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$40 PER YEAR WITHIN MONROE COUNTY, $42 OUTSIDE COUNTY/SEASONAL 70¢ PER ISSUE n VOL. XCVII, NO. 47 n ROCHESTER, N.Y. n IYAR 13, 5780 n MAY 7, 2020 Founder of Craigslist For Teens Struggling in the Gives ADL $1 Million to Coronavirus Era, Jewish Tackle Online Hate Speech Groups Extend a Lifeline (JNS) — The Jewish billion- aire philanthropist and founder by ALIX WALL of the website Craigslist gave a Makayla Wigder, a high $1 million grant to the Anti-Def- school senior from Houston, amation League to support its had been looking forward to the efforts to detect, expose and prom, graduation and one last counter online hate speech, the summer with her friends before ADL announced on Tuesday. leaving for college. The two-year grant from Then came the coronavirus Craig Newmark, 67, who has pandemic. Now those plans an estimated $1.3 billion net Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and na- appear highly unlikely to ma- worth, will directly aid the work tional director of the Anti-Defama- terialize. (Craigslist — Page 4) tion League. (ADL) “It’s just devastating,” Wigder lamented. “Graduation is some- thing we’ve worked toward for Bank Hapoalim Fined $904 the past 12 years. Finishing With teenagers unable to participate in in-person get-togethers, like this without a sense of closure is pre-pandemic event organized by 4Front Baltimore, a Jewish teen engage- Million Over US Clients’ just really disappointing.” ment initiative, Jewish groups are making extra efforts to reach out and With much of America under engage with Jewish teens. (Courtesy of JCC Baltimore) Tax Evasion, FIFA Scandal lockdown, the struggles of the sick, the elderly and those with seemingly less urgent or depression in ordinary times tasked with helping them are needs — such as teens, many — are also at greater risk of front and center. But even those of whom struggle with anxiety (Lifeline — Page 10) Young Jews Are Falling in Love During the Pandemic — Without Having Met in Person

by JOSEFIN DOLSTEN (JTA) — A week and a half A Bank Hapoalim branch in Jerusalem on Jan. 13, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90) ago, Josephine Stockwell had her first date with Nathan, a Israel’s Bank Hapoalim has bribery affair that shook FIFA, guy she had been texting for settled a case brought against the world soccer federation. some time. it by U.S. authorities for assist- Under the deal seeking to The two really hit it off. They ing U.S.-based clients to evade settle claims addressing actions both speak Spanish, love ro- taxes and involvement in a (Fined — Page 4) mantic comedies and relate to Judaism in similar ways. They wound up talking for two and Cyber Spies Target Labs Seeking a half hours. “I don’t even have the words to Decode Corona’s Secrets to describe what that was like because I’ve never had that People are making connections online as they practice social distanc- (Falling in Love — Page 13) ing. (Grace Yagel) Making Jewish Traditions Work for You Doesn’t Have to Be an Emergency Approach.

by ROBERTA ROSENTHAL KWALL causing a paradigm shift for from across the world to par- “We’re absolutely determined to defeat coronavirus, and also to defeat those CHICAGO (JTA) — I thought everyone, instead I am spend- ticipate. It also struck me that trying to exploit the situation for their own nefarious ends,” Britain’s top I was going to be spending this ing my time mastering the finer making lemonade out of lemons diplomat says. (Getty Images) spring promoting my new book, points of Zoom technology so I is exactly what the Jewish peo- which articulates a distinct vi- can teach my students online. ple have been doing for most by NETA BAR sion for Judaism that illustrates It wasn’t lost on me that of our existence, dating back Hackers have been trying to how people can deepen their this technology allowed me to to the birth of the Jewish legal undercut Western efforts to find connection to Judaism by per- make lemonade out of lemons system created by the rabbis in a vaccine for the coronavirus forming selected rituals consis- by doing a virtual launch of the aftermath of the destruction with a series of cyberattacks tently and attaching a personal “Remix Judaism: Preserving of the Second Temple. targeting universities, phar- meaning to them. But as the Tradition in a Diverse World,” Creativity and resilience have 0474470 90456 (Cyber Spies — Page 4) coronavirus sweeps the globe, enabling family and friends (Jewish Traditions — Page 5) Page 2 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020

Community … Honoring Rabbi Katz

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World News … From New York to Milan, How Coronavirus is Hitting Jewish Communities Worldwide the fourth-largest Jewish popu- lation, over 128,000 have tested positive and some 8,000 have died. More than 1,200 dead are from Bergen County, home to the largest Jewish community in the state.

Elsewhere in the US The US has over 1.2 million confirmed cases and 70,000 confirmed deaths from corona- virus. The carnage that began in New York and at a few other hot spots is now spreading, Hundreds of mourners gather in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment out of concern for fueled in part by the reluctance April 28, 2020, to observe a funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz, a Hasidic Orthodox the coronavirus remove a person from an ambulance near an entrance to Mas- of some governors and mayors leader whose death was reportedly tied to the coronavirus.(Peter Gerber via AP) sachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, Monday, April 20. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) to enforce a lockdown. In Massachusetts, the state by URIEL HEILMAN di Orthodox neighborhoods. Park, Williamsburg and Crown over 1.2 million Jews. with the third-highest infec- (JTA) — The impact of the The dead have included Av- Heights, all in Brooklyn. At the Parker Jewish Institute, tion rate, two Jewish senior coronavirus on the Jewish rohom Pinter, one of the most Meanwhile, numbers show a Jewish nursing home on Long living facilities from the same world is a study in contrasts. influential rabbis in North Lon- that at-home deaths in Bor- Island, 179 patients reportedly network near Boston reported In Israel, where the total don’s haredi neighborhood of ough Park and Williamsburg tested positive for the virus at least 32 coronavirus deaths death toll as of Tuesday was Stamford Hill and the first Brit- in March and early April were and at least 57 died as of mid- in mid-April. More than half of 238 and the number of new ish rabbi to serve as a town more than 10 times higher than April. Nurses reported wearing the 430 residents tested for the daily infections below 50, the council member; philanthropist during the same period last trash bags as protective gowns virus at nursing homes in that country has significantly eased Irving Carter; and Yehuda Yaa- year. Most of those deaths were (the facility denied that was the network tested positive. its lockdown. School has re- kov Refson, the senior Chabad likely due to the coronavirus, case) and reusing masks due to After New York, New Jersey sumed for some grades, busi- rabbi in the city of Leeds. New York City Mayor Bill de equipment shortages. and Massachusetts, other states nesses have reopened, and on Blasio said. In New Jersey, the state with (Worldwide — Page 17) Thursday beaches and outdoor New York Rabbi Mayer Berger, director markets are slated to reopen. The New York area is home to of operations at the Chesed Shel But in many large Jewish the largest Jewish community Emes Burial Society in Brook- communities worldwide, the outside Israel, with an estimat- lyn, said the number of Jewish coronavirus is still wreaking ed 2 million Jews including dead has quadrupled since the a terrible toll. Among the 8 the suburbs in Northern New onset of the pandemic, with million Jews living in the Dias- Jersey, Westchester and Long the society handling 500 buri- pora — more than Israel’s 6.7 Island. The virus has torn a al rites in the month between million but less than its overall path of destruction through Purim and Passover. population of 9.2 million — the these communities. As far “It’s not in Iran and it’s not in death toll is in the thousands back as mid-April, the hare- Syria or videos from different and climbing. di media were reporting more countries where you see bodies It’s impossible to say exact- than 700 dead in New York lined up,” he told The New York ly how many Jews have died City alone. According to city Times. “This is New York.” of COVID-19 because govern- Health Department statistics, Some 320,000 people have ments don’t count the deaths of the Zip codes with the high- tested positive for the virus in their Jewish citizens separately est coronavirus infection rates New York state and more than and, in most places, the Jewish track closely with the city’s Ha- 19,500 have died, over 13,724 of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, right, speaks with other community leaders in London, community doesn’t have a full sidic neighborhoods: Borough them in New York City, home to June 5, 2017. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images via JTA) accounting of those who have lost their lives. What’s clear is that the Jew- ish rate of death is exponen- tially higher in the Diaspora compared to Israel and that the virus is devastating the Jewish Family out of town? Weather preventing travel? world. In many places, the in- fection and death rate among Jews is also far higher than the Unable to leave your home? local non-Jewish population. Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting Here is a look at how some Jewish populations around the for services that take place within our chapel. world are struggling with coro- navirus. All at NO CHARGE.

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Report: Israeli Airstrikes on Cyber Spies (Continued from Page 1)

maceutical companies, and re- tinue and evolve over the com- Eastern Syria Kill 14 Fighters search institutes involved in the ing weeks and months ahead, BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli air- battle against COVID-19, Sky and we are taking a range of strikes in eastern Syria killed 14 News reports on Tuesday. measures to tackle the threat. Iranian and Iraqi fighters and According to the British news “We’re absolutely determined wounded others, some serious- network, a joint advisory pub- to defeat coronavirus, and also ly, an opposition war monitor- lished by the US and UK gov- to defeat those trying to ex- ing group said Tuesday. ernments said that these “ma- ploit the situation for their own The Britain-based Syrian licious cyber campaigns” have nefarious ends,” Britain’s top Observatory for Human Rights the hallmark of state-spon- diplomat said. said the late Monday strikes sored cyberattacks, but it did The UK’s National Cyber Se- in eastern Deir el-Zour prov- not name a specific country as curity Centre and its US coun- ince targeted positions of Ira- being behind them. terpart, the US Cybersecurity nian and Iran-backed fighters. Still, cyber experts believe and Infrastructure Security There was no immediate com- the groups behind the attacks Agency urged all those involved ment from Israel. are working for China, Russia in coronavirus research to ex- Syria’s state news agency and Iran, among others. ercise caution in their online reported late Monday that Is- British Foreign Secretary conduct. raeli strikes targeted military Dominic Raab called the cy- The joint advisory warned depots in the region of Safira, berattacks “particularly venal” of an “advanced persistent south of the northern city of given that they were targeting threat by groups carrying out Aleppo. It did not mention The rubble of a house that according to the Syrian authorities was attacked efforts to counter the global cyberattacks” against medical the strikes on Deir el-Zour by an Israeli airstrike, in the Damascus suburbs of Hajira, Syria. (SANA via AP) pandemic, which has so far research, healthcare organiza- province, which borders Iraq. infected over 3 million people tions and local government “to There have recently been mascus, killing three civil- after Iranian military targets worldwide and, as of Wednes- collect bulk personal informa- several reports of suspected ians. in the country. day, has left 258,481 dead. tion, intellectual property and Israeli strikes inside Syria, Israel rarely comments on Israeli Prime Minister Ben- “There are various objectives intelligence that aligns with the most recent one last week, such reports, although it has jamin Netanyahu said in Au- and motivations that lie behind national priorities.” when the Syrian military and acknowledged carrying out gust that Iran has no immu- these attacks, from fraud on The NCSC and CISA issued state media said Israeli war- airstrikes inside Syria on nity anywhere and that the the one hand to espionage,” he a warning last month about planes flying over Lebanon numerous occasions in the Israeli military forces “will act said at the daily Downing Street cybercriminals exploiting the fired missiles toward areas course of Syria’s nine-year — and currently are acting — briefing. pandemic outbreak for their near the Syrian capital, Da- conflict, saying it was going against them.” b “We expect this kind of pred- own personal gain. b atory criminal behavior to con- © Israel Hayom Virginia Imam: COVID-19 Fined (Continued from Page 1) Is a Divine Wake-Up Call between 2002 and 2014, Isra- by the bank’s U.S. customers, el’s biggest bank was ordered the size of the fees the bank (MEMRI) — The coronavi- The center is also linked to to pay an overall fine of $904 collected to provide this illegal rus pandemic is a “wake-up” some of the 9/11 terrorists, as million: $874.3 million to settle service, and the gravity of the call from Allah, sent because well as to Fort Hood shooter the tax-evasion claims and $30 illegal conduct,” said Berman. humanity is legalizing “abom- Nidal Hasan and other known million for its involvement in The U.S. Justice Department inations” such as usury, homo- jihadis. the FIFA scandal. said that Bank Hapoalim had sexuality and abortion, said Elsayed’s statements have The FIFA case dates back to pleaded guilty to “conspiring Virginia-based imam Shaker been the subject of controversy 2015, when 14 people were in- with U.S. taxpayers and others Elsayed in a sermon uploaded in the past. In 2017, he endorsed dicted in connection with an to hide more than $7.6 billion last month to the Internet. female genital mutilation, say- investigation by the FBI and in more than 5,500 secret Swiss In the video, which was up- ing it prevents women from IRS into wire fraud, racketeer- and Israeli bank accounts and loaded to the Dar Al-Hijrah Is- being “hypersexually active.” ing and money laundering by the income generated in these lamic Center’s YouTube channel He also prayed that Allah FIFA and other sports-industry accounts from the Internal Rev- on April 3, Elsayed says that “grant victory to His servants, officials. enue Service.” while Allah tests humanity the mujahideen, wherever they “Israel’s largest bank, Bank According to the report, the every year with the flu, this are.” He has also said that Hapoalim, and its Swiss sub- bank insists that the detailed year he sent the coronavirus as “Muslim men — when there sidiary have admitted not only arrangements referred to by the humanity had not “gotten the Imam Shaker Elsayed. (MEMRI) is a price to pay, they are first failing to prevent but actively as- U.S. Department of Justice con- message.” in line … they are the first in sisting U.S. customers to set up cerns actions by Bank Hapoal- Citing a Koranic example in legalizing things Allah has the jihad line … they are last secret accounts, to shelter assets im Switzerland, solely. which Allah punishing the Jews prohibited, such as usury, if anything is being distributed and income, and to evade taxes,” Globes noted that the fine im- for violating the prohibitions homosexuality and abortion — except if it is arms for jihad.” financial daily Globes quoted posed on Hapoalim is higher against usury and “devouring” on demand, and said that the Despite these statements, U.S. Attorney for the Southern than penalties paid by other people’s money, in which Allah capitalist system amounted to some U.S. politicians have vis- District of New York Geoffrey S. Israeli banks, namely Bank said he had prepared “severe slavery. ited and held events at the cen- Berman as saying. Leumi and Mizrahi Tefahot and painful torment” for the The Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic ter, including Sen. Tim Kaine “The combined payment ap- Bank, for their involvement in Jews guilty of this crime, El- Center in Fairfax County, Va., (D-Va.) and Virginia Attorney proaching $1 billion reflects the similar tax-evasion affairs. b sayed said that today, usury where Imam Elsayed preaches, General Mark Herring. b magnitude of the tax evasion © Israel Hayom. is practiced not just by the is known for being linked to Jews, but by every nation in former Al-Qaeda leader Anwar the world. al-‘Awlaki, who was the imam Craigslist (Continued from Page 1) He criticized humanity for of the center on Sept. 11, 2001. of ADL’s Center on Technology plied by a team of human cod- approaches to detect and stop FOUNDED 1924 and Society, including its ini- ers, according to the ADL. hate speech from spreading tiative called Online Hate Index “We know that the pandemic online.” THE JEWISH LEDGER (OHI), while also helping to the has had an outsized impact on “With the COVID-19 pan- ISSN 002165 Albert Klineman, Publisher 1924-1930 • Joseph H. 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I was in my mid- The dynamic between the GOLDSMITHS northfieldgoldsmiths.com sprees that Klam’s mother 20s when the book came out, writer and her frail mother is dragged her to during school wanting to know how Reichl, plagued by co-dependence. time, I thought about my own one of my favorite food writ- As she forges into a career brushes with missing school ers, had arrived there. The and relationship of her own, for an unnecessary reason. I’d answer lies in her opportunity Altman faces what she calls summer with my mother and to deviate from the path of her Jewish guilt over moving from her parents in the Midwest, mother, whom she describes New York to Connecticut. That and sometimes we’d stay too as born in the worst time to turns the majority of her visits long and I’d miss the beginning be a middle-class American to phone calls, and the limits of the school year back in the woman. of her caretaking come at a Netherlands, where I grew up. “She wasn’t much at keeping cost. My mother wrote notes for my house and I don’t think I’ve “A mother and a daughter Special Senior Shopping Hours Dutch high school teachers on ever met anyone who was a are an edge. Edges are places (60 and older) the back of airplane vomit bags. worse cook,” Reichl writes. of danger or opportunity,” Al- “What will I tell the teach- Though her mother could tman writes. “Why can’t they Tuesdays & Thursdays er?” I asked, worrying about make people sick with her be both?” how her paper of choice made cooking, matzah brei was a I also listen to Family Se- 6:00 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. me look. rare recipe she could make crets, a podcast with Dani “Tell him your mother well. Even the Jewish daugh- Shapiro — a novelist and es- works,” she would say. ter-starved-for-flavor-turned- sayist raised Orthodox — that First Tuesday of Every Month Klam’s mother has three sis- successful-cook attests, a sprouted from the publication Seniors save 6% off entire grocery bill. ters. She writes how the “Jew- mother helps you become the of her most recent memoir, ish Gang of Four” encourages person you are. “Inheritance.” A handful of her to embrace a performative A similar contrast plays out episodes are enough to bring brand of womanhood. To me, in Elissa Altman’s latest mem- mothers (and parents) across my mother was as chic and oir, “Motherland.” Altman’s the spectrum of character into stylish as Marcia Klam, insist- mother, a singer, performer the mix. ing on new outfits for both of and TV host, restricts her eat- For Jewish readers, I espe- us every time the High Holi- ing along with everything else. cially recommend Arianna days came around. The author, determined to live Neumann’s episode, “The Mys- In “For You, Mom. 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“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” Page 6 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Subway Shutdown: New UK Labour General Secretary Resigns York Closes System for After Tenure Tainted With Anti-Semitism

