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Why We Celebrate Sukkot

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Ben-Gurion Matsas Publisher/Editor

40 Year In Review A Look Back At 5774

Rachelle Matsas Editor-in-Chief

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Where Did Moshe Go? By Rabbi Saul Kassin

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82 Sukkot Recipes, Thanksgiving Style

90 William Barthman Offering the Finest Brands of Watches and Jewelry

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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2014

Departments ARTS AND LEISURE Holiday Word Search Sudoku

HOW TOIIMPROVE 88 192

BEAUTY Sylvia’s Best Beauty Tips

Sylvia Hamowy

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Book Selections

By Randi Shomer

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CLASSIFIEDS 212 COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS 218 COMMUNITY CALENDAR 220 COMMUNITY EVENTS The SAFE Foundation’s Annual Triathlon 100 Around Town 190 EDUCATION Barkai Yeshivah’s Israel Blog Series 128 MDY Welcomed Shmouel and Batel 144 By Eileen Franco

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EMPLOYMENT Craft an Eye-Catching Cover Letter

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FILMS Sukkah City

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FINANCE The Benefits of Life Insurance Trusts

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Fridays with Aunty Lily A”H

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By Rena Nasar

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Keep the Best of Summer Alive in Fall

ISRAEL YOF’s Mission to Israel – In Action

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Flying Cars: Coming to Israel by 2016

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By Rochelle Senior

JEWISH HISTORY 2,000 Year Old Coins Found In Israel The Sephardic Museum of Caracas

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JUST FOR KIDS Color the Sukkah

92 94 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 24 NEWS New York News 52 World News 184 ORGANIZATIONS ORT: Schools Around the World 134 PARENTING Keep the Best of Summer Alive in Fall 156 Color the Dancing Lulav and Etrog

PUBLISHER’’S LETTER RESTAURANT GUIDE SEPHARDIC HISTORY

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The Signatures of Sephardic Rabbis

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SINGLES EVENTS TECHNOLOGY

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Nomophobia, A Smartphone Affliction

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By David Antebi

HEALTH Girls and Eating Disorders Part 3

In Memory of Jidoh Nissim Mishan A”H

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Killer Heels Brooklyn Museum Exhibit

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FASHION Killer Heels – Brooklyn Museum Exhibit

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IN MEMORIAM

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BOOKS He Hath Not Let Me Die

Turn Obstacles Into Triumphs

TORAH MESSAGE Pirkei Avot Parashat Hashavuah

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WRITERS’ THOUGHTS Inspiring Ways to Start the New Year

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Dear Readers, Hopefully everyone had a happy and healthy Rosh Hashanah and an easy fast. Soon it will be Sukkot. We have several articles to commemorate this joyous holiday, including “Why We Celebrate Sukkot,” “Sukkot Recipes—Thanksgiving Style,” a holiday word search and coloring pages for your little ones to hang in the sukkah. In “Inspiring Ways to Start the New Year,” there are innovative suggestions for improving your life. In our “Year In Review,” we offer a month by month look at 5774. It was a tough year for Israel and several other countries where anti-Semitism ran rampant. It’s hard to believe that it was almost a year ago that we lost beloved former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Ovadia Yosef zt”l who had the biggest funeral in Israel, ever. Sadly, we also lost former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon A”H and three teenagers whose names we will never forget. Shimon Peres left office as Israel’s President and Reuven Rivlin took over. Turn to page 40 to read more. Our yeshivahs and community organizations have been busy. Barkai students went to Israel and kept a blog to document their experiences. YOF students also traveled to Israel and YOF parent Rochelle Senior chronicled their trip for us. MDY welcomed two young guests from Ethiopia and the Rabbi who took them under his wing. New Jersey senior citizens went to Atlantic City to raise money for ORT and the SAFE Foundation held their annual triathlon. Do you suffer from nomophobia? Are your daughter or son nomophobic? Nomophobia is the fear of being disconnected because you don’t have your smartphone. It’s an abbreviation for “no-mobile-phone phobia.” Although it sounds like a joke, it’s a real addiction and more and more young people are becoming nomophobic. Symptoms include feelings of panic or desperation when separated from your smartphone and constantly checking your phone for notifications. We also have book selections from Randi Shomer, Sylvia Hamowy’s best beauty tips, a wonderful parenting article titled “Things Every Child Needs,” a feature about William Barthman Jewelers and a farewell to Joan Rivers, plus much more. Enjoy.

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Dear Editor, Many thanks for Mary Anne Cohen’s recent article “Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating: Girls and Eating Disorders,” in your August magazine. It is an important issue and I am glad that you have brought it to the attention of your readers. You are 100% correct that the rule of “no body talk” at summer camps is effective, as you noted it was reported earlier this summer in the New York Times. I also agree that a “multi-prong approach” to continue throughout the year and to also address provocative advertising and marketing towards children is a valuable endeavor. However may I correct you regarding the name of the camp. It is called Eden Village Camp, not No Body Talk Camp. The photo attached to your article includes happy campers from Eden Village Camp, but your caption reads “Happy girls at No Body Talk camp.” You fail to mention that this is also a Jewish camp for both boys and girls. As you are a magazine for the Jewish community, your readers deserve a more clear picture. Thank you for your time, and brachot for a shana tova. Yours truly, Rachel M. Loonin Eden Village Camp parent


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Parashat Hashavuah


Yom Kippur

In the description of the High Priest’s service on Yom Kippur, the Torah notes that “he shall atone for himself and his family and for all the congregation of Israel.” The sense of community responsibility is, fortunately, highly developed among our people. Whether our public concerns are Israel and its infinite problems, or domestic philanthropies of the hospital and old folks home type, or religious institutions like synagogues and schools—the survival instinct, the desire to perpetuate our people and ideals is a strong motivating force. The urgency of such activities is beyond question. However, all the activities, projects, chairmanships, committees, offices, minutes of meetings, motions and tabled motions, national and regional and local honors, districts, chapters, conventions and conclaves are no substitute for being a good Jewish father and mother. Nor do these activities absolve us in any way of personally keeping the commandments of the Torah. We have responsibilities to ourselves, our families, our people, and all these obligations may enjoy peaceful and fruitful coexistence. This we see from the High Priest who looked (note the order) to “himself, his family, and the entire congregation.”

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Sukkot

Sukkot is a beautiful holiday. There is a mitzvah to eat and sleep under the stars in specially decorated sukkahs, and to wave a bundle of four special types of plants. Some of these plants are exotically fragrant or tasty, or both. But one of them—the plain willow branch—has no taste or smell. Yet, if we leave it out of the bundle, the mitzvah, is considered incomplete. One of the lessons of Sukkot, is to realize that people are like this

of everything we are striving for: meaning, fulfillment and purpose.

Parashat Bereshit

After creating the first human, G-d realized, it was not good for man to be alone. So, He formed a woman. The man (ish) called the woman ishah, reflecting the sameness he sensed in her. They were together naked and unashamed, close enough to feel safe in each other’s company. Their relationship soon shattered. Together in their

“Although some people might not be as popular or talented as others, that’s no reason to leave them out or look down on them. Rather, we should know that each of us is special, made by G-d to be who we are.”

too. Although some people might not be as popular or talented as others, that’s no reason to leave them out or look down on them. Rather, we should know that each of us is special, made by G-d to be who we are. Another lesson is to appreciate what we have. We attain one goal, and then we want more. It doesn’t stop until we say “stop!” Sukkot is the holiday when we say “stop.” It is the happiness and appreciation holiday. It celebrates the essence

disobedience, they pulled apart while confronting G-d, each blaming each other for his/her acts. Their relationship was then defined by their separateness. Still, the Torah preserves a record of an ideal relationship, one in which two can come together while remaining distinct. Until woman was created, man was lonely. The rib could do nothing while it was part of Continued on page 32

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him, but when separated from him it made him whole. When we try to absorb another person, to incorporate him or her into ourselves, we find ourselves alone again. Only when we can see another person as distinct yet complementary can our relationship provide a sense of wholeness. The Torah sets before us an ideal that affirms both our distinctness from others and the commonality that binds us to them.


Parashat Noah

The deluge that destroyed the world in the time of Noah caused a major upheaval in the physical makeup of the world. The geological and archeological evidence of this change has baffled many a scientist—so much so that even skeptical scientists argue that some fossilized discoveries may be attributed to the flood. Not only did the flood leave its indelible mark on the contours of the planet, but, the Torah tells us, it changed the very physics of the world. Hashem was deeply saddened by the immorality that had pervaded His world and to insure that it would not happen again, He did not simply destroy the world but changed its structure. After Noah and his family left the confines of

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“We must emulate the good we see and eliminate the bad. It is up to us to sustain the world by avoiding the mistakes of the past.”

their protective ark, they entered a new world order. Noah had a very difficult year in the ark. He had to provide for and tend to the ark’s menagerie. Each animal required its own diet and each had its own schedule. “During the 12 months that Noah was in the ark, he did not sleep,” the Midrash tells us. Noah’s natural environment was suspended for that time. In fact, but for three exceptions, everyone’s nature changed while in the ark. Only the dog, the raven, and Ham, Noah’s son, functioned normally in the ark. What motivated them to be different? Why couldn’t they suspend their personal needs during this time of universal tragedy? The answer is found in their very nature. Dogs are selfish and uncaring. They must be well trained before they can become man’s best friend. The raven is known for its

cruelty. When Noah released the raven to see the conditions outside the ark, it came upon a human corpse on top of a mountain. After satisfying itself, the raven returned to Noah with no information for the inhabitants of the ark. Ham submitted to his baser instincts. He totally ignored the suffering around him and allowed himself the pleasures of his indulgences. This selfishness did not go unnoticed by Hashem. Ham and his descendants were punished. Are we so uncaring that the experiences of the world around us go unnoticed? Are we oblivious? Can we continue to go about our lives without seeing and learning important lessons about compassion, morality and decency? We must emulate the good we see and eliminate the bad. It is up to us to sustain the world by avoiding the mistakes of the past.

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Why We Celebrate Sukkot Sukkot is a holiday rich in tradition and meaning. From the holding of the lulav and etrog to sitting in a sukkah, the holiday is filled with symbolism to express our relationship to G-d.


Sukkot commemorates the protective “Clouds of Glory” surrounding the Jewish people after leaving Egypt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. It also commemorates how the Jews lived in temporary dwellings during that same time. So too we leave the safety and security of our homes and put ourselves under the direct protection of G-d Almighty. His protection, in the final analysis, is the only one that matters “In sukkot you shall dwell seven days, every citizen in Israel they shall dwell in sukkot, in order that your generations shall know, that in sukkot did I cause the children of Israel to dwell, when I brought them forth from the land of Egypt.” Eating meals, sleeping and spending time in the sukkah is a unique religious experience. Some have the custom of decorating their sukkah with fancy decorations

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while others prefer to preserve its unadorned simplicity. The sukkah is the only mitzvah in which we are

completely surrounded by the mitzvah itself; enveloped, as it were, in the Divine presence. The other well-known mitzvah which pertains to Sukkot is the mitzvah of shaking a lulav and etrog. There are actually four elements involved in this mitzvah and all must be present to properly fulfill it. The four elements are etrog, lulav, (palm branch), hadas (avot tree branch) and aravah (willows of the brook). A prayer is said on the four species every day of Sukkot. When we rejoice on Sukkot, our hearts go out to the entire world. It’s a time for hope for universal peace. When G-d brings peace to the earth it will be for all mankind—peace and harmony among all the nations of the world. This article first appeared on sukkahs.com.

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Russia’s over-run of yet another independent country added to the summer’s unease. Iran’s inching ever closer to nuclear capabilities was wedged somewhere into the less significant news. No headline covered the 11 jetliners missing from an airfield in Libya. The three headline stories of the week the planes were taken, were; ISIS, Ukraine and 1,000 Acres in Jerusalem. ISIS terror has grabbed the civilized world’s attention, more so because of its proven pursuit of a demented truth, satanic evil, than anything else. The world knows it means it. Vladimir Putin seems frighteningly unstoppable because the world knows he truly believes in his cause. He wishes to restore the Soviet Union to its regal stature. In one month he has proven himself fully competent of doing so. But what does 1,000 Acres in Jerusalem have in common with these world events?

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Matti Friedman was a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem Bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s two biggest news providers. In a recent article, he presented staggering statistics and highlighted a world which “bares the resurgence of an old, twisted pattern of thought and its migration from the margins to the mainstream of Western discourse—namely, a hostile obsession with Jews.” To cite some of his startling findings, he described this summer’s events, dedicating one sentence each to the horrors in Nigeria and Ukraine, four sentences to ISIS, and the rest of the article, 30 sentences, to Israel and Gaza. Before this summer, AP had more than 40 staffers covering Israel. This is more than the AP has in China, Russia, or India, or in all of the 50 countries of sub-Saharan Africa combined. It was higher than the total number of news-gathering employees in all the countries where

the uprisings of the “Arab Spring” eventually erupted. In 2013, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives. That is the monthly homicide rate in Chicago. Jerusalem had slightly fewer violent deaths last year than Portland, Oregon, which is considered one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years, Syria has massacred 190,000 lives. This amounts to 70,000 more than the number of people who have ever died in the Arab-Israeli, 100 year, conflict. During this time, more than 1,600 women were murdered in Pakistan (271 raped and 193 burned alive) and in The Congo, as of 2012, 5 million have been killed. Living in this world, one narrative is relentlessly presented: Israel is a (semi) apartheid state actually capable of genocide and Palestinian Arabs are tragically its passive victims. He continued: “Every flaw in Israeli society is aggressively reported. In one seven-week period, from November 8 to December 16, 2011, I decided to count the stories coming out of our bureau on the various moral failings of Israeli society. I counted 27 separate articles, an average of a story every two days. In a very conservative estimate, this seven-week tally was higher than the total number of significantly critical stories about Palestinian government and society, including the totalitarian Islamists of Hamas that our bureau had published in the preceding three years.” Hamas’ charter calls for Israel’s destruction and the murder of Jews. It blames the Jews for both the French and Russian revolutions, and of course both world wars. Continued on page 38

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Hamas’ years and billions of foreign aid dollars used to construct a military infrastructure beneath Gaza’s civilian infrastructure was not nearly as newsworthy as the Israeli decision to attack it. The “Israel-Arab” conflict is 6 million Jews against 300 million Arabs. Taking into account Iran and Turkey it is 6 million Jews against 1 billion Muslims. Yet, the “IsraeliPalestinian” story has the Jew as aggressor. In reality, Israel is a tiny village compared to Hamas and Hezbollah, the local representatives of Islamic terror, Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. For centuries, Jews have been beneficiary of all the world’s ill. They were a symbol of all things wrong, always. Christians, and all of Europe, cared about them only as they remained a convenient excuse for their hatred and rage. We must listen carefully to what this past summer has taught; The historic ills of the world continue to rain down upon our people and our homeland. A country which has done infinitely less harm than any other, and certainly has accomplished much more good than most, has had injustice rendered unto it these past months in a ferocious manner which must awaken us from a sleep much too luxurious for us to afford. In record breaking time, Jews have once again been made into some of the worst people on earth. We have become a symbol of evil. Be assured, Europe, not just Germany, enjoys hearing Jews accused of genocide. “Having rehabilitated themselves against considerable odds in a minute corner of the earth, the descendants of powerless people, who were pushed out of Europe

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and the Islamic Middle East, have become what their grandparents were—the pool into which the world spits. The Jews of Israel are the screen onto which it has become socially acceptable to project the things you hate about yourself and your own country,” Friedman concluded. There is fact and fiction. There is good and evil. Such is life. Those who grasp this reality will connect the dots, face this truth and will live. Israel has connected the dots. It is a small country in a very scary part of the world. Allowing her citizens to build homes on another 1,000 acres of their 4,000 year homeland is not worthy of the world’s attention. Unless, of course, you failed to connect the dots of history and today’s documented realities. More so for the conviction of its savagery, ISIS has convinced the world that it alone is the chief purveyor of sheer evil. Putin has stood up to the entire world based singularly on his principles and truths. Perhaps these three headlines do share a purpose and seek to convey a message. Principled truth and an unwavering dedication to seeing it through, gains the world’s respect and indeed its awe-filled attention. These 1,000 acres which had the world turning all sorts of rage

filled colors as the chorus of condemnations poured into world headline news, would be best presented in the context of their being part of the tiniest swath of land calling itself a country in the Middle East, yet supremely more justified than any of its neighbors in its continued existence. A world which experiences a depth of evil yet unseen, must desperately find a balance. In the deep recesses’ of any thinking person’s mind lays a truth—an undeniable one. Only goodness has been proven to flow from Jerusalem. If only she were allowed these 1,000 acres and the rest of its ancestral land, .02% of the Middle East, in peace and tranquility—the world would assuredly become a better place. It is documented reality that Jerusalem remains a wellspring flowing milk and honey to the entire world. Damascus, Beirut, Gaza City, Tehran, Mosul, Riyadh and all the other Islamic centers of terror, are wellsprings of death, destruction and tyranny. This too is a documented fact. The lesson of these headlines is as simple as it is critically urgent. Good must fight for its truths as forcefully and selflessly as ISIS and its fellow satanic evils fight for death. Israel, this summer, led the way and nobody cared to follow. Were the world to finally connect the dots, the new year for these 1,000 acres, and the rest of our homeland, will provide the light of Psalm 27, recited twice daily during this High Holiday season. “G-d you are my Light” and good people everywhere will enjoy a happy, healthy and sweet New Year. This article came from Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Boynton Beach.

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A Look Back At 5774 Although 5774 seemed to pass quickly, big news happened on a daily basis. This past year was particularly tumultuous for Israel and the Jewish world, from last fall’s focus on keeping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, to this summer’s war with Hamas. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement gained ground and opposition to Israeli policy in Gaza spilled over into anti-Semitic hatred in France and other European countries. It was a history-changing year.

September 2013

President Obama said the US focus in the Middle East would be advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace and keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.


After serving for 22 years, British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks retired. A ceremony in a Copenhagen synagogue marked the 70th anniversary of the rescue of more than 7,000 Jews who were sent by boat to Sweden, after they were ordered deported to concentration camps. Hans Lipschis, a former Auschwitz death camp guard liv-

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ing in Germany was indicted as an accessory to 10,500 murders. Al-Qaida linked terrorists demolished several ancient Jewish mausoleums in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

October 2013

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the former chief rabbi of Israel and renowned Torah scholar, passed away at the age of 93. More than 800,000 people attended his funeral—the largest in Israel’s history. A day after meeting with President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Israel

was ready to go it alone against Iran should it come close to obtaining a nuclear weapon. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize, a $1 million award for a renowned professional capable of inspiring young Jews. Israeli-born Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California and professor Michael Levitt were among the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry. The IDF discovered a “terror tunnel” running 1.5 miles from the Continued on page 42

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Gaza Strip to a kibbutz near the border. The tunnel was full of explosives and ended near an Israeli kindergarten.

November 2013

In a survey of 5,847 European Jews, nearly one-third said they seriously considered emigrating from Europe because of anti-Semitism. The first day of Hanukah fell on Thanksgiving and a new word was coined—Thanksgivukkah. Grodno’s Great Choral Synagogue, one of Europe’s oldest functioning synagogues, sustained heavy damage in a fire. Grodno is located in Belarus. Jews in Brooklyn were attacked in the “knockout game.” This “game,” in which black teens punch random strangers for sport, trying to knock them out with one punch, had Jews unnerved. Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was presented with Israel’s highest civilian honor, the President’s Medal of Distinction, from Israeli President Shimon Peres in a New York ceremony. A hand-illustrated, rare Viennese Passover Haggadah from the 18th century was discovered in a garage in England and sold at auction for $340,000.


December 2013

Philanthropist Edgar Bronfman died at the age of 84. Bronfman was a longtime advocate on behalf of Jewish causes and served as the head of the World Jewish Congress. A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in an open area in southern Israel. The attack happened several

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hours before the scheduled release of 26 Palestinian prisoners Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a deal aimed at jump-starting peace negotiations. It was the third of four scheduled releases of a total of 104 prisoners. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum returned a section of wooden barracks that was on long-term loan from the Auschwitz Museum. American billionaire Warren Buffett donated $10 million to Rambam Hospital in Haifa At least five Katyusha rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel. Two of the rockets exploded near the town of Kiryat Shmona. A Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in an open area east of Ashkelon.

January 2014

Brooklyn Hassidic real estate developer Menachem Stark was

kidnapped, his lifeless body later found in a dumpster. The New York Post provoked outrage with a cover calling him a slumlord and a headline asking, “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?” Months later, a construction worker was arrested for the killing. Ariel Sharon, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 2001 until 2006 when he was rendered comatose by a stroke, passed away at the age of 85. The Israeli government announced plans to invest more than $1 billion over the next 20 years to strengthen the Jewish identity of Diaspora Jews, particularly young Jews.

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al director of the Anti-Defamation League after 27 years. He will leave the post in July, 2015. President Obama called Mr. Foxman irreplaceable, after his retirement was announced.

White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, killed a man and his grandson outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then shot a woman at a Jewish assisted-living facility a few blocks away, killing her. None of the victims were Jewish.

Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife topped the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the top 50 US donors to charitable causes in 2013. Alice Herz-Sommer, the 110-year-old Holocaust survivor and concert pianist whose life was the subject of a documentary, died a week before that documentary won an Oscar. The Giymat Rosa Synagogue in Zaporizhia, in eastern Ukraine, was firebombed, sustaining minor damage. The attack happened amid growing turmoil in Ukraine following the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych. Members of the Jewish community of Sochi and Israeli delegates to the Olympics held a memorial for the 11 Israelis killed by terrorists in Munich at the Summer Games in 1972.


March 2014

An Italian tourist tried to smuggle a piece of barbed wire from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum out of Poland in his suitcase. During interrogation, the man said that he took the wire as a souvenir. US Secretary of State John Kerry went to the Middle East to try to salvage the faltering peace process.

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away January 11, 2014

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was convicted of taking bribes when he was Jerusalem’s mayor. Russia deployed its military in Crimea in response to what President Vladimir Putin claimed was a rampage of anti-Semitic and nationalist groups. Putin’s claim sparked angry reactions from Ukrainian Jewish leaders, many of whom said it was a false justification for aggressive Russian actions. Tens of thousands of Haredi Orthodox Jews rallied in New York against a proposed Israeli law that would draft more young haredi men into the military. The rally took place in the Wall Street area. Police estimated there were between 30,000 and 35,000 participants.

April 2014

Sheldon Adelson bought Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon. He now owns several of Israel’s major rightwing media outlets and two of the country’s four major newspapers.

Israel suspended all negotiations after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party signed a unity accord with Hamas. President Obama responded by saying it might be time for a pause in Middle East peacemaking. Secretary of State Kerry later expressed regret for saying that Israel risked becoming an “apartheid” state or a non-Jewish one if the two-state solution is not implemented. US negotiators blamed Israel for the talks’ collapse. Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million after being caught on tape making racist comments to his girlfriend.

May 2014

An Anti-Defamation League anti-Semitism survey found “deeply anti-Semitic views” are held by 26% of 53,000 people polled in 102 countries and territories covering approximately 86% percent of the world’s population. Critics said the survey’s 11 questions were not an accurate gauge of anti-Semitism. Maccabi Tel Aviv won the Euroleague basketball championship by beating favored Real Madrid, 98-86, in overtime. Continued on page 46

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Far-right parties, including Greece’s Golden Dawn, made gains in European Parliament elections. A gunman killed four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. Several days later, Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national of Algerian origin, was arrested. A historic synagogue on the outskirts of Damascus was destroyed amid fighting in Syria’s civil war. Opposition leaders said Syrian army forces flattened the more than 400-year-old Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue and also may have destroyed thousands of Jewish artifacts. The synagogue had been damaged by a mortar shell in 2013. It stopped functioning as a Jewish house of worship more than a century ago. Before Syria’s civil war, the synagogue reportedly housed thousands of religious and cultural treasures, including century-old Torah scrolls, historical texts, dishes and ancient Judaica. It was not clear how many were in the building when it was destroyed. Pope Francis traveled to Israel and the West Bank, visiting the Western Wall and Yad Vashem.


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Former Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin of the Likud Party was elected president of Israel, defeating Meir Sheetrit of Hatnua in a 63-53 runoff vote. Three Israeli teenagers, Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, were kidnapped in the West Bank. Authorities eventually found the teens’ bodies and announced

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that they were believed to have been killed the night they were kidnapped. The incident sparked the revenge killing of an Arab teen, then riots and a surge of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The IDF responded by launching Operation Protective Edge.

July 2014

Israel launched its third major Gaza operation in six years. Dubbed Operation Protective Edge, the campaign began with 10 days of intensive air strikes. After several failed cease-fire attempts, a ground invasion of Gaza followed. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel, striking as far away as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and a Haifa suburb. A riot outside a French synagogue was one of several incidents related to the Gaza war that threatened Jews in Europe. Most foreign airlines suspended flights to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after a Hamas missile exploded nearby. The suspensions ended within three days. Iran and the major powers, led by the United States, agreed to extend negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program for another four months.

