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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 42, NO. 32 APRIL 13, 2018 28 NISAN, 5778 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ A new face in JCRC leadership

Tamara Green and Roberta Marcus Leiner Dori Gerber Michelle Zaltsberg Rabbi Chaplain Robert Marcus (far left) with Jewish soldiers in 1944. Dori Gerber will join Mi- said, “It is so important, now chelle Zaltsberg as co-chair more than ever, to build and of the Jewish Community strengthen relationships Jewish-American soldiers didn’t just Relations Council, the Jewish within the Jewish community Federation of Greater Orlando and the community at large. I has announced. The JCRC, am thrilled to be joining forces a funded committee of the with Michelle, under the lead- fight Nazis—they endured anti-Semitism Federation, advocates on be- ership of Ben Friedman and By Curt Schleier on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance women who enlisted, a future member half of the Jewish community the JCRC board, to uphold the Day, quickly takes an unexpected turn. of the Women’s Army Corps, recalled a through government, educa- organization’s mission.” (JTA)—“GI Jews: Jewish Americans in Jewish-American soldiers, the viewer more personal incident in public school: tion, media, and interfaith “When we looked at the World War II” begins as many Holocaust learns, weren’t only fighting Nazis dur- “Suddenly kids weren’t playing with me. I engagement. needs of the JCRC, Gerber’s documentaries do, with a history of the ing the war—they had to battle the asked one why and she said, ‘The teacher “Dori is a human ray of name was top of the list for rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany anti-Semitic prejudice of many of their told us you’re a Jew and we’re not sup- sunshine,” said Zaltsberg, whom we hoped to see in lead- mixed with what is now standard archival fellow soldiers. posed to play with you.’” who is in her second year as ership. We were elated when footage of Brownshirts and Kristallnacht. All told, some 550,000 Jews served in But for the most part, these soldiers JCRC co-chair and first year she offered to take on this Throw in interviews with some Jewish World War II. A few had experienced anti- were immigrants or the children of as the JCRC representative responsibility, and we are all celebrities—in this case, Carl Reiner and Semitism at home already in the form of immigrants who lived in largely Jew- on the Federation’s board of excited to see the results of her his friend Mel Brooks wearing his old “Gentiles Only” signs, for example, which ish urban areas, and it was a major directors. “More importantly, initiative,” said Rhonda For- Army jacket—and it has all the workings were found at some public facilities across culture shock for them to suddenly hear her experience as an educator est, acting executive director of a typical PBS documentary. the country. has already been invaluable and former board president But the film, which premiered April 11, Mimi Rivkin, one of the 10,000 Jewish Soldiers on page 14A to JCRC as we have worked of the Jewish Federation of on programming to assist Greater Orlando. families with confronting Gerber’s elevation comes discrimination in schools.” on the heels of Ina Porth’s Iceland welcomes its first rabbi while On stepping into a leader- ship role with JCRC, Gerber JCRC on page 14A considering a ban on circumcision By Cnaan Liphshiz panions use a washing basin Holocaust heroes in to clean their dishes instead REYKJAVIK, Ice- of precariously bending over land (JTA)—At a windswept the freezing water. unexpected places harbor of this Nordic capital, “Thank you, but we need a bearded man wearing a to do it in the sea,” one of the Many in the American black hat dips eating utensils men, 27-year-old Avi Feld- Jewish community are aware into the icy water while hiss- man of New York, tells the of two outstanding examples ing from pain induced by the caretaker. “It’s for religious of individual courage, daring bitter cold. reasons.” and initiative demonstrated Perplexed by the spectacle, Feldman and his compan- by gentiles in the Holocaust. a caretaker helpfully offers to ions, a journalist and two They are the German industri- let the man and his three com- relatives who are visiting him alist Oskar Schindler and the here for the holidays, haul Swedish consul in Hungary, the wet dishes back to a car Raoul Wallenberg. Both have parked at the foot of one of the been the subject of films, many snow-capped volcanoes memorial commemorations, surrounding this gray but and have had their likenesses picturesque capital city. portrayed on postage stamps, The exchange last week was statues, and the honor of being Feldman’s first attempt since celebrated at the Yad Vashem registering as a resident of Institute in Israel. Iceland at explaining to a local There are other individu- a potentially awkward Jewish als whose stories are just as Dr. Norman Berdichevsky religious custom: in this case, remarkable but little known “tevilat kelim”—immersing and have not been the subject Center on Thursday, April 19, utensils acquired from non- Rabbi Avi and Mushky Feldman with their daughters in of similar commemoration or from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Jews to make them kosher. Reykjavik, March 26, 2018. whose stories are available This event is open to the pub- But it won’t be the last only in foreign languages lic free of charge; however, res- explanation coming from the Measuring his words on the According to Feldman, the such as Italian, Portuguese, ervations are required as seat- New York native, who this subject, Feldman, a Chabad issue is not rooted in any hos- Japanese and Danish. ing is limited. Please visithttp:// year became Iceland’s first rabbi, told JTA before his ar- tility to Judaism in Iceland. In collaboration with www.holocaustedu.org/events/ resident rabbi in documented rival only that he and his wife Hotly opposed by the sev- the University of Central all/heroes-of-the-holocaust/ to history. Feldman and his “hope to bring awareness to eral hundred Jews and Mus- Florida’s History Department make reservations. wife, Mushky, and their two local Icelandic people and es- lims who live in this Christian and Judaic Studies program, small daughters settled in pecially to lawmakers in their nation of 330,000 citizens, the Dr. Norman Berdichevsky the country as its parliament decision on rules.” He also said bill has wide support in the helps uncover the stories of prepares to vote on a bill that the bill is a “matter of great parliament and population, these extraordinary individu- would outlaw nonmedical concern” for those who “value als at the Holocaust Memo- circumcision of boys religious freedom.” Iceland on page 14A rial Resource and Education PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 Help a Senior by hitting the greens on May 6 nior Help Desk, this popular donating all event signage tournament offers golfers a every year. 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She continued, “It is exciting and rewarding to continue to provide activities that are enjoyed and are engaging.” May 2, 2018 KCOA is a nonprofit agency that provides ongoing programs and services to resi- dents of Kinneret Apartments. FOR MORE INFORMATION, Kinneret Apartments, located in downtown Orlando, provides subsidized housing to 280 independent seniors. For information on the facility or to donate to KCOA, go CALL: 407-834-8787 to www.kinneretapartments.com or contact Sharon Weil at 407-425-4537, ext. 211. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 PAGE 3A What Israel’s gun policies can teach Americans By Israel Kasnett seem to be a uniquely Ameri- the weapon, but a person Israel as an exemplar of how obtain a weapon. In Israel, it American law enforcement can phenomenon, Israel is no with intent,” tweeted former a society with widespread gun is very difficult. If you want is already considering these (JNS)—As American soci- stranger to violence. Anyone Arkansas Gov. Mike Hucka- ownership can still prevent one, you need to have a very suggestions. ety has become more polar- who has visited the Jewish bee following the Parkland school shootings and gun good reason why. At most, The Broward County ized in recent years, the debate state quickly becomes ac- tragedy. violence in general, several you can get a small caliber Sheriff’s Department, led over gun control has reflected customed to seeing security Similarly, Wayne LaPierre, key differences exist between pistol, not an automatic or by Sheriff Scott Israel, told this reality, with leaders and guards in nearly every public executive vice president of the the United States and Israel. semi-automatic rifle. The JNS that “there is no simple lawmakers on both sides venue, including schools, National Rifle Association, A 2012 study by Janet E. process makes it very com- solution for this very dif- firmly entrenched in their po- with Israeli soldiers carrying has praised Israel for placing Rosenbaum, an epidemiolo- plicated to obtain a weapon. ficult problem,” but pointed sitions. Yet the recent school M16s slung over their shoul- armed guards at schools, gist at SUNY Downstate Medi- And two, the fact is that most to several measures that it shooting at Marjory Stone- ders. Many supporters of gun saying in December 2012 fol- cal Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Israelis undergo some type of believes could help prevent man Douglas High School rights have pointed to Israel lowing the school shooting in examined the perception of training in the military. Even future attacks. in Parkland, Fla., which left as a potential model for the Newtown, Conn., which left many gun-rights advocates, in lower-level basic training, “First, and most impor- 17 dead—14 of them teenag- United States. 20 children ages 6 and 7 dead, noting that Israel and Swit- they treat you how to respect tantly,” it noted, “is creating ers—has transcended the “Just waking up in Israel to along with six staff members, zerland are “gun utopias” the weapon. Israelis know how Violent Threat Restraining usual debate on gun control news of heartbreaking school that “the only thing that stops with permissive gun laws and to handle weapons. The gun Orders because they will as an entire new generation, shooting in FL; Reminded that a bad guy with a gun is a good widespread gun ownership, culture you see in America is empower the justice system fed up with violence in their Israel pretty much eliminated guy with a gun.” and that they encourage the not accepted by Jews or Arabs to prohibit the sale or pos- schools, has launched a social it by placing highly trained ‘How to respect the arming of civilians who can in Israeli culture.” session of guns to violent movement for change. people strategically to spot weapon’ confront shooters. He added that “we don’t or individuals deemed to be While school shootings the one common thread—not While some may point to She concludes that “Swiss have a lot of school shootings mentally ill.” and Israeli gun ownership is because we have security in The department added rare [and] regulated strin- schools to protect against that “another reform is to gently, such as by putting terror attacks.” strengthen the Baker Act, so Calls on Supreme Court to the burden of proof on permit ‘More can and should be that those who are involun- applicants to demonstrate done’ tarily committed to mental- a specific need for a gun,” For American law enforce- health institutions have their uphold Trump travel ban adding that neither country ment, the best lesson from firearms temporarily removed promotes gun ownership. Israel may not be the fact that from their possession and NEW YORK (JTA)—The Zi- sympathizers,” the group’s self signaled that the ban was Unlike America, where a security guard is armed, but not permit them to reacquire onist Organization of America president, Morton Klein, meant to target Muslims. gun rights are protected by that a greater focus is placed those weapons until a court has filed an amicus brief with said in the statement. “The On Friday, at least six Jew- the Second Amendment, on that guard’s training and approves.” the Supreme Court in support Proclamation’s vital pur- ish civil rights groups signed there is no parallel in Israel’s state of mind. Additionally, “threats of of President Donald Trump’s pose exemplifies our most onto a joint amicus brief, legal framework. Instead, like Shortly after the Parkland violence made online are most recent ban on travel from fundamental, overriding spearheaded by the Anti-Def- most of the developed world, shooting, U.S. President not always arrestable offens- a number of predominately value of protecting Ameri- amation League, urging the Israel has strict gun-control Donald Trump blamed Mar- es. Sheriff Israel supports the Muslim countries. can lives.” Supreme Court to block the laws, where gun ownership is jory Stoneman Douglas High efforts of law-enforcement The group, which has been The executive order an- executive order. The American considered a privilege granted School resource officer Scot leaders around the state to an outspoken supporter of nounced in September pro- Jewish Committee also filed a by the Ministry of Public Se- Peterson, saying he “didn’t urge legislators to close a many of Trump’s policies, hibits travel from Iran, Libya, brief opposing the ban. curity—not a right. As such, have the courage” to run loophole in Florida law so in its brief said the action Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as In February, the U.S. Court only a small percentage of inside and confront teen that police can make an arrest did not amount to a “Muslim well as from Chad and North of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Israelis—about 135,000 citi- shooter Nikolas Cruz. But when broader online threats ban” or violate the Constitu- Korea, and includes some Ven- in Virginia declared Trump’s zens out of some 8.5 million Perry retorted: “It’s not about are made.” tion. On Wednesday, ZOA ezuelan government officials travel ban unconstitutional. people—are licensed to carry courage. It’s a state of mind. The Sheriff’s Department released a statement an- and their families. The ban The decision came a month guns. Contrast that with the We test our security system concluded that “more can be nouncing its Feb. 28 filing went into effect in December, after the Supreme Court United States, with its esti- on a daily basis. People have to done and should be done ... of the brief. even as the appeals moved agreed to hear an appeal from mated 300 million firearms, be alert, aware and constantly A uniform national system ZOA cited terror attacks forward. a similar decision from the nearly one for every man, checking. It’s important of mandatory background by immigrants in Boston, It was the Trump admin- 9th Circuit Court of Appeals woman and child. to understand how to keep checks should be implement- San Bernardino, Orlando and istration’s third attempt to in San Francisco. Simon Perry, professor at people prepared for this type ed to stop criminals and the Manhattan, as well as Europe, prevent the entry into the Attorneys general for 16 Hebrew University’s Institute of instance. Training is not mentally ill from acquiring in its defense of the executive United States of travelers from states and Washington, D.C., of Criminology in Jerusalem enough.” guns. This will take bipartisan order. those countries. U.S. courts also filed an amicus brief Fri- and co-director of the Pro- Perry listed two major ele- consensus in Washington to “The six Muslim majority struck down the earlier bids day with the Supreme Court gram in Policing and Home- ments that define criminal make this a reality.” countries affected by the by Trump to impose a ban against the travel ban. land Security, dismissed the behavior: motivation and Asked if police support a Proclamation are marked by on travel from a number of The Supreme Court will lessons people appear to have opportunity. “If you prevent ban on AR-15 types of as- combat zones and infested Muslim-majority countries, hear oral arguments on the drawn from Israel’s gun- a criminal from obtaining a sault rifles, the department with terrorist groups and in part because Trump him- ban at the end of April. control policies. Firstly, “the weapon, you remove the op- said: “Sheriff Israel supports people who refer to Israel as portunity. You need to build common-sense gun reform, an example of successful gun systems that will prevent including reinstating the control see a lot of weapons people like this from purchas- federal ban on assault rifles, Former Qatar PM says Israelis on the street, but these are ing such weapons. You need and banning the sale and soldiers on the way to or from to build the system that ac- possession of modifiers such base, not ordinary civilians.” tively deals with finding these as bump stocks.” have right to live in their land According to Perry, there people and have someone The department did not are two major differences who deals with it exclusively, comment on allegations between Israel and America working on it full-time” in against it that its officers when it comes to gun control. order to prevent similar such acted improperly during the “One, in the U.S., it is easy to tragedies. shooting. Saudi Crown Prince: Israelis have the right to their own land By World Israel News against any other people,” said the crown prince, who In an interview by Jeffrey is currently touring the US. Goldberg published Monday “Prince Mohammed’s visit in The Atlantic, Saudi Arabian to the US is mainly a hunting Crown Prince Mohammed bin trip for investment, and an Salman said Israelis have a opportunity for him to sell right to their own land. his so-called Vision 2030, an Apparently pushing for a elaborate, still mainly unex- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani two-state solution, he said, “I ecuted plan to modernize the By United with Israel its relationship with other view appeared in The Atlan- believe the Palestinians and the Kingdom and end its depen- countries in the region. “What tic, quoting Saudi Arabian Israelis have the right to have dence on oil,” Goldberg said. In a Twitter post on Wednes- we need now in our Gulf,” he Crown Prince Mohammed bin their own land. But we have to ‘Iranian supreme leader day, former Qatari Prime said, “is to advise each other Salman as saying that Israelis have a peace agreement to as- makes Hitler look good’ Minister Hamad bin Jassim and try to reform the severed have a right to their own land. sure the stability for everyone “I believe the Iranian su- bin Jaber Al Thani stated that ties between our peoples,” Apparently pushing for a and to have normal relations.” preme leader makes Hitler Israelis have a right to live in the Post reported. two-state solution, the Saudi Ties between Israel and the look good. Hitler didn’t do their own land, The Jerusalem Qatar’s problematic situa- prince said, “I believe the Gulf states have improved over what the supreme leader is try- Post reported. tion has come about “because Palestinians and the Israelis the past year, triggered by the ing to do. Hitler tried to con- Saudi Arabian Crown “...Israelis have a right to of a lack of strategy and clear have the right to have their common Iranian threat. quer Europe... The supreme Prince Mohammed bin live in their land in peace and belief in dealing with our own land. But we have to have “We have religious con- leader is trying to conquer Salman safety, this is my conviction. disputes and in outlining a a peace agreement to assure cerns about the fate of the the world,” bin Salman said I’ve had this conviction for desired future for generations the stability for everyone and holy mosque in Jerusalem in the interview. permitted Air India, which many long years, and I still to come,” he concluded, ac- to have normal relations.” (i.e. the Temple Mount, Juda- Furthermore, according to launched a direct flight to Tel do,” Hamad wrote in Arabic, cording to the Post. Ties between Israel and the ism’s holiest site) and about Goldberg, he had not a bad Aviv, to fly over Saudi airspace, the Post said. These surprising com- Gulf states have improved over the rights of the Palestinian word to say about Israel. ending a decades-long ban Hamad also called on ments were made just a the past year, triggered by the people. This is what we have. Last month, in a surprising on Israeli commercial flights Qatari leaders to improve couple of days after an inter- common Iranian threat. We don’t have any objection turn of events, Saudi Arabia over its territory. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 The Saudis exit the conflict with Israel By Jonathan S. Tobin That’s good news for Israel and the United it means that the Saudis will not continue to have dropped that part and made it more States, which wants friendly relations between be something of a contradiction as they are, acceptable to Israel, and it remains a talking (JNS)—Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mo- two of its most important allies, especially in at one and the same time, a close ally of the point for some on the Jewish left who insist hammad bin Salman made history after telling the context of the threat from Iran. Yet this West while also being the primary funder of that there is an offer on the table that Israel The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that his country shouldn’t be treated as a harbinger of a peace Wahhabism. It is a particularly militant form hasn’t embraced. recognized the right of the Jews to “their own agreement that will end the struggle between of Islam that is closely identified with the Saudi That isn’t true, as Israel has informally land.” Though he added that the Saudis also Israel and the Palestinians. The reason why ruling family that has helped inspire violent discussed the initiative with the Saudis for care about the rights of Palestinians and the has little to do with Israel or the Saudis—and radicals who have, ironically, become a major years. However, the explanation for the failure fate of “the holy mosque in Jerusalem,” the everything to do with the Palestinians. thorn in the side of their regime. of the plan and the motivation for the crown message he was sending to Muslims and Arabs While important, it should also be under- Unlike his more traditional father King prince’s latest Western charm offensive rests was loud and clear. As far as the Kingdom of stood what the statement from the prince— Salman, MbS, who appears to wield the real primarily in the failure of the Palestinians to Saudi Arabia—the state that has styled itself popularly known as “MbS”—doesn’t mean. power in Riyadh, is something of a reformer. take the hint with respect to Israel. the defender of Islamic holy places, and thus the His comments shouldn’t be confused with Under his leadership, the kingdom is trying to Since 2002, Israel has made several attempts self-styled moral leader of the Arab and Muslim a formal declaration of Saudi recognition of respond to the challenges of the 21st century at peace that have all run aground on Palestin- world—the long war against Zionism is over. the Jewish state. Nor should we imagine that by opening its archaic Islamist society up to ian rejectionism. In 2005, it withdrew from certain changes, such as allowing women to Gaza. In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud drive. However, as he made clear to Gold- Olmert offered Palestinian Authority leader berg, Saudi Arabia will remain an absolute Mahmoud Abbas a state in almost all the West Time for a moment of monarchy. Bank, Gaza and a share of Jerusalem. Abbas It’s also true that Saudi outreach to Israel walked away from that offer and torpedoed sub- is not entirely new. sequent negotiations sponsored by the United The Saudis put forth a proposal in 2002 States, during which Prime Minister Benjamin silence in our schools that called for recognition of Israel and end- Netanyahu offered another withdrawal from ing the conflict. But that so-called Arab peace the West Bank. By Tzvi Freeman We need to introduce a daily habit of quiet- initiative had its flaws. Initially, it linked peace Since then, Abbas has continued to refuse ness into American life. And the key place to to the “right of return” for descendants of to negotiate, while the P.A. also continues The world has changed. Our needs have begin is in our schools. Palestinian Arab refugees from Israel’s 1948 changed. Our vision of the future has changed. Does it work? War of Independence. Since then, the Saudis Tobin on page 15A Schools haven’t been keeping up. Take the testimony of the administration of If our children are our future, then the way P.S. 191-The Paul Robeson Elementary School we run our schools reflects our dreams for in Brooklyn, N.Y., describing the results of their the future. There was an era when American “Moment of Silence” in school in a 2013 report: parents dreamed of their children going to When we introduced it several years ago Hamas is using human college, earning a good degree and support- overall student attendance was down, parent ing a family with all the good things America participation was low, and student achievement could provide. was climbing but not at the rate that everyone matchsticks to fuel the fire For that, all that was needed was a school was hoping for. Our students required, and still that gave your kids that entry pass to college. require, a greater need to be listened to. Our By Fiamma Nirenstein lions of dollars that have come as donations Principally, your children needed information students required new ways of dealing with from Iran, Qatar and other sympathizers in and the skills to access that information. emotions and crisis. Our students needed the (JNS)—The risk of the “March of Return,” missiles and tunnels. Today our dreams are different. We want time and an outlet that would provide an op- organized by Hamas last Friday, is that of a Its perennial humanitarian crisis would not healthy kids, in body, in mind and in spirit. portunity to understand the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ new kind of mass terrorism, a new kind of war. exist if those funds had gone into businesses The facts of this century have taught us that of their experiences. They needed to become The whole world knows that this organiza- and social structures. Instead, Hamas financed both the success of our economy and of our more contemplative . . . tion’s foremost aim, together with the death the terrorist enterprise that has killed thou- personal sense of well-being is not based on Since then it has become an ongoing, of the Jews and the conquest of the West, is sands in Israel. Israel tried to continue to allow smarts alone, but on human integrity, a sense transformative experience. The Moment of a strategic turn taking place with these mass help for and trade with the population. But, of of ethics and a sense of meaning in life. We Silence provided the students an opportunity marches. It’s a terrorist spark in the haystack course, the border is closed to terrorism, as is have learned the hard way that none of those to become more mindful and reflective of their of the Middle East. Yet the United Nations the one with Egypt, which would be the most things come naturally, or easily. experiences inside and outside the classroom. again blames Israel by engaging in its favorite natural exit. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is Most of all, we need respite from the noise. The students have become more introspective sport—blaming Israel, even if it was unable careful not to liberalize Gaza. Hamas is only When the Internet opened its floodgates in in their writing and have a greater appreciation, to pass a condemnation this time. interested in using the exasperated crowd for 1991, pundits described how the information empathy, and understanding of their peers. . U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres terrorist ends than for any real progress. signal-to-noise ratio had just plummeted. . . Students have also gained a greater under- supports the call for an international inquiry. After trying in vain to terrorize Israel with Today, without vigilante self-discipline, there standing of educational objectives. He adheres to the traditional and wrong idea the Second Intifada, Hamas moved to the strat- is only noise and more noise. Noise cubed, More contemplative, more introspective, that Israel has used disproportionate force egy of missiles against citizens in the south. surrounding each of us in all dimensions of more empathy. Isn’t this all we want for our in countering the mass demonstrations on Only the “Iron Dome” anti-missile defense our lives. children? For our future? its border, while promoting the idea that it system saved Israelis from a massacre. The Our children, especially, live within this A daily moment of silence doesn’t demand killed Palestinians who marched “peacefully” timing of the symbolic move over the crowds noise from morning to night. It is their world, a bill in Congress, or a presidential signature. along its border. And European Union official last week was not lost on an Israel preparing frighteningly more than the world of their Those things would be nice, and send a signal Federica Mogherini argues against Israel that for Passover. Or at a time when Palestinian senses in which they walk. Their primary throughout the country. the civil liberties of the protestors, armed Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) reality has become a place of utter chaos, The place to start, however, is with your with rocks and Molotov cocktails, must be re- is ill and weak, and competition for his job is where seven billion voices scream out for their own school. Even better, to come from the spected. Whose liberties? Those of the Islamist being considered. It also comes at a time when attention—and mostly not for anything that parents to the administration—and even dictators of Gaza killing the Jews? the Arab world tries to conform to a new course will do them any good. better, so much better, if it comes from the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad inaugurated by the Trump administration, in The most sensible, most caring, most students themselves. History has shown that Zarif, a so-called human-rights champion which the U.S. Embassy will move from Tel compassionate thing we can give our children the most effective and enduring movements whose country holds the title of being the Aviv to Jerusalem in a matter of months. today is respite from that noise. The most are those that come from the grassroots, from world’s biggest state sponsor of international It is no coincidence that Hamas wants to sensible and compassionate thing we can the people who have the greatest investment terrorism, immediately presented himself continue its demonstrations until May 15, the give our children today is respite from the and the most to gain. as Hamas defender by saying: “The Zionists day of Israel’s independence and the proposed noise reverberating within their young minds. And it can begin with each one of us as tyrants murder peaceful Palestinian protes- transfer of the embassy. At the border dur- That doesn’t mean simply a quiet room. They well. In this crazy, noisy world, take a moment tors, whose land they have stolen, as they ing those “pacifist” demonstrations, Hamas need quiet inside themselves. The noise has each morning to watch the sun rise, hear the march to escape their cruel and inhuman leader Ismail Haniyeh hurled death threats entered their minds, and bounces around in birds sing, pay attention to the rustling of the apartheid bondage.” Taking to the stage with and calls for Israel’s destruction. He also there without respite. wind through the leaves of the trees, and ask him is that other proponent of human rights, announced the conquest of Israel in order to We need to demonstrate to our children yourself, “Who am I? What am I doing here? Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, give it to the Palestinian “refugees” and their that it is possible for you to stop, be still and What is this all about?” whose army has almost concluded its ethnic descendants—people Hamas does not allow allow that gray matter in your skull to reflect Your day will be a different day. The kind of cleansing of the Kurdish region of Afrin in to escape from what has become a conceptual on those things most important to you. Not day you want most for your children. Northern Syria. ghetto, consigning them to militant terrorism. those things the world screams at you about. Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, a senior editor at Hamas is a terrorist organization. Anyone The crowds who marched to the border did Not the voices that tell you who you must be, Chabad.org, also heads our Ask The Rabbi who dares to oppose it is executed. The march- so for “the right of return”—a strategic move what you must enjoy, what you have to buy team. He is the author of “Bringing Heaven ers—pushed towards the border with Israel en to ally Hamas to the most extreme front. Never to be cool—but to a small, still voice inside Down to Earth.” masse—had members of the armed militia of can the return be part of a peace process un- that asks, “Who am I? What am I doing here? Copyright and reprinted with permission Hamas in their midst. Evidence came in the less it wipes out the Jewish state. The march What is this all about?” of Chabad.org. fact that 10 terrorists were among the killed, only wants death and destruction. It is for and by a skewed pride noting that among this reason that Israel cannot allow Hamas to THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. the 15 dead, five of them were members of penetrate its security fence, especially when it its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam advances by throwing rocks, launching Mo- ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ Brigades. Hamas took power in 2007 against lotov cocktails and burning tires. Last week, ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 46 Press Awards Editor/Publisher Fatah. The Israelis withdrew every last Jew Hamas launched human missiles. Escalation Jeffrey Gaeser from the Gaza Strip, leaving Gaza residents will come, especially if the United Nations and

