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Visitors hold
Israeli flag at
entrance
of Auschwitz
At Auschwitz 70th Anniversary: Survivors Caution The Young Generation Of New Crimes
Hachnosas
Hachnosas Sefer
Sefer Torah
Torah
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Agudath
Agudath Israel
Israel
Yarchei
Yarchei Kallah
Kallah
Auschwitz survivors have appealed to the world not to
permit a recurrence of the crimes of the Holocaust as they
mark 70 years since the camp's liberation. "We survivors do
not want our past to be our children's future," Roman
Kent, born in 1929, told a memorial gathering at the death
camp's site in Poland. About 300 Auschwitz survivors
revisited the camp for the ceremony under a giant tent.
Roughly 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there
Bibi, Nevermind
Offending Obama
ISSUE
Lessons from France - Aliyah is
the Cornerstone of Zionism
Isi Leibler...................................................2
“Stand Fast And See The
Salvation Of Hashem”
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff...............................12
My Friend, My Rebbe
Jonathan Gewirtz...................................17
Sound Advice For
The Workplace
Dovid Lieberman...................................29
MOSHE PHILLIPS AND BENYAMIN KORN
There is nothing wrong with an Israeli Prime Minister doing
his utmost to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,
even if it offends the sensibilities of the American president. A
nation that has experienced the world’s worst genocide just 70
years ago has not just a right but an obligation to take seriously
any existential threats that loom against it.
Roy Neuberger........................................10
What is Coaching and Who Might
Benefit From It?
Indyk Interferes Again On Israel
SHMULEY BOTEACH
IN THIS WEEK’S
between 1940 and 1945, when Soviet troops liberated it.
Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress,
told the commemoration: "Jews are targeted in Europe
once again because they are Jews... Once again young
Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of
Paris, Budapest, London and even Berlin.”
It is expected to be the last major anniversary event
survivors are able to attend in significant numbers.
The former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, has
called on Israel’s leaders “to stay out of America’s politics” — just
hours after he urged the United States to interfere in Israel’s
politics, something he himself has been doing for years.
The latest events began with the invitation to Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of the
U.S. Congress. The New York Times quickly sought a comment
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Just a Thought...On Zionism:
Embracing all Jews
Instead of rejecting from afar the state’s institutions
as devoid of Torah, how about accepting the invitation to come and try to influence from within?
AHARON WEXLER
The rise in terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel and abroad
the last few months puts into focus the question of what we
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Lessons from France Aliyah is the cornerstone
of Zionism
Isi Leibler
French Prime Minister Manuel
Valls courageously stated that “if
100,000 Jews leave, France will
no longer be France. The French
Republic will be judged a failure.”
He said that he did not employ the
term Islamophobia because it “is
often used as a weapon by Islam’s
apologists to silence their critics”
and called on his nation to wage
“a war against terrorism, against
radical Islam, against everything
that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom and solidarity.”
In a recent National Assembly
speech reminiscent of Emile
Zola’s “J’accuse,” he passionately
cried, “How can we accept that in
France … where Jews were martyred 70 years ago, that cries of
‘death to the Jews’ can be heard in
the streets? ... How can we accept
that French people can be murdered for being Jews? ... How can
we accept that in certain schools
and colleges the Holocaust cannot
be taught? ... How can we accept
that when a child is asked ‘who is
your enemy?’ the response is ‘the
Jew’?”
But alas, Valls’ noble remarks
were not echoed by a single senior
French government spokesman.
On the contrary, President Francois Hollande, while conceding
that the kosher supermarket murders were anti-Semitic acts, refused to even hint that this was an
act motivated by Islamic radicalism. He mumbled about “obscurantist” forces and even insisted
that “those who committed these
acts have nothing to do with the
Muslim religion” and that the
“main victims” were Muslims.
More galling for French Jews
was the absence of comparable
national demonstrations of sympathy or solidarity concerning the
anti-Semitic violence and murder
suffered during the preceding two
years and their unanswered appeals for increased security. The
authorities were far more concerned with their attempts not to
offend Muslims than with defending and protecting the besieged
and victimized Jews.
Further evidence of this was
reflected by the despicable manner in which Prime Minister Ben2
jamin Netanyahu was treated. Initially, Hollande had the gall to
suggest that the Israeli leader, at
the frontlines of the international
struggle against Islamic terrorism,
absent himself from the global
leadership gathering because his
presence would introduce the “divisive Israeli-Palestinian” issue.
That he could make such a request
to the head of the Jewish state in
the wake of the brutal anti-Semitic
carnage, was mind-boggling.
To make matters worse, when
Netanyahu made his intentions
clear that he was attending, the
head of the French National Security Council responded that Israel
would face dire consequences and
immediately invited Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas to demonstrate “evenhandedness.” Hollande subsequently also displayed his feelings
when he and his government delegation departed from the Grand
Synagogue just prior to Netanyahu’s address.
Hollande welcomed the presence of the corrupt and duplicitous Abbas, who exemplifies the
suppression of free speech which
the demonstration was condemning. But more importantly, he personally endorses the very
murderous anti-Semitic attacks
that Hollande condemned. The
French and the other European
leaders are aware that Abbas
formed a union (which failed)
with the genocidal Hamas, which
calls for the murder of all Jews.
He incites vicious hatred against
Israelis, pays salaries to murderers
of innocent civilians, provides
pensions for the families of suicide bombers, and glorifies the
most barbaric terrorists. Hollande
is aware that this abhorrent Holocaust-denier only recently sent a
formal condolence note to the
family of the terrorist who sought
to murder Rabbi Yehuda Glick.
Also in attendance was Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who engaged in anti-Israeli
diatribes, accusing Netanyahu of
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Semitic president, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, a supporter of Hamas,
who accuses Israel of being a
rogue terrorist state and Netanyahu a mass murderer, stood
side by side with Abbas the following day.
In this context, one must evaluate the future of French – and for
that matter European – Jewry. Can
French Jews feel assured that the
stirring condemnation of antiSemitism by Valls means that
Jews will be more secure in the
future? Hardly. Valls is a loner,
unable to turn the tide.
But hatred of Israel has become endemic and the media will
continue applying double standards against the Jewish state,
which invariably intensifies antiSemitism. Hollande and his leftwing supporters distinguish
between terrorists who kill
Frenchmen and those who kill
Jews residing in Israel. French
Muslims today represent a crucial
pillar of support for the socialists,
and no matter how they behave,
Hollande will continue groveling
to them.
The fact is that Jews are targeted and murdered because they
are Jews and the community is increasingly surrounded by enemies, including homegrown
killers with combat experience
gained fighting for jihad in Syria
and Iraq.
Major synagogues were even
closed on Shabbat to avoid
pogroms, which have previously
taken place. The president of
CRIF, the French Jewish community, Roger Cukierman, voiced appreciation that 10,000 French
troops were being deployed to
protect Jewish schools and institutions. But he pointed out that
when schoolchildren need to be
protected by army personnel with
machine guns and parents fear for
their children’s lives, such conditions inevitably spur aliyah.
Jews are terrified and often
feel obliged to conceal their identity, assimilate, or, worse still, endorse the obscene manner in
which their people are being
treated. It is hardly the environment for Jews to live in or bring
up children.
In this context, one must congratulate Netanyahu. His message
to French Jews was enormously
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the enthusiastic response he received. His call to French Jews to
make aliyah was mandatory for
the head of a Zionist state and
opinion polls show that over
three-quarters of Israelis endorsed
his involvement.
The attacks on him for “embarrassing” the French were to be
expected from the global and Israeli Bibi-hating media. Some
Jewish critics were reminiscent of
the pre-war Polish Jewish
Bundists who opposed Zionism,
calling on Jews to remain in Europe to fight for socialism. Today,
they argue that Jews must stay in
Europe to fight anti-Semitism and
that aliyah would represent a victory for our enemies.
Some Diaspora Jewish officials resembled their counterparts
prior to the Holocaust who con-
demned Jabotinsky’s calls to evacuate Europe as hysterical. A
“leader,” Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European
Jewish Association, even condemned Netanyahu for his
“Pavlovian calls for aliyah after
every terror attack,” demanding
that “Israel increase security” for
European Jews, calling for Jews in
Europe to be entitled to carry
weapons to defend themselves.
President Reuven Rivlin was
bitterly disappointing when he indirectly joined the chorus criticizing his prime minister by stating
that aliyah must stem “from love,
not fear of anti-Semitism.”
Jewish Agency Chairman
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on blood and allying ourselves
with the anti-Semites” and that we
should only encourage “positive
aliyah based on wishing to lead a
Jewish life rather than calling on
Jews to come because they felt
unsafe.”
What extraordinary words to
come from a heroic former Prisoner of Zion. If the chairman of
the Jewish Agency does not call
directly on Jews to make aliyah
when living under such terrible
conditions, the organization
should be closed down.
Zionists do not seek to eliminate the Diaspora. Besides, we
know that, short of mass exterminations, God forbid, the Jews of
Europe are not all going to make
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from Indyk, who is constantly
quoted by the news media since
the conclusion of his singularly unsuccessful term as the Obama administration’s chief envoy for
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
“Netanyahu is using the Republican Congress for a photo-op
for his election campaign,” said
Indyk, who apparently finds it inconceivable that the prime minister
of Israel might want to speak to
Congress about using Congressional sanctions to prevent Iran
from nuking Israel. “And the Republicans are using Bibi for their
campaign against Obama…It
would be far wiser for us to stay
out of their politics and for them to
stay out of ours.”
That line about both sides staying out of the other’s business
sounds reasonable and evenhanded. Until you realize that before he spoke to the Times, Indyk
let loose his real feelings via Twitter: “Why should Netanyahu be
able to speak and Herzog not,” he
angrily tweeted, referring to Israeli
Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog.
“If Boehner is placing Congress
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into the midst of the Israeli elections, why don’t the Democrats invite Herzog too?”
The answer to Indyk’s petulant
question is that Netanyahu is the
prime minister. Israel’s prime minister is invited to speak in other
countries, and the leader of the opposition is not, just as no Republican leader is invited to speak when
President Obama is invited to deliver an address in another country.
Note, by the way, that Indyk
served as ambassador in Israel in
1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was
prime minister, and 2000, when
Ehud Barak was prime minister.
We don’t recall him ever demanding that Netanyahu, who was then
the opposition leader, be invited
along when Rabin or Barak came
to the United States. For some reason, Indyk’s demand for “fairness”
and “balance” applies only when it
benefits the Israeli Labor Party.
The irony is that if there is one
person in the diplomatic world
who is well known for interfering
in Israel’s politics, it’s Martin
Indyk.
Consider:
— Knesset Members David
Levy and Aryeh Deri revealed on
July 26, 1995 that Ambassador
Indyk personally lobbied them,
and other MKs, to oppose a Knesset bill that would have made it
harder for Israel to give the Golan
Heights to Syria. (Agence France
Presse, July 26, 1995)
— Israel Television reported
on December 18, 1996, that Ambassador Indyk visited former
Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas party, and
asked Yosef to order Interior Minister Eli Suissa (a Shas representative) to block a housing project in
a part of Jerusalem that was beyond the 1967 line.
— The chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, MK Uzi Landau, revealed in March 1997 that Ambassador Indyk had been “pressuring
members of the government” and
“interfering in Israel’s internal political affairs.” (Haaretz, March 16,
1997)
— The Israeli daily Yediot
Ahronot reported on July 8, 1997,
that Ambassador Indyk “took part
in the effort” to block Prime Minister Netanyahu’s choice for finance minister.
It’s worth recalling that when
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Indyk was nominated, in 1997, to
serve as Assistant Secretary of
State, The New Republic opposed
the nomination—on the grounds
that as ambassador in Israel, Indyk
“distinguished himself by exhorting [President Clinton] to campaign for [Labor Party leader]
Shimon Peres” in the 1996 Israeli
elections. (Editorial, August 11-18,
1997)
That’s right, the same Indyk
who tweeted about inviting the
head of Israel’s Labor Party to address Congress, and then turned
around a few hours later and piously told the New York Times
that neither side should interfere in
the other’s politics—he himself
sought American presidential intervention to help a previous Labor
Party leader in an Israeli election.
Hypocrisy? Two-facedness?
Political bias? Sure, all of those
terms describe Martin Indyk. But
most of all, his behavior appears to
be guided by a desperate hope that
nobody will bother to take a look
at his own record.
The authors are president and chairman, respectively, of the Religious Zionists of America, Philadelphia, and
candidates on the Religious Zionist slate
(www.VoteTorah.org) in the World Zionist Congress elections
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purpose of Israel to serve as a
safety zone? Are we here only to ensure the physical well being of the
Jewish people? Is there not some
loftier greater goal to which we aspire? In a sentence, to borrow from
the old Zionist credo, we are here to
“build and be built.”
Our goal is to take the brilliance
of the Torah, which has been exiled
along with the Jewish people, and redeem it from the synagogues and
kitchens to which it has been banished. We aim to apply its wisdom
and light on a national level. No
longer should the questions asked of
rabbis be confined to the kashrut of
our pots, pans and meat; but are our
social welfare policies kosher? Are
we applying the Torah’s dictum of
“Justice, justice shall thou pursue” in
all the areas of our statecraft? Are we
living up to the Torah’s challenge of
us to be a “treasured people” and
“light unto the nations”? For 2,000
years we were able to rightly hide
behind the unfortunate position of
Jews in their dispersed lands; “everywhere a guest, nowhere at home.”
This allowed us to avoid the responsibilities that sovereign nations carry
to create a just and fair society.
The establishment of our state in
1948 did not just establish our sovereignty, but also declared our independence. Independence is not just
freedom from subjugation, but it is a
declaration of responsibility. We are
now responsible to take care of our
own people in our own special way.
When Zionism was first promulgated at the end of the 19th century
and early 20th, it met some of its
fiercest opposition from the Jews
themselves. Orthodox
Jewry was unprepared for a redemption that fell way short of the
supernatural miracles promised by
the Bible and ancient rabbis. After
struggling for so long to keep the
mitzvot against some of the harshest
of conditions, they just could not
imagine a redemption brought about
by people who did not keep Shabbat
or the dietary laws.
On the other side of the coin, the
Reformists and secularists were unprepared for any redemption at all.
They sought their messianic ideals in
the integration and assimilation of
the Jews within European society.
For them, “Berlin is our Jerusalem”
and “France is our Zion.” History has
proven how naive those hopes were.
Zionism is not just the restoration of the Jewish People to their his6
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torical homeland; it is the restoration
of Judaism to its rightful place as the
center of our national life. For too
long Judaism was confined and
shackled into the corner of most people’s lives; that dark, often ignored,
space called religion. Zionism is the
extraction of Judaism from its prison
and the rescue of its values. It’s an
opportunity to prove that religion is
not irrelevant nor out of touch with
the fundamental needs and concerns
of the modern man.
Our haredi brothers and sisters in
the Land of Israel are in an unique
position to help make this happen.
They represent some of the most
loyal Jews to Judaism and Jewish
peoplehood. They are fully committed to Jewish education and have a
birthrate that puts the Jewish secular
and religious-Zionist camps to
shame. The haredim believe in the
primacy of Torah, it is “their lives
and the length of their days.” What
they fail to understand is their responsibility to the rest of the people
of Israel. By continuing their “siege
mentality” the haredi world is disconnecting themselves from their fellow Jews and thus rendering the
Torah they represent impotent.