August 2014

Thousands of Jews fled violence in eastern Ukraine. Many have been

housed in temporary shelters set up by the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency and Chabad. Hundreds are set to make aliyah to Israel. Opposition to Israeli military actions in Gaza continued, spilling over into anti-Semitic attacks worldwide. Protesters shouted “Jews to the gas,” at rallies in Germany and “slaughter the Jews,” in Belgium. Rampaging mobs attacked Jewishowned stores in Paris. Young men drove through a Jewish neighborhood in Manchester, England, shouting “Heil Hitler.” Teenagers boarded a bus in Australia, filled with Jewish children ages 5 to 12, and threatened to cut their throats. The Chabad house reopened in Mumbai, India, six years after it closed the murders of emissaries Gabriel and Rivky Holtzberg and three Jewish visitors. Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a truce on August 26, ending seven weeks of bloody conflict. Sadly, most of the events this past year were due to anti-Semitism, however there was some good stories as well. More Jews won Nobel Prizes and a Nazi guard was captured—of course, he was 94 and ruled not fit to stand trial. Well, here’s to 5775, let’s hope for peace and good news.

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2,000 Year Old Coins Found In Israel


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ottery sherds (historic or prehistoric fragments of pottery) discovered by an Israel Antiquities Authority inspector several months ago, resulted in an archaeological excavation in which a previously unknown settlement from the Late Second Temple period was discovered, as well as a rare hoard of coins. In archeological terms, a hoard is a collection of valuable artifacts, purposely buried in the ground. The hoard, which was kept in a ceramic money box, included 114 bronze coins dating to the year four of the Great Revolt against the Romans. This revolt led to the destruction of the Temple on Tisha B’Av, 2,000 years ago. According to Pablo Betzer and Eyal Marco, excavation directors, “The hoard, which appears to have been buried several months prior

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to the fall of Jerusalem, provides us with a glimpse into the lives of Jews living on the outskirts of Jerusalem at the end of the rebellion. Evidently someone feared the end was approaching and hid his property, perhaps in the hope of collecting it later when calm was restored to the region.” All of the coins are stamped on one side with a chalice and the Hebrew inscription “To he Redemption of Zion” and on the other side with a motif that includes a bundle of lulav between two etrogs. Around this is the Hebrew inscription “Year Four,” that is, the fourth year of the Great Revolt of the Jews against the Romans (69/70 CE). The hoard was concealed in the corner of a room, perhaps inside a wall niche or buried in the floor. Two other rooms and a courtyard belonging to the same building were exposed during the course of the

archaeological excavation. The structure was built in the first century BCE and was destroyed in 69 or 70 CE when the Romans were suppressing the Great Revolt. Early in the second century CE part of the building was reinhabited for a brief period, which culminated in the destruction of the Jewish settlement in Judea as a result of the Bar Kokhba rebellion. This is attested to by three complete jars that were discovered embedded in the courtyard floor. It seems that the residents of this village, like most of the Jewish villages in Judea, were active participants in both of the major uprisings against the Romans—the Great Revolt and the Bar Kokhba Revolt. As a result of their involvement the place was destroyed twice, and was not resettled. The Israel Antiquities Authority is examining the possibility of preserving the village remains.

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New York News Ben-Gurion Matsas


INCREASED SECURITY IN NEW YORK New York City police stepped up surveillance of Wall Street, Times Square, subways and rail stations before the start of the Jewish New Year, as terrorists from the Islamic State warned of attacks. Increased deployment of police augmented by National Guard troops in camouflage were at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Deputy Police Commissioner Stephen Davis said that while there was no evidence of a specific threat, the NYPD had a duty to respond to concerns stemming from warnings on social media by the Islamic State. “We have to address not only the actual threats but the perceived threats, and the inordinate amount of attention to the perceived threat of terrorism has required us to do our part to offset public concerns,” Davis said. Officers and tactical squads were deployed at synagogues for Rosh Hashana. The heightened alert remained in place through the end of the month during the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. SPIRITUAL DEFENSE Creative Soul, an art group located in Brooklyn has been showing support for Israel through a unique exhibit titled “Spiritual Defense,” which focuses on the effect of mitzvot and gemilut hasadim (benevolence) towards the defense of the State of Israel. From a student praying by the Western Wall, to an abstract kabalistic exploration of the mezuzah, the artwork in the show explores a response to hardship and the resilience of the Jewish people. The show’s message is best exemplified in Leah Raab’s “Huddled in the Tunnel” where huddled bodies hold onto each other in a concrete pipe during a red alert siren. The figures in Raab’s acrylic painting are out of focus, with blurred faceless bodies grasping each other indiscriminately, as to highlight the panic and urgency for shelter during a red alert. It is here that strangers huddle like families, bestowing hesed upon each other with courage and love. Various sized artworks and mediums fill the Crown Heights gallery, demonstrating the diversity of the artists. “Spiritual Defense” has been on view at the Creative Soul Gallery.

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ALZHEIMER’S CONFERENCE About 120 people attended the Alzheimer’s/ Dementia Community Conference, the first to be hosted jointly by the Jewish Family Service of Central NJ and Jewish Family Service of MetroWest, both partner agencies of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ. Dr. Lawrence S. Honig said, “When it comes to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s there is no drug yet that will bring someone back to normal. But, we would be very delighted to come up with a drug that slows down the disease, and that might happen within the next five years or so.” He provided the audience with an overview, comparing and contrasting the symptoms, methods of diagnosis, and research into treatment of Alzheimer’s and related disorders, and warned against believing the remedies touted on the Internet, stating, “Memory improvement drugs are of no benefit at all.” What does help? Support for family caregivers, which can delay institutionalization by an average of 18 months, while improving the health and quality of life for those with the disease and their caregivers. The key is engaging at least one other family member or friend to provide emotional support and respite help. JCC OF GREATER CONEY RECEIVES MONEY FROM FEMA A Brooklyn Jewish Community Center is getting more money in Federal Emergency Management Agency money. All that was left of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island after Hurricane Sandy was its exterior walls and $1.5 million in damage. The staff was forced to work out of temporary locations for 18 months. FEMA initially granted the organization a little less than $2,000. The group appealed the funding decision in 2013 and was able to secure $500,000 with the help of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. JCC leaders plan to use the money to purchase necessary equipment and furniture as they continue to rebuild.

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Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. For Congress With just one month left before New York families head to the polls, it’s time to highlight one of the most important races of the 2014 midterm election cycle. Recognized by national commentators and media outlets including The Washington Post, The Hill, and Roll Call as one of the most important races to watch, Domenic M. Recchia Jr.’s bid for Congress in New York’s 11th congressional district has become one of the most talked-about races in the nation.


“I believe that this district deserves new leadership—leadership that can be trusted to fight for working families each and every day,” said Recchia in a recent statement. He added, “As a husband, father, and small business owner, I understand the challenges and issues facing middle class families in this district. Whether it’s traffic on your way home from work or having to include tolls in your family budget or worrying about how you’re going to pay for your children’s education, I understand the needs of families in this district and I’m going to be a voice for them in Congress. I’m going to make sure Brooklyn and Staten Island get their fair share and I won’t ever give up or back down on that promise.” Recchia announced his run for Congress last year, challenging incumbent Representative Michael Grimm.

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As a public servant, Domenic has never forgotten the importance of elected office: to be the voice and guardian for your community. During his three terms on the New York City Council, he worked tirelessly to advocate for the Sephardic community of his district, which included Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, and Gravesend. As the Chair of the Finance Committee on the City Council, Domenic managed the City’s $70 billion dollar budget with Mayor Bloomberg. Under their leadership, the City’s fiscal health was strengthened and critical city

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Domenic loves to meet his constituents

services and institutions were preserved, including those within the Sephardic community. During all four years of Domenic’s tenure as chairman, the City passed on-time, balanced, and bipartisan budgets, without raising taxes.

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As a candidate for Congress, Domenic is committed to being a champion for the middle class and a voice of pragmatism and commonsense reform. Rooted in his

firm belief that “everyone deserves a seat at the table,” he will fight to carry the voices of working families in Brooklyn and Staten Island to Washington. This June, in an effort to understand more about different community concerns across the district, Domenic took a “Kitchen Table Listening Tour,” during which he sat with families at their dinner tables to hear what issues were most important to them. Topics varied from neighborhood to neighborhood; South Brooklyn families talked about ways to improve quality of life Continued on page 56


As a City Council Member, Domenic proved himself to be an ardent supporter of the Sephardic community. In perhaps the best example of these efforts, Domenic fought for and won millions of dollars of funding for program development at the Sephardic Community Center, which increased the availability of educational, sports, fitness, and cultural opportunities for the neighborhood. Additionally, Domenic secured funding for the Sephardic Bikur-Holim non-profit that provides essential social services for the most vulnerable members of South Brooklyn. Recognizing the critically important work of the Sephardic History Museum in documenting the history of the Syrian Jewish community, Domenic also ensured that they secured the funding they needed to continue their work.

After Domenic’s many years working in the community as a member of the School Board and City Council Member, he decided to run for Congress after his district was devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Like so many people, after witnessing firsthand the devastation caused by the storm, Domenic found it appalling and frustrating that Congress took so long and even delayed for 80 days sending aid to New York as a result of partisan politics. Sadly, that frustration only continued when Congress’ inaction and failures brought us both the sequestration and government shutdown, both which threatened our country and city’s economic health and stability. Never before has the dysfunction in Congress hit home so hard, and so Domenic decided it was time to take action and bring a new kind of leadership to Washington.

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Domenic with his family

and their concerns for public safety and improving education, while New Dorp residents discussed the recovery from Superstorm Sandy and the need to invest in better transportation and infrastructure on Staten Island. Dedicated to working at a personal level with the people of both boroughs, last month Domenic traveled across Brooklyn visiting small business owners to discuss the importance of creating an economic environment that allows for growth and opportunity for everyone. In his quest to fight for the middle class, Domenic has identified

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several key areas that he intends to focus on once he is elected to Congress, beginning with economic development and education. To stimulate job growth and business, Domenic believes that one of the most proactive ways to approach this is through federal investment in transportation and infrastructure. At a September press conference with commuters and business owners, Domenic vowed to advocate for increased funding for research on transportation options for Brooklyn and Staten Island. In addition to transportation and infrastructure, improving education is something that has also been very personal

to Domenic since even before his City Council days, when he served as the President of the Community School Board District 21. Domenic’s impenetrable record on education has earned him a reputation as top advocate for our schools and our students. From supporting early childhood education to after school programming to lower class sizes to advanced curriculums, Domenic has been a tireless champion for our students, schools, and our teachers. In Congress, he will continue to be an advocate for education and will work to ensure our kids are provided with the tools and support they need Continued on page 58

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to receive an education that will allow them to compete in the global economy. In addition to his solid record on domestic issues, Domenic has also been a longtime supporter of the United States’ strong alliance and friendship with the State of Israel. As a lifelong resident of Gravesend, Domenic has grown up surrounded and enriched by Brooklyn’s Jewish community. This gave him an early understanding and appreciation of not only Jewish culture and traditions but of our community’s strong ties and bond with Israel. In fact, in 2012, Domenic was selected to be a member of the City’s delegation on an official visit to Israel. There, Domenic had the opportunity to experience the life, culture, and faith of the Israeli people, our deep economic, technological and educational bonds, and the difficult and dangerous conditions the people of Israel are forced to face each and every day as a result of the ongoing regional conflict. In addition to personally meeting with Israeli locals and hearing their stories of strife,

Domenic has also put these lessons into action. He has consistently supported the State of Israel through numerous resolutions in the New York City Council, ranging from honoring days of remembrance, to calling on the United States Congress to take action and stand with Israel to ensuring that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would remain a top foreign policy issue.

Domenic with the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat in 2012

Most recently, Domenic has joined members of the Jewish community, at events, vigils and press conferences, stemming from the horrible fate of Gilad, Eyal, and Naftali, and the turmoil in Gaza. In the wake of these events, Domenic stated: “These heinous murders remind us of the terror and fear that the people of Israel face each and every day. As a nation, the State of Israel has been a continuous partner and ally to the United States, and now more than ever, we must stand with Israel to reaffirm our shared values, culture, and national

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In Haifa, Domenic had the honor to meet with the President of Technion University, Peretz Lavie

interests. I pray for the lives lost, for an end to violence, and for restored stability and peace in the region.” As he has in the past, when elected to Congress, Domenic will continue to remain steadfast in his commitment to support Israel. The people of this community deserve an elected official that they can be proud of, someone who will always fight on their behalf and ensure that the voices of the neighborhood are heard in Washington. Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. is the candidate who will work with anyone, Republican or Democrat, to get the job done so that the people of his district get what they need and deserve. Domenic has a record of delivering results for our community, and he will continue to build on this record as our next congressman. Election Day is Tuesday, November 4th. The polls will be open from 6 am until 9 pm. Remember to get out and vote for Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.

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Solution to Tuition Crisis: Are We Ready for a Community Tax? Albert Laboz


It is common knowledge that the high cost of tuition is crippling our community. Nearly 50% of our community’s students are on some form of tuition assistance, up from 25% five years ago. The economic crisis has taken a devastating toll on our community. Yeshivah education is the fundamental way we pass on our values to our children. It is not an option. I know families where the mother works and the father has two jobs. We have cases where parents are being forced to choose between eating and sending their children to school. And then there are the cases where one parent is very ill, perhaps with cancer, and the other parent cannot work because they have to care for the sick parent and take them for treatments. These are real examples of families in need of affordable yeshivah education. I chair Project Education. Our mission is to bring down the cost of tuition at our yeshivot and make it affordable for everyone. Each community yeshivah, no matter what the philosophy, is represented by Project Education. Our objective was to study the tuition issue, educate the community about the crisis and develop possible solutions. We found that while there was a perception that the schools were not operating efficiently, after careful analysis, we came to the conclusion that they are actually very efficient. The higher percentage of students needing tuition assistance has caused the schools to scrutinize every dollar spent, sometimes spending fewer dollars on technology or other improvements to ensure they do not turn away deserving students. Hence, instead of focusing on the expense side, we began study-

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ing the revenue that comes into the schools. We found that aside from limited government funding (which is itself challenging due to constitutional issues of church and state separation) the only revenue sources are from fundraising and tuition. Using Yeshivah of Flatbush and Magen David Yeshivah as exam-

ples, the percentage raised from charitable giving was a paltry 6% of their operating budgets last year. The schools provided tuition assistance at $12 million and $7 million, respectively. It stands to reason, that if every person in the community gave ma’atzer (tithing) and they prioritized giving in the community to the yeshivot, it would offset this large differential and the cost of tuition would eventually be reduced. Many people have approached me with the idea that if the yeshivot

are not raising enough from charity, then we should impose a tax assessment on community members. After all, we are one community that for time immemorial—back to the days in Syria—where members have helped each other financially, always for the greater good. We have had the attitude that “we’re in this together,” that to be part of our great community and derive its benefits, there must be a sense of shared responsibility. The Sephardic Community in Mexico City has a community tax where the proceeds are distributed among all that community’s charitable organizations including the yeshivot. Historically, for hundreds of years in Syria, these community members were assessed by the elders for funds that went to the community’s charities or needy. To extrapolate this model to our community, the premise is as follows: the operating budgets of all the community’s yeshivot are roughly $100 million. If there are approximately 50,000 people in our community and each person, no matter what age, is assessed $2,000, then $100 million would be raised and tuition could be free for every student. The $2,000 tax would be assessed on each family member, from babies to great grandparents, whether or not their children are yet to attend yeshivah or have already graduated from yeshivah. Continued on page 62

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This panacea sounds like an incredibly simple solution that will solve all our troubles. However, upon closer examination, there are some huge challenges and arguments against implementation.


Challenge 1: The tax is regressive and not progressive, meaning it is not fair for a multimillionaire to pay the same amount as one of modest means. For a wealthy family of five, $10,000 could be paid fairly easily, as opposed to a poor family of five that will have great difficulty in paying such a tax. One solution to this challenge is modeling how Mexico’s Sephardic community and Aleppo’s community have historically done it, with a few respected elders determining and assessing each family based on its ability to pay. For example, a very wealthy family could be assessed $100,000 and a poor family could be assessed $5,000. While this progressive solution sounds ideal in theory, in practice, it would be similar to the current system where each school has a committee that decides tuition assistance.

75,000 people. What about those who have left the community and decide to return? One solution to these questions is to perform a community census that is defined by members who attend our community shuls and whose children attend our community yeshivot.

Challenge 2: Once a parent or grandparent’s children have graduated from yeshivah and they are facing college tuition, why should they be paying this assessment if they are not immediate beneficiaries? The rebuttal is that their grandchildren in the future will be benefitting from this system.

Challenge 4: How do we divide up the funds amongst the schools? Some schools have smaller operating budgets per student than others. Should a school that has an operating budget of say $20,000 per student get more money than a school that has an operating budget of say $15,000 per student? What about a school that may have a stronger secular program, with non-core activities such as art, music and theater, and thus a higher operating cost per child than one that has a stronger Torah studies program (and weaker secular program) that costs less per child? This leads to the larger issue facing our community, which is that not all of us have different priorities and don’t see eyeto-eye, when it comes to education. The sad state of facts is that the politics of an assessment are enormously challenging. To combat this, our community needs extraordinary leadership from fair minded, respected individuals of the highest integrity, representing the interests of the entire religious spectrum of our community. Some might argue that this is idealistic and an insurmountable challenge.

Challenge 3: How many people are actually in the community? With our community growing and absorbing not only Syrian Jews, but Jews from Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Israel and some Ashkenazim, how do you define who a community member is? Estimates of the community demographics range from as small as 38,000 people to as large as

Challenge 5: How do we enforce this school tax? What happens if people do not want to participate? For the community tax to work, the community would need universal compliance. If the preceding challenges were not difficult enough, the compliance issue could be the single biggest challenge. It is an unfortunate fact that there is no central authority in the community,

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respected by all factions that would have the power to enforce the tax. Some have suggested involving the rabbis and issuing an Edict that if one does not comply, he will not be part of our community, will not be welcomed to our schools and our synagogues, and will not be married by our rabbis or buried in our community cemetery. This is an extremely draconian punishment that the rabbis may be loath to enforce. Would our rabbis join hands on this issue? Some have suggested that if the rabbinate refuses to enforce the tax, the lay leaders should take it upon themselves to enforce it by refusing school admission, refusing to grant aliyot in shuls, and to perform marriages, brit milahs and funerals at our community synagogues. Would this be viewed as tyrannical with those in power imposing their values on community members? While everyone is talking about how the tuition crisis is crippling our community, a community tax is a concept that has to evolve provided all the obstacles and challenges can be dealt with. But we must act now, and the only immediate solution is increasing charitable giving to schools, making it a priority over other institutions abroad, (such as Israel). We are taught that tzedakah and hesed are the equivalent of all the mitzvot. Our children are taught from the earliest age to give tzedekah and to give to the poor. The motivation for tzedakah endures through the centuries: to sustain the Jewish people, to enhance the Jewish life and to strengthen the Jewish community for today and the future. By supporting our schools we ensure that all of our children receive a yeshivah education and maintain our communal values. It’s the right thing to do.

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arashat Vayelech begins the Torah to the people. What was with, “Vayelech Moshe— so special about the fact that he and Moshe went and went there on this day? spoke to the people of In the following passuk, Moshe Yisrael.” This was the final day of his tells the people, “Today I am onelife, and he began his final speech hundred twenty years old; I can Rabbi Saul J Kassin (31:2), Ben me’a v’esrim shana ano- no longer go out and come.” Rashi chi hayom (Today I am one hun- explained that it is not possible that dred twenty years old). That date, 7 Moshe no longer had the physical refused to give up. If he had lost Adar, was both anything, he was his birthday and determined to do the date of his whatever he could passing from to make it up. “Even as Moshe was preparing to die that very day, his main concern was this world. And so, he went “And Moshe to learn, even the well-being of his people. It is no wonder that Hashem chose him to be went,” the parathough it was his shah begins, last day. the leader of our people during our most crucial formative years.” but it does not Sometimes tell us where he we find that we went. The comare having a hard mentators filled time, that our perin the blank, and by doing so taught strength to go about as he had done formance is below our own par. This us important lessons about Moshe when he was younger, since the can be very frustrating, especially if Rabbenu. Torah testifies later (34:7) that, to this is supposed to be an important The Ibn Ezra explained that his dying day, lo chahata eino v’lo day. Imagine how Moshe felt when Moshe went from his tent to each of nas leho (his vision had not become he found that he had lost his prothe tribes, to personally inform the blurred and his strength never left found wisdom on the day that he people of his imminent death, and him). really needed it—the day his soul to give them encouragement for the Rashi then explained that was about to ascend to shamayim. future. He assured them that they Moshe was not referring to his phys- Despite this, he didn’t just give up. would be in good hands now that ical strength. He was saying that he He decided to give it his very best, Yehoshua would be their leader, no longer had the clarity of mind and so he went to the midrash to and that they had nothing to fear. to remain fluent in the vast ocean learn in those final hours. That is an This is amazing to think about. of Torah knowledge that he had incredible lesson for us all. Even as Moshe was preparing to once mastered. And so, the Targum This lesson is pertinent for the die that very day, his main concern tells us, what was Moshe’s reac- High Holiday season. We might feel was the wellbeing of his people. It is tion to this new reality? He went to ill-prepared for it, or overwhelmed. no wonder that Hashem chose him his midrash so that he could study Even so, we must push forward to to be the leader of our people during Torah some more and restore what get the most we can out of it. Let’s our most crucial formative years. he had suddenly lost. learn from Moshe Rabbenu’s examThe Targum Yonatan states that This is another incredible trait. ple. We have to keep on pushing Moshe went to his bet midrash, his Moshe Rabbenu was experiencing and doing our best. Torah study hall. Of course, this was the mental weakness of old age on Tizku leshanim rabot! (Wishing where he went every day, to teach the very last day of his life, but he you many, many years!)

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In the Forest and Hallows of the Earth “And they shall come into the caves of the rocks and into the hallows of the earth." Isaiah 2:19 As we wandered, many thoughts raced through our heads during the endless walking. One thought that never left us was where to sleep at night. We felt lonely and exposed in the open air, walking for an entire day with short breaks to rest and stretch our limbs. Apparently we were in a hostile area under German control, deep in unfamiliar Russian territory and far

from population centers. Ita said we were going towards the forests, where, according to rumor, many Jews were hiding. Evening descended and darkness began to reign. The forest, our destination for that day, seemed very far away, literally on the horizon. As usual, we walked on side paths rather than on the main road. Whenever a vehicle Continued on page 68

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appeared on the road, we were careful to hide in order to avoid being discovered. Now, under the cover of darkness it was easier to make progress. “We should rest a bit and then continue walking. We've avoided being detected by the Germans until now, and we must not be caught by them. If we continue we can still get to the forest tonight,” said Ita, spreading a blanket on the ground. We all fell on it, exhausted and drained. I fell asleep instantly. We reached the forest that night. It would become our home fortress for several months. We had come across many forests by then, but had never seen one like this. This forest held an entire colony of Jews. There was a family in every corner. Some people gathered in groups. Our common denominator was that we were homeless refugees, hiding from the ceaseless German pursuit of Jews. Ita said it was best to go deep into the forest, where it would be safer. Many of the refugees dug pits to hide in and protect themselves from the cold of the approaching winter. “It seems we will have to stay here for a long time, until the situation clears up. As long as the Germans control the area, it is very dangerous to be on the roads, especially for Jews. The Nazis are searching high and low for us, and killing every Jew they find,” said Ita while walking into the depths of the forest. We passed families and individuals who had already staked out their territory. “It looks like these people have been here for a long time,” commented Sara, asking: “How long will we be here?” “I don't know. We'll act just as the others do. First, let's organize a comfortable and suitable place for ourselves. Afterwards, I'll inquire among the forest veterans and see if they have information that will help us understand the situation,” answered Ita, urging us on. This was a huge virgin forest, many kilometers in length and breadth. There were tall conifers and leafy trees whose branches extended both horizontally and upwards. It was obvious that no human had trod in the depths of this forest. One could see enormous tree trunks from storm-toppled trees lying on the ground, blocking all passage to the forest center. This was a world unto

itself—dark, frightening and uncivilized, a habitat for animals such as foxes, wolves, snakes and wild boars. Ita drew us deep, very deep, into the forest, where we set up our home amidst trees and thick vegetation. Judging by the arrangements strictly orchestrated by Ita, it looked as if we would remain here for a long time. We removed any obstacle preventing us from spreading out the blanket, then lay down on it and fell asleep for a very long time. I cannot estimate the size of the forest, but, as stated, it was huge, truly endless and far from civilization. Even from its edges, it was impossible to observe any kind of populated area. Only on the very distant horizon were vehicles visible, traveling on a road. We maintained a fixed daily routine here. Each day, we gathered blueberries,raspberries, blackberries and mushrooms. Ita strictly demanded that we not stray too far from our “home;” and under no circumstances did she

"In the real life in which we 'starred,' we were willing to do everything to obtain a piece of bread or a rotten potato." let me to go by myself. We became experts in all types of mushrooms. Ita would cook soup from some of the harvest, which warmed us up on cold days. As I write these words today, thoughts come to my mind about the lifestyle, culture, good manners and norms accepted by our society. The encounter with the reality of life—that which exists beneath the veneer of culture—lent a wholly different significance to everything. Time meant something else, behavior was different. In the real life in which we “starred,” we were willing to do everything to obtain a piece of bread or a rotten potato. Even if it meant stealing, lying or removing articles of clothing from dead or dying people. Real life meant survival and nothing else, exactly as it did for the beasts of the forest which we now called home. Since we left Bialystok, I had heard many stories about partisans and their acts of bravContinued on page 70

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ery and revenge, and I very much admired their courage. With my active imagination, I pictured the partisans as tall and thickbearded, with muscular bodies that instilled fear in the enemy. I envisioned them holding weapons, living in the forest and helping the weak. I wondered if there were partisans in our forest as well. I received my answer when a rumor spread that a group of partisans was coming to our area. When I spied on them from behind a tree, they looked different from what I had imagined. They were young bearded men in their twenties and thirties, carrying

"The more I think of it today, many years after those terrifying times, the more my admiration for my eldest sister Ita grows." bundles on their backs and holding weapons. They stopped near us, distributed potatoes and bread, and melted away again into the thick forest bushes. It seems that every so often, the partisans would raid one of the distant villages and, after their fashion, would obtain food for themselves and the refugees in the forest. They knew that we had no possibility of leaving the forest, in this hostile area under Nazi control. The death sentence imposed on the Jews by the Germans and their collaborators, and the cruel, highly efficient mechanism they had established for its implementation, left us no choice but to hide here. We knew that any Jew caught faced death. At times, the partisans were accompanied by youngsters aged thirteen to fifteen, also carrying bundles and arms. I very much wanted to join them. Someone in the forest claimed that the weapons these boys carried were real. Someone else argued that the rifles they had were of carved wood and only resembled real ones. Everything to do with the partisans was mysterious. No one knew where they came from and to where they disappeared. Every conversation about them was held in a quiet, almost whispered, voice. When I tried asking Ita something about them, she immediately hushed me, saying there are things that are not discussed, and changed the topic.