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Currently, she is a fellow Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky Joyce Gore the sake of Allah is its most coveted desire.” at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. email: [email protected] Hamas has invested the major part of its mil- Translation by Amy Rosenthal. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 PAGE 5A Israel at 70: It’s time to reclaim the Z-word, Zionism By Gil Troy Let’s learn from our heroic triumph with linguistic magic between Israelis and Pales- an opportunity to under- sic anthology “The Zionist predecessors, and from femi- by defining themselves and tinians—inflaming hatred, stand that distinction. The Idea.” Adding the “s” broadens JERUSALEM (JTA)—All nists, gays and African-Amer- their aims; when enemies making peace more elusive. 77 percent of American Jews the conversation, from the 38 too often, when I ask cam- icans, whose first attempts define them, they lose. Ken- Alas, shame on us, too. who hate Donald Trump still thinkers in his book to the pus organizations that are to defend their rights didn’t nedy warns against allowing Zionism should be a more remain proudly American. 170 in mine. As part of its pro-Israel and deeply Zionist poll well either. Take back the the hater to define the hated, popular term than “Israel.” Why can’t we love Israel and publication and in honor of why they avoid using the “Z- night, resist internalizing our and that’s what is happening. Until 1948, Zionism was the Zionism regardless of par- Yom Haatzmaut, Israel’s In- word” in their messaging and oppressors’ hatred of us. First, “shame on them”: movement affirming that ticular prime ministers or dependence Day, I am urging literature, I’m told, “Zionism Reclaim the Z-word: Zion- Shame on the anti-Zionists Jews are a people with a policies, too? readers to host Zionist salons, doesn’t poll well.” ism. who single out Jewish nation- homeland and that like other Here’s the real question for home-based conversations True, not polling well is You cannot defeat those alism, meaning Zionism, in a nations, Jews have the right Jews: Do you feel connected addressing “what Zionism one of today’s great sins. delegitimizing Israel by world organized by national- to establish a state on that to Israel, today’s great Jewish and Israel mean to me today.” But imagine what our world surrendering Zionism, the isms, and call it “racist.” land (others may, too—na- people project? If so, you stick Establishing Israel in 1948 would be like if our ancestors movement that established Shame on them for libeling tionalism involves collective with it because you belong to fulfilled the Zionist idea – that feared the polls. The American Israel. If a century ago Zion- a democratic movement. consciousness, not exclusive the Jewish people. And you powerless Jews need a state Revolution wouldn’t have ism brought pride back to the Shame on them for ignoring land claims). Since 1948, Zi- help perfect that state through as a refuge, immediately, and polled well. Suggestions that term “Jew,” Jews and non-Jews Judaism’s national-religious onism has been the movement Zionism—embracing differ- as a platform to flourish and Northerners crush slavery today must bring pride back duality, which allows non- to perfect that state. ent schools of Zionist thought. express Jewish values, long- in 1860 wouldn’t have polled to the term “Zionist.” Jews to convert into the Jewish Like all countries, Israel It could be Religious Zionism term. Seventy years later, well. And proposing a new In his book on “the strange religion and join the Jewish makes good and bad moves. or left-leaning Labor Zionism debating Zionist ideas wel- Jewish state in 1897 wouldn’t career of the troublesome” nation, making Zionism If you’re anti-Zionist, you or right-leaning Revisionist comes debate from left to have polled well either. At the N-word, the African-Amer- among the least biologically reject Israel’s very existence. Zionism or Cultural Zionism. right, religious and nonre- time, most European Jews be- ican Harvard Law professor based, least racist, most per- If you’re critical of Israel In honor of Israel’s 70th ligious, about what Zionism lieved enlightened Europe was Randall Kennedy explains meable forms of nationalism. somehow, you’re a thinking birthday, I just published and Israel can mean to me outgrowing anti-Semitism— the “protean nature” of po- And shame on them for racial- human being. “The Zionist Ideas,” updat- that polled well. litical words. Groups can izing the national conflict America’s president offers ing Arthur Hertzberg’s clas- Zionism on page 15A Liberating thoughts about the Holocaust By Jonathan Feldstein Twenty-five years ago I got thousand Polish “Righteous Kanczuga, and throughout blank range in front of the murmurs punctuated only to know Willie, Yehudah, and Among the Nations,” there Poland, they did this with the Brill’s house. Then early one by the occasional barking of Seventh-three years ago Benny (*), the three then in must have been hundreds willing partnership, enthusi- morning, two young SS men, policemen. this week, three young men their late teens who were well or more willing Polish ac- asm, and glee of Poles. ably aided by the Polish police, Wordless, Tata fingered a who were neighbors of my into their 70s. They recounted complices. That Poles were The following is excerpted rounded up the hundreds of pocket of his long, black coat family, borrowed weapons how they buried the seven willing accomplices is an from “Hidden” by brother and Jews who had not managed and stroked his beard. Beside from Soviet troops occupying murdered Jews of Kanczuga, undisputable fact. But in sister survivors Fay Walker to hide in time. The officers him, Mamche, her face raw post-war Poland, and returned and saved their surviving light of Poland today trying and Leo Rosen. They were deposited them in the main from weeping, rested a deli- to their hometown to escort neighbors. They each shared to whitewash its history, it’s born and raised in Kanczuga square, where they stood in cate hand on one of my sisters’ the remaining Jews out of with me parallel accounts of worth underscoring. and recounted the last days shocked silence, shivering in shoulders. Now and then she Kanczuga for the last time. the same story, stories that The simple fact is that in of its Jewish community in the sparkling dawn. whispered to little Tunia, who The three young men had after recounting they would Poland, countless Jews died August 1942. It is quoted lib- The police herded their was serious even in the best survived the war that ended say they wouldn’t be able to at the hands of their Polish erally here, highlighting the prisoners past the jeering of times. (Her) olive-skinned three months earlier, but the sleep for three days. neighbors, before, and espe- fact that even in the rounding crowd in to the synagogue. face glistened with tears. anti-Semitism that fueled In a year when Poland has cially during and after the up and murder of Kanczuga’s Our people struggled to stare Pretty Senia, Aryan-blond the Holocaust was alive and made it illegal to refer to war. This fact is not open for Jews, Polish neighbors and straight ahead, but, as they and almost a teenager, seemed well. They had returned to Polish collaboration with and dispute no matter how many police participated willingly trudged the dusty streets, out of place in this group of Kanczuga because of threats participation in the murder coats of whitewashing and and enthusiastically. Cases they found themselves peer- frightened Jews. of a pogrom, to murder the of Jews and other atrocities revisionist laws are enacted. where Polish participation ing into the faces they had With so many bodies hud- remaining surviving Jews who during the Holocaust, it is While the murder of seven are noted are highlighted in known all their lives, into the dled together, the room was had returned to Kanczuga. worth highlighting that it Jews of Kanczuga took place italics. flat features and pale eyes of close with the odor of human The pogrom started a day was neither Nazi nor Soviet after the war without Nazi “We were hidden in the their closest neighbors, empty flesh. People slept standing, before. Polish neighbors mur- troops that murdered the oversight, orders, or encour- countryside by the time the and cold as death. straight as sentries; others dered seven Jewish survivors seven Jews of Kanczuga in agement, the beginning of the war flooded the streets of tiny Kanczuga‘s newest syna- twisted into unnatural posi- who had returned to search April 1945, but the Polish end of the Jewish community Kanczuga, until the screams gogue was a quarter mile from tions on the floor. for family and restart their neighbors of their Jewish of Kanczuga took place in and bursts of gunfire were as the Jewish cemetery. Its sanc- A poor tradesman, cower- lives. The Poles threatened to victims. Polish atrocities. August 1942. Indeed, Nazi familiar as the cries of the ped- tuary (was) large enough to ing, consulted with Tata. “Do finish the job, murdering the Polish mass murder. Polish troops and SS went town-by- dlers hawking their wares in seat several hundred people. you think they’ll deport us remaining Jews of Kanczuga, death-culture bread in Polish town rounding up, deporting, the town’s main marketplace. That Shabbos, every inch was instead of killing us? Maybe the next day. The second day anti-Semitism. and murdering Jews wherever More than a hundred of our filled for the first time. Yet of Passover. For every one of the several they could be found. But in people were executed at point it was eerily quiet, the low Holocaust on page 15A Engaging millennials is all the rage, but is it the best use of Jewish philanthropy? By Jack Wertheimer were previous generations of mark. By virtue of its intensive and BuzzFeed News, OneTable ups meet in unconventional episodically and are treated Jews at the same age. Much and immersive programming, has been described as “a social spaces, such as clubs, bars, to programming that is light NEW YORK (JTA)—En- ink has been spilled to analyze Birthright differs from most dining app that helps people performing art spaces, lofts on Jewish content and heavy gaging young people in their why this might be so, with other programs aimed at mil- of all religious backgrounds and bookstores. They may on socializing. The rationale, 20s and 30s, the so-called explanations focusing either lennials. celebrate inclusive Shabbat offer a Friday night social no doubt, is that first you millennial generation, is a on this generation’s unique Funders have also invested meals.” Since its founding, gathering, a musical program have to attract young people high priority for Jewish phi- historical experiences; the significantly in Moishe House, One Table has subsidized over or lecture series. Meeting in who tend to be suspicious of lanthropists. unprecedented disruption a network of some 58 houses 30,000 Friday night dinners. offbeat venues is part of the events that seem “too Jew- Some funders have banded in the job market created by scattered throughout the Younger Jews are also tak- allure. ish” or too similar to what an together to create new initia- new technologies that force United States offering pro- ing the initiative by founding Events designed for mil- older generation might prefer. tives, including free trips younger people to chart a new grams geared to millennials. dozens of startups designed to lennials usually are free or As a result, these funder- to Israel, with the express course and thereby extend Begun in 2006, Moishe House appeal to their peers. Often require only a modest admis- purpose of drawing members their “odyssey years”; and subsidizes rents for residents with the help of funders, start- sion fee. Participants attend Millennials on page 15A of this generation into Jewish the present cultural milieu, who organize everything from life. Others have gravitated which places a high value on Shabbat dinners and Purim to the so-called innovation individualism but disdains parties to social action activi- sector, supporting millennials anything resembling “tribal” ties and Jewish study circles. who dream up new programs allegiances Most participants, notes an to entice their peers into some In response to these de- observer, “are ‘not Jewish in form of Jewish participation. velopments, a number of the rest of their lives’ in the But for all the energy and the largest foundations with traditional sense. They may money expended on such pro- Jewish interests are investing not be celebrating holidays grams, one question remains heavily in initiatives designed on their own; they may not be unanswered: Will these efforts to kindle what in a previous attending Shabbat services at move people from shallow time was described as the a synagogue... Moishe House engagement to actively live “pintele yid,” the little flicker is the surrogate that provides a Jewish life or deepen their of Jewishness waiting to be these experiences for them.” knowledge? lit. The most ambitious—and OneTable, still another What fuels these efforts best-known—such effort is creation of funders, works are surveys showing that Birthright Israel, the 10-day to entice younger Jews to millennial Jews tend to be free trip to Israel. Since its attend Friday night Shabbat less affiliated with Jewish inception in 1999, it has sent dinners hosted by peers. Hav- institutions, less observant over 600,000 young people ing drawn positive reviews in of Jewish religious rituals and from around the globe at a such disparate publications as more distant from Israel than cost nearing the billion-dollar Vogue, The New York Times PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 The Jewish Pavilion—“United for a Purpose” Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and drinks at the Citrus A COMPREHENSIVE Club in downtown Orlando at 255 S. Orange Ave., 6-8 p.m. Parking: $5 after 5:30 p.m.; Event: What’s $15 ($20 at the door) COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT TUESDAY, APRIL 17 For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- Yom HaZikaron rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ APRIL 13 Congregation Beth Am—Pages & Pastries Book Club, 7 p.m. at Panera Bread on 434 across orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 7:32 p.m. from Publix at Springs Plaza. Info: 407-862-3505 fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern APRIL 20 Congregation Ohev Shalom—Celebrate a “post-tax deadline recess at Miller’s Ale House in Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 7:36 p.m. Winter Park Village, 1251 Lee Road, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info: Michael Asher, 407-401-3522. RSVP to Michael at [email protected] MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) Yom HaZikaron/ Israeli Memorial Day Ceremony—Remember Israel’s fallen soldiers and vic- Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, tims of terror at The Roth Family JCC, 7 p.m.—8 p.m. Sing-a-long after the ceremony. Email 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. [email protected] to reserve a spot. Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-644-2500. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- Temple Israel—Lunch & Learn with Rabbi Neely, noon—1 p.m. A parashat discussion class. 672-9300. Open to the public, no RSVP needed. Info: 407-647-3055. Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. Lunch and Learn—Enjoy lunch and particpate in an in-depth look at our earliest leaders from GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 the patriachs and Matriachs. Led by Rabbi Michoel Rennert of Orlando Torah Academy, and a.m. held at the Roth Family JCC, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. RSVP to [email protected] Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. A Nosh of Yiddish—Classes in Yiddish the third Wednesday of each month sponsored by the Jewish Pavilion, held at Oakmonte Village, Royal Gardens Cir., Lake Mary (Valencia Building), FRIDAY, APRIL 13 1 p.m. Info: 407-678-9363. Coffee and refreshments served. 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Congregation Beth Am—Mommy and Me class with Cantor Nina Fine, 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. $7 Reservations required: visit http://www.holocaustedu.org/events/all/heroes-of-the-holocaust/ per family; free for CBA members Info: 407-862-3505. Israeli Cooking with Idit—The Roth Family JCC, 7-9 p.m. Learn how to make easy and delec- table Israeli cuisine with the phenomenal Idit Lotringer. Supply fee $10 per person

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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 PAGE 7A Haley rebukes Assad over continued use of chemical weapons By Ben Cohen and the Obama administra- chemical weapons,” Haley and Saudi unease over US Minister Benjamin Netan- was not looking to set a spe- tion for Moscow to remove urged. “Not just to protect the President Donald Trump’s yahu “agreed to continue cific date for the withdrawal Amid uncertainty over the chemical weapons stockpiles Syrian people, but to protect pledge to withdraw US troops their close coordination on of the 2,000 American troops future direction of US policy in out of the Assad regime’s con- us all.” from Syria, where Iran and its countering Iran’s malign presently deployed in Syria. Syria, US Ambassador to the trol, dozens of deadly attacks Other State Department allies have become entrenched influence and destabilizing “We’re not going to imme- UN Nikki Haley issued a sting- using chemical weapons were officials echoed Haley’s con- in the wake of the extensive activities,” according to a diately withdraw but neither is ing rebuke on Wednesday to reported in Syria during 2016 demnation of the government defeats inflicted upon ISIS. White House statement. the president willing to back a President Bashar al-Assad’s and 2017, with at least three so in Damascus. “The Assad In a call on Tuesday, On Wednesday, a White long-term commitment,” the regime over its continued use far this year. regime has blatantly vio- Trump and Israeli Prime House official said that Trump official noted. of chemical weapons. Describing the Iranian lated the Chemical Weapons “We must not forget that and Russian-backed Assad Convention and UN Security while we sit here debating presidency as a “regime that Council resolutions, and no chemical weapons, there are uses chemical weapons practi- drumbeat of nonsensical This Yom HaAtzma’ut, people on the front lines in cally every other week,” Haley claims by either the regime Syria who are facing the terri- warned that “our lack of action or its protectors can hide celebrate red, white, and blue. fying reality of those heinous has consequences.” this truth,” State Department weapons,” Haley declared at “When we let one regime Spokesperson Heather Nauert a meeting of the UN Security off the hook, others take no- declared in a statement. Council marking the first an- tice,” she added, in a reference Nauert charged that “Rus- niversary of the massacre at to Russia’s alleged involve- sia continues to shield its Syr- Khan Sheikhoun in north- ment in the deadly use of a ian ally by openly impeding western Syria—in which 90 chemical nerve agent against international efforts to hold people were killed and hun- a former KGB officer in the UK the Assad regime responsible dreds more badly wounded on March 4. for these heinous attacks.” after Syrian Air Force planes “Even with all of the pro- Unease over Trump’s dropped a deadly nerve agent found divisions on this coun- pledge to withdraw from on rebel-held areas. cil, the United States refuses Syria Despite a September 2013 to believe that we cannot come Wednesday’s comments agreement between Russia together once again to stop came amid continuing Israeli

