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by BEN SALES (JTA) — Half of American adults are unaware of basic facts regarding Nazism and the Holocaust, including the num- ber of Jews who were killed and how Nazis came to power. Those are some of the find- ings of a new study by the Pew Research Center released on Tuesday, about a week ahead of the 75th anniversary of the lib- eration of Auschwitz. The study One of a series of aerial reconnaissance photos of the Auschwitz concentra- asked nearly 13,000 respon- Jews wearing Star of David badges in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. (Jewish Chron- tion camp taken between April 4, 1944 and Jan. 14, 1945, but not examined dents, Jewish and non-Jewish icle/Heritage Images/Getty Images) until the 1970s. (Wikimedia Commons) adults and teenagers, four ques- tions about the Holocaust. 1950, and that Nazi ghettos 45 percent knew that 6 million by JONATHAN S. TOBIN sustains him in his perch on Most knew that the Holocaust were areas of cities where Jews Jews died in the Holocaust. (JNS) — In his 1989 book the Times’ op-ed page, even took place between 1930 and were forced to live. But only (American Adults — Page 8) From Beirut to Jerusalem, col- though his columns have been umnist Thomas Friedman of stale and devoid of any real The New York Times, wrote, “Is- insight for years. But his quip rael is becoming Yad Vashem at the expense of the Jewish Shin Bet Foiled More Than with an Air Force.” That line state — and the link between represents the kind of smart-al- its determination to survive and 560 Terrorist Attacks in 2019 ecky analysis that helped build the memory of the Holocaust — Friedman’s brand as a faux for- has not been forgotten. That’s by GADI GOLAN projects or operations from 2019 eign-policy wise guy that still (Bombing Auschwitz — Page 4) and DANIEL SIRYOTI that were deemed extraordi- Israel Security Agency (Shin nary. The identities of the recip- Bet) head Nadav Argaman an- ients were not revealed. Krav Maga, Self-Defense nounced on Monday that the “The lives of hundreds of Is- agency had prevented more raelis, maybe more, were saved than 560 “significant” terror due to your actions,” Netanya- Become New Buzzwords attacks last year, including 10 hu told attendees at the ceremo- suicide attacks. ny. The efforts of the agency, In Jewish Communities Speaking alongside Israeli he said, gave Israelis a “feeling Prime Minister Benjamin Net- of security,” something not to anyahu at the Shin Bet’s annual be taken for granted “in our awards ceremony, Argaman said countr y.” 2019 “was full of security chal- Meanwhile, despite ongoing lenges on all the fronts in which Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Egypt-mediated talks between we operate. We foiled more than head Nadav Argaman attends the Israel and Hamas over a cease- 560 significant terrorist attacks, Defense and Foreign Affairs Commit- fire arrangement in Gaza, in- among them 10 suicide attacks, tee meeting at the Knesset, on March cendiary and explosive-laded four abduction attempts and 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) balloons have been launched at over 300 shooting attacks.” Israel with increasing frequen- The Shin Bet head added that man who works at the agency.” cy in recent days. “these attacks were prevented Argaman and Netanyahu pre- A senior Hamas official told thanks to every woman and sented awards to six Shin Bet (Attacks — Page 5)

Elion Even-Esh, who served in an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces where he learned Krav Maga (an IDF-developed style of self-defense) and Campus Anti-Semitism Reaches later served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, has made it his mission to “instill strength and confidence” in the Torah-observant communities of the United States. (Courtesy) Horrid New Lows in America

by ELIANA RUDEE the lives of 11 Jewish worship- by KEN COHEN these same academics are quick religious, sexual or ethnic. (JNS) — Just one month be- pers in a Pittsburgh synagogue, U.S. President Donald Trump to condemn similar offenses Yet college anti-Semitism has fore the deadliest anti-Semitic Eilon Even-Esh was at a Jewish issued an executive order last directed at African-American, reached epidemic proportions mass shooting in U.S. history community in the city teaching month aimed at combating an- Muslim, women or transgender and deserves not only outrage on Oct. 27, 2018, which took self-defense. Unfortunately, he ti-Semitism on American col- students. from every American, but also said, the class had a low turn lege campuses. For ideological Equal protection on campus public pressure to eliminate it out. as well as financial reasons, is everybody’s business — not directed at university adminis- However, in light of the rise of his action caused outrage on just that of the academic com- trators and elected representa- anti-Semitism over the last few numerous campuses — elic- munity. Anti-Semitism on cam- tives at every level. years, and especially since the iting cries of censorship from pus is a reflection of a greater Numbers tell a horrific story Monsey machete attack on Dec. administrators, faculty, student societal sickness that threatens of hate directed at American 0474470 90456 (Krav Maga — Page 7) governments and others. Yet every minority, whether racial, (New Lows — Page 13) Page 2 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020

Community … RMSC Challenges Community to Face Racism Head-On in New Exhibition

The Rochester Museum & Belton Sr., from Mississippi, perhaps, even inspire people to many states and towns passed in the Rochester community Science Center (RMSC) is chal- first gained an interest in work- push for better race relations. It laws that helped legalize racial about racism. While it’s im- lenging visitors to reflect on ing with RMSC when he attend- was my belief this kind of ma- segregation and systematically portant to discuss these issues how racist media influences ed a program in connection terial needed to be made avail- reinforced the social, economic, throughout the year, special people’sMenorah Park lives of CNY through • 3x5 • 12/31/19a new • GBwith the Take It Down! Orga- Email:able [email protected] the entire community, political, cultural and educa- attention will be given to these permanent exhibition, Ob- nizing Against Racism exhibit and expanded on by objective tional oppression of African topics during Black History jectivelyExpositor-Ledger Racist: How Newspapers Objects presented by the Take It Down historians,” said Belton Sr., dis- Americans. Racist images were Month in February. andRochester Images Perpetuate Golf WeekRac- Planning • The Committee Jewish in partner Ledger- cussing how these items can an important part of this “Jim According to Minister Clifford ism…2535 Brighton-HenriettaAnd What We Can DoTown To Lineship Road, with Rochester, RMSC. After NY learning 14623 help raise awareness of individ- Crow” era, and many of these Florence, Andria Bryant, and Change It. about how the committee and ual, institutional, and structur- images are still part of Amer- Howard Eagle, three members (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 Objectively Racist includes RMSC worked together to turn al racism. “That was my reason ican culture and continue to of the Take It Down Planning images, product packaging, the pickaninnyWe want YOUR Dentzel AD toMe be- perfect…for wanting to donate these influence beliefs and practices Committee, two opportunities knick-knacks,IMPORTANT… and other objects nagerie Carousel panel into an items to the museum. 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It’s critical that we talk tions associated with the Take jects to then Check museum dates for and display times of allcollection events listed. of racist imagery. we all can be: dignified and about racism, be truthful about It Down! Organizing Against with theIf intention there are of any donating corrections, “I wasplease hopeful call us my immediately collection at 427-2468.honorable.” our history, and discuss how Racism exhibit will be held at them to the RMSC collection. would be helpful to others and, After the American Civil War, racism continues to manifest the Central Church of Christ, at and oppress people of color in 101 South Plymouth Avenue, on both obvious and subtle ways,” February 8th, and at the FIGHT said Kathryn Murano Santos, Village Community Room, at Senior Director for Collections 186 Ward Street, on February Kosher Catering By The Oaks & Exhibits at RMSC. “Museums 22nd. Both presentations will are uniquely positioned to help be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. people make these connections on their respective dates. because we hold the concrete “I hope people who see these evidence in our collections: au- objects can take away an idea Helendale Derm • 3x5 • 012020 • JT [email protected] thentic objects, like the ones on of how things used to be, and display in Objectively Racist.” that they have a better under- Expositor-Ledger Newspapers By facing America’s racist standing of each other instead Rochester Golf Week • The Jewish Ledger past head on, Belton and the of demonizing one race or the 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 Museum hope that this exhibit other so we can all move for- can open deeper dialogue with- ward,” said Belton Sr. (585) 427-2468 • FAX (585) 427-8521 b IMPORTANT… We want YOUR AD to be perfect… Your ad will run as it appears here unless we hear from you immediately. 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Nation … Pro-Israel Groups Urge University of Michigan to Cancel SJP Conference Featuring ‘Vicious’ Anti-Semites

The 2018 Students for Justice in Palestine Conference at UCLA. (National Students for Justice in Palestine via Facebook)

by SEAN SAVAGE and through times of hardship and tive Order, in addition to not- revealed how NSJP “leaders Additionally, the Palestin- JACKSON RICHMAN encouraging mobilization on a ing the UCLA conference and and official university chapters ian Youth Movement has also (JNS) — Several pro-Israel mass level.” complaint the organization had espouse blatant forms of an- shown support for U.S.-desig- groups are urging the Univer- The conference comes just filed with the U.S. Department ti-Semitism on social media and nated terror groups and glori- sity of Michigan to cancel an weeks after the U.S. Depart- of Education. use the national conferences as fied leaders of such groups on upcoming conference at the ment of Education’s Office for “In short, we said that if the a platform to propagate their social media. At a July 2018 school that is featuring anti-Is- Civil Rights launched two in- same things happen at the up- discriminatory ideas.” event hosted by the group, it rael groups and speakers that vestigations into UCLA for its coming conference as happened At its most recent national encouraged the kidnapping of “have a long record of vicious administration’s repeated fail- at UCLA with SJP, it could be a conference, held at the Univer- Israeli soldiers. Due to these anti-Semitism,” according to ure to “prevent a hostile cam- violation of Title VI, and if that sity of Minnesota in November problematic ties, a Toronto Roz Rothstein, co-founder and pus environment for its Jewish was the case, we’d file a Title VI 2019, NSJP promoted terrorist church decided to cancel an CEO of StandWithUs. campus community in direct complaint on behalf of any stu- Ahmed Saadat, General-Secre- event with PYM in June 2019. The event, titled “2020 Youth violation of the school’s Title dent(s) who were discriminated tary of the Popular Front for the Similarly, the involvement of for Palestine Conference” is slat- VI obligations,” which included against,” Greendorfer told JNS. Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), two other groups — the Amer- ed to take place from Jan. 25-26 verbal harassment of a Jew- In a statement to JNS, Rick which has been designated a ican Muslims for Palestine on the campus in Ann Arbor, ish student, while the second Fitzgerald, assistant vice presi- terrorist organization by the (AMP) and Samidoun Palestin- Mich., and is being hosted by investigation into the school’s dent for public affairs, said the United States. (Pro-Israel Groups — Page 17) Midwest Students for Justice decision to allow the National university was aware of the in Palestine, Palestinian Youth Students for Justice in Palestine conference being hosted “by a Movement and Students Allied conference in November 2018. recognized student organiza- for Freedom and Equality. The investigations them- tion on our campus.” “The Students Supporting Is- selves come about a month “With more than 1,300 stu- rael (SSI) movement expects after Trump’s December 2019 dent groups on the Ann Arbor the University of Michigan to Executive Order that that pro- campus, events organized by condemn and cancel such a tects Jews from discrimination students — many open to stu- hateful conference,” Ilan Sinel- under Title VI, enacted as part dents from other campuses — nikov, president and founder of of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. happen with some regularity.” the Israeli advocacy organiza- Nevertheless, NSJP, along tion, told JNS. ‘Could be a violation with several other groups in- He noted that several anti-Is- of Title VI’ volved in the event, have a long rael/anti-Semitic groups are Ahead of the event, the Zach- history of promoting support involved in the event, and that, or Legal Institute sent a letter for terrorism and anti-Semitism. similar to other like-minded to the general counsel of the An October 2019 report by groups, have been spreading University of Michigan advising the Institute for the Student of hateful messages on social administrators of the Execu- Global Antisemitism (ISGAP) The Michigan Union on the University of Michigan Campus. (Wikimedia Commons) media. “One of the sponsor organiza- tions of the event ‘Anakbayan USA’ wrote in their statement that they are sponsoring the conference to ‘continue strug- gling in solidarity with the Pal- Family out of town? Weather preventing travel? estinean [sic] people in order to confront or [sic] shared enemy: US imperialism and its puppet Unable to leave your home? regimes,’ ” he said. Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting Sinelnikov added that “such a statement exposes the true face for services that take place within our chapel. of this conference, and voices like these should have no room All at NO CHARGE. on our campuses, let alone in our country.” According to conference or- ganizers, the event comes at a time when Palestinian student groups are “being attacked at every corner” from university administrations and “Zionist groups” to President Donald 3325 Winton Road S., Rochester NY 14623 • www.BrightonMemorialChapel.com Trump’s executive order on discrimination of Jewish stu- 585-427-8520 dents. As such, the goals of the conference include “contex- tualizing the current political climate in the U.S., offering tools to carry your organization See why Brighton Memorial Chapel is Establishing a New Tradition. Page 4 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 Israel Building Underground Defense System on Lebanon Border JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s cease-fire. While direct fighting military said it began construc- has been rare since then, there tion of an underground defense has been occasional violence. system Sunday along its north- The most recent flare-up was ern frontier with Lebanon to in September, when Hezbol- protect against cross-border lah fired a barrage of anti-tank tunnels. missiles into Israel and Israel The infrastructure proj- responded with artillery fire. ect will identify underground There were no casualties on acoustic and seismic activi- either side. ty indicating tunnel digging, Israel also has acknowledged accompanied other defensive carrying out scores of airstrikes measures, said Lt. Col. Jon- in neighboring Syria, many of athan Conricus, a military them believed to have been aimed spokesman. at Iranian weapons shipments Israel destroyed a series of bound for its Hezbollah proxy. what it said were attack tunnels Hezbollah has a battle-tested last year, dug under the border Sept. 2, 2019, file photo, Spanish UN peacekeepers patrol along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the Israeli village army that has been fighting by the Lebanese militant group of Metulla, background, in the village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. Israel’s military said it began construction of an under- alongside the forces of Syrian Hezbollah. The group battled ground defense system Sunday along its northern frontier with Lebanon to protect against cross-border tunnels. (AP President Bashar Assad in Syr- Israel to a stalemate in a month- Photo/Hussein Malla, File) ia’s civil war. Israel believes long war in 2006. Hezbollah is the group has arsenal of some closely allied with Iran, Israel’s tion would all be on the Israeli “We understand that our ac- Israel recently warned that 130,000 missiles and rockets greatest regional foe, and has side of the border and that Unit- tivity may be seen and will be Hezbollah had beefed up its capable of striking virtually vowed to retaliate for America’s ed Nations peacekeepers along heard on the other side and we presence along the volatile fron- anywhere in Israel. More re- killing of a top Iranian general in the frontier had been notified. want to explain what we are we tier. cently, it has accused the group a drone strike earlier this month. “What we are doing today is doing and why we are doing it. Israel and Hezbollah’s 2006 of trying to import or develop Conricus said the construc- part of a larger plan,” he said. It is a matter of precaution.” war ended in a U.N.-brokered guided missiles. b