The partisans also provided us with information. They communicated with the outside world via a wireless transmitter and were able to report on events and on the latest news, including the war in Stalingrad. They warned us of German raids on the forests and suggested that we change our hiding places frequently. Ita borrowed shovels from our neighbor and, together, we dug a pit. We covered it with trees and branches for camouflage, but also, of course, to conserve our body heat during the cold weather. The more I think of it today, many years after those terrifying times, the more my admiration for my eldest sister Ita grows. From where did she derive the wisdom to accumulate enough suitable clothing during our wanderings to prevent us from freezing in wintertime? As I pen these lines, unfathomable images come to mind, such as Ita rummaging among the corpses of bombing victims, removing clothing and various articles that would be useful to us. To her everything had value—sweaters, coats, socks, blankets, pants, shirts and what not. I recall one incident when, while on our way to a forest, we found ourselves in a town that was under aerial attack. We hid in one of the destroyed buildings. During a bombing, a woman wrapped in a blanket who was crossing the street near us was hit and killed, and her whole body began hemorrhaging. This time, I mustered up the courage to run up to her and peel the blood-stained blanket off her. To this day, I remember the angry look on Ita's face due to my “irresponsible” actions; yet this blanket served us well later during the cold nights. One of the items Father “bequeathed” to us when he was drafted into the Russian army was a sack. Made of a strong weave, it was reminiscent of the army “kitbag” familiar to every soldier. Ita made sure to carry this bag throughout our years of wandering. It served as our clothes closet as well as our kitchen cabinet. In it were a vessel for water, cups, plates, a small pot and other items. It was also our pantry, where we hid a few potatoes and, sometimes, when our situation improved, bread that we had received. Continued on page 72

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We were extremely worried about informers throughout our stay in the forest, fearing that some farmer would hear about us and turn us over to the Germans. There was no shortage of hostile elements who collaborated with the Germans. But luckily, the Germans did not fare well in this region, as the Russians managed to recover and launch a counterattack. Hunger and cold were our worst enemies. Among those hiding in the forest were older people who died after their strength gave out, while the young managed to survive. We were all very gaunt. Some of the adults required medicines; but since these, of course, were unattainable, their bodies weakened. Thus passed many months. We had become shadows of our former selves. What awaited us? All gates were closed before us—both the gates of mercy and the gates of vengeance. We were like broken vessels. Our strength was totally depleted from the many wanderings decreed upon us, and from the entire situation. We clearly heard the echoes of battles in the area, and the thunderous explosions of shells grew more frequent. At night, in addition to the sounds of explosions, we also saw flashes of fire. Frequently, we heard the noise of planes pouring out their wrath upon the surroundings via massive bombings. From our hiding place we were unable to discern whose planes these were, but it was obvious that heavy fighting was going on somewhere, outside of the forest. A rumor spread one morning that the Russians had conquered the area. The forest refugees began to congregate immediately to clarify the source of the rumor, which held great significance for us—it meant that we could finally leave the forest! A sneaking suspicion crept into our hearts that this might be a trick designed to turn us over to the Germans. Not one of us dared leave the place until we heard confirmation of the rumor from the partisans themselves. The partisans related that the Russians had recovered from the initial blow and had begun to repel the Germans in various spots. They

had regained control of the region, and the Germans suffered defeat and heavy losses. No words can describe the joy that gripped us. A spark of hope appeared. We are leaving the forest! Perhaps the war has even ended. We rejoiced. However, the truth was that although the Russians had beaten back the Germans in that area, the war was far from over. Apparently the Germans had attacked Leningrad and Moscow, but had not succeeded in penetrating the strongholds. We resumed our wanderings, but this time under the protection of the Russian army. An indelible memory comes to mind here. We were being taken somewhere in a Russian military vehicle and along the way

"We were told that we were being taken to a safe place, far from the battle zones." saw a long line of posts bearing the hanging bodies of German officers, captured in battle. It was a frightening sight. Ita, sensing that I was upset, covered my eyes with her hands, and said, “These are German officers. They deserve to die after sowing death throughout Europe!” The tremendous number of refugees roaming the area posed a problem for the Russian forces and interfered with their maneuvers. The military directed the stream of refugees to a huge compound near one of the cities. To maintain order, thousands of soldiers were stationed in the compound, which stretched over a wide territory. We numbered among the tens of thousands of refugees, mostly Jews who had hidden in the area, who were assembled there. During this period, the Russian soldiers tried to give us food and to demonstrate that matters were under control. We were in the first of many groups transported here by hundreds of trucks. We were told that we were being taken to a safe place, far from the battle zones. After traveling a considerable distance, the convoy of trucks stopped in an open field near railroad tracks. A large number of Continued on page 74

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soldiers stood around the field's perimeter to maintain order. After we alighted from the trucks, they organized us into groups. Ita made sure that we stayed together and did not get separated. A freight train approached from afar and stopped in the open field. We were ordered to board the cars, in the groups that had been formed. We all wanted to know where we were being taken. The train started to move and we set out. It was a long trip and it was hot and stuffy in the freight car, which reeked of the sour stench of human sweat. We traveled for hours. A person who recognized the route said we were heading northward towards Siberia. On the one hand, we were happy to be heading so far from the fighting; on the other, the name Siberia brought up unpleasant associations of exile. It was linked in our minds to hard labor and freezing cold, and we knew it as a place for prisoners, criminals and opponents of the regime. We felt unsettled and extremely worried. Each time the train stopped, we left the car for a short break, to stretch our legs and to relieve ourselves, after which we were called to re-board. The engine would start up slowly, laboring heavily, and then gather speed and accelerate. I looked out through the cracks and saw forests and more forests, countless forests. Here and there a few houses could be seen, their smoking chimneys indicating some sign of life in this godforsaken region. Sometimes, the engine's steam penetrated the cars, resulting in an intolerable odor and feeling of suffocation. As the trip wore on, temperatures dropped further. Someone mentioned that the train routes in Russia were among the longest in the world. After days of travel interrupted only by short breaks, we reached our destination— a place called Arkhangelsk. This was not a mistake: we were completely surrounded by snow and ice. We inhaled the cold, trembled from the cold. “Arkhangelsk?” Ita asked one of the travelers. “Yes, we've arrived in Arkhangelsk. We're not alone, this is a labor camp. I heard one of the soldiers say that conditions are not so terrible,” answered the traveler. He took his belongings and approached the soldier orga-

nizing the group. We stood outside, in the cold, awaiting instructions. The many policemen and armed soldiers were charged with guarding and maintaining order in the camp, which was home to a large refugee population. The person responsible for our car took us to a huge wooden barracks housing about two hundred refugees in crowded conditions. Ita located a spot for us, where we placed our possessions. At long last we were settled in proper quarters, with wooden beds, an enclosed space that was heated, and with our own corner. There was, however, no electricity, and light was provided by lamps which burned a special oil made from fish. We were soon made aware of the camp's rules. The men were taken out to work every

"At long last we were settled in proper quarters, with wooden beds, an enclosed space that was heated, and with our own corner." day, primarily to chop down trees. Some worked in camp services such as cleaning, maintenance, etc. Young boys also had jobs. They had to gather the short branches and scraps of wood that piled up after the hewing and sawing, and bring them to the heating stoves in the barracks. These were wood-burning stoves with chimneys that connected to other barracks, and thus the heat was retained—fortunate for us, as the cold here was intolerable. Ita made sure that we dressed properly in the harsh winter, and watched over me especially. Whenever she saw me about to leave the barracks, she insisted that I wear appropriate clothing. We slowly adjusted to conditions. We discovered that a not insignificant percentage of the camp population included exiled political prisoners, many of whom were Ukrainian. Trains arrived very frequently and the stream of refugees and prisoners was unending. The train station was inside the camp. However, these were no ordinary passenger trains. Rather, they were freight trains, discharging refugees and prisoners, unloading equipment Continued on page 76

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for the camp and then returning to the front with military supplies on board. The camp was an army base that spread over several kilometers and was surrounded by high wooden walls. Permission was required to leave the camp grounds, and it was granted only for work purposes. There were some advantages to being here. The first was the personal security: we were no longer pursued, nor were we concerned for our lives, so far from the Germans and the fighting. The second was having a roof over our heads, and no longer having to worry about finding a place to sleep, as we did previously when we slept in the open air, in fields or forests. Another benefit was the food, distributed weekly—bread, dried mushrooms, corn flour. True, it was insufficient for our needs; but at least we did not have to go hunting for food. We considered our stay, temporary as it was, a tolerable one until the war should end. To our great surprise and sorrow, we learned after some time that our paternal grandfather, Yaakov Domb, along with our grandmother, had been exiled here, to Arkhangelsk. Suffering from cold and hunger, they met their death inside the camp, both dying on the same day. This story touched us deeply and caused us great pain. One day, my sister Sara and I went out to the forest with a group of adults and an accompanying guide, to pick cherries and mushrooms. As usual, Ita made sure we were dressed warmly from head to toe. The forest, one of the virgin forests typical to the area, was filled with tall conifers. Focused on our task, we all entered the thick forest. It was early wintertime, and we were struck by the bitter cold. When we completed our assignment at the designated time, the guide collected us and we began marching back to the camp. After we had walked for hours without reaching our destination, the guide understood that he had lost his way. Several of the youngsters in the group began to display signs of distress and burst into tears. We saw bears in the area trying to approach us, but the older members of the group, together with the guide, cut some long branches in order to chase them away. We all shook with fear. The guide decided that we should light a fire, both for warmth and so

that the smoke would signal our location to those looking for us. We sat in a tight circle around a tree, near the fire. My sister Sara did not leave me throughout this time and we sat huddled with the group to preserve our body heat and— purportedly—to protect ourselves from the bears. A full twenty-four hours passed, with no food, in the freezing cold of the forest. Seeing that we did not return, our families alerted the police and soldiers, who went to search for us. It took them twenty-four hours to find us, hours of unmitigated fear and tension for all. The soldiers who reached us immediately wrapped us in blankets, gave us hot drinks and calmed us down.

"The local winter was cruel and merciless, with blinding, five foot-high snow covering vast spaces." Here in the camp we were also introduced for the first time to a unique phenomenon of nature, called “white nights.” Arkhangelsk is located on a plateaus, a land of brown bears and gray wolves. The area was infamous for being a place of exile for millions of people out of favor with various ruling governments, transported here to meet their deaths. The local winter was cruel and merciless, with blinding, five foot-high snow covering vast spaces. Temperatures dropped to about negative fifty-eight degrees Fahrenheit and fierce winds gusted; their howling was terrifying. To someone who was not used to living here, it seemed as if the world was on the verge of destruction. It was hard to breathe and the frost burned our faces. No living creature could be outside and anyone without shelter would freeze to death in a very short time. Fortunately, we spent this period in heated barracks, awaiting the end of G-d's wrath. For many months, we lived with the hope that the Americans and their allies would prove victorious in the war. We yearned for an end to the ongoing nightmare. For more information or to read previous chapters visit samdomb.com.

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he Sukkah City exhibition, an architectural design competition in Union Square Park in September 2010, much like the temporary dwellings that it showcased, came and went. Now, a documentary might make its legacy more permanent. Director Jason Hutt’s Sukkah City chronicles the event in phases, including the jury debate on more than 600 creative sukkah designs and construction of the 12 winning designs. Hutt says his 67 minute film provides a new angle for those who experienced the event. “This was only a two day event, so there are people that simply never heard it,” he said. “There are people that read about it, but didn’t get a chance to see the event. Then there are people who attended the event but still didn’t get the level of

depth of knowledge and insight that the film provides. The film has a lot to offer to everyone, those who were there and those who were not.” JNS.org asked Hutt several questions about the film. Why did you choose the Sukkah City competition as the subject for a film? Basically I learned about Sukkah City as competition organizers were seeking out applications and entries, submissions and designs. I met Sukkah City co-creator Josh Foer in Park Slope years ago. It sounded like it was going to be both an interesting artistic adventure in terms of trying to reimagine the traditional sukkah, and it also seemed like this dramatic experience: putting together this competition with

Inside the construction of “Fractured Bubble,” the people’s choice winner at the 2010 Sukkah City competition. Credit: Christopher Farber.

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a jury, discussing and debating the merits of each submission, and then the process of the architects and then having them exhibited to the public. With all of these different components, it seemed like coming together would make an interesting documentary film. What about the holiday of Sukkot makes it appealing for the medium of film? The sukkah is something that is described in the liturgy. I would say that it definitely provides a nice visual component to a film. But for me it was more about this creativity, this process of the design community, the architecture community, the skill set of this creativity being applied to this tradition. The sukkah has become a very generic box structure, literally a pop-up tent. The fact that Sukkah City was a design competition was definitely exciting to me. And in the film it does become a very interesting visual story, in the sense that you’re seeing these architects and designers applying their knowledge, intelligence, creativity, and resources to coming up with these amazing designs, 12 of which are realized in the film. Continued on page 80

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The Sukkahs


Which phase of the Sukkah City event represents the climax of your film? I think the different parts of the film are all equally interesting. The jury section is fascinating because you get some of the most intelligent and creative architects, academics and critics, in the architecture, design and art world, debating these submissions. You don’t often see such intellectuals having such a passionate debate about anything, because that’s usually behind closed doors, especially if it’s a serious competition. Second, what you didn’t get by attending the Sukkah City exhibition were all these background stories from the architects on how they came up with the designs, what sparked their interest in even applying for this competition. They read the original rules from the Talmud on what the sukkah can be and what it can’t be. All of the design were intrigued and inspired by different aspects of the rules. The third piece, is seeing the people of New York and elsewhere coming here and interacting with the structures, and with each other, learning about the sukkahs and choosing their favorite. As a film, it’s offering these different pieces of this one project, and I think it’s really interesting from start to finish because of that.

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You previously directed Orthodox Stance, a documentary about Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitry Salita. What has drawn you to make films on Jewish topics? Jewish culture and Jewish life have always been important to me, ever since I was a little kid. As I got into documentary filmmaking, I saw some very interesting subjects in the contemporary Jewish experience, that made me want to learn more about them. It’s just me following my curiosity to learn about what I think are interesting projects, and to ultimately share them with an audience.

What insight do you hope for viewers of the film to gain on both the holiday of Sukkot and on the competition? The film is not just about the holiday of Sukkot, it’s not simply about the sukkah. It’s also about creativity. It’s also about how we as Jews continue to find meaning in ancient tradition, and the ways that we can continue to draw meaning and inspiration, and relevance, from a tradition that is thousands and thousands of years old. And that’s what I think people can get from this film. I think it’s a film that on the one hand is informative, and then also inspirational.

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Sukkot Recipes Thanksgiving Style


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ukkot celebrates the autumn harvest; which is similar to the Thanksgiving holiday observed in the United States. This is not coincidental. Prior to making their way to the New World, the Pilgrims, themselves the victims of religious persecution, spent several years among Sephardic Jews in Holland. When they later celebrated the legendary first Thanksgiving, their conscious frame of reference was Sukkot. Any dish incorporating the harvest is appropriate for Sukkot, but particularly those which feature a number of ingredients, like stuffed vegetables, fruits, and main-dish pies—miniature cornucopia symbolizing the plenty with which we have been blessed and for which we hope throughout the coming new year. This concept is seen in the Sephardic tradition of serving

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couscous, with its accompanying variety of vegetables and toppings. In cooler climates, baked casseroles or hearty one-pot meals are especially favored, since it is convenient to carry them to the sukkah, where meals are eaten during the holiday. Southwestern Turkey Breast and Green Chile Stuffing Ingredients for Turkey • ½ teaspoon chili powder • ½ teaspoon mustard powder • ½ teaspoon kosher salt • ½ teaspoon dried oregano • ½ teaspoon ground coriander • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper • 1 boneless skinless turkey breast (2 to 2½ pounds) Stuffing • 1 tablespoon olive oil

• 2 medium onions, chopped • 1 bag frozen corn, defrosted (10 ounce) • 2 cans chopped green chilies, drained (4.5 ounce) • 1 tablespoon ground cumin • 8 cups cubed bread (day old) • 1½ cups chicken stock • ½ teaspoon kosher salt • ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Preparation Preheat oven to 400˚. In a small bowl, combine all spices for turkey rub and mix well. Place turkey breast on a greased baking sheet or roasting pan and rub all over with spice mix to coat well. Bake for about 1 hour or until internal temperature reaches 170˚. Let rest 10 minutes before slicing. Continued on page 84

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Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add onions and cook 5 minutes or until softened. Add corn, green chilis and cumin and saute 3 minutes or until fragrant. Transfer to a large bowl and add bread cubes, stock, salt and pepper; mix to combine. Transfer to a greased baking dish. Bake with turkey breast for 1 hour. Cider Glazed Vegetables This simple apple cider glaze works well with any fresh or frozen vegetable for a quick side dish. This recipe uses green beans, but it’s great on sliced carrots, parsnips or other winter root vegetables. Also, try it with other types of vinegar or nuts. Ingredients • 2 pounds green beans, washed and trimmed • 4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar • 2 tablespoons olive oil • 2 teaspoons honey • ½ teaspoon kosher salt • ½ cup sliced almonds Preparation Preheat oven to 400˚. Spread green beans on a large sheet pan in a single layer. Toss with vinegar, olive oil, honey and salt. Roast 8 to 10 minutes or until tender but still crisp. Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with sliced almonds.


Couscous with Roasted Vegetables Ingredients 1 10 ounce box couscous 1 red bell pepper, cut into ½ inch wide strips 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into ½ inch wide strips 1 small yellow squash cut into ¼ inch thick diagonal slices 1 fresh zucchini squash, cut into ¼ inch thick diagonal slices

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Preparation Preheat oven to 425˚. Prepare couscous according to package directions. In a large bowl, combine peppers and squash. Mix together salt, pepper, garlic, seasoning, oil and balsamic vinegar; toss with vegetables. Spread vegetables evenly in sheet pan and roast for 10 to 12 minutes or until vegetables are crisp and tender. Reserve left over marinade. Cool vegetables, toss with remaining marinade, couscous (and cheese for dairy dishes). Pumpkin Pie with Caramel Whipped Cream To save time, use a store-bought prepared graham cracker pie shell instead of making your own.

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Ingredients for Pie • 1½ cups crushed chocolate graham crackers • 4 tablespoons margarine, melted • 1 cup pumpkin puree • 1 cup soy milk • 2 large eggs • ½ cup brown sugar • 2 tablespoons maple syrup • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon •½ teaspoon ground nutmeg Ingredients for Caramel Whipped Cream • 4 tablespoons caramel sauce • 2 cups pareve whipped cream Preparation Preheat oven to 350˚. In a small bowl, combine crushed graham crackers and margarine and stir.

Press mixture into a 9 inch pie plate in an even layer, across the bottom and up the sides. Bake for 10 minutes and remove. Increase oven temperature to 400˚. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, soy milk, eggs, sugar, maple syrup and spices; whisk. Gently pour into pie shell and bake 40 minutes or until set. Let cool completely or refrigerate overnight for best results. Gently fold 4 tablespoons caramel into whipped cream. Spread over chilled pie just before serving and slicing. Recipes courtesy of Jamie Geller, the author of the best-selling “Quick & Kosher” cookbook series.

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Holiday Word Search


A word search is a classic puzzle game wherein you have a grid of letters. Within the grid are hidden words. These words are placed within the grid horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The aim is to find and circle all the words as quickly as possible. The words you’re looking for are beneath the grid. Two words together, such as four species, are hidden separately.

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BLESSING

FOUR SPECIES

REJOICING

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Offering the Finest Brands of Watches and Luxury Jewelry for 130 Years A little over a century ago, the triangle of lower Manhattan was the heart of New York City’s diamond, jewelry and watch making district. In 1884 William Barthman Jeweler opened shop there and today it’s the only jeweler still in operation in the neighborhood.


Steven and Jerry Natkin

In 1998 owner and Brooklyn native Jerry Natkin decided to open his second store. He chose the luxury shopping district of King’s Highway in the affluent neighborhood of Midwood. The location at 1118 Kings Highway between Coney Island Avenue and East 12th Street is known for being central to the communities he wanted to serve—the Sephardic and Orthodox as well as Russian and Italian consumers. Today they represent some of the finest brands of watches and jewelry including Rolex, Hublot, Breitling, Chimento, Tag Heuer, Damiani, Bulgari, Roberto Coin and de Grisogono among many others. Many consider it to be one of the finest jewelry stores in the United States. Earlier this year the owners undertook an ambitious storewide renovation of the Kings Highway location. The gleaming new façade has a modern aesthetic and fea-

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tures a state-of-the-art digital billboard. Enhanced lighting surrounds its iconic clock and store name. According to VP Steven Natkin, “We felt the store was beautiful before but we decided that it was time to upgrade the look and feel to better showcase the luxury merchandise we offer.” The clear glass storefront offers greater visibility of the high end luxury goods inside and the renova-

tion of the 5,000 square foot interior space includes new installations of many of their featured brands including a new Breitling Corner, Hublot Corner, Tag Heuer Corner and Chimento and Roberto Coin Boutiques. Since opening, the store has become the go-to luxury retailer in the borough for fine timepieces and jewelry, and it is the only authorized Rolex dealer in all of Brooklyn.

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William Barthman is also proud to be “The Official Jeweler of Brooklyn Nets Basketball.” Brooklyn’s first professional sports team in over 50 years. Besides being the official jeweler, they are also sponsoring the player of the month and player of the year awards.

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This year marks the 130th year of William Barthman serving their loyal customers. They continue to provide their clients with a luxury shopping experience by offering the best watch and jewelry brands available in the marketplace as well as repair services by authorized technicians. A visit to this store will surely show you one of the great treasures of Brooklyn. For more information visit www.williambarthman.com or call (718) 375-1818.

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Color the Sukkah

Use bright crayons or markers to color in the sukkah, then hang it in yours.

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Color the Dancing Lulav and Etrog

Use bright crayons or markers to color in the dancing lulav and etrog, then hang your picture in your sukkah.

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Inspiring Ways to Start the New Year Yvette Alt Miller


Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, just passed. It’s time to make real changes and get the new year off to a fresh start. Amp Up Your Expectations In 1965, teachers in a San Francisco elementary school were given lists of students who were likely to have amazing educational “growth spurts” in the coming year. A Harvard psychologist, Robert Rosenthal, had tested all of the children, and was able to inform their teachers which kids were likely to achieve great things in the coming months. At the end of the year, the teachers’ experience tallied with Dr. Rosenthal’s: those students he predicted would have growth spurts did so, enjoying above-average intellectual success across the board in school. What the teachers didn’t know was that the list of names they were given was entirely randomlygenerated. There was no academic test; each teacher was given a list of arbitrary names. Yet the students’ growth was real. When teachers expected more from those students, the students delivered, increasing their performance in class. The IQs of those students identified as “Growth Spurters” also increased, measuring much higher after the academic year than at the beginning, and increasing significantly in relation to their peers. This year, view yourself as a “Growth Spurter.” Give yourself the gift of believing in yourself and watch yourself grow into your higher expectations. Break Your Routine When we learn new skills we use our prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain in charge of deliberate,

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rational thought. (Think of learning to drive: first-time drivers don’t carry on conversations, all their attention is focused on what they’re doing.) Once we master a skill, however, it gets downgraded to our basal ganglia, a part of our brains that is associated with emotion and memory. (This is why driving is second nature to us, allowing us to talk or listen to the radio with one part of our brains while we use another to navigate a car.) Finally, our brains experience a third emotion: pleasure, when a habitual act is completed. We tend to perform activities the same way each time when we’re in our usual environment. Changing our surroundings, however, breaks up the three-part loop that governs habits in our brains. When our usual cues and rewards are absent, it’s easier to change our behavior.

