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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 17 DECEMBER 29, 2017 11 TEVET, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Orlando hosts BBYO IC BBYO North Florida Re- The planners are looking for gion is honored to welcome enthusiastic and friendly and host BBYO’s Interna- individuals, who are at least tional Convention 2018. Over a sophomore in college, and President’s Day weekend (Feb. can help guide the teens and 15–19, 2018), more than 5,000 take part in making this a of the Jewish community’s life-changing experience for top teen leaders, educators, thousands of young people. professionals, and philan- You can sign up for shifts at thropists from around the https://tiny.cc/IC18volunteer. world will come together in Volunteer Training will be Orlando for one of the larg- at The Roth Family JCC on est Jewish communal events Monday, Jan. 22 from 7 to 8 of the year. 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The 7 most heartwarming UN opposes US Jewish stories of 2017 on (JNS) The United Nations By Josefin Dolsten immigrants from seven predominantly and I was looking to do something in General Assembly on Thurs- Muslim countries, Alexander Rapaport, a solidarity with the people affected by the day overwhelmingly approved (JTA)—Political turmoil, terror at- Hasidic Jew, wanted to show his support executive order.” a resolution denouncing tacks and natural disasters around the for his neighbors in . So when A 6-year-old girl sends painted President ’s de- world: 2017 had plenty of people feeling bodega owners from Yemen rocks to decorate vandalized Jew- cision to recognize Jerusalem down, for good reason. went on strike in February in protest of ish cemeteries as ’s capital. But there were also notable moments of the ban, Rapaport organized community When 6-year-old Ayel Morgenstern The 193-member General light. As this year draws to a close, here is members to put Post-it notes with mes- learned that her great-great-grand- Assembly voted 128-9, with a chronology of some of the more heart- sages of support on the storefront of a mother’s headstone was among the 100 35 abstentions, to express warming stories JTA published this year. local store owned by Yemeni immigrants. toppled at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis “deep regret” over Trump’s An Orthodox Jew builds bridges “I made a point of walking in there in February, she sprung into action. Jerusalem policy changes, with his Yemeni Muslim neigh- today—I actually live a mile away,” Ra- Ayel, who lives in Florida, decided which also include plans to bors paport, the executive director , a in March to paint rocks to decorate move the U.S. embassy to After President Donald Trump is- kosher soup kitchen network, told JTA. that city. sued his first executive order banning “I just learned that they were Yemenite, Stories on page 14A The nine countries voting against the resolution were the U.S., Israel, Togo, Micro- nesia, Guatemala, Nauru, Benjamin Netanyahu Jewish Pavilion Gala honors Marian Palau, Marshall Islands and Honduras. The 35 absten- Ahead of the vote, Prime tions included a number of Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Bromberg and A.J. Kronenberg countries whom Israel has called the U.N. a “house of been courting for support dur- lies” and said Israel “rejects By Pam Ruben North (Maitland) for their ing the past year, including this vote outright.” ‘Gems and Jeans Gala,’ as they Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, “Jerusalem is our capital, Please join the Jewish Pa- honor community ‘gems,’ Malawi and Rwanda. Addi- we will continue to build vilion on Sunday, Jan. 28 at Marian Bromberg and A.J. tionally, Hungary, Croatia, there and additional embas- 5 p.m. at Sheraton Orlando Kronenberg, for providing Latvia, Romania and the sies will move to Jerusalem,” exemplary volunteer assis- Czech Republic broke with Netanyahu said. tance to Orlando’s elder-care the European Union con- The discussion over the community. Slip on your sensus on the resolution by General Assembly resolu- favorite pair of ‘dressy’ jeans, abstaining. tion began at the behest of and the Pavilion will provide Both Trump and U.S. Am- Turkey and Yemen after an the sparkle, with an evening bassador to the U.N. Nikki Egyptian-sponsored measure featuring gourmet dining, Haley have suggested that at the U.N. Security Council live music, and a silent auc- America might cut foreign aid was vetoed by the U.S. earlier tion, along with dazzling to countries who supported this week. ‘surprise’ entertainment. All the resolution, with Haley Israeli Ambassador to the proceeds raised will benefit stating the U.S. would be “tak- U.N. Danny Danon denounced seniors served in more than ing names” of such nations. supporters of the resolution 70 assisted living and skilled On Thursday, Haley closed her as “puppets being pulled by nursing facilities. Register Marian Bromberg A.J. Kronenberg remarks by saying the vote the strings of the Palestinian now online at www.jewish- “will be remembered.” puppet masters.” pavilion.org or at https://jpav. spirit to the older members of family. After Roslyn passed In defiance of Trump, the “This resolution is noth- ticketspice.com/gala-2018. our community, and I ended away, the dedicated volunteer General Assembly measure ing more than a distraction,” Call 407-678-9363 for more up getting much love and missed the special relation- asserted that “any decisions Danon said. “I have no doubt information. warmth from them.” ship she had shared, and she and actions which purport that today’s resolution will “Spending time with el- Almost a decade ago, Brom- continued to visit seniors near to have altered the character, end up in the trash bin of der-care residents is much berg began one-on-one visits her home in South Orlando. status or demographic com- history.” more than just volunteering,” with elder-care resident, Today, Bromberg assists position of the Holy City of shared Jewish Pavilion Gala Roslyn Stenzler (mother Program Director Walter Jerusalem have no legal effect, co-honoree and retired early of current Pavilion Board Goldstein, with holidays and are null and void and must childhood educator, Marian President Paul Stenzler). After , but feels she makes be rescinded in compliance Bromberg. “I began volun- visiting over several years, the with relevant resolutions of teering to bring some holiday two friends began to feel like Gala on page 13A the Security Council.” PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 Community champion, Joseph Hara dies at age 91 carved out spare time to help longtime supporter of JFS, Academy, Congregation Ohev instead of being presented at Jim’s business, and eventually an organization that provides Shalom, Kinneret Council the Federation Board meet- the two became partners. food and counseling to people on Aging, the Brevard Music ing,” Jeff Gaeser, Heritage Soon their distributorship from all walks of life. Hara was Festival, among others. Hara publisher, stated. “He also became the most successful also a champion of The Jewish served on many of their boards once paid for the unaffiliated in the U.S. and headquarters Federation of Orlando, the Ho- throughout the years. in the Jewish community to came calling. locaust Memorial Resource Hara was also a recipient receive the Heritage once a In the pre-Disney 1960s, and Education Center, TOP of the 2001 Heritage Florida month for one year,” Gaeser Hara moved his family down Jewish Foundation, Founda- Jewish News’s Human Ser- further said. to Orlando, Florida, where tion for Blindness, Habitat vice Award. Extremely mag- “It was a ball,” reflected he quickly ascended from for Humanity, the Orlando nanimous and humble, “He Hara of his life recently. His the role of vice president of Museum of Art, United Way was the only recipient to call adoring family is determined sales to president and CEO Human Resources, Friends me and say he wanted to pick to carry on his legacy of love, of Tupperware in three years. of Santa Claus, The Jewish up the award at the Heritage laughter and community. In 1970 he was named president of Tupperware worldwide, with 60 Minutes profiling the success of the Milstein Family Foundation company under his steward- ship. Hara continued to lead Tupperware for over two de- names winners of meme contest cades, through the company’s unprecedented era of growth which were funny, entertain- across 35 countries. ing and often moving,” said He ardently believed in the Israeli-American philanthro- power of positive thinking and pist Adam Milstein. was a relentless champion of “This is only the second women in the workplace. “The meme competition, but I truth is that women dominate am really impressed with intellectually,” he wrote in the quality and quantity of 2016. “I have observed this memes we received, which are in my economic life, having now available as a resource Joseph and Anita Hara been exposed to thousands to be shared on the social of women who, when made media channels of our partner By Andrea Mandell, struggled to make ends meet aware there are no restrictions organizations and for the his granddaughter during the Depression. and no limit to what they are entire pro-Israel community,” After serving in the Army free to achieve, do incredible he said. Joseph Hara died on Dec. Air Corps in the South Pa- things.” Milstein added that MFF 24, five days shy of his 92nd cific during World War II, In 1947 Hara married takes pride in initiating proj- birthday. He always likened Hara returned determined his wife, Anita, whom he ects that encourage creative his life to a Horatio Alger to jumpstart his career, adored throughout their thinking and unite “Israel tale, a man who rose from beginning as a door-to-door 70 years of marriage. They advocates around the world.” a humble background and stockings salesman. Eventu- brought joy to the lives of A panel of prominent pro- achieved success beyond his ally he learned of a plastic their three children: Robert, Israel student activists se- wildest dreams. product called Tupperware Barbara and Mark, their lected the contest’s winners. Hara was born in Chicago to through his cousin, Jim, who six grandchildren and two Eighteen contest winners a Syrian mother, Rose Beyda ran a fledgling Tupperware great-grandchildren. One of the submissions in the Milstein Family Founda- with the most creative and and Turkish father, Shabo. distributorship. Hara was extremely active tion’s pro-Israel meme contest. original memes were awarded Hara was one of nine children, Hara, now an owner of two in Orlando and the Jewish a total of $2,000 in prize and like many, the family children’s clothing shops, Community, becoming a (JNS) The Adam and Gila Fihman created a meme money. Milstein Family Founda- featuring Israeli actress Gal MFF partnered with 18 tion (MFF) on Monday an- Gadot’s “Wonder Woman” other Jewish and pro-Israel nounced the winners of its movie character along with organizations to sponsor the Discover your life’s purpose second competition for the the “wonder women” of the competition. 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Bowl the Night Please RSVP to Michael Mail by Jan. 10 to: COS Away will be held on Jan. 18, Asher at michaeldasher3@ Men’s Club & Sisterhood— or call 866-517-0794 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at AMF gmail.com Bowl the Night Away, 613 Bowling Lanes in Altamonte AMF Bowling Lanes is Concourse Parkway South, Springs. located at 280 Douglas Ave. Maitland, FL 32751. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 PAGE 3A ‘just waiting for Abbas to die’ as Palestinian unity deal falters By Yaakov Lappin Hamas-armed Islamist revo- Hamas operatives in which JNS lution. he ordered them to prepare Elad, who today lectures at a similar coup in Judea and Hamas’s latest effort to join the Western Galilee College, Samaria. Abbas knows that a Palestinian unity govern- said IDF-PA coordination is the five to six battalions the ment is little more than a “the insurance policy” that PA has cannot keep him in facade, and the terror group’s the PA has in Judea and Sa- power over time on their own. top immediate objective is maria for its survival, since He needs Israel.” to seize control of Judea and “Hamas is very strong there.” Elad, who has written two Samaria and turn it into a “Hamas can’t launch a books on the , second Gaza, according to revolution in Judea and Sa- said he has counted more the assessments of defense maria...but it’s a threat that than 25 unification attempts experts. exists all of the time,” Elad between Hamas and the PA After years of failed at- told JNS. “It’s true that on the since 2007. tempts at reconciliation, surface, PA President Mah- “It never succeeds,” he said. Palestinian Authority (PA) moud Abbas attacks Israel, but “The Egyptians, the Turks, President Mahmoud Abbas’s ultimately, he wants us to be the Qataris and Saudis—who Fatah movement and Hamas there, so that we can give him hasn’t tried to mediate? There in October announced that security against the possibil- is a deeper story here than they would implement a unity ity of a revolution by Hamas. many realize. Hamas will not deal, which included the res- As absurd as it sounds, he give up its armed force [in toration of PA control in Gaza understands that Israel’s pres- Gaza] so easily.” by Dec. 1. But the so-called ence in Judea and Samaria, On the streets of Palestin- unification quickly ran into because of the settlers, holds ian cities, towns and villages Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90 benefits for him. This means in Judea and Samaria, the PA trouble, and was delayed to On Dec. 15, 2017, in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Nablus, Hamas sup- there is a very big convergence continues to repress Hamas, Dec. 10. Now, the reconcilia- porters attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group’s founding. tion agreement is apparently of interests... if we leave the Elad added. collapsing, and Hamas seems area, he will be in a major “In terms of popularity, to be in no rush to revive it. problem. This is exactly what Hamas is stronger than the against Hamas, with the PA’s Both the PA and Israel led by Arouri, who today is “Hamas is just waiting for happened in Gaza.” PA, because the PA controls own efforts—motivated by continue to observe and believed to reside in Leba- Abbas to die, or that he agrees Elad was referring to the by force and authority, and self-preservation—forming sometimes disrupt Hamas’s non—under Hezbollah pro- to elections, to try and take 2007 Gaza coup, which saw not through public support,” the minority of anti-Hamas social infrastructure, which tection—after leaving Turkey. over the ,” Dr. Ely Hamas’s gunmen seize the he said. “There are areas operations. spreads its popularity and Hamas’s goal of conquering Karmon, a senior scholar at coastal territory by force and outside of the Muqata (the In recent days, the Shin ideology. These networks Judea and Samaria provides Israel’s International Insti- kill Fatah personnel, widening PA’s government complex in Bet announced that it had include schools, mosques plenty of motivation for the PA tute for Counter-Terrorism a massive rift between the two Ramallah) where Abbas can- disrupted a Hamas cell in the and charity centers, used to to continue its arrest raids on (ICT), told JNS regarding Palestinian camps. The latest not visit. There are two camps village of Tel, near Nablus, keep operatives on the pay- the terror group, prompting the 82-year-old Palestinian stalled reconciliation effort here—a two-headed Palestin- which was in the planning roll and recruit the masses Hamas to threaten to end uni- leader. “And Hamas is again was aimed at bridging this ian system. Reunification is stages of a kidnapping attack to the Hamas Islamist cause. fication talks in recent weeks. talking about close ties with gap. But Elad believes such irrelevant.” targeting a soldier or a civil- University campuses bristle “I do not believe in a Iran and Hezbollah.” attempts should not be taken In line with Elad’s assess- ian from a bus stop. Three with Hamas student groups real reconciliation between Dr. Col. (res.) Moshe Elad, seriously. ments, the Shin Bet domestic suspects were arrested, who that spread radical ideology Hamas and Fatah,” said ICT’s one of the founders and According to Elad, Saleh intelligence agency and IDF were allegedly in touch with and promote recruitment Karmon. “They could for a former heads of the security al-Arouri—a senior Hamas ground units in Judea and Sa- Hamas’s headquarters in Gaza drives. Yet the organization’s short time coordinate stances coordination between the operative who is part of a maria continue to operate day to receive orders and funding terrorist cells are routinely on the issue of Jerusalem, IDF and the PA, said the PA is shadow overseas command and night to keep Hamas in for the attack, designed to detected before they can act. but [Hamas political chief utterly dependent on Israel’s structure for the terror group check. Israeli preventative op- secure the release of Palestin- Dozens of the terror plots in Gaza] Yahya Sinwar has military presence in Judea and that orchestrates attacks from erations represent the major- ian security prisoners from are orchestrated by Hamas’s already announced that the Samaria to prevent a second afar—has “sent letters to ity of the force that is in place Israeli jails. overseas shadow government, agreement has collapsed.” Why these experts say Trump’s Jerusalem recognition will help the peace process