First Time in 115 Years (JNS) — U.K. Labour Gen- has fought all her life for,” and which she oversaw a Party appa- eral Secretary Jennie Formby, for her “commitment and ener- ratus that shielded anti-Semites who once said it’s “impossible gy” during a “period of political and intimidated whistleblowers,” to eradicate anti-Semitism,” has upheaval.” said a Campaign Against An- resigned from the position, the In her position, Formby defend- tisemitism spokesperson. party has announced. ed Corbyn and his controversial “Her departure comes on the Formby said she applied for the ties, stating that it “is impossible one-month anniversary of Sir role two years ago “to support to eradicate” anti-Semitism, and Keir Starmer’s election as Leader Jeremy Corbyn,” but with new that it is “dishonest to claim to be of the Labour Party, an occasion party leader Keir Starmer, “it is able to do so,” even though she ac- we have marked by writing to Sir the right time to step down.” knowledged it is crucial to “elim- Keir condemning his promotion “I would like to thank Jeremy, inate the evil of anti-Semitism.” of Afzal Kahn to prominence our members and my staff col- Formby attempted to interfere in the Shadow Cabinet and his leagues who have given me so in the case of fellow Corbyn sup- failure to suspend Diane Abbott, much support during what has porter Jackie Walker, who was in- Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Salma Ya- been a very challenging period, vestigated for being anti-Semitic. qoob, in direct contravention of in particular when I was suf- The Campaign Against An- his election pledge.” Cleaners wearing Tyvek suits, shoe coverings, face masks and surgical gloves fering from ill health,” she said ti-Semitism applauded Formby’s The spokesperson added that sanitized a No. 2 train. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times) in a statement. “I wish Keir and resignation, but criticized Starm- “we also await the promised [Labour deputy] Angela [Rayner] er for making moves the organi- introduction of an independent by CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM face in ensuring that the sub- the very best of luck in taking zation deemed controversial and disciplinary process, which Ms. At the Stillwell Avenue station way is safe enough to lure back the party forward and leading “in direct contravention of his Formby’s welcome departure in Coney Island, Brooklyn, over leery riders, even as the system Labour to victory at the next election pledge” to root out an- now makes possible. Sir Keir’s a dozen police officers waited on reels from a deadly outbreak general election.” ti-Semitism in the Labour Party. honeymoon is over, and he must the platform early Wednesday that has ravaged New York and Starmer praised Formby “for “Jennie Formby’s resignation now move swiftly to reassure the for trains on the F line to arrive. crippled its public transit net- her service and for the personal today as General Secretary of the Jewish community that he is seri- As one train pulled in at 12:43 work. and professional efforts she has Labour Party brings an end to ous about tearing anti-Semitism a.m., transit agency outreach No other American city in made in advancing the cause she her ignominious tenure, during ‘out by its roots.’” b workers and social workers normal times relies as much walked onto the cars, cajoling on public transit and restoring homeless riders to leave their the subway is essential to New Joe Biden Says Will Leave US temporary shelter. York’s recovery. Overhead an announcement Since March, the virus has echoed through the vast station: sent ridership plummeting by Embassy in Jerusalem if Elected “Last stop on arriving train. No more than 90 percent, killed at passengers, please.” least 109 transit workers, starved Democratic presidential candi- is a holy city for Jews, Muslims given during the 2020 campaign. It was a moment that New the authority of its usual revenue date Joe Biden said Wednesday and Christians. Congress authorized the em- York City’s subway had never streams and prompted an influx that the US Embassy in Israel Yet rather than reversing bassy move to Jerusalem in 1995 before experienced: the first of homeless people seeking ref- would remain in Jerusalem if Trump, Biden told donors he'd — with Biden voting for the mea- planned overnight shutdown uge on mostly empty trains. he is elected, even as he called reopen a US consulate in East sure as a Delaware senator — but since the system opened 115 “We’re in an unprecedented President Donald Trump's deci- Jerusalem to engage Palestinian a succession of presidents from years ago. moment in the history of our sion to move the diplomatic base leaders in talks about a "two- both major parties delayed the But with the city still in the city,” Patrick J. Foye, the chair- from Tel Aviv "short-sighted and state solution" that has long been shift, setting conditions as part of grip of the coronavirus pan- man of the Metropolitan Trans- frivolous." the official US posture toward ongoing peace negotiations. demic, the subway will remain portation Authority, said at a Biden, speaking during a virtu- Israel and the Palestinians. Biden said Trump gave away closed from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for news conference late Tuesday al fundraiser, suggested relocat- "I've been a proud supporter of that leverage. the foreseeable future to pro- night. “The reason we’re taking ing the embassy again would not a secure, democratic Jewish state "Moving the embassy when we vide more time to thoroughly this extraordinary, unprecedent- help the stagnant peace process of Israel my entire life," Biden did without the conditions hav- disinfect trains, stations and ed action is to protect the safety between the Israeli government said Tuesday. But, he added: "My ing been met was short-sighted equipment. and public health of our custom- and the Palestinian Authority administration will urge both and frivolous," the former vice The shutdown reflects the ers and our employees.” b that have fought for generations sides to take steps to keep the president said. "It should have enormous challenge officials © The New York Times over how to divide land and prospect of a two-state solution happened in the context of a power, especially Jerusalem. a l ive." larger deal to help us achieve Trump's decision effectively Biden's remarks Wednesday important concessions for peace ratified the Israeli government's were among the most detailed in the process." b claim on the disputed capital that explanations of the issue he has © AP and Israel Hayom A Messianic Network Launches Hebrew Channel in Israel

by MARCY OSTER Messiah, but a Jewish one! His online services. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A mes- name is Yeshua and He has not The Christian channels Daystar sianic television channel has forgotten His people.” and Middle East Television both launched in Israel, a country that HOT received a seven-year li- broadcast on Israel’s YES satellite bans some forms of proselytiz- cense to air the new channel television and do not tout any STAND OUT ing. from the Communications Min- proselytizing. Today, it’s not good enough to be one of the crowd. You’ve got to G–D-TV, an international istry. Shelanu is being operated in Christian media network that Asher Biton, chairman of partnership with the Israel-based stand out, be different from the competition. You need a targeted broadcasts in some 200 countries, the ministry’s Cable and Satel- Tikkun International, which de- ad campaign that’s professional, specialized and affordable. Get began airing the Hebrew-lan- lite Broadcasting Council, told scribes itself as “a global family noticed. Get your fair share, and more. STAND OUT IN A CROWD. guage Shelanu channel last week Haaretz that he did not know that of ministries, congregations and on the HOT cable network. the new channel would engage leaders, dedicated to the dual res- (585) 427-2468 “Today we made history! For in missionary activities and said toration of Israel and the Church.” TheJewishLedger.com the first time ever, a Messianic that while religious program- “We want Jewish viewers to television channel is broadcast- ming is permitted, missionary grasp the fact that Jesus is theirs. ing the Gospel across Israel in programming is prohibited under “That He is not a foreigner, in- the Hebrew language,” a state- the terms of its license. truder or imposter,” Tikkun said ment on G–D-TV’s website says. More than 700,000 Israeli in an announcement of the new “Shelanu translates to ‘Ours’ in households subscribe to HOT, channel on its website. “He is Youra Jewish Community Connection Hebrew. We want every person nearly 50 percent of the Israeli their Jewish Messiah, born in in Israel to know, not a foreign market for cable, satellite and Israel, raised as a Jew.” b  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 7

Opinion … To Meet Our Students’ Needs, Hillel Must Do More Than Build Jewish Community on Campus It Takes a Village to ating seniors — that we see the Sustain a Hillel families of our students connect Communication with our to alumni in a meaningful way students, staff, board, parents, and experience what North- alumni, and university and in- western Hillel means to our stitutional partners has been faculty and community. crucial for us throughout this But just in the past week, we crisis. This communication has had an Israel-themed virtual been a key to our resilience and Shabbat gathering on Zoom success in keeping operations that featured students, par- going even during a time of ents, alumni, staff members incredible uncertainty. and friends from all across the I could have predicted all of country and a virtual Yom Haz- these takeaways. But I was sur- ikaron gathering that was mov- prised by what happened the ing, poignant and similarly at- first week after students went tended by family members and home, when we launched a alumni who normally would brief Zoom conference to usher not have been there to mark in Shabbat. Israel’s Memorial Day. Along with the young adults The impact of these experi- who had been on campus just ences has not just been the aha Students at Northwestern University; Michael Simon (Courtesy) days earlier, I saw their parents, factor of remembering that our their siblings, even their pets. I students’ lives are intercon- by MICHAEL SIMON with — a lesson that I believe and every one of the nearly could see into their homes and nected with their families and EVANSTON, Ill. (JTA) — I’ve must inform Hillel work even 1,200 Jewish undergraduates at catch glimpses of the spaces home communities. It has been been working in campus Hil- after students can one day come Northwestern, not just the ones that had shaped them. As the the emotional resonance — the lels, first at Harvard and now at together again in our buildings. already active at Hillel. These “room” filled, I also saw alumni uplift — of seeing and feeling Northwestern, since my current First, however, three les- personal, emotional, physical, of Northwestern sign on, seek- these connections to our past, students were just toddlers. So sons I’ve relearned in the last spiritual wellness checks have ing connection after seeing a present and future. I had a deep well of experience eight weeks amid sheltering kept our community united. Facebook post about the event. While everything has to draw upon when the coro- in place, Zoom meetings with There were more people, and changed for Northwestern navirus pandemic descended, students and colleagues, Zoom College Students a wider array of them, than Hillel, our commitment to our and many of the lessons that schooling our kindergartner Are Remarkable we often draw to events on mission has not. If anything, have helped get our community and third-grader, and devour- Our students are not content campus. it has only grown clearer and through the crisis so far were ing each new episode of “The to take classes on Zoom and BodineThis • 2x5moment • 121219 of • JTrealization stronger. We are here to serve [email protected] ones that have resonated during Last Dance.” wait around for the pandemic to unlockedExpositor-Ledger something Newspapers I hadn’t our students, to help to build previous challenges. end. 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by RON KAMPEAS pressure from the Democratic people about the legitimacy WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Party’s left to speak out against and permanence of Israel as Biden said the U.S. should press any such move, which would a Jewish state in the historic Israel not to take any actions be seen as highly controversial homeland of the Jewish peo- that jeopardize a two-state solu- in the international community. ple,” Biden told the Council on tion, a reference to reports that The peace plan unveiled ear- Foreign Relations last August. Israel may try to annex part of lier this year by President Don- “Israeli leaders should stop the the West Bank. ald Trump embraces Israel’s expansion of West Bank settle- Biden, in a statement Tuesday annexation of parts of the West ments and talk of annexation to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Bank as long as Israel accepts that would make two states also said that as president he the plan’s predicate that a Pal- impossible to achieve.” would resume U.S. assistance estinian state would emerge The statement from Tues- to the Palestinians, reopen the in other parts of the territory. day also takes a cudgel to the U.S. consulate in eastern Jeru- Netanyahu has set July 1 as a Trump administration’s peace salem that administers primari- deadline to come up with an plan, which sanctions annex- ly to the Palestinians and would annexation plan. Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden gestures ation under certain conditions. seek to reopen the Palestine A letter this week from 30 as he speaks during a campaign rally at the WWI Museum and Memorial in It is Biden’s most robust crit- Liberation Organization mis- former top national security Kansas City, Missouri on March 7. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) icism of the recent policies of sion in Washington. officials in Democratic admin- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “A priority now for the cause istrations expressed alarm at Israeli actions that undermine Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., who Netanyahu, who campaigned of Israeli-Palestinian peace the prospect of annexation, and those rights and the prospects is close to the American Isra- in the most recent elections should be resuming our di- urged Biden to include in this for a two-state solution, and on el Public Affairs Committee, on a pledge to move toward alogue with the Palestinians year’s Democratic Party oppo- the need for security for both this week said in a conference annexation. and pressing Israel not to take sition to the occupation of the peoples.” call organized by the Jewish Biden has separately said he actions that make a two-state West Bank and to settlement Biden has also enthusiastical- Democratic Council of America would not reverse President solution impossible,” Biden expansion. That would be a ly accepted J Street’s endorse- that he is disinclined to add his Donald Trump’s decision in said. “I will reopen the U.S. notable change — Democratic ment for the presidency. name to the letter. 2018 to move the U.S. embassy consulate in East Jerusalem, platforms have until now not Tensions between those in Biden’s statement was part of to Jerusalem. find a way to re-open the criticized the occupation. the party who, like Biden, are a series of replies to JTA on the The Palestinians pulled out PLO’s diplomatic mission in “Past party platforms have close to the mainstream pro-Is- presidential candidate’s Middle of the Trump peace process in Washington, and resume the rightly stated a commitment rael lobby, and those influenced East policy. Biden has said in December 2017, when Trump decades-long economic and se- to Israel’s security and includ- by J Street are likely to contin- the past it is also incumbent recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s curity assistance efforts to the ed condemnations of threats ue. The lobby is urging Demo- on the Palestinians to preserve capital. Trump subsequently Palestinians that the Trump and actions against our ally, in cratic senators to sign a letter two-state options. A campaign cut off virtually all assistance Administration stopped.” addition to embracing a two- initiated by Sens. Tim Kaine, spokesman noted to JTA Biden’s to the Palestinians, closed the The new Israeli government state outcome,” said the letter, D-Va., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., past calls on both sides to re- PLO office in Washington, and is grappling with whether to organized by J Street, the lib- and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., frain from unilateralism. rolled the eastern Jerusalem annex parts of the West Bank, eral Jewish Middle East policy that would warn Israel’s gov- “Palestinian leaders should consulate’s responsibilities into and as Biden has secured the group. “Those platforms have, ernment not to move ahead end the incitement and glori- the Israeli embassy, seen as a Democratic nomination for the however, also been nearly silent with annexation. All three are fication of violence, and they downgrading of U.S.-Palestin- presidency, he has come under on the rights of Palestinians, on J Street endorses. must begin to level with their ian relations. b Opinion … After This Pandemic, Higher Education Will Have to Leave the Ivory Tower

