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Around the Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Community Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Zvi Teichman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Rabbi Motty Rabinowitz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

PEOPLE 613 Seconds with Adina (Frydman) Burstyn. . . . . 19

HUMOR & ENTERTAINMENT Notable Quotes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Centerfold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

FEATURE Hurricane Harvey Hits Houston Hard. . . . . . . . . . . . 58

JEWISH LIFE Jewish History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Your Money. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Dating Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Mental Health Corner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Forgotten Heroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Back to School Calendar Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Life Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Gluten Free Recipe Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Cooking for the King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Dear Readers, Elul – the name itself brings with it a wind of humility and self-reflection. It evokes the sound of the shofar and the yamim noraim beckoning us to become a bit more refined and sensitive to spiritual matters. Our cynical side says, “Yeah, yeah – you felt the same way last year.” That thought is both destructive and misses the point. The calendar year is like a spiral staircase. There are many floors, and one uses the staircase to ascend from floor to floor. Interestingly, though, when leaving one floor and heading to the next, one must totally turn away before heading back to the same side, one level up. Each year, we cycle back through the calendar, repeating each month and each of the yamim tovim. Although there may be times we feel like we are “turning our backs” on the spiritual elation felt during the previous Tishrei, in reality, this is part of ascending

the staircase of life. The experiences we had during 5777, even the mundane ones, are ulitimately part of our ascending to the next year, 5778. The first Chabad Rebbe, Rav Shneur Zalman of Liadi, explains that Elul is likened to a king passing through the fields on the way back to the city. It is a time when all who wish can greet the king without the usual constraints of appointments. So too with us: Elul is a time the King of all kings allows us to approach Him more easily, asking for the fulfillment of our needs. We then “follow the King back to the city and palace,” including the innermost chamber of Yom Kippur. May the “wind of Elul” inspire us to become better people and may the King decide that the time has come to reunite with His people in an open and revealed way with the coming of Moshiach. Wishing you a wonderful and inspiring Shabbos, Shalom

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Cheswolde National Night Out Huge Success!

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n August 9 2017 over 500 community residents came out to support the Cheswolde Neighborhood Association’s (CNA) National Night Out event. The purpose of the event is to demonstrate community unity and support for law enforcement and emergency responders. There was no doubt that from the crowd of enthusiastic attendees that the evening was an overwhelming success. Those who attended heard remarks from Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer and CNA President Nathan Willner. This was a great opportunity for the community to meet many members of local law enforcement and firefighters, as well as community volunteers from Hatzalah, Shomrim and Chaverim. In addition to the free food and activities for children, there were many Police and Rescue Vehicles including Baltimore City Swat and the Maryland Transit Authority Police mobile command center. Even two mounted Bal-

timore City police horses were there for neighborhood children and their parents to see. Councilman Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, one of the sponsors of the 3rd annual event and resident of the Cheswolde Neighborhood, was instrumental in organizing the various agencies bringing their officers and equipment. Among the many dignitaries that came to show support included; Congressman Jon Sarbanes, State Senator Nathaniel Oaks, Delegate Sandy Rosenberg, Delegate Bilal Ali, Delegate Angela Gibson, Comptroller Joan Pratt, Councilman Robert Stokes, Councilwoman Sharon Middleton, Baltimore City Fire Department Chief Roman Clark, Director of the Department of Recreation and Parks, Reginald Moore, Director of the Department of Transportation, Michelle Pourcia, Izzy Patoka, LifeBridge Health, Assistant Sheriff, Sam Cogen, The Honorable Judge Karen Chaya Freidman, and Dalya Attar, Candidate for House of Delegates. Nathan Willner, President of the CNA, remarked, “I am overwhelmed and encouraged by our neighborhood’s strong show of support this evening. The Community-Police relationship

is critical to enhancing safety in Baltimore City. These dedicated officers, firefighters, EMTs and volunteers have incredibly challenging jobs and deserve our appreciation. That’s what tonight is all about, showing appreciation. I also want to sincerely thank Councilman Schleifer for everything

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s the summer comes to a close, so does an extremely successful jInternship Baltimore-D.C. program. The jInternship program, now in its third year, recruited students from top universities such as Brandeis, Rutgers, Penn State, Binghamton, Cornell, William and Marry, St. Michael’s of Vermont and Washington University. The students had lucrative internships in their field of choice, ranging from the steps of Capitol Hill to those of Johns Hopkins medicine, all while living within the Jewish communities of Baltimore and Silver Spring. Interns spent their day “on the job,” but come night time, they were involved in classes and chavrusas on topics dealing with hashkafa and gemara. Additionally, students spent their first week prior to their internships in Baltimore par-

ticipating in a week-long program that introduced the group to the Baltimore Jewish community. They spent their final week at either Sinai Retreats in the Adirondacks, or Heritage Retreats in Montana.

JInternship shows college students that they no longer have to choose between spending their summer as an intern or growing as a Jew. They can do both. Students are amazed at the opportunities found in both their careers and as young Jews discovering their heritage. Shabbatons were the highlight of the program. The Shabbatons were designed to introduce the young men to the warmth and vibrancy of Jewish families. Hosts like the Markowitz, Casper, Wolasky, Frankel, Shapiro, Schwartz and Glaser families opened up their homes throughout the program to give the hospitality, warmth, and welcome unique to our community. This year, jInternship staff included R’ Shuiey Shapiro who joined Rabbi

Schwartz in giving shiurim and leading the Ranchleigh Shabbaton. Participants also spent three days learning b’chavrusa in Ner Yisroel’s beis medresh. They were zoche to hear from the Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Aharon Feldman, and to engage in discussions from speakers such as R’ Yosef Wagner, R’ Yehuda Weiner, R’ Ari Kravetz, Mr. Howard Tzvi Friedman, Mr. Ed Miller, Mr. Yehuda Neuberger, Dr. Michael Oshinsky and Mr. Jonathan Stern. As student Gilad Metro summed it up, “I would like to personally thank you for your time and knowledge this summer. Your insight has helped me become a better person in every aspect of my life. I look forward to seeing you all in the near future.” Last year’s jInternship group saw 7 students go to Israel. We hope to see continued growth from jInternship and its students.

he did to make this event spectacular. This is our 3rd year and each year we figure out how to take it up a notch, I am not sure how we are going to top this year’s NNO, but I’m sure we will find a way.”

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th Event! 4th Success! All thanks to you, our cyclists, our sponsors, and our volunteers. Yes, you did it again! Over $125,000 dollars raised by 180 cyclists, 50 junior cyclists-in-training, and our generous sponsors. On Sunday, August 13, 2017 at 7:45 a.m. 50 milers, pumped and helmeted, cycled down the path behind Beth Tfiloh’s grounds, followed by the 25 milers at 9:30 a.m., and ending with the 10 milers at 10:30 a.m. 180 strong, each group, led by ride marshals, traversed the scenic country-side routes of Baltimore. Coach Noam Shiman, read the safety instructions and encouraged all to stay hydrated. Hatzalah was graciously on hand supplying medical help for all who might need it. Along the routes, Sag wagons, led by Yehuda Prero, were following the cyclists in cars and Rest Stops, led by Daniel

Kirshenbaum and Eliezer Portnoy, were manned by over a dozen volunteers. We thank Tommy Bullough of Twenty20 Cycling Company who pitched a tent filled with experts and supplies to check everyone’s bike for safety and fit. Our newest cyclists, 3-7 year-olds, raced through an exciting and challenging bike track on the Beth Tfiloh grounds adjacent to the Men’s ride. This innovative and very fun event was coordinated by Mrs. Pearl Rosensaft. The children rode around the track so many times that we are certain that many will be our future 50 milers! Not only are these young children great bike riders, but they are also the future fundraisers for the K’lal (community). Rochel Tzivia Rubel, age 4, raised $536.00, Maxi Schleifer, age 4, raised $418.00, and Yisroel Meir Weissman at $402, Shalom Barth, age 7, raised $323.00. Each child received a Jersey t-shirt, medal, water bottle,

and swag bag, just like their grandfathers, fathers, brother, uncles, cousins, and neighbors in the Men’s Bike-athon. The incomparable D.J. Neddy rocked the crowd with exciting music. Family and friends were on hand to cheer each group at the finish line with homemade signs and tremendous applause. Laughter, excitement and a tremendous feeling of accomplishment by cyclists and spectators pervaded the parking lot at Beth Tfiloh as the party continued. The children were treated to snow cones and popcorn expertly run by Aviezri Leibowitz. Moshe Rock’s famous balloon twisting dazzled everyone and face painters transformed the toddler’s faces into adorable animals and princesses. Everyone enjoyed the lavish and delicious barbeque prepared by Yaffa caterers as the program continued. Shaya Lerner, representing Sinai/

Lifebridge-sponsors of the Bikur Cholim Family Fun Event and BBQ, complimented Bikur Cholim and all it does for the community and how we are truly partners with Sinai/Lifebridge in helping those in need. Rabbi Zvi Techman, Rav of Ohel Moshe and board member of Bikur Cholim continued with a beautiful and meaningful metaphor, “A bicycle can be a very sophisticated instrument, but at the end of the day it is based on one of a most remarkable yet simple invention, the wheel. One of the principles of a wheel that enables us to utilize it in transporting large and weighty matter is the fact that a wheel connects one point of it at a time with the surface it rides on with a minimum of friction which allows force to propel it forward so effectively. That I believe is a great metaphor for the success of this terrific organization. There are many wheels that move this mighty machine forward so effectively due to the fact

Rabbi Pinchas Rabinowitz thanked all the volunteers and sponsors who made this event another smashing success. He then announced the top fund raisers in various categories: Top Fundraiser: Pinny Hexter with $7568, Top Youth Fundraiser: Menachem Gerstman with $1368. A TREK BIKE (donated by Maven Motors) was won by Moshe Dejman and A WEBER GRILL (donated by the Sabra Tours) was won by Yisroel Gelber. He concluded with thanking the event coordinator, Mordechai Gottlieb, and his committee: Yaakov Berkowitz, Tzvi Feigenbaum, Noam Shiman, Liz Rothstein, Yitzy Goldberg, and Ro-

chelle Goldberg. Bikur Cholim of Baltimore will utilize these much needed funds to service the needs of the cholim (sick) and their families in our community. The dedicated biker cholim website will remain up for a month for those who need to fulfill their obligations and those who still wish to sponsor a rider or team. www.bikercholim.org. And please visit our Baltimore Bikur Cholim’s updated website at www.baltimorebikurcholim.org. Start training now for BIKER CHOLIM 2018!

