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UNESCO Passes In Israeli Anti - Israel Independence Day Message, Resolution Netanyahu Recalls 1948

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In an Independence Day message published on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the 1948 “moment of triumph” for the Jewish people when the State of Israel was founded and praised the nation’s resilience. “It was a moment of triumph for our people,” Netan- yahu said. “We had been scattered around the world for millennia. And then we returned to our ancient homeland, to build a safe haven, where we could live, and thrive.”

UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Screenshot. BY BEN COHEN resolutions — a development “Th e Palestinians at UNESCO one watchdog group viewed as are hemorrhaging support for Netanyahu went on to praise Israelis for their ability to As Israel celebrated its 69th progress. their ritual anti-Israel resolutions: fl ourish in the face of annihilation. Independence Day on Tuesday, “Israel lost the vote today, last April they had 33 yes votes, “Now, many doubted that this tiny state of Israel would UNESCO — the cultural arm of but it did score a moral victory then in October it was down to survive,” he noted. “We were surrounded by hostile enemies, the United Nations — voted by a by winning more votes than ever 24, and today it’s down to 22. And who attacked us again and again. So perhaps, for some, this 22-10 margin (with 23 abstentions before, including from leading once again, India — an increas- skepticism was warranted. But survive we did. Much more and three absences) to approve a democratic members like the ingly important friend of Israel than that. We thrived.” resolution that condemned what it US, Britain, Germany, Italy, and — has voted to abstain, showing “And I have no doubt that in the coming 69 years, Israel called Israel’s “illegal” presence in the Netherlands,” Hillel Neuer that its recent break from decades will continue to thrive, be strong and prosperous,” Netan- Jerusalem. — executive director of the of lockstep voting with the Arab Continued on Page A4 However, the number of “yes” Geneva-based UN Watch NGO – states is now a fi xed policy.” votes was down from similar past told Th e Algemeiner Continued on Page A3

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brigadier general who led the army’s research front page dispatch about how, arm. “Nobody will be affected by this.” as the Times inside-the-paper IRA STOLL Again, if “nobody will be affected by this,” headline over the continua- BOSTON why is it a top-of-the-front page story? tion of the story put it, “Hamas Maybe instead of the misleading headline Moderates Extreme Stances.” “Hamas Tempers Extreme Stances,” the Times This video isn’t just headline should have been something more some right-wing talking point. accurate, like, “Nobody Will Be Affected by Move Former President Barack “Hamas Tempers Extreme Stances In Bid That Everyone Agrees Makes No Difference.” Obama’s ambassador to Israel, For Power” is the headline at the top of the Better yet, instead of overplaying news Daniel Shapiro, tweeted front page of the New York Times. that doesn’t matter, the Times might quit about it, commenting, “Truly You have to read all the way to the tenth ignoring news that actually does matter — disgusting.” The tweet has paragraph of the story, inside the paper, to news that demonstrates the true nature of been retweeted or “favorited” find out, “Experts on all sides of the complex Hamas. on Twitter more than 100 struggle here say the new document is To give but one significant example, times, and that — rather than unlikely to represent any profound change in Hamas recently released a Hebrew-language any Times coverage — is how I Hamas’s true position toward Israel. The group video taunting the parents of two slain Israeli heard about it. recently chose a hard-liner, Yehya Sinwar, as Hamas fighters.Photo: Wikimedia Commons. soldiers, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul. Israel There is a “dog bites its new leader in Gaza, and it has still in no says Hamas has been holding the bodies of man” versus “man bites dog” totally ignoring the “truly disgusting” taunting way recognized Israel or renounced violence.” the soldiers as a bargaining chip rather than phenomenon in news judgment. “Hamas are video story. It amounts to a failure of news Well, if it is “unlikely to represent any returning them for a proper burial. That story sicko terrorists” is easily dismissed as a “dog judgment. profound change,” why in the world does it got coverage in the Israeli press (see here and bites man” story, something that everyone Given other recent Times coverage or merit a top-of-the-front page headline in the here.) A year ago, the Times wrote an online- already knows and happens all the time. non-coverage (see “New York Times Finds Times? only news article when Hamas published “Hamas moderates” has at least potential Gaza Cancer-Patient Terror Attempt Unfit The Times article goes on, further down: photos of the Israeli soldiers. But this year, to be a “man bites dog” story, something To Print” and “TheNew York Times White- In Israel, which has fought three wars the Times chose to ignore the video. The unexpected, even if, as in this case, it doesn’t washes Hezbollah Terrorism”), the newspaper with Hamas since 2008, the document was Times didn’t publish any story at all about the really mean anything. risks slipping into such a disappointingly bad greeted with skepticism. video, as far as I can tell, let alone a top-of-the- Even discounting for the “man bites pattern that when and if it actually does cover “Not even one mind” will be changed in front page story about it. Nor was the video dog” phenomenon, though, the Times wildly something well on the Israel beat, this will be Israel, said Yossi Kuperwasser, a retired Israeli mentioned at all in today’s long, top-of-the- overplays the “Hamas moderates” story while a “man bites dog” type surprise. Celebrating Yom Haatzmaut in a World of Turmoil

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A former Jordanian culture minister wrote a controversial op-ed for a leading Amman newspaper on Sunday in which he argued there was no need for Arabs to oppose the potential move of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem. Writing in his regular column “Unpop- ular Statements” for the government daily The Western Wall and Temple Mount Photo: Paul Arps via Wikimedia Commons. newspaper Al Rai, Tareq Al-Masarwa — according to a translation published by meeting with Trump at the White House this the Middle East Media Research Institute Wednesday, “despite everything that is said (MEMRI) — wrote: “The Americans can move about [Trump] constantly changing his mind their embassy to the new [part of] Jerusalem according to his whim.” [i.e. the western part] without sparking any Al-Masarwa’s comments on Jerusalem come on the eve of a vote at UNESCO — the serious rage among the Arabs. This is for the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons. simple reason that the Palestinians and Arabs UN’s cultural agency — on a resolution that demand the Old City [of Jerusalem] — which accuses Israel of violating international law in BY BEN COHEN for life in Israel after being convicted on five they lost in the 1967 war, known as the Six its capital city. Jordan is not among the Arab murder counts in 2004. Day War — as the capital of their state. I have sponsors of the resolution, which include President Donald Trump boosted the Such a request by Trump would leave not heard anyone demanding the 1948 part Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, “relevancy” of Palestinian Authority Presi- Abbas feeling “defensive,” Ross said. “But of Jerusalem [i.e., West Jerusalem], neither Qatar, and Sudan. dent Mahmoud Abbas by inviting him to Trump needs to be able to say to him, you don’t have to produce something by tomorrow, but Hamas, the PLO nor anyone else.” The resolution states that “all legislative Washington for a White House meeting this you have to produce it at some point, if I am In the same column, Al-Masarwa and administrative measures and actions week and now needs to lean on the Palestinian going to invest in doing something on this expressed cautious confidence in President taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which leader to take “hard steps” — including an end issue,” Ross continued. Donald Trump. “Although the man is known have altered or purport to alter the character of payments to terrorists and their families, a veteran US diplomat said on Monday. Ross also discussed another concession for the promises he made before and after and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and in In a conference call organized by The which he said Trump should obtain from the elections,” Al-Masarwa commented, “he particular the ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem, are null Israel Project, Ambassador Dennis Ross — who Abbas. The Palestinian leader, according to can play the game of ‘Jerusalem the capital and void and must be rescinded forthwith.” has worked on Middle East issues for numerous Ross, “has to recognize the historic Jewish [of Israel]’ without causing awkwardness for A US official told The Algemeiner this connection to the land and to Jerusalem, weekend that “UNESCO is too often used as a administrations since the Carter era and is now [either] US policy or his allies.” Al-Masarwa the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at that there are two national movements, and vehicle by member states inclined to delegiti- predicted that Palestinian Authority President the Washington Institute for Near East Policy two national identities,” in keeping with the mize the State of Israel.” Mahmoud Abbas would have a “meaningful” — said Abbas had been in the doldrums before declared goal of “two states for two peoples.” being summoned by Trump. Ross disputed the notion that there were alternatives to the two-state formula. “I’m not Continued from Page A1 There was a similar lack of consensus Arab leaders, including King Abdullah sure the administration’s real position is to UNESCO among the Latin American delegates. of Jordan, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of The resolution passed on Tuesday Paraguay voted against, while Argentina Egypt and the heads of the Gulf states had all move away from a ‘two state’ outcome,” he said. The Trump White House’s contacts with stated that “all legislative and administra- — an ally of Iran before current President been marginalizing Abbas, Ross pointed out. Arab leaders have been a key factor here, Ross tive measures and actions taken by Israel, Mauricio Macri defeated incumbent Cristina “But Trump has made him more relevant again, which is important at a time when he observed. the occupying Power, which have altered or Fernandez de Kirchner in the November 2015 “Trump wants a bigger deal involving purport to alter the character and status of the election — also abstained. Other abstentions doesn’t have much popularity within the PA,” Ross noted. the Arab states, which can provide a kind of Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the included the Dominican Republic and El Ross argued that the conditions for a cover for Abu Mazen (Abbas) as well as for the ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem, are null and void and Salvador. Brazil was the only Latin American revived Israeli-Palestinian peace process Israelis, who are convinced that any conces- must be rescinded forthwith.” country to vote “yes.” could hardly be less opportune. “I don’t think sions they make to the Palestinians won’t be Holy sites outside Jerusalem were also Arab and Muslim states, among them we’ve ever been at a lower point, not because reciprocated, so they need to get something included in the resolution. Two shrines sacred to Qatar and Iran — both of whom have exten- of violence, but because the level of disbelief from the Arabs,” Ross said. “The Arab states Jews — the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and sive financial and political ties with the between two sides has never been greater,” he won’t play a role in a process that leads to a Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem — were defined Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas — said. “More than 60 percent of Israelis want a Palestinian entity wrapped in an Israeli state by the resolution as the “two Palestinian sites of voted overwhelmingly in favor. two-state outcome, but over 90 percent don’t — they just won’t.” Al-Haram Al-Ibrahimi/Tomb of the Patriarchs Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny believe it will happen.” Ross repeatedly emphasized the high in Al-Khalil/Hebron and the Bilal Ibn Rabah Danon condemned the passage of the resolu- Ross explained that if Trump was serious stakes that Abbas faces. He said the Palestinian Mosque/Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem.” Both, tion, which was entitled “Occupied Palestine.” about pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, leader is seen by the vast majority of Palestin- the resolution said, “are an integral part of the “This biased and blatantly deceitful he should avoid a “big initiative” that could end in ians as ineffective in securing concessions Occupied Palestinian Territory.” decision, and the attempts to dispute the failure and mutual recriminations. from Israel, and at the same time the PA has The resolution also “deplored” what it connection between Israel and Jerusalem, will Trump would also, Ross said, have to lost legitimacy because of the corruption that described as “the continuous Israeli closure not change the simple fact that this city is the “make difficult asks of both sides.” prevails among its top figures. “He frequently of the Gaza Strip, which harmfully affects the historic and eternal capital of the Jewish people,” For Abbas, that would mean a pledge to end seems to stand aloof from the Palestinian people,” Ross said. “Two-thirds of them would free and sustained movement of personnel, Danon said. “Israel will not stand silently by in financial backing of two PA foundations that give like him to leave.” students and humanitarian relief items.” the face of this shameful resolution.” money to Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israeli The Trump-Abbas White House sit-down Israeli officials were likely to be pleased Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister prisons, as well as their families. The foundations on Wednesday comes amid heightened with the list of countries that either abstained Benjamin Netanyahu said at the International receive an annual sum of $300 million — nearly 8 percent of the PA’s total budget. tensions between the Fatah-controlled PA in from the vote or opposed the resolution. Bible Contest in his nation’s capital, “There Ross did not make light of the political the West Bank and the Islamist terror group Abstentions included Albania — which is no other people in the world for whom difficulties that would face Abbas if he was to Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. has a Muslim majority — and four African Jerusalem is as holy and important as for the make such a decision, not least regarding the The refusal of Hamas to give in to states with whom Israel now enjoys revived Jewish people, even though a meeting will present hunger strike involving two-thirds of Abbas’ effort to regain control of the coastal relations: Ghana, Guinea, Kenya and Uganda. take place at UNESCO today that will try to Palestinian prisoners from the Fatah faction — enclave — which Hamas violently took over The US voted against the resolution, as did deny this historical truth.” led by Abbas rival Marwan Barghouti, the head in 2007 — led the PA to inform Israel last key European nations like France, Germany, “We denounce UNESCO and uphold our of Fatah’s Tanzim armed wing and co-founder week that it would no longer pay for Gaza’s Greece, Lithuania and the Netherlands. truth, which is the truth,” he continued. of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades who is jailed electricity supply. A4 | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 World News. National Security Adviser Mc- Master Highlights ‘Tremendous Opportunity to Confront Iran’s Destructive Behavior’