by GARY SAUL MORSON lives. We anticipate several picture from a truly interdisci- sociology, city planning, geogra- and MORTON SCHAPIRO fruitful innovations in, as Tom plinary perspective. phy and philosophy. By exposing EVANSTON, Ill. (JTA) — As Friedman put it, the year 1 A.C. And don’t forget that philos- our students to different ways longtime faculty members, we — After Corona. ophers might help us reach not of thinking, getting them to see have been considering how aca- For example, switching to re- just expedient answers, but mor- the strengths and weaknesses of demic life might change for the mote teaching has prompted us ally acceptable ones. After all, each, and encouraging them to better after the pandemic. One to try out some changes that limited resources are forcing find meaningful combinations, of us also happens to be a uni- faculty have been debating for us to decide who shall live and we invite them to discover and versity president who is called years. Perhaps “flipped” class- who shall die. It is one thing to articulate more clearly what they upon to offer a compelling vision rooms — with lectures on the recognize, as we do during the believe and become more open for his school under the “new web, and class time devoted to Kol Nidre service, that our lives to opposing views. normal.” student-faculty interaction — are in God’s hands. It is quite One example that seems to When we celebrated Passover will become the norm in the another to hold other people’s especially resonate with our together with our families and future, now that students and lives in our own. students is a discussion of the friends (virtually, of course), faculty have experienced what In our book “Cents and Sensi- Akedah. What does Genesis 22, we were struck more than ever is possible when time is used bility,” we argue that breaking the unsettling story of the bind- by how those ancient plagues differently. down disciplinary boundaries ing of Isaac, teach us about faith changed Jewish life. The ensu- The emergent circumstances can lead to policies that are more and familial obligations, and ing freedom dreamt of for so have thrust us into those exper- effective and more just. COVID- how do the Abrahamic religions long wasn’t easy to embrace, and iments. But we are also learning 19 has made it even clearer that interpret the same story differ- the former slaves struggled to about other needs that would we need to do so. ently? lead lives worthy of God’s benefi- require a more concerted effort And we can do much the same Breaking down disciplinary cence. But despite the many chal- to address. Chief among them is in the classroom. The great divisions and creating a more lenges faced over the subsequent the fact that too much research Top: Morty Schapiro. Bottom: Gary issues of our time — climate multidisciplinary educational 3,300 years, there is no doubt that and teaching takes place in silos. Saul Morson. (Jim Prisching) change, global inequality, chal- experience for students won’t be the Jewish people have served as While we benefit from work lenges to democratic and liberal easy, given the way our universi- an enduring beacon worthy of in individual disciplines, the many additional deaths will ac- ideals — are multidimensional. ty and so many others are struc- emulation and respect. pandemic has shone light on company a reversal of shelter- Why not teach them that way? tured, funded and managed. But Colleges and universities have the importance of the intersec- in-place directives; sociologists For the past decade, we have returning to the old ways would a proud history as well. Their tions among them. Economists explain why infection and mor- co-taught a course that includes be more like worshipping a fa- teaching transforms their stu- estimate how much unemploy- tality statistics vary so much by readings not just from our spe- miliar golden calf than embrac- dents, and their scholarship re- ment will rise for each addition- race and income. But to develop cialties of literature and econom- ing a new golden opportunity. sults in longer, healthier, more al week of a largely shut-down meaningful public policies, we ics, but also from history, polit- Our task is to figure out how to productive and more fulfilled economy; scientists forecast how should consider the complete ical science, biology, religion, seize it. b THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 9

Analysis … With Exports Delayed, the Promise of Israel’s Cannabis Industry Goes Up in Smoke

by TZALLY GREENBERG In its 2019 report, Univo stat- stocks, stating most of the trad- Last week, the last of Israel’s ed it is dependent on Bitton to ed companies had future plans public medical cannabis com- “maintain its license for activity and memorandums of under- panies published its financial in the medical cannabis field.” standings rather than actual report for 2019. A glance at In the same report, the compa- operational businesses in the the numbers presented by all ny stated its management costs domain. 11 companies reveals a rather and general expenses stood At the same time, a glob- glum picture. at a staggering NIS 5 million al trend cooling off the initial Five of these companies, all (approximately $1.4 million) buzz of the cannabis industry, with activity mainly or exclu- in 2019, compared to just NIS which started in Canada and sively dedicated to medical can- 1.6 million (approximately spread to Israel, brought mar- nabis, finished the year with $455,000) spent on research ket caps and valuations even zero income, millions of shekels and development. further down. in losses, a high cash burn- All of this did not stop Univo Ironically, what brought this ing rate, exceeding for some of from announcing, in a filing to drop to a halt was the coronavi- them the available cash in their the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange rus crisis. At its very beginning, coffers. on April 14, at the midst of the the Israeli government dubbed Two of the remaining six Cannabis farmer in Colombia. (Reuters) coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, cannabis companies a vital in- companies managed to scrape that its board approved the ap- dustry giving them a boost. At several hundreds of thousands pointment of Bitton’s sister in the same time, their business of shekels in revenue but these law, Sarit Bitton, as an accoun- also began to grow as the local sums were negligible, consid- tant at a monthly salary of NIS demand for medical cannabis ering the industry’s vast poten- 10,400 (approximately $3,000). doubled over the past year, tial. These companies, flaunt- Ten months earlier, Uni- from between 10 tonnes and 12 ing potential new and lucrative vo's shareholders approved a tonnes a year for 30,000 patients markets, managed to reach NIS 200,000 (approximately to 20 tonnes for 60,000 patients, valuations and market capital- $56,800) commission payable to and it is continuing to climb. izations of millions of shekels, a company owned by another of As of the end of April, Israel’s without any income or even a Bitton's relatives, Eliyahu Bitton. medical cannabis industry has functioning production facility. The commission was for arbi- become among the biggest in Only four Israeli public can- tration of an investment deal by the world, with 65,000 patients nabis companies managed to Israeli businessman Ido Hagag. consuming 2 tonnes of product show significant revenues in Former Israeli chief of police and chairman of Together Pharma, Yohanan Veteran companies were also a month or 24 tonnes a year. their 2019 reports: Seah Med- Danino. (Aner Green) not shy in making big prom- There is still a big question ical Group Ltd. reported NIS ises in their filings. On April mark, however, floating over 28.8 million (approximately Israeli officials took prominent 23, 2019, Intercure announced many companies, which pre- $8.2 million); Pharmocann positions in cannabis compa- it has signed an agreement to sented a much higher cash Global Ltd. reported NIS 20.88 nies. The younger companies set up a mega-farm in a kib- burning rate than earnings and million (approximately $5.9 were just starting out back then butz in southern Israel, which cash reserves, requiring addi- million); Panaxia Labs Israel and every shelf corporation it planned to start operating tional investments or share- Ltd. reported NIS 16.6 million adorned with a cannabis throne later that year, producing up holder loans, at a time when (approximately $4.7 million); was awarded hefty investments. to 100 tonnes of medical can- investors are wary of the risky and Canndoc Ltd. reported NIS Merger announcements and the nabis a year. In its 2019 report, industry. 9.5 million (approximately $2.7 annual reports for 2018 were all however, Intercure lowered the Doron Arami, head of the million), according to its par- spiced up with optimistic fore- production potential of the farm medical cannabis sector at ent company InterCure Ltd.’s casts meant to encourage inves- to 88 tonnes. As of late April BDO’s Israeli branch told Cal- annual report. These four com- tors to draw out their wallets. this year, the preconditions for calist earlier this week that panies are veterans in the field, 2019 was supposed to be the the deal have yet to materialize, his firm’s data shows their having operated in it for about year when these forecasts ma- Doron Arami, head of the medi- however, the company still fore- cash-burning rate will force a decade, and began seeing rev- terialized but the reports clearly cal cannabis sector at BDO’s Israeli casted in its 2019 report that the most of these companies to find enues before their initial public indicate it was mostly the turn- branch. (Yossi Israel) first stage of opening the farm new financial resources by the offerings (IPOs). ing point for the industry from will be completed by June. year’s end to avoid an even Most medical cannabis com- promising to disappointing. requesting, in the invitation The blame for this situation bigger deficit. “The fact that panies remain unprofitable but Together Pharma Ltd., to its shareholder meeting, a cannot be placed solely on the the export of medical cannabis the operational profit they re- chaired by former Israeli chief yearly bonus of NIS 3.7 million companies, as 2019 was an ex- from Israel has yet to become a ported for 2019 was mislead- of police Yohanan Danino, for (approximately $1.05 million) tremely turbulent year for the reality is detrimental to these ing as it contained data that example, forecasted in March be awarded to CEO and con- Israeli cannabis industry. It companies’ operation and abil- was irrelevant to the company’s 2019 that it would end the year trolling stakeholder (22.85%) started when the government ity to raise money from new cannabis activity, such as stock with NIS 252 million (approx- Golan Bitton. decided, in January, to allow investors,” he said. “At the end exchange registration fees and imately $71.4 million) in rev- This bonus was meant as the export of medical cannabis, of the day, export is the only biological assets, the value of enue. Instead, it ended it with a reward for reaching pre-set a decision that has since been key to pushing Israel’s cannabis which is not comparable be- NIS 0 revenue. goals over a three-year peri- postponed to an unknown date industry forward and giving tween companies. Univo Pharmaceuticals Ltd. od and is significantly higher due to bureaucratic hurdles and companies, young and old, a A recent analysis by inter- was another company to falsely than the bonus Bitton received ministerial bickering. well-needed lifeline.” national accounting firm BDO prophesize when, in its 2018 last year, which amounted to The year continued with a We are now nearing the end shows that if the irrelevant sec- reports, it forecasted NIS 6.8 NIS 1.9 million (approximate- combined market cap of NIS of the first half of 2020 and tions — amounting to a total of million (approximately $1.9 ly $540,000). In the meeting, 5.04 billion (approximately the export of medical canna- NIS 349 million (approximately million) in revenue for 2019, held Tuesday, the shareholders $1.5 billion) for Israel's public bis from Israel has yet to be $99 million) — are taken out quickly changing its forecast refused to approve the bonus. cannabis companies but ended approved, not to mention im- of the picture, only two of the in June that year to an “in- This is not the first time Bit- with almost half this sum gone. plemented. The 2019 reports four veteran companies ended consequential amount.” How ton asked for monetary benefits Throughout the year, these show that the companies are 2019 with a positive bottom inconsequential, you ask? Well, without the company showing companies also had to endure still getting investors’ hopes line: Seah Medical with NIS for the entirety of 2019, Univo any substantial income. In July reprimands from the Israel Se- up concerning global exports 9.2 million (approximately $2.6 raked in NIS 824,000 (approx- 2019, the shareholders approved curities Authority, which de- as a main source of income. million) in non-GAAP earnings imately $234,000) in revenue raising his monthly salary manded various amendments, The 2020 reports are likely to and Pharmocann with NIS 3.6 but spent NIS 1.09 million from NIS 40,000 (approximate- bringing companies to lower show better performance for million (approximately $1 mil- (approximately $310,000) on ly $11,400 at the time) to NIS their valuations ahead of merg- some companies but investors lion). producing its product. Univo 65,000 (approximately $18,500 ers and providing a factual in those companies that are left In the first quarter of 2019, ended 2019 with NIS 11.7 mil- at the time). This occurred just basis for their forecasts. behind will likely feel the fiscal the initial optimism of the in- lion ($3.3 million) in loss attrib- one month after the company In late 2019, the securities au- history is repeating itself and dustry persisted and stocks utable to shareholders, but this announced it will not reach its thority issued a warning about not for the better. b skyrocketed, as a line of former did not stop the company from revenue forecasts for the year. trade in speculative cannabis © calcalistech.com Page 10 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020

