Friday, April 01, 2011 Radio Show
20110401 – 01 Why Are We Praising Assad?
Prager H1: Hillary Clinton called the dictator of Syria, the murderous physician, Bashar Assad, a “reformer.” We have a very confused foreign policy… We have become a nation of takers, more and more Americans dependent on government for jobs… Can a middle-class family afford to go to a major league baseball game?
Friday, April 01, 2011 Radio Show
20110401 – 02 Happiness Hour: The Titanic Theory of Happiness
Prager H2: The Titanic sank because all the water-tight compartments were damaged and filled with water. If one or two had not been breached, the ship would have stayed afloat. To stay happy, to stay afloat, as it were, you need to compartmentalize your problems. Don’t allow problems to spill over to all aspects of your life. A Best of Prager Hour. Originally broadcast on January 09, 2009.
Friday, April 01, 2011 Radio Show
20110401 – 03 Open Lines
Prager H3: Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: a woman has Dennis singing the happiness theme as her ringtone; possible April fool’s pranks; is torturing a known terrorist to get information in order to save lives immoral; who does Dennis trust for news on Japan’s nuclear situation; and given that “thou shall not murder,” how does Dennis view Moses killing the Egyptian?
I opened up the NYTimes.com this afternoon and my eye drifted to the upper left where the most important story of the day is typically profiled.
Here’s the headline: ‘Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill U.N. Staff’
I had to read it a couple of times to understand the story — which was that an Afghan mob overran a UN building and murdered everyone (or almost everyone) inside.
Why does the New York Times put what the Muslim mob is angry about before the news of the murders? Because the mainstream media is so eager to justify and play down Islamic criminal violence.
Why does what the Muslim mob is angry about deserve to go in front of the information about its murderous rampage?
The MSM are cowards about reporting on those Muslims who are murderers. They think if they kowtow to radicals that Muslim terrorists will be less likely to murder them.
It makes me sick that American boys are dying in Afghanistan for such murderers.
Afghanistan, deeply religious and reflexively volatile, has long been one of the most reactive flashpoints to perceived insults against Islam. When a Danish cartoonist lampooned the Prophet Mohammed, four people were killed in riots in Afghanistan within days in 2006. The year before, a one-paragraph item in Newsweek alleging that guards in Guantánamo had flushed a Koran down the toilet sparked three days of riots that cost 14 lives in Afghanistan.
Friday’s incident began when three mullahs, addressing worshipers at Friday prayers inside the Blue Mosque here, one of Afghanistan’s holiest places, urged people to take to the streets to agitate for the arrest of Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran on March 20. Otherwise, said the most prominent of them, Mullah Mohammed Shah Adeli, Afghanistan should cut off relations with the United States. “Burning the Koran is an insult to Islam and those who committed it should be punished,” he said.
A crowd of Afghans — some carrying signs reading “Down with America” and “Death to Obama” — poured into the streets and swelled — the governor of Balkh Province, Atta Mohammad Noor, later put the number at 20,000. According to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Mohammad Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for northern Afghanistan, the crowd soon overwhelmed the United Nations guards, disarming some and beating and shooting others.
Embattled WTKK radio talk jock Jay Severin has been indefinitely suspended for the second time in nearly two years — a move that bolstered speculation that station brass want to kick its million-dollar-a-year gabster to the curb.
Severin’s suspension came after he said during Monday’s show that when he owned his own company, he hired “mostly attractive young women” and had sex with nearly all of them over two decades. “I slept with virtually every young college girl I hired to be an intern or an employee for my firm,” Severin said, according to audio of the show. “All I was was a young man who was the boss and I did it because I could.”
Severin made the comments while defending American Apparel chief Dov Charney, who is being sued for sexual harassment by a number of female ex-employees, whom Severin called “whores” and “liars.”
Malcolm: “I had a lot of problems with tension. She suggested I might want to take some lessons.
“I’d never heard of it. It sounded a bit weird, but I trusted her and had a few lessons. It was a bit of a blur. My first teacher didn’t explain a whole lot. It was an interesting physical process. I wasn’t able to understand the link between thinking and inhibition and direction. The thought that thinking could have an influence on the quality of my movement was not on my radar screen.”
