Full Steam Ahead As Israel Powers Citizens of Palestinian State Fourth Industrial Revolution

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by EYTAN HALON The State of Israel didn’t exist during the first and second industrial revolutions, and was just a nascent entity as the third revolution ushered in a new age of information. Given Israel’s modest size, it was never destined to become a global manufacturing power. Yet its technological innovation has turned it into a prominent View of Israel’s largest Arab city Umm al-Fahm. (Wikimedia Commons) driver of the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry by ARIEL BEN SOLOMON recently released U.S. “Peace 4.0, which is digitizing global Israeli Arab citizens flatly to Prosperity” plan that envi- production and supply chains. reject the idea floated in the (Citizens — Page 8) Israeli start-ups were the third leading recipient of ven- ture capital investments in In- A robot engineered by Kuka adjusts a windscreen in a fully automated process Amazon Pulls Some Nazi-Era dustry 4.0 technologies last on a model of the A-class production line of German car manufacturer Mercedes Books Following Public Outrage (Full Steam — Page 6) Benz at the Daimler factory in Rastatt, Germany, February 4, 2019. (Reuters) Online retail giant Amazon. Expressing Concern About ‘Bigotry,’ com has stopped sales of some books following protests that the titles, including some for Bernie Sanders Says He’ll Skip children, were Nazi-era “propaganda,” a source familiar with This Year’s AIPAC Conference the matter said Tuesday. According to the French news (JTA) — After weeks of skirt- outlet AFP, the move came days ing questions about whether after the Auschwitz museum he would attend the annual called on the US retailer to conference held by AIPAC, the remove Nazi-era anti-Semitic most influential Israel lobby children’s books from sale. group in the United States, Ber- The Auschwitz Memorial nie Sanders has declared his tweeted Friday on its official intentions: No, he won’t go, and account the books included not because his schedule won’t “hateful, virulently anti-Semit- allow it. ic Nazi propaganda.” In a two-tweet statement Sun- (Amazon — Page 5) day afternoon, Sanders said he would skip the conference — a traditional can’t-miss for pres- US Sanctions Lebanese idential candidates — because 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with IfNotNow vol- Individuals, Companies With (Bernie — Page 7) unteers in New Hampshire on June 29, 2019. (IfNotNow) Alleged Ties to Hezbollah Bloomberg’s Money and the (JNS) — The United States on 10 Atlas-connected firms, an- Wednesday sanctioned 15 Leba- nounced to the U.S. Treasury Anti-Semitism Defense nese individuals and companies Department. allegedly tied to a part of the Jawad Nur-al-Din and Sheikh by JONATHAN S. TOBIN respected organization in par- U.S.-designated terrorist group Yusuf Aasi were also sanctioned (JNS) — The ADL falsely ac- tisan politics. Hezbollah’s financial support for being leaders or officials of cused Ted Cruz of spreading The latest instance of the ADL network called the Martyrs the Martyrs Foundation, which Jew-hatred by noting that the bil- undermining the fight against Foundation. was designated by the United lionaire is acting as if he “owns hate took place this past week Atlas Holding was designated States for supporting terrorism the media,” when that is exactly when its national director and by the United States for alleged- in July 2007, according to the what Bloomberg is doing. CEO Jonathan Greenblatt ac- ly being owned or controlled by Treasury Department. At a time of a rising tide of cused Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) the Martyrs Foundation, along Mirath S.A.L., which is anti-Semitism sweeping across of using an anti-Semitic canard with senior Atlas official Kas- owned or controlled by Jawad the globe, groups tasked with when attacking Democratic sem Mohamad Ali Bazzi, and Nur-al-Din, was also designated monitoring and combating presidential contender Michael on Wednesday. Jew-hatred are needed more Bloomberg. “Hezbollah profits from the than ever. Yet the Anti-Defa- Cruz’s supposed offense was to sale of goods vital to the Leba- mation League continues to tweet a reaction to a Bloomberg nese peoples’ health and econ- sabotage the effort to build Michael Bloomberg speaks at the news article that declared the omy, such as pharmaceuticals a consensus against hate by Presidential Gun Sense Forum in Des Democratic contest for presiden- and gasoline,” U.S. Treasury miring the once universally Moines, Iowa on Aug. 10, 2019. (Gage tial candidacy to be a two-man 0474470 90456 (Sanctions — Page 7) (Defense — Page 4) Skidmore/Flickr) race for the nomination. The no- Page 2 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Mazel tov to Congrat- Mazel tov to Jerry Elman, for- Jillian Wexler, ulations to mer owner of Schoen Auto, who daughter of Adam and has launched his own handyman Kevin & Bari Stephanie business, “My Home Maven.” Wexler, cele- Braveman His goal is to apply 40 plus years brating her Bat on the birth of skilled trade experience to help Mitzvah Febru- of their twin homeowners with repair and ary 29 at Temple Sinai. girls, Alexis maintenance work. He focuses on Winn Brave- the small jobs most others in the Mazel tov to George Mitris, man & Vivi- field are not interested in doing. who is running for election to ene Winn the U.S. House to represent Braveman on Mazel tov to members of New York’s 25th Congres- February 19. NCJW, who spent Sunday after- sional District. He declared Alexis and Viviene’s grandparents noon filling 100 bags with 190 candidacy for the Republican are Lorraine & Daan Braveman hats, 250 socks, 175 gloves and primary scheduled for June 23 of Rochester, NY and Steve & candy, which were delivered to of this year. Denise Sills of Deland, Florida. the Gantt Children’s Center. Israel to Open All Entry Points To Gaza, Expand Fishing Zone

A Jewish Education by MATAN TZURI cided if the stability [on the round of cross-border violence Israel is set to open all cross- border] is maintained, the after IDF troops killed at least Every Week Since 1924 ings on the Gaza Strip border Erez and Kerem Shalom border one of its member who was lay- and expand the fishing zone off crossings will be operational ing a bomb at the Gaza border the enclave’s coast to 15 nau- starting [Thursday] morning,” fence on Sunday morning. tical miles, the military con- The Coordination of Govern- The IDF retaliated with a series firmed on Wednesday. ment Activities in the Territo- of airstrikes targeting military The announcement comes just ries said in a statement. sites belonging to the PIS as well two days after the army imposed “In addition, the fishing zone as its rocket launching units. sanctions on the Strip following will be expanded back to 15 The terror group said late Weekly Since 1924 another cross-border flare-up nautical miles ... The policy Monday that it was ending its that saw Palestinian militants is subject to change based on attacks on Israel. “The al-Quds fire over 100 rockets on Israeli whether the stability and quiet Brigades announces that it has 427-2434 communities and cities. are being preserved.” finished its military response TheJewishLedger.com “Following a reassessment The border crossings and to the assassination crimes in of the situation it has been de- the fishing zone were closed Khan Yunis and Damascus,” off on Monday after the Pales- read the statement. tinian Islamic Jihad militants “It promises our people and fired barrages of rockets on nation that it will continue its the communities bordering the struggle and that it will respond Hamas-controlled enclave as to any continued [aggression] well as the cities of Sderot, Ne- by the occupation against our tivot and Ashkelon. people and land.” b Islamic Jihad began the latest © YNetNews.com Berlin Film Fest Screens World Premieres of New Holocaust Movies, Restored Old Ones

(JNS) — The 70th Berlin In- area near the camp who speak ternational Film Festival, also in their native language in the known as the Berlinale, recent- film. It was based on testimonies ly featured the world premiere of Holocaust survivors, according of two digitally restored films to The Jerusalem Post. about Jews made just after The original negative of “The World War II. Last Stage” did not survive, so The Czech 1949 film “The Dis- a complex restoration process tant Journey” tells the story of was done by Poland’s National a young Jewish doctor named Film Archive in cooperation Hana in Czechoslovakia who with Tor Film Production. marries her non-Jewish col- The Berlinale, running league. As such, she winds up through March 1, also fea- not being sent to a concentration tures recent films about the camp; however, she is unable to Holocaust, as well as other Jew- save her parents from deporta- ish-themed movies, including tion. The film shows their perse- “Minyan,” “Speer Goes to Hol- cution and eventual deaths, along lywood” and “Listening In.” with documentary footage. The opening-night film, “The Last Stage” is a 1948 Pol- Philippe Falardeau’s “My Salin- ish fictional film about female in- ger Year,” centered on the work mates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau of legendary Jewish American concentration camp who come novelist J.D. Salinger. from various backgrounds. The In 2019, the Israeli film “Syn- movie was shot on location, using onyms” won the festival’s top nonprofessional actors from the honor, the Golden Bear. b THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 3

World … Tourism Fair Showcases Israel’s Prominence in Travel Tech itively impacts her company and vice versa — how her company aims to positively impact Israel in return. “As an Israeli travel startup, we are strongly and positively affected by the rise of tourism to Israel. Over the past few years, there have been many initiatives aimed at increasing tourism to Israel, and we are proud to take part in some of them,” she told JNS. Gamitee, she explained, offers consumers planning their vacations a more streamlined Yaturu, an augmented-reality/virtual-reality company that produces walking process. Like a “WhatsApp The International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) conference in Tel tours of ancient Israel for tourists, was one of the featured startups at the Aviv, presented by Israel’s Ministry of Tourism, featured representatives from International Mediterranean Tourism Market in Tel Aviv from Feb. 11-12. group plus a wish list,” individ- more than 50 countries in the global tourism industry, Feb. 11-12. (Chen Galili) (Eliana Rudee) uals can invite their travel com- panions to the website, cutting by ELIANA RUDEE Lanka, Thailand and Georgia. produces walking tours of an- Dyne’s company has benefit- down the time it takes to plan a (JNS) — In the company of se- In his address, Lion referred cient Israel for tourists, was ed from the growth of tourism vacation. In return, clients are nior representatives from more to the IMTM event as a “ful- one of the featured startups, in Jerusalem, he maintained, more likely to consume travel than 50 countries in the global fillment of the words of Micah, co-founded by Jonathan Dyne, allowing further development products and services on their tourism industry, Israel’s Minis- who prophesized that all the an immigrant to Jerusalem of educational tours in the Unit- trip, thereby contributing to the try of Tourism presented its de- nations of the world will come from Sydney, Australia. ed States, Singapore and Costa receiving economy. velopments and innovations for to Jerusalem.” He said it cor- “Our goal is that when a per- Rica. “We offer our clients a more 2020 at the recent International rectly portrays Jerusalem as son puts on our glasses and Ella Stahl, vice president convenient way to book their Mediterranean Tourism Market a city thousands of years old, [virtually] stands in the Temple of sales for Jerusalem-based vacations,” said Stahl, “and are (IMTM) conference in Tel Aviv. which birthed the world’s old- of King David, we can recreate trip-planning startup Gamitee, hoping to see our tool put to use The fair not only represents est faith, and yet, it is “a mod- it to better understand what it similarly referred to how the by the many more tourists who the flagship event of the Israeli ern capital city and center of was like and have a sense of the growth of tourism in Israel pos- are now visiting Israel.” b tourism industry, but also the commerce” with flourishing history, so when they take off largest tourism fair in the great- technology. the glasses, they’ll have a bet- er Middle East. Nofar Nistani, director of Je- ter appreciation for the place,” During the two-day fair from rusalem Entrepreneurs Tourism Dyne told JNS. Feb. 11-12 in Tel Aviv, Israel’s Hub for the Jerusalem Devel- Dyne says Yaturu’s virtual Ministry of Tourism held a se- opment Authority, expressed augmented tours, which are ries of lectures and panels that her pride in exposing guests based in biblical Jerusalem, presented several of the reforms from around the world to Is- have the power to connect the and marketing-policy initiatives raeli innovation and the future Diaspora to its roots. “The story spearheaded that have led to of tourism. “Israel has much we tell is about Jewish roots in record-breaking incoming tour- to show, and we want to do it Jerusalem — it is based in the ism figures. Topics included, with technology and startups,” Kotel [Western Wall], the City among many, accessibility in she told JNS. of David and the dramas of tourism and the development King Solomon, King Hezekiah of the Negev as a tourism brand ‘The power to connect and Prophet Jeremiah — the and leading tourism destination the Diaspora to its roots’ essence of Jewish history in Je- Ariel Karen, an Israeli actor and the emcee at the International Mediterra- in Israel. Yaturu, an augmented-reali- rusalem and Israel as a whole,” nean Tourism Market conference in Tel Aviv, presented by Israel’s Ministry The 26th conference took ty/virtual-reality company that he said. of Tourism, Feb. 11-12. (Eliana Rudee) place after a record-breaking year for incoming tourism with more than 4.5 million tourists in 2019—a 55 percent increase in just three years. Now friends and family around the globe “Today, it is clear that tourism is a very significant economic growth engine for the State of can be part of a loved one’s service. Israel,” said Tourism Minis- Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting ter Yariv Levin. “We recently ended 2019 with an injection of for services that take place within our chapel. more than NIS 22 billion (nearly $6.5 billion) into the Israeli All at NO CHARGE. economy from tourism. I am optimistic for 2020, and believe that the reforms and innovative steps we are spearheading will bear fruit this year as well, despite the budgetary challenges we are expecting to face.” IMTM 2020’s opening event, held in Jerusalem, featured an exhibition of booths, food and 11 travel technology startups. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion Rochester’s Jewish Funeral Home attended the gala, as did min- isters and ambassadors from 585-427-8520 Nepal, the Republic of Srps- 3325 Winton Road S., Rochester NY 14623 • www.BrightonMemorialChapel.com ka (Serb Republic), Greece, Honduras, Equatorial Guinea, Slovak Republic, Taiwan, Sri See why Brighton Memorial Chapel is Establishing a New Tradition. Page 4 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Rothschild Lawsuit Draws Defense (Continued from Page 1)