No one is asking the haredi public to abandon their values. Nor are
we asking them to embrace secular
life and culture. What we are asking
for is an embrace of Jews who are
different from them. An embrace of
their fellow Jews is not an acceptance of a lifestyle they do not condone. What it does entail is affording
the secular public the “right to be
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The Real Estate Board of New York’s Annual Banquet
By Leah
The Real Estate Board of New
York (REBNY) held its 119th Annual
Banquet at the New York Hilton in
New York City. More than 2,300
REBNY members and their guests attended the industry’s biggest event of
the year. The evening began with the
REBNY Board of Governors cocktail
reception benefiting the REBNY
Foundation followed by a sit-down
dinner. This exclusive event brought
together industry leaders, the city’s top
real estate professionals and elected
officials to network and honor leaders
in the real estate industry.
This year’s honorees included
Steven Spinola, President of REBNY,
with the Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award; Wiiliam
C. Rudin, CEO & Vice Chairman of
Rudin Management Co., with the
Bernard H. Mendik Lifetime Leadership in Real Estate Award; Barbara
Fox, President of Fox Residential
Group, Inc., with the Kenneth R. Gerrety Humanitarian Award; Peter
Hauspurg, CEO & Chairman of Eastern Consolidated, with the Louis
Smadbeck Broker Recognition
Award; Daniel Kindbergh, Senior
Vice President at Brookfield Property
Group, with the George M. Brooker
Management Executive of the Year
Award; and Glen Weiss, Executive
Vice President at Vornado Realty
Trust, with the Young Real Estate
Man of the Year Award.
“We are enormously proud to
honor our dear friend Steven Spinola
for all the spectacular work he does
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Steve’s professionalism, thoughtful
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REBNY Chairman Rob Speyer. “We
salute Steve and our other distinguished award winners for their exceptional contributions to New York
City and the entire industry.”
Public officials such as Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Senator
Charles Schumer, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Lieutenant Governor Kathy
Hochul, NYC Council Speaker
Melissa Mark-Viverito, NYC Attorney General Eric Schneiderman,
NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer,
Manhattan Borough President Gale
Brewer and NYC Public Advocate
Letitia James attended among others.
About REBNY: REBNY is the
City’s leading real estate trade association with more than 16,000 members.
REBNY represents major commercial
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Iran is a genocidal regime. It
has stated on countless occasions that it will destroy and
annihilate Israel. And it is now
building the doomsday
weapons that can translate rhetoric into action.
For years Iran has been hellbent on developing nuclear
weapons. The Obama Administration’s strategy to engage the
Islamic tyranny in talks has
produced no demonstrable results. Unfreezing Iran’s financial assets has only emboldened
the brutal regime in continuing
its genocidal rhetoric against
Israel and disgusting human
rights abuses.
While the administration indulges Iran’s stalling tactics,
Iranian centrifuges continue to
spin. And with every minute
that Tehran gets closer to realizing its diabolical nuclear
dream, the civilized world
inches closer to its peril. And
this is especially true of Israel,
which sits in the crosshairs of
Iranian rage.
Iran is running out the clock.
According to the IAEA, Iran already has 13,397 kilograms of
Uranium enriched to 3.5 percent Uranium-235. If they use
all 9,000 of their reactors at
Natanz, the Iranians could enrich this further to the weapongrade level of 90 percent
Uranium-235 in just over a
month and a half. And, if Iran’s
close ally North Korea can
serve as an example, they absolutely will.
The consequences of Iran obtaining a nuclear bomb are catastrophic — for Israel, the
Middle East, and the entire
freedom-loving world. Israel
would be under existential
threat and would have its hands
tied in any dealings with Iranian proxies such as Hamas,
Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.
The Middle East would be instantly destabilized, with a nuclear arms race certain to take
off. And with the rogue state
wielding end-of-days capabilities, the entire world would be
forced to witness all levels of
Iranian belligerence, virtually
unable to intervene.
With so much at stake, it seems
that the last thing we should be
concerned about is offending
President Obama. The American president is human just like
the rest of us. He can be wrong.
He can make mistakes, just like
the rest of us. He does not
enjoy the divine right of kings.
He is not infallible. And if he is
offended by being secondguessed by the leader of a na-
tion that had more than a million children gassed to death
seven decades ago, he’ll get
over it.
The implications of a nuclear
Iran for the world are far
greater than such simple considerations as the wounded ego
of the leader of the free world
or a breach of diplomatic protocol.
I do not envy the position of
Prime Minister Netanyahu. He
lives every day with the realization that if he errs in the
confrontation with Iran the consequences for his people are
catastrophic, devastating, and
irreversible. History will hold
him completely accountable for
his failure to protect Israel.
Now, when it comes to launching a military strike against the
Iranian nuclear apparatus, we
can argue that perhaps the risks
of something going horribly
wrong are simply too great.
Many have already said so. But
can the same argument really
be made of a speech delivered
to the United States Congress
by invitation of the House
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Speaker? What are the terrible
consequences that would ensue
that should prevent the Prime
Minister of Israel going before
the United States Congress to
call for increased sanctions
against Iran?
News reports are now saying
that Obama administration officials are threatening serious
consequences for Israel and the
Prime Minister because of this
breach of protocol. In fact,
Ha’aretz just quoted an anonymous U.S. official as saying
that “Netanyahu spat in our
face... there will be a price.” I
had no idea that Al Capone
worked in the administration.
Such mafia language is beneath
aides to the president of the
United States. I, for one, have
become fatigued with the continuous threats issued to the
press by “undisclosed sources”
in the administration against Israel.
Is it not unseemly for America
to continually issue anonymous
threats against it staunchest
ally, especially when the rest of
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Dr. Joseph Mercola
The Remarkable Effects of
Exercise on Cognition and
Brain Cell Regeneration
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process known as neurogenesis,
i.e. your brain’s ability to adapt
and grow new brain cells, regardless of your age. The featured article in Real Simple magazine
highlights a number of brainboosting benefits of exercise, including the following.
Exercise Shields You from Stress
and Depression
Exercise is one of the “secret
weapons” to overcoming depression, and studies have shown its
efficiency typically surpasses that
of antidepressant drugs. In fact, research has shown that in most
cases these drugswork no better
than a placebo – and can also have
serious side effects.
One of the ways exercise promotes
mental health is by normalizing insulin resistance and boosting natural “feel good” hormones and
neurotransmitters associated with
mood control, including endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, glutamate, and GABA.
Swedish researchers have also
teased out the mechanism by
which exercise helps reduce stress
and related depression. As it turns
out, mice with well-trained muscles have higher levels of an enzyme that helps metabolize a stress
chemical called kynurenine.
Their finding suggests that exercising your muscles actually helps rid
your body of stress chemicals that
can lead to depression. According
to the authors:
“Our initial research hypothesis
was that trained muscle would produce a substance with beneficial
effects on the brain. We actually
found the opposite: well-trained
muscle produces an enzyme that
purges the body of harmful substances. So in this context the muscle’s function is reminiscent of that
of the kidney or the liver.”
Recent research has also shown the
clear links between inactivity and
depression. Women who sat for
more than seven hours a day were
found to have a 47 percent higher
risk of depression than women
who sat for four hours or less per
day. Those who didn’t participate
in any physical activity at all had a
99 percent higher risk of developing depression than women who
exercised.
To Boost Creativity, Get Moving!
As noted in the featured article, exercise can also boost your creativity, and help you come up with
new solutions to problems. For example, researchers at Stanford
University found that walking can
increase creativity up to 60 percent. Even a casual stroll around
your office can be helpful.
According to the authors:
“Four experiments demonstrate
that walking boosts creative
ideation in real time and shortly
after... Walking opens up the free
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flow of ideas, and it is a simple
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Exercise Boosts Brain Growth and
Regeneration
As mentioned earlier, fascinating
research shows that your brain is
capable of rejuvenating and regenerating itself throughout your life.
This information is completely
contrary to what I was taught in
medical school. At that time, it was
believed that once neurons die,
there’s nothing you can do about it.
Hence deterioration and progressive memory decline was considered a more or less inevitable part
of aging. Fortunately, that’s simply
not true.
According to John J. Ratey, a psychiatrist who wrote the book
Spark: The Revolutionary New
Science of Exercise and the Brain,
there’s overwhelming evidence
that exercise produces large cognitive gains and helps fight dementia. The featured article cites
research showing that those who
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the world is going to hell in a
hand basket?
Perhaps the Obama administration should threaten President
Bashar Assad to stop slaughtering his people in Syria and actually, this time, do something
about it. Perhaps President
Obama should threaten devastating and immediate consequences for ISIS leader Abu
Bakr Al-Baghdadi should he
continue to kill Western
hostages with impunity, rather
than the just the airstrikes that
have not stopped the vile beheadings. Perhaps officials of
the Obama administration can
focus their energies on occasionally mentioning the words
“Islamic terror” rather than
continually threatening the sole
democracy in the Middle East
with “consequences.”
Israel is not America’s threat.
Why President Obama despises
Netanyahu so deeply is beyond
me. Can the explanation really
be that Bibi doesn’t accord
Obama sufficient respect? Even
if that were true, it would explain why Obama dislikes him.
But not why he positively despises him, seemingly more
than almost every other world
leader.
Regardless, the Prime Minister
of Israel is not elected principally to understand the mindset
of the American president. He
is elected first and foremost to
defend a nation that has experienced more hatred, more torture, more bloodletting, and
more wholesale slaughter than
any nation on earth. That Prime
Minister has the responsibility
to do everything in his power to
protect the Jewish people in Israel from a nuclear annihilation.
One holocaust is quite enough.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, whom
Newsweek and The Washington Post
calls “the most famous Rabbi in
America,” is the Founder of This
World: The Values Network, the
world’s foremost organization defending Israel in the media. He is the
author most recently of “Kosher
Lust” and 29 other books. Follow him
on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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munities will remain. Of course
we prefer aliyah based on choice
rather than last resort. But the
writing has been on the wall for
years. Those wishing for a full
Jewish life and a desire to bring
up proud Jewish children have no
future in Europe.
Those with financial means or
with professions that can be utilized in Israel should indeed pack
their bags and come now, as the
situation will only deteriorate.
Those unable to make aliyah
should at least encourage their
children.
Instead of negating its historic
role, the Jewish Agency should be
at the head of the pack endorsing
Netanyahu and promoting plans to
enable all Jews, including those
facing financial constraints, to
consider aliyah as the means of resolving their current predicament.
Some anti-Netanyahu politicians, including the ubiquitous
Tzipi Livni, accuse him of embarrassing and offending French and
European leaders by calling for
aliyah. Tough! Let them be embarrassed. Besides, they have already
largely abandoned us. Our obligation as Zionists is to call on those
who can to join us now. To equiv-
Rabbi Moshe Goldberger
CONSOLIDATING YOUR POTENTIAL
Avoid Envy
The final commandment
teaches:
“Do not covet your neighbor’s house, his wife, his servants,
his animals, or anything that belongs to your neighbor” (Shmos
20:14).
This commandment is on
the same line as honoring one’s
parents. What is the connection?
Some people covet the parents of
others, thinking if they had those
parents they would have turned
out better or had more things. Just
as one’s parents are unique to
them and their unique needs, so
are one’s possessions unique to
that person.
“Who is truly wealthy?
“One who rejoices with his
portion.” (Avos 4:1.)
The Torah teaches us to always be happy with what we
have.
Do not be envious of others.
Being grateful and appreciative for all of your fantastic
portions is the key to success in
life.
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Someone said that the
worst thing would be to come to
the end of one’s life in this world
and discover that he had lived
someone else’s dreams.
Hashem gives us the powers and the tools to develop our
full potential. Our goals and
dreams are available when we
turn to Hashem and pray for His
help 101 times. Cling to the system of 101-times with the realization that it defines your status as a
Servant of Hashem.
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ocate over calling for a mass
aliyah of Jews under terrible
duress is bizarre and a repudiation
of the Zionist DNA.
One need only observe the response of French Jews at a grassroots level to see how appreciative
they were of Netanyahu and his
message. The very fact that the
families decided to bury all four
Jewish victims in Jerusalem is resounding proof. But we pray that
we continue to welcome only living Jews from France to their historic homeland.
Isi Leibler’s website can be viewed
at www.wordfromjerusalem.com.
He may be contacted at
[email protected].
One of the most wellknown methods of retaining and
learning Torah is through simonim, mnemonics to help remember one’s lessons:
“Make for yourself simonim in order to acquire Torah”
(Shabbos 104a). One type of simonim that we can use is to develop lessons using numbers.
DUE TO WORDS OF TORAH IN THIS PUBLICATION, IT SHOULD BE TREATED RESPECTFULLY.
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Roy Neuberger
“STAND FAST AND SEE THE
SALVATION OF HASHEM”
Now we come to an intensely
dramatic moment.
“Egypt pursued them and overtook them, encamped by the sea….
The Children of Israel raised their
eyes and behold! Egypt was journeying after them and they were very
frightened…. They said to Moshe …
it is better that we should serve Egypt
than that we should die in the Wilderness!” (Shemos 14:9-12)
Israel was surrounded, Egypt on
one side and the sea on the other.
There was no way out. It was all
over. Or so it seemed.
Once we took a taxi in Yerushalayim. From the moment we entered,
the driver never stopped talking, a
whole “drasha” about the state of the
world. This was a real “Jerusalem
taxi experience”! He had a handle on
the exact state of the world. He gave
civilization another few months, and
then there would be a war like no one
had ever seen. The entire face of the
world would change. There would
be no more electricity, no more taxicabs, no more anything-that-we’reused-to. The earth would be blown
back to its primeval condition.
An Adam Gadol told me that the
Geulah Shelemah is coming a lot
sooner that the title of my book,
“2020,” would imply!
Several years ago, in Israel, we
had the privilege of speaking with the
tzaddik Rabbi Shachne Zohn zt”l,
who was Rosh Kollel of Kollel Kodshim v’Taharos in Yerushalayim for
nearly forty years. Before that, he
served as a Rosh Mesivta and Rosh
Yeshiva at Yeshivah Torah Vodaas. In
his youth, he studied at Yeshivos Mir
and Kamenitz in Europe and received
semicha from Reb Boruch Ber Leibowitz, zt”l. Beside all this, and
many other accomplishments, he is
one of the few living people to have
had the privilege of spending time
with the Chofetz Chaim.
Several years ago, Rabbi Zohn
had a remarkable dream. Here is
how he describes it: “I saw the
Chofetz Chaim … and he said to me
to make known in the world that the
Redemption is close, and it is necessary to be ready for the Redemption.”
Being humble by nature, Rabbi Zohn
did not mention his dream publicly.
Then the dream was repeated! The
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Chofetz Chaim came once again and
repeated the message, at which time
Rabbi Zohn revealed the dream publicly.
My friends, we are coming very
close to a re-play of the scene at the
shores of Yam Suf. We are utterly
surrounded by enemies who are
vastly more powerful than we. Yes, I
know that we are living in an “enlightened” world in which these
things “don’t happen” any more, but
how long is it since the Nazi Empire
– y’mak shmo – came close to dominating the entire world?
“In November, 1942 the holy
Jews of Europe were being martyred.
Hitler, may his memory be erased,
was striding east and west, trying to
crush the light of G-d… In Lenox
Hill Hospital a baby was born to
prosperous parents ensconced in the
assimilated German-Jewish world of
Upper Manhattan. He was circumcised by the doctors like almost every
baby boy, but never given a bris. He
was named Roy Salant Neuberger.”