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He attempts Mystery”—landed the lead but mostly panned by critics to start his own show to prove role of John “J.D.” Dorian in following a limited release. the innocence of a convicted the hospital-based sitcom As he headed further down murderer. When that doesn’t “Scrubs.” “the directing path,” Braff pan out, Schuman decides to Along the way to starring realized something was miss- make the podcast about the in 175 episodes of the show, ing. process of starting a podcast which became one of the “I missed acting, I missed business—mirroring the arc most beloved comedies of the comedy,” he said. “And when of Blumberg’s “StartUp.” 2000s, Braff wrote and direct- this was put in my lap, it Of course, like most ABC ed “Garden State,” released in seemed perfect.” sitcoms, “Alex, Inc” mostly 2004. The indie dramedy film, “This” is a reference to deals with the ups and downs which also starred 23-year-old “Alex, Inc.,” an ABC sitcom of family life. There is a nar- Natalie Portman, established that premiered March 28 rator via voiceover, a happy the kid from South Orange, with Braff as its protagonist ending complete with warm New Jersey, as a promising and main star. The network fuzzy feelings in each episode ABC/Tony Rivetti director in addition to being gave the show a coveted slot, and the recurring theme that Zach Braff with Tiya Sircar, center, in a scene from “Alex, Inc.” a first-rate comic actor. on Wednesdays between “The fathers don’t always know But he surprisingly left Goldbergs” and “Modern Fam- best. “‘Family Ties’ was sup- “I grew up in North Jersey always wanted to do the after- “Scrubs” in 2009, while its ily” (that’s 8:30 p.m., if you The cast includes Tiya Sir- posed to be a star vehicle for and he would bring us in to dinner part, and we’d all say, ratings were still respectable. were wondering). car, whom many will know Meredith Baxter until this see Neil Simon plays and Mel ‘Oh, no. Not the after-dinner “When it’s something Braff plays Alex Schuman, from NBC’s hit comedy “The kid Michael J. Fox took over. Brooks movies. “I think there part, too.’” you’ve been doing for so long, a Jewish character based Good Place,” as Schuman’s [Henig] is going to be the next is a [comic] timing ingrained Judging by his enthusiasm well, I didn’t want to phone it on real-life Jewish podcast wife. Braff said that if the Michael J. Fox,” Braff said. in me, that New York sense of for the new project, Braff is in,” Braff said in an interview pioneer Alex Blumberg—a show is renewed for a second Braff is not religiously humor.” enjoying “Alex, Inc.” far more with JTA. “I was tired. I don’t former producer for NPR’s season, it will explore the observant, but he is aware of Braff attended Hebrew than his dad’s seders, despite mean to complain. It’s the best popular “This American dynamics of a mixed religious his distinctly “Jewish sense of school and was a bar mitzvah the hectic schedule. He di- job in the world, but you do Life” and “Planet Money” family. (Blumberg is married humor,” which he infuses into at Oheb Shalom Congrega- rected four of the 10 episodes. get burned out. I wanted to go podcasts. Blumberg gave up to Nazanin Rafsanjani, a fel- almost everything he works tion in South Orange. As “With kids in the mix out on a high note.” the relatively cushy world of low media producer who is on. He greeted JTA with a Passover approaches, he is and physical comedy, you’re After Braff quit the show, NPR—with its salary, health Asian, like Sircar.) cordial “Shalom.” reminded of his father’s love always racing. There’s no he largely vanished from benefits and paid time off—to Braff also reserved special “I was raised on Mel Brooks of the seder. down time,” he said. “There’s the mainstream film and start his own podcast com- praise for Elisha Henig, a and Woody Allen and Neil “My father could make a some behind-the-scenes video TV world. He performed in pany, Gimlet Media, in 2014. recent bar mitzvah who plays Simon. I totally inherited Passover seder longer than where I look like I’m schizo- theater on and off Broadway, Gimlet has spawned several Schuman’s son, Ben. that from my father,” he said. anyone else,” Braff said. “He phrenic.” A new study for cancer risk in Ashkenazi Jews aims to be a model for genetic testing By Josefin Dolsten was launched last week, will “We think it’s important in women, reast and prostate Memorial Sloan Kettering Ashkenazi women age 30 and test 4,000 men and women in because it will save lives,” Dr. in men. Those with Ashkenazi Cancer Center here. over should be screened for NEW YORK (JTA)—A new four U.S. cities—New York, Kenneth Offit, who is serv- Jewish roots are 10 times more “We think it’s a model for BRCA mutations. study will provide free test- Los Angeles, Philadelphia ing on the study’s executive likely to have a BRCA mutation the future of genetic testing Women with a BRCA mu- ing for three mutations that and Boston—for mutations in committee, told JTA earlier than the general population, in health care,” he said. tation have a risk as high substantially increase the risk the BRCA gene that are more this month. with one in 40 carrying a What’s new about the way as 80 percent of developing for developing breast, ovarian common among those with The BRCA gene is found in mutation in the gene. testing is conducted in the breast cancer and as high and prostate cancer among Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. all humans, but mutations But the study’s goal ex- BFOR study, Offit said, is as 40 percent of developing people with Eastern European Those who test positive for one can cause it to function tends beyond cancer or the fact that patients sign ovarian cancer. 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But 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena On Monday, April 16th at the Roth Family JCC in the Se- if, God forbid, by some remote eventuality, we run into some nior Lounge, there will be a special program, beginning at 1 trouble, please keep calm and don’t panic. You’ll find your life p.m. It is titled “Baycrest Hospital and Cogniciti Brain Health jacket under your seat and if you need to put it on, please wear Sudoku (see page 14 for solution) Workshop.” (Sounds truly informative!) it in the best of health. Thank you.” Netanyahu officially cancels African migrants deal announced and hours after same time, we will continue this month was put on hold the prime minister said he to seek additional solutions.” following the announcement would freeze the deal in order Under the agreement an- of the U.N. deal. to consult with members of his nounced earlier Monday with Israel had been scheduled to government coalition as well the U.N. High Commission begin deporting the migrants as the residents of southern for Refugees, Israel would next week under a plan and Tel Aviv, where many of the have allowed thousands of budget approved by the coun- migrants live. African migrants to stay in try’s Cabinet in January. The “In the past 24 hours, I the country on a temporary Supreme Court had frozen the have held many consultations residency permit for up to five deportations in mid-March with Interior Minister Aryeh years. The rest, some 16,000 after a petition filed by oppo- Deri, with professionals and or so, would have been settled nents, and had been waiting representatives of residents of in countries such as Canada, for the government to respond southern Tel Aviv,” Netanyahu Germany and Italy. to the petition. Israeli Prime Minister said Tuesday in his announce- The deal put Netanyahu According to the govern- Benjamin Netanyahu ment. “I listened attentively to under fire from several con- ment plan, migrants who had criticism of the agreement. As servative politicians, includ- chosen to leave by March 31 JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- a result, and after evaluating ing some in his own Likud would receive a payment of raeli Prime Minister Benjamin a new balance of advantages party. Naftali Bennett, head $3,500 as well as free airfare Netanyahu officially canceled and disadvantages, I decided of the right-wing Jewish and other incentives. an agreement made with the to cancel the agreement.” Home party, said the agree- The Prime Minister’s Office United Nations that would He also said: “Despite the ment would “turn Israel into said in a statement Monday have relocated thousands of growing legal and interna- a paradise for infiltrators.” that the original mass de- African asylum seekers to tional difficulties, we will It is not known what will portation plan was canceled Western countries. continue to act with deter- happen now to the up to “because of legal consider- The cancellation on Tues- mination to exhaust all the 40,000 African asylum seekers ations and political difficul- day afternoon came a day possibilities available to us to in Israel; an Israeli govern- ties on behalf of third-party after the agreement was first remove the infiltrators. At the ment plan to deport them countries.” PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 Daniel Bruhl talks about playing—surprise—a German bad guy in ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ War II movies. But it also years later and heard his terror group and final-status has to do with his interest in parents talking about the talks between two recognized playing out historical events. leftist groups. governments. In addition to films about “I just wanted to go back in The part that does feature World War II, the Entebbe time and dig a little bit further the Israeli army’s rescuers raid and the fall of the Ber- and get into the mindset of a focuses on an ambivalent lin Wall, Bruhl was in “The person who was taking the soldier and his girlfriend, a Carpenter’s Pencil,” about the decision to not only be po- dancer whose performances Spanish Civil War, as well as litically active, but to go that are, for some reason, inter- dramas set in Franco’s Spain extra step and be a radical spersed with scenes of the and 1970s Chile. His mother and join a mission in which a raid. (The choreography is by is Spanish. left-wing German terrorist is famed Israeli choreographer “I’m always interested in hijacking a plane with Jewish Ohad Naharin.) Yoni Netan- history,” he said. “It’s impor- passengers,” he said. “It’s still yahu plays a bit role in this tant to read about history, so unbelievable. That made version and is unceremoni- to analyze history, to also me curious to do some more ously killed as the operation understand where we are research.” is beginning. right now. I’m not Swedish “7 Days in Entebbe,” direct- The movie is most engaging or Finnish, or I’m not from ed by Brazilian José Padilha, as it explores the dilemmas of India, so being a German- departs from the traditional the Bruhl and Pike characters, Spanish actor, of course I’m narrative of Entebbe that’s whose dynamic—conflicted participating in projects been enshrined in Israeli lore. man and zealous woman that deal with the history “Operation Thunderbolt,” on a violent ideological mis- of my countries... I want to the 1977 movie about the sion—is familiar to any fan of understand where I come operation, tells a heroic saga “The Americans.” The movie Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Daniel Bruhl (l) was introduced to a broad American audience in “Inglorious Basterds.” from. This is what drives me.” starring Israeli soldiers. In humanizes them, telling He’s shown here in 2009 with co-stars Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. Bruhl does histori- that movie, and in the Israeli their backstories, showing cal research to prepare for popular imagination, the hero how they were trained and, By Ben Sales their German forebears are In “Entebbe,” he plays a those roles. For “Inglori- is Yoni Netanyahu, the brother ultimately, how they break clear. German bad guy grappling ous Basterds,” a revenge of the current Israeli prime down during the escalating (JTA)—In “7 Days in En- “Germans killing Jews,” an with how to avoid looking like fantasy that cared little for minister, who was killed in hostage crisis. But it’s hardly tebbe,” which hits theaters associate of his says. “Ever a Nazi. And in an interview historical accuracy (the movie the raid. ambiguous in judging them: on Friday, Daniel Bruhl plays thought about that?” At an- with JTA, Bruhl made clear has—spoiler alert!—a Jew But “Entebbe” alternates They are villains in this story. a German leftist terrorist other point, Bruhl’s character, that he doesn’t want those machine-gunning Hitler mainly between the hijackers For Bruhl, that’s not a tortured by the fact that he’s Wilfred Bose, insists, “I’m no roles to define him. in the face in 1944), Bruhl and an Israeli political drama problem. As with much of his hijacking a plane full of Jews Nazi.” “I’ve done so many differ- took courses with a sniper. centered on Yitzhak Rabin work, it’s another way to delve and taking them prisoner. That last line applies just as ent things,” he said. “Look- For “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” and Shimon Peres, who at the into history, however messy The movie, about the 1976 well to how Bruhl, who was ing back, there’s a body of a Holocaust drama based on time were prime minister and it may be. Israeli rescue operation that born in Spain and grew up in work which is very diverse. a true story, he and co-star defense minister, respectively. “That ongoing conflict freed the mainly Jewish and Germany, sees his career. The Fortunately, I can say I’ve Jessica Chastain met with the Much of the dialogue between is important, especially for Israeli hostages of a hijacked actor, 39, had his breakout role done many different things. titular zookeeper’s daughter. Peres and Rabin, who is younger generations, to take plane in Uganda, focuses on in the 2003 film “Goodbye, I wouldn’t have liked to be And for “Entebbe,” Bruhl played by Israeli A-lister Lior a step back, and look at the the conflicted experiences of Lenin!” about East Germany typecast and limited to that. read up on the German far- Ashkenazi, is a heavy-handed ‘70s, look at the situation back the two Germans—played by at the end of the Cold War, When I decided to take these left activists of the 1960s and discourse—performed in then,” he said. “It can help Bruhl and Rosamund Pike— and met American audiences parts it was always out of an 1970s, including Revolution- heavily accented English— you understand the current who allied with Palestinian six years later playing a Nazi interest in period projects, in ary Cells, the urban terrorist on the need to negotiate for situation a little bit better, terrorists to hijack the Paris- sniper in Quentin Tarantino’s history” group that conducted the peace. The end credits trace to remind yourself of the bound plane. Even as they “Inglourious Basterds.” He’s The multiplicity of Nazi Entebbe hijacking. He also the two men’s lives after positions of what historically, hold Jews at gunpoint, the two been cast as a Nazi, or a civil roles, Bruhl said, is a natural met with survivors of the raid. 1976 and note that the peace politically was behind such a insist they are “humanitar- servant under the Nazis, or a consequence of being a Ger- The period when the hijack- process is inactive now—as if mission... To not show an easy ian” activists fighting against supervillain from a Nazi fam- man actor in an industry that ing happened resonates for to draw a comparison between black-and-white picture of the fascism. But the parallels to ily, in at least five films. keeps churning out World Bruhl, who was born two a hostage negotiation with a conflict.” Hollywood executives offer support to Netflix after BDS movement asks it to scrap ‘Fauda’ (JTA)—More than 50 enter- gathering intelligence and series, praised “Fauda” for ing to Variety, were Rick It called on Israel to “nix” the legitimizes violent acts com- tainment industry executives preventing terror attacks. presenting a “nuanced por- Rosen, head of television at series, calling it “an anti-Arab mitted against Palestinians have signed a letter in support Fauda is an Arabic word trayal of issues related to the WME; Marty Adelstein, CEO racist, Israeli propaganda in the occupied Palestinian of Netflix, after the boycott, meaning “chaos.” The show Israeli/Palestinian conflict,” of Tomorrow Studios; Gary tool that glorifies the Israeli territory by Israeli army death divestment and sanctions incorporates both Arabic and Variety reported. The letter Ginsberg, executive vice military’s war crimes against squads—the so-called ‘Mis- movement against Israel Hebrew dialogue. It airs on also said that the show, “mir- president of corporate mar- the Palestinian people. Fail- taravim.’ The show’s writers, threatened a lawsuit over its Netflix with English subtitles. rors the power of the arts in keting and communications ing to do so will open Netflix who were members in these distribution of the Israeli Netflix is set to release the general; they bring up difficult of Time Warner Inc.; Jody to nonviolent grassroots units, have based the series drama series “Fauda.” second season of the series but important conversations, Gerson, chairman and CEO pressure and possible legal on the war crimes commit- The show focuses on a next month. expanding our horizons and of Universal Music Publishing accountability.” ted by these squads against commando unit of the Israeli The letter sent to Netflix’s allowing us to experience dif- Group; Neil Jacobson, presi- Specifically, the statements Palestinians.” Defense Forces whose mem- Ted Sarandos, chief content ferent points of view.” dent of Geffen Records; and demands that Netflix suspend The series was created by bers embed themselves in creator, and Peter Friedlander, Among the executives Ben Silverman, chairman and production of season three of Avi Issacharoff, the Arab af- the Palestinian community, vice president of original signing the letter, accord- co-CEO of Propagate Content. the series, refrain from releas- fairs reporter for the English- The BDS movement posted ing season two and remove language Times of Israel news a statement on its website last season one from its streaming website, and actor Lior Raz, week from the Palestinian service. who stars in the show. Both Campaign for the Academic The statement also said men served in the IDF unit and Cultural Boycott of Israel. that the series “promotes and depicted in the series.

