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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 43, NO. 52 AUGUST 30, 2019 29 AV, 5779 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Local StandWithUs interns for ’19-’20 By Christine DeSouza the reins of leadership while in high school, and the mo- StandWithUs, an interna- ment they start college. They tional, nonprofit Israel edu- also will be automatically part cation organization founded of the StandWithUs alumni in 2001, recently selected network. Samantha Gabbai, a senior at Gabbai was one of the 98 Winter Park High School, for students selected this year the StandWithUs High School from across the U.S. and Internship program 2019- Canada for the high school 2020. Danielle Garsten was internship program. She selected as SWU’s Emerson is president of her BBYO Fellow at UCF. chapter and attended the The StandWithUs High Alexander Muss High School Over 70 Democrats and Republican members of Congress pose in front of Israel’s Iron Dome battery while on tour School Internship Program in Israel program and said together. is a high school leadership this about her experience: program that prepares stu- “Throughout these six weeks dents for the challenges they I have found such a greater may face regarding Israel in understanding of my own Republicans say bipartisan goodwill will college and in their commu- Jewish identity. I have been nities. Students in both the asking challenging questions HS Internship and Emerson that really made me learn not be hijacked by ‘attention-grabbers’ Fellows attend two conferenc- where I stand as not only an By Dov Lipman open eyes and open ears—ready to hear emerged that the two congresswomen’s es—a training one in August Israeli Jew, but an individual. all sides.” visit would be one-sided and include only (which was just completed) It’s truly been eye opening (JNS)—The decision by Israel to bar He told JNS that “coming to Israel and meeting with BDS groups, some with and SWU’s “Israel in Focus” and powerful. Reps. Rashid Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan seeing it for themselves transforms every ties to terrorist organizations, Israeli International Conference in “In Israel, I found that my Omar (D-Minn.) due to their support member from simply believing that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu January. Both are held in Los passion was not about pursu- for the anti-Israel BDS movement United States should support Israel to reverse course. Angeles. ing a career in medicine as has generated international headlines feeling the strong bond the United States “[T]he itinerary of the two Congress- Upon completion of the I previously thought; it was while at the same time sparking fur- has with Israel.” women reveals that the sole purpose of program, participants will be ther partisan divide and debate. The McCarthy led the Republican contin- their visit is to harm Israel and increase prepared to comfortably take Interns on page 15A controversy over the congresswomen, gent of a visit to Israel that wrapped up incitement against it,” he said in a state- however, comes shortly after a visit to this week, sponsored by the American ment. Israel by 72 fellow members of the U.S. Israeli Education Foundation (AIEF), a The pronouncement did come shortly House of Representatives that seemed to division of the American Israeli Public after a tweet by U.S. President Donald Maher slams BDS; highlight rare public goodwill between Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Trump to deny entry to what he says Democrats and Republicans, as well as Both Omar and Tlaib rejected the is a radical element within Democrats. Tlaib calls for boycott the broad bipartisan support that Israel AIEF-sponsored tour. ‘Merely a distraction’ still enjoys among lawmakers. Despite their known hostility toward Members of the Republican delegation didn’t work then and it won’t House Minority Leader Kevin McCar- the Jewish state, Israel initially permitted said the focus should be on the large ma- now. https://t.co/Oa49ZVfrVN thy (R-Calif.) said “all members should Omar and Tlaib to visit the country “out — Rashida Tlaib (@Rashi- visit Israel if they come with open minds, of respect for Congress.” However, after it Goodwill on page 15A daTlaib) August 17, 2019 “It’s a bulls**t purity test. BDS is a bulls**t purity test by people who want to ap- pear woke but actually slept Throwback Orlando to celebrate through history class,” said Maher. “It’s predicated on this notion—I think it’s very shal- the past, present and future low thinking—that the Jews in Israel are mostly white and In the early 1960s, Abe the Palestinians are browner, and Zelig Wise developed the so they must be innocent and neighborhood of Palomar, correct, and the Jews must be in northern Orange County. wrong.” Many of the early residents “As if the occupation came were Jewish. Bill Maher right out of the blue, that this In mid-2016, the former completely peaceful people and current residents of (JNS)—Rep. Rashida Tlaib found themselves occupied,” Palomar gathered to take (D-Mich.) on Saturday called he continued. “Forget about a group photo. This photo- for boycotting Bill Maher’s the intifadas and the suicide graph was to be part of the HBO show after the liberal co- bombings and the rockets and median denounced the anti- how many wars.” Israel BDS movement as “a “Let me read Omar Bargh- bulls**t purity test.” outi, one of the co-founders of “Maybe folks should boycott the movement,” added Maher. Peter Burg, Kehillah: A History of Jewish Life in Greater Orlando his show,” tweeted Tlaib, who “His quote: ‘No rational Pales- Jewish Palomar residents reunite to celebrate and remember their neighborhood, Aug. compared boycotts of Israel to tinian... would ever accept a 29, 2016. that of apartheid South Africa Jewish state in Palestine.’ So exhibit at the Orange County those that didn’t grow up Food Bank (411 Mercy Drive). in the 1970s and 1980s. that’s where that comes from, Historical Museum celebrat- in Orlando to create an Second Harvest was chosen “I am tired of folks discred- this movement, someone who ing 100 years of Jewish life in evening of camaraderie, to be the location for two iting a form of speech that is doesn’t even want a Jewish Orlando. which will benefit JFS. reasons. First, Second Har- centered on equality and free- state at all. Somehow this side The evening was a reunion The reunion committee is vest is an important commu- dom,” the congresswoman never gets presented in the of friends from the neighbor- comprised of Don Altshuler, nity partner to JFS Orlando’s continued. “This is exactly American media. It’s very odd.” hood. It was a wonderful time Karen Langfur Broussard, Pearlman Emergency Food how they tried to discredit Tlaib, along with Rep. Ilhan of renewing acquaintances Marcy Schiff Brown, Dyan Pantry. Also, the culinary & stop the boycott to stand Omar (D-Minn.), was banned and celebrating their mutual Grushka Goodman, Judy program at Second Harvest up against the apartheid in from Israel last week for her past. The evening also served Schiff Kahan, Robin Rein will cater the event, thereby S. Africa. It didn’t work then BDS support, though she was as the springboard to create Katzman, Stuart Kramer, ensuring that all funds will and it won’t now.” granted a humanitarian re- another reunion: Throwback Ellen Wise Lang, Craig directly benefit both nonprofit Maybe folks should boycott quest to visit her grandmother Orlando. Pearlman, Laurie Shader agencies. his show. in the West Bank, though she Lynn Pearlman Minkow is Smith, Debra Webman and Sponsorships are available. I am tired of folks discred- chose not to visit. a past and current resident Barbara Hara Weiss. Space is limited and reser- iting a form of speech that of Palomar and a board Didn’t grow up in Orlando? vations are necessary. For is centered on equality and member of Jewish Family Everyone is invited to this eve- further information, contact freedom. This is exactly how Services of Greater Orlando. ning of friendship and love on Sara.Martinez@JFSorlando. they tried to discredit & stop Minkow reached out to her Saturday, Oct. 19. The party org or Lynnminkow@gmail. the boycott to stand up against friends from Palomar and will be held at Second Harvest com. the apartheid in S. Africa. It PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 Two genealogy pros to help with family trees Looking for help to build DNA, research techniques, as a tenured medical school an informal dialogue to help your family tree? Then come and other important areas of faculty member. She was a you make friends with other to the Jewish Genealogical genealogy, and you can hear co-chair of IAJGS 2017. Signer genealogists, and share ideas Society of Greater Orlando their presentation at the next was the second pediatric sur- and tips to make your research on Sept. 3, to jumpstart your meeting of the Jewish Ge- geon in the Central Florida, more efficient, more effective, research. Two career medical nealogical Society of Greater and was a founder of both and more rewarding. professionals who have been Orlando. The presentations Arnold Palmer and Florida Meeting admission is free doing genealogy for years will Jacobs and Signer will give at Hospitals for Children. He to members. There is a $5 fee share with you many valuable that meeting will equip and was a pediatric surgeon here for guests, which is credited to lessons they just learned from inspire you to new achieve- for 32 years and was the chief your membership, if you join. the world’s top genealogists. ments in finding and sharing medical officer of Florida Membership is open to anyone Dr. Diane Jacobs, and Dr. your family’s story. Hospital for Children for 14 interested in Jewish geneal- Richard Signer of Central Jacobs is the current presi- years, retiring in 2016. ogy. The JGSGO is a non-profit Florida recently attended the dent of the JGSGO, and The meeting will be in the organization founded in 1990. annual conference held by the has been doing genealogy Senior Lounge, at The Roth For more information, call International Association of research for more than 20 Family Jewish Community 407-494-4230, or email us Jewish Genealogical Societ- years. She retired from the Center, 851 North Maitland at: [email protected]. We have ies. Jacobs and Signer learned University of Central Florida Ave., Maitland, from 7-9 p.m. additional resources on our the latest in technology, in 2016, completing 40 years Before the meeting, there is website, www.jgsgo.org. Dr. Diane Jacobs Dr. Richard Signer Farmers Market brings Rosh Hashanah to life On Sept. 14, children will “Jewish holidays are rich gather at two local Chabad with symbolism,” said Rabbi Centers to experience Rosh Amram Hoffer Youth direc- Hashanah through an inter- tor at Chabad of Greater active farmers market. Orlando together with his “We wanted to do some- wife, Esther. thing different,” said Chan- “This experience brings shy Majesky, co-director of kids on that sensory journey,” Chabad of North Orlando. said Esther. While the Jewish New Year At each booth, children is well-known for its long use personalized tote bags to services and serious prayers, collect marketplace finds— Majesky wanted to “let kids unique recipe cards that experience the fun side of the they’ll turn into a special holiday.” holiday keepsake. “It’s an Children will get a fresh organic learning process that start to the year by visit- brings the local goodness of ing each stand at the Rosh Rosh Hashanah to life,” said Hashanah market. As they Majesky. go from booth to booth, The Rosh Hashanah Farm- Jeff Greenwald with his sons enjoying the fruits of last One of the Farmers Market booths from last year with they’ll explore the holiday’s ers Market is made possible year’s Farmers Market. Happy Frank and her grandson, Lucas Frank. culinary themes with unique by CKids Club International, recipes—round artisan chal- an initiative that inspires programs that explore the participate with parental and at Chabad of Greater register today at: [Maitland lah, apple mocktails, carrot children to make a meaning- richness of Judaism. assistance, the event will be Orlando at 2 p.m. To give 2pm] ChabadOrlando.org or cake pops, and a holiday ful impact in their commu- Designed for children 7-13, held on Sept. 14 at Chabad of your child access to the [Longwood 10am] Jewish- fruit salad. nities through educational but younger children can North Orlando from 10 a.m. ripest learning in Orlando NorthOrlando.com. JFS Orlando staff receives suicide prevention training sity of Central Florida, Advent gatekeeper skills to detect if dinators at Advent Health Health, the Statewide Office someone might be suicidal; will be connecting with the of Suicide Prevention, and the and clinical therapists how clinical therapist team at University of South Florida to to conduct suicide risk as- JFS Orlando to help ensure build upon Florida’s compre- sessments, safety plans, care continuity of care for clients/ hensive suicide prevention coordination services, and, for patients. plan. The FINS Project was select therapists, even clini- JFS is proud to have par- designed to enhance services cal training to treat suicidal ticipated in the FINS Project to reach at-risk populations clients. and is grateful for this vital and ensure that adults, ages Many times patients in training that was provided at 25 and up, receive timely and emergency rooms do not no cost to the agency thanks appropriate services. have access to therapists to the project’s collaborators Staff from the FINS Project who are properly trained in and supporters. For more in- worked with JFS to develop a suicide prevention. The FINS formation regarding the JFS strategy for suicide prevention Project is aiming to build a Orlando Counseling program, and intervention, which will system-wide approach where please contact Clinical Direc- be implemented immediately agencies partner together to tor Ashlyn Douglass-Barnes, agency-wide. The project, ensure that care transitions LCSW at Ashlyn.Douglass- The JFS Orlando Counseling, Growth and Development team. which consisted of four train- are taking place between [email protected] or ings, taught non-clinical staff agencies. FINS Care Coor- 407-644-7593 ext. 301. On average, one person Control and Prevention staff participated in the dies by suicide every three Data & Statistics Fatal In- Florida Implementation of hours in the state of Florida. jury Report for 2017) That the National Strategy for In fact, suicide is the eighth is why this summer JFS Suicide Prevention Project. What have we learned since 9/11? leading cause of death in the Orlando’s mental health FINS is a collaborative part- The Zionist Organization of Florida. His research focuses state. 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It is also one boost in bilateral trade. bilateral trade between the of the leaders in shipbuilding Israeli Prime Minister Ben- two countries. In 2018, trade and automotive manufactur- jamin Netanyahu praised the between Israel and South ing. agreement—the first with an Korea amounted to about $2.5 The Israeli government said Asian country—calling South billion—an almost 15 percent the agreement “will provide Korea a “global leader.” increase over 2017. a competitive advantage and “Israel is a vibrant, ad- According to the agree- ease activity for Israeli ex- vanced economy, and I think ment, almost 95 percent of porters in the South Korean our partnership will do tre- Israeli exports to South Korea market, thus strengthening mendous good for both our will be exempt from customs Israeli exports and increasing economies. I’m sure it will duties, including machinery economic growth. The annual multiply our trade, which and electrical equipment, benefit to the economy will already stands at $2.5 billion. mechanical devices, fertilizer, facilitate a better jumping-off It will grow a lot,” he said medical equipment, cosmet- point for Israeli exports.” during a meeting with South ics, plastics, metals, fruit Economy and Industry GPO/Kobi Gideon Korean Trade Minister Yoo juices and wine. Minister Eli Cohen echoed his Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Economy and Industry Minister Eli Myung-hee. At the same time, customs South Korean counterpart’s Cohen, with Republic of Korea Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee. Yoo Myung-hee agreed, duties will be lowered on enthusiasm. saying that the agreement is a South Korean goods imported “South Korea is an im- increasing exports, and lower- tiveness of Israeli exporters of the entry of a broad range “significant and historic” one. into Israel such as automo- portant trade partner for ing the cost of raw materials, and constitute welcome news of products without customs “South Korea and Israel, we biles and automobile parts, the State of Israel,” he said. which increases the competi- for Israeli consumers in light duties.” have a lot of similarities, and refrigerators, medical equip- “The international-trade also we have complimentary ment, electronic components, agreements are, as a rule, of economic structure. Based on toys and games, plastics and strategic importance for the this FTA, I’m sure that it will chemicals. Israeli economy and assist in Help Wanted California high school students Advertising Sales make Nazi salute at ceremony By Marcy Oster dents accountable, educating part of a drinking game and Salary Plus Commission them on the consequences of posted photos on social media. (JTA)—Students at a their choices, and the impact UPDATE from JNS: Rep. Southern California high these actions have on our Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.) Flexible Hours school made a Nazi salute schools and community at condemned on Wednesday a and sang a Nazi marching large.” group of 10 or so members of song at the start of an awards A current Pacifica student the boys’ water-polo team at Call Jeff at ceremony. told the Daily Beast that the Pacifica High School in Gar- The school district will incident was never spoken den Grove, Calif., which is not say publicly if or how it about by the administration part of his district, who were disciplined the students. and said it is not clear how caught on camera doing a Nazi The incident, which took the students involved were salute and singing a Nazi song place last year, involved 10 punished. last year during an awards members of the boys water The song was written by ceremony. 