find the real cookie thief. - David Letterman
That’s right, O.J. was caught stealing cookies from the prison cafeteria. Unfortunately, officials blew the case when they had him stick his hand in the cookie jar and it wouldn’t fit.- Jimmy Fallon O.J. Simpson has been caught stealing cookies from the prison cafeteria. Just when you think you know a guy, huh? - Jay Leno
I wonder what President Obama will do when he retires. I bet it will involve giving back somehow. He’ll make sure those in the developing world have the most important things they need to succeed — like a fake Hawaiian birth certificate.- Craig Ferguson
Today’s the annual grand opening of the U.N... At every U.N. session there’s a special promotion. Tomorrow it’s Angela Merkel bobblehead day.- Dave Letterman
Home Depot just announced that that it will cut health insurance for its part-time workers because of Obamacare. Home Depot’s CEO said he had a hard time breaking the news to employees. That’s because it took him three hours to find one.- Jimmy Fallon
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I hope you quit smoking. I haven’t had a cigarette probably in six years. That’s because I’m scared of my wife.- President Obama to U.N. Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai at the U.N. General Assembly in New York
Yes, he has...It’s been almost a year.- First Lady Michelle Obama on February 8, 2011, when asked by a reporter if it is true that her husband quit smoking
I wasn’t really having a good time playing football. It wasn’t fun for me. It wasn’t a blast for me. Making that much money — that was fun. But money is still a material thing. You can always make money.- Former Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Christian Ballard, 24, explaining why he quit the NFL
The U.N. General Assembly is here in New York City. Today, President Obama gave a big speech on the Middle East. The leaders from the Middle East said, “You have touched our hearts, and from now on we shall have peace.” And Obama said, “Really?” and they said, “No, but the look on your face was priceless.”- Jimmy Fallon
It looks like the federal government could be shutting down. The legal definition of a government shutdown is when Congress continues not to work, but they do it from home. - Jay Leno
A show on plants on the Discovery Channel said that plants have a way of signaling danger to each other. When there’s danger, the plant releases a gas that other plants can sense. Well, here is my question. What good is a plant warning another plant about danger? What’s the other plant supposed to do, run? - Jay Leno
Scientists here in California have discovered a rare species of legless lizards. Now don’t confuse that with spineless snakes; those are called congressmen. That’s totally different. - Jay Leno
I had my first encounter with the IRS this year, unsurprisingly after the Prayer Breakfast.- Dr. Ben Carson who made headlines for eviscerating Obamacare at last year’s Prayer Breakfast in the presence of President Obama
Exchange between a caller and liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller after the government shutdown began
CALLER: I don’t appreciate them [the GOP] holding my children hostage. I don’t appreciate them holding myself hostage.
MILLER: May I correct you? They are not holding your children hostage; they are trying to blow your children up. There is a difference.
CALLER: What’s that?
MILLER: They are suicide bombers they are no longer hostage takers. They are no longer just regular terrorists; they are suicide bombers.
Starbucks announced they don’t want customers bringing guns into their stores. Meanwhile, Dunkin’ Donuts said there is nothing you can bring in here that’s more dangerous than what we serve. - Conan O’Brien
We have a rule at home that they [my daughters] get to pick the books. For whatever reason, they don’t pick Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham all that often. I don’t get to read it that often because I tell them, “Go pick the books you want to read,” and I read to them. But since tonight, girls, you aren’t here, you don’t get to pick the book, so I got to pick Green Eggs and Ham. I love this story, so I am going to read it to you. “Sam I Am. That Sam-I-am! That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am! Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am...”- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during his 21 hour speech on the Senate floor, taking a break from talking about Obamacare to read a bedtime story to his daughters (who were watching on TV)
Kobe Bryant because he steals all of my moves.- Michael Jordan, when asked in an interview by Ahmad Rashad which current NBA player would be able to beat him in a one-on-one matchup
Russian President Vladimir Putin just revealed he may run for a fourth term in 2018. In fact, he already came up with a few campaign posters. One says, “I will put middle-class families first — on a bus to Siberia.”- Jimmy Fallon
Pundits say President Obama is starting to lose support from his own party. To give you an idea how bad it’s gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter. - Jay Leno
Global warming is “unequivocal,” and since the 1950s it’s “extremely likely” that human activities have been the dominant cause of the temperature rise.- From a recently released report by the U.N.’s International Panel for Climate Change
I just broke down in boarding area at SFO while on phone with my wife. I’ve never cried because of a science report before.- Tweet by meteorologist Eric Holthaus in response to the U.N. Climate Change report
The cupboard is bare...There’s no cuts to make.- Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi on CNN, discussing the federal budget that runs in excess of $4 trillion each year
Republicans in Congress this week attempted to defund Obamacare before it begins open enrollment October 1. Because you know the old saying, “If you can’t beat them, kick the ball into the woods.” - Seth Meyers
Joe Biden’s niece was arrested. The hardest part about arresting a Biden is convincing them they have the right to remain silent. - Conan O’Brien
A day will yet come when I will join the resistance and participate in the intifada. Palestine is my way, and I am full of determination and will. I will draw my blood in the West Bank; I hope to die in Gaza.- Tweet by Egyptian Mona Seif who is a finalist for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders set to be bestowed next week in Geneva
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As the warm summer weather passes us and in comes that cool fall breeze, many of our patients
routinely return to our office coughing and wheezing.
Why Now?The medical literature is split about
the reason behind this annual phenom-enon. Is it purely due to the weather change or not? One thing is for sure: the statistical facts do not lie. Septem-ber brings a large spike in emergency room visits and hospital admissions of asthmatic patients.
My gut feeling is that the viruses that cause colds in the fall serve as stronger triggers of asthma. Every climate has the preferential growth of certain germs. Some viruses can sur-vive only in warm climates and some grow optimally in colder temperatures. This is why we see patients with the infamous Cox-sackie virus in the spring and summer months (yes, that is the virus that gave your child those miserable blisters in the back of their throat) and on the other hand the in-fluenza (“flu”) vi-rus is prevalent in the fall and winter months.
What is Asthma?Asthma is de-
fined as an illness that causes revers-ible, recurrent, airway hyper-reactivity. Now let’s break down this fancy medical definition. An asthmatic patient is one that has hyper-reactive lungs – they react to colds, viruses, fumes or allergens more than the av-erage person. This reaction usually causes a harsh, high-pitched cough or expiratory sound known as a wheeze, rapid breathing and chest tightness. The good news is that by definition this reaction is reversible – the lungs will go back to their old selves. But here
comes the bad news – asthmatics, by definition will have multiple, recurrent symptoms of wheezing and chest tight-ness. This fact can also be good news
– if your child wheezed only once and never again (after a few years have passed) – by definition, that child does not have asthma!
How can you avoid the asthma wave this fall?
Ask your physician if he or she feels that you should be given asthma
medicines that will prevent you from having an asthma attack. Today there are two main classes of drugs: inhaled steroids and leukotriene in-hibitors.
Inhaled ste-roids – I know many parents gri-mace when they hear the word ste-roid. What I like to remind parents is that when their children have se-vere wheezing, they often need shots of steroids or
oral steroids for a few days to prevent them from hospitalization. Giving an inhaled steroid for an entire year has the same amount of steroids as a five day course of oral steroids!
So, if your doctor feels that your child needs an inhaled steroid for a month, please don’t frown at them. They may be saving your child from getting a severe asthma attack lead-ing to missed days of school, extreme chest tightness and, last but not least,
the dreaded oral steroids. Leukotriene inhibitors – This
class of drugs works by inhibiting the pathways leading to inflammation in
the lungs. One commonly prescribed medicine in this class is known as Sin-gulair. They are not steroids. Thus far, they are believed to be safe (they have been around for approximately 15 years). However, in recent years, stud-ies show that they are not as effective as we once thought they were.
Ensure that you have a properly working nebulizer at home. Even with the use of inhaled steroids or Singulair, patient can still wheeze, and if you feel that they need a quick relief, do not wait until the morning! Ask your phy-sician if you can nebulize them with Albuterol or Xopenex at home before you visit the doctor in the morning.
It is a wise practice to wash your nebulizer thoroughly and disinfect the mold that may have grown in it while it was stored away in the past few months.