Bombing Auschwitz (Continued from Page 1) because it represents the impa- The question of whether Auschwitz for certain death. railways could also have been be worse than Auschwitz. Oth- tience of many in the chattering Auschwitz should have been But throughout the rest of quickly repaired. ers worried about killing in- classes with Israel’s embrace of bombed is the subject of an ep- 1944, the trains to Auschwitz Still, the obstacles to action mates in the raids, although its role as the ultimate guaran- isode of the PBS’ documentary kept running. At the height of against Auschwitz went beyond such concerns failed to under- tor of the safety of the Jewish series “Secrets of the Dead,” the tragedy from May to July technical problems. stand that their captors already people. which will premiere the week 1944, approximately 55,000 Some refused to believe the marked the Jews at Auschwitz In the more than 30 years of the Auschwitz liberation an- Hungarian Jews were deport- stories of Nazi atrocities or for death. since Friedman’s book became niversary. Despite some clear ed to the death camp every simply couldn’t fathom what But most Allied officials sim- a best seller, more lip service limitations (including the lam- week. More than 5,000 were they were told. But one failing ply were uninterested in the than ever is paid to the mem- entable practice of incorporat- gassed and cremated every of the PBS film is that it takes question of rescue or stopping ory of the Shoah, while some ing dramatic re-enactments of day. Throughout the course the information leaking out the unfolding mass murder. of the same people who beat historical events by actors), of the war, about 1.1 million about Auschwitz in 1944 in As historian Deborah Lipstadt their breasts about the Six Mil- “Bombing Auschwitz” is an Jews would be murdered at isolation from what the Al- says in the film, “no one gave lion fail to speak out against interesting introduction to a Auschwitz. lies had already learned. A a damn.” Had FDR and the rest the lie that Israel behaves like complex and tragic subject. The report on Auschwitz did year before the debate about of his administration treated the Nazis. Yet in spite of that The film opens with the eventually circulate among the Auschwitz, President Franklin the issue of rescue with the anti-Semitic smear, the 75th miraculous escape from Aus- leaders of both Great Britain Roosevelt had already heard urgency that history mandated, anniversary of the liberation chwitz in April 1944 by two and the United States. British personally from Jan Karski, many could have been saved of Auschwitz is an apt moment young Jewish prisoners: Ru- Prime Minister Winston Chur- the brave Polish officer who from the Auschwitz gas cham- to remind us why the memory dolf Verba and Alfred Wetzlter. chill wrote that what was hap- had snuck into and then out of bers. of what did and didn’t happen The pair eventually reached pening was “the most horrible the Warsaw Ghetto and Ger- The lesson here is that the there is still central to the ratio- safety and reported in detail crime in the whole history of man camps and brought out Jews were basically on their nale for modern Zionism. what they had seen to Jewish the world.” Jewish leaders and of Poland other evidence of own in a genocidal war that There is no evading the fact officials, who then were able officials of the War Refugee the Nazis’ effort to industrial- was essentially separate from that the at the moment in his- to pass the document to the Board urged that the American ize murder. German plans for the one being waged by armies. tory when Jews were being representative of the U.S. War and British air forces bomb the the annihilation of the Jews When in 2003, the Israeli Air slaughtered in the Nazi death Refugee Board in Switzerland. railroad tracks and the death of Europe were also known Force made a fly-by over Aus- factory at Auschwitz by the The report detailed the way factory itself. The hope was that and published, even if they chwitz, it was more than a hundreds of thousands, their Auschwitz operated, including doing so might put Auschwitz were downplayed by the main- publicity stunt. It remains em- fate was a minor issue even the “selection” process, the gas out of commission, as well as stream media of the era. Ex- bedded in the consciousness of to those in the civilized world chambers and the crematoria send a warning to the Germans cuses about disbelief don’t those who are tasked with the who were waging war on Ger- where the bodies of the slain that the Allies were aware of stand up to scrutiny. defense of the Jewish people many. That’s why the ongo- were burned. They hoped to what was going on and that More important was the today. Israel is far more than a ing debate over the failure of warn the Jews of Hungary, who those responsible would be sense that any concern other Holocaust memorial and a mil- the Allies to bomb Auschwitz were the next main group the brought to justice after the war. than winning the war against itary establishment yet the abil- continues to inspire anger and Germans and their collabora- But the Allies never took any Germany was a dangerous di- ity to defend itself represents a controversy to this day. tors intended to transport to such action. version of blood and treasure guarantee that never again will The reasons for this inaction from military efforts. While the Jews wait in vain for friends FOUNDED 1924 were complex. understandable in the context to save those in peril. The British and American of the time, that attitude failed As much as it would be desir- THE JEWISH LEDGER militaries protested that a mis- to take into account that for able if the memory of the Holo- ISSN 002165 Albert Klineman, Publisher 1924-1930 • Joseph H. Biben, Publisher 1930-1953 sion to Auschwitz was too dif- the Germans, killing Jews was caust would motivate the world Donald Wolin, Publisher, 1953-1986 ficult. But U.S. planes were al- a priority. They may have lost to prevent new genocides, the BARBARA MORGENSTERN, Publisher and Executive Editor ready bombing an I.G. Farben the war, but winning the battle last 75 years have proven again Published weekly by The Jewish Ledger, factory complex in the vicinity, for genocide was equally as and again that this is largely 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 • Phone: (585) 427-2468 and some bombs fell by error important to them. a forlorn hope. 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by DEBORAH FINEBLUM joining her daughter in the Of the six major Nazi “To forget would be not only United States. She now lives mass-murder centers on oc- dangerous but offensive; to for- in the Washington, D.C. area cupied Polish soil, Aus- get the dead would be akin to and speaks regularly to groups chwitz-Birkenau has the terrible killing them a second time.” at the United States Holocaust distinction of being the largest —Elie Wiesel, “Night” Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the place of the most kill- there. “We knew we had made ing: Of the 1.3 million people Seventy-five: It’s the aver- it in spite of all that we had sent to Auschwitz (and the 1.1 age lifespan of an American gone through, in spite of the million who died there, the vast male and, as of this month, also Nazis’ intentions and efforts,” majority upon arrival) between the number of years that have she recalls. And when they en- 1940 and 1945, 90 percent, or passed since soldiers from the countered a group of American roughly 1 million, were Jews; 100th Infantry Division of the soldiers, “they told us that they 75,000 were Poles; 21,000 were Russian army marched through were astonished since they had Roma (gypsies); 15,000 were Auschwitz’s now infamous Ar- never before seen such a group Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration Soviet prisoners of war; and beit Macht Frei (“Work Sets You of weird-looking, emaciated, camp. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records some 15,000 were other Euro- Free”) gates to behold a sight ugly, bald women.” Administration, College Park, Md.) peans. These numbers mounted few of them would ever forget. Geva and Maksymowicz are quickly beginning in the spring Meeting them on the morning among the very few alive today of 1942, when the adjacent and of Jan. 27, 1945, were 7,000 pris- who can remember Jan. 27, much larger Birkenau camp oners, barely alive, and hun- 1945. Seventy-five later, nearly was built, expanding the killing dreds of corpses spread out as all of them — the skeletal pris- operation many times over. For far as the eye could see. oners on one side of the barbed the vast majority, from arrival Among the evidence the Rus- wire and their liberators on the until death took under 30 min- sians found were 837,000 wom- other — are gone. utes. en’s garments, 370,000 men’s The world remembers the “Just walking through the suits, 44,000 pairs of shoes and date thanks to the United Na- site is powerful,” says Sawicki. 15,432 pounds of human hair, tions, which designated Jan. “The ruins of the crematoria, bearing evidence of the poison 27 as International Holocaust all their possessions, all the gas Zyklon B. Remembrance Day in 2005. testimonies and the books that In the words of survivor and have been written about this author Primo Levi, as the first Commemorative Events place, the number of survi- soldiers approached Auschwitz On Jan. 23 in Jerusalem, Yad vors … Auschwitz has become III, they “shot strangely embar- Vashem — The World Holocaust a symbol of the worst of the rassed glances at the sprawling Remembrance Center is hosting Nazis.” bodies, at the battered huts and “Remembering the Holocaust, But it’s not just its size and at us few still alive.” Fighting Antisemitism,” the the scope of the Nazis’ murder- Lidia Maksymowicz also viv- Fifth World Holocaust Forum, ous activities there that makes idly recalls the moment of liber- along with co-sponsors the the place an icon of evil, but ation. Though only 4 years old World Holocaust Forum Foun- also the fact that the Nazis at the time, during her months dation and the president of the began using Zyklon B there, in Auschwitz, she’d been tat- State of Israel. Among the 42 a lethal gas previously used tooed with the number 70072 heads of state and other govern- to kill lice on textiles. Unlike (her mother Anna was marked mental leaders expected at the Agi Geva (left) building a snowman prior to the Holocaust. (United States Holo- many other camps that focused as 70071), was a victim of med- program are Russian President caust Memorial Museum.) on local Jewish populations, ical experiments and had been of Russia Vladimir Putin and Auschwitz became “an interna- left completely alone after her the presidents France, Germa- tional site for the mass murder mother was sent on a death ny, Italy and Austria, not to of Jews from all over,” says march. mention Great Britain’s Prince Luckert. “It’s a place that, more “I remember soldiers en- Charles. U.S. Vice President than any other, captures the tering in completely different Mike Pence has also confirmed horror of the Holocaust, the uniforms,” she said through a his scheduled attendance. enormity of the crime.” translator. “I remember sitting And because the Nazis were at this large stove in a wooden A Time for so determined to document barracks and getting a cup of Remembrance, Learning their crimes, even though they coffee with milk and a slice Lessons of the Past blew up the gas chambers when of bread with margarine. And Indeed, as the world marks they realized their defeat was I heard this language — Rus- 75 years after the liberation imminent, they could not erase sian.” Assuming her family was of Auschwitz, it comes at a the evidence, adds Luckert. “In gone (in 1962, she was actually time of increasing anti-Semitic their methodical way, they’d reunited with her mother, who violence, and anti-Israel and collected warehouses full of had survived the death march), anti-Semitic incidents on North their murdered victims’ hair, Maksymowicz was adopted by American college campuses, Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem teeth, clothes, suitcases and a local Christian family and is giving a heightened and cau- on April 10, 2018, ahead of Israeli National Holocaust Remembrance Day. much more. For the Soviet now a great-grandmother living tionary poignancy to the com- (Hadas Parush/Flash90) troops who entered, it was hor- in Krakow, Poland. “I admire memoration. rifying.” them to this day that they took “We should look at how the Today, much of this is on this small skeleton (me), full world got to that stage, what led display for the 2.3 million vis- of lice, dirty with frostbitten up to the evolution of place like itors a year who tour the camp legs. I looked scary. After three Auschwitz, to state-sponsored through the auspices of the years, they adopted me and mass murder,” says Steven Auschwitz-Birkenau State Mu- gave me their name.” Luckert, author and senior pro- seum. Agi Geva was 13 when, after gram curator at the USHMM. the degradation of Auschwitz, “And particularly now, with the Jewish Pride she and her mother and sister global rise of anti-Semitism and Among the Ashes were liberated on a death march Holocaust distortion, as we re- For the Jews who come, from a work camp near Stutt- cede further from the past and “it’s typically as a pilgrimage, gart, Germany. “Our strength the survivor generation passes, whether or not they lost close had been spent. … I knew that it’s more important than ever family members here,” says if I would have had to march before to learn these lessons.” Sawicki. “For them, it’s more for one more day, I would not like a cemetery visit.” This is have remained alive,” says Auschwitz: often especially felt in the large Geva, who spent more than a International Site for the SS guards walk along the arrival ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, May quiet expanse of Birkenau rath- half century in Israel before Mass Murder of Jews 1944. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) (Crucial Time — Page 8) THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 7 Al-Qaeda Prompts Calls to Target ‘Zionist-Crusader Alliance’ Worldwide (JNS) — Al-Qaeda’s Gener- Monitor and exclusively shared in supporting jihad, and con- al Command released a state- with JNS. demns media outlets, particu- ment in Arabic and English The statement by the Al-Qae- larly Al-Jazeera, as “clients of commending the past year of da leadership particularly com- America and the Zionists” for operations by the Al-Qaeda- mended the recent attack on not covering the Manda Bay linked terror groups Al-Shabab the U.S. Camp Simba in Manda operation. in Somalia and the Group to Bay, Kenya. MEMRI had previously re- Support Islam and Muslims in The statement also calls on ported that Al-Sahab, the West Africa. Muslims worldwide to unite media arm of Al-Qaeda, re- Those operations were part and target interests of the leased a video on Sept. 11, 2019, of the “Jerusalem will never be “Zionist-Crusader alliance” in which the group’s leader, Judaized” campaign, accord- Nov. 10, 2001: Usama bin Laden sits with his adviser and purported succes- worldwide in order to liber- Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged at- ing to a report by The Middle sor Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian linked to the Al Qaeda network, during ate Jerusalem, singling out Is- tacks against American, Israeli, East Media Research Institute an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image lamic scholars and Muslims European and Russian interests (MEMRI) Jihad and Terrorism supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper. (Reuters) in Palestine to play their part worldwide. b