Attention to Family’s Vienna Past tion of a media outlet owned by heeled predecessor Rudy Giuliani one of the candidates comment- when pursuing some of the same by SOPHIE MAKRIS ing on the Democratic nomina- policies. VIENNA (AFP) — Fueling Vi- tion in such a way as to please its As those who watched enna’s golden age before being boss is pretty ridiculous. Cruz re- Bloomberg’s disastrous first de- driven out by the Nazis, the sponded by simply quipping, “It’s bate performance have noted, Rothschilds seemed to have almost as if he owns the media.” even all his money may not make closed the Austria chapter of Greenblatt responded by say- him ready for the intense scruti- their Jewish banking family’s ing: “Is it anti-Semitic to point ny and pressure that is singular saga. out that Mike Bloomberg owns to a presidential race. That is until Thursday when a news service? No. Is it anti-Se- But the one aspect of this sub- Geoffrey Hoguet, a member of mitic to accuse a Jewish person ject that’s not fair game is his Europe’s most famous banking of controlling the media? Abso- identity as a Jew. dynasty, marches into court in lutely yes. This assertion goes far Those who would invoke an- Vienna. beyond the facts and perpetuates ti-Semitic canards about Jews His suit revolves around a harmful anti-Semitic tropes.” buying influence in order to de- foundation set up in 1907 with This is utterly disingenuous, nounce Bloomberg are spread- the funds of his great-great and Greenblatt knows it. Cruz ing hate. Still, the fact that he is uncle Nathaniel Freiherr von deserves an apology, and though Jewish doesn’t mean that we’re Rothschild who left the equiv- I doubt he will get one, this ep- supposed to ignore the way he is alent of about 100 million euros isode is another object lesson in attempting to use his billions to ($110 million) when he died in how the ADL leader has basical- effectively own the airwaves. Like 1905 to provide psychiatric help ly trashed the reputation of his left-wing billionaire George Soros, for the needy. organization in service to his Bloomberg is a potential target Hoguet, a 69-year-old New openly partisan leanings. for anti-Semitic hate. But there’s York investor, is accusing the A marble statue of Salomon Mayer von Rothschild on display at the Jewish You don’t have to support nothing inappropriate or hate- city of appropriating the foun- Museum in Vienna, Austria, February 18. (Joe Klamar/AFP) Cruz’s brand of conservative ful about pointing out that both dation in breach of its founder’s politics or even like the abra- Soros and Bloomberg are using will and “perpetuating” Na- cial and commercial success. quent the imperial court, a rare sive Texan to understand that their wealth to achieve a political zi-era laws. “The history of the Roth- honor for a Jewish person. Upon he was clearly being ironic and purpose. That’s what Cruz was At stake is, among others, schilds has been repressed” his death in 1911, he was con- not invoking one of the standard getting at, and it’s wrong to call a neurological hospital dat- from Vienna’s collective mem- sidered “the richest man in Eu- themes of The Protocols of the him an anti-Semite for doing so. ing from 1912 whose elegant ory, said Austrian historian rope,” according to Sandgruber. Elders of Zion. And that’s not The ADL used to be the gold period architecture makes Roman Sandgruber, who au- It was also during this period just because Cruz is a dedicated standard when it comes to an- it stand out in a 230-hectare thored a 2018 book on the histo- that Nathaniel, one of Albert’s supporter of Israel, and a politi- ti-Semitism monitoring. But (300-acres) park on the capi- ry of the Rothschilds’ Austrian brothers, a philanthropist more cian with a long and honorable Greenblatt, a former Clinton and tal’s outskirts. branch. focused on art than finance, record as an outspoken foe of Obama administration staffer, The lawyer for Vienna ar- In the early 1800s, the Roth- made the largest individual do- anti-Semitism. has turned his bully pulpit into a gues that the 1956 restoration schild patriarch, Mayer Am- nation in Austrian history to What Michael Bloomberg is political soapbox in the last three of the foundation was done “in schel, originally from the Jew- create the foundation bearing doing in this election season is years as he has repeatedly de- agreement and according to the ish ghetto in Frankfurt, had his name to set up psychiat- more or less exactly what Cruz ployed ADL’s reputation in efforts initial wishes” of Nathaniel von sent his five sons to develop ric hospitals, which were well has described. He’s not merely to wrongly besmirch President Rothschild following its disso- family affairs in Europe’s major ahead of the times. using the media outlet he already Donald Trump and other Repub- lution by the Nazis in 1938. capitals. owns in an effort to become pres- licans as aiding anti-Semites. But Hoguet — a financial His second son Salomon Wild Theories ident; he’s spending money in Greenblatt has also involved the supporter of Democratic Party Mayer von Rothschild set up But as much as financial suc- order to achieve his goal in a group in purely partisan fights presidential nominee Pete Butt- the first bank in Vienna in 1820 cess, anti-Semitism too shaped manner that is both unprece- like Supreme Court nominations igieg — sees this differently and his son Anselm founded the family saga with the Roth- dented and on a scale that dwarfs and attacked the reputations of and wants to “honor the lega- Credit-Anstalt in 1855 — Hoguet schilds pushed out of Austria anything political observers have figures like Secretary of State cy” of his great-great uncle, ac- served on the executive of the when Nazi Germany annexed ever seen tried. Mike Pompeo—who, like Cruz, is cording to his entourage quoted bank before it disappeared in it in 1938. Even before his first appear- a friend of Israel and the Jewish by the press. the 1990s. “The name Rothschild was ance in a presidential debate this people—in order to play wing- He wants to annul the sale of As in London and Paris, the both the target of those who week in Nevada, Bloomberg had man for Democratic attack dogs. one of two sanatoriums in the Rothschild bank of Vienna stirred crowds with hatred of purchased approximately $350 Indeed, he’s gone so far off the early 2000s — a late-baroque quickly became a crucial part- the Jews, as well as of the an- million in television commercials path of nonpartisanship it may palace that was reportedly one ner for those in power. ti-capitalists,” Sandgruber told promoting his candidacy. And be that, as Liel Liebovitz noted in of the world’s earliest centers It helped to finance wars as AFP. with $56 billion at his disposal, Tablet, he no longer even knows of mental health treatment well as big urban and indus- Long before the internet age, who knows what the final tally what anti-Semitism is. — and aims to nullify a 2017 trial projects, including mines the wildest theories about the will add up to, whether or not he Perhaps, like Justice Potter clause that determines that if and railroads — and effectively family circulated: one of them succeeds in being elected pres- Stewart’s famous line about por- the foundation were dissolved propped up the monarchy. claimed that the first of the Vi- ident. nography, when it comes to an- its wealth would go to the city “When Emperor Franz-Joseph ennese Rothschilds, Salomon, This kind of spending from a ti-Semitism, we know it when of Vienna. held protracted discussions was Adolf Hitler’s grandfather, candidate who has avoided tak- we see it. Suffice it to say that with Albert Rothschild, the prompting the chancellery at ing part in the early voting states when people who hate Jews and Ghetto to Palaces rumor was that the monarchy that time to open an investi- where retail politics is required Israel talk about Jews buying The dispute recasts the spot- was crossing a bad financial gation. is, at best, unseemly. So it’s hard- influence—as Rep. Ilhan Omar light on Austria’s ambivalent stretch,” writes Georg Markus, After the war, the sumptuous ly out of order for supporters of (D-Minn.) has done—it’s obvi- relationship with the Jewish a journalist and specialist on family palaces in the center of his competitors to cry foul about ously anti-Semitism. When some- banking family, whose history the Austrian monarchy. Vienna, a Rothschild hospital the way Bloomberg appears to be one who supports Israel like Cruz goes hand-in-hand with the for- In 1887, the emperor gave Al- and a train station funded by trying to buy the presidency. simply notes that an individual mer Habsburg Empire’s finan- bert Rothschild the right to fre- the banking establishment were What even many of those who is trying to act as if he owns all demolished to make way for think Bloomberg was a pretty the media, it’s not—and that has FOUNDED 1924 modern constructions. good mayor don’t know is that nothing to do with their party “Not only did the fighting part of the reason he was able affiliations. THE JEWISH LEDGER itself damage this heritage, but to sustain himself in office was By confusing the issue, ISSN 002165 Albert Klineman, Publisher 1924-1930 • Joseph H. Biben, Publisher 1930-1953 it was also a story with which his habit of buying support or Greenblatt is destroying the Donald Wolin, Publisher, 1953-1986 Austria was not comfortable,” sometimes the silence of activ- ADL’s ability to do its job. It’s BARBARA MORGENSTERN, Publisher and Executive Editor said Michaela Feurstein-Prass- ist groups and politicians. As long past time for the media Published weekly by The Jewish Ledger, er, author of the “Jewish Vien- The New York Times reported, and the Jewish community to 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 • Phone: (585) 427-2468 na” guide. Bloomberg’s tactic was efficient stop treating him as the arbiter It was not until 2016 that a and successful. Money may not of anti-Semitism. In doing so, Periodicals Postage Paid at Rochester, New York Subscription Rate: Within Monroe County $40 per year Rothschild square was inaugurat- be able to buy him love. 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“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” Page 6 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 The Jewish History of America’s Most Famous Ice Cream Full Steam (Continued from Page 1) year, surpassed only by the the private sector is largely to see what Israeli 4.0 compa- United States and China. Since tasked with advancing such nies have to offer. I believe we 2014, annual investments in technologies, but government will see more delegations, more the sector have soared from assistance may be necessary at collaborations, and more Israeli $112 million to $650m., ac- first to support the emergence technology in the coming years cording to data published this of out-of-the-box thinking. The integrated within the German week by Tel Aviv-based non- government also plays an im- industr y.” profit Start-Up Nation Central. portant role, he added, in re- In addition, the Israel Innova- Approximately 260 Israeli start- moving regulatory barriers to tion Authority plans to launch ups are currently active in the enable the operation of pilot a robotics-focused partnership field. programs in Israel rather than connecting Israeli companies International interest in Is- abroad. and academia with counter- raeli technology was clear for Israeli start-ups focusing parts from South Korea, after all to see this week, as in- on Industry 4.0 operate in a current fears over the corona- vestors and representatives of wide range of sectors, ranging virus outbreak subside. (Getty Images) huge multinational corpora- from operation optimization Fabrizio Anner, senior ven- tions descended on Tel Aviv for factories to 3D printing, ture development manager at by JOANNA O’LEARY tenant in the U.S. Navy during for Israel Industry 4.0 (II4.0) and from robotics to predic- Danish transport giant DSV, (The Nosher) — Chunky Mon- WWII. In 1945, Robbins opened Week, a showcase of Israel tive maintenance. Some have told the Post that collaborating key. Rum Tres Leches. Banana the Snowbird Ice Cream parlor, innovation organized by Start- compared Israel’s emergence with start-ups to improve their Nut Fudge. in part with funds from his Up Nation Central, Grove Ven- as a leader in the field to its supply chain enabled far greater Who gave the world the gift bar mitzvah (how’s that for tures and Deloitte. Among the thriving automotive technolo- speed and creativity. of these delectable ice cream foresight?) in Glendale, Cali- many attendees were key busi- gy sector, which also evolved “The whole market is chang- flavor inventions? fornia, and quickly won rave ness leaders from companies despite the absence of a doing,” said Anner. “The existing While Italian immigrants are reviews for the wide variety including Ford Motor Com- mestic automotive manufac- players are coming up with new traditionally given credit for of flavors. Shortly thereafter, pany, Siemens and Schneider turing industry. ideas, but new players — start- opening the first ice cream par- Robbins’ brother-in-law Bert Electric. In a further sign of foreign ups — which scale massively lors in the United States in the Baskin opened his own shop, “Israel will not be a leader interest, Start-Up Nation Cen- within a short time might dis- early 20th century, a series of and in 1948, the fraternal pair in manufacturing, we will not tral CEO Prof. Eugene Kandel rupt our business in the near savvy Jewish entrepreneurs are established a joint establish- be a larger manufacturer than announced the signing of a future.” responsible for the development ment and soon-to-be company China, the United States or the Memorandum of Understanding DSV currently employs about of gourmet ice cream flavors Baskin-Robbins. European Union,” Dr. Ami Ap- with the German federal state 800 staff in Israel, with head- and their subsequent rise in They came full circle pelbaum, chief scientist at the of Bavaria on Tuesday, laying quarters in Modi’in and offices popularity among the general when, nearly 50 years later, Economy Ministry and chair- the infrastructure for coopera- at all ports of entry by land, air public. Baskin-Robbins merged with man of the Israel Innovation tion and promoting commercial or sea. The company, one of the The name Haagen-Dazs leads Dunkin’ Donuts — founded by Authority, told The Jerusalem pilots between Israeli start-ups world’s top three global logis- many to assume it to be Nor- the Jewish entrepreneur Wil- Post on the sidelines of the con- and Bavarian industrial compa- tics service providers, is already dic in origin. Surprise — this liam Rosenberg. ference on Tuesday. nies. The state is home to some collaborating with several local internationally renowned ice Steve Herrell, whose spouse “But, similar to other areas of Germany’s largest corpora- start-ups. These include Kfar cream company that has over and business partner was Jew- — like cyber — we will enable tions, including Siemens, BMW Saba-based Wave to digitize all $2 billion in sales annually was ish, observed the strides made Industry 4.0 to move forward and Audi. freight communications, Air- actually the brainchild of a Pol- by Haagen-Dazs in broadening with many components, tech- “Signing this cooperation port City-headquartered frisbee ish Jew named Reuben Mat- consumers’ tastes for ice cream nologies, subsystems and algo- agreement will advance both global to improve temperature tus. Just after immigrating to and decided to capitalize on rithms. That is Israel’s power. It sides to the challenges facing control during pharmaceutical America in the 1920s at the age that momentum by opening an can expand it as time goes by to industry in the 21st Century,” shipments and an unnamed of 10, along with his widowed ice cream shop in the 1970s that create the sub-assemblies and said Kandel. “Already this start-up to build an IoT (Internet mother, Mattus went to work proffered flavors more exotic components that will enable week, at our current conference of things) product to enable end- for his uncle’s Italian lemon than the standard chocolate, Industry 4.0 to evolve.” here in Israel, no fewer than 15 to-end supply chain visibility. b ice business in Brooklyn. By vanilla and strawberry. Located Appelbaum emphasizes that Bavarian companies have come © The Jerusalem Post the early 1930s, the family had in Somerville, Massachusetts, expanded its product line to Steve’s served then-novel vari- include chocolate-covered ice eties of creams such as choco- cream bars, ice cream pops and late pudding, cookie dough and ice cream sandwiches. peanut butter, as well as afford- Mattus was convinced he ed customers the opportunity ALENDAR AT A GLANCE … CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 could deliver even higher qual- to add “mix-ins” like M&Ms, C ity ice cream to his custom- chocolate sandwich cookies, ers, and engaged in a thorough sprinkles and toffee bits. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 self-education on the science And just as Herrell was in- Ora Academy Production, at Temple Beth El, 7:30 p.m. An original performance featuring drama, and culinary methodology re- spired by Haagen-Dazs, his ice song and dance. This event is open to all women and girls. More information, 271-8711. quired to create the richest, cream innovations would influ- Melvin Seals & JGB 2020, at JCC, 7:30 p.m. See March 3. most superior frozen confec- ence other ice cream entrepre- tions. Mattus’ real stroke of neurs, including two mensches genius, however, was his recog- who would arguably go on to THURSDAY, MARCH 5 nition that his new ultra-premi- become America’s greatest cre- Let’s Talk About Hate, at MK Gandhi Institute For Nonviolence, 6 p.m. What is hate? How does it um ice cream needed a certain ators and purveyors of gourmet shape our thoughts, identities, and communities? What can we do about it? Join Gandhi Institute cosmopolitan cache to make it ice cream: Ben (Cohen) & Jerry director Kit Miller for a workshop exploring this seldom discussed topic through a variety of per- appeal to his target audience: (Greenfield). After witnessing spectives and traditions. More information, 241-8621 or [email protected]. sophisticated, moneyed Amer- firsthand Herrell perform his icans. Thus he decided to give mix-in technique at his epon- FRIDAY, MARCH 6 it a “foreign-sounding” name, ymous parlor, the dynamic Family Shabbat Service Featuring JROC Band and JDAIM, at Temple Sinai, 6 p.m. For more specifically a Danish(ish) one duo started their scoop shop in information, [email protected]. to pay tribute to the country’s 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. effort to save Jews during They initially followed Her- Eastman School of Music Presents: Britten War Requiem, at Kodak Hall, 8 p.m. Benjamin Britten’s World War II. rell’s style of manually incorpo- War Requiem, a powerful choral masterpiece denouncing war and honoring the fallen. The 90-min- Remarkably, at about the rating different toppings, then ute work consists of six movements that intersperses Britten’s setting of the traditional Latin Mass same time, another Jewish en- moved on to churning out pints for the Dead with poems by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen. 274-3000 or EastmanTheatre.org. trepreneur on the other side pre-blended with different can- of the country was launching dies, baked goods and sauces, SUNDAY, MARCH 8 his own ice cream experiment. thus paving the way for the JWV Kauffman Post 41 Meeting, at the Jewish Home, 9 a.m. 217-3179. Irv Robbins, a Canadian, was emergence of Phish Food, Chub- self-taught, first gaining skills by Hubby and other iconic Ben Anti-Semitism Study Group, at Temple Emanu-El, 2 p.m. Rabbi Drorah Setel will lead reading and working in his father’s store & Jerry’s flavors. discussing a range of articles to explore questions such as whether the nature of anti-Semitism has and then teaching himself more When it comes to ice cream, changed over time, how it relates to other forms of oppression and the role it plays in discussions advanced techniques while how sweet it is to be loved by of Zionism and Israel. 266-1978 ext 1 or [email protected]. crafting ice cream as a lieu- Jews. b THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 7 Monsey Stabbing Victim Opens Bernie (Continued from Page 1) Eyes After 59 Days in Coma he is “concerned about the plat- become a draw for presidential she would skip the AIPAC con- form AIPAC provides for leaders candidates, AIPAC has become ference. The Jewish anti-oc- mann had opened his eyes, who express bigotry and oppose an increasing source of contro- cupation group IfNotNow said the tweet said he was showing basic Palestinian rights.” versy within some Democratic that the questioner, identified other signs of improvement. “As president, I will support circles. as Sarah O’Connor, was acting “Give thanks to the lord for the rights of both Israelis and In 2015, AIPAC ran a on its behalf. Warren did not he is good, for his mercy en- Palestinians and do everything full-throated and public cam- push back against O’Connor’s dures forever,” the post said, possible to bring peace and se- paign against the Obama ad- questionable assertion that later adding, “Keep praying for curity to the region,” he tweeted ministration’s Iran nuclear deal. AIPAC was forging an “unholy a full recovery.” Sunday. By contrast, its differences with alliance” with “Islamopohobes Neumann has seven chil- Sanders did not provide any the Trump administration — and anti-Semites and white na- dren, “many grandchildren,” a specific examples. over President Donald Trump’s tionalists” and insistence that great-grandchild, and brothers His tweets, posted a day after retreat from a two-state outcome “no Democrat should legitimize and sisters. Sanders scored a decisive victory to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that kind of bigotry by attending The assailant’s knife pene- in the Nevada caucuses, added and his defunding of assistance their annual policy conference.” trated Neumann’s skull and cut fuel to a simmering debate over to the Palestinians and of dia- Meanwhile, also in New into his brain. His right arm whether a Sanders administra- logue programs — have been Hampshire, Biden rejected pres- Josef Neumann also was shattered. tion would be good for Israel. expressed behind the scenes, sure from an IfNotNow activist The family had said in a The candidate, an Independent if at all. to boycott the AIPAC conference. by MARCY OSTER statement a week after the at- senator from Vermont, spent Still, AIPAC has sought to Over the years, Biden has po- (JTA) — The most seriously tack: “Doctors are not optimis- time on a kibbutz in Israel as strengthen its bipartisan bona sitioned himself as a friend of injured victim of the stabbing tic about his chances to regain a young adult and has released fides. In addition to continuing AIPAC and regularly attended its attack at a rabbi’s home in Mon- consciousness, and if our father campaign ads emphasizing his to host Democratic politicians, annual conference. As vice pres- sey opened his eyes after 59 does miraculously recover par- Jewish identity. But he has also its policy conferences in recent ident, he spoke to the gathering days in a coma. tially, doctors expect that he criticized Israel’s political lead- years have emphasized outreach and received standing ovations Josef Neumann, 72, has been will have permanent damage to ership and taken on surrogates to progressives, including by despite tensions between the on a respirator since the Dec. the brain, leaving him partially who support boycotting Isra- hiring staff dedicated to making Obama administration and the 28 attack during a Hanukkah paralyzed and speech-impaired el. Polls suggest that American inroads on the left. But such Netanyahu government. party. He was one of five people for the rest of his life.” Jews have not warmed to him. efforts have been complicated In contrast, in recent weeks injured. The alleged stabber, Grafton AIPAC — the American Is- both by Israeli Prime Minister Sanders — and some Democrats The announcement of Neu- Thomas, 37, has pleaded not rael Public Affairs Committee, Benjamin Netanyahu’s enthusi- — have found themselves under mann’s breakthrough came guilty to 10 federal hate crimes which has supported a two-state astic embrace of Trump and the attack from AIPAC or its allies. in a tweet from Rabbi Yisroel charges along with six counts solution and U.S. aid to Palestin- increasing influence of far-left The Democratic Majority for Kahan, community liaison of of attempted murder and sever- ians — responded with a state- activist groups and Democratic Israel, a year-old group founded theDownstairs Ramapo Cabaret Police • Size Department • Date • Designer al assault Fax/Email: and burglary - counts ment calling Sanders’ comments lawmakers who are highly criti- by longtime Democratic strate- and executive director of Oiz- in Rockland County court. “truly shameful.” The organi- cal of Israel. gist Mark Mellman, ran a six-fig- rimExpositor-Ledger Jewish Council. NewspapersIf Neumann dies, Thomas zation noted that Sanders has Left-wing activist groups ure ad campaign in Iowa last RochesterAlong with noting Golf that NeuWeek- could • Theface the Jewish death penalty. Ledger b never attended an AIPAC confer- have been pressuring Demo- month that questioned Sanders’ 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 ence, which it said draws more cratic presidential candidates to health and his ability to defeat (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 than 18,000 people. boycott the conference, which Trump in November, The Associ- Sanctions (Continued from Page 1) “By engaging in such an odi- begins March 1 — a tough date ated Press reported. The ads also IMPORTANT… We want YOUR AD to be perfect… ous attack on this mainstream, for candidates pushing for votes ran in Nevada ahead of its Feb. 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But Mellman committed Check to exposingaddresses and and phone Wednesday’snumbers, as well announcement as e-mail addresses and web sites. ◗ stand with Israel,” the statement ference, but cite his unwilling- has said the group operates inde- holding accountable Check dates and Hezbol times- of allis eventspart of listed. the Trump adminis- said. ness to leave the campaign trail pendently of AIPAC. And AIPAC lah’s terror-fundingIf there are anybusiness corrections, tration’s please “maximum call us immediately pressure” at 427-2468. The dustup raises questions on the eve of Super Tuesday. reportedly distanced itself from schemes.” campaign against Iran, of which about whether AIPAC’s relevance But instead Sanders ultimately the ads by Mellman’s group, In a statement release by the Hezbollah is a proxy, since the in Democratic circles is wan- framed his decision as a rebuke telling AP that it had nothing to State Department, U.S. Secre- United States withdrew from the ing and underscores the group’s of AIPAC, echoing comments he do with them. tary of State Mike Pompeo said, 2015 nuclear deal in May 2018, struggle to maintain its biparti- made last year. But earlier this month, AIPAC “Today’s designation will con- reimposing sanctions, along san brand. In other situations, Sanders found itself in the middle of a tinue the U.S. effort to disrupt with enacting new financial J Street, a liberal group that has demonstrated a willing- separate controversy involving Hezbollah’s financial facilita- penalties against Tehran. b has sought to position itself as ness to accept a platform from ads targeting some Democrats. an alternative to AIPAC, had no those with whom he strongly AIPAC apologized and removed trouble attracting Democratic disagrees. In 2015, during his at least two Facebook ads that candidates to its conference in previous run for president, he ac- slammed “radical” Democrats October. Five presidential hope- cepted an invitation to speak at in Congress, and altered a pe- fuls, including Sen. Amy Klobu- Liberty University, an evangeli- tition that said Israel’s harshest char of Minnesota and Pete Butt- cal Christian institution that op- critics in Congress pose a threat igieg, then the mayor of South poses abortion rights, gay mar- “maybe more sinister” than ISIS Bend, Indiana, spoke in person. riage and other positions favored and other terror groups. Five others, notably former Vice by Sanders. In explaining his de- The AIPAC apology was not President Joe Biden and Sen. cision to speak at the university, entirely unqualified. The ads, Elizabeth Warren of Massachu- Sanders said through a spokes- it said, “alluded to a genuine setts, delivered video messages. person that it was “important to concern of many pro-Israel Dem- A major topic at the confer- reach out to others who look at ocrats about a small but growing ence was whether the United the world differently.” group, in and out of Congress, States should consider withhold- Sanders has displayed a simi- that is deliberately working to ing aid to press Israel to make lar openness when dealing with erode the bipartisan consensus policy changes — a question that pro-Palestinian figures. 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“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” Page 8 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 German Shooter Said He Citizens (Continued from Page 1) Wanted to Exterminate People sions the possibility that bor- al-Gharbiyye, Umm al-Fahm, ion polls demonstrate that Is- ders would be redrawn and Qalansawe, Tayibe, Kafr Qasim, raeli-Arabs reject trading in From Asia, Africa and Israel some Arab cities and villages Tira, Kafr Bara and Jaljulia.” their Israeli passports for Pal- could become part of a future It continues: “These commu- estinian ones. Palestinian state. nities, which largely self-iden- According to the Arab-Jew- While the discussions over tify as Palestinian, were orig- ish Relations Index survey settlements, annexation and inally designated to fall under compiled in 2017 by Professor Palestinian statehood have Jordanian control during the Sammy Smooha of the Univer- drawn headlines, one contro- negotiations of the armistice sity of Haifa, 77.4 percent of versial aspect that has gained Line of 1949, but ultimately Arabs are not willing to move less attention is the proposal of were retained by Israel for mil- to a Palestinian state if one land swaps, specifically trans- itary reasons that have since were established. ferring Arab towns in Israel into been mitigated.” A majority of Israeli Arabs a future Palestinian state. The plan then goes on to say (61.9 percent) think Israel is a Shaheen Sarsur, who has that these areas could become good country to live in, with been involved in Arab pol- part of a Palestinian state de- 60 percent preferring to live in Police officers and emergency services behind a police cordon near two hoo- itics for more than 12 years pending on negotiations be- Israel than in any other country kah bars in the center of the western German city of Hanau after 10 people and served as a parliamentary tween the parties. in the world. Another survey were killed in shootings, Feb. 19, 2020. (Thomas Lohnes / AFP via Getty Images) consultant for three previous “The Vision contemplates the carried out in 2008 found that Knesset members, the last one possibility, subject to agree- this number is as high as 76.9 by TOBY AXELROD The German media said the being Talab Abu Arar of the ment of the parties that the bor- percent. BERLIN (JTA) — The shooter manifesto was written in Janu- Islamic Movement’s parliamen- ders of Israel will be redrawn A poll by the Haifa-based who murdered 10 people in the ary and intended as a “message tary party, told JNS that Arabs such that the Triangle Commu- Mada al-Carmel Arab Center German city of Hanau was a far- to the German people” and a in Israel received the Trump nities become part of the State for Applied Social Research in right extremist who reportedly declaration of war. Their uncon- administration plan with cyn- of Palestine,” it says. 2004 found that more than 91 said he wanted to exterminate firmed reports state he blamed icism and sarcasm. The proposal by the Trump percent of Arab residents in people from Asia, North Africa “certain individuals in my own Arabs in Israel know “that a administration is not a new the Triangle region opposed and Israel. country” for the fact that “we land exchange won’t happen, one. Former Israeli Defense land-exchange plans floated at Germany’s main Jewish orga- now have populations, races or and that the towns in the Trian- Minister and Israel Beiteinu the time. nization expressed shock over cultures amongst us that are gle area will not become part of Party leader Avigdor Lieber- the Wednesday, February 19 at- destructive in every way.” Palestine,” he said, adding that man has long championed the ‘Israeli Arabs Reject tack, which the country’s attor- Tobias R. also reportedly had no one will agree to exchange idea of transferring these Is- Becoming Citizens ney general is investigating. posted a video on YouTube last their Israeli passport for a Pal- raeli-Arab towns — in the case of Palestinian State, Police in Hanau said the shoot- week containing conspiracy the- estinian one — and that, in of Umm al-Fahm, it’s a city of as Suggested in er, identified in news reports as ories about secret powers steer- fact, no one is worried about some 55,000 people — into a Mideast Peace Plan’ Tobias R., born in 1977, and his ing both the United States and this actually happening. future Palestinian state as part Some observers see the Israe- mother were found dead early Germany, and expressions of They say, “We were born of a peace deal. li-Arab stance on this subject as Thursday morning in his home, hate aimed at Arab and Turkish here, and we are not going However, Lieberman’s pro- hypocritical; on one hand, they not long after his reported shoot- migrants. anywhere. And for sure, we posal, which would result in identify with the Palestinians, ing spree in two hookah bars. Police did not know of any will not agree to be under the a significant drop in Israel’s but on the other, they prefer to Among the dead were several specific threats to Hanau’s Jew- sovereignty of a Palestinian Arab minority, which currently remain Israelis. Turkish nationals, as well as one ish population, Oliver Dainow, state.” stands around 21 percent of the Addressing this issue, Daniel Bosnian and one person from representative for the Jewish Sarsur attributes this to var- country’s total population of 8.9 Pipes, president of the Middle Poland. community there, told JTA on ious reasons, including the million, has long been viewed East Forum, observes that the The alleged shooter left behind Thursday morning. fact that Israeli Arabs have a skeptically by both sides in Is- Arabs in Israel are “living dis- a video and a 24-page manifesto The community, with some good socioeconomic position rael. connected lives, with the heart in which he said certain peoples 200 members, already had in Israel, and that this would Even Israeli Prime Minister and mind on different tracks.” “must be completely destroyed,” beefed up security following the suffer if they move to a Pal- Benjamin Netanyahu weighed Pipes says that Palestinian according to German news re- violent attack outside the syna- estinian state. Like other mi- in recently and dismissed the nationalism has to be sustained ports. A spokesperson for the gogue in Halle. Two passersby nority groups in Israel, Israeli idea. “There will not be any with money and other forms attorney general told the Jew- were killed in the attack. The Arabs enjoy full citizenship population transfers under any of pressure. “I can imagine it ish Telegraphic Agency that he alleged perpetrator, who had and equal rights under the circumstances: I oppose it in collapsing one of these days,” could not confirm the existence tried and failed to break his way law. principle,” The Jerusalem Post he predicts. of a manifesto or video, but that into the synagogue, was later The Trump administration’s reported him stating. In an article published in further information would be arrested. peace plan provides only a brief Sheikh Safwat Freij, deputy early February, he wrote that released later on Thursday. “For anybody who has these mention of the idea of transfer- leader of the southern branch the transfer idea is infeasible The attack is the latest in a kinds of ideas in their head, Ju- ring Israeli-Arab areas close to of the Islamic Movement who because Israeli Arabs over- string of high-profile attacks by daism is not far away,” Dainow the West Bank, known as the lives in Kafr Qasim, told JNS whelmingly oppose it and far-right extremists in recent told JTA. Triangle region, in the center of that Trump’s Mideast peace therefore will avoid transfer by months. Both the Yom Kippur at- While the most recent violent the country, east of Kfar Saba, plan “is so unserious it does not moving to other parts of Israel. tack on a synagogue in Halle last attacks have had a right-wing and turning the residents into even deserve a response.” Yet he raises the prospect that October and the assassination in extremist background, Dainow Palestinian citizens. “For us, it is completely irrel- Trump’s peace proposal may June of a pro-refugee politician, said he could not point to one Perspective • 1x4, 2x3 • 111408 • DS HOUSE The plan names the Arab vil- evant. We would respond to a “make them a touch more re- Walter Lubcke, were carried out specific political direction as lages in the Triangle area: “The plan if it was serious, but this alistic, sober and loyal to their by assailants affiliated with the being most threatening. Triangle Communities consist is not,” he said. countr y.” far right. “There is a toxic environment of Kafr Qara, Ar’ara, Baha Over the years, public-opin- Khaled Abu Toameh, writing Responding to those attacks, in general,” he said. for the Gatestone Institute, says German officials have said they In his statement, Schuster said that Arab Israelis living in the are ramping up scrutiny of far- German authorities had ignored Triangle strongly oppose the right groups. But they are seen warning signs for far too long. On the Go? idea of becoming part of a Pal- as playing catch-up after years “It is high time that all dem- estinian state because they see of focusing anti-terrorism efforts ocratic entities stand together how Palestinians living under largely on Islamic extremists. against the threat of right-wing Take the news the Palestinian Authority in In a statement Thursday extremism and also of Islamist with you! the West Bank and Hamas in morning, Josef Schuster, head terror,” he said. “Politicians, law the Gaza Strip “are subject to of the Central Council of Jews enforcement agencies, the judi- human-rights violations on a in Germany, said he worried ciary and civil society have to The E-Edition of daily basis.” about “the safety of minorities take responsibility.” While the idea of a land in Germany, and of those who German Chancellor Angela The Jewish Ledger swap between Israel and a fu- are committed to helping them.” Merkel, who canceled travel ture Palestinian state seems Schuster and other prominent plans in the wake of the Hanau extremely unlikely to be car- German Jews have said recent- shooting, said Thursday in a ried out, it does demonstrate ly that an uptick in right-wing public statement: “Racism is a that Arabs in Israel do not view crimes and the rise of a far-right poison. Hatred is a poison. And the Palestinian state-building extremist political party, the Al- this poison exists in our society TheJewishLedger.com as a project they want to fully ternative for Germany, had made and is responsible for far too take part in. b them consider leaving Germany. many crimes.” b

