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ETROIT — The Jews of Detroit, which hosted last week’s Democratic presi- dential debates, are proud Dof their role in the recovery of their city. Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish federation here, described efforts spearheaded by the philanthropy to encourage younger Jews to move back into the city,and the relatively youth- ful congregants at the Downtown Synagogue. Jewish leaders are especially proud of the role played by Daniel By HILLEL GOLDBERG Gilbert, the local boy who found- ed Quicken Loans and who has IJN Editor and Publisher led the revitalization of the city center. he whole world is a syna- closed the “new,” good eye and I can’t tell you how often I heard gogue. I realized this last looked at the same wall with my that I and other debate-goers week after an eye surgery old, bad eye. The wall was a dull would not have been able to safe- Samuel Scott (yellow shirt) says the Elijah Cummings Youth which endowed a short Jew- green. Then I closed the old eye ly stroll to the Fox Theatre a Leadership Program, including a trip to Israel (above), inspired Tish prayer with sparkling new and opened the new one. The wall him to build bridges with the Jewish community. decade ago, and that much of this meaning. Like all observant Jews, was light blue! I asked my wife, was thanks to Gilbert. By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN I recite each morning upon awak- which is the true color? “Blue,” But this wasn’t a unanimous JTA ening: “I give thanks before You, she said. I had been looking out opinion. Rabbi Alana Alpert, who living and enduring King, for hav- at a world through a smudged film leads Detroit Jews for Justice, ALTIMORE — Eight years the Holocaust and spent close to ing returned my soul to me, with that dulled all of its colors. provided a counterpoint: Gilbert compassion. Great is Your faith [in Now, everything from the sky ago Aaliyah Cuthrell knew a month living in a youth village was “not elected to make deci- little about the Jewish com- in Israel’s north. me].” (clear or cloudy) to a tree to a yel- sions,” and some of the develop- Gratitude is the highest Jew- low sticky pad to a grey-and-white munity, beyond what she Cuthrell said that after having ment has pushed people out. Bhad seen on a visit to her local JCC done the program she believes it ish ethical trait. Never did it pattern on a tissue box jumps out That disagreement is an echo to use the pool. is crucial for the two communi- become more meaningful to me at me. The words on the comput- of wider tensions in the Jewish than when I threw away my whole er seem to wiggle and dance, so Things look different now for the ties to have good ties. community here and elsewhere, 24-year-old.As a high school junior, “From what I saw growing up life. To be more precise, my oph- bright and distinct they are. Any between moderate mainstream thalmologist threw it away. Sud- image, whether artistically con- she joined a prestigious two-year and from how I’ve studied things and vocal progressives. program for African-American when I was in college and learned denly, my world is a blaze of reds, figured or unaesthetically jumbled These and other tensions were greens, blues, yellows and blacks. like a toddler’s smears, screams teens in Baltimore. The program, about incidents in the past, the on display last week in Detroit, founded by Rep. Elijah Cummings, communities are not very close,” I had no idea what the world looked one word: beauty. I am humbled where I attended the debates. like. For who knows how many and grateful. I cannot believe D-Md., seeks to strengthen ties Cuthrell, who works as a commu- Over two nights, the 20 Democ- between the African American and nications coordinator for an insur- years I had looked out at a dif- how blessed I am nor how igno- ratic contenders showed a will- ferent, darker, blurry world, as rant I was. Jewish communities in his Balti- ance company, told JTA. ingness to tear down the more district. Bringing them together is my eyesight progressively deteri- The emergence of gratitude as moderate frontrunner,former Vice orated. the primary Jewish ethical trait As part of her fellowship in 2011- “important because it brings two President Joe Biden, and uncer- 2013, Cuthrell met with Jewish After the surgery that repaired has long roots in Jewish ethical tainty about how best to achieve one of my eyes but not yet the teens, attended seminars on top- CUMMINGS other, I was standing in the doc- SIGHT DETROIT ics such as anti-Semitism and Continued on Page 16 tor’s office looking at the wall. I Continued on Page 17 Continued on Page 17 Israel No freedom Anti-Semitic, righteous convert thwarts of religion in isenmenger belonged Mannheim, Germany, who dedi- to the class of insects FRAUD which sucks poison Continued on Page 5 mass shooting Jordan even out of flowers,” “Ethe 19th-century Jewish histori- ERUSALEM (JTA) — A JERUSALEM (JTA) — Jor- Hamas cell in Hebron dan’s religion minister, Abed an Heinrich Graetz wrote. INSIDE Graetz was referring to Johann was planning a bomb al Nasr abu Bassel, ordered Business ...... 13 attack in Jerusalem but the presumed gravesite of Andreas Eisenmenger, a young Classifieds ...... 19 Jwas thwarted, the Israel Secu- Aharon the High Priest, Moses’ 17th-century scholar from Columnists ...... 4, 23 rity Agency said. brother closed on Aug. 2, fol- Editorials...... 24 The cell, operating under the lowing a mass prayer there Legal Notices...... 18 direction of Hamas’ military earlier last week by 500 pil- Leisure...... 12 wing in the Gaza Strip, had grims from Israel at the Lively Opinion...... 4 gravesite, located about 100 Readers Speak...... 5 been ordered to carry out Shmoos...... 22 attacks against both Israel and miles north of Eilat. Obituaries...... 20 the PA. A statement by the ministry Synagogues & Calendar ...... 21 “The operatives in the West called the pilgrimage “illegal” Today’s Life...... 10, 11 Bank were instructed to form and stated that the Jordani- Weekly Calendar 14 cells in order to carry out kid- ans responsible for allowing nappings, shootings and stab- pilgrims access to the site THWARTS will be “held accountable,”Ynet Continued on Page 16 reported last week.