Foreign Policy. It teaches Studies and affiliates with together with the message Palestinians, he wrote, that the center-left Zionist Union that the Palestinians do not “[t]here is a price to be paid party. Resisting threats of vio- have veto power, [is] a very for perpetuating the conflict: lence changes the contours of important precedent for the Life goes on, the Israelis create peace negotiations, he added. future of the peace process.” new realities, and the world in “Trump was not intimi- Jewish groups, meanwhile, general adjusts to those new dated by the threats from largely praised the move as a realities.” Ramallah, Amman, or An- recognition of Jewish histori- Trump’s declaration showed kara,” Yadlin wrote in a cal and religious claims to the that the would thread, referring to city, long overdue, as well as an not be cowed by extremism, the Palestinian, Jordanian acknowledgement of Jerusa- tweeted Amos Yadlin, who and Turkish capitals, respec- lem’s status in modern Israel heads the centrist Israeli In- tively. “The refusal to bow to stitute for National Security the threats and blackmail, Peace on page 14A US vetoes UN resolution calling for withdrawal (JNS) The U.S. on Monday process is not a source of em- ery other country in the world Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images vetoed a United Nations Secu- barrassment for us; it should has the right to designate President Donald Trump signing a proclamation at the White House that the U.S. govern- rity Council resolution that be an embarrassment to the its capital city. But when it ment will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Dec. 6, 2017. called for President Donald remainder of the Security comes to Israel, somehow this Trump’s recognition of Jeru- Council.” most basic national right is By Ben Sales “Raising this the way he rus of analysts, mostly on salem as Israel’s capital to be The Egyptian-drafted reso- questioned and condemned. has done doesn’t advance the right but stretching to withdrawn. lution, which was supported We thank the United States NEW YORK (JTA)—When the cause of peace, it doesn’t the center, says the opposite: Following the vote, U.S. by all of the council’s 15 for standing with Israel and President Donald Trump rec- advance the cause of stability Trump’s recognition of Jeru- Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki members except for the U.S., staying loyal to the truth.” ognized Jerusalem as Israel’s in the region, it doesn’t make salem is a strategically savvy Haley called the Security affirmed that “any decisions With the Security Council capital, many foreign policy Israel safer, and it doesn’t course correction of American Council measure “an insult” and actions which purport vote on Jerusalem taking experts called it a blunder. make the United States any foreign policy. It has not hurt and said it will not be forgotten. to have altered the character, place during Chanukah, It could spark a conflagra- safer,” James Cunningham, prospects for peace, they say, “The United States will not status or demographic com- Danon said said it “seems that tion of violence in the city, a former ambassador to Israel and there’s a good chance it be told by any country where position of the Holy City of some of those who wish us well they said. It would alienate who served under Presidents will help. we can put our embassy,” she Jerusalem have no legal effect, have forgotten exactly why we Palestinians who revere the George W. Bush and Barack “U.S. recognition of Israeli said, referring to Trump’s are null and void and must be celebrate Chanukah. Chanu- city and ice any remaining Obama, told sovereignty over Jerusalem plans to move the U.S. em- rescinded in compliance with kah is about the liberation hopes of a peace process. It Council. “It raises a signifi- might contribute to peace,” bassy to Jerusalem. “The relevant resolutions of the of Jerusalem... It is about re- could be the death knell for cant risk with very little upside Douglas Feith, President fact that this veto is being Security Council.” instating Jewish sovereignty an increasingly elusive two- as far as I can see.” George W. Bush’s undersec- done in defense of America’s Israeli Ambassador to the more than 2,000 years ago state solution. But a countervailing cho- retary of defense, wrote in role in the Middle East peace U.N. Danny Danon said, “Ev- over our capital, Jerusalem.” PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 Israeli Americans can be the glue that builds a stronger Jewish community

By Adam Milstein In the corridors of the Washington Con- ness cards and then headed to a packed dance We live during a time of growing gaps vention Center, teenagers spoke with unique floor, moving and shaking the steel floors of and serious challenges in the Jewish com- LOS ANGELES (JTA)—The Israeli-Ameri- pride about their hybrid Israeli-American the convention center to the beat of Israeli munity—both inside American Jewry and can Council’s Fourth Annual National Confer- identity, rooted in the idea that they are deeply music. A young Jewish couple—the man from between Israel and the Diaspora. How do we ence in Washington, D.C., held last month felt connected to their home in America while New York, the woman from —joined address a declining Jewish population in the like a long-overdue family reunion. Enveloping maintaining a strong affinity to their Jewish with their 2-year-old and hundreds of other face of assimilation? How do we overcome warmth and a powerful sense of togetherness, homeland in Israel. young families in a circle with picture books divides among our different denominations, the love for Israel was infectious, radiating to Groups of Jewish-American and Israeli- in Hebrew and English. political orientations, ethnic backgrounds and from all the participants. American young professionals exchanged busi- Groups singing Israeli songs blended with and geographic centers? How do we ensure panel discussions about what it means to be that Israel is not a wedge that divides our Israeli and Jewish in America, centered around community, but rather the glue that holds us the idea that we were connected by the Israeli- together and strengthens us? My Reform colleagues ness in our character and the love for Israel The nearly 3,000 participants in the in our heart. Many echoed the sentiment that Washington conference suggested the role Israeli Americans and Jewish Americans are that Israeli Americans can and do play as were wrong on Jerusalem one family, need each other and complement an important partners for American Jewish each other. institutions in addressing these questions, By Ammiel Hirsch ‘wait’... that [our] action... is untimely. This This sense of unity extended to the event’s and as a bridge builders to the State of Israel ‘wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We political conversations. The politicians at and its people. (JTA)—We were wrong. must come to see that justice too long delayed the conference held views that spanned the There are three unique value propositions As Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharan- is justice denied.” ideological spectrum. They shared these that Israeli Americans—and groups like ours sky pointed out, “The Reform response to the King often reminded us that time is neutral, radically different views on stage—in very that represent them—can bring to the table recognition of Jerusalem was terrible. When... that it can be used constructively or destruc- frank conversations. All received thundering for the Jewish community. a superpower recognizes Jerusalem, first you... tively. Israel’s opponents have used time more applause from the mixed crowd. In the many The first is our Israeliness, a character and welcome it, then offer disagreement. Here it effectively than we have. They have so distorted conference sessions and events, it was clear multifaceted quality that brings together many was the opposite.” history that so many around the world ques- that Israeliness is a unifying force that can Sharansky was referring to the Dec. 5 state- tion the very legitimacy of Jewish ties to Zion overcome political disagreements. Milstein on page 14A ment issued by all 16 North American Reform and Jerusalem. We have neglected teaching organizations and affiliates in response to and conveying, even to our own children, our President Donald Trump’s declaration recog- millennia-old love affair with the Land of Israel nizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The and Jerusalem as its beating heart. Don’t forget Qatar and Turkey operative clause reads: “While we share the Judaism without Eretz Yisrael is not Judaism. president’s belief that the U.S. Embassy should, Judaism without Jerusalem is not Judaism. By Ben Cohen the Turkish leader let up on the demonizing, at the right time, be moved from Tel Aviv to This is not to deny that others consider JNS anti-Semitic invective he seemingly revels in. Jerusalem, we cannot support his decision Jerusalem holy. It is not to deny that the Dishonesty is a characteristic of nearly all to begin preparing that move now, absent a Palestinians seek Jerusalem as their capital. U.S. National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. governments, but there is a big difference comprehensive plan for a peace process.” I am in favor of two states for two peoples. For McMaster underlined an important point this between unauthorized corruption and will- There have been several attempts to clarify that to happen, some kind of accommodation week that deserves a wider audience. fully employing corruption as one’s point of this position, but not by all of the original on Jerusalem will be necessary. If and when it Speaking at a conference in Washington, departure. In the cases of Turkey and Qatar, signatories. It is still the official position of occurs, I will support it D.C., McMaster highlighted two countries that at the level of public relations, this corruption the entire North American apparatus of the But let no one be fooled. Peace will never he said were playing a key role in advancing takes the form of communicating in bare-faced Reform movement. If our movement’s affili- rise on foundations of sand. Any agreement will radical Islamist ideology through the Muslim lies, and sticking by them or dancing around ates have had a change of heart, all of them collapse under the weight of its own inconsis- community’s “charities, madrassas and other them when these lies are unmasked as such. should say it through another statement: “We tencies if constructed on a scaffolding of lies. social organizations.” Erdogan does this with many issues, made a mistake.” President Trump simply acknowledged real- Not Pakistan. Not Libya. Not Shi’a Iran. particularly Israel—which he slanders as a If not, and if we still stand by our original ity. It is about time. It should have been done The two countries named by McMaster have “terrorist state,” while concocting or regurgi- statement, I want the Jewish world to know decades ago, in 1949, when Israel declared been regarded for most of the past century as tating Islamist conspiracy theories about the that this position is not my position, nor does Jerusalem its capital. Many presidents— stalwart allies of the West. One is a member Jewish state’s “true” designs for Jerusalem. it reflect the views of multitudes of, perhaps Democrats and Republicans—promised to of the NATO alliance and a candidate country The Qataris do the same, first and foremost most, Reform . move the U.S. Embassy. for EU membership. The other hosts the most with their own record. In June, Sheik Saif We were wrong on the politics. With the The embassy will be in West Jerusalem. vital American military base in the Middle East, bin Ahmed al Thani—another scion of the exception of one small hard-left party, there Who contests West Jerusalem? President home to the headquarters of CENTCOM and ruling family who serves as the director of is wall-to-wall agreement among the Zionist Trump did not pre-empt the eventual borders the location of more than 9,000 U.S. troops. government communications—told the Los parties in the Knesset supporting the embassy of Jerusalem. He did not preclude a permanent These two countries are Turkey and Qatar. Angeles Times editorial board that “Qatar does move. We have alienated the very people who status agreement. He simply acknowledged And the promotion of radical Islam, McMaster not fund terrorism whatsoever—no groups, support and defend us in our campaign for a fact. Where do people meet Israeli prime said, is “now done more by Qatar, and by Turkey.” no individuals. Not from afar or from a close religious pluralism and equitable funding. ministers, presidents, parliamentarians and It’s not the first time that the Trump White distance.” (The editorial board did not chal- Sharansky himself is the most dogged and Supreme Court justices—in Tel Aviv? Where House has linked Qatar with the promotion of lenge him on this claim.) prominent supporter of the did Anwar Sadat speak when he wanted to terror. Trump himself said back in June—at the Those blatant lies persist—even as the nu- compromise. convey on behalf of the Egyptian people a start of the blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, merous lobbyists and public relations teams More important, we were wrong on the message of peace to Israelis: Tel Aviv? Egypt, Bahrain and other Arab states—that employed by both countries try to divert our at- merits. We have yearned for Jerusalem for two It is for each country to declare its own “ of Qatar has historically been a tention to, say, Qatar’s role in African regional millennia. It is the source of our strength, the capital. What other nation declares a capital funder of terrorism at a very high level.” The development, or Turkey’s concern about anti- place where our people was formed, where the unrecognized by the nations of the world? evidence of , money channeling Muslim sentiment in , or the supposed Bible was written. Jews lived free and made What kind of special abuse is reserved for the and money laundering in Qatar on behalf of moderating influence of Doha and Ankara alike pilgrimage to Jerusalem for a thousand years. Jewish nation? Islamist groups ranging from Islamic State to on radicals. That these conversations proceed Our national existence changed the world and At the same time, it is proper and necessary the Palestinian Hamas has been mounting for on the basis of long-established, and largely led to the creation of two other great faiths. for us to remind ourselves and others that we more than a decade. true, assumptions about the historic alignment The world’s superpower finally did the right are committed to a two-state solution that There are no Arab countries where terrorism of both countries with the West only further thing, and we opposed it—not on the principle, will require territorial compromises from financing doesn’t have a footprint, which is why blurs an understanding of the problem we are but on the “timing.” The timing? Now is not both sides, including in Jerusalem. We should it would be self-defeating to portray Qatar as dealing with now. the right time? Two thousand years later and it continue to urge the American government to the only source of the problem. But because If Turkey and Qatar do not change their be- is still not the right time? As if there is a peace help bring about a negotiated peace. Qatar likes to portray itself as a country apart havior—and a guy whose security detail attacks process that the Palestinians are committed We should also urge the international com- from the rest of the Gulf—blending Islam with demonstrators in the middle of Washington in to and pursuing with conviction. munity to disabuse the Palestinian national enlightenment values; pursuing an indepen- full view of the world’s press is probably not go- There were critics who accused the civil movement of its exaggerated expectations and dent foreign policy; and its status as a hugely ing to change his behavior—terrorist outrages, rights movement of moving too quickly. The its insidious efforts to undermine and erase powerful player in global real estate, financial attacks on Israel’s right to exist, persecution of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s response: “The our connection to Zion. Until that happens, and commodity markets—it becomes neces- religious minorities, the promotion of jihadi time is always ripe to do what is right.” peace is an illusion. sary to occasionally wipe the gloss from the ideology and even regional war will remain as In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, King Ammiel Hirsch is senior rabbi of Stephen thriving desert kingdom image the emirate fixed anxieties of our political life. Put more wrote: “For years now I have heard the word Wise Free Synagogue in New York. projects outward. simply, Qatar and Turkey may have been part Ditto with Turkey, although that task is of the solution, but they are now firmly a part THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. made easier by the fact that the country is of the problem. run by an authoritarian thug in the form of There are those in the U.S. Jewish commu- ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. McMaster nity who act as though the Islamist transforma- ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher specifically identified Erdogan’s ruling AKP tions of these two countries haven’t occurred, Jeffrey Gaeser party with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, and who continue to respond to the outreach

