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White House Ceremony Celebrates New Era for Israel, UAE and Bahrain Editorials ..................................... 4A Op-Ed .......................................... 5A Calendar ...................................... 6A Scene Around ............................. 9A Synagogue Directory ................ 11A News Briefs ............................... 13A WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 45, NO. 04 SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 7 TISHREI, 5781 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Ginsburg dies at 87 to the nation’s highest bench by President Bill Clinton following the retirement of Byron White. In her Rose Gar- den nominating ceremony, Clinton lauded Ginsburg for standing with the “the out- sider in society … telling them that they have a place in our legal system, by giving them a sense that the Constitution and the laws protect all the American people, not simply the powerful.” Ginsburg attributed that outsider perspective to her Jewish roots, pointing often to her heritage as a building Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images block of her perspective on Supreme Court Justice the bench. Ruth Bader Ginsburg par- “Laws as protectors of the ticipates in a discussion at oppressed, the poor, the loner, AFP via Getty Images the Georgetown University is evident in the work of my Shown here (l-r): Bahraini foreign minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Law Center in Washington, Jewish predecessors on the President Donald Trump and Emirati foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan participate in the signing D.C., Feb. 10, 2020. Supreme Court,” she wrote of the ‘Abraham Accords.’ in an essay for the AJC. “The By Sarah Wildman Biblical command: ‘Justice, justice shalt thou pursue’ WASHINGTON (JTA) — is a strand that ties them White House ceremony celebrates Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first together.” Jewish woman to serve on the The Brooklyn native was Supreme Court and a tireless the daughter of Nathan Bader, new era for Israel, UAE and Bahrain advocate for gender equality, a Russian immigrant and has died at 87. furrier, and the former Celia By Ron Kampeas because of this: Two Arab leaders were “This is not only a peace between A fierce jurist known for Amster. She often noted praising peace not simply as a means leaders,” Netanyahu said. “It’s a peace her outsized presence and that her mother was “barely WASHINGTON (JTA) — Benjamin of ending bloodshed, the precipitate for between peoples.” outspokenness, Ginsburg died second generation,” having Netanyahu has complained for years the cold peace that Israel has had for Or “peace for peace,” the slogan Ne- from “complications of meta- been born a scant four months about Arab leaders telling their people decades with Jordan and Egypt, but as tanyahu has long favored and invoked static pancreas cancer,” the after her parents’ arrival one thing in Arabic and diplomats saying an end in itself. when news broke last month of an im- Supreme Court announced from Hungary. Ginsburg was another to Western audiences in English. “We are witnessing today a new trend pending deal. Friday night. She had survived keenly aware of the Jewish Not on Tuesday. that will create a better path for the Middle Except bin Zayed clearly saw it as peace multiple bouts of different immigrant experience and Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Na- East,” bin Zayed said. “This peace accord, for something more than just peace. cancers over the course of two her own good fortune to be hyan, the foreign minister of the United which is a historic achievement for the “Thank you for choosing peace, and decades, vowing that she was born on these shores. Arab Emirates, was on the White House United States of America. The State of for halting the annexation of Palestinian healthy enough to continue The Holocaust colored her lawn speaking — in Arabic — about the Israel and the United Arab Emirates will territories, a decision that reinforces our her work and at times return- perspective of the world and “innate principle” of peace and thanking continue to have a positive impact as we shared will to achieve a better future for ing to the bench shortly after the law. the Israeli prime minister for helping to believe that its reverberations will be generations to come,” bin Zayed said. hospital stays. “Our nation learned from bring it about. reflected on the entire region.” Netanyahu, who did not mention Ginsburg’s death comes on Hitler’s racism and, in time, If the agreements signed Tuesday by It was shining moment for Netanyahu the Palestinians in his remarks, could the eve of Rosh Hashanah, six embarked on a mission to end leaders of the UAE, Israel, the United — and he was pleased to bask in the weeks before the presidential law-sanctioned discrimina- States and Bahrain were historic, it was vindication. New era on page 14A election and at a time of in- tion in our own country,” tense political polarization. Ginsburg said at a 2004 Yom Trump has already appoint- Hashoah commemoration at ed two judges, Neil Gorsuch the U.S. Holocaust Memorial With HIAS changing longtime focus, and Brett Kavanaugh, during Museum in Washington, D.C. his presidential tenure. “In the aftermath of World In her 27 years on the court, War II, in the civil rights supporters question some of its priorities Ginsburg emerged not only movement of the 1950s and By Deborah Fineblum as the putative leader of the 1960s, in the burgeoning and Sean Savage court’s liberal wing but as a women’s rights movement pop cultural phenomenon of the 1970s, ‘We the People’ (JNS) — The Hebrew Im- and feminist icon, earning as expanded to include all of migrant Aid Society, better an octogenarian the moniker humankind, to embrace all known as HIAS, was for Notorious R.B.G. — a play off the people of this great nation. the better part of a century the deceased rapper Notori- Our motto, E Pluribus Unum ous B.I.G. — of many one — signals She won liberal acclaim by our appreciation that we are penning blistering dissents in the richer for the religious, high-profile cases concerning ethnic and racial diversity of birth control, voter ID laws our citizens.” and affirmative action even But while Ginsburg was as she maintained a legend- fortunate to be born in the ary friendship with Scalia, United States, even brilliant the staunchly conservative women in the 1950s had no firebrand who died in 2016. easy path. Following her Ginsburg was frank as well graduation from Cornell about the importance of Jew- University, where she met her ish tradition in influencing husband, Martin Ginsburg, HIAS via Facebook her life and career, hanging Ginsburg lived for two years A HIAS supporter at a pro-immigration rally. the Hebrew injunction to in Oklahoma and experienced pursue justice on the walls the setbacks that women responsible for helping settle product of its own success and Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia of her chambers. faced at the time: She was generations of Jewish refugees the success of the American and other Middle Eastern “I am a judge, born, raised demoted from her job at the in their new homes in the Jewish community, whose ac- countries. and proud of being a Jew,” Social Security Administra- United States. From 1881 tivism helped bring most Jews “The U.S. opened its doors she said in an address to the through the release of Jews over who wanted or needed to to us when we were refugees, American Jewish Committee Ginsburg on page 14A from the Soviet Union in the leave other countries. and now we are opening the following her 1993 appoint- early 1990s, the organization Today, nearly all of the doors to other refugees,” HIAS ment to the court. “The de- worked not only to resettle the refugees HIAS resettles on president and CEO Mark Het- mand for justice runs through new arrivals, but was involved an average each year are field told JNS. “As we like to the entirety of Jewish history in assisting them legally as non-Jews — many of them and Jewish tradition.” well. Yet in a way, HIAS was a Muslims from Syria, Iraq, HIAS on page 15A Ginsburg was nominated PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 Back by popular demand — Men’s Night Out (In) Jewish experiences. 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