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fathom a person riding a bike for 50 miles, so too “we cannot understand what is going through the minds of those facing a medical crisis. We cannot understand the feelings of someone sitting next to a loved one in a hospital bed, when a cheerful Bikur Cholim volunteer delivers a delicious fresh meal. Or the feeling of sitting in the waiting room outside the operating room when a Bikur Cholim volunteer sits down with them to talk and take their mind off things for a while. Or the feeling of relief when after one phone call to Bikur Cholim all your needs will be taken care of and you can focus on your loved one-the choleh.”

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each wheel is led by critical point men and women who focus that goodwill and energy so successfully. Whether chairman, volunteer coordinator, intake person, event heads, executive director and every single participant here who somehow are able to carve out of your very busy lives, time to devote your talents and resources, thrusting your wheels so mightily to help Bikur Cholim assist the too many cholei yisroel in need of your help. Rabbi Pinchos Rabinowitz, executive director of Baltimore Bikur Cholim, and MC for the program spoke straight from the heart in his remarks,… just as a non-cyclist cannot

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n Sunday morning, July 23, 2017, Erev Rosh Chodesh Av, 5777. HoRav HaGaon Rav Yeruchim Olshin, shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha, Lakewood, spoke to a large and attentive crowd at Kollel Boker Nachlas HaTorah at Congregation Machzikei Torah. The event opened with a warm welcome to the Rosh Yeshiva by HoRav Nechemia Goldstein, the Rosh Kollel of Nachlas HaTorah, who also expressed the Kollel’s gratitude to Rabbi Yitzchok Neger, the Rosh Hakahal of Machzikei Torah for his leading role in establishing the Kollel and and unstintingly supporting it. On the eve of the Nine Days,said Rabbi Goldstein, we need to understand that the Churban Bais Hamikdash was a consequence of bitul torah. Geulah follwing the first Churban was decreed because of zechus avos, but the Geulah we are still waiting from the second Churban will rely on the zechus of Moshe Rabbeinu, which is the zechus of limud hatorah, and will occur because people sit down and learn

In his address, the Rosh Yeshiva, Horav Yeruchim, discussed the Gemara’s famous puzzling answer to the question “al mah avdah haaretz?” (What was the cause of the Churban?) The Gemara says that the Bais Hamikdash was destroyed despite the fact that Klal Yisroel observed the mitzvos and learned Torah, because they did not make a berochoh on the Torah. The Rosh Yeshiva explained this as an indication that all their learning did not make up for their fundamental lack of emunah and bitachon in Hashem, which was reflected a basic deficiency in ahavas Hashem and resulted in ahavas mammon, and ultimately the sinas chinom that brought about the second Churban. This lack of emunah is what underlies the similar social phenomena we still observe today, and will have to be remedied if we truly desire the Geulah. As the program came to a conclusion, many of the attendees stayed on to greet the Rosh Yeshiva and discuss the shiur. All men of the community are invit-

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He charges that the Persian regime is turning Syria into a “base of military entrenchment as part of its declared goal to eradicate Israel.” Iran has been supporting Assad’s troops in the Syria war and it also backs Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. The Israeli leader warned that “this is something Israel cannot accept.” Netanyahu made these comments while speaking to UN Secretary General António Guterres in Jerusalem. This is the first time Guterres has been in the region since taking office in January. Two weeks ago, the Israeli satellite imagery company ImageSat International published photographs it said appeared to confirm a report by a Syrian pro-opposition newspaper that a missile factory was under construction in north-western Syria under Iranian oversight. ImageSat International said the facility in Wadi Jahannam, near the Mediterranean coastal town of Baniyas, bears a close resemblance to a missile factory near Tehran. While speaking with Guterres,

Netanyahu also pressed the UN secretary general on the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, Unifil, which Israel alleges has failed to prevent Hezbollah building up its supply of weapons since they fought a war in 2006. In response, Guterres promised to “do everything in my capacity” to ensure Unifil fulfilled its obligations. “I understand the security concerns of Israel and I repeat that the idea or the intention or the will to destroy the state of Israel is something totally unacceptable from my perspective,” he added. Unifil’s mandate is up for renewal at the end of the month. Earlier on Monday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin urged Guterres to work to end what he called “the discrimination against Israel in some branches” of the UN. Guterres said the UN would “always be very frank in the dialogue with the State of Israel,” but also is “very committed to make sure that anti-Semitism doesn’t prevail and that equality in the treatment of all states is fully respected.”

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On Sunday, seven climbers lost their lives in two separate incidents in the Alps. Five of the climbers died in the Austrian Alps, Zell am See provincial government chief Martin Reichholf said. Two others were killed as they climbed in a group roped together in the Italian Alps. A sixth climber in the Austrian Alps – a 60-year-old man – is in intensive care at the hospital, but his injuries are not life-threatening. In Italy, a man and woman who appear to be in their mid-30s were

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years, about 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to schools administered by churches. Many of those children were abused and the teachers there were found to be incompetent or worse. Macdonald also cleared the path for a transcontinental railway in the 1880s in some areas by withholding food relief for indigenous people during a famine until they moved to government-established reserves. The residents of several reserves were confined to them unless they could obtain a pass from a government agent to travel. In Kingston’s leafy City Park, a statue of Macdonald, who led Canada from 1867 to 1873 and then again from 1878 until his death in 1891, has become a center of celebrations and protests. Kathleen Wynne, the premier of Ontario, said in a statement that the call to remove Macdonald’s name from schools “missed the mark,” and she urged the local school boards responsible for the decision not to take the step. “We need to teach our children the full history of this country – including

colonialism, indigenous peoples and their history, and about what our founders did to create Canada and make it the country it is today,” Wynne said.

Bibi: We Won’t Evacuate Settlements Days after meeting with a U.S. delegation to once again restart the peace talks with Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that his government will never evacuate another settlement. At an event celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands, “We are here to stay forever. There will be no

more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel.” He added, “This is the inheritance of our ancestors. This is our land.” He also stressed the dangers Israel would face if it withdrew from the West Bank, a key demand of the Palestinians in any future peace deal. “Samaria is a strategic asset for the State of Israel,” the prime minister said. “It is the key to our future. Because from these high hills, the heights of Mount Hatzor, we can see the entire country, from one side to the other.” He said that Israel had withdrawn from settlements in the past but received nothing in return. “We’ve uprooted settlements. What did we get? We received missiles. It will not happen again,” the prime minister said, referring to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. “To those who want to uproot what we’ve planted, [I say] we will deepen our roots.” “Imagine that on these hills were the forces of radical Islam,” Netanyahu said that he tells world leaders. “It would endanger us, it would endanger you, and it would endanger the entire

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months. Earlier in August, he addressed a ceremony marking the establishment of a new neighborhood in Beitar Illit. And in June, he spoke at a ceremony inaugurating a new medical school at Ariel University, which was funded by casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Netanyahu’s comments came days after the visit of a delegation from U.S. President Donald Trump, who is looking to get the Israelis and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Nabil Shaath, a former Palestinian ne-

gotiator, speaking to the official Voice of Palestine radio, said the Palestinians had reiterated their demands that Israel end settlement construction and withdraw from the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War. Despite Bibi’s words, some are concerned. Israel demolished the Amona outpost in February after a 10-year legal battle during which the High Court determined it had been built on private land. A statement from the residents

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Official Status for Jews of Chevron Official status to the Jewish community of Chevron was granted on Tuesday by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. The move will unite the Jewish residents from a municipal perspective so that they will not be reliant on the Palestinian Authority’s Hevron

municipality, as is stipulated in the Hevron agreement of 1997.

Among other things, it was decided that the Hevron Municipal Committee would be entitled to purchase and hold land, as well as to enter into contracts and tenders. The committee will become a local administration and will be authorized to promote the economic, social, cultural, health, and educational issues of Chevron residents, and to collect fees and levies from them. The committee’s authority will extend to buildings and assets owned or held by the Jewish residents. It was further determined that in the case of road hazards and the like in

the PA-controlled section of the city, the head of the municipal committee would inform the mayor of Chevron to deal with it. Should the matter not be dealt with within a reasonable period of time, the municipal head may deal with the matter himself with the approval of the Civil Administration. The Jewish community in Chevron welcomed Liberman’s decision to grant them municipal status and thanked Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan, who worked in recent months to promote the initiative.

Chevron House to be Evacuated The State of Israel has informed the High Court of Justice that it will be evicting fifteen settler families that have taken up residence in a three-story Chevron apartment building called Beit Hamachpela. The inhabitants will have one week to leave the premises

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Israel Bars Some Palestinian Textbooks Schools around the world are preparing for a new school year, but a Palestinian school in Jerusalem will not be getting their textbooks in time. On Thursday, Israeli police banned a Palestinian school on the Temple Mount in the Old City from being able to receive textbooks bearing the Palestinian Authority logo. Students carrying the books were stopped before reaching Temple Mount. According to the official Palestinian news outlet Wafa, students at the Al-Aqsa Sharia High School for Boys were prevented from entering the site and their school with the books in their possession. In an attempt to beat the system the schools distributed the books outside Temple Mount. Officially the law is that no books bearing the Palestinian logo can be distributed to students on Temple Mount. Israeli police stopped individual students. The school posted images on its Facebook page showing students lined up outside of the Gate of the Tribes entrance into the Temple Mount as police inspected their textbooks. Outside of Temple Mount, Israel does not examine the textbooks of any Palestinian schools. On Tuesday, Wafa reported that Israeli police prevented the entry of textbooks onto the Temple Mount destined for two high schools and a kindergarten. The Palestinian school year began on Wednesday. The Palestinian Education Ministry slammed what it said was Israel’s “fierce war” against the education sector in East Jerusalem. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld explained that the books were not permitted to enter the Temple Mount because “the materials have to be examined and looked into in order to ensure they are not connected to any materials that are illegal or incitement.” There are four types of school that East Jerusalemite students can attend: Israeli schools, Israeli-sponsored schools, schools run by the Palestinian Authority or schools run by the Jerusalem Waqf, a body of the Jordanian government that administers Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. The schools on the Temple Mount are run by the Waqf. In its report on Tuesday, Wafa accused Israel of “trying to ban the use of Palestinian books in occupied Jerusalem and replace them with Israeli-issued textbooks, which Palestinians strongly oppose because the Israeli books distort and misrepresent Palestinian history and culture.”