Lifeline (Continued from Page 1) struggle during this epidemic, so that makes it harder for experts say. them to move through the “It was hard to be a teen- stages,” she said. “We’re try- ager even before all of this, ing to help them with the lan- but COVID-19 is amplifying guage, and perhaps some kind the most painful parts about of Jewish ritual over this loss, adolescence,” said Sara Allen, so they can feel a sense of executive director of Jewish agency over it.” Teen Education & Engage- At Jewish federations across ment Funder Collaborative, the country, adults who work a partnership between local on teen programs are recast- federations and the Jim Joseph ing what they do to reach out Foundation. to teens and make sure they’re Allen is planning a webinar OK, help them build resilience in May to coincide with Men- and cope with the coronavirus tal Health Awareness Month crisis, and even engage them for a network of 800 Jewish in projects to help the wider professionals who work with community during these ex- teens. traordinary times. The Big Apple Adventure is a trip to New York for teens from the Midwest Region of the National Conference of Many teens are feeling a real In Texas, Katelyn Bleiweiss, Synagogue Youth. The last such trip was in February, right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy sense of grief at the loss of the the mental health programs of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago) traditional rituals that close coordinator at Jewish Family out high school, Allen said, Service of Greater Houston, pandemic from a suicide pre- looking at true norms,” she “This is a trauma for ev- but they don’t necessarily rec- a federation partner, recently vention program, Sources of said. “While there are a lot of erybody and a trauma for the ognize the emotion as such. led a Zoom workshop with Strength, that Jewish Family negative stories in the media teens,” she said. “Often when “They feel they were robbed. some 40 teens to talk about re- Service brought to the Jewish about the coronavirus, the people are in a trauma, they But it doesn’t trigger as grief, silience. It was adapted to the community in Texas. majority of the population are don’t express it in that mo- “We talked about the healthy and most who get it ment. You see it much later.” strengths that we had before actually recover, especially At the same time, many of COVID-19 — like cooking among young people. Resilien- those who work with teens say or playing with your dog or cy to it is the true norm.” they’ve been impressed with playing soccer, and how can Many Jewish community how quickly Jewish teens have we modify these things for professionals who work with adapted to this new reality. the present reality?” Bleiweiss teens say that the crucial el- Across the country, teens said. ement of their work now isn’t who are part of Diller Teen For example, if a soccer so much the content of one Fellows, an international pro- player can’t play with her particular program or anoth- gram with 32 global commu- Jewish Family Service is here to help our community in navigating team, she can still practice her er but connecting with teens nities, including one in Chica- resources during this unprecedented time. Please call 585.461.0114 or technique at home, Bleiwiss during this time of social iso- go, created a series of “fellow send an email to [email protected] from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily said, focusing on a skill or lation. spotlights” where they present Beingand weekendsPart of the Communityas needed. •Services 3x6.75 • include 051617 counseling,• SH emergencyHOUSE family something they enjoyed before Marna Meyer runs the Teen or lead an online conversation assistance, food, friendly callers, and general support & resources. Please can help reduce anxiety now. Israel Ambassador program on a topic they are passionate note that this is not an emergency hotline. If you are experiencing a life- “The primary focus is find- through the Jewish Federa- about and engage their peers threatening medical emergency or fear for your safety, call 911 ing strength in your life by tion of Greater Houston. In in discussion. ordinary circumstances, the In Chicago, an April 30 program helps teens prepare event honoring 18 teens in a for college and learn tools for Jewish leadership program college activism around Israel. called 18 Under 18 was can- But right now, she said, simply celed. But the teens took their BEING A PART OF THE connecting with each other Jewish leadership initiatives socially has become the high- online, or continued already est priority. existing remote collabora- “They’re feeling lonely and tions, including projects on isolated,” said Meyer, a thera- Holocaust education in public pist by training. “All the phone schools, the diversity of Jew- MEANS KNOWING calls, texting and Zooming ish experiences and religious isn’t the same as being with pluralism. WHAT GOES ON IN THE each other.” “We have some amazing community “We’ve been really conscien- leaders who are trying to fig- tious in looking for red flags,” ure out ways to give back, said Rabbi Dena Shaffer, ex- even if they can’t do so in ecutive director of 4Front, a person,” said Sarina Gerson, program run by The Asso- assistant vice president for ciated: Jewish Federation of community outreach and en- Baltimore, which serves as a gagement at the Jewish United gathering place for Baltimore’s Fund of Chicago. “Many teens Jewish teens to explore their want to continue their involve- community Jewish identities and the is- ment in volunteer projects and sues that matter to them. social action, even if it has to Shaffer and Meyer both said happen in their own homes. if they notice teens dropping They’re looking for an outlet off from programming, they to channel their energy in pro- make an extra effort to reach ductive ways.” out to them. Gerson said the teens she Some teens have had a dif- works with who have leader- ficult time adjusting to living ship qualities see the pandemic their lives almost completely as an opportunity to make a online, said Margie Bogdan- difference in the community. b ow, a Boston-based consultant This article was sponsored by who works as wellness coordi- and produced in partnership nator for the Jewish Teen Ed- with the Jewish Federations of ucation & Engagement Funder North America, which represents To Subscribe, Call 427-2434 Collaborative. 146 local Jewish Federations and TheJewishLedger.com The trauma of this experi- 300 network communities. This ence should not be understat- story was produced by JTA’s ed, Bogdanow warned. native content team. THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 11

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"I hope it Important Job as Parents pandemic is fuel- will lead to some ing extremism on decisions." by CHANA LIGHTSTONE the most of uncertainty. ue providing warm, loving and the far-right and Of note global- NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s 12:59 On that first Shabbat after the stable homes to the best of our far-left in Europe ly, he said, was a p.m. and I’m leaping into the community entered lockdown, ability. This is incredibly hard and giving Islam- surge in far-right 1 p.m. transition. There are we sang and danced with the on parents who have nary a ic State and other activity online, five children and a cacopho- children — and then I brought moment of respite, but it’s also militants cover to with websites in- ny of devices. My phone holds the three oldest to the alley a tempestuous time that our regain influence, cluding 4Chan and the compass in the form of an underneath a friend’s balcony, children will remember for a t h e E u r o p e a n messaging apps app with each child’s schedule where they performed to her very long time — and one that Union's counter- Gilles de Kerchove. (Reuters) such as Telegram and login info for each Zoom rousing rounds of applause. has the ability to greatly impact terrorism chief has being used to prop- session — although only for During previous visits, this them. warned. agate hatred against Jews, Mus- the sessions set as “recurring.” friend has offered numerous As our children watch us rise While the priority must be lims, migrants and others who Some teachers transmit new treats to my children so that we to the occasion, they will reach tackling the health and econom- are often scapegoated at a time of login info each day via email, could seize a rare opportunity into themselves and discover ic fallout from COVID-19, gov- crisis and are now being wrongly text or WhatsApp. to chat. This time, however, the inner reserves of strength and ernments should not overlook blamed for the pandemic. Occasionally my phone gets kids starred in the show, adding learn coping mechanisms. As security issues, including the risk He said his team had seen on- handed over to a child when real joy to an unusual and un- they reach out to members of of frustration over lockdowns line calls for followers to infect other devices fail, and then I’m certain situation. our community and spread joy, and economic hardships abetting their "enemies" with the virus. In really in a pickle. That said, There have been tough mo- they are learning that no mat- radicalization and recruitment, Tunisia, there was an attempt to when things run smoothly, at ments, too. My 3-year-old’s ter how bleak the news reports Gilles de Kerchove said. spread it among security forces, exactly 1 p.m., four sessions teacher lost her father, a re- may be, we always have the po- He said he would shortly cir- he said. Fringe blogs have played conclude and another five spected rabbi in the communi- tential to reach out to a friend, culate a paper to member states up conspiracy theories about the begin. If only I had enough de- ty, last week. I helped my son connect and strengthen one an- setting out a list of concerns — disease's origin, blaming China vices to queue up the following record a brief video for her, other’s resolve. This will serve including reports that far-right or Iran or Israel, but ultimately session on different devices … simply stating that he loves her them well through this crisis as groups have been sending out looking to sow anger and para- hey, a girl can dream. and is thinking of her, without well as the unavoidable bumps messages online encouraging noia among already alarmed pop- Ironically, I’ve occasionally fully understanding the situa- and disappointments they un- supporters to go out and infect ulations. fantasized in the past about tion. One of my older children, doubtedly will encounter in the "enemies." "People are confined and are homeschooling, adventuring a former student of hers, re- future. Beyond Europe, Islamic State a lot more online. It's an ideal around New York City and corded his first actual shiva Our “old lives” seem but a and related groups are seeking opportunity to reach those who using the world around us as message, including reciting distant memory: The morn- to recoup ground in Iraq, Syria spend all day on their comput- a living classroom. That clearly the traditional passage said to ing shuffle leading up to the and the Sahel, exploiting the fact ers," said De Kerchove. can’t happen now. This isn’t mourners. school buses’ arrival at 8:30 that governments are caught up "What is likely to happen is homeschooling; this is crisis As an antidote to isolation, a.m. and then welcoming the in combating the virus or other- just a growing rise of right-wing schooling. I’ve accepted that we have sought connection. children home in the late af- wise destabilized, including by violent extremism ... They are some Zoom sessions will be Mordechai and I run Tech Tribe, ternoon. A quick snack and the collapsed oil price. using COVID a lot to promote more successful than others; which connects and inspires then endless homework, sort- "The virus has an impact on their cause. That is certainly an some are downright disasters. young Jews in tech and digital ing through permission slips fragile states and gives Daesh issue that needs to be at the top So what about all that yeshi- media. The children greatly and other notes. Wrangling new room to breathe," he said. of the agenda of governments." va tuition we are still paying miss our Shabbat guests, so everyone into the bath and into "There are serious causes for He said there was radical ac- monthly? I’m incredibly grateful with our assistance, they have pajamas, saying the Shema and concer n." tivity on the far-Left, too. People to the teachers who, without reached out — sending art or going to bed. Iraq is a particular worry as it who believe 5G technology is any warning or ability to pre- initiating video chats. These Like other parents who have struggles to form a government spreading the disease have set pare, suddenly brought their connections in some ways have been forced to quickly adapt after the appointment of a third fire to mobile masts in Britain coursework online. Neverthe- deepened their bonds far more to our new roles, I hope that prime minister-designate, and as and the Netherlands, and fringe less, my husband, Mordechai, than sharing a few Friday night the hustle and bustle returns oil prices — its main source of blogs are using the virus to push and I have been forced to over- meals at large tables with many and our children can go back income — collapse on the back an anti-capitalist, anti-globaliza- see and supplement in ways we other guests ever did. to school. When they do, I will of the pandemic. tion agenda in multiple European never could have imagined. These experiences and oth- enjoy a fantastic cup of cof- "I hope we do not lose sight of languages. While we’re scrambling in ers have shown me that more fee in solitude. Then I will re- the security risks as we focus, The lockdowns across Europe this moment, we need to re- than shepherding our children flect on these times, this era quite rightly, on the immediate have put a stop to large gather- member that our children are through sessions of online in which we were thrust into a health and social impact," said de ings, reducing terrorism targets. always watching us and absorb- learning, my husband and I situation we could have never Kerchove, a Belgian official who But there have still been Islamic ing our values. Even if they fall need to guide them through imagined and how the news has overseen EU counterterror- State-backed attacks in France behind in academics, they can crisis response. More than any- reports — and being forced into ism since 2007. and significant arrests in Spain always catch up — but the envi- thing any teacher could tell a near quarantine — could be "The massive amount of money and Germany. ronment we create around them them in a class, they are look- terrifying for kids. that will be spent to address the De Kerchove said there was a will leave indelible marks on ing at us to model appropriate But instead of focusing on economic, social and healthcare need for heightened vigilance, es- their character. Most of us send behaviors and responses. a deadly virus that we could consequences of the virus risks pecially in the weeks and months our children to school to receive Ultimately, some children not control, we chose to seize being at the expense of security. to come. an education, but this moment are thriving in online school, the opportunities available to We must prevent the one crisis "For decades we've been is reminding us that the center whereas others are struggling. connect with others — through ending up producing another." talking about the development of Jewish life has always been In both situations, even more happy messages and on time De Kerchove said he hoped his of a biological weapon by a ter- the home — and there’s no than online classes, children spent together as a family, as paper would encourage discus- rorism group. That's the sort of more important message we most need our love, support well as through difficult messag- sion as member states started to thing we cannot lose sight of," can give our children, now and and guidance. They need us to es to those in mourning. And we lift nearly two months of intense he said. b in the future, than how to make validate their fears and contin- played a lot of board games. b restrictions imposed due to the © Reuters and Israel Hayom  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 13

Shabbat Shalom …

Leviticus 21:1-24:23 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Parshat Emor Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — “And I shall “Kiddush HaShem,” explain our blood soaked with many sa- which he would give up his life My revered teacher Rav Jo- be sanctified in the midst of the Talmudic Sages, the necessity cred martyrs who gave up their is not worthy of living! seph B. Solovetchik added a children of Israel” (Lev. 22:32). of sacrificing one’s life — sanc- lives in sanctification of the Hence we must value and crucial point: There are many The portion of Emor opens tifying the name of G–d — for Divine Name, during the Span- elevate life, but always within Jewish laws, decrees and cus- with a strange commandment the sake of the commandments ish Inquisition, to cite but one the perspective of those princi- toms which have developed to the kohanim-priests of Israel: of the Bible. Jews must give up example, in the late 15th and ples which are greater than our from biblical times to the pres- “And the Lord said to Moses, their lives rather than trans- early 16th Century, when Jews redemption. Yes, “live by these ent, which Jews themselves ‘Say to the priests children of gress any of the three major were forced to kiss the cross of [My laws],” but live the kind of do not always realize are truly Aaron, and tell them: “Do not life which will teach the highest vital for our national and reli- defile yourselves by contact purposes of life! gious preservation. Our Gentile with the dead of the nation.”’” Our history is tear stained and But how can we justify mar- enemies, however’ always do, (Leviticus 21:1). The Bible then tyrdom, even if only during because they — wishing to per- lists the exceptions to this rule. blood soaked with many sacred periods of persecution, for the secute and destroy us — strike A Kohen may defile himself sake of a Jewish custom re- at the jugular. Hence whatever only for the burial of his wife, martyrs who gave up their lives in garding our shoelaces? What they insist that we abandon, his mother, his father, his son, can there possibly be about we must maintain even at the his daughter, his brother and sanctification of the Divine Name a shoelace which strikes at price of our lives! From this his unmarried sister. Otherwise the heart and essence of our perspective, it becomes easier our Priest-teachers are forbid- Jewish mission? The Talmudic to understand why anti-Semi- den contact with the dead. prohibitions of murder, sexual crucifixion or die! Commentaries of the French tism expresses itself in unfair In contrast, one of the most immorality or adultery; and, The answer lies in the very and German Sages of the 11th attacks on the free and demo- important functions of the in times of persecution, Jews juxtaposition of the law of and 12th centuries, when many cratic State of Israel, condemn- Christians clergy is adminis- must die rather than publicly priestly defilement emphasiz- Jews were martyred by the Cru- ing us while championing the tering “last rites,” and properly transgress even the simplest or ing the importance of life, and saders, suggest that the general cause of our terrorist enemies; burying the dead. Clearly the most “minor” of Jewish laws, the law of martyrdom enjoining accepted clothing etiquette in we must focus on how crucial Torah is teaching that Judaism even a Jewish custom involving death, within our same Biblical Rome and its numerous colo- and vital the State of Israel is is not chiefly concerned with our shoelaces (B.T. Sanhedrin portion. Yes, preservation of nies during the second centu- for Jewish survival today. death and the hereafter; rather, 74a,b). Our Talmudic Sages in- life is crucial and this world ry of the Common Era was to The memorials of Holocaust it is principally engaged with sist, however, that when Jews is the focus of the Jewish con- wear white shoelaces. Jews, Remembrance Day and Re- life in the here-and-now. Our are not being persecuted, it is cern — but not life merely for however, wore black shoelaces, membrance Day for the Fallen major religious imperative is forbidden for Jews to forfeit the sake of existing. Living, as a memorial to the loss of of Israel’s Wars quickly fol- not how to ease the transition their lives in order not to des- and not merely existing, means our Holy Temple, Holy City of lowed by Independence Day from this world to the next, ecrate Shabbat, for example, if devoting one’s life to ideals and Peace, Jerusalem. and our Jew- and Jerusalem Day must re- but how to improve and re- an individual feels chest pains values that are more important ish national sovereignty. When mind us that Israel is not mere- pair our own society. But there Shabbat morning, he must be than any individual life. We Gentiles in times of persecution ly a destination but is our des- seems to be an inconsistency; driven to the nearest hospital! participate in eternity by ded- attempted to force Jews to wear tiny. Israel is not only the place our very same portion goes on It is better that he desecrate icating our lives to the eternal white shoelaces — and thereby of our survival, but it is the to command (as quoted above): one Shabbat and remain alive values that will eventually re- force the Jewish community to heart of our mission for world “You shall not desecrate the to keep many Shabbatot. pair the world and establish a cease mourning for the loss of salvation, from whence the name of My holiness; I shall be But then, if life is so precious, more perfect society — in this our national homeland — the word of G–d — a G–d of life, sanctified in the midst of the why command martyrdom at world. As the late Martin Luther Jew must respond with mar- love and peace — will spread children of Israel” (Lev. 22:32). all? And the sad truth is that King said it. A person whose life tyrdom (B.T. Sanhedrin 74b, to all of humanity. b And herein lies the mitzvah of our history is tear stained and is not dedicated to values for Tosafot ad loc.). Shabbat Shalom

