22 Aug SPEAK YOUR VUES WITH THE VUES MASTER

END OF SUMMER
Dear Vues Master:
I can’t believe the summer is over! It was
an awesome summer all around in the
Catskills. Things seemed to be back to
normal after covid and there were tons
of things going on upstate this summer.
It appeared that most businesses did
very well. Mountain Food’s new store &
Mountain Square seemed to be very busy
all summer. Thank you Country Vues for
another great season! Can’t wait until
summer 2024.
AD
Vues Master’s Note: I don’t count other
people’s money!!

SHOLOM ALEICHEM
Dear Vues Master:
Peace unto you,
holy angels divine
We welcome you with candles
Finery and wine
Won’t you come and join us
In song as we sing
The sweetest Sabbath melodies
To honor our king
Come in peace
O’ angels of peace
With love and friendship and unity
To bind together our family
Our neighbors and community
Embrace us all with holiness
Imbue our souls with peace
And may the light of heaven shine
On us and never cease

Bless us all with happiness
O’ angels from above
Fill our lives with meaning
Contentment, and love
May the coming week be filled
With the peacefulness we’re feeling
And fill our days with sunshine
And our nights with hope and healing
Go in peace , O’ angels
As we bid you fond farewell
Remember what you saw tonight
High in heaven where you dwell
Grant us lives that overflow
With blessings from HASHEM
And may we find true peace of mind
Until we meet again
SHABBAT SHALOM
Country Yossi Toiv
Vues Master’s Note: That’s beautiful, but
what happened to a simple Gut Shabbos?

EL AL FLYING TO ISRAEL FROM
FLORIDA
Dear Vues Master
EL AL Israel Airlines announced last week
the schedule for its two new weekly flights
between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport and Ben Gurion
Airport in Tel Aviv beginning April 15,
2024, a week before Pesach. As a person
that lives in Florida six months a year, I’m
very happy about this.
AR
Vues Master’s Note: We’re getting ready
for Moshiach!!

UMAN
Dear Vues Master:
A Ukrainian official told Barak
Ravid that if PM Netanyahu
doesn’t intervene in the crisis
between the countries President
Zelensky will announce the
suspension of the visa regime and
Israeli’s won’t be able to travel
to Uman for Rosh Hashanah
without a visa. Do you think
Netanyahu should get involved
just to get people to go to Uman?
DP
Vues Master’s Note: It depends
on how many Breslovers vote for
Likud!

MAYOR VISITING ISRAEL
Dear Vues Master,
New York City Mayor Eric
Adams is currently on his
inaugural international trip to
visit Israel. This journey mark’s
Adams’ first voyage outside the
borders of the United States since
his election as Mayor last year.
The trip is being sponsored by
the UJA-Federation of New York
in collaboration with the Jewish
Community Relations Council of
New York. The Mayor’s office has
articulated that the trip’s purpose
is to gain insights into Israeli
technological advancements and
engage in discussions regarding
collaborative efforts to counteract
the rise of antisemitism. Over
the course of three days, Mayor
Adams will participate in
meetings with Israeli leaders
from both the political and
business spheres in the cities of
Yerushalayim and Tel Aviv. Is it
really necessary for the mayor
of New York to visit Israel?
There are so many problems here
in New York, I don’t think he
should be traveling to Israel.
RT
Vues Master’s Note: With all the

anti semitism in the world right
now, we should be happy and
honored that our mayor wants
to visit and learn from Israel. All
mayors across the United States
should follow him & then maybe
we could stop the squad from all
the negativity that they spread.

MARRIAGE
Dear Vues Master:
Just as there are three ways to
effect a marriage, there are three
women a man marries: the woman
he thinks she is; the woman she
really is; and the woman she will
become after they get married.
MB
Vues Master’s Note: Women say
the same thing about men!

