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$1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 | 10 CHESHVAN 5777 VOL. XLIV NO. 2281 Clinton, Trump Top Jewish Leader Says Voting Vital Campaigns Make for Community Final Pitch for Jewish Vote BY BARNEY BREEN-PORTNOY American Jews must get out and vote on Election Day if they want to continue to be heard by politicians on matters of concern to them, a top US Jewish leader told Th e Algemeiner on Monday. “I hear too many expressions of indiff erence, or people who are confused and confl icted and therefore say they are not going to vote,” Malcolm Hoenlein — the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations — said in an interview with Th e Algemeiner. “Th at’s a decision, but it’s a bad one. It’s very important that people go out and vote their conscience. Commitment to American democracy requires giving

Both campaigns made fi nal pitches to Jewish voters ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Photo: Tom Arthur via Wikimedia Commons.

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Con- BY BARNEY BREEN Clinton campaign foreign policy this divisive and violent rhetoric.” ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish adviser — said, “I am really proud Regarding Clinton’s views Organizations. Photo: YouTube screenshot. -PORTNOY that Hillary has stood up strongly on the Jewish state, Rosenberger Before the polls opened on against the BDS movement; said, “She knows the depth and the expression to the privilege and fulfi lling the right and obliga- Tuesday, the campaign teams she’s been very outspoken about connection between the American tion each of us has to vote.” of both presidential contenders antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Israeli people, she knows how Furthermore, Hoenlein noted, “many politicians may made a last-ditch pitch to the racism, and the anti-immigrant much we can learn from each have limited capacities, but they can all count. And they Jewish Insider about why Jews sentiment because we know that other, and that bond is something know who votes and who doesn’t vote. You have to vote if should vote for their candidates. these are all interconnected, and that is really personal to her. When you want to have a voice. If you fail to do so, don’t complain Calling the election a “wakeup this is something that is a testa- she was a senator, she was a fi erce about the results. call” for the US Jewish community, ment to her in what she believes champion for Israel, something Hoenlein said he was “bothered” by displays of antisemi- Laura Rosenberger — a Hillary in, that she’s been such a forceful that continued when she was Continued on Page A4 voice in speaking out [against] all Continued on Page A10

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himself and his agents. The problem of unlawful FBI leaks has become perva- ALAN DERSHOWITZ sive, and it must be addressed by the new BOSTON administration. Replacing Comey will not be enough; the entire culture of the FBI must be changed and it must be restored to its rightful position as the silent inves- tigative arm of the Justice Department. With the world’s attention focused on Indeed, even more fundamental struc- the presidential election, some attention tural changes are now required. The entire must be devoted to the problems we will DOJ, of which the FBI is one component, continue to face the day after the election, has become too politicized. In most other regardless of who is elected. Here are some western democracies, there is a sharp of these problems: division between the minister of justice, 1. Following the election, President Obama who is a political aide to the president may try to tie the hands of his successor, or prime minister, and the director of regardless of who it may be. During the public prosecution, who is a civil servant A US voter. Photo: Wikipedia lame-duck period, when presidents can completely removed from politics. Only act without political accountability, he the director of public prosecution decides development, whether it involved accusa- elections, but it is essential that the loser may foolishly send the Israel-Palestine whom to investigate and who to prose- tions against Democrats like Hillary accept the result and that the winner be conflict to the United Nations. This would cute. The political minister plays no role in Clinton, or Republicans like Congressman gracious. Both Richard Nixon and Al Gore mean the end of the peace process. Pales- such decisions. But, in the United States, Tom Delay and Governor Rick Perry. The provide somewhat different models of tinians would be dis-incentivized from we merged these two distinct roles into criminal law must be reserved for willful appropriate responses. entering into the kinds of direct negotia- the job of Attorney General. This must deliberate and clearly defined crimes. We This election revealed that there tions without preconditions that the Israeli change if our system of justice is to be are moving away from that understanding are deep divisions within the American government continues to offer, which is de-politicized. and toward a dangerous expansion of the electorate. Some of these divisions are the only realistic road to peace. The only 3. This election has exacerbated the long- concept of crime in the context of political reasonable and indeed desirable. These hope of stopping this counterproductive standing problem of criminalizing policy differences. include differences over economic policies, move would be for the president-elect to differences. We are quick to confuse 4. Finally, the healing process must begin foreign policies and other political issues insist that her or his hands not be tied by differences in policy with charges of the day after the election. Lincoln’s words But this election revealed that there are the lame-duck president. criminal behavior. During this election, should be our guide: “With malice toward divisions across impermissible lines: racial, 2. The problem revealed by FBI director both sides accused the other of criminal none, with charity for all.” It is unlikely ethnic, gender, religious, class and a willing- Comey’s ill-advised statements over the conduct — Trump more so than Clinton, that either the winners or the losers ness to resort to violence. These divisions past four months will not end with the but even some Democrats were quick to will be able to avoid malice and extend will be much harder to heal. But the process election. Comey is a good man, but he cry “crime.” I have long railed against this charity following this most contentious of must begin on the day after the election. has demonstrated an inability to control Martin Kramer’s Scholarly Views on Israel, Islam and the Middle East

a fine essay, “Policy and the Academy,” origi- Arab world; one on the twisting of Israel’s the nally published in the Middle East Quarterly, history; and one, mischievously entitled Algemeiner Journal JONATHAN MARKS he wrestles, via a meditation on Middle East “Elders of Zion,” on the leaking of “fantasies PHILADELPHIA historian Elie Kedourie, with the difficulties of Jewish power and control into mainstream (USPS 927800) is published weekly a scholar confronts when he or she “takes a academic and public discussions.” I cannot, of (except for the week of Passover political position as a citizen.” There is no simple course, cover all 25 of the pieces that make up and Succos) way of resolving the tension between scholar- The War on Error. Let me begin with an essay Subscription rate $40 per year ship and politics, but The War on Error, though that typifies the book. Martin Kramer chairs the Middle Eastern a collection of mostly previously published Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Algemeiner Journal and Islamic Studies Department at Shalem essays, blog posts and speeches, is held together Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia Univer- 508 Montgomery Street College, and recently completed a seven-year by its attempt to demonstrate by example how sity and, as Kramer points out, he was “trained Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 stint as president there. A scholar of the Middle the norms of scholarship are essential to clear as a historian.” In 2010, Khalidi spread, in more East, Kramer is perhaps best known as a sharp thinking about the Middle East. than one lecture, the claim that the influential Periodicals Postage critic of the field of Mideast Studies. His 2001 The book is divided into five sections: one novel, Exodus, though written by Leon Uris, Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. book, Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of on Middle Eastern Studies (an “inexhaustible was “carefully crafted propaganda” guided by and at additional mailing offices Middle Eastern Studies in America, touched source of error in understanding the Middle “seasoned professionals.” Foremost among them off a debate that received coverage in, among East”); one on Islam and politics; one on the was Edward Gottlieb, regarded by some as “one POSTMASTER: other places, the New York Times. Kramer’s of the founders of the modern public relations Send address changes to warnings about the politicization of the field industry.” Gottlieb, who “desired to improve Algemeiner Journal have been more than amply validated by the Israel’s image,” commissioned the novel then P.O. Box 250746 steady movement of the Middle East Studies “funded [Uris] and send him off to Israel to write Association (MESA) towards endorsing Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 -3023 a book.” Khalidi is fond enough of this asser- the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions tion to have permitted it to appear in an edited movement against Israel (though it has not collection since. There is only one problem: not Let your voice be heard! done so yet). one thing Khalidi says appears to be true. In the epilogue to his new book, The [email protected] How does Kramer prove this? First, he War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle researches Gottlieb, which is not easy since, East, Kramer reminds us of what his mentor, far from being a founder of the modern public To advertise in Bernard Lewis, said about an academic: he relations industry, Gottlieb is barely known “owes it to himself and his readers to try, to the new Algemeiner — though he did once own the sixteenth the best of his ability, to be objective or at biggest public relations firm in the United e-mail: [email protected] least to be fair . . . to try to present the different States. Having determined that Gottlieb was aspects of a problem and the different sides to or call not among the founders of the modern public a dispute in such a way as to allow the reader relations industry, and finding no references 718-771-0400 to form an independent judgment.” to him in histories of Zionism, Kramer next As anyone who knows his work will attest, Kramer does not conceal his political views. In The War on Error book cover.Photo: provided. Continued on Page A7 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 A3