Luke: “When did Alexander Technique start to make sense to you?”
Malcolm: “In my second year of training [to be an Alexander teacher].
“Some things intellectually made sense to me [early on]. The idea of an organizing principle behind movement made sense. I wanted to understand. If I could learn to teach the Alexander Technique, it was something I could do my whole life because there were teachers in their 80s. That appealed to me. No matter what else I did in life in terms of work, Alexander would always be there for me.
“I also thought it could help me play the cello better.”
“I found the whole [Alexander teacher training] process made me really strong. I used to get up at seven, go for a run, come back, practice the cello for half an hour, jump on my bike, cycle to school, jump on my bike, cycle to work for half an hour, work from one until ten, jump on my bike, one hour home, and repeat. I could do that and go out and drink and party on the weekend.”
“What was hard about the class was that not a lot was explained. We struggled to understand what we were being asked to do. What was inhibition? What were the steps? How were we supposed to work? Many of us went outside the class trying to find answers. I went out and had lessons for many years with Marjorie Barlow, Alexander‘s niece, who was very good at filling in the gaps.”
“Pedro and I were good friends. He helped me a lot with applying the Alexander Technique to playing the cello. He used to run with me. He improved his running a lot and I improved my cello playing.”
“I was quite close with his first wife and he with my first wife. We all used to hang out together and go for runs on Saturday morning and have pancakes with maple syrup.”
Luke: “Why do Alexander teachers go through so many spouses?”
Malcolm: “It’s all that forward and up.”
Malcolm was born in Scotland but moved to the United States at age two and then to Montreal.
Luke: “How did you come to running?”
Malcolm: “I came to running after I played ice hockey. I took up the cello. It was the middle of the running boom in the mid’70s. I started running with a good friend. Nike came out with their first shoes. Having shoes enabled us to run. I wasn’t a good runner. I was clueless. There wasn’t a lot of literature out there. I had no idea how to do it. I often had sore legs. We became marathoners.”
“I didn’t wreck anything. I hurt a lot of things. I was always getting injured. I liked running but I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. I met a coach who talked about running form. He made us sprint. And I got interested in running again.”
Luke: “How did Alexander Technique affect your running?”
Malcolm: “I had to become a conscious runner. Patrick MacDonald told me I could keep running during the training as long I didn’t tighten myself up. I gave myself directions a lot. I’d be running along and telling my neck to release and for my head to go forward and up. I stopped getting injured.”
Luke: “Is there anything you find amusing about the Alexander Technique world?”
Malcolm: “Watching Alexander Technique teachers try to dance. It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing. You’re going to fail and you’re only going to end up annoying the pig. Alexander teachers tend to have the pole up the ass syndrome and when they try to dance, they try not to move the pelvis. It’s quite a sight.”
Luke: “What are some of the biggest misconceptions that people have about running?”
Malcolm: “That it’s bad for you. That it’s going to hurt your knees. Your uterus will fall out and land on the floor. I’m not physically capable of it. Excuses are like noses, everybody has one. There’s always some reason why they can’t do it.
“The Alexander community is not that active. They don’t exercise much. They lean forward in a chair and occasionally do a monkey. If you don’t do it, it’s easy enough to demonize it, which justifies your own fears of getting outside your comfort zone.”
Luke: “Don’t most running coach say you can’t change someone’s form?”
Malcolm: “Absolutely. If you don’t have the skills of an Alexander teacher or of a really good coach, you’re probably right. Try to change any habit. Why do Alexander teachers train for 1600 hours just to get to the starting gate? It’s because habit is hard to change, especially with something as unconscious as our gait.”
“Even though I had lessons for a year before I started training [to become an Alexander teacher], when people asked me how I was going to support myself in London, an expensive city, I said, ‘I start the course in September. In November I’ll have a few students and make my money like that.’ It was a rude awakening. I didn’t take on any students until my last term. I was out to lunch. I had no clue what the training process was.”
“There were a few people in the course on trust funds, the rest of us had to work.”
“I was never a fast runner as a kid. I’m still trying to make up for that.”
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “Americans are aware of what is going on in the Arab world. We love liberty. We want liberty spread everywhere. Number two. We don’t want to be hurt by more terrorists coming from the Arab world. Americans’ primary concern with the Arab world is — don’t send anybody to kill us.”
