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VOLUME 89
NO. 5
MAY 2013
IYAR/SIVAN 5773
EVENTS
May Meeting
7:30 PM
Monday, May 20, 2013
Special Guest Speaker
134-136 East 39th Street
(Between 3rd & Lexington Aves.)
ONEG SHABBAT
Friday June 14, 2013 1800 hours
East Midwood Jewish Center
Traditional Friday Night Shabbat Service lead by our own
Spiritual Director Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass.
Services will be followed by a Glatt Kosher Shabbat dinner.
The cost of this moving experience is a mere $25 per person.
Children 5-12 $10 Children under 5 are free.
Please send checks to: Shomrim Society, c/o Bro. Steve Litwin
156 President Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
or call Chairman Bro. Litwin at 718-207-0064
NYPD Shomrim Society
“Old Timers Luncheon Celebration”
(No one is old at this event) Everyone is welcome to attend
Retired - Active - Uniform - Civilian
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 12:00 noon
Ben’s Kosher Restaurant and Delicatessen of Bayside
211-37 26th Avenue Bayside, New York 11360
Join some of your long time friends and make some new ones.
– LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE – Please make your reservations early.
Includes: Hot Hors d’oeuvres - Soup or Fruit Salad - Over Stuffed Sandwich
Choice of side - Pickles - Cole slaw - Unlimited Soda, Coffee & Tea - Rugelach, & Fancy cookies
RSVP by: Friday May 31, 2013
Make check payable to the Shomrim Society – $28.00 per person and send to:
Shomrim Society - Chaplains Office, 1 Police Plaza New York, NY 10038
Attn: LUNCHEON - Paul Daniel
For additional information please contact: Brother Paul Daniel at 516-333-1328
shomrim.oldtimersluncheon@gmail.com
If you have a transportation issue please contact me and we will do our best to accommodate you
***Dress Code: Casual / Come as you are***
June Meeting
7:30 PM
Monday, June 17, 2013
134-136 East 39th Street
(Between 3rd & Lexington Aves.)
Salute to Israel Parade
Sunday, June 2, 2013
(See info at left)
Old Timers Luncheon
Thursday, June 6, 2013
(See info at left)
Oneg Shabbat
Friday, June 14, 2013
(See info at left)
BBQ and Baseball Game
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
MCU Field, Coney Island, Brooklyn
(See info on pg 2)
Cigar Night
Thursday, June 27, 2013
(See info Back Cover)
National Convention
SAILS Sunday, January 5, 2014
SALUTE TO ISRAEL PARADE
ONEG SHABBAT
Show your Support !
Traditional Friday Night Shabbat Service
lead by our own Spiritual Director Rabbi
Dr. Alvin Kass. Services will be followed
by a Glatt Kosher Shabbat dinner. The
cost of this moving experience is a mere
$25 per person. Children under 5 are
free.
SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011
Time to practice marching with pride. This year the Salute to Israel Parade will take place on
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on Sunday, June 2nd. The world is watching as
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Our annual Friday night Service and Dinner will take place at East Midwood
Jewish Center on June 14th. Rabbi Kass will be leading us in a traditional Shabbos night Service followed by a customary Shabbos Dinner. The service is inspirWEDNESDAY
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BBQ BEGINS AT 4:30PM AND ENDS AT 6:30PM
FOLLOWED BY A BROOKLYN CYCLONES BASEBALL GAME AT 7:00PM
ENJOY ALL YOU CAN EAT GLATT KOSHER HAMBURGERS &
HOT DOGS, CHICKEN ALONG WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS,
SALADS AND CORN, WATERMELON AND SOFT DRINKS
ALL ATTENDEES RECEIVE A FREE CYCLONES BASEBALL CAP
JOIN US IN THE PARKING LOT NEXT TO THE STADIUM
BRING YOUR LAWN CHAIR OR SIT ON THE BOARDWALK
ADULTS $35.00 – CHILDREN UNDER 10 $30.00
LIMITED TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE – EARLY RESERVATIONS ARE SUGGESTED
NO TICKETS AVAILABLE AFTER DEADLINE
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: SHOMRIM SOCIETY
MAIL TO: JOE COHEN – 914-316-6279
8 ELDRIDGE AVENUE OSSINING, NY 10562
ALL PAYMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER
THAN MONDAY JUNE 10TH (SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY)
Friday June 3, 2011 1800 hours
East Midwood Jewish Center.
Please send checks to:
Shomrim Society, c/o Jason Margolis
69-12 166th St.,Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
or call Chairman Bro. Margolis 347 232-4861
EVENTS
May Meeting- 7:30 PM
May 16, 2011
134-136 East 39th Street
(Between 3rd & Lexington Aves.)
National Kadish Service
Sunday May 15, 2011 9AM
Police Memorial, Washington DC
Oneg Shabbat
Friday June 3, 2011 6pm
Salute to Israel Parade
Sunday June 5, 2011
Jewish Chaplaincy Recognition Day
Wednesday June 15, 2011, 11am
June Meeting- 7:30 PM
June 20, 2011
BBQ & Baseball Game
Wednesday June 29, 2011, 4:30 pm
Memorial Breakfast
Sunday October 30, 2011
Bus trip to Philadelphia Jewish Museum
and Independence Plaza
Sunday November 6, 2011
COLLATION SPONSORS
Bro. Murray Ellman in honor of his son Bro.