407-834-8787 polo team at Pacifica High German composer Herms “This disturbing incident School in Garden Grove, Niel and was played to inspire saddens me greatly,” Lowen- California, the Daily Beast Nazi troops from around 1935 thal, who is Jewish, told JNS. reported. The video was until 1945, according to the “We as a community must face posted to Instagram by one Daily Beast. uncomfortable facts, and ask of the athletes, according to In an interview with the hard questions about hatred the Daily Beast, and widely news website, Peter Simi, and ignorance in our midst. circulated among students at a professor on extremism I can only hope that this can the high school. studies at Chapman Univer- become a teaching moment— A spokesperson for the sity, noted that the song is not just for the students who Garden Grove Unified School obscure and wondered how participated, but for the entire District which includes Pa- the athletes learned about it. student body on the horrors cifica High School told the “It’s not something you’d of the Holocaust and the evils Daily Beast that school ad- expect somebody to acciden- of the Third Reich.” ministrators learned of the tally know about. There’s The Los Angeles Museum incident and video in March, some means by which they of the Holocaust has invited four months after it occurred. acquired knowledge about the students from the awards “While the district can- the song and associated Nazi ceremony to tour the museum not comment on student issues,” Simi said. “Are they and interact with Holocaust discipline, the school did on websites or web forums or survivors. address this situation with other social media platforms “I also hope that we as a all involved students and where they’re engaging with community can learn from families,” the spokesperson others informed on these this incident and others like it said. “The district adheres to issues?” recently, that we must all re- strong policies about harass- It is the second such inci- main ever vigilant in the face ment and cultural sensitivity, dent in southern California of a resurgent and emboldened and we condemn all acts of over the last year. In March, white-supremacy movement anti-Semitism and hate in students from Newport Har- that is always looking for new all forms. We remain focused bor High School and Costa recruits,” added Lowenthal. on educating students about Mesa High School made a “These hateful ideologies are cultural sensitivity and are swastika out of beer cups and a threat to the fabric of our committed to holding stu- made the Heil Hitler salute as country and our society.” Trump: Voting Democrat is being ‘disloyal to Jewish people’ (JNS)—U.S. President ish people, and you’re being of knowledge or great dis- Donald Trump clarified re- very disloyal to Israel,” the loyalty.” marks made about how Jew- president told reporters on His comments evoked im- ish voters could support the Wednesday. mediate opposition from Jew- Democratic Party knowing In remarks in the Oval ish and pro-Israel groups, who the anti-Israel bias among Office on Tuesday fol- conflated the “dual-loyalty” certain congressional mem- lowing his meeting with canard; the Republican Jew- bers, such as Rep. Rashida Romanian President Klaus ish Coalition defended the Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Iohannis, Trump said, “Any president. Publication Date: September 20, 2019 Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Jewish people that vote for The president said he was “If you vote for a Democrat, a Democrat—I think it not referring to loyalty to the Advertising Deadline: September 11, 2019 you’re being disloyal to Jew- shows either a total lack United States. PAGE 4A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 Jewish support for the Democrats By Caroline Glick of demonization by Palestinians and leftists Jewish community. And the immediate victims Given the context in which Trump made for his “crime” of owning a security company of all of these assaults are American Jews. his remarks—that is, the Democratic Party’s President Trump took issue with continued that sells tear gas to Israel. Now to the issue of Tlaib and Omar. These open embrace of anti-Semites and anti-Semitic American Jewish support for the Democrats The Whitney, which has featured overtly woman have chosen to dedicate their time in messaging—it is literally impossible for even after Tlaib and Omar gave a press conference anti-Semitic exhibits in the past, is now of- office to advancing BDS—which again, targets a semi-literate person to misunderstand what libeling Israel in furtherance of their anti- ficially off limits to pro-Israel Jews. American Jews first and foremost. And rather he was saying Jewish, BDS agenda. For his actions, he is Also last month, the Associated Press pub- than denounce them for their anti-Semitic Moreover, it is telling that the same people again being falsely defamed as an anti-Semite. lished a defamatory article about Simon Falic actions that harm American Jews specifically, insisting that Trump’s statement was anti- American Jews who wish to deny leftist for his pro-Israel philanthropy. The message the Democratic Congressional leadership has Semitic are giving a pass to the Democrats anti-Semitism, pretend that BDS is primarily was obvious. American Jews considering sup- rallied to their side. for refusing to take any action to rein in their directed against Israel. After all, if the likes of porting Israel are now on notice, if they dare In their press conference this week, the two Jew hating members. It shows the disingenu- Omar, Tlaib, AOC and the rest only hate Israel, support Israel, they can expect to see their women’s hostility towards Israel and its sup- ousness of their sudden professed concern for then they aren’t anti-Semitic. They just hate reputations dragged through the mud. porters was palpable. The fact that they had anti-Jewish bigotry. Israeli Jews. Let’s now ask a question, how do these anti-Semitic Jews standing with them didn’t American Jews refuse to see what is happen- But the truth is that BDS in America is defamatory campaigns harm Israel? The make their efforts less hostile. Indeed, their ing to them while it is happening. The likes of directed primarily against American Jews. Its answer is that they don’t harm Israel. They use of Jewish fig leaves made their efforts more Tlaib and Omar are rendering them political goal is to silence them as a political force in harm American Jews. hostile. They are seeking to co-opt Judaism non-entities. By attacking Trump, the main America. American Jews who support Israel How do BDS campaigns on college campuses while demonizing Jews. politician supporting them, while giving a free are ostracized in universities, and even in harm Israel? The answer is they don’t. They President Trump’s statement that Jews are pass to the Democrats who are facilitating high schools. They are subjected to abuse in harm American Jews. disloyal if they support Democrats was clearly discrimination against them, American Jews every quarter. Israel, to be sure is harmed by a diminish- a response to that display and to the party’s are disenfranchising themselves. Democrats Examples abound. Last month, a Jewish pa- ment of Democratic support for Israel. And adamant refusal to call these woman to order see they can abandon the Jews without con- tron of the arts, Warren Kanders, was forced to there are many things Israel needs to do to for their open hatred of Jews and the actions sequence, and Republicans see that there is resign his position as the vice chairman of the protect itself from this. But these are issues they are taking that directly facilitate the anti- no point in sticking up for the Jews who will Whitney Museum’s board of trustees. Kanders for the medium and long term. The immediate Semitic BDS campaign in the United States. hate them no matter what they say and do. was subjected to a massive, intense campaign target in all of these attacks is the American In other words, while the Democratic Party This is a tragedy of epic proportions, first is enabling and empowering these overt Jew and foremost for the American Jewish com- haters, Trump has been taking them to task munity but really for America as a whole and for their bigotry. And rather than thank him for the Jewish people as a whole. Why Jews should care about the for his support, 75 percent of American Jews Caroline Glick is an American-born Israeli are joining their fellow Democrats in giving columnist, journalist, and author and political a pass to their party while pillorying Trump activist. She writes for Breitbart News, The Hong Kong democracy protests for daring to be their friend. Jerusalem Post, and Maariv. By Ben Cohen Triad gang network. The prospect remains that Chinese forces will invade and directly (JNS)—It’s more than 30 years since occupy Hong Kong if the protests continue. pro-democracy student demonstrators were And hanging over it all, like a Sword of Da- Campus BDS threat shifting brutally crushed by Chinese security forces in mocles, is the year 2047—the year that Hong Beijing’s Tiananmen Square—a graphic sign Kong’s Basic Law guaranteeing its autonomy that while communism was in the process of from China expires, after which no one knows to academic boycotts collapsing elsewhere in the world, China was what will happen. to be a bloody exception. Why should the Jewish community care By Zev Hurwitz Of course, like divestment campaigns, the The spirit of those 1989 protests has been particularly about these protests? There are academic boycott movement will do little in revived in recent weeks on the streets of Hong many good reasons, not least the tradition of (JNS)—Jewish and pro-Israel students the way of harming the State of Israel or af- Kong, where hundreds of thousands of protest- humanitarianism and human-rights activism soon heading to universities this fall are fecting its standing on the world stage. The ers have been vigorously opposing Chinese among American Jews. But what should pick at invariably wondering about more than living real victim of this, or any academic boycott, attempts to impose the draconian laws that our consciences above all is the kind of society arrangements and course loads. Will students are the students who hope to engage in the hold sway on the mainland. that China has now become, exactly 70 years and faculty take real steps to rehabilitate the free exchange of ideas that the university Because Hong Kong was a British possession after the Communist Party took power—a politicized campus climate? What will be the space promises. for 150 years, it has a special status. When, in society created from a legacy of mass murder. next steps and targets of the BDS movement In some cases, the principle of academic 1997, Britain handed possession of Hong Kong In terms of sheer numbers exterminated, against Israel? boycott is of greater concern than the direct back to China, it did so on the basis that the the record of Chinese communism is worse In the past few years, campus BDS success impact on students. At Pitzer, fewer than a territory would be governed under the prin- than even the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. seemed to stagnate a bit. During the 2018-19 dozen students have participated in the Haifa ciple of “one country, two systems,” essentially Upwards of 60 million people perished under academic year, only two campuses passed program since 2007. The idea that a university preserving for Hong Kong the democratic chairman Mao Zedong’s regime in concentra- BDS-inspired legislation while eight other at- should institutionally sever access or collabo- practices and institutions forbidden on the tion camps and prisons, or starved by the tempts failed to earn sufficient support. Even ration with international partners is not only Chinese mainland, where the Communist famines imposed by the Communists upon when divestment measures do pass in student antithetical to the very idea of a university, but Party continues to maintain one-party rule. the peasantry. While Chinese communism government, university administrators have can actually have tangible adverse effects on But those democratic institutions have been has had its share of factional struggles since moved quickly to block their implementa- student course enrollment and even school steadily eroding. Hong Kong’s leader, the chief Mao’s death in 1976, the same Communist tion, as happened last year at Swarthmore choice. No student should have to consider an executive, is currently elected by a 1,200-mem- Party remains in power now, carrying out College and Brown University. individual professor’s political agenda when ber election committee—a pro-Beijing body the same abuses. Over the last year, up to While no major university in the United registering for courses or choosing a major. chosen by just 6 percent of eligible voters. 1.5 million members of the Muslim Uighur States has ever implemented divestment Students should be able to pursue any degree, China has also been successful in barring minority in northwestern China have been from Israel, the collegiate BDS movement has any course or any study-abroad destination some elected pro-democracy politicians from herded into “re-education camps.” Thou- managed to inflame tensions among student without fear that someone else’s politics will taking their seats in the 70-member Legisla- sands of miles away, in Hong Kong, protes- groups and damage campus climates across limit their own educational journey. tive Council, at the same time as boosting that tors have a credible fear that a similar fate the country. Anti-Semitic ideology will pose threats to council’s pro-Beijing orientation. awaits them. BDS activists are relentless, open to shift- healthy campus life this year in other vehicles The current spate of protests was triggered That fear was eloquently summarized by ing their strategy to use campuses to try to besides academic boycotts. Already, a pair of by a now-withdrawn legislative measure that one Hong Kong protester in an open letter punish Israel while vilifying Jewish students in Israeli student athletes at the University of would have allowed the extradition of Hong to the people of China, circulated during the pursuit of their cause. And this year, students Indianapolis found a swastika on the wall as Kong residents to mainland China. Having last week by Chinese pro-democracy activ- should expect to see an uptick in attempts to they were moving in to their dorm. Graffiti defeated that proposal, the protest movement is ists to journalists in the U.S. “Hong Kong’s introduce academic boycotts against Israel. incidents are increasingly commonplace on now seeking broader democratic reform—and silent majority and many people of conscience In the last year alone, three American cam- campuses and other forms of harassment, many activists openly say that they identify as have gradually understood the tactics of puses were rattled by attempts to sever ties including mock eviction notices, continue to Hong Kongers rather than Chinese, and that the totalitarian government,” the protester with Israeli academia. At New York University, disenfranchise Israel-supporting students On they want independence outright. explained. “They understand that the rule of more than 50 campus groups and an academic the eight campuses where divestment failed Even without the direct intervention of law, democracy and freedom are just the lies department pledged not to affiliate with NYU’s last year, there’s likely to be some attempt to Beijing, the response of the Hong Kong au- the rulers use to take control of power. A Tel Aviv academic center (never mind that the revive a traditional BDS push in the next year. thorities to the protests has been shameful. totalitarian government only knows how to Department of Social and Cultural Analysis Students will also undoubtedly see a contin- Peaceful demonstrators have been gassed and use lies, fears and violence to control the had nothing to do with NYU Tel Aviv). A pair ued campus presence from white-nationalist beaten by armed police officers, in some cases of instructors at the University of Michigan groups, which have increased their college aided by criminals associated with the Chinese Hong Kong on page 14A declined to write letters of recommendation for activities. otherwise qualified students to study abroad, While other concerns are sure to pop up THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. simply because those students planned to this year for Jewish and pro-Israel students, study in Israel. the academic boycott against Israel has the Perhaps most concerning was how most potential for coordinated activity. 