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The Pursuit of Pleasure By Rabbi Zvi Teichman Riding in my car the other day I couldn’t help but notice a license plate proudly expressing, LUVZDOGS. What was even more glaring, and disturbing, was the bumper sticker adjacent to it appealing to MAKE ABORTION LEGAL. The whip cream on this piece of cake was another sticker immediately above it adorned with a caricature of an adorable forlorn dog, with the caption, WHO SAVED WHO? One can see one’s life enhanced and saved by the rescue of a dog, who provides its owner renewed ‘meaning’ and ‘purpose’ in life and yet in the same breath call for the extinction of human life. It’s a dog’s life indeed. How does man descend to such levels of confusion?

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The Torah proscribes as an offering in the House of G-d, “A harlot’s hire or the exchange for a dog”. (Devarim 23 19) The commentaries struggle to understand the equating of these two items. The revulsion of harlotry and any association with it are self-evident, but why is the item exchanged for the sale of a dog equally rejected? The Talmud (Avoda Zara 17) reports of an attempt by the pagan authorities to coerce the ‘Great’ Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrkanos towards idolatry. Although he managed to escape he nevertheless saw the incident as a sign that he must have sinned in some manner to precipitate this incident. He was suddenly reminded of an encounter he had years earlier with a particular heretic, Yaakov of Kfar Sechanya, in the marketplace of Zippori.

The apostate had posed the following question to him: May one construct a lavatory for the use of the Kohen Gadol during the seven days prior to Yom Kippur, where he was sequestered in the Parhedrin Chamber on the Temple Mount, from material that was exchanged for the harlot’s services? Rabbi Eliezer ignored his facetious query. But the Talmud goes on to tell us that when he heard the heretic’s own response: “they came from a place of filth let them go to a place of filth”, he ‘enjoyed it’. Rabbi Eliezer was convinced that this unwitting acknowledgement was the cause for his troubles. What deeper significance lies beneath this cryptic tale? We live in a world filled with many an opportunity for achieving pleasure. Is pleasure a commodity? Is it something every human is ‘entitled’ to? We have become programmed and accustomed to measuring each experience and encounter in terms of ‘like’ or ‘dislike’. The harlot represents the depraved notion of taking the most exquisite and elevated form of bonding and connection, that often serves as the metaphor for the most exalted relationship of that between man and his Creator, and placing a ‘price’ on it, diminishing its lofty status by transforming it to the realm of ‘goods and services’. Pleasure is a gift from the Creator to enhance and give deeper meaning to our existence. It is not merely a goal to pursue but rather a privilege to receive. When we lead meaningful and purposeful lives, pursuing kindness, nobility and spirit, there is a resulting

gift of wholesome pleasure that is divinely inspired. When however our objective in life is the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure’s sake alone, we are denied that lasting quality of genuine joy and are left with a temporal pleasure that quickly expires and leaves us unsatisfied. A dog is man’s best friend, always seeking to please his master. Indeed the Hebrew word for dog, kelev. is a contraction of the sentiment kulo lev, all heart, but only as long as he hopes to be fed. (see Mahrasha Sanhedrin 97) What appears as a loyal aide is merely the desperate drive to stay sated and provided for. The dog’s nature is to give only because its ultimate goal is to receive. The Talmud (Nedarim 24) says that a person, who desires solely to give and never be a taker, is one who aspires to exclaim: “I am not a dog!” Pleasure is neither a commodity nor the objective of existence, as reflected in the attitude of the harlot and the motivation of the dog respectively. It is rather a Divine privilege we experience when we lead enthused lives. Yaakov of Kfar Sechanya, was alleged to be a disciple of Yeshu the Notzri. He saw pleasure as independent of spirituality and a necessary evil that would be preferable to avoid and shun.

When one allows oneself that delusion it can lead to devaluing human life outside of one’s self and need. If a human life interferes with my world and my needs, it can be dispensed. We must ask ourselves: how do we live our lives? Are we engaged in the commerce of life to ‘contribute’ or is it merely an expedient to being a recipient of the benefits that living in society has to offer? In the House of G-d, the very microcosm of creation, there is no room for those who see pleasure as a finite and inevitable entity. In the House of G-d everything has meaning and is a vehicle for a heightened awareness and connection to Him. Remarkably it is the excrement of the dog, that the Midrash says, was used in the tanning of hides used in the production of Torah scrolls, Tefillin and Mezuzot. (Yalkut Shimoni Bo 187) There is nothing void of G-d’s existence. May we succeed in measuring our lives by this standard alone. If we live by the directive of the Torah and its goals we are assured to merit eternal pleasure. What will it be? Will we choose to live in the House of G-d or are we destined to a life sentence in the dog house?

His comparison of the ‘filth’ of the harlot to the ‘filth’ of human waste underlined his skewed view of the world. He placed his notion in the context of the Kohen Gadol who isolated himself from his family, as additional evidence to his claim of holy ‘abstinence’. Indeed Rabbi Eliezer’s bemused pleasure in this heretic’s response encroached on the boundaries of heresy. The love of and devotion to dogs can often be motivated by a love of self, a need for a ‘devoted’ friend who provides distraction, fun and a relationship, but bereft of real and purposeful giving. It is at times a bonding where one echoes the character of the dog, in giving so as to receive.

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Keeping on Track By Rabbi Motty Rabinowitz

It is not every day that one develops a warm relationship with someone on a very different philosophical wavelength. While I was a Rebbi in the Old City, I merited having such a relationship with Rabbi Chaim Uri Freund, the long-time friend and previous learning partner of Rabbi Noach Weinberg Zt”l. This saintly and beaming scholar would walk daily from his Meah Shearim home to Aish Hatorah to spend the afternoon with the students. I would often find myself discussing contemporary issues, trying to understand his viewpoint as a person ideologically opposed to the State of Israel. In one such conversation regarding the validity of the Israeli legal system, he related to me the following story. While serving as a Rebbi in the Karlin Yeshiva, a couple of students approached him with the following question. Many of you may remember the ‘good old days’ when dialing from a pay phone in Israel meant schlepping along a weight of assimon tokens. These tokens had holes in the middle, and so kids figured out a system where they would place a string through the hole, place the assimon in the phone, and after the call, pull the assimon out using the string, for another call. These students wanted to know whether in his view, this practice was forbidden. I will not forget his sharp response. He told them, “I can’t tell you whether it is thievery, but I can tell you that you are thieves!” To understand Rav Chaim Uri’s response, another Halachic discussion is warranted. While all opinions agree that stealing from gentiles is absolutely forbidden, there is deliberation as to the source of this prohibition. Rabbi Shlomo Luria, the Maharsha”l (Yam Shel Shlomo B”K 10:20), contends that this is not included in the biblical

prohibition of stealing, but is a rabbinic injunction. His reasoning for it not being a biblical prohibition is puzzling. He explains that, “the Torah was given to the Jewish people and not to Gentiles”. Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi, in his responsa (Ch.26) states his total bewilderment at this idea. How does the Torah being given to the Jewish people have any bearing on whether there is a biblical prohibition of stealing from gentiles? The prohibition is on the person stealing, not on the victim. If the perpetrator is Jewish and under the Torah’s jurisdiction, then the identity of the victim is meaningless! More importantly, continues the Chacham Tzvi, we must understand the reasoning of all such prohibitions. When the Torah forbids stealing, it is not merely to protect the potential victim and maintain a civil society. Of course, that it also true. However, the thrust of the Torah’s laws is to build an ethical and refined individual, teaching us how to behave and how to conduct our lives. Regardless of the victim, if we are acting in a way that develops a character trait of stealing and unjust dealings, this is against the Torah. While something might technically not be thievery, we can still be thieves! A similar idea is proposed by the Ramban (22,6) in our Parsha. We are told of the Mitzva to remove the mother bird from the nest before taking the eggs or fledglings. The Talmud tells us that we are not supposed to exclaim that this is a form of Hashem’s mercy on the mother bird. Yet, Maimonides and other commentators seem to say exactly that, it is to teach us mercy. The Ramban thematically explains this Mitzva and many other Mitzvos in the Torah. The Talmud is correct - the commandment to remove the

mother bird, is not out of Hashem’s mercy for the ‘victim’ mother bird. But it is to teach us mercy. Human beings can naturally be careless and insensitive to other life. This Mitzva is intended to develop a trait of compassion within us, the ‘perpetrators’. We must learn to be sensitive to all of Hashem’s creations. In a similar vein, all Mitzvos are meant to develop our middos, character traits, so that we indeed become a holy and moral nation. Rav Chaim Uri’s response has stuck with me over the years for a reason. It is so easy for us to get embroiled in the details of a Torah life, that we actually miss the whole point,

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Memoirs of a Forgotten Rabbi The Troubled Life of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber By Rabbi Pini Dunner Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1883-1966) was a Lithuanian-born Torah scholar who spent fifty years as the spiritual leader of a small community in the West End district of London. In several previous articles Rabbi Dunner introduced us to Rabbi Ferber’s memoirs, allowing us to glimpse the life of this revered rabbi for the very first time since he began recording it in vivid detail in 1938. After a brief hiatus, Rabbi Dunner is continuing his translation of Rabbi Ferber’s memoirs. The narrative continues with the story of Rabbi Ferber’s family and early life experiences. The translation is not a word-for-word rendition of the original Hebrew. Rabbi Dunner has stuck as closely as possible to the original, except where the Rabbinic Hebrew makes an exact translation difficult, or where ambiguities need to be corrected. The material has also been abridged where necessary, or expanded where more details are required.