Make sure that you immunize your
child with the flu shot early on in the season. The flu virus is a potent and an extremely dangerous trigger of asthma. Last year, vaccine manufac-turers added swine flu (H1N1) into the regular flu vaccine. Even though some of you may have had a dose or two of the swine flu vaccine, the level of im-munity or protection wanes after a year and therefore, a booster is necessary. In addition, new strains of flu emerge every year, and therefore, the flu vac-cine changes to account for the newest strains of the flu.
Yours,David Elazar Simai M.D.
Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pe-diatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In ad-dition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at [email protected].
NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.
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Miri heard the front door slam. She flinched. Judy, 12, stomped through the hall and past the
kitchen where Miri was working. Her clump-clump-clump could be heard re-treating towards the stairway. Miri was incensed.
“Just a minute, young lady,” she said sharply. “That is not a proper ‘Hello.’ I expect some civility. Do you hear?”
<Pause>Judy is clearly rude. Is Miri’s reac-
tion right?The answer is “No.” We don’t know
anything about Judy’s situation. Maybe she came home with a stomachache and she’s heading for the bathroom to throw up. Who knows? Maybe a girl on the bus snubbed her and she’s in her own world of misery. At 12, a child is still a child, however much she may seem smart, poised, self-possessed and ready to argue any subject. Emotionally, she’s vulnerable.
“I hear you, Dr. Deb,” Miri would say, “but what about discipline? Shall I let this bad behavior pass? What about my obligation to teach my child kibbud av v’aim?”
Miri is right. We can’t let this bad be-havior go because, as I said in an earlier article, that confuses the child: she won’t understand the difference between right and wrong. But here is the catch: when Judy comes in sulky and irritable and Miri snaps at her, is Miri teaching her kibbud av v’aim? I think not.
I think when parents snap too fre-quently they teach their children to be-lieve that the parents hate them and that it would be understandable if the chil-dren hated their parents back in return – quite the opposite of kibbud av v’aim.
“Oh, for goodness sake, Dr. Deb,” Miri would surely complain, “you’re exaggerating. My daughter knows I love her.”
Oh, really? Then how come so many teenagers have sat on my couch and complained to me that their mother for certain hates them? How come I lose ev-ery argument with those kids when I try to persuade them that they are wrong?
Like I said, children are emotion-ally just children. They don’t understand that a loving parent can use bad tactics to accomplish a task. They only know how they feel. And they feel deeply. We adults were created that way – to feel deeply. But we talked ourselves out of it along the way. We learned to stuff our
feelings down so they wouldn’t bother us so much.
Children haven’t learned that yet – thank G-d. They’re all raw. And if you scratch, they bleed. I said “thank G-d” because we were supposed to feel our feelings. Why would the Borei Olam have created us that way if He didn’t want us to experience them? Emotional pain serves the same function as a fever: it means we better check out what could be wrong. When children feel pain, they
react. So, if a child acts out, the first thing to do is find out why. An acting-out child is not happy.
There are two possible reasons why Judy is not happy and acting out:
1. Someone or something hurt her.2. She has been spoiled so when she
doesn’t get what she wants or things don’t go her way, she is miserable.
To figure out which category this situation falls into, let’s rewrite Miri’s lines. Miri heard the front door slam and her daughter stomping through the house. She followed her to her room and sat down on the bed. “What do you want?” Judy asked roughly. This an-swer implies that Judy has been spoiled. If she were merely upset by some event, she wouldn’t be rude now that her moth-er has come to inquire what’s going on and to comfort her.
When you have a rude child who has suffered years of being spoiled, you’ve done an injustice to your child. She has a right to have learned how to be civil and you are obligated to teach her. But here is the key: Love must go with discipline.
Taking a deep breath, Miri gently says, “I’m going to start with an apol-ogy. I never made the rules clear when you were little. Now it will be harder for you and I am so sorry for that. But
for you to be a really happy person, you can’t hate yourself or me or oth-ers. When a person has hate and anger in their heart, they will also hate them-selves for it. So you’ve got to start by being civil even when things are tough. Let’s do this thing over. You slammed the door. You are upset about something. I came in your room. Now, respond to me in a civil way.”
Judy stares at her mother. She has nothing to say. Finally, she says, “I’m
sorry.”“Okay,” Miri replies in a neutral tone
and then adds softly, “Please tell me what’s troubling you today.”
At this point, Judy launches into a problem with a teacher. Instead of being dismissive, which Miri used to be, she listens carefully to Judy’s concern. She doesn’t interrupt. She asks a few ques-
tions to try to get the whole picture. Judy responds to them and her voice trails off. A plan is forming in Judy’s mind for handling her problem and Miri thinks it’s a good one. Judy’s eyes say, “thank you” to Miri.
Is it always this easy? Sometimes. Other times, the
“sorry” might not come. But here is the catch: Miri needs to be consistent in let-ting her daughter know that she is in the wrong but it must be gentle and loving. Miri needs to continue to be the good lis-tener that she was this time. She needs to refrain from giving direct advice unless asked and instead ask good questions that help Judy figure out the solution to her problems. Through her respect and attention to the child, she is giving posi-tive reinforcement to rational problem-solving. Generally, the volume and tone of the interaction will come down and soften this way.
However, the most important piece
in turning around this awful situation is love. But what exactly is love? I’ll tell you what it is most emphatically not: it’s not the giving of material things. Presents, trips, clothing, iPads and cellphones may be almost necessities but they are not love. Families whose money is tight often feel like they can’t give love because they can’t afford these things. Nonsense! These things weren’t love in the first place.
Yes, love is giving. But it’s giving of oneself: one’s time, one’s attention, one’s respect, one’s interest, and most of all, one’s heart. Does Miri wake Judy in the morning with a military, “Get up!” or does she greet her with a smile? Does Miri say to Judy, “You could have done better?” when she doesn’t get a perfect grade or does she say, “I know you worked hard and tried your best”?
When Judy’s complaints seem trivial and silly to Miri, does she brush them off or does she listen anyway, trying to put herself into the spirit of a twelve-year old? If Judy has been getting into trouble, does Miri search for something to find good about her to compliment or does she chastise her?
Discipline can be as easy as a glance to get a misbehaving child back on track. The secret to such incredible parental power is the strength of the relationship between parents and their children. A strong relationship is built on children knowing without one shred of doubt that they are loved.
**CORRECTION
The Hebrew word onah was incor-rectly spelled in the following sentence in last week’s paper:
In a Torah-ruled home, expressing yourself, while important, takes second place to creating shalom. The Torah requests of us in Leviticus (Vayikra) 25:17: “lo sono ish es amiso.” The word “sono” is from the root which is used in the expression “onaas devorim” to hurt with words (Gemara 58b).
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Pincer Skills for My 1-Year-Old
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I’m interested in learning some ideas and tips on how to improve my daughter’s pincer skill. I have tried giving her foods like Cheerios but she continues to use her whole hand to grasp the cereal. More food lands up on the highchair tray than in her mouth. In general, she is not the type of a child who likes to sit and take her time to hold little things. She likes to be more on the go, moving and scampering around the house.
The Therapist Responds:I think it is wonderful that you are
looking to help your daughter with her pincer skill. Pincer skill typically re-fers to the grasp when holding a small object between the tip or pad of the thumb and index finger. It begins to emerge at around 9 months and most 12-month-old babies are using the pin-cer grasp. As your toddler grows, this pincer grasp becomes more mature and paves the way for grasps used when handling writing/coloring utensils. The following will list a few activities you can begin working on now with your daughter.
1. Finger Isolation Games: From what you describe, it sounds like your daughter can benefit from games in which the participant isolates move-ment of one finger from the rest of the hand. (Right now when she handles her Cheerios she is using a “whole hand” movement.)
a. Pointing: Model and try to get your daughter to mimic pointing to objects.
b. Poking toys: A classic toy is the Fisher Price rotary phone; it encourages the toddler to use her finger to “dial” the numbers.