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When one tinued to value social aware- “point system” on how many North America is donating to leaders in political, profes- times adults just don’t get it. teen says to another, “Oh, you ness, Israel advocacy, tikkun containers we had sorted. It the Fund. This sional, business and Jewish A number of articles have are worth this many points,” olam—and yes, leader- was an unbelievably reward- “game” has many different communal roles who held been published recently in both get the joke. ship—as its most important ing day. Clearly everyone was forms. Chapters are recog- USY leadership positions about a “point I am a high school junior virtues. Like all teenagers, a winner. nized each year for raising earlier in their lives. USY has system” game played by and a member of the Hagalil USYers love to play games. Each year, there are over the most money overall and historically helped to paint members of United Syna- () USY Regional But critics who purport to 50 regional encampments, the most per member. They the leadership landscape of gogue Youth (and other Jew- Executive Board. As I under- be alarmed by a satirical kinnusim and shabbatons raise the money through our world. And today is no ish youth groups) now and stand it, the game’s origin was “points system” are clearly attended by thousands of creative events and games. different. in the past. According to the in the 1980s in response to the out of touch with the games teenagers throughout North While donating large or small USY is not about rating game, teens keep an informal societal trend of objectifying USYers really play. America who come to pray, sums, we truly are repairing people nor about hooking tally of their “hookups” with people and rating them based One important “game” study and play games. One the world. up, whether for points or other members, earning on their looks (a “10” would takes place annually at our game that has been played for The most important aspect otherwise. USY is about points for their partner’s never be seen with a “4”). The international convention, generations is called British of USY is leadership, which no making teens into lead- position in the youth group progressive teenage USYers where almost a thousand Haganah, an elaborate “cap- one would consider a game. ers. USY is about donating hierarchy. put their own spin on this teens and staff from around ture the flag”-type in which At every level of USY there millions of dollars over the “Sexual experimentation is “lookist” and misogynistic the world gather to celebrate players re-enact the struggle are elected executive boards, years to thousands of chari- a fact of life anywhere teens system by creating a parody of their Judaism. Every year we of immigrants coming to Is- appointed general boards ties. USY is about having a gather,” according to the it. At a time when the move- take one day from our busy rael prior to its independence and numerous event chair- great time with remarkable Forward. “But the ‘points ment was implementing schedule to give back to the in 1948. Whether played in men. What the author of the Jewish teens from around system’ explicitly links sex to widespread egalitarianism, community hosting us. Last Wisconsin, Arizona or Penn- Forward articles refers to as the world. power and status within the they would never assign year, in Dallas, the sopho- sylvania, the game has a long “USY’s rigidly hierarchical Maya Wasserman is a ju- youth organization.” “points” based on looks, but mores ventured out to a local history of illuminating the organizational structure” is nior at Golda Och Academy Oh please. It is clear that rather on the level of leader- Goodwill distribution center. triumph of the Jewish people actually a well-built, well- in West Orange, New Jersey, some people don’t really ship one had attained within Captains at various locations and leaves teens inspired for run youth organization that and a member of the Hagalil understand what it means the organization. led us in a healthy competition a lifetime. values and teaches leadership [New Jersey] USY Regional to be part of a Jewish youth The parody of secular to see which grade could sort Among of the more promi- and student self-governance. Executive Board. One of my donors harassed me—I couldn’t afford to stay silent By Rhonda Abrams as he has suggested the type I sought an explanation, not nearly touching, then placed of questions. What if this part is I have no control over of clothing I should wear for that anything he said would his hands near my breasts and happens to me again? Or to a what happened. He did this to PORTLAND, Ore. (JTA)— professional events, but like have made a blatant grope OK. made a squeezing gesture, colleague? Do I want to meet a me. Yet now my organization As a 27-year-old female Hillel many women in my position, But he denied having done saying he needed “to grab a male donor alone ever again? and I are the ones dealing with executive director, I spend my I have become an expert at it at all and carried on our thing or two.” How can I be more careful in the consequences. days focused on enriching laughing off inappropriate conversation as if nothing had You can imagine that I left the future? Is this my fault? Seeking funding from our the lives of Jewish students comments. And meeting with happened. His brazen denial this meeting in great distress. Should I pretend nothing own community is often in my community. Working donors to sustain our program of reality made me wonder if I was shaking. I didn’t know happened, shrug it off again fraught with complex issues. for an organization with a is, after all, my job. I’d just made the whole thing what to do. I felt the need and carry on? But in the case of a donor mission and vision so closely When I arrived at our up in my head. to speak up, even though it I may work in a field— sexually harassing a Hillel staff aligned with my values is a breakfast, we met each other During the awkward meal might affect my standing in Jewish communal service— member, there should be no privilege. It’s not lost on me with a hug, which is a com- that followed, I felt more and the community in several grounded in values like tikkun question as to how to proceed how fortunate I am to hold mon greeting in our tight-knit more uncomfortable. At one ways. I don’t want my name olam (healing the world) and ethically, morally and Jewishly. such responsibility. Jewish community. But this point I excused myself to take tied to a scandal, and I also kavanah (positive intention), Thankfully, my local board, One of my most important time, the donor reached down a few deep, calming breaths at don’t want other organiza- but I am not so naïve to and my responsibilities is to raise the and grabbed my butt before the breakfast buffet. Back at tions finding themselves with think that my community is local federation have proven funds needed to carry out putting his arm around my the table, the donor told me holes in their budgets because immune to the abuses that to me what it means to do the the work with students that shoulders and walking me that my bra strap was showing I decided to say something. occur when men in positions right thing, the Jewish thing. I care about so passionately. to our table. I called him out and asked if I wanted to cover But while bringing at- of power try to take advantage My local board insisted that Last week, I received an email immediately. up or show him more. As we tention to this issue could of women. we cut all communication from a prominent donor in “Did you just grab my left the restaurant, he pulled be costly, I can’t afford to I’m scared. I’m disgusted. with this donor, despite the our community asking to butt!?” I exclaimed. me in close to his face in what stay silent. Since that awful But mostly I’m heartbroken. financial strain it may cause meet for breakfast. I have felt “No, I didn’t,” he said with felt like an attempt to kiss breakfast, I’ve been grappling Nothing about this has been uneasy around him before, a wink. me on the mouth, our noses with an ever-growing number easy or certain, and the worst Abrams on page 14A Ending the silence on abuse By Jonathan S. Tobin alleged abuse carried out by by the topic. But it is also true “lashon hara,” is a big part let a desire to avoid negative of coverups that are part of the JNS a since-retired United Syna- that there will be some in of the problem that enabled coverage of our own com- reason why it took so long for gogue Youth (USY) director the Jewish world who, while the abusers to get away with munity lead us to keep quiet us to learn the awful truth In the last two months, follows the same pattern of the eagerly consuming accounts their crimes for so long. When about criminal acts. Never about this subject. the avalanche of stories about rest of the #metoo scandals. of the various stories about The New York Jewish Week re- again should such sentiments Jonathan S. Tobin is editor sexual abuse and harassment A powerful person used his celebrities who have been ported on the abuse going on serve as an excuse for the sort in chief of JNS. has touched virtually every position to carry out sexual exposed as abusers, don’t at the Orthodox movement’s sector of American society. abuse, in this case, against mi- want accounts of misconduct NCSY in 2000, it was sub- The revelations about deeply nors. The victims felt unable within their own community jected to a storm of criticism troubling behavior on the to step forward at the time, to be published. from those who thought this part of politicians, journalists both because of the shame The impulse to regard wasn’t the sort of thing Jewish and figures in the entertain- they were made to feel by the journalism about bad be- publications should publish. ment world have transfixed predator and also because they havior by Jews—especially But it is exactly that kind of the country. As more victims felt nobody in a position to those connected to vital Jew- reporting that is a necessary come forward to tell their sto- do something about it would ish organizations—that are precondition for action that ries, the consequences have listen. Organizations that published in will prevent future crimes of gone beyond the disgrace of should have been on guard as an unnecessary airing of this nature. some prominent individuals, against abuse were, like the dirty laundry is, in one sense, While there may still be the end of careers and, in rest of society, not listening understandable. Such stories some Jewish readers who Alabama, a surprising elec- or indifferent about what was are seen as something that prefer to avert their eyes from tion result. What began with going on under their noses. ought to be kept in the fam- coverage of these issues like a shocking story about movie The Conservative move- ily and away from the view of this week’s JNS story or even mogul has ment responsible for the USY outsiders who might use them to criticize us for publishing it, led to what may well be a cru- program in question was not to denigrate Jews or harm responsible Jewish journalists cial turning point in the way alone in this respect as such Jewish institutions. There will cannot be part of a conspiracy sexual misconduct is viewed. scandals have, in one form or always be a tendency to regard of silence about this or any We are no longer in an era another, touched other Jewish any accounts that portray other subject that directly in which all forms of abuse— denominations. To its credit, Jewish life in an unflattering affects the welfare of the be it violent crime, abuse of the United Synagogue of context as betrayals of tribal community. It is the duty of minors as well as unwanted appears loyalty if they come from Jew- JNS and every other reputable physical touching, abusive now to have taken appropriate ish sources. outlet of Jewish journalism to verbal comments and forms action, not only to sever any But as it should have already responsibly report the facts of pressure—that might have ties with alleged abusers, but become clear as society comes about sexual misconduct. once been viewed as permis- also to ensure, as much as it to grip with the pervasive That obligation is even more sible if unpleasant behavior is possible, that similar mis- nature of sexual harassment, important when the safety of can be ignored or dismissed. conduct doesn’t recur. keeping quiet does nobody children is at stake. Under these circumstanc- This story is so similar to any good. The mindset that The days when the preda- es, it is only to be expected that numerous other sex scandals regarded the reporting of tors could count on the silence some of these stories would in- that many readers who have such crimes and misbehavior of the Jewish world to protect volve the Jewish community. become so accustomed to as bad form or disreputable them from the consequences This week’s JNS feature by such discussions may have scandal mongering, or what of their crimes should be over. Elizabeth Kratz concerning lost their ability to be shocked Jewish tradition regards as Let’s be sure never again to PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando—Ongoing exhibit at the Orange County COMMUNITY Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd., Orlando, and will continue through Feb. 20, 2018. LIGHT The Roth Family JCC closes at 3 p.m. for New Year’s Eve. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 PAGE 7A Chanukah and Christmas lights intertwine in former Nazi hotbed Jewish roots, researching and hidden for centuries, somehow these festivals and its Christian nature, even personal family history as it especially in the church,” holidays are a part of that,” though the “Be’er Sheva” relates to and Bittner said. “And so every Bittner said. “It started with worship band sings pas- standing up for Israel. time the churches don’t take Chanukah. It was kind of sages from Psalms in perfect “What was important for an honest look at church his- the first [Jewish] festival we Hebrew—alongside rousing us is that you had the his- tory, that prevails, and this discovered for ourselves.” gospel music. These ser- tory of the perpetrators, but hidden form of anti-Semitism Step into the church’s lobby vices are meant to recall the the other part of history is is still there, and it usually and you might mistake it for a song-and-dance filled “house the massive, passive major- finds expression in relation synagogue. Walls are adorned churches” that Bittner be- ity who just stood by and to Israel.” with paintings of rabbis and lieves served as “synagogues” watched and who remained In Israel and internation- Jewish children. “Mazel tov” for Jesus’s early followers in silent, especially in churches, ally, the church is best known is written on the bar, where Jerusalem. Christianity, he whether it was denomina- for the annual “March of hot drinks are served to the teaches, lost this informal tional, state or even free Life” program that started church’s 400 members. The and inspirational style when churches,” said Pastor Jobst in the Tübingen region in sanctuary feels more like an it was adopted by political Bittner, the founder of TOS 2007 to “reverse” the Nazi auditorium, dominated by forces hostile to Jews. Ministries, from his office at “death marches” that saw a statue of a menorah, with The TOS Chanukah pro- the church complex. German soldiers liquidate its fabric flames whirling gramming included nightly A portion from railroad concentration camps by alongside flags of the U.S., hanukkiah lightings, each at tracks nearby, once used to force-marching emaciated Israel and Germany. a different spot of significance deport Jews, has been set at prisoners in the dead of win- The Christian “giveaway” for Tübingen’s Jew-hating Orit Arfa the church’s entrance—a ter to the country’s center, is a large wooden cross on past; a lecture on contempo- A show for Chanukah at Tübingen’s TOS Ministries. reminder to “never forget.” much to the locals’ indiffer- the stage, situated behind a rary German anti-Semitism In American terms, TOS ence. Since then, the marches wooden pyramid decorated held at the university; a class By Orit Arfa/JNS An apartment building has is an evangelical church. have become meeting points with Christmas ornaments. on ; and a show featur- long since taken the place of In Germany, it’s called a for reconciliation between Oddly, there is no Christmas ing “The Dreydels,” a Jewish Most residents of Tübingen, the synagogue. Just a handful “Charismatic church.” What descendants of Holocaust tree. For TOS, this Christmas band from the region. Germany, probably don’t know of Jews live in the city today. differentiates TOS from its victims and perpetrators. icon is pagan at its source, “It’s not that we demand that the local “synagogen- But on the fourth night of Christian Zionist counter- Bittner’s theological stud- and it was the Maccabean that people observe this platz” (synagogue plaza) even Chanukah, about two dozen parts is that it operates from ies, research and personal revolt against the “Greek holiday,” said Bittner, “but exists. The rusted memorial people gathered to light a a city that was once a Nazi worship led him to discover spirit” of paganism that first because of the inner work- to the synagogue that burned life-sized hanukkiah in the ideological hotbed. Tübingen’s silence when it inspired the church’s “Jew- ing through our history and to the ground during Kristall- cold and rain to honor the Tübingen University was came to its dark past. Some ish” renewal. facing the consequences, this nacht is one of the few tributes victims, singing Hebrew the first academic institution streets were still named after But at the Sunday ser- birthed a deep love for Israel to Jewish life that once existed hymns as a statement that to proudly declare itself “ju- Nazi war criminals. Vestiges vice, there’s no mistaking in our hearts.” in the city—not that Jews ever light will overcome darkness, denfrei” (free of Jews) under of Nazi-inspired teachings really thrived there. and that at least in this town, Hitler. Its prestige increased were still extant in univer- The source of Tübingen’s miracles can really happen. under the Third Reich for its sity classrooms. As a sign of growth (its population is The bearers of these Cha- institutes on “racial biology” progress, the church points 90,000) and fame is its uni- nukah candles aren’t Jew- and the “Jewish question.” to the mayor it elected in versity, founded in 1477 by ish. 