This year, consider ways to go someplace new—literally. Volunteering at a new place, joining a new community, reaching out to new people are all ways to push ourselves beyond our comfort zones, escape our default ways of doing things, and give ourselves space to be someone new. Evaluate Your Community The people we surround ourselves with are crucial to our own behavior. In one recent study monitoring students who transferred to a new university, entrenched habits like reading the newspaper, exercising, and watching television were all altered; transfer students quickly conformed to the habits of their new community. Continued on page 98

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The people we surround ourselves with have profound effects on the way we do things and the decisions we make. Even our most intimate choices might be influenced by those in our wider community. One study found that being privy to the details of a friend’s divorce increased one’s own chances of getting divorced by 75%—even hearing about the divorce of a friend of a friend raised one’s own chances of divorce a shocking 33%. Positive effects also flow from being part of a community. Two thousand years ago, the Jewish sage Rabbi Hillel recognized the importance of community in shaping our goals and sense of self. He counseled his students: “Do not separate yourself from the community” (Pirkei Avot 2:5). We all are stronger when we reach out to others and share in a set of values and goals. This year, take a look at your social connections. Ask yourself how you can spend time with those whose values and lifestyle you want to share. Consider strengthening your links to your local Jewish community, and allowing the support and connectedness of your community to enrich you as well. Spend More Time with Loved Ones Recent research shows that spending time with people who are dear to us profoundly affects our physical well-being. In one major study, physical wounds healed faster for people who had close, positive relationships in their lives. Another study found that people who feel they have close relationships are more productive at work. In today’s hyper-busy world, it can feel next-to-impossible to carve out quality time to spend with those we care about. Fortunately,

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Jewish tradition provides a builtin opportunity for spending quality time with friends and family each week by slowing down and coming together over meals on Shabbat. Disconnecting from all our gadgets makes sure we spend quality faceto-face time at home. There’s even research to back up the benefits of these weekly meals: eating regular family meals together is associated with lower levels of stress for kids and adults. For children, eating a family meal is also connected to lower levels of drug abuse, higher grades, and better health. Say Thank You Saying thank you is one of the most powerful ways we can move beyond our old habits and transform our lives. In a ground-breaking study a little over a decade ago, Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of California, and Dr. Michael McCullough of the University of Miami asked one group to write in journals about their daily lives and another group to work through their problems and irritations in their writing. A third group was asked to

focus on writing things they were grateful for. At the end of the study, they found something remarkable: the participants who used their journals to record what they were thankful for reported markedly higher levels of happiness and well-being. Their entire demeanor was altered by the experiment. They displayed higher levels of energy, determination, alertness, attentiveness and enthusiasm. This translated into concrete action, as well. People who kept gratitude lists were more likely to make progress towards important goals. It isn’t only writing down what we’re grateful for that can have this profound effect. The researchers also found that attending religious services, praying, and studying religion also creates a feeling of gratitude that can transform our lives. Yvette Alt Miller earned her B.A. at Harvard University. She completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewish Studies at Oxford University, and has a Ph.D. In International Relations from the London School of Economics. She wrote the book Angels at the Table: a Practical Guide to Celebrating Shabbat.

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David Silvera added, “It was fun even without the swim. It was an exhilarating experience. And, it was nice coming to the beach so early in the morning.” Celia Tawil, one of the talented female triathletes stated, “Never say, ‘I can’t.’ I never did anything like this before, but I will definitely do it again!” “Can’t wait for the next one! It was great training with TeamSAFE,” reported Bernie Hafif.


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David Antebi, photos courtesy of The Kedem Auction House, Jerusalem

oday a signature is a simple scribble of one’s name. It’s usually an easy and quick task that doesn’t require much time or thought. However, various Holy books, contracts and Halachic documents that reached the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem over the past years unveiled an interesting phenomenon: for centuries Sephardic rabbis have put much time and effort into developing impressive, stylized and formative autographs, which included much more than their names and which turned rabbinical signatures into significant seals in the image of fascinating miniature drawings. One of the most stylized signatures is that of Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai (AKA the Hida, 17241806). Its uniqueness is that it incorporates in it a ship, a characteristic which was applied to the rest of the Hida’s kinsmen’s signatures. Rumor has it that the shape was supposed to insinuate the many wanderings of the Hida, some of which took place upon ships at sea, as he performed his famous role of a meshulach (emissary of the rabbis).

ship, but then a sudden storm came, and the ship broke and everything drowned and their lives were in grave danger. To commemorate this salvage miracle he made his signature in the shape of a ship, and I’ve seen his signature.”.

believed that the fire didn’t consume his body. Rabbi Shlomo Molcho’s signature:

Rabbi Avraham’s signature:


This is the Hida’s signature:

It turns out that this shape has an older origin, as it had appeared already as part of the autograph of Hida’s great-great grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Azulai. The derivation of this naval vessel to Rabbi Avraham’s signature emanates from a miracle that occurred to him when he made aliyah from Fes to Eretz Yisrael, around 1600. The Hida described, “And through a ship he came to Cappadocia (Turkey), and placed all his belongings on the

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Another extraordinary signature is that belonging to the Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Molcho, also known as Diogo Pires, born in the year of 1500 to a Marrano family in Portugal. The most prominent element in the signature is the flag, a reminder of the Jewish Faith Banner for which he sacrificed his life. He was burned at stake, his last sentence being “All my life I pursued that religion with my heart bitter and incensed, and now do as you like but my soul will return to its home at youth, as it was better back then than now.” Many

The rabbinical signatures were also influenced by the overall decorative style of the time. One of the reiterating motives in the rabbinical signatures is the use of flora, which was also quite widespread in the decoration of book covers, etc. One example is Rabbi Shalom Azulai’s signature. He drew leaved branches with lily flowers and tendrils under his name. Continued on page 104

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Sephardic Signatures... Continued from page 102

The signature of Rabbi Shmuel ben Asus uses a water bowl from which springs a plant, and next to it appears a complicated formative adornment which originates from thamic art.


The signature of Rabbi David ben Moshe Ochnuna presents a sukkah from which grape clusters hang down. This signature is from 1949.

Eli Stern, who has investigated rabbinical signatures for the Kedem Auction House, for years, said, “It’s amazing to think how much time these rabbis put into each complex signature. They had to sign thousands of documents at the Bet Din. As a result, they surely developed an extraordinary drawing skill and created a fascinating phenomenon in Hebrew-Jewish Sephardic calligraphy. In addition, this also augmented the importance of their signatures, prevented forgery and maybe even served as a tool for profound rethinking before giving their consent to a document, a book or a contract.”

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This is an old document, one of many on sale at the Kedem Auction House. Notice the signatures at the bottom of the page. If we didn’t know they were signatures, they’d just look like someone was doodling on the page.

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Self-Worth All children need to feel accepted, when they do they don’t need to seek that acceptance elsewhere. When we nurture our child’s feeling of self-worth, we create a sense of pride and belonging. We want our sons and daughters to know that we love them for who they are and that they each possess a unique gift given by G-d. For each child the gift is different. It can be intelligence, personality, sports, art, baking, music, friendship, even the ability to care for a baby. Our role as parents is to help the child discover the magic within instead of focusing on the perceived gifts that others possess. Self-confident children can deal successfully with the ups and downs that life brings. Kids who possess

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self-worth will better navigate future relationships, feel resilient enough to try and risk failure, and become a source of strength to future generations. If we can show our children that they can use their gift to make this world better, we transmit to each child a confident awareness that “I make a difference” and “I have value.” Parents who appreciate their children’s differences, interests, and talents, encourage them to grow confident and be happy with who they are. Security We live in a frightening world. Our children are aware of current events, painful tragedies and images that boggle the mind. Words like kidnapping, missiles, terrorist

attacks and killings are no longer scenes from Hollywood movies. A generation is growing up surrounded by loss. And it is not just grim world news that kids must confront. I have spoken to parents whose children are fearful of returning home from summer camp because each year there are couples who announce their pending divorce. Do you feel confident that you have given your child a sense of security? We can help assure our children by creating an atmosphere of trust. Let them know that despite the difficult world out there, they can always count on you. Here are practical ways to make this happen: rid yourself of chaos and commit to routines and schedules that work; try to de-clutter so that your home does not feel messy and overwhelming. Keep your word; when you say you will be there don’t disappoint, and honor your promises. A lack of consistency in rules makes a child unsure of what to expect. Wishy-washy discipline does not allow a child to anticipate proper consequences and strips away the security of knowing right from wrong. Most of all, let us recognize the destructive power we possess when we scream at our children. All it takes is a few moments of outrage to cause a child to feel that he is living with a parent who is out of control. Anger, yelling, sarcastic put downs and belittling removes the inborn trust that a child had. Continued on page 108

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Every Child Needs... Continued from page 106


Once the bond between parent and child is destroyed, it becomes very difficult to rebuild—even if you try afterwards to spend time together and offer soothing words. Your son or daughter will always wonder—will this be a safe conversation or will I feel vulnerable? Creating a stable home instead will enable your child to grow knowing the definition of dependable, reliable and trustworthy. Relationship Skills Our children need to learn how to deal with others. Too often parents make excuses for their child’s misbehavior or hurtful words. Instead let us concentrate on helping our kids handle their encounters. Practical ways for us to do this is to open our eyes to teaching moments where kids can learn about apologies, forgiveness, gratitude, sharing, not interrupting, allowing others to be in the limelight, listening skills, overcoming the desire to hit or scream, dealing successfully with tantrums, and learning how to quell angry reactions. At the same time it is important to impart the deference required when encountering authority. Discuss the proper derech eretz (standard of respect) while speaking to rabbis, principals, teachers, parents, relatives, and elders. Just as crucial is the knowledge of how to act in a synagogue, bar and bat mitzvah, airplane, restaurant, hotel, and other people’s homes. Lacking social skills produces children who either bully or withdraw into painful silence. Providing the proper relationship know-how gives children character traits like loyalty, respect, unselfishness and honesty. Sensitivity Teach your children to be considerate of other people’s feelings.

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When you have family time, turn off your devices and tune into your children

When a sibling or classmate has been pained, it is okay for a child to be aware and feel empathy. If possible, give your children opportunities to cultivate compassion. There are many hesed projects that we can get our children involved in, instead of just focusing on themselves. This past year a group of bat mitzvah aged students collected hundreds of coats that we shipped off to Israel. We discussed the kids their age who are freezing during the winter months because they cannot afford a coat. It was an incredible day that opened up the eyes and hearts of these young girls to the suffering of other children. Compassion must be nurtured. It will not happen by itself. Children notice if their words bring a smile or a tear. They recognize from early on if they’ve brought pleasure or pain. We cannot afford to shy away from allowing them to confront their behavior and deal with poor decisions that they’ve made. As parents, we must replace angry reactions with firm but loving discipline. We cannot expect to raise sensitive children if we,

ourselves, are insensitive to our children’s needs. Love, Love and More Love Of course, all this is not possible if we lack the ability to make our children feel loved. Be generous with your affection. Hug more, laugh more, say ‘I love you’ more. Allow your children to see that you appreciate, and are affectionate with, your spouse. Give words of gratitude and admiration. When you have family time, don’t seem bored and uninterested. Turn off your devices and tune in to the ones who count on you most in this world. Watch that the pressures of school, homework, carpools, bedtime and daily life do not ruin the precious moments you have together. Our families are our greatest assets. Let us create homes filled with peace so that we can transmit our legacy to the next generation. Slovie Jungreis-Wolff is a freelance writer, and a relationships and parenting instructor. She is the daughter of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, founder of Hineni International. This article originally appeared on Aish.com.

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• Turn insult into victory. Not everyone with power and influence over your future is going to be your advocate. Rather than let naysayers’ prophecies become reality, succeed in spite of them. When Levin entered law school, he had a reputation as a party boy, gambler and lazy student. Having barely skidded through college, the dean of his law school predicted he would never graduate. Even while dealing with the death of his brother, Levin proved the dean wrong, graduating third in his class. Continued on page 112

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• Change your thinking. Instead of thinking that an obstacle in your path is something you’ve been forced to overcome, try viewing it as a challenge to conquer. Some of the world’s greatest inventions came to be because a visionary simply chose to accept the challenge. Whenever you find yourself confronted by an obstacle, try looking at it from a different viewpoint. You just might find that it isn’t such a big deal, and that you can easily overcome it. • Search for the opportunity within the adversity. Consider the obstacle a necessary part of the experimentation process. One experiment failed, so try another.


• Strive to control your emotions. How do you react to frustrating situations? Are you passive? Are you aggressive or assertive? After you’ve identified the specific issue, take a deep breath and try to remain calm. Remove yourself emotionally so you can think logically. • Seek out new opportunities. Constantly gather new sources of information. Keep yourself open to new insights and ideas and respond to them when they come your way. Ask for help if you need to. Smart leaders know how to use the resources that are available to them, and that includes assembling a talented team to spark business success.

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• Be tough, keep your team together, and don’t give up. Also, recognize that objections are a good thing. If someone is straightforward enough to raise an objection, it gives you a chance to test your plan and make it fire proof. • Accept responsibility for your errors. Great inventions wouldn’t be great if they were simple, and visionaries wouldn’t be great if they weren’t willing to take a few chances along the way. Sometimes risks pay off, and sometimes they don’t. If you take a chance and it turns out to be an error, be humble enough to own up to your mistake. Then pick yourself up and re-chart your forward course. • Keep trying. Lance Armstrong said after his fifth consecutive Tour de France win: ‘’Sometimes you have to survive in order to win.’’ Lance’s words hold true in business as well. You can overcome many obstacles just by continuing and not giving up. • Maintain your sense of humor. It never hurts to laugh at adversity. At least it never made a problem worse. So give it a shot and throw a chuckle at the next obstacle that places itself between you and success. Sometimes all you need to do to lighten your burden is to find a little humor in the problem.

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On June 8, 1933 Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born. Her parents, Beatrice and Meyer, were Russian Jewish immigrants who raised their two daughters in Brooklyn before settling in Larchmont, New York. Joan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College in 1954 and before entering show business, she worked as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center, as a writer at an advertising agency and as a fashion consultant at Bond Clothing Store. She changed her name to Joan Rivers when she entered the acting world, and in February 1983, she became the first female comedian to ever perform at Carnegie Hall. She became famous for her direct sense of humor and for her insistence in “telling it like it is.” Though Joan was not an observant Jew, she was a member of Temple Emanuel in New York and often stated publicly that she loved Israel. In the middle of Operation Protective Edge this past summer Joan told the media: “Let me just tell you, if New Jersey were firing rockets into New York, we would wipe them out. And Palestinians, you cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves. Don’t you dare put weapon stashes in private homes. They started it. You’re all insane. How do I know? Because I have been over there. That’s how I know. And I wish the world would know. And BBC should be ashamed of themselves and CNN should be

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ashamed of themselves and everybody stop it already.” When Joan died at the age of 81, following a routine surgery, the Jewish people lost one of our most outspoken and unapologetic voices. We may not have appreciated all of Joan’s jokes or her satirical humor style, but we can learn from her courage and strength. Here are ten of her quotes that teach us how to follow our own dreams and stand up for who we are: Appreciate the moment. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery, today is G-d’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”

Be grateful. “I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Things are happening.” Examine your beliefs. “Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.” Speak up. “I succeeded by saying what everyone else was thinking.” Learn to smile. “Life is very tough. If you don’t laugh, it’s tough.” Continued on page 116

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Be true to yourself. “I’m in nobody’s circle; I’ve always been an outsider.” Pursue your dreams even when the world tries to take them away. “What are people going to do? Fire me? I’ve been fired before. Not book me? I’ve been out of work before. I don’t care.” Face your fears. “I lived to be on stage and I’m terrified. Terrified before every show.”


Use every opportunity. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” Have confidence in your work. “You can find my book at your favorite bookstore and if it isn’t there find a new favorite.” But the greatest legacy that Joan Rivers left the world is her famous expression: “Can we talk?” Joan was a person who lived her life as a

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connector, as someone who wanted to reach audiences, small and large and share ideas and struggles with others. In 1997, she published a candid book describing her struggle with bulimia after her husband’s death. And despite undergoing multiple plastic surgeries, Joan was open about her continuing challenges with her self-image culminating in her bestselling book “I Hate Everyone Starting with Me.” Speech helps us to get out of our self-absorption and self-contained world. We do not need to face our struggles alone. Can we talk? Can we share our struggles and our triumphs with each other? Can we be proud of who we are and where we come from? Can we stand up for what we believe in? Can we talk? Can we admit that we are afraid and show up anyway? Can we talk? Can we learn to smile even when life is tough? Can we remember how to laugh with each other even when we see things differently?

Can we take this precious lesson from Joan Rivers and use it to change our own lives? To speak up when we need to. To face our fears. To share our struggles. To reach out to the world and to each other even when it seems like no one is listening. Is there someone that you need to speak to? Is there something you have been wanting to share? Is there a conversation you know you need to have, but you can’t seem to build up enough courage? Try Joan’s three words: “Can we talk?” Sometimes that is all you need to say. Thank you, Joan for teaching us how to speak up and how to share our struggles with each other. And for using your talents for defending Israel and the Jewish people. Sara Debbie Gutfreund has taught parenting classes and self-development seminars and provided adolescent counseling. She writes extensively for many publications. This article originally appeared on Aish.com.

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any individuals are unaware of the benefits in forming an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT). Although the proceeds of your life insurance policy are not subject to income taxation, they are generally included in your taxable estate. However, with an irrevocable life insurance trust, the trust is the owner of the insurance policy, which keeps the proceeds of the life insurance out of your taxable estate. After your death, the trust’s assets (i.e. the life insurance proceeds) are available to your beneficiaries free of income taxes, as well as free of estate taxes. In addition, an ILIT can also be an important source of cash to help pay your estate taxes. The beneficiaries can use the proceeds from the life insurance policy to offset some of the taxes that may be owed on your estate. This can help keep the assets that are part of your taxable estate intact for your beneficiaries. This strategy can be especially useful if a large portion of your estate consists of illiquid assets (such as real estate or a closely held business) and you want to be sure that your family will not be forced to sell those assets in order to pay estate taxes. Here are some frequently asked questions on this topic and the answers.

What Is the Purpose of a Life Insurance Trust? An ILIT gives you more control over your insurance policies and the money that is paid from them. It also lets you reduce or even eliminate

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The ILIT will not be included in your taxable estate

estate taxes, so more of your estate can go to your loved ones. What Are Estate Taxes and Who Has to Pay Them? Estate taxes are taxes owed by your estate based on the value of assets you owned at the time of your death. Federal estate taxes are expensive and must be paid in cash, usually within nine months after you die. The burden of paying estate taxes falls on the people who inherit your assets. Because few estates have the cash, it has often been necessary to liquidate assets to pay these taxes. However, if you plan ahead, estate taxes can be reduced or even eliminated. The new tax law imposes federal estate taxes on individuals who die with a net worth greater than the “basic exclusion amount,” which is adjusted for inflation every

year. The basic exclusion amount for individuals dying in 2014 is $5.34 million. Any dollar amount above this may potentially be taxed as high as 40%. Note: Although an individual that dies in 2014 with a net worth of less than $5.34 million will not be required to pay any federal estate taxes, the estate may still be subject to state estate taxes. In New York, the exclusion amount is only $2.06 million per person. Estate amounts over $2.06 million and under $2.17 million may potentially be taxed as high as 16% on the dollar amount between $2.06 million and $2.17 million. Estate amounts over $2.17 million may potentially be taxed 16% on the entire amount and not just on the amount over $2.06 million. Continued on page 120

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When Are Insurance Policies Included In My Taxable Estate? Insurance policies in which you have any “incidents of ownership” are included in your taxable estate. This includes policies you can borrow against, assign or cancel, or for which you can revoke an assignment, or can name or change the beneficiary. You can see how life insurance can increase the size of your estate and the amount of estate taxes that must be paid. How Does an ILIT Reduce Estate Taxes? The ILIT owns your insurance policies and prohibits you from having any “incidents of ownership.” Since you don’t personally own the insurance policy or have any “incidents of ownership,” the life insurance proceeds will not be included in your taxable estate. Let’s say you have a net estate value of $3 million, $1 million of which is life insurance, and you die

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when the New York State estate tax exemption is $2.06 million and the top tax rate is 16%. If you did not have an ILIT, your estate would have to pay $480,000 in New York State estate taxes on the entire $3 million. With an ILIT, the $1 million in insurance would not be taxable to your estate. Since the remaining estate assets are under $2.06 million, your New York State estate tax consequence would be $0.00. The ILIT would have provided your estate with an approximate savings of $480,000 in estate taxes. Where Does the Trustee Get The Money To Purchase a New Insurance Policy? The trustee gets the money from you, but in a special way. If you transfer money directly to the trustee, it will be a taxable gift. However, you can make annual tax-free gifts, which in the 2014 calendar year is at $14,000 ($28,000 if your spouse joins you) to each beneficiary of

your trust. If you give more than this, the excess is applied to your federal gift/estate tax exemption. Are There Any Restrictions On Transferring My Existing Policies To an Insurance Trust? Yes. If you die within three years of the date of the transfer, it will be considered invalid by the IRS and the insurance will be included in your taxable estate. There may also be a gift tax. Be sure to discuss this with your financial advisor. Should I Seek Professional Assistance? Yes. If you think an irrevocable insurance trust would be of value to you and your family, talk with an insurance professional, estate planning attorney and a CPA who has experience with these trusts. The attorneys in the Trust & Estates Practice Group at Yedid & Zeitoune have a combined 20 years of legal experience.

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Côte d’Azur, 1998, in the south of France, Emilie de la Martinières, becomes heir to her childhood home, a splendid château and vineyard. The property comes with a mountain of debt and many questions. Paris, 1944: A young British office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is sent

undercover to Paris to be part of Churchill’s Special Operations during the climax of the Nazi occupation. Separated from her contacts in the Resistance, she soon staggers into the heart of a prominent family who regularly entertains elite members of the German military, even as they plot to liberate France. Constance’s most difficult decision may be determining whom to trust with her heart. As Emilie realizes what really happened to her family during the war and finds a connection to Constance much closer than she suspects, the château itself may provide the clues that unlock the mysteries of her past, present, and future. Defending Jacob By William Landay For the past 20 years, Andy Barber has been a happily married, valued assistant DA in a small Massachusetts town. Within weeks, his professional situation and marriage dissolve under the pressure of a case involving the stabbing murder of a teenager. Barber’s suspicions originally focus on a neighborhood pedophile, but harmful evidence mounts that incriminates Jacob, his own 14 year old son. Caught between desperation, loyalty, and instinct, the prosecutor struggles to make sense of disturbing revelations. Continued on page 124

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Love and Treasure By Ayelet Waldman

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when he was 24 years old, he happened upon a troubling secret about his family. Nicholas went on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg. In the meantime, Nicolas wrote a novel that was met with success, propelling him to literary fame and convincing him that he had put his family’s history firmly behind him. Now, years later, Nicolas must reexamine everything he thought he knew, as the secrets of the past always find a way out.

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In 1828, an Icelandic servant named Agnes was convicted of killing her employer. Pending her death sentence, she was interned for many months on an isolated farm. The family housing Agnes avoided her at first. Tóti, a priest Agnes has chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as her death gets closer, the farmer’s wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they’ve heard. The Invisible Bridge By Julie Orringer Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture stu-

dent, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the Rue de Sévigné. He falls into a relationship with the letter’s recipient; he becomes privy to a secret history that will alter the course of his own life. His elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena and their younger brother leaves school for the stage. At the end of Andras’s second summer in Paris, all of Europe erupts in war. The Invisible Bridge tells the story of a love tested by disaster, of brothers whose bonds cannot be broken, of a family devastated and remade in history’s darkest hour. Randi Shomer is a mother of four children, a community member, and a freelance writer.

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The Dusi and Arking families volunteer at Givat Oz Ve’Gaon

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men, women and children, embody values of empathy, courage and sacrifice which emanate throughout the Barkai Yeshivah school building. Students are surrounded by

teachers and administrators who give of themselves and teach by example. Barkai’s Core Value of Identity imbues its students with a strong knowledge of personal heritage. Love and commitment to Israel is in the heart and mind of every student. Here are some excerpts from Barkai’s weekly Israel blog series that connected the Barkai family throughout the summer. Rabbi Daniel Kahana Barkai Rav Yeshivah, Middle School Judaic Studies Principal and Parent “From the balcony of my apartment I see the lights at night. In the day we see the white cloud-like streaks left in the sky after coming out of the safe room. We hear the bombs bursting above us as Kippat Barzel—Iron Dome destroys rocket

Michael, Elie and Henry Esses volunteer at Pantry Packers

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Showing appreciation for soldiers at a base in Har Gilo

that were in bomb shelters all day, up north to give them a few days of relief and relaxation. Almost 50 families travelled up north to spend the weekend with us.”

after rocket. I truly feel we are witnessing miracles.”