(Quoting my book, From Central
Park to Sinai: How I Found My Jewish Soul)
The world survived that cataclysm, but not by much. On the day
of my birth no one could have predicted whether the madman would be
stopped. At that time in history, there
were still places for a Jew to run (if
he could get there), islands of safety
which the plague would not touch
during the course of that conflict.
But now it is different. There is
no spot in the globe where a person
can feel safe. Countries around the
world are building weapons capable
of making the entire planet uninhabitable. In many cases those countries
are controlled by people who do not
care about the consequences of their
actions, dictators whose hatred of Israel is so all-consuming that they are
willing to destroy the world in order
– G-d forbid! – to harm us. Their
weapons can be delivered by ships
offshore or propelled from great distances, weapons against which it is
almost impossible to protect oneself.
In addition, our cousins, the children of Yishmael, are to be found in
the four corners of the world, and
they are not peaceful.
And so, my friends, we find our-
selves once again “encamped by the
sea,” with enemies on one side and
the water on the other. In Israel, this
is literally true. We have spent many
Shabboses in the settlement of Beit
El. When you look out, you see the
City of Ramallah right on your
doorstep, and the call of the muezzin
sounds as if it were in your backyard.
But in fact Jewish communities
throughout the world find themselves
increasingly isolated and singled out
for attack from every side.
What are we to do? What is the
Torah answer?
We do believe that Hashem is
standing with us forever, and that the
Torah was given to us to sustain us in
every generation. “Aitz chaim hi…
it is a tree of life for those who grasp
it.” (Mishlei 3:18)
The words of Moshe Rabbeinu
are eternal; absolutely nothing has
changed. Modern weapon systems
and the trappings of technology are
irrelevant. When you peel away the
outer layers, we are still standing at
the shores of the Yam Suf and Moshe
Rabbeinu is still speaking to us.
“Do not fear! Stand fast and see
the salvation of Hashem that He will
perform for you today … Hashem
shall make war for you, and you shall
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remain silent.” (Shemos 14:13)
Yes, my friends, let’s remember
that Hashem is in complete control of
all events, from the rippling of a
blade of grass to the ranting of dictators. He has always protected us and
He will always protect us; we have
only to “stand fast,” grasping the
Torah and living the sanctified life
that has protected us throughout the
ages. Nothing new is called for, my
friends; just something very, very old.
“From the straits I called upon Gd; G-d answered me with expansiveness. Hashem is with me; I have no
fear; how can man affect me? …. All
the nations surround me … They encircle me … in the Name of Hashem
I cut them down!” (Tehillim 118)
May we soon see the Salvation of
Hashem!
Roy Neuberger’s book, 2020 VISION,
is available in ENGLISH, HEBREW, SPANISH, FRENCH,
RUSSIAN & GEORGIAN.
Electronic edition via www.feldheim.com.
Roy is also the author of FROM CENTRAL PARK TO
SINAI: How I Found My Jewish Soul,
available in ENGLISH, HEBREW,
RUSSIAN & GEORGIAN,
and WORLDSTORM: Finding Meaning & Direction
Amidst Today’s World Crisis.
ROY AND LEAH NEUBERGER SPEAK PUBLICLY
ON TOPICS RELATED TO HIS BOOKS AND ARTICLES.
Email: [email protected]. Websites: www.tosinai.com
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“THE SHMUZ”
Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
Parshas Beshalach –
The Merit of Trusting
HASHEM
And HASHEM said to
Moshe, “Why shout at Me? Speak
to the Jewish People and they
should cross. Shemos 14:15
After months of witnessing the hand of HASHEM, the entire Jewish nation — three million
strong — marched out from slavery to freedom with flourish and
fanfare.
Escorted by clouds of
glory, walking through a desert
made smooth by overt miracles,
they travelled as one. It seemed
that the troubles of the Jewish
people were finally behind them,
and they were being escorted to
their final redemption . . . until
the clouds directed them to a dead
end – the sea. Stopping there, the
Jewish people looked up and saw
Mitzraim chasing after them. With
nowhere to turn, they waited
while Moshe called out to
HASHEM. HASHEM answered
back, “Moshe, why do you cry out
to Me? Speak to the Jewish people
and let them travel.” At that point,
the entire nation crossed the Yam
Suf.
Rashi is bothered by the
expression that HASHEM used:
“the Jews need only travel.” What
did HASHEM mean by that? How
could they travel when an entire
sea was in the way? Rashi explains that HASHEM was saying
there is nothing that will stop the
Klal Yisroel because they are worthy of the greatest miracles ever
known to man. Rashi then enumerates the reasons that they are
so worthy. 1. The merit of the
Avos. 2. Their own merit. 3. The
merit of the trust that they had in
HASHEM at that moment.
How is trusting in HASHEM a
merit equal to the Avos?
The difficulty with this Rashi is
that he lists all three reasons in
same breath as if they are equal,
and clearly they aren’t. The first
two, the merit of the Avos and the
Jews’ own merit, refer to overall
perfection across the gamut of
human activity. The Avos were
living, breathing Sifrei Torah. We
learn from their every action and
thought. Their combined merit is
hard to imagine. And even the
second cause, the merit of the entire Jewish people, was stupendous. While not every member
had remained on the highest level,
as a nation they had remained
loyal to HASHEM. After spending months witnessing
HASHEM’s direct involvement in
their lives, they had grown to
great levels across many different
areas: chessed, emunah, ahavas
Yisroel, emes… How can we
compare one single aspect — their
trust in HASHEM — to the merit
of the Avos or to the merit of all
of their actions put together? It
would seem to be dwarfed by
comparison. Yet Rashi put these
together as if they are all equal
reasons that HASHEM would create miracles for the Jewish people.
HASHEM’s involvement in the
world
The answer to this question is
based on understanding
HASHEM’s relationship to this
world. The Chovos Ha’Levovos
explains that because HASHEM
created this world, HASHEM
feels a responsibility, if it could
be, to sustain it. Much like if I invite you to my home, it is my obligation as host to take care of
your needs, so too HASHEM
feels almost obliged to support all
of His creations. However, there
are different levels to HASHEM’s
direct involvement in the running
of this world, what the sefer
Derech Hashem calls “hashgacha
klalis” and “hashgacha pratis.”
Hashgacha klalis, or general intervention, refers to HASHEM’s involvement in the “big picture”
issues: famine, war, epidemics,
natural catastrophes, and maintaining the multitude of systems
that allow for life as we know it.
It is a given that HASHEM is
constantly and permanently involved in the running of this
world at that level. However, the
specific details and the day-to-day
running of the world HASHEM
has given over to a host of forces
that He created and maintains, but
allows to actually carry out the
laws that He set. These forces determine much of the outcomes
that befall humanity.
Hashgacha Pratis, or personal intervention, is very different. This
refers to HASHEM’s personal involvement in a nation’s or a person’s life. It includes HASHEM
actually supervising directly,
watching over and taking care of
the needs of those individuals.
General intervention is a given; it
is something that HASHEM assures to all of creation as a
birthright. Personal intervention is
quite different; it must be earned.
By dint of being the children of
the Avos, the Jewish nation merits
personal intervention — provided
they keep certain conditions. One
of these is that they must recognize Who runs the world. In this
regard, it functions on a continuum. The more a person trusts in
HASHEM, the more, if it could
be, HASHEM feels an obligation
to take care of that person, and the
more HASHEM will be directly
involved in that person’s life. It is
almost as if HASHEM says,
“How can I not take care of him,
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he relies on Me, he trusts in Me.
This seems to be the answer as to
why the “merit of their belief in
HASHEM” was so pivotal at
Krias Yam Suf. In terms of the objective weight, there is no comparison between the merits of the
Avos and their current trust in
HASHEM, but trust in HASHEM
operates on a different level. It
alone can be the reason that
HASHEM will save a people. It
was almost like HASHEM was
saying, “How can I not take care
of them? They trust in Me. They
rely on Me. I have to save them.”
And that trust alone was reason
enough to split the sea.
The reward for Trust – HASHEM
takes care of us
This is a powerful lesson to us in
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gion of their brains, which is important for memory. According to
the authors:
“After controlling for age, gender,
and total brain volume, total minutes of weekly exercise correlated
significantly with volume of the
right hippocampus. Findings highlight the relationship between regular physical exercise and brain
structure during early to middle
adulthood.”
Exercise also prevents age-related
shrinkage of your brain, preserving
both gray and white matter in your
frontal, temporal, and parietal cortexes, thereby preventing cognitive
deterioration. The authors stated
that:
“These results suggest that cardiovascular fitness is associated with
the sparing of brain tissue in aging
humans. Furthermore, these results
suggest a strong biological basis
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Rabbi Naphtali Hoff
Based on the quizzical look
that I often get when I tell people
about my work, I have concluded
that coaching is a poorly understood craft. Some associate it with
therapy. Others confuse it with
consulting. Still others look at me
wondering where my whistle is.
While coaching may share some
similarities to all of the above, the
kind of coaching that I do in supporting executives and educators
is quite different from the aforementioned.
Coaching is a training or development process in which an individual is supported while trying
to achieve a specific personal or
professional goal. Coaching differs from consulting in that it does
not tell people what to do but
rather uses powerful questioning
techniques and assessment tools
to help coachees dig deep within
themselves and arrive at their own
solutions. In so doing, the coach
helps the client to own the situation and take steps to improve it.
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The underlying premise behind coaching is that all of us are
resourceful and possess the inner
awareness and capacity to improve our situations. The job of a
coach is to ask, to prod and to
offer rhetorical suggestions in a
manner that allows coachees to
clarify their goals and identify the
steps that will help them get there.
Then the coach needs to hold his
client accountable to those goals
to ensure forward movement and
genuine progress.
There are many types of
coaches. The most common is a
life coach, who helps individuals
succeed in the daily game of life.
There are also niche coaches, such
as career and business coaches,
executive coaches, and performance coaches. Coaches can help
with many things, including relationships, work/life balance, communication, goal setting, change
management and much more.
How might a life coaching
conversation sound? Let’s look at
the effect of trusting in HASHEM.
While we are obligated to act in
the ways of this world, we are
equally obligated to trust in
HASHEM. We have to go out and
do our part, follow the laws of nature, knowing all the while that
exactly that which HASHEM has
decreed will come about — no
more, no less, no sooner, no later.
However, the amount of our trust
in HASHEM will directly affect
how much HASHEM will intercede on our behalf, and this may
have a huge difference in many
situations. For example, there may
be times when we don’t warrant
receiving that which we need.
Whether it’s health, success, or
sustenance, it may well be that according to the letter of the law, we
don’t special assistance, and certainly not the right to ask
the following example:
Daniel: I have a time management problem.
Life Coach: Tell me more.
What makes you think that you
have that problem?
Daniel: I just don’t get everything done on my to-do list. The
more I achieve, the more I wind
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for the role of aerobic fitness in
maintaining and enhancing central
nervous system health and cognitive functioning in older adults.”
Similar findings have been found
by other scientists. For example,
one observational study that followed more than 600 seniors, starting at age 70, found that those who
engaged in the most physical exercise showed the least amount of
brain shrinkage over a follow-up
period of three years.
How Does Exercise Affect Brain
Power?
One of the mechanisms by which
your brain benefits from physical
exercise is via a protein called
Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor
(BDNF). Exercise initially stimulates the production of a protein
called FNDC5, which in turn triggers the production of BDNF.
BDNF is a remarkable rejuvenator
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HASHEM to intervene on our behalf. In that situation, it may be
our trust in HASHEM alone that
will bring us HASHEM’s help.
When we rely on HASHEM and
trust in Him, HASHEM, if it could
be, thereby feels almost obligated
to take care of us.
Trust in HASHEM is the basis of
our belief system. It is also one of
the most comforting thoughts that
a human can come to. And it is
also one of the most effective
ways for us to secure HASHEM’s
direct involvement in our lives —
even in a manner that we might
not otherwise deserve.
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up adding to the list.
Life Coach: How would you
know that you’ve solved your
time management problem? What
would success look like?
Daniel: Well, I’d get everything done on my list and do so
with time to spare.
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in several respects. In your brain,
BDNF not only preserves existing
brain cells, it also activates brain
stem cells to convert into new neurons, and effectively makes your
brain grow larger.
Research confirming this includes
a study by Kirk Erickson, PhD, in
which seniors aged 60 to 80 who
walked 30 to 45 minutes, three
days per week for one year, increased the volume of their hippocampus by two percent. The
hippocampus is a region of your
brain important for memory. Erickson told WebMD:
“Generally in this age range, people are losing one to three percent
per year of hippocampal volume.
The changes in the size of the hippocampus were correlated with
changes in the blood levels of the
brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(BDNF).”
Erickson also found that higher fitness levels were associated with a
larger prefrontal cortex. He called
exercise “one of the most promising non-pharmaceutical treatments
to improve brain health.” Two additional mechanisms by which exercise protects and boosts your
brain health include the following:
Reducing plaque formation: By altering the way damaging proteins
reside inside your brain, exercise
may help slow the development of
Alzheimer’s disease. In one animal
study, significantly fewer damaging plaques and fewer bits of betaamyloid peptides, associated with
Alzheimer’s, were found in mice
that exercised.
Decreasing BMP and boosting
Noggin: Bone-morphogenetic protein (BMP) slows down the creation of new neurons, thereby
reducing neurogenesis. If you have
high levels of BMP, your brain
grows slower and less nimble. Exercise reduces the impact of BMP,
so that your adult stem cells can
continue performing their vital
functions of keeping your brain
agile.
In animal research, mice with access to running wheels reduced the
BMP in their brains by half in just
one week. In addition, they also
had a notable increase in another
brain protein called Noggin, which
acts as a BMP antagonist. So, exercise not only reduces the detrimental effects of BMP, it
simultaneously boosts the more
beneficial Noggin as well. This
complex interplay between BMP
and Noggin appears to be yet another powerful factor that helps ensure the proliferation and
youthfulness of your neurons.
Exercise Prevents Both Brain and
Muscle Decay
Showing the interconnectedness
between muscle and brain health,
BDNF also expresses itself in the
neuro-muscular system where it
protects neuro-motors from degradation. The neuromotor is the most
critical element in your muscle.
Without the neuromotor, your
muscle is like an engine without
ignition. Neuro-motor degradation
is part of the process that explains
age-related muscle atrophy.
So BDNF is actively involved in
both your muscles and your brain,
and this cross-connection appears
to be a major part of the explanation for why a physical workout
can have such a beneficial impact
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on your brain tissue. It, quite literally, helps prevent, and even reverse, brain decay as much as it
prevents and reverses age-related
muscle decay. The most important
message from studies like these is
that mental decline is by no means
inevitable, and that exercise is as
good for your brain as it is for the
rest of your body.
Diet and Fasting Also Plays a Role
Interestingly, fasting and exercise
trigger very similar genes and
growth factors that recycle and rejuvenate both your brain and muscle tissues. These growth factors
include BDNF and muscle regulatory factors (MRFs). These growth
factors signal brain stem cells and
muscle satellite cells to convert
into new neurons and new muscle
cells respectively. This also helps
explain why exercise while fasting
can help keep your brain, neuromotors, and muscle fibers biologically young.