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marily in Europe and South is intended to provide tools that America, for seven years. Se- will assist Jewish communities curity cameras, doors and abroad in dealing with terror at- locks sponsored in large part tacks. “Over this past year, we by the Jewish Agency’s fund have taught hundreds of peo- prevented an attacker from en- ple and given them these vital tering a synagogue in Halle, life-saving tools,” he told JNS. Germany, this past Yom Kippur “We are pleased that the par- that was the target of an an- ticipants describe great satisfac- ti-Semitic attack. tion with the program and its “We’re committed to enabling contents, and report that they Jewish life to thrive in communi- feel a greater sense of prepared- ties around the world in safety,” ness in light of the ever-grow- Jewish Agency chairman Isaac ing security threats,” he said. Herzog told JNS. “Today, unfor- In the first few years since its tunately, we are seeing time and launch, Magen David Adom has again the importance of our in- taught the course in Jewish and vestment in enhancing security non-Jewish community centers, measures at Jewish institutions. schools and places of worship Jews must be able to live freely worldwide, with future courses and safely everywhere.” planned for the United States. Also based in Israel, Magen “It is important to continue David Adom’s “First Seven Min- teaching the courses and raising utes” course uses the Jewish the number of courses that we state’s expertise dealing with will teach in the U.S.,” said Yafe. multiple casualty incidents to “The communities need to feel teach life-saving skills to com- that they know what to do when munities around the world in the an incident occurs, and that they Eilon Even-Esh (center) with a group of students after a self-defense training session. (Courtesy) crucial first seven minutes prior will be able to save lives. We to the arrival of an ambulance feel that by using Israel’s vast attacks, as their members look rity assessment for Jewish in- (seven minutes is MDA’s target experience in dealing with terror “the most Jewish.” stitutions, where he covertly ambulance response time). attacks and mass casualties that Because these communities assesses the effectiveness of The program, according to we can help the Jewish commu- choose not to learn at co-ed ka- the infrastructure and security MDA deputy director Eli Yafe, nities around the world.” b rate dojos, they have less access awareness of the community. to self-defense, he said. Working with a grant writer, That, added to “growing he uses his assessment to help up in an un-athletic world,” communities apply for state makes it evermore important funding from local govern- to teach religious communities ments and the Department of the techniques of self-defense. Homeland Security, both re- His active shooter and stabber sponsible for securing religious Jewish Agency for Israel chairman seminars teach people of all institutions in the United States. Isaac Herzog speaks during the Pub- sizes and strengths to defend Just a day or two before the lic Forum Conference on Nov. 15, themselves. attack in a Monsey home, said 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Though Moses, Joshua, King Even-Esh, a Yeshiva in Mon- David and the Maccabees in the sey that he assessed received 28 at a rabbi’s home at a Hanuk- Hanukkah story were all fight- $50,000 from the Department of kah celebration, his phone has ers, Even-Esh told JNS that “out- Homeland Security to improve been ringing off the hook. side of Israel, for a few thou- the security of their facilities, EARLY EDITION Even-Esh, who served in an sand years now, Jews have not though the funding took more elite unit in the Israeli Defense been fighters, and that’s painful than a year to receive. NETWORKING GROUP Forces where he learned Krav for me. I want to be able to In addition to his services, Maga (an IDF-developed style teach as many people who are various other organizations Learn how to build your business through referrals. of self-defense) and later served not as effective in protecting are also working to improve as a captain in the U.S. Marine themselves to [do so], so we are self-defense in Jewish commu- Meeting Every Wednesday 7:30-8:30 a.m. Corps, has made it his mission to less of a target,” he said. nities in the United States and “instill strength and confidence” As anti-Semitic attacks have around the world. ReMax in the Torah-observant commu- risen in America and abroad, 2171 Monroe Avenue nities of the United States. people have become nervous ‘A Greater Sense of According to Even-Esh, this — “the community is waking Preparedness’ Bring a friend! community tends to be less up,” he said. The Jewish Agency’s Secu- equipped for self-defense, de- In addition to his seminars, rity Assistance Fund has been For information please call 427-2468 or visit spite being over-represented one of the services Even-Esh providing support to more than earlyeditionnetworking.com as the target of anti-Semitic offers is a military-style secu- 600 Jewish communities, pri- Page 8 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020

Crucial Time (Continued from Page 6) eryone feels the loss but for the symbol and attracts millions who now lives in Israel with Jewish groups, it comes down of people each year, the chal- her husband and children. “As to Auschwitz being intimately lenge, according to Auschwitz hard as it is, hard isn’t always important to their people and Museum’s Sawicki, is “not to bad, and learning how import- to them.” oversimplify what happened ant it is to live a Jewish life Indeed, it’s long been a tradi- here because it’s easy to forget is the best thing we can do tion to bring Israeli high-school- how complicated it was.” for the Jewish souls who died ers and members of the Israel Indeed, Auschwitz is easily there.” Defense Forces to Auschwitz Poland’s largest tourist draw. Israeli minister Katz believes (in fact, Sawicki reports that And on a recent visit, one grin- that Israel itself is the answer it’s only these groups who are ning man posed on the running to the Jewish people’s prayers: permitted to bring their own board of an old train for his “Since those dark days, we have tour guides, who are also ac- wife to snap his photo. Until a defended and developed our companied by museum ones; tour guide shooed him off. homeland, ensuring that the everyone else must use the Another indication of this Jewish people will never again ones on the museum staff). uncomfortable phenomenon: stand defenseless against its That’s how Israeli Yochi Following a howl of protest (in- enemies.” Gabai went, as a chaperone cluding from the Auschwitz Jewish youth from all over the world participating in the “March of the Liv- In fact, Basrawi remembers with her teenage daughter’s Museum), Christmas orna- ing” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual crying on the Birkenau train class in 2007. Named after her ments, mouse pads and bottle Holocaust Memorial Day on April 16, 2015. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90) tracks when he looked up and grandmother Yocheved — her openers featuring Auschwitz “noticed a bunch of kids carry- father’s mother from Pinsk scenes were pulled off Amazon who will do it — the Poles? We and hate can manifest as mass ing an Israeli flag and singing who was killed by the Nazis this past holiday season. have to be part of that conver- murder. ‘Am Yisroel Chai.’ I thought of along with most of the family “Has Auschwitz become Po- sation.” At the 75th anniversary of the the million Jews buried there, — Gabai says the trip affected land’s Disneyland?” asks Dr. liberation of Auschwitz, says how tiny we are in numbers, her deeply. “It’s so horrifying Matthew Zizmor of Boston, a What Can Be Learned Poland’s Chief Rabbi, Michael especially when you realize that you really need to go with dentist who visited the camp From Stepping Foot Schudrich, “we have to ask our- how many people my age are a group of IDF soldiers or our with his two sons last year. His on Its Soil… selves what we need to do to disappearing from the Jewish schoolchildren to feel pride in chief concern: Jewish history is The U.S. Holocaust muse- ensure that we never forget, people and how we’re the No. 1 being Jewish and strong. They being objectified and interpret- um’s Luckert believes that it’s that world never forgets what victim of hate crimes. But also sing ‘Am Yisroel Chai’ and ed by non-Jews. “Who is tell- impossible to leave Auschwitz happened to us, the Jewish peo- how we’re still alive and strong. proudly wave the Israeli flag, ing our story? No matter how unchanged. “When you see the ple. Perhaps only then can we And I made myself a promise to promising that we will never well-meaning, they can’t tell enormity at Birkenau and you help ensure that genocide will marry Jewish and have Jewish forget the souls buried here and Jewish history without Jews; realize how many people were never happen to us again or to kids.” what they went through.” they can’t see it through our murdered there, when you see anyone else.” Indeed, Polish survivor Says Luckert: “We are a peo- eyes,” he says. where they did the medical Zizmor puts it this way: “Yom Maksymowicz has a message ple who remember — whether Polish guides try to univer- experiments and the torture, it Hashoah is not enough. As hard for the young: “The future of it’s what happened to us in salize the Nazis’ damage, says stays ingrained in you forever,” as it was to see this, to be there, this world is in your hands,” Egypt or ancient Persia. And we Zizmor. “But they lost 75,000 he adds. “And you then share I think I am a better Jew for she says, “so that you don’t need to remember what hap- Christian Poles here; we lost the important job of making it, to be able to process this let what happened here in pened to us here.” over a million Jews the Nazis sure other people don’t forget high dose of evil and be able to Auschwitz and other German brought in from all over the what happened there.” speak to other Jews about what camps ever happen again. You Auschwitz: The world. So when it comes to Another lesson of a visit to I saw there.” can study, travel, make your Tourist Trap? telling our story in the future, the place is gained by under- And Brown maintains that dreams come true. This was all When a place becomes a when all the survivors are gone, standing how easily prejudice this experience is even more taken away from the entire gen- crucial for teens today. “This eration living in Europe during generation of young Jews abso- the wartime. This message is lutely needs to go, to have their for everyone, but especially for The Missing eyes opened,” adds Brown, young people.” b American Adults (Continued from Page 1) Piece ... About 12 percent each thought the answers to three or four that the number was lower or of the questions, while 16 to higher, and 29 percent did not 18 percent knew the answers know the answer. Among the to zero, one or two questions. teens, only 38 percent knew the Teens answered all four ques- In your number of Jews killed. tions correctly at lower rates Those numbers, however, are than adults. College graduates advertising higher than those reported in answered all four questions a 1993 survey of U.S. adults correctly at above-average commissioned by the Ameri- rates. campaign. can Jewish Committee. That Jewish respondents to the survey found only 35 percent Pew survey answered all the See what a of adults knew the number of questions correctly at higher Jews killed in the Holocaust, rates than the overall sample. and only a slim majority said Ninety percent knew the era difference the word “Holocaust” referred when the Holocaust happened, to the extermination of Jews — 86 percent defined ghettos cor- we can make as opposed to 84 percent of U.S. rectly and knew 6 million Jews adults in the Pew survey. were killed, and 57 percent In the Pew study, 43 percent knew that Hitler became chan- for your business. of the American adults knew cellor democratically. that Adolf Hitler became chan- The survey was conducted cellor of Germany through a in February 2019 with a total democratic process. A quarter sample of 10,971 U.S. adults. of adults thought Hitler came to The total sample had a margin power through violence and an- of error of 1.5 percent, while Call us today at other 25 percent did not know. the Jewish sample of 429 re- Only a third of the teenage re- spondents had a margin of error 427-2434 spondents, ages 13 to 17, knew of 8.6 percent. The teens were Hitler assumed the position surveyed in March and April to get started! democratically. 2019, and the total sample of Overall, in the Pew study, 1,811 had a margin of error of nearly half of the adults knew 3.1 percent. b  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 9 US Professors Visit Israel for Bridge-Building College Mission in the military, volunteering before them.” to be drafted. We visited Arab “This is something that was communities where they work lost in the U.S.,” she told JNS. with Israeli women for female “Israelis views failure as a step empowerment — something forward, while in the U.S., fail- we could do better at in the ure is a bad thing.” U.S.” Professor Ugochukwu Anieto, Dutch voiced his hope that he who teaches biological scienc- will return to Israel next year es at Texas A&M University, on a teaching assignment and came away “impressed by the bring students back to some of determination and hard-work- the research facilities he saw. ing people of Israel trying to “There are wonderful opportu- change the world. Israelis can nities to interact academically; squeeze water from stone; they you need to come here and see have made the desert bloom,” it,” he said. he told JNS. Beth Choate, professor of He also said, “I intend to environmental science from come to Israel as much as I can; Allegheny College in Pennsyl- I want to make it every year.” vania, left the trip feeling “in- In his work back on campus, spired on a professional level” added Anieto, “I’ve appointed by the “Israeli grit, industri- myself a representative for the Faculty Fellowship participants visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Vivian Grossman) ousness and spirit of pride in State of Israel, and my goal is Israel, which is rooted in a re- to encourage students to seek and global challenges. spect for the people who came research options in Israel.” b “We showed them the au- thentic Israel and future in its periphery — diverse aspects of GET YOUR Israeli society so they could be exposed to Israel’s complexities SEATS! and realize that Israel is not a headline,” said JNF chair- person Vivian Grossman. “We wanted to show them that Is- We would like to personally invite you rael is a young country going to the JCC Gala on January 25, 2020. through its adolescent time — It is our pleasure to be honorary chairs with our children. still growing, moving, making – Debbie & Michael Gordon mistakes and figuring it out,” she explained to JNS. 2020 HONOREES In addition to the program’s Justin L. Vigdor central goal of fostering aca- Tikkun Olam Award (Repairing the World) Faculty Fellowship participants meet with Lt. 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“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 11 Arts & Entertainment Nazareth College Arts Center in February: Dance, Taiko Drumming, Rainbow Fish, and Art Exhibitions

$35-$60. Sponsored in part by tionof this interdisciplinary field. Colacino Gallery Hours: Sun- Susan and Steven Eisinger and Arts Center Gallery Hours: day-Wednesday, 12-5 p.m. The Josephine M. Perini. Sunday, 12-5 p.m.; Tues- gallery is closed on Mondays day-Thursday, 12-5 p.m.; Fri- and Tuesdays. The Rainbow Fish day-Saturday, 12-8 p.m. February 15 at 2 p.m. and 4 Tickets p.m. in Callahan Theater. Color and Light Retrospec- Ticket prices for individual Based on the bestselling book tive: Works by Patricia Groves shows are noted above and are by Marcus Pfister, plus two of (January 24-March 1)— Groves’ available online at artscenter. the author’s companion tales, work is characterized by bold naz.edu, by phone at 389-2170, told through the magic of black colors, geometric forms, quality or in person at the Nazareth light and fanciful puppets! of light, and dynamic compo- College Arts Center Box Office The Rainbow Fish tells the sitions inspired by the work of at 4245 East Avenue, Rochester. story of the most beautiful fish Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Free events do not require ad- Yamato: The Drummers of Japan in the sea, whose scales shim- and Joseph Stella. vance tickets or reservations. J mer in all the colors of the rain- The Nazareth College Arts Cen- January 30 at 7 p.m. in Callahan bow. While the other fish dream ter will present athletic dance, Theater, Roni Koresh will give a of owning one of his magnifi- jcccenterstage.org giant Japanese taiko drumming free presentation in Callahan The- cent shiny scales, the Rainbow and a black-light puppet perfor- ater on how his Israeli upbring- Fish is too proud to share and 585.461.2000 mance based on a bestselling chil- ing influences his choreography. becomes the loneliest fish in dren’s book this February as part The presentation will include a the ocean. Will the wise octopus of the Arts Center Series of pro- preview of a Koresh work set on teach him that true joy comes fessional productions by touring Nazareth College student dancers, in sharing what you love with companies. In addition, two art as well as a short performance your friends? exhibitions featuring the works of showcasing Israeli influence by Mermaid Theatre of Nova national artists will open. the Koresh Dance Company. At- Scotia brings an award-winning tendees will have the opportunity story to life, as well as two other Koresh Dance Company to ask questions and learn more stories by the same author: Rain- February 1 at 8 p.m. in Calla- about the gestures and move- bow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea han Theater. ments in Koresh choreography. and Opposites. The 4 p.m. per- Known for their exciting and Free and open to the public. formance is sensory-friendly, emotional blend of ballet, mod- designed to create a performing ern, and jazz, Koresh Dance Yamato: arts experience that is welcom- Company illuminates the stage The Drummers of Japan ing to all families with children with rhythms drawn from ar- February 8 at 8 p.m. in Calla- with autism or other sensory FEBRUARY 1-16 tistic director Ronen (Roni) Ko- han Theater. sensitivities. Tickets $15-$20. resh’s Israeli folk roots and the Experience “the energy of Musical Direction human experience. The Phil- life,” told through the percus- Gallery Exhibitions Directed by Written by & Arrangements by adelphia-based company is a sive sounds of giant Japanese Mixed Media (January 24- ESTHER WINTER JACK GARNER vital force in the dance world, taiko drums. March 1) — Featuring works CASEY FILIACI touring across the nation to per- Since its formation in Nara, across various mediums to form explosive choreography Japan in 1993, Yamato has trav- showcase what the new gener- ALL-NEW SHOW FEATURING while promoting dance through- eled for performances in 53 coun- ation of mixed media artists are out communities. tries. While paying respect to tra- doing while advancing the pub- DOZENS OF CLASSIC HITS Their program includes Ko- ditional taiko drumming, Yamato lic’s awareness and apprecia- resh’s latest work La Danse, has reinvigorated the art form. inspired by Matisse’s famous Yamato will perform The TICKETS ON painting of the same name, as Challengers, a program repre- well as a work set to Ravel’s Bo- senting the experiences of its SALE NOW! lero, and more. Tickets $35-$50 members as they rise to meet Free artist talk: On Friday, challenges we all face. Tickets Classic Rock Comes to Life at JCC CenterStage