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ASSISTANT EDITOR Book of 1912: Negro Leagues Chris Leppek • [email protected] ’ve always liked the turn of But it also outlines the chal- SENIOR WRITER Tucholsky’s Rheinsberg phrase: “I’ve forgotten more lenges, which ranged from finan- Andrea Jacobs • [email protected] about ]fill-in-the-blank] than cial to logistical: Where could you’ll ever know.” That can players literally sleep when travel- ASSISTANT PUBLISHER eutsche Welle recently DIGITAL EDITOR certainlyI be said about me, my ling through areas where black peo- released its 100 must-read Shana R. Goldberg • [email protected] books of German litera- father and baseball. ple were, to put it mildly, not ture translated into Eng- I love going to Rockies’ games, welcome? FEATURES lish.D The list has one entry per but my knowledge of the history Through the story of the Negro Elaine Goldberg, Jonathan Tobin, year, starting in 1901 and going of the sport is pretty much limited Leagues, the museum also con- Tehilla R. Goldberg, Amy Lederman, through 2016. For 1912, the book to “Field of Dreams” and the infa- veys the wonder of the baseball’s Drs. Oz and Roizen, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mous tale of Shoeless Joe Jack- early days, before everything was is Rheinsberg, Kurt Tucholsky’s first ISRAEL BUREAU novel. son. And though I’ve seen “42,” so highly professionalized. The Rabbi Mattis Goldberg Tucholsky, best known as a Jew- the film about Jackie Robinson, I Negro Leagues weren’t the only ish Weimar-era journalist, satirist didn’t really understand what the alternative baseball around. One ADVERTISING and writer, based the protagonist Negro Leagues were. That all that caught my attention was the Lori Aron • [email protected] of Rheinsberg, Claire, on his first changed with a trip to Kansas City, all-bearded “House of David,” field- home to the Negro Leagues Base- ed by a Christian religious cult. PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY wife Else Weil. Written at the age Seiji K. Nagata • [email protected] of 22, Rheinsberg tells the story of ball Museum. Another oddity: An 1925 exhi- a young couple vacationing in the In the late 19th century, one play- bition game pitted the black Wichi- BUSINESS STAFF countryside where they bicker in a er, Cap Anson, helped erect in ta Monrovians against a white team David H. Fetscher • [email protected] patois of their own devising. the Major Leagues a color barrier fielded solely by KKK members. His second — and last — novel, that lasted decades. Like in so (The black team won.) LEGAL SECRETARY Castle Gripsholm, was recently Lucille J. Sullivan • [email protected] republished by the New York Review ■ of Books Classics. The New York Times describes Tucholsky as “The The original cover of Kurt MIRIAM H. GOLDBERG most prominent columnist of the Tucholsky’s Rheinsberg. Editor and Publisher (1972-2017) Brandenburg Museum Weimar Republic, he skewered the MAX GOLDBERG fashions and follies of the newly Editor and Publisher (1943-1972) ascendant right wing in reams of its ascendancy in 1933. satirical essays, poems and cabaret ROBERT S. GAMZEY Other Jewish authors who made Editor, Israel Correspondent (1943-1975) songs under five different bylines. the list are Franz Kafka, Joseph In his day, he was as famous as the Roth, Stefan Zweig and Lion Feucht- DORIS SKY kings of American late-night come- wanger. 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EW YORK — Not long after news that a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. left at least 22 people dead, Nreports started swirling that the sus- pect had posted a manifesto on 8chan, an online forum. Law enforcement officials are investigating a document posted there that is believed to be authored by the suspect, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius. The text contains racist rhetoric, blaming immigrants and Latinos for taking away jobs from Americans. It was uploaded fewer than 20 minutes before the shoot- ing, according to CNN. This isn’t the first time 8chan has been tied to a mass shooter this year. Suspects in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and a synagogue in Poway,Calif. also are believed to have posted hateful man- ifestos on the site. JTA spoke to experts on extrem- ism to learn more about 8chan, how it differs from similar forums and why it became a venue of choice for hate. 8chan was founded by a computer programmer in response to what he saw as increased censorship on the messaging board 4chan. Getty Images/JTA Montage What is 8chan? the site “one of the most violent it will be only a couple of posts before and a nod — as a demonstration occur,” he said. 8chan is an online messaging and racist online spaces that we that devolves into hate as well,” he that these major influencers across Following Cloudflare’s decision, forum created in 2014 by a com- track.” said. the sector are trying to encourage 8chan found a replacement provider, puter programmer to protest cen- “What’s actually really dangerous them to keep at their work,” he said. Voxility,but that company pulled its sorship on another messaging board about this forum is not just that Why do attackers “Great replacement” is a wide- services shortly after. Without a called 4chan. all of these hateful ideologies are post on 8chan? spread conspiracy theory that the provider, 8chan goes dark. The programmer, Fredrick Bren- present, but that they are all inter- What makes the site so danger- white race faces a genocide due to Brennan, 8chan’s founder, has nan, was upset that 4chan banned woven together and they’re part of ous is that potential attackers aren’t immigration by people of color and even called for it to be shut down. discussions of Gamergate, a cam- the same toxic community at once,” just looking to share their thoughts Muslims. “It’s a complete negative to every- paign to harass several women in Hankes told JTA. with like-minded people. They also body except the users that are there,” the video gaming industry. There are many sites that are aim to inspire others to commit Are actions being taken Brennan, who no longer has con- Unlike other online forums, such home to hateful rhetoric, including violence, experts say. to stop hate on 8chan? trol of the site, told The New York as Reddit, 8chan lacks moderation comparatively mainstream sites such “The fact that 8chan is used as a On Aug. 5, the CEO of Cloudflare, Times. “And you know