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Take the news with you! The E-Edition of The Jewish Ledger TheJewishLedger.com THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 9 Arts & Entertainment DHR to Honor Karen Kessler at Annual Scholarship Dinner Derech HaTorah of Rochester in Water Safety, Lifeguarding hopefully be a catalyst to inspire throughout the country, DHR Although they are very excit- has announced that Karen Kes- and First Aid. For a decade, at Karen’s friends to visit and be- is the largest, fastest- grow- ed about their growth and are sler will be the Guest of Honor our local JCC, Karen served as come involved at DHR. ing Jewish elementary school hopeful that it will continue, at the school’s upcoming 16th Aquatic Director, then as the As a result of DHR’s fantastic in Upstate NY. Since opening community support is essential. annual dinner on Sunday eve- Health, Fitness and Wellness faculty, the Torah Rochester 16 years ago with an enroll- To purchase dinner tickets, or ning, May 3, 2020 at Congrega- Director. Later, she worked as national advertising campaign, ment of 31 students, DHR has an ad to recognize Karen, please tion Beth Sholom. Program Director for the U of and the school’s numerous blossomed to an established visit www.derechhatorah.org or DHR is privileged to count R’s Center for Lifetime Wellness supporters in Rochester and institution with 114 students. call 266-2920. J Karen Kessler as an Ambassa- to develop fitness interventions dor to the community and as for special populations. a great supporter of Derech As a past board member for HaTorah. Karen is a dedicat- the JCC, and current president ed, committed advocate, who of Delta Environmental, Karen channels her very impressive remains involved locally. She Save the date… skills and talents to ensure that has served as a Red Cross in- everything is done to the high- structor for 35 years, and is sec- est standard. retary of the Board of Directors Karen is an accomplished for the RPO. Karen is also the 5 . 3 . 20 person, with deep roots in the proud mother of Andrew Clark, Rochester area. She’s a graduate of Colorado. of SUNY Geneseo with degrees Karen is married to Laurence in Elementary & Early Child- Kessler, who is an active sup- hood Education and Second- porter and volunteer for numer- ary Mathematics. Karen taught ous vital organizations through- high school math, substituted out the Rochester community. locally, became certified as a They are an inspiring, beloved Fitness Instructor and swam team! Karen Kessler competitively. Karen is a Cer- Illuminating Karen’s generosi- tified Personal Trainer, and a ty, involvement and enthusiasm Red Cross Instructor-Trainer at this distinctive event will Greater Rochester Rabbi Yitzi & Devorah Shulman Night to Honor Israel The Greater Rochester Night to of CUFI on Campus, now on Honor Israel will take place on over 400 university and college Sunday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. campuses. at Bethel Christian Fellowship, Greater Rochester Night to 321 East Avenue. This year’s Honor Israel is an annual event event will highlight the work co-hosted by numerous region- and policy agenda of the Chris- al Christian congregations and tians United for Israel (CUFI) ministries and by Christians Action Fund in its efforts to influ- United for Israel (CUFI). Free ence elected officials to support Admission. For more informa- a strong US-Israel relationship, tion, call Bethel Christian Fel- combat anti-Semitism at home lowship, 232-1136. J and abroad, and defend Israel’s right to self-defense and self-de- termination. CUFI Action Fund is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization separate from the more than 8 million-member pro-Isra- el grassroots organization, Chris- tians United for Israel (CUFI). The keynote speaker for the evening will be Sandra Hagee Parker, Chairperson of the CUFI Action Fund. Sandra Parker, a practicing attorney, has led this organization since 2013, testifying multiple times before the Texas Senate and House and testifying before the US House Judiciary Committee in Novem- ber of 2017 on anti-Semitism. Come and hear the inside stories of how CUFI has been the “tip of the spear” in the moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and in passing the Taylor Force Act, and about its influence in the recent Presidential Execu- tive Order of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. The evening program will SUNDAY MARCH 29TH 6:30PM also include brief comments BETHEL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP 321 EAST AVENUE and updates on the activities Page 10 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Arts & Entertainment Hillel Community Day School Announces 72nd Annual Scholarship Benefit