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Israelis who travel to the West Bank’s Area B with the hope of saving money on routine errands often end up mugged, the Israel Police said Sunday. Area B, which contains about 440 Pales- tinian villages, has been under Palestinian civil The Israeli flag.Photo: Facebook. control and shared Israeli-Palestinian security control since the 1993 Oslo Accords. Israelis have been frequenting Palestinian villages in Top Netanyahu Aides: Israel Will that area for years because its dozens of auto repair shops, car wash facilities, nurseries and Not Attend Paris Peace florists offer considerably lower prices than their Israeli counterparts. Israeli police in Jerusalem. Photo: Wikimedia Com- Conference While Israelis are barred from entering mons. Area A, which is under full Palestinian control, be victimized by crimes or terrorist attacks. there are no travel restrictions regarding Area B. “We urge Israelis to exercise discretion Nevertheless, both the Israeli military and and refrain from traveling to the area unnec- BY JNS.ORG other initiative pushes peace further away,” police have repeatedly warned that Israelis essarily,” a police source said. a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s traveling to Palestinian villages in Area B may Israeli officials on Monday told France Office said. that the Jewish state would not participate in a “Israel is certain and expects that France French-led international conference aimed at will not advance a conference or process I do think the president is focused on his legacy moon period. We’re not going to have a time restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. contradicting the State of Israel’s official and will use these months after the election to in which the president will have months to Jacob Nagel, the head of Israel’s national position,” the statement added. consolidate his legacy, in both domestic and adjust. We’re in the middle of a vortex right security council, and Isaac Molcho, Israeli During the last year, France has been foreign policy. But there is not a lot of time and now. The world is spinning fast and devel- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s special leading efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace there may not be a lot of options.” opments are taking place rapidly. We have envoy, met with France’s Mideast peace envoy negotiations. In June, France hosted a one-day “We should be careful not to create a self- real crises, in places such as Syria, Iraq and Pierre Vimont on Monday in Jerusalem. At the peace summit that excluded Israeli and Pales- fulfilling prophecy, but at the same time we Yemen, we have hot wars and cold wars. We meeting, the Israeli officials reiterated their tinian representatives. The conference ended have to consider and be ready for any potential have tensions between the United States opposition to a peace conference that does not with a vague statement condemning violence action or policy pronouncement, while also and Russia. We have many countries that are directly involve the two parties to the conflict. and Israeli settlement activity. working with the incoming administration,” teetering on the brink. So we have to do all “Nagel and Molcho clarified unequivo- There have also been discussions he continued. “The president acknowledged we can to help assure that American policy cally that promoting a real peace process that regarding a possible United Nations Security to me a year ago that there wouldn’t be moves in the right direction.” leads to an agreement will only be resulted Council resolution that would address the enough time for a Palestinian state during his Regardless of who wins the White House, through direct negotiations between Israel current peace impasse. Israeli-Palestinian term, but he wanted to create the ‘predicates,’ Hoenlein expressed hope that the next admin- and the Palestinian Authority, and that any negotiations have been stalled since 2014. and I think that could still be on his agenda. Or istration will review America’s policy towards he could simply walk away and say the parties Iran and adopt a more aggressive approach. are not at a point where serious discussions “The renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act can take place.” is coming up,” Hoenlein said. “I know there Teen Palestinian Terrorist Both Democratic presidential candidate is strong support in Congress, and I hope the Hillary Clinton and her Republican opponent outgoing and incoming administrations will Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison Donald Trump “have spoken against attempts back even tougher sanctions. We know that to impose a solution on the Israelis and Pales- Iran has taken advantage of this period [since tinians,” Hoenlein said. “They are the ones who the nuclear deal in July 2015] to expand its will have to bear the long-term consequences involvement in terrorism in the region and BY JNS.ORG was treated at an Israeli hospital, Palestinian of any actions that are taken in the coming globally. We know that Iran is still moving Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed months, so clearly their voices will be very ahead on its nuclear weaponization program An Israeli court on Monday sentenced he had been murdered by Israel important.” and its missile delivery systems, and its Palestinian teenager Ahmed Manasra to 12 “I think all of them — the current presi- provocative actions against the US and our years in prison for carrying out a stabbing dent and the candidates — recognize that allies are intensifying.” attack against two Israelis in 2015. Manasra, while outside parties can facilitate, if you want “Today,” Hoenlein continued, “Iran claims 14, is the youngest terrorist to have been to have a really meaningful peace agreement, it controls four Arab capitals — Beirut, Sana’a, convicted since the start of the “lone-wolf” you can’t impose it,” Hoenlein went on to say. Baghdad and Damascus. Its spreading its intifada a year ago in September. “It’s got to come organically from the parties. aggression across the region and also around Manasra was found guilty of the And right now, [Palestinian Authority Presi- the world, with its expansion of activities in attempted murder of a 20-year-old man and a dent Mahmoud] Abbas has clearly indicated places such as South America and Africa. We 12-year-old boy in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighbor- he is not prepared to talk. Going to the UN had better take this more seriously.” hood of Jerusalem last October. on ridiculous issues shows he’s not prepared Moreover, Hoenlein said, the next admin- Manasra, who was 13 at the time, carried to accept the existence of the Jewish state. istration should look into “how we can help the out the stabbing attack with his 15-year-old To fight the Balfour Declaration, is that really people of Iran by promoting democratization. cousin, who was shot dead by security forces. Teen terrorist Ahmed Manasra being treated where their resources should be going? To Iranians do not want the system of oppression As The Algemeiner reported, though Mansara in an Israeli hospital. Photo: Screenshot deny the existence of the Jewish temples and to continue there.” denigrate Christianity and Judaism, is that As Washington prepares the upcoming really where their efforts should be going? transition of power, ties between the US and Continued from Page A1 Hoenlein said, were less troubling. Or does it reflect the fact that not only is he Israel are on “very solid footing,” Hoenlein Vital “I think Jews will focus quite quickly on not ready to discuss the future, he’s not even concluded. tism during the presidential campaign. “I’m the challenges ahead and the issues we have prepared to accept the past.” “The American people are with Israel, worried about the aftermath of this election,” he to address together,” he predicted. Hoenlein said the first post-election Congress is with Israel and I think the Obama stated. “This has been a very divisive race. The Referring to a possible end-of-term lame- priority of his group will be to “see who are administration has demonstrated its commit- question for the day after is will the American duck Israeli-Palestinian peace push by the people who are going to be around the new ment to Israel in the military and security people be able to come back together again at a Obama administration before the inaugura- president and get off on the right foot.” realms in many ways, such as the new MOU time when we have so many serious challenges tion of the next president on Jan. 20, Hoenlein “We’ve already been in touch with people that was signed,” he said. “And both candidates facing us?” said, “There has been a lot of speculation, but in both camps to talk about policy,” Hoenlein have asserted their support for the US-Israel Fissures within the Jewish community, no decision [has made by the administration]. revealed. “We’re not going to have a honey- special relationship.” www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 A5 World News.

that we and they are on the same wavelength, unwanted consequence of the welcome rise Israel to Finance Initiative to and that our interests become synchro- in Chinese visitors to the Jewish state — the nized…” phenomenon of Chinese construction workers Foster ‘Better Understanding’ of Groner also said that bilateral tourism joining groups and acting as guides. Fattal has been exploding. claims that their lack of licencing, knowledge “The government’s objective to bring and experience “is causing us to ruin the tourism Chinese Markets to Further 100,000 tourists per year from China by 2019 industry with our own hands.” is exceeding expectations,” he said, “to the point Today, according to Tour Guide Associa- Bolster Economic Cooperation that this might be achieved as early as 2017.” tion chairman Benny Kfir, there are some 100 According to Israeli news site Ynet, to Chinese-speaking tour guides, and at least meet this boon and accompanying increase another 150 are needed to handle the volume of in demand for Chinese-speaking tour guides, tourists from the People’s Republic. BY RUTHIE BLUM Israel’s Tourism Ministry is allocating NIS As was reported in The Algemeiner in May, 700,000 ($184,000) in grant money for China’s Hainan Airlines began operating a direct The Israeli government announced the financing of a new initiative to further bolster students of East Asia to take the official tour- Beijing-Tel Aviv route, joining Israeli airline El Al economic ties with China, the Hebrew news site nrg reported on Sunday. guide course. So far, 12 students have applied, as one of the only two airlines doing so. According to the report, a special program for graduates of Far East and/or Chinese-language and each will receive NIS 15,000. However, as Ynet reported last month, studies is being launched at the start of 2017, with an annual budget of approximately NIS 3 million According to the Ynet report, Incoming Israeli passengers on a Hainan Airlines flight to ($800,000). It will be headed by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, in coordination with the National Devel- Tour Operators Association CEO Yossi Fattal Tel Aviv were shocked to see their country listed opment and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s central planning agency. Its goal, according to has been bemoaning what he considers an as “Palestinian Territories” on the plane’s map. Prime Minister’s Office director-general Eli Groner, is to foster a better understanding of the Chinese market within the Israeli business sector. During Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting, Groner — who is in charge of cultivating economic ties between Israel and China — told the ministers that, as someone who came to the PMO from the private sector, he believes that governments shouldn’t intervene in the free market. However, he said, “In China, the government is heavily involved in the economy, and they expect us to behave in a similar manner.” In other words, he explained, “Without a parallel push from our government, relations [with the People’s Republic] will not flourish as anticipated.” Groner’s words came on the heels of the arrival in Israel last week of a delegation from Beijing, made up of more than 200 govern- ment officials and business executives. Among these was NDRC Vice Chairman Wang Xiaotao, who heads the program that oversees his country’s economic development. During the trip, he and Groner signed 15 separate agreements. At the same time, 15 additional deals were signed between Israeli and Chinese businessmen. Groner told nrg, “Israel has much to offer China, as China has much to offer Israel… [and] it is very important to …ensure Report: Palestinians to Demand ‘Return’ of Dead Sea Scrolls

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The Palestinian Authority is reportedly preparing to demand that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) force Israel to “return” the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Palestinians. During a meeting convened by the UN’s cultural body last month, Eitan Klein, who serves as the deputy director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, was told that the Palestinians had informally raised the issue of Israel returning the Dead Sea Scrolls, and that they were likely to make an official request to that end, the Times of Israel reported. “This is another instance of provocation and the ‘chutzpah’ of the Palestinians trying to rewrite history and erase our connection to our land,” said Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen. “The fragments of the scrolls are proof and a weighty archaeological evidence of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel,” added Shama-Hacohen. The Dead Sea Scrolls, one of Israel’s most treasured archaeological possessions, were found in caves in Qumran in the Judean Desert in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd boy. Currently housed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the scrolls, which date back to the Second Temple period, include some of the earliest copies of the Hebrew Bible ever found. “In any case, just like with the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, the scrolls will stay in our hands and the Palestin- ians will be left with their dreams,” Shama-Hacohen said. The latest move by the Palestinians follows a series of UNESCO resolutions in October that ignored Jewish and Christian connections to The Dead Sea Scrolls.Photo: Is- Jerusalem’s holy sites. rael Antiquities Authority via Wikimedia Commons. A6 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Opinion. The Decline and Rebirth of American Democracy