what? It’s a measures meant to curb hateful con- as Reddit, or more fringe forums place to disseminate these hateful an internet services provider, negative to them, too.They just don’t tent. It is rife with racism, misogy- such as 4chan and Gab. Hankes said explanations for violence is because announced that it was terminating realize it.” ny and anti-Semitism posted by 8chan has created a community that those shooters know and hope that its services to 8chan. The CEO, Some argue that shutting down users. “celebrates mass casualty violence.” the users will copycat,” ADL’s Segal Matthew Prince, said the decision sites like 8chan makes it harder The site has a ban on illegal con- “This is not an accident that we’ve said. was motivated by the El Paso and for law enforcement to monitor the tent but it is not closely enforced. seen many manifestos posted to Angelo Carusone, the president Pittsburgh attacks. But he also extremists who use them. But Han- Child pornography has been shared the site in the immediate moments of Media Matters for America, a said he did not think Cloudflare’s kes said it is helpful in decreasing frequently on the site. before a mass casualty,” he said. liberal watchdog that monitors decision would have a significant hate on the internet. Oren Segal, the director of the conservative media, said: “When impact. “Any action that limits their How does 8chan ADL’s center on extremism, said few Tucker Carlson gets up there and “While removing 8chan from our impact and limits their reach is valu- compare to other sites? conversations on the site do not con- warns about invasions and ‘great network takes heat off of us, it able,” he said, “because this is so Keegan Hankes, a research ana- tain bigotry. replacement,’ and that immigrants does nothing to address why hate- widespread and has been allowed to lyst at the Southern Poverty Law “You can be sure that if somebody are going to make us dirtier, they ful sites fester online. It does noth- spread with very, very little over- Center’s intelligence project, calls starts a thread about fluffy bunnies, see a lot of that stuff as a wink ing to address why mass shootings sight on the internet for so long.” Jewish groups call for gun safety laws Second deadliest attack of right-wing violence; Dayton shooter a leftist By MARCY OSTER JTA

EW YORK — Mainstream Jewish Community Relations tic extremist in over 50 years and I’m sick of the pathetic excuses communities from the scourge of gun Jewish groups called for gun Council of the Jewish Federation the second deadliest act of violence offered by too many lawmakers for violence. Republican inaction in safety laws in the wake of of Greater Dayton in a statement by a right-wing extremist in the not passing strong and effective com- the face of these growing threats is two mass shootings last called the news of the shooting in same span, second only to the 1995 mon sense gun laws.” reprehensible and deplorable, and Nweekend that left at least 30 peo- the city’s downtown “heartbreaking.” Oklahoma City bombing.” “We need common sense gun we condemn it in the strongest ple and one shooter dead in the space The statement also said: Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of control NOW,” the American Jewish possible terms.” of 13 hours. “As the investigation continues, the Union for Reform Judaism, Committee tweeted. Responding to reports that the “The Jewish Community of The Rabbinical Assembly, the Dayton shooter identified as a “left- Greater El Paso is shocked and international association for Con- ist” and railed against immigra- heartbroken that the irrational ‘I’m sick of the pathetic excuses servative and Masorti rabbis, also tion officials, Matt Brooks, executive and devastating plague of violence called for new gun laws in a state- director of the Republican Jewish sweeping this country has arrived for not passing strong and effective common ment issued on Sunday. Coalition, tweeted,“AS I HAVE SAID at the door of our traditionally peace- sense gun laws’ “The El Paso killer was a white . . . WE HAVE A HATE CRISIS ful and congenial homes,” the Jew- supremacist who wrote a ‘send them ON THE FAR RIGHT AND FAR ish Community Relations Council back’ manifesto, echoing the words LEFT! WAKE UP TO THE THREAT. of the Jewish Federation of Greater we will keep you informed regard- was in El Paso last week with hun- of President Trump. He referenced IT ISN’T ONLY WHITE NATION- El Paso said in a statement. ing what we as a community can dreds of faith leaders to protest an alleged Hispanic ‘invasion’ of ALISTS!” “Our hearts and our profound con- do to help the families, friends, the treatment of asylum seekers Texas and called on migrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin dolences go out to the families of and loved ones of those killed and on the border with Mexico. return to their home countries. Netanyahu tweeted his condolences. those who have lost their lives and injured, and to help the city heal. “Now our hearts turn again to Trump is responsible for fueling a “In the past 24 hours, we have we pray for a quick recovery of those Our hearts go out to everyone who El Paso, in the face of this slaugh- fire of xenophobia and hatred in our witnessed two murderous attacks injured. We are alarmed by the has been affected by this morn- ter of innocents by a gunman who country,and Republicans are respon- in Texas and Ohio. On behalf of all increasing gun violence in the US ing’s events.” authorities say was inspired by anti- sible for allowing it to occur, Halie government ministers and all citi- and around the world.We commend The ADL said in a statement,“this immigrant rhetoric,” he said in a Soifer,executive director of the Jew- zens of Israel, I send condolences our local, state and federal law latest act of domestic terrorism statement. ish Democratic Council of Ameri- to the bereaved families, best wish- enforcement for their reported quick will be, according to the ADL’s Cen- “It is not enough for elected offi- ca, said in a statement. es for recovery to the injured, and and decisive response,” the state- ter on Extremism’s records, the third cials to muster their ‘thoughts and “Trump and Republicans are both solidarity with the American peo- ment also said. deadliest act of violence by a domes- prayers.’ Like millions of Americans responsible for failing to protect our ple.” 4 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 L IVELY O PINION