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BOSTON (JTA)—Emily Katz and Liora Hyman arrived early enough to snag front row seats for a concert with some of their favorite performers. But this show wasn’t at one of Boston’s storied nightclubs. Rather, it was the first-ever music lab at last week’s bien- nial convention of the Union for , where 6,000 delegates gathered at the Hynes Convention Center for the movement’s largest ever gathering. When popular Jewish sing- er-songwriter Peri Smilow led Penny Schwartz Liora Hyman (l) and Emily Katz were on their feet at a off the set with her new song, performance of songs from “Together As One,” a compilation “One,” the excited teens, who of new social justice protest songs, unveiled at the Reform are youth song leaders, could movement’s biennial in Boston, Dec. 6-10, 2017. hardly sit still. The friends— who met last summer at a program for youth leaders at than social engagement and Starting in the 1960s, Musicians Josh Goldberg, Rick Recht, Mikey Pauker, Doni Zasloff and Josh War- URJ Kutz Camp in Orange entertainment—it is a source the folk music revival was shawsky perform at the biennial convention of the , held Dec. County, New York—were on of inspiration for their faith, introduced to the Reform 6-10, 2017, in Boston. their feet, singing, jumping they both told JTA. movement—a transition and bouncing with the beats The biennial’s schedule most associated with Debbie people together and affirm Reform movement. The music Temple Isaiah, in Lexington, that constitute the Jewish demonstrated the central- Friedman, a prolific singer- Jewish beliefs and values. is more varied than three and Massachusetts. Nadelberg, soundtrack of their lives. ity of music in the Reform songwriter who died in 2011 The URJ biennial featured four decades ago, and brings who is an eighth-grader, got “One” is heard in “Together movement: There were three- at age 59. Beginning in the the North American premiere in broader musical influ- hooked on playing Jewish As One,” a newly released CD dozen musicians, a choir, late 1960s, she helped move of the “Debbie Friedman ences. Klepper pointed to Joe music at URJ Camp Eisner compilation of eight songs late-night concerts, multiple the Reform movement away Suite,” arranged and con- Buchanan, who celebrates his in Great Barrington, Mas- about social justice, written workshops on worship music from the organ, choir and a ducted for a full orchestra decision to become a Jew-by- sachusetts. by some of the Reform move- and musical approaches for cantorial soloist to the guitar- by Or Oren, a 24-year-old choice in Texas-style country “I feel the music is my con- ment’s all-star musicians. congregations. There were plucking, participatory style Israeli composer who is a blues. nection with God,” he told The project, which benefits more than 30 performances of the American folk scene. film-scoring student at the According to Boxt, the JTA in a phone conversation. the movement’s Religious staged in partnership with “We embraced the idea Berklee College of Music in array of music influences, He enjoys teaching music to Action Center, was funded by Jewish Rock Radio, part of a that American folk music Boston. The suite includes from bluegrass to gospel to younger kids, which he does Isabel Dunst, chair of RAC’s nonprofit founded by musi- could tell our stories... and we nine of Friedman’s songs, traditional Ladino songs, regularly at Temple Isaiah. commission on social action. cian Rick Recht, who grew shaped that into something including “L’Chi Lach,” her resonates with congregants, As for Hyman, the New York While songs and melodies up in Reform’s NFTY youth Jewish,” said Jeff Klepper, gender-neutral interpretation many of whom are interfaith teen who’s the daughter of are integral to worship in group. There was coming-out a contemporary of Fried- of Genesis 12. “They are the families and Jews-by-choice. two Reform cantors, said as all the major Jewish de- party for PJ Library Radio, a man and co-composer, with symbol of her music and mean One new trend Boxt has a child she was lulled to sleep nominations, the Reform streaming music service from Rabbi Daniel Freelander, of a lot to Jewish communities observed is a mashup, where to the music of Debbie Fried- movement has been the PJ Library, the popular Jew- the popular song “Shalom here and other places in the kids and teens pair a popular man. She envisions a future in boldest in experimenting ish children’s book giveaway Rav.” Klepper, a cantor at world,” Oren wrote in an contemporary secular song and music. with genres and reshaping organization. Temple Sinai in Sharon, email. about love or justice with a “I want to help people traditional liturgy in song. “Music plays one of the Massachusetts, said he and Klepper, Boxt and others Jewish prayer with a similar through music and create It’s an emphasis reflected in key roles in how our services his colleagues, who began noted that there’s an explo- theme. change through music,” she synagogue services, religious continue to transform our performing the early 1970s, sion of music being written One such teen is Alexander said. “I build my life on Jew- schools and summer camps. movement,” said Rosalie saw music as a way to bring and incorporated into the Nadelberg, a song leader at ish music.” The Hava Nashira Institute, Boxt, director of worship for an annual five-day summer the URJ. program in Wisconsin, serves The music of the Reform as a unifying training ground movement is attuned to the US scholars criticize for synagogue and camp song world around it, Boxt said. leaders and cantors, and at- It’s an ethos that dates back to tracts people from outside the the late nineteenth century in Trump’s Jerusalem decision Reform movement. Germany, when Reform syna- Katz, a high school junior gogue music was influenced (JTA)—More than 130 religious and thus emotional municipal services, routine U.S. government to take im- who helps lead religious ser- by church music, she noted. Jewish studies scholars from significance to Jews, , denial of building permits mediate steps to deescalate vices at Temple Beth Jacob While the more traditional U.S. colleges and universities and Christians alike. It is the that are granted to Jewish the tensions resulting from in Concord, New Hampshire, movements eschewed instru- signed a statement expressing focus of national aspirations for residents, home demolitions, the President’s declaration said being a Jewish song leader ments during Shabbat and “dismay” at President Donald both Israelis and Palestinians. and legal confiscation of prop- and to clarify Palestinians’ is emotionally fulfilling. holy days, Reform temples Trump’s recognition of Jeru- We hope one day to see a world erty for Jewish settlement. In legitimate stake in the future “The music completes me,” welcomed pipe organs, strings salem as Israel’s capital. in which all inhabitants of the addition, Palestinians in the of Jerusalem.” she said. “We are all singing and, later, guitars and per- The statement criticizes land enjoy equal access to the West Bank, unlike Jewish U.S. President Donald the same song. We all know cussion. Nineteenth-century Trump’s “decision to reverse city’s cultural and material re- Israelis resident in that terri- Trump in a speech Wednes- the words. It is so much fun composers like Solomon Sul- decades of bipartisan U.S. sources. Today, unfortunately, tory, require a special permit day from the White House singing the music we all love.” zer and Louis Lewendowski policy by declaring Jerusalem that is not the case,” the schol- to visit Jerusalem’s holy sites.” recognized Jerusalem as the But in the sounds and lyrics set prayers in styles that bor- the capital of Israel, and au- ars say in the statement. The statement continues: capital of Israel and directed of this contemporary Jewish rowed from the contemporary thorizing the relocation of the The statement cites infor- “In this context, a declara- the State Department to pre- music, Katz and Hyman, a genres of their day, a practice U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv, mation from the left-wing tion from the United States pare for moving the embassy high school senior from Long that continued into the next outside of a negotiated politi- Israeli human rights orga- government that appears to there from Tel Aviv. Island, New York, find more century. cal framework that ends the nization B’Tselem, which endorse sole Jewish propri- His decision upended seven legal state of occupation and documents that “Palestinian etorship over Jerusalem adds decades of U.S. foreign policy ensures respect for the rights residents of Jerusalem endure insult to ongoing injury and that has resisted a recognition of all Israelis and Palestinians systematic inequalities, in- is practically guaranteed to of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to Jerusalem.” cluding an inequitable distri- fan the flames of violence. before the Israeli-Palestinian Bat Mitzvah “Jerusalem is of immense bution of the city’s budget and We therefore call on the conflict is resolved. Stella Haiden Cohen Stella Haiden Cohen, NY Port Authority suspect blames daughter of Tracey Ka- gan of Longwood, will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Jan. bombing on Israeli actions in Gaza 6, 2018, at Congregation NEW YORK (JTA)—The in a tunnel connecting Ullah said he was upset with Defense Forces discovered Ohev Shalom in Maitland. suspect in a pipe bomb attack the Times Square subway an unspecified “incursion and demolished a terror tun- Stella is in the seventh on this city’s Port Authority station with the Midtown into Gaza.” nel that crossed into Israel grade at Rock Lake Middle Bus Terminal said he was Manhattan transit hub On Friday, rockets fired at from central Gaza. School. Her hobbies and motivated by Israeli actions during Monday’s morning southern Israel from Gaza “He detonated the bomb, interests include lacrosse, in Gaza, CNN reported. rush hour. damaged the entrance of the explosive chemical in reading, music, and play- Akayed Ullah spoke with New York Police identi- an empty kindergarten in the bomb went off, it did ing piano. She is also a authorities at Bellevue Hos- fied Ullah, 27, as a resident the town of Sderot. Israel not have the desired affect member of and pital, where he was taken of Brooklyn. He is said to responded late Friday night of causing the pipe itself Lacrosse. after the bomb went off be of Bangladeshi origin with airstrikes on Hamas to shatter, which would’ve Sharing in the family’s simcha will be Stella’s sisters, prematurely. He was among and has lived in the United military installations in caused the more significant Emma and Sofie Cohen, and her grandmother, Janice four people injured in the States for the past seven Gaza that killed two Hamas damage,” New York Gov. Kagan. attack when his homemade years. CNN cited a “law en- operatives. said on bomb partially detonated forcement source” who said On Saturday, the Israel MSNBC. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha—Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland • JCC South, 11184 South Apopka-Vineland Rd., Orlando • Kinneret, 515 South Delaney Whoever saves one life... Oldies. (Not oldies to this “oldie”!) Ave., Orlando • SOJC, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Rd., Orlando I just watched the movie “Schindler’s List” on television. 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sion maintained the credit. Unnerved, too, were Jewish On Wednesday afternoon, day schools, according to two Bloomberg News report- umbrella Orthodox groups ed that the proposal in the that lobbied hard to keep the House of Representatives to credit. The tax break has been remove the credit was dropped key to attracting top staff to from the reconciled version of the day schools, according to the House and Senate bills. the and Agu- Master’s and doctoral stu- dath Israel of America; staffers dents who supplement their get free or reduced tuition for education by working at their their own children. Taxing universities are compensated that tuition would make it in part by tuition waivers, hard to hire qualified teachers, which have been tax exempt the groups said. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images for decades. Removing the “Many K-12 schools in An illustrative photo of students at a . exemption, as House Repub- our community (and oth- licans had proposed, would ers) are only able to attract By Ron Kampeas reform bill, which was drafted have had students looking at quality teachers by provid- by the Republican leadership, tax increases of four- to seven- ing discounts on tuition for WASHINGTON (JTA)— had removed the qualified fold, according to an estimate. their children,” said a letter Lawmakers finalizing the pro- tuition credit. The credit “Grad Students Are Freak- sent Dec. 7 by the Orthodox posed tax overhaul reportedly exempts from taxes the free ing Out About the GOP Tax Union’s Washington office to have removed a provision that tuition that private schools, Plan” was the headline in Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, had sent shivers through the including Jewish day schools, Wired in an article that quoted the chairman of the Senate graduate student and Jewish often extend to the children of a number of students who Finance Committee, and day school communities. employees. indeed seemed staggered by The House version of the However, the Senate ver- the prospect. Schools on page 14A PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 Four ways Israel and grew apart in 2017 hard for me to see how this who understands the threats on America’s image abroad is going to resolve itself to they face. found that some 81 percent everyone’s happiness.” Polls show most American of Israelis held a positive view Here are four questions Jews dislike Trump’s domes- of the United States under that divided Israel and tic policies and rhetoric— Trump. American Jews this year. from his anti-immigrant That discrepancy was Donald Trump: Love him statements to what they bared again after the far- or hate him? see as a failure on his part right rally in Charlottes- Israeli Prime Minister to robustly condemn white ville, Virginia. Trump’s re- Benjamin Netanyahu really supremacists. Even some sponse—in which he blamed likes President Trump. Most reliably conservative Jew- both sides for the weekend’s American Jews do not. ish commentators have violence and only issued Perhaps more than any- questioned his tempera- a specific condemnation thing else, that division has ment and fitness for office. of the far-right and white animated the ideological The majority of American supremacist rally organiz- split between Israel and Jews also favor a Palestinian ers following a weekend of American Jews. Netanyahu state, which neither Trump negative media—was widely likes Trump because of his nor Netanyahu embraces panned. But Netanyahu, rhetorical and diplomatic wholeheartedly. Trump and who previously had not hesi- support of Israel’s hawkish Netanyahu also revile the tated to decry anti-Semitism positions on Iran, Jerusalem Iran nuclear deal. worldwide, did not criticize and the Palestinians. Trump A September poll showed Trump and even waited two also maintains high approval that 77 percent of American days before issuing his own ratings among Israelis as Jews viewed Trump unfavor- condemnation of the rally. a whole—certainly higher ably. A few months earlier, The same dynamic has than his predecessor, Barack Netanyahu praised him for also played out elsewhere. Obama, whom American his “unrelenting support When Netanyahu visited Jews supported in droves. and a friendship that comes Hungary earlier this year, Noam Rivkin Fenton While American Jewish lib- from the heart to the Jew- local Jews hoped he would Rabbi Rick Jacobs, center, and other progressive Jews clashing with security guards in erals say his comments about ish people and the Jewish criticize the government front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. Muslims suggest prejudice, state.” A June survey by many Israelis see a leader the Pew Research Center 2017 on page 15A By Ben Sales Compromises have been American Jews would defer scratched, meetings can- to the political, military (JTA)—This hasn’t been celed, donations redirected. and diplomatic realities that a good year for Israel and A leading American rabbi constrain the country. Bringing Chanukah American Jews. demanded that an Israeli “American Jews believe in The two poles of world Cabinet member be fired. religious pluralism and the Jewry, each boasting about One week later, in a separate idea that multiple iterations happiness to seniors half of the globe’s total Jews, incident, that rabbi was man- of Judaism have legitimate have never quite seen eye handled by Israeli police. place,” said Hasia Diner, an to eye on everything from With the dust still clear- American Jewish history religion to politics. But this ing, fault lines have emerged. professor at New York Uni- year—particularly the last American Jewish leaders say versity. “The State of Israel six months—has seen those Israel takes their support for has given power to decide disagreements balloon into granted, paying no heed to about access to religious public spats over the future demands for recognition or places and religious legiti- of the Jewish people and religious pluralism. Israeli macy to the Orthodox. This Jewish values. leaders, meanwhile, wish is on a collision course. It’s