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Jim Shipley • Mel Pearlman they circumvent the need for buy-in from that academic boycotts pose to the health of David Bornstein an entire administrative or student body. By the university environment and make clear MAILING ADDRESS PHONE NUMBER pursuing boycotts of Israel at the individual that these attacks on academic freedom are P.O. Box 300742 (407) 834-8787 Production Department not welcome on any campus. Fern Park, FL 32730 FAX (407) 831-0507 David Lehman • Gil Dombrosky or departmental level, anti-Israel policies are Zev Hurwitz is the American Jewish Com- email: [email protected] Joyce Gore easier to implement and can start negatively af- fecting student life and academia much sooner. mittee’s director of campus affairs. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 PAGE 5A Tlaib/Omar non-trip straight out of the movies By Jonathan Feldstein then allowing Tlaib to do so and the destruction of Israel. either retreat in defeat or on film. Israel tries to explain hourly, most media outlets are on humanitarian grounds to Their trip would have been push back and hurt the riot- who started the trouble, and not reliable to offer context or As the dust settles over the visit her elderly grandmother an unabashed Anti-Israel ers, possibly including the the world will laugh as usual nuance. Some of the nuance planned, canceled, re-sched- was a no-win situation. Propaganda Tour that would terror-supporting congress- and call it an apartheid state.” missing in most reports this uled and then canceled-again Tlaib and Omar weren’t make Yasser Arafat blush in women. People are jostled, 3. “Best case scenario: week include the following: trip to Israel by Congress- going to give Israel any slack. his grave. fall, and are hurt—possibly No riots, scuffles, injuries, 1. Assuming that Prime women Rashida Tlaib and Their delegation-of-two to Given the hate and malice, including Tlaib and Omar. or deaths. There are only Minister Netanyahu caved Ilhan Omar, one thing comes “Palestine” made that abun- allowing Tlaib and Omar to Pulitzer prize-winning photos pictures of Tlaib hugging to President Trump. If it to mind offering perspective dantly clear. That’s why they come to Israel could have depicting only the anti-Israel her grandmother, embrac- weren’t so transparent it on how this played out: The were traveling separately from ended in any number of sce- narrative go viral immediately ing distant cousins, tears would be funny. For so many scene from “Argo” when the the largest ever delegation of narios that would have cre- making front page news all filling their eyes. There are who hate everything about CIA affirms that “This is the democratic congressmen to ated no less bad PR for Israel, over the world.” photos of Omar praying at the Donald Trump, the assump- best bad idea we have.” Why? Israel. The closest they got perhaps much worse. It could 2. “Tlaib and Omar arrive at Temple Mount with a throng tion is that he made Israel’s Because no matter what had to any official meeting with have put both Israelis and the Temple Mount. They are of adoring Muslim women, decision. People project their happened, Israel only had bad Israeli representatives would Palestinian Arabs in harms followed by a mob of Islamists raising her hands to Allah in disgust with Trump on Israel choices. have been dinner in a kosher way. Imagine one of a variety who provoke IDF soldiers. A supplication against the Zion- and Netanyahu without any Why the best bad option? Moroccan restaurant. of deliberately choreographed riot ensues in which either ist occupier, shedding tears awareness that there are Certainly, Israel could have Tlaib and Omar were, and situations as my good friend, Tlaib or Omar get injured: of Muslim solidarity, which other diplomatic and security handled its decision much bet- remain, out to delegitimize Abe, a Jordanian-born Ameri- even just a bruised knee, will be seen by every one of concerns. There’s no aware- ter. But either way, they played and malign Israel at every can academic depicts: or a slight concussion. Or the 1.2 billion Muslims from ness that almost nothing into the hands of the media turn. Banning them may 1. “Tlaib and Omar join the congresswomen are not Jakarta to Detroit. Violence is is being done in Israel now hungry rabid anti-Semites have indeed been the least thousands of Arabs at an injured themselves, but they a preferred, but not a neces- without an eye on next who disgrace the U.S. Con- bad idea. Their independent Israeli checkpoint. The mob rush to help those who have sary, condition for Pallywood month’s election. While U.S. gress with their hateful views. itinerary was organized by starts pressing and menac- fallen (an easy thing to do). productions.” Not allowing them to visit, a group that supports terror ing IDF soldiers. The latter It’s all dramatic and it’s all A news cycle that changes Tlaib on page 15A The Soylent Green New Deal is three years away By Marilyn M. if that’s what the mother and len or otherwise improperly a dystopian film where in able Care Act, including $56 trust fund that finances much Singleton, M.D., J.D. the family desired, and then obtained $5.4 million from 2022, with rampant food billion from hospitals serving of the Medicare program is a discussion would ensue 158 incapacitated victims, shortages and homelessness, poor people. Recall that an projected to run out in 2026, In an effort to cut carbon between the physicians and mostly older adults. Moreover, the only food available is a ethics advisor for ObamaCare, let’s hope these compassion- emissions from burials and the mother.” such crimes were frequently high-energy wafer purport- Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, advo- ate people realize that the first cremations, the state of Now we must be acutely overlooked by judges. edly made from plankton. cates for the “Complete Lives losers of Medicare for All are Washington, led by staunch aware of what is happen- Soon after coming into of- Alas, we witness humans System” of medical care where our elders. environmentalist Governor ing at the other end of life’s fice, President Trump signed entering a processing center resources are directed to those Dr. Singleton is a board- Jay Inslee, became the first spectrum. In the U.S., elders into law the Elder Abuse for a happy death and emerg- with “future usefulness.” Dr. certified anesthesiologist. She U.S. state to legalize human are all too often considered Prevention and Prosecution ing as the main ingredient of Emanuel proudly claims he is president of the Association composting. To think, people expendable by society at large Act that provided for 90 Soylent Green. wants to die at 75 years of age. of American Physicians and can be criminally prosecuted and sadly, by their own fami- prosecutors and “elder justice I contend that the trend Tell that to the countless lives Surgeons. She graduated for disrespecting a human lies. Such disregard in some coordinators” nationally to of placing older people into Mother Teresa transformed from Stanford and earned her corpse, a symbol of a once-liv- 10 million cases escalates to prosecute those committing hospice before the ink is when she was her 80s. Tell that MD at UCSF Medical School. ing person. But the religion of abuse in many forms. Govern- elder abuse, including guard- dry on the hospital admis- to John Glenn, who went back Dr. Singleton completed 2 Mother Earth now supersedes ment-certified entities make ianship cases. Currently, a sion papers is a new form into space for 9 days at 77, and years of Surgery residency all cultural decency. a significant contribution to sleepy little bill in the wings, of elder abuse. Hospice has to the 20 million other over-75 at UCSF, then her Anesthe- We’ve already cemented this contemptible crime. the Stamp Out Elder Abuse become the new Medicare disposables—or should I say, sia residency at Harvard’s the contempt for life at the In many states court- Act, will direct the proceeds cash cow for unscrupulous recyclables. Beth Israel Hospital. While front end. I thought we had appointed guardians cravenly of a new postage stamp to facility owners who abuse Quite coincidentally, elimi- still working in the operat- evolved since the ancient plunder their wards’ assets enforcing laws against elder and neglect patients. One nating the over-75 crowd from ing room, she attended UC Greek elders determined that with no repercussions. A U.S. abuse. study found that 8 percent of the insurance pool would help Berkeley Law School, focus- only the strong newborns Government Accountability These new laws may be the hospices studied did not fund government-sponsored ing on constitutional law and survived and the weak were Office report identified hun- for naught with the advent provide a single skilled visit— insurance for this country’s administrative law. She in- left to die. Virginia’s Gover- dreds of allegations of abuse, of more physician-assisted from a nurse, doctor, social remaining uninsured. In terned at the National Health nor Ralph Northam made it neglect, and exploitation by suicide laws. New Jersey is worker, or therapist—to any other words, hurry up and die Law Project and practiced clear that infants were once guardians in 45 states and the the latest, complete with a patients who were receiving before the Medicare program insurance and health law. again throwaways at will. In District of Columbia between cute acronym: MAID—Medi- routine home care in the last goes bankrupt. She teaches classes in the explaining the procedure of 1990 and 2010. An investiga- cal Aid in Dying. All the calls two days of life in 2014. My gratitude goes to those recognition of elder abuse an “abortion” of a child who tion of a small sampling of the for government-controlled Recall that President congresspersons who recog- and constitutional law for was born alive, he said “the allegations found that court- medicine are terrifying to Obama robbed Medicare of nize that our elders need pro- non-lawyers. She lives in infant would be resuscitated appointed guardians had sto- those of us who remember $716 billion to fund the Afford- tection. Given that the federal Oakland, Ca. Miftah praised the killer of senator’s niece and then organized Tlaib’s trip By Moshe Phillips The official Miftah website in Israel as the Coastal Road interfere in the internal affairs Baker writes that the murders It should insist that Tlaib features an essay by one of Massacre. They slaughtered of others. If the Palestinians Mughrabi carried out were “a explain the nature of her re- First, they praised the ter- the group’s leaders, Johara 37 bus passengers. That re- want to name a street after military operation.” lationship with Miftah and the rorist who murdered a U.S. Baker, profusely praising Da- mains the highest casualty one of their national heroes, Shooting an American reasons behind her decision senator’s niece. Then they lal Mughrabi, the murderer of toll in any terrorist attack in regardless of how this person Jewish nature photographer to embrace those who praise were chosen by Congress- Gail Rubin, the niece of the Israel’s history. is perceived by Israel, that is in the head was a “military the murderer of a member of woman Rashida Tlaib to late U.S. Senator Abraham Baker’s praise of mass- their business.” operation,” and the shooter a U.S. senator’s family. organize her now-canceled Ribicoff, Democrat of Con- murderer Mughrabi appears So, the murderer of a was a “hero.” Moshe Phillips is national trip to Israel. necticut. in her article, titled “Let Us U.S. senator’s niece is “a That’s the group that Rep. director of Herut North Amer- Tlaib’s outrageous choice of Baker is not some minor Honor Our Own,” which to Palestinian fighter” and a Rashida Tlaib put in charge ica’s U.S. division; Herut is an the pro-terrorist group “Mif- figure at Miftah. At the time this day appears on the Miftah “hero.” Baker’s use of quota- of her proposed trip to Israel. international movement for tah” to run her trip is a slap in she wrote her article praising website. tion marks around the term The House Ethics Committee Zionist pride and education. the face of the United States Mughrabi, she was identified The article strongly defends ‘terrorist’ makes it clear that should immediately inves- Herut’s website is https:// Congress and deserves to be as the group’s “Director of the right of the Palestinian she rejects that description. tigate this sordid episode. herutna.org. investigated by the House the Media and Information Authority to pay salaries to Ethics Committee. Department.” Elsewhere on imprisoned terrorists and the The fact that Rep. Tlaib the Miftah website, she is families of dead terrorists. chose Miftah to organizer listed with other titles. Last Baker denounces Israel for her trip is no secret; it was year, she was one of Miftah’s objecting to such salaries, and widely reported by major representatives at a gathering for objecting to the PA’s policy news media. The problem to discuss “Possible Repercus- of naming parks, streets and is that nobody is explaining sions of the Collapse of the other venues after Mugrabi what “Miftah” really is. The International Order on the and other terrorists. New York Times, for example, Palestinian Issue.” Here’s what she writes reported only that Miftah is a Mughrabi was the leader of about Mughrabi: group “that promotes ‘global a PLO death squad that came “When Palestinians named awareness and knowledge of ashore in northern Israel early a square after Dalal Al Mu- Palestinian realities.’” one morning in March 1978. ghrabi, a Palestinian fighter Ironically, one the “Pal- Gail Rubin, a nature photog- who was killed during a mili- estinian realities” of which rapher, was walking along the tary operation against Israel Miftah reminds us is that the beach. Mughrabi shot her in in 1978, Israel was up in arms, Palestinian Authority and its the head. claiming the Palestinians American supporters regard Then Mughrabi and her should not be allowed to name Palestinian Arab murderers of gang hijacked an Israeli bus streets or squares after ‘ter- American citizens as heroes. and carried out what is known rorists’... Countries should not PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 What’s A COMPREHENSIVE Ohio man arrested after COMMUNITY LIGHT Happening CALENDAR SHABBAT CANDLES AT For inclusion in the What’s Happening Calendar, copy must be sent on sepa- threatening to shoot up JCC rate sheet and clearly marked for Calendar. Submit copy via: e-mail (news@ AUG. 30 orlandoheritage.com); mail (P.O. Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730-0742); 7:30 p.m. By Bob Jacob issued Aug. 16 and the FBI Vio- Youngstown Jewish commu- fax (407-831-0507); or drop it by the office (207 O’Brien Rd., Ste. 101, Fern SEPT. 6 lent Crimes Task Force raided nity about the incident. Park) Deadline is Wednesday noon, 10 days prior to publication. 7:22 p.m. (CJN via JNS)—A New Reardon’s house on Eastwood He told the Cleveland Middletown Village man was Drive. Police seized dozens Jewish News on Aug. 17 that MORNING AND EVENING MINYANS (Call synagogue to confirm time.) arrested on Aug. 17 after police of rounds of ammo, several additional security was on the Chabad of South Orlando—Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Saturday, said he made a threat toward semi-automatic weapons, a campus, at area synagogues 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m., 407-354-3660. the Jewish Community Center gas mask and bulletproof and a swim club two miles Congregation Ahavas Yisrael—Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 9 of Youngstown, Ohio. armor. They also found anti- away, also on Shabbat. He said a.m., 407-644-2500. James Reardon, Jr., 20, Semitic and white nationalist security will remain increased Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona—Monday, 8 a.