2. Pincer Skill Games: a. Tiny cut up food: When feed-
ing her cut up food, try this intermittently. Place just one piece of food in the palm of your hand and have her grasp it; she is more likely to use a pincer grasp when you pres-ent it to her in this manner.
b. Page turning: Place tabs (you can make your own out of pieces of index cards or you can buy self-sticking tabs in an office supply store) on the edges of one of your daugh-ter’s favorite books. When reading to her, have her turn the pages by holding the tab when turning the page.
c. Stickers: have your daughter peel off large stickers that are lightly stuck on you or a toy. You may need to help by lift-ing an edge up. Closely su-pervise to avoid her placing the sticker into her mouth!
Wishing you and your daughter much hatzlacha; I’m sure she will mas-ter this skill!
Devorah (Gerber) Schmeltz, MS OTR/L is a 2003 alumnus of Downstate Medical Cen-ter’s OT Program. She worked as a senior occupational therapist at United Cerebral Palsy’s Brooklyn Children’s Program for 9 years. Currently, Devorah runs a private practice, Bumble & Tumble Occupational Therapy P.C in Far Rockaway. Your ques-tions and comments are welcome. She can be reached at [email protected] or 917-971-5327.
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I own a wholesale distribution company on Long Island. I started it 5 years ago. We distribute hardware and software for the environmental technology industry. Our clients are environmental consultants, govern-ment entities, etc. After struggling for the first few years, we have developed a good niche and are rapidly expand-ing. I need funds for expansion—to hire more salespeople, expand my of-fices (maybe even buy a building), get more delivery trucks, and finance my accounts receivables. Because of my early struggles and some issues with my credit due to the fact I financed much of the business’ growth to this point with my credit cards, my bank is hesitant to lend money to the company. In addition to funding, I need some mentoring or counseling to help me guide my business to the next level. Are there any resources out there for me?
The Attorney Responds:There are numerous financing and
technical resources for Long Island small businesses. On the financing side, programs will vary depending on the financing need and amount. For the working capital portion of your needs, you may want to look at one of the fol-lowing:
1. SBA 7A Loan Guarantee Pro-gram. Under this program, your bank or another lender makes you a loan (up to $5 mil) and gets a guarantee of part of the loan from the U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration. The guarantee will often induce your bank to make you a loan they otherwise won’t make to you. For working capital, the lender can go 7-10 years. Rates are usually floating, tied to the prime lending rate. See www.sba.gov for general information.
2. As a wholesaler of hardware and software and as an environmentally re-
lated company, you would be eligible for the NYS Targeted Industry Re-volving Loan Fund (sponsored by U.S. Department of Commerce and NYS). Loans are available up to $250,000, 7-10 years for working capital at a fixed rate. See www.lidc.org for more infor-mation.
3. Micro Loans. If your working capital needs are under $100,000 you can look at the following:
a. NYBDC—www.nybdc.com—a nonbank SBA 7A lender that will make smaller 7A loans and operates other lending pro-grams.
b. CDCLI—www.cdcli.org—oper-ates the SBA micro loan pro-gram providing loans up to $50,000.
c. La Fuerza CDC—www.lafuer-zacdc.org—provides loans up to $35,000.
d. LISBAC—www.lisbac.org—pro-vides loans up to $10,000.
These micro lenders will sometimes combine to leverage funds avail-able to small business.
4. As you expand, you may need access to additional funds for in-ventory, etc. These are best suited to a line of credit product which is offered by banks. If your bank is hesitant about it, ask your bank if they would provide the larger line of credit under the SBA 7A guarantee program.
When you are ready to buy a build-ing, there are three capital asset pro-grams to consider:
SBA 504: a certified development company (on Long Island contact Em-pire Certified Development Compa-ny—www.escdc.org) loans you 40% of the total project cost (including acquisi-tion, renovations, soft costs) in a second mortgage position behind a 50% lender (such as your bank) and you put in 10%. 504 loans are 10 or 20 years at a fixed rate.
NY JDA—www.esd.ny.gov, look under business programs: Also pro-vides a 40% second mortgage loan. SBA 504 and JDA can be combined to provide 80% financing with you inject-
ing 20%.Industrial Development Agency:
For a larger project, the IDA can issue a bond which is bought by your bank or sold into the market to provide financ-ing. For smaller projects, the IDA can still be of assistance by providing real estate and mortgage tax and sales tax abatements for your project. There are several IDAs on Long Island. Check the town in which your project is locat-ed to see if it has an IDA. If not, each county has one.
There are a number of mentoring and counseling resources available to Long Island small businesses:
SCORE. An arm of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Provides counseling, mentoring and business plan preparation to entrepreneurs from volunteer retired and currently working business people. You can receive in-person or on-line counseling. See www.score.org or www.longislandscore.org.
SBDC. A joint project of SBA and NYS SUNY system. Paid business counselors provide business plan prepa-ration and counseling at locations based in SUNY Farmingdale or Stony Brook. See www.sunyfarmingdale..edu or www.sunysb.edu and click through to the SBDC’s.
Roslyn D. Goldmacher, Esq. is Pres/CEO of the LI Development Corporation fam-ily of economic development organizations, providing low cost financing, free seminars and pro bono counseling to entrepreneurs on Long Island for over 33 years. She can be reached at 866-433-5432, [email protected]. See www.lidc.org for LIDC’s fi-nancing and technical assistance programs and a complete list of business resources on Long Island under its LI resource page.
Ask the AttorneyRoslyn Goldmacher, Esq.
Good Advice for Long Island’s Small Businesses
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One can gain several pounds over a 3-day yom tov very easily, but to rid oneself of them can be ar-
duous. It is imperative that we lose this gain quickly post three sets of 3-day celebrations. Lets try to “detox” our bodies from the recent spate of over-eating healthy and unhealthy foods. The longer you let this weight stick to you, the more difficult it is to elimi-
nate. Follow these simple “Boot Camp” rules, and you will shed those unwanted pounds fast!
1. Eliminate White Flour: Con-sume only fiber-rich grains, breads, and cereals.
2. Limit the Dairy: Eat only one serving of reduced fat yogurt, cottage cheese, or cheese a day. Supplement with calcium and vi-tamin D to avoid deficiency.
3. Snack on Fruits/Vegeta-bles: Avoid snacking on nuts, cheese, or frozen yogurt. Focus on raw fruit, not dried, or vegeta-bles. Canned fruit in its own juice is fine; just make sure to drain the juice. Baked apples or poached pears make great desserts on cool nights.
4. Eat Fish: Have at least 4 serv-ings of fish this week. It’s a healthier and lighter fat than chicken.
5. Dump Diet Soda: Switch to wa-
ter instead. Studies have shown that if you drink 1 or 2 glasses of water before each meal, you will lose weight.
6. Don’t Eat Challah this Shab-bos: Use whole-wheat matza or bread instead.
7. Exercise: While shopping, cook-ing, and cleaning is hard work, it is not calorie burning exercise. Squeeze in some cardio wherever you can to help
move things along, at least three times a week.
8. Watch for Hidden Cal-ories: A salad is a great option, but not if it’s drowning in fatty dressing! Look for low fat/fat free dressings and always take it on the side. Avoid foods prepared with full fat mayo as well.
9. Eat Dinner Before 7:00: I know it’s difficult, but it really
works! The earlier you eat dinner, the more you will lose.
10. Avoid All Red Meat: Just for this week. The one exception is bison, which is very low in fat and cholesterol.
Weight gain during these holidays is
almost unavoidable, but the trick is to get back on track immediately post-yom tov, unless you want those extra pounds to stick forever. Don’t let normal set-backs throw you off the wagon. You should weigh yourself once a week, in
order to stay aware, but can stop doing so once you’ve shed those pounds. If all else fails, my door is always open! I’m sure that with a nutritious game plan, we can start off the New Year with success!
Aliza Beer is a registered dietician with a Masters’ degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at [email protected].
Health & FitnessAliza Beer, MS, RD
Beating the Holiday Weight Gain
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There was once a cobbler who was haggling with his wife about what name to give their newborn baby boy. He insisted the child be named after
his father, and she stubbornly demanded to name the child after her father. They squabbled over it for a long time, until they decided to go to the rabbi and adhere to whatever ruling he made. The rabbi asked the husband: “What was your father’s name?” “Yan-kel,” he answered. “Nu, and your father?” he asked the wife. “Also Yankel,” she said, “but I want the child named after my father not his.”