Hillel Community Day School Sandra Kushner. Israel, and engage in the mitz- past projects and curriculum. brancy of our community, to is proud to announce their The annual event’s commem- vot of tzedakah. The scholar- The food will be themed to each over 12,000 readers. The Jewish fundraising event for the 2020- orative journal, sponsorships, ship program ensures that a room with signature drink tast- Ledger has impacted Jewish 21 school year is being held on and ticket sales help Hillel raise high-quality Jewish day school ings. The evening will culmi- Rochester for decades, and to Sunday, March 15th beginning funds for the school’s Student education is available and ac- nate in the gymnasium for a lav- honor that alongside Barbara at 5:30 p.m. at the Hillel School Scholarship Fund. Hillel School cessible for all families and stu- ish dessert presentation along and George’s work, this year’s building, a first for the institu- offers an innovative, creative, dents who wish to attend. In with a program highlighting the journal will be printed as a spe- tion in its 72 years of existence. and comprehensive general and the 2019-20 school year, over event’s honorees. The program cial edition of the newspaper — The annual event is the most Judaic studies curriculum, in a 80 percent of Hillel’s students will also feature the school’s a “The Hillel Gazette.” In addition significant fundraiser for the setting that nurtures and chal- received some form of scholar- cappella group, The Chai Notes to ads, the gazette will include school and helps to support lenges its students. The dynam- ship and tuition assistance. and other school leaders. articles about the Hillel com- the Student Scholarship Fund. ic setting creates a close-knit This year’s event concept is Barbara and George Morgen- munity, students, and honorees. This year’s honorees include community of excited learners unlike past years. Hillel School stern are pillars in the local Sandra Kushner is the proud Barbara and George Morgen- who understand the importance will celebrate their students, Jewish and larger Rochester grandmother of Kindergartener, stern and Volunteer of the Year, of service, foster a deep love of faculty, honorees, and support- community. Barbara works Avery Hellman. Ms. Kushner ers all under the roof of their tirelessly to keep Rochester has been working in our library state-of-the-art facility. Guests informed on topics and news this year setting up, labeling, will enjoy a self-guided tour through the only Jewish weekly sorting, and doing whatever of the building while enjoying newspaper in the communi- is necessary to make sure our food stations in featured class- ty, The Jewish Ledger. Found- library is looking great and run- rooms: S.T.E.A.M lab, Library, ed in 1924, this independent, ning smoothly for all our teach- HILLEL COMMUNITY Broadcast Studio, Judaics, Art, award-winning publication ers and students. Sandra was gowin ou jewish futue Science, Dining Commons and keeps Rochester Jewry in touch a founding trustee of the local gowinDAY ouSC jewishHO futueOL more. Each classroom will take with the Jewish world through library in Bliss, New York and 7 2 N D A N N U A L S C H O L A R S H I P B E N E F I T the guests on a journey and local, national and international has dedicated much of her life offer a glimpse inside each sub- features, opinions and news to teaching and promoting the ject through student and faculty stories. The Ledger delivers importance of libraries in our J Barbara and George Morgenstern presentations of current and content, which reflects the vi- communities and schools. Sandra Kushner, Volunteer of the Year in ono of Abraham H. Foxman Speaks at Nazareth College in ono of S&UNDAY, M ARCH 15, 2020 Nazareth College’s Konar Cen- state issues, religious intoler- XVI, and Pope Francis and has & ter for Tolerance and Jewish ance and issues relating to the conferred with U.S. Presidents 5:30 - 7:00pm Cocktails & Dinner Stations Studies, in partnership with the Holocaust and Israel. He is a from Ronald Reagan to Barack Jewish Federation of Greater passionate supporter of the Obama, as well as with mem- 7:00 - 8:00pm Dessert & Program Rochester, presents Abraham State of Israel and a voice for bers of Congress. H. Foxman, a world-renowned peace in the Middle East. A Holocaust survivor, Foxman $136 Per Person 191 Faireld Drive leader in the fight against an- “He has worked for decades was a member of the President’s ti-Semitism, bigotry, and dis- in what is today the field of United States Holocaust Me- Ticket sales fully impact Rochester, NY crimination. Foxman will speak restorative justice,” said Hava morial Council, appointed by the Annual Scholarship Fund Valet parking provided at Nazareth on March 30, at 7 Leipzig Holzhauer, executive Presidents Reagan, George H.W. p.m. in the Nazareth College director of the Konar Center.” Bush, and Clinton. He has been Arts Center’s Callahan Theater. He has sat in conversation with a member of official presidential It is free and open to the public, some of the greatest influencers delegations to special events in but registration is recommended. of our time - and he has listened Europe and Israel. Foxman regularly speaks out and worked with some of the Born in Poland in 1940, Fox- CATERING PROVIDED BY THE EXOTIC KITCHEN on issues of global anti-Semi- greatest offenders of our time.” man was saved from the Ho- ocktail atti tism, the war on terror, church/ Foxman is national director locaust by his Polish Catholic ocktail atti emeritus of the Anti-Defamation nursemaid who baptized and League (ADL). He retired from raised him as a Catholic during Please join us for a Conversation on ADL in 2015, having served a the war years. His parents sur- Anti-Semitism with Abraham H. Foxman total of 50 years with the or- vived the war, but 14 members ganization, including serving of his family were lost. He ar- Mr. Foxman is world-renowned as a leader as National Director from 1987 rived in America in 1950 with in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, through July 2015. his parents. A graduate of the and discrimination. He regularly speaks He is currently director and Yeshiva of Flatbush, Brooklyn, out on issues of global anti-Semitism, the chairman of the Center for the N.Y., he has a bachelor’s degree war on terror, church/state issues, religious Study of Anti-Semitism at the in political science from the intolerance, issues relating to the Holocaust Museum of Jewish Heritage - A City College of the City Univer- and Israel. During his long career, he had direct Living Memorial to the Holo- sity of New York, graduating consultations with world leaders in Europe, caust in New York City, visiting with honors in history. He holds Russia, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, lecturer at Georgetown Univer- a J.D. degree from New York China, Japan, South Africa, Argentina, and sity’s School of Foreign Affairs, University School of Law, and elsewhere. Mr. Foxman, national director and non-resident research fel- did graduate work in advanced emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League low at the Institute for National Judaic studies at the Jewish (ADL), is a published author, and is currently Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Theological Seminary and in director and chairman of the Center for the Aviv. international economics at The Study of Anti-Semitism at the Museum of During his long career, Fox- New School for Social Research. Jewish Heritage in New York City. man had direct consultations Foxman is the co-author of with world leaders in Europe, Viral Hate (Palgrave Macmil- Monday, March 30th at 7pm Russia, Israel, Egypt, Saudi lan, 2013) and author of Jews Callahan Theater, Arts Center, Nazareth College Arabia, Jordan, China, Japan, & Money: The Story of a Stereo- 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 South Africa, Argentina, and type (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), This event is FREE and open to the public, Reservations are required. For more information, please email [email protected] elsewhere, and with Palestinian The Deadliest Lies: The Israel leaders, on problems of ethnic Lobby and the Myth of Jewish hatred, violence, terrorism, and Control (Palgrave Macmillan, promoting democracy. He had 2007) and Never Again? The multiple audiences with Pope Threat of the New Anti-Semitism John Paul II, Pope Benedict (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003). J THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 11 Arts & Entertainment CenterStage at JCC Presents Area Return of Calamari Sisters and New Concert Series Line Up

Premiere of 2017 Pulitzer Prize-Winner CenterStage Theatre has be- event on February 29, 2020. come known as the local of the CenterStage Theatre and the In one of the poorest cities 40 percent. Nottage has said that the play. It was on that tour popular Italian sibling phenom- Louis S. Wolk Rochester Jewish in America, a group of factory she was particularly influenced that JCC’s Ralph Meranto met enon known as The Calamari Community Center have also workers spend their lives sharing by a New York Times article re- the Playwright and pledged to Sisters. The unlikely partnership become a popular destination laughs, drinks and secrets until porting on the city specifically, bring the work to Rochester. first began when CenterStage for acclaimed national music layoffs and picket lines threaten and by the Occupy Wall Street A London production opened produced the World Premiere of acts. Recent concerts include their ability to stay afloat. movement more generally. She at the Donmar Warehouse and Oy Vey It’s the Calamari Sisters sold out performances by Liv- Based on two-time Pulitzer asked residents about their lives later transferred to the West End in 2016 and continued through a ingston Taylor, David Grisman, Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn in the shadows of the loss of where it received the Evening variety of shows since that time. Martin Barre, and Melvin Seals Nottage’s interviews with resi- heavy industry and the changing Standard Play of the Year Award Now Delphine and Carmella with JGB. The 2020 Concert dents of Reading, PA, Sweat is a ethnic composition of the city. in 2019. Calamari are back at the JCC Series at the JCC has been an- raw, humorous, heart-wrench- Sweat was workshopped at While the arc of the play starts is an all-new format, complete nounced and includes: A return ing, universal new play. the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the year 2000, the Wall Street with a buffet dinner and in the of Melvin Seals and John Kad- JCC Artistic Director Ralph and Arena Stage in Washing- Journal review suggested the party room at the JCC instead lecik with JGB; Jon Simon, The Meranto describes Sweat as “an ton, D.C. in 2015 and opened play “explained” Trump’s win. of the theatre. Dinner Date with Music of Cream and the David epic work that tackles the bonds Off-Broadway at The Public The- It’s realistic portrayal of the dis- the Calamari is a one night only Bromberg Quintet. J of family and friendship, Amer- ater in fall of 2016. It’s popular- enfranchised working class and ica’s drug addiction and immi- ity resulted in a quick transfer the loss of middle class man- gration challenges, corporate to Broadway. The play won the ufacturing jobs in American is MARCH 21-APRIL 5 downsizing and labor relations, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama at the core of the character’s and the unwritten obstacles to and the 2017 Obie Award for struggles and loss. The Center- achieving the American Dream.” Playwriting. The play was nom- Stage production is the Area Lynn Nottage began working inated for the 2017 Drama Desk Premiere of the work and fea- on Sweat in 2011 by interviewing Award, Outstanding Play and tures a diverse cast of 8 local, numerous residents of Reading, Outstanding Fight Choreogra- professional actors. CenterStage Pennsylvania, which at the time phy and a Tony Award nomina- had previously staged another of was, according to the United tion for Best Play. A subsequent Nottage’s plays, Intimate Appar- States Census Bureau, officially tour to “rest belt” cities brought el. That work is currently being one of the poorest cities in Amer- he the play to communities di- transformed into an Opera for a ica, with a poverty rate of over rectly affected by the issues in production at Lincoln Center. J