For more information on how to
incorporate intermittent fasting
into your exercise routine for maximum benefits, please see my preCONT.ON P14
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Rabbi Yoshua Yonason Lustig, zt”l (1924-2015)
Saved by the Kindertransport, Eminent Torah Scholar
On Shabbos Bo, 4th Shevat, January 24, Rabbi Yoshua Yonason
Lustig, zt”l (1924-2015), returned
his holy soul to Heaven. Rabbi
Lustig served as Rosh Yeshiva,
Dayan, and Rav. As a young boy
in Pressburg, his father Rabbi
Moshe Shmuel Lustig, z”l Hy”d,
gave him instructional guidelines
to preserve his Yiddishkeit and included him the Kindertransport,
the series of rescue efforts which
brought thousands of refugee Jew-
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vious article, “High-Intensity Interval Training and Intermittent Fasting - A Winning Combo.” Besides
the issue of when you eat, what
you eat is of great importance.
Sugar suppresses BDNF, which
helps explain why a low-sugar diet
in combination with regular exercise is so effective for protecting
memory and staving off depression. Sugar, and fructose in particular, will also obliterate your
body’s production of human
growth hormone (HGH) when consumed within two hours after a
workout, and HGH production is a
major benefit of high intensity interval training (HIIT).
CONT. FROM P13
Exercise Can Help Keep You
Sharp Well Into Old Age
While it’s never too late to start exercising, the earlier you begin and
the more consistent you are, the
greater your long-term rewards.
Having an active lifestyle is really
an investment in your future wellbeing, both physically and men-
RABBI GERSHON TANNENBAUM
ish children to Great Britain from
areas controlled by Nazi Germany
between 1938 and 1940.
The Kindertransport was a rescue
mission that took place immediately prior to the outbreak of the
Second World War. The United
Kingdom took in 10,000 Jewish
children from Germany, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the
Free City of Danzig. The children
were placed in welcoming British
foster homes, hostels, schools and
tally. I believe that, overall, highintensity interval training really
helps maximize the health benefits
of exercise, while simultaneously
being the most efficient and therefore requiring the least amount of
time. That said, ideally you’ll want
to strive for a varied and wellrounded fitness program that incorporates a wide variety of exercises.
I also strongly recommend avoiding sitting as much as possible, and
making it a point to walk more
every day. A fitness tracker can be
very helpful for this. I suggest aiming for 7,000 to 10,000 steps per
day, in addition to your regular fitness regimen, not in lieu of it. The
science is really clear on this point:
you do not have to lose your mind
with advancing age. Your brain has
the capacity to regenerate and
grow throughout the entire human
lifespan, and exercise is perhaps
the most potent way to ensure your
brain’s continued growth and rejuvenation.
Kamenetsky arranged the marriage ceremony and sheva berachos fo Rabbi Lustig. Later, when
Rabbi Lustig prepared his sefer,
Lee Yehoshua, Rabbi Kamenetsky’s letter of warm endorsement
was included.
Rabbi Lustig achieved prominence as a Torah scholar. In 1957,
just 12 years after the Holocaust,
he published Kuntress Dovor
B’Ito, which had earned the treasured letter of endorsement from
Rabbi Yonason Steiff, zt”l (18771958), Rosh Beth Din of Budapest
and later Vienner Rav in
Williamsburg. Kuntress Dovor
B’Ito went through six printings.
farms. Often these children were
the only members of their families
that survived the Holocaust.
Almost all of the children were
placed in non-Jewish, non-religious, non-Orthodox environments. Some of the children who
came from religious Jewish
homes demanded kosher food and
to be assigned to religious homes.
Their requests were addressed and
arrangements were made to accommodate them. Amongst those
children, in addition to Rabbi
Lustig, were Rabbi Hersh
Ginzberg, Rosh Beth Din of Agudas Horabbonim, and Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Chief Rabbi of
the Jerusalem Badatz.
Coming to the United States after
the Holocaust, Rabbi Lustig became a regular in the household of
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, zt”l
(1891-1986), Rosh Yeshiva Torah
Vodaath. Rabbi Lustig became a
confidant of Rabbi Kamenetsky.
When Rabbi Kamenetsky surveyed cemetery plots, Rabbi
Lustig was with him. Rabbi
Rabbi Lustig served as rebbi, and
then principal, of Yeshiva Chasan
Sofer; Rosh Yeshiva Kos Yeshios;
Rav of B’nai Israel of Linden
Heights in Boro Park; and Igud
Dayan. He is survived by his Rebbetzin, sons, daighters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
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Brooklyn.
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| Dr. Ari Korenblit
PARENTING MATTERS:
RESOLVE BEGINS EARLY
FAMILY MATTERS
In one of those classic stories that
nearly border on the fable and
apocryphal, parents bring their
child to a sage for advice as to
when to commence his education.
The sage upon learning that the
infant is now three years old, is
said to remark “you are three
years late!” Interestingly, even
that sage may be totally incorrect,
as the fascinating book The Secret
Life of the Unborn Child by Verny
and Kellog (Dell 1981) reveals: A
fetus can respond to speech patterns at twenty weeks, can kick in
time to music at twenty-five
months, and understand the subtle
shifts in its mother’s emotions at
six months. It can develop an ease
and immediate facility with the
language – and even languages –
it heard in-utero, and even – as the
authors relate – have a “memory”
of a musical piece played by its
mother while a fetus. These ideas
are meant to teach mothers, that as
certain as a proper diet and health
have a powerful effect on the
fetus, as does the birth experience,
so too do the mother’s thoughts
and feelings; her psychological
disposition.
The ideal is providing a nurturing
milieu; for the birthing parents to
maintain an environment rich in
language with mother and father
engaged in scheduled active conversation. This is not only a stimuli-rich Petri dish-like incubator,
but also fosters a calm equilibrium
that strongly affects the psychological state of the mother. An
open relationship with a spouse
yields a more peaceful relationship hence a pregnancy with less
strum and drank. The chemicalneural indices of the mother are
essentially unfiltered pathways to
the fetus, as her state of mind
while nursing and holding her
baby can contagious /affect her
child.
By all accounts, babies learn very
rapidly, mastering the perfect crying/wailing volume and pitch that
will summon the
mother/breast/feeding quickest.
Other learned, manipulative behaviors appear with necessity with
alacrity. What has been fascinating to me in the study of human
behavior is when the more sophisticated behaviors are acquired,
Emotional Yad L’Achim Bris
Milah Brings Family Back
A moving ceremony was celebrated recently at Yad L’Achim;
the bris milah of a baby born to a
young woman rescued by the organization from an Arab village.
Making the ceremony even more
poignant is that it succeeded in reuniting the woman and her parents
for the first time since she left
home to marry an Arab.
The joyous mother, Ahuva*,
25, was overcome by tears. She
was reconnecting to her family
and her people, in a process that
began just a few months earlier
when she contacted Yad L’Achim
to ask for help.
The woman, Ahuva, had gone
through years of personal turmoil,
including a very difficult period as
the wife of an Arab. This final
step led her parents to complete
sever ties with her.
“After her rescue, she shared
with me her great pain over the
loss of her family,” said a Yad
L’Achim social worker who was
assigned to Ahuva immediately
after the rescue. “The family had
been furious with her and she was
too embarrassed to approach them
and ask about reestablishing ties.
“As difficult as things were
for her during her pregnancy, she
was determined to hold a bris for
her son, to bring him to the
Covenant in accordance with Halachah…
“From the moment Ahuva
contacted Yad L’Achim, we’ve
been at her side, helping meet her
every need. Once the baby was
born, it was only natural for us to
CONT.ON P17
namely negative suggestibility
and its permutations. When and
why do these manifest? There are
babies that ‘refuse’ to eat, to the
point that it is life threatening.
When the physical factors are
eliminated, what psychological
benefit can there be for the infant?
This question was better understood almost epiphanically when I
recently learned of an infant, who
had learned to walk. When the
parents were present, the infant
only crawled and acted as if walking were not yet in its repertoire.
For the care-giver and grandmother, when the parents were not
present, the child showed mastery
of walking. So too, we are all familiar with children – and even
adults — who seem to act helpless, and even ‘stupid’ in the presence of a particular parent or
parents, while appearing quite
adept otherwise. What begets
this?
Invariably, it is the innate striving
for a measure of control and selfcontrol that is operative. A declaration of independence is marked
by – just that – a refusal to conform and abide by others commands and wishes. By not readily
complying or acceding to the will
of others, the child has established
its own identity. Another factor
that might be influencing the particular resistant, negatively-sug-
gestible behavior is a desperate attempt by the child to feel a measure of control in an environment
where their life might be out of
control. The child that refused to
present the walking skill-set to its
parents had been diagnosed with
leukemia. As we can imagine, its
life was terribly chaotic, replete
with invasive and painful medical
procedures occurring at unpredictable (to the child) intervals,
without comprehensible explanations. This child now had a theatre
wherein it could exert control.
Years later, that child waxed athletic in school, engaging in all
sports with gusto. In the presence
of the father, he continues to appear rather spastic. The lesson for
all parents is to be most circumspect in the presence of your
child’s behavior however puzzling
to you. Unfortunately, no matter
how introspective we tend to be,
and how well we can analyze another’s quandary, we possess a
blind spot towards being fully
cognizant of the psychological dynamics in our own vortex. Nevertheless, there is always an
underlying reason, with a good
explanation.
Dr. Ari Korenblit is a licensed psychotherapist and marriage counselor
working with children, adolescents, singles and couples, with offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Phone
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JEWISH LIFE | Daniel Keren
A Kosher Cookbook for Those
Suffering Or Not Afflicted with
Celiac Disease
(“Gluten Free Around the World:
A Journey of Food, Travel & Extraordinary Adventure” by Aviva
Kanoff, 241 pages, hardcover,
published
by Brio.)
From the author of the highly acclaimed “The No-Potato
Passover” cookbook that won the
Gourmand Award for Best Jewish
Cuisine in the USA comes a new
book sure to gain notice for those
looking out of the box for traditional kosher recipes. Ms. Aviva
Kanoff, a graduate of the French
Culinary Institute and a veteran
personal chef has just come out
with a new cookbook titled
“Gluten Free Around the World.”
According to the Mayo
Clinic a gluten-free diet is one
that excludes the protein gluten
that is found in grains such as
wheat, barley, rye and triticale
that is a cross between wheat and
rye. Primarily a gluten-free diet is
utilized by those suffering from
celiac disease that is estimated to
affect three million Americans or
one percent of the population.
Gluten can if digested by
people suffering from celiac disease or wheat allergies cause inflammation in the small intestines.
Changing to a gluten-free diet can
help such individuals to control
their signs and symptoms and also
prevent complications.
Ms. Kanoff’s new cookbook is broken into eight sections
beginning with breakfast and continuing on to soups & salads, side
dishes, vegetarian dishes, fish
dishes, poultry options, meat selections and most importantly in
my opinion – desserts.
Her gluten-free cookbook
offers readers her favorite gluten
free products such as King Arthur
gluten free multi-purpose flour or
Jeff Nathans gluten free Panko
flakes (a choice of either seasoned
or plain), Tofutti sour cream (free
of both gluten and milk), Tamari
gluten free soy sauce and Bob’s
Red Mill gluten free all-purpose
baking flour.
Like most cookbooks
being published today,
Ms.Kanoff’s “Gluten Free Around
the World” is chock full of knock
out photographs making you just
want to try out some of the recipes
that she came across in her travels
around the world. Besides going
to the normal European countries
such as Ireland, England,
France or
Italy, her new
cookbook includes exotic
dishes from
Ecuador, Vietnam, India,
Thailand,
Cambodia, Indonesia, and
Morocco. Not
exactly the
type of travel
itinerary that
you would
want your Bais Yaakov daughter
or granddaughter to imitate.
Photos of some of the colorful locals or native chefs who
shared their recipes along with selected postcards give a distinct
offbeat flavor of Ms. Kanoff’s
gluten-free cookbook. The dishes
HOFF
CONT. FROM P12
16
Life Coach: How do you like
to go about solving this problem?
Can you think of a problem that
you’ve solved in the past that is
similar to this one?
And so the conversation continues. Perhaps at some point the
coach would present Daniel with
an “urgent/important” matrix or
another tool to give him a means
through which to determine what
to do in which order (or what to
delegate or even completely remove from the agenda).
Another example brings home
the challenge of leaders in today’s
demanding and ever-changing
workplace.
Barry: Our business is stuck in
neutral and we really need to
make some changes around here.
Executive Coach: What kind
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look so tempting that even if you
don’t suffer from celiac disease or
similar wheat allergies that would
require a gluten free diet, you
probably would be tempted to try
and cook them in order to be able
to taste these colorful recipes.
Among some of the more
interesting culinary titles I found
in “Gluten Free Around the
World” is Onion Lover’s Spinach
Scramble on page 20, the Moroccan Mint Beet Salad on page 46,
the Indian Spiced Roasted Chickpeas on page 68, Bhurtha (a Curried Roasted Eggplant) on page
101, Olive Tapenade Roasted
Salmon on
page 141,
Coconut
Crusted
Chicken with
Plum Dipping Sauce
on page 161,
Fajitas al
Sombrero on
page 191 and
Bailey’s Irish
Mousse on
page 211.
Ms.
Kanoff’s
“Gluten Free
Around the World” seems like a
delightful cookbook to try out
anyway and give as gifts whether
or not your health requires such a
restricted diet. It should be available in both Jewish bookstores or
in culinary shops. Or you can
order it from Amazon.com
of changes are you referring to?
Barry: We have to restructure
our reporting system and become
less bureaucratic. Some of our
younger people in particular are
feeling stifled and our product line
is stagnant.
Executive Coach: Is there
something that’s stopping you
from addressing these concerns?
Barry: I have some entrenched
employees who have been with
me for years. Very loyal. Generally hard working. But they don’t
seem open to change how we’ve
done things and explore new possibilities.
Executive Coach: How can
you envision getting them to see
another point of view and become
more open to your goals?
Barry: Well… If it were me, I
wouldn’t want anyone driving
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Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz
“The Observant Jew
My Friend, My Rebbe
Reflections on the Life and legacy of R’
Dovid Winiarz z”l (The Facebuker Rebbe)
Some people become Rebbes
because they are natural-born
leaders. Dovid Winiarz became a
Rebbe because there are so many
people who need to be led.
I won’t write about his early
years growing up in Columbus,
Ohio because I don’t really know
much about that time in his life. I
won’t try to tell you what he was
like as a boy because I didn’t
know him then. This article is not
a biography and I didn’t interview
people for it.
Instead, this is going to be the
feelings and insights of one man –
me – about the person who became my best friend (as he was
for so many others) in just a short
time for far too brief a period.
I’m not exactly sure when or
YAD L’ACHIM
CONT. FROM P15
help realize her dream of celebrating a bris milah.”
But Yad L’Achim knew it
wouldn’t enough to arrange the
mohel and the meal. The ceremony wouldn’t be complete for
Ahuva if her family wasn’t there
to celebrate with her.
The social worker approached
the parents and informed them of
the birth of the boy and of the upcoming bris. “She has cut off all
how I first met Dovid Winiarz. I
believe it was on Facebook, (a
large social media virtual community) where I was gratified to find
someone whose values and
hashkafa I shared, who seemed to
effervesce with Simchas
HaChayim and whose core values
were truth, justice, and the Torah
way.