BY BEN COHEN

A visible shift in American policy towards Iran is taking place under President Donald Trump, his national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said during a wide-ranging interview on Fox News over the weekend. Speaking to Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, McMaster was clear that the US had developed the political will to back up any Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster Photo: Wikimedia Demonstrators at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London on Thursday. Photo: Tamir Oren. warnings directed at the Tehran regime. Trump’s “really strong relationships across “I think all we have to do is pull the the Arab world” as a positive sign that Iran’s curtain back on Iranian behavior,” McMaster regional ambitions will not go unopposed. “I Jews Murdered in Holocaust said. “This is a regime that is supporting the think that there’s going to be a tremendous murderous regime in Syria, that’s commit- opportunity to confront Iran’s destructive Called ‘Cowards’ at London ting mass murder of its own people. This is a behavior in the region and beyond the region,” regime that is really applying what you might he said. call a Hezbollah model to the greater Middle Earlier today, an Iranian official empha- Protest Outside Israeli East, in which they have weak governments, sized that there would be no talks with the US that they want to depend on Iran for support, on issues unrelated to the Joint Comprehen- Ambassador’s SOAS Lecture while they grow militias and other illegal sive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the framework armed groups outside.” for the nuclear understanding between Iran Wallace questioned whether America’s and the international community spear- allies would even be “interested” in enforcing headed by former President Barack Obama. BY RACHEL FROMMER conversation.” sanctions against Tehran. “Under this administration, the American Dav said it was “peaceful” inside the “Our allies will be interested in doing side has apparently brought up the issue of that, and I think what you’ve seen, what has Some 400 demonstrators came out to event venue, though at first it was difficult one or two [American] individuals held in happened in the last eight years, is US policy protest Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark for the audience of some 70 SOAS students Iranian prisons,” Foreign Ministry spokesman has unwittingly maybe empowered Iran Regev’s appearance at a prominent London to hear the ambassador over the protesters’ Bahram Qassemi said, in remarks carried by across the greater Middle East and beyond. university on Thursday, with one protester loudspeakers, a problem rectified with the the Islamist regime’s English-language mouth- Now, we are seeing the effect of that with this recorded saying that the Jews murdered in the help of a mic. piece, Press TV. humanitarian political catastrophe in the Holocaust were “cowards.” Dav applauded what she called “SOAS “In principle, we do not engage in any greater Middle East that Iran has helped to According to footage posted on social management’s shockingly helpful” role other talks with the US, and subject matters foment,” McMaster said. media, the demonstrators filled the campus throughout the process of organizing Regev’s have to do with the JCPOA,” Qassemi said. The national security adviser pointed to of the School of Oriental and African Studies talk, even arranging for a taxi to transport Dav (SOAS), waving Palestinian flags, blaring home after it ended to ensure her safety. music and chanting the popular call for the “I was really surprised to learn that SOAS Continued from Page A2 Haatzmaut with Yom Hazikaron, a day to destruction of the Jewish state, “From the management really is devoted to free speech,” Celebraing commemorate those who sacrificed their lives River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.” she said. “They were determined that this granted – is truly miraculous. in defense of our homeland. There were about 100 pro-Israel event should happen.” We need only remind ourselves of the Above all, as we celebrate we should counter-demonstrators, according to eyewit- The SOAS registrar, Paula Sanderson, incredible devastation that took place 75 pledge to ensure that as a nation we must nesses, some of whom attempted to converse made clear that the individual who mocked years ago following 2000 years of wretched continue strengthening ourselves militarily, with the other side, but reported being the Holocaust was not a member of the dispersion, persecution, expulsion and economically and socially. The reason for shoved and having abuses lobbed at them in university’s community and that “hate speech murder and climaxing with the Holocaust. our extraordinary success in nation-building response. According to eyewitness accounts, or antisemitism” by anyone who was would be We should view this in the light of our resur- flows from our inner strength and determina- Israeli flags were ripped out of the hands of investigated. rected nation which has grown from 600,000 tion. individuals in the Zionist camp and smeared “There is no place for hate speech on Jews in 1948 to over 6 million Jews today. Israel today has been blessed with an with fake blood. the SOAS campus and freedom of speech We should remind ourselves that our vibrant American leader who is deeply sensitive The pro-Israel demonstrators also sang does not permit the expression of racist or nation state revived the sacred tongue of our to Jews and has displayed unprecedented and chanted slogans. antisemitic views,” she said. “We condemn ancestors and molded broken refugees and support for Israel. We should seek to continue Tamir Oren — the director of public unreservedly the comments that were made survivors from all corners of the globe into improving our relationship with the Trump affairs for StandWithUs UK — told The by the person shown on the video.” a thriving national culture. Despite being administration and cooperate with his efforts Algemeiner that Hezbollah flags and hats As The Algemeiner reported last week, one of the smallest states in the world, Israel to renew peace negotiations. We can hopefully were seen around the quad, which was also the announcement of Regev’s upcoming talk has created one of the most powerful global progress toward reaching an accommoda- papered with fliers from a group called “SOAS led to an immediate backlash from the SOAS military forces which has defeated superior tion on the settlements, annexing the Golan United Against Apartheid.” community. A student group that was meant forces seeking its destruction and today deters and have Washington formally recognize “The ambassador came to SOAS to to co-sponsor the event backed out days its enemies. Israel is an economic miracle with Jerusalem as our capital by relocating its answer the most difficult questions about before the lecture due to the controversy. one of the most successful economies in the embassy. Israel, and so he did,” said Oren, adding that Last month, footage was released of world, creating more startups in the techno- Where appropriate, we should continue the Q&A session covered issues such as settle- SOAS students openly expressing support logical and medical arena per capita than any building both covert and open alliances even ments and alleged IDF war crimes. for Hezbollah and Hamas and calling for other country. Over recent years, Israel has with countries traditionally hostile towards Khulan Dav, a member of the SOAS the destruction of Israel. Some in the Jewish discovered vast gas fields which will make it us who share the common threat facing the Jewish Society and an organizer of the community wryly said the school’s acronym an exporter rather than an importer of energy. region from the Iranian terror state. Regev lecture, said the event was a success, stands for “School Of Antisemitism.” And it has produced the most efficient desali- Despite living in a region where barba- featuring an “amazing, absolutely respectful nization program in the world which enabled rism is rampant and facing threats from it to overcome the water shortage and provide religious fanatics pledged to our destruction, assistance to other nations. Israel has never been as strong and secure Continued from Page A1 Israel, we all went out to dance in the streets. Never in their wildest dreams could as it is today. We have every reason to count Triumph We celebrated a hope which came true: to be those who survived the Holocaust ever have our blessings, rejoice and give thanks to the yahu added. a free people in our land, in Jerusalem.” imagined the miraculous success of the recre- Almighty. President Reuven Rivlin said for Rivlin also lauded Israelis for their ated nation state based primarily on refugees Chag Sameach. Independence Day, “Sixty-nine years ago, in democratic society and technological prowess, from Eastern European pogroms, Nazism or Isi Leibler’s website can be viewed at the moments just after [Prime Minister] David saying the Jewish state was “a shrine of freedom Arab persecution. www.wordfromjerusalem.com. He may be Ben-Gurion declared the birth of the State of of expression, and a hub of innovation.” It was a wise decision, reflecting compas- contacted at [email protected]. sion and insight, to directly precede Yom www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 A5 U.S. News.