Aurit Dusi Barkai Parent “My children volunteered at Thank Israeli Soldiers. This organization, made up completely of volunteers, prepares care packages for soldiers—packages of underwear, deodorant, baby wipes and t-shirts—necessities for soldiers who haven’t been home in over a month and are living out of backpacks. It makes you appreciate what you have and focus on what’s really important in life.” Sharon Esses Barkai Elementary School Assistant Principal and Parent “The siren rang again. We ran to a concrete wall that all the pedestrians were heading towards. I looked over to my kids thinking I would see tears, but all three of them were smiling! Later, Elie and Henry told

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us how proud they were to be in Israel. They felt like they belonged.” Eli Cattan Member of ILEAD 2014 and Barkai 2011 Alumnus “We arrived safely to the shelter, many of us disheveled and in disbelief. Typically unaffected, I had a flood of feelings wash over me. The war had just become a shocking reality. This experience incited within us an idea to bring families,

Ruthie Tawil Barkai Middle School Teacher and Parent “When the rockets started, some friends of mine said, ‘Surely you are coming home.’ My response was unequivocal, I am privileged to have the opportunity to stand with Israel and I refuse to leave the place that is my and every Jew’s home. Everyone does what they can to help. My children have been participating in packaging drives for our soldiers. They have been reading up on all the latest developments related to Israel. I have never seen them so brushed up on their Israeli current events! It is amazing to see the intensity and the passion in Continued on page 132

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which they discuss and debate what is going on here.” Dolly Masri Barkai Elementary School Teacher and Parent “The biggest part of this experience is the way my family feels towards the land and the people of Israel. It’s nearly impossible to experience what we are experiencing and not change the way we see, feel, and wish to interact with Israel. It is crystal clear that the people here are k’ish ehad b’lev ehad (like one person with one heart).”


Yola Ashkenazie 8th Grade Student “I’m here in Israel during a time of war. While this has stopped me and my family from going to many of the places that we wanted to visit, I feel proud to be supporting our land, that school has taught me so much about. Wherever we go people ask us why we aren’t scared and why we didn’t leave. Our answer always

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is ‘We’re here with you. We’re here showing our support for the land and the people of Israel.’” Margaret Benhamu Barkai Parent “Avram and I have two nephews serving in Gaza. To say we are worried about them is an understatement. We saw Josh, a 21 years old commander, the night before he left and I asked him if he was nervous. He said ‘I would be lying if I said I am not nervous, because I am responsible for the men under me. But if we have to go in, we know what to do and we have to succeed for the country.’ These boys are literally putting their lives at risk and going into a war zone that is absolutely fraught with dangers to protect our country. They are the heroes!” Frances Arking Barkai Parent “There are miracles happening every day. The kids are very understanding and really feel safe. We’ve

Daniel Dusi participates in the development of a new settlement

always appreciated the soldiers, but this summer we have learned a deeper respect for them. Teaching the kids hakarat hatov (gratitude), we brought food and dessert to soldiers on an army base. We helped to establish a new settlement, Giv’at Oz VeGaon, erected in memory of the three boys Gilad, Eyal and Naftali, who were abducted and murdered by Arab terrorists. This is the most inspiring thing I have seen, and been a part of.” Joey Shamah Barkai President and Parent “We had the merit to visit soldiers at army bases, injured soldiers at hospitals and reservists at their bases. Young boys who had just left Gaza after watching their friends and peers perish were thanking me. Why? It became apparent that we need each other. We are two halves of the same whole, and together with our support and their dedication we have a unified aim, that with the support of Hashem will continue to thrive and bring us closer to Mashiach soon in our days.”

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H E A L T H

Enterovirus 68 Has Made Its Way To New York

Over 1,000 children have developed a respiratory illness which has made its way across the country.


The disease is a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold. Enteroviruses aren’t unusual. They’re actually very common. When you have a bad summer cold, often what you have is an enterovirus. There are more than 100 types of enteroviruses causing about 15 million infections in the US each year. They are carried in the intestinal tract and often spread to other parts of the body. What’s unusual at the moment is the high number of hospitalizations. The virus has sent more than 30 children a day to a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital. At the end of August the disease was found in

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, 10 states: Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Georgia. All 10 states requested CDC support. Today, there are cases in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. The virus has already sickened more than 12 kids in New York. On Long Island, a girl from North Hempstead was hospitalized and is now recovering at home. Another child is being treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The virus can start as just a cold. Signs include coughing, difficulty breathing and in some cases a rash. Sometimes they can be accompanied by fever or wheezing. Most enteroviruses cause either a little bit of a cold or a diarrheal illness, this one causes prominent respiratory symptoms.

Kids with asthma and under 5 are most at risk

Doctors are not sure how this particular virus spreads, though the back-to-school season is a normal time for illnesses to spread among children. This is a very common time for outbreaks. Kids come back to school, they like to share things, they bring them home to their little brothers and sisters, and enteroviruses tend to occur in the summer. However, enterovirus 68, is very rare and doctors have no idea why it showed up this year. At Children’s Hospital Colorado, officials say that between August 18 and September 4, doctors saw more than 900 pediatric patients with symptoms of the respiratory virus in the emergency room. Of those, 86 were admitted into the hospital and a handful ended up in the intensive care unit. It can start just like a cold— runny nose, sneezing, coughs—but it’s the wheezing you have to watch out for. Dr. Christine Nyquist, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Colorado, said the virus can be particularly dangerous for children with asthma because of how it affects the respiratory system. At Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Dr. Raju Meyappan, a pediatric critical care physician, said he’s seen multiple children end up in the pediatric intensive care unit after being infected with the virus and that children under the age of 5 Continued on page 138

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and those with asthma appear to be most at risk. In one particularly severe case, Meyappan said, a 13-year-old asthmatic patient ended up in the emergency room just one day after showing basic cold-like symptoms. His asthma became so severe on the second day he turned blue and was rushed to the emergency room, where doctors gave him an emergency breathing tube. The patient was one of multiple asthmatic pediatric patients who ended up sedated in the intensive care unit with a breathing tube.

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Patients who needed breathing tubes spent between four to seven days sedated and intubated as they recovered. To stay healthy and to avoid spreading the virus, the CDC recommends basic sanitary practices including washing hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. Clean and disinfect surfaces that are regularly touched by different people, such as toys and doorknobs. Avoid shaking hands, kissing, hugging and sharing cups or eating utensils with people who are sick and stay home if you feel ill.

Dr. Meyappan said parents of asthmatic children should make sure that their children’s inhalers are easily accessible and that there is a treatment plan in place if an asthma attack continues to get worse. “They should also talk to all their caregivers about what to do if the child has an asthma attack and where to go if they need help. I think having a game plan in place helps,” he concluded. Health officials urge anyone who has trouble breathing, or notices a child is wheezing, to call a doctor immediately.

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H E A L T H

Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating Girls and Eating Disorders Part 3 Mary Anne Cohen

Girls and Eating Disorders Part 2 discussed “empathic attunement” and how parents can help to build their teenagers’ self-esteem by respectful listening and encouraging kids to express their feelings without being judged. We may not always agree with our children, but they have the right to be heard. A girl’s ability to identify her needs, not be overly self-critical, solve problems, and manage anxiety builds strong self-esteem which is crucial to the prevention of emotional eating disorders. A girl who is a perfectionist, judgmental, and hides behind her preoccupation with her appearance, is running away from the challenges of growing up. She crystallizes all her life struggles into one “neat” problem: “I’m fat. I’m ugly. I need to lose weight.” If your daughter is not coping well with school, friends, new experiences, family separation, stress or teenage body changes she may need help. If she resorts to binge eating, bulimia, chronic dieting, or excessive food restriction, she definitely needs help. Here are suggestions to help her get better:


• Begin with a physical checkup with your doctor. This should include blood tests to rule out thyroid problems, hormone problems and diabetes. • Discuss with your daughter what your concerns and observations are about her eating and how her life is going. Ask for her ideas about what may be wrong and what she needs. She may initially deny any problems, but you have now opened the door to further discussion.

eating patterns can be tweaked in a healthier way.

• Consider a consultation with a nutritionist to see if your daughter’s

• Schedule a consultation with an eating disorder therapist, who

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food from her feelings and deal with her emotions in other ways than eating. Therapy is a healing conversation that can get to the root of self-esteem problems and will gently guide girls back on track.


Rachel, age 18, is a new client whose parents sent her to me for help. (All identifying data has been changed for confidentiality). Rachel is a pretty, thin, smart girl, but she doesn’t realize it (yet)! Her pattern is to binge eat and then starve herself over and over again; she declares she is desperate to be thinner although she already is. “Why are you desperate to be thinner?” I asked. “I want to get married soon and boys only like thin girls,” Rachel responded. “And what do you think about that?” I wondered. “I think it’s disgusting. I want to be judged for who I am as a person not for the number on the scale. But I have to go along with this because, after all, girls have a short shelf life.” “Rachel, I’m shocked at this expression ‘short shelf life.’ You make it sound like girls are just like boxes of cereal with an expiration date.” “That’s what we are,” she affirmed. “Because next year a younger group of girls will graduate from high school and get ready to marry. The competition is fierce. And all the girls in my class are on a diet.” Rachel’s therapy for emotional eating—like most people’s—consists of a double prong approach: we need to discuss and resolve the insecure emotions that fuel her eating problem and we also need to strategize changes to her eating behavior that are healthier and more supportive.

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I invited Rachel to contact me when she struggled, and she sent me the following e-mail. I am pleased to see she has incorporated some of the ideas we have discussed, although she still needs guidance and reassurance: Hi! I’m feeling very fat now and I’m under pressure to lose weight for a wedding next week. I don’t know what to do because you told me it’s not good to restrict my food because then I’m going to cause my metabolism to slow down. On the other hand, I feel like I need to lose weight quickly. What should I do? I responded: Hi Rachel, I’m so glad you reached out to me. Did it take courage? Ok, So, here’s what we know: • Restricting food causes everyone’s metabolism to slow down. • Restricting food often causes a backlash of bingeing. • Feeling fat is a feeling, not a fact. Feeling fat is more related to nervousness and anxiety, not fatness. Do some hard thinking about why you might be uncomfortable, anxious, and self-conscious about this wedding.

• Eating normally (enough calories of a wide range of foods) will keep your metabolism up and get you off the restrict/binge/restrict roller coaster which is a vicious cycle. • Recognize that you are addicted to a number on the scale which fluctuates because of salt, water retention, your time of the month, how much you sweat or don’t sweat, go to the bathroom or don’t go to the bathroom. The number on the scale is fake. It represents one second in time. By tomorrow it could be down. You might sweat more! • Commit to the food plan that you and your nutritionist worked out. And here is something we never talked about yet (‘cause you wouldn’t believe me anyway): You are perfect just the way you are! Wishing you a peaceful day and you can write back when you’d like, Mary Anne Parenthood and therapy both have the same goal: to help children make peace with their eating and their bodies and learn to fully live, laugh, and love! Mary Anne Cohen is Director of The New York Center for Eating Disorders in Brooklyn.

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Shmouel, Rabbi Alan Berkowitz Principal of MDY Elementary School, Rabbi Lefkowitz and Batel

hope he lost when he arrived. Soon after Shmouel, Batel, and their parents arrived in Israel 15 years ago, they faced a reality that contradicted

Shmouel addressing the class

everything ingrained in all Jewish Ethiopians about Israel. They had imagined and expected a country with a Bet Hamikdash, Cohanim, Korbanot, and the surrounding presence of Hashem everywhere they went. Instead, they discovered a modern, active country and a Jerusalem without a Bet Hamikdash or Korbanot. They felt hopeless and disappointed, and had no one to turn to. Shmouel and Batel found renewed hope when they found Afikim, an organization that provides after school programing for children, in a place that is safe. Afikim keeps at-risk children off the street; provides them with food and clothing; offers enrichment programs and, most importantly, gives them love. Afikim accepts any child who suffers Continued on page 146

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Batel addressing the class. She later sang songs with them

Rabbi Moshe Lefkowitz addressing the class with Shmouel and Batel looking on

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* During warm weather, peep toes tempt women to show off pretty pedicures. Be aware, however, that peep toes can cause toes to slip forward or overlap, and may even push nail edges into skin, causing ingrown toenails.

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* If you experience persistent foot pain, see a podiatrist. Feet shouldn’t hurt all the time, and if they do it may indicate injury, irritation or illness. Even if you’re like the average American woman and own nine pairs of high heels, treat them like dessert—don’t wear them all the time, save them for special occasions. The Brooklyn Museum latest exhibition is called “Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe,” which boasts more than 160 shoes—from slim stilettos to 10-plus-inch platforms—by 68 different designers spanning four centuries.

profile in culture, and museums are always looking to connect. I feel very strongly that objects of fashion are important aspects of material culture. Many of these shoes were commercially available, but we’re putting them in here and trying to look at them in different ways.” Instead of a basic retrospective organized through a timeline, the exhibition’s thematic structure seeks to highlight conceptual tensions lurking within the very idea of the high heel—between form and function, empowerment and objectification—and examines the many roles heels have played as an indicator of social and cultural affiliation. Also embedded throughout the exhibition are six films, including works by Steven Klein, Rashaad Newsome, and Zach Gold, whose interest in fashion films sparked the initial idea for the show. Each film finds a unique way to combine shoes with movement. Killer Heels will be on display from September 10, 2014 to February 15, 2015.


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The show features the expected names in footwear: Westwood, Louboutin, Manolo Blahnik, but according to curator Lisa Small, it’s not a simple runway rehash. “We’re in a moment where fashion exhibitions have become very popular for museums, Fashion itself has a high

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J E W I S H

H I S T O R Y

The Sephardic Museum of Caracas Teaching Venezuelans About Jewish Heritage


The Jewish community in Caracas has always been lively, prosperous, tight-knit, and devoted to the country that accepted them as refugees during and after World War II. At its height, it numbered over 40,000 people. Currently there are 9,000 Jews living in Venezuela. More than half of them live in Caracas, however, there is another large community in Maracaibo, the second largest city in the country. The Jews are evenly divided between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. There are several Jewish organizations in the country. The central umbrella organization is the Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas de Venezuela which encompasses four organizations: Asociacion Israelita de Venezuela, Union Israelita de Caraca, the Zionist Organization, and B’nai B’rith. Despite having separate organizations, the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews are united in political, social, cultural, and educational matters. Between 70% and 90% of the school-age Jewish children attend Jewish schools. The schools offer kindergarten, primary, and secondary schooling. Colegio Cristobal Colon Sinai provides an Orthodox education, as does the Kolel Nahalat Yacov. The Colegio Bilu

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in Maracaibo also educates children from neighboring communities. Higher education is provided by the Yeshiva Guedola de Venezuela and the Higher Institute of Jewish Studies. The main social and cultural organization is the Hebraica Jewish Sports and Social Center, which sponsors lectures, performances, and concerts. Kosher food is available at several stores and at the Hebraica club. There’s a Jewish newspaper and a weekly radio program on Jewish affairs. There are 15 synagogues in Venezuela, all but one are Orthodox. The majority of Ashkenazi and Sephardic synagogues are in Caracas, however there are synagogues in Maracaibo, Porlamar, Valencia, Maracay, and Puerto La

Cruz. The Ashkenazi Bet Din meets in the Great Synagogue in Caracas. Both the Ashkenazi and Sephardic kehillot offer mikvot. The Chabad House caters to the needs of the small number of ultra-Orthodox Jews. It also operates a yeshivah. The Sephardic Museum of Caracas Morris E. Curiel was created in 1999 as a non-profit institution, affiliated with the Asociación Israelita de Caracas (Israeli Association of Caracas, founded in 1930). On June 20th, 2010, the first stage of its facilities opened to the public, next to the Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which is included in the Museum’s tour. The Museum’s mission is to compile, conserve, study and divulge the cultural heritage of the Jewish people. It’s home to many important Continued on page 152

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documents, books, objects and art pieces that are testimony of the history, culture and values of the Jewish community in Venezuela. The Museum seeks to promote the preservation of the memory of the Jewish presence in Spain, the Expulsion, the Inquisition, the Diaspora as well as the Shoah, through events, conferences and temporary exhibitions. The Museum supports contemporary cultural and artistic initiatives from the Venezuelan, as well as the International, Jewish community. The Museum bears the name of its benefactor, Morris E. Curiel (1920-2007), a descendant of a distinguished Sephardic family of Curacao, a prominent banker and entrepreneur who developed very

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important philanthropic work in support of education and culture. In addition to Morris E. Curiel, the Museum also had the unconditional support of doctors Botbol Abraham, Abraham Levy and David Bassan. On display is an exhibit called “Contemporary Judaica,” which brings together an outstanding group of Venezuelan Jews, including well-known deceased artists Susy Dembo and Walter Margulis. Another exhibition “15 years of the Museum,” is a retrospective which

will open on September 14 and It will be on display until March 28. On September 17, The Holocaust: Historical Introduction, will open. It provides basic historical data and highlights the context in which the Holocaust occurred and enables young people to master the vocabulary related to it. It will serve as a tool for teachers, especially those in history, and contribute to the knowledge of Venezuelan youth, teaching the values of peace, harmony and respect towards others.

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orld Jewish Congress General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft works tirelessly to ensure Holocaust remembrance efforts strengthen with the advancement of time. He keeps a grainy, black-andwhite, 1943 photo of his paternal grandfather on the desk in his office at the World Jewish Congress (WJC). In the picture, culled from a German-made film depicting the ghetto of Bedzin, Poland, where Rosensaft’s father was born, his grandfather is shown wearing a white armband that identified him as Jewish. Rosensaft, whose parents both survived the Nazi concentration camps, and who was born in the displaced persons camp at Bergen-Belsen, has carried that photo with him since he was a child in Switzerland. “It reminds me of where I come from, and why I am doing everything that I am doing,” he said. History weighs heavily on children of survivors, and Rosensaft has made it his life’s work to remember. As the WJC’s general counsel since 2009, he oversees the organization’s legal work and serves on its 47 member executive committee. The WJC functions as the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people, focusing on anti-Semitism, the legacy of the Holocaust,and other issues of relevance to Jewish communities worldwide. Rosensaft enjoyed a long career as a litigator in private practice prior to taking on his current role at the WJC, but he has always pursued Holocaust remembrance activities— serving as an advocate for children of survivors—through his writings

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and his nonprofit leadership. That work has taken on heightened relevance today as the number of survivors dwindles. “This is a transitional moment in history. We have to make sure that what we received from the survivors’ generation is passed on.”

Menachem Rosensaft

After completing a federal clerkship, Rosensaft worked as a securities litigator and as a member of the legal department at Chase Manhattan Bank. Later, he was a partner at a national law firm and general counsel of a New York Stock Exchange financial services firm. His second career dates to a chance conversation with Ronald Lauder, the cosmetics heir and current WJC president, on the shuttle back from Washington, D.C., in 1995. While the two had known each other casually through their work with Jewish organizations, sitting on the plane that day, Lauder encouraged Rosensaft to call him.

A few days later, he did so, and accepted a job as senior international counsel for the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, which works on rebuilding Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe. When Lauder became the WJC’s president in 2007, he recruited Rosensaft, first to redraft its constitution, then as general counsel. “I’m enormously grateful to him,” Rosensaft says. “He’s given me the opportunity to blend my professional life with my passions.” In addition to his work with the WJC, Rosensaft—whose wife, Jean Bloch Rosensaft, directs communications at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and is also the daughter of survivors, maintains a full plate of extracurricular activities. He serves on the US Holocaust Memorial Council and is senior vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendents. He also teaches classes on the law of genocide at Columbia Law School and Cornell Law School, drawing parallels between the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th century. Rosensaft’s latest project is a forthcoming book titled G-d, Faith and Identity in the Ashes: Perspectives of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. It is a labor of love for Rosensaft, who wants to ensure that survivors are viewed as role models, rather than victims. “They could have given up in 1945 after everything that happened,” he said. “Instead, they rebuilt families and created communities in other countries, and provide an insight into how to constructively approach life after catastrophes."

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ing activities in the parks, theaters, and neighborhoods. Take time with friends and family to make real connections, see new things, and enjoy what the season has to offer. If you are bored because your kids seem to need you less as they get older, take up something new. Find a new exercise or art class. Go hear an author at a bookstore. Volunteer with a cause you care Continued on page 158

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is unrealistic. It’ easy to end up feeling like a failure if we have to make everything right. Identify the truly important issues and focus on moving these forward in a positive way and let the rest go. Try not to hang on over-tightly to your kids as they grow up. Parents are meant to steer children towards healthy choices, stand up for them in rough situations, advocate for their best interests and then allow them to grow toward independence. This may be our hardest job, and we need to take care of ourselves when they leave. Emails, texts and mobile phones can keep us more connected than earlier generations. Even so, we have to give our kids space to be themselves—let them set the frequency of contact with us. Remember, we will probably hear about the hard things when they call for comfort and not the countless good things that go on each day. Sometimes the emptiness of loss and grief can be devastating and set us up for addictive patterns like overeating or other unhealthy choices. We may not even know what is driving our cravings. It is likely to be inner worries and emotions. This is when we have to get up and

find new things to fill our lives or find someone to talk to that we trust. We can still be models for our kids no matter how old they are or how old we are. There is always something to learn, a way to be healthier, and a way to find peace. If we can keep growing, we show our kids that the joy in life comes from inside and not just from the grades our teachers, give us, the schools we get into, or the jobs we find. Yes, these are all important, but grades and jobs come and go. Learning to weather life’s changes is an equally important skill, and fall is a great time to practice this. So vow to worry half as much, get outside twice as much, pick up something new to learn, connect over coffee or a meal with friends, and be proud of your kids with each new step. They are growing and so are we.

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Nat in the Israeli Army

illiam Shakespeare said, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them.” It is thanks to my Jidoh, Nissim “Nat” Mishan A”H, that I understand the meaning of the word greatness. My Jidoh achieved greatness in everything he did. It is in his honor and because of all that he accomplished that I am writing this. Jidoh was born in Aleppo, Syria, and had to escape on foot over the mountains to a kibbutz in Israel. There he was reunited with the rest of his family—his parents, three brothers, and three sisters. He enlisted in the army before 1948, to fight for Israel’s independence. Even though the soldiers didn’t have uniforms, and only had a few bullets in their rifles, he bravely

led his command as a sergeant major with a strong will to fight and an even stronger faith in G-d. One of the miracles that he experienced— that he would recall often—was that the men he commanded were all from different places and spoke different languages, yet they were all able to follow his directions. He truly believed that G-d won the war for them, because as they approached the enemy they dropped their weapons yelling, “Run, the Jews are coming!” Aside from the usual hardships of war, Jidoh lost his 18 year old brother Moshe who was also a soldier. Three months later, his mother passed away from a broken heart and dying in his arms she said, “We paid the price for Israel. Take your Continued on page 166

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Nat and Joyce Mishan

younger sisters and go to America.” So he did. In the US, he met his wife Joyce and worked very hard to raise his four children and provide for a decent life for his family—and decent it was. Although he came with nothing, he became a successful businessman. All of his children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and in-law children gained so much from him. One of the greatest things he taught us is that even though we may have a difference of opinion, and we may argue, our love for one another must never be compromised. My Aunt Arlene Chera said that through all the hardships, he still had the ability not only to give and receive love, but to teach it as well. The hardships of war did not alter his perception of love or life; if anything, he valued them both even more. Jidoh studied the Zohar to illuminate his mind and to get to know

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G-d with all of his strength and ability. He also read the Tehillim every day, both for his family and for others. His faith in G-d was truly inspirational. Jidoh understood that music and song have a purifying effect on the soul. He always encouraged music and singing in our family. He encouraged my mom, Adina Nasar, to start a music school, Music On The Go, to provide community members of all ages with the opportunity to pursue their love of music. My Jidoh understood that playing an instrument arouses the inner spirit of the intellect and enhances its faculties. He also inspired my Aunt Sheila Mizrahi to help create the Encore and Main Event shows with Sheila Schweky, which give the community a platform through which to express themselves musically, all to raise money for charity. We lost my Jidoh, Nat, on February 14, 2014 and we still miss

him every day, especially his laughter. He was loved, respected, and admired wherever he went. His spirit lives on in everything we do. The three daughters of Nissim Ben Adina are proud today to seek guidance and strength from their younger brother, Marc Mishan, who exemplifies all the wonderful traits and characteristics of my Jidoh. My Uncle Marc and the family pray every day that his soul will be blessed with goodness. Rest in peace, my dear Jidoh Nat. Rena Nasar is the Future Leaders for Israel’s director of PR and communications .

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his summer I spent a few hours with Aunty Lily every Friday afternoon. She was always my great aunt, but over the years, she became my grandmother, my friend, and probably even my best friend. I enjoyed her company greatly and the company of the entire Mishaan family. She was very generous with her time. She was very eager to hear about my life and give me very sound advice about all of my social, work, and financial affairs. She told me what to do, who to be friends with, who to date, and which job offers I should take.

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Her life story was very unique and many of the things that I am going through, she went through many years earlier. She called me this May to congratulate me for finishing my dental program and she was as excited for me as I was for myself. She said that she would never use me as a dentist, because she already uses her other nephew, Dr David Tawil. The last time that I saw her on a Friday in August, she was in the middle of her weekly routine—writing out checks to many charity organizations (cancer research, heart research, synagogues, hospitals, schools, etc.)

and she needed me to mail them. The last time that I spoke to her, this past Friday, she was hurrying to get a ride to Sauly’s house for Shabbat, but in that quick conversation, I made sure to mention that our family named a new baby after her. She was very happy. Aunt Lily passed away the morning of September 15, 2014. She was 94. I will miss Aunty Lily greatly, but I am happy that I got to spend a lot of quality time with her. David M. Betesh is a community member and a new community dentist.