Like a shepherd watching over
his boss’s flocks, Dovid would
gently guide people back to
HaShem by sharing words of
Torah, jokes, smiles, and answering questions. With a background
in Kiruv, he saw Facebook as a
dangerous land which he hoped to
help people navigate. He knew
people were getting lost and
would need someone to show
them the way back home to their
loving Father in Heaven. With
guidance from his Rebbi, R’
Reuven Feinstein Shlit”a, and a
bracha that he remain safe online
(one which he renewed annually)
Dovid opened up shop as the
Facebuker Rebbe (to stay under
the radar of Mark Zuckerberg who
had previously shut down Dovid’s
page as a Facebook “Rabbi.”)
I must
have happened
across his
page and
made some
comments
or sent him
messages.
He didn’t
remember it
that way
and was
sure we
must have
met offline,
in the “real” world, perhaps after
he saw a copy of my Migdal Ohr
parsha sheet. I don’t recall, but it
doesn’t matter. We became close
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friends instantly. With Dovid, it
was always that way because
everyone who came in contact
with him (well, ALMOST everyone) immediately felt the love he
had for them. (There were those
in certain online groups who
didn’t want guidance, who were
angry at HaShem or Yiddishkeit
for what some people had done
under the guise of “frumkeit,” and
though Dovid
tried to reach
them, they resisted. Even
they, however,
acknowledge
that he was
never rude or
insulting to
them.)
He had
been a campus
rabbi in College of Staten
Island, a community of
which he was a huge pillar,
though I don’t know if everyone
would realize to what extent. He
CONT. ON P37
ties with the Arab and asks with
all her heart that you attend the
bris and act as the sandak,” the social worker implored the father.
They broke down and came.
Not just the father and mother, but
the entire family.
The high point
of the ceremony
came when the father, wrapped in a
tallis and sitting in
the chair of the sandak, placed his hands
over his daughter’s
head and gave her a
brachah. There
wasn’t a dry eye in
the house.
“This just goes
to show to what extent the Gates of
Teshuvah (repentance) are not
locked”, said a senior
Yad L’Achim official. “It also shows
that the Gates of Hope are wide
open both for the women trapped
in Arab village and those who are
engaged in the holy work of helping rehabilitate them”.
For more information visit
www.yadlachim.org or [email protected]. Yad L’Achim: 4018 18th Ave,
Brooklyn, NY 11218. Tel: 1-866-923-5224
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Cabbage Sauerkraut
Potato
Lévana Kirschenbaum was co-owner of Levana Restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side (alas, recently closed after thirty two years), and the pioneer in Kosher upscale dining. She is a cooking teacher and cookbook author, and gets countless devoted fans for her fearless, practical and nutritious approach to cooking. She gives
weekly cooking demos, and gets cooking demo engagements around the country. She
has published “Levana’s Table: Kosher Cooking for Everyone”, “Levana Cooks DairyFree!”, and a book-dvd set based on her demo series called “In Short Order”. She is
currently at work on her next cookbook, scheduled to be published in June 2011: “The
Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen: Glorious Meals Pure and Simple”. She is launching a line
of all-natural spelt desserts, called, what else, Lévana. Her weekly cooking demos take
place at her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Get ready for dinner and a
show! Go onto her website to find out more about her demos, cookbooks, desserts,
and entertaining stories at www.levanacooks.com
I look for every excuse to use the
humble cabbage. Talk about gastronomie sans argent, with nutrition worth its weight in gold.
Cabbage and caraway have a natural affinity, and team up with the
potatoes to produce this delightfully funky soup.
The addition of the fermented
sauerkraut makes it a wonderfully
healthy choice, and adds such intense flavor that the addition of
any meat product becomes virtually superfluous. I hope you always
welcome, as I do, a delicious vegetarian soup!
Creaming this soup is an innocent
20
trick I use to get kids to eat it:
while they might discard the ingredients they can spot in the soup,
they will greatly appreciate the
sum total of all these “controversial” and totally undetected ingredients: Trust me: Tried and true!
Ingredients:
1/3 cup olive oil
2 medium onions, quartered
2 large leeks, white part and the
soft green parts, sliced thin
6 large cloves garlic
3 ribs celery, peeled and cut in
chunks
2 large potatoes, peeled and cut
into large chunks
1 bunch dill, fronds and stems
1 medium head cabbage, cut into
large chunks
1 4-cup jar natural sauerkraut, liquid and all
4 cups canned crushed tomatoes
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3 tablespoons paprika Salt to taste
12 cups (3 quarts) water
3 tablespoons caraway seeds
Pepper to taste
Instructions:
Heat the oil in wide soup pot. In a
food processor, coarsely chop
onions, leeks, garlic, celery and
add to the hot oil. Sauté until
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STRATEGIES
| Rifka Schonfeld
Director of S.O.S. (Strategies For Optimum Success)
Fighting In The Family
SIBLING RIVALRY
In Kate Duke’s charming children’s book entitled, The Tale of
Pip and Squeak, Duke illustrates
the challenges of different siblings
living together:
Pip and Squeak are two bickering
brothers. They share a home, but
can’t get along. Squeak’s singing
hurts Pip’s ears. The fumes from
Pip’s paintings give his brother
fits of coughing. Everything the
mouse brothers do becomes a
competition, including their annual gala celebration. One year,
their efforts to outdo each other
nearly lead to disaster – but a surprising brotherly collaboration
saves the day.
of another child’s world. The child
is not forced to live in a world
only populated by grown-ups.
Living with siblings required negotiating skills. Brothers and sisters learn about compromise – and
they learn how to make up.
Now, on to the inevitable issue of
sibling rivalry. It doesn’t matter
how good a parent you are, your
kids will at some point feel that a
sibling got more attention, more
gifts, or more cake than they did.
Children often see parental love as
a finite quality – therefore – if you
give a certain amount to one child,
you no longer have any for them.
Convincing your children that you
have enough love to go around is
the first step towards reducing
sibling rivalry. However, there are
also multiple steps you can take to
reduce sibling rivalry that help
build social skills, self-esteem,
and family bonds.
Fighting Against
Sibling Rivalry
Before Baby
This process can start before the
birth of a new child. Informing
your older children of a new arrival before the birth will allow
them to adjust to the idea that they
will now be sharing their parents
with an additional sibling. Also,
when you return home from the
hospital, be sure to spend a few
moments with each child individually in order to ensure them that
“Mommy is home and still loves
being with you.”
Stay Out of It
The first rule when dealing with
sibling rivalry is to step in only if
there’s a risk of physical harm.
When the fighting is not dangerous, the best advice is to allow
your children to work out their issues on their own. Through disagreements, children learn
conflict resolution and how to
compromise. If you constantly get
involved, they do not have the opportunity to grow.
Authoritative Not Authoritarian
Even with preparing your children
for the birth of a new child, sibling rivalry inevitably arises because children with different
CONT. ON P25
Duke’s lyrical and imaginative
story highlights a common and
important issue in many households: sibling rivalry. Children
who are born into the same family
do not automatically get along or
like each other. Yet, they are
placed in close proximity, sometimes even sharing a room. The
challenge for those children and
parents is to figure out how to
work together to make life easier
and more meaningful. Is sibling
rivalry inevitable or it is something families can overcome
through social skills training?
Sibling Rivalry: Causes, Myths
and Facts
Before we get into the drawbacks
of having siblings, I should point
out the many benefits of growing
up in a home with multiple children. Marian Borden Edelman, the
author of The Baffled Parent’s
Guide to Sibling Rivalry, points
out the emotional and developmental benefits of siblings:
On a simple level, a sibling provides ready companionship. Kids
enjoy the company of their peers.
Fantasy play (imaginative play) –
an important element of a child’s
development is more fun with
someone at around the same developmental stage.
Having a sibling means being part
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temperaments are sharing the
same resources and space. How
can you set rules that allow children to grow as individuals without addressing issues of jealousy?
The first rule I always teach parents is “be authoritative, not authoritarian.” Authoritative means
setting clear rules and boundaries
that are rational and consistent.
For instance, if your son is upset
because your daughter got a present for her birthday, simply state,
“Everyone gets presents on their
birthday. When it’s your birthday,
you will get a present and she
won’t.” Don’t say, “Stop crying!
It’s silly to be jealous over a toy
you wouldn’t even play with anyway.” Setting clear boundaries
without inducing guilt allows
children to attempt to understand
the world they are leaving in.
Through these consistent rules,
they gain self-esteem and additionally have an easier time functioning in the outside world.
Find the Positive
Often, a child will pick a fight or
throw a fit that is directed at another sibling because they crave
your attention. For instance, if
you are doing homework with
your first grader, your two-yearold might start throwing her
blocks at the four-year-old in
order to take your attention away
from your first grader with homework. Instead of responding with
anger at the two-year-old (and
giving him the attention – albeit
negative – that he is seeking), tell
your four-year-old to stay away
from the two-year-old. Then, if
your two-year-old decides to
apologize to their older sibling or
clean up the blocks, praise her for
her efforts.
Remember, if you respond to the
negative action with attention, she
has gained her objective. As Borden writes, “Accentuate the positive. Praise a child when he is
behaving well so that he associates good behavior with parental
attention.” This technique allows
child to understand that positive
actions will be rewarded, setting
them up to continue to try in the
future.
Take Action
How many of us find ourselves
saying, “If you don’t stop bothering your sister, I am going to take
away your [favorite toy]?” Often,
we threaten – and sometimes follow through. Instead of threatening, take action – but I don’t
mean that you should take the favorite toy away. Rather, stand up,
take your child gently by the hand
and lead him to an activity that he
enjoys (or needs to accomplish).
For instance, if your son will not
stop taunting his older sister,
move him to the train table in the
playroom. Then, later when he is
no longer focused on getting negative attention, talk to him about
how he enjoyed playing with his
trains more than bothering his sister. Taking action instead of
threatening teaches children that
changing course when they are
stuck in the midst of a non-productive action can have positive
results. In the future, they might
be able to apply it to other areas
of their lives.
An Opportunity for Growth
Sibling rivalry is a challenge in
most family, but you can also use
it as an opportunity for your children to gain important social
skills that will benefit them later
in life.
An acclaimed educator and education
consultant, Mrs. Rifka Schonfeld has
served the Jewish community for close
to thirty years. She founded and directs the widely acclaimed educational
program, SOS, servicing all grade levels
in secular as well as Hebrew studies. A
kriah and reading specialist, she has
given dynamic workshops and has set
up reading labs in many schools. In
addition, she offers evaluations G.E.D.
preparation,, social skills training and
shidduch coaching, focusing on building self-esteem and self-awareness.
She can be reached at 718-382-5437 or
at [email protected]. . You
can view the web at rifkaschonfeldsos.com.
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THE
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Cherry & Almond
Galette
JAMIE GELLER
wait all season for the tart cherries. They are brightly flavored
and taste like …a cherry! The
sweeter cherries just don’t have
the oomph that the tart variety
does. While not great for eating
out of hand, tart cherries are
amazing and
complex in
baked items and
in ice cream and
jams.
Prep Time : 30
min
Cook Time : 50
min
Ready Time : 1
hour, 20 min
7 tablespoons butter (I use salted
butter for more flavor)
1/3 cup almond paste
½ cup sugar
2 large eggs
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup cake flour (not self ris-
8 Servings
Ingredients
For the pastry
6-3/4 oz. (1-1/2 cups) unbleached
all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon table salt
5-1/2 oz. (11 Tablespoons) cold,
unsalted butter
1 large egg yolk
3 Tablespoons whole milk
For the frangipane
So I’m back from our glorious
vacation to a land far far away
and I am grateful for the family
time and the fun in the sun. My
skin enjoyed the warmth, the
healing time and the break from
makeup, so I’ll stick to a nonmakeup related article to keep
the vacation vibe going.
ing)
For the cherries
3 cups pitted tart cherries
2 teaspoons lemon zest
1 cup of sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch
1 egg, whisked
2 tablespoons sugar
Audible Books
CONT. ON P27
By Racheli Fried
computer) and it helps me enjoy
books in a whole new way. Besides makeup, another thing I
Something Is Cooking
With Mindy
HISTORY HYSTERIA
As the smiling sun beckons and
we march toward summer vacation, you may have noticed that
June is just about over. This obviously means school’s out along
with all its lessons and tests.
But I’d like to tell you a story
about a lesson I’ve learned in The
School of Life. I call it the “History
Lesson” and here’s why:
In our high school faculty room
one recess, I took part in an interesting conversation. It went something like this (in Hebrew of
course…):
“You know Mindy, that three
layer Pesach cake recipe you gave
me is such a hit! Every time I make
it, I get so many compliments. I
even use it all year for my gluten
sensitive son. It makes him so
happy that for once he can enjoy a
cake everyone else wants too.”
“Oh, I’m so glad you took my
word for it and saw for yourself
that it’s delicious and so easy to
make too. But you know, it’s not
exactly my recipe. The original
recipe is from my sister-in-law.”
“So tell her I really love her
LOVE is reading. But, with
K”H a family of six, I often
don’t find the time to read a few
I just really wanted to share
something that brings me so
much joy and happiness lately.
It’s certainly better than any bottle of hilight or “inner glow” that
I can think of. Nothing I can
recommend here can make you
more beautiful than feeling
happy on the inside and this new
“find” of mine brings me that
kind of joy every time I use it.
It’s called Audible and it’s a
website/App on my phone (or
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recipe.”
“Actually, if I remember correctly, she told me she got it from
her mother who got it from her
neighbor before she moved away.”
“Well, I don’t know your
mother’s former neighbor…”
“Neither do I…” I had to
admit.
The bell rang at this point, putting an end to our “history lesson”.
On the way to my 12th graders,
a dusty, buried story of yore suddenly arose, flooding my memory.
It was early Friday morning when
the phone near my bed rang stubbornly. Spending the previous
night awake with a few cranky
kids, I planned to sleep-in, unbothered this morning. But the caller on
the other end didn’t think I deserved to.
“How did you ever?!” was her
opening line.
“How’d I everwha’?” I sort of
slurred, simultaneously clawing
through the giant cobweb which
was actually my brain still on
“sleep mode”. What was I being
accused of?
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chapters, much less a book on
the daily. It can sometimes take
me weeks if not months to finish
an entire book and it’s been a
shame because I enjoy nothing
more than reading a fantastic
book. When I was younger, I’ve
been known to have my nose in
my books 24/7 and my mother
reminds me that I used to even
attempt to read in the
shower...who could put the book
down for even a minute??
With Audible, you can “read”
anyplace. Anytime. You download the App to your phone or
computer, choose from thousands of books, and you are set.
A soothing voice transports you
to your very own land far far
away while you cook, get
dressed or drive to your destination. Really any time! I hope
you treat yourself and enjoy this
treasure and it brings you an
inner glow that’s truly beauty
from the inside out. xoxo
THE
JEWISH
GELLER
CONT. FROM P26
Directions:
For the pastry
Combine the flour, sugar, and
salt in a stand mixer fitted with a
paddle attachment (or if mixing
by hand, in a medium bowl). Cut
the butter into 1/2-inch cubes and
add them to the flour. On low
speed, mix the butter and flour
until the flour is no longer white
and holds together when you
clump it with your fingers, 1 to 2
minutes.
In a small bowl, mix the egg
yolk and milk and add them to the
flour mixture. On low speed, mix
until the dough just comes together, about 15 seconds; the
dough will be somewhat soft.
Dump the dough onto a clean
counter and work it with the heel
of your hand, pushing and smearing it away from you and gathering it up with a bench scraper and
repeating until the dough comes
together and is pliable). Turn the
dough out onto a sheet of plastic
wrap, press it into a flat disk, wrap
it in the plastic, and let it rest in
the refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes (or up to four days) before
rolling it out.
