23 Jul SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

CPR
Dear Vues Master:
Last week a two year old child almost drowned in
the Catskills. Baruch Hashem there was a man at
the pool that knew CPR & saved the child’s life.
It is extremely important for everyone to take a
CPR course. It it only takes a few hours & it could
actually save someone’s life.
CB
Vues Master’s Note: You never know whose life you
can save!

BIDEN
Dear Vues Master:
If he can’t run for office, he can’t run the country.
Invoke the 25th Amendment now.
AD
Vues Master’s Note: Be careful for what you wish
for I think she hates Yidden more than Biden!
ADVICE
Dear Vues Master:
A man who had been very wealthy lost his fortune.
“Okay,” he said. “I understand that people no longer
come to ask me for money. But where are all the
people who used to come seeking my advice?”
MB
Vues Master’s Note: People think that the rich are
wise and when they lose their money they lose their
brains! Who says they ever had brains?

IMAGINE GAZA MASS
DEMONSTRATIONS
Dear Vues Master
Just bear with me a bit before you write snarky

comments that it never will happen. I know it never
will happen. But that’s not the point here. Okay.
Imagine you wake up to news reports on Israeli
television and in the online and print newspapers
that on Saturday night 100,000 or 200,000 Gazan
Arabs (there are no “Palestinians”) rallied, rioted a
bit, blocked traffic, and fought with Arab (there are
no “Palestinians”) police. Throughout their melee,
these were the slogans: 1. Give back the Accursed
Hostages! 2. Hamas Must Go Now! 3. Yayha
Sinwar, Crime Minister 4. Sinwar to Death! We will
blot out his name and turn his house into a field!
5. Death to Sinwar, Meshall, Deif, and Abbas (All
Abbases)! 6. Peace with the Zionists at All Costs.
7. Let Them Have ‘West Bank’ and Leave Us Gaza
City, Khan Yunis, and Rafiach. Then more riots and
demonstrations week after week at Hamas tunnels
where Hamas leaders hide. Then demonstrations at
whatever Gaza “hospitals” still stand. Then attacks
on UNRWA buildings in Gaza. All with red, green,
and black flags for Arab Gaza and Arab Judea and
Samaria. (There is no Palestine.) Then even more
and angrier and even larger mass demonstrations
with major Gazan celebrities in the centers of Gaza
City and Khan Yunis. The leaders: Yahir Najid.
Ehab Barakat. Shakira Bresslafa. Yajir Ghulam.
Gildun Halaby. All the superstars of Gaza. And the
demands even stronger: 1. Salaam at All Costs! 2.
Sababa Now! 3. Return the Hostages for Sababa!
4. Itbach al Hamas! 5. Leave the Accursed Zionists
Alone! 6. You Are Our Misfortune, Hamas 7. From
the River to the Sea, Let’s Drown Hamas in Both!
8. We Don’t Want Piers; We Want Peace. 9. We
Aren’t Hungry for Food; We Are Hungry for Peace
10. UNRWA and Biden: Keep Your Pork Salami.
We Want Halal Salaam. Can you imagine the
impact on the mindset of the average Israeli? Not
Israel’s treasonous left, but the relatively sensible
“uncertain” Israeli. The impact would be: 1. We are

winning. They are getting desperate. 2.
The nine months of bombing is breaking
them and destroying them. 3. They know
they are losing. and they can’t take it
anymore. 4. We are precisely on the right
course, and they will utterly break soon.
5. We have them where we want them,
and we dare not let up for a moment
now because they are starting to wave
white flags. 6. Intensify the bombing
and ground attacks now, and crush them.
Okay? That’s what we would think and
say if they were doing that. So what do
you expect them to think and say when
our treasonous Left does just that?
Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer
Vues Master’s Note: It will never happen.