Eastman School of Music AREA PREMIERE 2017 Pulitzer Presents: Britten War Requiem Prize-Winner by Lynn Nottage Benjamin Britten’s War Re- his ability to present complex ists: German baritone Dietrich quiem, a powerful choral mas- music and profound poetry with Fischer-Dieskau; Russian soprano terpiece denouncing war and the kind of perfect clarity that Galina Vishnevskaya; and British honoring the fallen, will be pre- makes an immediate and un- tenor Peter Pears. sented by the Eastman School forgettable impact on listeners.” Britten War Requiem is free of Music at 8 p.m. on Friday, The War Requiem was commis- and open to the public. While March 6, in Kodak Hall at East- sioned to celebrate the opening of admission is free, donations are jcccenterstage.org man Theatre, with the concert the new Coventry Cathedral, built greatly appreciated as this event 585.461.2000 serving as a benefit for UNICEF. to replace the 14th-century struc- benefits UNICEF. J Requiring two orchestras, a ture destroyed during a World symphonic chorus, a children’s War II bombing raid in 1940. The chorus, and soloists, War Re- work’s premiere on May 30, 1962, quiem is a large-scale work, was a triumph, and subsequent that due to its size is rarely per- performances were acclaimed by formed. Eastman is proud to critics and audiences in England FRIDAY, MARCH 6 | 8 PM bring this mammoth concert and abroad. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE to Rochester. Featured groups The 90-minute work consists SOLOISTS are Eastman-Rochester Cho- of six movements that inter- TAMI PETTY, SOPRANO rus, Eastman Chorale, Eastman sperses Britten’s setting of the ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY, TENOR Philharmonia, Bach Children’s traditional Latin Mass for the MALCOLM J. MERRIWEATHER, BARITONE Chorus of Nazareth College and Dead with poems by English poet EASTMAN ENSEMBLES Genesee Valley Children’s Choir, and World War I soldier Wilfred EASTMAN-ROCHESTER CHORUS, EASTMAN CHORALE, EASTMAN PHILHARMONIA as well as three Eastman alumni Owen, who was killed one week William Weinert, conductor as soloists; Tami Petty, soprano; before the Armistice was signed. CHILDREN’S CHOIRS Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; The musicians and singers are BACH CHILDREN’S CHORUS OF NAZARETH COLLEGE and Malcolm J. Merriweather, divided into three groups that Karla Krogstad, conductor baritone. William Weinert, Chair alternate and interact with each GENESEE VALLEY CHILDREN’S CHORUS of the Conducting and Ensem- other throughout. The ensembles Amy Cochrane, conductor bles Department at Eastman as and soloists join together only in well as Director of Choral Ac- the final movement. tivities, will serve as conductor. The scope of the piece and Brit- “The War Requiem is Britten’s ten’s dramatic juxtaposition of most significant concert work, traditional texts and harmonies and the work that brought him with Owen’s graphic poetry build the most widespread acclaim a powerful work that echoes Brit- during his lifetime. It is also the ten’s anti-war convictions. To most important musical work symbolize wartime losses across 585-274-3000 ever written with an anti-war boundaries and the importance message,” said Weinert. “The of reconciliation, Britten wrote EastmanTheatre.org genius of Britten’s artistry is the piece for three specific solo-

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SATURDAY, MARCH 7 Purim Party, at Out Alliance, 8 p.m. Join us for a lot of fun! With Temple Emanu-El’s very own DJ Mordecai b2b DJ Esther, and special guest DJ Noisemaker. Cash bar and prizes for best costumes. 266-1978 or [email protected].

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Exodus 25:1-27:19 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Parshat Terumah Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — “Make one tended into six branches, three salem during the three Pilgrim Sigmund Freud would call the and pathological dysfunction. I cherub on one end and the on each side, replete with stems Festivals, the (Temple custo- libido, substituting lust for heard it said in the name of the second cherub on the other; and flowers. (Ex. 25:31-40) It dians) would show them the love, illicit passion for sexual great Hassidic sage Rav Aharon make the cherubim of one piece was a tree, which shed light. cherubs, who were embracing purity. That is original sin. The Karliner that it is difficult to see with the cover, at the two ends. The ark was the repository each other. They would say ultimate goal of Torah — also the compassion with which G–d The cherubim are to have their for the tablets of stone, which to the pilgrims, See how your referred to as a ”tree of life” in created the world — unless you wings spread upward, over- contained the Ten Command- love before the Almighty should the Biblical Book of Proverbs take into account the fact that shadowing the cover with ments. A golden cover (Kaporet be as the love of a man for as well as in our liturgy — is to Adam and Eve were born with- them. The cherubim are to face or Parokhet) was placed over a woman’” Said Resh Lakish, re-fashion our imperfect world out parents. Nevertheless, our each other, looking toward the and above the ark, from which “when the destruction (of the into the Garden of Eden, to religious tradition holds great cover”. (Ex. 25:19-20) two cherubs were hammered Temple) came about, the Gen- enable a perfected humanity store in the importance and ul- What is the most crucial ve- out on either side. Rashi cites tiles entered (the sacred shrine) to finally eat the fruit of the timate potential of family as the hicle for the transmission of the Midrash: “They had the and said: ‘These Jews, whose tree of eternal life. Accord- matrix from which a perfected our Jewish faith and traditions? form of the face of a young blessing is a blessing and whose ing to Rashi’s interpretation, society will one day emerge — Is it the Synagogue, the Study child.” (B.T. Sukkah 5b) The curse is a curse, are involved in this ultimate feat can only be and therefore our Sabbath, fes- Hall, the Jewish Community cherubs were formed to be such a sculpture?’ They derided achieved when sexual purity tival, life-cycle and family puri- Center, the charitable organiza- looking at each other, and the the Israelites, citing the verse, will be restored, when familial ty rituals laws and customs, all tions or none of the above? Let Almighty communicated with ‘All who (formerly) respected love rather than extra marital aim to protect, strengthen and us study the details of two of Moses from between the two her, came to mock her, be- lust will be normative human deepen the most positive family the major accoutrements of the cherubs. (Ex. 25:10-30) cause they saw her nakedness’. behavior. Then we will have ties and relationships. Desert Sanctuary and perhaps The Sages described the spe- And what was her nakedness? righted the wrong, done pen- Dysfunctional family — we will discover the answer to cial qualities of these cherubs, The cherubs, embracing each ance for the sin, which caused Adam and Eve blaming each our question. and the way in which our Gen- other!” (B.T. Yoma 54a) our existential exile in the first other for their own weaknesses The Sanctuary menorah de- tile captors viewed these im- Why did out Holy Temple place. — produces the first murder scribed in this week’s Torah ages: feature sculptures like the cher- The Roman conquerors (Cain and Abel); unified family, reading, had the shape of a Rav Katina said, “When the ubs-in-embrace, which allowed missed the point of the cherub — when the hearts of the par- golden tree, whose trunk ex- Israelites would ascend to Jeru- the Romans to revile Israel as symbolism. Our Sages insist ents turn to the children, and worshipping their G–d through that “they had the form of the the hearts of the children to the pornography? face of a young child”, symbol- parents — will herald national We have seen that the meno- izing purity, innocence, and and world redemption. Family Step Two: Fill Them rah is a golden tree, symboli- whole-heartedness. The phys- depraved banished humanity You can fill your haman- 3/4 cup sugar cally reminiscent of the Tree ical embrace of such male-fe- from Eden; family redeemed taschen with just about any 1 tsp. vanilla extract of Life in the Garden of Eden. male winged beings -with the will return us to Eden and the cookie or pie filling, jelly, pea- 1/4 tsp. salt The first couple was banished pure faces of children — ex- tree of life. nut butter, glaze or other delica- 2 eggs, cold from the primordial Garden of press love without lust, sexual The sacred objects of the des- cy… or try one of these! 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour Perfection, and humanity pre- unity which enhances family ert Sanctuary teach us that the vented from eating of the tree rather than sexual depravity most important vehicle for the Cannoli Filling Melt the butter with the choc- of eternal life, because Adam which destroys family. transmission of our tradition is by SHERI SILVER olate in the top of a double boiler. and Eve sinned by partaking of Undoubtedly, the family — the family. Only by nurturing Stir frequently until the mixture is the fruit of knowledge of good that which has such powerful family purity and unity will we 1/4 cup ricotta cheese melted and smooth, then remove and evil. Our major commen- potential for creative support- succeed in protecting Torah and 4 oz. cream cheese, softened the top of the double boiler from tator, Rashi suggests that the iveness and spiritual continui- properly utilizing it to perfect 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar the heat. Stir in the sugar, vanil- forbidden fruit injected within ty — can tragically degenerate all of society. b 1/2 tsp. cinnamon la and salt. Add the eggs, one at the human personality what into crippling destructiveness Shabbat Shalom 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips a time, stirring in the first until incorporated before adding the sec- In the bowl of a mixer, beat all ond. Stir in the flour and beat with A Rediscovered Holocaust Memoir ingredients except the chocolate a spoon until the mixture is smooth chips till light and fluffy. Fold in ad glossy and comes away from the chocolate chips and refrigerate, the sides of the pan, about 1 min. From 1945 Tells an Extraordinary Story covered, until needed. m Scrape into a small bowl, cover and © The Nosher refrigerate until needed. m by EMILY BURACK as “No Place to Lay One’s Head.” watching neighbors try to gather © Chocolate Holidays (Kveller) — In 1945, “Rien où Now it’s available in the United the desecrated relics. Caramel Nut Filling poser sa tête” was quietly pub- States for the first time as “The In July 1939, she escapes to by RACHEL HARKHAM Honey Hazelnut Filling lished in Geneva, Switzerland. Bookshop in Berlin.” Paris. In May 1940, she flees and DONI ZASLOFF THOMAS Yield: ~2 cups In the memoir, translated as “No Frenkel writes about her love Paris for the Southern Zone, end- Yield: 1-1/2 cups Place to Lay One’s Head,” the au- for books growing up, and the ing up in Nice in December. In 3/4 cup honey thor tells the story of her escape French-language bookshop Mai- December 1942, she attempts 2 Tbsp. butter 1 cup chopped hazelnuts from the Nazis, how she smug- son du Livre Français (literally, to cross to Switzerland — she is 2 Tbsp. brown sugar 1/3 cup breadcrumbs gles herself into Switzerland. She the French Book House) that arrested, tried and acquitted. In 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. grated orange zest writes about Kristallnacht, the she founded with her husband June 1943, she tries again; this 3/4 cup chopped Nazi occupation of France and in Berlin in 1921. (In 1933, her time, she is successful. nuts of choice Combine all ingredients and more. She recounts the details of husband, Simon Raichenstein, French police detain her hus- 5-6 (about 1/2 cup) caramel stir constantly over low heat until her escape and her survival. went into exile in France, a fact band in July 1942. Simon is then squares, unwrapped ingredients come together. It’s a remarkable story that has that she does not mention.) sent to Drancy camp, and then and cut into quarters been lost — until now. In 1935, things became com- Auschwitz, where he is killed. Prune Apricot Filling Francoise Frenkel was born plicated for Francoise: The Nazis In the memoir, Francoise never In a small saucepan, melt the Yield: ~2 cups Frymeta Idesa Frenkel near passed the Nuremberg race laws. mentions him or the fact that she butter and allow to cook slightly. Lodz, Poland, in 1889, and died “My own personal circum- was married. Add remaining ingredients. Fill 1/2 lb. pitted prunes, cut up in Nice on Jan. 18, 1975. There stances became very precarious,” Perhaps it is too difficult to hamantaschen. 1/4 cup chopped nuts are no known photos of Fran- she writes. “On the one hand write about him — the story © Get Cooking! 1/4 cup raisins coise, and the original publica- [German authorities] tolerated ends once she arrives in Switzer- 1/4 cup sugar tion of her book had a very small my business representing French land, where she would write and Chocolate Filling 2 Tbsp. cut-up dried apricots print run. literature; on the other, they held publish her memoir. by ALICE MEDRICH 1 tsp. ground cinnamon The book seemed fated to re- my origins against me.” In the forward, she writes, “It 1/2 tsp. fresh lemon juice main in obscurity, until 2010, On Kristallnacht in 1938, her is the duty of those who have 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) when it was discovered in an bookshop is spared — it is not survived to bear witness to en- unsalted butter Mix together all ingredients. m attic in southern France at a on the list of Jewish businesses sure the dead are not forgotten, 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate, © The Hadassah Jewish Holiday “jumble sale.” It was published and places of worship targeted nor humble acts of self-sacrifice coarsely chopped Cookbook in 2015 with a preface by Nobel by the Nazis. Yet the night is still left unacknowledged.” Prize literature winner Patrick full of tragedy. Francois writes It’s an extraordinary memoir, Modiano. In 2018, it was trans- about watching a synagogue telling the story of an extraor- lated into English by Stephanie burn down near her house, find- dinary woman, that thankfully Step Three: Share and Enjoy! Smee and published in the U.K. ing fragments of Torah scrolls, is no longer lost to history. b Page 14 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 Legal Notices … Candle Lighting NOTICE OF FORMATION RETIREMENT for the purpose of its business, and no located in Monroe County. The Secretary OPTIMIZATION GROUP HC LLC member shall have the authority to act of State has been designated as agent Articles of Organization filed with for the Company solely by virtue of being upon whom process against it may be February 28, 5:39 — March 6, 5:48 Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/20. Office a member. Purpose/character of the Com- served and a copy of any process will location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- pany: any and all lawful activities. be mailed to The LLC, 47 Leavenworth ed as agent of LLC upon whom process Street, Rochester, New York 14613. The NOTICE OF CONVERSION against it may be served. SSNY shall mail purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. 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NY Sec. of State desig- Notice of Qualification ofIMPELLENT ESCHER ENTERPRISES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as nated agent of LLC upon whom process VENTURES, LLC. Authority filed with Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/28/13. Office agent of LLC upon whom process against against it may be served and shall mail NY Dept. of State on 1/27/20. Office loca- location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/17/20. Office it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, tion: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE ed as agent of LLC upon whom process location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- process to the Michele & One L Co. LLC, NY, 14534, principal business address. DE against it may be served. SSNY shall mail ed as agent of LLC upon whom process 51 Atlantic Ave, Rochester, New York on 1/10/20. NY Sec. of State designated address of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite copy of process to c/o the Company, 111 against it may be served. SSNY shall mail 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity. agent of LLC upon whom process against 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed Knickerbocker Road, Pittsford, New York copy of process to c/o the Company, it may be served and shall mail process to: 1200A Scottsville Road, Suite 375, Roch- NOTICE OF FORMATION with DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, 14534 10 SUMMIT OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534, ester, New York 14624 FEDELE FAMILY LLC filed Articles of DE 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Organization with the New York Depart- principal business address. DE address NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ZEGA, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability ment of State on January 24, 2020. Its NOTICE OF FORMATION of LLC: 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, ZEGA, LLC filed Articles of Organiza- company (LLC). Name: ALMHOF PART- office is located in Monroe County. The VAEGORSTEIN BUSINESS ENTER- Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with tion with NYS on October 30, 2019. Its Secretary of State has been designated as PRISES LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles NERS, LLC (the Company). Articles of DE Sec. of State, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE Organization filed with Secretary of State principal office is in Monroe County, New agent of the Company upon whom pro- of Organization with the New York De- 19903. Purpose: all lawful purposes. of NY (SSNY) on 11/27/19. NY office loca- York. The principal business location is 11 cess against it may be served and a copy partment of State on MARCH 2, 2010. Its Kingsley Circle, Fairport, NY 14450. The tion: Monroe County. SSNY is designated of any process shall be mailed to 920 Elm office is located in MONROE County. The Secretary of State has been designated NOTICE OF FORMATION as agent upon whom process against Ridge Center Drive. Rochester, NY 14626. Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address OF LENMARL LLC the Company may be served. SSNY shall The purpose of the Company is any lawful as agent of the Company upon whom to which the Secretary of State shall mail LENMARL LLC filed Articles of Or- mail a copy of any such process to: c/o business in the State of New York a copy of any process against it is c/o ML process against it may be served and a Phillips Lytle LLP, 1400 First Federal Plaza, ganization with NYS on 1/21/2020. (1) Tax & Accounting Services, Inc., 2166 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF copy of any process shall be mailed to Rochester, New York. The Company is to CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC Its principal office is in Monroe County, Brighton Henrietta Townline Road, Suite THE LLC, 7014 13TH AVENUE, SUITE 202, be managed by one or more members. B, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: Any CHERRY CRICK ASSOCIATES LLC BROOKLYN, NY 11228. The purpose of NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been No members of the Company shall be lawful purpose. filed Articles of Organization with NYS the Company is any lawful purpose. designated as agent upon whom process liable in their capacity as members of on 1/15/2020. (1) Its principal office is in against it may be served and a copy of the Company for debts, obligations or NOTICE OF FORMATION Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary NOTICE OF FORMATION OF liabilities of the Company. No member of 47 LEAVENWORTH LLC has filed Ar- of State has been designated as agent LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY any process will be mailed to the LLC, 6 the Company, solely by reason of being ticles of Organization with the Secretary upon whom process against it may be Marvelous Mind Academy LLC filed Oasis Lane, Rochester, New York 14624. a member, is an agent of the Company of State on January 22, 2020. Its office is served and a copy of any process will be Articles of Organization with the NY (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 15

