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Camp HASC had the great zechus to host Rav Berel Lazar shlita, Chief Rabbi of Russia, this past Sunday. It was a heartwarming and uplifting visit that the special campers and staff will always remember.
Rav Lazar’s whirlwind visit was coordinated by Mr. Abe Eisner, HASC Chairman, and began with great excitement when the helicopter touched-down in the camp HASC sports complex on the baseball field.

Dear Matzav,
At a time of heightened negativity both from within and without, it is important to publicize this stark reminder of just how special, holy, noble, refined, and wonderful our nation is. Sometimes it takes an “outsider” to say, “Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov” and remind us just what it means to be an “am livadad yishkon” which shines forth a light of decency, morality, and kindness onto the nations of the world.
Read the post of a bus driver for a Jewish camp who “could not have asked for a better behaved, polite and grateful group of boys.”
The following are just some of the comments Sullivan County residents added to the post, showing how far reaching small acts can go when we  make a Kiddush Hashem:

The principal of a high school in the heavily Jewish-populated Florida city of Boca Raton has been facing calls to resign after declining to recognize that the Holocaust occurred.
The Palm Beach Post first reported on Friday, citing email records obtained through a public-records request, that Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson told a mother of a student in April 2018 who sought to ensure that Holocaust education was “a priority” that “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.”
“And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school, and not all of our parents have the same beliefs,” he continued.
A petition calling for Latson to resign has almost 6,300 signatures.

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By: Zvi Gluck
Let me be the first to admit that I am not a math person, yet, unfortunately, it seems that right now my life has been all about numbers.
For those of you who have been spared the pain that has devastated klal yisroel since mid-June, let me fill you in on what has been taking place in Jewish communities all over the United States. Over a three week period, drug overdoses killed nine of our own, with six more remaining in comas as I write these words. Another 17 overdoses had more positive outcomes, baruch Hashem, with Narcan successfully reviving those victims, but without proper treatment I can’t honestly tell you that any of those individuals are really out of the woods.

The Israeli Antiquities Authority, Hebrew University in Yerushalayim and Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia, have announced the discovery of what they believe is the biblical city of Ziklag, the Philistine city in which according to the Torah a young Dovid  Hamelech took refuge from Shaul.
Ziklag is mentioned in the Torah multiple times in relationship to Dovid, who the Torah states received sanctuary in the city along with his army, with the permission of Achish, King of Gat. The site is also believed to be the place from which Dovid left to journey to Chevron, where he was anointed as melech Yisrael and ruled for seven years before ascending to Yerushalayim.
Later on, Ziklag is mentioned in the Nechemiah as a center for Jews returning from the  galus.

The Israeli Police Department has decided to immediately remove the policeman who was caught on camera brutally pulling the payos of a charedi man from Beit Shemesh who was arrested during an evacuation of a shul.
While he was being led to the patrol car, video footage shows Mordechai Kreuzer  surrounded by a number of policemen. Although he was not resisting arrest and was walking with with the police in handcuffs, one of the officers suddenly pulled his payos tightly.
For many seconds, the detective seemed to be pulling at Mordechai Kreuzer’s payos with his head folded in pain, unable to resist or take any action until they reached the police car.