he West Wing,” a 1999-2006 television show featured What I saw in the new Ukraine “T Martin Sheen playing an idealized American president. Imag- — the only country with a ine if Sheen had then actually run for president — and won. Implau- sible, you say? In Ukraine, life imi- comedian and a Jew as president tated art in just that way. Just over a year ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was a comic actor.His pop- ularity soared thanks to a TV show By CLIFFORD D. MAY called “Servant of the People” in which he played a history teacher Special to the Intermountain Jewish News who lives with his parents and rides his bike to work. One day, the teacher’s rant against Ukrainian for an early election and, on July 21, Was there Russian meddling in In 2014, Russian President politics and politicians, surrepti- his party won an absolute majori- the election, for example, or disin- Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, tiously recorded, goes viral on social ty, the first time that’s happened formation campaigns? Absolutely, which was previously Ukrainian ter- media.The result: He’s elected pres- since Ukraine gained its indepen- but the impact was minimal. The ritory. I don’t see him giving it ident of Ukraine with 67% of the dence in 1991. pro-Russian party,Opposition Plat- back. vote. form–For Life, received 13.5% of the In the Donbas region in the east In real life, Zelensky went on to s a volunteer election observ- ballots, about what the polls had of the country, not far from Dnipro, Clifford D. May organize a political party which he er for the International Repub- predicted. Putin is supporting Russian sepa- named, naturally,Servant of the Peo- A lican Institute (IRI), I spent a Why would voters in Ukraine be ratists in a war that has taken at And then there are the oligarchs. ple. The result: Earlier this year, week in Ukraine, talking to people pro-Russian? Some because they least 10,000 lives so far and dis- When the Soviet Union collapsed, he was elected president of Ukraine of various political persuasions, identify as Russians. Some are placed many more. Inducing him there were no plans to transition with 73% of the vote. drinking vodka infused with honey nostalgic for the Soviet Union. to withdraw his “little green men” from socialism to capitalism. Who Inaugurated in May, he knew he and pepper and traipsing from one Others believe that the Russian bear — masked soldiers in uniforms bear- expected history to go in that direc- had no time to waste, and that he polling station to another in Dnipro, must be appeased. ing no insignias—will not be easy. tion? Do chefs come up with recipes couldn’t initiate serious reforms with- a large city in the country’s south- Corruption — entrenched and for making eggs out of omelets? out strong support from the Verk- east that, in the Soviet era, had been he challenges President Zelen- widespread — has long been a drag hovna Rada, the country’s a military-industrial center closed sky now faces are formidable. on Ukraine’s promising but under- MAY unicameral parliament. So he called to foreigners. T achieving economy. Continued on Page 5 T ORAH WITH R ABBI S ACKS Devarim: The teacher as hero

magine the following scenario.You the future, laws, narratives, a song, powerless. the people when they entered the Moses ever gave the Israelites were are 119 years and 11 months and a set of blessings. In Lin- Promised Land, he could still be with explicitly educational in nature: to I old.The end of your life is in sight. Together they constitute the most Manuel Miran- them intellectually and emotional- gather the entire people together Your hopes have received devas- comprehensive, profound vision of da’s musical ly if he gave them the teachings to in the seventh year to hear the Torah tating blows. You have been told what it is to be a holy people, ded- Hamilton, take with them into the future. being read, to remind them of their by G-d that you will not enter the icated to G-d, constructing a soci- George Wash- Moses became the pioneer of covenant with G-d (Deut. 31:12–13); land to which you have been lead- ety that would stand as a role model ington tells the perhaps the single greatest contri- and,“Write down for yourselves this ing your people for 40 years. You for humanity in how to combine free- young, hot- bution of Judaism to the concept of song and teach it to the people of have been repeatedly criticised by dom and order, justice and com- headed Alexan- leadership: the idea of the teacher Israel” (31:19), understood as the the people you have led. Your sis- passion, individual dignity and der Hamilton: as hero. command that each person must ter and brother, with whom you collective responsibility. “Dying is easy, write for himself a scroll of the Rabbi shared the burdens of leadership, young man; liv- eroes are people who demon- law. Jonathan Sacks have predeceased you.And you know ver and above what Moses said ing is harder.” strate courage in the field of In Deuteronomy, a new word that neither of your children, Ger- in the last month of his life, In Deuteronomy,Moses keeps telling H battle. What Moses knew was enters the biblical vocabulary: the shom and Eliezer, will succeed you. O though, is what Moses did. the Israelites, in effect: Slavery is that the most important battles verb l-m-d, meaning to learn or teach. Your life seems to be coming to a He changed careers. He shifted his easy; freedom is harder. are not military. They are spiritu- The verb does not appear even tragic end, your destination relationship with the people. No al, moral, cultural. A military vic- once in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, unreached, your aspirations unful- longer Moses the liberator, the law- hroughout Deuteronomy,Moses tory shifts the pieces on the or Numbers. In Deuteronomy it filled. What do you do? giver, the worker of miracles, the reaches a new level of author- chessboard of history.A spiritual vic- appears 17 times. We can imagine a range of intermediary between the Israelites T ity and wisdom. For the first tory changes lives. There was nothing like this con- responses. and G-d, he became the figure known time we hear him speak extensive- A military victory is almost always cern for universal education else- You could sink into sadness, where in the ancient world. Jews reflecting on the might-have-beens became the people whose heroes had the past taken a different direc- By becoming a teacher, Moses