TRUMP
Dear Vues Master:
Many in our community have
complained about Donald Trump’s
rough edges (including me in a letter to
you), but he is still by far the candidate
most likely to give Israel the support it
deserves and promote religious freedom
in the US. I believe that his campaign
has also inadvertently illustrated how
Hashem can send help in the most
unexpected ways. For example, this year,
we saw how multiple legal actions and
even convictions against Trump ended
up boomeranging and increasing his
poll numbers instead of lowering them.
I believe that the attempt to assassinate
Trump is yet another example of this
phenomenon. The attempt, every
candidate’s worst nightmare, not only
failed, but appears to have greatly
increased Trump’s popularity. To me, the
blatant and numerous security breaches
that lead to the attempt are signs that
this whole event was another instance
of siyata dishmaya given in a way that
at first appears very negative. One
particular detail is a perfect example of
the seemingly backwards hashgacha
protis that Trump has received. The
detail I am referencing is the fact that two
of the secret service agents assigned to
Trump were women, and were not as tall
as he. This was criticized for the obvious
reason that those agents therefore could

not cover Trump as completely as the
taller, larger male agents. The fact that
one of the female agents was right in front
of Trump made the problem even more
glaring. Nevertheless, on listening to a
Democratic commentator, I realized that
even this deficiency was also most likely
designed by Hashem to help Trump.
How? The commentator had bemoaned
the fact that right after Trump was hit, a
New York Times photographer got a shot
of him that was so iconic it would cause
everyone to look at him as a courageous
leader. The photograph showed Trump,
blood running down his face, with a
clenched fist defiantly held aloft. As
the commentator unhappily predicted,
this photograph has indeed been shown
widely as a testament to Trump’s strength
and leadership ability. And here is how
that “problematic” female agent served
Trump in a way that none of her bigger
male counterparts could have: she didn’t
block the photographer’s view. Never
question what Hashem can do or how.
Deena Zivarts
Vues Master’s Note: Interesting thought.

SHOW OFF
Dear Vues Master:
Alex was driving his Volkswagen in
Tel Aviv, when a Rolls Royce pulled up
beside him. Alex rolled down his window
and said to the driver “Nice car! Does it
have a fridge, like my Volks?” “Sure,”
the driver answered. “What about a
computer, like I have here?” Alex asked.
“Got that too,” the driver of the Rolls
responded. “Well,” Alex said, “The back
seats of my little car convert to a bed. I
bet you don’t have that.” Upset that his
seats were not convertible, the Rolls
driver immediately arranged to have
them replaced. As soon as the installation
was completed, he began a search for
the Volkswagen. He eventually found
it on Arlozoroff street with its windows
all fogged up. He knocked on the car
window and Alex stuck out his head,
soaking wet. “I now have a great bed in
the back of my Rolls,” the driver said.
Alex wiped his head with a towel and
said “Did you have to get me out of the

shower just to tell me that?”
JH
Vues Master’s Note: My mother always
said small children small toys big
children (adults) big toys! Charity begins
at home!

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT
Dear Vues Master
There is a great deal of space to cover on
President Biden’s announcement to drop
out of the Presidential race, but I want
to cover one topic that means a great
deal to me – The American Spirit. In my
mind, America is a great nation because
of the freedom is gives to its citizens.
This freedom allows Americans to say
what they want to when they want to
speak, pray however they want, and most
of all, achieve their dreams. “Only in
America!” speaks to the American spirit
of working hard until your dreams are
accomplished. Quitting flies in the face
of the American spirit. I’m not judging
President Biden or his decision. I don’t
know him, and unlike everyone else in
America (and the world) I’m not going
to play armchair geriatrician. President
Biden obviously feels well enough to
continue governing for the next half a
year. He also made a decision to not
attempt to convince the American people
to give him the opportunity to “finish the
job” and govern for the next four years.
One doesn’t have to be a political analyst
to understand that President Biden quit
because he was convinced over this past
week that he wasn’t going to win the
election and that VP Harris has a greater
chance of winning. I’m not judging
President Biden’s decision but this sets
a poor example for all Americans today
and in the future. Polsters, pundits and
“experts” have counted many politicians
out of the race and were wrong. There is a
picture of a victorious President Truman
holding up a newspaper that proclaimed
his opponent, Governor Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, the winner of the
1948 Presidential election. The American
spirit instructs all Americans to never
give up and fight until you win. Never
giving up is a value shared by traditional

