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Register with Team USA for tomorrow’s Winter Games

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Tomorrow marks the first day of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver, BC. Years of training, hard work, discipline and relentless dedication have given the great athletes of Team USA the right edge to grab that gold. To make sure you keep track of who is skiing the fastest and skating the hardest, register with TeamUSA.org where fans get chance to take part in all of the action. GO USA!

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There is more than one way to get involved with this year’s Olympics. Show your support by making a donation or becoming a member the Sixth Ring. Check out TeamUSAnews.org and get ready to rally behind the great USA!

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Takes issue with Boteach’s rhetoric

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:54:02 +0000

Even Charles Barkley, the former NBA star who pointedly eschewed the “role model” mantle that society foists on athletes, would surely concede that for a spiritual leader, responsibility is a key part of the job description. So it puzzles me that Shmuley Boteach, who prominently sports the honorific of “rabbi,” cannot find a more measured and dignified way of expressing his disagreements with his co-religionists. From the very first sentence of his Sept. 18 diatribe against the pro-Israel lobby J Street, where he accuses the lobby of seeing all who disagree with its stance as “knuckle-draggers who see an anti-Semite behind every corner,” one cannot escape the ominous feeling that a person who is supposed to hold himself to a lofty standard of human intercourse and kindness is about to behave in a manner far, far below the requirements of his office. And, sure enough, the rest of the essay makes use of the nastiest and commonest propaganda techniques, such as quoting the adversary and then, subtly, dropping the quotation marks while still claiming to speak in the adversary’s voice. The object is to mock and to delegitimize, with one of two possible outcomes: either the reader succumbs to the argument and, in this case, a fellow Jew is seen as vile and despicable, or, more often, the reader feels embarrassment at the debasement of the writer’s religious office. Since neither of these reactions is particularly “good for the Jews,” I would respectfully suggest that it might be better for anyone choosing to play the role of spiritual guide to accept the constraints that come with the title and to argue one’s point in a reasonable, measured, and charitable manner. When posited in this way, one’s arguments, paradoxically, take on power and achieve a lasting impact, perhaps because in this case the reader senses a pleasing and inspiring congruence between the writer’s words and her/his title

Steven Eidman

Englewood

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Dentist Treats Patients in Firetruck

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:57:25 +0000

I am always amazed when I find stories like this. When I find the sort of story that shows that people like dentists, sadly known for having a high rate of depression and suicide, who are passionate about doing good for those of us who only have Medicaid or who cannot generally afford — or won’t spend for — good dental work. Kudos to Steven Eidman and especially to Dr. Robert Grunstein

May 3, 2009 by Steven Eidman — Dr. Robert Grunstein has always been a car and truck guy. So when he heard that an old municipal fire truck was up for sale (”the holy grail for car guys,” he says), he bought it. The fire truck cost him $5,000; converting it into a mobile dental unit and taking out the water tank set him back $50,000. “It had a new motor and perfect transmission,” Grunstein gushes. It’s the perfect vehicle, he says, for combating the “tsunami of bad teeth.”

For the past five years, Grunstein has hopped on the fire truck — the “Dental Rescue Unit”— two mornings a week and visited local schoolchildren in 60 schools in Paterson, Passaic, Clifton, and other Northern New Jersey towns. The kids join him on the fire truck, where Grunstein’s brother, Gabi, puts on a half-hour puppet show promoting good dental hygiene. Then Grunstein examines each child’s teeth, sending them home with report cards listing the number of cavities they have. The worst offenders — those with more a dozen cavities or more— are brought to the nurse, who phones their parents. Grunstein doesn’t receive a penny for his visits. “It’s worth it,” he says, “because it’s so satisfying.”

Often, the very next morning, Grunstein will find those kids with the most cavities seated in his dental chair. “My patients are really, really grateful,” he says. “Often, parents don’t know that children’s dental care may be covered by Medicaid.”

In fact, only 770 of the 7,000 dentists in New Jersey accept Medicaid. That’s partly because New Jersey’s Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care are as low as a third of New York rates, Grunstein says. So there aren’t many other dentists willing to accept Medicaid.