became a leader for all time were teachers, whose citadels were tion. You could continue to plead schools, whose passion was study with G-d to change His mind and and the life of the mind. let you cross the Jordan. You could to Jewish memory: Moshe Rabbeinu, ly in his own voice, rather than mere- short-lived. Either the enemy attacks retreat into memories of the good “Moses, our teacher.” ly as the transmitter of G-d’s words again or a new and more danger- oses’ end-of-life transforma- times: when the people sang a song That is how Deuteronomy begins to him. ous opponent appears. But spiritu- tion is one of the most inspir- at the Red Sea, when they gave their — “Moses began to expound this His grasp of vision and detail is al victories can — if their lesson is M ing in all of religious history. assent to the covenant at Sinai, when Law” (Deut. 1:5) — using a verb, faultless. He wants the people to not forgotten — last forever. Even In that one act, he liberated his they built the Tabernacle. be’er, that we have not encoun- understand that the laws G-d has quite ordinary people, Yiftah, for career from tragedy. He became a These would be the normal human tered in this sense in the Torah commanded them are for their good, example (Judges, chapters 11–12), leader not for his time only but for reactions. Moses did none of these and which appears only one more not just G-d’s. or Samson (chapters 13–16), can all time. His body did not accom- things — and what he did instead time towards the end of the book: All ancient peoples had gods. All be military heroes. But those who pany his people as they entered helped change the course of Jew- “And you shall write very clearly ancient peoples had laws. But their teach people to see, feel, and act the land, but his teachings did. His ish history. [ba’er hetev] all the words of this law laws were not from a G-d; they were differently, who enlarge the moral sons did not succeed him, but his For a month Moses convened on these stones” (27:8). from the king, pharaoh, or ruler — horizons of humankind, are rare disciples did. the people on the far side of the He wanted to explain, expound, as in the famous law code of Ham- indeed. Of these, Moses was the He may have felt that he had Jordan and addressed them. Those make clear. He wanted the people murabi. The gods of the ancient greatest. not changed his people in his life- addresses form the substance of to understand that Judaism is not world were seen as a source of Not only does he become the time, but in the full perspective of the book of Deuteronomy. They are a religion of mysteries intelligible power, not justice. Laws were man- teacher in Deuteronomy. In words history he changed them more extraordinarily wide-ranging, cov- only to the few. It is — as he would made rules for the maintenance of engraved on Jewish hearts ever than any leader has ever changed ering a history of the past, a set of say in his very last speech — an social order. since, he tells the entire people any people, turning them into the prophecies and warnings about “inheritance of the [entire] congre- that they must become a nation of people of the book and the nation gation of Jacob” (33:4). he Israelites were different. educators: who built not ziggurats or pyramids Moses became, in the last month Their laws were not made by “Make known to your children and but schools and houses of study. IEW FROM ENVER of his life, the master educator. T their kings — monarchy in your children’s children, how you The poet Shelley famously said, V D In these addresses, he does more ancient Israel was unique in endow- once stood before the L-rd your “Poets are the unacknowledged than tell the people what the law ing the king with no legislative pow- G-d at Horeb” (Deut. 4:9–10). legislators of the world.”1 In truth, Hillel Goldberg is on is. He explains to them why the ers. Their laws came directly from “In the future, when your child asks though, it is not poets but teachers research leave in August law is. There is nothing arbitrary G-d Himself, creator of the uni- you, “What is the meaning of the who shape society, handing on the about it. The law is as it is because verse and liberator of His people. testimonies, decrees, and laws that legacy of the past to those who build of the people’s experience of slav- Hence Moses’ ringing declaration: the L-rd our G-d has commanded the future. That insight sustained ery and persecution in Egypt, which “Observe [these laws] carefully, you?” tell them, “We were slaves to Judaism for longer than any other was their tutorial in why we need for this will show your wisdom and Pharaoh in Egypt, but the L-rd civilisation, and it began with Moses freedom and law-governed liberty. understanding to the nations, who brought us out of Egypt with a mighty in the last month of his life. Time and again he says:You shall will hear about all these decrees and hand . . .” (Deut. 6:20–21). Shabbat Shalom. do this because you were once slaves say, ‘Surely this great nation is a “Teach [these words] to your chil- in Egypt. They must remember wise and understanding people’” dren, speaking of them when you sit 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley,“A Defence and never forget — two verbs that (Deut. 4:6). at home and when you travel on of Poetry,” in The Selected Poetry and appear repeatedly in the book — At this defining moment of his the way,when you lie down and when Prose of Shelley, ed. Harold Bloom Hillel Goldberg where they came from and what it life, Moses understood that, though you rise” (Deut. 11:19). (Toronto: New American Library, felt like to be exiled, persecuted, and he would not be physically with Indeed, the last two commands 1996), 448. August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 5