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Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. her daughter’s $37,000 bat the 700 hors d’oeuvres were Nancy Held said in a court JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. mitzvah party. never served to the guests as filing that she had been plan- Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, The lawsuit against Hotel promised, and that the main ning for her daughter’s big day 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Eventi was filed in Manhattan course, a choice of steak or ever since being misdiagnosed Supreme Court, the New York scallops, was served cold. with a fatal genetic mutation Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- Post reported Sunday. “We were starving,” Held’s in 2013. 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. Nancy Held, the mother husband, Marc, told The Post. The family also later dis- Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. of the bat mitzvah girl, said “We were hosting the party covered that the hotel was jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; the food for her 150 guests and we didn’t have any food using photos of their event in Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. at the party in May was so to eat.” promotional material, which mishandled that the hungry The hotel offered $1,000 the family had not given per- Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, adult guests began eating and a night in a suite to make mission for. 321-777-2770. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. OBITUARIES Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. JOSEPH J. HERMAN bva.org. Arrangements 13, 1971, and moved back to Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. Lt. Col USAF (Ret) Joseph entrusted to Beth Shalom the United States. A home- congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. J. Herman, age 94, of Winter Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee maker, Marie was the proud Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Park, passed away peacefully Road, Orlando 32810. 407- mother of her son, Julian, and Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, at 599-1180. doting grandmother to her Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Mayflower Healthcare Cen- granddaughter, Amy. ter. He was born on Dec. 13, SHEILA MARIE SORKIN She is also survived by her Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. 1923, in N. Providence, Rhode Sheila Marie Sorkin, age 72 sister, Pat. A graveside funeral Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Island, to the late Samuel and of Casselberry, passed away service was held at Beth Is- Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. Rose Gergel Herman. on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2017, at rael Cemetery, Gotha, with Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. Hospice of the Comforter in Rabbi Arnold Siegel of Jewish A career Air Force pilot, bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. he was called to service in Altamonte Springs. Marie, as Family Services officiating. Korea and flew P-47s, B-47s, she was known to family and In memory of Sheila Marie Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation and C-130s in Vietnam. He friends, was born in Strat- Sorkin, the family requests holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. travelled and was stationed ford-upon-Avon, England on contributions to the Ameri- com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. all over the world. June 27, 1945. She was raised can Cancer Society, PO Box Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; in England and while working 22718, Oklahoma City OK Following his retirement www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. from the Air Force in 1968, for the Royal Air Force was 73128-1718. Arrangements he moved his family to Mai- introduced to Steven Sorkin, entrusted to Beth Shalom Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., tland where he started the her husband of over 46 years Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. J. J. Herman School of Real who survives her. They were Road, Orlando 32810. 407- Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; Estate and enjoyed a success- married in England on July 599-1180. www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th ful career. Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. He was predeceased by Elaine, his loving wife of 46 Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. years. He was a generous Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- and caring man to all he met. 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. He is survived by his daughters, Michelle (Robert) Congregation Or Chayim (Rec), Leesburg, 352-326-8745; [email protected]; services Yeager and Leslie (Jay) Plot- 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at Providence Independence of Wildwood. kin; and his grandchildren— Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Adam and Brian Yeager, Cori 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. (Tyler) Streetman, Carly Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for (Nick) and Caitlin Plotkin. He is also survived by his services and holiday schedules. great-grandson, Brayden; Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- and step-grandsons, Clifford sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. and Chad and their families. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- He is further survived by Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv many nieces, nephews and his present wife, Beverly. HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES Please call for times. Graveside services, with Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- military honors, were held Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2017, at Congre- sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye disorders. Protecting your eyes Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. gation of Reform Judaism is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. Cemetery with Rabbi Steven Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. W Engel and Cantor Jacque- Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat line Rawiszer officiating. For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. In memory of Joseph Her- A public service message from The Vision Council. man, the family requests Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. contributions to the Blinded mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Veterans Association. http:// Thursday, 10:00 a.m. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. Join the Stone Family Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; At Westchester of Winter Park, a premier Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Assisted Living Community providing Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. customized care and services in a palatial Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, environment in Winter Park, Florida. Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. Licensed nursing staff is in the building 24 Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. hours each day. Multiple room options at templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by affordable room rates and care level fees. Torah study. Many services are included in the room Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road rate. 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 The Community entrance fee is $500. p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Join us for Shabbat every Friday and stay Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. for a tour of our community. shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Please contact our Community Liaison for 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, further information. 7:30 p.m. Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at

By Josefin Dolsten Reform Jewish scholar who of the publisher also played a with his Judaism” than his founded the movement’s rab- significant role. father, wrote former Times NEW YORK (JTA)—On binical school, the Hebrew “He believed strongly and religion reporter Ari Gold- Thursday, The New York Union College-Jewish Insti- publicly that Judaism was a man. Still, stories related Times announced that its tute of Religion. religion, not a race or nation- to Jewish topics were care- publisher, Arthur Ochs Sul- After Ochs’ death, his ality—that Jews should be fully edited, said Goldman, zberger Jr., 66, is stepping son-in-law, Arthur Hays Sul- separate only in the way they who worked at the Times in down at the end of the year zberger, took over the reins worshiped,” Frankel wrote. 1973-93. and will be succeeded by his at The Times. Sulzberger, a “He thought they needed no “Those stories got a little son, 37-year-old Arthur Gregg Reform Jew, was an outspoken state or political and social more editorial attention, (A.G.) Sulzberger. anti-Zionist at a time when institutions of their own. He and I’m not saying they were The familial exchange of the Reform movement was went to great lengths to avoid leaning one way or another, power wasn’t unexpected. still debating the issue. He having The Times branded a but the paper was conscious The younger Sulzberger is and his family “were closely ‘Jewish newspaper.’” that it had this reputation the sixth member of the Ochs knit into the Jewish phil- As a result, wrote Frankel, and had this background and Sulzberger clan to serve as anthropic world as befitted Sulzberger’s editorial page wanted to make sure that the publisher of the prominent their social and economic “was cool to all measures stories were told fairly and New York newspaper. He is a standing,” wrote Neil Lewis, that might have singled [Jews] wouldn’t lead to charges of fifth-generation descendant a former longtime reporter out for rescue or even special favoritism or of bending over of Adolph S. Ochs, who bought at The Times. attention.” backwards,” “ he told JTA on the newspaper in 1896 as it The owners drew criticism Though The Times wasn’t Monday. was facing bankruptcy. for the way the paper covered the only paper to provide scant Arthur Ochs Sulzberger The family’s Jewish his- Jewish affairs, particularly coverage of Nazi persecution raised his son, Arthur Ochs Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times tory— was the the Holocaust. Critics said of Jews, the fact that it did so Sulzberger Jr., in his wife’s Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York child of German Jewish im- the newspaper failed to had large implications, Alex Episcopalian faith. But Ar- Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Feb. migrants—has often been give adequate coverage to Jones and Susan Tifft wrote thur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. still 29, 2016. the subject of fascination and Nazi atrocities committed in their 1999 book “The Trust: had some connections to his scrutiny, especially during against Jews, a charge that The Private and Powerful Jewish background. In high ish name and Jewish roots,” Sulzberger, was married by a and after World War II, when The Times later owned up to. Family Behind The New York school he went on a trip to Goldman said, “so whether rabbi in 2008. the paper was accused of turn- had Times.” Israel that left him slightly they’re Jewish or not today, A.G. Sulzberger is best ing a blind eye to atrocities experienced anti-Semitism, “Had The Times’ high- intrigued by his background, there’s a feeling that this is known for heading a team against Jews. and he was worried about his lighted Nazi atrocities against Jones and Tifft wrote. While still a newspaper with a heavy that in 2014 put together a 96- Today the family’s Jewish paper being perceived as too Jews, or simply not buried criticism from the Jewish Jewish influence.” page “innovation report” that ties are less apparent than Jewish, Laurel Leff wrote in certain stories, the nation community under his tenure And that family history meant to prod The Times into they were in the past. Arthur her 2005 book “Buried by the might have awakened to the was less harsh than during lives on. A.G. Sulzberger moving more rapidly in catch- Ochs Sulzberger Jr. was raised Times: The Holocaust and horror far sooner than it did,” his grandfather’s time, many, is part of a generation at ing up with the new digital me- in his mother’s Episcopalian America’s Most Important Jones and Tifft wrote. particularly on the right, still the paper that includes his dia landscape. Asked recently faith and later stopped practic- Newspaper.” In 1961, Arthur Hays Sulz- saw the newspaper as being cousins Sam Dolnick, who about his working relationship ing religion. He and his wife, “There would be no special berger stepped down as pub- biased against Israel. oversees digital and mobile with Dolnick and Perpich, A.G. Gail Gregg, were married by attention, no special sensitiv- lisher, three years after having Nevertheless, given its initiatives, and David Perpich, Sulzberger spoke of their strong a Presbyterian minister. How- ity, no special pleading,” Leff suffered a stroke, giving the owners’ family history, its a senior executive who heads journalism backgrounds and ever, he has said that people wrote. position to his son-in-law Or- disproportionately large Jew- its product review invoked the family ethos. still tend to regard him as In a 2001 article for The vil Dryfoos. Dryfoos died two ish readership and its frequent site. Dolnick’s mother, Lynn “If they weren’t members Jewish due to his last name. Times, former Executive years later from heart failure, coverage of Jewish preoccu- Golden, is the great-great- of the Ochs/Sulzberger fam- A look back into the family’s Editor Max Frankel wrote that so his brother-in-law Arthur pations, The Times is often granddaughter of Julius and ily, our competitors would be history shows why. Adolph the paper, like many other “Punch” Ochs Sulzberger took regarded as a “Jewish news- Bertha Ochs, the parents bombarding them with job Ochs, the original mem- media outlets at the time, fell over. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, paper”—often disparagingly of Adolph S. Ochs, and was offers,” he said. “But they are ber of the Ochs Sulzberger in line with U.S. government who died in 2012, identified as so by anti-Semites. married in a Chattanooga, deeply devoted to this place, clan, married Effie Wise, the policy that downplayed the “nominally Jewish, although That perception is “largely Tennessee, synagogue named and the three of us are com- daughter of Rabbi Isaac Mayer plight of Jewish victims and not at all religious.” He was because of the family and in their memory. Perpich, a mitted to continuing to work Wise, a leading American refugees, but that the views “much more comfortable because of the family’s Jew- grandson of Arthur Ochs as a team.” Conservative movement severs ties with former youth director over alleged sexual abuse

By Elizabeth Kratz been terminated by the United from his duties. At that point, student contact during and nization’s senior director of JNS Synagogue of Conservative USCJ established its hotline. around 1996-1997 following human resources—received Judaism due to sexual abuse “We had three communica- an incident that took place “heavy traffic” and allega- The congregational arm allegations, the casual reader tions with Jules. In the first during USY on Wheels, a sum- tions against Gutin as well as of Conservative Judaism has might have missed the news. two communications, there mer bus touring program. Fisher, former director of the severed ties with the longtime The development on Gutin was equivocation and phrases He expressed concern about Far West USY region. director of the denomination’s appeared in the third-to-last like, ‘I do not recall,’” but in people who felt that they had The allegations against Gu- youth movement after receiv- paragraph of an article about the final communication, an been wronged in some way tin and Fisher, Wernick stated, ing “multiple testimonies” an entirely separate abuser, email, Gutin denied the al- and claimed he was not aware centered around the 1980s that corroborated an allega- Bob Fisher, who has since legations, Wernick told JNS. of any allegations other than and early 1990s—before USY tion of sexual abuse. admitted to misconduct with Yet Wernick said there were the post that did not or any national Jewish youth Allegations about Jules Gu- children who participated in “multiple testimonies that name him. organization had protocols tin, 67, who in 2011 completed USY during the 1980s and corroborated what was said to USY, like the Orthodox and handbooks in place to his 20-year tenure as inter- 1990s. In fact, the initial us originally. Jules answered Union’s NCSY and the Union appropriately prevent abuse national director of United accusation of abuse was con- those questions with state- for Reform Judaism’s NFTY, or report it. Synagogue Youth (USY) and nected to Gutin, not Fisher, ments such as, ‘By today’s provides social programming “We don’t have any records since 2012 had conducted and the Gutin allegation standards, some of the ways in and educational events for for that time period concern- tours of Poland for USY, first was what prompted USCJ to which USY handled sleeping students primarily from ages ing these allegations,” said came to light Nov. 9 through Jules Gutin, the former in- set up a confidential phone arrangements would not be 14-18. Wernick, noting that he tried a Facebook post by a man who ternational director of United hotline and email address in allowed today.’” In the Orthodox Union’s to find a paper trail of anything claimed that someone who Synagogue Youth. November with the goals of One alleged victim told JNS, youth arm, NCSY, strict discussed in the same Jewish worked with thousands of uncovering alleged instances for example, that Gutin had protocols on this issue have Week article that revealed Gu- teens had abused him in the or USY in communication of sexual abuse and investigat- invited him to stay in his home been in place since 2001, fol- tin’s termination. That article 1980s. After confirming with with the media in order to ing their veracity. while his family was away, and lowing the guilty verdict and primarily detailed allegations the man that he was referring “spare my family from pain” After its investigation, they slept in the same bed. seven-year-imprisonment of of Fisher’s misconduct that to Gutin in his post, JNS and avoid “any harm to an USCJ terminated the contract The victim claimed that Gutin former national NCSY direc- were reported in 2001 by communicated with several organization we both love.” employing Gutin. touched him, prompting him tor Baruch Lanner for child David Benkof, a former USY other men who alleged that “Whatever points you want Rabbi Steven Wernick, to leave the room abruptly. He sexual abuse. The Reform international youth president, they were underage victims to make would be just as pow- CEO of USCJ, and his staff said that he reported the al- movement’s NFTY also has to Rabbi Jerome Epstein, then of unwanted sexual touch by erful without people know- initially tried unsuccessfully leged incident to people in his such protocols in place, as USCJ’s executive director. Gutin during that decade. ing the specific individual,” to contact the alleged victim, region, “but I was one small do all accredited camps and Gutin and Fisher had signifi- “Two of my USYers have said Gutin wrote to his accuser. but they have since been in voice and it would have been schools. Gutin said NCSY had cant overlap in their years of very similar things to me over He also wrote that USCJ was touch with him and have had his word against mine.” contacted USY when it was employment for USY, but the years, and named the same “totally justified” in suspend- multiple conversations. The “Our investigation led establishing its guidelines on there is no evidence that Gutin name,” said Arnie Draiman, ing him from staffing any of abuse allegedly occurred 33 us to sever the relationship abuse, and it utilized some of was aware of any allegations a former USY youth adviser. its programs, and concluded years ago, when the victim was with [Gutin] permanently. USY’s information in forming against Fisher. According to an email dated the email, “Once again I am 17 years old and Gutin was 34. We found the allegations to its own protocols in the wake “I even went so far as to Nov. 21 that was obtained by sorry.” When USCJ first