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MORE MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY AND TEACHERS My Late Brother’s Children After my brother, Rabbi Eliezer Lipman, passed away, his four younger children – Dovber, Moshe, Eidel, and Yaakov – moved in with my parents so that they could receive a proper Jewish upbringing, and my father fully supported them, even though he was experiencing financial difficulties in his old age. The children moved in after my sister-in-law, Chaya Gitel, married again on the advice of her brother-in-law, Rabbi Yitzchak Sapir, who had replaced my brother as the rabbi of Koznitza after he passed away. My brother’s eldest son, David, was a wonderful boy – bright and sharp, a Torah scholar, and so polite and well-behaved. He did not move in with my parents. His mother sent him to Volkovisk, in the Suwalk region, to study at the yeshiva there. One day, as he was sitting at the table of the shochet with whom he ate his meals, he suddenly keeled over and died. It was just before the month of Kislev, in 1896. Everyone assumed David’s passing was caused by the pain and depression he suffered after his father’s death, compounded by the anguish

he felt at the sale of his father’s precious library and the loss of his father’s manuscripts, which were neglected by people who were unaware of their true value. David was treated very respectfully after his passing; Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ma-Yofis, the distinguished rabbi of Volkovisk, personally delivered a stirring eulogy at his funeral. When we eventually heard the terrible news of young David’s death, we were all overcome with grief. What a tragedy! He was definitely the finest of all my brother’s children – such a magnificent boy in every way. He was only 18 when he died, and I always make a point of mentioning his name together with the names of my parents and other family members when reciting memorial prayers. Meanwhile, after spending some time at my parents’ home, the other children were sent to Texas. It was all the fault of my sister-in-law. She had married a wealthy, respectable man from Grodno called Isaac ... but as a result of the marriage her children were all sent away. The new husband inverted the verse (Devarim 22:7), “Send the mother away, and take the children” – instead, he sent the children away, and took their mother. At the time, I was still young and

foolish, and I wrote him an extremely rude letter in which I indelicately quoted the verse from Bereishit (20:3) that records G-d saying to the King of the Philistines, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken…” It was a terrible thing to have done, particularly because – to my great embarrassment – he died shortly afterwards. In any event, my sister-in-law married a third time – but soon afterwards her third husband also died, so she went off to join her children in Texas. It was too late, and she derived no joy whatsoever from her children. They had grown up without a father and mother and had consequently drifted very far away from their late father’s ways. After some time in Texas my sister-in-law also passed away. Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Orlianski – a remarkable public speaker and noted author, who as a young man had been a student of my late brother and a frequent guest at my sister-in-law’s table – traveled all the way from New York to deliver a eulogy. After she died, the children sent me some money to publish a small selection of my late brother’s writings that I had managed to rescue with the help of his brother-inlaw, Rabbi Sapir. Meanwhile, I am glad to say that

Title page of “Divrei Eliezer” by Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Ferber

my brother has not been forgotten. After his death, some members of his community paid to have a small tomb structure built over his grave, and whenever something bad happens in Koznitza they visit his graveside and pray there. Even all these years later they still sing his praises, referring to him as the “tzaddik” (righteous one), and they continue to revere his memory.

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taking me to study with a teacher called Rabbi Avremchik and another one called Rabbi Leibchik Cherness, who was an incredible Torah scholar, the father of Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Luria, the current rabbi of Glasgow, Scotland. My mother also took me to study

effortlessly fluent in scripture and Midrashic narratives, and with an encyclopedic knowledge of the great homiletic rabbinic works. He literally had a sermon ready to deliver for every occasion. Rabbi Shaul was a fiery opponent of Jews who had abandoned

at the private yeshiva of a great rabbi, Rabbi Tzvi Hirschel Levitan. At Rabbi Levitan’s yeshiva there was a fantastic teacher, a devout and saintly man called Rabbi Shaul Porush, who had a profound impact on me and particularly on my public speaking ability. He was a first-class preacher,

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their faith, against whom he would rail mercilessly in his public speeches. But on every other subject Rabbi Shaul was an uplifting, inspirational speaker. He recognized my unique homiletic talent, and he even included some of my ideas in his writings, as I discovered after he died, when the manuscripts came into the possession of Rabbi Joseph Levitan, Rabbi Tzvi Hirschel’s son. Rabbi Shaul was a tall man with a long flowing beard, and he had a very strong presence. He was totally destitute, and apparently nobody had ever bothered to concern themselves with his material needs, until one day he unexpectedly became ill and died shortly afterwards. It was the summer of 1896, and I don’t think he was even sixty-years-old, despite the fact that his beard was more white than black. Rabbi Shaul’s death really upset me – he had loved and favored me so much as his student. We had often taken long walks together, and I had so enjoyed listening to him share his wonderful Torah ideas while we walked. He had a large, respectable funeral and was eulogized by the rabbi of Slabodka, Rabbi Moshe Danishevsky. I distinctly remember what Rabbi Danishevsky said that day. He began by quoting the verse in Kohelet (7:2): “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting.” “Does that mean visiting a house of mourning is a good thing?” he asked, rhetorically. “How would that

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Suddenly he cried out: “We have had more than enough of the ‘good’ of visiting mourning houses! We can’t handle this abundance of ‘good’ anymore!”

make any sense?” Suddenly he cried out: “We have had more than enough of the ‘good’ of visiting mourning houses! We can’t handle this abundance of ‘good’ anymore! We recently lost the patriarch of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, and we visited his house of mourning. Then we lost Rabbi Menachem Shraga, the rabbi of Ferman, who came to Kovno for medical treatment and ended up dying here, and we had to visit his mourning house. Then there was Rabbi Yehoshua Yosef Preil, also here for medical treatment, and he died too – and we went to visit his mourning house. And now this! Enough with the mourning houses; we simply can’t handle so much ‘good!’” Kovno’s itinerant preacher, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Hacohen, gave the next eulogy, and then it was the turn of Rabbi Shabbetai Marim, the community rabbi in Slabodka, who based his eulogy on the verse from Isaiah (57:1), “The righteous are taken away because of the bad.” “This verse,” he began, “can either be interpreted to mean that the righteous are spared from seeing evil in the future, or that they are taken from us as penance for evil in the world.” Rabbi Marim paused and looked around, and then began sobbing uncontrollably, finally crying out: “I say that in this case it means that the righteous man died to be spared from his dreadful situation, from his poverty and destitution.” He compared the loss of Rabbi Shaul to a rich man who has lost his wealth and is forced sell everything – his home, his land, his furniture – until eventually he has nothing left to sell besides for his Torah scroll. Rabbi Marim was crying bitterly. “We have lost everything,” he wailed, “we have descended to the depths, and now we have been forced to sell our Torah scroll, the righteous Rabbi Shaul – woe is to us!” In next week’s column, Rabbi Ferber describes more of his siblings and their families.

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Life at Home after My Brother’s Passing My brother’s death at the prime of his life took a terrible toll on our family. We felt his absence with every step we took. We had lost our pride and glory. Only my brother David and I remained at home with our parents, and we were filled with sorrow and sadness. My father was physically weakened by our brother’s death – firstly, because he had lost his son, but also because he initially had to take care of the young orphans, and he was no youngster. He was also short of money, as he was no longer able to work and earn as much money as he had when he was younger. Despite all these problems, my parents continued to host Torah scholars for all the meals at our home and labored unbelievably hard to raise my older brother, David, and me, in the proper Torah way. My mother personally took me to yeshiva each day, and from one yeshiva to another, and I can remember her

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Notable Quotes The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax. - Mavis L. Wanczyk, of Massachusetts, at a press conference after she was the sole winner of the Powerball, taking home $336 million after taxes

- Ibid., recalling what she told a friend the night before the drawing

In Virginia someone broke into a man’s apartment, cleaned it, and took nothing. Completely cleaned the place. Police are describing the suspect as his mother.

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It’s never going to be me. It’s just a pipe dream that I’ve always had.

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“Say What?!”

- Conan O’Brien

The Israelis are Westerners. They were ‘imported’ from America, Russia, Europe, and so on. They have the moral values of Westerners. They operate scientifically. They have a democratic regime, their presidents stand trial and go to jail… They have a transparent regime, whether you agree with them or not. - Mubarak Al-Fadil Al-Mahdi, Sudan’s minister for investment, in an interview on Sudanese television

- Ibid

Walmart is testing out an app that would allow shoppers to skip the checkout line. Currently that service is known as shoplifting. - Conan O’Brien

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony in the settlement of Barkan on Monday

I read that New York City could host the World Cup in 2026. That’s right, thousands of people trying not to use their hands — or as that’s called in New York, “riding the subway.” - Jimmy Fallon

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I think that the Palestinians share much of the responsibility for what has happened to them. They sold their lands and caused many problems. The Arabs made grave mistakes by rejecting the Partition Plan and other resolutions.

We have returned here for good. There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel. Settlements will not be uprooted.

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The Connecticut lottery’s mobile app malfunctioned this weekend and told some lottery winners they had lost. When instead, they should have been told, “You have a lottery app on your phone — get help.” - Jimmy Fallon

I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them. - Tweet by University of Tampa professor Kenneth Storey, resulting in him being fired

I prayed literally every night and day, and it helped me drive forward. - Austin Bohanan, 18, talking about how he survived being lost in a thick Tennessee forest for 11 days after getting lost on a hike

Chipotle has closed a location in Dallas after diners filmed three rats falling from the ceiling. Don’t worry, the rats died of E. coli before they hit the ground.

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- Conan O’Brien

In a way, white Americans are the original Nazis so #Charolettesville isn’t a surprise. - Tweet by Berkley Professor Prerna Lal

India has outlawed its long, long practice of “instant divorce.” However, India will still continue to offer its popular “Cool Ranch Divorce.” - Conan O’Brien

Thank you @realDonaldTrump for seeing my conviction for what it is: a political witch hunt by holdovers in the Obama justice department! - Tweet by Sheriff Joe Arpaio after he was pardoned by President Trump

I’m really shocked about him taking a shot at me. And once again, I don’t think it is me. He is just trying to get to the President of the United States. It is sad, him using me like that. No matter what the president does, he criticizes it, so why not criticize him on this? - Ibid., responding to Sen. McCain’s criticism of Trump’s pardon of Arpaio, with whom Sen. McCain used to be friends

President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, who was charged with crimes going back decades, including illegally buying oil from Iran while it held 53 American hostages — wasn’t allowed to do that, selling to the enemies of the United States. He was pardoned after his wife donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Clintons. Then you have dangerous criminals — President Clinton pardoned Susan Rosenberg, a member of the Weather Underground, charged as part of a bank robbery that led to a guard and two police officers being killed. Drug dealers — President Clinton commuted the sentence of Carlos Vignali, a central player in a cocaine ring that stretched from California to Minnesota… President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who leaked countless sensitive and classified documents to WikiLeaks, perhaps and others. But a horrible, horrible thing that he did. Commuted the sentence and perhaps pardoned. President Obama commuted the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who was charged as part of a violent independence group from Puerto Rico, responsible for 28 Chicago-area bombings and many deaths in the 1970s and 1980s. Sheriff Joe is a patriot. Sheriff Joe loves our country. Sheriff Joe protected our borders. And Sheriff Joe was very unfairly treated by the Obama administration, especially right before an election - an election that he would have won. And he was elected many times. So I stand by my pardon of Sheriff Joe, and I think the people of Arizona, who really know him best, would agree with me. - Pres. Trump defending his pardon of Sheriff Arpaio

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– From a Facebook post by the Dumfries, Scotland, police department after a suitcase filled with drugs was left on a public bus

- Pro football Hall of Famer and Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown talking about NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who refused to stand for the National Anthem last season and is now unemployed

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I’m going to give you the real deal: I’m an American; I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.