“What did your father do for a living?” the rabbi asked her once again. “A tailor,” she said. “Nu, and your father?” he asked the husband. “The same as me, also a shoemaker.”
“That being the case,” said the rabbi. “I propose the following: For the time being let the child be named Yankel, and then we wait and see. If he will grow up to be a cobbler, he will be named after the grandfather from the father’s side and if he’ll end up being a tailor, he’ll be named after the grandfather from the mother’s side.”
Yiddish is not unique simply because of its jokes. Nor is it merely an ancient language that many of our ancestors spoke. Rather, it is the glue that kept the Jewish culture together and sheltered it from the outside world for hundreds of years. Yiddish expres-sions have stood the test of time and are as true today as they were when originally conceived close to a thousand years ago. Many of its words are not simply verbs and adjectives; the words encapsulate whole
ideas and describe vivid emotions. When an elderly Jewish grandmother give a
krechts and says “oy vey” to her grandson, it is a ref-erence to eighty-five years of frustration...culminat-ing with the fact that her beloved grandson decided against going to medical school.
When a shoemaker looks at your shoes and says “oy, vey iz mir,” (woe is to me) he isn’t simply having a moment of self-pity; he means “it’s time for a new pair of shoes.”
When a teacher calls you a “klutz,” he sincerely means that “you will never amount to anything.”
Yiddish is very much alive today, but mostly in
its modern day dialect known as “Yinglish.” Go into any home in Williamsburg or Boro Park and you are likely to hear “Chani, breng mir de’ [bring me the] phone...breng mir de’ com’pu’ter...breng mir de’ keys.” The morphological metamorphosis of Yid-dish would certainly leave famous Yiddish linguists like Osher Shvartsman and Abraham Sutzkever very fardreyt (translation: confused).
The truth is classic Yiddish is vibrant, in demand and invaluable. There is a Yiddish revival taking place. This rich language not only gives us clues about our heritage, but also imparts wisdom through idioms and humorous expressions giving us a keen, yet joyous, perspective about the world we live in.
“If you want to simply know how to say certain words in Yiddish, you can go to Barnes & Nobles and get an English-Yiddish dictionary,” says Chaim Werdyger, “but with less effort you can learn the lan-guage well enough to not only know isolated words, but to converse and actually appreciate the beauty and robust language.”
Chaim was born in New York to parents who were both Holocaust survivors and Yiddish speakers. Chaim’s first language was Yiddish and, as a child, he spent countless hours enchanted by Yiddish writ-ings and books by authors across the globe who each put their own unique stamp through Yiddish words, reflecting the society from which they came. As a student of the Yiddish language who was also fluent in English and Hebrew, Chaim soon found himself translating books, articles and documents between
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95the three languages.Although Chaim had a love for Yiddish, he nev-
er foresaw that he would one day teach Yiddish to hundreds of people across America and abroad. It all started approximately a decade ago when Chaim was learning Torah with a study partner in Sh’or Yoshuv. A young man who had recently become re-ligious approached Chaim and asked him to teach him Yiddish. “This young man actually came from a chassidish background and at some point his fam-ily became secular,” says Chaim, “but he was redis-covering Judaism and felt that understanding Yiddish would help him gain an appreciation about where he really comes from.” Chaim laughs and says, “Today that man looks like any Yerushalmi chassid in Meah Shearim...and speaks like them, too.” But he is quick to add, “I think that is where he was headed even before he spoke Yiddish. By teaching him Yiddish I was simply giving him a tool that he needed for his journey.”
Chaim says, “Some of my students want to learn Yiddish because they want to live a certain lifestyle or for their career, and some of my students learn Yiddish because they want to be able to understand Dzigan & Schumacher jokes.”
Through the years Chaim has encountered many fellow Jewish men and women who desire to learn and revive the Yiddish language regardless of if Yid-dish had previously been part of their background. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive and simple way to learn the Yiddish language, Chaim developed a program called Conversational Yiddish
for Beginners and Intermediate Learners. With his unique curriculum, teaching model and passion for the language, Chaim has successfully taught hun-dreds of individuals from all over the world to engage in the artful language that is Yiddish. This program is suitable for men and women of all ages.
Chaim eventually wrote and published a book titled Yiddish in 10 Lessons. The book, a Yiddish language home study program, consists of 10 les-sons and exercises and 2 audio CD’s. The book has been well received by thousands of students through-out the globe. “I get emails from the strangest places with questions and comments about my book,” says Chaim. “I never would have imagined that people in South America, France and even Italy would be inter-ested in learning Yiddish.”
If ever there is a proof that Yiddish is alive and
well, it is Chaim’s new collaboration with Bar Ilan University. When faculty at Bar Ilan took notice and reviewed Chaim’s book, they recognized that Chaim’s method of teaching Yiddish is unique and proven. Although Bar Ilan has a noted Yiddish lan-guage department, they recognized that Chaim’s method of teaching Yiddish not only is effective, but also brings the language alive with all its character and flavor. As such, Chaim will be teaching a three month Yiddish language course as part of Bar Ilan’s community educational program, starting on October 13th.
The course consists of 13 weekly ninety minute teleconferences and is open to the public worldwide. “I am eager and excited to teach this interactive course as it opens up the opportunity for people to learn together from all over the world as part of a worldwide community educational program,” Chaim says.
As to whether this program would be beneficial for someone who has no experience with Yiddish, Chaim says that it absolutely would.
Chaim’s Yiddish sense of humor is evident when he quips: “I can teach you Yiddish and how to say what you want to say, but I won’t take any responsi-bility for what you actually say. I always remind my students, ‘Az a nar shveigt, vert er oykh gerekhent tsvishen di klu’ge (translation: When a fool is silent, he too is thought clever).’”
And after just three months of studying the beau-ty of the Yiddish language, many of us, thanks to Chaim, will appear more than clever.
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Since the Vietnam War, the United States military has mainly played a police role in global conflicts.
Most of the time its objectives are reached and these battles are a show of forces of America demonstrating its prowess. There was one battle, howev-er, that was lost not due to the incompe-tence of the soldiers (these were Special Forces that were fighting) but because political intervention handicapped them. Twenty years ago this week, the Battle of Mogadishu, the capital of war-torn Somalia, was fought.
The background to the United Na-tions involvement in Somalia is com-plex. To make a very long story short, there were several militant factions that destabilized the government and cre-ated widespread starvation especially in the capital. The UN was quite con-cerned for the starving Somalis as the once popular tourist destination was now riddled with bullets and buildings were torn down by grenades from RPGs
(Rocket Propelled Grenade launchers). Much of the humanitarian assistance was not being dis-tributed to the starving civilians; it was hoarded by the militants and terrorists. The lead group over-threw the govern-ment in 1991 and now their leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid was about to become the new president. Aidid was an enemy of the U.S. who treated him like a terrorist and by the summer of 1993 had several Special Forces units in country to cap-ture or kill him. The U.N. played a role in the peacekeeping efforts with troops from Pakistan, Malaysia and Italy hav-ing a strong presence in Mogadishu. The Italians were extremely devious and gave away many secrets about the
Americans to the enemy. The mission, called
Operation Restore Hope, started under the presi-dency of the Bush Sr. administration and in-coming President Bill Clinton did not want it to escalate into an all-out war. Special Forces Gen-eral William Garrison was appointed to lead the American-led coalition as they switched from a humanitarian role to a military function. Aidid
was the target of several raids but the crack units kept on missing him. Part
of the reason of him being able to elude capture was that their infor-mants, also called agents, were sec-ond rate. In fact, the lead agent shot himself in the head playing Russian roulette and others lost the nerve as they
neared the target.The American force, called Task
Force Ranger, consisted of Army Rang-ers, Delta Force, Para-jumpers, Combat Control operators, elite helicopter crews called the Night Stalkers and four Navy SEAL Team Six snipers. Some were sent to a safe to be on the lookout for Aidid and his henchmen. Once it was established that Aidid was too slippery to be caught, the focus turned to his lieutenants who were just as evil as he was. Before October 3, five raids were conducted with varying degrees of suc-cess. The negative part about these raids was that the Somalis saw how the task force operated, and on the afternoon of October 3, 1993, that proved disastrous for the Americans.