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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu JewishCelebration.org; 407-566-9792. walked back an agreement Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, with the United Nations last 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. week to resettle abroad at least half of the African migrants Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- seeking asylum in his country, 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. it did not play well with the Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. majority of Israelis. jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; But don’t assume that Tomer Neuberg/Flash90 Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. means the public wants the African migrants protesting in Tel Aviv, June 10, 2017. migrants to stay in Israel, Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, pollsters warn. While most One such activist, Mai including Jews facing deporta- 321-777-2770. knocked Netanyahu for a lack Golan, told the Israeli news tion to concentration camps Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- of leadership, the Israeli public site Walla that the situation during the Holocaust, in her overwhelmingly rejects the in the neighborhood was advocacy work on behalf of 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat idea of granting residency to “unbearable.” the migrants. services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. all or most of the migrants. “It’s not the situation five “People risked their lives Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. “They are not ready to have years ago, it’s worse,” Golan to save Jews, and we as a betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. 40,000 people being recog- said. “The foreigners raised country are now saying we nized,” said Tamar Hermann, their noses, they got confi- don’t want to risk the tiniest Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. the academic director of the dence and they enjoy the aid demographic shift?” she told congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Guttmann Center for Public organizations that surround Haaretz. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Opinion and Policy Research them. They talk to us inap- When the migrants were Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. at the Israel Democracy Insti- propriately; the fear in the facing threats of deportation, tute, which has done surveys street increases.” Silverman helped lead an Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; on the issue. Those who are part of the initiative urging Israelis to Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. Hermann was referring to religious Zionist camp oppose shelter the asylum seekers in Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, the 40,000 or so Sudanese and settling the migrants for ideo- their homes. Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. Eritrean migrants who have logical reasons. They believe Hermann said the debate is made their way to Israel, often that as a Jewish state, Israel’s not only about the fate of the Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. to South Tel Aviv. While non- responsibilities do not extend migrants, but also touches bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. governmental organizations to the non-Jewish migrants, upon a larger question in Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation in Israel and Jewish and civil Hermann said. Israeli society. holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. rights group abroad consider In January, the Ashkenazi “The struggle is not only com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. them refugees, opponents chief rabbi of Israel, David Lau, about these 40,000 people,” regard them as “infiltrators” defended the government’s she said, “it’s about is Israel Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; who came to Israel for eco- announced plan to deport a liberal democracy acting www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. nomic reasons, not fleeing the migrants—originally along the lines of internation- Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., persecution. scheduled to be implemented al law or the code of conduct Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Israelis also ask why it this month—by distinguish- of liberal democracies—or is is their responsibility to ing between refugees and it another kind of a country, Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; solve problems originating economic migrants. for Jews and therefore those www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th in Africa, and question the “We have many people in who are not Jewish should not Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. economic and social impact the State of Israel who need be allowed to stay here for a Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. of absorbing the non-Jewish to be cared for – citizens of longer period of time unless migrants. the state,” he said. “I’m think- they have a very good reason.” Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- Over 70 percent of Jewish ing of the disabled, whom we Meanwhile, Netanyahu 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Israelis are against granting aren’t always able to support; earned scorn for what even Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- the migrants residency, Her- the Holocaust survivors living in Hebrew is described as a 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. mann estimated. However, amongst us – including some “zigzag” on the UN. deal that in that group some support in disgraceful conditions. And would have granted refugee Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for granting residency to those of I’m also talking about the status to about half the mi- services and holiday schedules. the migrants who qualify for residents of South Tel Aviv.” grants and resettled the rest Congregation Sinai (C/R), 303A N. S.R. 27, Minneola; 352-243-5353; congregation- official refugee status—but “Aside from all that,” Lau in Western countries. sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. under the assumption that the said, “we have to distinguish Fifty-six percent of Israelis number of recognized refu- between refugees and people described his move as “very Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- gees will be small, she said. looking for work.” bad” or “bad,” according to Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv Hermann said it is hard Hermann said that between a poll by Israel’s Channel 10. Please call for times. to estimate how many of the a fifth and a quarter of Jewish Another 23 percent described Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- group would actually qualify Israelis are on the left on the his handling of the agreement as refugees. issue, meaning they agree as “fair” and only 10 percent Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Among those on the right a solution must be worked said it was “very good,” with Temple Beth El (R), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-677-2484. of the migrant issue, mean- out that will allow migrants the rest saying they were not Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. ing they do not want to the to stay or that ensures their sure. migrants to settle in Israel, safety if they are sent else- Hermann said the decision Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat Hermann said there are two where. was viewed “very negatively” service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. groups that are the most vocal But among progressives even among those who had Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. in their opposition to allow- there is also a split, with some criticized Netanyahu for the mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; ing the migrants to settle: in support of allowing all the agreement because it was Thursday, 10:00 a.m. residents of South Tel Aviv asylum seekers to stay in the seen as an example of bad and religious Zionists. country, regardless of whether leadership. Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: Those two groups oppose they meet the international “People are wondering how Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. the asylum seekers for different standards for refugee status, does he make his decisions, Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. reasons. The South Tel Aviv- and others saying only those why didn’t he consult with ians say the migrants who have who can be classified as refu- his coalition partners earlier Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; moved there have brought gees should be allowed to stay. on,” she said. “They see it as Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. crime and significantly de- Rabbi Susan Silverman of a negative sign of his ability Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. teriorated conditions in the Jerusalem has drawn com- right now to deal with strate- low-income neighborhood. parisons to Jewish history, gic issues.” Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Road, Ormond Beach, 386-252-3097; Shabbat service, Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 10:30 a.m. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by OBITUARY Torah study. Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road ROBERT COHEN from Ohio State University, of Winter Springs, Fla; and 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Robert “Bob” Cohen, age he served in the U.S. Army grandchildren Jordan, Miles, p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. 86, of Lake Mary, passed away where he ran a M*A*S*H unit Rayna and Dara. Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. on Saturday March 31, 2018, in Korea. Bob was a longtime A memorial service was shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. at Oakmonte Village. He was pharmacist in Dayton and held at Oakmonte Village born Dec. 25, 1931, in Phila- following his retirement on April 2, 2018, with Rabbi Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, delphia, and was the only child volunteered many years at Maurice Kaprow officiating. 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, of the late Simon and Dora Hospice of Dayton. In lieu of flowers, the family 7:30 p.m. Garlikov Cohen. Bob is survived by his wife requests donations be made in Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. Bob grew up in Dayton, of 55 years, Helen; children Bob’s memory to the Michael tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. Ohio, and graduated from Steve (Michelle) of Dallas, J. Fox Foundation for Parkin- Fairview High School in Marlee (Lee Cutler) of Winter son’s Research or the Jewish (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa 1950. After his graduation Park, and Michael (Joanna) Pavilion (Orlando). PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 Arthur Miller’s daughter made an intimate HBO documentary about her father “In the beginning, I just wanted to get the stories down,” she said. In film school, though, Rebecca Miller won a prize for an unrelated project and was given reels of professional- grade 16 millimeter film. That made her “think of doing more formal interviews and turning it into a more serious film.” Rebecca eventually found a treasure trove of old family films dating back to the 1940s and added interviews with her two half-siblings, Robert and Jane (born to Miller’s first wife, Mary Slattery); Arthur’s older brother, Kermit, and his younger sister, Joan Cope- land; as well as with Jewish Arthur Miller Archive/Robert Miller/HBO playwright Tony Kushner and Arthur Miller’s tumultuous public and private lives are the late Jewish director Mike the subject of a new HBO documentary. Nichols. Inge Morath/The Igne Morath Foundation/Magnum Photos/HBO On its own, Arthur Miller’s Rebecca Miller filming her father. By Curt Schleier daughter conversation as it story has enough ups and is a summary of his life. It downs to pack far more plane engines, won multiple film, Miller says a play “is the of playwriting and his treat- (JTA)—“Arthur Miller: traces Miller’s story from his than the film’s 98 minutes. Tony Awards. process of approaching the ment at the hands of critics. Writer,” a lovingly crafted doc- childhood in New York City A lackluster student, Miller Miller followed that with unwitting, the unspoken and Miller never enjoyed super- umentary about the award- to his marriage to Marilyn took a job after high school “Death of a Salesman,” which the unspeakable.” Rebecca star success again. Among his winning playwright set to air Monroe to his run-in with the that required a 90-minute debuted in 1949 and is widely suggests that that sounds a lot subsequent plays were “Inci- on HBO, doesn’t reveal a lot notorious “anti-Communist” commute. He began reading considered one of the great like Kabbalah, and he agrees. dent at Vichy” (1964), about a of new information. A good House Un-American Activi- what he called “thick books” American plays of the last At the height of the Mc- group of men detained by Na- portion of the film involves ties Committee. on his way to work that awak- century. The protagonist Carthy era, Miller penned zis; “The Price”(1968), which Miller himself speaking from But the film also captures ened literary ambitions. At Willy Loman was based on “The Crucible,” a thinly veiled featured Gregory Solomon, a the audio version of his 1987 Miller in unguarded mo- the University of Michigan, one of the playwright’s uncles. indictment of the House Un- Yiddish-accented character; memoir, “Timebends: A Life.” ments, in his woodworking Miller twice won the school’s “There is an ongoing debate American Activities Commit- and “Broken Glass” (1994), And much has already been shop and in his garden with prestigious Hopwood Award on how Jewish the Lomans tee, using the Salem witch about a Jewish couple from written elsewhere about the his third wife, Inge Morath, for creative writing. While are,” Rebecca said. “They’re trials as backdrop. (The com- Brooklyn set around the time tumultuous life of the Jewish who was Rebecca’s mom and a there, he met and married Jewish if you want them to mittee later found him guilty of Kristallnacht. author who gave us classics noted photographer. Rebecca Slattery, a lapsed Catholic. be Jewish. Certainly they were of contempt of Congress when In the film, Rebecca is able such as “Death of a Salesman” follows him through these “She wanted an intellec- based on his own family.” he refused to out fellow artists to bring out a warmth and and “The Crucible,” and spent moments, asking questions tual and Jewish artist, and I Asked in the documentary as communists. He received honesty from her father—he much of the 1950s in the that search for the secrets wanted America,” Miller says if he was Jewish, Miller re- a suspended prison sentence was hardened by public public eye. behind his creative process. in the film. sponds, “Absolutely Jewish. and was fined $500.) In 1956, scrutiny and decades of wan- But the film succeeds at fill- In a phone conversation, The newly married Millers But I inherited from my father he married Marilyn Monroe, ing critical relevance—that ing the gaps between Miller’s Rebecca Miller told JTA that moved to New York, where the attitude of being American who converted to Judaism. a stranger might not have public and private lives, paint- though she wanted to be a his first Broadway effort, more than being a Jew.” They divorced in 1961, and elicited. The viewer can hear ing a fuller and more nuanced filmmaker growing up, her “The Man Who Had All the That was typical of his Monroe died of an overdose her say things such as “OK, portrait of one of the 20th sessions with her father, which Luck,” had none, closing after generation of American Jews, little over a year later. Pops, you’re on” while filming. century’s most celebrated began over two decades ago, six performances. Miller’s who hoped to assimilate, Three years after Monroe’s “[His] public persona is writers. That’s probably in started as more of a fam- fortunes changed in 1947 Rebecca noted. But she also death, Miller reunited with so different from the man I large part because the film’s ily project than a potential with the debut of “All My said she had heard Miller’s Kazan for “After The Fall,” a knew,” she said. “I felt I was director is Rebecca Miller, film. (These days, she is a Sons,” his initial collabora- great-grandfather was a rabbi. roman a clef that re-created the only filmmaker he would Arthur’s daughter. respected indie filmmaker and tion with director Elia Kazan. His mother kept kosher at his life with Monroe. It was let close enough.” The movie, which pre- author, and is married to the The play, which involved a home until she developed a savaged by reviewers. When “Arthur Miller: Writer” mieres March 19, is as much Oscar-winning actor Daniel company that knowingly “taste for bacon.” In one of talking about the play in the debuted at 8 p.m. March 19 a warm and intimate father- Day-Lewis.) manufactured defective air- their last conversations in the film, Miller laments the future on HBO. Bill Clinton admits quiet campaign against Netanyahu during the 1996 election By Alex Traiman upset, in what was seen by Richard N. Haass, then-direc- many as a rejection of the Oslo tor of foreign-policy studies (JNS)—In an interview, peace process. at Brookings Institution, former U.S. President Bill Clinton additionally noted said that the Clinton team Clinton admitted that he tried that when the newly elected was being too careful about to help former Israeli Prime Netanyahu visited him for the making their preference for Minister Shimon Peres defeat first time in the White House, Israeli prime minister too Benjamin Netanyahu during “Bibi” (as Clinton referred to overt. “They tilted heavily Israel’s elections in 1996, just him in the interview) “wanted the last time toward Shimon a year after the assassination me to know that he knew I Peres, and it clearly didn’t of Israeli Prime Minister wasn’t for him, and he beat help,” he said. “They realized Yitzhak Rabin. us anyway.” it would be counterproductive Clinton stated in an inter- Yet Clinton acknowledged to make the same mistake as view on Israel’s Channel 10 the reality that his efforts had last time.” news that it “would be fair to failed: “You know, I realized Yet the same article notes say” that he assisted in the that he was now the leader of that three Clinton advis- process to elect Shimon Peres, the country, and if I wanted ers—James Carville, Rob- adding that “I tried to do it to support the peace process, I ert Shrum and Stanley Bill Clinton with Benjamin Netanyahu. in a way that didn’t overtly had to find a way to work with Greenberg—were working involve me.” him. I wasn’t so much angry as for Barak during the 1999 gist John McLaughlin stated: V15 against Prime Minister [Mahmoud] Abbas,” said He explained his motiva- just bemused by the brashness campaign, with Carville “What was not well reported Netanyahu.” Clinton. tion in supporting Peres, stat- with which he played his hand. stating while in Barak’s Tel in the American media is In this week’s Channel 10 “Now, the coalition that ing: “I did try to be helpful to But that’s who he is. He did a Aviv “war room” that “I’m that President Obama and his interview, Clinton noted that Prime Minister Netanyahu him because I thought he was very good job of it.” all for aggressive neutrality. allies were playing in the elec- Netanyahu’s approach to the heads, I think they believe that more supportive of the peace The Clinton administra- As for the president, well, tion to defeat Prime Minister peace process changed during the Palestinians are too weak process. And I tried to do it tion has also been accused of all politicians have personal Netanyahu.” his current consecutive terms to cause them any trouble. in a way that was consistent working to defeat Netanyahu preferences, of course.” “There was money mov- in office since 2009, due to And the security seems to be with what I believed to be in Is- during Israel’s 1999 gen- President Barack Obama ing that included taxpayer new realities that did not exist working,” he maintained. rael’s interest, without saying eral elections, in which Ehud is also accused of working U.S. dollars, through non- during Netanyahu’s first term Clinton added his hopes anything about the difference Barak defeated Netanyahu by to have Netanyahu defeated profit organizations,” said between 1996 and 1999. that a peace agreement may in domestic polices, without a large margin. during the 2015 election McLaughlin. “And there “By the time prime minister be reached, saying “I still hope anything else.” In a New York Times article campaign. An article from The were various liberal groups Netanyahu got back in office, that some day, if some decent Despite Clinton’s under- titled “White House is quietly Hill in 2015 cites an interview in the United States that the security situation was accommodation could be the-radar efforts, Netanyahu pro-Barak” published in the on New York’s 970 AM Radio, were raising millions to markedly better on the West reached, that Israel would be defeated Peres in a narrow middle of the 1999 campaign, in which Republican strate- fund a campaign called Bank because of President even more prosperous.