CenterStage Theatre has cre- ing performers and 3 new ated a Rochester phenomenon faces to the series. Many of with its annual tribute to the the songs will be tradition- history of popular music. This al in their approach and SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1 I 8 P.M. year's incarnation, Hit Makers: sound similar to original re- Origins of Class Rock explores cordings, while others will be Artistic Director Ronen Koresh creates exciting and the genre that later was known reinterpreted. For example, emotional dance works that blend ballet, modern and as “Classic Rock.” Hit Makers perennial powerhouse favorite jazz with rhythms drawn from his Israeli folk roots includes the music of The Beat- Darren Frazier will bring his and the human experience. The program includes La Danse, based on the famous Matisse painting les, The Rolling Stones, The soulful blues vibe to classics of the same name, Ravel’s Bolero, and more. Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep- including The Doors’ “Road- pelin, The Who, The Doobie house Blues,” Van Morrison’s Free artist talk: On Thursday, January 30 Brothers and more. The show “Domino,” Bob Marley/Eric at 7 p.m. in Callahan Theater, Roni Koresh is crafted by retired columnist Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff” will give a presentation in Callahan Theater film critic Jack Garner who and Free’s “All Right Now”. A on how his Israeli upbringing influences also crafted last year’s British five-piece band led by Casey his choreography. Free and open to the public! artscenter.naz.edu or 585-389-2170 Invasion show. Filiaci brings these classics all- The cast includes 5 return- new orchestrations. J Page 12 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020

The Six-Day Hero by Tammar Stein Kar-Ben Publishing, 2017, 246pp. (paperback) Motti knows that war is coming. Israel is only nineteen years old- the same age as Motti’s brave older brother, Gideon- and the tiny country is surrounded by enemies. Motti wishes he could join the Israeli army like Gide- on and be a hero. But when his best friend’s family flees the country and his brother goes off to fight, Motti realizes this war isn’t a game. Motti knows his older brother is a hero- but through the six days of the war that will decide Israel’s fate, he discovers the other heroes in surprising places. He may even be a hero himself. Tammar Stein is the award-winning author of four young adult novels including Light Years, which is named a Sydney Taylor Notable Book of Jewish Content and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in English Literature. She has lived on three continents, in four countries and five states. She lives in Virginia with her family. d

The Convert by Stefan Hertmans Pantheon, 2019, 292pp. (softcover) In this dazzling work of historical fiction, the Man Booker International–long-listed author of War and Tur- pentine reconstructs the tragic story of a medieval noblewoman who leaves her home and family for the love of a Jewish boy. Based on two fragments from the Cairo Genizah — a repository of more than three hundred thousand manuscripts and documents stored in the upper chamber of a synagogue in Old Cairo — Stefan Hertmans has pieced together a remarkable work of imagination, re-creating the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers whose steps he retraces almost a millennium later. Blending fact and fiction, and with immense imagination and stylistic ingenuity, Hertmans painstakingly depicts Vigdis’s terrible trials, bringing the Middle Ages to life and illuminating a chaotic world of love and hate. Stefan Hertmans is an internationally acclaimed Flemish author. For more than twenty years he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, where he wrote novels, poems, essays, and plays.d

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas Vintage Books, 2018,288pp. (softcover) The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news. Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can — except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. Anand Giridharadas is an editor-at-large for TIME and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and a former McKinsey analyst. He has spoken on the main stage of TED. He lives in Brooklyn, New York d

Zinsky the Obscure by Ilan Mochari Fomite, 2013, 363 pp (softcover) Thirty-year-old Manhattan bachelor Ariel Zinsky is still recovering from his abusive childhood when he realizes no one — including his few living relatives — is truly interested in his narrative. While they numb themselves with the latest celebrity rehab story or the third-world atrocities replayed without ceasing on cable news, he sets out to write his autobiography as an exercise in his own self-medication, recasting himself as the hero in a coming-of-age story. Fans of A Confederacy of Dunces and The Perks of Being a Wallflower will relate to this tale of overcoming your childhood’s traumas, and the world’s indifference to them. Ilan Mochari’s short stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Hobart, J Journal, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. d  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 13

Shabbat Shalom …

Exodus 6:2-9:35 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Parshat Va’era Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — What makes In an instant Moses realizes cease… for the moment. cance the Chatam Sofer alerts Rabbi Yitzchak Levi of Ber- Moses Moses? He is certainly the difficulty in attempting to The next stage of the redemp- us to. The first use of G-d is ditchev, the great chassidic the consummate prophet, the work with his “brothers” as tive process begins when Moses rendered Elokim, signifying master, was banished from two man of G-d whose vision of eth- well as the fact that his prior presents his credentials and the powerful or judging aspect rabbinic posts because of his ical monotheism was expressed deed is public knowledge and G-d’s instructions to Pharaoh. of G-d, while the next use of chassidic sympathies. His stu- in a moral code of law, which so Pharaoh’s palace is no longer But the result is utter failure. G-d’s name, translated LORD, dents wondered what he would commands to this very day, open to him. Moses becomes a Instead of relenting, Pharaoh is in fact the four-letter name do next and he answered that more than 4000 years later. He refugee, escaping into the desert tightens the screws, and now of G-d. This name signifies the he would seek a third posi- is certainly the consummate merciful, compassionate na- tion. But why? they asked. For leader who took a bedraggled ture of G-d. Similarly, the first the honor, he answered. They slave-people into freedom and Even after Moses was rejected by his “speak” uses the word “vayed- waited for the wink of his eye, nationhood. But I believe that aber,” which is a harsher form but Rabbi Yitzchak Levi was the central characteristic of own “brothers” and forced to live in of speaking, while the second not being ironic — he was very Moses is his love of the Jewish “speak” uses the word “vayo- serious. He explained that lead- people, his “brotherly” love. Midian, Moses nevertheless forgives mer,” a softer, gentler form of ing a Jewish town was always When he witnesses the slaying the Jewish people. speaking. an honor for the rabbi, even if of a Hebrew by an Egyptian, he According to the Chatam the people didn’t honor you in takes action and kills the Egyp- Sofer, G-d greatly values the ex- return. Apparently he learned tian, but he suffers a tremen- with only a shirt on his back. the Israelite slaves must gather tent to which Moses defends the this from Moses. dous loss. All of Egypt sees him There, with his new wife and their own straw for the bricks Jewish people, and once Moses Moses’ outreach towards his as a Prince and, like a Prince of child, earning a living from they bake in the hot sun. calls G-d to task, so to speak, hapless and enslaved brothers Egypt, he might have concluded his flock of sheep, he can live Our portion for the week, G-d replaces his initial, judg- and his willingness to assume his career with his own pyra- out his years as one more per- Vaera, opens with the verse, mental name E-lohim for the a leadership role only if it is mid one day. Yet Moses risks all son who tried to make a differ- “G-d spoke to Moses, and said compassionate Y-HVH, and his together with his brother as his because one of his “brothers” ence, failed, and left the stage to him, I am the Lord...” (Ex- original harsher form of Va’yed- “front” man, makes him the ar- has been slain. of human history. Let others odus 6:2). The Chatam Sofer aber for the gentler Va’Yomer. chetypal brother, the towering Ordinarily, revolutionary ca- tackle the problem. But G-d still writes in his work Torat Moshe Even after Moses was reject- figure of the Book of Exodus reers begin with selfless acts has His eye on Moses. that we should note an inter- ed by his own “brothers” and who is cured of the “brotherly and it would be logical to as- The text then tells us that G-d esting use of language in this forced to live in Midian, Moses hatred” of the Book of Genesis. sume that a fugitive from the appears to Moses from within verse. It relates directly to three nevertheless forgives the Jewish It is not easy to love one’s broth- law who has put his life on the the flame of a burning bush, verses earlier when Moses’ re- people. Moses is the leader G-d ers, but a true leader is some- line for the Hebrews should urging him to become the Re- sponse to Pharaoh’s increased wants for this new nation be- one who can feel connected to become a hero at home, among deemer of his people. Moses tyranny was a pointed rebuttal cause he is ready for anything every other Jew, whether from his own people. Moses experi- demurs, fearing that as a stut- to G-d. “Lord, why do you do the Jewish people may throw at a far away tribe or a DNA relat- ences the exact opposite. On the terer, a man whose words trip evil to this people?” (5:22) In- him. He has no illusions about ed brother. Often parents work following day, when he chances over his tongue, he will never stead of being angered by such the people he will lead. He has out their own problems and upon two Israelites fighting, manage to convince Pharaoh. strong language, G-d is pleased experienced their ingratitude short-comings through their he wants to stop their wicked- It is precisely because he loves with Moses’ willingness to and sensed their independence. children, but siblings have the ness, to defend his brother the the Jewish people so much that confront Him. Better to speak He can sympathize with Ben­ potential to love each other un- underdog, but their response he wants the best candidate to tough with G-d than to speak Gurion’s comment to Truman: conditionally, even when the is cynical and arrogant. “Who present their case. Only when out against the Jewish people. “You may be President of 140 love is repaid with a curse. This made you our judge? Do you G-d informs Moses that his The English translation of the million citizens but I am the was Moses’ greatest gift and his want to kill us as you killed the brother Aaron will become his opening verse of Vaera does not Prime Minister of 600,000 most impressive legacy. b Egyptian?” (Ex. 2:14) mouthpiece does his resistance completely capture the signifi- Prime Ministers.” Shabbat Shalom