“The Muslim dream is a world that is Islamic but that means Sharia would govern people’s lives. How is that reconciled with our understanding of personal liberty? I don’t think it is reconcilable. If the world was Christian, there’s no Christian law. You are perfectly free to lead your life as you wish. That’s very different from a theocratic ideal. Judaism’s goal is not to have the world Jewish but to have the world ethical monotheist.”
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Radio Show
20110331 – 01 Rats Exit
Prager H1: Two top Libyan officials have deserted Kaddafi’s sinking ship. Dennis has ambivalence about arming the Libyan rebels, especially if we know that Al Qaeda has insinuated itself into the rebel force.Dennis talks to Nadia Al-Sakkaf, editor of the Yemen Times, and Felice Friedson, the editor of the The Media Line, a Middle East News agency about the turmoil in Yemen specifically and the Mideast generally.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Radio Show
20110331 – 02 A Clear Voice from Yemen
Prager H2: Dennis continues his conversation with Nadia Al-Sakkaf and Felice Friedson from Hour 1 and then analyzes what it means in light of contemporary Islamic thought.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Radio Show
20110331 – 03 Badgering Wisconsin
Prager H3: The unions want to reverse the new Wisconsin law restricting their bargaining rights in the courts. If they have to defame a judge to get what they want, so be it. The President gave a major energy speech. He wants to reduce our dependence on foreign energy. So, why doesn’t he push more oil development in the US?… A killer whale who killed one of his trainers returns to Sea World in Orlando. And the audience cheered the whale.
I blame the decline of organized religion in our society for this depravity.
The Daily Mail reports: An inquiry has been launched after a couple were caught apparently having sex on the rooftop of a USC building – allegedly in front of hundreds of people.
Officials at the university were outraged as photographs of the couple – many of which were too graphic to be shown here – quickly went viral.
The images apparently show the man, who is a student at the university, and a woman cavorting in a variety of sexual positions on top of the school’s 12-storey Waite Phillips Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Luke says: This is no way to celebrate Shabbat!
John emails: You are just jealous.
Would have been more interesting if this had happened at Yeshiva University.
Just think, if this were UCLA, they’d have been yelling ching chong ling long ting tong, Levi, get down from there!
Its OK on Shabbis if you do it with a shinui.
I’ve seen Ari Noonan‘s byline in various newspapers since I came to Los Angeles in 1994. I even shared a meal with him once at a Shabbos in the Pacific Jewish Center community in Venice (circa 2000). He had some colorful opinions about the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.
I interview Ari by phone Wednesday evening. For the past seven years, he has been running a paper based in Culver City.
Ari grew up in a small town (Piqua in Ohio) in the Mid-West. He graduated from high school in 1957.
Ari is an Orthodox Jew. He’s on his third marriage and he has three kids.
Ari: “From the very beginning, about the second grade, I fell in love with baseball but because of my funny hands and my funny feet, it was evident to me that I was not going to be an athlete, so I decided [in fifth grade] that I was going to be a sportswriter.
“I had a hero who lived not far from me. He was the sports editor of the Dayton Daily News – Si Burick — from 1927 to the 1970s. He was moderate, informative, clear, even-tempered. All the qualities that I am not. I tried to pattern myself after him.”
Luke: “What do you mean by funny hands and funny feet?”
Ari: “I was born with deformities as five of the seven of us in my family were. It has to do with a defect in my mother’s history. I never have investigated. My parents were extremely private people who never wanted to probe into reasons beyond ‘This is God’s will.’ As a result, my curiosity, which should have been piqued, never really was.
“I had physical impediments to being an athlete, but thankfully, not any mental ones. That is why journalism was a logical option. It was the closest I could be to baseball without participating.”
Luke: “How many fingers and thumbs do you have?”
Ari: “I have a finger on each hand and then a stub at the end of each hand. My four siblings are so marked. My wife can give you the name of this [Ectrodactyly]. It has about five syllables.”