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YOF’s Mission to Israel – In Action

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n August, the Yeshivah of Flatbush organized a ChizukAchdut (strength-unity) Mission to Israel under the leadership of Joel Braverman High School Dean of Students Rabbi Naftali Besser, and alumna/parent Susan Franco. On short notice, 40 members of the YOF family (including myself), left their homes and daily responsibilities to demonstrate support for our brothers and sisters under attack. It was obvious that by our first night in Israel, we had become a single unit, unified in our mission. Over three

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intensive days, we visited injured soldiers, army bases, families struggling with trauma and loss, soldiers who were in Gaza, and Har Herzl military cemetery. We started at Aleh, a facility for children with severe physical and cognitive disabilities. We were there to comfort these children, who had been forced to sleep in the halls due to the fear of a rocket attack. At Har Herzl, we visited the graves of two Americans who left their families in the US so they could serve in the IDF—Michael Levin, killed

several years ago in battle, and Max Steinberg, recently killed in Gaza. To hear the stories of these two young men who were willing to sacrifice their lives for their love of Israel was heartbreaking, as both a mother and a Jew. During the trip, we visited injured soldiers at Tel Hashomer and Soroka hospitals, through the organization Tikvot. The soldiers and their families were surprised to hear about our mission and couldn’t believe people would travel so far to show their support. We distributed many gifts, but what received the biggest reaction were the letters from our school children. The soldiers were touched; some were even brought to tears by the fact that children in New York cared about them. With the Our Soldiers Speak organization, we planned a day of relaxation including music, barbecue, and pool, for over 400 soldiers of the Givati Brigade who had just returned from Gaza. We were proud to be able to sponsor this day with community donations. The interactions with these soldiers were so Continued on page 172

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fulfilling, knowing how much they appreciated the too few hours of down time. We also had the opportunity to visit soldiers on multiple army bases through Thank Israeli Soldiers. We went to a reservist base near Gush Etzion, and spoke with men who had to leave their jobs, studies and families to serve their country. After Rabbi Besser explained our mission, the singing and dancing began. Tears of joy ran down our cheeks as we ended with Hatikvah. In the words of participant Lynne Harary, “last week, these boys were anonymous heroes, and this week they became our brothers and friends.” As we handed out care packages, one soldier took me to the rec room where the walls were covered with

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letters from children—hundreds of them! He told me that the letters are a source of inspiration. The second base we visited was an Iron Dome Installation base. We were all excited to be there and see the equipment that saved so many lives. I spoke with one young woman who was 20, the same age as my son, whose job at the base entails a responsibility beyond her years. She asked me, “Do your children know what’s happening here?” I replied, “Do they know? They hear and speak about this every day.” Later, we sang and danced together expressing joy and love for our country. On the third day, we spent time with residents of Sderot and Kibbutz Saad, near the Gaza border. We

listened to the residents’ stories and played with their children. We also got a firsthand look at the bomb shelters and realized how these brave people demonstrate their steadfastness by remaining in their communities. In Sderot, seeing a giant menorah on top of a yeshivah made from rockets shot into the area was a true symbol of our survival. We ended the trip with a special lunch with over 20 soldiers from a top-secret unit. The interaction was an unforgettable experience. The message hit home in a cab ride that I shared with Sari Tawil and Dr. Etty Mizrahi. The driver told us that his two young sons were both in Gaza for the last 33 days. He said that money means nothing; all that matters is peace and having his boys home. We got out of the cab, all three of us in tears. I felt his pain as if it was my own. I would like to thank Rabbi Besser, Susan Franco, and my new extended family (all part of my longstanding YOF family) for an experience of a lifetime, which fueled my fire for the love of Israel and made an indelible impact on all of us; we will never forget it. Rochelle Senior is a dedicated YOF parent.

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Norbert Friedman An Incredible Life Al Shams


Several years ago, at B’Nai Torah Shabbat services, I noticed an elderly gentleman with a European accent. His name was Norbert Friedman. On a number of occasions we would chat after services and he would share some of his experiences. Over a few months we formed a friendship and I learned he was a Holocaust survivor with incredible stories of heartbreak, sorrow, survival, and friendships formed in tragedy. I must confess that I find Norbert Friedman an impressive person and am very fond of him. He was born December 20, 1922 in the Jewish section of Krakow, Poland to loving parents, Josef and Gusta. His early childhood was filled with the warmth and love of parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, uncles and aunts. His father was a kosher butcher and synagogue was an important part of his life. In December 1935 he had a bar mitzvah. As a teen he was a good student, active in sports and had many friends. He had hopes of becoming an engineer, moving to the land known as Palestine and helping that land transform it’s agriculture. In the 1930’s, Poland had a large Jewish minority and there was a feeling of anti-Semitism just below the surface. In the late 1930’s, with the rise of the Nazis, conditions began to get progressively worse. Finally, on September 1, 1939, Norbert’s world and that for all European Jews crashed as Hitler invaded Poland from the West and Russia, shortly thereafter invaded from the East. Polish Jews were caught in a death trap, tragically few would escape. Over the course on the next five and a half years, Norbert, along with his father, uncle, friends and other family members experienced, fear, despair, heartbreak, pain, hunger and betrayal as they coped with the Holocaust, both in and out of captivity. In 2006, Norbert’s biography was published, Sun Rays At Midnight: One Man’s Quest for The Meaning of Life, Before, During and After The Holocaust, in which he provides a very descriptive and detailed account of his experiences. While reading his book, I was amazed at how freely he and his friends were able to move about Poland after the invasion. They had numerous encounters with German and Polish soldiers, without serous consequences. They had enormous courage, confidence and resourcefulness to travel as they did.

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Speaking German well, he was able to assume several different identities. At one moment he posed as a brash German in a conquered country, minutes later a young Pole. Approximately two years after the war began; Norbert and his family were sent to the first of many concentration camps. This began a period he described as horrific and dark. After enduring over four years of horror, he had become hardened to senseless killing by the Germans. He faced death daily, for the most trivial of reasons. Often when the war news was bad for the Germans, the guards would get drunk and kill someone for no reason—a life extinguished at a whim. Norbert recounted an incident that is seared in his memory, which he still sees as unbelievable; an Continued on page 176

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example of the complexities of human nature. His father was in charge of cooking soup for the inmates; food was very scarce. His father was able to work an arrangement with some Polish farmers so that they would throw some potatoes over the fence to supplement their meager rations. He was caught with potatoes and was being severely beaten by the camp commander, an especially brutal, sadistic man, likely to kill for the simplest reason. Norbert learned that his father was being beaten almost to the point of death. Without concern for his own safety, he burst into the commander’s office and shielded his father with his own body. Amazed, the commander stopped the beating and said to Norbert “What are you doing; you know I could kill you for this,” Norbert replied, “What would you do if it were your father?” The commander was at a brief loss for words. He then told Norbert to go to his private office. In the office he opened a bottle of whisky and asked Norbert to share it with him. Later he told Norbert that he never knew his father as he was abandoned as a child. The Nazi party and the SS was the only family he knew. This emotional response moved Norbert to tears. Then the commander promised that he would do his best to protect Norbert and his family, a promise he kept. In reviewing his camp experiences, he believes he was able to survive due to his ability to befriend people of compassion and of noble spirit. Some of these people spared his life. It was the greatness of other human beings that allowed him to survive. For this reason he felt compelled to write his book The goodness of one person can be life-saving; even in the most hellish of circumstances. It is possible, not easy, but possible to find islands of compassion, love, honor, loyalty and decency amid a sea of horror. In the final days of the war, camp inmates were in even greater danger. The Nazis were eager to kill as many as possible to cover up their crimes. Norbert and a few friends were able to escape the camp and hide in the woods for several days. Ultimately they came into contact with American soldiers from Patton’s Third Army. Within a few days, Norbert went from being a hungry, discouraged prisoner to an excited free man thinking of the future. The American soldiers accepted him as an equal, showered him and his friends with food, clothes, attention, love and kindness. Norbert loved those upbeat, optimistic, caring soldiers, calling them members of America’s greatest generation.

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After liberation, Norbert worked with the American Army in a variety of capacities. Later he pursued a University education in Germany studying English Literature and Journalism. In 1950 he emigrated to the US and later owned a variety of businesses. In 1955 he married Marilyn and is the father of two sons and a grandfather of four. Today, Norbert lives in Atlanta and is an esteemed and beloved member of B’Nai Torah. He has written and lectured extensively on his life and the Holocaust and received numerous awards and recognition. Often he addresses groups of young people. Several years ago, while visiting a school in New York, a student asked why he goes to so much effort to discuss the Holocaust. Norbert replied “If one person leaves this event a better person, then my efforts are worthwhile.” At that moment a teenage girl said, “Mr. Friedman I am that person.” Those wishing to learn more about Norbert should read Sun Rays At Midnight: One Man’s Quest for The Meaning of Life, Before, During and After the Holocaust. Al Shams is a Sandy Springs, Georgia resident, a former CPA and an investment professional.

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Flying Cars Coming to Israel by 2016

SkyTran - a new hover car transport system consisting of two-man vehicles that can travel at high speeds, while suspended from a magnetic track in the air


FLYING CARS—ANY FAN OF SCIENCE FICTION HAS BEEN READING ABOUT THEM FOR DECADES, YET OUR SKIES ARE STILL FREE OF AUTOMOBILES, BUT THAT MAY JUST CHANGE VERY SOON IN ISRAEL. The city of Tel Aviv is currently testing a new form of transport, whereby people can ride in twoman hover car vehicles travelling at high speeds in mid-air—they’re not exactly the flying cars of the Jetsons, but who knows where they could lead. The system works by suspending streamlined, jet-like vehicles in mid-air from a Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) track, using state-of-theart technology by California-based company skyTran. The cars can potentially reach speeds of up to 240 km per hour, which is just shy of 150 miles per hour. The initial test will see skyTran build a 500 mile long track around the Israel Aerospace Industries campus by 2015, and if the trial

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is successful, the city of Tel Aviv wants to roll out a full commercial hover car transport system running through the city by the end of 2016. Passengers will be able to use their smartphones to order a hover car, which will meet them at a specific station of their choice. The biggest benefit of travelling by hover car is that there is no interruption in the flow of vehicles being able to enter or exit the skyTran track stream, and users who are faster to board their vehicles can circumvent people who wish to take a longer time, without causing traffic congestion. The vehicles are also programmed by a computer-controlled system to only go to the destination you ask it to go to and there are no schedules, so people can travel 24

hours a day and just make an order for a vehicle through their smartphone app. For people who want to travel in a group, multiple skyTran vehicles can be ordered that will zip along the track in a computer-linked caravan, so no members of the party are left behind. The company also envisions people who shop a lot ordering a second vehicle, piling their shopping bags into it and then having two vehicles travelling together. Best of all, skyTran stations can be placed anywhere, even underground or within buildings, the infrastructure is cheap to install and the entire system is powered by renewable energy like solar power. Continued on page 180

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What the inside of a skyTran hover car would look like

The commercial hover car transport system that Tel Aviv wants to roll out will take two years to be constructed and cost a total of $80 million. SkyTran says that if the system is successful, it will be expanded to become a 200 km urban and suburban network for commuters, although initially it will be more of a novelty for fun seekers and tourists. Tickets for the service are expected to cost about $5 and discounts, subscriptions and charges based on the distances travelled per kilometer will also apply. “Tel Aviv is a world city. It’s a destination for people around the world,” skyTran CEO Jerry Sanders said. “Israelis love technology and we don’t foresee a problem of people not wanting to use the system. Israel is a perfect test site.” SkyTran is currently in advanced planning to provide hover car systems with the cities of Toulouse in France, San Francisco and Kerala, India.

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T E C H N O L O G Y

Nomophobia:

When A Modern Smartphone Leads To Addiction


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or many of us, our computers, tablets and other high tech devices have become more than just objects, they’ve become close companions. Those who are extremely connected to their devices, can become filled with anxiety when going without them—even for just a few minutes. A majority of American adults (56%) own smartphones, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. Who would have guessed 15 years ago that we would have the ability to check our email, play games and browse the Internet right in our pockets. It’s a huge leap forward for technology, but it may come at a cost. Nomophobia, or the pathological fear of remaining out of touch with technology, is a relatively modern affliction. It’s basically a side effect of the changes the mobile phone has made to human habits, behaviors and even the way we perceive reality. Entire relationships are becoming defined through texting and colorful little emoticons. So how did it come to this? Have smartphones become an extension of ourselves or has everyone become a victim of fast-paced, always connected society? Chances are it’s a little bit of both. Dr. Chuck Howard, a licensed psychologist, believes it can be more complex than simply stamping a label on the problem. “Nomophobia is a result of people becoming more and more electronically connected to the point that their technology-based network and relationships have become their home community. Losing that con-

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down, the addiction may become a problem.” If you think you believe that you may have this problem and it’s becoming destructive, you can handle it the same way you would handle any other type of addiction. “Develop strategies for meeting your social needs in other ways—without depending on an electronic platform,” suggested Howard. “Start by resisting the urge to check your phone. Try limiting your

number of mobile social media networks and consider joining more in-person professional networking groups or sports clubs. Set aside some time to leave your phone alone, such as at dinner, with friends and when you go to sleep.” If using your cell phone begins to strain your relationships, consider asking others around you what they think. Be open to a sort of intervention, where friends and family can candidly tell you their thoughts. Don’t worry. You won’t have to go cold-turkey, just take some small steps to disconnect and enjoy the world around you—without looking at a smartphone screen. If you can’t do it alone, seek professional help.


nection is essentially a form of electronic banishment. They fear losing their social village.” The term nomophobia was coined in 2010, in a study by YouGov, a UK-based research organization, that was researching anxieties suffered by mobile phone users. It’s an abbreviation for no-mobile-phone phobia The study found that men and women often felt stressed when their mobile phones were turned off. “Nomophobia can be a symptom of a potential addiction,” said Howard. “Users who are happy and having a good time when on their device, then face great stress and anxiety without it, may obsess about it. When they are unable to put it

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News N E W S

From Around the World


ISRAELI EMBASSY IN LITHUANIA Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Liberman, announced the opening of an Israeli embassy in Lithuania, due to open in January 2015. He made the announcement after a visit to Lithuania and a meeting with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Prime Minister Algridas Butkevicius and Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius. FM Liberman stated that relations between Israel and Lithuania have strengthened in recent years, a fact that has been expressed in many areas, including the inauguration of a Tel Aviv-Vilnius airline route, a substantial increase in tourism, and the development and strengthening of economic and business ties between the two countries in the fields of technology and medicine. He added that Israel and Lithuania will continue to reinforce and strengthen the relationship that contributes to both peoples and both countries. ABAS REJECTED OFFER OF A PALESTINIAN STATE Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reportedly offered Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state in Sinai. Egypt had been working on the proposal for several weeks and presented it to Abbas in Cairo. The plan involved transferring 620 square miles to the PA as the territory of a Palestinian state. The Egyptian initiative proposed expanding the Gaza Strip to five times its current size and settling all of the Palestinian refugees in the new state, which would be demilitarized. The PA would also be granted auton-

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omy in the West Bank’s Palestinian cities in exchange for relinquishing the demand for Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders. Sources privy to the details of the proposal said Abbas rejected the proposal despite substantial Egyptian pressure to accept it. The US was involved and green-lighted the initiative, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also in the loop, but did not brief his cabinet on the matter. JIHADISTS IN CANADA

An al-Qaeda inspired plot to detonate three pressure-cooker bombs during Canada Day, outside the parliament building

A suspicious package feared to be a bomb caused the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus, located in Toronto, to be evacuated recently. As soon as the package was discovered local police were contacted. It turned out to be a false alarm. The fear of a terror attack on Canadian Jewish targets is not unfounded; a report released by the Canadian Ministry of Public Safety revealed that as of early 2014, at least 130 Canadians were known to be abroad and were suspected of terrorism-related activities. The report added that about 80 individuals have Continued on page 186

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From Around the World


returned to Canada after travel abroad for a variety of suspected terrorism-related purposes, indicating the threat of a Canadian jihadist returning home to conduct a local terror attack. At least two terror attacks were foiled in Canada in the last two years, one targeting a passenger train and the other a bomb attack on the Parliament Building in Victoria, British Columbia. The threat appears not to show any signs of diminishing, as illustrated in the recent identification of two brothers from Calgary fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State’s group of foreign fighters in Syria. The two are recent converts to Islam. SORBIBOR GAS CHAMBERS FOUND An Israeli and Polish team of archaeologists has unearthed one of the main gas chambers at the Sobibor concentration camp, the Yad Vashem World Center for Holocaust Research recently announced. Sobibor was operated by the Nazis during the Holocaust from April Wedding band found next to Sorbibor gas chamber 1942 to October 1943, during which time an estimated 250,000 Jews were murdered there. But after an uprising that saw several hundred Jewish prisoners try to escape, the Nazis closed the camp and bulldozed it in an attempt to conceal their crimes. “The discovery of the gas chambers is a very important finding in Holocaust research,” said Dr. David Silberklang, a senior historian at the International Institute for Holocaust Research. Silberklang added, “These findings are all that is left of those murdered there, and they open a window onto the day-to-day suffering of those people.” Photos released by the researchers of the site show a large rectangular building with brick walls that were subdivided into four chambers. A number of personal items were found at the site, including gold teeth, jewelry, perfume bottles, and medical items.

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“The most poignant moment was when we found a wedding band next to the gas chambers, on which was the Hebrew inscription: ‘Behold, you are consecrated unto me,’” said Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi. ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR CHILD SURVIVORS OF THE HOLOCAUST The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has reached an agreement with the German government for additional financial assistance for child survivors of the Holocaust. The Finance Ministry in Berlin reportedly agreed o one-time payments of $ 3,270 for Jewish children who were in concentration camps, ghettos or in hiding for at least six months. Child survivors are defined as Nazi victims born on or after January 1, 1928, which would make them 86+ years old now. The agreement was part of the annual negotiations on who should receive funds. It still needs German parliamentary approval. The fund is expected to become operational on January 1, 2015, and details will be made available after approval by the German Bundestag and the Claims Conference. AMAZING OPERATION Israeli neurosurgeons at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center helped former world-renowned violinist Naomi Elishuv overcome hand tremors to regain the ability to perform, in a remarkable surgery that had Elishuv playing Mozart while they operated on her brain. “This is the first time ever that I have performed brain surgery on a person who played the violin during the operation,” said Professor Itzhak Fried, Sourasky’s director of functional neurosurgery. According to Fried, the surgeons implanted a brain pacemaker with electrodes in the area of Elishuv’s brain that was the source of the hand tremors. The electrodes emit impulses to suppress the tremors. A YouTube video of the surgery shows Elishuv, a former Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra violinist, playing the violin pre-surgery then skips forward to show her playing the violin during the surgery. “When we turned on the electric current, we saw the tremors melt away,” Fried said. “It’s a shame that I didn’t know about this operation before,” said Elishuv, who was forced to give up playing the violin nearly two decades ago. “Now I’m going to live again.

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HEN YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB, YOU NEED AN EXCELLENT RESUME, BUT EVEN MORE IMPORTANT IS AN EYE-CATCHING COVER LETTER. YOUR LETTER SHOULD PRESENT YOUR INTENTIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND AVAILABILITY TO A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER. IT’S AN INFORMAL “HERE I AM” AND YOUR FIRST CHANCE TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION. THE PURPOSE OF YOUR COVER LETTER IS TO MOTIVATE THE READER TO PERUSE YOUR RESUME AND ENTICE HIM/HER TO CONSIDER YOU ABOVE THE HUNDREDS (OR EVEN THOUSANDS) OF CANDIDATES APPLYING FOR THE SAME POSITION.

Do not even consider sending your resume without a cover letter. Just as you should never show up unannounced at a prospective employer’s door, your resume should never just appear solo on a decision-maker’s desk. (I know of several organizations that will throw out a resume that is not accompanied by a cover letter.) Personalize each cover letter. First save it on your computer, then change the mailing date and company address each time you send it. When possible, address your cover letter to a specific individual rather than “Dear Sir/Madam” or “To Whom It May Concern.” Show that you’ve done some homework by mentioning company specifics (a recent merger, expansion, reported growth, etc.) Be clear about which job you are applying for. Refer to that opening with two or three reasons why your experience qualifies you for that position. Highlight your strengths. You may be a reliable and hard working person, but does that really qualify you for a good job? Give some relevant facts and state impressive accomplishments.

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Examples: • Increased overall sales by 87% in less than three years, generating $500,000 in new revenues. • Reduced staff turnover and cut new hiring costs by $80,000 without affecting employee morale. • Negotiated advantageous cost, shipping and payment concessions. • Entrusted to make large cash deposits daily establishing key banking relationships. State your intentions up front. Don’t expect a senior personnel manager to wade through random facts before she gets there. For example, write, “If your company has a need for an experienced customer service representative with proven problem-solving skills, then my background and experience should be of interest to you.” Emphasize your skills, talents and experience to show how you will be a valuable asset. If you have volunteer experience that transfers into the position you are applying for, mention it. Do not include any negative information, such as you were fired form your last job, or quit. Don’t badmouth your previous employer. Do not include salary information, unless the job description sincerely requests it. Then you can give a range of compensation so that you do not disqualify yourself. Say something like, “My current compensation is in the $75,000 - $90,000 range.” Be proactive. State that you welcome a face-to-face meeting so that you can introduce yourself and your qualifications at the same time. Make sure you list your home phone, your cell phone, and your e-mail address. A professionally written cover letter and resume can open the door to your next position or new career. An employment headhunter recently told me “You can’t get an $80,000 job with an $18,000 looking letter and resume.” An error-free clean presentation will encourage the reader to call you.

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The Annual Mayor vs. City Council Softball Game

The game took place at the baseball field on 20th Avenue at 53rd and 54th Street. Complimentary hot dogs and snacks were available to everyone who showed up to cheer on their favorite team. Brooklyn NYPD Chief Owen Monaghan threw out the first pitch. Councilman Greenfield thanked Chief Monaghan and Deputy Inspector Deddo for their outstanding cooperation with the community throughout the year “We had a lot of fun at this year’s annual Greenfield Classic. The Shomrim and NYPD played a great game

Before the game, Mayor de Blasio tweeted this picture of himself throwing out the first pitch on opening day at Citi Field this year and warned the City Council, “Watch out—I’ve been practicing my pitch with the pros.”

Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Mark-Viverito, and the New York City Council took part in the Annual Mayor vs. City Council Softball Game at MCU Park—home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. The game was free for spectators and lots of fun. Sadly for Mayor Bill de Blasio, his team lost 17 to 13. The Mayor’s wife, Chirlane McCray, played on his team, wearing an orange jersey bearing her official nickname—FLO-NYC—on the back, and got in a hit before being tagged out. The game, close at first, began to look grim for the Mayor’s team around the 5th inning, as the Council waged a successful rally lead by Councilman Steven Matteo, of Staten Island.

and enjoyed having so many fans in the stands who came out to cheer them on” said Greenfield. “My thanks to everyone who pitched in to make this year’s Classic possible.”

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The Greenfield Classic


The Mayor wasn’t the only one playing baseball. The Boro Park Shomrim faced off against the NYPD’s 66 Precinct at the 5th Annual Greenfield Classic community softball game. Both teams played great and the score was close throughout the seven innings. At the end the NYPD pulled through to victory and defeated the Shomrim players 10 to 7. Councilman David Greenfield hosted this annual end-of-summer event to say thanks for all the work the Shomrim and 66 Precinct do throughout the year to keep our community safe.

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Curious George to Magic Tree House to Art History. It was also a great opportunity to stock up on books. Kids and parents were seen carrying out stacks of them! Door prizes were given out every 20 minutes and to all kids who completed a scavenger hunt! It was a win-win kind of day; the kids were entertained, the moms enjoyed themselves, and everyone went home with books to read. Barkai’s next reading-themed event, Barkai Literacy Day, is November 9th.

Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), the American Red Cross, Con Edison, and National Grid, discussed the plans in place with city agencies, as well as the procedures for citizens to follow during a natural disaster, such as Superstorm Sandy, or in manmade catastrophes, such as the attacks on September 11, 2001.

City Council Members Demand Increased Law Enforcement

One week before the beginning of the Jewish High Holiday of Rosh Hashanah, Council Members David Greenfield, Mark Levine, Mark Treyger, Steve Levin, Corey Johnson, Jumaane Williams and Vanessa Gibson, plus other elected officials and community leaders joined together on the steps of City Hall to denounce the sharp increase in anti-Semitic attacks across New York City and to demand increased enforcement of this disturbing trend of hate. Hate crimes against Jewish people have increased in New York City following unrest overseas this summer and Police Commissioner William Bratton recently said the authorities were watching very closely and it’s important to note that the crimes are not an organized effort to strike a particular religious group or race.

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Commissioner Joseph Esposito remarked, “The mission of OEM is to make sure that we’re ready and that’s what I’ve set out to do; we want to establish a plan for when disaster strikes and make sure that everyday people know what the plan is. When we do our job at OEM, we’ll have prepared you for any type of disaster.” Council Member David Greenfield also addressed the meeting, expressing hope that under the new administration, emergencies will be handled more effectively and more efficiently. “Preparing for an emergency or disaster is a team effort, and it takes effort from everyone from FEMA to National Grid,” he said. “When there’s an emergency, things are tough, so we need to work together in weeks or months in advance so that when disaster strikes, we are ready to answer the call to action.” Audience members of the forum were given emergency preparedness bags with useful supplies and a list of helpful tips to follow during an emergency.