priate disciplinary measures” against students Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Simon Pro-Israel Groups Call on Tufts who impede or suppress the freedom of Wiesenthal Center, Students Supporting Israel expression of others; and the establishment of and Zionist Organization of America. President to Take Action After “educational and training programs…[to] incul- A Tufts public relations representa- cate an understanding of and appreciation for tive told Th e Algemeiner the university had the First Amendment and Tufts’ own ‘Declara- received and was reviewing the letter. BDS Vote on Passover Eve tion on Freedom of Expression.'” Following the BDS vote, the Tufts Board AMCHA co-founder Tammi Rossman- of Trustees announced that it “will not divest ‘Deliberately Excluded’ Jews Benjamin told Th e Algemeiner, “We decided from companies doing business in Israel.” we needed to do something, because we As Th e Algemeiner reported, Passover realized there’s this serious new twist in SJP’s saw a number of anti-Israel actions taken at tactics of yet another way to stifl e the freedom universities across North America, including BY RACHEL FROMMER of expression and speech of any Zionists. Th e a BDS resolution passed on Easter Sunday intention of [the vote’s scheduling] was, to us, at Pitzer College, Israeli Apartheid Weeks at Forty-fi ve pro-Israel organizations signed a letter that was sent to the president of Tufts so clearly an attempt at squashing any expres- Harvard University and the University of New University on Th ursday demanding that action be taken against the schhool’s student government sion that is pro-Israel.” Mexico and a “Passover Against Apartheid” for voting in favor of a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) resolution on the eve of Passover. Th e groups who signed the letter included event at Concordia University in Montreal. Th e letter — organized by the AMCHA Initiative campus watchdog group — charges the the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Alums for According to experts, scheduling Tufts Community Union (TCU) senate with having “deliberately excluded many Jewish students, Campus Fairness, Christians and Jews United programming for days when Jewish and depriving them of their freedom of expression and the right to full participation in campus life.” for Israel, Committee for Accuracy in Middle Zionist students are not on campus is part It called the scheduling of a vote on a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-backed motion so East Reporting in America, Institute for Black of BDS activists’ strategy to eliminate Israel’s close to a major Jewish holiday a “malevolent manipulation of student government procedure in Solidarity with Israel, Middle East Forum, narrative from campus conversations. order to eliminate pro-Israel voices from debates about BDS.” Th e letter urged President Anthony Monaco and the university’s board of trustees to uphold their “ethical obligations” and ensure all students have the ability to voice their views. It also recommended fi ve ways to create an improved free-speech environment on campus. Th ese included directing the TCU senate “to nullify the divestment resolution vote and schedule a re-vote for a time when the resolution can be fairly discussed and debated”; the imposition of “prompt and appro- Think Tank Sues US Homeland Security Department Over Alleged Hiding of Potential Funding of Islamist Groups

BY JNS.ORG

A Philadelphia-based think tank focusing on Mideast issues has fi led a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the Obama-era Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) grant program. Th e Middle East Forum (MEF) said the grant program, which was designed to assist communities to counter violent extremist recruitment and radicalization, may have given funds to American Islamist groups with their own ties to radical Islam. In January, days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, MEF fi led a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with DHS seeking documents about the selection criteria and specifi c decisions regarding CVE grants. DHS failed to reply within the 20-day period mandated by law. DHS informed the think tank March 23 that no documents had been found. Th ink Tank Sues US Homeland Security Department Over Alleged Hiding of Potential Funding of Islamist Groups

US Department of Homeland Security seal. Photo: Wikimedia Com- mons. A6 | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 Opinion. Rivers of Tears for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers

told with faces and grieving families. Seriously? Seven decades after the But there is a deeper reason. Holocaust Jews are still dying? You mean, SHMULEY BOTEACH In surveying the slaughter of the even when we have a state, even when we Holocaust, one accepts a terrible narrative have an army, parents are still burying their Graves of fallen IDF soldiers at the Mount ENGELWOOD Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. Photo: IDF that the Jews were a stateless and defense- children? Just one week after Yom HaShoah via Wikimedia Commons. less people at the mercy and whim of others. — Holocaust Remembrance Day — we have When the Germans turned against them Yom HaZikaron, where we cry and mourn all service to ensure that their country is not in their monstrous fury, they had no one to over again? subject to another genocide? I did not cry upon my third visit to protect them. Do we Jews ever stop mourning? Do we I have two children who have already Auschwitz last week. My daughters did, but Fast forward to the March of the Living, ever stop crying? It reaches the point where it served in the IDF. I could not be prouder of I didn’t. I can’t quite explain why. Perhaps it which this year featured an incredibly becomes obscene. their service. God was kind to us. Our children was because I cannot wrap my head around eloquent address on the part of Lt. Gen. Gadi And yes, I understand. It’s different now. entered safely and exited safely. the magnitude of the tragedy of the Holocaust. Eizenkot, Israel’s chief of staff, explaining that We’re fighting back. We’re resisting. We’re But for all those families who were not as Perhaps because one million Jews dying in a the IDF would never allow that to happen bringing the battle to our enemies. We’re fortunate, today is a bitter, bitter day. death camp is an impersonal statistic. Perhaps again. The Jewish people today have a country inflicting pain upon those who would blow up I am thankful to God for Israel. I am because the crematoria are rubble, destroyed and they have an army to protect them. They our buses and rain rockets on our cities. And thankful to all the brave soldiers who protect by the Nazis to hide their crimes. Or perhaps, will never again allow anyone to harm them. yet, there are so many Jews who are still being the Jewish state and allow it to flourish. ironically, because I felt guilty at feeling If the Germans were to attempt a genocide of attacked, so many who are still dying. But I remain flummoxed to my core at inspired by the March of the Living, in which I the Jews today, they might possibly be nuked. As I said to my friend sitting next to me at the the necessity of the Jews to live by arms, when participated. Ten thousand young Jews joining That is the principle theme of the March Yom HaZikaron service, which nation has to live all we wished was to bring light to a world that senior IDF officers at Auschwitz was incredibly of the Living. We remember the past, we like this? Who has to put up with this garbage? learned the value of peace from our ancient uplifting. But I did not feel that I had a right to mourn the martyrs. But we do so amidst Yes, I know other nations mourn their prophets who preached human harmony in feel uplifted in a place of such horror. the overall understanding that with Israel in fallen soldiers, too. I’m an American and town squares when the glory of battle was Regardless, I did not cry at the most existence today we can fight back and prevent my heart bleeds for the brave soldiers of the championed as humanity’s highest calling. horrible place on earth. another Holocaust. US military who die in foreign wars to bring Perhaps the world should finally get over But last night, in my hometown of But then, along comes Israel’s Memorial freedom to oppressed peoples around the its problem with the Jews and allow us not only Miami where I was raised, I cried bitterly as Day. And what do you see? My God, my God. globe. But unlike the Jews, other nations are to live in peace, but to also influence the rest of I attended a ceremony for Yom HaZikaron, Jews are still dying. Even today Jews are marked not faced with possible annihilation and the world to embrace the blessings of peace. Israel’s Memorial Day, mourning Israel’s for murder by terrorists. Even today Jews must extinction every day of their existence. I still believe that that day will come. fallen soldiers. I unexpectedly found my face push back against annihilatory enemies who So I started to cry. The narrative that I Ani maamin be’emunah shleimah b’vias wet with tears. At one point I worried about have invaded Israel time and again to push the had heard at Auschwitz on the March of the haMoshiach. I believe with a perfect faith that sobbing too loudly for fear of embarrassing Jews and drown them in the sea. Living was not entirely accurate. Young Jews the Messiah will one day usher in a period of myself in front of the people around me. I tried to explain this to my friend of 25 are still being marked for murder. This time everlasting peace. And yet, the numbers of soldiers lost in all years Senator Cory Booker when he voted for around the numbers are fewer. And we get to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s of Israel’s wars over 70 years — about 24,000 the Iran nuclear deal. I tried to explain that have graves and headstones, rather than being Rabbi,” whom The Washington Post calls — is not even three days work at Auschwitz Iran is clear about its intention to destroy turned into piles of anonymous ash. “the most famous rabbi in America,” is where 10,000 Jews were gassed and inciner- Israel and the only reason it has not done so But for God’s sake, what is the world’s the international bestselling author of ated every day. is it lacks the capacity, which is why voting to problem with the Jews that our young people 31 books, including his most recent “The So why did Israel’s Memorial Day touch give it 6,500 centrifuges — in the belief that it have to dedicate three years of their lives in Israel Warrior.” Follow him on Twitter @ me so much more deeply? No doubt part of will use them for peaceful purposes — was an the prime of their youth to mandatory military RabbiShmuley. the reason was seeing the individual stories abomination.

in power. That effort ensures Islamic State will threw away in his feckless drive to get a deal never be defeated, since so long as Assad and at any price. his Shiite Iranian and Hezbollah forces are By designating any company involved Why the Iran Debate Is let loose in the country, the Sunni population with the IRGC as a terrorist entity, the US will look to the terrorists for protection. Iran’s could use existing American laws to essen- Not Over increased ability to deploy its terrorist allies tially reimpose economic sanctions in a way also poses a threat to any effort to promote that would put the brakes on Iran’s efforts to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, or reconnect to the global economy. Moreover, between Israel and the Arab world. though the Europeans and the Russians may and economically — by Obama’s misguided But those who assumed the Trump not agree, Washington could force the rest of effort to create detente with Tehran. administration would give up and deem the the world to follow its lead by making it clear JONATHAN S. TOBIN At best, the pact with Iran merely kicked problem insoluble may be wrong. Contrary that those who do business with terrorists will JNS.ORG the can down the road on the nuclear threat, to his critics’ assumptions, Trump does not not be able to also conduct commerce with since the accord will expire in a decade. need to tear up the deal to attempt to undo American companies or use US banks. With its advanced nuclear infrastructure and its consequences. The pact gave broad leeway Support for such a policy should be research ability left intact, Iran will soon be to its signatories to interpret its terms. This bipartisan and ought to be strengthened by in position to achieve its nuclear ambitions means Trump can police Iran far more strictly growing knowledge of Obama’s disinterest in When the Obama administration while having its economy bolstered by revived than Obama did. By tightening restrictions enforcement of the nuclear agreement. Polit- managed to avoid a congressional vote on ties with the West. Yet by deliberately ignoring on terror groups — such as Iran’s Islamic ico’s exposé about the prior administration’s its nuclear deal with Iran in 2015 courtesy of Iran’s role as the world’s leading state sponsor Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which decision to abandon the curbing of illegal a Democratic Senate filibuster, the argument of terrorism, its illegal testing of ballistic has a hand in much of the country’s economic Iranian efforts to procure military and nuclear surrounding the controversial agreement missiles, and its military adventures in Iran activity — the US can start to recreate the material makes clear not only the mendacity seemed to be over. That’s why Democrats and Yemen, Obama’s deal essentially made leverage over the ayatollahs that Obama of Obama’s effort to sell the deal, but the need are reacting with impatience and skepticism the Islamist regime even more dangerous to to reopen the issue of sanctions. about statements from the Trump adminis- its Arab neighbors, as well as to Israel and the Reopening this issue is the only course tration about re-evaluating the deal. West, while seemingly leaving Trump with no of action the US can take to curb the growing Yet rather than an impotent gesture choice but to live with the mess he inherited. power of Iran, and to have any hope of creating designed to distract us from a decision not President Barack Obama left office stability in the Middle East or defeating to tear up the accord that President Donald certain that the unwillingness of America’s Islamist terror. Rather than dismissing this as Trump blasted throughout the 2016 election Western allies and the Russians to think about mere Trumpian bluster, those who purport campaign, the administration’s talk of reimposing sanctions on Iran essentially to care about Israel or peace should be reopening the issue should be taken seriously. foreclosed any effort to revisit the deal. Western applauding the effort to revisit the Iran deal. Trump’s foreign policy team is coming to grips Europeans wish to benefit from the lifting of Former US Secretary of State John Kerry Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor with the fact that everything it hopes to accom- sanctions, while Moscow has worked closely speaking with Iranian Foreign Minister of JNS.org and a contributing writer for plish in the Middle East as well as threats to US with Iran in Syria as they pursue a joint war Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria, National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: security are connected to an Iranian regime to keep the barbarous Bashar Assad regime July 2015. @jonathans_tobin. immeasurably strengthened — both politically Photo: US State Department via Wikimedia Commons. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 A7 Opinion. What’s at Stake in the The NY Times Whitewashes Sebastian Gorka Dispute Hezbollah Terrorism