“All five of us who are so marked have varying configurations on a theme with more or fewer capabilities. Each of us, all seven of us, including our two sisters who are physically normal, were all psychologically affected by this to varying degrees. My late brother never recovered from the difficulties this presented. He was very quiet, as quiet as I am outgoing. I have another sister…for whom this has been a mountainous burden. I don’t think she’ll ever recover. The other five of us have dealt with it in different ways, but all aggressively and successfully.”
Luke: “Where are you in the birth order?”
Ari: “I was first. That was my choice. I’ve always wanted to be first. I always wanted to sit in the front row at school. I wanted to be the first one called on. I was always first to daven while I was growing up. I am first today at my synagogue. For a number of years during the week at Venice, I opened the door. Today for interviews, if it is a group interview, you can bet I’ll be the first or second there. Punctuality is an important value to me. Never showing up too early. That’s as unforgivable as showing up very tardily.”
Luke: “How did you deal with your difficulty?”
Ari: “My parents took the lead there. We grew up in a small town in the Middle West. We were always shielded. We were told how normal and natural we were. As a sophomore and a junior in high school, when I would ask girls out and they would say they needed to stay home and wash their hair because an aunt was visiting in a couple of weeks, I swallowed it.
“I would never confide in anyone. If my mom asked if I was going out, I’d say no, she was busy. I was going by myself. It never occurred to me that my hands and feet would be the reason.”
“I was bullied in high school even though I was the tallest kid in my class. Maybe that should have turned on a light for me. Not until I was in college and I had a blind date and my counselor said, ‘Don’t you think you should tell her about your hands?’ I said, yeah, sure.
“And so I called and very awkwardly and blushingly tried to explain my hands, and she said, oh, that’s no problem except that I can’t make it when we were supposed to go out but if you call me back sometime, maybe we can go out.
“Once again, that didn’t ring a bell for me. I have to be struck over the head.
“I’m persistent. I called her several weeks later and we went out. And when I say ‘we’, I mean she and I went out with her parents in case I turned out to be a monster. The four of us had a lovely evening. I think the movie we saw was Pal Joey.
“Then the four of us decided not to date any longer.”
“I might’ve had an acceptable social life except that I was dating two girls and came home on vacation and I wrote to both of them but put the wrong letter into the wrong envelope.”
“I’m an attention freak. I enjoy it when people look at me. My brother never did.”
“Religion has always been important to me. I was the good child. I prayed daily.”
“From the age of 20 until my late 30s, religion was a non-issue for me. I was away from Judaism altogether.”
“I didn’t become Orthodox until coming to Venice in 1990 at the invitation of Michael Medved. I was going through a horrendous divorce. It closed the day before Yom Kippur.”
“I was at a desperate juncture. I was going through a wretched divorce that lingers to today. We had three children, eight, six and infant. Today the two younger boys will have nothing to do with me. My youngest son, I’ve not seen in almost nine years. My middle son, I’ve not seen in three-and-a-half years. My oldest son is my pal. We have breakfast every Sunday.”
“I fell in love with PJC immediately in October of 1990 and didn’t leave until 1999, when work had become thin and I moved across country to Baltimore to become the managing editor of a short-lived urban daily. I returned here six months later. A year and a half after that, I met the girl who would become my wife. I met her through Rabbi Steven Jacobs.”
Luke: “Do you turn off your journalistic skepticism when you study Torah?”
Ari: “I turn off my skepticism. I have no doubt that everything we are told [by the Jewish tradition] either happened or has been related to us for a specific, deep or unknowable reason.”
Luke: “Why do you have this belief?”
Ari: “Because I’m a dreamer and an optimist. When it comes to yiddishkeit, that is the untouchable pillar of my life. It has seen me through what have felt to me like the worst of times and surely other people have gone through much more.”
Ari Noonan wrote for the Jewish Journal from 1986 to 1990 and again in 1997.
Luke: “What were your biggest oys in covering Jewish life [for a decade]?”
Ari: “Working for the Jewish Journal because it was wheel-spinning, an utter lack of responsibility and mature service to the community. The newspaper went off the rails shortly after it opened and it has regarded the religious community as folly and the implacable foe ever since. The leadership has never been strong. Yiddishkeit has been incidental to all the leaders I have known. I think it has been a 25-year disappointment for the community. There are few quality Jewish newspapers in the country and the Jewish Journal is not in the top 100.”