Steven R. Ellman's retirement
LOVE THROUGH LAW
“Ahavat Olam Beit Yisrael…..
Torah u’mitzvot”, “ God’s eternal
love for the Jewish people is
the Law and commandments”.
With these words Jews express
every evening as part of the
Maariv service their belief that
the ultimate manifestation of
God’s love and concern for
them was to give them the Torah, the anniversary
of whose revelation we observe this month on the
holiday of Shavuot.
By contemporary criteria it might seem strange to
show your love for another by giving him or her a
catalogue of do’s and don’ts, a complicated and
comprehensive code of conduct which regulates
all the details of one’s life. On the contrary, most
people today feel that someone cares for them
if they are permitted freedom to do what they
like and exemption from having to conform to
restrictive rules and regulations. Surely, that is
true of our children. They rejoice with us and think
that we show our love for them when we permit
them to behave freely in whatever way they wish
without inhibiting their impulses and instincts.
Our youngsters don’t want to be told how long
they should stay out during the day; with whom
they may fraternize; what they have to eat; or
that they have to go to Hebrew School a certain
number of hours a week or practice the piano
each day. As they get older, the teenagers want
total freedom to date whom they want, use dad’s
car whenever they desire and stay out late at night
as long as they wish without interference. To lay
down the gauntlet by imposing strict limitations on
behavior, parents run the risk of being accused of
not “loving” their offspring.
But the truth is really the opposite Those parents
really love their children who teach them to temper
their freedom with discipline. Without stifling
creativity, spontaneity, and fundamental liberties,
the parents provide guidelines which make
possible the evolution of a young person into a
wise and mature adult. Psychologists also tell us
that even though young people often complain
about restrictions, they would be more resentful if
there were no restrictions. Subconsciously, they are
looking for limits and want the structure, stability,
and order which are afforded by an appropriate
measure of discipline.
The Almighty likewise showed that He loved us
not by letting us run wild, but by giving us the
rules and regulations contained in the Torah. The
holiday of Shavuot which celebrates the revelation
of God’s Torah to the Jewish people, constitutes in
a very real sense the climax of all other occasions
of the year. For the trials and tribulations of the
Exodus from Egypt took place only in order that
the Israelites should be able to gather at the foot
of Mt. Sinai to receive the Law.
Traditionally Jews have made Torah study a fixed
part of every day’s activity. When a person becomes
preoccupied with pondering the obligations of
children to parents, of students to teachers, of
restoring peace between a man and his neighbor,
of leaving the gleanings of his field to the poor, of
extending hospitality to the wayfarer, of dowering
the bride, of dealing kindly with the stranger,
of conducting his business affairs with integrity,
and of treating the old, infirm, and afflicted with
compassion, how can he help but have traits of
piety, reverence and humility rub off to some
extent. Although we may chafe at the yoke of the
Law from time to time, it insures the emergence of
the highest ethical and moral virtues of the heart
and soul of every human being. We would do
well to reciprocate God’s love for us this Shavuot
by resolving to remain more fervently faithful to
His Law.
MAZEL TOV
Bro. GARY MARCUS and his wife Sara upon the
birth of their son Ezra
Sis. Eva Greenberg upon her retirement after 32
years of faithful service
IN MEMORIAM
Life Member Bro. Gerald Lange
Elayne Kohner, sister of Bro. Gerald Mines
Widow Member Florence Raines
CIGAR NIGHT IS
COMING!
SEE BACK COVER
FOR DETAILS
BJ’S MEMBERSHIP OFFER
Save $10.00 and get 3 extra months by
joining or renewing through Shomrim.
That’s $40.00 for a 15 month membership.
Applications can be accessed via the Shomrim
website (NYPDSHOMRIM.ORG) and clicking
on discounts.
For those without internet access of for further
information contact Bro. Portner.
50 Years Ago – May 1963
As was usual the regular General Membership Meeting of
Shomrim was suspended and members gathered at The
Boulevard located at 94-05 Queens Boulevard, Queens,
NY, for a night of music and entertainment. The newsletter displayed a photo of Commander Ray Goldman, USN,
reading orders establishing him as the Commanding Officer of the USS Trumper Fish. Ray is the son of Bro. and
Mrs. Abraham Goldman. Bro. Goldman was President of
Shomrim in 1941 and 1946.
And Throughout The Rest Of The World:
Astronaut Gordon Cooper completes 22.5 orbits of the
earth aboard Faith-7, the last mission of NASA’s Project
Mercury
We Were Singing In The Shower:
“I Will Follow Him” by the Little Peggy March
And We Were Watching On The Tube:
“The Beverly Hillbillies” with Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan,
Donna Douglas & Max Baer, Jr
And We Took Our Special Someone to See:
“The Great Escape” with Steve McQueen & James Garner
25 Years Ago – May 1987
The President’s column discussed the sad situation of police suicides. Unfortunately, that situation has grown over
the years despite the establishment of organizations whose
sole purpose is to assist individuals who feel they need
help.