President Obama and his secretary of state IRA STOLL John Kerry were in power, the State Depart- ment named three Hezbollah operatives as BEN COHEN/JNS.ORG BOSTON “specially designated global terrorists.” NEW YORK According to the State Department release: On July 18, 2012, a bombing at the airport in Burgas, Bulgaria killed six people, Twice in the past two days, the New including five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian For much of this year, a bitter debate York Times has identified the terrorist group citizen. In July 2013, Meliad Farah and Hassan has raged over the character and opinions Hezbollah as a “militant group.” el-Hajj Hassan were publicly identified as of Sebastian Gorka, who was appointed as a “Militant” is a euphemism, a word the key suspects in the bombing, which has been deputy adviser to President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka with US President Donald Times is using as a way to flinch from calling attributed to Hizballah, a designated Foreign Trump. Photo: Facebook. shortly after the inauguration in January. the group what it actually is, which is a Terrorist Organization (FTO). Both are I have — until now — resisted the — and by extension, nationalism in Hungary. terrorist group. believed to be located in Lebanon. temptation to dip a toe into this dispute. The great historian of ideas, Sir Isaiah A news article in the April 27 issue of the Hussein Atris is a member of Hizballah’s Many of Gorka’s detractors call him an Berlin, observed in one of his lectures that there paper, by the Times Jerusalem bureau chief, overseas terrorism unit. In 2012, Atris was antisemite, citing his documented links with was a tremendous surge in historical studies Ian Fisher, begins, “Syrian and rebel officials arrested in Thailand in connection with a terror far-right organizations in his native Hungary. during the 19th century, at the same time that blamed Israel for several explosions Thursday warning about a possible attack in Bangkok. His defenders have angrily described the technological innovation, the growth of cities morning at warehouses near the Damascus Atris was found to be hiding nearly three accusation as a smear. And so, inevitably, and the spread of trade buried the values and airport that the Israeli news media said were tons of ammonium nitrate, a component in a cycle of barbs has begun — with the usual beliefs of traditionally agrarian societies. It was housing weapons bound for the Lebanese the manufacture of explosives. In 2013, a Thai ad hominems embedded into political no accident; the study of history gave people militant group Hezbollah.” court sentenced Atris to two years and eight exchanges. It’s undignified, and it reminds a sense of identity, and fueled their desire to A news article in the April 28 New York months in prison for illegally possessing the me of similarly frustrating arguments about belong to something bigger and more inspiring Times, looking back at President Trump’s materials. He was released in September 2014, whether certain individuals on the left are than their immediate surroundings. National “100 Days on the World Stage,” used similar and traveled to Sweden and later Lebanon, trading in antisemitic tropes. pride swept across different social classes like language. It reported, “some in Lebanon fear where he is believed to be located currently. So let me say at the outset: I have never no other political force — liberating for those that Mr. Trump will give Israel a green light to On January 9, 2017, in the waning days of the met Gorka, have never spoken with him and waving flags, but all too often harsh towards attack the militant group Hezbollah as a way Obama administration, the Kerry State Depart- can’t say that I’m hugely familiar with his work. those minorities caught on the wrong side of a to hit its patron Iran.” ment named two more Hezbollah terrorists: That said, there is very little evidence out there national border. Well, some in Lebanon may “fear” that, Ali Damush is a senior leader of Hizballah, justifying the accusation of antisemitism. Gorka Depending on where you were in Europe, but some in America may hope for it. If so, it’s a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and does not, so far as I can tell, believe that there is national pride could be indistinguishable from because those Americans, unlike the Times an aide to its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, a a Jewish conspiracy propelling the world to a plain bigotry. But this wasn’t always the case editors and reporters, comprehend that Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). global conflict. Nor does he believe that Jews in Hungary. During the 19th century, when Hezbollah isn’t a mere “militant group,” but is Damush leads Hizballah’s Foreign Relations are literally or figuratively “bloodsuckers,” that Hungary was part of the Austrian Habsburg actually a blood-drenched terrorist group. Department, which engages in covert terrorist Jews are congenital liars, that Jews are more Empire, Hungarian intellectuals pushed a As a New York Sun editorial from 2002 operations around the world on behalf of loyal to Israel than their own countries, or that nationalism that was comparatively liberal. put it: Hizballah, including recruiting terrorist opera- the state of Israel is a colonial interloper with For example, Istvan Szechenyi, an aristocrat Hezbollah has American blood on its tives and gathering intelligence. no right to a sovereign existence. often referred to as the “Greatest Hungarian,” hands. It is a terrorist organization with global Mustafa Mughniyeh is a commander in These are some of the basic elements of was a social reformer and entrepreneur whose reach. According to the State Department’s Hizballah. He is the nephew of the terrorist an antisemitic worldview. If Gorka does not famed Budapest social club was open to latest report on global terrorism, Hezbollah is group’s previous military commander buy into any of these, he is not an antisemite. Jews — quite something by the standards of “Known or suspected to have been involved Mustafa Badreddine and the son of the I find it suspicious that a good number of the time. Both he and Lajos Kossuth, another in numerous anti-US and anti-Israeli terrorist notorious Hizballah military commander those driving the antisemitism accusations in nationalist leader, favored ending legal restric- attacks, including the suicide truck bombings Imad Mughniyeh. Mustafa Mughniyeh once his direction are, if not outright supporters of tions on Jews, even if they couldn’t quite bring of the US Embassy and US Marine barracks led Hizballah’s operations in the Golan the BDS hate campaign (today’s most potent themselves to support full emancipation. in Beirut in 1983 and the US Embassy annex Heights, helping organize the group’s terrorist expression of antisemitism), willing to accept Yet antisemitism remained a force in in Beirut in September 1984.” The report infrastructure. its self-image as an anti-racist movement Hungary, particularly among the nation’s says, “Three members of Hizballah – ‘Imad The imposition of sanctions by the championing civil rights, when what BDS peasants. After World War I, in which Hungary Mughniyah, Hasan Izz-al-Din, and Ali Atwa United States against terrorists like Damush really does is reinvent reactionary tropes participated on the losing side, the country lost – are on the FBI’s list of 22 Most-Wanted and Mughniyeh is a powerful tool. Today’s about Jews for the social media generation. two-thirds of its territory and descended into a Terrorists for the hijacking in 1985 of TWA action notifies the U.S. public and the inter- But that is not the end of the matter. One terrible famine. Out of the chaos came a commu- Flight 847 during which a US Navy diver national community that Ali Damush and of the more interesting subsidiary arguments nist revolution led by Bela Kun — a Jew of Galician was murdered. Elements of the group were Mustafa Mughniyeh are actively engaged in during the Gorka affair has concerned his origin whose real name was Berele Kohn. responsible for the kidnapping and detention terrorism. involvement with Vitezi Rend, an ultranation- Kun was a brute and a sadist. But his “Red of US and other Westerners in Lebanon in If the Times really wants to be picky alist organization founded by Miklos Horthy, Terror” was replaced by the “White Terror” of the 1980s. Hizballah also attacked the Israeli about not seeming to take sides, it could write the Jew-loathing Hungarian leader who ruled Horthy, who overthrew him in 1920. At least Embassy in Argentina in 1992 and the Israeli something like, “Hezbollah, which Israel and the country from 1920-1944. 5,000 Jews were slaughtered in the subse- cultural center in Buenos Aires in 1994.” the US government consider a terrorist group No serious historian disputes Horthy’s quent pogroms. …A Hezbollah statement in 1992 vowed, but the New York Times insists is merely a antisemitism. Yet many of Gorka’s defenders There was antisemitic legislation, too. “It is an open war until the elimination of militant group.” But soft-pedaling the term have sought to downplay the uncompro- Horthy’s “numerus clausus” policy severely Israel and until the death of the last Jew on “terrorist” or dancing around avoiding it just mising, violent nature of Horthy’s Jew-hatred, restricted Jewish attendance at universi- earth.” In 2002, [Hezbollah’s leader] Sheik makes the Times itself look ridiculous. If on the grounds that, in essence, “he wasn’t as ties. His prime minister, Gyula von Gombos, Nasrallah was quoted by the Lebanon Daily Hezbollah were just targeting US or Israeli bad as Hitler.” enthusiastically pushed Hungary into the Star as encouraging Jews to move to Israel. military targets that would be one thing. But Since only a handful of dictators — Stalin, camp of Nazi Germany. Jews were viciously “If they all gather in Israel, it will save us the the group goes after commercial airliners Mao, Syria’s Assad dynasty — bear even a purged from the media and other professions. trouble of going after them worldwide,” he and Jewish civilians abroad, according to the passing resemblance to Hitler, that strikes me In 1944, Horthy — reconsidering his was quoted as saying. US State Department. If that doesn’t amount as a disingenuous defense. When it comes to options as Hitler faced military defeat — was Nor is this old news, or just the New to terrorism in the New York Times’ view, it’s antisemites, none have been as foul as Hitler. overthrown by hard-line Nazi sympathizers. York Sun’s opinion. On April 28, 2015, when hard to imagine what does. The age-old human desire to make The murder of Hungary’s Jews began in the narrative of the past fit with our current earnest. But does this exonerate him in any Admiral Horthy’s regime and put to death en Gorka’s enemies. imperatives disables, rather than enables, way? It doesn’t and it shouldn’t. masse at Auschwitz in 1944.” Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower. a calm historical inquiry into what Horthy Nor should it lead us to conclude that Hence my point: The Gorka defense org & The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly actually believed and did. If your sole purpose Horthy didn’t participate in the Holocaust, should not rest on the reputation of this column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and is to prove Horthy wasn’t Hitler in order to when he clearly did. As the Jewish historian opportunistic, murderous dictator. Horthy Middle Eastern politics. His writings have been defend Gorka, your predispositions are going Howard Sachar wrote, there was the matter of will forever be remembered as an oppressor published in Commentary, the New York Post, to blind you to the importance of certain facts. the “150,000 Transylvanian Jews of Hungary of the Jewish people. Let us never lose sight Haaretz, The Wall Street Journal and many Like it or not, to understand the conflict who, as ‘foreigners’ unlike the Jews of ‘integral’ of this, regardless of the unsavory antics of other publications. around Gorka, you need to understand Horthy Hungary, were turned over to the Nazis by A8 | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 Impressions.