On that day, American intelligence had received word of the location of Aidid’s lieutenant, Omar Salad. The task force’s plan was to use two he-licopters to fast rope in the Delta operators to ap-prehend Salad and others inside the compound. Army Rangers would fast rope in to provide perimeter security. A convoy of nine HMMWV’s (mili-tary hummers) with more Rangers and an assortment of other Special Forc-es personnel in-cluding the SEALs would arrive to extricate the pris-oners back to base. Altogether, there were 19 helicopters
and 160 men involved on the Ameri-can side. There was also soldiers form the 10th Mountain Division that formed a quick reaction force as well as U.N. troops that could hopefully be counted on if things got hairy. At first the mis-sion went almost as planned. The first casualty was Ranger Private Blackburn who missed the rope while jumping from a helicopter and fell about 70 feet to the ground. The Delta operators cap-tured Salad without too much trouble and were waiting for the convoy to pull.
The operation was going accord-ing to plan until reports came in that a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down. While trying to figure out the location of the crash site, another Black Hawk was shot down by a RPG. What start-ed out as a “snatch and grab” mission turned into a rescue mission in which all involved were fighting for their lives.
Evacuating Private Blackburn be-came a primary mission for three Hum-vees. All three came under intense fire, and Sergeant Pilla was killed when he was hit by a bullet. The rest of this con-voy reached the base safely.
The first helicopter to get shot down went by the call sign Super 6-1. Both pi-lots were killed immediately; the crew chiefs were severely wounded, and the two Delta operators onboard began defending the crash site. A search and rescue (SAR) team came in to secure the site despite that their Black Hawk, Super 6-8, was also hit by a RPG. Su-per 6-8 made it back to base safely
while the men on the ground awaited evacuation from the ground con-voy. In a display of miscommunication that would make Congress look like they knew what they were doing, the convoy waited for the call to move out towards the site. During this time, another Black Hawk, Super 6-4 piloted by Michael Durant, was shot down. The convoy was sent around in circles trying to lo-cate either site but
Forgotten HeroesAvi Heiligman
The Failure of Operation Restore Hope
Patroling the streets in southern Mogadishu in October 1993
A US soldier and a Somalian boy on January 6, 1993 in Mogadiscio
during Operation Restore Hope
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under intense fire couldn’t manage to find them. Several Rangers and SEALs were wounded or killed in what became known as the Lost Convoy. They finally made it back to base with the prisoners and casualties. They came within half a block of the crash sites but managed not to find them due to faulty communica-tions.
Reports came in that while Super 6-4’s copilot and crew chiefs were dead, Pilot Durant was alive and needed res-cue. Another helicopter came on scene and requested twice to insert two Delta snipers. These requests were refused but Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Specialist First Class Randy Shugart
inserted anyways. A mob of hundreds of angry Somalis descended on the site while the two snipers, now using assault rifles, inflicted major casualties. Gordon was killed first and Shugart held out for another ten minutes before he was shot and killed. Durant was about to be murdered by the angry mob, who mu-tilated the bodies of the downed crew-
men and the snipers, but Aidid’s militia came in the nick of time and took him prisoner. Gordon and Shugart were post-humously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their bravery on the battlefield.
Back at the first crash site, things were look-ing a little better for the Americans. Little Bird helicopters were hold-ing back the crowd from overrunning the defend-ers. Finally, a relief con-
voy consisting of soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division and U.N. troops rolled up on scene. The two mile long convoy snaked back to the American base while under intense fire. Several Americans and one Malaysian soldier were killed.
The battle had rolled into daylight
on October 4 but it wasn’t over yet. Several Rangers and Delta operators realized that there was no room for them on the convoy and made a mad dash back to the Olympic Stadium and relative safety. Known as the Mogadishu Mile, only one soldier was hit, and he was successfully evacuated.
America paid a terrible price for trying to restore peace in So-malia. 18 men were killed and about 80 were wounded. The num-ber of Somalis killed is unknown but thought to be in the thousands. Instead of reinforcing their troops and allowing them to finish the fight, President Clinton got cold feet and ended combat opera-tions. If the American troops had been allowed to use tanks or have captured Aidid when he was spotted several days earlier, the result probably would have been very different. It wasn’t the sol-diers who lost the battle; it was the poli-ticians and high brass who cared more for promotions than American lives. Pilot Michael Durant was released after eleven days in prison.
Aidid eventually became president of Somalia but didn’t last long as he was assassinated by rivals. Somalia today is a lawless nation that remains a danger for anyone to visit.
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden details most of the battle and hardships that the American soldiers faced. Later made into a movie, there are some in-
accuracies but it tells the story of the brave men who fought to keep the world free. Soldiers don’t make poli-cies but are tasked with upholding them even in the face a brutal enemy. The American soldiers in Somalia on Octo-ber 3 performed their mission in highest of standards that the American nation has ever seen.
Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your com-ments and suggestions.for future columns and can be reached at [email protected].
US President George H. W. Bush with Brigadier General Thomas Mikolajcik in Somalia
a US Marine of the Special Command Forces advances in the bush in December 1992 in Somalia
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In the Kitchen
Lite ‘n Tasty Suppers for the School Y ear
Crunchy Salad with Roasted Chicken
PreparationPreheat the oven to 400°. Rub chicken with olive oil and season generously with
salt and pepper. Roast for 30 to 40 minutes, or until cooked through.If you like to blanch your sugar snaps and peas, bring a pot of water to a boil.
Add the sugar snaps for 2 to 2 ½ minutes. Add the peas for about the last minute. Drain and immediately put the veggies into a bowl of icy cold water.
Add the lettuce, spinach, parsley, pepper, radishes, sugar snaps, peas, and car-rots into a large salad bowl. Season with salt and pepper.
In a small bowl, whisk together vinegar, shallot, honey, and garlic. Slowly whisk in the olive oil. Drizzle salad with dressing and toss well. Top with roasted chicken.
IngredientsRoast Chicken4 bone-in, skin-on chicken breastsOlive oilSalt and pepper
Spring Salad2 cups butter lettuce2 cups fresh spinach1 cup flat leaf parsley½ cup yellow pepper
½ cup thinly sliced radishes½ cup sugar snap peas¼ cup fresh peas2 carrots
Vinaigrette2 TBS white wine vinegar2 TBS minced shallot2 tsp honey1 clove garlic2 TBS olive oil
Tilapia and Spinach Parchment Packet
PreparationPreheat oven to 400°. Line a rimmed baking sheet or jelly roll pan with parch-
ment paper. Place spinach in center of parchment paper. Top with carrots. Scatter garlic on top of vegetables and then place tilapia fillet on top of vegetables. Brush fish with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taster. Lay lemon slices on top of fish.
Bring long ends of paper together. Fold down 3 times to make a seam. Place on baking pan and tuck ends underneath. Bake for 15 minutes. Open packet to check for doneness. If fish isn’t opaque in the center, reseal packet and return to oven for five more minutes. Serve with rice of couscous.
Note: this recipe is for one serving of tilapia. It doubles, triples, quadruples very well for as many people as you need to serve. Each fish gets its own parchment packet and you can even serve it to your family in the packet on their plates. Just be careful when opening the packet, as it is very hot inside.
IngredientsFour oz. tilapia fillet1 cup fresh spinach½ cup carrot sticks, julienned1 clove garlic, minced1 tsp olive oil¼ tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper2-3 slices lemon1 piece parchment paper (not waxed
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Pasta with Garlic and BroccoliIngredients1/3 cup olive oil2 cloves garlic, smashed¼ tsp red pepper flakes¼ head broccoli, sliced thinlyKosher salt and black pepper2 TBS red wine vinegar2 cups penne pasta or angel hair pasta, cookedParmesan cheese, to taste
PreparationIn a large saucepan, heat olive oil, garlic and pepper flakes for a few minutes.
Once the garlic has turned golden, remove it from the pan. Add the broccoli to the pan and toss with oil. Season with salt and pepper and sauté over medium heat for five minutes. Do not over-cook, as broccoli will become limp. Turn the heat up high and deglaze the pan with the red wine vinegar. Add water, if needed. Add pasta to pan and toss to cook with oil. Crumble parmesan cheese on top prior to serving.