Judaism and America. The Talmud
quotes a teaching of the Rabbis that even
when the executioner’s sword is on one’s
neck to not give up on G-d’s mercy. The
modern state of Israel was created by
Jewish men and women who were told
by every expert in the world, including
President Truman, to either give up on
their dream or suspend it to wait for a
better time. Americans and the Jewish
people dont quit. We work hard until
we win and acheive our dreams. Politics
aside, and I know people will comment
that President Biden didn’t have a chance,
and maybe he shouldn’t have decided to
run for reelection in the first place, but
once he made that decision, he set a
precedent that Americans keep fighting
to win. My fear is that President Biden’s
decision to quit will set a precedent
among politicians to prematurely stop
fighting. That precedent will set a
new depressing spirit of Americans to
quit instead of fighting to win. It will
start with politicians, but spread to the
high school athlete who figures the
odds instead of following her dream
to make the WNBA, or heaven forbid,
the American Jewish Torah student
who leaves the Beis Medrash because
of a setback in Torah study instead of
fighting to become a Torah scholar. I fear
a student or dreamer will one day listen
to the words of a “wise” adult who tells
them to be realistic and follow President
Biden’s example and quit before you
might lose. I know that my words here
will not resonate with everyone who
reads these words. They mean a great
deal to me because I’ve heard the voices,
both from my own heart and other’s
mouths, to quit before it’s too late, and I
have tried my best to ignore those voices.
Maybe other people haven’t heard those
voices as loudly as I have throughout my
life. I never want my children to quit on
their dreams. I want them to take risks,
and I want them to experience losing, so
they’ll be able to enjoy the sweetness of
winning even more than if they had never
lost. I try to instill in my children to never
say the words, “I can’t.” In America and
Israel, if you work hard enough, you can.
The American spirit and dreaming is too

important to lose. It is the foundation
of our nation. I am honestly terrified
– and have been for weeks – of what
President Biden’s quitting could do to
the American spirit. I pray no one learns
from his example to their own lives.
RUP
Vues Master’s Note: Winners never quit
and quitters never win.

RAISING KIDS TO KILL
Dear Vues Master: What can a press
conference by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1934 teach us about the
recent murder of an Israeli police
officer by a teenage Palestinian Arab
terrorist? More than you might think.
On November 5, Muhammad Omar
Al-Faroukh fatally stabbed Elisheva
Rose Lubin, a 20 year-old police officer
who immigrated to Israel from Atlanta,
Georgia. The fact that the killer was
just 16 years old has, understandably,
sparked some discussion. After all,
no child is born a terrorist; somebody
influenced him to choose that path.
Palestinian Media Watch has pointed to
the extremist teachings by Palestinian
Arab school teachers and public
figures. Among the latter was the threat
by Palestinian icon Ahed Tamimi to
“drink the blood” and “eat the skulls”
of Israeli Jews, which she announced
to her 100,000 followers on Instagram
just days before Al-Faroukh murdered
Elisheva Lubin. President Roosevelt,
like Ms. Lubin, had a strong connection
to the state of Georgia. Beginning in
1924, he spent periods of time in the
town of Warm Springs, an hour’s drive
from Atlanta, in the hope that exercising
in its therapeutic waters would help
him recover from polio. He built a
home there, which came to be known
as the Little White House. It was in
Warm Springs that he suffered his fatal
stroke in 1945. On the afternoon of
September 7, 1934, FDR held a press
conference in his residence at Hyde
Park, New York. At one point, a reporter
asked the president what was discussed
during the president’s recent lunch with
a French cabinet minister. “We spent