Among our Charlotte production staff there was a question as to whether — in these divisive times — Robert’s assignment might create a distraction, or even worse, expose him to social hectoring and trolling.

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Were you a bit wasted last night? Did you misplace a suitcase with £6,500 worth of drugs in it? Great news, it’s been found and we have it at Dumfries Police Station. Just pop in, tell us what’s inside it, where you left it and we will be happy to return it to you!

- From a memo written by ESPN President John Kipper defending his network’s decision to remove an announcer named Robert Lee (who is of Asian descent) from coverage of an upcoming University of Virginia football game

He requested to have 8 Philadelphia Eagles as pall bearers so the Eagles can let him down one last time.

You know the band Belle and Sebastian? Well, they accidentally left the drummer behind at a Walmart in his pajamas, with no phone or wallet. So they called Walmart to see if there was a guy wandering around in his PJs with no phone or wallet, and Walmart said, “You gotta be WAY more specific.” - Jimmy Fallon

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- From Philadelphia Eagles fan Jeffrey Clayton Riegel’s obituary, posted after he died last week

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You gotta be kidding “Dad,” said Little Johnny, “I want to play with my friends outside. Would you please do my homework for me?” Johnny’s father answered irately, “Son, it just wouldn’t be right.” “That’s okay,” replied Little Johnny, “but you could at least give it a try, couldn’t you?”

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Writing Assignment Cheat Sheet Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. An exaggeration is a billion times worse than an understatement. One should never generalize. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Who needs rhetorical questions? capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with a point Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully for typoes. Don’t never use a double negation. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction. Comparisons are as bad as clichés. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos. Don’t overuse exclamation marks!!!! Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. Last but not least, avoid clichés like the plague!

Three teachers show up to school the first day: Mr. Brown, Mr. White, and Mr. Red. The three are wearing ties that are the three colors of their last names, although no man’s tie matches his name. Mr. Brown asks the man with the white tie if he likes red and he answers that he does not. What is the color of each teacher’s tie?

Answer to riddle: Mr. Brown can’t be wearing a brown tie (because the tie can’t be same as his name). He is not wearing the white tie either so he must be wearing the red tie. Mr. White’s tie can’t be white and can’t be red (because Mr. Brown is wearing the red tie), therefore he is wearing the brown tie. That leaves Mr. Red with the white tie.

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Let’s Brush Up on Math Trivia (No. 2 pencils only) 1) What is the fear of numbers called? a. Numbphobia b. Mathaphobia c. Arithmophobia d. Gocrzyfromnumbersphobia

potato chips. How much does the bag of chips cost? a. $0.50 b. $0.25 c. $0.20 d. $0.10 4) I am a three-digit odd palindromic number that ends in 9. The sum of my individual digits is 24. Which number am I (hint: I am the age of the oldest person in the Torah, Mesuselach, when he died)? Sorry, can’t make this question multiple choice… If you don’t like it go complain to the Trivia Commissioner, which happens to be me… Hahhahahhahhahha

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2) You are offered a job as a school janitor for the month of September. The school administrator offers to pay you $73 dollars a day or if you want he will put you on the penny plan, which is he will pay you one penny the first day and double your salary for each subsequent day for the entire month. What will you do? a. You’ll take the $73 dollars a day because if you go on the penny plan you wouldn’t even make that amount the whole month b. You’ll take the penny plan c. The Trivia Commissioner is trying to be tricky because it’s obvious that you’d be better off with $73 a day but the Trivia Commissioner is trying to trip me up with a silly question! d. You don’t want to work for a boss who is trying to get you to take pennies….good luck finding someone! 3) The school candy machine sells only two things: Reisman cookies and potato chips which together cost $1.20. We know that the cookie costs $1 more than the

ANSWERS get it is when I go on the scale.

2) B- If you took the $73 dollars a day you lost your chance to be-

come a millionaire. If you took the penny plan then you would have made $5,368,709.12 by the thirtieth day (that’s right, over $5 million!). Oh, and by the way, if it was a 31 day month then you would have walked home with a total of $10,737,418.24 (because remember: your salary doubles every day). So you $73-dollar-a-day-guys, you ought to brush up on your math or go buy a lotto ticket! 3) D-T he cookie costs $1.10 and the potato chips costs $0.10. That is the only way there is a dollar difference between the price of the two items. 4) The number is in the form of 9_9. So we will just have to fill in the blank. 24 - 9 - 9 = 6. So 969 is the number we are looking for.

Report Card 4 correct: The Trivia Commissioner thinks you’re a wacky genius, are you? 2 or 3 correct: You may be smart, but if you took the $73 a day then your smarts were useless when it was needed most. 1 correct: Not bad. The school year is starting, just pay attention in math class and things will come along – we hope. 0 correct: Maybe my arithmophobia is kicking in but what percentage did you get right? I am having a hard time wrapping my head around all the zeros.

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1) C- The fear of numbers is called arithmophobia. The only time I

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TurboTax Made Me Do It

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ne of the highlights of living in our technologically-advanced age is the ability to buy tools to do almost anything. If your kid fractures his arm playing baseball, you can hop on over to Amazon and order an orthopedic bone saw for less than the cost of a tank of gas. Then you can (probably) head over to YouTube and watch a video explaining how to smooth off the rough edges and set it for best results. You might not want to do that all yourself. But the tools are there if you want them. Here in the tax business, there’s no shortage of similar tools you can use to help satisfy your obligations with your friends at the IRS. TurboTax, TaxCut, and similar programs give you much the same power as professional tax-prep systems. If your circumstances are simple enough, and you’re familiar with the process, you might be able to do a perfectly serviceable job of prepar-

ing your own return. You might not want to write off an entire weekend wrestling with the various questions, forms, and procedures — but the tool is there if you want to. But sometimes, doing it yourself really isn’t the best idea. Barry Bulakites just learned that the hard way, to the tune of a trip to Tax Court (where he represented himself, of course). Bulakites is a San Diego-based insurance consultant who works with accountants, but who didn’t see the value in hiring a professional to prepare a pretty complicated return. Here’s how his DIY tax prep worked out: • He deducted $79,000 in mortgage interest in 2011 and 2012, for a loan that was due to be paid off in 2008. The court could see that Bulatikes had paid something, but he couldn’t cough up the paperwork to show the amount of interest or even why he was obligated to pay. The court disallowed it all. • He deducted $100,000 in

alimony he paid over the same period. His separation agreement specified $2,000 per month, but he and his ex orally agreed to bump it to $5,000. Unfortunately, the law specifies oral agreements aren’t enough to qualify, so the court disallowed the excess. • He deducted $185,673 for “other expenses” in 2011, which he claimed was a net operating loss carryforward from a previous year that he put on the wrong line of his return. Too bad he failed to file the required “concise statement setting forth the amount of the net operating loss deduction claimed and all material and pertinent facts relative thereto, including a detailed schedule showing the computation of the net operating loss deduction.” The court allowed just $142. Bulakites admitted that he deducted things he shouldn’t have and overstated things that he could. But then he threw TurboTax under the bus for “luring him into” claiming them! We can just imagine

what that would have looked like. Did it dare him to stretch that alimony deduction by an extra $3,000 per month? Did it challenge him: “are you man enough to deduct this net operating loss?” In the end, the court concluded that “[t]ax preparation software is only as good as the information one inputs into it.” Here’s the real irony, at least as far as we’re concerned. Preparing your taxes, on your own or with a professional, is important. But all that really does is record history. The real value comes from planning your taxes to pay less in the first place. So make sure you’re ready for planning, and don’t let cheap office-supply store software bully you into paying more than you have to! Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 yea rs in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Dating Dialogue

I don’t consider myself a shallow person, though I do believe that many members of my family are very shallow. They are very into looks, dress, and impressing others. I’ve always kind of been the black sheep of the family – resisting the temptation to care about these things. Yes, I like nice stuff, but up to a point. I would never put on a designer label article of clothing or pocketbook. On principle! When I started dating, I specifically told the shadchanim that I didn’t want to be set up with someone from a fancy family who would expect me to look a certain way. I wanted to meet someone with great middos similar to mine, but someone who was very low key in appearance, with a family to match. I see myself living out of town and getting away from all this flashy stuff that I see around me. I’ve been dating for a little while and have worked very hard to not focus on looks, clothing and outer trappings. I feel sticking to these values elevates me and makes me feel good about myself. Recently I was set up with Shlomo, who came very highly recommended. Whoever we checked with had amazing things to say about him in every way possible. Here’s the problem. Shlomo is pretty bad looking. Maybe some people might even call him ugly – I hate to say. He’s shorter than me, heavy and doesn’t have very nice features. I’ve been pushing myself to go out with him again and agai, because he really is such an amazing person and there is so much about him that I admire so greatly. However, the lack of attraction on my part is definitely troubling. I want to be “bigger” than that and not let looks influence my decision to continue dating him. I tell myself that I’ll get used to his looks and it won’t be a big deal eventually. My mother thinks I’m kidding myself and though she agrees that I don’t need to marry an Adonis, if Shlomo is a turn-off, that is significant and I don’t have to prove anything to myself by continuing on with him. But I never want to believe that I was shallow and regret ultimately making a decision because of his looks. Do you think I should push myself to overcome these feelings and possibly marry him because he is beautiful on the inside?

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o not push yourself to overcome your distaste for Shlomo’s looks. You need to find a person attractive as well as compatible to consider getting serious. Principles about shallowness, materialism and superficiality have nothing to do with it. A relationship should include shared values but that’s not the only thing. Ignoring what you see in front of you and not paying attention to your reaction is not about being “bigger.” G-d created us humans with eyes, not just as intellectual creatures with brains. Accept that and begin to pay attention to some of the things your mentors and teachers have spoken to you about when discussing dating. If

you don’t remember what they are, go back to them to learn about relationships, real life and depth. Stop with the guilt and principles. You should not be pushing it further than it can go. You may want to seek some more help in sorting yourself out. You may also want to spend some time doing it before you consider marriage. Life is not only about principles, even if they seem like idealistic ones. Life is about living, growing and meaning.

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eauties marrying Beasts are the stuff of Disney movies.