learned be substantive,” Wernick said. of the Lanner case. check if our general counsel JNS, Gutin asked the man who Earlier this month, when of the allegation last month Gutin told JNS that under According to Wernick, at the time had the records, made the initial accusation on The New York Jewish Week and had two conversations his guidance, USY instituted USCJ’s hotline—managed Facebook not to name him first reported that Gutin had with Gutin, he was suspended strict guidelines for staff and by Vivian Lewis, the orga- Abuse on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA Nikki Haley throws a to the United Nations and its a private nonprofit facility Thursday. Added to it are an during riots near the Gaza- earlier than scheduled, was party for nations that agencies.” operated by a religious or- essay arguing for greater U.S. Israel border. the president of the local didn’t oppose US Jerusa- Aid is given, she added, “in ganization, shall be eligible involvement in Syria and an Locals told the Palestin- Jewish community Yasha lem stance at UN order to advance our values for contributions … without announcement of a planned ian Maan news agency that Alfandari. (JTA)—To thank the 65 and our interests. When that regard to the religious char- survey of Syrian groups as- Israeli forces shot Zakariya Montenegro has 400 Jews, countries that did not sup- happens, our participation in acter of the facility or the sessing what U.S. policies al-Kafarneh during clashes in according to the World Jew- port a resolution condemning the United Nations produces primary religious use of the they would like to see. eastern Jabaliya, in northern ish Congress, “with maybe a President Donald Trump’s po- great good for the world.” facility.” The offending passage in Gaza. tenth of that participating in sition on Jerusalem, the U.S. The United States does this The Orthodox Union, an the paper, posted and then Protesters marched follow- actual Jewish spiritual life,” ambassador to the United “because it represents who umbrella Orthodox body that withdrawn in September, had ing Friday prayers near the according to Ari Edelkopf, a Nations, Nikki Haley, invited we are. It is our American has advocated such a change said that “a variety of factors, border fence in response to Chabad rabbi who earlier this her counterparts from those way.” for years, said the bill will which were more or less fixed, calls from Hamas for a third year became Montenegro’s states to a reception. But, Haley said, “we’ll be mean synagogues receive fair made it very difficult from “Friday of Rage” in protest first resident rabbi in over a Haley extended the invita- honest with you. When we treatment. the beginning for the U.S. of President Donald Trump’s century. tion Thursday hours after make generous contributions “For far too long, FEMA has government to take effective announcement earlier this The government of Mon- the General Assembly passed to the U.N., we also have a unfairly excluded houses of action to prevent atrocities in month recognizing Jerusa- tenegro, which became inde- a resolution condemning legitimate expectation that worship from this otherwise Syria, even compared with lem as the capital of Israel. pendent in 2006 after break- Trump’s Dec. 6 recogni- our good will is recognized religion-neutral program,” other challenging policy Israel’s Army Radio re- ing away from Serbia, gave tion of Jerusalem as Israel’s and respected. When a nation its Washington director, contexts.” ported that Israeli soldiers the land for the synagogue capital, the nrg news site is singled out for attack in this Nathan Diament, said in a Jewish groups joined some shot at rioting Palestinians in 2013. reported. organization, that nation is statement. “This legislation human rights activists in who breached the sterile zone The opening of the Pod- Nine countries voted disrespected. What’s more, will finally put an end to this arguing that this absolved near the security fence, using gorica synagogue is set to be against the resolution, in- that nation is asked to pay unconstitutional discrimina- President Barack Obama of crowd dispersal means such the second one this century cluding Israel, the United for the ‘privilege’ of being tion and help houses of wor- fecklessness. as tear gas and stun grenades. in the Balkans, following the States, Guatemala, Honduras disrespected.” ship get the relief they need Obama critics have argued “Israeli troops fired on dedication of a new syna- and Togo, and 35 abstained, Trump’s pronouncement from FEMA to rebuild after that in his effort to prevent main inciters to violence, gogue in Macedonia in 2000. including the six EU mem- on Jerusalem ended decades being damaged in natural America from a quagmire where rioters were throw- Milo Djukanovic, a for- ber states Poland, Romania, of U.S. ambiguity on the disasters. We call upon the in Syria, he did too little ing projectiles and setting mer prime minister of Hungary, the Czech Republic, status of the city that both Senate to pass this legislation to arrest the carnage in a tires on fire,” a spokesman Montenegro, said that the Croatia and Latvia. The rest Israel and the Palestinians as well.” civil war in which 400,000 for the Israel Defense Forces construction of the syna- of the European Union was claim as their capital. Also praising the bill was people have died and Syria told Ynet. gogue would begin next among the 128 nations that House passes bill allow- Agudath Israel of America, has been accused of using Meanwhile, 10 Palestin- year during a speech that he voted in favor. ing disaster funds for another Orthodox umbrella sarin gas, chlorine gas and ians were injured during gave last month at the an- The representatives of 21 houses of worship body. barrel bombs. Many point clashes in the southern Gaza nual Mahar conference for countries were absent from WASHINGTON (JTA)— “Houses of worship are an to his decision in September Strip, according to Maan. Balkan Jewry, which is held the vote, which was the 10th The U.S. House of Repre- integral part of American 2013 to postpone a military Another six were injured in Montenegro with funding time in U.N. history that sentatives approved a bill communities and play an strike against the Syrian gov- in clashes in the West Bank, from the Euro-Asian Jewish the General Assembly was that allows federal disaster important role in assisting ernment in retaliation for a Army Radio reported. Israeli Congress. convened for an emergency relief funds to go to houses devastated neighborhoods chemical weapons attack and army sources estimated that As he waits for the syna- voting. They included Kenya, of worship. revitalize and rebuild,” instead to seek authorization in total, some 1,700 demon- gogue to be completed, which was the fifth-largest On Thursday, the House Rabbi Abba Cohen, Agu- from Congress. strators participated in dis- Edelkopf is hosting worship- recipient of U.S. aid last year, voted 251-169 to approve dah’s Washington director, The museum’s Simon-Sk- turbances in the West Bank, ers at his home and hold- Georgia and Ukraine, all of the bill. The vote was not said in a statement. “After jodt Center for the Prevention a drop of approximately 50 ing prayers. He settled in which have close ties with strictly along party lines, natural disasters, they pro- of Genocide, which authored percent from last week. Podgorica after being forced the United States. although more Republicans vide emotional, spiritual the paper, used computa- In Montenegro, cor- to leave Sochi earlier this Absenteeism is unusual than Democrats favored it. and material help to those tional modeling and game nerstone laid for first year. His staying permit was in emergency session votes. The Senate is considering a in need.” theory methods, as well as synagogue in centuries revoked on unsubstantiated Prior to the vote, Trump similar bill. Advancing the bill in the interviews with experts and (JTA)—Montenegro’s fore- claims that he represented wrote on Twitter: “We’re Relief funds from the House were Reps. Peter King policymakers, to determine most politicians joined their a threat to Russia’s national watching those votes. Let Federal Emergency Manage- and Grace Meng, respectively that U.S. involvement in the president and faith commu- security. them vote against us, we’ll ment Agency, or FEMA, may a Republican and Democrat wake of the 2013 chemical nity leaders for the first laying Edelkopf denied any save a lot. We don’t care.” not go to churches, syna- from New York, and Chris weapons attack in Ghouta in centuries of a cornerstone wrongdoing and demanded His words were widely inter- gogues and other houses Smith, R-N.J. The regions would not have reduced for a synagogue in the area a court review of the un- preted as a threat to cut aid of worship due to concerns they represent were hard hit atrocities in the country that now comprises that specified charges against to countries that vote against about separation of church by Tropical Storm Sandy in and may have contributed Balkan nation. him, but it never happened. the United States position on and state. Other institutions, 2012. to them. President Philip Vujanovic Russian Jews protested his Jerusalem. like community centers or Leading the Senate’s leg- Cameron Hudson, who was joined Tuesday at the deportation as a miscarriage The resolution, sponsored zoos, may receive the funds. islation are Sens. Roy Blunt, leads the center, told The synagogue’s construction of justice. by Yemen and Turkey, reaf- The money reimburses the R-Mo., Claire McCaskill, Times that the original paper site by the acting and former In Podgorica, his role will firmed what has been the U.N. institutions for aid they D-Mo., James Lankford, R- may have been skewed too mayors of the capital of Pod- be to “convert the local Jews stand on the divided holy city provide to victims of natural Okla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas. much to academics. gorica, Slavoljub Steipovich to Judaism,” Alfandari said since 1967: Jerusalem’s final disasters. US Holocaust museum “We have to recognize that and Myomir Mugosha, and last month. status must be decided in A bipartisan group of law- reposts Syria study that we also have a general audi- the heads of the country’s “What I mean is that we direct negotiations between makers has long pushed for critics said gave Obama ence for this work,” he said, state-recognized religious have a few hundred people Israel and the Palestinians. the change. In September, a pass “and we also have an audience streams and faiths, which who are Jews according to Later Thursday, an invi- amid a string of hurricanes WASHINGTON (JTA)— of victims and survivors.” include Catholicism, Easter- the definition of the word”— tation was sent around to ravaging the Gulf Coast and The U.S. Holocaust Memo- Palestinian man re- Orthodox Christianity, Islam meaning those who have a the countries that did not the Caribbean, President rial Museum re-released a portedly killed in Gaza and Judaism, the Balkan Pro Jewish mother, according to support the resolution on Donald Trump tweeted his controversial study on Syria’s border riots news site reported. traditional Jewish law—“but Jerusalem to attend a recep- support for churches receiv- civil war, removing passages (JTA)—A 24-year-old Pal- Also in attendance at the they know very little about tion with Haley in January. ing FEMA funds. that critics said exonerated estinian man was shot dead ceremony, which took place what it means to be Jewish.” The event was labeled as a “Churches in Texas should the Obama administration’s means to thank the countries be entitled to reimbursement actions. for “their friendship to the from FEMA Relief Funds for The study is now available Gala United States,” according to helping victims of Hurricane without an executive sum- From page 1A a copy of the invite obtained Harvey (just like others),” mary that included a sentence man became motivated to Director Julie Leavitt shares by CNN. Trump said on Twitter. that the United States could make a difference in the life that the multi-generational the most impact through In her speech at the emer- According to the text of have done little to prevent the of seniors. Kronenberg noted, dinner is such a success, personalized visits. gency vote, Haley noted that the bill, “A church, syna- carnage, which has claimed “Knowing that loneliness and that she is constantly adding The active volunteer con- the “United States is by far gogue, mosque, temple, or an estimated 500,000 lives, social isolation negatively ef- chairs to accommodate the tinues to help fulfill the the single largest contributor other house of worship, and The New York Times reported fects life expectancy, the work swelling crowd. Pavilion’s mission of bringing we do at the Jewish Pavilion is Additionally, Kronenberg the Jewish community to literally saving lives.” enjoys visiting and spending elder-care residents in more According to Executive Di- time with elder-care residents, Palestinians ‘walking away’ from than 70 facilities throughout rector Nancy Ludin, A. J. has and this time of year can be Orlando. Goldstein notes, been instrumental in bring- found at several of the Pavil- “When residents relocate, they ing younger members of the ion’s Chanukah parties geared peace talks by snubbing Pence love Marian so much, they all community into the Pavilion’s specifically for seniors. He also want to make sure that she fold, along with countless new enjoys visiting residents with (JNS)—The Trump admin- The Trump administration Jerusalem, Abbas’s diplomatic has their contact information. ideas to keep the generations his wife, Olivia, often accom- istration said Sunday that “remains undeterred in its adviser Majdi Khaldi said last They know they can count on connected. For the past sev- panied by their dog. the Palestinian Authority efforts to help achieve peace Saturday. her to continue their visits at eral years, Kronenberg has “We are so thankful to (PA) is “walking away” from between Israelis and Pales- In his announcement of the their new homes.” Husband, spearheaded a partnership Marian and A.J. for creating peace talks after PA President tinians and our peace team U.S. policy changes last week, Ed Bromberg, shares that he between the Jewish Pavilion a moving and connective ex- Mahmoud Abbas declined to remains hard at work putting Trump emphasized that he and Marian go out of their and Our Jewish Orlando perience for Orlando’s elders meet with Vice President Mike together a plan,” Agen said. was not defining the borders way to support as many func- (OJO), which connects the over the years,” shared Direc- Pence during his upcoming The PA’s move came in of Jerusalem nor altering the tions that support the Jewish ‘next generation of Jews’ in tor Ludin. “Please join us at Middle East visit this month. response to President Donald status quo at the city’s holy community as possible, most Central Florida. An annual our “Gems and Jeans Gala” “It’s unfortunate that the Trump’s recognition of Jerusa- sites. recently attending galas for the dinner at Brookdale Orienta on the Jan. 28th, as we honor Palestinian Authority is walk- lem as Israel’s capital as well as During his visit to the Jewish Academy of Orlando in Altamonte Springs has two dedicated volunteers who ing away again from an his expression of plans to move region, Pence will meet with and the Jewish National Fund. brought together a welcoming have added sparkle to the life opportunity to discuss the the U.S. embassy to that city. Israeli Prime Minister Benja- Honoree A.J. Kronenberg group of Pavilion seniors and of so many. Also, a big ‘Thank future of the region,” stated Abbas’s meeting with Pence min Netanyahu in Jerusalem joined the Jewish Pavilion volunteers, with an enthusias- You’ to presenting sponsor, Jarrod Agen, Pence’s deputy was cancelled “because the and with Egyptian President Board five years ago, when the tic bunch of young adults from the Harper Family Charitable chief of staff. U.S. has crossed red lines” on Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo. youthful Orlando business- OJO. Jewish Pavilion Program Foundation.” PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 time—but Daisy, who belongs surreal moment, and he just born. Niv has been hanging families in need—along with Tragedy struck Simi Polon- Stories to Gibson’s mother and whom took it, and he stopped cry- out with the bird on a regular assisting scores of others who sky, the Orthodox co-founder From page 1A the couple was taking care of, ing,” she said. “He kind of just basis, holding it, caressing had been affected by recent of a modest fashion label, died of smoke inhalation. followed me into the aisle. I it and sleeping next to it at natural disasters. when her husband, Shua, died headstones at the St. Louis “Daisy was our hero,” Gib- walked to the bulkhead, and night. The friendship, which “I can’t rebuild their hous- in November from a condition cemetery, as well as for ad- son told The Jewish Chronicle. I sat down and I put him was documented in August, es,” Gal-Or told JTA. “I don’t he had contracted only weeks ditional grave sites that were “It was fate she happened to in my lap, and I gave him appears to be mutual; after have the money to do much. before. To help alleviate her vandalized at a Philadelphia be staying with us that night. a gentle but firm hug and I all, the chicken can easily slip There was this increasing suffering, supporters quickly cemetery. In the end, Ayel She saved both of our lives and just started to rock him. He out of the monkey cage but awareness that there was came to her aid—and more painted more than 250 rocks, our neighbors.” calmed down.” chooses to stay. nothing I could do.” than 9,000 donors raised over which she sent to the cemeter- A Jewish woman com- users were While 2017 wasn’t a year for Then she realized she could $1 million online for Polonsky ies—plus an additional 100 forts a distressed child touched by the story. Photos forging lasting peace between help by collecting mezuzahs, and her two young children, stones that she sent to the with autism on an of Groner holding the boy, Israel and its neighbors, at the small scrolls traditionally with a third on the way. family of Adam Krief, a Jewish airplane along with a post by her hus- least this pair found a way to affixed to the doorposts of Polonsky, who said