Emergency Preparedness Forum

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams recently hosted a forum on emergency preparedness and hurricane readiness with the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Joseph Esposito. Representatives of the Orthodox Jewish community and other communities in Brooklyn, along with representatives from the NYPD and FDNY, the Federal

The audience at the OEM forum

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A R T S

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L E I S U R E

Sudoku Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle that has existed in various forms for hundreds of years. The game is played over a 9x9 grid that is divided into 3x3 sub grids called regions. The game begins with some of the grid cells already filled with numbers. The object of Sudoku is to fill all empty cells with numbers between 1 and 9, with one number only in each cell. A number can only appear once in each region, row, and column.

1. 5 4 9 8 3 6 4 9 1 9 3 2 7 6 4 5 9 6 7 2 9 1 8 5 2 6 3 9 5 7 9 8

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2. 4

8 2 4

Difficulty: EASY

1

2 3 5

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7 Difficulty: HARD


Some tips to help you solve the puzzles:

There’s no right or wrong place to start, but you do have to start somewhere. Look at the three boxes from the sample puzzle to the right. There’s a 1 in the middle box, and 1 in the box on the right, but the box on the left still needs a 1. At first it seems that the 1 can go in any of the empty cells. However, a closer study reveals that the 1 cannot go in the top row of the box because the top row of the grid already has a 1. Each grid-row has room for only one of each number. Nor can the 1 go in the second row of the box because the second row of the grid already has a 1. There is only one place for the 1 to go. Look for similar patterns throughout each puzzle. You can’t change the digits already provided in each grid; you have to work around them. Also, every puzzle has just one correct solution. Try and approach the puzzles above in this manner, and see if you can complete them in under an hour.

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H E A L T H

Is Our Tap Water Safe?


Forty years ago, no one told us to drink eight glasses of water a day, and if we wanted a glass of water we went to the sink and got one. Then in the 1980’s bottle water showed up. At first it seemed silly to pay for water, but by 1990, the bottled water market was booming. Twenty-five years later, many people don’t leave the house without a bottle of water. Yet, according to the NYC Environmental Protection Agency’s website, New York City drinking water is world-renowned for its quality. Each day, more than 1 billion gallons of fresh, clean water is delivered from large upstate reservoirs— some more than 125 miles from the city—to the taps of nine million customers throughout New York state. The University of North Carolina at Asheville compared bottled water to NY tap water and found that bottled brands do have less lead, but city officials say that if you let your tap run for a minute or more or boil it, the water is safer. City tap water also generally has more THMs, than bottled water. THMs can cause miscarriages The study also found that some bottled water has higher arsenic concentrations than tap, which not only sounds scary, it can lead to lung and bladder cancer. Jim Tierney, the state inspector general for the city’s water supply, said “There really is no reason to go out and buy bottled water in New York City. It doesn’t make economic sense. It’s 1,000 times the cost of tap water, and tap water is clean and healthful.” The NYC Department of Environmental Protection

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(NYCDEP) rigorously tests the city’s tap water and reports their findings to the public annually. It has found that NYC’s water supplies are virtually lead-free. There is the possibility that lead can leach into water from old plumbing, but sampling indicates that the vast majority of NYC taps produce water containing only minute, insignificant quantities of lead (if any). Those worried that their tap might be among the very few with dangerous lead levels can call 311 for a free testing kit. Although the common bacteria Giardia and Cryptosporidium have been detected in some water samples, there is no evidence that these bugs have caused any illness among New Yorkers. The DEP acknowledges the potential risk of gastrointestinal infection due to these water-borne bacteria, but maintains that this risk is very minor. All NYC drinking water is treated with chlorine (to kill harmful bacteria and viruses), as well as fluoride (to help prevent tooth decay) and orthophosphate (to help prevent metals, including lead, from being released from plumbing). Some studies report that over a period of decades, exposure to chlorine and its byproducts

are associated with an increased risk for certain types of cancer. However, this risk is relatively small compared to those associated with non-chlorinated water. The bottled water industry isn’t held to the same standards as municipal water supplies. Tap water is checked daily and the results are made public, while bottled water is typically checked monthly at its source and the results don’t have to be shared with consumers. Most bottled water suppliers ship their product (60-70%) within the state that it was sourced from, exempting them FDA bottled water standards. When tested, some waters have tested positive for estrogenic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, caffeine, fertilizer residue and industrial chemicals. Bottled water safety concerns go further than this, though. It has been shown that phthalates from the packaging can leach into the product in just ten weeks time of sitting on a shelf. Phthlates have been shown to interfere with testosterone and have been linked to breast and testicular cancer. Both tap water and bottled water have pros and cons. It’s up to you to choose what’s best for you.

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OCEAN COVE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY

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• Outrageous views! • Newly renovated! • Full service hi rise! • Beach, pool, tennis!

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• Fabulous inground pool. • New custom kitchen w/granite. • Spacious family room. • Totally renovated.

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Elberon

West Long Branch Rental

4 bdrms, 2 baths in the heart of Elberon. Updated bathrooms, hardwood floors throughout, partially fin bsmt, and close to everything. Reduced to $419,000.

Great Location, 4 large bedrooms, 2½ baths, finished basement, beautiful pool and deck. Available for winter or annually starting October.

Imperial house

West Long Branch

Beautiful corner unit with great ocean and city views. Large 2 bed/2 bath, balcony, parquet floors. Loads of amenities. Also new on market, 2 bed/2 bath with split bdrms. Over 1400 sq ft. Call for more info.

Ranch home, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, enclosed screen porch, gleaming hardwood floors, full size basement, centrally located.

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West Deal Spacious raised ranch with 4 bdrms, 3.5 baths, formal dining room, formal living room, large family room, kit loaded with cabinets + built in breakfast table and junior suite on the second floor, freshly painted and all wood floors.

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Spotless and spectacular, elegantly appointed 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bath. Two story center hall Colonial. Large family room with fireplace and buit-ins. Formal DR and LR. Bonus room over the garage. Plus many upgrades! With just one look, you’ll want to call it “home”.

Your First Impression Van Court Ave, Elberon Will be “WOW!” when you see this lovely 3 bdrm, 2 bath home in most sought out Elberon location. Plenty of room to expand, and build a pool on this unique 100 x 184 lot. $550,000.

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Sprawling ranch featuring 3 bedroom, 2 bath, full basement, 2 car garage, updated kitchen, hardwood floors, wood burning fireplace. Looking for offers $625,000.

TOTALLY RENOVATED Overlook Ave, Elberon

Luxurious 5 bdrm, 4 bath in the heart of Elberon. Everything was thought out when they renovated this home, large bdrms with private baths, Gourmet kitchen with lots of storage. Open layout for easy entertaining. Must see! $425,000.

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G & G Realtors

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PRICE IS REDUCED All brick Colonial with 12 rooms including 6 bedrooms & 3.5 baths, 2 family rooms, formal dining room & large eatin-kitchen. Property is 150 x 185 lot on private paradise with room for pool. $2,895,000.

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The shore’s premier condominium address. This split 2 bedroom, 2 bath layout is situated on the south side, just 1 unit in from the beachfront where all rooms have panoramic ocean views. Updated floors, new baths, modern steel appliances, formal dining room & more. Priced to sell. $595,000.

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This is a first time offering for this spacious 4 bedroom Colonial with a gracious entry foyer, inviting dining room & eat in kitchen. Be in your own heaven with large cement pool for all to enjoy. Fam Room & Liv Room add to the wonderful floor plan for entertaining. $900,000.

Super Spacious living room, master bedroom with a master bath and walk in closet, this house just needs your personal touches. Quiet fenced in backyard, delightful during the summer months. Did I mention 2 zone central air!?! Near the beach, houses of worship and parks. $324,900.

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INCREDIBLE SIZE 5000 sq. ft. features 6 BRS, 5.5 Baths & gorgeous grand entry with marble floor. Living room has 24’ ceiling. Property is 183 x 150 with room for pool & more. Southern side of Deal near Allenhurst beach. Priced at $1,700,000.

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2 bedroom condo, newly refurbished with all wood floors, state of the art kitchen & 2 new bathrooms. Live in it or rent it out. Amenities include gated pool, a block to beach and West End’s trendy shops. $272,000.

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To also help you with your buying/selling/renting needs

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New Houses For Sale

Houses For Rent

Quentin - 3 bed renovated avail immediately. East 3rd St / Ave S - 4 bed available. Also for sale. Ave S - 4 bed renovated. Also for sale, luxury buyer. Ocean Parkway / Quentin - 1 fam, 5 bed, renovated, luxury tenant. East 1st St / Ave T - 1 fam, 2 bed available. East 5th St / Ave U - 1 fam, 3 bed, 3 baths, available immediately.

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Apts For Rent

Ave V - 3 bed, new kit, new bath, available immediately. O.P. Ave S - Luxury 3 bed, newly renovated beautiful kit, new bath, parking, fin bsmt. Venetian - 3 bed available. East 5th St / Ave U - 3 bed available. East 7th St / Ave T - 1 bed, move in condition. East 3 St - 3 bed renov apt. Ave U / East 8th St - 2 bed available. Akoya O.P. / Ave L - Beautiful apts.

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Ocean Parkway / Ave R - 3 bed, 2 baths, new kit, available immediately.

• Condos For Sale and Rent 400 - Ave U - Just a few apartments left. Call to see. Don’t loose out. Beautiful building. Venetian - 2 & 3 bed available. Beautiful apts also for sale. Chase Building - There are 2 and 3 bed available. Florida apartment south building for sale!!!

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Ave S / East 5th St - 60/100, great luxury home. Ave T - 35/100 1 fam det, 5 bed, beautiful den, master bath, C/A, built new, must see. Luxury buyer. Ave R - 2 fam, needs T.L.C.. Price reduced. O.P. / Ave S - 60/130, 6 fam house, good income. Call for details. O.P. / M & N - Large 2 fam det. I’d be happy to show you. East 8th / Ave I - 30/100, 1 fam, built new, C/A, master suite, beautiful kit, 3rd floor 2 rooms. Move in condition. 1843 - East 4th St / Kings & Quentin 1 fam, 3 bed. Call for appointment. Homecrest - 30/100 6 bed renovated 3 floors den C/A. Ave T - 34/100, 2 fam det. Ave T - 40/100, luxury buyer. Ave S Vicinity - 40/100, beautiful renovated home, master bath, Walk-in closet, lg step down living rm, move in condition. Just bring your personal belongings. East 5 / Kings 28/100 - 1 fam prv drv, needs T.L.C.. Ave T - 60/100, 1 fam, luxury buyer. O.P. / Ave R - 1 fam, move in condition, renovated, C/H, C/A. East 7th St / N & O - Lg 2 fam 40/120, prv drv, move in condition, good income. Call for appt. East 2nd St / Ave V - 40/100, build your dream home. East 2nd St/ Ave S - 42/100, newly built, 4 bed, beautiful home. Move in condition. East 2nd St/ Ave X - 3 homes available, 1& 2 fam. Call for details. East 22nd St/ Ave K - Beautiful home, must see, luxury buyer. East 1st St/ Ave T - 2 fam det. East 2nd St/ Ave U - Beautiful 1 fam det, 3 bed, renovated, must see. East 2nd St/ Ave S - 1 fam newly built, 4 bed available.

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SARDELL REALTY

368 AVENUE U, BROOKLYN, NY 11223

HOUSES FOR SALE

East 8th St Avenue V

Avenue V CORNER HOMECREST BRICK TWO FAMILY 5 RMS/4RMS LARGE BACKYARD PRIVATE DRIVE $725K

DETACHED BRICK ONE FAMILY 3 BEDROOMS 2½ BATHS RADIANT HEATED FLOORS MODERN THROUGH-OUT 2 CAR GARAGE LOVELY QUIET BLOCK ASKING $1,150M

COMMERCIAL LEASE

East 12th Ave R

DETACHED, 30’+ X 100’, 5 BEDROOMS, 3½ BATHS, 1 BATH ENSUITE, FINISHED BASEMENT, PRIVATE DRIVE FOR 3 CARS, ROOM TO BUILD. ASKING $1.150M

INVESTMENT PROPERTY

Ave U East 1st St

OFFICE SPACE 1ST FLOOR AND 2ND FLOOR AVAILABLE. MANY WINDOWS, MOVE IN CONDITION, FIRST FLOOR, JUST BUILT.

INVESTMENT PROPERTY AVE K NEAR OCEAN PKWY EIGHT UNIT WALKUP BUILDING GUT RENOVATED SEVEN UNITS VACANT ASKING $4.9M


RENTALS Ave U East 1st St - FIRST FLOOR GUT RENOVATED RETAIL/OFFICE SPACE 1000 SF AVAIL IMMEDITATELY SECOND FLOOR MOVE IN CONDITION OFFICE /PROF SPACE 800 SF AVAIL IMMEDITATELY Coney Island Ave - THIRD FLOOR OFFICE SPACE MOVE IN CONDITION 1600 SF AVAILABLE IMMEDITATELY Kings Highway East 2nd St - SIDE STORE AVAIL IMMEDITATELY GATED AND ALARMED

BUY AND SELL WITH SARDELL WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Audrey Dweck

INC

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HOUSES FOR SALE Ave J/Corner of East 9th St

Large corner home on 60 x 100 lot. Many many bedrooms. Centerhall, new kitchen, needs T.L.C.. Luxury buyer.

MANY OFFICE SPACES RANGING FROM 600 SQ FT TO 2500 SQ FT. THE 2500 SQ FT COMES WITH 5 PRIVATE OFFICES, LARGE BOARD ROOM, ACCESS TO BALCONY, SMALL ROOM FOR A KITCHEN. $5000

Ave I/O.P. Midwood Manor

Charming 1 fam, 40 x 120 lot, center hall, den, 4 bdrms, 3 baths, MIC, prv drv. Asking $2.7M neg. East 21st St M&N

1 fam, adorable on 25 x 100 lot, private drive, LR/ DR, kitchen, den, 3 bdrms, finished bsmt, C/A, asking $1.1 neg. Call for appointment.

Ave T/Low Teens

Ave T/Low Easts Lovely 1 fam, 30 x 100, needs T.L.C., 5 bdrms, large kit, great location. Call for details.

East 10th St J&K

1 fam, 30 x 100, a lovely home with 5 bdrms, 3 floors, needs TLC, great location. Call for price and an appointment to see

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Magnificent 1 fam home on 40/100 lot, built very large, very spacious, 6 bdrms, 6 baths, elevator, lrg den, completely renov bsmt with 3 bdrm apt, two drvwys!! A must see!! Luxury buyer for a luxury home!! Call for price.

Bay Parkway

1 fam, 30 x 100, new on market. Newly renovated den, 4 bdrm, master bath, finished bsmt, C/A. Asking $1.6M neg.

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Audrey Dweck

INC

(718) 859-8616 • Cell: (908) 804-7465 E-mail: [email protected]

Audrey Dweck R.E. Broker

HOUSES FOR SALE MIDWOOD MANOR East 10th St/J & K - 1 fam, 30 x 100, 5 bdrms, needs TLC, asking $1.5M neg. Ave I/East 8th St - 1 fam, 40 x 100, 5 bdrms, great spot asking $3.1M. Ave I/O.P. - Lrg corner home, 100 x 100 lot, 4 bdrms, 5 baths. Very grand luxury buyer. Ave I/O.P. - Corner charming 60 x 100, 4 bdrms, huge master suite, luxury buyer. O.P./I & J - Grand home, 40 x 150 lot, C/A, 7 bdrms, 5 baths, lrg dining rm, den. lrg grounds! East 8th St/I & J - Charming 1 fam, 40 x 100, 4 bdrms, master suite on 3rd fl. Asking $3.4M neg. East 8th St/Dead End - 1 fam, 30 x 100 walkthru, newly built den, 5 bdrms, plus big loft. Asking $2.2M. East 9th St/I & J - 40 x 100 lot. Build your dream home asking $2M. East 10th St/J & K - 1 fam, 30 x 100, 3 bdrm, 3½ baths. Asking $1.6M. East 10th St/J & K - Legal, 3 fam, 30 x 100 lot. Asking $1.5M. East 12th St/Ave R - 40 x 100, 4 bdrms, needs T.L.C.. New on market. Ave V/East 8th St - Lovely 1 fam, move in, 3 bdrm, 3 bath, C/A, large grge, 25 x 100, asking $1.250M. Ave K/East 23rd St - 50/100, corner 4 bdrms, move in!! Luxury buyer.

East 4th St/M & N - 40 x 100, legal, 3 fam, needs work $1.2M. Ave K/East 23rd St - 60/100, corner 6 bdrms, needs T.L.C., luxury buyers. Ave L/East 23rd St - Corner grand home, 6 bdrms, move in, luxury buyer East 7th/K & L - 1 fam, semi-att, 20/120, 4 bdrms, asking $1.2M. East 4th St/I & J - 1 fam, 25/100, semi-att, prv drv, all redone 4 bdrms, den, asking $1.250M. East 4th St/Quentin & Kings - Legal 2 fam, 32/100, asking $2.3M. East 10 th N & O - 1 fam, 40/100, lrg 7 bdrms, new kit, asking $1.6M. O.P./M & N - Lrg 2 fam, 38/140, 3/3, prv, drv asking $2.5M. East 4th/N & O - 23/100, 1 fam, needs T.L.C., asking $790K. East 3rd St/Quentin & Kings - 1 fam, semi 24/100, 3 bdrms, asking $1.1M. East 4th St/S & T - 40/100, 1 fam, luxury buyer. East 4th St/S & Kings - 1 fam, luxury, 7 bdrms. Call for details. East 5th St/Ave S - Call for info, there are a few available. East 9th St/Ave R - Lovely corner, 35/100, 4 bdrms $2.5M.

CONDOS FOR RENT & SALE Akoya 1236 O.P. Venetian 448 Ave P 1 Bristol/O.P. & Ave L

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HOUSES FOR RENT

Ave J/Low Easts - 4 bdrm ranch house, needs T.L.C. $5000 Ave S Area - Luxury 5 bdrm, renovated house. Call for pricing. Ave T/20s - 3.5 bdrms, private drive, $4000 Ave S/West side - 2 bdrm, 2 year lease, $2500 Ave I - 3 bdrm plus finished attic, 3.5 baths, prv pkg $4500 Ave V/Low Easts - 3 bdrm, 2.5 baths, newly renovated, $4500 Ave V/East 8th St - 3 bdrm , 2.5 bath, large grounds $4500 S & T - 5 bdrm house, $5600 Ave T/20s - 3.5 bdrms, private drive, $4000 Ave S/West side - 2 bdrm, 2 year lease, $2500

NEW CONDOS FOR RENT


Ocean Parkway/Ave J - 4 bdrm duplex, 2 baths, parking, front porch, $3500 Ocean Parkway/Quentin Rd - 2nd flr, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, large kitchen. $3350 Ave K/Low Easts - Luxury duplex, 5 bdrm, 3.5 bath, parking, $5,400 Ave X/Ocean Parkway area - 2 bdrm, walk-in all new. $1500 Ocean Parkway/Ave S - Luxury 2 bdrm, parking, $5000 Ave J /Low Easts - 1st flr, 3 bdrm, new bathroom $2800 Ave S/low Easts - 1st flr plus partial basement, 3 bdrm, parking. $3600 Ave N/Teens - 2nd flr, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, parking. $2600 Ave J /Low Easts - 1st flr, 3 bdrm, $2600

2 - 3 bdrms

Ave M/High teens - 4 bdrm, 2 bath, dishwasher, W/D, C/A, all new renovation. $2500 Kings Hwy/West 3rd St - 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo w/parking $2500 Ave J Area - 2 bdrm, dishwasher, W/D, C/A, all new renovation, $2500

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Nancee Hedaya

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Houses for Sale

Ave I-J-K/Low E (Midwood Manor) *1 fam, elegant corner house, 60 x 100, dramatic C/H, 4 bed, huge master bath w/large bathroom *1 fam, 60 x 100, prime location, luxury house, one of a kind. Ready to sell $4.3M *1 fam, beautiful block, 40 x 120 , private drive *1 fam, detached, 4 bed, best block, driveway , new listing, $970K *1 fam, 40 x 100 det prv drive 3 stories den great zoning $1.8M *1 fam, 40 x 135, 8 bed, asking $2M *1 fam, 40 x 100, new listing, 5 bed, 4.5 bth, private drive $2.8M *1 fam, 40 x 100, new listing, brick house *1 fam, 40 x 120 center hallway, den, 5 bed mstr bth, prv drv, $4M *2 fam, duplex 20 x 120 5 bed L/R, D/R large dinette den front porch, deck 2 bed walk-in apt Plus garage Excellent condition AVE L/M/N/O/P/ LOW E * 1fam 25x100 3bd 2bth, den, driveway, MIC $879K *1 fam legal 2 fam, 3bd, 1.5bth + to bd, 1bth in basment, MIC $710K *1fam 40x100 9 bd 5.5bth 2car garage $1.65M *1 fam, 30x120, 5 bed, center hallway, MIC, must see *1 fam, 40 x 100, newly built, state of the art appliances thru-out house, 5 bed, 4.5 bath, prv drv, truly luxury *1 fam, 42 x 110, C/H, den, 4 bed, mstr bth, prv, drv, 1st fl 5 bed, bsmt 3 bed *1 fam, 40 x 100, private drive, 5 bed, mstr bth, den, luxury $1.8M *1 fam, 3 bed, 1 bath, 16 x 120, $750K *3 fam, 30 x 100, 3 bed, 1.5bth over 3bd, 1.5bth over 2bd, 1bth MIC $1.2M Ocean Pky Ave M 3 fam, 3 bed over 4 bed over 4 bed, mstr bth, brand new, luxury, drive, elevator *Ave M/ N 2 fam, Best Block, 3rear bds, 30 x 140, $2.5M *Ave N 1 fam, center hallway, 5 bed, mstr bth, prv drv, asking luxury Ave R/S * 1 fam, 30 x 145, center hallway, 4 bed, mstr bth, den, $3M *Ave U 1 fam, C/H den, 5 bed, 5 full bth, gym, sauna, maid’s room, play room, central vac, prv drv, new listing *Ave X, Duplex, brick, 3 beds, completely renov, front porch, walk-in apt, exclusive, driveway, $900K

Quentin Rd/Ave R/S/T/U/V Low E *1 fam,(Kings hwy), 3 bed, den, 1.5 bth, new kitchen $1.1M *MIC,1 fam house, 4 bed, 5 bth mstr bth, new kitchen, den, sunny large porch $3.2M *1 fam, ( R/S low E) 4 bed, new kitchen, 2.5 bth, prv drv, $1.8M *1 fam, 60 x 100, architectural beauty, luxury buyer *Magnificent 1 fam house, impeccable condition, top of the line appliances 4 bed, mstr bth, den, luxury *Ave T 40 x 100, prv drv, 4 bed, ready to sell, $3.5M *1 fam, 40 x 100, brick house, C/H, best block $3.4M *Ave W, 1 fam, 40 x 100, C/H, state of the art kitchen, den, 6 bed, luxury, luxury. Call for info Ave N Teens *1 fam, 35 x 100, det, new kitchen, and bsmt, den, library, 6 bed 5 bth $1.6M Ave S/T Teens *40 x 100, 2 fam, best block, private drive, $1.6M could be converted *1 fam, 30 x 100 det, prv drv, $825K *1 fam, 21 x 100, 3 bed, 2bth, C/A, fin bsmt w/maid’s room & bth, asking $1.2M Madison *2 fam, detached, 3/3 bed, MIC, new lisitng, driveway asking $1.1M *1 fam 3 bed 2.5 bth asking private drive $849K *1 fam, 40 x 100, C/H, 4 bed, mstr bth, prv drv, MIC, Call Nancee Bedford Ave J, 20s *1 fam, 40 x 100, C/H, C/A, 6 bed, 3.5 bth, prv drv, $1.7M *Ave K, High 20s *1 fam, 40 x 100, den, 8 bed, mstr bth, top of the line appliances, asking $1.8M *1 fam, corner house, majestic, 50 x 100, 4 bed, large den, large eat-in kitchen, extra large master bed & bath $3.5M call for info

Luxury Condos Available @ Ave U Great Value at the Venetian (Ave P) Price Reduced Call for Info Bristol - 3 bed 4 bth true luxury call for info

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Ave O/Low E 3 bed, new bath, MIC. $2800 4 bed, 1.5 bth, parking $3000 Quentin/ Low E 2 bed, $1600 O/P Ave N 3 bed, 2 bath + bsmt, parking, $3600 O/P Quentin 3 bed, 1.5 bth, C/A $3000 Ave S/ Low E 2 bed, $1850 1st floor 1 bed $1500 2 bed, 2 bath, renovated, elevator building $2000 Ave R Teens 4 bed, 3 bath, luxury, parking $3500

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Ave U/Low E 3 bed + bsmt, MIC, parking $3500 Venetian 3 bed, 3.5 bth, $6000 Akoya 3 bed, 2 bth, $4500 Ave Ave Ave Ave Ave

Houses For Rent

I/Low E Lrg L/R, 4 bed, mstr bath, luxury $7500 L/Low E 3 bed, 2 bth, fully renovated $3300 O/Low E 5 bed, 4 bth, C/A, MIC, driveway $4000 S/Low E 3 bed, 2.5 bth $4200 U/ Low E 3 bed, 1.5 bth $3500

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* 1 fam, elegant corner house, 60 x 100, dramatic C/H, 4 bed, huge master bed w/large bathroom

Ave J/Low E/Midwood Manor

*1 fam, C/H, 60 x 10, 4 bed, master bth, attic, den, $4.35M

Ave I/Midwood Manor

Ave I/Midwood Manor/ Low E * 1 fam, 40 x 100. 5 bed, 4.5 bth, Exclsuive, prv drv

1 fam, 40 x 50, 5 bed, den, lrg kitchen, prv drv, must see.