By your description, it seems your concept of marriage is akin to taking a vow of asceticism. Eschewing designer labels, not marrying for money or looks does not mean you are more virtuous if you marry someone homely and live in squalor. In fact, according to halacha, a couple is prohibited from marriage if they do not meet one another first. I infer this to mean the Torah places emphasis on the importance of physical attraction in marriage. If Shlomo’s looks are a “turnoff,” your heart is telling you he’s not the one. Congratulations, you are actually human! One note of caution. Your approach to dating seeking the anti-materialist seems a bit skewed. Maybe it’s time to revisit your mentor, rav, or qualified dating coach to discuss your concept of marriage, happiness in a relationship, and setting priorities while in this critical shidduch parsha.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond

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t seems to me that you are more committed to the idea of going to the opposite of your parent than being committed to your personal needs in a marriage partner. Due to the materialistic environment you were brought up in, you have vowed to never let materialism get in the way of your decisions. While this sounds lofty and idealistic now, I fear that down the road you might regret it. It is 100% true that looks can grow on a person, if there is some attraction potential to begin with. Many times I hear these and similar statements from singles I set up, “He’s cute, but a little shorter than I had imagined I’d go for” or “He’s nice looking but not the look I’m usually into.” I refer to comments like these as the “Barbie and Ken syndrome.” Some people have a detailed image of the spouse they want, but

Some people have a detailed image of the spouse they want, but many times their true bashert will differ from the original image that they had in their minds.

many times their true bashert will differ from the original image that they had in their minds. In those cases, singles should definitely continue dating to see how the attraction grows. As long as there is a basic attraction there, assuming that his fine character, personality and middos shine, along with how he treats her, he will become more and more attractive in her eyes. However, you are describing something far different. It seems you are completely unattracted to him – you have even used words such as “ugly” and “very bad looking” in describing his looks. Having a basic attraction is crucial and if you squander that in order to spite your parents’ materialistic upbringing, you may seriously regret it. Only you know your true feelings; tap into them and make a decision taking your personal needs into account.

The Single Tova Wein

hough I’m no therapist, it seems to be as though you are so busy trying to prove a point to yourself and your family that you are completely misguided and missing out on the most basic stuff. No one says you have to shop for

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lumping everything together in the same basket. You may not want to emulate your family’s need for materialistic perfection, and clearly see yourself as different from the rest of them, but it’s not fair to yourself and equally not fair to Shlomo to continue on with him if, in fact, you think people would consider him ugly. You both deserve so much more!

I think you need to reevaluate what it truly means to not be a shallow person, free and clear of going completely out on a limb to prove your point. There are much better ways to resist temptation. Marrying someone you are not attracted to is not one of them.

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past a complete lack of chemistry and, I have to tell you, it usually doesn’t bode well. Intimacy is something people look forward to sharing once they are married. It is a deeply significant part of a relationship; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. If the thought of being intimate with Shlomo is repulsive to you, then the real question in my mind is, how could you stay? Yes, feelings grow and people can look past physical attributes they do not find attractive. For some people, when there is a certain chemistry, be it spiritual, romantic, intellectual, etc., they can look past the physical (sometimes). But you and Shlomo do not have a chemistry. You find him repulsive. There is a big difference. In other words, if you had true feelings for him, you would already be looking past the physical. You admire him, he’s wonderful and lovely, and will make someone else happy. But you’re not the one. Let him go and move on. You may want to speak with a trusted mentor, a friend, a rebbetzin or a therapist to learn the difference between being shallow and the importance of chemistry and feelings, and also to truly accept your right to be physically and emotionally attracted to a man. Sincerely, Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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hysical attraction has nothing to do with “flashy stuff.” Couples living outside of flashy neighborhoods find each other attractive. First and foremost, I think you need to work on separating some of your thoughts. They seem to be tangled together. You’ve weaved your distaste of materialism and opulence with the chemistry that should be felt between a man and a woman. If you would only consider marrying the most gorgeous of men, then we’d do a little reality testing and help you broaden your net. Your net, however, is so wide that you went fishing for a tuna and caught a dolphin. You’re considering keeping the dolphin but I think you could benefit from spending some time learning how to fish. There is nothing petty, selfish, shallow, self-serving or glitzy about being with a man who you find attractive. As a matter of fact, whenever I hear a plight like yours (and they’re fairly common, unfortunately) I don’t understand the notion of moving forward with someone who you think is outright ugly and for whom you have zero attraction. Would you want to be with someone who found you unattractive? Probably not. That wouldn’t be fair. I have met handfuls of couples over the years who were encouraged to look

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of the program, “We had over sixty teenagers from six different cities. They were totally non-religious youth who until now had attended secular schools. As of this Rosh Chodesh Elul over twenty of them have enrolled in yeshivos kedoshos and we hope that many more will follow suit. The impact of the yeshiva has been nothing short of remarkable.” Rabbi Goldberg adds, “The success of Acheinu’s newest innovative program, Yeshivas Chofesh Hakayitz, was not formed in a vacuum. For years Acheinu has organized ‘Battei Chizuk’ - small chizuk centers in strategic locations throughout Israel where Israeli secular kids can meet with Acheinu avreichim in an unthreatening atmosphere, shmuz, ask questions, enjoy a game and a small shiur on basics in Yiddishkeit. Those same boys who come and spend time at the battei chizuk were a primary source for the summer yeshiva.

Illit, Acheinu continued its longtime summer program entitled ‘Project Toronto’. Project Toronto is a program designed for boys who have learned in religious Chinuch Atzmai schools, usually in communities far from the main Torah centers. Although they have learned in religious elementary schools many of these boys come from traditional homes that are not completely Torah observant. After 8th grade, they stand at a crossroads. Should they go to yeshiva or continue in non-yeshiva high school? Acheinu appoints avreichim to befriend the boys and their parents and impress upon them the importance of choosing a yeshiva education. Over the past twenty years that Project Toronto is in existence they have been responsible for sending tens of thousands of children to yeshivos kedoshos! Rabbi Aharon Yadler, one of the Acheinu’s devoted avreichim, relat-

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s of Tuesday afternoon, over 11 trillion gallons of rain had been dumped over the state of Texas by Hurricane Harvey. It is predicted that by the time what is now called Tropical Storm Harvey finally leaves the state, 14 trillion gallons more will have fallen. That’s a total of 25 trillion gallons of rain that will deluge Texas and surrounding areas. Between midnight on Friday and 9:20am on Tuesday a whopping 49.20 inches of rain fell on the Lone Star state – a record for continental U.S. from a land-falling tropical cyclone, the National Weather Service said. “The word catastrophic does not appropriately describe what we’re facing,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who represents much of Houston. “We just don’t know when it’s going to end.” Hurricane Harvey hit Houston as a category 4 hurricane – that’s out of a scale of 5 – with winds reaching 130 miles per hour on Friday night. The unprecedented damage that took place is due to the fact that Harvey hadn’t seem to want to leave the area. Instead of moving on to other areas and distributing its floods of water, the storm has stayed put in Houston for most of its cycle. Aside from the rain, several small tornadoes have been created from Harvey’s power, adding more chaos and tragedy. Harvey’s rain and subsequent floods pummeled Houston for

many days, and many were forced out of their homes as rising waters swamped their belongings and families. In just 15 hours, Houston 911 received 56,000 calls for help. More than 3,400 people were rescued from their homes. Each family rescued is a family that knows that, even if they will be coming back to their homes in their near future, they will be facing disaster – rotting food, damaged furniture, destroyed mementos, crumbling walls. Many Houston residents

presumed to be dead after the van they were using to flee was swept into a river and sank. The driver of the van, the children’s great-uncle, Samuel Saldivar, managed to escape. The others, Manuel Saldivar, 84, his wife Belia, 81, Devy Saldivar, 16, Dominic Saldivar, 14, Xavier Saldivar, 8, Daisy Saldivar, 6, are all believed to have drowned. Samuel told the children to open the back doors to the van before they went under, but they were unable to do so. “I’m just hoping we find the bod-

“Nobody’s ever seen anything this long. Nobody’s seen this kind of water. Probably, there’s never been something so expensive in our country’s history.”

don’t have proper flood insurance. Faced with this devastation they will be forced to dig into their pockets or go into debt in order to rebuild.

side from the material losses suffered as a result of Harvey, at least 15 people have lost their lives in the catastrophe. Sadly, a family of six is believed to have perished as they tried to escape the unprecedented flooding. Four children and their two great-grandparents are

ies,” Virginia Saldivar, a relative, said. Another victim, police Sgt. Steve Perez, perished in the storm. On Sunday, in an effort to get to work in the early morning hours, Perez spent two-and-a-half hours driving to his station. But the 34-year Houston police veteran drove into an underpass during the flooding and drowned. He was just two days shy of his 61st birthday. Perez’s body was recovered on Tuesday morning.

Before going to work on Sunday morning, Perez’s wife had begged him to stay home. “I’ve got work to do,” he told her before heading out. On Monday, a woman in her 60s was napping in her bedroom when a large oak tree landed on her home. Rescue workers waded through waist-deep water to rescue the woman. By the time they found her, though, she was already dead.

n an effort to save as many people as possible, volunteers struggled through oceans of filthy floodwater to rescue those who were stranded. Their rescue vehicles differed: some used fishing boats, others drove in large SUVs, one volunteer was spotted using a dump truck to save survivors. Residents stood on rooftops or waded in waist-deep water before being rescued. People were told to hang sheets or towels on their homes to signal that rescue was needed. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott activated the entire Texas National Guard, roughly 12,000 Guardsmen. Some residents became desperate as they waited for help. Volunteers in rescue boats have said that people rushed to get into their boats, even though they were full. Clyde Cain of the Cajun Navy, a Louisiana-based rescue force that gained fame during Hurricane Katrina, said that after one of his team’s boats broke down, people tried to steal the inoperable watercraft while

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till, the catastrophe continued. On Tuesday, three days since Harvey took landfall, Houston’s Addicks Reservoir overflowed and breached a levee in nearby Brazoria County. The county sits between the Gulf of Mexico and Houston. Floodwaters from the reservoir deluged nearby streets. “Get out

ed that his 17,000-seat megachurch was closed to evacuees due to severe flooding conditions. The internet was filled with condemnation for Osteen, with one person posting a video of themselves walking up to the doors of the church on Monday. Another person posted, “Joel Osteen has a net worth of $56M and lives in a $10M home. Opening your home to people in need shouldn’t be a problem.” The Osteens finally got the message, and on Tuesday Osteen tweeted, “Victoria and I care deeply about our fellow Houstonians. Lakewood’s doors are open and we are receiving anyone who needs shelter.” He added that he was looking for donations and volunteers. Even when people were able to find shelter, there were health concerns to consider as well. Take, for example, those who were stuck in floodwaters or had to jump into rescue vehicles during the storm. Some of them have been experiencing trauma in connection to what they went through. Social worker Brittany Burch told NPR, “A lot of people are really overwhelmed, stories of having to jump in a boat or get a helicopter out, wade through waist-high water, losing everything,” she said. “So just a lot of people in shock, trying to adjust to what’s happened and what happens from here.” Others have been suffering from before the storm and are in dire need of their medications. Some people with mental disorders are uncomfortable coming forward to volunteers for help with their illness. Additionally, there is a sizeable amount of people who are on dialysis. DaVita, a leading provider of dialysis services