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m., 904- is being held in Mahoning propaganda. for the “near future.” 672-9300. County Jail in Youngstown Reardon was not home The following is an excerpt Congregation Ohev Shalom—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-298-4650. on telecommunications ha- during the search, but ar- from a statement read by Lip- GOBOR Community Minyan at Jewish Academy of Orlando—Monday—Friday, 7:45 a.m.—8:30 rassment and aggravated rived home shortly after law kin during an Aug. 17 news a.m. menacing charges, according enforcement arrived and was conference: Temple Israel—Sunday, 9 a.m., 407-647-3055. to two Youngstown television taken into custody, the televi- “While we have no com- stations. sion stations reported. ment about Mr. Reardon and FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 New Middletown Police Reardon is being held on the criminal justice process Ahavas Yisrael—Kabbalat, 30 minutes before sundown. Chief Vincent D’Egidio said $250,000 bond with a court that will determine what Reardon posted a video July hearing planned Aug. 19, the charges might be brought SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 11 on Instagram of a man television stations said. against him, I want to stress Torah Portion—Re’eh: Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17; Haftarah: Isaiah 54:11-55:5. shooting a semi-automatic New Middletown is about 14 today that this is a clear rifle with sirens and screams miles south of Youngstown. example of everything going SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 in the background with the The Gyspy Lane campus right. The system worked. We COS Pedalers—Ride your bicycle with other COSers, Departure time: 8 a.m. at Seminole caption: “Police identified the on which the JCC is located take very seriously the need Wekiva trail. Meet at the San Sebastian Trailhead off SR 436 and ride 13 miles north to just Youngstown Jewish Family also includes: the Youngstown to be vigilant to ensure the south of SR 46 near Sanford. Shorter ride: stop at Panera, 7 miles from the ride start point. Community shooter as local Area Jewish Federation; Levy safety of all members of the white nationalist Seamus Gardens, an assisted-living local Jewish community, as MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 O’Rearedon,” according to facility; Heritage Manor, a well as all members and guests The Roth Family JCC is closed for Labor Day. WKBN and WFMJ. nursing home; Akiva Acad- of our Jewish Community The post tagged the Jew- emy, a Jewish day school; and Center and our other agen- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 ish Community Center of Jewish Family Services. cies. Security has become a Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando—Meeting with Dr. Diane Jacobs and Dr. Richard Youngstown. Andy Lipkin, executive vital part of the mission of Signer who will help those who want to build their family tree jumpstart their research. 7-9 The television stations vice president of the federa- p.m. at The Roth Family JCC. Cost: Free for members; $5, nonmembers. 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The test years and four months ahead instruction, which adjusts scores, from April 2019, were of their current grade level. learning, projects, home- taken using the nationally “We are always grateful work, and classwork to meet recognized Iowa Test of Basic to see our students’ scores, the needs of each individual Skills®, commonly known and even more delighted student. Through differenti- as the “Iowa Assessments.” about the upper grades’ ated learning, it’s not just The Iowa Assessment is a performance,” said Alan about the speed at which a nationally standardized Rusonik, who is beginning student covers the material; achievement test for K-12 his sixth year of Head of more often it is about the students, allowing schools School. “We are proud that depth of their study. This to compare their students’ Jewish Academy of Orlando could include opportunities scores to national norms is a top-ranking school, not for instruction beyond their in Reading, Language Arts, only in Orlando but in our current grade level to more Mathematics, Social Studies country. challenging material.” and Science. This year, the The test is used by a Teaching to the test is not upper grades outperformed large number of private the practice of the Jewish their past performance, with schools and various states Academy of Orlando. “We average scores two and three to measure grade-level per- use this test for a variety years ahead of their peers. formance. It is often paired of reasons. One is to get a The Iowa Assessments with an IQ instrument such glimpse of how our student rank the students’ scores by as WISC®-IV or the CogAT® body is performing against have mastered benchmarks whole child, and we have a ida students of all faiths grade level equivalents. As for entrance into gifted and national norms. It is one of at each grade level,” said Ru- dual-focus as educators. We from grades kindergarten a general guide, a score of talented programs and Na- many indicators teachers use sonik. “These tests also allow foster both academic excel- through fifth. The school 8.4 for a fifth grader means tional Honor Society. to gauge how well students us to understand where we lence and social-emotional delivers a whole-child edu- need to refine and review our growth, cultivating values cation fostering academic curriculum to stay competi- of kindness, self-awareness, excellence and character tive. Our scores prove that we mindfulness, and character.” education rooted in Jewish JFS Orlando have been able to combine To further this thought, values. 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I decided I was going (JFS Orlando) provides social working over 90 hours per to go ahead and focus on our programs and services to week. “It was so much but stability.” children and families of all Y we kept losing everything,” One of the favorite things faiths in the Central Florida Call us to receive your free Final Wishes Organizer! she recalls. “We lost our Gerline learned at JFS was community. JFS supports apartment. There was an budgeting. “It kind of made efforts to prevent hunger eviction. I finally decided to me feel a little bit guilty,” and homelessness, as well 407-695-CARE (2273) go my separate way and start she admits. “Because when as provides mental health to live for myself.” I had to write down my ex- counseling to those in need. www. DeGusipeFuneralHome.com That’s when Gerline met penses, and realize what I For more information on her husband. 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Palestinian and Israeli leaders master’s degree in teaching “We need not mutual with Congress members, no English, had been shielded boycotts and hostility but lawmaker asked New Story from politics by his parents rather engagement and Leadership for one of each— because of their belief that organizing and common until Jamie Raskin did. political activism poses work,” said Raskin, a profes- This summer, Eran Nissan dangers for West Bank Pal- sor of constitutional law. and Mohammed Ahmad have estinians. “I’m the academic, and I’ve been interning in the office “Mo, as I understood it, always been opposed to the of the Maryland Democrat, was not politically engaged, idea we’ll make progress bonding over constituent his family tried to keep him by isolating ourselves from work. away from politics,’ Raskin each other.” No one knew until well into said of Ahmad. “It was moving New Story Leadership, the summer, however, that the to me—Mo had never been to funded mostly by small do- two young men had a deeper the United States before. He nations from the Virginia- connection than they real- said it was a dream to get to Maryland-D.C. area, has ized: When Ahmad described work in the U.S. Congress.” graduated about 100 interns Ron Kampeas the unsettling nightly intru- Raskin, whose parents were over the past decade, all placed Mohammed Ahmad (l) and Eran Nissan speak at a New Voices Leadership event on sions by Israeli troops and prominent in the civil rights with Democrats, despite what Capitol Hill, July 11, 2019. their trained search dogs into movement, routinely brings its director, Rawan Odeh, said his West Bank village, Azzun, Palestinians and Israelis into was a concentrated effort to studio that brings Israelis and life, I could see someone who for the Capitol Hill event that it dawned on Nissan that he his office to work together bring a Republican on board. Palestinians together in Beit looks like me, who talks like Nissan and Ahmad discovered had led such patrols while on business or nonprofit One prominent GOP member Jallah, the village between me, who is me, in power,” said their deeper connection. Ahmad lived there. ventures, in part to show his was set to bring on an intern Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Thawra Abukhdier, an intern “We went around the room That Nissan and Ahmad be- staff that it can be done. this summer, she said, but A New Leadership Story from Jerusalem. and introduced ourselves,” came friends thrilled Raskin, “I’m a middle child and I’m backed out at the last minute event featuring eight interns Ahmed and Nissan bonded Nissan recalled at that session. who since his 2016 election always drawn to the efforts to because of the optics of buying telling their stories packed as interns, taking on the tasks As Ahmad recounted his story has made a name for himself bring people together,” the into a dialogue program at a a Hill conference room on expected of congressional of nightly raids, Nissan real- among Congress members lawmaker said. time when the Trump admin- a night flooded with rain- interns: the stimulating (at- ized that “I was that soldier for encouraging Israeli-Pal- Earlier this year he spear- istration has cut funding to storms. tending the plethora of brief- dozens of times.” Israel says estinian reconciliation—the headed a closed-door meeting the traditional coexistence “We tend to get the more ings that fill up the summer such raids are necessary to reason why he asked for one between Jewish Democrats in programs. left-wing Israelis, those who calendar) and the less so, defend Israeli civilians and of each. (Raskin also brings on the caucus and Reps. Rashida It’s modeled on an older have an awareness and under- like answering constituent catch those who try to harm an unusually high number of Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Ireland-Northern Ireland standing of what the occupa- calls, where they encountered them. summer interns, with over 30 Omar of Minnesota, two Mus- program that has produced tion presents to the Palestin- curiosity about their accents. “Eran told me he might in his offices and another 100 lim congresswomen who back at least one famous gradu- ian people,” Odeh said. Nissan recalled a meet- have been one of the soldiers attached to Democracy Sum- the Boycott, Divestment and ate: Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Participating lawmakers ing with a delegation from behind the doors,” Ahmad mer, a social justice program.) Sanctions movement target- taoiseach, or prime minister. who were able to take time Christians United for Israel, a recalled. Azzun is a village “That’s a really wonderful ing Israel. Odeh, perhaps quixotically, out from a busy voting night group that supports the most near Qalqilya in the northern byproduct of this program,” “It’s easy enough to figure entertains similar hopes for on the Hill lavished praise on hawkish of Israeli policies, a West Bank. Raskin said in an interview, out reasons why one group the Israeli-Palestinian pro- their interns; among them considerable distance from An audience member at referring to the friendship hates another,” Raskin said. gram, noting that alumni stay were Tlaib and Omar. The Pal- his own political views. the Capitol Hill event asked between Ahmad and Nissan. “The real challenge is to find in touch helping to select in- estinians, particularly, were “It was fascinating to hear Ahmad, inevitably, how did He made time to have lunch common ground to build a terns and running a number of smitten with Tlaib, whose how people talk about the that make you feel? with the two men toward the positive future.” programs in Israel. One of the family is from the West Bank. conflict,” he said. “Being angry is not the end of the internship. That thinking, he said, in- programs is a monthly yoga “For the first time in my It was during preparation solution,” he said. Netanyahu honors memories of Ukrainian Jews murdered in 1941 at Babi Yar (JNS)—Israeli Prime Min- the site, where an estimated their memory and at the same ister Benjamin Netanyahu 33,771 Jews were massacred time I say in a clear voice, and Ukrainian President in September 1941. precisely in this place, that it Volodymyr Zelensky attended “Babi Yar is endless pain. In is our constant duty to stand a memorial ceremony on Mon- this grave, the mass grave here against murderous ideolo- day for the Ukrainian Jews behind me, tens of thousands gies in order to ensure that murdered at Babi Yar during of Ukrainian Jews and many there will never be another World War II. non-Jews were murdered,” Babi Yar.” The two leaders laid wreaths said Netanyahu. “As prime “For humanity, Babi Yar at the menorah monument of minister of Israel, I honor is a warning sign. For Jews, Portable Oxygen For The Way Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO You Want to Live Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Aug. 19, 2019 at a cer- emony in memory of Ukrainian Jews who were murdered at Babi Yar during World War II. Babi Yar is an eternal im- and sisters 78 years ago on slaughtering knife and as the perative. We will always de- the edge of the killing field. poet declared, the slaughterer fend ourselves by ourselves They were standing right slaughtered.” against any enemy,” he here, a very small distance Netanyahu thanked Zelen- continued. “The Holocaust from us—naked, beaten and sky for “efforts to preserve the is the worst of humanity’s humiliated. At one point, memory of the Holocaust.” horrors. The Holocaust is the they understood, and in their Without citing anything greatest of Jewish tragedies, eyes was paralyzing horror. specific, he told the Ukrainian and there have been many Their hearts were torn by leader: “You are continuing tragedies.” evil cruelty. The hand of the your efforts in the war against “I can see our brothers murderers reached for the anti-Semitism.” Includes Everything You Need to Regain Your Freedom At just 2.8* lbs, the Inogen One G4 is the ultralight portable oxygen Chabad of South Orlando offers concentrator you have been waiting for. The Inogen One G4 is approximately half the size of the Inogen One G3. Meets FAA Requirements for Travel two Hebrew schools Chabad of South Orlando Brook Town Center, two culture, bar/bat mitzvah now offers Hebrew school for Sundays a month, 11 a.m. preparations, and holiday JUST grades K-7 in two locations: -1 p.m. programs. 2.8 LBS. REQUEST YOUR FREE INFO KIT TODAY! 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Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, received this note from his I SHALL RETURN!! 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena teacher after completing a Zachary Aaron Yousha One for the road... course at Northwestern Uni- Q: Why do seagulls fly over the sea? versity in Illinois: “Zach, throughout the week, your ability to A: If they flew over the bay, they’d be “bagels” Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) Ruth Donenfeld enjoys Shabbat services at Cascade Heights By Hope McCormack to-be and they were married sometime after. Due to his On Aug. 2nd, Ruth Donen- career in the Air Force, their feld, a new resident of Cascade family was often forced to Heights, enjoyed her first ser- move all over the country. In vice with the Jewish Pavilion. 