RAISING CHILDREN TO
KILL—THEN AND NOW
Dear Vues Master:
The news that Palestinian
Authority summer camps are
training children to use weapons
and glorify terrorists is a
troubling reminder that some
regimes view children as little
more than tools to be exploited.
Hundreds of thousands of
children have been used as
soldiers in various international
conflicts in recent decades,
according to human rights
groups. The Ugandan rebel
group known as the “Lord’s
Resistance Army” has made
the abduction and enslavement
of children “its main method
of recruitment,” experts say. In
Bolivia, an estimated 40% of
the army consists of teenagers
who were forcibly conscripted.
The participation of Palestinian
Arab children in terrorism
against Israelis has become so
commonplace that it has attracted
the attention of Palestinian
advocates in the United States.

They’ve persuaded a handful
of members of Congress to
introduce legislation to restrict
U.S. aid to Israel if the Israeli
military detains minors who
engage in violence. A Nazi
Version of Cinderella Dictators
in previous generations likewise
prioritized training children to
hate and kill. Adolf Hitler, for
example, viewed Germany’s
schools as a breeding ground for
raising an entire generation of
Nazis. Following Hitler’s rise to
power, German school curricula
were radically revised to reflect
Nazi ideas, and traditional
text books were replaced with
Nazi versions. Biology texts
now advocated the theory of
“Aryan” racial superiority.
Atlases focused on the alleged
danger to Germany posed by
surrounding nations and the
supposed theft from Germany
of various territories. History
books presented justifications
for renewed German militarism.
The Nazis even concocted their
own version of Cinderella,
with the prince choosing a
racially pure young heroine
and rebuffing her racially
alien stepmother. At a press
conference in September 1934,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
expressed concern that the
German government seemed to
be preparing young people for
war with Germany’s neighbors.
He related a story he heard from
an American tourist in Germany,
about an eight year-old German
boy who in his bedtime prayers
each night would say, “Dear
G-d, please permit it that I
shall die with a French bullet
in my heart.” Unfortunately,
that did not change FDR’s
policy of maintaining friendly
diplomatic and trade relations

with Nazi Germany in the
1930s. Disney Exposes the
Nazis During World War Two,
Disney created a series of short
cartoon films to support the
American war effort and expose
the nature of Nazism. They
were shown in movie theaters,
prior to the main feature. One
especially striking nine-minute
film was called “Education
for Death: The Making of the
Nazi.” The storyline follows
a German child, Hans, as the
Nazi school system turns him
into a worshipper of Hitler.
When Hans’s teacher shows
the pupils a fox capturing and
eating a rabbit, Hans makes the
innocent mistake of expressing
sympathy for “the poor rabbit.”
As punishment, he has to put on
a dunce camp and sit in a corner,
while another student gives the
“correct” answer: “The world
belongs to the strong…The
rabbit is a coward and deserves
to die.” Finally surrendering to
peer pressure, Hans agrees that
the rabbit was “a weakling” who
got what it deserved. The teacher
then provides the moral of the
story: the German people are
“an unconquerable super race”
who will “destroy all weak and
cowardly nations.” The Disney
narrator describes how Hans’s
upbringing then proceeds with
endless “marching and ‘Heil’-
ing, ‘Heil’-ing and marching.”
The little boy becomes almost
a robot, blindly heeding the
Nazi Party’s orders to “trample
on the rights of others.” The
narrator concludes: “For now
his education is complete–his

education for death.” Nazi-
educated German children filled

the ranks of the Hitler Youth
movement. Its members took
part in numerous atrocities, from

forcing Vienna’s Jews to scrub
the streets with toothbrushes in
1938, to the mass shooting of
Jews swimming from sinking
boats in the German harbor of
Lubeck, just before Germany’s
surrender in 1945. In addition,
many of those who graduated
from Hitler Youth joined the
Gestapo and participated in
the mass murder of European
Jewry. While other branches of
the Nazi apparatus collapsed
or surrendered in the waning
days of World War II, Hitler
Youth remained fanatically
loyal to their Fuhrer to the very
end, which is why they are
often mentioned in accounts of
atrocities that were perpetrated
in the spring of 1945. Menachem
Weinryb, an Auschwitz survivor
who was forced to take part in
a death march from Poland to
Germany, later recalled how
when the prisoners reached
the Belsen area on April 13,
1945, the German guards went
to a nearby town “and returned
with a lot of young people from
the Hitler Youth [and local
policemen]…They chased us
all into a large barn…we were
five to six thousand people…
[They] poured out petrol and
set the barn on fire. Several
thousand people were burned
alive.” Raising children to
kill, whether in Nazi Germany
in the 1930s or in the Middle
East today, always has deadly
consequences.
RM
Vues Master’s Note: Thanks
for the history lesson. It’s sad
how we never learn from our
mistakes!