Throughout The Rest Of The World:
A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states
that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to
those of heroin and cocaine.
We Were Singing In The Shower:
“Anything For You” by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound
Machine
And We Were Watching On The Tube:
“China Beach” with Dana Delany, Michael Boatman and
Robert Picardot
And We Took Our Special Someone to See:
“Coming To America” with Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall &
James Earl Jones
Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS,
medical personnel and the public
all responded extraordinarily
heroically to the five-day
terrorization of Boston. MIT Police
Officer Sean Collier paid the
ultimate price. While all these
elements were acting responsibly
under mind-boggling conditions,
the press was releasing wanted
photos of innocent people,
reporting as “confirmed” events
that never happened (‘aside from
that the story was accurate’), and
diverting our attention from what
really needed to be looked at.
The FBI publicly asked the press
to “exercise caution and attempt
to verify information through
appropriate official channels
before reporting.” Upon the
capture of the second suspect,
the President told the nation that
the bombers had “failed because
the people of Boston refused to
be intimidated.”
Last year, on the same day
our ambassador to Libya was
killed by perpetrators yet to be
apprehended, and as we now
know, the day one of the Boston
bombers was granted American
citizenship, Peter Bergen, CNN’s
National Security Analyst, posted
the following: “Some politicians
and much of the public continue
to believe that the threat from
terrorists comes from violent
jihadists, when in reality farright extremists pose as much or
possibly even more of a threat,
something that we would do
well to consider on the 11th
anniversary of 9/11.”
Certainly violent domestic
extremists bear watching. They
come in all shapes and sizes.
Some are even members of
academia. Kathy Boudin of the
Weather Underground, who in
1981 lured two police officers
and a Brinks guard to their
deaths in Rockland, is presently
an adjunct professor at Columbia
University. New York University
(NYU) Law School just honored
her as its Rose Scheinberg
Scholar in Residence, a position
reserved for “a scholar working
on cutting-edge issues of gender,
race and class.”
Talking about academia, in
Albany - home of the New York
State Legislature, where many
members are under indictment
for corruption - an Albany High
School teacher, trying to conform
to the new inter-disciplinary
Common
Core
curriculum,
gave her English class the
assignment to “argue that Jews
are evil, and use solid rationale
from government propaganda
to convince [a Nazi official] of
your loyalty to the Third Reich!”
This was supposed to somehow
teach the 10th graders how to
write persuasive arguments; a
third of the class refused the
assignment.
On the academic subject
of philosophy, the Dry Bones
cartoon this past March, asked
a question that politicians and
the press should be asking: “If
Islamists are fighting on every
continent, but nobody is willing
to see it, is there a world war
going on?” As I’ve quoted before
from the book Gravity’s Rainbow
- “If they can get you asking the
wrong questions, they don’t have
to worry about answers.”
The New York Post recently
wrote, “It is beyond rational
denial that one thread runs
through virtually every known
terrorist attack on America —
and most of the others around
the world — since 9/11: In one
form or another, the terrorists
have drawn their inspiration
from one radical interpretation
of Islam or another.”
In 2011, this column reflected
that “the 9/11 attackers … were
following the same ideology as
the bus bomber in Jerusalem
or London, the Mumbai mass
murderers, the hoodlum of Fort
Hood, and the Arab Spring
protesters who attacked the
Israeli embassy in Cairo.” As
of this writing, just a week after
the Marathon, it is clear that the
bombers are part of this Jihadi
ideology.
Osama bin Laden may be
dead, but Faisal Shahzad (whom
Mayor Bloomberg guessed may
have disliked the health care bill),
Nidal Hasan (still on the Army’s
payroll), Naveed Haq, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, and their ideological
brethren are alive.
We can hide from reality, but
can we really outrun it!?
The NYPD Shomrim Society presents...
5TH ANNUAL CIGAR NIGHT
Live Band | Open Bar | Raffle Prizes
Pack of Martinez & Rio Boutique Hand Rolled Cigars
Outdoor Event | Come as You Are | No Dress Code
Price: $100.00 Per Person ($125.00 Day of Event)
Mail Check/Money Order To: Shomrim Society, Inc.,
PO Box 598 Knickerbocker Station, New York, N.Y. 10002
Location: Varuna Boat Club, 2806 Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235
Date: Thursday June 27, 2013 Time: 18:00
For Ticket
Information
Contact:
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Det. Larry Wein – 69 Squad 347-739-5052
Sgt. Boris Adler – 90Pct 718-753-8437
P.O. Michael Podber – 63Pct 917-626-9052
P.O. Spencer Strauss – C.A.B. 212-203-9400
Det. Samuel T. Miller – 9 Squad 347-723-6708
P.O. Joe Cohen – M.S. A.C. 914-316-6279
Sgt. Gary Marcus – 90Pct 718-314-7094
P.O. Evan Ross – 20Pct 917-364-1827