Line a heavy-duty rimmed
baking sheet with parchment. Remove the dough from the refrigerator; if the dough is very firm, let
it sit at room temperature until its
pliable enough to roll, about 10 to
15 minutes. On a floured surface,
roll the dough into a round that’s
about 13 to 14 inches in diameter.
Transfer the dough round to the
baking sheet and put it in the refrigerator while you prepare the
filling.
For the Fragipane
Place all the ingredients in a
food processor and pulse until the
mixture is creamy and well combined.
Store the frangipane in a covered container in the refrigerator
for up to 5 days or freeze for 2
months.
For the Cherries
Toss the cherries with the
sugar, lemon zest and cornstarch.
Position a rack in the center of
the oven and heat the oven to
350°F.
Assemble:
Smear ¼ inch layer of frangipane over the rolled galette
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dough, leaving a 1 ½ inch broder
all around.
Spoon the cherries over the
frangipane.
Gather the sides of the dough
toward the center. You can pleat
the dough if desired. Don’t worry
if the edges look a little ragged.
Brush the dough with the
whisked egg and sprinkle with
sugar.
Bake 50 minutes or until the
galette is browned. Don’t worry if
some of the cherry juice leaks out
of the dough.
Cool the galette on a rack.
Chef’s note-Frangipane is a
creamy spread similar to a pastry
cream and is used in recipes as a
filling. Marzipan is a stand-alone
confection and can be shaped into
animals or shapes.
MINDY
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“How did you dare publish our
recipe in the newspaper?!”
Unfortunately, I couldn’t for the
life of me catch on to what she was
saying (shouting). Which recipe in
which newspaper?
One thing I did know, judging
from the urgency of her voice, was
that she wanted an explanation fast.
So I tried:
“I got the recipe from my friend
who told me I could use it for the
newspaper,” This sounded pretty
lame even to my ears. “And besides, notice it’s not the exact same
recipe as the original.” I finished
with a little more confidence.
But the caller was still unsatisfied, claiming that I’d “stolen” a
family recipe that goes back generations.
This historical story occurred
over two decades ago, at the beginning of my writing career and
shook me up so thoroughly, I
planned to quit writing recipes,
cold turkey. But before I did, I
asked a friend if she had an idea
how to get around this problem.
“Of course!” she answered
brightly. “All you need to do from
now on is find out whose recipe it
was originally, before you publish
it. Then your problems will be
over!”
Sure! So instead of making,
baking and writing recipes, I’ll be
busy phoning, looking and finding
who created each one… No prob!
From my friend to her neighbor to
her cousin who’ll send me to her
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Lessons From Trees:
a Tu Bishvat Message
Dr. Richard H. Schwartz
Some of my most important
lessons in life I learned from
Jewish verses about trees.
From the following I learned
that I should be an environmental
activist, working to help preserve
the world:
In the hour when the Holy
one, blessed be He, created the
first person, He showed him the
trees in the Garden of Eden, and
said to him: “See My works, how
fine they are; Now all that I have
created, I created for your benefit. Think upon this and do not
corrupt and destroy My world,
For if you destroy it, there is no
one to restore it after you. (Ecclesiastes Rabbah 7:28)
From the following and the
rabbinic commentaries on it I
learned that I should avoid destruction and should conserve resources:
When you shall besiege a
city a long time, in making war
against it to take it, you shall not
destroy (lo tashchit) the trees
thereof by wielding an ax against
them; for you may eat of them,
but you must not cut the down;
for is the tree of the field a man,
that it should be besieged by
you? Only the trees of which you
know that they are not trees for
food, them you may destroy and
cut down, that you may build
bulwarks against the city that
makes war with you, until it fall.
(Deuteronomy 20:19, 20)
The following helped convince me that I should be a
vegan:
And God said: “Behold, I
have given you every herb yielding seed which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree
that has seed-yielding fruit — to
you it shall be for food.” (Genesis 1:29)
From the following I learned
that as a Jew I should strive to
serve as a positive example:
And they came to Elim,
where were 12 springs of water
and 70 palm trees; and they encamped here by the waters.
(Deuteronomy 15:27) Rabeynu
Bachya saw a much deeper message. He stated that the 12 springs
represented the 12 tribes and the
70 palm trees represented the 70
then nations of the world. He
stated that just as the 12 springs
nourished the 70 palm trees, the
12 tribes (the Jewish people)
should serve to “nourish” the
world by serving as a good example.
From the following I learned
to consider the consequences of
my actions on future generations:
While the sage Choni was
walking along a road, he saw an
old man planting a carob tree.
Choni asked him: “How long will
it take for this tree to bear fruit?”
“Seventy years,” replied the man.
Choni then asked: “Are you so
healthy a man that you expect to
live that length of time and eat its
fruit?” The man answered: “I
found a fruitful world because my
ancestors planted it for me. Likewise, I am planting for my children.” (Ta’anis 23b)
From the following I learned
how important it is to be involved
in the natural world:
In order to serve God, one
needs access to the enjoyment of
the beauties of nature - meadows
full of flowers, majestic mountains, flowing rivers. For all these
are essential to the spiritual development of even the holiest of people. (Rabbi Abraham ben
Maimonides, cited by Rabbi
David E. Stein in A Garden of
Choice Fruits, Shomrei Adamah,
1991).
From the following I learned
the importance of acting on my
knowledge and beliefs:
Whoever has more wisdom
than deeds is like a tree with many
branches but few roots, and the
wind shall tear him from the
ground... Whoever has more
deeds than wisdom is like a tree
with more roots than branches,
and no hurricane will uproot him
from the spot. (Pirke Avot 3:17)
From the following I learned
the importance of working for a
more peaceful world:
And He shall judge between
many peoples, and shall decide
concerning mighty nations afar
off; and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more.
But they shall sit every man
under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall make them
afraid; for the mouth of the LORD
of hosts hath spoken. (Micah 4:35)
Last but far from least, from
the following I leaned how the
Torah is a guide to a happy, productive, and fulfilling life:
[The Torah is] a tree of life to
those who hold fast to it,
and all who cling to it find
happiness. Its ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all its paths are
peace. (Proverbs 3: 17-18)
Nesius of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha
Led by Senior Gedolei Yisrael
from Eretz Yisrael and America
Leading Gedolim Convene at Home of
Vizhnitzer Rebbe to Urge Participation in
Daf HaYomi B’Halacha
Chaim Gold
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“I feel that we are in yemos
haMashiach! I had tears in my eyes
when I saw senior Gedolei Yisrael
from all three Moetzos Gedolei
HaTorahs sitting at one table coming together to encourage Klal Yisrael to learn a daily daf of
halacha.” Those were the words of
Rabbi Avigdor Berenstein, a member of Dirshu’s hanhala, who merited being present at the historic
event.
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The first kinnus of the Nesius
of Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program was a demonstration
- a demonstration of the beauty of
Klal Yisrael and a demonstration
on how important it is for every
Jew to undertake the daily learning
of halacha. So important that senior
Gedolei Yisrael, Roshei Yeshiva
and Admorim led by the centenarian Rosh Yeshiva, HaGaon HaRav
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SOUND ADVICE FOR
THE WORKPLACE
Abe has been with our management firm nearly since its inception
and knows our company backwards and forwards. He’s proven
himself over and over again and is
now an important backbone at the
company. Perhaps he’s become too
much of a backbone, however. The
other day I overheard him promise
a tenant a new refrigerator, on another occasion he forwarded an advance payment to a supplier, a
different time super in one of the
buildings was fired and a new one
hired. And it all happened without
me being consulted. When I expressed doubts about the wisdom
of his actions, Abe laughed it off.
“Trust me,” he said. “I know what
I’m doing.’ He may, in fact, know
what he’s doing, but Abe knows I
expect to be consulted on matters
such as these. I’m beginning to
wonder if he doesn’t hold too much
power.
Business owners who are
involved in every strand of day-today happenings are apt to micromanage to the detriment of their
own business interests. By keeping
a hand in every pot, they forget the
hard rule of ‘delegate or die’ and
often sink their own ship.
A business owner must not
only know how to let go, and pass
authority onto his employees, but
also how to avoid interfering; he
must remember that there’s a reason the employee was hired.
Growing companies are successful
because they give latitude and authority to employees, motivating
them to work well, allowing them
to feel effective and make sound
business decisions. When a superior keeps on knocking the legs out
from beneath an employee it’s hard
for them to remain motivated and
productive.
If Abe is making sound business
decisions why don’t you focus on
your end of the business and allow
him to do what he can do well?
I’m concerned that allowing too
much freedom will allow him to
take too large a piece of the pie.
The dominant reason an
employee may sometimes grow too
big for his britches is because his
fundamental need for respect isn’t
being met. In that case, he’ll look
for more power and control which
he thinks will translate into more
respect.
It may also be for other reasons like money (rarely though), a
lack of job satisfaction, needing
more autonomy, or work-place atmosphere.
So, how do I keep him on my side
without having him walk away
with the business?
The same way trapping
flies with vinegar won’t work,
clamping down harshly on an employee won’t either. Showing respect for and trust in his decisions
and allowing him to express indi-
viduality will temper his need for
control while fostering loyalty to
the business. Depending on the
business’s structure, an employer
should look for room in the business where the employee can
stretch his wings without flying too
far away.
Increasing his job satisfaction, such as allowing bonus vacation days or to work from home
once a week will further increase a
positive relationship between the
two of you and most likely obliterate the aggressive control completely.
Aren’t there people who simply
like the feel of power in their
hands? Will he be pacified this
way, or will that simply whet his
appetite for more?
Years ago, I knew a guy
who manufactured ketchup packets. Along came a fast food restaurant that opened up nearby and
turned to this guy’s company, requesting ninety percent of their
ketchup packet production for their
new eatery.
Their amazing, once-in-alifetime offer was turned down.
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ANSWERS
TO THIS
WEEK’S
PUZZLES!
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Sudoku Puzzle
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Complete the grid so that every row, column and
3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
6 7 2 8 4 1
3 9 5
8 9 4 6 3 5
2 1 7
1 3 5 7 2 9
6 4 8
2 1 7 9 5 6
8 3 4
9 8 3 1 7 4
5 2 6
4 5 6 2 8 3
9 7 1
3 2 1 5 6 7
4 8 9
5 4 9 3 1 8
7 6 2
9 6 8 4 9 2
1 5 3
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Saul M. Berger CFE, CPA, CFF
PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM FRAUD
WHAT IS OUR PASSWORD - PART 1
A week ago Sunday I started out the
same as many Sundays had before.
I went food shopping in one of the
Five Towns’ glatt kosher supermarkets, where the aisles were less than
half as crowded due to winter intersession. I found a register with no
line (a miracle!), proceeded to
empty my cart onto the conveyer
belt (without having to use that
skinny stick mechitza thing, and
pulled out my credit/debit card issued by a quite well known, large
bank that has insomnia (they never
sleep) in order to swipe and pay.
Everything seemed to be going fine
with all my bags loaded into my
wagon, until the cashier informed
me that the card was not processing.
Now, I knew that it should have
worked, so I swiped a second time,
with the same message – not
processed and not approved! I always carry more than one card with
me, just for situations like this, so I
swiped that card, it was approved,
and the receipt was paid. Of course,
for me, this was just the beginning
of the story. As an investigator, I
could not wait until Monday to get
to the bottom of this mystery. I
called the 800 number, entered my
card number, and was informed that
“we cannot access your information
at this time, please try again later.” I
surmised that maybe the system was
down on a Sunday morning for routine maintenance; so I tried again on
Monday with the same result! I then
attempted to log in to my online
banking website and was given a
similar message as the telephone
system. So I went into a local
branch on Tuesday to get the scoop,
and was told that access to my account was put on hold as a precaution against the Home Depot data
breach and credit card leak from last
year! I expressed my frustration
over the fact that I was never informed that they were going to do
this, and the bank admitted that they
did not have the correct contact information for me in their system,
but never attempted to acquire it!
They informed me that a new card
was being sent to me as a replacement due to safety concerns, but
they will “unblock” my current card
immediately. This experience got
me thinking about the state of security regarding accounts and credit
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cards used by the public.
Look around. Leaks and dumps—
hackers breaking into computer systems and releasing lists of
usernames and passwords on the
open web—are now regular occurrences.
Security breaches happen so often
nowadays, you’re probably sick of
hearing about them and all the ways
you should beef up your accounts.
Even if you think you’ve heard it all
already, though, today’s passwordcracking tools are more advanced
and cut through the clever password
tricks many of us have used. Our
passwords are much less secure
than they were just a few years ago,
thanks to faster hardware and new
techniques used by password crackers. Inexpensive graphics processors enable password-cracking
programs to try billions, yes, billions with a “b”, of password combinations in a second; what would
have taken years to crack now may
take only months or maybe days.
How do our online passwords fall?
In every imaginable way: They’re
guessed, lifted from a password
dump, cracked by brute force,
stolen with a keylogger, or reset
completely by conning a company’s
customer support department. Carelessness, it turns out, is the biggest
security risk of all.
As a result, we became complacent.
Email addresses morphed into a sort
of universal login, serving as our
username just about everywhere.
This practice persisted even as the
number of accounts—the number of
failure points—grew exponentially.
Web-based email was the gateway
to a new slate of cloud applications.
We began utilizing the cloud for
many purposes, such as banking,
tracking our finances and doing our
taxes. Additionally, a great deal of
peoples’ personal papers that held
great meaning and value, such as
photos, documents and personal
data appeared to be stored in the
cloud.
Eventually, as the number of epic
hacks increased, growing web companies came up with methods to
keep people signing up and entrusting data to their sites. They pushed
the idea that all we needed to be
safe was to establish “stronger”
passwords. Unfortunately, that has
not happened as secure data on the
web are still vulnerable to hacking.
SplashData, provider of the
SplashID line of password management applications (more about them
in the next issue), releases its annual
list in an effort to encourage the
adoption of stronger passwords.
All the recent password leaks have
helped hackers identify the patterns
we use when creating passwords.
As a result, hackers can now use
rules and algorithms to crack passwords more quickly than they could
through simple common-word attacks.
During the early years of the web,
passwords served their purpose and
worked pretty well. This was due
largely to how little data they actually needed to protect. Our passwords were limited to a handful of
applications: an ISP for email and
maybe an ecommerce site or two.
Because almost no personal information was in the cloud at that time,
there was little to gain in breaking
into peoples’ accounts; the serious
hackers were still going after big
corporate computer systems.
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Below, I have listed the “Top 25
Worst Passwords of 2014” as compiled by Splashdata, along with the
change in position from 2013.
The takeaway from this list is simply to not use these passwords and
if you are, please change them!!
1 - 123456 (Unchanged from
2013)
2 - password (Unchanged)
3 - 12345 (Up 17)
4 - 12345678 (Down 1)
5 - qwerty (Down 1)
6 - 1234567890 (Unchanged)
7 - 1234 (Up 9)
8 - baseball (New)
9 - dragon (New)
10 - football (New)
11 - 1234567 (Down 4)
12 - monkey (Up 5)
13 - letmein (Up 1)
14 - abc123 (Down 9)
15 - 111111 (Down 8)
16 - mustang (New)
17 - access (New)
18 - shadow (Unchanged)
19 - master (New)
20 - michael (New)
21 - superman (New)
22 - 696969 (New)
23 -123123 (Down 12)
24 -batman (New)
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online data?