“This is where I felt I was needed most as a doctor,” says Grunstein, who claims he took bioethics twice while studying at Yeshiva University. “It’s sort of like how a nurse in the ER looks at triage: you treat those who are most in need first.”

Dentistry runs in the family: Grunstein’s mom is a dental technician and has a home office located next door to his bedroom. “I grew up with the sound of the dental drill in my ear,” he says.

Love fire trucks? Visit the fire truck-shaped front desk at Grunstein’s new Passaic office, which features real tires and hubcaps. Side job: While in dental school, Grunstein rebuilt jeeps to make extra money.

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Congregation Ahavath Torah

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:41:16 +0000

The Ahavath Torah Social Action Committee is our vehicle for establishing ties of shared commitment to the rest of the community.

There are tremendous needs in the Englewood population for volunteers to assist in preparing meals for the homeless, in literacy and mentoring programs, in hunger prevention, and in environmental education, to name but a few opportunities. The Social Action Committee is intended to interact with or to serve the local Englewood community as well as the rest of Bergen County.

Past initiatives include food drives for the Center for Food Action; blood drives on behalf of Englewood Hospital; cooking for and staffing the Englewood Homeless Shelter for a week; and Flat Rock Brook activities.

Social Action Committee

Committee Heads
Eden Aronoff / earonoff@mail.com / 201-567-2139
Steven Eidman / seidman@nj.rr.com / 201-248-5975

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Dentist Treats Patients in Firetruck

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:41:29 +0000

May 3, 2009 by Steven Eidman — Dr. Robert Grunstein has always been a car and truck guy. So when he heard that an old municipal fire truck was up for sale (”the holy grail for car guys,” he says), he bought it. The fire truck cost him $5,000; converting it into a mobile dental unit and taking out the water tank set him back $50,000. “It had a new motor and perfect transmission,” Grunstein gushes. It’s the perfect vehicle, he says, for combating the “tsunami of bad teeth.”

For the past five years, Grunstein has hopped on the fire truck — the “Dental Rescue Unit”— two mornings a week and visited local schoolchildren in 60 schools in Paterson, Passaic, Clifton, and other Northern New Jersey towns. The kids join him on the fire truck, where Grunstein’s brother, Gabi, puts on a half-hour puppet show promoting good dental hygiene. Then Grunstein examines each child’s teeth, sending them home with report cards listing the number of cavities they have. The worst offenders — those with more a dozen cavities or more— are brought to the nurse, who phones their parents. Grunstein doesn’t receive a penny for his visits. “It’s worth it,” he says, “because it’s so satisfying.”

Often, the very next morning, Grunstein will find those kids with the most cavities seated in his dental chair. “My patients are really, really grateful,” he says. “Often, parents don’t know that children’s dental care may be covered by Medicaid.”

In fact, only 770 of the 7,000 dentists in New Jersey accept Medicaid. That’s partly because New Jersey’s Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental care are as low as a third of New York rates, Grunstein says. So there aren’t many other dentists willing to accept Medicaid.

“This is where I felt I was needed most as a doctor,” says Grunstein, who claims he took bioethics twice while studying at Yeshiva University. “It’s sort of like how a nurse in the ER looks at triage: you treat those who are most in need first.”

Dentistry runs in the family: Grunstein’s mom is a dental technician and has a home office located next door to his bedroom. “I grew up with the sound of the dental drill in my ear,” he says.

Love fire trucks? Visit the fire truck-shaped front desk at Grunstein’s new Passaic office, which features real tires and hubcaps. Side job: While in dental school, Grunstein rebuilt jeeps to make extra money.

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Op-Ed: Israeli Expulsions Don’t Break Geneva Accords by Ste

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Op-Ed: Israeli Expulsions Don’t Break Geneva Accords

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:25:13 +0000

To the Editor: I take issue with “Israel Relents — Will the Arabs?” (editorial, Feb. 3), in which you state that deportations of some 400 suspected Hamas terrorists “violated Geneva conventions on the treatment of civilians in occupied territories.” A textual and contextual reading of the Geneva document illustrates that Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are consistent with both the letter and spirit of the relevant Convention articles.