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR T HE R EADERS S PEAK The IJN welcomes letters from readers. Opinions are the author’s, not necessarily the IJN’s. Letters are subject to editing for length, gram- mar, syntax and accuracy. Letters must be submitted via e-mail to lar- [email protected], or typed, double spaced; and must be signed, with return address and phone number. They must be addressed to ‘Editor’ — no ‘open’ letters, poetry, personal thank you’s or third party letters (copies of letters written to someone else) accepted. El Paso community The righteous, wicked convert shaken to its core Editor: penned one of the most vile anti-Semitic tracts As an El Paso native, the shoot- ing there hit home for me — liter- FRAUD ally. From Page 1 To lose 22 innocent people is too much to comprehend. This is espe- cated some 19 years of his life to cially painful for El Pasoans, who mastering the Talmud and pre- have never experienced this kind senting himself to the Jewish com- of senseless violence and loss. The munity as a prospective “ger community is in complete shock. I’ve tzedek,” or righteous convert. spoken to many friends and family He learned Hebrew,Aramaic and members and people are really strug- even Arabic during his intellec- gling to make sense of it. tual journey, and read the whole The fact that it is likely a hate Talmud roughly three times. crime is even harder to bear.El Paso Then, in 1700, Eisenmenger pub- has always been a family-centric lished Judaism Unmasked, one melting pot that celebrates differ- of the most noxious and highly ent cultures, especially Mexican. influential anti-Semitic works ever The El Paso community is unit- written. ed and strong and I believe some- During the Nine Days leading thing good will come out of this in up to Tisha b’Av,during which Jews the end. commemorate the saddest It’s so hard to make sense of our moments in Jewish history from world right now. We need to take it the destruction of the Temples in back and soon. Jerusalem to the deportation of JOHN KAYSER the Jews of Warsaw,we again have Denver witnessed Eisenmenger’s contem- porary descendants: gunmen who Terrorism in Cairo publish paranoid, hateful “mani- Johann Andreas Eisenmenger, a fake convert to Judaism, published Judaism Unmasked, one of the most noxious and influential anti-Semitic works ever written. Wikimedia Commons/JTA Montage Editor: festos” before embarking on hor- We are horrified by the despica- rific acts of random violence. of highly coded Aramaic and I that its publication might ignite professor Jacob Katz’s exhaustive ble act of terrorism which occurred Those specifically targeting Jews, Hebrew. the popular violence that had analysis of Eisenmenger’s method- outside of a cancer hospital in such as the shooters in Poway But Eisenmenger was differ- plagued the region in 1699. Eisen- ology (Eisenmenger strove for accu- Cairo on Monday, Aug. 5, killing at and Pittsburgh, often rely, con- ent. A man of considerable acade- menger protested and a lengthy racy in citation and translation, least 20 and injuring 47. sciously or otherwise, on the work mic skills (he ultimately taught court battle ensued. but criminally distorted the mean- We condemn extremism in all of Johann Andreas Eisenmenger. at the University of Heidelberg), The Jewish community offered ing of the passages in context its forms, and express our condo- Spanning 2,000 pages over two Eisenmenger realized that the only 12,000 florins (roughly $5,000) to with unacceptably tendentious lences and support to President al- brick-like volumes, Entdecktes way to seriously understand the cover his costs if he would with- commentary to promote awful Sisi and through him to the Egyptian Judenthums is an exhaustive sur- Talmud was to become immersed draw publication. Surprisingly, lies like the infamous blood libel), people. vey of every possible passage from in the world of the yeshiva, a world Eisenmenger seemed agreeable, the most extensive biography avail- ARTHUR STARK the Talmud that could be distort- closed to non-Jews by custom and but demanded 30,000. Negotiations able is an impressive but brief study Chairman ed to reflect badly on Jews and even Jewish law. were cut short by Eisenmenger’s posted to Wikipedia by a 12th-grad- MALCOLM HOENLEIN Judaism. To achieve his dark purpose, sudden death in 1704, at age 50, er in Braunschweig, Germany. Executive Vice Chairman/CEO His verbose subtitle thorough- Eisenmenger had to present him- of a stroke. As an historian of the Jewish Conference of Presidents of Major ly described his intent, which was self as a genuine spiritual seeker, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of near- people, writing during the Nine American Jewish Organizations to prove how “the stubborn Jews perhaps modeling himself as a by Prussia circumvented the Days, I find myself awed by Eisen- New York, NY frightfully blaspheme and dishonor the Holy Trinity . . . and despise righteous convert like Onkelos, emperor by printing a second edi- menger’s pathological achievement Mass shootings and curse to the uttermost extreme whose translation of the Torah into tion of 3,000 copies in 1711 in Berlin for two reasons. the whole of Christianity.” Aramaic enjoys primacy. (although the title page listed First, whatever we think about Editor: He also promised “ridiculous and Eisenmenger began his life- “Koenigsburg” as the place of this sick individual, he devoted Jewish War Veterans strongly con- amusing stories” to boot, “written long deception in 1680 at the age publication to reinforce that it was himself to an overwhelming tour demns the mass shootings in El Paso, for the honest information of all of 24. By the time he was ready published outside the jurisdiction de force of twisted scholarship: Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Christians.” to bring his malicious book to print, of Leopold I). nearly 20 years of solitary toil, Our thoughts and prayers are with Eisenmenger could count many exhaustively infiltrating an alien the families and friends of the vic- EISENMENGER’S PURPOSE rabbis among his teachers, includ- FOR THE PAST three centuries, community in order to produce such tims of these horrific acts of white and even methodology were hard- ing the prolific David ben Aryeh from Stehelin’s English transla- a massive publication. national terrorism. For those injured, ly new.Jew-haters have been min- Lieb of Lida, Lithuania — then tion to the ugliest parts of the web, Second, like Graetz, it is hard we pray for quick and complete recov- ing the Talmud for talking points chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Amster- anti-Semites have relied on Eisen- not to reflect on how Eisenmenger eries. since the 13th century, when the dam. menger’s distorted research to pro- was “able to suck poison even out We urge Congress and local and apostate Nicholas Donin first News of Eisenmenger’s colos- mote hatred. of flowers,” twisting and distorting state governments to do whatever denounced it before Pope Innocent sal betrayal leaked out before Despite his incredibly profound the Talmud in such a hateful man- is necessary to reduce the poten- III. Judaism Unmasked was released. impact on 300 years of anti-Semit- ner. Such, I suppose, is the power tial of future acts of this nature. Few, however, were able to pen- The Jewish community rapidly ic ideology, a shroud of scholarly of Amalek, the ancient, eternal ene- DR. BARRY J. SCHNEIDER etrate the depths of this massive, mobilized to prevent its distribu- silence descended over the man. my of the Jewish people. ■ National Commander ancient text written in a mixture tion, persuading Emperor Leopold With the exception of the great — Henry Abramson Jewish War Veterans of the USA