world, where have we seen its infl uence in this over the last two decades through repeated Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. election? Has a single religious fi gure of note Photo: Screenshot. election cycles meant that America had no weighed in authoritatively on the behavior of serious discussion about substantive values don’t want to be like every other nation, SHMULEY BOTEACH the two candidates? that might renew the republic. either. We don’t deny we’re the most powerful ENGELWOOD No. Evangelical Christians are behind For example, there has been little to no nation on earth with the best values. We value Trump because they fear the appointment discussion about the decline of the family, the personal freedom, human rights, human of liberal Supreme Court justices. Mainline rise of divorce, the increasing sexualization dignity and human liberty. Protestants, I presume, are behind Clinton of women, what values should be brought to It is thus to our great discredit that those because they often cannot distinguish You know American democracy is in bear on the discussion of immigration, how defi ning American attributes have had such between their own social-activist values and trouble when Th e New York Times is running we should respond to evil governments that a small role in the conversation during this Democratic talking points. an op-ed encouraging the United States brutalize their people, growing narcissism campaign. Th e Jewish community has been torn to embrace a monarchy. Of all the things I and self-focus among our youth, what defi nes No British — or American — king is going by a critical dilemma. Trump seems better thought I’d never read, asking the United success and whether honesty should come to save us. And brutal dictatorships like Iran for Israel because he opposes the genocidal States to revisit deposing King George III before the lust for power. are certainly not the answer either. Th e US has Iran deal, supports Israeli settlements and more than 230 year ago was probably at the Th is depraved election is not a function always known that power must lie with the opposes a two-state solution in which a top of the list. of the erosion of the United States, per se. people, because it is they, not the elites, who Palestinian state will quickly be overtaken by Th en there is the Iranian government America is still a majestic and mighty nation, can be trusted to safeguard human liberty. Hamas. But is his behavior in accordance with deciding to broadcast the three presiden- undoubtedly the greatest country on earth. I have no doubt that from the shards of Jewish values? tial debates live — as a way of displaying the But it is a function of the almost complete this bizarre presidential election, American Clinton she says she’ll have a better US’ moral decay. Who would have believed dearth of a serious values discussion. democracy will be reborn. I also have little relationship with Israel than Obama, but does that a country that so strongly censors any I’m not sure that anything really substan- doubt that the renewal of American values little to diff erentiate herself from Obama’s American message would choose to broad- tive has been highlighted in this election. will not come from some messiah fi gure — policies and was indeed the architect of many cast our debates unrestricted as a way of Instead, we have focused for months on on the right or the left — but from average of his policies, most notably the heinous Iran telling its people, “You think Iran is bad, but Hillary Clinton’s email server and founda- Americans, who slowly restore the republic to deal, which will forever live in American just look at these nutcases.” tion, and Donald Trump’s interactions with the decency, substance and seriousness it has foreign-policy infamy. To be sure, it’s not as bad as all that. But women and online insults. always represented. Looming over this election is the specter how did we get to this place — the single To be sure, the candidates did, at times, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, “America’s of Syria and how little anyone cares about the most embarrassing presidential election of address serious policy diff erences, such as Rabbi,” whom Th e Washington Post calls near-genocide of Arabs that has taken place our lifetime? Obamacare, immigration and foreign policy. “the most famous Rabbi in America” is on President Obama’s watch. I believe that It all comes down to one thing: values But these have been small lights in an other- the international best-selling author of 31 history will judge him harshly for his omission. — values, and their erosion in American wise dark constellation. books, including the recently published “Th e But right now, Americans seem too enthralled discourse. Th e decline of substantive public Israel Warrior.” Th e winner of the London with the vast entertainment provided by this Over the last few presidential cycles, I’ve discourse is also a function of the demise Times Preacher of the Year competition, he circus-like election to care. lamented how the values debate is centered on of religion — or should I say religious infl u- is the Founder of Th e World Values Network, America was, and must once again be, a abortion, gay marriage and contraception. In a ence — in America. Indeed, though America one of America’s premier organizations serious nation that is responsible, ultimately, fascinating twist, not one of those has played a remains one of the most religious nations on defending Israel in national media. Follow for setting global moral standards. Yes, we role in this election. But their continual focus earth and the most religious in the Western him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley. don’t want to police the world. But, no, we

could either vote in favor of a Security Council a majority of Congress members who signed resolution, or simply allow the measure to group letters urging opposition to UN actions Israel, Jewish Groups Fear pass by not vetoing it. against Israel. Allowing such UN action would burden American Israel Public Aff airs an Obama ‘December future US presidents with “the enormous Committee (AIPAC) spokesman Marshall negative fallout,” according to Cliff Smith, Wittman told JNS.org that his organization Washington project director of the Middle East supports the Royce-Engel resolution and Surprise’ at the UN Forum. Th e fallout could include a Palestinian “has been supportive of the eff orts of the 88 state becoming “a virtually ungovernable hot senators and 394 house members who have bed of terrorism that would threaten not just signed letters to the president urging him to Israel, but the interests of the United States veto a one-sided UN resolution.” negotiations with the government of Israel.” and our allies,” Smith told JNS.org. Obama’s fourth option would be to act Attempting to “impose peace” will never Members of Congress are hoping to directly, rather than through the UN, by deliv- work, said Betty Ehrenberg, executive director RAFAEL MEDOFF/ head off a December surprise. Representa- ering a Rose Garden speech outlining his of the World Jewish Congress-North America. JNS.ORG tives Edward Royce (R-CA) and Elliot Engel vision of the parameters of an Israeli-Pales- She told JNS.org that the only way to achieve (D-NY), leaders of the House Foreign Aff airs tinian agreement, Schanzer said. “a genuine and lasting peace” is if both sides Committee, recently authored House Resolu- American Jewish Committee spokesman demonstrate “a desire for peace. And, so far, tion 165, which states that the US “should Kenneth Bandler warned against that Israel is the only party that has done so. … Th e continue to oppose and veto United Nations approach. “More speeches or UN resolutions Major Jewish organizations are united Palestinian Authority has refused time and Security Council resolutions that seek to cannot substitute for negotiating the details in their opposition to what is rumored to again to return to the negotiating table.” impose solutions to fi nal status issues, or are of the permanent agreement,” he told JNS. be President Barack Obama’s “December Two other options Obama is weighing, one-sided and anti-Israel.” org. Th e US should “confront the Palestinian surprise” to undercut Israel and bolster the according to Schanzer, would be to support A similar resolution, introduced earlier leadership and its Arab allies, who are intent campaign for a Palestinian state. a United Nations Security Council resolution this year by Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and on misusing international forums to rewrite According to unverifi ed reports, Obama defi ning the terms for the creation of “Pales- Gwen Graham (D-FL.), is still pending, but so long established history by negating any is considering six possible steps concerning tine,” or a UN resolution targeting Jewish far has 25 co-sponsors. Jewish links to the land.” Israel that he would take before the inaugura- settlements. Th e Obama Administration tion of the next president. Th is is according Lamborn told JNS.org that it would take Th e last two options on Obama’s desk to Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president of “chutzpah” for Obama to undertake a major involve US action against the settlements. Th at the Washington think tank Foundation for policy step regarding Israel in the last days of could mean stripping American Jewish charities Defense of Democracies. his presidency. Lamborn warned that a UN or of their tax-exempt status if they assist settle- One option is unilateral US recognition US declaration along the lines contemplated ments, or issuing an executive order to penalize of the Palestinian Authority as a sovereign “would virtually criminalize settlements, open up the settlements or their American supporters. “state of Palestine.” Such a step would be such activity to prosecution by the International Th ese options are the least like to be “harmful to the prospects of achieving peace,” Criminal Court, and give credence to the boycott, implemented, Schanzer said. said Nathan Diament, executive director of divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.” Part of the problem for the Administration the Orthodox Union’s Advocacy Center. “Such According to rumors, small diff erences is it would involve defi ning anything beyond a unilateral action would reinforce the notion are being ironed out between the resolutions, the 1967 lines as an “illegal settlement,” which to the Palestinians that they can achieve and a single resolution is expected to be voted would include large parts of Jerusalem. their goals by some means other than direct on in the near future. President Barack Obama. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Continued on Page A12 In recent months, Obama has heard from www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 A7 Opinion.