she will father of three who died after During a transatlantic band detailing the account, put their differences aside and Jewish dwellings, and distrib- continue working on The a highly publicized struggle flight in July, Rochel Groner received some 6,700 likes live in harmony. uting them for free to Jewish Frock NYC, wrote movingly with blood cancer. noticed an autistic boy cry- and was shared 1,300 times After surviving Hurri- people in need. She started the on Instagram that the support A dog saves a couple ing and shrieking. The at- on Facebook. cane Harvey, this wom- unofficial organization Door helped her go on. from a fire at a kosher mosphere on the flight grew In Israel, a monkey and an distributes mezuzahs L’Door—a play on the biblical “I know no one will be able supermarket increasingly tense and she a chicken become best to people in need phrase “l’dor v’dor,” which to heal my broken heart, but Daisy, a 3-year-old spaniel, felt she had to do something. friends Houston resident Chava means “from generation to at the times when I feel like helped avert disaster when Groner, a Chabad emissary At the Ramat Gan Safari Gal-Or was lucky: Though generation”—raising money I just cannot keep my arms fire broke out at a London in North Carolina, who with Park near Tel Aviv, Niv, an In- flooding from Hurricane and soliciting donations for raised any longer, your love kosher supermarket in June. her husband runs two groups donesian black macaque, was Harvey reached her door, mezuzahs, with the goal to to and support are the rocks The dog’s barking roused for young adults with special having a bit of trouble finding her home survived the storm dispatch them to Jews in need. that hold them for me,” she Alex Gibson and Charlotte needs, approached the child a mate. So he got creative. unscathed. But that wasn’t the Supporters raise over $1 wrote. “My mind boggles, Perren, who were sleeping and comforted him for about When a chicken wandered case for many of the members million for an Orthodox when I think about the un- in their apartment above the two hours. into his enclosure, the mon- of Temple Sinai, where she fashion designer after stoppable love that ushers store. Fortunately, the couple “I put out my hand, and he key cozied up to it—and an works. So Gal-Or wanted to her husband suddenly unto my family on a minute was able to make it out on took my hand. It was such a inseparable friendship was do something to help those died to minute basis.” Peace From page 3A Defamation League, which they were far milder than a resolute supporter of Israel Bryan, senior director of the “Because Trump is viewed has not shied away from criti- anticipated. Palestinian ne- rather than an evenhanded Jewish Policy Center, a con- as very pro-Israel by the Israeli as the seat of government. But cizing Trump’s actions in the gotiator Saeb Erekat called mediator. Such a stance, servative group, in public, it will be more difficult many of them, too, reiterated past. The statement went on on his people to now pursue some wrote, rightly puts the Caller. “American support for for Netanyahu to say no to any their support for the two-state to urge “the rapid resumption equal rights within Israel onus on Palestinians to adjust Palestinian’s aspirations is requests from the president solution and urged Trump to of Israeli-Palestinian negotia- rather than a state of their their demands and show their not withdrawn, but hinges on for compromises,” wrote double down on that cause. tions leading to a two-state own, while Palestinian Au- willingness to reach a deal Palestinian behavior.” Jonathan Rynhold, director “This is a significant step solution” thority President Mahmoud “The intention is to dis- But some analysts who were of the Argov Center for the that acknowledges reality: Je- One week after Trump Abbas said the U.S. no longer abuse the Palestinians of inclined toward the decision Study of Israel and the Jewish rusalem is the political capital announced the decision, any has a role to play in broker- the notion that the U.S. is also warned that granting a People at Bar-Ilan University. of the country and has been peace prospects do appear to ing talks. neutral between them and longstanding Israeli demand “It was easy for Bibi to say no the spiritual heart of the have dimmed: Protests did But that does not bother our democratic, pro-Western, could put Israel in Trump’s to Obama, since there was no Jewish people for millennia,” take place in Jerusalem and analysts who feel the United tolerant, free-market ally debt if he ever demands con- domestic political price; not so read a statement by the Anti- Palestinian areas, though States should present itself as Israel,” wrote Shoshanna cessions. with Trump.” Milstein From page 4A Through Israeliness, our We speak Hebrew at home to advocate for Israel. The tion is our willingness and can communities we live in community is bringing new and at shul—the same lan- Israeli-American Council, for ability to think outside the and build their connection aspects of our identity: Jewish people into our communal guage with two unique and example, has worked to advo- box. Israeli Americans have to Israel. Our vision for the values, the Hebrew language, conversations and re-en- intertwined purposes. Our cate for laws that keep states much to learn from the coming decades is optimistic: Israeli culture, pride in our his- gaging others from a wide community offers new ways like California, Nevada and American Diaspora com- Where some see challenges tory and heritage, the unique variety of backgrounds. We to engage with Israel and Texas from allowing taxpayer munity about how Jewish and gaps, we see promise and accomplishments of the Jewish understand the importance Judaism itself. funds to support groups that culture and community can opportunity to reignite Jewish people and the State of Israel, of Israel not just as a vibrant The second value proposi- discriminate against Israelis flourish outside of a Jewish life, re-inspire Jewish pride and above all, a belief that country and proud culture, tion is our deep love for Israel, with economic boycotts. In state. Yet we are also con- and courage, and re-imagine “All the people of Israel are but as a crucial part of our rooted in personal experience partnership with existing tributing fresh perspectives our existing institutions so responsible for one another.” spiritual beliefs as Jews. and an appreciation that it is organizations like AIPAC and that have brought a range that they serve the next gen- not just the homeland of the Jewish federations, the Israe- of programs to American eration in our community. Jewish people, but a source li-American Coalition for Ac- Jewish life—initiatives that By working together as of our pride, common his- tion and the Israeli-American are engaging not only Israeli one big Jewish family, Israeli tory, culture, courage and community have acted to Americans, but also Jewish Americans and Jewish Ameri- strength. We recognize that advance bipartisan support Americans of all ages. cans of all backgrounds can Israel isn’t perfect but accept for the Taylor Force Act, the By uniting Israeli Ameri- forge the future we desire. and support it without any Israel Anti-Boycott Act and cans and partnering with Adam Milstein is a co- preconditions. other important pieces of existing Jewish-American founder and the chairman As a result, Israeli Ameri- legislation. institutions, we believe that of the board of the Israeli- cans are uniquely equipped The third value proposi- we can strengthen the Ameri- American Council.

Abrams From page 5A make up the lost funds. This realize that they will not be should endure such treatment. week, my local federation is alone. This fight is necessary Our communities need to en- our organization. Hillel In- convening constituent agency for us to see change. able people to speak out, get ternational offered extensive leaders to launch communal So, hineni, here I am. I educated and receive support. support, including a timely discussions around sexual choose to believe that righ- As nerve-wracking as it launch of materials for Hillel harassment. teousness will carry me. I am may be, there’s real power in professionals to help in other All the professional leaders mustering my strength not standing up, walking away and situations of sexual harass- that I turned to believe that I only for me, but also for you, saying no thank you. ment and assault. They also should not only stand up for and for my students, some of Rhonda Abrams is the put their money where their myself, but also speak out so whom look to me as one of their director of Greater Portland mouths are, offering to help other Jewish professionals can only Jewish role models. No one Hillel.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 A S H E R E L E C T M S G 14 15 16 C U O M O S A R A H E T A Schools 17 18 19 From page 9A Hebrew Academy in Rockville, $16,000 to $23,000, depend- staffers that reconcile the T I M E S S Q U A R E M R S Maryland, said school staffers ing on the grade. House and Senate versions. 20 21 22 S T E R E O S S E M O U S Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, could have taken hits ranging Agudath Israel of America The committee reportedly 23 24 25 the chairman of the House from “thousands of dollars to raised another flag about was close to a reconciled bill R I N D D E B N I C E tax-writing Ways and Means tens of thousands of dollars,” the proposal: Compensating on Wednesday afternoon. 26 27 28 29 E L U L F I R E W O R K S Committee. depending on their number the teachers for the tax hike President Donald Trump 30 31 32 33 Of the 1,004 Jewish day of children through salary increases has said he wants to sign the L E N S I O N A H S schools in the United States “It will be incumbent on our would place them in a higher bill before the year is out. 34 35 36 37 38 39 K I S S I N G P R A Y I N G listed by J Data, the database institution to true that up,” tax bracket, which could also It’s not clear whether a 40 41 42 run by the Cohen Center for or compensate the teacher, have deleterious effects. separate proposal in the I N N W E S T N O I Modern Jewish Studies at Sloan said in an interview “Its elimination can result Senate version favored by the 43 44 45 46 47 T H E S H O F A R S T A N , 731 are before the news broke that the in higher taxable incomes Orthodox movements had 48 49 50 51 Orthodox. A publicist for the credit would not be removed. that would make them in- survived the reconciliation. Y O N I C E N A S A R Conservative movement, to “It’s not an extinction-level eligible for health insurance That proposal, introduced 52 53 54 55 56 R O T L E A I T A L I C S which the Solomon Schechter event, but it creates pressure and other social service by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, 57 58 59 schools are affiliated, did not on our budget to the tune benefits—a devastating loss,” would have made a portion A V I I N S Y N A G O G U E return a request for comment of hundreds of thousands of said the draft of a letter Agu- of 529s, the tax-free savings 60 61 62 N E T A C T E D A M U S E in time for publication. dollars.” dah was set to send to the accounts for college tuition, 63 64 65 Dave Sloan, the president of Berman, with 700 students, conference committee, the available for religious day T R Y M E S S Y S E E P S the Modern Orthodox Berman has tuitions ranging from gathering of lawmakers and school tuitions. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 PAGE 15A This White Bean Soup has a secret Israeli ingredient

By Sonya Sanford 1 teaspoon kosher salt Juice of 1/2 a lemon (The Nosher via JTA)—I recently stumbled upon a Yemenite 1/4 cup oil (a mild neutral oil: sunflower, canola, grapeseed, etc.) Jewish cookbook from the early ’60s called “Yemenite & Sa- Directions: bra Cookery,” by Naomi and Shimon Tzabar. It’s the type of 1 If using dry beans: Soak the beans overnight. In a large cookbook I especially love to discover; the kind that covers a pot or in an Instapot, cover the dried beans with 3-4 inches rare topic and is unusually designed. This one has beautiful of water. Add a large bay leaf and 4 peeled cloves of garlic to wood-block print images scattered throughout. The recipes the pot. Simmer beans until tender. are more like sketches of how to make something rather than 2. To a large pot add a generous drizzle of oil over medium being clear directives. heat, and add the diced onion, leek, carrot and celery. Sauté The first page of the book features a recipe for zhug, a the vegetables until softened, about 6-8 minutes. Add the classic Yemenite hot sauce, and a few pages later there’s one chopped tomato (or tomato paste), 2 peeled garlic cloves, 1 for a very simple white bean soup. I’ve been a longtime fan of bay leaf, thyme and chopped herb stems to the pot. Stir and topping white bean soup with homemade pesto or herb sauce. sauté for another minute. Creamy rich white beans are well complemented by fragrant 3. Add the liquid to the pot. If I’ve made the beans from earthy fresh herbs. dried, I like to add a few cups of the bean cooking liquid in As I skimmed through each page, these two recipes jumped somehow elicit the feeling of heat from strong sunlight some- addition to broth. out at me, calling to be combined. where very far away. 4. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a simmer and allow Zhug (or skhug; pronounced s-kh-oo-g) is found throughout Ingredients: to simmer for 20 minutes. the Middle East, and was brought to and made popular in Israel For the soup: 5. Add the cooked or canned beans to the pot and simmer by Yemenite Jews. It is used to add heat to many dishes, from 1 cup dry white/cannellini beans, or 2 (15-ounce) cans (about for another 20-25 minutes. Taste and season as needed. Turn falafel, to shwarma, to schnitzel, to sabich. 3 1/2 to 4 cups) off the heat and add the lemon juice. There are countless recipes for zhug, but it is always made Oil, as needed 6. At this point, you can serve the soup as is. However, with a combination of hot green or red peppers and cilantro/ 1 large onion, diced small I prefer to remove about a third from the pot. I blend the coriander. Often you’ll find it includes spices such as carda- 1 large leek, white part only, diced small remaining soup until light and creamy, using an immer- mom and caraway. 1 carrot, diced small sion blender. I add the remaining soup back to the pot. This Zhug is spicy, vibrant and complexly flavored with the 1 rib of celery, diced small makes the soup satisfyingly smooth, with pops of beans combination of these herbs and spices. It’s not your average 1 Roma tomato, chopped small (or 1 tablespoon tomato paste) and vegetables. hot sauce. 6 cloves garlic, peeled and divided 7. To make the zhug: To a food processor add the de-seeded This white bean soup is simple at its core and made with 2 large bay leaves, divided jalapenos, parsley, cilantro, garlic, cardamom, caraway and salt. leeks, carrots, celery and just a few other ingredients. You 3 sprigs thyme, leaves removed Pulse until finely chopped. If you don’t have a food processor, can use chicken broth or vegetable broth for the liquid—even 10 cups (2 1/2 quarts) chicken broth, vegetable broth or water you can also chop the ingredients finely by hand. Transfer the water will work. A spoonful of finely chopped parsley or cilantro stems (leftover chopped mixture to a bowl. Add the oil and lemon juice, and stir If you have the time, or an Instant Pot (yes!), making the from the zhug) until combined. Zhug will last up to 2 weeks in a well-sealed white beans from scratch will make the soup significantly bet- Salt and pepper, to taste container, or it can be frozen for up to 3 months. ter. For one, you can infuse the beans as they cook and soften Juice of 1/2 a lemon, or to taste 8. Serve topped zhug to your taste. Serves 4-6. with extra flavor from garlic and bay leaf. Then, the infused For the zhug: Sonya Sanford is a chef, food stylist and writer based out cooking liquid can also be added to the soup. 5-10 small jalapeno peppers (5 for mild, 10 for hot), sliced in of Los Angeles who specializes in modern Jewish cooking. You can cook the white beans and make the zhug several half and deseeded Follow Sanford at www.sonyasanford.com or on Instagram days in advance. Once everything comes together, and the 1 bunch cilantro @sonyamichellesanford. soup is served and topped with the herby zhug, it makes this 1 bunch parsley The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and dish that much more impressive. 1 large clove garlic, peeled classic Jewish recipes and food news, from Europe to Yemen, My first spoonful instantly warmed me. The spice and heat 1 tablespoon ground cardamom from challah to shakshuka and beyond. Check it out at ww- from the zhug, and the comfort of the creamy white beans, 2 teaspoons caraway seeds (optional) wTheNosher.com. 2017 From page 10A The agreement, which Netanyahu, meanwhile, in the country to perform sermons, articles and op- American Jews “never send Netanyahu’s Cabinet ap- pledged that while the agree- conversions. eds. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi their children to fight for for posting anti-Semitic proved last year, was hailed ment was suspended in order Supporters argued the David Lau apologized for its their country” and “Most billboards featuring the as an interdenominational to mollify his haredi Ortho- bill would streamline the publication. of them are having quite likeness of liberal philan- compromise at one of Juda- dox coalition partners, the conversion process and The “blacklist” was the lat- convenient lives.” Some thropist George Soros. ism’s holiest sites and a sign physical expansion of the create a high standard for est episode in a long-running said her remarks played on But Netanyahu dodged of Israeli-Diaspora reconcili- prayer space would in fact conversion. But opponents debate over who gets to anti-Semitic stereotypes the issue in favor of main- ation. The agreement would continue apace. feared it would further establish the authority of of the weak and parasitic taining Israeli-Hungarian have expanded and upgraded American Jewish leaders delegitimize non-Orthodox rabbis, and the age-old ques- Diaspora Jew. relations a non-Orthodox worship have nonetheless continued conversions while handing tion of who counts as Jew- Hotovely’s remarks came But Jewish leaders and space while enshrining Or- to protest and gave the Israeli more authority to a haredi ish and who gets to decide. after her scheduled talk at Netanyahu did mostly agree thodox control of the main leader a cold reception when monopoly. While the controversy has the on one thing Trump did: rec- prayer plaza. But it was not he appeared via satellite at On that issue, Netanyahu faded, the questions remain Hillel was canceled due in ognizing Jerusalem as the implemented, and in June the annual convention of quickly acceded to pressure unanswered. part to her opposition to a capital of Israel. Most major the Cabinet voted to freeze the Jewish federation move- from non-Orthodox Ameri- Do American Jews have Palestinian state. American Jewish groups it indefinitely. ment in November. The issue can Jews, shelving the bill it easy? She later apologized for praised the move, which Non-Orthodox Jewish resurfaced last month when for six months. Previous Israeli politicians, par- her remarks and expressed Netanyahu called a “coura- leaders were outraged. Di- Jacobs attempted to enter the similar measures had also ticularly religious ones, her affection for American geous and just decision.” aspora leaders canceled Western Wall plaza with a been shelved or discarded. have a history of occasional Jews. The major exception to the meetings with the prime Torah scroll. Security guards But the Chief Rabbinate offensive comments about Despite the apology Ja- Diaspora-vs.-Israel dynamic minister, and in the wake blocked him and roughed soon reignited controversy non-Orthodox and Diaspora cobs, the Reform chief, is the minority of American of the decision, some board him up, tearing his clothes between Israel and Ameri- Jews. But few comments called on Netanyahu to fire Jews who identify as Ortho- members of the Union for and shoving a can of mace can Jews after JTA reported have sparked an uproar like Hotovely, as her statements dox. They tend to support Reform Judaism told JTA in his face. on a list of 160 Diaspora Tzipi Hotovely, the deputy “serve to underscore how the Netanyahu and Trump, and they were rethinking how Jacobs and his supporters rabbis whom the Rabbinate foreign minister, who said Israeli government disdains share their hard-line views and how much they should again were outraged. The does not trust to confirm that unlike Israelis, Ameri- the majority of North Ameri- on domestic politics, world support Israel financially. agreement remains sus- the Jewish identities of im- can Jews lead cushy lives and can Jews.” affairs and Israel. “This decision screams pended indefinitely. migrants. The Rabbinate don’t send their children to Netanyahu didn’t take the Who counts at the West- out that when all is said and Who is a Jew? Who is a maintained that the so- defend their country. advice. But he did release a ern Wall? done, the State of Israel and rabbi? called “blacklist” was merely Her point was a familiar statement condemning her The biggest single spat government of Israel is will- On the same day the agree- a bureaucratic record of one: that Jews living abroad comments and emphasiz- between the Israeli govern- ing to sell our rights and our ment was frozen, Israel’s problematic conversion haven’t enough skin in the ing that the “Jews of the ment and American Jews well-being for coalition poli- Cabinet also advanced a bill papers and was not meant game to tell Israel how to run Diaspora are dear to us and came in June, when Netan- tics,” the URJ’s president, that would have empowered to delegitimize rabbis. its affairs. But in her inter- are an inseparable part of yahu’s coalition voted to Rabbi Rick Jacobs, told JTA the country’s haredi Ortho- But many of the rabbis view with i24, a TV channel our people.” suspend an agreement on following the agreement’s dox Chief Rabbinate, making on the list protested their based in Israel, Hotovely Looking back over 2017, the Western Wall. suspension. it the only body authorized inclusion in statements, went further in saying that that wasn’t always obvious. Abuse From page 12A the media, law enforcement, tion: He told me I was yotzei do from an additional perspec- about anyone in your orbit.” in its power to keep students or an outside company or (a Hebrew word meaning that tive other than severing our In 2011, two years after Wer- safe. but that person is deceased. Jewish organization,” Benkof one’s obligation has been ful- relationship with [Gutin].” nick started his post at USCJ, “All staff have to have a And this time period, in terms told JNS. “The organization filled), thus convincing me I Any awards given in the name the organization instituted background check before be- of what attorneys would have that faces civil action is the need not act further.” of Gutin or Fisher have been new protocols for preventing ing hired, and USY now has to keep...they would have last organization that should Epstein declined comment discontinued, said Wernick. and dealing with accusations a youth protection officer long since destroyed these be in charge of gathering the when contacted by JNS, refer- The USCJ leader elaborated, of abuse. Staffers have a hand- assigned at every USY event,” records,” Wernick said. information.” ring the matter to an attorney “We talk in a language of book providing guidelines for he said. “Every USYer has that Benkof, who now feels his “The United Synagogue has who participated in the phone chiyuv (obligation). If a person appropriate behavior with person’s phone number so comments fell on deaf ears a financial interest in silencing interview between JNS and accused of these things con- USY youths, and are required they have an advocate if they when he reported the allega- victims,” he added. “I believe Wernick. tinues to have a relationship to sign a statement that they feel threatened in any way, by tions to Epstein, expressed they are using the hotline to Wernick said the steps USCJ with your organization, you have read the handbook and anyone. USY is a safe place.” skepticism about USCJ’s new do to other victims what Rabbi has taken in response to the have to separate, to assure have agreed to its policies. They Elizabeth Kratz is the as- hotline. Jerry Epstein did to me when allegations have gone “beyond the safety of people in your are required to sign again if the sociate publisher and editor of “There needs to be a way I reported what I knew about any mandated reporting in charge. Harassment issues, handbook is updated. The Jewish Link of New Jersey for victims to come forward, Bob Fisher in 2001, while Bob terms of criminal liability. We these kinds of issues, are not Wernick said he is confident and The Jewish Link of Bronx, but the address should be in still worked for the organiza- are beyond anything we can just for your staff, they are that USY now does everything Westchester and Connecticut. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, DECEMBER 29, 2017 Hummus among us: chefs debate what makes Israeli food Israeli stitutes Israeli food—and, restaurants in , Some of their arguments “They are in the Middle in turn, what effects Israeli including Taim and Bala- were salient and recogniz- East, what can you do? Where cuisine has had on Israeli boosta. She kept referring to able to anyone who has they would like to be is south- society—is the reason for the the “miracle” of Israeli cuisine lived in Israel. For instance, ern Italy,” he said. event at American University. in a land that once was a des- there’s the tendency for The conclusion baffled By and large, the conference ert—enchanting, yes, but also Israelis to refer to “Arab Forman, who rejoined that is celebratory in nature. The a hoary narrative that ignores cuisine”—and not Palestin- Americans also tend to favor opening session on Sunday the presence of Palestinians ian—although there are Italian food, too—the im- night, for example, showcased and others in the region long dishes adopted by Israelis plication being that it’s not Israeli celebrity chefs includ- before the advent of modern that are specifically indig- because of a national neurosis ing Michael Solomonov and . enous to Palestinians, such but rather because Italian food Lior Lev Sercarz. Panel moderator Mitchell as maqloubeh, a meat, rice is quick and delicious. “Israel today is not the Davis, the executive vice and vegetable concoction. The only chef on the after- start-up nation,” Michael president of the James Beard (Solomonov is an adamant noon’s panel: Osama Dalal, a Brenner, the director of Foundation, visibly winced at exception and refers to an Palestinian Israeli who runs American University’s Center Admony’s remarks. He asked indigenous Palestinian cui- Maiar, an upscale, seafood- for Israel Studies, told the other panelists to address sine that he has incorporated heavy restaurant in Tel Aviv crowd of some 200. “It is the cultural “appropriation.” into his repertoire.) (currently closed as he seeks gourmet nation and a cham- The other panelists, in- Other arguments from the a new venue), brought the pion of sophisticated, healthy cluding Sercarz and Solo- academics, however, seemed conversation back to the cooking.” monov, didn’t bite—excuse a tad overeager to make a natural, logical evolution of Despite the laudatory feel of the pun—but appropriation point about Israel and co- cuisine—namely, if it tastes the opening night, however, was very much the theme of lonialism. Ranta, a lecturer good, make it. the sessions throughout Mon- the next panel, “Israeli-Arab on international relations Dalal said that growing up day’s main event addressed Food Politics.” at Kingston University in in Acre’s old city, the site of complicated duality that con- “There is a lot of politics London, decried the “denial his first restaurant, he drew stitutes Israeli cuisine. On the behind the food you eat,” of an Arab Palestinian con- inspiration from his Jewish one hand, there’s the celebra- said the moderator, Johanna tribution” among Israelis neighbors, both Polish and Tomatoes, cucumbers and basil atop a plate of hummus. tion of the commingling of Mendelson Forman, who to their cuisine, saying that Moroccan. food traditions that Israel—a teaches a course at American the argument that many “Being 2017, I can do what By Ron Kampeas Turkey), a chopped cucumber nation of immigrants eager to called Conflict Cuisine: An Jews of Middle East origin I want,” he said of his menu. and tomato salad (Israeli or join the global community— Introduction to War and Peace were likely to already be In the most vivid account at WASHINGTON (JTA)—It’s Palestinian, take your pick) naturally incubates. On the Around the Dinner Table. “The acquainted with the dishes the conference, Dalal recalled lunch break during a one-day and a quinoa salad (from othe, there’s the anxiety that kitchen has become the venue was a “glaring example” of how as a child, he would lick conference on “Israeli Cuisine Ecuador? Peru? Or maybe these same immigrants may of new foreign policy.” this denial. the walls of his grandmother’s as a Reflection of Israeli Soci- it’s Mediterranean). Small actually be colonialists who The three social scientists Avieli, the president of home because they were in- ety”—so naturally I’m eating triangles of pita surround the have appropriated an indig- on the panel—Nir Avieli, the Israeli Anthropological fused with the flavors of her lunch. centerpiece of my plate: the enous cuisine. Ronald Ranta and Ronit Vered, Association, said that pizza cooking. Everything on my white controversial chickpea spread One panel, for example, all Israeli Jews—advanced was the most popular food These days, Dalal makes a plastic plate can be consid- known as hummus, which has “Cuisine as an Expression the theme that there was an in Israel, suggesting it was custard dish inspired by his ered Israeli food. There is engendered endless debate of Modern Israeli Culture,” original sin to Israeli cuisine: because Israelis despise their grandmother. But, he added, a burek (which originally regarding its origins featured chef Einat Admony, the repression of its origins neighbors and long to be “Custard is not Israeli or heralds from Spain, by way of Just what exactly con- who owns a number of Israeli among Palestinians. European. Palestinian.” Why Dutch Jews are up in arms over the handling of a kosher restaurant attack By Cnaan Liphshiz according to Jewish leaders, is Service declined to tell JTA a problem. anything about the sus- (JTA)—Two During the trial, which pect but his age and city weeks ago, a 29-year-old began here Wednesday, Ali of residence in the Nether- man waving a Palestinian declined to answer the judge’s lands, which is Amsterdam. flag smashed the windows questions and “kept going on A spokesman declined to say of a kosher restaurant with about the Palestinian cause,” why other details are being a wooden club, stealing an according to Saskia Belleman, withheld. He said the suspect Israeli flag there. Police ar- the court correspondent of De was released because “there rested the suspect on the spot Telegraaf daily, who reported were no grounds to detain The Dec. 7 incident, which the suspect has been assigned him” any longer. occurred the day after Presi- a psychiatric evaluation. In the background of how dent Donald Trump declared It also emerged in court authorities are handling the that the United States of- that Ali told an officer after case, Voet said, is fear that the ficially recognizes Jerusalem his arrest that the attack was incident may help the Neth- as Israel’s capital, triggered “only the first step.” erlands’ rising populist right an outpouring of condemna- Asked about the next step, wing—led by the anti-Islam tions by Dutch leaders. Prime he said: “I will tell you later, politician Geert Wilders of the Minister Mark Rutte called it no one needs to know.” Party for Freedom. “terrible,” and 15 lawmakers Such statements are “chill- “Authorities attempt, out of ate there that evening as a ing,” said Ronny Naftaniel, fear from further polarization gesture of solidarity. who spent 40 years at the in society, to sweep everything Yet just 60 hours later the helm of the ’ main under the carpet, but it’s hav- suspect—identified in the anti-Semitism watchdog ing the opposite effect,” she media as Saleh Ali—was free. group, CIDI. told the Metro daily. “We are Authorities never divulged “I have never encountered not the Jews of past decades, we details about his identity and a case like this,” added Naf- will not sit quietly as this hap- origins despite the absence of taniel, who retired in 2013. pens to us. We will speak out.” a gag order, and reports that “And I am one of many Dutch This reference to a past in Ginopress B.V./AFP/Getty Images Ali was a former combatant Jews whose confidence in the which 75 percent of Dutch A man waving a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Syria’s civil war in the judiciary has been compro- Jewry was murdered in the in Amsterdam, Dec. 7, 2017. Netherlands on an asylum- mised here.” Holocaust is unusual for such seeker visa. By contrast, police held a a prominent representative lamist—the incident at the in an institution for treating al pressure, French prosecu- The lack of clarity on these Dutch Jew named Michael of Dutch Jewry. But it’s not HaCarmel kosher restaurant mental illnesses, although tors added hate crime charges issues is feeding a growing Jacobs for a week this sum- the only one. Frits Barend, and its handling by authori- he had no record of such in September. resentment among the Jewish mer for repeatedly standing one of the country’s best- ties “are making Dutch Jews problems. Police refused to But the Dutch Jewish com- community here regarding near anti-Israel protesters known Jewish journalists, feel less safe,” Naftaniel said. disclose his whereabouts and munity, which on Sunday the authorities’ handling of while wearing an Israeli flag, told De Telegraaf daily after Earlier this year, similar the conditions of his detain- held a Chanukah ceremony the attack itself, along with even though there are no laws the attack: “It reminds of me complaints were heard from ment for months. in Amsterdam to thank police the aftermath. Some point to prohibiting it. ”—the name for many French Jews. They vo- The Halimi attack occurred and the justice minister for the police’s apparent inaction “Apparently the judiciary the 1938 pogroms organized cally and persistently protest- just weeks before presidential their protection, has not yet during the attack—in a video, does not see any parallels” by Nazis against Jews. ed the absence of a hate crime elections, which brought the reached their “Sarah Halimi authorities appear to witness between Jacobs and the kosher CIDI under its current charge from the indictment far-right National Front party moment,” Naftaniel said, re- the violent incident without restaurant attacker, Esther director, Hanna Luden, called of a 27-year-old Muslim man closer to power than ever. As ferring to the silent marches interfering—as problematic. Voet, editor in chief of the NIW the suspect’s release “shock- who on April 4 killed Sarah such, the case was “covered that French Jews held to But to many Dutch Jews, Dutch Jewish weekly, wrote in ing.” Halimi, his 67-year-old Jew- up” by the judiciary, charged protest the affair. perhaps the most disturbing an op-ed published last week. Coupled with the scal- ish neighbor, while shouting , the presi- “But the kosher restau- aspect is that the draft indict- “Far-right violence is swift- ing back this year of police about Allah and calling her dent of the CRIF umbrella of rant has definitely caused ment against Ali mentions ly punished. But this,” Voet protection for Jewish-owned a demon. The man, Kobili French Jewish communities, many Dutch Jews to pause, only vandalism and theft. wrote of the restaurant attack, buildings in Amsterdam—a Traore, had a history of anti- including during a public look around and ask tough In other words, Dutch “that’s different. The Jews precaution that was taken Semitic rhetoric. address before President Em- questions of the authorities,” officials don’t consider Ali’s were asking for it.” after the 2015 slaying of Traore was not arrested but manuel Macron. Naftaniel said. “That’s a good actions a hate crime. And that, The Public Prosecution four Jews in Paris by an Is- was hospitalized for weeks Amid local and internation- thing.”