Luke: “Why?”
Ari: “Misguided mission. The first editor [Gene Lichtenstein] was Hollywood gaga. He decided that Jewish Hollywood would be his principal vehicle. When he was fired, it wasn’t called that but it sure smelled like it, he was succeeded by Rob Eshman. I have written several times what a shanda Eshman is for the community and that I wish that he would convert out. I would help him if he wanted. He’s a creature of the political left. That is his religion. He has boasted about breaking Shabbos. That’s fine. That’s his business, except that as the face of the Jewish Journal, the largest circulation Jewish newspaper west of New York, he should present a more modest, religiously-sensitive image.
“He doesn’t care. He’s a zero as a journalist. He is the most immature journalist I know of in Los Angeles.”
Luke: “Why?”
Ari: “Because he doesn’t understand the mission of an ethnic newspaper and he writes in the style of a five-year-old who has just visited his favorite birthday party. He boasts regularly about celebrities he meets and is much more interest in glitz than content.”
Luke: “How often do you read him?”
Ari: “Every week.”
Luke: “If you were given complete control of the Jewish Journal, what would you do? Who would you fire?”
Ari: “I would start with the news staff, except David Suissa.”
“I would pattern a rehabilitated Jewish Journal after The Jewish Week [of New York] of Gary Rosenblatt, who has been the premiere Jewish editor in North America for as many years as I can remember.”
“By a hundred miles, The Jewish Week is the finest non-Orthodox Jewish newspaper on the continent. The writing is superb. Many of the reporters and op-ed writers have been there since Gary came to New York.”
Luke: “What should be the mission of a Jewish newspaper?”
Ari: “To 50% reflect the rhythms of the community and 50% to lead.”
Luke: “In what direction should it be leading people? To greater religiosity?”
Ari: “Probably. To be a moral role model for the community.”
“The Jewish Journal treats Orthodoxy as a freak, as a pool toy to be played with and observed with a giggle.”
Luke: “Is there anything the Jewish Journal does right?”
Ari: “They may report the obits accurately, but serious journalism? It has been an incapable task for these years.”
“I was fired [from the Jewish Journal] in late summer 1990. That supposedly was related to my divorce. We’ll let that lie right there because I was married to a woman from a prominent community family. That was written at the time that my firing was linked to the divorce. It was best for both of us because neither of us could breathe freely as long as I was there and the newspaper and I were better after I left. My stomach was torture the entire time I was there. Beginning at noon on Shabbos, my stomach would start churning at the thought of returning to my desk Monday morning.”
Ari came back to the Jewish Journal briefly in 1997.
When Ari moved to the Los Angeles Jewish Times in 1997, “I was just going from one type of scoundrel to another because the editor was an extremely difficult person.”
Luke: “Did you get paid?”
Ari: “Sometimes. With the Jewish Journal, there never was a question. With the Jewish Times, getting paid was easy, cashing the check was a weekly challenge. I still have editors who owe me thousands of dollars.”
Luke: “Why did your stomach churn at the Jewish Journal?”
Ari: “Because the editor and I never agreed on his form of editing. He wanted completely different emphases. It was like being married for 20 years to an ugly woman.”
Luke: “What were the different emphases?”
Ari: “That’s too specific at this stage. I’d have to think about it.”
Joe emails: Obama is now behind the “generic” GOP candidate in polling. Problem is that the Republican party is in such disarray after George W. Bush’s screwing of the pooch (there is no other way to portray what happened, it is the only way the American voter let Obama anywhere near national power), there is almost no “generic” republican candidate. The ones who want the presidency all have deep flaws that make them undesirable:
Romney – a Mormon
Palin – a Moron
Huckabee – a Chrstian
Gingrich – a Joke.
So Obama wins in 2012.
But now, as a republican, say this “CHRISTIE – RUBIO 2012” – that is more than a generic candidacy. That is a 40 state winner. It gives the dems and enormous electoral headache by taking the entire south and new jersey off the table.
I can only think that no one wants to oval office given the chance of a US default on its debt or other worse scenarios.