1955, her husband was trans- Michelle Bilsky, a volunteer for ferred to a station in Florida the Jewish Pavilion, led the were she got her first taste service. Donenfeld had moved of the Sunshine State. Her in just three weeks prior to son was born the following coming to her first service year in 1956. However, their and she found the atmosphere stay was short-lived and the pleasant. She had an interest- Donenfelds were on the move ing life growing up during once more. Ruth Donenfeld some of the greatest tragedies wouldn’t move back to Florida and triumphs of the 1900s. until 1980. Anti-semitism was rampant Following her husband’s during her childhood. She passing, Donenfeld took com- recalled the during her 4th fort in her children and con- grade year a childhood friend tinued to move forward. After told her they could no longer years of living on her own, being play with her because Donenfeld made the decision she was Jewish. As she grew to move into Cascade Heights older, Donenfeld felt the need and her daughter, Jeffri Moore, to help those that were in need keeps her mother company and became a relief worker when she can. They enjoyed the during World War II. service performed by Michelle After the war, Donenfeld Bilsky and they look forward met her Air Force husband- to the services ahead. Ruth Donenfeld and her daughter, Jeffri Moore. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 Israeli Couscous Pilaf: A toasty, fragrant and fresh side dish By Lynda Balslev 1 cup Israeli couscous 2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted Israeli couscous, known in Israel as ptitim, which means 2 tablespoons currants “flakes” in Hebrew, is a pearl-shaped, pasta-like product with a 2 tablespoons finely chopped mint delicious toasted wheat flavor. It was invented in Israel’s early Directions: years as an inexpensive starch that was more affordable than 1. Combine the stock, salt, cardamom, cinnamon and pricey rice. Nowadays it’s a nostalgic comfort food in the Israeli saffron in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over kitchen, but has also grown in popularity abroad and among medium heat. chefs in the past 30 years. It’s easily found in the U.S., where 2. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add it’s marketed as Israeli or pearl couscous. the onion and saute until softened without coloring, about 2 In this recipe, I’ve paired Israeli couscous with warm spices, minutes. Add the couscous and cook, stirring, until lightly fresh mint, currants and toasted pine nuts for a textural, toasted, about 1 minute. flavorsome dish. It’s an easily adaptable side that’s suited to 3. Carefully add the stock to the pan and stir to combine. any occasion. Cover the pan and simmer over medium-low heat until the Make sure to check out the surprising history of Israeli liquid has been absorbed and the couscous is tender, 8 to 10 couscous. minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, remove the lid and Ingredients: fluff the couscous with a fork. Lay a clean dish towel over 1 1/4 cups chicken stock the pan, without touching the couscous, and place the lid 1/2 teaspoon sea salt over the towel. Let stand for 5 minutes to allow the towel to 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom absorb the steam. pinch of ground cinnamon 4. Stir in the pine nuts, currants and mint. Serve warm or generous pinch saffron threads at room temperature. Serves 3-4 as a side. 1 tablespoon olive oil This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. Published 1/4 cup finely chopped yellow onion by The Nosher, a 70 Faces Media brand Veggie shwarma pita sandwich: A meat-free alternative for lunch or dinner Note: You can make each element of the pitas a day ahead and Directions: stuff the pitas when you’re ready to enjoy (reheat the eggplants 1. Brush the eggplants generously with olive oil. for a minute in the microwave before serving). 2. Heat a large frying pan and add 1 tablespoon olive oil. Add Ingredients: the eggplant slices to the pan. Make sure each piece is touch- For the eggplant steaks: ing the surface of the pan; you may need to work in batches. 5 tablespoons olive oil Once the bottom sides have softened and become golden, turn 1 large eggplant, sliced lengthwise into 5-6 slices 1-inch-thick them over. Add a little more oil if necessary. Press down on 2 tablespoons tomato paste the slices with a spatula or wooden spoon to help them cook 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped through. Transfer the eggplant onto a paper towel to remove 1 teaspoon honey the excess oil. 1/2 teaspoon shwarma spice 3. To make the parsley salad, combine the chopped parsley with 1/4 teaspoon chili powder the garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt. sea salt 4. Combine the sliced cabbage with the lemon juice, sea 1/2 cup water salt, chili flakes and olive oil; mix well. Set aside so it softens For the parsley salad: and pickles. 1 small bunch of fresh parsley, washed and dried, very finely 5. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in the same pan that you chopped used for the eggplants and add the garlic. Once it becomes By Emanuelle Lee zest of 1 lemon slightly golden and aromatic, add the tomato paste and mix 1/2 clove garlic, crushed to soften it. Add a pinch of sea salt, the honey, shwarma spice This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. juice of 1 lemon and chili powder. Add 1/2 cup water and mix until you have Pita bread is often stuffed with spiced, shaved shwarma meat 1 tablespoon olive oil a silky consistency. or crunchy, deep-fried falafel. But my version of a pita sand- a pinch of sea salt 6. Add the cooked eggplant slices back into the sauce, coat- wich is a hearty vegetarian alternative to a meat-stuffed pita, For the pickled cabbage: ing them on all sides. Leave each piece to slightly caramelize, inspired by the anything-but-ordinary stuffed pita sandwiches 1/4 white or red cabbage, stem removed and very finely sliced turning them over once the bottoms are slightly sticky and of Miznon from iconic Israeli chef Eyal Shani. juice of 2 lemons browning, about 2 minutes on each side. Eggplant is a common ingredient in Israeli and Middle 1/2 teaspoon dried chili flakes 7. To serve, warm the pitas in the microwave for 30 seconds Eastern cooking. After all, it is meaty, delicious, versatile and 1/2 teaspoon sea salt or in the oven for three minutes. Cut the tops off the pitas can cook up quickly—ideal for weeknight meals. I serve these 1/2 teaspoon olive oil (don’t discard them!) and stuff each one with some cabbage, sandwiches with spicy pickled cabbage, just like they do at the To serve: 2 1/2 eggplant steaks, a few spoons of yogurt and finally the shwarma shops, along with yogurt and chopped parsley for 2 pieces of fluffy pita bread parsley salad. Enjoy the extra pickled cabbage, yogurt and some bright freshness. 4 tablespoons plain yogurt, or Greek yogurt parsley salad with the leftover pita tops. Serves 2.

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Israel boycott movement. A planned meetings in eastern ing Jewish blood libel during 2017 law entitles the state Jerusalem. Passover through its publica- Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- to deny entry to boycott Omar and Tlaib planned to tion of an Arabic-language 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat activists. visit Jerusalem’s holy sites, article that briefly addressed services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. (Tlaib was granted entry on including the Western Wall the subject.” But the group Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. a humanitarian trip to visit and the Church of the Holy deleted the article from its her grandmother in the West Sepulchre. They additionally site, apologized and said it betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. Bank. First she accepted, but planned to visit the Al-Aqsa disciplined Al Zaru. Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. hours later rejected.) mosque, which is located at “The said staffer has been congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Explaining the decision, the Temple Mount, a Jew- reprimanded and all our Prime Minister Benjamin ish holy site also revered by staff has been informed as to Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Netanyahu cited the lawmak- Muslims as the Noble Sanc- the disgusting and repulsive Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. ers’ itinerary, which he said tuary. The remainder of the phenomena of blood libel or Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; “reveals that the sole purpose trip took them to meetings accusation, including its use Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. of their visit is to harm Is- and tours in the West Bank against Jews,” the apology rael and increase incitement cities of Hebron, Bethlehem said. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, against it.” and Ramallah, including at a In a statement, Miftah Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. What was on this itinerary? refugee camp. called the ban on Omar and Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. Omar outlined it in a series of Who organized the trip Tlaib “an affront to the Ameri- bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. tweets on Friday. Miftah, a Palestinian NGO can people and their represen- Where they would have chaired by Ashrawi, organized tatives. It is an assault on the Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation gone the trip. Its website says its Palestinian people’s right to holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. In broad strokes, the itin- mission is to “promote the reach out to decision-makers com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. erary—titled “Delegation to principles of democracy and and other actors from around Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; good governance within vari- the world.” The group said it Palestine”—took Tlaib and www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Omar through major Pales- ous components of Palestin- wanted to facilitate Omar and tinian population centers in ian society” and to “engage Tlaib’s “direct contact with Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., Jerusalem and the West Bank, local and international public the Palestinian people, who Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. and to a string of meetings opinion and official circles on are subject to Israel’s cruel Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; with Palestinian and left-wing the Palestinian cause.” regime of colonization, op- www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th Israeli nonprofits and activ- The group, like many pression and land grab.” ists, as well as international Palestinian civil society Ashrawi has not returned Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. human rights groups. organizations, supports the a Jewish Telegraphic Agency Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. “Let’s be clear: the goal of movement to boycott Israel. request for comment. Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- our trip was to witness first- But it has also praised Pal- This was not the first hand what is happening on estinian suicide bombers congressional delegation to 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. the ground in Palestine and and published an age-old Palestinian areas sponsored Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- hear from stakeholders—our anti-Semitic stereotype, for by Miftah. Politico first re- 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. which it later apologized. ported Friday that Miftah job as members of Congress,” Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for she tweeted. Netanyahu described Miftah co-sponsored a trip by five Omar wrote that the dele- as “an avid supporter of BDS, democratic congressmen to services and holiday schedules. gation was going to meet with and among whose members Israel and the West Bank in Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- Israeli lawmakers—including are those who have expressed 2016 that was allowed into gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. Jewish ones. She did not say support for terrorism against Israel without a problem. Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- which members of Knesset, Israel.” The participants were Matt Israel’s parliament, they A report on the group’s site Cartwright, Dan Kildee, Hank Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv planned to meet. The law- from 2006 about Palestinian Johnson, Luis Gutierrez and Please call for times. makers were also scheduled women in the second inti- Mark Pocan. Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- to meet a Palestinian official, fada praises Wafa Idris, who The itinerary of that trip Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Hanan Ashrawi, a member killed one Israeli civilian and was similar to Omar and of the executive committee injured 150 people in a 2002 Tlaib’s would-be visit. The Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- of the Palestine Liberation suicide bombing in downtown representatives met with Ar- 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Organization. Jerusalem. The report says ab-Israeli lawmakers. Other Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. An Israeli nonprofit, the Idris, the first female suicide than that, the trip was cen- left-wing Btselem human bomber of the second intifada, tered on visiting Palestinian Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat rights group, was to be pres- “marked the beginning of a areas and Arab cities in Israel, service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. ent at one of their meetings, string of Palestinian women and on meeting with Palestin- Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. along with three other non- dedicated to sacrificing their ian activists and groups. mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Israeli organizations. And lives for the cause.” But while both Omar and Thursday, 10:00 a.m. the congresswomen were Years later, in 2013, Miftah Tlaib support boycotting Is- to receive a tour of Hebron staffer Nawaf Al Zaru posted rael, all of the congressmen Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: from Breaking the Silence, an article on its site criticizing had been to Israel previously Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. a left-wing Israeli group that President Barack Obama for or otherwise had spoken out Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. opposes the West Bank oc- hosting a Passover seder at the in support of Israel, though cupation. White House. In the article, Al they have also criticized its Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; “I would’ve loved to take Zaru repeated a false accusa- policies, at times harshly. All Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. @IlhanMN and @RashidaT- tion that Jews kill non-Jewish five were endorsed by JStreet- Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. laib on our tour of Hebron,” children and use their blood PAC, the political funding arm tweeted Avner Gvaryahu, who in religious rituals. of the liberal Israel lobby. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. would have given the tour. “Does Obama in fact know JStreetPAC did not endorse templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by “There’s no joy in seeing or the relationship, for exam- Tlaib or Omar. Torah study. showing the harsh reality of Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road the territories, but change 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 will only come when we face up to the truth.” p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. The would-be trip contrasts Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. with a Democratic congres- shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. sional delegation to Israel Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, and the Palestinian territo- Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, ries taken earlier this month does most anything by 41 representatives and 7:30 p.m. sponsored by an organization Ricardo Torres — Handyman Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. affiliated with the American tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. Israel Public Affairs Commit- 407-221-5482 tee. That delegation met with (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa both Israeli and Palestinian Available in Central Florida Area • References Available PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 ‘Inglourious Basterds’ came out 10 years ago—has its legacy changed? elevated its Jewish characters name?” It never crossed my scene or a yarmulke? And what to badass, near-superhero mind 25 years ago that some are the ramifications of that? heights in popular culture. telephonic clerk would have What is the right way to rep- I laughed at and revered the a thought about my being resent Jews? I went through “Bear Jew” character, who Jewish. And now it does... and this back in the ’90s writing mashes Nazis’ heads to a pulp that’s disturbing to me. about gay culture all the time with a baseball bat. When you started talking back then. Every time there These days, though, the about the 10th anniversary was a gay character on a TV social and political climate is of the Tarantino film and how series, half your friends were obviously much more toxic, things have changed, what I hysterical because it was too and we are all more attuned thought you were going to straight and the other half to the effects that violence in talk about was this: about the were hysterical because it pop culture can have. How do way that facts, that history, wasn’t straight enough. The you situate the film now? Have has become vulnerable in the fact is, there is no standard your thoughts changed at all? past decade because of all the Jew that one could represent. Mendelsohn: I’m all for things we know about—the The idea is so preposterous. badass Jews, but I don’t ability, especially in internet But my point was that think the way to be badass is culture, to bend, invent. [Tarantino]’s not really in- Brad Pitt, left, and B.J. Novak in “Inglourious Basterds.” Pitt plays a non-Jewish American to smash Nazis in the head I would be careful in terms terested in this history. What soldier who leads a group of Jewish soldiers that hunt down Nazis during World War II. with baseball bats. The ethi- of making this point about he’s interested in is a vehicle cal point that I was trying to his film—movies are movies. for a violent revenge flick. By Gabe Friedman and criticism. Some Jews, es- raged over whether the term make in that piece is that the I think we’re sensitive about That’s his subject, all the pecially those involved in the “concentration camp” can be appropriate way for Jews to the representation of the rest is trimming. If it’s Jews (JTA)—Quentin Taran- film, like actor Eli Roth and used in certain modern con- fight back against real Nazis, Holocaust because, as it were, in the Holocaust, fine. It tino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” producer Lawrence Bender, texts. Amid the rise in anti- or neo-Nazis, is not to imitate it just happened, basically. could’ve been cowboys and which turns 10 next week, is found the revenge fantasy Semitism across the country their tactics. There are people alive who Native Americans. He’s not unlike any other movie set empowering and satisfying. and world, people have argued It’s ethically problematic were part of this, so it seems interested in the Holocaust, during the Holocaust. Cultural critic Daniel Men- over whether it’s appropriate to be inviting Jews to identify kind of brazen to take great except—and this is an impor- It follows a group of Ameri- delsohn argued the flip side to punch neo-Nazis. Even with Nazi behavior. The prob- liberties. Nobody cares how tant except—as a cinematic can Jewish soldiers—led by of that point: that by having depictions of graphic violence lem with Nazi behavior is the the murder of Julius Caesar is genre. He’s not interested in a non-Jewish one, played by Jewish characters be brutally in movies are being reckoned behavior. Its not OK if you do handled in a movie because it’s World War II, he’s interested a deadpan Brad Pitt—who violent, no matter to whom, with—see Universal Pictures it to neo-Nazis as opposed to 2,000 years ago and nobody in World War II movies. hunt down and kill Nazis in Tarantino essentially turned postponing the release of a Jews. Violence and torture are cares anymore. There’s a certain kind of typically brutal Tarantino them into Nazis. Mendelsohn, film, “The Hunt,” after a spate ipso facto bad things. As we know, [Tarantino] has World War II movie where a fashion (scalping and baseball an editor-at-large of the New of mass shootings. So I would resist the idea undertaken other historical band of scruffy guys go on bats are involved). With the York Review of Books, has a Mendelsohn talked with the that this movie is more ap- subjects, and it gets us into a secret mission and they help of British intelligence, personal stake in the debate— Jewish Telegraphic Agency on pealing now that neo-Nazism an interesting conversation have license to do whatever the “basterds” eventually he wrote “The Lost,” a memoir the 10th anniversary of the has risen in this country and, for which there is perhaps they want. That’s his world. hatch a plan to kill Hitler and about his search for the story film about its cinematic value as we know, a proto-fascist no answer—the responsibil- I don’t know if he ever read a a bunch of his top associates of his relatives who were killed in the contemporary era. politics is on the rise around ity of an artist toward a real history book; it doesn’t mat- in 1944—spoiler alert, the in the Holocaust. JTA: I was 17 in 2009, and the world … People should historical event, or whether ter. I mean, maybe he did, plan succeeds in the film’s It’s interesting to imagine “Inglourious Basterds” was be watching “Shoah,” not there is any. but what’s important to him, fictional universe. what might have happened an event for teenagers—es- Quentin Tarantino, if they Every time you make a and this is not an illegitimate Upon its release, the revi- had “Inglourious Basterds” pecially Jewish ones who were want to understand what the film about history, whatever thing for a director, is how his- sionist story unsurprisingly come out in 2019 rather than kind of estranged from their ramifications of the current your intentions are … you get tory is represented in movies. provoked a stream of debate 2009. Recent debates have Jewish identities. The movie political situation could be. yourself into a sticky situation. 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Poverty-stricken Is- Later on Saturday night, report said he was later iden- compared to the previous ready to support the FAA as Manilow wrote the music raeli plays lottery for three armed Palestinians were tified as Alaa Harimi, 26, of year, according to the Jewish it improves incident-related and Bruce Sussman the script first time, wins over killed by Israeli troops as they Bethlehem, who was driving Agency for Israel. debriefing and investigations. and lyrics. $140,000 attempted to infiltrate into a stolen car. The increase of 16,005 We look forward to continuing The singer announced By Marcy Oster Israel through the Gaza bor- Earlier this month, a newcomers from 2018 comes our years of service in support- the show’s New York debut JERUSALEM (JTA)—A der fence. They were targeted 19-year-old yeshiva student, mostly from Russian speakers ing the FAA.” from the stage of his current destitute man from the haredi by tank fire and a military Dvir Sorek, was found stabbed leaving countries associated Meanwhile, Globes re- Broadway revue, “Manilow Orthodox neighborhood of helicopter. to death in the same settle- with the former Soviet Union. ported on Sunday that the Broadway,” which closed Bnei Brak won more than Jeffrey Epstein died of ment bloc. Two Palestinian According to a report in Israeli economy grew at only 1 Saturday. $140,000 on a scratch-off suicide by hanging, NYC men were later arrested as Haaretz, the overwhelming percent in the second quarter “Harmony” has been per- lottery ticket. medical examiner rules suspects. majority of new immigrants of 2019, due to a drop in vehicle formed in California, Philadel- He purchased the nearly By Marcy Oster Israeli schools to teach came from Russia, numbering imports. phia and Atlanta over the past $15 ticket on a whim, the first (JTA)—Millionaire finan- about fate of North Af- 7,884 (a 73 percent increase), This marks a significant two decades, according to the time he had ever purchased cier Jeffrey Epstein, who was rican Jews in the Holo- and Ukraine with 3,007 (a 6 slowdown after a growth report. Manilow reportedly a lottery ticket, according to facing sex trafficking charges caust percent increase) rate of 4.7 percent in the first would like to see the show go reports. for allegedly abusing dozens of By Marcy Oster Aliyah from the United quarter. to Broadway. He called himself by the minor girls, died as a result of JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel States remained stable, with New York rabbi drowns Amazon launches opera- name “Ashkenazi Siman Tov,” suicide by hanging, the New has reinstated study of the French immigration dropping after jumping in lake to tions in Israel in interviews with the Yeshiva York City medical examiner Holocaust as part of a manda- 21 percent. save his child By Marcy Oster World News and Arutz 7. “Si- ruled. tory schools curriculum that According to the Jewish By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ama- man tov” means good omen Chief Medical Examiner will include the persecution Agency, 839 new arrivals (JTA)—The body of a New zon announced the launch of and often is used in conjunc- Barbara Sampson said Friday of North African Jewry under came from France to Israel in York rabbi was found a day af- operations in Israel. tion with the term “mazel in a statement: “After careful the Nazis. the first six months of 2019. ter he jumped into an upstate The company set up a tov,” which means good luck. review of all investigative The Holocaust was removed Immigration from France lake to save one of his children website in Hebrew, which He bought the ticket at information, including com- four years as part of the man- spiked from 2013 to 2015, but from drowning. talks about its local delivery a grocery store in the city plete autopsy findings, the datory program of study by has dropped as many struggle The child was wearing a life services, in order to attract center. Siman Tov was going determination on the death former Education Minister with finding employment and jacket and was returned safely vendors. Amazon also is ask- through serious financial of Jeffrey Epstein is below— Shai Piron, though teachers failing to acclimate to the to the rented pontoon boat on ing overseas businesses to difficulties after his business Cause: Hanging. Manner: were allowed to assign the Middle East. Greenwood Lake in Orange warehouse their inventory in went bankrupt, and was de- Suicide.” Holocaust as a research proj- Palestinian Authority bans County on Sunday afternoon. Israel and make arrangements scribed in the Israeli media Epstein, 66, was found in ect. Academics and history LGBTQ activity in West Bank But Rabbi David Traub, 38, with international shippers to as a “beggar.” his jail cell early on Aug. 10 teachers publicly criticized (JNS)—The Palestinian who was not wearing a life deliver their products through Siman Tov publicly thanked at the Metropolitan Correc- the move. Authority has decided to ban jacket, was not able to make local shippers. God for the windfall and tion Center in Manhattan. Former Education Minister Palestinians who are lesbian, it back to the boat and was “We are currently working promised the store owner a An unnamed official told Naftali Bennett reinstated the gay, bisexual, transgender pulled under the water. with sellers in Israel to help generous tip. the Washington Post that he Holocaust as a mandatory and queer from politically His body was found midday them sell worldwide with Israeli college student hanged himself with a bed subject shortly before he was organizing in the West Bank. on Monday. The search had Amazon Global Selling,” falls to her death on sheet attached to the top of a fired from his position in The move came as the been called off the previous Amazon said in a statement. hike in Ethiopian desert bunk bed. early June by Prime Minister grassroots group Al-Qaws for night because of bad weather. “Local Delivery is one aspect By Marcy Oster His death was two weeks Benjamin Netanyahu, Ynet Sexual & Gender Diversity in Traub was the head of of Global Selling that looks to JERUSALEM (JTA)—An after he was found uncon- reported. Palestinian Society, which school and synagogue at Bais improve the opportunities for Israeli college student died scious in his cell with bruises Netanyahu’s current pick helps LGBTQ Palestinians, Medrosh Elyon in Monsey, sellers in Israel to sell more ef- in an Ethiopian desert after on his neck, and was placed on for Education Minister, Rabbi was planning an event in New York, The Journal News fectively to customers in Israel getting separated from the suicide watch. Rafi Peretz, decided to in- Nablus after holding one last reported. He is reported to be who shop on Amazon.com.” group she was hiking with. Epstein’s lawyers said Fri- clude in the curriculum the month. the father of seven children. Amazon’s Israel operations Aya Na’amani, 21, of the day they did not accept the experience of North African, Justifying the decision, The funeral was held later originally was scheduled to northern Israeli town of Ar- medical examiner’s findings, or Mizrahi, Jews during the Palestinian Authority police Monday. The rabbi will be open in June or July. raba was visiting Ethiopia and would conduct an inde- Holocaust. spokesperson Luay Zreikat buried in Israel. Police arrest suspect in with a delegation of students pendent investigation into The material will be studied called the LGBTQ events Last month, Rabbi Reuven shooting of elderly man from the Technion Institute the cause of Epstein’s death. in the 12th grade and will be “harmful to the higher val- Bauman, 35 and a father of outside Miami syna- of Technology in Haifa. The FBI and the Justice De- part of the national matricu- ues and ideals of Palestinian five, drowned after he jumped gogue She was designated as miss- partment’s inspector general lation exam, Ynet reported. society,” as well as “unrelated into the ocean in a state park By Marcy Oster ing on Saturday when she are currently investigating “For years, the story of Jews to religions and Palestinian in Virginia Beach to save a stu- (JTA)—Police have ar- failed to arrive at a meeting how mistakes made by Bureau living in Muslim countries traditions and customs, es- dent who was having trouble rested a suspect in the point during the hike. The of Prisons personnel may under the Nazi occupation pecially in the city of Nablus.” returning to shore. shooting of an elderly man Israeli embassy in Addis Ababa have contributed to Epstein’s has been absent from our dis- Zreikat blamed “dubious ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ outside a synagogue in Mi- coordinated search efforts death. The jail had informed course,” Peretz said in a state- parties” were seeking to “cre- season 3 gets trailer ami, Florida. with Ethiopian authorities the Justice Department when ment. “The painful stories of ate discord and harm civic By Gabe Friedman Miami-Dade Police took and with the Israeli search it took Epstein off suicide thousands of Jews who were peace in Palestinian society.” (JTA)—The third season of Carlints St. Louis, 30, into and rescue company Magnus. watch that Epstein would sent to concentration camps “The Palestinian police “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” custody a day after he filled out Her body was found early have a cellmate and a guard and forced to participate in announcement about our finally has an official trailer, a report with a nearby police Sunday in the Danakil Desert, would check the cell every the death marches.” activities is very unfortunate,” and fans are kvelling. department claiming that a and she is believed to have 30 minutes. Neither of those Bahrain becomes first said Al-Qaws in a statement. In the trailer released firearm had been stolen from fallen to her death. were the case at the time of Gulf state to join US, UK “It’s very strange that they Monday, the show’s lead his black Chevy Impala—the Temperatures in the desert his suicide. coalition against Iran are accusing us of being a characters—a Jewish 1950s car police were seeking in the rise to 120 degrees during His suicide spawned online (JNS)—Bahrain an- suspicious entity working to housewife-turned-comedian synagogue shooting—the the day. conspiracy theories, includ- nounced on Monday that it take apart Palestinian soci- and her pugnacious man- Miami Herald reported. Israel’s president, Reuven ing that Epstein was killed to would join the U.S.