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Jewish college students — rem- ly shouting anti-Zionist and American immigration policy (Fortunately, in this case, the and nationwide. iniscent of early warnings in outright anti-Semitic chants. or Great Britain’s Brexit policy.) campus administration reme- If your local college — or 1930s Germany. On campuses from coast to The president’s order states died the situation.) your alma mater — is a place of Acts of campus anti-Semitism coast, national pro-Palestinian that a school’s Title VI obli- Columbia University and the hostility for Jewish causes and last year rose to 201 reported in- groups like Students for Justice gations are triggered when University of North Carolina Zionist students, demand that cidents, an 86 percent increase in Palestine (SJP) and the de- harassment is “based on the have already been put on notice the campus leadership provide in just two years. These includ- spicable Jewish Voice for Peace group’s actual or perceived that various campus goings-on a safe place for all Americans, ed numerous acts of harassment (JVP) have usually orchestrated shared ancestry or ethnic char- regarding Jewish students and regardless of ethnicity, religion and vandalism, but also several the anti-Semitic verbal — and acteristics, rather than sole- groups may endanger their Title or support for Israel. Make your assaults of Jewish students ac- sometimes physically threaten- ly on its members’ religious VI funding. Even the notorious- financial support dependent on cording to the Anti-Defamation ing — assaults. practices.” It also suggests that ly anti-Semitic San Francisco such equal protection. Write League’s Annual Report. Jewish students are scared funding agencies use the defini- State University has taken steps letters to your local newspaper There were also a half-dozen to wear outward signs of their tion of anti-Semitism advanced to ameliorate the hostile atmo- — or college newspaper — ex- bomb threats to Jewish campus Jewishness because doing so by the International Holocaust sphere for Jewish students fos- pressing your outrage at the institutions. At the University can lead to harassment and Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). tered by pro-Palestinian groups. harassment of Jewish students. of California at Berkeley, cam- sometimes even assault. The IHRA guidelines include It is tragic that the state of Demand that young Jews pus police found a fake bomb Trump’s executive order re- “applying double standards by American universities has de- leaving home for the first time covered with anti-Semitic state- lates to Title VI of the Civil requiring of Israel a behavior generated to the point that Jewish to study at an American uni- ments, including “All Jews f*** Rights Act of 1964, which spe- not expected or demanded of students and groups must look to versity should not have to hide off and evaporate.” cifically denies funding to col- any other democratic nation.” a presidential order for protection their Jewish identity or their Horrifically, during the week leges that do not prevent and/or The anti-Semitic activities on from rampant anti-Semitism. Ap- support for the State of Israel as of national grieving for victims punish perpetrators of discrimi- campuses go beyond the sort of parently, though, this is the only the home of the Jewish people. of the massacre at the Tree of nation or harassment based on incidents that the ADL tallies. way to make cowardly campus Nor should they feel that it is Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, “race, color, or national origin.” At several schools (including administrations sit up and take risky to participate actively in memorials set up at four uni- The new rules extend the list McGill University in Canada), action when their Jewish stu- Jewish-related or pro-Israel ac- versities — the University of to include anti-Semitic actions, student and faculty groups have dents are harassed and made to tivities at institutions that are Tennessee, Pomona College, and clearly state that anti-Zion- tried to eliminate study-abroad feel unwelcome on campus. supposed to be centers of di- Eastern Michigan University ism — that is, the denial of the programs at Israeli universities. All people of goodwill — and versity and free expression. b and Duke University — were Jewish people’s right to a nation At the University of Michigan, a certainly all of those who care © FLAME, via JNS defaced with anti-Semitic graf- in their indigenous home — is professor — based on his advo- about young Jewish students Ken Cohen is editor of Facts fiti and Nazi swastikas. a form of anti-Semitism and cacy of a total academic boycott — should continue to pressure and Logic About the Middle East Nationwide, many meetings thus covered by Title VI. (It also of Israel — refused to write a colleges to take responsibility (FLAME), which publishes educa- and events of Jewish organiza- states that normal criticism of letter of recommendation for a for the well-being of Jewish tional messages to correct lies and tions like Hillel were disrupted particular Israel policies is no Jewish student who wished to students and organizations on misperceptions about Israel and its by raucous protesters, typical- different than, say, critiquing study at the University of Haifa. campus in their communities relationship to the United States. NOTICE OFFORMATION Rochester, NY14618.GeneralPurpose. mail copyofprocessto:9TerrainDrive, process againstitmaybeserved&shall ignated asagentofLLCuponwhom Location: MonroeCounty.SSNYdes State (SSNY)October23,2019.Office Articles of Organization filed Sec’y of activity. 14424 (5)Purpose:Anylawfulactor 5040 SenecaPtRd,Canandaigua,NY copy ofanyprocessagainsttheLLCis: address towhichtheSSNYshallmaila against itmay beserved. The post office as agentoftheLLCuponwhomprocess York. (4)TheSSNYhasbeendesignated to beinOntarioCounty,StateofNew March 8,2017(3)Itsofficelocationis the SecretaryofStateNY(“SSNY”)on nization oftheLLCwerefiledwith LLC (the“LLC”).(2)ArticlesofOrga of State(SOS)on12/17/19.Itsoffice is cles ofOrganizationwiththeSecretary LLC bility company (LLC). Name: LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION business. ford, NY14534.Itspurposeisanylawful Office Park,69BMonroeAvenue,Pitts copy shallbemailedtoVillageGreen process againstitmaybeserved,anda as agentoftheCompanyuponwhom The SecretaryofStateisdesignated Its officeislocatedinMonroeCounty. the NYDepartmentofStateon12/9/19. LLC filedArticlesofOrganizationwith OF LIMITEDLIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION (5) Purpose:Anylawfulactoractivity. 14 FletcherRoad,Pittsford,NY14534 copy ofanyprocessagainsttheLLCis: address towhichtheSSNYshallmaila against itmay beserved. The post office as agentoftheLLCuponwhomprocess York. (4)TheSSNYhasbeendesignated to be in Monroe County, State of New cember 5,2019(3)Itsofficelocationis Secretary ofStateNY(“SSNY”)onDe zation of the LLC were filed with the LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION purpose oftheLLCisanylawfulactivity. Street, Shortsville,NewYork14548. The cess willbemailedtoTheLLC,18Booth may beservedandacopyofanypro as agentuponwhomprocessagainstit Secretary ofStatehasbeendesignated office islocatedinMonroeCounty.The tary ofStateonDecember12,2019.Its Articles ofOrganizationwiththeSecre NOTICE OFFORMATION Purpose: anylawfulactivity. Pepperidge Dr.,Rochester,NY14626. copy ofanyprocesstotheLLCat151 may beserved.TheSSNYshallmaila the LLCuponwhomprocessagainstit SSNY hasbeendesignatedasagentof tion isMonroeCounty,New York. The (“SSNY”) onNov.20,2019.Officeloca filed withtheSecretaryofStateNY ners LLC Company (LLC)isEmeraldPointPart LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION Legal Notices… LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION New York14534 Company, 5 Fletcher Road, Pittsford, shall mail copy of process to c/o the process againstitmaybeserved.SSNY designated asagentofLLCuponwhom fice location:MonroeCounty.SSNY Sec’y ofState(SSNY)on12/06/19.Of- EXCLUSIVE HOMEREPAIRS,LLC NOTICE OFFORMATION Limited LiabilityCompanyLaw. companies maybe organized under the act oractivityforwhichlimitedliability is organizedtoengageinanylawful managed by one or more members. LLC Rochester, NewYork14608.LLCistobe of anysuchprocessto:36KingStreet, may beserved.SSNYshallmailacopy upon whom process against the LLC 14608. SSNYisdesignatedasagent 36 KingStreet,Rochester,NewYork roe County.Principalbusinesslocation: 2019. New York office location: Mon- New York(SSNY)onDecember16, tion filedwithSecretaryofState ningham LLC Page 14•THEJEWISHLEDGERThursday, January23,2020 Notice ofFormation of Notice offormationlimitedlia 204 SaratogaBroadwayPartners, (1) Name: OPPORTUNITY ROCSLLChasfiled The nameoftheLimitedLiability (1) Name: Articles ofOrganizationfiledwith AAA Cedarfield,LLC (the “LLC”).(2)ArticlesofOrgani . Articles of Organization were . ArticlesofOrganizationwere Place & Place Properties Place &Properties Chesire CatOutfitters . Articles of Organiza hasfiledArti- KraPala LLC 9 Cun ------. Liability Company(“LLC”) Notice ofFormationLimited lawful purpose. Dover, Delaware19901.Purpose:Any of State,401FederalStreet,Suite4, tion onfilewithDelawareSecretary 19901. CopyofCertificateForma State Street,SuiteB,Dover,Delaware jurisdiction offormation:1675South 14604. Addressofofficemaintainedin Bausch &LombPlace,Rochester,NY, mail copyofprocesstoTheLLC,1900 against itmaybeserved.SSNYshall as agentofLLCuponwhomprocess tion: MonroeCounty.SSNYdesignated in Delaware: 12/04/2019.NY officeloca State (SSNY):12/06/2019.LLCorganized Authority filed with NY Secretary of OF CEAHOLDINGSILLC APPLICATION FORAUTHORITY NOTICE OFFILING purpose. ter, NY14618.(3)Purpose:Anylawful to theLLC,91KnollwoodDrive,Roches and acopyofanyprocesswill be mailed whom processagainstitmaybeserved has been designated as agent upon County, NY.(2)TheSecretaryofState (1) ItsprincipalofficeisinMonroe Organization withNYSon12/18/2019. SCRE LENDING,LLC NOTICE OFFORMATION Limited LiabilityCompanyLaw. companies maybe organized under the act oractivityforwhichlimitedliability is organizedtoengageinanylawful managed by one or more members. LLC Trail, Webster,NY14580.LLCistobe of anysuchprocessto:300Hemlock may beserved.SSNYshallmailacopy upon whom process against the LLC County. SSNYisdesignatedasagent 2019. NewYorkofficelocation:Monroe of NewYork(SSNY)onDecember19, nization filedwithSecretaryofState Named GennyLLC ability company(LLC).Name: LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION may beformed. for whichlimitedliabilitycompanies to engageinanylawfulactoractivity 14580 ThepurposeoftheCompanyis 616 HoltRoad,Webster,NewYork shall mailacopyofanysuchprocess dress towhichtheSecretaryofState against itmaybeserved,andthead process inanyactionorproceeding the agentofCompanyuponwhom York Secretary of State is designated as of Monroe,StateNewYork.The of the Companyis located in the County State onDecember17,2019.Theoffice filed withtheNewYorkSecretaryof LLC. TheArticlesofOrganizationwere Company is 252 DAVIDPARKWAYLLC LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION lawful activity. 14580. ThepurposeoftheLLCisany 1540 SchlegelRoad,Webster,NewYork any processwillbemailedtoTheLLC, against itmaybeservedandacopyof ignated asagentuponwhomprocess The SecretaryofStatehasbeendes office islocatedinMonroeCounty. of StateonDecember16,2019.Its cles ofOrganizationwiththeSecretary NOTICE OFFORMATION 109, Rochester,NY14623 process to:10CountyFairDrive,Apt. served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any upon whomprocessagainstitmaybe been designatedasagentoftheLLC of StatetheNewYorkhas all lawfulactoractivity.TheSecretary Rochester, NY14623.Purpose:anyand Location: 10CountyFairDrive,Apt.109, County of:Monroe.PrincipalBusiness Drive, Apt.109,Rochester,NY14623 2019. OfficeLocation:10CountyFair New York(“SSNY”)on:November4, Secretary ofStatewiththe Articles ofOrganizationfiledwiththe Liability Company(“LLC”) Notice ofFormationLimited lawful activity. 14612. ThepurposeoftheLLCisany The LLC,244KirkRd,Rochester,NY copy ofanyprocesswillbemailedto process againstitmaybeservedanda been designated as agent upon whom located inMonroeCounty.TheSOShas ticles ofOrganizationfiledwith the Name: Name: SCRE LENDING,LLCfiled Articles of Notice offormationlimitedli The nameoftheLimitedLiability THE OPETTTEAMLLC Name: Foxy EnterprisesLLC CEA HoldingsILLC MASIV Enterprises,LLC 252 DAVID PARKWAY . ArticlesofOrga- has filed Arti A Girl (LLC). . Ar------. process againstitmaybeservedanda as agentoftheCompanyuponwhom Secretary ofStatehasbeendesignated office islocatedinMonroeCounty.The Department of State on 12/20/2019. Its of OrganizationwiththeNewYork NOTICE OFFORMATION New York14612 Long Pond Road, Suite 2, Rochester, shall mail a copy of any processto:496 process againstitmaybeserved.SSNY nated as agent of the LLC upon whom the StateofNewYorkhasbeendesig act oractivity.TheSecretaryofState York 14612. Purpose: any and all lawful Pond Road,Suite2,Rochester,New Principal BusinessLocation:496Long Office Location:Countyof:Monroe. New York(“SSNY”)on:January1,2020. Secretary ofStatewiththe ticles ofOrganizationfiledwiththe Liability Company(“LLC”) Notice ofFormationLimited purpose of the LLC is any lawful activity. Avenue DRochester,NY14621.The to DistinguishedRealEstateLLC,821 and acopyofanyprocesswill be mailed whom processagainstitmaybeserved has been designated as agent upon Monroe County.TheSecretaryofState 10/22/2019. The office is located in filed ArticlesofOrganizationon NOTICE OFFORMATION the LLCisanylawfulactivity. ford, NewYork14534.Thepurposeof Pittsford VictorRoad,Suite200,Pitts- process willbemailedtoTheLLC,1080 it maybeservedandacopyofany as agentuponwhomprocessagainst retary ofStatehasbeendesignated is locatedinMonroeCounty.TheSec State onDecember26,2019.Itsoffice of OrganizationwiththeSecretary NOTICE OFFORMATION lawful business. Fairport, NY14450.Itspurposeisany copy shall be mailed to 7 Chantilly Lane, process againstitmaybeserved,anda as agentoftheCompanyuponwhom The SecretaryofStateisdesignated office islocatedinMonroeCounty. Department ofStateon12/11/19.Its Articles ofOrganizationwiththeNY LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION purpose isanylawfulbusiness. nue, Suite100,Rochester,NY14607.Its copy shallbemailedto973EastAve process againstitmaybeserved,anda as agentoftheCompanyuponwhom The SecretaryofStateisdesignated office islocatedinMonroeCounty. Department ofStateon12/19/19.Its Articles ofOrganizationwiththeNY LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY NOTICE OFFORMATION lawful purpose. Rochester, NY14606.(3)Purpose:Any to theLLC,1001LexingtonAvenue, and acopyofanyprocesswill be mailed whom processagainstitmaybeserved has been designated as agent upon County, NY.(2)TheSecretaryofState (1) ItsprincipalofficeisinMonroe Organization withNYSon12/12/2019. LFS PANORAMAILLC NOTICE OFFORMATION lawful purpose. Rochester, NY14618.(3)Purpose:Any mailed totheLLC,221MonteroyRoad, served andacopyofanyprocesswillbe upon whomprocessagainstitmaybe of State hasbeendesignated as agent Monroe County,NY.(2)TheSecretary 12/10/2019. (1)Itsprincipalofficeisin Articles ofOrganizationwithNYSon COORDINATED PLANFP,LLC NOTICE OFFORMATION Rochester, NY14626 of anyprocessto:126DaffodilTrail, may beserved.SSNYshallmailacopy the LLCuponwhomprocessagainstit York hasbeendesignatedasagentof Secretary ofStatetheNew any andalllawfulactoractivity.The Trail, Rochester,NY14626.Purpose: Principal BusinessLocation:126Daffodil Office Location:Countyof:Monroe. York (“SSNY”)on:December20,2019. Secretary ofStatewiththeNew WOOD NMUSICLLCfiledArticles Name: Distinguished RealEstateLLC GL ANALYTICSLLC TEAMSynergy Solutions,LLC Quatela Medical Spa, LLC LFS PanoramaILLC Coordinated PlanFP,LLC La RinnovaSalon,LLC.Ar- has filed Articles hasfiledArticles filed Articles of filedArticlesof filed filed filed filed - - -