News Brief … News Brief … 1 in 5 Europeans Thinks a UK School Textbook Insinuates Israel Secret Jewish Cabal Runs Caused 9/11 Attacks (JNS) — A secondary-school statement on Thursday, “We the World, Survey Finds textbook in the United King- appreciate the phrasing of the by CNAAN LIPHSHIZ Kingdom and Poland, among were more common in Eastern dom that asked students how question is not as precise as it PARIS (JTA) — A secret net- other countries. Europe, whereas anti-Israel sen- Israel might have been re- might have been, and we are work of Jews influences global Other findings: timents, including anti-Semitic sponsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 very sorry for any offence this political and economic affairs. A quarter of respondents ones, were more common in the terrorist attacks was removed has caused. We have removed That’s the feeling among a agreed with the statement that west, according to Rabbi Slomo from sale on Thursday by its the book from sale, we will have fifth of the 16,000 respondents Israel’s policies make them un- Koves, chairman of the Action publishers, who also issued an the content reviewed and will to a survey among Europeans derstand why some people hate and Protection League. The Bu- apology. then reissue a revised version.” from 16 countries. The same Jews. dapest-based group is affiliat- Published in 2019 by Hodder The Board of Deputies of Brit- number also agreed with the More than a quarter con- ed with the Hungarian Jewish Education, the textbook “Un- ish Jewry called the question statement that “Jews exploit curred with the statement that community’s main watchdog on derstanding History: Key Stage “dangerous.” Holocaust victimhood for their “Israel is engaged in legitimate anti-Semitism. 3: Britain in the Wider World, Board of Deputies vice presi- own needs.” self defense against its ene- In each of the countries Roman Times–Present” features dent Edwin Shuker said, “It in- The survey was presented by mies.” A quarter of respondents polled, a representative sample the question: “How could it vites the students to find a link the Hungary-based Action and disagreed and 46% did not ex- of 1,000 adults was presented be argued that the creation of between the creation of Israel Protection League Monday at press a position. with 45 questions or statements Israel was a long-term cause of and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a conference about anti-Semi- More than a third agreed in face-to-face interviews about the 9/11 attacks?” The query which feeds into a prevalent tism organized in Paris by the with the assertion that “During Jews and Israel, according followed a section on Israel and anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.” European Jewish Association. World War II, people from our to the Action and Protection Palestine under the heading He added, “This is an outra- It was conducted in Decem- nation suffered as much as League. The survey has a mar- “Muslim Mistrust of the West, geous warped version of history. ber and January in Austria, Jews.” gin of error of 0.8%. 1900-66,” according to The Jew- How this was allowed into a text- Belgium, the Czech Republic, Holocaust revisionism and Koves said his group is still ish Chronicle. book to be used in our schools France, Germany, the United classic anti-Semitic stereotypes working on a breakdown of the The textbook is aimed at is a cause of great concern. It results in each 11-year-olds to 13-year-olds. should immediately be with- country, but Hodder Education said in a drawn and investigated.” b it’s complicated “by challenges in the collec- tion process,” noting the diffi- culty of finding pollsters willing to go into the poor neigh- borhoods and ghettos of Paris and Brussels, for e x a mple. That, he said, “is necessary for arriving at Rabbi Slomo Koves prays at his Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy a representative “Understanding History: Key Stage 3: Britain in the Wider World, Roman of EMIH) sample.” b Times–Present” school textbook. (Screenshot) Legal Notices …

LEGAL NOTICE (the Company). Articles of Organization may be served and a copy of any process will any lawful activity for which limited liability will be mailed to the LLC, 7 Pipers Meadow Notice of Formation of 1-2 Davy, LLC a filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) be mailed to the LLC, PO Box 230, Henrietta, companies may be organized under Section Trail, Penfield, NY 14526. (3) Purpose: Any domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). on 12/09/19. NY office location: Monroe NY 14467. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 1203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. lawful purpose. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY January 28, County. SSNY is designated as agent upon 2020. Office location: 394 Bromley Road, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION Churchville, New York 14428. SSNY is des- whom process against the Company may be LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Downey Real Estate, LLC filed Articles HONEY DEW LIST LLC filed Articles of ignated agent upon whom process against served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such The name of the Limited Liability Com- of Organization with the New York Depart- Organization with the New York Depart- the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail process to: c/o the Company, 90 Goodway pany (LLC) is NYS Route 5 Storage, LLC. ment of State on January 27, 2020. Its office ment of State on JANUARY 30, 2020. Its a copy of any process to The Company Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. The Company is Articles of Organization were filed with is located in Monroe County. The Secretary office is located in MONROE County. The 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, New York to be managed by one or more managers. the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on of State has been designated as agent of Secretary of State has been designated as 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe 2/7/2019. Office location is Monroe County, No members of the Company shall be liable the Company upon whom process against agent of the Company upon whom process PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or New York. The SSNY has been designated it may be served and a copy of any process in their capacity as members of the Com- against it may be served and a copy of any activity. as agent of the LLC upon whom process shall be mailed to 10345 Fasano Drive, Lake- process shall be mailed to 248 LUDDINGTON pany for debts, obligations or liabilities of against it may be served. The SSNY shall LEGAL NOTICE side, CA 92040. Any lawful purpose. LN, ROCHESTER, NY 14612. The purpose of Notice of Formation of 3230-3244 the Company. No member of the Company, mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 90 NOTICE the Company is ANY LAWFUL BUSINESS IN Buffalo, LLC a domestic Limited Liability solely by reason of being a member, is an Airpark Dr., Ste. 400, Rochester, NY 14624. THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the agent of the Company for the purpose of Purpose: any lawful activity. Articles of Organization with respect to SSNY January 28, 2020. Office location: 394 its business, and no member shall have the SMR 2020, LLC, a New York limited liability Notice of formation of limited Ducks in a Row Home Organizing, company, were filed with the Secretary of Bromley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. authority to act for the Company solely by liability company (LLC) SSNY is designated agent upon whom pro- LLC filed Articles of Organization with State of the State of New York on January 7, virtue of being a member. Purpose/char- Johnson Family Holdings LLC. Articles cess against the LLC may be served. The NYS on 11/5/2019. Its principal office is in 2020. The county in New York State where of Organization filed with the Secretary of SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to The acter of the Company: any and all lawful Monroe County, New York. The principal its office is located is Monroe County. The State of the State of New York (SSNY) on Company 394 Bromley Road, Churchville, activities. business location is 8 Parkview Manor Cir- Secretary of State has been designated as January 7, 2020. Office location: Monroe New York 14428 COUNTY OF FORMATION: cle, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. The Secretary agent of SMR 2020, LLC upon whom process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CDSRx LLC County. SSNY designated as agent upon Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful of State has been designated as its agent against it may be served; and the post office act or activity. CDSRx LLC filed Articles of Organization whom process against it may be served. and the post office address to which the address to which the Secretary of State shall Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy of LEGAL NOTICE with NYS on 01/28/2020. (1) Its principal Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any mail a copy of any process against, SMR Notice of Formation of Alan Todd En- office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The process against it is c/o Ducks in a Row 2020, LLC served upon him or her is c/o process 81 Shumway Road, Brockport, NY terprises, LLC a domestic Limited Lia- Secretary of State has been designated as Home Organizing, LLC at 8 Parkview Manor the Company, PO Box 232, Honeoye Falls, 14420. Purpose: any lawful purpose. bility Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed agent upon whom process against it may Circle, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: NY 14472. SMR 2020, LLC is formed for the Notice of formation of limited with the SSNY November 21, 2019. Office be served and a copy of any process will be Any lawful purpose. purpose of engaging in any and all business liability company (LLC) location:1448 Blossom Road, Rochester, activities permitted under the laws of the mailed to the LLC, 860 Hard Road, Webster, NOTICE OF FORMATION: OMLR Property Holdings LLC. Articles New York 14610. SSNY is designated agent State of New York. upon whom process against the LLC may NY 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. DESIGNWORX ARCHITECTS, PLLC of Organization filed with the Secretary of be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 800 Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y NOTICE OF FORMATION OF any process to The Company 1448 Blossom VKC HOLDINGS LLC January 24, 2020. Office location: Monroe PARKER HILL DRIVE LLC of State (SSNY) on 1/28/20. Office location: Road, Rochester, New York 14610 COUNTY Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent VKC HOLDINGS LLC filed Articles of County. SSNY designated as agent upon 800 Parker Hill Drive LLC filed Articles OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To en- of LLC upon whom process against it may Organization with NYS on 1/28/2020. (1) Its whom process against it may be served. Ad- gage in any lawful act or activity. of Organization with NYS on 01/27/2020. (1) be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process principal office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) dress to which SSNY shall mail a copy of pro- NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Its principal office is in Monroe County, NY. to c/o the Company, 263 Central Avenue, The Secretary of State has been designated cess: Bryant Accounting Services CPA, PLLC, Notice of formation of limited liability (2) The Secretary of State has been designat- Rochester, New York 14605. The character as agent upon whom process against it 4 Commercial Street, Suite 101, Rochester, company. Name: FSI Driving Park 2 LLC ed as agent upon whom process against it or purpose of its business is to engage in may be served and a copy of any process NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020