Hoisin Chicken
PreparationIn a large bowl, combine the sherry, hoisin and both soy sauces, brown sugar,
peanut oil, and ginger. Add the chicken pieces and toss well. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 20 minutes and up to several hours.
Set the oven at 350°. In a roasting pan, arrange the chicken in one layer, skin side up (reserve the marinade). Roast for 30 minutes, or until cooked through and the skin is crisp.
In a saucepan, bring the marinade to a boil. Let it bubble for 1 minute. Drizzle the hoisin mixture over the chicken and sprinkle with scallions. Serve with rice and broccoli.
Lite Eggplant Rollatini with Spinach
PreparationCut the 2 ends off the eggplants. Cut the eggplants lengthwise, into 1/4-inch
thick slices until you have a total of 10 slices about the same size. Sprinkle the eggplant with kosher salt to help remove excess moisture. Set aside for about 10 to 15 minutes. Pat dry with a towel.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Season the eggplant with a little more salt and pepper, then arrange on two parchment-lined baking sheets. Cover tightly with foil and bake until eggplant is tender and pliable but not fully cooked, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Spread ¼ cup marinara sauce on the bottom of a 13 x 9-inch baking dish.In a medium bowl, beat the egg, then mix together with ricotta, Pecorino Ro-
mano (or mozzarella), spinach, garlic, ¼ tsp salt and 1/8 tsp pepper.Pat eggplant dry with paper towels. Divide the ricotta-spinach mixture (about 2
generous tablespoons each) evenly and spoon onto one end of each eggplant slice, spreading to cover. Starting at the short end, roll up slices and arrange them each
seam side down in the prepared dish. Top with remaining marinara sauce and moz-zarella cheese and tightly cover with foil.
Bake until the eggplant is very tender, about 60 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes before serving with additional cheese if desired.
Ingredients2 medium Italian eggplants, cut
lengthwise into 10 slicesKosher salt and fresh black pepper, to
taste1½ cups marinara sauce1 large egg
½ cup ricotta cheese½ cup grated Pecorino Romano or
mozzarella cheese8 oz. frozen spinach, heated through
and squeezed well1 garlic clove, minced1 cup shredded mozzarella
Ingredients 2 TBS dry sherry ¼ cup hoisin sauce ½ cup light soy sauce 2 TBS dark soy sauce 2 TBS light brown sugar
2 TBS peanut oil 1 piece (2 inches) fresh ginger, peeled
and grated 2 pounds chicken thighs and
drumsticks2 scallions, thinly sliced (for garnish)
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Easy Bake BrowniesIngredients 2/3 cup oil2/3 cup cocoa 4 eggs, slightly beaten1-3/4 cup sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder1 cup flour
PreparationMix all ingredients until smooth. Pour into 9x13
pan and bake for 40 minutes at 350°. Serve with va-nilla ice cream.
Note: my family likes their brownies slightly un-dercooked, so the center is still soft.
In the KitchenNaomi Nachman
Yay! We have routine again. I am so thrilled to have the family on some sort of schedule, now though the task is serving some exciting dishes when they come home “starving” from school.
Every once in a while you need to change up the dinner menu. I found this recipe many years ago in an Australian cookbook and I thought this would be a
nice addition to our dinner repertoire. We are all used to hot tomato-based sauces but this is a nice change as it’s a fresh homemade tomato sauce. I served this with onion soup and open faced grilled cheese on toast. For dessert, which I occasionally serve as a special treat after the kids return back to school after Sukkot break, winter break or Pesach break, it’s got to be brownies and vanilla ice cream.
Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain ad-ditional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.
Ricotta Gnocchi in Fresh Tomato SauceIngredients1 pound firm ricotta cheese (can be low fat)1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese ½ cup plain flour2 eggs, beaten lightly1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil4 medium tomatoes, chopped coarsely6 green onions, sliced thinly2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh oregano2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, extra
½ cup shaved parmesan cheese
PreparationBring large saucepan of water to boil. Meanwhile,
combine ricotta, grated parmesan, flour, eggs and oil in large bowl. Drop rounded tablespoons of mixture into boiling water; cook, without stirring, until gnocchi float to surface. Remove from pan with slotted spoon; drain, cover to keep warm.
Combine tomato, onion, oregano and vinegar in medium bowl. Top warm gnocchi with fresh tomato sauce; drizzle with extra oil, top with shaved parme-san.
Onion Soup — the Famous Classic!
The key to imitating the real beef flavor of tradi-tional onion soup is adding the miso into the soup. It really enhances the flavor.
Ingredients 3 pounds yellow onions, peeled½ tsp freshly ground pepper1 tablespoon butterSalt to taste2 tablespoon paprika
¼ cup flour¼ cup miso1 cup red wine6 cups vegetable broth2 tablespoon onion soup mix with no MSG
PreparationSlice onions 1/8 inch thick. Melt butter; add on-
ions and sauté very slowly for 1 hour in a large sauce-pan. Add pepper, salt, paprika, miso and flour and sauté over low heat for 10 minutes. Add water and onion soup mix and wine. Simmer for 2 hours. If you prefer a stronger flavor, add more onion soup powder.
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Chapter 21The Winter of 1944–1945
•I had not been outside for days. Bu-
dapest was at the end of its civiliza-tion by then. The streets were cra-
ters filled with corpses and body parts, a head here, an arm there, torso after torso piled up on each other, and hors-es were also strewn around, many of them decapitated. I lost my nerve and thought that I couldn’t bear to see any more. Knowing there would be even worse ahead, I turned back to go into the cellar. I would vomit up what was left of my stomach if I saw any more of the abomination on the streets. I picked my way over the corpses and the rest of the grotesque remains of what had been life, human and animal, and stopped. Somehow I had to go to Andraszy Utca if Mechel and I were to survive. Even Mechel was not a camel. He would die of starvation and thirst; it was only a matter of time.
Bravery took over and I turned around again and continued on my way. I jumped over the corpses as whistling bombs landed and exploded before my eyes. I saw buildings topple and win-dows shatter. I realized just in time that the buildings were the targets, not the streets, so I ran down the middle of the road. I was an unstoppable force. I was a child of the winds. The worst Nazis or Arrow Cross thugs would not have been able to catch me. At the very mo-ment I turned onto the street with my aunt and uncle’s home, a bomb struck it. I stood just feet away and waited for the house to fall, but it did not. The rocket or cannon shell had hit the build-ing at an angle, causing only a portion of the house to crumble. The basement side had been untouched. I rushed into
the basement calling out the names of my aunt and uncle and their family.
There they were, safe and with plenty of provisions that they must have been storing for months. I sank to the floor in exhaustion and in relief that they were not harmed and that I had made it without being hit by a
bomb or flying pieces of debris. Now I could save Mechel and myself from starvation. Hendi neini, Aunt Hendi, let me rest and then gave me soup she had made with a boiled potato in it. She tucked a sack of rice, potatoes, and a warm blanket into a sack she had. “Take these to Mechel.”
It was starting to get dark and my family urged me to leave before Mechel became too worried. I wanted to go while it was still light because I would not be able to navigate the obstacle course of destruction in the dark. The sirens continued and I heard explosions in another section of Buda-pest. I ran as fast as I could and prayed, “Please if I am to die, may I do so next to my husband.”
There had been more casualties while I had been with my family in their basement. The street scene was even more grisly than it had been ear-lier. There would be no way to identify any of the corpses, or to have proper burials for any faith. It was a nightmare of the greatest magnitude and of a pro-portion that can never be expressed ad-equately in words…or even in pictures.
I was steps away from our basement bunker when a fragment of a bomb
whizzed by my side and hit the street, ricocheted and struck my sack, tearing open the bag of rice. Rice poured out like water. I stood there weeping and dropped the sack of potatoes and tried to scoop the rice up with my hands. I put what I could back into the rice sack and ran, forgetting the potato sack. I
could barely recognize where I was as the light was so dim. I was hopeful the woman I spoke to had informed Mechel where I had gone.