The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 was drawn up in the aftermath of the Nazi tactics in occupied Europe. Its second article reads: “The present convention shall apply to cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a high contracting party.” The territories conquered by Israel in the 1967 war did not belong to a high contracting party. Jordan’s claim to the West Bank, which it seized in 1948, was recognized neither by the Arab states nor by any Western powers, save for Britain, and Egypt made no claim of sovereignty in the Gaza Strip.

Article 49, on which the appeal by the deportees rested, was written in response to the widespread Nazi tactic of deporting civilians, sometimes communities, to German-controlled territory as slave labor or for extermination in concentration camps. It states that “individual or mass forcible transfers as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power, or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of motive.”

Article 49 continues: “Nevertheless, the occupying power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.”

That the internationally respected justices of the Israeli High Court of Justice had little trouble in finding the Israeli Government’s actions against the admitted members of Hamas consistent with the latter part of Article 49 of the convention should raise the eyebrows of no one familiar with the Hamas charter, which calls for destruction of the Jewish state. In attempting to fulfill this goal Hamas terrorists have spared neither Jewish civilians nor Arabs supportive of the peace process, in the occupied territories and Israel.

While humanitarian concern, however misplaced, about the plight of the Hamas deportees is understandable, distortions and false assumptions about the legality of the actions of a democratic nation with a strong and independent judiciary must never be tolerated, much less repeated and perpetuated, by a publication with the international standing of The Times. STEVEN EIDMAN Englewood, N.J., Feb. 10, 1993

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admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:28:38 +0000

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Steven Eidman on Webbiographies.com

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:17:21 +0000

Name: Steven Eidman

Nickname:

b. 1956 d.

Born in: United States

Lives in: Englewood, New Jersey United States

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Op-Ed: Israeli Expulsions Don’t Break Geneva Accords

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:29:11 +0000

by Steven Eidman

To the Editor: I take issue with “Israel Relents — Will the Arabs?” (editorial, Feb. 3), in which you state that deportations of some 400 suspected Hamas terrorists “violated Geneva conventions on the treatment of civilians in occupied territories.” A textual and contextual reading of the Geneva document illustrates that Israel’s actions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are consistent with both the letter and spirit of the relevant Convention articles.

The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 was drawn up in the aftermath of the Nazi tactics in occupied Europe. Its second article reads: “The present convention shall apply to cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a high contracting party.” The territories conquered by Israel in the 1967 war did not belong to a high contracting party. Jordan’s claim to the West Bank, which it seized in 1948, was recognized neither by the Arab states nor by any Western powers, save for Britain, and Egypt made no claim of sovereignty in the Gaza Strip.

Article 49, on which the appeal by the deportees rested, was written in response to the widespread Nazi tactic of deporting civilians, sometimes communities, to German-controlled territory as slave labor or for extermination in concentration camps. It states that “individual or mass forcible transfers as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the occupying power, or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of motive.”

Article 49 continues: “Nevertheless, the occupying power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.”

That the internationally respected justices of the Israeli High Court of Justice had little trouble in finding the Israeli Government’s actions against the admitted members of Hamas consistent with the latter part of Article 49 of the convention should raise the eyebrows of no one familiar with the Hamas charter, which calls for destruction of the Jewish state. In attempting to fulfill this goal Hamas terrorists have spared neither Jewish civilians nor Arabs supportive of the peace process, in the occupied territories and Israel.

While humanitarian concern, however misplaced, about the plight of the Hamas deportees is understandable, distortions and false assumptions about the legality of the actions of a democratic nation with a strong and independent judiciary must never be tolerated, much less repeated and perpetuated, by a publication with the international standing of The Times. STEVEN EIDMAN Englewood, N.J., Feb. 10, 1993

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Steven Eidman on Linkedin.com

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:05:52 +0000

Steven Eidman

Dental Practice Management at BestCare Family Dental

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Dental Practice Management at BestCare Family Dental

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New York University – College of Dentistry

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