Culture … Blewish,’ ‘Jew-ish’ and ‘Jew-theran’: Interfaith Families Group Renames Itself by HELEN CHERNIKOFF has redesigned its Jewish clergy onymous (Mixed Faith”) to the new one — the way a family Mixed heritage “Interfaith.” It’s so early referral service, it announced amusing (Jew-ish, Jewish Ad- is born. Black and Jewish? Try Intermarried aughts. on Thursday. These and other jacent) to the slightly snarky Blewish. Bromberg doesn’t intend to For decades, the label con- changes are the product of a (A Modern Family) and even jettison the term “interfaith” al- noted a family with one Jewish strategic review process that “half-Jewish.” That one has Here’s a curated list of together, and she used it several spouse and one of a different started back in 2017, said CEO sometimes carried stigma, some other options: times during a conversation background. In 2001, an en- Jodi Bromberg. Bromberg said, so she discour- Jewish& with this reporter. tire organization called “Inter- “We often talk about these ages its use by Jewish profes- Just Jewish “Old habits die hard. But also, faithFamily” was created. Now people as if they were one sionals and organizations. “But JewBu (Jewish-Buddhist) it’s part of our vernacular,” she many such families are done monolithic group and they’re some families love the term,” JewMu (Jewish-Muslim) said. “It’s a term of art, particu- with using a single label to de- just not,” she said. she said. “And if it feels right to Jew-theran (Jewish Lutheran) larly in the Jewish community. scribe themselves, so the group Which is obvious, if you take them, they should use it!” CathJew (Catholic-Jewish) I just want the flexibility to use has followed suit and renamed a look at the slew of alternatives You’ve also got lots of port- Jewnitarian or Jewniversalists all the different terms out there.” itself “18Doors.” for “interfaith” Bromberg has manteaux in which two words (Jewish Unitarians) Like “Jewpanese.” b It also has a new website and collected, from the almost-syn- are joined together to create a Intercultural ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization. Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION 7745 Shoreline Blvd., Ontario, New York the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or son of being a member, is an agent of the York Limited Liability Company Act. (4) Notice of formation of limited liability 14519. (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity for which limited liability compa- Company for the purpose of its business, The Limited Liability Company is to be company (LLC) Moondream Labs, LLC. activity. nies may be formed. and no member shall have the authority managed by one or more managers. Articles of Organization filed with the to act for the Company solely by virtue NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Secretary of State of the State of New LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED of being a member. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities. Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC York (SSNY) on January 14, 2020. Office (1) Name: 712 Whitney LLC (the LIABILITY COMPANY Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC filed Arti- location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of MARYELLEN DANCE MENTAL NOTICE OF FORMATION OF cles of Organization with the Secretary of ed as agent upon whom process against the LLC were filed with the Secretary of HEALTH COUNSELING PLLC has filed ROC INDUSTRIAL LLC it may be served. Address to which SSNY State NY (“SSNY”) on January 30, 2020 Articles of Organization with the Secretary ROC INDUSTRIAL LLC filed Articles State on January 30, 2020. (1) Its principal shall mail a copy of process is 66 Daylilly (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe of State on January 28, 2020. Its office is of Organization with NYS on 01/07/2020. office is in Monroe County, New York. located in Monroe County. The Secretary Lane, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any County, State of New York. (4) The SSNY Its principal office is in Monroe County, (2) The Secretary of State has been des- of State has been designated as agent lawful purpose. has been designated as agent of the LLC New York. The principal business location ignated as its agent upon whom process upon whom process against it may be upon whom process against it may be is 124 Sparrow Dr, West Henrietta, NY, against the Limited Liability Company NOTICE OF FORMATION OF served and a copy of any process will be served. The post office address to which LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY mailed to The LLC, 1160F Pittsford Victor 14586. The Secretary of State has been may be served and the post office address the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process 585 Research LLC filed Articles of Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. Its busi- designated as its agent and the post office within or without this State to which the against the LLC is: 70 Valewood Run, Pen- Organization with the NY Department of ness is to engage in any lawful activity for address to which the Secretary of State Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any State on 1/22/2020. Its office is located in field, NY 14526 (5) Purpose: Any lawful which professional service limited liability shall mail a copy of any process against it process against it served upon him or her act or activity. Monroe County. The Secretary of State is companies may be organized under Sec- is c/o company and address . Purpose: Any is Shady Beach Cayuga, LLC, 36 Princeton lawful purpose. designated as agent of the Company upon Notice of Organization: tion 1203 of the New York Professional Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. (3) The whom process against it may be served, SAND CLIMBER VENTURES, LLC was Service Limited Liability Company Act. Notice of Formation of Limited character or purpose of its business is to and a copy shall be mailed to 9 Ambergate filed with SSNY on 1/31/20. Office: Monroe NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION Liability Company (“LLC”) engage in any lawful act or activity for Rise, Pittsford, NY 14534. Its purpose is any County. SSNY designated as agent of the FOR AUTHORITY OF EMPIRE Name: 49 Saint Bridgets Drive, LLC. which limited liability companies may be lawful business. LLC upon whom process may be served. PO MEDICINALS TRANSPORTATION LLC Articles of Organization filed with the organized under Section 203 of the New address which SSNY shall mail any process Name: Empire Medicinals Transpor- NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Secretary of State with the State of New York Limited Liability Company Act. (4) against the LLC served upon it: 10 SUMMIT tation LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY York (“SSNY”) on: February 10, 2020. The Limited Liability Company is to be OAKS, PITTSFORD, NY, 14534. Purpose is to Secretary of State (SSNY): 01/30/2020. LLC Office Location: 27 Saint Bridgets Drive, (1) Name: Route 104 Self Storage LLC managed by one or more managers. engage in any lawful activity. organized in Delaware: 01/27/2020. NY Rochester, New York 14605 County of: (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of office location: Monroe County. SSNY Monroe. Principal Business Location: 27 the LLC were filed with the Secretary of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF designated as agent of LLC upon whom Saint Bridgets Drive, Rochester, New York State NY (“SSNY”) on January 29, 2020 (3) RINGROSE HILLSIDE LLC THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL process against it may be served. SSNY 14605. Purpose: any and all lawful act or Its office location is to be in Monroe Coun- RINGROSE HILLSIDE LLC filed Articles INTELLIGENCE, LLC shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 260 activity. The Secretary of State of the State ty, State of New York. (4) The SSNY has of Organization with NYS on 1/31/2020. THE CENTER FOR SOCIAL INTELLI- E. Main Street, Suite 6422, Rochester, NY, of New York has been designated as agent been designated as agent of the LLC upon (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, GENCE, LLC filed Articles of Organization 14604. Address of office maintained in of the LLC upon whom process against it whom process against it may be served. NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been with NYS on 2/12/2020. (1) Its principal jurisdiction of formation: 1675 South State may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of The post office address to which the SSNY designated as agent upon whom process office is in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Street, Suite B, Dover, Delaware 19901. any process to: 27 Saint Bridgets Drive, shall mail a copy of any process against against it may be served and a copy of Copy of Certificate of Formation on file Rochester, New York 14605 Secretary of State has been designated as the LLC is: 1777 East Henrietta Road, Bldg. any process will be mailed to the LLC, 285 with Delaware Secretary of State, 401 agent upon whom process against it may North Church Road, Rochester, NY 14612- A, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14623 (5) Pur- Federal Street, Suite 4, Dover, Delaware NOTICE OF FORMATION be served and a copy of any process will 6107. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 19901. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. pose: Any lawful act or activity. FAIRPORT ROAD LLC has filed Articles be mailed to the LLC, 349 W. Commercial of Organization with the Secretary of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION OF FRESH Street, Suite 2630, East Rochester, NY State on February 11, 2020. Its office is lo- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 847 MERCHANTS LLC has filed Articles LAUNDRY SERVICES LLC 14445. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of (1) Name: KZPZ LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Ar- of Organization with the Secretary of FRESH LAUNDRY SERVICES LLC filed State has been designated as agent upon NOTICE OF FORMATION ticles of Organization of the LLC were filed State on February 3, 2020. Its office is lo- Articles of Organization with NYS on whom process against it may be served OF GRT Realty LLC with the Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of 2/5/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon- and a copy of any process will be mailed on January 24, 2020 (3) Its office location State has been designated as agent upon roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State GRT Realty LLC filed Articles of Orga- has been designated as agent upon whom to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, is to be in Monroe County, State of New whom process against it may be served nization with NYS on 2/6/2020. Its principal and a copy of any process will be mailed process against it may be served and a Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The office is in Monroe County, New York. The York. (4) The SSNY has been designated purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, copy of any process will be mailed to the principal business location is 210 Ashley as agent of the LLC upon whom process LLC, 105 Edinburgh Street, Rochester, NY Suite 200, Pittsford, New York 14534. The NOTICE OF FORMATION Dr., Rochester NY 14620. The Secretary against it may be served. The post office 14608. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. address to which the SSNY shall mail a purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. ROC POINTE PROPERTIES LLC has of State has been designated as its agent copy of any process against the LLC is: 166 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF MADISON filed Articles of Organization with the and the post office address to which the PLYMOUTH PROPERTIES LLC Mill Road, Pittsford, NY 14534 (5) Purpose: Accents Ventures LLC Secretary of State on January 14, 2020. Its Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any MADISON PLYMOUTH PROPERTIES Any lawful act or activity. Accents Ventures LLC filed Articles office is located in Monroe County. The process against it is c/o GRT Realty LLC, 210 of Organization with NYS on 2/3/2020. Its LLC filed Articles of Organization with Secretary of State has been designated LEGAL NOTICE NYS on 2/5/2020. (1) Its principal office is Ashley Dr., Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: principal office is in Monroe County, New as agent upon whom process against it Notice of Formation of Agatina’s Ital- in Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary Any lawful purpose. York. The principal business location is may be served and a copy of any process ian Eats, LLC a domestic Limited Liability of State has been designated as agent 12 Columbia Ct., Fairport, NY 14450. The will be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Notice of Formation of LLC Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the upon whom process against it may be Secretary of State has been designated as Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New Media and Online Services LLC (LLC) SSNY January 31, 2020. Office location: served and a copy of any process will be York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is any its agent and the post office address to mailed to the LLC, 105 Edinburgh Street, filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of 27 Quail Lane Rochester NY 14624. SSNY lawful activity. which the Secretary of State shall mail a Rochester, NY 14608. (3) Purpose: Any NY (SSNY) on 02/12/2020. Office location: is designated agent upon whom process copy of any process against it is c/o Accents against the LLC may be served. The SSNY lawful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent Ventures LLC, 12 Columbia Ct., Fairport, Wood and Water Seneca, LLC shall mail a copy of any process to The NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION of the LLC upon whom process may be NY 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Wood and Water Seneca, LLC filed Company 27 Quail Lane Rochester NY Notice of formation of limited lia- served and SSNY shall mail process to Articles of Organization with the Secre- 14624 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe NOTICE OF FORMATION OF bility company (LLC). Name: CORNER- the LLC at 10 Office Park Way, Suite 100. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY tary of State on January 30, 2020. (1) Its PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or STONE AUTOMATION SERVICES, LLC Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any business principal office is in Monroe County, New activity. The name of the Limited Liability Com- (the Company). Articles of Organization permitted under law. pany is 1342 DEWEY LLC. Articles of filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) York. (2) The Secretary of State has been NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Organization were filed with the Secretary designated as its agent upon whom pro- NOTICE OF FORMATION LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY on 5/3/2018. NY office location: Mon- of State of New York (SSNY) on January roe County. SSNY is designated as agent cess against the Limited Liability Company MCO FLOORING LLC has filed Articles (1) Name: 85 Sovran LLC (the “LLC”). 24, 2020. The office of the LLC is located upon whom process against the Company may be served and the post office address of Organization with the Secretary of (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC in Monroe County. The business street may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of within or without this State to which the State on February 18, 2020. Its office is lo- were filed with the Secretary of State NY address is 9 White Street, Rochester, New Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any any such process to: The LLC, 125 Canal cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of (“SSNY”) on January 16, 2020. (3) Its office York 14608. SSNY is designated as the process against it served upon him or her Landing Boulevard, Rochester, New York. State has been designated as agent upon location is to be in Monroe County, State agent of the Company upon whom pro- The Company is to be managed by one is Wood and Water Seneca, LLC, 36 Princ- whom process against it may be served of NY. (4) The SSNY has been designated cess in any action or proceeding against it or more members. No members of the eton Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. (3) as agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address to which Company shall be liable in their capacity The character or purpose of its business is and a copy of any process will be mailed to against it may be served. The post office the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of as members of the Company for debts, to engage in any lawful act or activity for The LLC, 200 Metro Park, Rochester, New address to which the SSNY shall mail a any such process is 9 White Street, Roch- obligations or liabilities of the Company. which limited liability companies may be York 14623. The purpose of the LLC is any copy of any process against the LLC is: ester, New York 14608. The purpose of No member of the Company, solely by rea- organized under Section 203 of the New lawful activity. THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 17

Perspective … Celebrating Israel Is a Vital Part of Jewish Education and The American Experience by JONATHAN A. schools so that they could push murder, the miracle of the Israel has been used to invoke accusa- these sinister and conspiratorial GREENBLATT back on this scurrilous claim. cannot be understated. tions of disloyalty for hundreds myths about the Jewish peo- The charge of dual loyalty Forget the fact that the author At the same time, Jewish of years. From the Dreyfus af- ple. In America, public schools has trailed the Jewish people paints with the broadest brush schools are completely Ameri- fair in 19th century France to maintain a strict separation of for millennia, a curse that has imaginable, providing literal- can and foster patriotism and the Farhud in 20th century Iraq church and state. This consti- been used to justify the perse- ly no credible analysis of the love of country. This takes to the singular tragedy of the tutional freedom is core to the cution of Jews across continents curriculum or extracurricular many forms — singing the na- Shoah, dual loyalty has been civic architecture of our democ- and cultures. It is not rooted activities of these schools. tional anthem, studying Amer- used to rationalize the irratio- racy and enjoyed by people of in reality, but the invocation Certainly, many Jewish day ican history, learning about civ- nal hatred of Jews and the most all religions and persuasions. of this lie has forced us to de- schools celebrate the state of ics and government, honoring horrific crimes. For those who can afford them, fend ourselves time and again. Israel and the Jewish connec- American troops, taking part Even here in the United private and parochial schools, Today, some extremists employ tion — historically, religiously in American traditions, cele- States, the disloyalty charge whether Catholic, Jewish, Mus- this trope to explain their inex- and emotionally — to the coun- brating our religious freedom has reared its ugly head. Presi- lim or non-sectarian, offer an plicable hatred of Jews, often try. Together with the study of and so on. dent Richard Nixon infamously alternative that enables stu- leading to violence. Torah (which the writer oddly None of this speaks to dual spoke of “a Jewish cabal” in his dents to pursue a course of At a time of surging anti-Sem- argues isn’t taken seriously), loyalty. In fact, the vast major- administration who were work- study based in their religious itism in America, it is shock- the Jewish historical and cul- ity of Americans have never ing against him, a distrust that traditions or beliefs. ing to see an author write an tural connection to Israel is the even met any of these students. stemmed from his belief that In Catholic schools across the op-ed in the Forward accusing main reason that parents send Despite the fact that some Jews were “born spies.” Last U.S., students pray for the Pope day schools of preaching dual their children to such schools. Americans believe in the dual year, Congresswoman Rashi- and the Bishop. Does this mean loyalty. It is the kind of piece But this is not a matter of po- loyalty canard, this seems to da Tlaib tweeted that senators they are being taught “dual that likely delights anti-Semites litical loyalty, but a question of reflect an old stereotype rather promoting legislation against loyalty” to America and the from all sides of the spectrum. personal identity. than any real insight. boycotts of Israel “forgot what Vatican? Of course not. Whether they hate the Jewish They look to these schools to It’s worth noting that the dual country they represented.” Our Jewish day schools teach people and/or the Jewish state, inculcate Jewish values in their loyalty charge has plagued the And President Trump raised our children to love America they undoubtedly will hold up children. And celebrating the Jewish people through the cen- the specter of Jewish disloyalty and to treasure the state of Is- this op-ed long into the future miracle of the creation of the turies in many different places when he said that “if Jews vote rael. The two are not mutually as the basis for their bigotry. Jewish state after 2,000 years and societal settings. Judas, for a Democrat, they are being exclusive. Celebrating Israel is And yet, the argument is of yearning to return to Zion is who in the New Testament be- disloyal to Jewish people and an important and vital piece of empty, and the piece flawed foundational to the teaching of trays Jesus, became an arche- very disloyal to Israel.” a holistic Jewish education that from the start. Forget the fact Jewish history and identity. It type for the Jew as untrust- Whether intentional or not, is entirely consistent with the that the author doesn’t have the links the Jewish people of the worthy and duplicitous. This all of these charges are rooted American experience. b courage to make the case with present to the ancient Jewish foundational story has been in this persistent stereotype. Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO his or her own name. Forget people of the past. After mil- used to invoke accusations American Jewish passion for and National Director of the An- the fact that the author doesn’t lennia of persecution and po- of disloyalty for hundreds of Israel, a deep and natural con- ti-Defamation League. have the decency to name the groms, of marginalization and years. This foundational story nection, has nothing to do with ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization. Legal Notices …

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Reflection … I Enjoyed the Belgian Carnival That Featured Anti- Semitic Floats. Then I Searched for Homes in Israel.

by CNAAN LIPHSHIZ group’s records. — a name that I believe was a holding bags of money. One Jewish people.” AALST, Belgium (JTA) — I It was, I think, the only ref- joke, as Oilsjt is how his city’s had a rat on his shoulder. The leader of the group with probably spend an unhealthy erence this year to Nazis at name is written in the local The float spurred UNESCO the hooked noses, Giovanni van amount of time thinking about the parade. But caricatures of dialect. to strip the carnival of its cre- de Boek, a 41-year-old catering the Holocaust. Jews, including costumes de- Another float, driven by men dentials as a world heritage chef, was reluctant to speak to Partly as a consequence of picting them as insects, were wearing haredi costumes, fake event. The group that prepared me about his float’s message covering Jewish news in Europe a prominent element in the hooked noses and silver face the float insisted that it wasn’t and sign. at a time of rising anti-Semi- procession of floats and even paint, featured a large parch- meant to offend. “You could call it a protest,” tism, Holocaust associations among spectators. ment sign proclaiming six “reg- Dismissing any historic con- he told me. “Call it whatever, I often come to mind in my daily Some wore costumes, which ulations” handed down by the text of how Jews were carica- don’t really care.” life — on crowded trains, for many people found offensive, of made-up “Jewish festival com- tured in pre-Holocaust Europe, Amateurs, most of them up- example. haredi Orthodox Jews with fake mittee.” They include “No Jews parade organizers have defend- standing citizens with families But I never thought I’d have sidelocks, exaggeratedly large in the procession; no mocking ed the rat display and others as and jobs, slave for months each a conversation end with these fur hats and ant abdomens at- Jews; don’t ever tell the truth harmless satire. But to Jews, year to prepare the parade’s 150 words: “I have to hang up now, tached to their backs. The rea- about the Jew; what the Jew the displays here are jarring not or so floats in time for the car- the Gestapo is coming.” son for the ant costumes, one wants will happen; all drugs only because of the stereotypes nival, a 93-year-old event that That moment came Sunday at participant explained to me, is and black money is ours.” they betray, but also because is part of a long tradition with the Aalst Carnival, an annual that the Dutch word for Jeru- The 10 men responsible for they indicate how the borders religious roots that takes place costume parade that takes place salem’s Western Wall sounds the float waited to join the pro- have shifted on what can be across Catholic Europe. in this small city about 10 miles like “complaining ant.” They cession under a bridge, where said about Jews in the places Many floats have spectacu- west of Brussels. The parade, a wore a sticker reading “obey” they drank lots of beer and where they were murdered or lar and sometimes hilarious cherished tradition here cele- on their lapels and pushed a danced to a playlist that com- hunted down only 75 years ago. artworks celebrating creativity brating Lent, the 40-day period float shaped like the Western bined German heavy metal rock For many of us, it is this and humor, with wordplay and ahead of Easter, has become Wall. — the kind favored by neo-Na- deeper shift — not as much the caricatures of local politicians. controversial for some of its Did the parade-goer under- zis — with traditional Jewish imagery that reflects it — that’s Some have children’s choirs participants’ tradition of mock- stand how some observers tunes like “Hava Nagila.” making us doubt our future in and others boast brass bands ing Jews and the Holocaust. could be shocked by what This was far from the first Western Europe. that produce delightful shows. I was on the phone with Joel looks like a reference to the time that parts of the Aalst Car- Some participants protested They wow and please the spec- Rubinfeld, the president of the rich history of depicting Jews nival have presented displays what they found to be anti-Se- tators, mostly families, who Belgian League Against An- as vermin in Nazi and other that were deemed anti-Semitic. mitic messages at the carnival. watch the floats show off to a ti-Semitism. His quote was re- anti-Semitic propaganda? In 2013, participants dressed Greet Stevens, a middle-aged jury at the main square of this ferring to a group of revelers “This is just a joke, and we like Nazis walked around wear- Christian woman from Brus- city of about 80,000 residents. wearing shiny black long coats can joke about whatever we ing cans labeled “Zyklon B” — sels, came to the parade wear- Winners are chosen in several and red armbands that were want here,” said the man, who the poison that the Nazis used ing blackened goggles, sym- categories. clearly meant to evoke the Nazi said he was 26 years old and to kill Jews in gas chambers. bolizing her “critical view” Those were not the displays uniform. He had to hang up to working in computers. He iden- Last year, one float featured of what she called “cheap at- that I and about 50 other col- document the display for the tified himself as Fred van Oilsjt two effigies of haredi Jews tempts to hurt and provoke (Belgian Carnival — Page 20) Arts & Culture … The RBG Exhibit Was Daunting… Until I Did Some Soul-Searching by AMY BALMUTH exalt her feminist bona fides and awe-in- As a left-leaning, Jewish, female mil- spiring work ethic. lennial, I am the target demographic for But I am also 24 and find myself con- the Notorious RBG exhibit, which offers stantly saying “I don’t know what to visitors a walk through the beloved do!” aloud, to no one in particular. She Supreme Court Justice’s formidable life. is 86, but even at my age, she seemed Attending the exhibit, however, I real- to have known. At 24, she was at Har- ized that she and I have depressingly vard Law School, setting trails ablaze. I little in common. graduated college and pursued non-prof- I know that our world is wracked by it work, only to reroute after feeling injustice and we need more RBGs, but inadequate, thinking my job could be my life does not merit an exhibit. My better done by someone with different high school journal entries should not life experience. be projected on a gallery wall; they dis- She seems unburdened by life’s minu- sected hopeless crushes instead of the tiae, of which I am a Professor Emeritus. 14th amendment. Even if there was an I get distracted. I find myself caring exhibit, it would not be well attended. about who Ashton Kutcher dated in (My parents would come.) 2008 and think too much about what What RBG for us regular people? What I’m having for lunch. Potential career if our work is shoddy on only two hours paths flit in and out of my brain like (Courtesy of Notorious RBG) sleep? What if you don’t understand the moth’s wings. I change course when I’m U.S. healthcare system as much as you and clippings from her middle school Notorious B.I.G. — emerged following faced with rejection. To achieve focus should? How do we tread an ethical path newspaper. her dissent to Shelby County vs. Holder, like RBG’s, I would need some serious to which RBG would not dissent? After runs at the Skirball Cultural a case that challenged the Voting Rights mental renovation. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Center in Los Angeles and the National Act in 2013. Those words inspired then- When I saw “On the Basis of Sex,” I re- Ruth Bader Ginsburg was developed by Museum of American Jewish History law student Shana Knizhnik to create member thinking: “Oh. I should just do Cate Thurston, the associate curator at in Philadelphia, the Notorious RBG The Notorious RBG Tumblr page — that.” I could see myself, ponytail tied the Skirball Cultural Center, in partner- exhibit opened at the Illinois Holocaust equal parts meme and tribute. by a silk scarf, in the ACLU war room ship with Irin Carmon and Shana Knizh- Museum on Sunday, Feb. 9. I attended The Tumblr and the monitor super- doing what had to be done. I could stay nik, who wrote the book “Notorious alongside 200 of RBG’s biggest Chicago- charged RBG’s celebrity. The RBG-cu- up ‘til 2 a.m. triple-checking my oral RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader land fans, and felt underdressed sans rious explore and celebrate her across arguments, the cogs of my brain turning Ginsburg.” The exhibit tells the story of RBG graphic tee. a slew of media: 700-page biographies, at a rapid clip. her life and significance through court Bader Ginsburg’s “Notorious RBG” glossy Hollywood films, picture books, But after washing the smell of popcorn cases and personal artifacts, like the persona — which gives her legal chops bobblehead dolls. She is a cult figure, butter from my fingers, I realized my costume she wore for her opera debut and intellectual might the edge of rapper especially among people like me, who (RGB Exhibit — Page 20) THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Page 19