Continued from Page A2 hit book, My Promised Land, appeals to A Firsthand Account of Kramer a certain kind of Zionist, one who wishes contacts the authors of two scholarly biogra- to love Israel and insist on its right to exist, phies of Leon Uris. Their reactions to the story while at the same time conceding that Israel Anti-Israel Violence at a range from suspecting it is a “complete canard” has been grossly unjust to Palestinians. The to being certain that it is a “complete fabrication.” best-known chapter of the book, published UK University Neither has seen any reference to Gottlieb, the by the New Yorker, investigates an incident supposed first mover ofExodus , in Uris’s papers, that took place in Lydda during Israel’s War of which include contracts and correspondence Independence. Shavit constructs his case that related to the genesis (no pun intended) of the what took place at Lydda was a massacre from work and the funding of Uris’s research. testimony he collected in the 1990s. Where, then, did Khalidi get his claim? Kramer convincingly shows that Shavit JOELLE REID Kramer finds the answer in three “classics of has ignored other, readily available, oral testi- LONDON the Israel bashing canon,” each of which rely monies that Kramer was able to “uncover in just on a single source: a 1985 how-to book on a few days of archival research.” In at least one public relations, in which Gottlieb figures as an important case — one on which hangs the blood example of skillful public relations work. When guilt of Israeli veterans — Shavit seems to have preferred hearsay to eyewitness testimony. The Campus security officers barricaded the Kramer interviews Art Stevens, the author of this public relations book, he learns that Gottlieb testimonies Kramer finds can be read to suggest doors. The mob swarmed in on us. We were University College London. Photo: website that what took place at Lydda was a battle, caged in a room at University College London himself, speaking nearly three decades after the arranged through UCL’s student union. albeit a lopsided one that resulted in civilian (UCL). Crowds of scowling faces were pressed events in question, is the source of the story. No student should be concerned about deaths, rather than a revenge-fueled massacre, against the window, pointing, jeering, roaring Gottlieb is dead, but Kramer is able to safety at his or her university, let alone in a as Shavit tells us it was. In one striking instance, hateful words — their cameras flashing all track down Charlotte Klein, who worked with democracy. But at UCL, the walls of our “safe around us. It was like we were in a zoo. Ironi- him during the period in question. It turns out Shavit presents the unsourced story of the cold- space” came crashing down. cally, this time, the animals were on the outside. that the government of Israel was a client of blooded murder of an Arab detail assigned to As Mazzig prepared to speak, protesters We sat in a circle, facing each other — in bury the bodies. He does not mention — perhaps rammed the window open and dived into our Gottlieb’s firm. But Klein, who managed the shock, speechless — and awaiting what would because he is unaware of it — the existence of an room, hitting two girls. After 10 minutes, these account and so was in position to know, says happen next. Arab inhabitant of Lydda who claimed to be part hijackers were escorted out; it was now time that “there was never a discussion about Uris We were trapped. Each window and door of the detail (which burned rather than buried for him to speak. or regarding a popular book about Israel.” that surrounded us was blocked by a separate the bodies) or of the man’s wife, who asserts In our solidarity circle, we gave him Next, Kramer visits the Israeli State Archives mob of violent protestors, chanting, banging that the detail was taken prisoner, rather than our full attention as he talked about his “and [finds] the Israeli Foreign Ministry files and pushing. summarily executed, afterwards. While we have background and connection to Israel. And related to Gottlieb,” which include “contracts, What is one supposed to do in such a when he finished, we realized that our goal reports, budgets, invoices, and press reports.” no reason, Kramer concedes, to assume that this situation? had been accomplished: we hadn’t let intoler- Although the “documents explain the relation- testimony, offered 55 years after the fact, is true, The rational thought in times of danger is ance and hate deprive us of our rights. ship” between the Government of Israel and Shavit offers no testimony at all to support the to escape and run away. This time, however, Still shaken up by the events, we tight- the firm “in detail,” there is not one word about most serious of charges he makes (which may the danger was on the outside, and safety was ened our circle and began singing Hatikvah, have been intended to mirror the Holocaust). the circle we were sitting in. Leon Uris or the story Khalidi tells. the Israeli national anthem. Our tears soon Suffice it to say that most of the pieces in Our time? We had come to hear Israeli I review this piece at length because turned to smiles. this collection perform the same kind of work speaker Hen Mazzig, who had been brought to it goes to the heart of Kramer’s concerns. Yes, we were outnumbered, and hatred as the two I have treated at length. UCL by CAMERA on Campus with approval Khalidi, a respected historian, tells a story swirled around us. But there was an almost One treat the reader gets from The War on from the student union. devoted to demonstrating that Israel is transcendent spirit of strength that seemed to Error is hearing Kramer pay tribute to people he It was clear that UCL’s violent mob was supported by well-funded propaganda. But penetrate us. admires, like the journalist and historian Shabtai determined to shut down the event, and deny the story is a fabrication — one anti-Israel After the event was over, a policeman us our rights to assemble and speak. But we authors are so desperate to believe that they Teveth, who brought a “mix of passion, energy, warned us that exiting wouldn’t be easy. The didn’t back down. This was more than just rely on an ancient public relations how-to and encyclopedic knowledge [to] the pursuit of crowds were still thick and angry. another University talk. It was about civil without checking it. Exodus may have been every recoverable fragment of evidence needed Security cleared a path through the mob rights — our civil rights. to establish the truth.” Or Fouad Ajami who was for us to leave. Abuse hailed down on us. Insults great public relations for the state of Israel, Security officials changed the location of driven to “test his second-hand notions of Israel and curses were hurled. But, as we walked but it was also “universally understood to the event — twice. against the reality” and who “taught himself more hand-in-hand through the hateful crowd, our be a work of fiction.” In contrast, Khalidi The protesters couldn’t be controlled in about Israel than any Arab intellectual of his fear had somehow dissipated. We walked “claimed to speak in the name of history.” He the previous rooms. And to make sure that the generation.” Kramer admires human beings who, straight out of the event, in a civil manner, thereby showed himself, like the people on final room would not be flooded by the mob, though driven by passions, subject themselves without causing any commotion or disruption. whom he relied, “as someone eager to repeat we dispersed into groups around the university to the discipline of seeking out, weighing and We were the antithesis of the violent mob. and embellish a story simply because of its and then entered this new room separately, at It turns out that the psalmist was correct: political utility, without even a cursory check reflecting on the evidence. InThe War on Error, different times, diverting attention away from us. it’s possible to walk through a dark valley and of its historical veracity.” Kramer, in contrast, Kramer demonstrates his kinship with the people But this still was not enough. yet feel no fear. although he freely admits that he has a dog in he admires. His book deserves to be widely read. Numerous students were harassed, The author is a Fellow with CAMERA, the hunt, interviews scholars and principals The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the shoved, slandered — all for simply attempting and a student at Kings College London. Middle East. Martin Kramer. Published by to attend a talk by a speaker approved and and, where necessary, visits the archives. Israel-bashing is not the sole motive Transaction Publishers, 2016. $29.95 pp.311. for the errors to which Kramer draws our This essay was sponsored by Scholars for attention. I think there is no question that Peace in the Middle East. Is the ‘Occupation’ the Ari Shavit is a friend of Israel, and his recent Pavilion was a photographic survey of the fierce practitioners.” And then the punch line: Roadblock to Peace? “Holy Places of Jordan,” which included Today, there are a million of us, pictures of sites in the Old City of Jerusalem Some like us, but many like my mother, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wasting their lives in exiled mystery History Says No When King Hussein opened the exhibit, Waiting to go home he said, “In our pavilion, the Ten Command- Remember, this was in 1964. Israel ments shall echo…In our pavilion, the oldest did not possess the West Bank. This was to peace. We all know that that isn’t true — Torah; the Church of the Nativity, and the pre-occupation, so the home that “a million of because there wasn’t peace. Mosque of the Dome of the Rock, shall stand us” were hoping to return to was the sliver of DAVID MATLOW Those of us who support Israel can symbols of righteousness, tolerance, peace Israel inside the pre-1967 borders. TORONTO debunk the myth that the occupation is the and brotherhood.” The mural stated that the Jewish inhabit- problem, by reminding people of what the Also in the Jordan Pavilion was the “Mural ants were behaving “as if the land was theirs.” situation was like before 1967. of a Refugee,” which was not a symbol of The land on which this behavior was taking In 1964, there was a World’s Fair in New righteousness, tolerance, peace or brotherhood. place was in pre-1967 Israel. The mural essentially asked fair-goers to spare a Of course, there is a host of issues that must A lie told often enough becomes the York City. The theme of the fair, ironically, was: “Peace through Understanding.” Israel had a minute “to hear a word on Palestine, and perhaps be resolved. between Israel and the Palestinians. truth. In the case of Israel, the lie is that the help us right a wrong.” It said that the inhabitants There is no shortage of grievances that run in sole impediment to peace is the “occupa- pavilion at the fair, which was sponsored by the American Jewish Community (the govern- of Palestine lived in peaceful harmony “until multiple directions. However, it does a disser- tion” — Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria strangers from abroad, professing one thing but vice to all parties, and primarily to the cause of — and that if Israel just withdrew from these ment of Israel did not sponsor the pavilion for financial reasons). The Kingdom of Jordan had underneath, another, began buying up land and peace, to say that the solution can be achieved territories, there would be peace. stirring up the people.” simply by Israel’s “ending of the occupation.” If that were true, it would mean that a pavilion, as well. The brochure for the Jordan Pavilion Referring to the centuries of prejudice that Indeed, as this small example from the 1964 before Israel captured these territories in the the Jews endured, the mural said, “The strangers, World’s Fair indicates, the impediments to 1967 Six-Day War, there was no impediment referred to the Hashemite Kingdom as “The Holy Land.” Among the features of the Jordan once thought terror’s victims, became terror’s peace existed well before 1967. A8 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Impressions.