Iranian-Jewish An Open Letter to Ed Asner on Fashion Designers Israel Talk About ‘Reality’ of Antisemitism BY JACK SALZBERG • hijacked the Jewish high holidays for anti-Israel During Acceptance messaging; and Dear Mr. Asner, • defended an anti-Israel third grade event in of Leadership Award Some of my best early memories were of Ithaca, New York. watching you on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I was You have said that you “do not support BDS,” but, proud when I learned that you were Jewish, and as you clearly see, JVP is one of the most aggressive I was in awe when I eventually watched you and supporters and promoters of BDS globally. Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin lead our Yom Kippur service at You have said that you “just want peace.” So do BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN the Stephen S. Wise Temple. Therefore, it personally the Israelis, who have endured almost seven decades pained me to have to lead a campaign to stop you The Iranian-Jewish brothers behind a global from being honored with a Lifetime Achievement fashion company talked last Wednesday about Award given by the Jewish Journal’s Los Angeles antisemitism as they received a leadership award at Jewish Film Festival, and sponsored by, among the American Friends of the Soroka Medical Center’s others, the Anti-Defamation League. fifth annual gala in New York. You see, Mr. Asner, your distinguished career Iranian-born Saul and Abraham Maslavi — the and professional achievements in the context of owners of Jovani Fashions — were honored with the a Jewish film festival are incompatible with your Fashion Industry Leadership Award at the benefit serving on the advisory board of arguably one of the dinner — which took place at The Pierre hotel in most active and virulently anti-Israel organizations: Manhattan. During their acceptance speech, Saul Jewish Voice for Peace. Maslavi discussed the discrimination he faced from Knowing that you are a good person, forever his peers when he attending boarding school in fighting for the underdog, I can only believe that you England as a youngster. were inadvertently misguided about Jewish Voice “As a foreigner and Jew I was the target of much for Peace. If that is the case, you should know the antisemitism and abuse,” he said. “Thank God that was following: short-lived…[but] discrimination is part of the Jewish • According to the Anti-Defamation League: “Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest and most influential Ed Asner. Photo: Wiki Commons. Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States. Despite the neutral tone of its name, JVP works to demonstrate Jewish opposition to the State of Israel of war and brutal terrorist attacks. The Israelis who and to steer public support away from the Jewish grew up in bomb shelters and lost family and friends State.” — they too, want peace. The Jewish parents who send • According to NGO Monitor: “JVP’s strategy is their children to the army to protect Israel — they to create ‘a wedge‘ within the American Jewish too, want peace. But Jewish Voice for Peace has never community, while working toward the goal of sought peace for Israel; JVP has only supported those eliminating US economic, military, and political who refuse to accept Israel’s right to exist, and have aid to Israel.” committed atrocities against our people. • Jewish Voice for Peace’s executive director, Mr. Asner, you can’t be an advisor to one of Rebecca Vilkomerson, was the presenter of the the most hateful anti-Israel organizations, and at Gandhi Peace Award at Yale to Omar Barghouti, the same time distance yourself from their values, the co-founder of the global BDS campaign. platform and actions. When you received your Lifetime Achieve- Abraham, left, and Saul Maslavi. Photo: Presley Ann Jewish Voice for Peace: for Patrick McMullan. • endorses the BDS campaign in total, including ment Award, hopefully you said a few comforting a complete cultural, educational and economic and sympathetic words about Israel. I’m sure that the people there would have appreciated that from reality. This is why I’m a firm Zionist and I believe in boycott of Israel; a legendary Jewish figure. Yet my greatest hope was protecting the State of Israel. We should always help our • led a boycott against the Chicago Festival of that, when you received your award, you would have Jewish homeland and contribute as much as we can.” Israeli Cinema; publicly denounced Jewish Voice for Peace, and then MAY 2, 2017 3:59 PM0 • successfully urged Oscar-nominated actors to resigned from their advisory board. Then, Mr. Asner, In New Book, Ivanka Trump Says Jewish High boycott a free trip to Israel; you truly would have been worthy of a Lifetime Holidays Allowed Her to Unwind During Election • brought a convicted Palestinian terrorist who Achievement Award. Campaign murdered two Jewish students and wounded Sincerely, In a new book, President Donald Trump’s Jewish nine people in Jerusalem to speak at its national Jack Saltzberg daughter Ivanka credits her religious observance for convention in Chicago; Founder / Executive Director having enabled her to unwind... • aggressively tried to disrupt and shut down The Israel Group Wednesday’s event raised over $40 pro-Israel events such as a talk by Israeli Prime [email protected] Wednesday’s event raised over $400,000 for the Minister Netanyahu, a Taglit Birthright reunion Soroka Medical Center’s women’s health projects, and an AIPAC conference; including Soroka’s Breast Health Center, Negev Center for Eating Disorders, and the Saban Birth & Mater- nity Center, a spokesperson told The Algemeiner. The evening included a fashion show of designs by Jovani, a family-owned business that the Maslavi brothers’ late father, Jacob, founded in 1980. Soroka Medical Center makes everyone feel good by Located in Beersheba, the hospital treated Abraham Maslavi said his father’s vision for the bringing them health and happiness.” 6.5 million people last year, according to American fashion brand connects with efforts of the Soroka The other honorees at the gala were Sonia Friends of the Soroka Medical Center. Wednesday’s Medical Center. Gardner — president, managing partner and event highlighted the fact that the medical facility “[My father’s] main goal was to create gowns that co-founder of Avenue Capital Group — and the late has cared for patients from a diverse range cultures will make every woman feel good about themselves,” David Dubinsky, who helped establish the Soroka and backgrounds. he said. “Jovani gowns are about [promoting] the Medical Center together with the late first Prime “Soroka gives us hope that our world will grow inner beauty and confidence of every woman, just as Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion. from acceptance and unity,” Abraham Maslavi noted. www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 A9 Legal Notice.