Falling in Love (Continued from Page 1) experience, but we are on the popped up as colleges began members combined. Mark says he and several of his remained the same as pre-pan- same wavelength more than I sending students home due There are many ways people friends decided to start Coro- demic, said founder David ever thought was possible for to the pandemic and now has can meet others through the naCrush after seeing Raimi’s Yarus, who added that many a partner,” said the 23-year-old more than 38,000 members. group. People can post person- group. people are now for the first time graduate student at Northwest- Founder Aaron Raimi had als or fill out a 50-question sur- “We thought the way they doing video dates since meeting ern University. little matchmaking experience vey that Raimi created to match were implementing it, it wasn’t in person isn’t possible. The two now text all the time prior to starting the group — members. Questions include only for Jews and it wasn’t for “What I’m most curious and have hour-long conversa- other than successfully set- everything from basics like age serious dating,” the 31-year-old about or interested in is the tions almost every day. ting up an ex with one of his and sexual orientation to Jew- Tel Aviv-based entrepreneur idea of how comfort in things “I hesitate to say [we’re] in a friends. ish affiliation to kosher-keeping said. “It seemed like a lot of col- like video or video first dates relationship because it’s only But the 23-year-old San habits and music tastes. lege kids posting bikini pictures and such will change as a result been a few days but we both Diego resident was inspired Jackie Abrams, a 20-year-old and stuff like that, so we want- of people experiencing maybe are very committed to each after another Facebook group college student living in Troy, ed it to be more wholesome their first time doing a Face- other,” she said. for Jewish college students New York, chatted with 14 peo- and family values and serious Time date,” Yarus said. The catch: The pair have yet during quarantine, Zoom Uni- ple in the group before she met dating-oriented.” Amanda Doreson, 36, to meet in real life. versity Hillel, became wildly a “really cute” guy through a The group now has more matched with Dan, a fellow As social distancing has popular. In that group, which Zoom chat hosted by one of the than 11,000 members. Mark Washingtonian, on J Swipe over become the norm during the emerged to simulate a corner- group’s members. Though her says the administrators are a month ago. The pair connect- pandemic, meeting a stranger stone of the collegiate Jew- love interest lives in Canada, picky about who gets to join ed after discovering they both for dinner and drinks seems ish experience, hanging out about a four-hour drive from — “people who have mutual like yoga, traveling, museums like a distant memory. But that at Hillel, students from across her home, the two talk daily friends with us have preference, and have Cavalier King Charles doesn’t mean young Jews aren’t the country post memes, jokes and hope to meet up after the people who have a lot of friends Spaniel dogs. looking for — and finding — and discuss anything from quarantine. in the group have preference” They have now gone on a romance. While Orthodox Jews politics to Jewish identity and “Besides the fact that he’s — in order to foster a sense of number of virtual dates, in- who use matchmakers have interfaith dating. cute and he’s Jewish, he’s also community and accountability. cluding checking out an online seen their process go digital for “What popped into my head a stoner like me, which is im- “When people are in a group exhibit about fashion together the first time, other Jews who was there should be a group for portant but not a defining char- where they know a lot of peo- at the Smithsonian Museum might be more accustomed to dating” specifically, Raimi said. acteristic. He’s smart, he’s pre- ple they’re going to behave a and watching Netflix movies at online dating have seen pan- MeetJew University grew law,” she said. lot better and then it’s going to the same time. demic-specific platforms — one quickly, and Raimi has since MeetJew University isn’t keep the environment positive “Over FaceTime, we smile, we is even called CoronaCrush — added two spinoffs for older the only Facebook group for and loving,” he said. blow kisses to each other, we emerge to match the unusual age groups (MeetJew Universi- Jews looking to date during Online dating isn’t new, of look at each other and we just circumstances. ty caters to ages 18-26) as well the pandemic. There’s also course. There have been some stare at each other and it’s really Stockwell met her beau as a group for those looking to CoronaCrush, whose member- ups and downs, but overall fun, but we don’t know,” Dore- through MeetJew University make friends. His dating groups ship skew more religious and activity on the longstanding son said. “Who knows what it Dating, a Facebook group that now have more than 43,000 Israel-based. Co-founder Ian Jewish dating app J Swipe has will be like in person.” b Page 14 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 Legal Notices … Candle Lighting NOTICE OF FORMATION INTERSTATE 5987 SPRINGWATER ROAD, DANSVILLE, State has been designated as its agent FREIGHT MANAGEMENT LLC NY 14437. The purpose of the Company and the post office address to which the Interstate Freight Management is any lawful purpose. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any May 8, 8:01 — May 15, 8:09 process against it is: the LLC, 468 South LLC filed Articles of Organization with NOTICE OF FORMATION the NY Department of State on March Pearl, Suite A, Canandaigua, NY 14424. Kleehammer Communications 18, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 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77Virginia Ave Rochester, NY 14611. The NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. OTHER purpose of the Company is Counseling NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Services and Mental Health. RDG PAYROLL + SERVICES LLC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY served. SSNY shall mail copy of process office is located in Monroe County. The Notice of Organization: Articles of Organization filed with Notice of formation of limited liability to the LLC at 4820 Lake Road, Brockport, Secretary of State has been designated company (LLC). Name: L2P Westside DD & L HOLDINGS, LLC was filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/3/20. Office NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful activities. as agent upon whom process against it LLC. Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 3/30/20. Office: Monroe County. location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- may be served and a copy of any process Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) NOTICE OF FORMATION SSNY designated as agent of the LLC ed as agent of LLC upon whom process on April 10, 2020. New York office loca- RL STEIN HOLDINGS LLC (the “LLC”) will be mailed to The LLC, 14 Horizon Hill, upon whom process may be served. PO against it may be served. SSNY shall mail tion: Monroe County. Principal business filed Articles of Organization with the Fairport, New York 14450. The purpose of address which SSNY shall mail any process copy of process to c/o the Company, 69B location: 312 State Street, Rochester, New York Department of State on FEB- the LLC is any lawful activity. against the LLC served upon it: 415 PARK Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, New York New York 14608. SSNY is designated as RUARY 11, 2020. Its office is located in AVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14607. Purpose is to 14534 Notice of Formation of agent upon whom process against the MONROE County. The Secretary of State engage in any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION IV HOLDINGS LLC LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy has been designated as agent of the TRYBE ECOTHERAPY, LLC of any such process to: 312 State Street, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Company upon whom process against it Articles of Organization filed with Rochester, New York 14608. LLC is to be 01/22/2020. Office location: Monroe SHADY BROOK HOLDINGS LLC may be served and a copy of any process Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/22/20. Office managed by one or more managers. LLC County. SSNY has been designated as SHADY BROOK HOLDINGS LLC filed shall be mailed to THE LLC, 1283 CONIFER location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- is organized to engage in any lawful Articles of Organization with New York agent upon whom process against may ed as agent of LLC upon whom process act or activity for which limited liability COVE LANE, WEBSTER, NY 14580. The State Department of State on March be served. SSNY shall mail process to: against it may be served. SSNY shall mail companies may be organized under the purpose of the Company is any lawful 10, 2020. Its office is located in Wayne IV HOLDINGS LLC, 81 PARK ACRE RD., copy of process to c/o the Company, 185 Limited Liability Company Law. purpose. County. The Secretary of State has been PITTSFORD, NEW YORK, 14534. All lawful Caroline Street, Rochester, New York NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION designated as agent of the Company 14620 NOTICE OF FORMATION AURELIA activities. upon whom it may be served and a copy MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability of any process shall be mailed to 10110 NOTICE OF FORMATION Articles of Organization filed with company. Name: Roxbury DB LLC (the NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY MINER ROAD, NORTH ROSE, NEW YORK, Escape Keys, LLC Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 04/09/2020. Of- Company). Articles of Organization filed 14516. The purpose of the Company is Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on fice location: Monroe County. SSNY des- with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on Jack Thomas Lawn Care, LLC filed any lawful purpose. 03/04/20. Office: Monroe County. SSNY ignated as agent of LLC upon whom pro- 03/18/20. NY office location: Monroe Articles of Organization with the NY designated as agent of the LLC upon cess against it may be served. SSNY shall County. SSNY is designated as agent upon Department of State on 4/3/2020. Its NOTICE OF FORMATION OF whom process against it may be served. mail copy of process to c/o the Company, office is located in Monroe County. The SLPF HOLDINGS LLC whom process against the Company may SSNY shall mail copy of process to the 3545 Buffalo Road, Suite 2, Rochester, be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any Secretary of State is designated as agent SLPF HOLDINGS LLC filed Articles of LLC, 4 Tippet Way, Pittsford, NY 14534. NY 14624 such process to: c/o the Company, 11 of the Company upon whom process Organization with New York State De- Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Roxbury Lane, Pittsford, New York 14534. partment of State on January 30, 2020. Its Jettison Property Management against it may be served, and a copy shall NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Company, LLC The Company is to be managed by one office is located in Monroe County. The be mailed to 1169 Winton Road South, BLUE CAR CAPITAL, LLC Jettison Property Management Secretary of State has been designated as or more managers. No members of the Rochester, NY 14618. Its purpose is any Blue Car Capital, LLC filed Articles Company, LLC filed Articles of Organi- agent of the Company upon whom it may Company shall be liable in their capacity lawful business. of Organization with NYS on April 6, zation with the New York Department be served and a copy of any process shall as members of the Company for debts, 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Ontario of State on 03/23/2020. Its office is lo- LEGAL NOTICE be mailed to 115 EAST AVENUE, HILTON, obligations or liabilities of the Company. County, New York. (2) The Secretary of cated in Monroe County. The Secretary NEW YORK, 14468. The purpose of the No member of the Company, solely by Notice of Formation of 492 Westside, State has been designated as its agent of State has been designated as agent reason of being a member, is an agent LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company Company is any lawful purpose. and the post office address to which the upon whom process against the Company of the Company for the purpose of its (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY Oc- Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF COUNTY business, and no member shall have the tober 22, 2004. Office location: 394 Brom- ROAD GROOM & BOARD, LLC process against it is: the LLC, 468 South process to 97 Park Avenue, Rochester, NY authority to act for the Company solely ley Road, Churchville, New York 14428. COUNTY ROAD GROOM & BOARD, Pearl, Suite A, Canandaigua, NY 14424. 14607. The purpose of the company is any by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ SSNY is designated agent upon whom LLC filed Articles of Organization with (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. lawful purpose. character of the Company: any and all process against the LLC may be served. New York State Department of State on NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Notice of Formation of The Eagle lawful activities. March 10, 2020. Its office is located in BLUE CAR FUNDS, LLC Steakhouse and Diner, LLC. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any pro- Monroe County. The Secretary of State Blue Car Funds, LLC filed Articles of Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) NOTICE OF FORMATION cess to The Company 394 Bromley Road, has been designated as agent of the Com- Organization with NYS on April 6, 2020. August 10, 2016. Office location: Monroe 5110 COUNTY ROAD 11, LLC has Churchville, New York 14428 COUNTY pany upon whom it may be served and (1) Its principal office is in Ontario Coun- County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC filed Articles of Organization with the OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To a copy of any process shall be mailed to ty, New York. (2) The Secretary of upon whom process against it may be Secretary of State on April 03, 2020. Its engage in any lawful act or activity.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 15