BERGER
CONT. FROM P32
25 -trustno1 (Down 1)
In Part 2 (next issue), I will discuss
how we can create stronger passwords and be more diligent in the
use and overall protection of our
LIEBERMAN
Why? The reason given when I
questioned the CEO of the ketchup
packet as to his decision is brilliant.
“I will not give any one client more
than twenty percent of my production line,” he told me then. “It’ll
give them too much power.”
What he said, in essence, is
that giving any one body a toolarge proportion of total sales will
allow them to hold sway over his
business and perhaps even dictate
business decisions. This was the
case with Barnes & Nobles before
Amazon came onto the scene.
Barnes & Nobles took a very large
part of the production line and publishers were forced to concede to
their directives. Although it would
seem that publishers have gotten
the last laugh…or perhaps, Amazon, who is now getting the latest
laugh.
CONT. FROM P29
What does this tell us about dealing
with power-hungry individual?
An employer and employee
should both be well aware that no
one is irreplaceable. If it’s gotten to
the point where an employee holds
too many reigns too tightly, he
must be reined in fast and hard. In
order for this to work, the employee may not smell the fear an
employer may have of losing him;
that’ll cause the employer to lose
all leverage over his employee.
Aside from power grabbing, an employee high up on the
ladder will often become an ogre of
sorts, allowing the power to go to
his head and treat others disrespect-
T.A.N.I.
JEWISH
Saul M. Berger, CFE,CPA,CFF is President and CEO of EPIC On-Point Consulting, LLC, which specializes in
turnaround strategies, forensic accounting and fraud detection & prevention for businesses and individuals
at very reasonable rates. Saul can be
contacted at
fully. Company employees may
fear and despise him, and business
morale will be injured by his attitude.
This should never be allowed to go unnoticed by the employer. As always, the carrot
method should be tried before the
stick. Speak to the employee about
his positive points and how you
value his work while making it
very clear that you expect a certain
behavior.
Whether it’s the fact that he
insists on making certain decisions,
takes action without proper authority, or how he deals with others,
outline your expectations.
If that doesn’t modify his
behavior, an ultimatum must be
given. In this case it would be having him choose between conforming to said requirements, or leaving
the company. With that, you’re
sending an important message to all
employees that you won’t stand for
someone overstepping his boundaries or usurping his authority.
Author & Tanakh Lecturer
as Scholar-in-Residence in
Brooklyn, Queens & Long Island
Yehudit Jessica Singer
Dr. Yael Ziegler, lecturer in
Tanakh at Herzog Academic College and at Matan Jerusalem, will
be serving as scholar-in-residence
in Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island next week in celebration of
her new book, Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy, published by
Maggid Books (a division of
Koren Publishers Jerusalem).
Using a contemporary Modern
Orthodox approach to parshanut
(Biblical interpretation), Dr.
Ziegler creatively demonstrates
how midrashic readings can reveal the deep layers of each Biblical narrative. A captivating
educator, she incorporates traditional rabbinic commentaries and
contemporary scholarship to understand the text with sensitivity,
depth and relevance.
Rav Moshe Lichtenstein, Rosh
Hayeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion
wrote after reading her latest
book, “One cannot but be impressed … Her work is characterized by a willingness to engage
Dovid Lieberman, Ph.D., is a noted
speaker and award-winning author
with a renowned insight into the
human condition. His eleven books,
which have been translated into 26 languages and include two New York
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writings and lectures captivate both
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the text and embrace it on an interpretive and personal level. This
gives it the requisite passion and
commitment that we expect from
our encounter with Tanakh … appreciating its relevance and sanctity through the medium of
in-depth analysis.”
Dr. Ziegler will speak at the
Young Israel of Jamaica Estates
on Shabbos, February 6-7th; the
Young Israel of North Woodmere
on Motzei Shabbos, February 7th
; Congregation Hochma Umussar
in Brooklyn on Sunday morning,
February 8th and Congregation
Etz Chaim on Monday night, February 9th. Book signings will
take place at each event after
Shabbos.
Originally from Philadelphia, Dr. Ziegler
currently resides in Alon Shevut, Israel,
with her husband and their five children. She has a BA from Stern College
and MA/PhD from Bar-Ilan University.
Please contact each relevant venue for
further details. For more information
on Dr. Ziegler’s book, see www.korenpub.com.
Mazal Tov!
Sarah & Asher Goldenberg
on the birth of a daughter
CHEDVA
Mazal Tov to the Grandparents
Shani Stone and Reuven Stone
and to the Great Grandmother
Lynne Stone
Our best wishes!
Rochel & Jerry Markovitz
By: Leil Shishi & Emunah Publishing
Do you need
a push?
No!
Please! No
pushing! Just give me
a moment to focus my
dizziness and find
my feet!
There’s a
whole line of
people waiting for
you to go.
go already!
If we go back
down on the ski-lift,
does it count as going
down the slope?
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JNS.ORG: FULL NEWS COVERAGE
At U.N., Israeli president calls for
action against anti-Semitism:
The blizzard in the northeastern U.S. did not pass over Israeli President
Reuven Rivlin, whose scheduled speech for International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the United Nations on Tuesday was postponed by one
day due to the harsh weather. With a forecast of more than three feet of
snow in New York, Rivlin’s entourage attempted to stick to the original
schedule as best as they could. Rivlin met with U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon on Monday. The two spoke about International Holocaust Remembrance Day and anti-Semitism in Europe, as well as diplomatic issues.
Ban’s office released a statement on the meeting saying that he and Rivlin
also discussed how to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the
Palestinians. Rivlin called for the appointment of a permanent anti-Semitism envoy at the U.N. and for anti-Semitism awareness to be increased.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is hosting thousands of events throughout the
world for International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday. The main
event is at the U.N., with Rivlin, Ban, and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
Director Avner Shalev in attendance. “Anti-Semitism affects all of humanity, and it is my hope you will continue to lead the U.N.’s fight against it,”
Rivlin told Ban on Monday. “I want to thank the secretary-general for the
invitation to be a part of this event, and for his unwavering commitment to
the fight against anti-Semitism.”
Two rockets fired from Syria explode in Israel’s Golan
Heights:
At least two rockets were fired from Syria into Israel early Tuesday afternoon, setting off warning sirens in the northern part of the Golan Heights.
Local residents reported hearing explosions. Shortly before 1 p.m., sirens
sounded in the northern Golan communities of Majdal Shams, Odem, El
Rom, Buq’ata, Mas’ade, Neve Ativ, Nimrod, and Ein Qiniyye. The rockets
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exploded in open areas in the Golan, and no injuries or damage were reported. The IDF returned fire at the source of the rocket fire in Syria. Lt.
Col. Peter Lerner of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit tweeted, “Following
rockets striking the Golan Heights, #IDF responded with artillery towards
the positions that launched the attack.” In the wake of the rocket attack, visitors were evacuated from the Mount Hermon ski site. An IDF source said
on Tuesday that Hezbollah had launched the rockets, but emphasized that
Israel “sees Syria as responsible for all fire emanating from its territory,”
Yedioth Achronoth reported,
On International Holocaust
Remembrance Day, survivors and leaders mark 70 years
since Auschwitz liberation:
More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the
site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the 1.1 million people killed there, as well as the millions of
other victims killed during the Holocaust, as part of International Holocaust
Remembrance Day. Halina Birenbaum, an 85-year-old Polish-Jewish survivor of the camp, said at the ceremony that Auschwitz was “like nothing
similar to anything in human experience.” “Cursing, beatings, sophisticated
torture, corporal punishment for petty offenses or for nothing at all.
Columns of people being led to gas chambers. A pillar of fire straight to the
sky. Trains and trains full of new victims,” she said, the Wall Street Journal
reported. In a speech, president of the World Jewish Congress Ronald
Lauder warned that “slowly the demonization of Jews started to come back.
Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets
of Paris and Budapest and London. Once again, Jewish businesses are targeted. And once again, Jewish families are fleeing Europe.”
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Jewish leaders express
mixed feelings on new
Greek government:
Jewish leaders have expressed both
hope and concern over the outcome
of the Greek election on Sunday, in
which the radical left-wing Syriza
party won 149 parliament seats and
36.3 percent of the vote. Syriza officials have called for the end of Israel’s “brutality against
Palestinians,” and Panos Kammenos—the leader of the rightwing Independent Greeks (ANEL)
party, with whom Syriza formed a
majority coalition—garnered accusations of anti-Semitism last December for claiming that Greek
Jews do not pay taxes. Golden
Dawn, an extreme-right neo-Nazi
party, placed third in results that
polls suggested were driven largely
by voters’ economic concerns. The
Greek Jewish community consists
of about 5,000 people out of the
country’s total population of 11.2
million, according to the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). The community has experienced rising anti-Semitic
sentiment that is correlated with
both the country’s economic crisis
as well as escalations in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict such as last
summer’s Operation Protective
Edge in Gaza.
Survey: 84% of Palestinians
think Israel may be behind
Paris attacks:
A poll conducted by the Palestinian
Ma’an News Agency found that
84.4 percent of Palestinians believe
that Israel may have played a role
in the recent Islamist terror attacks
in Paris. “The overwhelming majority believe that the murders of
the French [citizens] in Paris were
suspicious operations, and that Israel may be behind them,” said the
survey, which interviewed 6,090
Palestinians. Meanwhile, according
to Palestinian Media Watch
(PMW), several columnists at the
official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published
a series of articles claiming that Israel was behind the attacks. The
writers claimed that Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
the Mossad spy agency planned the
attacks in order to “get revenge on
European governments” because of
their “support for an independent
Palestinian state.”
Ari Ne’eman, disability selfadvocate on a national
stage, receives $100K inclusion prize:
Disability self-advocate Ari Ne’eman, a member of the President’s
National Council on Disability, on
Monday was named the recipient of
the second annual Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion, a
$100,000 prize from the Boston
and Israel-based Ruderman Family
Foundation (RFF) that “recognizes
an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the inclusion of people with disabilities
in the Jewish world and the greater
public.” Ne’eman, 27, is the president and co-founder of the Autistic
Self Advocacy Network, which
seeks to increase the representation
of Autistic people across society.
Appointed by President Barack
Obama to the National Council on
Disability in 2009, Ne’eman has
served as a public member on the
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Interagency Autism Coordinating
Committee, a federal advisory committee that coordinates autism-related efforts within the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services.
IDF places concrete blocks
along northern Israeli
roads to foil snipers:
The Israel Defense Forces has
placed concrete blocks along border roads in northern Israel to protect drivers and passengers from
possible sniper fire in retaliation for
the recent airstrike that killed
Hezbollah terrorists and an Iranian
general in Syria, Israel Hayom reported. Suspicious movement on
Sunday evening caused Israeli officials to block off roads in northern
Israel’s Yesha-Adi area and to summon local rapid-response teams.
Shortly after the alert went out, it
became clear that there was no security incident. Nevertheless, the
IDF is maintaining an expanded
presence along the northern border
in light of threats by Hezbollah and
Iran to avenge the reported Israeli
airstrike. The IDF has deployed additional infantry and artillery units
along the border with Lebanon, the
Israeli Air Force has moved to a
high alert level, and Iron Dome
anti-missile batteries have been deployed in northern Israel.
Netanyahu’s sons are targets for Iranian assassination, website says:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s sons Yair and Avner
are among Iran’s potential targets if
the country seeks revenge for the
recent killing of several Iranian
military figures in an airstrike that
has been attributed to Israel, the
Iranian news website Mashregh reported. Mashregh featured a photo
of Yair and Avner with sniper’s
scopes superimposed on their faces.
The list of possible Iranian targets
on the website also included Gilad
and Omri Sharon, sons of former
prime minister Ariel Sharon, and
Shaul Olmert, son of former prime
minister Ehud Olmert. The Iranian
article stated that the potential targets fulfilled the criteria for assassination because they all served in
the Israeli military.
Israeli foreign minister orders distribution of latest
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LEVANA
CONT. FROM P27
CONT. FROM P20
sister, her neighbor, etcetera,
etcetera until I’ll have the honor of
getting to know all the extended
family, including their friends and
neighbors from present and past.
Hmmm… never knew history
could be so interesting…
But as you can see, I’ve decided to continue publishing
recipes nonetheless and in the
meantime, I managed to change
this history hysteria into something
hysterical.
Now that’s a lesson to learn!
translucent. Add all remaining ingredients except caraway seeds
and the pepper, and bring to a
boil. Reduce the flame to medium
and cook, covered, 1 hour. Add
the caraway seeds and the pepper
and cook another 10 minutes.
Cream with an immersion blender
until smooth. Adjust the texture
and seasonings. Serve hot. Makes
a dozen ample servings.
Before we go to today’s questions, here’s an Email I’d like to
share with you:
Hi Mindy!
I’m sending you this to tell you
how excited I am about the whole
wheat pizza recipe you included in
your article from November 29th
2014. I must thank you for the best
recipe ever and I know, since I’ve
been making pizza for years, each
time trying something else but
never with such results. It was just
perfect! Thanks for letting us in on
your secrets!
An ecstatic balebusta
So if you didn’t try my pizza
recipe yet, it’s time you do…And
now for the Q&A’s:
Q. The day before I saw your
hot pepper story from your last column in the paper, the same thing
happened to me! But there was no
ice around for me to suck on. What
could’ve I done instead?
A. I’ve heard recently that
sprinkling salt on your tongue can
be helpful in neutralizing the heat.
It’s definitely worth a try!
Q. Why is it that whenever I
make kokosh cake, the “kokosh”
oozes out leaving the cake fillingless?
A. Firstly, make sure to fold in
both ends of chocolate filled dough
before you roll up your kokosh
cake. Another good idea is to bake
each roll in a Bundt pan, seam side
down. This way, even if the filling
will ooze out somewhat, it’ll stick
to the cake.
Q. I bake rolls with spelt flour
but for some reason, they don’t
come out as soft as the storebought ones. What’s the secret to
making great spelt rolls that are
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soft and not crumbly?
A. The correct balance between
the ingredients is what will ensure
a non-crumbly outcome. As an occasional user of spelt flour myself,
I find that it “behaves” just like
whole wheat flour. Meaning – any
recipe that calls for whole wheat
can successfully be substituted
with spelt. Being that spelt is considered a healthier grain than wheat
and is easier to digest, its price is
somewhat higher but it’s what dieticians, nutritionists and naturopaths recommend today.
I’m including a bread machine
spelt bread recipe but you can
make it by hand and form your
own rolls if you wish.
Bread Machine Spelt Bread
1 cup water
1½ tablespoons olive oil
1½ tablespoons honey
3 cups spelt flour
1½ teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons dry yeast
Put all the ingredients into the
bread machine pan and choose the
French option. Remove from machine after the beep indicates the
bread is done. Remove from pan
and cool totally on a rack before
slicing.
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Aharon Leib Shteinman, shlita, felt
compelled to interrupt their packed
schedules and travel to the home of
the Vizhnitzer Rebbe in Kiryat
Vizhnitz in Bnei Brak to participate
in the first Nesius gathering of the
Daf HaYomi B’Halacha.
Nesius members who participated were HaGaon HaRav Berel
Povarsky, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas
Ponovezh, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe,
shlita, HaGaon HaRav Shimon
Badani, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva Torah
V’Chaim, the Sanzer Rebbe, shlita,
the Boyaner Rebbe, shlita, HaGaon
HaRav Dovid Cohen, shlita, Rosh
Yeshivas Chevron, the Alexander
Rebbe, shlita, the Modzhitzer
Rebbe shlita, and HaGaon HaRav
Binyomin Finkel, Mashgiach of the
Mir Yeshiva of Yerushalayim, who
chaired the event.