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Purpose: Savings Fund Society, FSB, D/B/A NY 11201 on May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure Said premises known as 278 Milford all lawful activity Christiana Trust, Not Individually premises known as 203 Hale Avenue, and Sale duly dated November 03, Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208. (Block: AJ 4/7/14/21/28; 5/5/12 But as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Brooklyn, NY 11208. All that certain 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will 4040, Lot: 33). Approximate amount Acquisition Trust, Plaintiff, vs. plot piece or parcel of land, with the sell at public auction at the Room 224 of lien $ 294,553.79 plus interest and Notice of formation of limited liability Philbert Patrick Ifill; Chrystaline Ifill, buildings and improvements erected, of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 costs. Premises will be sold subject company (LLC) Name: DEREK ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to situate, lying and being in the Borough Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York to provisions of filed judgment and BRAHNEY LLC . Articles of organiza- a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and 11201, on May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, terms of sale. Index No. 500176-14. tion filed with secretary of state of New and Order to Amend Caption duly State of NY, Block 3960 Lot 7. Approxi- premises known as 305 EAST 38TH Judy S. Mock, Esq., Referee. Stern & York (SSNY) on 01/24/2017. Office filed on February 07, 2017, I, the mate amount of judgment $836,129.70 STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11203. All Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff location Kings county. SSNY has undersigned Referee will sell at public plus interest and costs. Premises will that certain plot piece or parcel of land, Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B been designated as agent of the LLC auction at the Kings County Supreme be sold subject to provisions of filed with the buildings and improvements Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ upon whom process against it may Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Judgment Index# 504155/2014. Bruno erected, situate, lying and being in the 08830 (732) 582-6344 be served. SSNY Shall mail process to Brooklyn, NY on May 18, 2017 at 2:30 F. Codispoti, Esq., Referee Shapiro, Borough and County of Kings, City and AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12 the LLC C/O United States Corpora- p.m., premises known as 260 East 46th DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for State of New York, BLOCK 4892, LOT tion Agents 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202 Street, Brooklyn, NY. All that certain the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- 41. Approximate amount of judgment Notice of formation of J 242B LLC. Brooklyn New York 11228. Purpose: plot, piece or parcel of land, with the vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) $719,521.43 plus interest and costs. Articles of Org. filed with the Secre- all lawful activity buildings and improvements thereon 759-1835 Dated: March 30, 2017 Premises will be sold subject to provi- tary of State of New York (SSNY) on AJ 4/7/14/21/28; 5/5/12 erected, situate, lying and being in the AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12 sions of filed Judgment for Index# 03/13/2017. Office located in Kings Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, 21745/2013. Jeffrey R. Miller, Esq., county. SSNY has been designated NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT City and State of New York, Block 4850 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for service of process. SSNY shall mail COUNTY OF KINGS Nationstar and Lot 16. Approximate amount of COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite copy of any process served against Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST judgment is $510,976.55 plus interest National Association, as Trustee for 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 the LLC to: Ridgewood Realty Group Taryn Miller a/k/a Taryn C. Miller; and costs. Premises will be sold Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12 LLC, 17 Wyckoff Avenue 2nd Floor, Richard Paul a/k/a Richard Paul, Jr.; subject to provisions of filed Judgment Securities Corp., CSMC Mortgage- Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: Any et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Index # 506836/14. Steven Z. Naiman, Backed Pass-Through Certificates, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME lawful activity or purpose. Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski Series 2006-6, Plaintiff AGAINST COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12/19/26 duly dated February 4, 2017 I, the & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Ste. Andrea Romeo; et al., Defendant(s) BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, undersigned Referee will sell at public 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME auction at the Kings County Supreme Plaintiff and Sale duly dated August 8, 2016 I, AMERICA, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO COURT COUNTY OF KINGS PNC Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, AJ 4/14/21/28; 5/5/ the undersigned Referee will sell at LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE Bank, National Association, Plaintiff Brooklyn, NY 11201 on May 18, 2017 public auction at the Kings County FOR MERRILL LYNCH FIRST AGAINST Renata Ramdass; et al., at 2:30PM, premises known as 1113 Notice of Qualification of SITEX Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment East 93rd Street Apt 500, Brooklyn, GROUP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET- of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated NY 11236. All that certain plot piece or with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES September 14, 2016 I, the undersigned parcel of land, with the buildings and on 03/28/17. Office location: Kings known as 2952 Gerritsen Avenue, 2007-2, Plaintiff AGAINST ANNISA Referee will sell at public auction at improvements erected, situate, lying County. LLC formed in Illinois (IL) on Brooklyn, NY 11229. All that certain DANCE and RUSSELL DANCE, et al., the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, 05/01/01. Princ. office of LLC: 68 Ferris plot piece or parcel of land, with the Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. SSNY desig- buildings and improvements erected, of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated NY 11201 on June 1, 2017 at 2:30PM, Block 8181 Lot 1009. Approximate nated as agent of LLC upon whom situate, lying and being in the Borough February 01, 2017 I, the undersigned premises known as 964 East 43rd amount of judgment $161,886.48 process against it may be served. SSNY of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City Referee will sell at public auction at the Street, Brooklyn, NY 11210. All that plus interest and costs. Premises shall mail process to c/o Corporation and State of NY, Block 8900 Lot 866. Room 224 of Kings County Supreme certain plot piece or parcel of land, will be sold subject to provisions of Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY Approximate amount of judgment Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, with the buildings and improvements filed Judgment Index# 501348/2014. 12207-2543. IL addr. of LLC: 9525 W. $243,106.99 plus interest and costs. New York 11201, on May 25, 2017 erected, situate, lying and being in the Steven Naimen, Referee Shapiro, Bryn Maur Ave., Ste. 955, Rosemont, IL Premises will be sold subject to at 2:30PM, premises known as 686 Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for 60018. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of provisions of filed Judgment Index# WORTMAN AVENUE, BROOKLYN, City and State of NY, Section 23 Block the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- State, 213 State Capitol, Springfield, IL 510782/2015. Gregory Laspina, Esq., NY 11208. All that certain plot piece or 7746 Lot 59. Approximate amount of vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 62756. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC parcel of land, with the buildings and judgment $384,277.96 plus interest 759-1835 Dated: March 21, 2017 AJ 4/14/21/28; 5/5/ Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile improvements erected, situate, lying and costs. Premises will be sold subject AJ 4/14/21/28; 5/5/ Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New and being in the Borough and County to provisions of filed Judgment Index# NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: of Kings, City and State of New York, 502013/2014. Steven H. Richman, Notice of formation of a limited liability COUNTY OF KINGS MorEquity, March 3, 2017 BLOCK 4546, LOT 100. Approximate Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, company (LLC) Name: FUNCTIONAL Inc, Plaintiff AGAINST Michael P AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12 amount of judgment $844,763.15 LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 FITNESS NY,LLC . Articles of organi- Maxwell a/k/a Michael Maxwell; et al., plus interest and costs. Premises will Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, zation filed with the secretary of state Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT be sold subject to provisions of filed New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 of New York (SSNY) on 03/14/2017. of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK Judgment for Index# 511425/2014. Dated: April 14, 2017 Office location Richmond County March 20, 2017 I, the undersigned TRUST, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 David J. Hernandez Esq., Referee AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19 SSNY has been designated as agent of Referee will sell at public auction at MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for the LLC upon whom process against the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Plaintiff AGAINST HORACE SYKES, Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN it may be served.SSNY shall Mail Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Williamsville, NY 14221 FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT process to functional fitness NY,LLC NY 11201 on May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale AJ 4/21/28; 5/5/12 – COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK 70 Avon Lane staten Island, NY 10314 premises known as 370 Marion Street, duly dated March 06, 2017 I, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT purpose: all lawful activity Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that certain undersigned Referee will sell at public SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AJ 4/14/21/28; 5/5/12/19 plot piece or parcel of land, with the auction at the Room 224 of Kings KINGS HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plain- BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE buildings and improvements erected, County Supreme Court, 360 Adams tiff against LEON S. POWDAR, et al OF SW REMIC TRUST 2014-2 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT situate, lying and being in the Borough Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment WITHOUT RECOURSE, Plaintiff – COUNTY OF KINGS BAYVIEW LOAN of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City May 25, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises of Foreclosure and Sale entered on against – DARREN DOWNES, et al SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST and State of NY, Block 1520 Lot 39. known as 1343 JEFFERSON AVENUE, October 12, 2016. I, the undersigned Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment MARCUS SMITH, et al., Defendant(s) Approximate amount of judgment BROOKLYN, NY 11221. All that certain Referee will sell at public auction in of Foreclosure and Sale entered on Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure $543,658.94 plus interest and costs. plot piece or parcel of land, with the Room 224 of the Kings County Court- March 3, 2017. I, the undersigned and Sale duly dated December 15, Premises will be sold subject to buildings and improvements erected, house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Referee will sell at public auction, in 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will provisions of filed Judgment Index# situate, lying and being in the Borough N.Y. on the 25th day of May, 2017 at Room 274 of Kings County Supreme sell at public auction at the Room 224 503748/2013. Shmuel D. Taub, Esq., of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and 2:30 p.m. premises ALL that certain Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC State of New York, BLOCK 3384, LOT plot, piece or parcel of land, with the NY 11201 on the 1st Day of June, 2017 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile 48. Approximate amount of judgment buildings and improvements thereon Continued on Page A10 A10 | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 Legal Notice.

