Celebrate more than four
decades of community service
with Sh’or Yoshuv Institute
on December 5, 2009
See Page 64
INSIDE
‘Buycott’ Campaigns
Samuel Sokol 28
MindBiz
Esther Mann, LMSW 31
New Guys On The Block
Hannah Reich Berman 35
Mind/Body Connection
Rachael E. Schindler, MS 62
What Is Zionism?
Dr. Alex Grobman 73
Cantor Helfgott at Park East.
See Page 56
9/11 Jerusalem dedication.
See Page 24
Happy 105th.
See Page 37
CANDLE LIGHTING
Nov. 20 – 4:15 PM
Nov. 27 – 4:11 PM
$1.00 WWW.5TJT.COM
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
BY LARRY GORDON
ONE MAN, TWO VOTES
Harvey Schwartz, a tax lawyer
and longtime Woodmere resi-
dent, made aliyah about two
years ago, after a long period of
thought and deliberation over
making the change. It quickly
became clear that for Harvey, an
intelligent and accomplished
individual, this would not be
just a change of address.
Harvey is the founder and
prime moving force behind the
relatively new American Israeli
Action Coalition. Affiliated with
Continued on Page 5
Letters to the Editor
JNF Defends Its Land
Dear Editor,
The claims printed in your
front-page article “This Land Is
Our Land” in the November 13
issue, regarding JNF, require a
response. Mr. Arieh King of the
Israel Land Fund is quoted as
the source for the claim that the
Jewish National Fund “has
allowed Arab homes to be ille-
gally constructed on land
owned by JNF.”
This is total misrepresenta-
tion of the facts. In 1948, when
many parcels of land owned by
the JNF fell under the control
Kulanu Meets The Mayor
Students of Kulanu Torah Academy met recently with Cedarhurst Mayor
Andrew Parise to make some suggestions about improved traffic safety
near the new Kulanu school building. See Page 57
VOL. 10 NO. 8 3 KISLEV 5770
Harvey Schwartz
of Jordan, the United Nations
confiscated a large parcel of
land in northern Jerusalem,
owned by JNF, and built the
Kalandia Refugee Camp on the
land. JNF had no ability to stop
this illegal confiscation by the
UN and subsequent construc-
tion, and never accepted this
seizure of its land.
In 1967, after the Six Day War,
when Israel asserted control
over this property, JNF went to
the Israeli courts and sought to
evict the residents of the Kalan-
Continued on Page 20
,usku, ,arp NOVEMBER 20, 2009
HIKIND: OBAMA IS OBSTACLE TO PEACE
Photo By Heshy Rubinstein
NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D., Borough Park) on a solidarity mission
in Israel this week laying the cornerstone at the dedication of the second
phase of development of the Nof Tzion neighborhood in Jerusalem.
President Obama has referred to construction in this area of the capital
city as being unhelpful to the peace process. See Page 60
HEARD IN THE BAGEL STORE
Standing Before Heroes
BY LARRY GORDON
Just two days after last year’s
international conference of
sh’lichim — emissaries of
Chabad-Lubavitch around the
globe — the world was stunned
by the brutal murder in
Mumbai, India of two sh’lichim,
Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, of
blessed memory. Just as stun-
ning was the unceremonious
fashion in which their then two-
Continued on Page 12 Gabi and Rivka Holzberg, z’l
Who Is A ‘GET’ GOING
Briton? An Overview Of The
Growing Get Crisis
BY RABBI AVI BY ESTHER
SHAFRAN SCHONFELD, ESQ.
To the delight of Jew-haters When a man divorces his first
everywhere, a British court has wife, even the Altar sheds tears.
in effect deemed Judaism a — Gittin 90b
racist religion. As a result, the From the perspective of
blogosphere swarmed with Jewish law, marriage is a con-
invective about how the Jews tractual relationship between a
had been exposed as imposing, husband and a wife. It is nei-
in the words of one jolly blog- ther a creature of the State nor
ger, an “ethnic purity test.” a mandate of the rabbinate. A
What happened is that the Jewish divorce is the termina-
parents of a boy whose father is tion of the contractual rela-
Jewish but whose mother tionship between a husband
Continued on Page 19 Continued on Page 16
 Hikind Calls Obama “Obstacle To Peace”
BY SAMUEL SOKOL,
JERUSALEM
In defiance of President
Barack Obama’s demands that
Israel cease building in sections
of Jerusalem annexed following
60 November 20, 2009 5 TOWNS JEWISH TIMES
the 1967 Six Day War, New York
Assemblyman Dov Hikind
(Dem.) laid the cornerstone for
the second phase of the Nof
Tzion neighborhood near Jabel
Mukabar. Together with Likud
MK Danny Danon, Hikind
spoke with reporters about the
Jewish right to build in Israel’s
capital city. Hikind explained
that banning Jews from build-
ing in a neighborhood was seg-
regation. He expressed wonder
that an African-American presi-
dent should endorse such a pol-
icy in the 21st century and
expressed his interest in buying
an apartment in Nof Tzion,
encouraging the group traveling
with him to purchase land there
as well.
Hikind blamed Obama for
stalling the peace process.
According to the assemblyman,
PA President Abbas has latched
L–R: MK Danny Danon and
Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
Preparing to lay the cornerstone.
onto Obama’s calls for a settle-
ment freeze as an excuse not to
negotiate with Israel.
During the cornerstone lay-
ing and subsequent press con-
ference, a small group of
demonstrators from the Peace
Now organization stood nearby
calling for the division of
Jerusalem. One demonstrator, a
Jew from Britain, held a sign
which stated, “Hikind, you’re a
shame to your party.” As Hikind
attempted to leave, he was
accosted by the demonstrator.
The Assemblyman explained
that he did not have time to
debate and gave the young man
his telephone number, offering
to take him out to dinner, in
order to have a chance to speak
about the issues in a polite and
respectful manner.
When asked by the 5TJT if he
had a message to give to
American Jews, MK Danon stat-
ed that he would like to see
them coming home to Israel. ❖