Antisemitism: A On a Slow Train to Jaffa Danger to Us All

BY MENACHEM KELLNER talked about all sorts of stuff (one of them explained to the others the significance of my kippah and did BY DAVID ROET/ People have a lot of misconceptions about life a good job of it), clearly steering away from anything JNS.ORG in Israel. Even I, who have lived here many years, political. I noted that they were travelling sort of regularly find myself surprised. “fancy free,” with no real plans beyond getting to Last Thursday afternoon, I had an interesting Jaffa. They agreed with me that had they been with experience on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train, the first their wives, there would certainly be definite plans. My father, Haim Hendrick Roet, a Holocaust They asked me at which of the Tel Aviv stops survivor from the Netherlands, addressed the leg of my trip home to Haifa. Four well-dressed gentlemen sat opposite me. One of them asked me they should get off in order to reach Jaffa most United Nations General Assembly in January during efficiently. I told them I would find out when we its annual Holocaust memorial ceremony, with if this was the train to Tel Aviv and when I confirmed that it was, a conversation ensued. We talked about got to Beit Shemesh. (Incidentally, they knew all this poignant cri de coeur: “Looking back 70 years, about Samson and Delilah — I guess the story is in it is heartbreaking that as a world, we did not learn the (absurd) length of the trip (90 minutes or so to cover a mere 40 miles) and the beauty of part of the the Koran, and they were Muslims, not Christians, enough from the Holocaust.” though I did not get the impression they were “ultra- Eight months later, speaking from the same trip (Nahal Sorek). I then asked the most talkative of them where he was from. He said “Ohio.” Since it Orthodox” about it. UN podium, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Why would I find out in Beit Shemesh? The embodied all that my father had decried, as he was obvious that none of them was a native of the Buckeye State, I asked where he was from before national Police Academy is there, and on Thursday demonstrated once again that Iran has failed to learn afternoons, the train fills up with cadets going home from the past. that. His answer: “Jordan.” That I did not expect. It turned out that they were tourists on a kind for Shabbat. On arrival I told one of these cadets that “Zionist pressure groups,” Rouhani claimed, I was helping four tourists from Jordan who wanted have contaminated US Congress, “forcing the highest to get to Jaffa and they needed to know at which American judicial institution to violate peremptory station to alight. I was pretty sure it was the station norms of international law.” Halachah (only in Israel will you find train stations The spectacle of an Iranian leader spewing called “Jewish law”). The cop I asked did not bat centuries-old canards about Jewish control over an eyelash, didn’t even glance at the tourists, and foreign governments, financial institutions and the checking his phone, confirmed my guess. media is hardly new. Antisemitism is, after all, the The stop after Beit Shemesh is Ramle and my most durable and pliable of all conspiracy theories friend from Columbus, Ohio (he has two children known to humankind. doing doctorates at The Ohio State University) told What’s deeply disappointing and dangerous, me that he has an aunt in Jordan who was driven however, is the utter passivity and lack of condem- from Ramle in 1948. He said, with a disarming smile, that she still had the key to her old home. I The Nahariya railway station.Photo: Wikipedia was not interested in getting into an argument over of bikkur moledet (a trip to the “old country”). They what happened in 1948, so I simply said that I lived had visited relatives in Jordan (more about that in Haifa, and the Arabs there had remained in 1948 later); had spent several days in Nablus (known (suggesting by implication that his aunt may have as Shechem to us); had just spent the day touring fled in 1948, but was not forced to). To my surprise, Jerusalem; and were now on the way to Jaffa, with they all perked up and said, yes, that was true, the intention of getting to Nahariyya at some point adding that it was also true of Nazareth, Jaffa and afterwards. One of them was originally from Nablus other places. That really surprised me. and had left there in 1979. He said that the city was We reached their stop and they got off, after unrecognizable – it had grown so much – from (he many expressions of friendship and gratitude for figured) about 200,000 to about 800,000 (so much my tour-guide services. Things here could be so different. Amb. David Roet, Israel’s Deputy Permanent for Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians, I thought). We Representative to the UN, addresses the UN Security Council. Photo: UN photo/Paulo Filgueiras. nation that followed this statement. A few years ago, dozens of UN delegations took a principled stand against blatant Iranian antisemitism and walked out of the United Nations, we must take a stand against expression that we, as democracies, hold dear. in protest when former Iranian president, Mahmoud what one UN secretary-general called “the oldest A few weeks before the Iranian president’s vile Ahmadinejad used the same forum to raise similar living hatred.” statements, the UN held an historic high-level forum hateful accusations. Antisemitism does not need a reason, only an on global antisemitism. Bringing the issue front and So, where’s the outrage now? excuse. center at the UN is, regrettably, still fraught with While many in the UN laud the Iran nuclear In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their roadblocks. Indeed, the forum was a result of the joint agreement, lift sanctions on the world’s leading religion. In the 19th and 20th centuries, they were efforts of the UN missions of Canada, the European state sponsor of terrorism, reward the mullahs with hated for their race. Now they are hated for their Union, Israel and the United States, not the UN itself. billions of dollars and lucrative trade deals, and nation. Acclaimed British philosopher Rabbi Unfortunately, there are those in the UN welcome the current Iranian president as a so-called Jonathan Sacks writes, “The new antisemitism can who fear that speaking out and working together “reformer,” official Iranian antisemitic statements always say it is not the old antisemitism.” Neverthe- to confront antisemitism is “too political” or risks and Holocaust denial continues unabated and less, it remains, Sacks says, “essentially eliminationist.” antagonizing a certain group of countries — so they unchallenged. Whether in its old or new incarnation, antisem- stay on the sidelines. Meanwhile, the scourge of antisemitism, which itism does not exist because of what Jews do, say or A recent study found that one quarter of the not long ago many of us considered to be a thing of believe, or because of what the state of Israel does. world’s population harbors antisemitic beliefs. If the the past, has metastasized into a global social disease. We must adopt a zero-tolerance policy to any UN is a mirror of the world, reflecting all that is good In too many places, Jews are again afraid to sign of antisemitism or to any effort to excuse or and bad, the rising plague of antisemitism requires a express their Judaism and be identified outside their rationalize it. New haters have been using technology UN that leads the efforts to eradicate the resurgence homes and communities. Whether it’s in Brussels, and social media to disseminate their contempt- of the world’s oldest hatred without excuses and fear. where a man with a Kalashnikov opened fire and ible ideology. To confront them, the international The UN should not lead the fight against murdered four people at the Jewish Museum of community should agree on a clear definition of antisemitism in order to appease Israel. As former Belgium, or over the Internet, where unimaginable antisemitism so we can use advanced technology secretary-general Kofi Annan declared, it should hate is spread through cyberspace at nanosecond to stop online hate, while, at the same time, carefully be done for the sake of all nations and all people. speed, on university campuses or even in the halls preserve the important freedoms of speech and Continued on Page A10 www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 A9 Legal Notice.