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Current Issues … Israeli Defense Minister Bars Radical Leftists from Judea and Samaria by ARIEL KAHANA “Orders of this type have plaint submitted by Zionist Israeli Defense Minister Naf- so far only been issued in the organization Ad Kan that doc- tali Bennett on Saturday is- Jewish public against ‘price- umented his participation in a sued restraining orders barring tag’ activists, and will now number violent riots against members of a radical left-wing also be directed against anar- Israeli soldiers. group from Judea and Samaria. chist activists on the left,” said “No one was the right to Activists with a group called Bennett’s office in a statement. harm IDF soldiers and Isra- “Anarchists Against the Wall” (“Price tag” refers to acts of el’s security in the name of — an anti-Zionist movement vandalism by Jewish radicals freedom of expression and the founded in 2003 to protest Is- against Palestinians in the right to protest. The time has rael’s security barrier — have West Bank.) come to stop the cheap prov- been instigating “violent prov- The restraining order will ocations by these same anar- ocations” each week in a num- apply to Jonathan Pollak, the chists and take a strong hand ber of Palestinian villages, said group’s founder and a longtime against internal enemies,” the Bennett, adding that there was campaigner against Israel’s pol- statement said. evidence that the alleged vi- icies in Judea and Samaria, as Israeli troops deployed in the olence was aimed at harm- well as to 30 other activists. area have also been instructed ing Israeli soldiers, damaging Pollak, who currently works to “act firmly” against any vi- property and causing “serious for Israel’s left-wing Haaretz olence by the group, according public-relations damage” to the newspaper, was arrested two to the statement. b Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett presents his party list to the election country. weeks ago following a com- ©Israel Hayom committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Jan. 15. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Legal Notices … NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New York 14624 COUNTY OF FORMA- business street address is 477 Spencer- (4) The SSNY has been designated as Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on De- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY TION: Monroe PURPOSE: To engage in port Road, Rochester, New York 14606. agent of the LLC upon whom process cember 20, 2019 (3) Its office location is Adiantum, LLC filed Articles of any lawful act or activity. SSNY is designated as the agent of the against it may be served. The post to be in Ontario County, State of New Company upon whom process in any office address to which the SSNY shall Organization with the NY Department LEGAL NOTICE York. (4) The SSNY has been designat- of State on 12/31/2019. Its office is lo- action or proceeding against it may mail a copy of any process against the ed as agent of the LLC upon whom Notice of Formation of LPU1213, LLC is: 195 San Gabriel Drive, Rochester, cated in Monroe County. The Secretary be served, and the address to which process against it may be served. The LLC a domestic Limited Liability Com- the Secretary of State shall mail a copy NY 14610 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act of State is designated as agent of the post office address to which the SSNY pany (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the of any such process is 477 Spencerport or activity. Company upon whom process against SSNY January 3, 2020. Office location: Road, Rochester, New York 14606. The shall mail a copy of any process against LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF it may be served, and a copy shall be 2300 Buffalo Road, Building 100A, purpose of the LLC is to engage in any the LLC is: 784 Old Dutch Road, Victor, mailed to P.O. Box 447, Honeoye Falls, Rochester, New York 14624 SSNY is FORMATION OF LIMITED NY 14564 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act lawful act or activity for which limited LIABILITY COMPANY NY 14472. Its purpose is any lawful designated agent upon whom process or activity. liability companies may be formed. The name of the Limited Liability business. against the LLC may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Company is Abundant Solar Power NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEGAL NOTICE to The Company 2300 Buffalo Road, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (CNY) LLC. The Articles of Organi- BUFFALO ROAD LAND LLC Notice of Formation of South Clin- Building 100A, Rochester, New York The name of the Limited Liability zation were filed with the New York Buffalo Road Land LLC filed Ar- ton Housepitality, LLC a domestic 14624 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Mon- Company is Savastano’s 1974 LLC. Secretary of State on January 9, 2020. ticles of Organization with NYS on The office of the Company is located Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. roe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful Articles of Organization were filed 01/10/2020. (1) Its principal office is in with the Secretary of State of New in the County of Monroe, State of New of Org. filed with the SSNY October act or activity. Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary York (SSNY) on December 17, 2019. The York. The New York Secretary of State of State has been designated as agent 3, 2019. Office location: 75 Marshal NOTICE OF FORMATION OF office of the LLC is located in Monroe is designated as the agent of the Com- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY upon whom process against it may be Street, Rochester, New York 14607 County. The business street address is pany upon whom process in any action SSNY is designated agent upon whom (Under Section 206 of the Limited 477 Spencerport Road, Rochester, New or proceeding against it may be served, served and a copy of any process will process against the LLC may be served. Liability Company Law) 1. The name of York 14606. SSNY is designated as the and the address to which the Secretary be mailed to the LLC, 259 Alexander The SSNY shall mail a copy of any the limited liability company is Peer- agent of the Company upon whom of State shall mail a copy of process in Street, Rochester, NY 14607. (3) Pur- process to The Company 75 Marshall less Avenue Managing Member, process in any action or proceeding any action or proceeding against the pose: Any lawful purpose. LLC (the “Company”). 2. The Articles Street, Rochester, New York 14607 against it may be served, and the ad- Company served upon him or her is 700 of Organization of the Company were NOTICE OF FORMATION COUNTY OF FORMATION: Monroe PUR- dress to which the Secretary of State W Metro Park, Rochester, New York filed with the Secretary of State of the 15 PENN LLC has filed Articles of Or- POSE: To engage in any lawful act or shall mail a copy of any such process is 14623. The purpose of the business is State of New York on January 8, 2020. any lawful business. ganization with the Secretary of State activity. 477 Spencerport Road, Rochester, New 3. The office of the Company within on January 14, 2020. Its office is located York 14606. The purpose of the LLC is NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEGAL NOTICE the State of New York is in the County to engage in any lawful act or activity in Monroe County. The Secretary of of Monroe. 4. The Secretary of State LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Dream Rich, for which limited liability companies State has been designated as agent of the State of New York is hereby (1) Name: CMB Auto LLC (the may be formed. upon whom process against it may be LLC a domestic Limited Liability Com- designated as agent of the Company “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of served and a copy of any process will pany (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the for the purpose of service of process. NOTICE OF FORMATION the LLC were filed with the Secretary of SSNY October 18, 2019. Office location: The address to which the Secretary of P & S Real Property LLC has filed State NY (“SSNY”) on January 8, 2020 be mailed to The LLC, 1080 Pittsford 156 Donovan Street, Webster, New State shall mail a copy of any process Articles of Organization with the Sec- (3) Its office location is to be in Monroe Victor Road, Suite 200, Pittsford, New York SSNY is designated agent upon against the Company serviced upon retary of State on January 8, 2020. Its County, State of New York. (4) The York 14534. The purpose of the LLC is whom process against the LLC may him or her is 1000 University Avenue, office is located in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of any lawful activity. be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy Suite 500, Rochester, New York 14607. The Secretary of State has been des- the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address NOTICE OF FORMATION of any process to Maurice Sinkler 156 5. The character and purpose of the ignated as agent upon whom process to which the SSNY shall mail a copy 3D CAMPAIGN LLC Donovan Street, Webster, New York business of the Company shall be to against it may be served and a copy of of any process against the LLC is: 35 Articles of Organization filed with 14580 COUNTY OF FORMATION: Mon- act as managing member or general any process will be mailed to The LLC, partner of an entity that will own real 19 Mount Avenue, Providence, Rhode Green Acre Lane, Rochester, NY 14624 Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office roe PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful estate and any other purpose permit- Island 02906. The purpose of the LLC is (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. location: Monroe County. SSNY des- act or activity. ted by New York law. any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of Formation of Veneto LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (1) Name: Self Storage Logistics shall mail copy of process to c/o the Westside, LLC a domestic Limited Lia- The name of the Limited Liability Notice of formation of limited liabil- LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organi- Company, 144 Guinevere Drive, Roch- bility Company (LLC). Art. of Org. filed Company is Savastano’s Catering ity company (LLC). Name: 1776 Lake, zation of the LLC were filed with the ester, New York 14626 with the SSNY December 2, 2019. Office LLC. Articles of Organization were LLC. Articles of Organization filed with location: 45 North Plymouth Avenue, filed with the Secretary of State of New Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) Rochester, New York 14614 SSNY is York (SSNY) on December 30, 2019. The on January 10, 2020. New York office Authorized to Publish designated agent upon whom process office of the LLC is located in Monroe location: Monroe County. Principal against the LLC may be served. The County. The business street address is 6 business location: 36 King Street, Roch- Ann Marie Drive, Rochester, New York ester, New York 14608. SSNY is desig- LEGAL NOTICES SSNY shall mail a copy of any process 14606. SSNY is designated as the agent nated as agent upon whom process to Julie Swartz 45 North Plymouth Ave- of the Company upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY in Monroe, Ontario, nue, Rochester, New York 14614 COUN- in any action or proceeding against shall mail a copy of any such process Genesee and Orleans TY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: it may be served, and the address to to: 36 King Street, Rochester, New a To engage in any lawful act or activity. which the Secretary of State shall mail a York 14608. LLC is to be managed by Counties. copy of any such process is 6 Ann Marie one or more members. LLC is organized LEGAL NOTICE Drive, Rochester, New York 14606. The to engage in any lawful act or activity Notice of Formation of Victor Vic- purpose of the LLC is to engage in any for which limited liability companies toria Israel, LLC a domestic Limited lawful act or activity for which limited may be organized under the Limited Liability Company (LLC). Art. of Org. liability companies may be formed. Liability Company Law. filed with the SSNY January 3, 2020. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Office location: 2300 Buffalo Road, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Building 100A, Rochester, New York The name of the Limited Liability (1) Name: Dooley Enterprises LLC 14624 SSNY is designated agent upon Company is SAV4 LLC. Articles of Or- (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization 427-2468 whom process against the LLC may be ganization were filed with the Secre- of the LLC were filed with the Secretary served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of tary of State of New York (SSNY) on of State NY (“SSNY”) on December 24, any process to The Company 2300 Buf- December 17, 2019. The office of the 2019 (3) Its office location is to be in [email protected] falo Road, Building 100A, Rochester, LLC is located in Monroe County. The Monroe County, State of New York. Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020

World … Iranian Parliament Member Puts $3 Million Bounty on Trump’s Head (JNS) — An Iranian lawmaker It was unclear if the reward unconventional warheads on has announced a $3 million was officially supported by the our agenda. This is our natural reward for the assassination of regime. right.” U.S. President Donald Trump, The lawmaker also called for On Monday, Iranian Foreign Reuters reported on Tuesday. the production of long-range Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Addressing the Iranian par- missiles capable of delivering said Tehran would not take any liament, Iranian parliament “unconventional warheads,” more steps to reduce its commit- member Ahmad Hamzeh said, calling it Iran’s “natural right.” ments to the 2015 nuclear deal, “On behalf of the people of “If we had nuclear weapons but that if the Europeans contin- Kerman province, we will pay today, we would be protected ued their “improper behavior” a $3 million reward in cash to from threats. …We should put with respect to Iran, it would whoever kills Trump,” accord- the production of long-range withdraw from the Non-Prolif- U.S. President Donald Trump, June 20, 2019. (White House Photo) ing to the report. missiles capable of carrying eration Treaty (NPT). b History … Survivor Stories Spotlight Auschwitz Liberation Anniversary

by ARON HELLER orative photo project that Is- in violence against Jews and renowned for his ‘hyper-de- Birkenau death camp in gas JERUSALEM (AP) — Shortly rael’s Yad Vashem Holocaust in a climate in which a survey tailed close ups’ of celebrities, chambers or from starvation, before they were rounded up memorial produced along showed that 80% of European took a series of intimate por- disease and forced labor in the by Nazi troops in Belgium and with award-winning German Jews said they felt unsafe in traits of the 75 survivors that meticulous Nazi effort to rid deported to Auschwitz in 1942, portrait photographer Martin the continent. Tel Aviv Univer- highlighted their weathered Europe of its Jews. Overall, the the parents of three-year-old Schoeller. sity researchers reported last faces. Among those he bonded Holocaust claimed 6 million Maurice Gluck placed their only The exhibition, opening Tues- year that violent attacks against with during the photo shoots Jewish lives, wiping out a third child in the care of a local Chris- day before German Chancellor Jews grew significantly in 2018, was Gluck, today an 80-year-old of world Jewry. tian family. Gluck forgot his Angela Merkel at the Ruhr Mu- with the largest reported num- retired diamond merchant who When Sara’s sister Helen also Yiddish mother tongue and that seum in Essen, is just one of ber of Jews killed in anti-Semit- lives in northern Israel. emerged from the camp, she he even had parents of his own. the various events marking the ic acts in decades. They record- Gluck’s own life story is di- was determined to track down After the war, his devastated anniversary and commemorat- ed 400 cases, with the spike rectly connected to Auschwitz, her nephew and raise him as father came to claim him and ing its victims as the notorious most dramatic in western Eu- the notorious Nazi death camp her own. She eventually mar- several months later he was in- camp’s few and aging survivors rope. In Germany, for instance, whose very name has become ried Gluck’s father, moved with troduced to a weeping woman slowly disappear. Yad Vashem there was a 70% increase in almost synonymous with the him to Israel and they had two who showered him with hugs is also unveiling its online iRe- anti-Semitic violence. In ad- Holocaust. other children together. Only and kisses. member Wall, a six-language dition to the shooting attacks, His parents were captured at Gluck’s bar mitzvah, when “My father said: ‘Look interactive platform linking assaults and vandalism, the and sent there shortly after according to Jewish tradition Maurice, this is your mother, users to the memorial’s vast research also noted increased the Van den Stock family of he became a man, did she tell Helen,”’ he recalled. database of victims. anti-Semitic vitriol online and Brussels took him in and shel- him the truth. Only years later, did Gluck The main ceremony will be in newspapers, as extremist tered him for three years. They “I ran away and cried all discover that his birth mother the World Holocaust Forum political parties grew in power were later recognized by Israel night,” recalled Gluck, now a had actually perished along on Thursday, in which doz- in several countries. for their actions as Righteous grandfather of 10. “But in the with more than a million other ens of world leaders will ar- “I grew up with this incred- Among the Nations, the coun- morning, I went back to her Jews in the Auschwitz death rive in Jerusalem for the larg- ible sense of guilt and shock, try’s highest honor for non-Jews and told her that it didn’t mat- camp. Helen was in fact his est-ever gathering focused on which led me to question my who risked their lives to save ter. She would always be my aunt. commemorating the genocide own identity. How could peo- Jews. Their descendants main- mother.” “She discovered that her sis- and combating modern-day ple from my country commit tain a relationship to this day Despite the early life trauma, ter had died so she looked for anti-Semitism. Russian Pres- these horrendous crimes?” said with Gluck and his children. Gluck said he considers himself ways to find me immediately,” ident Vladimir Putin, French Schoeller, explaining the im- Gluck’s father, Eugene, sur- among the lucky ones since he Gluck explained, choking back President Emmanuel Macron, petus for the photo project. “It vived a series of camps and was raised with love. tears. “She was my only mother Prince Charles of England and is very scary to see what is the notorious “Death March” “Do not forget but try to for- and will always be my mother.” the presidents of Germany, Italy happening in Europe right now, out of Auschwitz in its waning give,” he said of his lessons Seventy-five years after Aus- and Austria are among the that anti-Semitism has come days. His wife Sara died there from the Holocaust. “In this chwitz was liberated, Gluck more than 40 dignitaries who back so strongly.” in 1943, among more than 1.1 world there are good people is one of 75 Holocaust survi- will be attending the event. Schoeller, a former assistant million Jews who were killed and bad people. Try to find the vors featured in a commem- It comes amid a global spike to Annie Leibovitz who is also in Auschwitz and the adjacent good ones.” b Legal Notices … Notice of formation of Its principal office is in Monroe Coun- of any process shall be mailed to THE NOTICE OF FORMATION and a Biennial Statement was filed on limited liability company ty, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has LLC, 4538 SEWEDN WALKER ROAD, JUG CAPITAL, LLC has filed an Ap- December 13, 2019. Its office is located Name: Blue Nile Capital, LLC (the been designated as agent upon whom BROCKPORT, NY 14420. The purpose plication for Authority (For LLC) with in Monroe County. The Secretary of Company). Article of Organization process against it may be served and the Secretary of State on May 8, 2018. of the Company is any lawful purpose. State has been designated as agent filed with Secretary of State of NY a copy of any process will be mailed Its office is located in Monroe County. (SSNY) on 12/20/2019. NY office loca- to the LLC, 174 Hurstbourne Road, NOTICE OF FORMATION The Secretary of State has been des- upon whom process against it may be tion: Monroe County. SSNY is desig- Rochester, NY 14609. (3) Purpose: Any RETIREMENT OPTIMIZATION ignated as agent upon whom process served and a copy of any process will nated as agent upon whom process lawful purpose. GROUP HC LLC against it may be served and a copy of be mailed to The LLC, 2140 S. Dupont against the Company may be served. Articles of Organization filed with any process will be mailed to The LLC, NOTICE OF FORMATION Highway, Camden, Delaware 19934. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/20. Office 588 Sutter Street #532, San Francisco, process to: c/o the Company, 3177 JOHNSON MARWAY The purpose of the LLC is any lawful HOLDINGS, LLC location: Monroe County. SSNY des- CA 94102. The purpose of the LLC is Latta Rd STE 228, Rochester, NY 14612. activity. ignated as agent of LLC upon whom any lawful activity. The Company is to be managed by Articles of Organization filed with one or more managers. No members Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/13/20. Office process against it may be served. SSNY NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION of the Company shall be liable in their location: Monroe County. SSNY des- shall mail copy of process to c/o the 580 Child Street LLC filed Articles JEN-TRE-LEE STORAGE, LLC has ignated as agent of LLC upon whom capacity as members of the Company Company, 140A Metro Park, Suite #18, of Organization with the New York filed an Application for Authority process against it may be served. SSNY Rochester, New York 14623 Department of State on 1/16/2020. Its for debts, obligations or liabilities with the Secretary of State on April of the Company. No member of the shall mail copy of process to c/o the office is located in Monroe County. Company, solely by reason of being a Company, 665 Phelps Road, Honeoye NOTICE OF FORMATION The Secretary of State has been desig- 30, 2013 and a Biennial Statement was member, is an agent of the Company Falls, New York 14472 RETIREMENT OPTIMIZATION nated as agent of the Company upon filed on December 13, 2019. Its office GROUP A LLC whom process against it may be served for the purpose of its business, and no NOTICE OF FORMATION is located in Monroe County. The Sec- Articles of Organization filed with and a copy of any process shall be member shall have authority to act for AA FENCING LLC (the “LLC”) filed retary of State has been designated as the Company solely by virtue of being Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/20. Office mailed to 580 Child Street, Rochester Articles of Organization with the New agent upon whom process against it a member. Purpose/character of the location: Monroe County. SSNY des- NY 14606. The purpose of the Compa- York Department of State on DECEM- Company: any and all lawful activities. ignated as agent of LLC upon whom ny is any lawful purpose. may be served and a copy of any pro- BER 2, 2019. Its office is located in cess will be mailed to The LLC, 2140 S. NOTICE OF FORMATION MONROE County. The Secretary of process against it may be served. SSNY NOTICE OF FORMATION OF JMTINNEY LLC State has been designated as agent shall mail copy of process to c/o the TLJ STORAGE LLC has filed an Dupont Highway, Camden, Delaware JMTinney LLC filed Articles of Or- of the Company upon whom process Company, 140A Metro Park, Suite #18, Application for Authority with the 19934. The purpose of the LLC is any ganization with NYS on 01/08/2020. (1) against it may be served and a copy Rochester, New York 14623 Secretary of State on April 30, 2013 lawful activity.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 17