-led efforts ety. Al-Qaws is a Palestinian ager—hit the road to tour Bullets from a loaded maga- Rivlin, on Sunday asked keep him from incriminating to protect shipping in the Gulf organization that has been with a famous singer. For more zine in the car matched bul- Ethiopia’s President Sahle- others. after Iranian aggressive and operating since 2001, and fun Jewish facts revealed in let casings from the attack, Work Zewde to expedite the Epstein was set to face violent behavior in the area. is carrying out educational the trailer, see this guide on according to the newspaper. return Na’amani’s body to trial next year for his al- Bahrain King Hamad met and professional programs on our sister site, Kveller. Police did not identify a Israel for burial. leged offenses in New York with U.S. Central Command sexual and gender diversity. “This is Us” star Sterling motive or say if the charges Rockets fired from Gaza and Florida, which include head Gen. Kenneth McKenzie. We totally reject the attempt K. Brown, an Emmy Award against St. Louis will include on southern Israel for 2 paying and coercing girls as “The king confirmed the to create an atmosphere of winner, joins the cast this a hate crime. consecutive nights young as 14 into performing Kingdom of Bahrain’s par- prosecution and intimidation, season. He’ll team with Rachel The victim in the July 28 By Marcy Oster sexual acts. ticipation in the joint effort as well as threats of arrest.” Brosnahan, who has picked up attack, Yosef Lifshutz, 68, JERUSALEM (JTA)—Rock- 2 Israelis injured in to preserve the safety of in- Israeli software firm an Emmy and Golden Globe in was shot six times in the leg ets were fired from Gaza on West Bank car ramming ternational maritime naviga- lands $137 million FAA her role as the title character, as he stood outside the Young southern Israel for two con- By Josefin Dolsten tion and secure international contract and Tony Shalhoub, a Golden Israel of Greater Miami wait- secutive nights. (JTA)—Two Israelis were corridors for trade and energy (JNS)—Israeli software Globe and Tony Award winner. ing for daily prayers to begin. On Friday night, at least injured, one seriously, when in the region,” the Bahraini company NICE Systems Ltd. The series is up for 20 Em- Lifshutz, also known as War- one rocket fired into Israel was they were hit by a car while News Agency reported. has been awarded a contract mys this year. ren, required surgery and is intercepted by the Iron Dome standing at a West Bank bus Some other Middle East- to supply the U.S. Federal Barry Manilow musical still recovering. missile defense system. No in- stop. ern states are in talks with Aviation Authority (FAA) with ‘Harmony’ to have NY St. Louis was charged jury or damage was reported. The Israeli military called the United States to join the air-traffic-control capabilities debut at Jewish museum Tuesday with attempted felony The Israel Defense Forces the incident in the Elazar coalition in the Gulf with one that will enhance transporta- By Marcy Oster murder, discharging a weapon responded by striking what it settlement a terror attack, source, telling The National tion safety, according to Israeli (JTA)—Barry Manilow’s from a car and aggravated called “Hamas’ underground according to The Times of that it’s seeking more details financial newspaper Globes. original musical “Harmony” battery on a person over 65. infrastructure in Gaza. “ Israel. about the mission. According to the report, the will have its New York debut He had filed his report On Saturday night, Iron Israeli media reports identi- Britain has already joined FAA awarded NICE a 10-year at the Museum of Jewish about the stolen firearms on Dome intercepted two of fied the victims, a male and a the American effort and sent contract worth up to $137 Heritage in Manhattan, just a Monday with the Hallandale three rockets fired at south- female, as being between the warships to protect its tank- million. stone’s throw from Broadway. Beach Police Department. ern Israel. The third rocket ages of 17 and 20. The male ers after Iran had a British- NICE executive vice presi- The limited run, Feb. 11 Miami-Dade State Attorney landed in the yard of a home sustained life-threatening flagged vessel. dent Chris Wooten was quoted through March 29, will be Katherine Fernandez Rundle in the southern Israeli com- injuries and the female vic- The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet as saying of the deal that produced by the National said the local hate crimes unit munity of Sderot, causing tim had moderate injuries, is stationed in the Gulf state. “millions of flyers rely upon Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, is investigating the incident. some damage. according to Magen David Immigration to Israel the FAA daily to ensure their The New York Times reported. “Acts of violence will not At least two Sderot resi- Adom. Both are being treated up nearly 30 percent, safety. In mission-critical “Harmony” is a retelling of be tolerated in our commu- dents were injured while run- in the hospital. largely due to Russian times of need, the FAA needs the true story of a vaudeville nity, particularly in sacred ning to bomb shelters, and at Police shot dead the car’s speakers to be best positioned to act group made up of Jews and places of worship,” she said in least three people were treated driver as he exited his rolled- (JNS)—Immigration to fast and respond smartly. We non-Jews in Germany in the a statement Wednesday, add- for acute anxiety attacks due over vehicle, according to The Israel rose by almost 30 per- at NICE recognize the need of 1920s whose fame rose while ing that she will “vigorously to the rocket impact. Times of Israel. A subsequent cent in the first half of 2019 this important work and are the Nazis were taking power. prosecute” the case.” PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 How poetry literally saved the life of a famed Yiddish writer ma-induced delusion, Sutz- Vilna Ghetto Philharmonic kever said he believed that orchestra. (Nearly all its play- producing excellent poetry ers had been murdered already would make him indestruc- by the time Sutzkever brought tible to the Nazis. This could the brochure to Moscow.) explain his extraordinary Two years after his extrac- willingness to risk his own tion, which was featured on life. the front page of the Com- As a writer in the ghetto, munist Party daily Pravda, he was tasked in 1943 with Sutzkever testified at the sorting and cataloging select Nuremberg trials in Germany. Jewish writings that the Nazis He wanted to deliver his tes- wanted to preserve for their timony in Yiddish, but Soviet archives about their annihila- authorities forced him to do tion of European Jewry. But it in Russian. Sutzkever and a handful of In 1947, the Soviets allowed other members of the “paper Sutzkever to emigrate. New brigade” risked their lives to York, where he would have smuggle and stash hundreds expected a warm embrace of priceless writings that are from that city’s Yiddish liter- in Israel today thanks to their ary scene, would have been Abraham Sutzkever (r) before World War II in Vilnius, Hadas Kalderon-Sutzkever signs a poster for a new film actions. the obvious choice. Instead, Lithuania. about her grandfather Abraham Sutzkever in Tel Aviv, 2018. In 1943, Sutzkever and his the Sutzkevers chose war- wife escaped the ghetto. torn, prestate Israel, where By Cnaan Liphshiz In 1944, Sutzkever and his His poems about the Holo- Sutzkever named one of his During the escape, a Ger- Yiddish was marginalized by wife, Freydke, needed to walk caust in Vilnius and his role two daughters Mira for that man sentry spotted Sutzkever a government that reviled it as MINSK, Belarus (JTA)— through a minefield to reach in saving priceless Jewish teacher. after curfew, the poet recalled. an ugly consequence of living When Yiddish poet Avraham the plane that would take them texts from the Nazis led the Another poem documents Instead of running or begging in the Diaspora. Sutzkever said that poetry to freedom. And to do so, they Soviet authorities—likely how partisans made weapons for his life, he walked up to Nevertheless, Sutzkever saved his life, he meant it stepped to the rhythm of poetic Joseph Stalin himself—to from the large lead plates the German and told him, established a highly regarded more literally than many of meter—short, short, long, and send not one but two rescue of the Jewish Rom Printing “I’m glad I met you. Do you Yiddish-language weekly in his listeners realized. sometimes long, short, long. missions into Nazi-occupied House in Vilnius because know where I can go, where Israel, Di Goldene Keyt (“The Lithuania to fly the Sutzkev- “Jewish bravery that lies in there are no Germans?” The Golden Chain”), which re- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ers to Moscow. Two years words must echo in the world sentry allowed him to escape, mained active for 46 years C A M P S D A N I S T E P later he was tasked with in bullets,” as Sutzkever and a non-Jewish woman until its closure in 1995. 14 15 16 A S I A N I R A S T A L E testifying on behalf of the wrote. hid him in her potato cellar In Israel, Sutzkever was 17 18 19 Soviet Union at the Nurem- And still another verse re- until he joined the partisans, recognized early on as one W A L D O L E A T H E R B E E berg trials in Germany aim- counts how Bruno Kittel, the Sutzkever said. of the Yiddish language’s 20 21 22 S H E L I T B E L A S E R ing to bring Nazi criminals Nazi SS officer who oversaw From the partisans, his great poets—Dan Miron, the 23 24 25 to justice. the liquidation of the Vilna poems and some rescued Yiddish scholar and literary O G R E L A N Nearly a decade after his Ghetto, executed a man while documents reached Moscow, critic, has crowned him “the 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 R I C H A R D W E L D I N G death in 2010 in Israel, Sutz- holding a pistol in one hand providing early and chilling king of Yiddish prose in the 33 34 35 kever’s astonishing life story and playing a piano with the evidence of what was happen- second half of the 20th cen- L A T K E O O O S L O E is being told on film for the other. ing to the Jews of Lithuania. tury.” But at his death at the 36 37 38 39 40 41 A M A E D L O O N Y L M A first time in an award-winning Becoming a ghetto dia- The texts reached key indi- age of 96, Sutzkever remained 42 43 44 45 46 documentary co-produced rist—he began dating his viduals in Moscow’s wartime largely unknown to consum- P I L E R A M A K B A R by his granddaughter, Hadas poems and composing a new literary scene, including the ers of mainstream literature 47 48 49 50 S E Y M O U R S P I N N E R Calderon-Sutzkever, with one nearly every day during Jewish writer Ilya Ehrenburg, in Israel despite having won 51 52 funding from the Claims his incarceration in 1941— who was one of the few intel- the country’s highest literary A R M E D G E Conference. did not come naturally to lectuals that Stalin trusted. distinction, the Israel Prize, 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 D I A N E N E B O A R A D “You could take Sutzkever’s Sutzkever. Before the war, In 1944, a Red Army plane in 1985. 62 63 64 life from beginning to end and his focus on nature’s beauty, was sent to retrieve the Sutz- Sutzkever’s refusal to have A L B U S H U M B L E D O R E it would be the most astonish- as he recalled it from his kevers from near the partisan a documentary made about 65 66 67 V I L E E L U L T E V Y E ing guide to the most dramatic childhood in Siberia, made camp, where Freydke acted as him during his lifetime was 68 69 70 moments in Jewish history him an outsider to Vilnius’ a nurse. But it was downed typical of his humility, which Y A E L E L S E C R E E D of the 20th century,” Yiddish Yiddish literary scene, with its by German anti-aircraft fire. to some degree ensured scholar Ruth Wisse says in socialist and political themes. A second plane was sent two his relative anonymity, said the film, which is titled “Black In the ghetto, Sutzkever’s weeks later. The Sutzkevers Chaim Chesler, co-founder Honey: The Life and Poetry of poems turned macabre, par- had to traverse a minefield of the Limmud FSU cultural Avraham Sutzkever.” It won ticular and personal. The to reach it. organization. In May, Lim- the Yad Vashem award for most chilling example is his “Part of the time, I walked mud FSU screened “Black movies about the Holocaust description of holding the life- in anapests, some of the time Honey” in Minsk, Belarus, at last year’s Jerusalem Film less body of his and Freydke’s I walked in amphibrachs,” the first time it was shown in Festival. first child. Born at the ghetto Sutzkever told his friend the former Soviet Union. (The Sutzkever’s accounts from hospital, the newborn was poi- and translator Dory Manor, film’s next U.S. screening is the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania, soned immediately after birth referring to lines of poetic scheduled for Sept. 15 at the which he wrote and dated in at the orders of the Nazis, who meter. With Freydke walking Sabes JCC Camp Olami in descriptive poems, are among forbade births there. in his footprints, “I immersed Minneapolis.) the most unusual and affect- “I wanted to swallow you myself within a rhythm of Sutzkever didn’t lose his ing testimonies from that whole my child / when I felt melody and to that rhythm we voice in his new country, hell on Earth. Only 1 percent your little body cooling be- walked a kilometer through and he composed one of the of the approximately 40,000 tween my fingers / like a warm a mine field and came out longest and most complex prisoners survived. cup of tea,” he wrote. on the other side,” Sutzkever poems ever written about One of the poems, “The Sutzkever’s mother also later wrote. Israel’s War of Independence, Teacher Mira,” heartbreak- was murdered near the ghetto, He was carrying a suitcase “Spiritual Earth.” ingly chronicles how teacher and he wrote about that, too. made of metal salvaged from All of a sudden, “he was able Mira Bernstein cared for her His father had died in Siberia the wings of the first rescue to renew himself and Yiddish dwindling flock of charges in when he was 7, forcing the airplane. It contained histori- poetry with unprecedented the ghetto—orphans whose family to move to Vilnius. cal documents, including a material,” said Benny Mer, a parents had been murdered. In what seems like a trau- program of a concert of the writer and Yiddish translator.

Hong Kong From page 4A against them—the last time with the demonstrators in secondly, uncertainty about Hong Kong was convulsed person; were any such meet- China’s regional intentions. society and maintain order. with major demonstrations, ing to take place, past practice What that means, poten- This is also why the people of in 2014, the protesters signed suggests that it would be fol- tially, is that Hong Kong Hong Kong continue their off by saying, “We’ll be back.” lowed up with mass arrests, is expendable. As we look uprisings in every district of But when President Barack as enough advisers to the back at episodes in our own the city. Our enemy has never Obama visited Beijing in current U.S. administration history when Jews were been China, nor our compa- 2016, the issue of human know all too well. similarly disregarded in the triots in the mainland, but rights was noticeably absent Ultimately, China’s rulers wider calculations of power the totalitarian government.” from his agenda. Under U.S. know that their penetration politics, the present is as HEALTHY EYES WEAR SUNGLASSES Sadly, over the years the President Donald Trump, ris- of the global economy has good a time as any to tell the pro-democracy movement ing tensions with China have been so extensive that West- American president that the 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 in Hong Kong and China has centered on trade and, to a ern nations—not just the future peace of the world may, disorders. Protecting your eyes is important to maintaining eye health now and in the future. been treated shabbily by the lesser extent, military spend- United States, but the United just may, be hanging on the democratic nations of the ing; as with Obama, human Kingdom, the European shoulders of those brave folks Shield your eyes (and your family’s eyes) from harmful UV rays. Wear sunglasses with maximum UV protection. world, not least the United rights don’t even make the Union, Australia, Israel and in Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.thevisioncouncil.org/consumers/sunglasses. States. The movement has appendix. With regard to the Canada, among others—will Ben Cohen is a New York A public service message from The Vision Council. held regular protests that Hong Kong protests, Trump’s be driven by pragmatism. That City-based journalist and require participants to show contribution has been to approach will, if anything, author who writes a weekly enormous courage given advise Chinese President Xi be reinforced by, firstly, the column on Jewish and inter- the riot police tactics used Jinping to go there and meet need to preserve trade and, national affairs for JNS. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 PAGE 15A and Facebook. She and Ad- Interns ams planned posts, programs From page 1A and ideas for the project while at the conference. about international relations “This project gives Jewish and standing up for and people the platform to talk speaking out for what I truly about why they are proud to believe in.” be a Jew in today’s world and Gabbai accepted the SWU share some anti-Semitic acts internship to learn more they may have encountered. about “a place I call home.” I can’t wait to see everything She wants to impart what she that comes of it,” she said. learned about Israel’s history The project can be seen and current events to others. at www.facebook.com/Why- “At the SWU HS Internship IWearMyStarOfficial and Conference I was focusing on www.instagram.com/why- gaining a better knowledge iwearmystar. about the Palestinian-Israeli At Winter Park High conflict because seeing it School, Gabbai plans to have from both perspectives is Holocaust survivors address Samantha Gabbai (l) and Nathan Altshuler, SWU Mid- Danielle Garsten (l) and Talia Lerner, SWU Southern very important and arguing the whole school and make Atlantic High School Coordinator. Campus Coordinator. without facts won’t get you some presentations during anywhere.” her World Religion class. Garsten hopes to connect stu- She continued, “With the compassing experience for for our schools. Listening As a SWU intern, Gabbai Danielle Garsten, a senior dents with what they are pas- constant animosity against Garsten, jam-packed with to the inspirational stories has the access and tools to at UCF, is from Parkland and sionate about, and through Israelis and Jewish people, informational sessions to told by fellow students and implement a new social media graduated from Stoneman their majors “infuse Israel I hope to at least bring show students how to be staff gave me the confidence project she started with a Douglas High School in 2017. education into it.” She also some good and compassion proactive on campus. to pursue peaceful action on fellow intern, Abigail Adams Her major is computer engi- hopes to compare her peer’s to this world and alleviate “It is unsettling how much my campus.” from Charlotte Latin School neering and she is involved culture/roots with Israel’s that hate on campus and BDS there is on campus[es] For more information in Charlotte, N.C. The project with Knights For Israel at and “show how their history community.” throughout the U.S. but we, about the internship pro- is called “Why I Wear My Star” UCF. and Israel’s has intertwined The SWU HS Internship as students, have the power gram, please email high- and is set up on Instagram As the Emerson Fellow, and been defined until now.” Conference was an all-en- to overturn that ideology [email protected]. Goodwill From page 1A William Timmons (R-S.C.) erationally. There is expertise him all this time later: “When went further and told JNS that in Israel that cannot be found I was here in 2008, the climate jority of moderate Democrats “they are just 2 1/2 percent of anywhere else in the world.” felt much more intense; there and Republicans who support Congress, and they are simply Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), was a sense that people were the Jewish state. attention-grabbers. The less as a first-timer, told JNS that focused on their survival. Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.), time we spend on the loudest “as a man of faith, the visit The environment feels more there for the first time, said voices, the better. The edges has been moving, uplifting moderate now because of the the bipartisan visit was more will always be unhappy.” and sobering.” He said he ex- relative peace.” than symbolic, relating that McCarthy explained to JNS pected Israelis to live under a Confronting anti-Semi- “Democrats and Republicans that since becoming a House constant sense of threat, with tism on the left and the had a few days to spend time Republican leader in 2014, he nervousness permeating the right together in Israel, during believes that nothing cements society as a result. “But the Despite the goodwill, the which we talked with one support for Israel like bring- people in Israel are so joyous,” Republican House members another about the issues and ing members of Congress he observed. “It’s easy to forget did say that extremism on developed working relation- to visit Israel’s borders with that this is the Middle East. both sides of the aisle need ships.” Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza They go about their daily lives to be tackled. The more radical side of the Strip, as well as meeting with with a sense of confidence and Steil said “our partners Democratic Party is “merely decision-makers in the region. security, and are thriving.” across the aisle need to address a distraction,” said Estes, ‘A testament to the He stated that “this is some of their issues,” with adding that “social media people of Israel’ a testament to the people Higgins calling for stronger allows them to try to build Several members of the Re- of Israel, and the power of condemnation of their anti- themselves up with outland- publican delegation to Israel the cornerstone of Jewish Israel element. ish statements.” explained how the trip offered strength, enduring faith and “There must be public con- Estes also came away im- new insight into the country beautiful spirit.” demnation and consequences pressed with the “entrepre- and the region. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wisc.) for such statements,” he said. neurial spirit and startup Rep. Denver Riggleman had been to Israel before on “They must be censured. How business capabilities,” which (R-Va.), on his third trip to business, though told JNS are they still sitting on their he has seen in Israel. Israel’s Israel, told JNS that visiting that “coming to Israel as an committees?” water technology “can be used for the first time as an elected elected official, I saw shown Riggleman spoke with emo- to solve water problems in his official exposed how the U.S.- Israel’s unique security situ- tion to JNS as he as he recalled home state of Kansas,” he said, Israel relationship is “all about ation.” the two-year anniversary of Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.), posing in front of Israel’s “and to solve water problems shared values of freedom.” After touring the borders the white-supremacist rally in Iron Dome battery. throughout the world. Israel Riggleman, who served in and receiving briefings from Charlottesville, Va., which is is the world leader when it U.S. Air Force intelligence, political and military of- in in his district, noting that to after them, and we must go lican Party in the House, I comes to this issue.” said he was “blown away by ficials, the visit, he said, has anti-Semitism on the right after them,” he said. will continue to work with He also noted that he was Israel’s technology in air “reaffirmed the need for the must also be confronted. Moving forward, McCarthy the Democratic leadership moved by touring and seeing defense,” going as far to say U.S. commitment to Israel’s He said based on his back- assured that the goodwill de- to combat BDS, fight against “the phenomenal history of that “there is no country in security.” ground in counter-terrorism veloped in Israel will remain anti-Semitism and to make all faiths.” the world better than Israel Timmons, who had not and intelligence, he knows and bipartisan support of sure that the loud anti-Israel As to the fringe element of when it comes to air defense, been in Israel for 11 years, told that people are being radical- Israel will continue. voices remain a minority in the Democratic Party, Rep. both technologically and op- JNS that two things struck ized online. “We have the laws “As leader of the Repub- Congress.” Tlaib From page 5A a Passover Seder in the White to begin with.” Does being a the early years of Iran’s Is- or done differently. But let’s career, he has fellowshipped House. The condemnation democracy require one to be lamic revolution when they be completely clear that with Christian supporters of pundits blame Trump, Israeli was not for supporting an suicidal? held hostage 52 Americans. lots of nuance is needed to Israel and shares experiences politicians blame Netanyahu Israeli government or mili- 5. The final act (as of now) The intolerant Islam of Iran is understand the depth of the of living as an Orthodox Jew for putting his own election tary action, but for hosting a of this performance was that now in the halls of Congress. issue, and that this may have in Israel. He writes a regular campaign above national Jewish holiday dinner. They immediately after being de- It is relevant here in another indeed been Israel’s least bad column for Standing With interests. These are mutually used one of the most hateful nied to visit Israel as part of way, other than the “bad idea” option. Israel at charismanews.com exclusive. Only one can be blood libels to depict this: their Anti-Israel Propaganda element. The very intolerance U.S.-born and educated and other prominent web right, if any. “Does Obama in fact know the Tour, Tlaib appealed to Israel’s and historical revisionism of Jonathan Feldstein immi- sites. He can be reached 2. Some criticize Israel for relationship between ‘Pass- Interior minister to be able to radical Islam which Tlaib and grated to Israel in 2004. at firstpersonisrael@gmail. preventing Tlaib and Omar over’ and ‘Christian blood’?! visit her elderly grandmother Omar represent, and which Throughout his life and com. from getting “a firsthand Or ‘Passover’ and ‘Jewish who she might not see again. still thrives in Iran, prevents look at what’s going on.” But blood rituals?!’ Much of the Israel approved this visit not only a peaceful solution, that’s dishonest given that chatter and gossip about his- on humanitarian grounds. but even an ability to live Ohio by the very nature of their torical Jewish blood rituals in But Tlaib, never missing an together. From page 6A result here is a clear example of itinerary, they had no intent Europe are real and not fake opportunity to be indecent, Why does it matter if they the importance of monitoring to get a firsthand look, but as they claim; the Jews used decided kissing her elderly are “duly elected members the Youngstown Area Jewish social media to identify cred- rather vilify Israel in every the blood of Christians in the grandmother wasn’t as im- of Congress” as is being par- Federation, a mission from ible, hate-fueled threats before way possible. Jewish Passover.” portant as slapping Israel in roted by so many? Does their which we will never waver. they are acted on.” 3. Rather than visiting 4. Some say barring them the face. She rejected Israel’s office make them above the “I am so very grateful to This article first appeared Israel with dozens of other was a missed opportunity to offer because of “oppressive law, or basic decency? Why is the local FBI and law enforce- in the Cleveland Jewish News. democratic congressmen, depict the strength of Israel’s conditions.” Given how she Israel any less of an ally or a ment for their swift and strong Update from Jewish Tele- Tlaib and Omar were sched- democracy. To whom? Tlaib played this by using her own democracy when they prevent response to this matter and for graphic Agency: Appearing in uled to go under the auspices and Omar? To the rest of the grandmother as a prop, there’s those who support terror and their continued willingness to court on Monday, Reardon Jr. of Miftah, an anti-Semitic world? So, someone could little doubt what lengths she’d embrace Israel’s delegitimiza- keep the lines of communica- pleaded not guilty to charges Palestinian Arab organiza- interject meekly, “ah but have gone to bash Israel while tion and destruction from tion open at all times. It is be- related to threatening the tion. Miftah is so hateful Israel is a strong democracy visiting. getting free access? cause of their efforts that a very Youngstown Jewish Commu- that in 2013 they condemned evidenced by the fact that they “Argo” depicts a fascinating Maybe Israel’s decision positive resolution to this mat- nity Center in a video posted President Obama for hosting were allowed to come to Israel story that took place during could have been different, ter has occurred. The positive on social media. PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 30, 2019 He posed as a righteous Jewish convert for 19 years—then he wrote a 2,000-page anti-Semitic screed ever, were able to penetrate masked” was released. The of Eisenmenger’s method- the depths of this massive, Jewish community rap- ology (Eisenmenger strove ancient text written in a idly mobilized to prevent for accuracy in citation and mixture of highly coded its distribution, persuading translation, but criminally Aramaic and Hebrew. Emperor Leopold I that its distorted the meaning of But Eisenmenger was publication might ignite the the passages in context with different. A man of consid- popular violence that had unacceptably tendentious erable academic skills (he plagued the region in 1699. commentary to promote ultimately taught at the Eisenmenger protested and awful lies like the infamous University of Heidelberg), a lengthy court battle en- blood libel), the most ex- Eisenmenger realized that sued. The Jewish commu- tensive biography available the only way to seriously nity offered 12,000 florins is an impressive but brief understand the Talmud (roughly $5,000) to cover his study posted to Wikipedia was to become immersed costs if he would withdraw by a 12th-grader in Braun- in the world of the yeshiva, publication. Surprisingly, schweig, Germany. a world closed to non-Jews Eisenmenger seemed agree- As a historian of the Jew- by custom and even Jewish able, but demanded 30,000. ish people, writing during law. To achieve his dark Negotiations were cut short the Nine Days, I find myself purpose, Eisenmenger had by Eisenmenger’s sudden awed by Eisenmenger’s to present himself as a death in 1704, at age 50, of pathological achievement for Johann Andreas Eisenmenger published “Judaism Unmasked,” one of the most noxious genuine spiritual seeker, a stroke. two reasons. First, whatever and highly influential anti-Semitic works ever written. perhaps modeling himself King Friedrich Wilhelm we think about this sick in- as a righteous convert like I of nearby Prussia cir- dividual, he devoted himself By Henry Abramson and read the whole Talmud of random violence. Those Onkelos, whose translation cumvented the emperor by to an overwhelming tour de roughly three times. specifically targeting Jews, of the Torah into Aramaic printing a second edition of force of twisted scholarship: NEW YORK (JTA)— And then, in 1700, Eisen- such as the shooters in Poway enjoys primacy over even 3,000 copies in 1711 in Ber- nearly 20 years of solitary “Eisenmenger belonged to menger published “Judaism and Pittsburgh, often rely, Rashi, or Bodo-Elazar, who lin (although the title page toil, exhaustively infiltrating the class of insects which Unmasked,” one of the most consciously or otherwise, on ignored the anti-Semitic listed “Koenigsburg” as the an alien community in order sucks poison even out of noxious and highly influen- the work of Johann Andreas environment of medieval place of publication to rein- to produce such a massive flowers,” the 19th-century tial anti-Semitic works ever Eisenmenger. Europe to adopt the ancient force that it was published publication. Jewish historian Heinrich written. Spanning 2,000 pages faith. outside the jurisdiction of Second, like Graetz, it is Graetz wrote. During the Nine Days lead- over two brick-like volumes, Eisenmenger began his Leopold I). For the past three hard not to reflect on how Graetz was referring to Jo- ing up to Tisha b’Av, during “Entdecktes Judenthums” lifelong deception in 1680 centuries, from Stehelin’s Eisenmenger was “able to hann Andreas Eisenmenger, which Jews commemorate is an exhaustive survey of at the age of 24. By the English translation to the suck poison even out of flow- a young 17th-century scholar the saddest moments in every possible passage from time he was ready to bring ugliest parts of the web, ers,” twisting and distorting from Mannheim, Germany, Jewish history from the the Talmud that could be his malicious book to print, anti-Semites have relied the Talmud in such a hateful who dedicated some 19 years destruction of the Temples distorted to reflect badly on Eisenmenger could count on Eisenmenger’s distorted manner. Such, I suppose, is of his life to mastering the in Jerusalem to the deporta- Jews and Judaism. many rabbis among his research to promote hatred. the power of Amalek, the Talmud and presenting him- tion of the Jews of Warsaw, His verbose subtitle thor- teachers, including the pro- Despite his incredibly ancient, eternal enemy of self to the Jewish community we again have witnessed oughly described his intent, lific David ben Aryeh Lieb profound impact on 300 the Jewish people. as a prospective “ger tzedek,” Eisenmenger’s contem- which was to prove how “the of Lida, Lithuania—then years of anti-Semitic ideol- The views and opinions or righteous convert. He porary descendants: gun- stubborn Jews frightfully chief Ashkenazi rabbi of ogy, a shroud of scholarly expressed in this article are learned Hebrew, Aramaic men who publish paranoid, blaspheme and dishonor the Amsterdam. silence descended over the those of the author and do and even Arabic during hateful “manifestos” before Holy Trinity... and despise News of Eisenmenger’s man. 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