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tories of kindness in the midst of the disaster have been circulating. In one instance, Annie Smith, who was preparing to have a home birth, went into labor as her house was surrounded by rising waters on Sunday. She and her husband, Greg, are doctors. When they realized that they needed to go for help, Greg began collecting supplies for the birth – scissors, sewing needles – from around the house and asked his mother to boil water. Fifteen people came to the apartment to help with the delivery. Numerous calls to the National Guard went unanswered until finally Annie called the director of her fellowship program. He was able to get in touch with a rescue crew. Finally, a flatbed truck came to the Smiths’ door. But at that time, the water was too high, and neighbors and firefighters formed a human chain to help Annie to the back of the truck. The Smiths finally got the hospital, and their newest addition, Adrielle, was born twelve hours later. She weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces.

now!” Brazoria County official tweeted. Even if residents did leave, officials were at a loss as to where they should go. According to county spokeswoman Sharon Trower, “The Brazos River is being pounded, and all of that water is coming down from the tributaries and creeks into the river,” she said. “All the roads around us are flooded. We don’t have any evacuation routes to tell people to take.” More than 9,000 evacuees had gathered in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center – almost double the amount of cots available. Those without cots were given pillows and blankets by the Red Cross to sleep on the floor. Jim McIngvale, who owns furniture stores in Houston and Richmond and is known as “Mattress Mack,” pitched in to help those displaced from the storm. On Sunday, he opened up his two stores to evacuees. “Houstonians have a safe, dry place to take shelter at Gallery Furniture so if they can get here they are welcome,” McIngvale said in the store’s press release. “We hope to give them some comfort in this incredibly difficult time.” “We have tons of mattresses in our warehouse, and we can provide them with a blanket,” Mattress Mack told CNN. “We have a restaurant inside the stores, and we are feeding them for free.” It didn’t take long for over 400 people to fill his stores, enjoying relative comfort and three meals due to McIngvale’s generosity. McIngvale also opened up his doors to 200 evacuees during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. In contrast to Mattress Mack, televangelist Joel Osteen faced enormous criticism after he post-

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the crew sought shelter in a delivery truck, “They’re making it difficult for us to rescue them,” he said earlier in the week. “You have people rushing the boat. Everyone wants to get in at the same time. They’re panicking. Water is rising.”

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nationwide, says the company normally serves approximately 6,700 patients in Houston. About a third of their 100 or so centers in the city are still open for all patients who need dialysis, according to Chakilla Robinson White, who oversees operations at DaVita’s dialysis centers in Texas and neighboring states. The company is trying to call their patients to help them to get their treatments. For those who are undergoing dialysis missing treatment for even one day can be extremely dangerous, especially for the heart. DaVita has been working to get staff into their crowded dialysis centers. “We’re working on bringing in boats to actually get our teammates in some of the neighborhoods where they’re unable to escape through the flood,” White says. “It’s amazing how many teammates have had hardships themselves, losing part of their homes and still showing up to treat our patients.”

ome have asked why Houston, which is flat and susceptible to flooding, was never put under an evacuation order before Harvey hit. Mayor Sylvester Turner has stood by his decision. “You literally cannot put 6.5 million people on the road,” Turner said in a press conference on Sunday. “If you think the situation right now is bad, you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare.” Over the few days of storm, certain counties and areas were told to evacuate. Most of the orders issued were mandatory; others were voluntary.

As is the case with other disasters, looting was a concern as people fled, and stores and homes were flooded. But on Tuesday, Police Chief Art Acevdeo made it clear that Houston will not tolerate any looting. “This is the state of Texas,” he said. “We’re a welcoming city, but we are not going to tolerate people victimizing, especially committing armed robberies in our community. We’re going to catch you, and I promise you this: We are going to push hard – I’ve talked to the district attorney – to seek the fullest prosecution possible available for any crime that is committed.” He added that he will urge judges and juries to give any looters the toughest sentences. “So word to the wise: Don’t come to Houston,” Acevdeo warned, “because you’re going to be caught. And I guarantee you when you take advantage of people and prey on them in these circumstances, that’s despicable behavior and we’re all going to push hard to make sure you don’t see the sunlight anytime soon.” 14 looters were arrested in the past few days. “Under Texas law, punishment increases for crimes such as assault, robbery, burglary and theft if they are committed in a county declared a disaster area by the governor,” the Harris County District Attorney’s Office warned. “Burglarizing a home would normally bring a penalty of two to 20 years in prison, but now brings five years to life.” Mayor Turner imposed a 10 o’clock curfew to prevent any looters from pillaging homes.

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n Tuesday, Tropical Storm Harvey hovered over the Gulf of Mexico. It was expected to dump another 15 inches of rain on southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas, including Houston. Later in the week, rivers in east Texas, rushing with water, are expected to crest. Dallas is preparing to host evacuees from Houston, but as of Tuesday, with the airport flooded and roads submerged, it is impossible to get residents to Dallas. Towards the weekend, as the waters recede, Dallas will be able to welcome its neighbors to provide shelter, food and a bit of comfort. On Tuesday, President Trump traveled to Corpus Christi, Texas, to survey some of the damage inflicted by the storm. The president had been pushing aides to arrange a trip to Texas since the hurricane made landfall on Friday. The team chose Corpus Christi because it was the closest the commander-in-chief could get to the storm-ravaged areas without disrupting rescue efforts. After a meeting at a firehouse with state and federal officials, Trump flew to Austin for another meeting with officials involved in the flooding before flying back to D.C. In Corpus Christi, Trump urged the team gathered there, “We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at five years, 10 years from now, as this is the way to do it,” Trump said, adding the storm was “of epic proportion.” In Austin, the president warned of the long-term effort and stiff costs that will be needed to rebuild the

region. “The sad thing is that this is long-term. Nobody’s ever seen anything this long. Nobody’s seen this kind of water. Probably, there’s never been something so expensive in our country’s history.” He reiterated his pledge to work with Congress to secure disaster relief funding to help Texas with that long-term recovery. “What I learned is that we can count on the President of the United States and his staff,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after Trump’s visit. “The President and his Cabinet remained in constant contact with me and my staff and they all had one thing to say: ‘Texas, what do you need?’” Abbott added that Trump was engaged in preparations as much as 10 days before the storm hit and said Trump has “shown character and compassion” throughout the recovery efforts.

n Houston, the waters of Harvey will hopefully recede over the next few days. But even as water levels go down and residents are able to go back to their houses, many of them will be facing devastation and destruction. Some of them will have totally lost their homes; a few of them will have lost their family members; and others will have lost their belongings. For all Houstonians, it is their sense of security that will be shaken as they begin to rebuild, slowly, piece by piece. It is our hope that they will have strength and fortitude as they navigate the destruction that Hurricane Harvey left in its wake.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Yosef was driving his car when a pedestrian jumped in front of his car. He instinctively turned the steering wheel to avoid the pedestrian and crashed into a tree. Fortunately, he was not traveling fast and he was able to walk away from his totaled car unscathed. He felt fine for a few weeks, but then the memory of the accident started haunting him. His nightmares of the event felt frighteningly realistic. He started losing interest in his daily activities and found it increasingly difficult to concentrate. He became highly irritable and driving a car gave him flashbacks of the accident. Yosef has PTSD. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. A traumatic event in this context is to be endangered with or exposed to death, serious injury, and other forms of extreme violence. PTSD can be triggered by a wide array of events that include combat, terrorist attacks, robberies, car accidents, and a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness. PTSD symptoms fall into four categories. Here are the categories with some examples. • Intrusion (Reliving the event): Disturbing memories, nightmares, flashbacks • Avoidance: Avoiding reminders of the event • Negative changes in thoughts, feelings and mood: Thoughts such as “I am bad” or “No one in the world can be trusted”, believing that he is to blame for the traumatic event, persistent negative feelings such as anger or shame, losing interest in activities, feeling detached from others, and inability to experience positive emotions • Overly aroused or reactive: angry outbursts without prov-

ocation, self-destructive behavior, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response, and problems with concentration and sleep PTSD symptoms tend to emerge within three months of the trauma, but sometimes the onset can be delayed for months or years. Most people who experience a traumatic event will not get PTSD. A car accident that was experienced by several people might trigger PTSD in only one of them. Also, sometimes there will be symptoms of PTSD that emerge shortly after the event and resolve themselves within a few weeks. By three months after the event, 50% of PTSD cases will have resolved on their own. For other people, PTSD can be a chronic condition unless it is properly treated. It is not fully understood why there is such a range in the duration of PTSD. One thing is for sure and that is that you can’t “just get over it”. PTSD can be a debilitating disorder. It is imperative when seeking a therapist for PTSD that the therapist has proper training and experience in treating PTSD. Additionally, it is often necessary to take medication to augment the therapy. PTSD can be successfully treated. The first step in recovery is to seek out a mental health professional that can diagnose and treat this perplexing condition. This is a service of Relief Resources. Relief is an organization that provides mental health referrals, education, and support to the frum community. Rabbi Yisrael Slansky is director of the Baltimore branch of Relief. He can be contacted at 410-448-8356 or at yslansky@reliefhelp.org

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ginia and studied journalism at the University of Kentucky. After landing a job with the Associated Press in 1935 he soon became a feature writer. It took a few months before American troops were sent to fight the Nazis but when they did Whitehead was right there with the GIs. He was sent earlier to cover the British Eighth Army in Egypt. After covering Rommel’s defeat in North Africa and the successful invasion of Sicily with the Americans who had invaded the Mediterranean island, Whitehead went to England to prepare for the invasion of France. The 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division landed on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. D-Day had arrived, and Whitehead was right there with them for the invasion, the breakout at St. Lo and the Allied sweep across France. The first story on the liberation of Paris that reached people at home was written by Whitehead. He continued with the First Army in Belgium and into Germany. An historic moment with American and Russian troops meeting on the Elbe