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Remembering throughout the United States from Israeli or US sources. the Kent State and around the world. On March 31, DEBKAfile re- Shooting on its The university is presenting vealed that Iran’s IRGC Al Qods a virtual commemoration ded- and Hizballah had relocated 50th Anniversary icated to the memory of the their Syrian HQ from the “Glass by MARCY OSTER four students on its website, House” in Damascus to the (JTA) — Fifty years ago today, which includes more informa- northern province of Aleppo. A on May 4, 1970, four students tion about the event and his new Iranian command center at Kent State University were aftermath and other virtual was set up at the Al Assad Mil- shot and killed by members of commemoration events. itary Academy some 7km south the Ohio National Guard during of central Aleppo to accommo- campus protests against the Syria Alleges date 2,000 armed men. Hizbal- Vietnam War. Israeli Aleppo Air lah was put in charge of secur- Three of the four students Strike from Iraq ing the compound with the help killed — Sandra Scheuer, Alli- of Iranian mobile Bavar-373 (istock) son Krause and Jeffrey Miller — Syrian security sources say anti-air batteries. were Jewish; the fourth victim an Israeli missile attack on a re- Western intelligence sources change adopted by the Legis- “The state of Texas has the was William Schroder. Krause search center and military base describe the “research center” lature in 2019 meant the Texas right to boycott boycotters in and Miller were protesters, in Aleppo on Monday night attacked as one of the facilities law no longer included individ- this instance,” he said. “Doing while Scheuer and Schroeder came from the US military gar- where Syrian developed chem- uals who supported the BDS so does not suppress protected were bystanders. rison at Al Tanf in southern ical weapons with the help of movement — Boycotts, Divest- speech or expression and sup- The tragic incident rever- Iraq. This was the fifth Israel at- Iranian scientists. ment and Sanctions. ports a long-established princi- berated well beyond the Kent tack in Syria in two weeks, they ©Debka The appeals court declined to ple of non-discrimination.” State campus in northeast Ohio, claimed. No comment as come weigh the merits of the statute. Appeals Court Edgar Saldivar, a senior staff Health Ministry Tosses Lawsuit attorney for the ACLU of Texas, Comes Out Against on Texas Law which helped challenge the law, Disposable Gloves said the lawsuit accomplished a Boycotting Israel major goal. On Tuesday, Israel’s Health AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A fed- “The 5th Circuit ruling today Ministry set guidelines regard- eral appeals court tossed out simply affirms that the Leg- ing the use of disposable gloves a lawsuit that alleged Texas islature’s retreat means Tex- to prevent the spread of COVID- violated free-speech rights with ans whose livelihood is depen- 19, Israel Hayom reported. a law banning government con- dent on government contracts In an internal letter sent by tracts for supporters of a boy- cannot be forced to disavow Professor Itamar Grotto and cott movement against Israel. their First Amendment right to Professor Sigal Sadetsky to hos- The ruling delivered Monday boycott,” Saldivar said. “The pitals and health funds, the by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court government cannot impose two noted that “use of gloves of Appeals overturned a 2019 ideological litmus tests or tell is not recommended due to the order from an Austin feder- Texans what issues they may or chance that the gloves will be al judge that had temporarily may not support as a condition contaminated.” blocked enforcement of the law. of hiring.” According to them, in a work A three-judge panel deter- Attorney General Ken Pax- situation where gloves are re- John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year- mined the legal challenge was ton praised the appeals court quired, such as when handling old runaway, kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was fa- moot, according to the Aus- for vacating the lower-court food or during treatments, tally shot by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University on May 4, 1970 tin American-Statesman. The injunction. (The News in Brief — Page 16) Legal Notices … NOTICE OF FORMATION Purpose: to practice the profession of will be mailed to The LLC, 230 Coldwater of Certificate of Formation on file with any process will be mailed to the LLC, JAHREAL & SONS, LLC filed Articles Nurse Practitioner in Pediatrics and Psy- Road, Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose DE Dept. of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, 4 Autumn View Estates, Rochester, NY of Organization on 04/14/2020. Its office chiatry. The Secretary of State of the of the LLC is any lawful activity. Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any purpose. 14622. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. is located in Monroe County. JERRELL State of New York has been designated NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DIXON has been designated as agent of as agent of the LLC upon whom process NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BEAVER CAMP HARRIS LLC Notice of Formation of Limited the company upon whom process against LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY against it may be served. SSNY shall mail Beaver Camp Harris LLC filed Arti- Liability Company (“LLC”) it may be served and a copy of any pro- a copy of any process to: 613 Pittsford Fayette Manlius, LLC filed Articles of cles of Organization with NYS on April 21, Name: 892 North Clinton Avenue, cess shall be mailed 95 HILLTOP RD ROCH- Victor Road, Pittsford, New York 14534 Organization with the NY Department of 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe ESTER, NY 14616. The purpose of the LLC. Articles of Organization filed with County, New York. (2) The Secretary of company is any and all lawful activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION State on 4/14/2020. Its office is located in the Secretary of State with the State of State has been designated as its agent Notice of formation of limited liability Monroe County. The Secretary of State New York (“SSNY”) on: April 17, 2020. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF and the post office address to which the company (LLC) L4-Linden Long Lake is designated as agent of the Company LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any Office Location: County of: Monroe. Prin- Legacy Property, LLC. Articles of Orga- Notice of formation of limited liability upon whom process against it may be process against it is: the LLC, 49 Pickford cipal Business Location: 81 Brookscrest nization filed with the Secretary of State company (LLC). Name: Readmount LLC. served, and a copy shall be mailed to Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) Purpose: Way, Rochester, New York 14611. Pur- of the State of New York (SSNY) on April Articles of Organization filed with Sec- 1657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Any lawful purpose. 16, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. pose: any and all lawful act or activity. retary of State of New York (SSNY) on Its purpose is any lawful business. The Secretary of State of the State of April 20, 2020. New York office location: SSNY designated as agent upon whom NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Monroe County. SSNY is designated as process against it may be served. Address Notice of Formation of New York has been designated as agent agent upon whom process against the to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process Limited Liability Company Sterling Ventures, LLC filed Articles of the LLC upon whom process against is 10 Hidden Creek Circle, Pittsford, NY of Organization with the NY Department LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a 1. Name of Limited Liability Company it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. of State on 4/15/2020. Its office is located copy of any such process to: 15 Emerald is DWELL ROCHESTER LLC. 2. Articles of any process to: 81 Brookscrest Way, Hill Circle, Fairport, NY 14450. LLC is to in Monroe County. The Secretary of State NOTICE OF FORMATION OF of Organization were filed by Depart- is designated as agent of the Company Rochester, New York 14611 be managed by one or more members. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LLC is organized to engage in any lawful ment of State of New York on APRIL 21, upon whom process against it may be Notice of formation of limited liabil- NOTICE OF FORMATION act or activity for which limited liability 2020. 3. County of Office: Monroe. 4. The served, and a copy shall be mailed to ity company (LLC). Name: Elementum 441 EAST LLC has filed Articles of Or- companies may be organized under the Company does not have a specific date of 1657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Funding LLC. Articles of Organization Its purpose is any lawful business. ganization with the Secretary of State on Limited Liability Company Law. dissolution. 5. The Secretary of State has filed with Secretary of State of New York April 29, 2020. Its office is located in Mon- NOTICE OF FORMATION been designated as agent upon whom LEGAL NOTICE (SSNY) on April 21, 2020. New York office roe County. The Secretary of State has BRW of Perinton HC LLC has filed location: Monroe County. Principal busi- process against the Company may be Notice of formation of limited liability been designated as agent upon whom Articles of Organization with the Secre- ness location: 200 Kilbourn Road, Roches- served. The address to which process shall company (LLC) Sol Green Energy LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the process against it may be served and a tary of State (SOS) on 4/20/20. Its office is ter, New York 14618. SSNY is designated be mailed: 1930 E. MAIN STREET, ROCH- located in Monroe County. The SOS has as agent upon whom process against Secretary of State of the State of New copy of any process will be mailed to The ESTER, NEW YORK 14609. 6. Purpose: Any York (SSNY) on April 16, 2020. Office been designated as agent upon whom the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, lawful activity. location: 142 W. Sawyer Place, Roches- process against it may be served and a copy of any such process to: 200 Kilbourn ter, New York 14619, Monroe County. Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose copy of any process will be mailed to The Road, Rochester, New York 14618. LLC is NOTICE OF APPLICATION SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon of the LLC is any lawful activity. LLC, 45 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604. to be managed by one or more members. FOR AUTHORITY The purpose of the LLC is any lawful whom process against it may be served. LLC is organized to engage in any lawful Riedman Properties Elmira, LLC SSNY shall mail copy of process to 142 NOTICE OF FORMATION activity. act or activity for which limited liability (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary W. Sawyer Place, Rochester, New York FREDORA LLC has filed Articles of Or- Notice of Formation of companies may be organized under the of State (NYSS): 4/23/20. LLC organized in 14619. Purpose: to engage in any lawful ganization with the Secretary of State on Professional Service Limited Limited Liability Company Law. act or activity. Liability Company (“PLLC”) DE 12/20/19. NY office location: Monroe April 29, 2020. Its office is located in Mon- Name: Zendi Moldenhauer Nurse NOTICE OF FORMATION County. NYSS designated as agent of LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION OF roe County. The Secretary of State has Practitioner in Pediatrics and Psy- IMAGINATION HEADQUARTERS LLC upon whom process against it may be ZENITH INDUSTRIES, LLC been designated as agent upon whom has filed Articles of Organization with the chiatry, PLLC. Articles of Organization served. NYSS shall mail copy of process Zenith Industries, LLC filed Articles process against it may be served and a filed with the Secretary of State with the Secretary of State on April 21, 2020. Its of Organization with NYS on 4/28/2020. c/o The LLC, 45 East Ave, Rochester, NY copy of any process will be mailed to The State of New York (“SSNY”) on: March 25, office is located in Monroe County. The (1) Its principal office is in Monroe Coun- 2020. Office Location: County of Monroe. Secretary of State has been designated 14604. Address of office maintained in ty, NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Principal Business Location: 613 Pittsford as agent upon whom process against it jurisdiction of formation: 1675 South designated as agent upon whom process Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose Victor Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. may be served and a copy of any process State St, Ste B, Dover, DE 19901. Copy against it may be served and a copy of of the LLC is any lawful activity. Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020

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(Continued from Page 15) Tehran Approves the high infection rate in the for both peoples.” ect was also selected as an hon- health care providers should Currency Change country. “We ask that the platform oree in the Best Use of Photogra- “be strict about switching the from Rial to Some observers, including … make clear what a compre- phy category, the company said. gloves often and between each the head of the Israeli intelli- hensive effort to achieve a two- The Webby Awards are pre- and every client.” Toman as Economy gence agency Mossad, say the state solution to the Israeli-Pal- sented annually, celebrating the The use of disposable gloves Struggles infection rates in Iran, Iraq, estinian conflict should look best online projects including by the general public does not Syria and Lebanon are much like under a future Democratic websites, interactive advertis- provide protection from con- higher, and that these Middle administration, which includes ing, online media, and mobile tamination and may even do Eastern countries are hiding a commitment to security, de- device content. Nominees and the opposite, the experts ex- their real numbers. mocracy and human rights,” it winners are selected by a jury of plained, despite professionals’ continued. specialists and a people’s choice recommendations. Former Democrat Signees included former award is also handed out for Israel Hayom noted that the National Security Obama administration staffers, each category. Health Ministry has avoided Officials Call for such as former Deputy National For Tribal Quest, MyHeritage publishing guidelines for the Security Advisor and deputy di- employees volunteered for ex- public on this issue. Tougher Stance rector of the CIA Avril Haines, cavations to distant locations Meanwhile, in schools, on Israel and former Deputy National including Eastern Siberia, sa- stores, and other locations, (JNS) — Ahead of U.S. elec- Security Advisor for Strategic vannas in Namibia, jungles in people are using gloves in a tions in November, the Dem- Communications Ben Rhodes. Papua New Guinea, and the Am- A view inside the Iranian Parliament. way which does not protect (Mahdi Sigari via Wikimedia Commons) ocratic Party platform should Clinton staffers Martin Indyk, azon rainforest. The project’s against germs, may spread include language critical of who served as U.S. Ambassador goal was to document the lives, them, and may even contam- (JNS) — Iran’s parliament Israel, express sympathy with to Israel, and Strobe Talbott, histories, and traditions of isolat- inate the environment. passed legislation to cut four the Palestinians and call for who was deputy secretary of ed tribal communities, through The Environmental Protec- zeros from the rial after a steep a two-state solution to the Is- state, also signed the letter. videos, still photography, and tion Ministry’s Deputy Direc- drop in the value of the curren- raeli-Palestinian conflict, said interviews. tor-General Asaf Yazdi turned cy, Iranian state media reported more than 30 former national MyHeritage Project This year’s Webby Awards, to Professor Sadetsky, who on Monday. security officials in a letter Documenting dubbed Webbys From Home, heads the Health Ministry’s The bill paves the way for to the Democratic National Remote Tribes will culminate with a ceremony Public Health Services, re- Iran to change its currency from Committee. “to honor this year’s best Inter- questing that “guidelines be the rial to the toman, according The letter, first reported by Grabs Webby net work and the outstanding issued to the public, by the to a Reuters report. The toman HuffPost on Monday, stated that Award Nomination individuals and organizations Public Health Services, stating will be set as 10,000 rials. the party should oppose Israeli A web project document- who are using the Internet to that disposable gloves should “The bill to remove four zeros annexation of the West Bank ing the lives of isolated tribes respond to the incredible diffi- no longer be used.” He noted from the national currency was and Israel building settlements around the world, created by Is- culties imposed by the coronavi- that in addition to the other approved by lawmakers,” Iran’s in the area — a concern ahead raeli genealogy company MyHer- rus pandemic,” the International issues involved, disposable Students News Agency ISNA of Israel expecting to annex itage Ltd., has been nominated Academy of Digital Arts and gloves also contaminate the reported. Iran state TV said parts of Judea and Samaria this for a Webby Award for corporate Sciences, the organization be- environment. the Central Bank of Iran will summer. social responsibility, MyHeritage hind the award, said in a recent According to him, people change the currency over a pe- “Past party platforms have announced Saturday. statement. b who use disposable gloves do riod of two years. rightly stated a commitment to Called Tribal Quest, the proj- ©Calcalistech not throw them in the garbage. The move to change the cur- Israel’s security and Professor Hagai Levine, rency is a result of the strug- included condemna- Chairman of the Israeli Asso- gling Iranian economy under tions of threats and ciation of Public Health Phy- U.S. sanctions. actions against our sicians, “the unnecessary use Separately, Iran’s coronavi- ally,” stated their let- of gloves by the public may in- rus death toll grew by 74 to ter. “Those platforms crease the risk of transmission 6,277 over the past 24 hours, have, however, also of contamination, including the Health Ministry said on been nearly silent on coronavirus, due to the lack of Monday, reported Reuters. the rights of Pales- handwashing with soap and Iran was scheduled to open tinians, on Israeli ac- water.” mosques across the country, tions that undermine The Health Ministry refused President Hassan Rouhani said those rights and the to respond to Israel Hayom’s on Sunday. prospects for a two- request for comment. Iran has moved to ease state solution, and on ©Israel National News lockdown measures, despite the need for security The MyHeritage team in Tel Aviv. (Shmulik Elbo) Legal Notices …

LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF Chase View Road, Fairport, New York cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) the Secretary of State shall mail a copy FORMATION OF LIMITED 14450. The purpose of the business is any State has been designated as agent of the The Secretary of State has been designat- of any process against the Company ser- LIABILITY COMPANY: lawful business. Company upon whom process against it ed as its agent and the post office address viced upon him or her is 1000 University The name of the Limited Liability Com- may be served, and a copy of any process to which the Secretary of State shall mail Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester, New York pany is MCA Gravel Road LLC. The NOTICE OF FILING OF shall be mailed to 777 Edgewood Avenue, APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 14607. 5. The character and purpose of Articles of Organization were filed with OF TWO YELLOW CARS, LLC Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business. 205 Indigo Creek Drive, Rochester, NY the business of the Company shall be the New York Secretary of State on April Name: Two Yellow Cars, LLC (LLC). 14626. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. real estate development and any other 29, 2020. The office of the Company is Authority filed with NY Secretary of State NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 777 located in the County of Monroe, State purpose permitted by New York law. (SSNY): 04/08/20. LLC organized in Dela- PANORAMA PROPERTIES, LLC NOTICE of New York. The New York Secretary ware: 04/06/20. NY office location: Ontar- 777 Panorama Properties, LLC filed of State is designated as the agent of Not. of Form. of Hobbes Homes LLC, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF io County. SSNY designated as agent of Articles of Organization with NYS on LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY the Company upon whom process in LLC upon whom process against it may September 17, 2014. (1) Its principal office Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) (Under Section 206 of the Limited any action or proceeding against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The 05/01/2020. Office location: Monroe be served, and the address to which the to The LLC, 468 South Pearl St., Suite A, Secretary of State has been designated as County. SSNY designated as agent of Liability Company Law) 1. The name of Secretary of State shall mail a copy of pro- Canandaigua, NY 14424. Address of office its agent and the post office address to LLC upon whom process against it may the limited liability company is Arc at cess in any action or proceeding against maintained in jurisdiction of formation: which the Secretary of State shall mail a be served. SSNY may mail a copy of Union Managing Member, LLC (the the Company served upon him or her is 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, copy of any process against it is: the LLC, “Company”). 2. The Articles of Organi- 25 Chase View Road, Fairport, New York any process to LLC. 2101 Westfall Road, Delaware 19901. Copy of Certificate of 1001 Lexington Avenue, Rochester, NY zation of the Company were filed with 14450. The purpose of the business is any 14606. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any law- Formation on file with Delaware Secre- the Secretary of State of the State of New lawful business. tary of State, 401 Federal Street, Suite ful purpose. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF York on May 4, 2020. 3. The office of the 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF ONSITE READY MIX LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Company within the State of New York is FORMATION OF LIMITED lawful purpose. Onsite Ready Mix LLC filed Articles LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY in the County of Monroe. 4. The Secretary LIABILITY COMPANY: of Organization with NYS on April 30, Obsidian Manufacturing LLC filed (Under Section 206 of the Limited Lia- The name of the Limited Liability Com- 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe of State of the State of New York is here- Articles of Organization with the NY bility Company Law) 1. The name of the pany is MCA Wash LLC. The Articles of County, New York. (2) The Secretary of by designated as agent of the Company Department of State on April 10, 2020. Its State has been designated as its agent limited liability company is Arc at Union, for the purpose of service of process. The Organization were filed with the New office is located in Monroe County. The and the post office address to which the LLC (the “Company”). 2. The Articles of address to which the Secretary of State York Secretary of State on April 29, 2020. Secretary of State has been designated Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any Organization of the Company were filed The office of the Company is located in as agent of the Company upon whom shall mail a copy of any process against the County of Monroe, State of New process against it is: the LLC, 388 Mason with the Secretary of State of the State of the Company serviced upon him or her is process against it may be served, and a Road, Fairport, NY 14450. (3) Purpose: York. The New York Secretary of State copy of any process shall be mailed to New York on May 4, 2020. 3. The office 1000 University Avenue, Suite 500, Roch- is designated as the agent of the Com- Any lawful purpose. 777 Edgewood Avenue, Rochester, NY of the Company within the State of New ester, New York 14607. 5. The character pany upon whom process in any action 14618. The purpose of the Company is NOTICE OF FORMATION York is in the County of Monroe. 4. The and purpose of the business of the Com- or proceeding against it may be served, any lawful business. OF GREENLIGHT-LECHASE and the address to which the Secretary CONSTRUCTION, LLC Secretary of State of the State of New pany shall be to act as managing member of State shall mail a copy of process in 7209CORD32 LLC filed Articles of Greenlight-LeChase Construction, York is hereby designated as agent of or general partner of an entity that will any action or proceeding against the Organization with the NY Department LLC filed Articles of Organization with the Company for the purpose of service own real estate and any other purpose Company served upon him or her is 25 of State on April 10, 2020. Its office is lo- NYS on April 27, 2020. (1) Its principal of process. The address to which permitted by New York law.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 17

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Religious Jewish men pray keeping distance from each other outside their closed synagogue in Netanya on April 23 as Israel imposed measures to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. French Rabbi Philippe Haddad prepares for a Shabbat service via videoconference at the Copernic (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) Synagogue in Paris, March 28. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) with the highest virus infec- community there was hit with ease and because most French help alleviate their loneliness, of Agadir reportedly served as tion rates correlate closely with shocking news on March 16: Jews live in Paris or Strasbourg, a Dutch-based company owned a vector for infection. Among where Jews live: Pennsylvania, Michele Sciama, a leader and where infection rates are higher by an Israeli-Dutch business- the dead are two relatives of Illinois, California, Michigan former head of the Jewish com- than in the rest of the country. person sent a crane to the fa- Israeli Labor Party leader Amir and Florida. Together, these munity in Milan, had died of In March, Joel Mergui, a cility to lift family members Peretz. Morocco’s total death eight states are home to about the virus. physician and president of the to residents’ windows so they rate is 180. 75% of America’s 7 million or About a dozen or so Italian Consistoire organization that could visit without compromis- so Jews. American Jews are Jews are known to have died runs French synagogues, Jew- ing safety. Argentina also disproportionately older, of COVID-19, which has killed ish schools and kosher certi- About 40,000 Jews live in About 10 Jews have died from with 26 percent over age 65, ac- 29,000 Italians. The Italian Jew- fication, gave a tearful radio the Netherlands in a popula- the coronavirus in Argentina cording to a 2018 study, making ish community repurposed a interview from a hospital ICU tion of 17 million. The country out of a national death toll of them at higher risk for death if community website to memo- to Radio J, a Jewish station, has more than 4,500 reported about 260. With some 200,000 they contract COVID-19. rialize the dead and has found urging the community to abide deaths in total. Jews, Argentina is home to the In some states where gover- other ways of maintaining by social distancing. He since largest Jewish community in nors are reopening businesses, Jewish community online. In has been released from the hos- Morocco Latin America. Most live in like Texas, Georgia and South Milan, the community orga- pital. Among the community’s Though home to just 1,500- Buenos Aires, which is also the Carolina, synagogues are tak- nized the delivery of food and deaths from the virus is Andre 2,000 Jews among a population country’s COVID-19 epicenter. ing a more cautious approach medicine to homebound older Touboul, a Chabad rabbi who of 36 million, the community The country of 40 million has and listening to health author- Jews. About 20,000 Jews live in led one of France’s most presti- has lost a staggering 1% of its been on lockdown since March ities who advise against re- Italy, with the largest commu- gious high schools in Paris. population — at least 15 deaths 20, helping keep the national opening. nity in Rome followed by Milan — after a wedding in the city infection rate relatively low. b Among the American Jews and Florence. Netherlands who have died from the corona- Unlike the rest of Europe, the virus: Grammy and Emmy-win- France Netherlands never ordered a ning singer-songwriter Adam France’s Jewish community, coronavirus lockdown. A Jew- Schlesinger; the Novomisker estimated at 500,00, is the larg- ish old-age home in Amster- rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow; est in Europe. It’s not clear how dam, Beth Shalom, which has longtime Brooklyn politician many are among the country’s its own synagogue, community Noach Dear; Stanley Chera, a 25,000 coronavirus deaths, but center and adjacent indepen- real estate mogul and friend the Jewish section of the Thi- dent-living residence, took a of President Donald Trump ais cemetery near Paris that similar approach. It stuck to its who was a pillar of the Syrian had been built to last for years open-door policy until March Jewish community; “Saturday has filled up over the past few 20, even as the country’s infec- Night Live” music producer Hal weeks and is nearing capacity. tion rate began climbing. As a Willner; actor Mark Blum; and The French association of result, it became the worst-hit sociologist William Helmreich. Jewish doctors, AMIF, told Jewish institution, reporting 26 Haaretz that the Jewish infec- deaths to date out of a popula- Italy tion rate appeared to be dis- tion of 120. About three weeks after the proportionately high, possibly Now Beth Shalom is in lock- Andre Azoulay, adviser to the Moroccan king, poses for a picture at the ‘Bayt start of Italy’s major corona- because Purim celebrations down, with many residents Dakira’ (House of Memory) Jewish museum, in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal city virus outbreak, the Jewish served as a vector for the dis- confined to their rooms. To of Essaouira on December 14, 2019 (FADEL SENNA / AFP) Current Events … NYPD Breaks Up Second Overcrowded Jewish Funeral in Brooklyn in a Week (JNS) — The order prohibits gatherings of being followed.” shortly after and issued a sum- New York City more than 10 people, but a Police only allowed family mons for disorderly conduct Police Depart- video from the scene shows on the block; however, a large after he was accused of push- ment interrupted dozens of people attending crowd gathered to watch, forc- ing a police official, according another crowd- the afternoon funeral proces- ing officers to order the van to a police spokeswoman. ed Jewish fu- sion for a rabbi and Holocaust carrying the casket to leave The confrontation came two neral procession survivor in the Borough Park the scene. That led to alterca- days after New York Mayor on Thursday in neighborhood. tions caught on video between Bill de Blasio upset many with Brooklyn, N.Y., An NYPD source told Ye- the Chassidic onlookers and a series of tweets about the the second one shiva World News that police police officers. Jewish community after hun- in a week, in an were told that a vehicle car- Footage shows officers in dreds gathered in the Wil- effort to crack rying a coffin would stop in protective masks chasing the liamsburg neighborhood in down on so- front of a home in Borough van that carried the body, Brooklyn for the funeral of cial-distancing Park so the family of the de- with the officers heard shout- another rabbi. The synagogue violators amid ceased could recite mourning ing at dozens of people march- that held the gathering later A view of New York City police officers dispersing the coronavirus prayers in front of the vehicle. ing behind it to get out of the apologized for the crowd. a crowded funeral procession for a Chassidic rabbi pandemic. Sgt. Jessica McRorie said the street and onto the sidewalk. COVID-19 has to date been and Holocaust survivor in the Borough Park neigh- New York’s NYPD was present “to ensure A 17-year-old boy was taken linked to nearly 19,000 deaths borhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 30. (Screenshot) shelter-in-place social-distancing rules were into custody, but released in New York. b Page 18 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020

Jewish History in Perspective … The End of Innocence by NADAV SHRAGAI themselves “Palestinians,” and the April 19, 1920, on a train on his way weapons the rioters used 100 years ago to the San Remo Conference, Chaim haven’t changed, either: knives, iron Weizmann wrote to his wife, Vera, who pipes, rocks, and sticks. was living in London: “My dear, the It is worth noting that in 1920 no use most terrible, awful thing has happened was made of guns. A report by a British to us: A pogrom in Jerusalem, with all committee of inquiry set up to probe the the accompanying signs of a pogrom… riots described one of the characteristics I am tired and shattered and exhausted of Palestinian terrorism, which would and nauseated by it all. If the bayonets remain in the years to come: “All the of the English had not stopped us, we evidence indicates that these attacks would have overcome the Arabs on the were of a cowardly and traitorous na- first day, but the English dismantled ture. Most of them were against the the weapon of our self-defense and im- elderly, women, and children. Most were prisoned our people, including Vladimir attacked from the back.” Yevgenyvich (Jabotinsky).” Two weeks earlier, on the first day The Creation of ‘Interests’ of the week of Passover, 1920, the riots So what, if anything, has changed broke out in Jerusalem and its environs. in the 100 years since then? Two days Today, they would be considered not after Israel’s 72nd Independence Day, much more than midsize terrorist at- Nabi Musa festival, Jerusalem, 1920. (Archives: Wikimedia Commons) Palestinian terrorism is not the existen- tacks. “Only” seven people were killed tial threat it used to be, but it can still and 200 injured. Still, it was the start as the national state of the Jewish peo- What happened in those days came disrupt our lives. The terrorist organiza- of a new era; the opening shot of the ple, were sown. This worldview is will- as a complete and utter shock. They tions and many of those who carry out Israeli-Arab conflict, and the first major ing to accept Judaism only as a dhimmi, brought an end to innocence and, much terrorism have not changed their goal: non-criminal incident of an ethnoreli- a protected subservient religion, and not more importantly, a start to the forma- The eradication of the state of Israel. gious nature. as a sovereign entity in an independent tion of an orderly military force and the And that goal still rests on the world- A month earlier, Yosef Trumpeldor state. realization that the organization HaSho- view that Jews are not among the groups and five of his comrades had been killed mer would no longer be enough. Eliyahu entitled to self-determination because at Tel Hai, but that battle had more to do Illusions Smashed Golomb faced off with HaShomer and Judaism is a religion, not a nationality. with the Arabs’ desire to fight against The events opened the eyes of many convinced David Ben-Gurion that it was Most of the expressions of reconcil- how Britain and France were splitting Jews who had made the mistake of be- time to build a much more extensive and iation from the Arabs, including the up the region and less to do with Jew- lieving that the dispute between Arabs orderly defensive force. peace treaties, were not the result of ish-Arab relations. and Jews over the land would be limited As a result, after 1920, defense forces any recognition of our rights, but rather It’s not that budding nationalism and to the “new” Jews, the ones who were in various towns and communities orga- recognition of our power. At their base, fears of Zionism and aliyah hadn’t been arrived from abroad, whereas the veter- nized and formed the Haganah. It was they are the result of interests and the simmering among the Arabs already, but an residents who had lived among Arabs still a small, scattered, and weak orga- understanding that what the Jews built in 1920 they came into focus and took for years would be spared any evil. nization, and would become effective here will not be erased, that it’s too late on clear political and religious angles. Historian Joseph Klausner noted that only a decade later. But 1920 marked to turn the ship around and that it is That same year saw the foundations for “Among the casualties and wounded the beginning. better to have peaceful relations and co- the religious aspect of the national con- were Jews of every ethnic background, The terminology changed, too. The operation with Israel than be an enemy. flict, especially on the Arab side under of all classes, of all parties, Sephardim writer Moshe Smilansky, for example, That is what happened with Egypt and the leadership of the Grand Mufti Hajj and Ashkenazim … devout rabbis and believed that the conflict was one “be- Jordan as well as with Saudi Arabia and Amin al-Husseini. educated freethinkers. The enemy did tween two peoples.” He and his friends various African countries and Persian Husseini elevated the status of the not differentiate. Let us, therefore, stop in the Jewish Peace Alliance erred in Gulf states. There’s no love story here, mosques on the Temple Mount, using differentiating between ourselves…” thinking that it would be possible to rather a story of mutual interests. Will them for his political purposes and The illusion that a foreign power establish a bi-national state in the Land it be different in the future? inventing the blood libel “Al-Aqsa is in could be trusted to defend us was also of Israel that would be based on what In most cases, relations between peo- danger,” which even then falsely ac- smashed. “We were told by the govern- the cultures had in common. Reality ples that are based on a combination cused the Jews of intending to demolish ment that nothing bad would befall the came knocking. In 1920, Jerusalem of interests and proximity will stand the mosques on the Mount. The riots Hebrew public, because the government saw the first calls of “Itbah al-Yahoud” the tests of time and history. But we and the libel spurred the growth of the would keep order and peace in the Land, (Slaughter the Jews) or “Palestine is our shouldn’t count on that combination. Palestinian national movement. In 1920 and we believed it,” Ha’aretz stated in an country — the Jews our dogs” — calls The 100 years that have passed have the seeds of the modern-day Palestinian editorial that threw off the naiveté in the that are still used. taught us, sadly, that over time, the eth- outlook, which does not recognize Israel face of the new reality. The Arabs of the land began to call (Innocence — Page 20)