Election Season … In World Zionist Elections, American Jews Who Care About Israel Get Their Say by BEN HARRIS “The high turnout is a strong The balance will be divided porting the Jewish people in candidates such as the liberal (JTA) — It’s election season, sign of the renewed interest in between Israeli political parties, their homeland,” said Michael journalist Peter Beinart. and American Jews are turning the U.S. Jewish community in who will be allocated seats in Siegel, the board chairman of “We’re at this turning point out in large numbers to vote Israel and Zionism.” proportion to their representa- the Jewish Agency. “The WZO where there’s a possibility that with Israel on their minds. To participate, voters must tion in the March Knesset elec- is the room where it happens. the Israeli government is going No, we’re not talking about register online and pay the tions, and Diaspora communi- For me, it’s a privilege and an to try and annex parts of the the U.S. presidential election $7.50 fee ($5 for those 18 to 25). ties outside the United States. In honor to be in that room.” West Bank, or certainly there’s or Israel’s upcoming Knesset That money, which covers the addition, the congress includes In the past, elections were continual settlement expan- elections, but elections for the cost of running the election and about 200 unelected delegates comparatively sleepy affairs sion,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the World Zionist Congress — the is down from $10 per vote last representing a variety of inter- (the 56,000 voters last time executive director of T’ruah: only genuinely democratic body time, buys you participation national Zionist organizations. amounted to less than 1% of The Rabbinic Call for Human in which Jews from around the in the world’s largest exercise Initially founded to promote American Jews). But this year’s Rights, which is running as part world get a say in how some $1 in Jewish democracy. Founded the establishment of the State contest, for the 38th Congress, of the Hatikvah slate. “Some of billion per year is allocated to by Theodor Herzl in 1897, the of Israel and support Jews who is shaping up to be the most that is paid for by money that’s projects in Israel and around World Zionist Congress is the were settling there, the con- fiercely contested in memory. either from American Jews or the world through some of Isra- governing body of the World gress today determines funding The 15 American slates run other Jews around the world, or el’s largest national institutions. Zionist Organization and the priorities for the spending of the gamut of American Judaism. that’s allocated by them.” When the last World Zionist closest thing there is to a global some $1 billion annually. That There are slates that represent On the flip side are groups Congress elections were held Jewish parliament. money is channeled through Reform, Conservative and Or- with platforms committed to five years ago, some 56,000 “This is the only elected beneficiary organizations, in- thodox Jews. There are slates resisting any territorial conces- American Jews voted and 11 body for all of world Jewry,” cluding the Jewish National for Russian Jews, Israeli expats sions to the Palestinians, like parties were in the running. said William Daroff, CEO of Fund and the Jewish Agency living in the United States and Eretz Hakodesh and Herut. This time, more than 54,000 the Conference of Presidents for Israel. Sephardic Jews. Some oppose “Not one inch,” said Karma votes have been cast since the of Major American Jewish Or- These elections will help de- Israeli settlements in the West Feinstein-Cohen, the executive voting period began on Jan. 21 ganizations. “The U.S. election termine how funding is appor- Bank and some want to ensure director of World Herut and — about double the pace com- to the World Zionist Congress tioned to a range of communal that money keeps flowing to Herut North America. “I want pared to the 2015 election and allows a direct and tangible op- priorities, including Jewish edu- them. (Platforms and candidate peace but there’s no partner, rising as the March 11 voting portunity for American Jews to cation, immigration and absorp- lists for all the slates are avail- so the best situation now is deadline approaches. In all, 15 participate in decision-making tion, and various social projects able at www.azm.org/elections.) status quo.” party slates featuring 1,800 can- for the Jewish community in Is- in Israel. The congress will meet A big driver of the energy Morton Klein, the longtime didates are vying for 152 seats rael and worldwide, regardless in Jerusalem in October to de- around the elections is the president of the Zionist Orga- from the United States. of their ideology.” termine those priorities. emergence of the anti-occupa- nization of America, is heading “American Jews want to have As the largest Diaspora Jew- “The World Zionist Organiza- tion Hatikvah slate, which took a slate comprised of more than a voice,” said Herbert Block, ish community in the world, tion remains in place to contin- an aggressive approach to this two dozen Jewish organiza- executive director of the Amer- American Jews will elect more ue the narrative of establishing year’s contest, partnering with tions that also oppose territori- ican Zionist Movement, which than a third of the congress’ Jewish sovereignty, returning well-known Jewish groups and al concessions. organizes the U.S. elections. total of 525 elected delegates. Jewish exiles to Israel and sup- recruiting some high-profile (Zionist Elections — Page 20) The Battle … Anti-Semitism Can’t Be Fought With Lip Service

by FIAMMA NIRENSTEIN strengthens bias. This stream of the Czech Republic made great with Iran for repeatedly ex- businesses active in the disput- (JNS) — Anti-Semitism turns thought holds the State of Israel strides against anti-Semitism by pressing the forbidden threat to ed territories and banning the truly dangerous when it be- to be warmongering, colonial abstaining from the UN General exterminate the Jews, there will BDS movement. comes the organizing principle and racist in nature; Judaism, Assembly’s 2017 vote condemn- be no stopping anti-Semitism, When French President Em- of society. This occurred during which generated Israel, is held ing Trump’s recognition of Je- and “Never Again” will remain manuel Macron came to Je- the past century under Nazism responsible. The simple idea rusalem as Israel’s capital. Six empty words. rusalem in January to attend and communism, and it is oc- that Judaism includes the entire EU member states (including, Anti-Semitism also cannot the Fifth World Holocaust curring again today. Jewish people then closes the once again, the Visegrád Four) be defeated as long as the Eu- Forum, titled, “Remembering Unrelenting bias against Is- circle of anti-Semitism. also took a stand against an- ropean Union continues to le- the Holocaust, Fighting An- rael, Zionism and thereby the The most important institu- ti-Semitism earlier this month gitimize anti-Israel incitement ti-Semitism,” he gave a moving Jewish people has become tions in the world today push by opposing a resolution by EU based on the fiction of the set- speech, full of tragic memories progressively interwoven with this line of thought, even if High Representative for For- tlements’ “illegality” and the and good intentions. However, institutional power. It has pen- not explicitly. The parents of eign Affairs and Security Pol- presentation of armistice lines during a visit with Palestinian etrated the mindset of all those contemporary anti-Semitism icy Josep Borrell calling for a as state borders. The settle- Authority leader Mahmoud living under the “intersection- are the same ones appearing joint European condemnation ments are not illegal; they are Abbas, he appeared utterly ality” roof, i.e., those who feel in conferences, institutions, of Trump’s “Peace to Prosper- disputed. They are an essential oblivious to the fact that Abbas oppressed and who harbor synagogues and even in Israel ity” plan. By their action, they part of the cradle of Jewish denies the Shoah, makes an- social frustration in various to proclaim their campaigns opened a real discussion about history, and by completely ig- ti-Semitic statements, incites forms. Zionism and by exten- against anti-Semitism. Israel’s security needs and the noring this point, the Europe- terrorism and refuses to rec- sion the Jewish people are cast So what can be done? The legality of the settlements. an Union promotes the libel ognize the Jewish state. This as oppressors, and this view generally accepted International France, Germany and the of Jewish colonialism, and by myopia is a policy failure that has been granted political legit- Holocaust Remembrance Alli- United Kingdom, after long extension all of the associated prevents France from fighting imacy by organizations such as ance (IHRA) definition of an- defending the egregious 2015 anti-Semitic canards. anti-Semitism. the European Union and United ti-Semitism is a positive step Joint Comprehensive Plan of The European Union’s mes- In short, to combat today’s Nations. because it ties anti-Semitism Action (JCPOA) agreement of sage with regard to the settle- institutionalized anti-Semi- Ethnicity, gender, culture, and “Israelophobia” together. the P5+1 nations with Iran, ments grants tacit permission tism, battles are required on etc. — are have become com- Yet it is not enough. Only policy showed a willingness to chal- to blame and hate Israel and, two fronts: Iran and the disput- mingled. And all — feminists, action, not blame or promises to lenge Tehran when they set in by extension, the Jews. The Eu- ed territories. (It is no coinci- university professors, members teach the history of the Shoah, motion the deal’s dispute reso- ropean Union thus reconnects dence that US President Barack of the LGBT community, Hol- can combat anti-Semitism. This lution mechanism, potentially with the ancient tradition of Obama’s last executive move lywood directors, child-rights is why US President Donald leading to the reimposition of murderous European anti-Sem- against Israel was at the United advocates — attack Israel, for Trump’s Executive Order against sanctions. itism. Nations, with Resolution 2334 reasons that can vary from anti-Semitism is so essential; it Iran and its threats to erad- The only way to fight against in December 2016.) “pinkwashing” to white su- is composed of political steps icate Israel are a particular- this is through policy action. While a decisive battle premacy to neo-colonialism. that destroy the paradigm of ly important element in the Such action must include stop- against discriminatory label- There are seemingly infinite political anti-Semitism. modern institutionalization ping the discriminatory labeling of Israeli products on sale in themes available. This commin- There has been some progress of anti-Semitism. As long as ing of Israeli products sold in Europe has not yet been seen, gling not only animates but also in Europe as well. Hungary and institutions don’t remonstrate Europe, abolishing blacklists of (Lip Service — Page 20) Page 20 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, February 27, 2020

Belgian Carnival (Continued from Page 18) leagues from the local and in- 2019 display when UNESCO Following the carnival, Rabbi outside the capital of the Eu- with me. ternational media came to find called it anti-Semitic, saying the Binyomin Jacobs, the chief ropean Union, whereas it was And I meant it. I’m consider- in Aalst this weekend. Follow- condemnation “takes the dis- rabbi of neighboring Holland, unthinkable just 20 years ago, ing taking them here next year ing the uproar of last year, we play out of the context, which told me that he dreamed on who knows what things will because they’d have a blast came mostly for the handful of is one of satire.” Sunday night that he was forced look like 20 years from now? and wouldn’t even notice the floats with allegedly anti-Se- He has additionally stressed to decide whether to warn his At one point during the event, handful of Jewish references mitic content and the 10-or-so how the Aalst Carnival mocks congregants to leave the Neth- my Belgian colleagues became that I and my colleagues had floats meant to protest the UNE- Christians, Muslims, Asians erlands — an issue he’s been aware of my presence there — sought out. SCO delisting. We shared infor- and blacks, whereas the outrage struggling with for several perhaps because my reporting One wrinkle: I’m not so sure mation of where to find them. is only over mockery of Jews. years. In the dream, he felt the on last year’s edition was a key we’ll be in Europe next year. Aalst Mayor Christophe (His point is true: Some floats weight of leadership that rested factor in the uproar that led to Not for the first time in recent D’Haese reproached us for this. featured Asians with screw on Jewish community leaders the UNESCO delisting. years, I found myself looking at “I read your reports from the heads for eyes and black people in the 1930s and 1940s, he said. “Do you think this is an an- housing options in Israel on the Aalst Carnival, and it made me with exaggerated lips.) “We’re not there yet, I’m not ti-Semitic event?” one Belgian train out of Aalst. wonder whether we’re attend- Rubinfeld, the anti-racism sounding that alarm yet,” he colleague asked me. With each new incident that ing the same event,” he told activist, told me he thinks the said. “We can live and prosper It isn’t, I said, but it does have reflects the mainstreaming of reporters at a news conference mayor made “a huge miscalcu- in Europe. But the fact that it’s anti-Semitic elements that make anti-Semitism in Western Eu- that he called a few hours into lation” by refusing to stamp out even on my mind is a new de- me feel uncomfortable. I don’t rope, I’m increasingly consid- the event after condemnations Jewish references in the 2020 velopment that scares me.” support banning it because I ering the merits of moving my began pouring in. parade. I have my own fears, with believe in freedom of expres- family to the Jewish state. A few hours earlier, the mayor “He let a few bad apples taint which I’ve been grappling for sion, I added. For all of the problems in Isra- posed for pictures against the entire barrel,” Rubinfeld years living in Amsterdam and I’m actually having a good el, at least events like the Aalst the float that read “don’t ever said. revisited following the Aalst time here, I told my colleagues, Carnival amount to little more tell the truth about the Jew.” If that’s true, the effects were Carnival. If depicting Jews as adding that my main regret than a bad joke somewhere far D’Haese had also defended the felt far beyond the barrel. insects is now permissible just is that my kids can’t enjoy it away. b

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