River was witnessed by the award winning correspondent. President Truman awarded him the Medal of Freedom, given to just sixteen WWII correspondents. Later he won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage on the Korean War. Known as “Beachhead Don” for his coverage of so many invasions – five in total – his stories enabled his readers to get close up to the action as he dodged many bullets in his career. United Press, which was much smaller and had fewer resources than the Associated Press, had correspondents that were sent to every battlefront during WWII. As the news agency competed for readership its writers began to come up with stories that other papers would have never printed. Robert C. Miller, nicknamed “Baldy,” was born in New Jersey and had a reputation for randomly showing up at battlefronts in several wars for 45 years. He first began working for the United Press in 1938 and was sent to the Pacific after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. On August 7, 1942, Bob Miller was

onboard a transport ship that was about to land troops on Guadalcanal, the first American offensive against the Japanese. He wrote, “I’m going to be closer to death the next few days than I have ever been before… Hope that [Lady Luck] doesn’t desert me when the bombs begin falling.” The next day he did something no other correspondent had done during the war. Since he was able to walk around as much as he liked, Bob walked right into a tent where an enemy soldier did not have a weapon handy. Bob made the capture and was heralded for his bravery. Later, “Lady Luck” (his words) began to desert him as he was injured, and in early 1944 he was on a ship in the English Channel that was sunk by a German U-boat. After six hours he was one of just seventeen survivors pulled from the oily water. He recovered in time to cover the Normandy invasion and rode into Paris on the handlebars of a bicycle driven by a civilian. Bob was wounded again in September 1944 and received the Purple Heart even though he was a

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ot all battlefield participants are trained soldiers ready to kill the enemy at a moment’s notice. Medics and chaplains are two examples of (usually) unarmed personnel helping out the servicemen and women who are in need of their services. Then there are those who are unarmed, supposed to be in uniform but not always, and don’t go through basic training. In fact they are not part of the military at all. These are the media correspondents and despite the distortions of today’s media during WWII many of these brave souls were beloved by the servicemen and women. Some got so close to the action that other journalists wrote about their stories, and one beloved author was even killed by a sniper. (Apologies to those readers who are Ernest Hemingway fans but this Jewish Home correspondent is not fond of his works. His story will not be covered in this article.) These are three of some war media correspondents’ stories. Don Whitehead was born in Vir-

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civilian. Miller said of his job, “A reporter must never forget he is merely an observer, a recorder of facts, a heliograph dedicated to relaying as accurately, vividly and as graphically as his talents allow, the events he is privileged to witness. The millions who rely upon him for their knowledge cover the entire spectrum of society. He is their eyes, ears, yeah, even their nose, but never their adrenal glands. If a reporter is unable to view this crazy, idiotic, exciting wonderful world from this detached observatory, let him become an editorial writer, politician or pundit.” The exploits of Ernie Pyle would properly require a couple of books, not just the couple of paragraphs that will be written here. In fact, he wrote five books telling of the daily grind of warfare and the men that fought for freedom. A native of Indiana, Ernie had served in the U.S. Navy during WWI before becoming a journalist in the 1920s. One of his favorite subjects to cover was on aviation, and he wrote articles covering all aspects of the topic including on the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. In 1940, he took his talents to England to cover the Battle of Britain and instantly became America’s most popular columnist. Some 400 daily and 300 weekly newspapers and magazines ran his articles. The articles were so popular because they covered all aspects of the military and the courage and resoluteness that the typical GI went through on a daily basis. Pyle’s columns never glorified war but showed how a typical combat soldier lived on

the battlefront, not just the overall picture of combat. His sensitivity, warmth and humor showed both on the frontlines and in his articles, as he usually wrote the names, ranks and hometowns of ordinary soldiers in his works. He said of a unit that he was attached to that they were “the guys that wars cannot be won without.” In 1944 Pyle wrote a column that urged the government to give combat soldiers “fight pay” just as airmen got “flight pay.” It worked as Congress passed a bill that raised the salary of combat soldiers by $10 a month (which was a lot back in 1944), and the legislation became known as the “Ernie Pyle Bill.” For his work the previous year he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism. Sadly, in April 1945, as Pyle was covering the Army’s 77 th Division on a small island off of Okinawa named Ie Shima, he was struck by a sniper’s bullet. The country’s most beloved wartime correspondent was dead at the age of 45 just six days after President Roosevelt’s death. Three months later, the war was over, and many more of his previously unseen columns were finally published in the post-war years. The former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about Ernie, “How much I admired this frail and modest man who could endure hardships because he loved his job and our men.” These three correspondents were just some of the hundreds that were sent to report on the Allied progress to defeat Axis powers. To go into a bloody war armed with just a pen, paper and a typewriter, if he was lucky,

took a lot of guts. The stories and columns that were sent to newspapers and publishers back home kept the public informed of the happenings of the everyday soldier in the bloody war. Correspondents, especially Ernie Pyle, helped Americans understand the heroism and sacrifices that the service men and women went

through in battle. (Suggested reading by this author is Ernie Pyle’s book Brave Men.) Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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on weekends, take vacations, and hang out with family and friends. And keep barbecuing! That is the signature of summer! Every time you bite into a hot dog crinkling with ashes that is the taste of July.

cause summer is real. But holding on to summer, now that is a mindset. And you can do it! So, here’s some little extra tricks to keep it front and center: Don’t just shmear on moisturizer daily, pile on

Every time you bite into a hot dog crinkling with ashes, that is the taste of July.

And speaking of July, keep making fireworks in your life. Let your days explode with color. Don’t be passive, be alive! I’d almost like to convince you that summer is only a mindset, so you can control it. But if I could, that would make me either an amazing advocate, or you a little crazy. Be-

the suntan lotion! Eat a triangular slice of watermelon all year round! Every day, try and wear a bathing suit under your clothing. And utilize a raft in your bathtub! If none of this is working for you, put on a pair of sunglasses, get into your car, turn the heat up to 99, and

just keep looking at the sun. OK, that’s the way to preserve the mood formula. But here’s the way to keep the summer mindset formula. Summer is a time one feels more upbeat, more ready to get up and go, more motivated. Summer gets you in that “do stuff state.” So you need to consciously do these things, and hopefully it will get you in the summer headspace! Who says the good weather needs to come first?! Let it show through this fall and winter, through school and work, rain and snow. We have the talent to keep summer alive and well, all the way till next summer comes along!

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um, ti-dum, ti-di-di-dum... Slowly it is sneaking up on us: the beginning of the end of the summer. The beginning of the school year. And we are all trying hard not to register that fact. Where did the summer go? Clearly eclipsed by a slow warming up period, the quick emergence of the Three Weeks, and the sudden appearance of August. This summer has passed in a sneeze! So, what’s looming ahead? For starters, Labor Day weekend! What exactly does that mean? A whole weekend where we are well aware we are going back to labor? A realization that the summer fun is done? My advice: don’t let it happen! Grab the bull by its horns – whatever that means – and say, “I’m staying in summer mode.” No, don’t sunbathe when you are in the snow and don’t jump into the ocean when icicles are capping the waves. But do continue to get away

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Preparation:

For the Pie Crust 1/3 cup corn starch 1/3 cup garbanzo bean flour 1/3 cup tapioca flour 2/3 tsp baking powder 1 tsp. sugar 2/3 tsp salt 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 Tbl. cold rice milk

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Pour oil into a small bowl, and whisk in the cold milk until well-blended. Pour liquid into flour mixture and stir until a dough is formed.. Pat the dough into an oiled 10” pie pan. Form a bottom crust, shape the edges and flute the top edge, if desired. Poke holes all over crust to avoid “bubbling.” 3. Bake for 15 minutes or until light brown. Cool before filling. 4. Beat whipping cream until it starts to stiffen. Add pudding slowly and continue beating until thick. Fill pie crust and decorate with chocolate or colored sprinkles.

For the Filling 20 oz. Rich’s Whipdefrosted 1 small box instant chocolate pie filling (about 2 oz)

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Many people are reluctant to make corned beef because it usually has to simmer on the stove top for several hours, heating up the house with a pungent aroma. Once I discovered the oven method, I find the preparation much easier to handle 4–5 pounds pickled beef brisket 1 tablespoon white vinegar 2 tablespoons plus 1 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup orange juice 2 tablespoons prepared mustard 1 teaspoon ground allspice

Preparation: 1. Preheat the oven to 350° F. Rinse the beef in cold water and place in a large, deep pan. Add the vinegar, 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar, and ½ cup of the orange juice. Fill the pan with water to cover the beef (about 2½ cups), cover tightly with foil, and bake until fork tender, 3–4 hours. Remove the beef from the oven and uncover. 2. To make the glaze: in a small bowl combine the 1 cup brown sugar, remaining ¼ cup orange juice, mustard, and allspice. 3. Raise the oven temperature to 400° F. Remove the beef from its juices and transfer to a baking dish fatty-side up, discarding the juices. Score the top of the brisket with a sharp knife in a diamond pattern. Spread the brown sugar glaze over the scored beef and bake for an additional 30 minutes. 4. Remove from oven and cool. Slice across the grain. Serve with mustard, if desired. Active time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 3–4 hours PREPARE AHEAD: Oven-Baked Glazed Corned Beef will keep in the refrigerator, tightly covered, for up to one week. Can freeze for up to 2 months

Pumpkin and Ginger Souffle

Makes: 12-15 servings

3 pounds peeled and cubed pumpkin, or 2 (15 ½ ounce) cans pureed 1 cup brown sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 teaspoons vanilla ½ teaspoon ground ginger ¼ cup margarine, softened or applesauce ¼ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup flour 3 eggs

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1. If using fresh pumpkin, heat a saucepan of water over medium high heat, boil pumpkin 45 minutes to an hour until very soft. Add water as needed to keep pumpkin covered. Drain well. Preheat oven to 350°. 2. Place slightly cooled, still warm pumpkin or canned pumpkin in the work bowl of a food processor. Add sugar, baking powder, vanilla, ginger, margarine or applesauce and oil. Process until very smooth. Add flour, mix well. Add eggs one at a time, blending after each addition. 3. Pour mixture into one 9x13 inch baking dish-or two smaller casseroles, sprayed with vegetable spray. 4. Bake in preheated over for1 hour or until top is light brown and soufflé is set (does not wiggle when pan is shaken). Active time: 20 minutes ~ Can make ahead / Cooking time: 2 hours ~ Can freeze RubyLaskerDesigns

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Pumpkin and Ginger pair so well and this side dish scores extra points because it can be made ahead and it gets a gold star for its versatility. You can easily substitute carrots or butternut squash for the pumpkin. Ginger has many health benefits, but if it is not your choice, just substitute with cinnamon or allspice. I have included a low fat option for those of us who shy away from margarine these days. It’s sweet and cake-like so that kids of all ages will enjoy. Ingredients:

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