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Approximate amount SSNY shall mail copy of process to the the Account; (d) The Court should judgment and terms of sale. Approxi- DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for of judgment $405,503.98 plus interest LLC, 421 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, not fix, determine and approve the mate amount of judgment $774,440.44 the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- and costs. INDEX NO. 20693-13 NY 11238. Purpose: Any lawful legal fees of Cullen and Dykman LLP, plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) Aaron Tyk, Esq., Referee purpose. counsel to Petitioner, in the amount 3196-14 Michael J. Mondschein, Esq., 759-1835 Dated: OCTOBER 28, 2016 AJ 11/4/11/18/25 AJ 10/7/14/21/28;11/4/11 of $ 23,106.58 as shown in Schedules Referee AJ 10/28;11/4/11/18 C·I and J of the Account; (e) The Court AJ 10/28;11/4/11/18 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Notice of formation of limited liability should not fix, determine and approve Notice of Formation of LMEG COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. Bank company (LLC) name : First State the disbursements of Cullen and SUPREME COURT – COUNTY ACQUISITION LLC Arts. of Org. National Association, as trustee, on Improvements LLC articles of organi- Dykman LLP in the amount of $ 661.00 OF KINGS THE BANK OF NEW filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) behalf of the holders of the CSMC zation filed with the Secretary of State as shown in Schedules C-1 and J of the YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK on 10/12/16. Office location: Kings Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through of New York (SSNY) on 09 09 2016 Account; (f) The claim of the New York OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR County. Princ. office of LLC: 303 Certificates, Series 2007-6, Plaintiff Office location Richmond County City Human Resources Administra- THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS Louisiana Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11207. AGAINST Ronda Kellman; et al., SSNY has been designated as agent of tion, in the amount of $108,115.41, as OF CWABS, INC. ASSET-BACKED SSNY designated as agent of LLC Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment the LLC upon whom process against it set forth in Schedule D of the Account, CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-11, upon whom process against it may of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated May be served SSNY shall Mail copy should not be allowed to the extent Plaintiff against PIERRE A. RAOUL; be served. SSNY shall mail process to September 28, 2016 I, the under- of the process to the LLC 564 Hunter of the net estate after the payment JUNIE RAOUL, et al Defendant(s). the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. signed Referee will sell at public Avenue staten Island 10306 purpose of administration expenses and any Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- Purpose: Any lawful activity. auction in room 224 of Kings County all lawful activity creditor claims which have priority of sure and Sale entered on September AJ 10/28;11/4/11/18/25/2 Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, AJ 10/14/21/28; 11/4/11/18 payment; (g) The claims of the New 20, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee Brooklyn NY 11201 on December 8, York State Department of Taxation will sell at public auction in Room 224 SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF 2016 at 2:30PM, premises known as Notice of formation of limited liability and Finance and Capitol Funeral of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 KINGS HSBC BANK USA, N.A., Plain- 979 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY company LLC name: H&;Z BUILDING Service of New York, if any, should Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the tiff against LEON S. POWDAR, et al 11205. All that certain plot piece or CONSULTANTING LLC articles of not be fixed and determined; (h) The 1st day of December, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment parcel of land, with the buildings and organization filed with the Secretary Petitioner should not be permitted to premises All that certain plot, piece of Foreclosure and Sale entered on improvements erected, situate, lying of State of New York(SSNY) on 09 21 distribute so much of the net estate or parcel of land, with the buildings October 12, 2016. I, the undersigned and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, 2016 Office location Kings county to the decedent's distributees, as now and improvements thereon erected, Referee will sell at public auction in County of Kings, City and State of New SSNY has been designated as the known or hereafter determined, as situate, lying and being in the Borough Room 224 of the Kings County Court- York, Block 1778 Lot 6. Approximate agent of the LLC upon whom process their interests may appear, and to of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City house, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, amount of judgment $1,717,453.56 against it may be served SSNY shall deposit any amount not so distributed and State of New York bounded and N.Y. on the 1st day of December, 2016 plus interest and costs. Premises mail copy of process to the LLC 834 with the Commissioner of Finance described as follows: Beginning at at 2:30 p.m. premises ALL that certain will be sold subject to provisions of 57th St. BSMT Brooklyn, NY 11220 of the City of New York to be held for the corner formed by the intersection plot, piece or parcel of land, with the filed Judgment Index# 504283/2014. purpose any lawful activity the benefit of decedent's unknown of the northerly side of Foster Avenue buildings and improvements thereon Michael Sucher, Esq, Referee Shapiro, AJ 10/14/21/28;11/4/11/18 distributees or for the benefit of any with the westerly side of East 49th erected, situate, lying and being in DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for distributees of the decedent who are Street; Running thence westerly along the Borough of Brooklyn, County of the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- File No. 2015 -731 / A PA. No. under disability for whom no guardian the northerly side of Foster Avenue Kings, and State of New York, being vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 143742 CITATION SURROGATE'S of the property has been appointed; (i) 20 feet; Thence northerly and parallel bounded and described as follows: 759-1835 Dated: October 25, 2016 COURT, KINGS COUNTY The Petitioner, upon fully complying with East 49th Street 100 feet; Thence BEGINNING at a point on the westerly AJ 11/4/11/18/25 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF with the Decree to be made in this easterly and parallel with Foster side of Milford Street, distant 90 feet NEW YORK, By the Grace of God proceeding, should not be released Avenue 20 feet to the westerly side northerly from the corner formed by NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT Free and Independent TO: Israel and discharged of and from any and of East 49th Street; Thence southerly the intersection of the westerly side of COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC Bank Weinraub, Daniel Melchet, Edna all liability, responsibility and account- along the westerly side of East 49th Milford Street with the northerly side USA, National Association as Trustee Zivan, Edward Laden, Richard Laden, ability with respect to the Petitioner's Street 100 feet to the corner the point of Sutter Avenue; RUNNING THENCE for Wells Fargo Asset Securities Capitol Funeral Service of New York acts and proceedings as Administrator or place of beginning. Together with westerly parallel to the northerly side Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Attorney General of the State of New as set forth and embraced in said an easement of 4 feet over the most of Sutter Avenue, 100 feet; THENCE Certificates Series 2006-AR14, Plain- York, New York State Department of account and the Court grant such easterly part of the premises adjoining northerly parallel to the westerly side tiff AGAINST Janice Smith a/k/a Taxation and Finance New York City other and further relief as it deems on the west and subject to a similar of Milford Street, 29 feet; THENCE Janice T. Smith a/k/a Janis T. Smith; Human Resources Administration just and proper; Dated, Attested, and easement of 4 feet over the most easterly parallel to the northerly et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a The spouse, if any, and any and all Sealed, September 22, 2016 HON westerly part of the above described side of Sutter Avenue and part of the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale unknown distributees and creditors of MARGERITA LOPEZ TORRES, Surro- premises which said 8 feet shall consti- distance through a party wall, 100 duly dated September 29, 2016 I, the RACHELA HAUSNER a/k/a RACHEL gate Doreen A Quinn Chief Clerk. tute an easement for light, air and feet, to the westerly side of Milford undersigned Referee will sell at public HAUSNER, deceased, whose where- Joseph J Borges, ESQ., Cullen and access and for ingress and egress for Street; THENCE southerly along the auction at the Kings County Supreme abouts are unknown and if any of the Dykman LLP 44 Wall Street. New York, pleasure automobiles only to an from westerly side of Milford Street, 29 feet, Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, aforesaid persons be dead, to their NY 10005-2407 (212) 701-4175 NOTE: the northerly side of Foster Avenue to to the point or place of beginning. Brooklyn, NY 11201 on December 8, heirs at law, next of kin and distributees This citation is served upon you as the garage erected or intended to be Said premises known as 278 Milford 2016 at 2:30PM, premises known as whose names and places of residence required by law. You are not required erected in the rear of said premises Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208. (Block: 2 Paerdegat 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY are unknown and if the persons died to appear. If you fail to appear it will in favor of the owner of the premises 4040, Lot: 33). Approximate amount 11236. All that certain plot piece or subsequent to the decedent herein, be assumed that you do not objectto on the west. Said premises known of lien $ 294,553.79 plus interest and parcel of land, with the buildings and to their executors, administrators, the relief requested. You have a right as 4823 Foster Avenue, Brooklyn, costs. Premises will be sold subject improvements erected, situate, lying legatees, devisees, assignees and to have an attorney appear for you, N.Y. 11203. Tax account number: to provisions of filed judgment and and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, successors in interest whose names and you or your attorney mav request 4779-40. Approximate amount of terms of sale. Index No. 500176-14. County of Kings, City and State of and places of residence are unknown a copy of the full account from the lien $ 188,111.41 plus interest and Judy S. Mock, Esq., Referee. Stern & NY, Block 8031 Lot 6. Approximate and to all other heirs at law, next of petitioner or petitioner's attorney costs. Premises will be sold subject Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plaintiff amount of judgment $640,204.53 kin and distributees of RACHELA AJ 10/21/28;11/4/11 to provisions of filed judgment and Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 B plus interest and costs. Premises will HAUSNER a/k/a RACHEL HAUSNER, terms of sale. Index No. 505747-14. Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ be sold subject to provisions of filed the decedent herein, whose names NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: Dominic Famulari, Esq., Referee. Stern 08830 (732) 582-6344 Judgment Index# 503256/2015. Philip and/or places of residence arc KINGS COUNTY WILMINGTON & Eisenberg, PC Attorney(s) for Plain- AJ 10/28;11/4/11/18 L. Kamaras, Esq., Referee Shapiro, unknown and cannot after due SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB tiff Woodbridge Corporate Plaza 485 DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for diligence be ascertained, A petition D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT B Route 1 South – Suite 330 Iselin, NJ NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boule- having been duly filed by the Public INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE 08830 (732) 582-6344 KINGS COUNTY WELLS FARGO vard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) Administrator of Kings County, who FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUI- AJ 10/28;11/4/11/18 BANK, N.A.; Plaintiff(s) vs. ENID 759-1835 Dated: October 31, 2016 has offices at 360 Adams Street, Room SITION TRUST; Plaintiff(s) vs. CESAR MASON; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney AJ 11/4/11/18/25 144A, Brooklyn, New York 11201, SARMIENTO; et al; Defendant(s) NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI United States. YOU ARE HEREBY Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, COURT COUNTY OF KINGS PNC & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, SUPREME COURT – COUNTY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Bank, National Association, Plaintiff Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, OF KINGS DEUTSCHE BANK Surrogate's Court, Kings County, at 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New AGAINST Renata Ramdass; et al., 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, Johnson Street, Room 319, Brooklyn, York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDEN- New York, on November 15, 2016 at to judgment of foreclosure and sale of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated on or about August 18, 2016, I will TIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC., 9:30 o'clock in the fore noon of that granted herein on or about August 29, September 14, 2016 I, the undersigned sell at Public Auction to the highest MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASS- day, why: (a)The account of proceed- 2016, I will sell at Public Auction to Referee will sell at public auction at bidder at Public Auction in Room 224 THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES ings of the Public Administrator of the highest bidder at Public Auction the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 2007-QA3, Plaintiff against BERNARD Kings County as Administrator of the Room 224 at the Kings County Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. MCCALMON A/K/A BERNARD J. estate of RACHELA HAUSNER a/k/a Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, NY 11201 on December 1, 2016 at On December 8, 2016 at 2:30 pm. MCCALMON, et al Defendant(s). RACHEL HAUSNER, a summary Brooklyn, NY 11201. On December 1, 2:30PM, premises known as 964 East Premises known as 722 EAST 38TH Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclo- of which has been served herewith, 2016 at 2:30 pm. Premises known as 43rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11210. All STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11210 sure and Sale entered on September should not be judicially settled; (b) The 139 DUMONT AVENUE, BROOKLYN, that certain plot piece or parcel of land, Block: 4984 Lot: 27 All that certain 20, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee Public Administrator of Kings County NY 11212 Block: 3555 Lot: 55 ALL with the buildings and improvements Plot, piece or parcel of land, with the will sell at public auction in Room should not be paid his commis- that certain plot, piece or parcel of erected, situate, lying and being in the buildings and improvements thereon 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, sions pursuant to SCP A §2307 in the land, with the buildings and improve- Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, erected, situate, lying and being in 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on amount of $15,553.28, as set forth in ments thereon erected, situate, lying City and State of New York, Section the Borough of Brooklyn, County of the 8th day of December, 2016 at 2:30 Schedules C-1 and I of the Account; and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, 23 Block 7746 Lot 59. Approximate Kings, City and State of New York. As p.m. premises All that certain plot, Continued on Page A12 A10 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 Opinion. Do Women’s Rights Matter Are Niqabs and Kippot to J Street? Equally Threatening?