Here’s a report calling for more affirmative action for black doctors: “A
frican Americans currently make up nearly 13% of the U.S. population but constitute only 4.4% of all U.S. physicians and surgeons, and are therefore considered an underrepresented minority (URM) in
medicine. The proportion of African-American physicians in the United States has changed very little. Despite affirmative action programs instituted by medical schools in the 1960s and 1970s, African Americans comprised only 3.1% of all U.S. physicians in 1980.”
And a comment to the essay: “If a person has to choose between a white doctor and a black doctor, it seems to me that it is advisible to choose the white doctor. Why? Because there’s always the chance that the black doctor was “helped” along the way, but is not actually as competent or skillful in his profession as a white doctor. If a black doctor is licensed so that the medical profession can pat itself on its back, the impact is actually pernicious.”
And another comment: While attending a major university in the Midwest during the early 80’s, there were several articles in the local papers about the inordinately high failure rate among black students in the university medical school – supposedly due to “discrimination”.
One reporter uncharacteristically decided to investigate the matter a little deeper, and found that the medical school had been deliberately lowering the academic requirements for blacks for YEARS in order to increase their numbers (while maintaining high standards for whites and other races). When the failure rates of blacks MEETING the higher standards were compared to those for whites and other minorities, it was discovered that there was NO difference in the number of expulsions. Liberal state politicians however, continued to argue that the medical school make-amends by trying to get more blacks to “succeed” (apparently, by passing them through regardless of performance).
I wonder how many of you would like to go to a physician that had been “passed-through” to meet an arbitrary quota? For that matter, how many blacks would like that opportunity?
Remember the old Malcolm X quote: Do you know what white racists call black PhDs? (answer: the n-word). In that vein of thought, this Fred Reed column is pretty brutal in its honesty:
What effect does the unmentionable pervasive scorn have on society? One result is the widespread assumption among whites that blacks are incompetent. For example, I won’t let my children (or me) within shouting distance of a black doctor. I don’t care about his color. I know how great the affirmative action is, how great the pressure not to fail blacks. Sorry. I’m not going to take the chance. Nor are a great many people. Black doctors know it.
A friend of mine who recently graduated from medical school would talk about the people who were “characters” in class. Out of 100 students in his year he graduated 3rd in the class, so he wasn’t too shabby, and could look down with a bit of contempt and patronizing noblesse oblige at the guy who applied 6 times to the same school before he was accepted, or the woman with 2 kids and a bitchy ex-husband, or a really asymmetrically built doctor who was at the left end of the bell curve looks-wise. Nevertheless, what struck me was the nickname he and his classmates (his circle were 5 of the people ranked 1-10 in the medical school) gave the one black medical student: Token.
In 1989, black applicants who were admitted to selective colleges scored 350 points lower on the SATs than white admittees did.
In 1996, the University of California at Berkeley Law School accepted every black applicant with an undergraduate GPA of 3.25 and a Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score in the 70th percentile but rejected all white and Asian applicants with the same scores.
In 2001, the average SAT score of Hispanics who were admitted to UCLA was lower than the average score of whites who were rejected.
Similarly, for decades the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores of minorities who are admitted to American medical schools have been lower than those of whites who were rejected.
Blacks and Hispanics receive 80 percent of merit scholarships—that is, scholarships supposedly awarded on the basis of talent rather than need—at the University of Michigan, despite the fact that they have much lower test scores and grades than whites and Asians.
On his radio show Friday, Dennis Prager said: “The bad want much more power than the good. Good people want to do good and to be left alone. Bad people want power. People who live for power are probably not on the good side of the human ledger.
“Can you think of people who want more and more power who are good? Obviously a Winston Churchill needed power because there was a war but his aim was to defeat the Nazis. It wasn’t to have great power over fellow Britains.
“Groups who want more and more power are not usually groups I’d want to support. Take Wisconsin. You have one side (Republicans) who want less power and one side wants more and more power. There is no end to the amount of the expansion of the government for the left. The right wants to have less power over people. The left wants more power over people.”
“There is one deep parallel between the Islamic outlook and the leftist outlook — they both want control over other people’s lives. The one alternative to that is the small government idea of the American value system. I don’t know if America will win. Most Americans don’t realize that that’s what the battle is about.”
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