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MAY he new president and his par- Does that suggest that anti-Semi- From Page 4 liamentary allies are political tism has been eradicated in Ukraine? T novices. For what it’s worth, the I think not. I think Zelensky has A number of tough, savvy and not 41-year-old Zelensky does have a inspired hope, and that has caused necessarily principled individuals law degree and some business back- many Ukrainians to put their prej- managed to take control of what had ground. Advice and assistance will udices aside—which is not the same been state resources, thereby becom- be forthcoming from the Interna- as discarding them. Should Zelen- ing fabulously wealthy. In Russia, tional Monetary Fund, as well as sky fail, you can imagine what will Putin eliminated — one way or from European and American be said about him. another — all oligarchs who were experts. Their track record in oth- But if his administration makes not unswervingly loyal to him. er countries is mixed. significant progress, the impact will In Ukraine today there are prob- This, too, thickens the plot: Zelen- extend far beyond the borders of this ably fewer than a dozen oligarchs. sky is Jewish — the only Jewish Texas-sized country of 45 million They compete for power and con- head of state in the world today (out- people. trol media outlets. For such out- side of Israel, of course) — and his Of course, Putin understands lets, objectivity is not a priority. election comes at a time of rising that, too — and opposes it. He Among Ukraine’s most popular anti-Semitism almost everywhere. considers Ukraine not just part of television channels is “1+1,” on which Ukraine has hardly been immune the Russian empire but part of Rus- Zelensky’s show was broadcast.The to this ancient pathology. During sia itself. oligarch who owns it is Ihor Kolo- WW II there were Ukrainians who One cannot say that there are moisky. That has raised questions. helped the Nazi invaders mass mur- no historical arguments in support Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Among the answers:“I’m more his der their Jewish neighbors. of that view. However, one can say puppet than he is mine,” Kolomoisky Following the collapse of the Sovi- that Ukrainians, like other peo- doesn’t. What Ukrainians do have Clifford D. May, former editorial said last year. Zelensky told a news et Union, tens of thousands of ples, have a right to declare them- is a chance to fight for their free- page editor of the Rocky Mountain website in December: “It is impos- Ukrainian Jews emigrated. Never- selves a separate nation. dom, independence and sovereign- News, is president of the Founda- sible to influence me. Neither Kolo- theless, the country’s Jewish com- Should that not imply that they ty. Implausible as it may seem, tion for Defense of Democracies moisky nor any other oligarch. No munity,at less than 400,000, remains have a right to self-determination they have chosen a former leading and a columnist for The Wash- one will influence me.” the fifth largest in Europe. as well? Perhaps it should, but it man to lead them. 6• INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 NEWS: Anti-Semitism

NEW YORK SAN DIEGO Bialik proud as riders Poway shooter inspired by erase swastika New Zealand shooter EW YORK (JTA) — AN DIEGO (JTA) — The writings, writing “I’ve only read a holder worn across the chest, a mil- Actress Mayim Bialik alleged California synagogue little but so far he’s spot on with itary-style duffel bag, an action praised New York City gunman was inspired by New everything.” camera and a tactical helmet. subway passengers for Zealand mosque shooter The information is included in The day before the shooting, he SBrenton Tarrant, according to doc- bought, legally after obtaining a Nerasing hate. Bialik, who starred in “The Big uments unsealed by the court. One shooter says hunting license, a Smith & Wesson Bang Theory,” in a post on Insta- John Earnest has pleaded not AR-15 rifle from a San Diego gun gram described how,while on the guilty to murder and attempted of the other: shop, according to federal charges. subway with her two sons, fel- murder for the April 27 attack on Earnest was found with five low riders used hand sanitizer the Chabad of Poway synagogue ‘He’s spot on with extra 10-round magazines for his to remove the word “Nazi” writ- that left one dead and three injured. rifle. He fired off eight to 10 rounds ten in permanent marker from He also is suspected of setting everything’ before the rifle either jammed or a seat. fire to a mosque in Escondido, Calif. was stopped by a congregant. She called it a “very powerful five days after the New Zealand 338 pages of search warrants He could face the death penal- moment of unity and understand- Mayim Bialik attacks that killed 51 people at two unsealed by a California state ty or life in prison without possi- ing.” mosques. One month later he judge. bility of parole if convicted of the Bialik and her sons, ages 10 “They took out some hand san- allegedly attacked the synagogue. Three weeks before the attack, murder, which has been classi- and 13, were in New York over itizer and began removing the The documents include social Earnest opened an Amazon account fied as an alleged hate crime. the weekend for the Fortnite marking.THIS is America. It was media posts showing that Earnest, and purchased items for the Poway Earnest also pleaded not guilty World Cup, a video game tour- a very powerful moment of uni- 19, praised Tarrant’s hate-filled attack, including an ammunition to the arson attack on the mosque. nament. She said her boys noticed ty and understanding, and I’m the word Nazi on the seat, as grateful that my boys got to wit- did the other passengers. ness it in action,” she wrote. LONDON MONTREAL 892 anti-Semitic incidents a record Jewish rider assaulted