most of the lunch hour talking about
Germany,” Roosevelt replied. He then
emphasized—twice—that everything
he was about to say had to be “entirely
off the record” because “I cannot talk
foreign affairs about so-called friendly
countries.” FDR’s policy toward
Nazi Germany prior to World War II
was to maintain cordial, sometimes
friendly, relations with Hitler. He never
criticized the Nazi regime in public,
and even compelled Interior Secretary
Harold Ickes to delete criticism of
Hitler from his speeches. Roosevelt
supported U.S. participation in the
1936 Berlin Olympics, and he opposed
the widespread grassroots boycott of
German products. FDR’s Commerce
Department even quietly advised the
Nazi regime on how to deceptively
label their products in order to avoid
boycotters. And Roosevelt never
publicly mentioned the plight of German
Jews, an issue which he considered to
be none of America’s business. But
off the record—where there was no
danger of offending Hitler—Roosevelt
shared an anecdote to illustrate French
fears of Germany’s militarization. “The
school children in Germany are now
going through an educational process,”
he said at that 1934 press conference. To
explain that educational process, FDR
shared with the reporters something
that had been witnessed by an American
professor who recently visited friends
in Germany. The professor overhead
her hosts’ eight year-old son saying his
nightly prayers. “He kneeled down at
his mother’s knee and said his prayers
and ended in good German, like a good
German boy, and he said, ‘Dear God,
please permit it that I shall die with a
French bullet in my heart’,” President
Roosevelt said. “You get that sort of
thing and that is what has got the French
scared when ninety percent of the
German people are thinking and talking
that way. If I were a Frenchman, I would
be scared too.” Unfortunately, FDR’s
private recognition that Hitler was
raising German children to hate and kill
did not alter his policy toward the Nazi
regime. In late 1937, Roosevelt even

proposed providing helium to Germany
to power its Zeppelin airships, which
he said would demonstrate that the
U.S. was “a good neighbor.” (Secretary
Ickes blocked the sale on the grounds
that the gas could be “of military
importance,” since the Germans had
used Zeppelins as bombers in World
War I.) The following year, Roosevelt
supported the Munich agreement to
dismember Czechoslovakia in order to
appease Hitler. In our own era, it is
no secret that anti-Israel and antisemitic
propaganda permeates the Palestinian
Arab educational system. That system
helps produce teenage killers such as
Muhammad Al-Faroukh. Yet leaders
around the world—including the
United States—have echoed President
Roosevelt in pursuing friendly relations
with the Palestinian Authority rather
than confronting the PA’s policy of
raising children to be terrorists.
Rafael Medoff
Vues Master’s Note: Thanks for the
history lesson!

RESPONSIBILITY
Dear Vues Master:
A man interviewing for a job was told
“This is an important position. We need
someone who is responsible.” “Then,
I’m your man,” he said. “At my last job,
whenever something went wrong, they
said I was responsible.”
GW
Vues Master’s Note: Did the guy ever
find a job?

DIRECTION
Dear Vues Master:
An elderly man was driving on the
Turnpike when he got a phone call from
his wife. “Be careful,” she said. “I just
heard a report on the radio that there
is a driver going the wrong way down
the Turnpike.” “It’s not just one,” he
responded. “There are dozens of them.”
LO
Vues Master’s Note: It is all in the way
you see it!

SHIVA
Dear Vues Master: During shiva visits
you’ll often see the mishnayos sign up
sheet being made in honor of the niftar.
This is a huge boost for the neshama
that this Torah is being studied in their
shloshim period. Along with kaddish of
course, the idea is to show that because
of this person there is an increase in
Hashem’s honor. Someone once asked
me what can the women do to help the
departed loved one since they do not
learn mishnah or say the kaddish. Aside
from tzedakah to torah causes, one
of the best things you can do is brush
up on hilchos shabbos. Besides that
ultimately you’re helping yourself, part
of what they will be looking at over the
person’s trial is who they left behind and
did they leave behind a shomer shabbos
family? Since such a large portion of
Shabbos is kitchen preparations and
seudos, the knowledge of the halachos
is imperative on the woman’s part to
sustain the shmiras shabbos status of the
house. Whether it’s how to open certain
things, heating up things properly, how
to properly select and avoid forbidden
sorting, how to handle spills and trash,
and which forms of tying is permissible,
etc. A quick review can be the difference
between a continued mistake and a
lifetime of avoidance. Imagine what a
zechus it is for the niftar to learn this in
their memory. There is no shortage of
English books to help you get through
this. One particular new one that comes
to mind is “Learn Shabbos in 3 minutes
a day.” Since everyone definitely has 3
minutes, make it count for a lifetime.
KLMY
Vues Master’s Note: People get very
sensitive when it comes to aveilus!