of personal Islamic expression. But I reject the niqab and burqa, because they do STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ DANIEL PIPES/ threaten public security. Had you bothered JNS.ORG NEW YORK to consult my blog on this subject, detailing more than 100 incidents where these articles of clothing have been used to facili- tate criminality, political violence and jihad, The Southern Poverty Law Center’s you would understand the problem. J Street’s controversial response to the Heidi Beirich has distributed a standardized Second, headgear like niqabs and sexual harassment of one of its staff members reply to the avalanche of protests (including burqas are banned in banks and other raises questions as to whether its attitude Ari Shavit. Photo: Youtube Screenshot a particularly eloquent one by National commercial institutions around the world, for the obvious reason that criminals use toward women’s rights is compromised by its regime: “Women and girls continued to face Review) against its wretched Field Guide them as accessories to holdups. So far as political goals. discrimination in law and in practice, and to Anti-Muslim Extremists (of which I am I know, not a single institution has ever After J Street learned, in 2014, that one of were inadequately protected against sexual allegedly one). Her apologia makes a quite banned the kippah, a tiny covering at the its staff members had been sexually harassed, it and other violence, including so-called remarkable claim in reference to me that top of the head, on security grounds. Can terminated its relationship with the harasser — ‘honor’ killings. At least 18 women and girls calls for a response. She writes that you possibly figure out why not? Israeli journalist and Palestinian state advocate were reported to be victims of such killings the calling for a ban of any religious Ari Shavit. But J Street has now admitted that during the year.” dress is indeed extreme, regardless of the it never said a word about Shavit’s behavior to I don’t see anything about the Amnesty religious institution. Calling for a ban on the the other Jewish groups that organized Shavit’s International report on J Street’s website. niqab is akin to banning a kippah. Daniel speeches around the country. Earlier this year, a female member of the Pipes, another extremist on this list, has J Street’s two-year silence on the abuse Palestinian Legislative Council, Najat Abu also called for a similar ban. These calls are of an American Jewish woman was wrong. J Bakr, hid in the parliament building for 17 contrary to religious freedom. Street’s silence about the abuse of Palestinian days after the PA police sought to arrest her The kippah (aka yarmulke) — really? women is wrong, too, and both situations may for criticizing PA President Mahmoud Abbas. In response, I offer two points addressed to well be related. According to The New York Times, Ms. Abu Ms. Beirich: J Street’s central mission has been to Bakr’s “crime” was that she “said Mr. Abbas First, I am fine with the wearing of a bring about the creation of a Palestinian state should resign and suggested that there would hijab or burkini — because these do not Harry Styles’s blue knitted kippa. next to Israel. One of the reasons many Israelis be money to pay educators if ministers were threaten public security. They are a matter Photo: Ben Winston via Twitter. are skeptical about that proposal is that not so corrupt.” “Palestine” would be a brutal totalitarian state. I couldn’t find anything on the J Street Continued from Page A1 Friedman pointed to Clinton’s 2009-2013 Israelis understand that brutal totalitarian website about that either. Voice stint as secretary of state, saying that the states often invade neighboring countries. Just two months ago, the Jordanian Democratic candidate has done “absolutely If Israelis believed a Palestinian state website, Albawaba (“The Loop”) reported secretary of state.” nothing during the course of her campaign would be a tolerant, pluralistic, democratic that some names of female candidates were In addition, Rosenberger said, Clinton to distinguish herself or to distinguish her state, where the rights of minorities and being concealed in listings for the Palestinian “has been very clear that she believes that presidency from an Obama presidency. The women were protected, creating such a state Authority’s planned local elections. They Israel’s security is a direct and enduring Clinton-Obama foreign policy has wreaked would seem a lot less threatening to Israel. were “listed only as ‘sister of’ or ‘the wife of,'” national interest of the United States. She massive damage everywhere in the world… So, yes, Palestinian women’s rights according to the report. Local Palestinian believes that America needs to be engaged You can’t point to any place in the world matter. They matter because it’s a question of women’s groups protested. J Street was silent. in the Middle East to help bring about peace, which is safer, more secure, less of a threat justice and equality. And they matter because J Street’s website does have a section called stability and security, and she believes that than it was 8 years ago.” the issue reveals a lot about what kind of “Women’s Leadership Forum.” It talks about there will always be differences that the two The primary reason for this, according neighbor a Palestinian state would be. mobilizing women to promote the J Street countries will have, but that we need to make to Friedman, “is that America has projected Yet, just as J Street refused for two years to goal of creating a Palestinian state. It calls for sure that those differences are managed weakness to the rest of the world. It’s a small speak out about the mistreatment of a Jewish increasing “women’s inclusion in peacemaking quietly, and that our adversaries are never world, and when the world is this unstable woman on its staff, it has refused to speak out and negotiations,” because it believes women able to drive a wedge between us.” and risky, Jews everywhere are less safe and about the mistreatment of Palestinian women will “bring fresh thinking and new ideas” that Speaking to Jewish Insider on behalf of they’re less secure. The Trump administration by the Palestinian Authority (PA). can help advance J Street’s goals. the Donald Trump campaign, attorney David is going to reverse all of that. We’re not going In 2014, the Washington Post reported In other words, J Street is interested Friedman — a senior adviser with whom the to lead from behind. We’re going to lead from the number of “honor killings” of Palestinian in women when they might be useful for Republican presidential candidate regularly the front. That should be very important to women had more than doubled over the promoting Palestinian statehood. But its consults on matters related to the Jewish people everywhere, but it’s of course impor- previous year. Those are killings in which leaders seem a lot less interested in women state — asked US Jews “to focus on two things” tant to Jews, because when the United States men murder female relatives whom they who are not politically useful. Speaking out when voting — Israel and America’s standing is weak, Israel is weak, and frankly, Jews every- suspect of violating Islamic fundamen- against Shavit two years ago — when his in the world. where have reason to be concerned.” talist morals, such as premarital relations, book made him one of the most prominent “The Republican platform, which could In an interview with The Algemeiner dressing “provocatively,” or being seen in the advocates of Palestinian statehood in the have never been enacted without the support last week, Friedman revealed that a Trump company of an unauthorized boyfriend. The Jewish world — would have harmed the of Donald Trump, is the most pro-Israel administration would ask the Justice Depart- Post noted that even when the Palestinian Palestinian statehood campaign. Likewise, platform in the history of either party, in the ment to investigate coordinated attempts to Authority imprisons such killers, “pardons speaking out against the Palestinian Author- history of this country,” Friedman said. intimidate Israel-supporters on US campuses. and suspended sentences are common.” ity’s abuse of women could raise doubts about Some of Trump’s positions on Israel, On Monday, Malcolm Hoenlein — the I looked on J Street’s website, which has the nature and viability of a Palestinian state. Friedman said, “are frankly unique and executive vice president of the Conference of issued more than 600 press releases dating Could that explain J Street’s troubling silence massively better, not only than Hillary Presidents of Major American Jewish Organi- back to 2008, to see if it issued a release in both situations? Clinton[‘s] but even when compared to zations — told The Algemeiner that US Jews concerning the Post‘s exposé of Palestinian Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New George W. Bush — no daylight between the must get out and vote on Election Day if they honor killings. Nothing there. Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was countries, Jerusalem as the indivisible capital want to continue to be heard by politicians on Amnesty International’s latest report on murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Pales- of Israel, moving the embassy to Jerusalem, matters of concern to them. human rights around the world has this to say tinian terrorist attack in 1995. maintaining an overwhelmingly superior “I hear too many expressions of indif- about women under the Palestinian Authority military profile for Israel relative to its enemies, ference, or people who are confused and and no longer burdening Israel, when it is conflicted and therefore say they are not going Continued from Page A8 on combating the other ills of the world. called to defend itself, with obsolete notions to vote,” Hoenlein said. “That’s a decision, but Danger As secretary-general Ban Ki-moon rightly of proportionate force. Also, rejecting the it’s a bad one. It’s very important that people reminds us, “A United Nations that wants to be notion that Israel is occupying today in Judea go out and vote their conscience…Many “A human rights agenda that fails to address true to its founding aims and ideals has a duty and Samaria, punishing the BDS movement, politicians may have limited capacities, but antisemitism denies its own history,” Annan to speak out against antisemitism.” not imposing on Israel a settlement against its they can all count. And they know who votes said. “The Secretariat must be vigilant…The Ambassador David Roet is Israel’s will, and not funding the Palestinian Authority and who doesn’t vote. You have to vote if you fight against antisemitism must be our fight.” Deputy Permanent Representative to the without absolute assurances that it’s no longer want to have a voice. If you fail to do so, don’t It’s imperative for the UN to fight United Nations. providing stipends to terrorists.” complain about the results.” antisemitism with the same urgency it places Regarding broader US policy overseas, www.algemeiner.com | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 A11 Social.

German Automotive Giant to Open R&D Center in Israel

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A German multinational automotive corpora- tion announced plans on Monday to set up a new research and development center in Israel. Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz’s parent company, will build the center in Tel Aviv, joining the conglomerate’s network of R&D sites, which includes locations in the Unites States, Germany, India and China. IDF Sgt. Sapir Isaschar; IDF Master Sgt. Allison Bressand; Robert DeNiro; Larry King; Haim Saban; and Israeli Air Adi Ofek, a longtime executive with Daimler, Force (IAF) Cpl. Lianne Eaves at FIDF Western Region Gala. Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld/AJR Photography. will head the Israeli center. Th e Tel Aviv site will focus on “car mobility and information services, in Record $38 Million Raised at Friends of IDF LA Celebrity Gala

BY JNS.ORG Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and head of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, made Th e Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) the single largest contribution of the night, with a total raised a record $38 million at a celebrity gala Th ursday of $6 million. in Los Angeles. “Th e commitment of Israel’s soldiers to protecting Th e event, held at Th e Beverly Hilton hotel, was their country and her citizens is truly inspiring and chaired by businessman and media mogul Haim Saban remarkable,” Eckstein said. “It is incumbent upon us and his wife Cheryl. A number of prominent Jewish and to stand by these brave soldiers and support them in whatever way we can, so they know how deep our Daimler headquarters in Germany. non-Jewish celebrities were in attendance, including Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Larry King, Serge Azria, Robert Kraft, Julie Bowen, Gerard commitment is to their well being and their futures.” Butler, Robert De Niro and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Founded in 1981, the FIDF provides educational, “We are gratifi ed to see that the FIDF’s important cultural, recreational and social programs and facili- addition to the development and testing of various mission – to provide wellbeing and educational programs ties for Israeli soldiers, as well as supporting families of projects and user interfaces,” the company said. for the heroic men and women of the IDF – continues to fallen warriors and wounded veterans. Daimler board member Professor Th omas resonate with the Los Angeles community,” Saban said. Weber, who also heads the conglomerate’s research and development automobile ventures, said the center “seeks to boost the global R&D outline with the help of Israel, the high-tech nation…so that we will continue to be the automotive industry’s technological leader in terms of effi cient, techno- Miami Marlins Right-Fielder logically advanced, safe cars.” Giancarlo Stanton ‘Floats Like a Butterfly’ in Dead Sea During Birthday Trip to Israel

BY SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN gram. Playing on the famous words of the late boxing legend, Muhammad Ali, he added the pithy caption, A Major League Baseball player visiting Israel for “Float like a butterfl y, sting like this salty ass water in his birthday was caught on camera with mud on his my eyes #thatstoomuchsalt! #Bdaytrip.” Stanton, who is face at the Dead Sea, reading the Jerusalem Post. not Jewish, also added a touch of Hebrew. “Enjoy every- Miami Marlins right-fi elder Giancarlo Stanton, thing that life has to off er,” he said. who turns 27 on Tuesday, posted the photo on Insta- Giancarlo Stanton in the Dead Sea. Photo: Instagram. www.algemeiner.com Tradition. Legal Notice.