World … Netanyahu Tries to Rally Opposition to ICC Case JERUSALEM (AP) — Israe- Strip as well as Israeli settle- hu praised President Donald “They’re basically in a full table” and “without merit.” li Prime Minister Benjamin ment construction in the West Trump for criticizing the ICC frontal attack on the democra- The TBN interview came Netanyahu is calling on the Bank. She has asked the court and called on others to follow cies, both on the democracies’ ahead of a gathering in Je- world to take “concrete ac- to determine whether she has suit. right to defend themselves, rusalem on Thursday where tions” against the Internation- territorial jurisdiction before “I think that everybody and on Israel’s right, the Jew- dozens of world leaders are al Criminal Court ahead of proceeding with the case. should rise up against this,” ish people’s right, to live in to commemorate the 75th an- a possible war-crimes case Israel, which is not a mem- he said, according to excerpts their ancestral homeland, the niversary of the liberation of against Israel. ber of the ICC, has said the released by his office. “I urge Land of Israel,” he said. the Nazis’ Auschwitz death The ICC’s chief prosecu- court has no jurisdiction and all your viewers to do the There was no immediate re- camp and to speak out against tor, Fatou Bensouda, said accused Bensouda of being same and to ask for concrete action from Bensouda. But in anti-Semitism. last month that there was a driven by anti-Semitism. actions, sanctions against the a recent interview, she told the Netanyahu is expected to “reasonable basis” to open a In an interview with the international court, its offi- Israeli news site Times of Israel use the gathering to try to rally war crimes probe into Israeli Christian network TBN to be cials, its prosecutors, every- that accusing her of anti-Sem- international opposition to the military actions in the Gaza aired later Tuesday, Netanya- one.” itism was “particularly regret- ICC case against Israel. b

Pro-Israel Groups (Continued from Page 3) ian Prisoner Solidarity Network educational environment for continue to make clear that hate ference there, numerous studies white supremacy; and engage — also have problematic ties. students on campus.” directed against any group, in- by her group have shown that in sustained campaigns of def- In particular, Samidoun is a Avi Gordon, executive di- cluding Jewish students and universities with SJP chapters amation, marginalization and proxy of PFLP, and its coordina- rector of Alums for Campus their allies, will not be tolerat- are more prone to acts of ag- harassment against presumed tor, Khaled Barakat, is a senior Fairness, told JNS that the con- ed,” said Gordon. gression against Jewish and pro-Israel students,” according PFLP member and head of its ference threatens to create a Hali Haber, director of cam- pro-Israel students. to Rossman-Benjamin. foreign-operations department. “discriminatory environment” pus programming and strategic “Every one of our studies has “These behaviors time and at Michigan. relationships with CAMERA, found that schools with SJP again deprive Jewish and ‘A worrying example He said it is “a worrying ex- said the campus has become a chapters are about seven times pro-Israel students of their free- of bigotry’ ample of bigotry taking place hostile environment for pro-Is- more likely to have acts of ag- dom of speech, assembly and Roz Rothstein, co-founder and follows incidents last ac- rael students. gression targeting Jewish and association,” she continued, and CEO of StandWithUs, told ademic year in which two in- “For many years, and es- pro-Israel students, including “and deny them access to a JNS that her organization is structors refused to write letters pecially since the University assault, harassment, suppres- campus safe from harassment.” “deeply concerned” about the of recommendation for students of Michigan’s student govern- sion of speech and destruc- As such, Rossman-Benjamin event, and in particular, its key- solely because they decided to ment passed a BDS resolution tion of property. And the guilty stopped short of calling for the note speaker, Hatem Bazian, study abroad in Israel.” in 2017, Ann Arbor has been a party behind many of these conference to be canceled, but who “has a long record of vi- In November 2018, John hotbed for anti-Israel activity. incidents is SJP — both mem- warned the school of possible cious anti-Semitism.” Cheney-Lippold, an associate Students for Justice in Pales- bers and the group as a whole,” repercussions. Rothstein said that “his orga- professor in the university’s tine and their affiliates prop- she said. “The University of Michigan nization, which is sponsoring American culture department, agate misinformation, white- SJP students across the coun- should make clear to SJP and the conference, has denied the refused to write a letter of rec- wash the threat of terrorism try routinely disrupt and shut all its students that while an- Armenian genocide, spread ho- ommendation for a student — against Israel and advocate for down events organized by Jew- ti-Zionist speech is protected mophobia and expressed sup- citing support for BDS — after the dissolution of the world’s ish and pro-Israel students; van- under the First Amendment, the port for terrorist groups. The initially agreeing to do so. The only Jewish state,” she said. dalize pro-Israel fliers, displays intolerant behavior such rhetoric University of Michigan must University of Michigan later de- Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, and student property; denigrate often incites will not be tolerated unequivocally condemn this nounced the professor’s actions AMCHA Initiative co-founder Jewish and pro-Israel student under any circumstances and, if hate and make clear what steps and sanctioned him. and director, told JNS that while groups with spurious charges those behaviors occur, serious they will take to ensure a safe “The administration must SJP has the right to hold its con- of racism, Islamophobia and consequences will result.” b Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC member of the Company, solely York (SSNY) on January 22, 2020. virtue of being a member. Pur- Townline Road, Suite B, Roches- Whitney Baird Phase 3, LLC by reason of being a member, is New York office location: Monroe pose/character of the Company: ter, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful has filed Articles of Organiza- an agent of the Company for the County. SSNY is designated as any and all lawful activities. purpose. tion with the NY Secy of State on purpose of its business, and no agent upon whom process against NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION 1.9.20. Its principal place of busi- member shall have the authority the LLC may be served. SSNY shall LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY to act for the Company solely by 47 LEAVENWORTH LLC has ness is 205 St. Paul St., Rochester, The name of the Limited Liabil- virtue of being a member. Pur- mail a copy of any such process filed Articles of Organization with NY in Monroe County. 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Name: JG As- Notice of formation of lim- County. SSNY designated as agent cess against the Company may be sociates Group LLC (the Com- NOTICE OF FORMATION ited liability company. Name: of LLC upon whom process against served. SSNY shall mail a copy of FBMTRDB LLC (the Company). pany). Articles of Organization ESCHER ENTERPRISES, LLC it may be served. SSNY shall mail any such process to: c/o the LLC, Articles of Organization filed Articles of Organization filed with filed with Secretary of State of copy of process to c/o the Com- 1726 Long Pond Road, Rochester, with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on pany, 111 Knickerbocker Road, New York. The Company is to be NY (SSNY) on 01/07/20. NY office 1/17/20. Office location: Monroe 12/09/19. NY office location: Mon- Pittsford, New York 14534 managed by one or more mem- location: Monroe County. SSNY is County. SSNY designated as agent roe County. SSNY is designated as NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION bers. 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NY OF ZEGA, LLC by one or more managers. No the Company for the purpose of pany is to be managed by one or office location: Monroe County. ZEGA, LLC filed Articles of Or- members of the Company shall be its business, and no member shall more managers. No members of SSNY is designated as agent upon liable in their capacity as members have the authority to act for the ganization with NYS on Octo- whom process against the Compa- the Company shall be liable in of the Company for debts, obliga- Company solely by virtue of being ber 30, 2019. Its principal office ny may be served. SSNY shall mail their capacity as members of the tions or liabilities of the Company. a member. 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Culture … Why Intersectionality Fails the Jews by BATSHEVA NEUER barred from exclusive hotels, supremacy unless he or she is the Idaho Press that “the only Jew is not only powerful but NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty unwelcome in select restau- against the Jewish state. way to challenge Jewish power hyper powerful. He is not only years ago, Kimberlé Crenshaw rants, country clubs and even Although Sarsour tried walk- in this country is with local exploitative and manipulative coined the term intersectional- neighborhoods, and restricted ing back her word choice, the elections.” He also said that but the arch puppeteer, con- ity as a way to help explain the by elite universities that had a linking of white supremacism the “top priority” for the Jewish trolling world affairs. oppression of African-American “Jewish problem” (i.e too many to Israel — a country that is people is to displace white peo- While intersectionality can women. The theory of how dif- Jews), forcing them to limit distinctively Jewish — was in- ple specifically, adding that the be a valuable tool, it has been ferent forms of discrimination Jewish registration by imple- tentional. White supremacism Jews control the media, enter- ineffective in the case of “white interact is a useful tool to rec- menting quotas. is an acceptable identifier — tainment industry and politics. Jews.” The result is a dangerous ognize the way privilege and It is nearly impossible to even if it obfuscates the Jewish Along these same lines on the distortion of the Jewish experi- oppression overlap. It can serve imagine that any other group experience and demographic left, British Parliament member ence — its history, diversity and to challenge notions about op- who had one out of every three reality — whereas Jewish su- Angela Ormerod of the Labour challenges. pressions and hierarchies, class of its members wiped out in a premacism sounds reactionary Party was suspended in 2018 Although Jewish skin comes struggles and racial divides. six-year span would be consid- and bigoted. after a tweeting that “Jews con- in every shade — reflecting the But the recent spate of an- ered privileged. This narrative, The discourse associating trol media.” diversity of a people that spans ti-Semitism in New York com- however, is facilitated by the Jews with power based on their From ancient through medi- the globe and is all at once an pels us to ask if it also has its absorption of Jewishness into perceived whiteness is partic- eval times, the fear of a secret ethnicity, nation and religion — demons. whiteness, which is both an ularly threatening given the Jewish conspiracy to dominate some of its whitest members en- Identifying Jews as white in erasure of Jewish ethnicity and centrality of the myth of Jewish both the economy and govern- dured a genocidal program that the context of American history misrepresentation of the dy- hegemonic pursuit in the reper- ment was used to justify an- prompted the world to proclaim is not only a perversion of the namic Jewish identity. toire of historic anti-Semitism. ti-Semitic violence. Later, the Never Again. Jewish past but a denial of its Jewishness as whiteness ob- As law professor David Nazis capitalized on old Chris- An intersectional approach peoplehood. In American pol- scures the unique and often Schraub notes: “The Whiteness tian themes of secret Jewish can prove useful only if the two itics, white implies one who is oppressed experiences of Jews, of the Jewish figure served to dominance to propagandize identities are separated and if a beneficiary of the past 500 including those of Sephardic, cleanse, even validate, argu- and mobilize support for their the Jewish experience is artic- years of European exploration Arab, African or Middle Eastern ments that otherwise would Jewish liquidation program. ulated rather than subsumed or and exploitation. It is identified descent. It also accentuates and reek in their anti-Semitic fa- Today, that fear has been ex- dismissed. Fighting anti-Semi- with control, dominance and accelerates anti-Semitic tropes miliarity.” panded by modern anti-Semites tism will begin when the com- exclusivity — hardly accurate based on Jewish power. In fact, a perceived all-en- to the point of caricature to in- plexity of Jewish experience is characteristics of Jewish history. The subsuming of Jewishness compassing Jewish power, or clude the media, global markets properly portrayed rather than While in the past 50 years into whiteness was displayed cabal, is one of the few tropes and geopolitical stability. lost in skin color. b American Jews have enjoyed recently by Linda Sarsour, who that unites extremists on the Framed according to this The views and opinions ex- privileges associated with hi- was filmed one month ago say- right and left. In November, trope, a paradox develops: Not pressed in this article are those erarchical whiteness, only a ing that Israel was “built on the white supremacist Patrick Little only is the Jewish experience of the author and do not nec- collective amnesia would pre- idea that Jews are supreme to of Idaho declared his candidacy lost in whiteness, but Jewish- essarily reflect the views of clude us from recalling just everyone else” and implied that for the general election, run- ness serves to epitomize white- JTA or its parent company, 70 how recently Jews were still one cannot be against white ning as a Republican. He told ness’ vilest iteration. A white Faces Media. Viewpoint … Holocaust Politics is Bad for the Jews by JONATHAN S. TOBIN was crushed with indiscriminate Nazi (JNS) — At a time of rising anti-Semi- slaughter because of the acquiescence of tism around the globe and threats from the Soviet Union, which preferred to see terrorism and nuclear blackmail aimed Polish freedom extinguished before the at the State of Israel, there are more Red Army occupied the country. important things to worry about than Still, there is also no denying that the question of who gets to speak at the anti-Semitism was endemic in Poland ceremony commemorating the 75th an- before, during and after the war, and niversary of the liberation of Auschwitz that there are documented instances at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Re- of Poles betraying and killing Jews. membrance Center in Jerusalem. Yet the By labeling truth-telling about Polish controversy over the speakers list at the anti-Semitism a crime, the country World Holocaust Forum it is sponsoring brought down on itself the opprobrium on Jan. 23 is no trivial matter. of the Jewish world. It’s likely that most Israelis and Jews Thanks to Netanyahu’s diplomacy, the regard Yad Vashem’s decision to deny Poles amended the law. But the contro- Polish President Andrzej Duda a speak- versy was revived when Israeli Foreign er’s slot at their Auschwitz ceremony Minister Yisrael Katz foolishly insulted with indifference. But the snub of Duda the Poles. The slight to Duda from Yad ought to worry even those who don’t Polish President Andrzej Duda and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin attend a ceremony as part of Vashem has now exacerbated the ongoing care much about Polish sensibilities, the “March of the Living” program at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland as Israel marked annual dispute. let alone the minutiae of Holocaust re- Holocaust Memorial Day on April 12, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90) Poles suffered more cruelly at the membrance. hands of the Nazis than any other occu- The backstory to this dispute stems Jan. 27 — the date that Soviet forces Should anyone care about the Poles pied country, save the Soviet Union. But from the Israeli museum and research liberated the Auschwitz death camp — being slighted? while the Poles were horribly persecut- center’s decision to try to seize the spot- that date has grown in importance. A lot of Jews won’t care because of ed, the fate of the Jews was far worse. light during the Auschwitz anniversary Yad Vashem’s ceremony will provide the hard feelings caused by the Polish Approximately 18 percent of all Poles that falls on Jan. 27. Since 1959, the competition for the event held at the parliament’s passage in January 2018 were killed during the war compared State of Israel and the organized Jewish site of Auschwitz in Poland the next of a foolish law that made it a crime for with a mind-boggling 90 percent of all world has observed Yom Hashoah on week. The list of leaders who will speak anyone to allege that Poles collaborated Polish Jews. the 27th day of the Hebrew month of at the Israeli observance is impressive with the Germans during the Holo- But there’s more at stake here than a Nisan, which this year falls on April 21. and will include Great Britain’s Prince caust. The Poles were sick of Auschwitz natural desire on the part of many Jews That places the memory of the Holocaust Charles, Russian President Vladimir being inaccurately described as a “Pol- to express anger about revisionist histo- squarely within the context of Jewish Putin, French President Emmanuel Ma- ish death camp.” Auschwitz was situated ry. As is true of other Eastern European history falling as it does the week after cron, German President Frank-Walter in Poland but run by the Germans, not governments, Poland does not share Passover, and a week before Israel’s Yom Steinmeir, U.S. Vice President Mike the Poles, who were among the chief the antipathy towards Israel that is so Hazikaron Memorial Day and its Yom Pence and Israeli Prime Minister Benja- victims of the Nazis. Polish resistance common in Western Europe. Promoting Ha’atzmaut Independence Day. min Netanyahu. But Yad Vashem didn’t to the Germans was heroic both during warm relations between Israel and Po- Ever since the U.N. General Assem- offer Duda the opportunity for a speech, the 1939 invasion and the occupation, land isn’t so much a matter of Netanya- bly’s 2005 vote to establish an Interna- and as a result, Poland is boycotting the as well as during their tragic uprising hu practicing realpolitik but a policy tional Holocaust Remembrance Day on ceremony. in the summer of 1944. That revolt (Holocaust Politics — Page 20)  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020 • Page 19