Ave K/L Low E EXCLUSIVE

2 fam duplex, 20 x 120, 5 bed, l/r, d/r, large dinette, den, front porch, deck, 2 bed, walk-in apt plus garage. Excellent condition

Ave J/Low E Midwood Manor 1 fam, 40 x 120, Best block. Survey showing PRV DRV on left. $2.8 exclusive

Ave R & S/Low E

Ave T Low E

*1 fam, 4 bd, master bath, den, luxury. Call for info

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Exclusive listing, 1 fam, newly built, 40 x 100, State of the art kitchen, 4 bed, 2 bath + mstr suite w/huge bath, prv drv

Ave J/Low E

* 45 x 100, 1 fam, build the house of your dreams, R5 zoning. Call Nancee

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4 bed, new kitchen, 2.5 bth, prv drv, $1.8M

Ave L/Low E

3 bed, 2 bth, den, driveway, MIC, asking $879K. Call Nancee

*1 fam,detached, C/A, radiant heat floors, 3 bed, 2.5 bth, bsmt w/bed + play room, move-in condition. Call Nancee

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Wolf Properties Inc.

170 Gravesend Neck Rd • Brooklyn, NY 11223

Tel: 718.382.9653 Fax: 718.382.3384 [email protected]

SHORT SALES, BANK NOTES AND R.E.O. PROPERTIES AVAILABLE. CALL FOR LISTS AND DETAILS AMAZING INCOME PROPERTY!

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Gravesend Village Rd East

Great Location!!! This property has been semi gutted and prepared for construction. The house sits on a 45 x 144 lot with an amazing yard!!! There are approved plans to build a 5,000 sf 1 family home or a 2 family home. Priced to sell at $1,299,000.

3 family house and commercial bldg. the house has 3 rented apartments with a monthly rent roll of $3,050. The commercial property is paying $3,175. there is a private drive that is rented for $500 per month. The lot is 65 x 80 c8-1 zoning. this will not last!!! Asking $1,180,000.

PRIME GRAVESEND LOCATION

HUGE PRICE REDUCTION

2 fam brick house. 2 br over 1 br. All tile floor, updated kitchen and baths. Private drive and garage. Very clean. Priced to sell. Asking $725,000. 2298 East 4th St (Ave W & Neck Rd)

2335 - 2343 West St

Great opportunity to build a dream house. This property consists of 2 lots (20 x 100 & 40 x 100) being sold together. 6,000 sq ft r4 zoning. The home is a 2 fam 2 br over 2 br 2.5 bath with a full finished bsmt. The other lot and block is 7176-0061. The properties will only be sold as a package deal. This property is priced to sell and the owner is motivated to make a deal!!! Asking $1,599,000.

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MADISON Lux 1 fam brk, C/H 4 bdrms, mstr ste, granite EIK, Sub Zero, stainless steel appl, 2 sinks, fin bsmt, 2 zone, C/A, long prv & gar & More. Asking $1.575M

MADISON Det side hall, mint condition, 3 beds, 3½ baths master suite, granite kitchen, finished bsmt, prv drv. Asking $1.2M

BAYSWATER 12,000 sf lot, sprawling ranch, 3 bdrms, mstr suite, FDR & LR, fin bsmt. Owner Anxious. Asking $445,000

GRAVESEND 3 bdrm 3 bath penthouse condo. Granite kit, stainless steel appls, indoor pkg, 2 huge terraces. Views of NYC.

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Asking 1,350,000. Wilk R.E. Lana 347.210.9037, 718.376.0606

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East 7th/ Ave L - Exclusive! Move right into this 3 bdr well kept home with Go West! - Detached 40 x 100 with private drive available w/plans, 2 fam den and lg backyard. Lot is 120 deep. Parking for 3 cars. Ask $950K also available. Ave S/ Low East - Detached brick, 2 fam with private driveway. Won’t last! Ocean Pkway/ Ave S area - Detached brick 2 family with prv drv on most Ave O / Low East - Great block! Great house! move in! desirable block. Ave N/ O. P. - Huge 2 fam w/over 10k monthly rent roll. Bedford Avenue - Magnificent home on 50 x 100 lot. Live like a king! Quentin Road/ Low East - 2 fam, built 20’ wide. Needs work. $600s. Ave L/ Low 30s - Renovated 4br detached home - $950K. Ave W - Large brick, 4 fam, built 36 feet wide! Includes a new duplex apt. Ave T/ Low East Street - Detached 3 bdr home in MIC. $1,050,000. Ave W/ Low East St - adorable 3 bdr duplex over walk in apt. $799K. East 8th/ Ave R - 40 x 100 3 story brick home with private drive. 1st time on East 7th/ Ave W - Attached brick 1 fam duplex over walk-in apt $799K. Ave W/ West St vic - Brick 2 fam that converts easily to 1. needs TLC. market! East 5th St/ N & O - Detached brick 2 fam w/prv drv approved to build $770K. Ave J area - Brick 2 fam with prv drv. Needs TLC. Call agent Esther 8,000 sq ft home! East 7th/ Ave J area - 40 x 120 all brick Lg 3 fam property. Converts easily 917-318-7755. to huge 1 fam. Quentin Road/ Low East - Adorable 3 bdr home on very desirable block. Ave S/ Low East Street - Detached home for the luxury buyer. Low East/ Kings Hwy area - Fabulous 1 fam w/den. Priced right! Ave J area - 7 bdr luxury home on oversized lot. Fantastic home for a large Ave S Area - 4 bedroom, incredible location, great condition, near all synafam. Move right in! gogues and schools. East 4th/ Ave N - 5 bdr brick detached home. Includes C/A, den, his and Avenue S/ Teens - 40 x 100 move right in. hers walk-in-closets, Passover kitchen, prv drv more. friendly sasson Ocean25 prkwy/ Avenue V - Lux 5 bedroomsClient fully furnished w/3rd floor Client FileandName: File Name: wilk huge real estate East 10th St/ N & O - This block is currently being built up. Don’t miss one den gym and sauna. Date: Date: of the last 40 x 100 opportunities to build your dream house on a lot that’s East 4th St/ T & U - Best block in Brooklyn 30 x 100 house needs TLC. priced right. Prime block Avenue S/ Low East - Move inArtist: condition house. Won’t last Artist: Ave I/ Low East - Detached home with private driveway. rental private 3 bedroom home new and modernized.

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REAL ESTATE (718)376-4994 Marine Park! 2 fam semi-detached brick. 3 bdr over 2 bdr, full finished bsmt, bath on every floor, interior staircase, hardwood flrs, large yard, private drive, garage. PL13814 $960s Mill Basin!! 50 x 100 Lot!! 3 bdr brick ranch, LR, DR, kitchen, den, full basement, central A/C, private drive (5 cars), large rear yard. $610s Midwood! Detached duplex, 4 bdrs, 2 baths, Large LR, DR den, hardwood floors throughout, new boiler, private driveway and garage. Very quiet block. 58 x 100 Lot! Call for more info! Midwood!! Detached 33 x 100, 4 bdr, Large LR, DR, EIK, enclosed front porch, hardwood floors throughout, prv drv, large rear yard, 1 car garage. Just reduced!!! $890s

Gravesend/East 3rd St - Fully det, solid brick, 2 fam, large walk-in 1 BR apt. Second floor spacious 3 BR apt, formal living/dining rms, kitchen, full bath w/separate shower, front & back porch, prv drv, attached garage. Move in condition. Close to all. Madison/East 24th St - Excellent det. 1 fam, formal living & dining rooms, 3 BR duplex, full fin bsmt, large backyard, private parking. Won’t Last!!! Madison/East 28th St - Great opportunity. 1 fam detached on 40 x 100 lot, 2 floors plus attic, 5 BRs, full bsmt, private driveway. Near all. Midwood/Ave O - Det 4 fam, 2.5 Levels, renovated 8 yrs ago. All 3 BR duplex apts with balconies. Separate boilers and hot water heaters, central air, shared driveway, garage. Great location. Near all. Sheepshead Bay/East 7th St - Very nice 2 BR, 1 bath Co-op first floor. Move-in-condition, formal living & dining rooms, kitchen w/ window & large eating area, bathroom w/ window, plenty of closets, parquet floor. Quiet block, near all. Sheepshead Bay/East 23rd St - Detached 2 fam, 6 rooms over 6 rooms, full finished bsmt, 2 separate boilers, move-in-condition, shared driveway, detached garage.

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AVE J/LOW EAST ST • 1 FAM SEMI-DET • 4 BDRM LIVING RM • KIT • DIN RM GARAGE • MUST SEE! INVESTMENT PROPERTIES PARK SLOPE • 6 FAM BRICK BLDG: 26’ X 64’ • LOT: 26’ X 98’ PRIME LOCATON $3M WINDSOR TERRACE • 8 FAM BRICK DET • HDWD FLRS BEAUTIFUL 2 BDRMS • TERRACES CENTRAL AIR • PARKING CONDO CONVERSION OR RESIDENTIAL INCOME $6M

Houses For Sale Low East/Ave W - Duplex + w/in fully renov, prv drv, all brick, fully rnov. $825K. Ave V/Low East - Det, prv drv, fully renov, 4 bed, custom built house. $1.450M Ave T/Homecrest Ave - 6 fam brick, excellent location. Can be vacant $1.3M East 14th St/Ave V - 1 fam, det ranch, 27 x 100, prv drv, 3 bed, move in $675K. Low East/Ave Y - 1 fam, 40 x 100, det, prv drv, fully renov. $1.1M. East 13th St/Neck Rd - 1 fam, det, 3 bed, prv drv $680K.

Houses For Rent Low East/Ave T - 1 fam, det, move in, 3 bed, bsmt parking $4100 Ave V/Low East - 1 fam, 4 bed, renov, $3700

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OCEAN PKWY / AVE L

• Sunny large Jr 4 apt. Can easily be conv to 2 bdrm. Apt has parquet floors & many closets throughout the apt. Can have EIK & separate dining rm. Owner relocated. Motivated seller Priced to sell $169,000 • Sunny large Jr 4/2 bedrooms, on low floor. Motivated seller, Priced to sell $185,000 Above Apts in Manhattan-like building w/24hr doorman. Heated pool w/lifeguard & C/A/C, Maint includes G & E & C/A/C. Near transportation, shopping & parks

OCEAN PKWY / AVE M

• Bright 1 bdrm on low flr, kit & bathroom w/windows, very low maint. $139,000 Apt in doorman building w/garden sitting area & laundry room on lobby floor. Near transportation, shopping & parks

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Custom California style ranch on a large lot, huge finished basement, cathedral ceiling, C/A/C, 2 car garage, near shuls, beach & transportation.

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West Deal - Colonial home for sale on Joanna ct.4 large bdrm, 2/12 baths, including master bath, plenty of closet space, large den, large DR, EIK, large LR, 2 new C/A/C new appliances C/H, full extra large fin bsmt with housekeeper’s quarters, beautiful grounds on double lot, enough room for pool, two car garage! Call 917-797-6412

RICO THE CLOWN, MAGICIAN AND COMICAL NERD! Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Comedy, Roasting & Educational Shows. Adults/ Kids. Rico is a university professor of speech & communications. Call 718-434-9697/ 917-318-9092 SPACE FOR RENT BROOKLYN Room avail in a beauty salon & spa, on a busy location on 18th Ave. Call for more info 646-288-1573

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C O M M U N I T Y

A N N O U N C E M E N T S Boro Park JCC Offering Legal Services As part of its continuing effort to serve the community, particularly those struggling with economic hardships, the Boro Park Jewish Community Council (BPJCC) is offering free legal services. “The mission of the Boro Park JCC is to be there to assist members of our community,” said Isaac Stern BPJCC President. “In many instances community members need the service of an attorney but are unable to afford them. We are thrilled to provide these quality legal services.” The attorneys are in Boro Park one day a week and provide expertise in four areas: housing law, immigration law, benefits law and family law. “In just the few weeks that these attorneys have been visiting our office, we have seen remarkable results for our clients,” said Rabbi Yeruchim Silber, Executive Director of the BPJCC.

Congratulations Mabrouk -Mazal Tov BIRTHS Leah and Abie Mann...Girl Shirley and Joseph Dana...Boy Adele and Rabbi David Safdieh...Boy Nina and Lenny Ash...Girl Alexis and David Shabot...Boy Lisa and David Aizer...Girl

ENGAGEMENTS Joy Anteby to Ikey Chera Rebecca Chakuri to Victor Beyda Michael Chira to Margarette Chabot


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Eye Exams for Children T h e Maimonides ophthalmology team is strongly urging parents not to miss their child’s annual vision screening. Screenings are essential for children, because a child suffering from vision problems is at a disadvantage in the classroom, in sports, at home studying, and more. “A child’s vision is constantly developing,” noted Dr. Norman Saffra, Director of the Division of Ophthalmology. “It is even more important for children currently wearing glasses to be re-evaluated annually as their prescriptions may change.” Parents should rely on their pediatricians for initial vision screenings which will detect common problems. If a problem is found, the next step is to make an appointment with a pediatric eye care specialist. Throughout the school year, be aware of symptoms of developing vision problems, including difficulty seeing the blackboard or reading books, excessive eye rubbing and increasing headaches. Take special note of children squinting or blinking frequently, or closing one eye when reading. If one eye seems droopy or drifting, your child may be developing a lazy eye. See a specialist if you suspect a problem. Magen David Yeshivah High School Open House On Tuesday, November 11 at 7:30 pm, MDYHS will be having their open house. Please join them

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C O M M U N I T Y for a memorable evening that will focus on MDYHS’s exciting programs, including the Majors Program, the latest in award-winning cutting-edge educational technology, the Scholars Program, Skills-Based Education, College and Career Guidance, and student e-portfolios. MDYHS offers a warm environment that nurtures the neshama (soul) of each student, and so much more. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with administration, faculty, and students. The school invites everyone interested in securing the key to a successful future to join them for what will certainly be a stimulating, memorable and informative evening. Invitations and further information are forthcoming. In the meantime, mark your calendars. Valet parking will be available. For more information contact [email protected]. Toy Museum If you’re looking for something fun to do while your children are on school vacation for Sukkot, take FREE SHORT TERM LOAN OF BEAUTIFUL BRIS PILLOW/BABY GOWN

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them to the Toy Museum of New York. Its mission is to educate the public on the importance of dolls and toys in our culture and history through art and performance. Located right here in Brooklyn, in Cobble Hill, it’s the only museum in NYC exclusively devoted to preserving and exhibiting dolls and toys. The Museum caters to children and families, with plenty of kidfriendly things to do. The museum is located at 180 Smith Street, between Wyckoff and Warren Streets. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $8 for children. To schedule a visit or see one of their performances, call (718) 243-0820. The Children’s Museum of New York Another great place to spend the day is the Children’s Museum of New York. CMOM inspires children and families to learn about themselves and our culturally diverse world through a unique environment of interactive exhibitions and programs. CMOM focuses on four priority areas to impact children in ways that will last a lifetime: Early childhood education prepares children for success in school. Creativity in the arts and sciences inspires creative and analytical thinking skills for lifelong learning. Healthy lifestyles programs provide a blueprint for a family’s physical, emotional and environmental well-being. Exploration of world cultures gives children awareness, understanding and context for the diverse society in which we live. On Friday, October 10th, the Museum will have a program for those four and younger called Design a Mini Sukkah, at 10 am. For more information visit cmom.org. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan is located at 212 West 83rd Street, New York, NY 10024

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IMAGE Calendar of Social Events We’re keeping a record of all the events in our community. You can view this calendar on our web site: www.ImageUsa.com, “calendar of events.” SCAN HERE for all the latest community events online.

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Singles EVENTS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13

Social Ages 55+, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm (516) 766-4241 x 133

Sophisticated Singles Ages 35 - 55, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm, (516) 766-4241 x 133

Wednesday Nite Rap, Ages 40+, Samuel Field YMHA, 7:30 pm, (718) 225-6750 x 243

Discussion for Ages 40+. Mid-Island Y, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x338

Game Night in Brooklyn and Queens, call Gavriel (917) 517-7486, [email protected]

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14

Connections, support group for 50+ widows and widowers and Single’s Chat and Chew for singles at 8:15, Suffolk JCC, (631) 4629800, suffolkjcc.org, also Single’s Chat and Chew, 8 pm Single’s Chat and Chew, weekly topics for singles who would like to socialize and meet new people, 8:15 pm, Suffolk JCC, (631) 462-9800, suffolkjcc.org THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 Music Place followed by Jewish Datelines from 10 to 11:30 on AM 1300, listen via the Internet at www.wrcr.com or via telephone conference call at (646) 519-5860 pin:8574# City Harvest Volunteer Orientation. Learn about opportunities. Preregistration required. This is a two step registration process. Noon - 1. For more info email Rabbi Brian Fink at [email protected] or call (646) 505-4408 MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 Sophisticated Singles Ages 35 - 55, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm, (516) 766-4241 x 133 Discussion for Ages 40+. Mid-Island Y, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x338 Learn about Engage Service Corps and choose a volunteer project. This is a free monthly info session for those in their 40s and 50s, (646) 505-5708, jccmanhattan.org.

Ballroom Dancing, Ages 30+, Temple Emanuel, 3315 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park, 7 pm, (718) 891-4209 email [email protected] Social Gathering, Ages 40+, Mid-Island Y, Plainview, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x 338\ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 Assertiveness Training. Make sure your needs get met and learn to say no. For men and women. 10:30 am to 4 pm, 92 St. Y, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org, call for price and other information MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 Sophisticated Singles Ages 35 - 55, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm, (516) 766-4241 x 133 Discussion for Ages 40+. Mid-Island Y, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x338 For Widows and Widowers. Understand and cope with your loss. 6:30 pm, six sessions; also Losing a Parent, Difficult at Any Age, 8 pm, six sessions, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Ballroom Dancing, Ages 30+, Temple Emanuel, 3315 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park, 7 pm, (718) 891-4209 email [email protected] Social Gathering, Ages 40+, Mid-Island Y, Plainview, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x 338\

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7

How to Get Back In the Dating Game, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org

Ballroom Dancing, Ages 30+, Temple Emanuel, 3315 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park, 7 pm, (718) 891-4209 email [email protected]

The Doctor Is In series, ages 40s and 50s, once a month lectures about the brain and nervous system, (646) 505-5708, jccmanhattan.org

Social Gathering, Ages 40+, Mid-Island Y, Plainview, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x 338\

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Dinner in the Sukkah. Ages 40s and 50s. Celebrate Sukkot nder the stars, 7 pm to 9 pm. (646) 505-5708, jccmanhattan.org. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 Engage Fall Event in the Sukkah, 2 to 3:30 pm, email Rabbi Brian Fink at [email protected] or call (646) 505-4408

Social Ages 55+, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm (516) 766-4241 x 133 Wednesday Nite Rap, Ages 40+, Samuel Field YMHA, 7:30 pm, (718) 225-6750 x 243 Game Night in Brooklyn and Queens, call Gavriel (917) 517-7486, [email protected] Connections and Single’s Chat and Chew, Suffolk JCC, (631) 462-9800, suffolkjcc.org Single’s Chat and Chew, weekly topics for

singles who would like to socialize and meet new people, 8:15 pm, Suffolk JCC, (631) 462-9800, suffolkjcc.org Dating After Divorce, 7 pm, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 Music Place followed by Jewish Datelines from 10 to 11:30 on AM 1300, listen via the Internet at www.wrcr.com or via telephone conference call at (646) 519-5860 pin:8574# SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Soccer, coed sports league, ages 20s and 30s, 7:30 pm, Sundays through Dec. 21, (646) 505-5708, jccmanhattan.org Engage Community Brunch. Ages 40s and 50s, 11 am to 1 pm, Rabbi Brian Fink at [email protected] or call (646) 5054408 MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 Sophisticated Singles Ages 35 - 55, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm, (516) 766-4241 x 133 Discussion for Ages 40+. Mid-Island Y, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x338 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 Ballroom Dancing, Ages 30+, Temple Emanuel, 3315 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park, 7 pm, (718) 891-4209 email [email protected] Social Gathering, Ages 40+, Mid-Island Y, Plainview, 7:45 pm, (516) 822-3535 x 338 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 Social Ages 55+, JCC, Oceanside, 7:30 pm (516) 766-4241 x 133 Wednesday Nite Rap, Ages 40+, Samuel Field YMHA, 7:30 pm, (718) 225-6750 x 243 Game Night in Brooklyn and Queens, call Gavriel (917) 517-7486, [email protected] Connections, support group for 50+ widows and widowers and Single’s Chat and Chew for singles at 8:15, Suffolk JCC, (631) 4629800, suffolkjcc.org, also Single’s Chat and Chew, 8 pm Single’s Chat and Chew, weekly topics for singles who would like to socialize and meet new people, 8:15 pm, Suffolk JCC, (631) 462-9800, suffolkjcc.org THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 Music Place followed by Jewish Datelines from 10 to 11:30 on AM 1300, listen via the Internet at www.wrcr.com or via telephone conference call at (646) 519-5860 pin:8574#

IMAGE understands the difficulty today’s singles face in finding their match. For this reason, IMAGE is providing a listing of singles events and personal ads to aid singles in finding their perfect mate for marriage. IMAGE does not support or endorse any event. For further information on the kashrut or the degree of religious observance for a particular event, we urge our readers to please call the phone number associated with the event. To list an event for Jewish Singles please email [email protected].

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CONTACT LENSES FURNITURE - INDOOR/OUTDOOR The Right Contact.......................... 73 Custom Outdoor Furniture ........... 117 COUNSELING GLASS & MIRROR Dr. Ari Korenblit ......................... 151 J&A Glass Creations ................... 115 CPR LESSONS GYMNASTICS Learn CPR .................................. 137 Nova Athletic Club ..................... 159 CREDIT REPAIR HANDYMAN Global World Enterprise ............... 18 Eddy Gindi the Handyman .......... 213 CCI .............................................. 73 EMR ........................................... 123 Supreme Help............................... 83 HATS Consolidated Credit .................... 214 Hedy’s Hat Rack ......................... 215 DEBT MANAGEMENT HEALTH Norman Balassiano/Angels of Debt155 Stop Smoking ............................. 214 DENTIST HEALTH CARE Dr. Abraham Esses ..................... 155 Meridian Health ......................... 141 Dr. Maurice Benjamin ................. 143 HESED Dr. Joseph Lichter ......................... 73 Mitzvah Man .............................. 167 Dr. Richard A. Gindi................... 147 HOME AUTOMATION Dr. Sammy M. Saadia .................. 37 Deal Stereo ................................ 213 Luxury Dentistry ............................ 77 HOME CARE DISC JOCKEY Vintex Quality Care..........................214 Isaac Chalou Entertainment ........... 13 HOME HEALTHCARE DJ Stan ...................................... 215 HCS Home Care ........................... 31 DOC-OPHTHALMOLOGY HOSPITAL Reich Medical & SurgicalEye Care153 Maimonides ............................... 157 DOC-ORTHODONTICS INSURANCE Midwood Orthodontics ............... 151 Bandelli Agency ......................... 121 DOC-PRIMARY CARE BJL Financial Services.................. 127 Dr. Aline Benjamin ..................... 143 David H Cohen........................... 129 DUCT CLEANING Eli Cohen Agency ....................... 181 No Mold 4 Me ........................... 111 Eric Derzie & Associates ............... 71 EATING DISORDERS INSURANCE ADJUSTER Joanne Gerr .....................................214 Equitable Adjusters LLC ............ 28,29,IFC ELECTRICIAN 1800 Adjusters ........................... 105 Sky Electric ................................... 95 INTERIOR DECOR EXERCISE Bay Decorators ............................ 93 Body By Mike ...................................121 INVITATIONS EXTERMINATOR Baby Stationary by Candice Baily 215 A&V Prime Exterminating LLC........ 113 Hot Stamping Specialties ............. 215 Performance Unlimited Pest Control 105 Park Slope Press ........................... 65 FACTORS JEWELRY Middlegate Factors .................. 16,17 Scott Jewelers ................................. 4 FISHING BOATS Ralphs Jewelry ......................... 10,11 Therapy IV Captain Stan ............. 195 JEWELRY & WATCHES FITNESS CENTER Bangles By Kelly Shrem ............... 179 Matchpoint Fit NYC ..................... 19 William Barthman Jewlers ............. BC FLOOD Simpson Jewelers.......................... 33 No Flood 4 Me .......................... 111 KITCHEN FLORIST Exquisite Kitchens ......................... 99 Flowers By Marzan .................... 177 Lismat Designs Corp ................... 213 FOOD Kitchen Connections .................... 107 Old World Organics ................... 73 Timber Lux ................................... 15

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