History … A Recently Uncovered Letter Explains Why ‘Anti- Semitism’ Wasn’t in the First Oxford English Dictionary

by PJ GRISAR were then probably very new to fit them all in. Many, includ- that the new century was “to On July 5, 1900, James Mur- in English use, and not thought ing the then-more ubiquitous usher in the reign of righteous- ray, founding editor of the likely to be more than passing word “anti-slavery” did not re- ness. How the devil must have Oxford English Dictionary, nonce-words [i.e. a word coined ceive their own entries, Murray chuckled at our fond & foolish penned a letter to Claude Mon- for a single occasion], & hence noted. dream!” The National Library, tefiore explaining a conspicu- they did not receive treatment “Would that Anti-semitism working with the Oxford Uni- ous absence in an upcoming in a separate article,” Murray had had no more than a fleet- versity Press, was unable to volume compiled some years wrote to Montefiore, the found- ing interest!” Murray wrote. recover Montefiore’s side of the before: An entry for the word er of the Anglo-Liberal Judaism “The closing years of the 19th correspondence, but Murray’s “anti-Semitism.” The oldest movement. “Probably if we had c. have shown, alas! that much response shows how language hatred did appear in the first to do that post now, we should of Christianity is only a tem- evolves, noting that at the time edition, but only within a list have to make Anti-semite [sic] porary whitewash over brutal of the “anti” volume’s compi- of “anti” combinations. a main word, and add ‘hence savager y.” lation “The man in the street In the letter, Murray ex- Anti-semitic, Anti-semitism.’” Murray, a liberal like Mon- would have said Anti-Jewish.” plained that, in hindsight, “an- The National Library of Israel tefiore, went on to lament the Murray was recently the sub- The first page of James Murray’s ti-Semitism” and its derivatives recently uncovered Murray’s dashed hopes of the 1848 rev- ject of a 2019 biopic, “The Pro- letter to Claude Montefiore, noting deserved their own entries as, letter, which went on to elabo- olutions and the decade of the fessor and the Madman,” in where he can find “anti-Semite” and unfortunately, they had only rate that there was such a glut 1850s “that we had left igno- which he was portrayed by Mel “anti-Semitism” among the “com- grown more relevant with time. of “anti” words, that “much rance, superstition and brute Gibson. b pounds of anti.” “Anti-semite and its family violence had to be employed” force behind us.” He’d hoped ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Page 19

Analysis … China’s Coronavirus Cover-up and The Implications for Israel by ARIEL BEN SOLOMON other countries, including Israel, to the (JNS) — As evidence mounts crisis, “Israel has to be very careful in that China hid the initial outbreak its relations with Beijing.” in Wuhan, the question for Israel is This, he said, is because the Chinese whether it will be convinced — or can decide whether or not to “allow forced — to scale back ties as tensions North Korea to transfer sensitive tech- with America escalate. nology to Israel’s adversaries,” though Growing calls for an investigation he noted that China tries not to leave into China’s handling and possible fingerprints as to its involvement in cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak such transfers. have observers debating the potential In addition, he said, claims that implications for both Israeli and U.S. China is “taking over” the Haifa port policy on China. are overblown. In Israel, there was concern over “The Chinese did not take over the Chinese penetration of key areas of the Haifa port. They are building an ex- economy even before the pandemic. tension of it,” he said, though he added China is Israel’s second-largest trading that “nevertheless, this project was a partner after the United States, with result of careless processes within Is- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Chinese president Xi Jinping, in Beijing on March $11.5 billion in annual trade, according 21, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach / GPO rael’s bureaucracy.” to data gathered by Bloomberg. Howev- Great care must be taken when deal- er, in the aftermath of the global coro- said Witte, is to take the initiative. tary of State Mike Pompeo and former ing with China, for several reasons, navirus pandemic the United States is “If Washington sees that Jerusalem national security adviser John Bolton, said Inbar likely to increase its pressure on Israel has taken sufficient precautions not have warned that the United States will “We should be careful in allowing in this regard, some experts believe. only regarding Israel’s national secu- limit intelligence sharing if Israel does Chinese firms linked to the government Carice Witte, the founder and exec- rity but also what the U.S. considers it not restrict Chinese investment in the to control some of our infrastructure utive director of the Sino-Israel Global own security issues, it may see no need country. There was even a report that projects. Only recently [did] Israel es- Network & Academic Leadership (SIG- to pressure Israel regarding a range the U.S. Navy would stop its longtime tablish an inter-ministerial committee NAL), told JNS, “Unless at the end of of fields where we are working with operations in the Haifa port if the Chi- to deal with foreign investment in sen- this Israel has a comprehensive plan China, from technology to infrastruc- nese company took over its operation. sitive parts of our economy.” ready for its relations with China that ture to academic research,” she said. However, according to Efraim Inbar, Furthermore, said Inbar, “dealings addresses U.S. concerns regarding Isra- In 2015, Israel extended a 25-year offer president of the Jerusalem Institute for with Chinese entities might have prob- el-China cooperation, it is highly likely to the state-controlled Shanghai Inter- Strategic Studies, despite the fact that lematic political consequences.” that due to the fallout of the virus, the national Port Group to operate its Haifa China is an authoritarian state with There is increasing confidence that U.S. will ask Israel to limit its dealings port, and Chinese investment in Israeli no scruples or moral constraints and the coronavirus pandemic began in a with China.” hi-tech has also spiked in recent years. may well have covered up the initial laboratory in Wuhan, China, multiple The only way Israel can prevent this, Senior U.S. officials, including Secre- outbreak, delaying the response of (Implications — Page 20)

Current Events … It’s Time to Talk About Democratizing Jewish Philanthropy by LILA CORWIN BERMAN have been asking whether PHILADELPHIA (JTA) —Well American Jewish philanthro- before the pandemic, American py, instead of eroding American political life was plagued by democracy, could help rebuild questions about how power and it. Now that question is un- resources should be distribut- avoidable. If American Jewish ed. Always a matter of life or philanthropic leaders embrace death for some Americans, now a new set of norms and knowl- the answers to these questions edge oriented around the proj- about whether our democracy ect of democracy, perhaps they is strong enough to protect its can forge a new course that will members have existential ram- strengthen democratic values ifications for countless Ameri- and practices. cans. Notably, as we have seen What would that mean? case after case of our federal Replacing the norms of ven- government failing at this task, ture capital and investment some voices have suggested we strategies with practices of look toward philanthropy as a democratic participation, for stand in or simply the answer. one. Participatory grantmak- Historically, philanthropic en- ing, a method to empower the deavors have bolstered public people affected by philanthrop- Colleagues discussing graphs; Lila Corwin Berman (Getty Images; Courtesy of Berman) life and fostered democratic ic decisions by giving them a reform in myriad ways, from es and procedures. For exam- and practices. In this way, it dence on the wealth of a very voice in philanthropic solutions helping to enact protections ple, historian Nancy MacLean resembles the larger field of few. Both trends have made and capital distribution, would for vulnerable populations to has carefully tracked the ways American philanthropy, and American Jewish philanthropy offer one way to guide philan- establishing research, educa- that the Koch brothers’ philan- the even larger field of U.S. reliant on policies and struc- thropy toward democracy. Its tional and cultural institutions. thropic gifts have influenced political and economic life in tures of inequality. Even as they practices pull power away from Just think of the thousands of judicial appointments and opin- the final decades of the 20th work to circulate economic cap- a wealthy elite and take seri- public libraries that would not ions, operating well outside of century and the beginning of ital to nonprofits and grantees, ously the fact, enshrined in tax exist absent Andrew Carnegie’s public view. the 21st century. Jewish philanthropic institu- policy, that the American public philanthropic largesse. My historical research shows The two most important tions pursue strategies that not is the biggest single shareholder Yet American history also that over the past 50 years, trends in American Jewish only rely on wealth concentra- in all philanthropic wealth. supplies us with examples of American Jewish philanthro- philanthropy over the last half tion but also perpetuate and If American Jewish philan- philanthropy undermining de- py has steadily moved against century are its embrace of en- naturalize that concentration. thropy is serious about not just mocracy by eroding its process- the grain of democratic values dowment building and depen- Well before today, we should (Philanthropy — Page 20) Page 20 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 7, 2020

Business … Intel Acquires Public Transport Journey Planner Moovit in $900 Million Deal by CHARLIE OSBORNE close” to being signed for Intel and iOS. The app can be used to $131.5 million through five reductions to the use of public (JTA) — Intel has snapped up to purchase Moovit App Global plan journeys on public trans- funding rounds. The latest transport worldwide caused by mobile transport firm Moovit, Ltd for $1 billion. port in over 3000 cities and Series D round took place in the coronavirus outbreak. In an acquisition that builds upon Intel has now confirmed the offers maps, timetables, live February 2018. Previous inves- a blog post, the company said the company’s previous pur- deal for roughly $900 million, directions, and alerts to dis- tors include Intel, BRM Capital, that the On-Demand Transit chase of autonomous driving or $840 million net of Intel Cap- ruption reported by users. The Rainfall Ventures, and Gemini platform, a transit changes de- company Mobileye. ital equity gain. app is used by over 775 million Israel Ventures. ployment tracker, can now be Over the weekend, local The firm’s Moovit software users in countries including the In March, the Israeli startup used to ensure essential work- media publication Calcalist re- is a mobile travel planning ap- UK, India, and Singapore. made some changes to its busi- ers have access to emergency ported that the deal is “very plication available on Android Moovit has previously raised ness model in light of drastic transport during the crisis. b

Philanthropy (Continued from Page 19) providing a lifeline to existing institutions. search and scholarship about democracy in favor of wealth lobbying for policy reform and institutions but making sure its Unfortunately, in the case it. To do so, its institutions, and power concentrations. deciding to oppose tax policies work supports our communi- of Jewish philanthropy, much including private family foun- Of course, American Jewish that may appear beneficial to ty’s greatest needs, those with like American philanthropy dations, would open their his- philanthropy operates in a po- philanthropic capital growth power would do well to invite more generally, its knowledge torical archives to scholars, litical and economic landscape but in substance eviscerate de- others into their process start- base has tended to be driven by and its leaders would practice structured by the American mocracy and the public good. ing now. practical and applied questions, radical transparency, accepting state, which includes the elect- The problems of inequality Second, Jewish philanthropic such as whether a program is that they should value the light ed and non-elected bodies that — accelerated and amplified institutions could invest in new achieving desired ends. Often of inquiry over the allure of make policy. Even if it reformed by the pandemic — threaten forms of knowledge in the inter- it has used knowledge produc- control. itself to align with democratic the fundamental nature of de- est of revitalizing democracy. tion as a feedback loop to rein- In both these ways, Jewish values and practices, American mocracy. With those problems Norms are enforced by knowl- force and not scrutinize its own philanthropy may be able to Jewish philanthropy cannot so painfully apparent, Jewish edge, and a thriving democracy norms. help invigorate a robust and help heal a broken democra- philanthropy has an imperative depends on an educated pub- Jewish philanthropy could informed civic sector essential cy without taking seriously its to steer its course toward the lic that has access to multiple lead the way toward critical to democracy instead of con- role — as a fundamentally po- democratic values and practices sources and perspectives with and reflective interrogation, but tinuing to participate in a set of litical creature — in shaping essential for a healthier Ameri- which to critically assess its only by encouraging basic re- trends that have steadily traded that democracy. This may mean ca for all. b

Implications (Continued from Page 19) sources who have been briefed urally occurring virus being in the U.S. administration and tensive cover-up the Chinese held accountable, with one of on the details told Fox News. studied in Wuhan was bat- the epidemiological commu- government carried out after the latest moves in this regard The sources propose that the to-human, and that “patient nity are more skeptical of this the outbreak was first detected, being Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) initial transmission of the nat- zero” worked at the lab. Some claim, but all agree on the ex- the report said. and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R- However, Asia Times colum- Tex.) introducing legislation to nist David P. Goldman told JNS allow Americans to sue China that While it is entirely possible in federal court over the death that the Chinese authorities and economic damage caused hid the true casualty rate in by the virus. “By silencing Wuhan, if so it was likely done doctors and journalists who to help contain the spread of the tried to warn the world about virus and ease anger against the coronavirus, the Chinese the government’s handling of Communist Party allowed the THANK YOU the crisis. In addition, he said, virus to spread quickly around even if an initial coverup of the the globe,” Cotton said in a outbreak did delay other coun- statement. tries’ response, “somehow the In a recent column, Goldman other Asian countries got on argued that it is unrealistic to top of this much quicker than decouple the country from the the West.” Chinese economy, since doing so would undermine America’s ‘Implications for the interests. But as the evidence U.S. and Israel’ mounts of a Chinese coverup, Nevertheless, there is in- the push to retaliate against creasingly harsh rhetoric com- China in some manner is gath- ing out of the United States ering momentum. We are grateful to the Jewish Federation over China’s handling of the The question is what form initial outbreak, as well as that retaliation will take, and for a generous grant from its Community Relief calls to punish China in some whether the post-coronavirus way, or even to decouple the environment will convince — and Recovery Fund. U.S. economy from the grow- or force —Israel’s leaders to ing world power. scale back ties with China as China hawks in Congress tensions with the United States We care for the most frail and vulnerable are calling for China to be escalate. b in our community. Innocence (Continued from Page 18) noreligious conflict has pushed not peace because of shared aside personal ties between interests. A hundred years after Jews and Arabs. However, eco- the start of the conflict and 72 nomic, military, intelligence or years after the state was found- health interests have overcome ed, we need to make do with the conflict itself. These are that. It’s not nothing, and it’s what have laid the basis for not something to be taken for something else, which might granted. b someday lead to peace — and ©Israel Hayom