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA Clarence Thomas’ wife National Basketball Associa- with Edelstein giving the establishment in Syria. athletes, and put its athletic Fox, 64, strengthened the says Jews ‘gave up their tion, missed his opportunity keynote address. The Israeli military re- director on administrative organization’s governance, firearms to Hitler’ to light a torch in the April Tamar Zandberg, chair- portedly struck Syrian mili- leave. renewed its financial stability WASHINGTON (JTA)— 18 ceremony. woman of the left-wing tary targets twice during Several students filed and built up its senior leader- The wife of Supreme Court Casspi had been asked but Meretz party, in a letter to December and once during “serious discrimination com- ship team, the CCAR said in a Justice Clarence Thomas declined because his team, Culture Minister Miri Regev, January, but did not confirm plaints” last year against statement. shared a Facebook post the Golden State Warriors, said including Hernandez in the reports. Israel reportedly the coach, Brian Meehan, He also oversaw the cre- blaming the Holocaust in would not release him at the the ceremony is a “scandal- has carried out dozens of Brandeis President Ron Li- ation of the CCAR Lifelong part on gun control and at- start of the playoffs to attend. ous decision that legitimizes airstrikes on Syria’s army and ebowitz said in a letter Learning/Continuing Profes- tacking survivors of the high On Sunday, hours after the a president responsible for its allies since 2011. Thursday. The complaints sional Education program, school shooting in Parkland, list of torch lighters was an- gross violations of human Does QB Josh Rosen alleged “preferential and which provides Torah and Florida. nounced, Casspi was cut by rights in his country, solely want to play in NY over discriminatory treatment, professional development The post was one of sev- the Warriors. to provide an excuse for Ne- Cleveland because there unprofessional behavior, and classes to Reform rabbis. He eral identified by The Hill on The following day, the tanyahu to attend as well.” are more Jews? racially biased harassment,” developed major new streams Monday as posted by Virginia president of Honduras, Juan Hernández was to have lit (JTA)—Top NFL quarter- according to the letter of funding to expand these and Thomas. They registered Orlando Hernandez, can- the torch at the April 18 cer- back prospect Josh Rosen After a new complaint was other CCAR programs. strong disagreement with celed a trip to Israel and emony along with a Foreign would prefer playing in New brought last week against The statement noted that gun control while criticiz- his participation in the Ministry official representing York rather than Cleveland Meehan, he was placed on CCAR Press, the publishing ing the survivors of the torchlighting ceremony fol- its Agency for International because of its larger Jewish administrative leave, the arm of the organization, has Marjory Stoneman Douglas lowing accusations by the Development Cooperation, or community, two ESPN radio complaints were investigated grown during Fox’s tenure. High shooting in February chairwoman of the left-wing Mashav, program. Hernández shows suggested. and he was fired. The players After a period of seven years that killed 17 students and Meretz party that his country graduated from a Mashav The radio discussions were had taken their complaints in which only one book was faculty members. is guilty of gross violations enrichment course in 1992 first highlighted by The Big to the university’s human published, CCAR Press now “To all the kids that walked of human rights. Hernandez at the beginning of his dip- Lead, a Gannett sports blog. resources department in May maintains a publishing pro- out of school to protest guns,” had confirmed his participa- lomatic career. Stephen A. Smith, speak- 2017, Deadspin reported. gram of six to 12 books a year. said the post, which featured tion in the Mount Herzl event Hernandez’s participation ing Wednesday on his ESPN “No one at Brandeis should “It is with mixed emotions a photograph of a pile of last week. in the torchlighting would show, discussed comments ever have to experience dis- that I announce my plans to shoes of Holocaust victims. Israelis lighting torches have mandated that Netan- earlier this month by Rosen’s crimination or harassment retire from the CCAR in 2019,” “These are the shoes of Jews include singer-songwriter yahu be present. Tradition- former coach at UCLA, Jim from any other member of Fox said. “We have accom- that gave up their firearms Shlomo Artzi; stage actress ally, the highest-ranking Mora. The coach told the this community,” Liebowitz plished much in these years to Hitler. They were led into Leah Koenig; Gen. (Res.) government official at the NFL Network that if he wrote. “The university is together. Now is the moment gas chambers, murdered and Yeshayahu “Shaike” Gavish, annual Yom Haatzmaut eve were running the Cleveland committed to responding for the CCAR leadership to buried in mass graves. Pick chairman of the Palmach Vet- ceremony is the speaker of Browns, he would take USC promptly, vigorously, and consider the future direction up a history book and you’ll erans Association; paralym- the Knesset. According to quarterback Sam Darnold effectively once notified of of the Conference, to affirm realize what happens when u pic gold medalist Noam Ger- protocol, the presence of a over Rosen. Mora said it was any act of discrimination our mission in bold new ways, give up freedoms and why we shony; Racheli Ganot, CEO of foreign president at an offi- “because of fit” and cited or harassment, and forbids to assert our leadership role have them.” Rachip, a high-tech company cial state ceremony obligates Darnold’s “blue-collar, gritty retaliation against any in- in the Reform Movement and Thomas, herself a promi- that employs haredi Ortho- the attendance of the prime attitude.” dividual who comes forward broader community, and to nent conservative activist, dox women; Zeev Revach, a minister. Smith said Wednesday that with a good-faith complaint.” consider new avenues to add was sharing the image from Moroccan-born comedian, Israel accused of attack Mora “may have been doing In one incident, Meehan value to our members’ lives, the page of an acquaintance movie actor and director; on Syrian military base it to dissuade the Cleveland told a black player, “I’ll ship focusing on all rabbis no mat- who died recently. “This post linguist Avshalom Kor; Mar- that killed 14 Browns from picking him be- you back to Africa,” according ter where or how they serve, from his page is amazing,” galit Zinati, the only Jewish JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rus- cause Josh Rosen, according to Deadspin. with a new Chief Executive to she wrote. resident of the Druze village sia accused Israel of striking to my sources, would prefer A day later, on Friday, the lead at the helm.” The notion that Jews may of Pekiin; Sheikh Mowafak an air base in central Syria to be in New York. He’s Jew- university placed its athletic A search committee has have prevented the Holocaust Tarif, spiritual leader of Is- that killed 14, and two un- ish, there’s a stronger Jewish director, Lynne Dempsey, on been appointed to find Fox’s had they been armed, popular rael’s Druze community; bio- named U.S. officials report- community, he’d rather be in administrative leave, Liebow- successor. in some pro-gun circles, has technical researcher Marcelle edly confirmed that it was the New York market than itz announced. The Boston- Fox’s announcement comes been debunked by histori- Machluf; mathematician Israel that carried out the the Cleveland market, blah, area school—a Jewish-spon- less than a month after the ans, who have noted how Aviezri Fraenkel; and May attack. blah, blah. We don’t know, sored, nonsectarian research announcements that the outnumbered Jews were in Korman, 15, who patented Iranian nationals were but it’s some of the things university—also hired two CEOs of the Conservative countries in which they were an idea to prevent children among those killed in the that we’ve heard.” attorneys to conduct an in- movement’s rabbinic and con- slaughtered. from being left alone in cars. early Monday morning mis- The hosts of ESPN’s morn- dependent investigation of gregational umbrella groups Other posts shared by Honduras president sile strikes, according to ing show in Los Angeles— the university’s policies and are stepping down. Thomas accused Parkland cancels participation in reports. Keyshawn Johnson, Jorge procedures in the case. Ronald Lauder disavows survivors of being “stupid,” of torchlighting ceremony The strikes came less than Sedano and LZ Grander- Liebowitz said he was anti-Muslim videos of a being manipulated by adults, for Israel’s 70th two days after a chemical son—had suggested a day disturbed to learn about the group he gave $11 mil- and of manipulating the JERUSALEM (JTA)—The weapons attack in the rebel- earlier that Rosen would be student-athletes’ frustra- lion deaths of their fellow students president of Honduras can- held Syrian town of Douma, more comfortable in New tions as they worked through WASHINGTON (JTA)— and teachers to advance their celed a trip to Israel and his for which both the United York because his father is a the system of filing the Ronald Lauder, a leading Jew- agenda. participation in the torch- States and France threatened doctor and he comes from a complaints and waited for a ish philanthropist, disavowed Mayim Bialik will not lighting ceremony at the to retaliate. At least 40 people more affluent background. resolution. the anti-Muslim videos of light a torch for Israel’s annual Independence Day have died in the chemical “When you talk about his “They found our processes a beneficiary organization, Independence Day after ceremony amid calls for the weapons attack. religion, I believe Josh is moved slowly and opaquely, saying he had contributed all invitation to be rescinded. NBC on Monday quoted the Jewish. New York. Big Jew- and ultimately inadequately,” because the group opposed JERUSALEM (JTA)—First Juan Orlando Hernandez U.S. officials as saying that ish community. Much like he said in a second letter the Iran nuclear deal. basketball star Omri Casspi withdrew on Monday follow- Israel had carried out the L.A.,” one host said. “People to the campus community. “Mr. Lauder donated to and the president of Hon- ing the rescission calls over attack, and that Washington gravitate to people like them, “Anyone accused of com- Secure America Now to sup- duras. Now actress Mayim accusations of gross viola- had been notified in advance. all I’m saying.” mitting an offense on this port their work in opposition Bialik. tions of human rights in his Syria first blamed the Another host added: “If campus—student, faculty, or to the Iran nuclear deal,” Israel’s annual Indepen- Central American country. United States for the attack he is an observing Jewish staff member—is entitled to a spokesman for the World dence Day celebration on Hernandez had confirmed his on the air base, which the U.S. individual who is embraced a fair investigation and due Jewish Congress president Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, participation in the Mount denied. After Russia accused by the local community, that process. This can take time. said Monday in an email to whose torchlighting cer- Herzl event last week. Israel, Syrian state media will certainly raise his ball” In this case, the process did JTA. “He had nothing to do emony is a highlight of the Saying the Honduras lead- quoted the military saying The hosts looked up the not work the way it should with any of the group’s other country’s civic calendar, er would not be attending, that it was Israeli F-15 war cities with the largest Jewish have for the students who activities. Mr. Lauder has has been beset by a number Israel’s Foreign Ministry said planes that had carried out community and Cleveland filed complaints. This can- consistently supported inter- of high-profile cancellations in a statement that it “regrets the strikes. did not appear in their top not and should not happen faith respect and dialogue. He and almost-cames. his not coming and welcomes “The Israeli aggression on 10 despite its some 80,000 again.” would never be involved with Bialik had made a pitch to the friendship between the the T4 airport was carried members. A communitywide town insulting people of faith.” light a torch as the represen- two countries.” out with F-15 planes that The quarterback’s father hall meeting was scheduled Open Secrets, an elections tative of Diaspora Jewry in a Some reports said that fired several missiles from is Charles Rosen, a noted for Monday afternoon. watchdog, published an in- Facebook post. Hundreds of Hernandez had reconsidered above Lebanese land,” state Jewish orthopedic surgeon. Meehan was the win- vestigation last week that her followers reportedly sent his participation due to the news agency SANA said. The His mother, Liz Lippincott, is ningest coach in Brandeis identified Lauder and Robert nominations to the Diaspora criticism of his government, Tiyas, or T4, military air base Quaker and is the great-great- history, going 205-160 in Mercer, a reclusive hedge Affairs Ministry. while others said he was reportedly has been in use granddaughter of Joseph his 15 years guiding the fund billionaire, as the main But when she was chosen, reconsidering due to the most recently by Iran-backed Wharton, who founded the program, including an ap- donors to the group Secure she discovered that she would political controversy be- forces. prestigious Wharton busi- pearance in the Division III America Now in 2016, when not be able to attend due to tween Israeli Prime Minister Israel, as is its standing ness school at the University Final Four. it ran anti-Muslim ads that the shooting schedule for the Benjamin Netanyahu and policy, has neither confirmed of Pennsylvania. Leader of Reform move- appeared to target voters in popular television series “The the speaker of the Knesset, nor denied involvement in the A 2014 profile noted that ment’s rabbinical arm swing states just prior to the Big Bang Theory,” where she Yuli Edelstein. Edelstein had attack. Moscow reportedly Rosen became a bar mitzvah to retire presidential election. plays nerdy neuroscientist threatened to lead a boycott of has called on Israel to clarify and attends seder every Pass- (JTA)—Rabbi Steven A. Mercer, a major backer of Amy Farrah Fowler. the ceremony by the Knesset; its involvement. over, but he also celebrates Fox, the head of the Central Donald Trump’s presidential For the second year in a he said he was protecting a In February, the Israeli Christmas and he called Conference of American Rab- run, gave Secure America row, the Ministerial Com- tradition by which only the Air Force downed an Iranian himself “kind of an atheist.” bis, will retire next year. Now $2 million and Lauder mittee for Ceremonies and Knesset speaker, as the head drone that came from the Brandeis fires men’s Fox and CCAR President donated $1.1 million. The Symbols asked for nomina- of a body meant to represent Tiyas base in airspace over basketball coach for dis- David Stern made the an- group, headed by Allen Roth, tions of a Diaspora Jew to all Israelis, gives an address. northern Israel, and followed criminatory behavior nouncement on Monday. Fox a longtime adviser to Lauder, light a torch. Now that Bialik On Sunday, a compromise the infiltration by attacking (JTA)—Brandeis Univer- will leave in June 2019 after garnered over $8.27 million has declined, there will be no reportedly was reached that 12 targets in Syria, including sity has fired its men’s bas- 13 years as CEO. that year. Diaspora torch lighter. would have Netanyahu light- three aerial defense batteries ketball coach for alleged CCAR is the rabbinic arm It’s not clear how much Meanwhile, Casspi, the ing a 13th torch and giving a and four Iranian targets that discriminatory and racist of the Reform movement, the first Israeli to play in the short speech at the ceremony, are part of Iran’s military behavior toward student- largest in America. JTA on page 14A PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 election, and which were with the candidate’s views on to distribute the videos, but Federal Elections Commis- the Iran nuclear deal, which JTA parody travelogues depicting restricting immigration and did not explain how it came sion and $124,000 to the swapped sanctions relief for From page 13A Muslim takeovers of France, the perceived threat from up with that amount. Internal Revenue Service. The a rollback in Iran’s nuclear the United States and Ger- Muslims. Secure America Now reason for the discrepancy is program. However, the deal Secure American Now paid many. Bloomberg News said reported vastly different not clear. was wrapped up by 2015, and for the videos, which popped The ads may have been last year that Facebook and amounts in election-related Secure America Now, as much of the campaigning by up in social media feeds in aimed at spurring turnout by Google competed for “mil- spending, according to Open Lauder’s spokesman noted, groups opposed to the deal swing states just before the pro-Trump voters who agreed lions” of dollars in ad money Secrets: $1 million to the also campaigned against occurred before that time.