Unfortunately, she had not. Perhaps she did not understand what I said, or she might simply have forgotten. When I returned I found Mechel hys-terical with worry. He couldn’t believe I would venture out and not tell him, or venture out at all. I held up my sack to show him I had rice and potatoes for us to eat. There was nothing left, a tattered bag that had held the rice and only the story of the forgotten potato sack. The only thing I had to show for my foolhardy escapade was a blanket. Of course I had eaten, but Mechel had not. Just as I settled down in our corner with our blanket of newspapers, my troubles began.
It was the revenge of the moldy bread, just as Mechel had warned me. I was convulsed with intense pain. My stomach was tied in knots and I was doubled over as if knives were sticking into me. I moaned and groaned and my stomach performed loudly as well. I clutched my tummy, holding it tightly, hoping to muffle the sounds. Everyone looked in my direction. I was a mess. I
had survived the Bochnia Ghetto, had survived a ride in a false-bottomed coal truck, forged documents, and a meeting with Eichmann, rescued my husband from prison and now I would die from eating rotten bread that acted like poison. Mechel comforted me and somehow got me through the night of agony.
The next morning we heard foot-steps; they were the heavy steps of large men wearing boots. We were ter-rified. The Nazis must be back. The cellar door opened with a loud bang and there stood an enormous Russian, his beard caked with ice. He came in and looked around at us, and I wonder now what he thought. The Russians were not strangers to suffering during the war.
“Does anyone speak Russian?” I piped right up, “I do.” I spoke
enough words and sentences to com-municate in an elementary way with him. I had begun to learn Ukrainian in the Czechoslovakian school I attended, and it was close enough to Russian so that I could fake it. I was lucky that my ability with languages did not mirror my geography skills. I appeared to be the only person in the cellar who spoke Russian, although Mechel spoke a little too.
“You are liberated,” he exclaimed. I turned to our cellar-mates and said
without any feeling. “We are liberated. It means we are free.”
He had a large container and gave us hot tea to drink, and he left the con-tainer with us and departed. We all sat where we had been before our “libera-tion.” Everyone was in too much shock to know what to do, and frankly, none of us were terribly excited about go-ing out into the urban killing grounds. A woman turned to me and said, “You really must see a doctor for your stom-ach. There is one across the street. Now you can go there, just cut across diagonally and get some medicine.”
Lola Lieber Schwartz
Lola's Story
A World After ThisA Memoir of Loss and Redemption
Lola Lieber Schwartz is a world-renowned artist whose paintings have been exhibited in art galleries throughout the United States and are part of the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem. Most importantly, Lola is a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to many. She has myriad friends and sees life in all its vibrancy and vitality. But life was not always easy. Lola was only sixteen-years-old when Hitler ym”sh invaded Poland, and Lola was forced into hiding and spent years on the run with her husband, Mechel. Through six years of trying times, near
starvation and brutality, Lola and her husband held onto their faith and values. It was Mechel’s words of encouragement, “There will be a world after this,” that helped them cling to the hope that there will be a life of light and joy waiting for them at the end.
This is the story of Lola’s life—from her grandparents’ “enchanted garden” to meeting Eichmann ym”sh to making the Pesach seder for the Bobover Rebbe dur-ing the war—her words will take you back to a different world.
The sTreeTs were craTers filled wiTh corpses
and Body parTs, a head here, an arm There, Torso
afTer Torso piled up on each oTher.
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He picked up the blanket and with-out a word started to leave the cellar. I followed him. I knew he meant busi-ness. He was kind enough not to scold me by saying, “I told you not to eat the bread,” as many other husbands might have done, for which I was grate-ful. We moved across the mountains of corpses, which had not been taken away. Mechel showed no expression when he encountered the first barri-cade of bodies. He said, “I wonder just which building the woman meant the doctor is in – do you know?”
At that moment, we heard Rus-sians at our backs, and they screamed, “Halt!”
The commander said, “Where are you going?”
In Russian I explained that I was ill and that we were going to a doctor we had been told lived across the street and then I dramatically clutched my stomach, pointing to it.
He looked us over and said to his
comrades, “These are Nazi spies.” I kept telling him we were going
to a doctor and we were not spies. The men stole our watches from us but somehow did not take my mother’s ring off my finger, which I still wear.
The leader gave his men a command and they raised their rifles and point-ed them at us. They would shoot us there, on the spot. I screamed at them the word Evrei, Evrei (Jews) but they forced us against a wall in an alley. I looked into the entrance of a basement right next to the wall and I could see it was filled with the corpses of Nazi soldiers, heads down and feet up. They were going to shoot us as they had shot them and throw us into the basement with the dead Nazis. They were liberat-ing Budapest by killing Germans street by street. We were going to be added to the collection. We would die with bi-
zarre false identity papers and become a forgotten historical footnote.
Our faces were to the wall. The commander was giving his men in-structions about how to shoot us. They were Special Forces of the Red Army.
Our life as a liberated married Jew-ish couple was going to last about five minutes. Mechel said to me in very harsh tones, “Say ‘Shema Yisroel’ – now.”
I couldn’t imagine what help it would be. He commanded me loudly. “Say the ‘Shema’!”
We started to wail in the loud-est voices we could summon: Shema Yisroel! Hashem Elokeynu, Hashem Echod!
A Russian coming from down the street jumped over bodies and screamed, “Stop. Stop. Don’t shoot them. Don’t kill them! They are Evrei.”
“We are Jews!” we said. “But the leader of the firing squad insisted that we are spies on our way to see the Ger-mans.
“No, they are really Evrei,” The Russian said.
The rifles were lowered and they stood down. The man who had heard our chanting of the “Shema” asked us, “What are you doing outside? It is not safe. Get into that basement.”
We slid into the nearby basement, falling over dead German soldiers. This was our third basement, and this was the absolute worst. Now the So-viets controlled the streets and were capturing the buildings one by one. A few other live people were also stuck in the basement with the dead Ger-mans. Mechel and I still had our blan-ket. We found a corner and held each other. There we were between the liv-ing and the dead, between Hell and the hope of life. All of this commotion and near death by Russian firing squad had scared my stomach into behaving.
Continued next week
everyone was in Too much shock To
know whaT To do, and frankly, none of us
were TerriBly exciTed aBouT going ouT
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Lola wrote this book with the help of Alida Brill.
A World After This was published in 2010 by Devora Publishing.
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Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a profession-al art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture pre-sented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Wash-ington, D.C. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email [email protected] with questions and suggestions for future columns.
Winslow Homer loved the beauty of the Maine shore
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In Utah, you can explore the land from high to low. The arid deserts and the towering mountain ranges offer visitors a unique vantage point to enjoy the
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Avid skiers and snow-lovers head to Utah for its “dry” snow. In fact, the state is known for hav-ing the world’s greatest powder. There are 14 Alpine ski resorts in Utah. In 2002, Utah hosted the Winter Olympics. Since then, the state has seen an influx of visitors clamoring to enjoy its snow activities.
Things You Won’t Want to MissHome on the Range
More than 600 species of mammals, fish, birds and reptiles call Utah their home. It is the perfect place to visit for those who love nature and its creatures. In the winter, Hardware Ranch allows visitors to observe herds of a thousand or more elk in its mountains. The Green River’s crystal clear waters gur-
gle with rainbow and cutthroat trout. Birders, rejoice! Bring your binoculars and notebooks. The Great Salt Lake and its wetlands, a Western Hemisphere Shore-bird Reserve Network site, are critical for the millions of migrating birds from the Arctic Tundra to the tip of South America. Don’t leave Utah without a visit to Antelope Island State Park where bison, deer, Califor-nia bighorn sheep, antelope and other kinds of wild-life are free to roam. Although many of the animals in Utah are protected, there are places where elk hunting is permitted and where there is a variety of bird game such as wild turkey.
Snow LoversTime to pull on your gloves and sunglasses. Utah,
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next on your vacation. From the novice to the most experienced skiers, it’s easy to enjoy the best snow on earth!
This is the PlaceWith 450 acres, This is the Place National Park
features the Heritage Village Living History Experi-ence where visitors go back in time to explore Utah’s past. There are 40 original and replica homes and businesses that feature villagers demonstrating crafts, trades and home-making skills of the nineteenth cen-tury. The park also hosts This is the Place Monument that offers visitors a panoramic view of Salt Lake City.