FAMILY
Dear Vues Master:
It was בראשית when a shidduch

was proposed to a young man.
His parents responded that they
wanted to think about it ב“חנ and
wanted to see her before saying
וירא ,thereafter Shortly .לך לך
the girl and they checked out
the s’שדכן claim that she was
as beautiful as שרה חיי and her
תולדות to determine whether
After .וישלח אותה or ויצא איתה
the couple went out, וישב with
the girl’s family and מקץ the
The .ויגש לחתונה ,discussions
wedding was beautiful and the
couple were very happy when
ויחי with one another. A year later
.ואלה שמות בני ישראל said they
LK
Vues Master’s Note: Wow what
a great lesson!

FIRST
Dear Vues Master:
A group of Yeshiva boys were
having a discussion as to the
origin of earthly objects. First,
they argued the age-old question
as to which came first, the
chicken or the egg. But Judaism
has an answer for that, as one
student promptly pointed out: the
chicken came first. Otherwise,
the egg could not have been laid,
and the original chicken had to be
created by G-d. “I have another
question,” said one of the boys.
“Which came first, the doctor or
the lawyer?” The boys looked in
their ספרים, but couldn’t find an
answer, so they consulted their
Rebbi. “The doctor came before
the lawyer,” said the Rebbe,
unhesitatingly. “How so?” asked
the boys. “Because a doctor was
necessary as soon as man was
created, when השם cut אדם‘s rib,”
the Rebbe explained. “But a
lawyer only came around when
Kayin killed Hevel.”
KU
Vues Master’s Note: I just want

to know what came first, the
Rebbe or the principal. I don’t
know what hit me!

SHIDDUCH
Dear Vues Master:
In making a shidduch, there are
different opinions about what
to look for. חיים רב said look for
יחוס. The Brisker rav said money.
When asked who is right, the
Brisker rav said: “The halacha
is with him that one should look
for יחוס. But למעשה I’m right.”
DS
Vues Master’s Note: I will take
both!

JOKE
Dear Vues Master:
At a convention of comedians,
there was no need to tell jokes.
It was enough to refer to them by
their numbers. One comedian said
12 and everyone was chuckling.
Another said 32 and the room
laughed again. It went on like
this for some time, when one of
the comedians, a newbie, called
out 982. The room exploded in
laughter. “I don’t understand,”
he said to the group near him.
“I mean, I’m flattered, but all
you experienced comedians got
chuckles, and I got guffaws?”
One of the listeners explained:
“The reason everyone’s laughing
so much harder at your joke is
simple: they’ve never heard that
one before.”
LOL
Vues Master’s Note: I don’t think
it is funny. So I did not laugh.

PRESIDENT
Dear Vues Master:
Neither Trump nor Biden should
be president. Just like one must
be 35 to run for president, one
should also have to be under 75.
FR

Vues Master’s Note: Aha! So
you want Kamala!

LUCKY
Dear Vues Master:
A woman went to her rav to
consult with him about two
men suggested by a shadchan,
Reuven and Chaim. “Who will
be the lucky one?” she asked.
“Reuven will marry you. Chaim
will be the lucky one,” the rav
said.
BM
Vues Master’s Note: I wonder
who is the unlucky one?

SPEED
Dear Vues Master:
A police officer stopped a
driver who had been speeding
at 90 mph. “But officer,” the
man began to explain. “Quiet!”
snapped the officer. “I’m going
to let you spend the night in jail
until the chief gets back.” “But
officer, I just want to explain.”
“And I said be quiet! You’re
going to jail!” A few hours later,
the patrolman looked in on his
prisoner and said “Lucky for
you, the chief is at his daughter’s
wedding, so he’ll be in a good
mood when he gets back.”
“Don’t count on it,” answered
the guy in the cell. “I’m the
groom.”
PO
Vues Master’s Note: I guess that
cop got a demotion!