College Campus Engagement … Hillel in a New Decade: Meeting Young Jews Where They Are in 2020 and Beyond by JACKSON RICHMAN our movement into the next 100 Forest University in February in terms of being a pluralistic, and university campus orga- (JNS) — Hillel International years (our centennial is coming 2019 told pro-Israel activists big-tent organization. We also nizing arm of the left-leaning announced Adam Lehman last up in four years); and final- to “lay low.” What are Hillel’s have our core values and our Jewish organization J Street, week as its new president and ly, to make sure we’re doing tactics going to be under your vision is built around ensuring one that calls itself pro-Israel CEO. Lehman, who has held everything we can to protect leadership in fighting BDS? that every Jewish student has — one of those groups, consid- the interim CEO position since Jewish student communities A: Like all organizations the opportunity to develop an ering that it doesn’t oppose BDS July 2019, previously served on campus through addressing addressing this challenge, we enduring commitment to Jew- resolutions? as the organization’s chief op- changing dynamics, including have experimented with and ish life and learning in North A: J Street U is an organiza- erating officer for four years. the rise of anti-Semitism. pursued a wide range of tactics America and Israel, and that tion that is present on a lot of He succeeds Eric Fingerhut, Q: Speaking of anti-Semitism, — all with the goal to be sup- embodies certain values and campuses, and we look prag- who stepped down in June to the Boycott, Divestment and portive of Jewish communities principles that will continue matically at every program as become CEO of the Jewish Fed- Sanctions movement is still on campus and to honor the to define our position and our its proposed and support our erations of North America. a major issue for Jewish and role that Israel plays within organization. colleagues in the field in terms Lehman, 52, and his wife, pro-Israel students on campus. our mission. Our profession- Q: Where do you draw the of determining what is accept- Belinda, have two daughters How is Hillel working to sup- als are working tirelessly with lines between being critical of able relative to guidelines and who are both in college. port pro-Israel students and students to be supportive of Israel and being anti-Israel? what is not. JNS talked with Lehman in fight BDS? students. It doesn’t mean every A: We’ve got a fairly clear Q: Does J Street U fit Hillel’s person on Jan. 13. The inter- A: We couldn’t be more reso- situation is going to involve a set of guidelines that identify guidelines? view has been edited for brevity lute and committed at this point shared perspective between the groups that are in favor of the A: J Street U, to my knowl- and clarity. in terms of addressing ongoing student and the professional. delegitimization or destruction edge, is not on record as sup- Q: What are your goals as issues of BDS and anti-Israel At the same time, it is also the of the State of Israel, and our porting the delegitimization the new head of Hillel? How activity on campus. We have case that there’s consistency in policy is not to partner with or destruction of the State of will you decide differently from invested over the last several our goals and in our passion to those organizations. Israel. Again, we look at case- your predecessor? years in a program called the address these issues. Q: Any examples of those by-case programs and organi- A: In terms of my goals mov- Israel Action Program that al- Q: Jewish students come from organizations? zations, and try to make a de- ing forward, there are four key lows us to partner with all the a wide variety of religious and A: Examples are the ones we termination of what fits within priority areas: to strengthen other Israel engagement and political backgrounds. How can all see day to day. Obviously, our parameters. Hillels across the Hillel move- pro-Israel advocacy groups that Hillel remain an inclusive en- Students for Justice in Pales- Q: J Street U has associated ment, and continue investing work on campus to support vironment for students, while tine, but there are many others with anti-Israel causes includ- in talent and education; to go students and to support Hillel also drawing red lines on an- that have unfortunately con- ing IfNotNow. further to connect our move- professionals. We are hip to hip ti-Israel groups? fused the goals and purposes of A: When an organization is ment around the world, moving with a focus on supporting our A: One of my core priorities Zionism and the State of Israel aligning with an anti-Israel or- forward with new student lead- professionals and our students heading into this next phase of with their own political agen- ganization and trying to bring ership, as well as a new volun- every time that BDS pops up on Hillel’s work is to ensure that das. We support and respect that anti-Israel organization to teer leadership center to bring a campus. we are as diverse and inclu- every student, every group’s campus or into Hillel, then that together lay leaders who work Q: Hillel has been criticized sive as we can be — as diverse rights to have its views, but our does, in fact, cross the lines of with us on campus; to secure for conservative tactics in fight- as the students we serve. We policies and principles on this our policies, and we work with resources so we can fuel the ing BDS. For example, JNS has will continue to lead the way issue are very clear. local colleagues to try to ensure growth and sustainability of reported that the Hillel at Wake within the Jewish community Q: Is J Street U — the college (New Decade — Page 20) Essay … Don’t Wait Until We’re Married to Involve Us in Jewish Life by BETH RUTH VANDER STOEP sufficient external data to label to the chuppah may start with ed me. Within that space I feel our income or our family back- It’s Shabbat morning. I wake myself as “perfectly average.” the community, but it can also fully integrated and embraced ground; it’s where we are able up, wash up, get dressed and According to the 2013 Pew be resolved by the community. by the community. As an un- to just be ourselves. rush off to synagogue. During Research Center’s Portrait of It’s time we start validating married 20-something I feel Jewish life need not end at services I mentally brace myself Jewish Americans — the larg- the unmarried demographic as seen as a helper, a support- the last undergraduate Shabbat for the inevitable schmoozing est survey of American Jewry serious, “full fledged” members er and a community member dinner and then restart when during kiddush. It’s the same conducted yet — American of our communities and treat- who is just as integrated as any the happy couple asks a rabbi conversation most Saturday Jews are a fairly well educat- ing us as such. But that doesn’t other board member. to officiate their wedding. As mornings at my synagogue: ed community with an aver- just mean convincing the older Hosting and attending Shab- more American Jews choose to the weather, “how is that won- age of 58 percent reporting at members of our community to bat dinners has also become a marry later and later, commu- derful Jewish boyfriend,” when least a bachelor’s degree. When change their thinking. We also core part of my Jewish cultural nities need to open their doors are you two going to get mar- lined up to the 2012 Knot Yet need to encourage young adults identity, especially as I’ve tran- and say “come as you are” and ried, oh yes how are you, but Study showing the demograph- to host Shabbat meals, get in- sitioned from being a student to not “come as you are so you get really when are you two get- ic trends of marriage based volved on nonprofit boards, vol- being a young professional. As married and raise babies at this ting married? I try to derail on education, the numbers are unteer at Hebrew schools and someone living very far away synagogue.” By inviting us into the conversation by bringing clear. The average American, partake in other roles that have from home, Shabbat dinners authentic, meaningful commu- up that lovely Shabbat dinner Jewish, university-educated historically been viewed as make me feel grounded with a nity — regardless of plans for I hosted the evening before, or 20-something is as likely as “things that married folks do.” strong sense of extended fami- marriage or lack thereof — we something about what Jewish their non-Jewish peers to post- Instead of events for 20- and ly. The days of preparation be- are creating stronger, more in- Family Services, of which I am pone marriage until at least 30-somethings that have ob- fore the dinner makes my quiet clusive Jewish spaces. a board member, is doing. This their late 20s. vious objectives of arranging single bedroom apartment feel On Saturday night, I come often results in a blank stare A friend once told me “you’re marriages, why don’t we start like a bustling family home. home from synagogue to a cozy until I awkwardly dodge off to never really part of the com- validating community engage- When I invite my friends to apartment. The plates are piled get another slice of challah. munity until you’re married.” ment as valuable actions that Shabbat dinners at my house, high from last night’s dinner My name is Beth, I’m 25 years As someone who often oper- singles can take? I’m talking we are able to hold a sacred and the crockpot is still hot. I old and I’m in no particular ates in more observant settings, hiking trips, cooking classes, space that is uniquely Jew- go onto Pinterest and look at my hurry to get under the chuppah. I resonate with that feeling. Shabbat dinners and other cul- ish without the external pres- “I’ll get to it eventually” crafting I’m also not alone. I could — Even when I’m in more “lib- tural programs, none of which sures of cultural expectations boards. I don’t have a board but don’t tell the bubbes at my eral” Jewish spaces, I so often you have to be married to enjoy. demanding we meet certain pinned with “fantasy wedding” synagogue I spent two years find myself having to validate I volunteered to be on the milestones on a short timeline. or “someday.” I’m 25, freely in graduate school research- my own narrative as an unmar- board of directors for my local It’s around the Shabbat dinner embracing Jewish life and in no ing trends in American Jewish ried active community member. Jewish Family Services because table that we are more than hurry to get to the chuppah. b communities and that I have The problem of feeling rushed a friend reached out and invit- our jobs, our marital status, ©Alma Page 20 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, January 23, 2020

Holocaust Politics (Continued from Page 18) based in the realization that the Kantor is a Jewish philanthro- The invasion of Poland and ruled by Israel’s President Re- the decision is one that has cre- conflicts of the past should not pist. But he’s also a Russian the start of World War II were uven Rivlin, but he failed to ated a rare agreement between doom Jews and Poles to conflict business oligarch who is close made possible by the Sovi- heed Netanyahu’s plea to avoid columnists from the right-wing in the present and future. to Putin. That authoritarian et-Nazi pact of August 1939, the dispute. The only expla- Israel Hayom and the left-wing Moreover, the politics behind leader is clearly interested in in which the two totalitarian nation for that is that Rivlin’s Haaretz. the decision to exclude the Pol- undermining Poland and sep- governments divided up their antipathy for Netanyahu and Poles and Jews shouldn’t be ish president from the list of arating it from allies like Is- neighbor. But Putin’s foreign a desire to thwart the prime doomed to continued enmity Yad Vashem speakers is partic- rael. It’s likely that the insult ministry has the chutzpah to minister’s policy goal prevailed by a shared tragic history. Nor ularly troubling. to Poland was orchestrated by claim it was the Poles fault, over common sense. And it has should the interests of Putin or Moshe Kantor, head of the Moscow. and that Stalin was justified in created an incident that hurts the absurd rivalries of Israeli European Jewish Congress, Russia is also guilty of its collaborating with the Nazis. Israel and helps no one but politics determine how the Ho- chairs the Yad Vashem event. own outrageous revisionism. Kantor could have been over- Putin. Indeed, the absurdity of locaust is remembered. b

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Hillel, which is launching this Jewish identity-building that al academic institutions or doing ably, a crisis around mental Q: How does Hillel plan to year. specifically address the chang- so in ways where they have ac- health and wellness that af- tackle that issue? Q: How would wellness cen- ing Jewish community. There’s cess to a traditional Hillel. fects Jewish students, as well A: We’ve begun to create ters differ from mental-health no question that the Jewish stu- We’re also increasingly adapt- centers on college campuses? dents of today are different than ing our Hillel model to meet A: We’re very much aware of the Jewish students of prior the changing demographics of the fact that we aren’t experts generations. Through our pres- where students are showing when it comes to mental-health ence, we work with students to up when it comes to the uni- services, and that there are co-create new approaches that versity landscape. 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