Canyonlands National ParkThere are five national parks in Utah and each one
has distinct features for visitors. Canyonlands, locat-ed in southeastern Utah, is divided into districts: The River, Island in the Sky, the Needles and the Maze. In the River section, visitors can take in stretches of the Green and Colorado Rivers—both lazy and wild. The Island in the Sky is a huge mesa with paved roads and a scenic overlook. Myriad rock spires are located in the Needles, and the Maze has some of the wildest, most rugged country in the U.S.
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OK, back to dieting!Are you in—is that speaking
to you?!The eating marathon has finally
come to an end. That does not mean you cannot continue to eat if you like, but it does mean you can finally stop if you want to.
The High Holi-days are always a fantastic time to focus on renewal, change, moving forward differently, more positively. But one thing has not changed—they have remained one end-less meal from Rosh Hashanah right through Simchat Torah! Yom Kippur might seem like a respite, reducing the overall intake, how-ever the quantities ingested before and after at best make it a wash.
And now, we are all renewing our gym memberships, stalking our per-sonal trainers, or wearing out the rub-ber on our ellipticals; the one thing we are not doing is sitting at a table inhal-ing food for hours at a clip without coming up for air. We are just so done with that, finished, finito, we have had it—at least, that is, until this coming Friday evening!
One thing I can certainly say is, being an “Observant Jew,” we do get a lot of time to observe our waistlines expanding.
Let’s see, would we want it any other way?!
We could skip the meal and spend all day in Temple. Oh yeah, we already do that one day. I think we all know how that works for us!
We could spend all day both not be-ing in Temple and not having a big meal. Oh wait, we all do that al-ready too. It’s c a l l e d “ o u r
lives.”So what do these High Holidays do
for us by being in the synagogue and pounding these meals?
I think they give us time to con-nect to our Maker, bond with our fam-ily, and most importantly, try out new recipes!
I don’t only mean the Susie Fishbein recipes, I refer also to recipes for living more ef-fectively. After all, who can ever think clearly on an empty stomach?! Now think about it, the way we fill up our stomachs, we should be thinking clearly to the 10th power.
Listen: I don’t mean to harp on food, but I’m feel-
ing deprived, after all, it’s been a few days….
So here’s “Food For Thought”: Ab-solutely try to shed those extra pounds if you can. But if you can’t, here are some benefits you can focus on:
• More padding will keep you warmer in the cold winter ahead
• There’s more of you to love• You can join the new move-
ment—full figured is the new thin!• And remember some people
say, “More is less!”If you’re unmoved by these ratio-
nales and still committed to working on yourself, then that’s great, and I’ll see you out on the boardwalk.
And have a wonderful, inspired year!
Rivki Rosenwald is a certified life coach and relationship coun-
selor, as well as a space de-sign consultant. She
can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosen-
walds.com.
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS
Your Money Life CoachAllan J. Rolnick CPA
A Sweeter Tax Than Most
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When you hear the word “tax,” you probably think of some-thing the IRS takes out of
your paycheck. Or you might think of something they take out of an inheri-tance. But taxes affect virtually every financial transaction you make. Take, for example, that simple jar of honey lurking on the shelf in your refrigera-tor.
Americans eat more honey than anyone else in the world — about 400 million pounds of it a year. Most of it goes towards sweetening foods like ce-reals, cookies, and breads. Even whis-key produc-ers are adding honey to their blends to at-tract younger drinkers. (The Scotch Whis-key Associa-tion just stung Dewars for labeling their new “High-lander Honey” as “scotch” rather than “spirit drink.”)
Where does all that honey come from? Well, China is the world’s largest honey exporter. But Chinese beekeepers sometimes use pesticides banned here in the U.S. They some-times dry their honey by machine, which lets the bees produce more, but leaves the honey with a foul taste simi-lar to sauerkraut. Worst of all, Chinese producers sell their honey at prices as low as half of what our domestic pro-ducers charge.
Back in 2001, the U.S. government slapped Chinese honey with punitive tariffs, currently set at $2.63/kilogram, to protect American producers. Those taxes can triple the cost of Chinese honey. So today, about 40% of our honey comes from here in the U.S., with the rest coming from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and other countries.
What’s a poor Chinese beekeeper to do? Enter the “honey launderers.” Chinese producers send their honey to nearby countries like Malaysia, Viet-
nam, India, or Korea, and re-label it as coming from those countries. They add rice sugar, molasses, or fructose syrup to hide any unpleasant tastes or smells. (Ick.) They filter the honey to remove the pollen, which palynologists, or pol-len specialists, can use like a natural “fingerprint” to track down a honey’s origin. And they pocket the savings they create by evading the tax.
How much tax does the illicit honey avoid? A lot. Back in 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment officials charged 14 people with
a globe-trot-ting scheme to evade $80 million in pay-ments. And in February of this year, of-ficials busted two of the na-tion’s biggest suppliers for evading $180 million more. In a scene r e m i n i s c e n t of Donnie Brasco, offi-cials launched
“Operation Honeygate” and planted an agent “on the inside” for a year. The agent served as one supplier’s director of procurement, and the investigation led to five individual guilty pleas, two deferred prosecutions, and $3 million in fines.
What’s the lesson? Taxes are baked into the price of everything you buy, whether they’re even paid or not!
There’s not much we can do to help you avoid hidden tariffs on baked goods. Fortunately, we can help with the taxes that really count — taxes on your income, your payroll, and even your estate. If you’re busy as a bee, you deserve to keep everything the law allows.
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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A Sweeter Tax Than Most
When you hear the word “tax,” you probably think of some-thing the IRS takes out of
your paycheck. Or you might think of something they take out of an inheri-tance. But taxes affect virtually every
financial transaction you make. Take, for example, that simple jar of honey lurking on the shelf in your refrigera-tor.
Americans eat more honey than anyone else in the world — about 400
million pounds of it a year. Most of it goes towards sweetening foods like cereals, cookies, and breads. Even whiskey producers are adding hon-ey to their blends to attract younger drinkers. (The Scotch Whiskey Associ-
ation just stung Dewars for labeling their new “Highlander Honey” as “scotch” rather than “spirit drink.”)
Where does all that honey come from? Well, China is the world’s largest honey exporter. But Chinese beekeepers sometimes use pesticides banned here in the U.S. They sometimes dry their honey by machine, which lets the bees pro-duce more, but leaves the honey with a foul taste similar to sau-erkraut. Worst of all, Chinese producers sell their honey at prices as low as half of what our domestic producers charge.
Back in 2001, the U.S. government slapped Chinese honey with punitive tariffs, currently set at $2.63/kilogram, to protect American producers. Those taxes can triple the cost of Chinese hon-ey. So today, about 40% of our honey comes from here in the U.S., with the rest coming from Argentina, Bra-zil, Canada, and other countries.
What’s a poor Chinese beekeeper to do? Enter the “honey launderers.” Chinese producers send their honey to nearby countries like Malaysia, Vietnam, India, or Ko-rea, and re-label it as coming from those countries. They add rice
sugar, molasses, or fructose syrup to hide any unpleasant tastes or smells. (Ick.) They filter the honey to remove the pollen, which palynologists, or pol-len specialists, can use like a natural
“fingerprint” to track down a honey’s origin. And they pocket the savings they create by evading the tax.
How much tax does the illicit honey avoid? A lot. Back in 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforce-ment officials charged 14 people with a globe-trotting scheme to evade $80 million in payments. And in February of this year, officials busted two of the nation’s biggest suppliers for evading $180 million more. In a scene rem-iniscent of Donnie Brasco, officials launched “Operation Honeygate” and planted an agent “on the inside” for a year. The agent served as one sup-plier’s director of procurement, and the investigation led to five individu-al guilty pleas, two deferred prosecu-tions, and $3 million in fines.
What’s the lesson? Taxes are baked into the price of everything you buy, whether they’re even paid or not!
There’s not much we can do to help you avoid hidden tariffs on baked goods. Fortunately, we can help with the taxes that really count — taxes on your income, your payroll, and even your estate. If you’re busy as a bee, you deserve to keep everything the law allows.
Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at [email protected].
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