The second sees Jewish identity History of Time that if we had a Continued from Below On Being a Jewish Parent in terms of tzedek u-mishpat, a Unified Field Theory, a scientific with the PLO. commitment to the just society. “theory of everything”, we would “The same thing is bound to Albert Einstein spoke of the “almost “know the mind of God.” We believe happen if President Obama pulls fanatical love of justice” as one of otherwise. To know the mind of some kind of ‘December surprise’ of nature, the elegant design of the “the features of the Jewish tradition God we do not need theoretical this time,” Ettinger said. “Pressuring universe. It’s like a palace. It must which make me thank my stars that physics. We simply need to know Israel and appeasement of terror- JONATHAN SACKS have been made by someone for I belong to it.” what it is to be a parent. The miracle ists never results in peace. That someone. But the palace is on fire. of childbirth is as close as we come LONDON The third reminds us that the policy backfires every time, and it How can this be? Surely the owner to understanding the-love-that- Greek thinkers Theophrastus and will backfire on Obama, too.” should be putting out the flames. Clearchus, disciples of Aristotle, brings-new-life-into-the-world that You don’t leave a palace empty speak of the Jews as a nation of is God’s creativity. and unguarded. Yet the owner of philosophers. There is a fascinating passage The most influential man who LEGAL NOTICE ever lived, does not appear on any the palace calls out to him, as God So these views are all true in Yossi Klein Halevi’s book on list I have seen of the hundred most Christians and Muslims in the land influential men who ever lived. He of Israel, At the Entrance to the Continued from Page A9 ruled no empire, commanded no Garden of Eden. Visiting a convent, he is told by a nun, Maria Teresa: piece or parcel of land, situate, lying army, engaged in no spectacular and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, acts of heroism on the battlefield, “I watch the families who visit County of Kings, City and State of performed no miracles, proclaimed here on weekends. How the parents New York. Said premises known as no prophecy, led no vast throng of behave toward their children, 595 Euclid Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. followers, and had no disciples other speaking to them with patience 11208. Tax account number: SBL#: than his own child. Yet today more and encouraging them to ask intel- 4266-17. Approximate amount of lien than half of the 6 billion people alive ligent questions. It’s an example to $ 734,540.63 plus interest and costs. on the face of the planet identify the whole world. The strength of Premises will be sold subject to provi- themselves as his heirs. this people is the love of parents for sions of filed judgment and terms of His name, of course, is their children. Not just the mothers sale. Index No. 505748-13. Gregory Thomas Cerchione, Esq., Referee. Abraham, held as the founder of but also the fathers. A Jewish child has two mothers.” McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, P.C. faith by the three great monothe- Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot isms, Judaism, Christianity and Judaism takes what is natural and sanctifies it; what is physical Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New Islam. He fits no conventional York 10801 (914) 636-8900 and invests it with spirituality; what stereotype. He is not, like Noah, AJ 11/4/11/18/25 described as unique in his genera- is elsewhere considered normal tion. The Torah tells us no tales of and sees it as a miracle. What SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF his childhood as it does in the case Darwin saw as the urge to repro- KINGS JP MORGAN CHASE BANK, of Moses. We know next to nothing duce, what Richard Dawkins calls NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff about his early life. When God calls “the selfish gene”, is for Judaism -against- OMAR EVANS; MONIRAM on him, as He does at the beginning called to Abraham, asking him to and profound. They share only one high religious art, full of drama and MANBODE, et al Defendant(s). of this week’s parsha, to leave his help fight the fire. shortcoming. There is no evidence beauty. Abraham the father, and Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure land, his birthplace and his father’s God needs us to fight the for them whatsoever in the Torah. Sarah the mother, are our enduring and Sale entered herein and dated house, we have no idea why he was destructive instinct in the human Joshua speaks of Abraham’s role models of parenthood as God’s August 11, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at singled out. heart. This is Abraham, the fighter father Terach as an idolater (Josh. gift and our highest vocation. the Kings County Courthouse 360 Yet never was a promise more against injustice, the man who sees 24:2), but this is not mentioned in the beauty of the natural universe Bereishit. The story of the palace Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, richly fulfilled than the words of God Continued from Page A6 NY on December 15, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. being disfigured by the sufferings in flames is perhaps based on to him when He changed his name Surprise premises situate, lying and being in the from Abram to Abraham: inflicted by man on man. Abraham’s challenge to God about The result would be that a Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, “For I have made you father of Finally comes a third image, the proposed destruction of Sodom Jewish organization might trigger City and State of New York, bounded many nations” (Gen. 17:5). this time by Moses Maimonides: and the cities of the plain: “Shall the and described as follows: BEGINNING There are today 56 Islamic After he was weaned, while still judge of all the earth not do justice?” US sanctions merely by sending at a point on the westerly side of Essex nations, more than 80 Christian an infant, Abraham’s mind began to As for Abraham-as-Aristotle, that is a tour group to visit the Western Street, distant 100 feet southerly from ones, and the Jewish state. Truly reflect. Day and night, he thought based on an ancient tradition that Wall, for example. Major American the southwesterly corner of Essex Abraham became the father of and wondered, “How is it possible the Greek philosophers (especially Jewish organizations, like the Jewish Street and Folsom Place; being a plot many nations. But who and what that this celestial sphere should Pythagoras) derived their wisdom National Fund and American 19 feet by 50 feet 4 inches by 19 feet by was Abraham? Why was he chosen continuously be guiding the world from the Jews, but this too is Friends of Hebrew University, 50 feet 4 inches. Block: 3956 Lot: 19. for this exemplary role? and have no one to guide it and nowhere hinted in the Torah. would be affected. That would Said premises known as 222 ESSEX STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approxi- There are three famous cause it to turn, for it cannot be that What then does the Torah create an unprecedented clash it turns itself?” He had no teacher, say about Abraham? The answer mate amount of lien $461,794.91 plus portraits of Abraham. The first is between American Jewry and the interest & costs. Premises will be sold the one we learned as children. no one to instruct him in anything. is unexpected and very moving. outgoing president that would spill He was surrounded, in Ur of the subject to provisions of filed Judgment Abraham, left alone with his father’s Abraham was chosen simply to over into the Jewish community’s and Terms of Sale. Index Number Chaldees, by foolish idolaters. His idols, breaks them with a hammer, be a father. The “Av” in Avram/ relationship with the next president. 504324/2014. WILLIAM F. MACKEY, father and mother and the entire Avraham means “father”. In the only which he leaves in the hand of Critics say that an Obama JR., ESQ., Referee Buckley Madole, P.C. population worshipped idols, and verse in which the Torah explains the biggest of the idols. His father “December surprise” against Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 420 Lexington he worshipped with them. But his the choice of Abraham, it says: For Terach comes in, sees the devasta- Israel is likely to end as badly as Avenue, Suite 840, New York, NY tion, asks who has caused it, and mind was constantly active and I have chosen him, so that he will 10170 the “December surprise” of 1988. the young Abraham replies, “Can reflective, until he had attained the direct his children and his house- AJ 11/11/18/25; 12/2 During the weeks between former you not see? The hammer is in the way of truth, found the correct line hold after him to keep the way of hands of the largest idol. It must of thought, and knew that there is the Lord by doing what is right and President Ronald Reagan’s depar- Notice of formation of limited liability have been him.” Terach replies, “But one God, He that guides the celestial just, so that the Lord will bring about ture and George H.W. Bush’s company LLC name: Playtime Korner an idol is mere of wood and stone.” spheres and created everything, and for Abraham what He has promised inauguration, the US recognized LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of New Abraham replies, “Then, father, how that among all that exists, there is no him.” (Gen. 18:19) the Palestine Liberation Organiza- God beside Him. The great scenes in Abraham’s tion (PLO), claiming Yasser Arafat York(SSNY) on 10/03/2016. Office can you worship them?”[1] This is location Richmond County SSNY has Abraham the iconoclast, the breaker This is Abraham the philoso- life – waiting for a child, the birth had sincerely accepted Israel and pher, anticipating Aristotle, using been designated as agent of the LLC of images, the man who while still of Ishmael, the tension between forsaken terrorism. upon whom process against it may be young rebelled against the pagan, metaphysical argument to prove the Sarah and Hagar, the birth of Isaac, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, served .SSNY Shall mail copy of the polytheistic world of demigods and existence of God. and the binding – are all about his former minister for congres- process to playtime Korner LLC 1982 demons, superstition and magic. Three images of Abraham; role as a father (next week I will sional affairs at Israel’s embassy in Clove Rd., Staten Island, NY 10304 three versions, perhaps, of what it The second is more haunting write about the troubling episode Washington from 1989 to 1992, told purpose all lawful activity is to be a Jew. The first sees Jews as and is enigmatic. Abraham, says of the binding). JNS.org that the underlying flaw in AJ 11/11/18/25; 12/2/9/16 iconoclasts, challenging the idols of Judaism, more than any other the midrash, is like a man travelling US policy toward Arafat was “that the age. Even secular Jews who had faith, sees parenthood as the Notice of formation of limited liability on a journey when he sees a palace the State Department decided in cut themselves adrift from Judaism highest challenge of all. On the company(LLC) name; AMITA LLC in flames. advance that Israel was the bad guy He wondered, “Is it possible were among the most revolu- first day of Rosh Hashanah – the Articles of organization filed with the and that the Palestinians wanted Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) that the palace lacks an owner?” tionary modern thinkers, most anniversary of creation – we read peace, so the US refused to accept on 04/07/2016 Office location kings The owner of the palace looked out famously Spinoza, Marx and Freud. of two mothers, Sarah and Hannah Thorstein Veblen said in an essay and the births of their sons, as if to the reality that Arafat was still county.SSNY has been designated and said, “I am the owner of the as the agent of the LLC upon whom on “the intellectual pre-eminence say: Every life is a universe. There- sponsoring the intifada and other palace.” So Abraham our father said, process against it may be served. SSNY of Jews,” that the Jew becomes “a terrorism.” In May 1990, evidence “Is it possible that the world lacks a fore if you wish to understand the shall mail copy of the process to the ruler?” God looked out and said to disturber of the intellectual peace creation of the universe, think of Arafat’s continued involve- LLC c/o Sabrina Pomilio 812 Carroll him, “I am the ruler, the Sovereign of . . . a wanderer in the intellectuals’ about the birth of a child. ment in terrorism had become so St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 purpose all the universe.”[2] no-man’s-land, seeking another Abraham, the hero of faith, is overwhelming that President Bush lawful activity This is an extraordinary place to rest, farther along the road, simply a father. Stephen Hawking had no choice but to end US contact AJ 11/11/18/25; 12/2/9/16 somewhere over the horizon.” passage. Abraham sees the order famously wrote at the end of A Brief Continued Above