JCRC From page 1A building bridges within and area from Atlanta, where she social studies teachers on service and passion for this Both women are passionate outside our own community,” began her law career. She the topics of teaching the community is inspiring, and advocates, and will be great departure as co-chair in an- said Porth. “Today it is even lives in Winter Park with Arab-Israeli conflict, teaching while she has left us big shoes leaders for our community.” ticipation of her upcoming more important that minority her husband, Ben, and their religion in the classroom, and to fill, I am optimistic about Follow @OrlandoJCRC on move to Massachusetts with communities bond and sup- daughter, Nora. environmental cooperation in the future of JCRC and our Facebook and Twitter. If you her husband, Eli. After many port each other and we work Gerber, an educator for 18 the Middle East. She lives in community,” said Zaltsberg. are interested in joining the years of service to the Federa- to unify and strengthen our years, is currently working Altamonte Springs with her On the future of JCRC, Porth Jewish Community Relations tion, the JCRC, and the entire Jewish community.” as an educational trainer for husband, Doug, and their two commented, “Advocating for Council, or would like to re- Jewish Community, the Porths Zaltsberg, an attorney The Institute for Curriculum daughters Jacqui and Lila. issues of importance to our port an issue for the JCRC to are moving to be closer to their practicing in the area of Services where she travels “I have learned so much Jewish community is vital to address, you can reach Ben children and grandchildren. disaster recovery with Baker across the Southeast region from Ina since joining her the work that we are entrusted Friedman, JCRC director, “I have always felt the need Donelson, grew up in Orlando of the country, leading pro- as co-chair of JCRC. Her to do. I leave all in the good at 407-645-5933 ext. 233 or to build relationships by and recently returned to the fessional development for unwavering commitment to hands of Michelle and Dori. [email protected]. Iceland From page 1A Iceland last year. “If you try Iceland is “great news,” said ing the import of kosher meat thanks to the support of the edent. Nordic countries will to explain that the Nazis also Mike Levin, a Chicago native through local distributors. large and populist Party for somehow look one to another according to polls, and is ex- banned it, it comes across as who is the unofficial leader They represent a Hasidic Freedom—an anti-Islam and it will open the door.” pected to pass when brought exaggerated.” of the Jewish community of movement with a mission to movement. Ultimately the law In Denmark, a petition to a vote at a date that has yet To Sigal Har-Meshi, an Iceland. Judaism is not among build Jewish communities in was scrapped by the Dutch favoring a milah ban has re- to be determined. Israel-born mother of three Iceland’s recognized state sometimes unlikely places. Senate. Last year in Belgium, ceived 68 percent of its target This is part of the rea- boys who has been living in religions, so there is no way of Levin, a carpenter in train- shechitah was banned in two of 50,000 signatures. Once the son that leaders of Euro- Iceland for 14 years, “it’s an gaining official status for his ing who recently sold his of the country’s three regions target number is reached— pean Jewry view the bill insult,” she told JTA at a chic community. A group of a few popular catering firm for with similar alliances. organizers have until August as a dangerous precedent café near Reykjavik’s univer- dozen people without a syna- offices, said he is also “happy In Sweden, where progres- to collect signatures—the amid a two-pronged attack sity. “It’s my country telling gogue, they celebrate Jewish to be relieved” of the duties sives have spoken out for years petition will go up for a vote on fundamental customs of me and my husband we are not holidays and events together that come with leading a small against ritual circumcision, a as a draft resolution in the Judaism and Islam—includ- only barbarians, but criminals at hotels, restaurants, picnics Jewish community, with the draft motion against it was sub- Danish parliament. ing circumcision and ritual just because I’m Jewish.” and at each other’s homes. usual bickering and logistical mitted to parliament in 2013 Stopping short of calling slaughter of animals, which At the same time, she shares Some years, community problems they entail. by a far-right, anti-Islam party. the proposed ban in Iceland already is illegal in Iceland. As the reservations of many Jew- members brought leavened A follower of Conservative Iceland for the first time is a form of anti-Semitism, European nationalists hostile ish mothers with regard to bread to get-togethers on Judaism with cantorial skills, seeing the arrival of relatively Baker said, “We have ac- to Islam or Judaism target circumcision. Passover, when the consump- Levin said he never really large numbers of Muslims— knowledged the kind of public such customs, so do secular- “It’s pretty shocking, I don’t tion of such food is forbid- sought to become the national asylum seekers and other discourse that accompanies ists and progressives who find feel 100 percent comfortable den, Levin and Har-Meshi leader of a Jewish community. immigrants, often from the these debates”—a reference the rituals intolerably cruel. with it, either,” said Har- recalled. But other events “But someone had to do war-torn Middle East. to an anti-Semitic caricature In the rest of Europe, the Meshi, a successful jeweler were supervised by visiting it,” he said. “This comes with some ten- that appeared in 2013 in a debate about such bans is who first came to Iceland as rabbis from Chabad, who The proposed ban on cir- sions,” Har-Meshi said. Norwegian paper, among informed by the continent’s a tourist in 1986 and married imposed a strictness that was cumcision, though, risks un- Still, xenophobia appears to other materials. sad history of centuries of a local non-Jew. Her teenage foreign and unwelcome at this doing decades of community have had a negligible role in Occurring simultaneously virulent anti-Semitism. sons suffered taunts at school highly secularized commu- building, Levin said. Iceland’s bill on circumcision, with efforts to ban ritual “In Iceland there isn’t and “don’t feel comfortable nity, where the Feldmans are “It definitely doesn’t feel which lawmakers from four slaughter, the campaigns to this awareness” because the showering in public” in a the only observant members. good. It sends a bad message,” political parties introduced in ban circumcision in Iceland country never had more than country that had fewer than Unlike the mink whale meat he said. January. Together, the parties and Denmark are the latest a few dozen Jews, according 20 nonmedical circumcisions that is sold here in many su- The leaders of the Jewish account for 46 percent of the development in an escalation to Hannah Jane Cohen, a of boys since 2007, she added. permarkets and restaurants, communities of four Nordic parliament’s 63 seats. that occurred in 2012, when Jewish-American journalist Against this backdrop, the kosher meat is nowhere to be countries warned in a joint Seeking a prison sentence a German court in Cologne from New York who moved to arrival of a Chabad rabbi to found in Iceland. But it does statement that a ban “will of up to six years on offend- ruled that ritual circumci- have world-famous kosher guarantee” that no Jewish com- ers regardless of where the sion of minors amounted to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 O A T H R O S Y C H A V A fish, most notably salmon. It munity is established in Iceland underage circumcision is a criminal act of child abuse. 14 15 16 was the main course at one and make it “the only country performed, the bill equates The ruling triggered tempo- R U S E A N T E H A S I D of the largest Passover seders to ban one of the most central, the practice with female rary bans in Austria and Swit- 17 18 19 in the island nation’s history: if not the most central rite in genital mutilation, calling zerland but was overturned. A D A R A S E A E C H A D 20 21 22 a gathering of 100 last week the Jewish tradition in modern both human rights violations. Seen in this context, it’s L I R A N E W S H E K E L at a local hotel, followed by a times.” The Feb. 13 statement Circumcision, the bill also easy to understand why Jewish 23 24 25 second seder for 50 people. also noted how the Nazis im- says, places subjects at an communities are up in arms L S A T T A R E 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 “On a community level, it posed bans on circumcision. elevated risk of infection and over the bill in Iceland, Baker J O R D A N I S R A E L will give us representation Iceland, however, is hardly causes “severe pain.” said in an address in Vienna 33 34 35 36 37 38 to the outside world,” Levin the only European country “It’s concerning the com- on Feb. 20. He also noted A N A D A N C E R S U R E 39 40 41 said of the Feldmans’ arrival. where Jewish circumcision, or munity in Denmark,” An- that the audience for his talk F A B T S A G A P “Recognition. And perhaps milah, and ritual slaughter, or drew Baker, the personal outnumbered Iceland’s Jewish 42 43 44 45 46 also state funding, visibility, shechitah, are being attacked. representative on combating population, drawing chuckles. F I B T S H I R T O U S E 47 48 49 50 a synagogue, a Jewish kin- A law banning shechitah anti-Semitism for the Or- “So here we are,” he said, A R A B I C H E B R E W dergarten.” passed in the Netherlands ganization for Security and “fighting for the protection 51 52 53 The Feldmans said they in 2011. Tellingly, it was Cooperation in Europe, said in of an element of religious A C U T S E L L 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 are looking into opening a submitted by the ultra-pro- February during a symposium practice on behalf of frankly F O E S F R E N E M I E S Chabad house and synagogue. gressive and small Party for in Vienna on anti-Semitism. a handful of people who may 61 62 63 64 In parallel, they are negotiat- the Animals, but it passed “They fear it will set a prec- themselves never exercise it.” I N C H F O R A O G R E S 65 66 67 R A K E E P I C R E A R S 68 69 70 E N O S D E C K E S S E N Soldiers From page 1A Edmonds said, “You can shoot and what it was like to serve me, but you will have to shoot in the war as Jews,” Jewish anti-Semitic slurs from their all of us, and when the war filmmaker Lisa Ades told JTA. peers. In one case, a Jewish comes to an end you will be “I felt this was a story that had Marine chaplain assigned to tried as a war criminal.” never been told. When you accompany combat units was The commandant turned think about Jews in World asked to conduct an interfaith and walked away, and Ed- War II, you think of them as service following the battle of monds was subsequently victims.” Iwo Jima—until his fellow the first American soldier The story had been told chaplains objected, forcing recognized at Yad Vashem before, by historian Deborah the military to conduct three as a Righteous Among the Dash Moore (a senior adviser separate services. Nations. on the film) in her 2004 book, Some friendships formed The documentary is timely also titled “GI Jews,” but Ades across religious lines. The as anti-Semitism is on the rise saw an opportunity to bring film recounts the story of throughout the world, but it it to a larger audience. She Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, came about by chance. began filming five years ago. a senior noncommissioned “I was actually working “We had to get these stories officer in a German prisoner on another documentary on tape while the veterans of war camp. When the camp [where] I had interviewed were still alive,” Ades said. commander ordered all the Jewish veterans and I started “They were grateful. They Master Sgt. Roddie Ed- Jews to step forward, he to hear stories about the anti- never had a chance to tell their monds was honored by Yad refused to allow it. Semitism they’d experienced stories before. They were ready Vashem for sticking up for “We are all Jews,” he said. in barracks when they went to talk about them, finally Jewish soldiers at a German Threatened with a gun, [to Army camps] down south, after all these years.” POW camp. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, APRIL 13, 2018 PAGE 15A new peace plan. This is in spite he reportedly got there was idea “return”—synonymous persist in their century-old The Saudi peace initiative is Tobin of the fact that, like those a Saudi demand that Abbas with Israel’s destruction—as war on Zionism, then they a dead letter not because Israel From page 4A plans that have preceded it accept what the United States the keynote of Palestinian can do it without any help said no to it, but because the from previous administra- was offering in terms of a demands. from the Saudis. Palestinians still won’t recog- to incite hate against Israel tions, this effort to achieve two-state solution. They even So when MbS spoke of a As the prince made clear, nize the legitimacy of a Jewish and Jews with its media and what Trump calls the “ulti- offered serious financial sup- Jewish right to a “land,” he the Palestinian refusal means state—no matter where its schools on a daily basis, and mate deal” will likely involve port for him if he was willing wasn’t so much speaking to Israel-Saudi relations will borders are drawn. As long to subsidize terrorists. The more Israeli retreats and a to make peace and become Trump or Netanyahu, who remain warm, but under the as the Palestinians won’t give Saudis have become closer to Palestinian state. part of an anti-Iran alliance. realize that the Saudis look table. That probably suits up their dreams of “return,” Israel as a result of President The key event preceding Abbas’s reply was that no Pal- to Israel as an ally against them just fine since the Saudis even a royal pronouncement Obama’s appeasement of Iran, the Saudi crown prince’s estinian leader could accept an Iranian foe that they, as are too conscious of their role like that of MbS, won’t end which scared them even more statement came earlier this such a deal. Abbas is more the prince stated, regard as as guardian of the Muslim the conflict. than it did Israel. year when, in the aftermath concerned about competing worse than Hitler. Rather, holy places and the standing Jonathan S. Tobin is editor Just as important, the Pal- of the Trump administration’s with Hamas, which is why it was a message to Abbas, it gives them in the Islamic in chief of JNS—the Jewish estinians have made it clear recognition of Jerusalem as he supported Hamas’s violent Hamas and the Palestinian world to have “normal rela- News Syndicate. Follow him to the Trump administration Israel’s capital, Abbas jour- riots along the Gaza border people emphasizing that tions” between their kingdom on Twitter at: @jonathans_to- that they won’t consider any neyed to Riyadh. The message also intended to promote the if they are determined to and the Jewish state. bin. Zionism From page 5A as a culture, a civilization, ranks 11th on the world “Hap- their society and the roar-roar Today, the #MeToo con- Gil Troy is the author an ethnicity, a tradition, not piness Index,” despite the of some Palestinian neighbors versation spotlights how of “The Zionist Ideas,” as Jew, as a person—and just a religion. It anchors us nation’s many challenges. demanding their destruction. often victims—especially which updates Arthur how some of these ideas can in a self-indulgent, throwaway Most Israelis are instinctively Zionism isn’t the only way women—internalize perse- Hertzberg’s classic work help Israel become a model society, providing a sense of Identity Zionists. Their iden- or the best way, it’s just my cution, letting bullies win. “The Zionist Idea,” and was democracy. community in an often lonely, tity blossoms from the Zion- way, my people’s way. I’m not Anyone interested in aban- just published by The Jewish That’s why Zionism didn’t alienating culture, and a sense ist state—which appreciates smart enough to improvise doning Zionism first should Publication Society. He is end in 1948—the debates of mission in an often aimless strong family values, robust another framework. ask: How much of this inter- a Distinguished Scholar of continue. world. community ties, deep patri- Identity Zionism includes nalizes the delegitimization North American History at If Zionism as an idea as- Reclaiming Zionism often otic feelings—and a broader commitments to Jewish edu- campaign? McGill University. Follow on serts that Jews are a people entails moving from Political sense of mission in life. That’s cation, Jewish action, to mak- If we don’t stand up for Twitter @GilTroy with a homeland, and Zionism Zionism—asking what we part of the package Birthright ing Jewish ethics come alive, ourselves, who are we? If we The views and opinions as a movement builds, pro- can do for our country—to participants and other tour- to Jewish peoplehood and let those haters win, what expressed in this article are tects and perfects the state, Identity Zionism—asking, ists appreciate when visiting Jewish community—these are we? And if we don’t start those of the author and do not Zionism as a value is more with apologies to JFK, what Israel. And that’s the recipe are core Zionist values I, for celebrating and reclaiming necessarily reflect the views of personal. Zionists see it as your country can do for you. that makes so many Israelis one, would—in Churchill’s the Z-word now—at Israel’s JTA or its parent company, 70 a way of explaining Judaism There’s a reason why Israel happy despite the rush-rush of words—never surrender. 70th—then when? Faces Media. Holocaust From page 5A his eyes with a smile. Then A straight-backed officer were in a festive mood, the later, he would recall Senia’s sense of history. It’s their call, the butt of an unseen rifle handed out shovels and told women’s heads bobbing in words to the Kwasniaks, whether they want to be part send us away and spare our knocked Tata squarely be- them to dig. “Keep digging,” their colorful scarves. who had worked for us back of this generation rising up lives, God willing?” tween the shoulder blades, he said. “We’ll tell you when “Zyd!” they cried. “Jew! Out in town. against us or not. But either Father shrugged. “Who is and he flinched and moved you’re finished. Thought with the Jews!” Then a bullet shattered our way, no matter who rises up, to say? I heard that the fami- on without speaking. you could get away with The policemen raised their little sister’s face, and she col- God has our back as He always lies who didn’t come to the They traveled a short dis- something, eh? Thought rifles. One hundred hearts lapsed at Mamche’s feet, spray- has and will have. square to be picked up were tance in wagons. A boy named you could hide from us, you were broken before a single ing blood in her new white * NOTE: In America after shot in their homes. We can Yankele Kelstecher jumped filthy Jews?” shot was fired. When it was shoes. Next, Tunia dropped surviving, Yankele Kelstecher only wait and put our faith in out of his wagon and disap- When at last they were al- over, the audience applauded onto Senia, her breath a shal- became Benny Schanzer and God. God will provide for us. peared into the woods before lowed to stop, the men stood and cheered. low purr. Even before the third recounted this to me per- God has never forsaken us.” the policemen could fire.