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Continued from Page A9 to provisions of filed judgment and plot piece or parcel of land, with the Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, Lot: 61 Approximate amount of terms of sale. Index No. 501000-14. buildings and improvements erected, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 lien $479,903.07 plus interest and at 2:30 p.m. All that certain plot, piece Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee. Stern & situate, lying and being in the Borough Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New costs. Premises will be sold subject or parcel of land, with the buildings Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to provisions of filed judgment and improvements thereon erected, Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B State of New York, BLOCK 7788, LOT to judgment of foreclosure and sale Index # 501183/2015 JEFFREY R. situate, lying and being in the Borough Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ 59. Approximate amount of judgment granted herein on or about March 6, MILLER, ESQ., REFEREE STEIN, of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City 08830 (732) 582-6344 $667,255.69 plus interest and costs. 2017, I will sell at Public Auction to WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTOR- and State of New York. Premises AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19/ Premises will be sold subject to provi- the highest bidder in Room 224 at the NEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE known as 546 Chauncey Street, sions of filed Judgment for Index# Kings County Supreme Court, 360 OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 Brooklyn, NY 11233. (Block: 1517, SUPREME COURT – COUNTY 508209/2014. Helene E. Blank Esq., Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York. CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: Lot: 117) Approximate amount of lien OF KINGS STATE OF NEW YORK Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney On June 8, 2017 at 2:30 pm. Premises April 25, 2017 FILE #: WELLS 66757 $625,716.67 plus interest and costs. MORTGAGE AGENCY, Plaintiff for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite known as 564 WYTHE AVENUE UNIT AJ 5/5/12/19/26 Premises will be sold subject to provi- against REGINA WILLIAMS, ANDRE 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 8a, BROOKLYN, NY 11249-6642 Block: sions of filed judgment and terms of WILLIAMS, et al Defendant(s). AJ 5/5/12/19/26 02165 Lot: 1131 The Condominium NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court sale. Index No. 501136/2014. Jeffrey Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- Unit (the "Unit") known as Unit No. County Of Kings PennyMac Corp., R. Miller, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink sure and Sale entered on March 27, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT 8A in the premises (the "Premises") Plaintiff AGAINST Nataliya Dobrer, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East 2017. I, the undersigned Referee will COUNTY OF KINGS JPMorgan known as and by the street number et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY sell at public auction in Room 224 of Chase Bank, National Association, 564 Wythe Avenue, Borough of Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 Dated: the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Plaintiff AGAINST Jamal Williams, Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and duly dated 11/28/2016 and entered April 17, 2017 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 1st Individually and as Co-Administrator State of New York, and being a unit on 12/13/2016, I, the undersigned AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19/ day of June, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises of the Estate of Jermaine Williams of the Condominium plan known as Referee, will sell at public auction at described as follows: All that certain a/k/a Jermaine M. Williams a/k/a THE 564-580 PARK PLAZA CONDO- the Kings County Supreme Court, SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF plot, piece or parcel of land, with the Jermaine Michael Williams a/k/a MINIUM, said Unit being designated 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on KINGS PNC BANK, N.A., Plaintiff buildings and improvements thereon Jermain Michael Williams a/k/a and described as Unit No. 8A in a June 08, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises against CHAIM SCHWARTZ, et al erected situate, lying and being in Jermain Williams; Marcel Florestal, certain Declaration made pursuant to known as 3543 Leif Ericson Drive, Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Esq., as Guardian of Jahmeek Michael Article 9-B of the Real Property Law Unit C2 a/k/a 3543 Shore Parkway, of Foreclosure and Sale entered on Kings, City and State of New York. Said Williams and Jermere Michael of the State of New York (the "Condo- Unit C2, Brooklyn, NY 11235. All that March 24, 2017. I, the undersigned premises known as 587 Schroeders Bush-Williams; Sandy Martinez, as minium Act"), establishing a plan certain plot piece or parcel of land, Referee will sell at public auction Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11239. (Block: Co-Administratrix and Guardian for condominium ownership of the with the buildings and improvements in Room 224 of the Kings County 4586, Lot: 898) Approximate amount of Justin Michael Williams; et al., Building and the Land (the "Property") erected, situate, lying and being in the Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, of lien $ 185,859.02 plus interest and Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment upon which Parcel I of the Land, the Borough and County of Kings, City Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 1st day of June, costs. Premises will be sold subject of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated Building is situate (which Land is more and State of New York, BLOCK: 8782, 2017 at 2:30 p.m. premises Lying and to provisions of filed judgment and June 17, 2016 I, the undersigned particularly described below), which LOT: 1113. Approximate amount of being in the Borough of Brooklyn terms of sale. Index No. 505226/2013. Referee will sell at public auction at Declaration was date October 31, 2001 judgment is $622,665.31 plus inter- and State of New York. In the condo- Jageshwar Sharma, Esq., Referee. the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 and recorded on January 25, 2002 in ests and costs. Premises will be sold minium known as “The 677 Bedford Fein, Such & Crane, LLP Attorneys Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, Reel: 5451 Page 14 of the Kings County subject to provisions of filed Judgment Avenue Condominium.” Together for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite NY 11201 on June 8, 2017 at 2:30PM, Office of the Register of The City of Index # 507031/2014. Steven D. Cohn, with an undivided 25% interest in the 1800 Rochester, N.Y. 14614 (585) premises known as 647 East 103rd New York. This Unit is also designated Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS Common Elements. Said premises 232-7400 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236. All that as Tax Lot 1131 in Block 2165 of the WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 known as 677 Bedford Avenue, Unit AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19/ certain plot piece or parcel of land, Borough of Brooklyn on the Tax Map of Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 D, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11211. (Block: 2225, with the buildings and improvements the Real Property Assessment Depart- AJ 5/5/12/19/26 Lot: 1104). Approximate amount of NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME erected, situate, lying and being in the ment of The City of New York and on lien $ 496,954.62 plus interest and COURT- COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, the Floor Plans of the Building, certi- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME costs. Premises will be sold subject BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, City and State of NY, Block: 8172 Lot: fied by Maurice Brezel, R.A. and filed COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. to provisions of filed judgment and AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE 17. Approximate amount of judgment with the Real Property Assessment BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, terms of sale. Index No. 503407-14. HOLDERS OF THE ADJUSTABLE $703,031.16 plus interest and costs. Department of The City of New York as AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN Mark A. Longo, Esq., Referee. McCabe, RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 2007-3 Premises will be sold subject to Condominium Plan No. 872. Together INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. Attorney(s) ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE provisions of filed Judgment Index# with an undivided 1.358% interest NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFI- 21373/2012. Helene E. Blank, Esq., in the Common Elements (as such TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York CATES, SERIES 2007-3, Plaintiff, Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC term is defined in the Declaration). TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL 10801 (914) 636-8900 AGAINST PEDRO SALAS, et al. Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Parcel I (Lot 102). Parcel II (Lot 105). ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE UNDER AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19/ Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New As more particularly described in the THE TRUST AGREEMENT FOR THE of foreclosure and sale duly entered York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT SUPREME COURT – COUNTY November 22, 2016 I the undersigned April 12, 2017 subject to all of the terms and condi- LOAN TRUST SERIES 2004-BNC2, OF KINGS GRAND BANK, N.A., Referee will sell at public auction at AJ 5/5/12/19/26 tions contained in said judgment and Plaintiff AGAINST PRINCE H. Plaintiff against MARIE GLEASON, the Room 224, Kings County Supreme terms of sale. Approximate amount EDOSA, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME of judgment $243,813.49 plus interest to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale of Foreclosure and Sale entered on NY 11201 on June 01, 2017 at 2:30 COURT: KINGS COUNTY WELLS and costs. INDEX NO. 511587/2014 duly dated November 28, 2016 I, the March 24, 2017. I, the undersigned PM premises known as 261 CLEVE- FARGO BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff(s) Leo Salzman, Esq., Referee undersigned Referee will sell at public Referee will sell at public auction in LAND ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 All vs. SEAN O. SEATON AKA SEAN AJ 5/5/12/19/26 auction at the Room 224 of Kings Room 224 of the Kings County Court- that certain plot piece or parcel of SEATON; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney County Supreme Court, 360 Adams house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, land, with the buildings and improve- (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on N.Y. on the 1st day of June, 2017 at 2:30 ments thereon erected, situate, lying & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK June 08, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises p.m. premises described as follows: and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS known as 1106 EAST 94TH STREET, All that certain plot, piece or parcel of County of Kings City and State of New 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment TRUSTEE FOR NOMURA ASSET BROOKLYN, NY 11236. All that land, with the buildings and improve- York. Block 3954 and Lot 6 Approxi- of foreclosure and sale granted herein ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, certain plot piece or parcel of land, ments thereon erected, situate, lying mate amount of judgment $666,432.07 on or about January 3, 2017, I will sell MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH with the buildings and improvements and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, plus interest and costs. Premises will at Public Auction to the highest bidder CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AP3, erected, situate, lying and being in County of Kings, City and State of be sold subject to provisions of filed in Room 224 at the Kings County Plaintiff -against- MARIA POSNER the Borough of Brooklyn, and County New York, Bounded and described Judgment. Index #504279/2014 M Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, A/K/A M. POSNER A/K/A MARIA of Kings, City and State of New York, as follows: Beginning at a point on RANDOLPH JACKSON, ESQ., Referee, Brooklyn, NY 11201. On June 8, 2017 POSNET, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC BLOCK 8181, LOT 45. Approximate the southwesterly side of Gerritsen Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 678 REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. amount of judgment $482,776.24 Avenue 239.96 feet southeasterly from Plaintiff – 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, PENNSYLVANIA AVE, BROOKLYN, AS NOMINEE FOR ALLIANCE plus interest and costs. Premises will the corner formed by the intersection Melville, NY 11747 NY 11207-6944 Block: 4298 Lot: 27 MORTGAGE BANKING CORP., be sold subject to provisions of filed of the southwesterly side of Gerritsen AJ 4/28; 5/5/12/19/ ALL that certain lot, parcel or tract of CHEMICAL BANK, THE FIRE Judgment for Index# 511091/2014. Avenue with the southeasterly side of land, situate and lying in the Borough COMMISSIONER OF THE CITY OF DORON AVIRAM LEIBY, ESQ., Barlett Place; Running thence south- NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State NEW YORK, CITY OF NEW YORK Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney westerly parallel with Barlett Place COURT COUNTY OF KINGS of New York. As more particularly ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite and part of the distance through a FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE described in the judgment of foreclo- BOARD, GEORGE BRYANT, HENRY 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 party wall 90 feet to the northeasterly ASSOCIATION ("FANNIE MAE"), sure and sale. Sold subject to all of CLARK, SHAWN CAMPBELL, AJ 5/5/12/19/26 side of Abbey Court; Thence south- A CORPORATION ORGANIZED the terms and conditions contained Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment easterly along the northeasterly side AND EXISTING UNDER THE in said judgment and terms of sale. of foreclosure and sale duly dated SUPREME COURT – COUNTY of Abbey Court 16 feet; Thence north- LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF Approximate amount of judgment AUGUST 16, 2016 I, the undersigned OF KINGS JPMORGAN CHASE easterly parallel with Barlett Place AMERICA, Plaintiff AGAINST MARIE $459,953.94 plus interest and costs. Referee will sell at public auction to the BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIA- and part of the distance through a Y. GENESTE, BETO ENTERPRISE, INDEX NO. 10654-13 Mark A. Longo, highest bidder at ROOM 224 F/K/A TION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST party wall 90 feet to the southwesterly INC., et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to Esq., Referee ROOM 274 OF KINGS COUNTY BY PURCHASE FROM THE side of Gerritsen Avenue; and Thence a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale AJ 5/5/12/19/26 SUPREME COURT, 360 ADAMS FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE northwesterly along the southwest- duly dated February 01, 2017 I, the STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CORPORATION AS RECEIVER OF erly side of Gerritsen Avenue 16 feet undersigned Referee will sell at public NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME 11201 on June 8, 2017 at 2:30 PM WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK to the point or place of beginning. Said auction at the Room 224 of Kings COURT: KINGS COUNTY U.S. premises known as 309 ARLINGTON F/K/A WASHINGTON MUTUAL premises known as 2850 Gerritsen County Supreme Court, 360 Adams BANK TRUST, N.A. AS TRUSTEE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY 11208. BANK, FA, Plaintiff against JESSIE Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11229. (Block: Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPA- ALL that certain plot, piece of land, LOZADA; BENJAMIN LOZADA; MRS 8914, Lot: 279). Approximate amount June 08, 2017 at 2:30PM, premises TION TRUST; Plaintiff(s) vs. HYMAN situate, lying and being in the Borough LOZADA, a woman who refused of lien $ 445,747.49 plus interest and known as 1922 ALBANY AVENUE, WERZBERGER; et al; Defendant(s) of Brooklyn, County of KINGS, City to Indentify her first name; et al costs. Premises will be sold subject BROOKLYN, NY 11210. All that certain and State of New York. Block: 3927 Continued on Page A12 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 A11 Social.

New Jersey Woman Shocked by ‘Huge’ Swastikas Found on Towels Bought as Passover Gift for Jewish Friend

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN

Bobby Flay and Alez Reznik. Photo: Facebook. A woman in New Jersey was appalled when she found swastikas on newly-purchased tea towels she wanted to give a Jewish friend as a Passover gift, the Jewish Chef Wins Bobby Flay New York Post reported on Friday. Natalja Maxwell, 45, said she bought a two-pack of Cynthia Rowley towels from a Marshalls & Cooking Competition With HomeGoods location in Secaucus, NJ, on April 11 and only noticed the hate symbols — featured in the middle of the towel’s windmill designs — when Matzah Ball Soup Recipe That she got home. Reminds Him of His ‘Bubbe’

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN mother, mother [and] I make it for my daughter.” Reznik — who is originally from New Jersey — joked, A Jewish chef recently won a cook-off against “I live on Delta Airlines” — since he travels frequently celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay with matzah to manage the restaurants he is the chef and owner of, ball soup that reminds him of his grandmother, he told which are Bedford Kitchen & Wine Bar NYC, and Ditmas Th e Algemeiner on Wednesday. Kitchen & Cocktails in Los Angeles and Boca Raton. On an episode of Food Network‘s “Beat Bobby Th e chef told Th e Algemeiner of his appearance on Flay,” which aired on April 20, restaurant owner and Flay’s show, “I’m always proud to represent the Jewish chef Alex Reznik competed against a chef from Nevada community. One is [for] Hashem…that’s my number before going head-to-head with Flay himself. one. My number two is obviously my daughter [and] my Reznik said he decided to make matzah ball soup mother, not to be a little overly dramatic, and obviously as his fi nal dish in the competition because he “wanted my dad is important to my life, and my brother, and the to do something that incorporated my childhood and rest of my family.” where I grew up.” He added that keeping to the strict dietary rules of Th e CityHawk fl ying electric car. “My bubbe (Yiddish for grandmother) used to make kosher cooking during the competition was diffi cult for “It’s like six, seven, eight [wind]mills on the matzah ball soup all the time…it’s Jewish penicillin,” him. “Trust me,” he said, “my hat was really hot. Keeping towel and a huge swastika,” the Paramus resident he continued. “It brought back memories of my grand- a hat on during the whole process was very hot.” told the Post. “Not tiny — like huge, big-sized swastikas.” She added that she did not return the set of Paris-themed towels in case an unsuspecting customer might buy them. Maxwell sent complaint letters to Marshalls, Cynthia Rowley and the Anti-Defamation League, and is waiting to hear back, according to the Post. “We don’t need money, we’re just trying to tell Trump Spokesman Mocked at them, ‘Don’t sell this stuff , it’s gross,'” she said. TJX, the parent company of Marshalls & HomeGoods, apologized in a statement, saying, “We White House Correspondents’ sincerely regret the off ense this has caused.” Th e company told the Post it will pull the towels from its Association Dinner Over shelves and discard them. Holocaust Remarks

man. Only the Spice-man.” BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY Hilton — which President Donald Trump chose not to Minhaj was referring to Spicer’s April 11 attend this year — “Th e Daily Show” correspondent comments in which he said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s recent Hasan Minhaj said, “Sean Spicer’s been doing PR since “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” — controversial remarks about the Holocaust were 1999. He’s been doing his job for 18 years, and somehow overlooking the gas chambers used to kill millions of mocked on Saturday by the headline comedian at a after 18 years his go-to move when you ask him a tough Jews at concentration camps, which Spicer blandly major media gathering in Washington, DC. question is denying the Holocaust. Th at is insane. How called “Holocaust centers.” Addressing the annual White House Correspon- many people do you know that can turn a press briefi ng Spicer later apologized for his statements. dents’ Association Dinner (WHCAD) at the Washington into a full-on Mel Gibson traffi c stop? Only the Spice- www.algemeiner.com Tradition. Legal Notice.