In addition, Dirshu has merited
to have an American Nesius of Daf
HaYomi B’Halacha led by Gedolei
Rosh Yeshivos and Admorim. The
American Nesius is comprised of
luminaries of Torah and piety such
as the Skulener Rebbe, shlita, the
Roshei Yeshiva of Lakewood, HaGaon HaRav Aryeh Malkiel Kolter,
shlita, and HaGaon HaRav
Yeruchim Olshin, shlita, HaGaon
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HaRav Yosef Harari Raful, shlita,
Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Ateret
Torah, HaGaon HaRav Matisyahu
Solomon, shlita, Mashgiach Beis
Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, the
Vizhniter Rebbe of Monsey, shlita,
HaGaon HaRav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of South
Fallsburg, HaGaon HaRav
Yechezkel Roth, shlita, the Karlsberger Rov, and HaGaon HaRav
Asher Anshel Katz, shlita, the Vienner Rav.
Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha has united the venerated senior Gedolei Yisrael representing the
entire cross-section of Torah Jewry,
k’ish echad b’lev echad. These
gedolim have come together not
only to encourage Klal Yisrael to
bring daily halacha into their lives,
but also to give a sense of urgency
on how important it is for every
Jew to be familiar with the halachos of daily living and thus realize
the primacy of making a daily halacha seder. Daf HaYomi B’Halacha is an ideal way to accomplish
that goal.
Without a doubt, one of the primary highlights was the words of
chizuk of HaGaon HaRav Aharon
Leib Shteinman, shlita. Rav Shteinman spoke about the importance of
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Charlie Hebdo issue:
After Israel’s Steimatzky bookstore
chain canceled a special sales event
for the latest issue of France’s
Charlie Hebdo magazine following
Arab pressure, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed
activists of his Yisrael Beiteinu
party to purchase thousands of
copies of the magazine’s Jan. 14
issue and distribute them to the
public.The issue—printed after 12
people were killed in an Islamist
terrorist attack on the magazine’s
Paris offices—features a cartoon of
the Prophet Mohammed holding a
sign saying, “Je Suis Charlie” (I am
Charlie), with a headline above the
cartoon reading “Tout Est Pardonné” (All Is Forgiven). Masud
Ganaim, an Arab member of the Is-
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and his wife ran a food pantry and
when he won a contest at a local
ShopRite, that $250 gift card went
straight towards that food pantry.
He was a known personality in his
community who was renowned
for his constant smile which he
somehow managed to maintain no
matter how many people he
shared it with. He loved to make
people happy and that’s why they
loved him. He loved HaShem and
wanted people to feel just how
loved they were by HaKadosh
Baruch Hu.
He believed in me. He encouraged me. He made me realize
that I could do so much and had
so much to offer Klal Yisrael and
the world. These are not just my
thoughts, but the thoughts of a
myriad of friends and acquaintances that he had. I take that
HOFF
CONT. FROM P16
change down my throat. I would
want to have a voice and be part
of the process. I also would likely
not want to change any more than
I had to, because change can be
upsetting if not downright painful.
Perhaps at this point the coach
would seize upon Barry’s awareness of the challenges of change
to explore healthy change-related
techniques. Possibilities include
equity building and presenting the
raeli Knesset from the Ra’am-Ta’al
party, sent a letter to Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu urging him to
intervene to stop the Steimatzky
event, calling the sale of the magazine a “very dangerous and stupid”
step that would “lead to great uproar and anger among the Arabs and
Muslims in [this] country in particular and in the world in general.”
Steimatzky itself later canceled the
in-store event, but said it would sell
copies of the Charlie Hebdo issue
on its website. Lieberman said Sunday said that “we will not allow radical Islam to terrorize us,” arguing
that the demands made by Arab
Knesset members not to distribute
the magazine threatened to “turn Israel into ISIS (Islamic State).” “It
would turn the state of Israel into a
country that cows to threats and undermines freedom of expression,”
Lieberman said.
back. I don’t know if he had acquaintances. I think once you
knew him, you felt he was much
closer; your friend, supporter, and
staunch ally.
Others will tell you stories of
his efforts to make people smile,
his gloriously excruciating puns
and coffee references, with a little
bit of politics mixed in. They will
talk of his work in helping people
find rides, shidduchim, jobs, and
how, when he found a product or
service that one of his friends provided, he would share that with so
many people, always happy to
help someone make a buck, and
not asking for a cut, even when he
needed it himself.
He confided in me that when
the mortgage market bubble burst,
he was one of the casualties. He
was pained that he could no longer
write the tzedaka checks of the
size he used to. But through that
pain, he kept smiling. I recall one
WEXLER
CONT. FROM P6
wrong.” After all, is that not the very
same right that the secular majority
has afforded them for close to seven
decades now? An embrace of our fellow Jews is itself an extension of the
same Torah values they hold so dear.
Our sages caution us that derech
eretz kadma la-Torah, the way of the
world precedes the Torah. We must
first be part of the world before we
can be part of Torah. If the haredi
world believes they have a mission
to be a “light unto the nations” then
they must become part of Israel beyond backroom politics securing
budgets for their continued separatism.
We need the haredim.
In a generation in which we are
beginning to question our rights to
this land and our role as the Chosen
People, the haredim offer an un-
day when we spoke and he shared
a glimpse of the burdens he was
carrying. It was a conversation
that lasted maybe a minute or two
but his biggest concern was, “I’m
finding it a challenge to keep
smiling today.” But smile he did.
abashed narrative asserting our connection to the land and the special
role the Jewish people play in history. But the haredim also need us!
They need us to provide the goods
and services necessary to sustain the
yeshivot and their way of life. They
need us to provide the infrastructure
that a state requires in the 21st century. They need us as to serve as the
utensil for the content they are producing.
Instead of rejecting from afar the
state’s institutions as devoid of
Torah, how about accepting the invitation to come and try to influence
from within? I have no doubt that
such an influence will be beneficial
to all parties involved and will yield
a true example of Jewish unity.
The writer is a doctoral candidate in
Jewish philosophy and currently
teaches in many post-high-school
yeshivot and midrashot.
Each week, when I sent him a
copy of my Parsha sheet, he
would see how many of the items
he could share with his diverse
group of followers. Sometimes
I’d hit a double or a triple, and
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challenges facing the company
and asking for input.
In this column I will endeavor
to present usable coaching concepts and techniques that can help
each of us better achieve our own
optimization and fulfillment. I
look forward to growing with you
in our goal of leading more inspired and fulfilling lives.
Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive
coach and President of Impactful
Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching.com). He can be reached at
212.470.6139 or at [email protected].
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Flatbush Basketball League
‘14-’15 Week #9 Recap:
China Glatt Division:
It was yet another amazing game
played by Batampte Pickles this
week as they tried to get their first
win against Supreme RX Pharmacy.
Batampte was up for most of the
game and even led at half by 4
points, as Ezra Azoulay and Yisroel
Azarfar were leading the charge
with 16 and 10 respectively. However, it came down to the final few
minutes in which Supreme’s leader
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Ezra Beyda (got it right this time)
took over. He ended the game with
a season high 35 points as they continue to keep Batampte winless with
a 39-33 victory. Next week’s
matchups: Batampte vs. Pizza
Heaven and Oh Baby vs. Supreme
RX may give us a glimpse into what
the playoffs may look like for these
little stars…
In another close game, it was Pizza
Heaven facing off against Oh Baby.
With the absence of Shimon
Greeenwald, Pizza Heaven was
looking to still secure a win. However, Mordechai Lebovits (14
points) and Co. for Oh Baby had
different plans. As the game was
only played 4 on 4, many players
were in the scoring column. At the
half, Oh Baby was up by 2 points,
as Dovid Kapetas had 14 for Oh
Baby and managed to squeak by
Pizza Heaven by a score of 34-30.
Yitzy Waxman and newly acquired
Tuli Lowy led scores for Heaven
with 16 and 10. Going into Week
#10, let’s see who will face who in
the playoffs…
Jewish Home Division:
In a game to decide the #1 seed,
Pizza Nosh faced Holy Schnitzel in
what promised to be an exciting
game. In a back and forth battle,
Pizza Nosh gave it all they got, having 5 players with points on the
board. The leaders were Yossi
Muller with 14 and Moshe D.
Rosenberg not far behind with 10.
For Holy Schnitzel, Mordechai
Cohen seemed to dominate with 18,
including an almost full court swish
shot to end the first half the game.
Elihau Hara had 14 as well for
Schnitzel. At the end, it was Pizza
Nosh that was victorious with a
score of 43-37 going into week #10.
As of now, they claim the #1 seed,
however, let’s see what next week
brings…
ITP faced Quality Carpet this week
and it was not pretty. Coming off of
a great game last week, the momentum was in the air for Quality, however, they could not convert that
into a win as they lost this one by
16. Avi Goldstein was amazing
scoring 15 for ITP together with
Avrumi Guttman (11), Yossi Fried
(10), and Yosef Kapetas (10). With
a few technical fouls being given
out all around due to some tempers
flaring, ITP seemed to have a handle on the game from the start.
Moishe Kornitzer led Quality with
15 but a one man show isn’t always
the answer. ITP continues to keep
the #3 seed and Quality the #4 seed.
Jewish Connection Division:
With The Camp Agudah Reunion in
full swing, Pizza World took a
break from their game vs. The Visual Image. Five players were in the
scoring column as TVI swept by a
depleted Pizza World team 36-24.
Next week will be the final game of
the regular season as Pizza World
looks to rebound against Rami’s
Pizza.
In the final game of the night, it was
Plaza Auto Leasing destroying
Rami`s Pizza (don’t need to burden
you with the score). Avraham Fuchs
by himself nearly outscored the
complete Rami’s team . Mendy
Schiffenbauer helped his MVP
cause with 16, Tzvi Baruch had 10
for PAL.
The playoffs begin on January 31st.
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daily halacha, saying, “The foundation of a Jew is to conduct himself
in accordance with the four orders
of Shulchan Aruch. Nevertheless,
from the very fact that the Chofetz
Chaim wrote the Sefer Mishnah
Berurah on the chelek of Orach
Chaim (and according to those who
maintain that it was his intention to
write on all four orders, the fact
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sometimes he’d message me,
“Home run! I posted your Dvar
Torah and the story, the Did You
Know is going up at 3 o’clock,
and I’m going to tweet your
Thought of the Week.” Those
were times I felt on top of the
world. He made me feel like I
was special and the fact that he
was sharing this Torah with others
was of little consequence.
I sent him some of my articles
and he helped me figure out
which ones to put in my book,
The Observant Jew. He, through
the auspices of Survival Through
Education, his kiruv organization
which provides books of worth
helping the Chosen People
choose, helped me publish it, and
kept a number of copies to share
with people who “won” his online
contests, ones they never even realized they’d entered. I was
touched to hear from his son,
Shaya, that from the day that he
received the book, R’ Dovid read
one section each week at the
Shabbos table for the family. He
believed in me, and made me believe in myself more.
When the car he was riding in
to a Kiruv convention skidded
that he chose to start with Orach
Chaim) shows that one must learn
halacha daily. Orach Chaim is
unique in that it outlines the daily
halachos that every Jew must
know. This is the chelek that a person must live with every day of his
life. Thus he must learn it every
day of his life.”
The Chairman of the evening,
Rav Binyomin Finkel mentioned
that the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha
across the median on an icy road
and collided with another vehicle,
Dovid was called to the Home Office and the truth about just how
much he did came out as we, the
friends he left behind, compared
notes.
I’m out of space but not out of
memories. The legacy that Dovid
Winiarz left with me, which I
want to share with all of you, is
that each of us can do amazing
things, and that we should try to
see the amazing side of those
around us too. A smile goes a
long way, and believing in someone goes even further. We will try
to “Stay great,” Dovid. Yehi
Zichro Baruch.
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was established upon the advice of
HaGaon HaRav Yosef Sholom
Elyashiv, zt”l.
The Vizhnitzer Rebbe then addressed the assemblage, explaining
the well-known words of Chazal,
“Kol hashoneh halachos b’chol
yom muvtach sh’ehu ben Olam
Haba’ah—He who learns halachos
every day is assured a place in the
world to come. B’chol yom means
everyday but it can also mean,
‘throughout the day’. When a person learns halacha daily his entire
day is one long manifestation of
learning and fulfilling halacha,”
concluded the Rebbe.
Although the Gerer Rebbe,
shlita, was unable to attend, he told
Dirshu leaders. “It is very important to convince and urge people to
learn halacha. It is the desire of
Hashem that every Jew should
know practical halacha properly so
that he can fulfill Torah and
mitzvos in accordance with halacha. “A tremendous responsibly
rests upon marbitzei Torah and
mechanchim to influence their
talmidim to institute a non-negotiable seder in practical halacha. It
is not sufficient to be a lamdan or
someone who knows Torah. Without knowledge of halacha, a person
is missing the “orach chaim”, the
path of life that must characterize
every Jew.
HaGaon HaRav Shimon
Badani, shlita, brought proof from
pesukim that specifically when the
world is in a terrible situation,
when Jewish blood is being spilled
and so many want to ruin the Jewish Nation, the solution to neutralize the middas hadin and invoke
middas harachamim is to learn halacha. The Sanzer Rebbe picked up
where Rav Badani left off saying
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that the holy seforim relate that the
learning of halacha has the power
to neutralize terrible gezeiros.
The American Nesius of Daf
HaYomi B’Halacha
The creation of the American
Nesius of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha
has similarly inspired American
Jewry to recognize the importance
of a serious daily halacha seder.
According to Rabbi Ahron Gobioff, Dirshu’s American Director,
the enthusiasm shown by all the
Gedolei Yisrael representing the
Sephardic World, the Yeshiva
World and the Chassidic World, is
deeply moving. They were full of
praise and excitement about the
benefits for all of Klal Yisrael that
would be gained through mass enrollment in such a program.
In a beautiful display of the importance with which the American
Nesius attaches to the Daf HaYomi
B’Halacha program they signed a
historic document outlining the
hashkafa behind the program and
explaining why it has garnered
such an enthusiastic worldwide
backing of Gedolei Yisrael. It says,
“It is impossible to properly depict
the importance of this [Daf HaYomi B’Halacha] undertaking, because the foundation of the life of a
Jew is to conduct his life in accordance with Torah...Baruch Hashem
our generation has been worthy and
we see kehillos comprehensively
learning halacha all over the world.
Together with the halacha program
[Dirshu] also has established daily
learning of mussar in the seforim
of the Chofetz Chaim….
From here we call on all G-d
fearing Jews, to be clever and join
the tens of thousands already in the
program and to give nachas to
Hashem.”
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Commemorating 70th
Anniversary of Auschwitz
Agudath Israel
Yarchei Kallah
Dutch King Willem
Alexander came for the
ceremony in Poland
Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg, who made the
Holocaust film Schindler's List,
was at the ceremony at
Auschwitz
Holocaust survivor Marek
Halter, left, and
Cantor Joseph
Malovany with
performers at
the Terezin Memorial near
Prague.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin (left) lit
a candle at a
ceremony in
Moscow alongside Russia's
Chief Rabbi,
Berel Lazar
Survivor
Jack Rosenthal from
the US displays his
prisoner
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