(*) in silence beside the freshly The next day, the sunlight shot was fired, our mother sonally, crediting my great- Like everyone else, my Then the men were ordered dug earth. Their faces slick was so fierce that the women fell on them both, trying to grandmother for inspiring parents had come to the shul out of the wagons. Perhaps with tears and sweat, they shielded their eyes when they protect what was no longer him to run away and saving without packing a bag. the thought of Yankele gave stared at the raised rifles in were led outside. They climbed hers. Beside the gunmen, the his life. Shabbos morning arrived the men strength as they astonishment. At eyes opaque through the tall grass directly onlookers, some of whom had Jonathan Feldstein was warm and bright, but musky climbed in a thin, halting line as marbles, that didn’t look to the pit, as if they had done tied handkerchiefs over their born and educated in the U.S. with fear. Several men began along the muddy path (weav- back. so many times before, children noses to stave off the scent, and immigrated to Israel in to daven, (pray). They were ing) through a cornfield. Then they saw the other sobbing at their skirts. A fetid clapped and shouted their 2004. He is married and the still praying when the police At the crest of the hill was eyes, those of their neigh- smell they did not recognize approval. A burst of laughter father of six. He has a three- ordered them to leave their the tree-lined cemetery, its bors, the customers in their reached their nostrils, and skimmed the crowd.” decade career in nonprofit families and trek up the hill tombstones swathed in even shops, the people to whom they covered their faces in At the Passover Seder, we fundraising and marketing to the cemetery. Mamche rows of shrubbery. The men they had just last week sold a horror. recite and recount a concise and throughout his life and gripped the girls harder, her paused to catch their breaths loaf of bread, who gave them When the policemen loaded history of the Jewish people: In career, he has become a re- fingers digging so deeply and wipe their brows. They a good price on chickens their rifles, Senia clutched every generation they rise up spected bridge between Jews into their flesh that they gazed out over the hill to the and eggs. The goyim stood Mamche’s waist. “I don’t want against us to destroy us. And and Christians. He writes squirmed, but they did not patchwork of fields below. For or sat on their haunches in to die!” she cried. the Holy One, blessed be He, regularly on major Christian break away. Our father, a moment, they forgot their unruly rows alongside the For the first time in Senia’s rescues us from their hands. web sites about Israel and never a demonstrative man, terror and shook their heads policemen. Whole families, life, our Mamche could do In a generation not long ago, shares experiences of living reached for our mother’s at the lush landscape. It could with baskets of cheese and nothing to help. One police- Poland embodied the rising as an Orthodox Jew in Israel. hand. The gesture was so not be helped; they loved this bread and homemade wine. man who witnessed this up to destroy us. Let us pray He can be reached at FirstPer- unexpected that she met country. The chattering spectators scene was so moved that, this year that they get a better [email protected]. Millennials From page 5A grapple in a meaningful way ment programs to remediate schooling. Funders have shied Another concerns the still so as to reduce the need to with their Jewish identity. for the shallow education away from investing in the too-low proportion of Jewish “re-engage” them when they supported efforts must find Episodic connection is un- most have encountered in so-called Hebrew school, the children experiencing Jew- enter their post-college years? a way to move participants likely to educate individuals their Jewish schooling and vehicle educating the largest ish overnight camp and teen Jack Wertheimer is profes- from Jewish lite to something about how to live as Jews, informal Jewish education. proportion of Jewish children, programs that could do even sor of American Jewish his- more content-rich, let alone and certainly is not a recipe To be sure, local funders are on the grounds that the field is more to infuse their offerings tory at the Jewish Theological demanding, without turning for building commitment to supporting Jewish education, diffuse, housed in synagogues with serious Jewish content. Seminary. His report, Giving people off—a fine line not Jewish community. as are a few national founda- of various denominations and By finding solutions to these Jewish: How Big Funders easy to walk. The heavy investment in tions, but for the most part lacking in national operators. challenges, national funders Have Transformed American One wonders, though, millennial engagement, fur- the big dollars are going for All the more reason, then, for can make a large difference Jewish Philanthropy, was whether these episodic and thermore, usually comes with millennial engagement. It’s national funders with the am- in the education of Jewish prepared under the auspices mainly social gatherings will no comparable funder com- not as if the field of Jewish bition to make a big impact to children. of the Avi Chai Foundation. lead to lifelong engagement mitment to improving Jewish education presents no large invest in this educational arena. Within a generation, to- The views and opinions unless participants grow as education for children. Which systemic challenges requir- Several other large chal- day’s school-age children expressed in this article are Jews, deepen their Jewish raises the question: Why not ing ambitious funding and lenges persist: One is the will become the new cohort those of the author and do not knowledge, connect with educate Jewish youth properly creativity. affordability crisis in Jewish of 20- and 30-somethings. necessarily reflect the views of the richness and complexity when they are young? That The most obvious needs are day schools, which could Wouldn’t it be wise to invest JTA or its parent company, 70 of Jewish civilization, and way they won’t need engage- in the arena of supplementary benefit from new thinking. in their Jewish education now Faces Media. 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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Torah tells how God created the earth and the heavens, al- though the stories that follow tell us more about the former than the latter. A new exhibit doesn’t quite answer theologi- cal questions about space, but it does show the ways in which Jews have looked at, written about and traveled into the final frontier. “Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe in Orbit,” named after a Mel Brooks gag, is an exhibit organized and on Josefin Dolsten view at the YIVO Institute This book from 1907 contains horoscopes in Yiddish. for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History. It features both Yiddish and Jewish law (although zodiac spacecraft broke apart shortly Hebrew books on astronomy symbols have shown up as after takeoff. and astrology, science fiction synagogue decorations for In 1985, a Jewish- NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images works created by Jews and sec- at least 1,500 years). Despite American astronaut read Mission specialist Judith Resnik sending a message to her father from the shuttle Dis- tions on the history of Jewish that, Jews at the time con- from the Torah in space. covery on on its maiden voyage, Aug. 30, 1984. astronauts. tinued to read horoscopes consulted a rabbi on how JTA was given a tour by as well as seek other ways of to observe Judaism on his consists of a raised hand shares a name with a bizarre immigrant from Luxem- Eddy Portnoy, YIVO’s senior predicting the future, such first trip, in 1985. Hoffman, with the middle and ring extraterrestrial in the ani- bourg, is sometimes called researcher and director of as by going to psychics and a Brooklyn native who was fingers parted into a V. The mated science fiction comedy “The Father of Science Fic- exhibitions, who curated the reading tea leaves. born in 1944, brought with gesture looks just like the series. In a 2008 direct-to-vid- tion” for publishing a maga- collection with Melanie Mey- The first Jewish Ameri- him a scaled-down Torah and one kohanim do in synagogue eo film based on the TV series, zine that helped popularize ers, and learned about some of can to go into space was did the first Torah reading during the Priestly Blessing. Yivo (voiced by actor David the genre. Launched in 1926, the unusual and unexpected a woman. outside of Earth. He also had In his autobiography, Nimoy Cross, who was raised Jew- “Amazing Stories” featured relationship between Jews and Judith Resnik became the a set of Jewish ritual items explained that he had copied ish) is a tentacled being who tales of aliens, robots and the cosmos. first Jewish American and specially made for his trip, the Jewish gesture, which uses his many limbs to have other beings, including ones This book of horoscopes second Jew (Soviet astronaut including a mezuzah with he had seen in a synagogue sex with every living being in written by Gernsback him- was written in Yiddish. Boris Volynov was the first) to a Velcro strip that he would as a child (it also appears the universe. Turns out the self. His magazine brought Published in 1907 in Odes- go into space when she flew attach to his bunk and a on tombstones of kohanim). screenwriter, Eric Kaplan, is science fiction—a term he sa, Ukraine, “The Revealer on the maiden voyage of the prayer shawl with weights to The Vulcan salute, which is friends with Cecile Kuznitz, a coined—to the mainstream of That Which Is Hidden: A Space Shuttle Discovery in keep it from floating away in accompanied by the phrase professor at Bard College who and inspired many writers, New Practical Book of Fate” 1984. Born in 1949 to Jewish zero-gravity. He also brought “Live long and prosper” (the has done extensive research such as Jerry Siegel and gave Yiddish readers a way to immigrants from Ukraine a menorah to celebrate Cha- kohanim’s blessing begins on the institute. He decided Joe Shuster, the Jewish- learn about their futures by who settled in Ohio, Resnik nukah, although he was never “May God bless you and guard to, um, honor her by naming American duo that created way of astrology. Much like a worked as an engineer at the able to actually light it aboard you”), became so iconic that the character after the topic Superman. Gernsback left modern-day horoscope, the Xerox Corp. before being re- the spacecraft. the White House mentioned of her work, the archive and “Amazing Stories” in 1929, book offered predictions based cruited to NASA in a program The Vulcan salute on it in a statement issued on research center on Eastern although it held on in one on the reader’s zodiac sign. to diversify its workforce. “Star Trek” has Jewish Nimoy’s death in 2015. European Jewish life founded form or another until 2005. Similar books existed both Resnik was only the fourth origins. An alien in “Futurama” in Vilna in 1925. Among the Jewish writers in Yiddish and Hebrew during female to ever do so. She Actor Leonard Nimoy used was named after the A Jewish immigrant to who had their first stories the time period, but rabbinic died in 1986 along with the an unlikely source of inspira- YIVO Institute. the U.S. helped popular- published in the magazine authorities were not thrilled, rest of the crew of the Space tion for his character Spock’s Some might think it a co- ize science fiction. were Isaac Asimov and How- since astrology is banned by Shuttle Challenger when the iconic Vulcan salute, which incidence that the institute Hugo Gernsback, a Jewish ard Fast. 25 funniest Jewish comedians in history

By Mark Miller Freud’s “Jokes and Their White’s wonderful quote, is when you fall into an open arthritis and I don’t deserve beaten here. And any woman Aish Hatorah Resources Relation to the Unconscious,” “Analyzing humor is like dis- sewer and die.” that either.” that will beat me has an extra which was published in 1905, secting a frog. Few people are 8. Lenny Bruce: “If you live 17. Albert Brooks: “I was in prize she will get to marry me. In 1978, Time magazine drew almost exclusively on interested and the frog dies of in New York, even if you’re Kashmir last weekend. Went Right here. She will take my claimed that 80 percent of Jewish stories, because, he it.” Therefore, let us instead Catholic, you’re Jewish.” to visit one of my sweaters.” hand in marriage. I will offer all stand-up comedians in the maintained, they were the celebrate the rich variety of 9. George Burns: “Happi- 18. Roseanne Barr: “I’m my hand in marriage if she United States were Jewish. funniest and the most inter- Jewish humor from 25 of the ness is having a large, loving, not going to vacuum ’til Sears beats me right here.” And this at a time when Jews esting. Salcia Landmann, a funniest Jewish comedians caring, close-knit family in makes one you can ride on. 23. Shelly Berman: “If made up only 3 percent of the scholar of Yiddish, argued that in history. And for the love another city.” 19. Garry Shandling: “I’m you’ve never met a student U.S. By way of explanation, Jewish humor is “more acute, of God, let the poor frog live! 10. Gilda Radner: “Well it very loyal in a relationship. from the University of Chi- psychologist Samuel Janus more profound and richer in 1. Jon Stewart: “We’ve come just goes to show you, it’s Any relationship. When I go cago, I’ll describe him to you. told a meeting of the Ameri- expression than that of any from the same history—2000 always something, you either out with my mom, I don’t If you give him a glass of water, can Psychological Association other people.” years of persecution—we’ve got a toenail in your ham- look at other moms and go, he says, ‘This is a glass of wa- that, “Jewish humor is born A 2013 survey from the Pew just expressed our sufferings burger or toilet paper clinging ‘I wonder what her macaroni ter. But is it a glass of water? of depression and alienation Research Center, “Portrait differently. Blacks developed to your shoe.” (as Roseanne and cheese tastes like.’” And if it is a glass of water, from the general culture. For of Jewish Americans,” found the blues. Jews complained; Roseannadanna on SNL) 20. Robert Klein: “I was why is it a glass of water?’ And Jewish comedians, comedy is that humor is one of the main we just never thought of put- 11. Joan Rivers: “I hate in the De Witt Clinton High eventually he dies of thirst.” a defense mechanism to ward qualities that four in 10 of the ting it to music.” housework! You make the School marching band. One 24. Mort Sahl: “Most people off the aggression and hostil- nation’s 5.3 million religious 2. Groucho Marx: “Outside beds, you do the dishes and of the worst bands ever past college age are not athe- ity of others.” Or as Mel Brooks and cultural Jews say is es- of a dog, a book is man’s best six months later you have to formed. When we played the ists. It’s too hard to be in put it: “If they’re laughing, sential to their Jewish identity. friend. Inside of a dog it’s too start all over again.” national anthem, people from society, for one thing. Because how can they bludgeon you All this comedic exami- dark to read.” 12. Don Rickles: “Room every country stood—except you don’t get any days off. And to death?” nation brings to mind E.B. 3. Billy Crystal: “At 60, I service is great. If you want to Americans.” if you’re an agnostic you don’t could do the same things I pay $500 for a club sandwich.” 21. Nichols & May: “No know whether you get them could do at 30, if I could only 13. Sid Caesar: “The guy doubt you are as alarmed off or not.” remember what those things who invented the first wheel as I by the tragic decline in 25. Seth Rogen: “I am lazy, are.” was an idiot. The guy who America’s language skills. but for some reason, I am so 4. Jerry Seinfeld: “My par- invented the other three, he If 10 people read the follow- paranoid that I end up work- ents didn’t want to move to was a genius.” ing sentence: ‘Two tanker ing hard.” Florida, but they turned 60 14. Milton Berle: “My wife trucks have just overturned Mark Miller has held posi- and that’s the law.” and I have a perfect under- in Alaska, spilling a total of tions as a nationally syndi- 5. Jackie Mason: “My grand- standing. I don’t try to run 10,000 gallons of beer onto a cated humor columnist for father always said, ‘Don’t her life, and I don’t try to highway,’ two would find an the Los Angeles Times, an watch your money, watch your run mine.” error in subject-verb agree- interviewer and humor blog- HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES health.’ So one day while I was 15. Jerry Lewis: “When I ment, two would find an error ger for The Huffington Post watching my health, someone was a kid, I said to my father in spelling, and six would find (along with a wealth of other Every day that you’re outside, you’re exposed to dangerous, but invisible, ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Left unprotected, prolonged exposure to UV radiation can seriously damage the eye, leading to cataracts, skin cancer around the eyelid and other eye stole my money. It was my one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will a sponge and drive north.” publications), a TV sitcom staff disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. grandfather.” you take me to the zoo?’ He 22. Andy Kaufman: “Okay, writer/producer, a stand-up Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. 6. Rodney Dangerfield: “My answered, ‘If the zoo wants now be quiet, I will pay $1000 comic in nightclubs and on

For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. wife and I were happy for 20 you, let them come and get to any woman that will beat TV, and a writer for comedians A public service message from The Vision Council. years. Then we met..” you’.” me in this ring. I will not such as Jay Leno, Dana Car- 7. Mel Brooks: “Tragedy is 16. Jack Benny: “I don’t only do that, I will shave my vey, Roseanne Barr, Rodney when I cut my finger. Comedy deserve this award, but I have head completely bald if I am Dangerfield, and Jim Carrey.