of wealth. The prophet speaks on Judaism’s Three Voices behalf of the people, the poor, the LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE downtrodden, the abused. He or she thinks of the moral life in terms Continued from Page A10 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court of relationships: between God and Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment County Of Kings Deutsche Bank Judaism insists on the humanity and between human of Foreclosure and Sale entered on National Trust Company, as Trustee opposite: moral complexity. The beings themselves. The key terms March 27, 2017. I, the undersigned for Harborview Mortgage Loan JONATHAN SACKS moral life isn’t easy. Sometimes for the prophet are tzedek (distrib- Referee will sell at public auction in Trust Mortgage Loan Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-9, Plain- LONDON duties or loyalties clash. Sometimes utive justice), mishpat (retributive Room 224 of the Kings County Court- tiff AGAINST Alberto Licea, Diana reason says one thing, emotion justice), chessed (loving kindness) house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 8th day of June, 2017 at 2:30 Safyn, et al, Defendant Pursuant to another. More fundamentally, and rachamim (mercy, compas- p.m. premises described as follows: a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Judaism identified three distinct sion). The prophet has emotional The nineteenth chapter of All that certain plot, piece or parcel of duly dated 11/28/2016 and entered moral sensibilities each of which intelligence, sympathy and on 12/13/2016, I, the undersigned Vayikra, with which our parsha land, with the building and improve- has its own voice and vocabulary. empathy, and feels the plight of the Referee, will sell at public auction at begins, is one of the supreme ments thereon erected, situate lying They are [1] the ethics of the king, lonely and oppressed. Prophecy is and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, the Kings County Supreme Court, statements of the ethics of the 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on [2] the ethics of the priest and never abstract. It doesn’t think in County of kings, City and State of New Torah. It’s about the right, the June 08, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises fundamentally, [3] the ethics of the terms of universals. It responds to York. Said premises known as 167 good and the holy, and it contains Euclid Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208. known as 30 Corbin Place, Brooklyn, prophet. the here and now of time and place. some of Judaism’s greatest moral (Block: 4129, Lot: 23) Approximate NY 11235. All that certain plot piece or Jeremiah and Ezekiel talk The priest hears the word of God parcel of land, with the buildings and commands: “You shall love your amount of lien $ 328,267.43 plus about their distinctive sensibilities: for all time. The prophet hears the improvements erected, situate, lying neighbour as yourself,” and “Let the interest and costs. Premises will be For the teaching of the law word of God for this time. sold subject to provisions of filed and being in the Borough and County stranger who lives among you be [Torah] by the priest will not cease, The ethic of the priest, and judgment and terms of sale. Index No. of Kings, City and State of New York, like your native-born. Love him as BLOCK: 8712, LOT: 11. Approximate nor will counsel [etzah] from of holiness generally, is different 506966/2014. Zvi Storch, Esq., Referee. yourself, for you were strangers in amount of judgment is $903,226.10 the wise [chakham], again. The key activities of the Fein, Such & Crane, LLP Attorneys Egypt.” for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite plus interests and costs. Premises nor the word [davar] from the priest are lehavdil – to discrimi- 1800 Rochester, N.Y. 14614 (585) will be sold subject to provisions of nate, distinguish and divide – and 232-7400 filed Judgment Index # 510025/2014. lehorot – to instruct people in the AJ 5/5/12/19/26 Helene E. Blank, Referee FRENKEL law, both generally as teachers and LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & in specific instances as judges. The NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay COURT COUNTY OF KINGS PNC Shore, NY 11706 key words of the priest are kodesh AJ 5/5/12/19/26 and chol (holy and secular), tamei Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Alishea Lambert; et al., and tahor (impure and pure). Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court The single most important of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated County Of Kings PennyMac Corp., passage in the Torah that speaks March 15, 2017 I, the undersigned Plaintiff AGAINST Nataliya Dobrer, in the priestly voice is Chapter 1 of Referee will sell at public auction at et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Bereishit, the narrative of creation. the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 duly dated 11/28/2016 and entered Here too a key verb is lehavdil, to Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on June 8, 2017 at 2:30PM, on 12/13/2016, I, the undersigned divide, which appears five times. premises known as 259 Sumpter Referee, will sell at public auction at God divides between light and dark, Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. All that the Kings County Supreme Court, the upper and lower waters, and certain plot piece or parcel of land, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on day and night. Other key words are with the buildings and improvements June 08, 2017 at 02:30 PM premises “bless” – God blesses the animals, erected, situate, lying and being in the known as 3543 Leif Ericson Drive, Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, Unit C2 a/k/a 3543 Shore Parkway, humankind, and the seventh day; Unit C2, Brooklyn, NY 11235. All that and “sanctify” (kadesh) – at the City and State of NY, Block 1520 Lot 54. Approximate amount of judgment certain plot piece or parcel of land, end of creation God sanctifies $857,250.36 plus interest and costs. with the buildings and improvements the Shabbat. Overwhelmingly Premises will be sold subject to erected, situate, lying and being in the elsewhere in the Torah the verb provisions of filed Judgment Index# Borough and County of Kings, City lehavdil and the root kadosh occur 511289/2015. Doron Leiby, Esq., and State of New York, BLOCK: 8782, But the chapter is also surpass- prophets. (Jer. 18:18) in a priestly context; and it is the Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC LOT: 1113. Approximate amount of ingly strange. It contains what looks judgment is $622,665.31 plus inter- They will go searching for a priests who bless the people. Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile like a random jumble of commands, ests and costs. Premises will be sold vision [chazon] from the prophet, The task of the priest, like God Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New many of which have nothing York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: subject to provisions of filed Judgment priestly instruction in the law at creation, is to bring order out of whatever to do with ethics and only April 26, 2017 Index # 507031/2014. Steven D. Cohn, [Torah] will cease, the counsel chaos. The priest establishes bound- Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS the most tenuous connection with AJ 5/5/12/19/26 [etzah] of the elders will come to aries in both time and space. There WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 holiness: an end. (Ez. 7:26) are holy times and holy places, and Notice of formation of limited liability Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 Do not mate different kinds of AJ 5/5/12/19/26 Priests think in terms of Torah. each time and place has its own company(LLC) Name: 305 Sumpter animals. Prophets have “the word” or “a integrity, its own setting in the total LLC. Articles of organization filed Do not plant your field with with the Secretary of State of New vision.” Elders and the wise have scheme of things. The kohen’s protest two kinds of seed. York(SSNY) on 03/03/2017. Office etzah. What does this mean? is against the blurring of boundaries Do not wear clothing woven location kings county SSNY has been Kings and their courts are so common in pagan religions – pronounced good. of two kinds of material. (19) designated as the agent of the LLC associated in Judaism with wisdom between gods and humans, between The priestly voice is not Do not eat any meat with the upon whom process against it may – chokhmah, etzah and their life and death, between the sexes and be served.SSNY Shall Mail copy of marginal to Judaism. It is central, blood still in it. synonyms. Several books of Tanakh, so on. A sin, for the kohen, is an act the process to: The LLC 130 Diamond essential. It is the voice of the Do not practise divination or most conspicuously Proverbs and in the wrong place, and its punish- St.#4A Brooklyn, NY 11222 purpose: Torah’s first chapter. It is the voice sorcery. all lawful activity Ecclesiastes (Mishlei and Kohelet), ment is exile, being cast out of your that defined the Jewish vocation Do not cut the hair at the sides AJ 5/5/12/19/26; 6/2/9 are books of “wisdom” of which rightful place. A good society, for the as “a kingdom of priests and a holy of your head or clip off the edges of the supreme exemplar was King kohen, is one in which everything is nation.” It dominates Vayikra, the your beard. (26-28) Solomon. Wisdom in Judaism is the in its proper place, and the kohen central book of the Torah. And And so on. What have these to do most universal form of knowledge, has special sensitivity toward the In the secular West we are whereas the prophetic spirit lives with the right, the good and the holy? and the Wisdom literature is the stranger, the person who has no familiar with the voice of wisdom. on in aggadah, the priestly voice To understand this we have closest the Hebrew Bible comes to place of his or her own. It is common ground between the prevails in halakhah. And the very to engage in an enormous leap the other literature of the ancient The strange collection of books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes name Torah – from the verb lehorot of insight into the unique moral/ Near East, as well as the Hellenistic commands in Kedoshim thus turns and the great sages from Aristotle – is a priestly word. social/spiritual vision of the sages. It is practical, pragmatic, out not to be strange at all. The to Marcus Aurelius to Montaigne. Perhaps the idea of ecology, Torah, so unlike anything we find based on experience and observa- holiness code sees love and justice We know, too, the prophetic voice one of the key discoveries of modern elsewhere. tion; it is judicious, prudent. It is a as part of a total vision of an ordered and what Einstein called its “almost times, will allow us to understand The West has had many prescription for a life that is safe and universe in which each thing, fanatical love of justice.” We are far better the priestly vision and its attempts at defining a moral sound, without excess or extremes, person and act has their rightful less familiar with the priestly idea code of holiness, both of which see system. Some focused on ratio- but hardly dramatic or transforma- place, and it is this order that is that just as there is a scientific order ethics not just as practical wisdom nality, others on emotions like tive. That is the voice of wisdom, the threatened when the boundary to nature, so there is a moral order, or prophetic justice but also as sympathy and empathy. For some virtue of kings. between different kinds of animals, and it consists in keeping separate honouring the deep structure – the central principle was service to The prophetic voice is quite grain, fabrics is breached; when the the things that are separate, and the sacred ontology – of being. the state, for others moral duty, for different, impassioned, vivid, radical human body is lacerated; or when maintaining the boundaries that An ordered universe is a moral yet others the greatest happiness of in its critique of the misuse of people eat blood, the sign of death, respect the integrity of the world universe, a world at peace with its the greatest number. These are all power and the exploitative pursuit in order to feed life. God created and seven times Creator and itself. forms of moral simplicity.