ONDON (JTA) — A record month period and is a 10% Some 323, or 36%, of the anti- number of nearly 900 anti- increase from the 810 incidents Semitic incidents involved social Semitic incidents have recorded during the same peri- media, compared to 221 incidents, by taxi driver been recorded in the Unit- od in 2018. or 27% of the total, on social media Led Kingdom for the first six There were 38 incidents of dam- in the first half of 2018. ONTREAL (JTA) — A The victim then attempted to months of 2019. age and desecration of Jewish CST recorded a 37% increase Jewish man wearing a photograph the taxi number in The Community Security Trust, property in the first six months in the number of violent anti- yarmulke was assault- order to file a complaint, at which or CST, which is British Jewry’s of 2019; 710 incidents of abusive Semitic assaults, to 85 in the first ed by a taxi driver in point the driver exited his car and largest watchdog on anti-Semi- behavior, including verbal abuse, six months of 2019, up from 62 MMontreal. punched the Jewish man repeat- tism, released its January-June anti-Semitic graffiti, anti-Semit- in the first six months of 2018. The taxi driver was blocking edly and shouted anti-Semitic 2019 Antisemitic Incidents ic abuse via social media and cas- Almost two thirds of the 892 the door to an underground garage slurs until a parking supervisor Report, on Aug. 1. es of hate mail; 49 direct antisemitic incidents were record- at a condo building on July 28 in intervened, B’nai Brith Canada The 892 incidents reported in anti-Semitic threats; and ten cas- ed in Greater London and Greater the Saint-Laurent borough of said in a statement. The victim’s the first half of 2019 is the high- es of mass-mailed anti-Semitic Manchester, the two largest Jew- Montreal. When the driver of a phone also was smashed.The vic- est number recorded in that six- leaflets or emails. ish communities in the UK. car honked to signal that he tim required attention at a local should move away from the door, hospital. the taxi driver apparently noted Much of the incident was cap- the other driver’s kippah and tured on a security camera. shouted, “I won’t move for any A woman who intervened was [deleted] Jews!” He also threat- reportedly struck by the taxi MINNEAPOLIS ened to kill the other driver. driver. ‘Kikes must die’ on door of school INNEAPOLIS (JTA) — ciate their swift response to this Anti-Semitic graffiti was disturbing incident.” BERLIN painted on the door of a Minneapolis Public Schools school in Minneapolis, Superintendent Ed Graff said in Mthe 17th incident reported by the a statement: Rabbi harassed, Jewish community so far this year. “In the strongest terms, Min- The graffiti discovered on Aug. neapolis Public Schools condemns spat on 1 at the Lake Harriet Upper School the anti-Semitic graffiti at Lake in Minneapolis included a swasti- Harriet Upper school. Our schools ERLIN (JTA) — A Berlin ka and the words “Kikes must die!” should be safe, respectful and wel- rabbi was verbally abused The graffiti was painted over coming places for all of our stu- and spat on, one of sever- the same afternoon, according to dents, families and community al recent attacks on Jews local reports. members. And we stand united Bin the German capital. On Aug. 3, students of the school Steve Hunegs against hatred in all its forms.” The incident, which took place created chalk street art to on July 26, is under investiga- spread messages of love and tion. The perpetrators have not acceptance. The artwork been identified. included Stars of David and Yehuda Teichtal, a Berlin com- messages such as “I belong, you MONTREAL munity rabbi and president of belong, we all belong” and “Love Chabad Lubavitch in the capital, all!”A second “Chalk the Walk: reported that two men shouted Love Lives Here” was sched- Jewish boys assaulted at him in Arabic, and spat on him uled for Sunday, Aug. 4. after he left services at his syn- Steve Hunegs, executive on Shabbat agogue in the Wilmersdorf dis- Yehuda Teichtal Wikipedia director of the Jewish Commu- trict. He was with one of his young nity Relations Council of Min- ORONTO (JTA) — Two and they are observant and do children. selves,” he wrote.“We will contin- nesota and the Dakotas, said Jewish boys wearing kip- not carry cellphones. Teichtal told Die Welt that it ue to build on a foundation of love, that it is the 17th anti-Semit- pahs were assaulted in a The boy hit in the face later was especially shocking to be tolerance, dialogue and educa- ic incident reported to the Toronto suburb while they went to an emergency room for physically attacked, adding that JCRC in 2019. Twere walking on Shabbat. treatment of his injuries. tion.” he had never experienced any- The Berlin-based Anti-Semi- “Perpetrators of these types An 18-year-old male The York Regional Police Hate thing similar in 23 years in Berlin, tism Research and Information of incidents are intent on approached the boys, said to be Crimes Unit is investigating, though he has frequently heard Center reported that the dis- spreading a message of hate 14, from behind as they walked according to B’nai Brith. anti-Semitic epithets from trict in which Teichtal lives and and challenging the openness in Thornhill, which has a large “This is an extremely serious passersby. works, Charlottenburg-Wilmers- and respectful atmosphere of Jewish population.The assailant incident, and we trust that law In a statement to German dorf, had 80 reported ant-Semit- our community. Collectively, began swearing at the boys and enforcement will give it the atten- media, Teichtal said that despite ic incidents last year, the second we must reject these chilling then punched one of them in tion that it deserves,” said Michael such attacks in Berlin schoolyards highest level in Berlin, second acts and the hate they repre- the face, continued to follow the Mostyn, chief executive officer and streets, he was convinced that only to the Mitte district with sent,” Hunegs said in a state- boys, then left the area, B’nai of B’nai Brith Canada. “most people in Berlin want Jews 146. ment. Brith Canada said in a statement “It is inconceivable that Jew- to be able to live openly as Jews, In all, some 1,800 incidents He said the council has been issued Sunday,Aug. 4, a day after ish families will be afraid to without fear of being cursed at, were reported in the capital in in close contact with the school the incident. send their children to the park, spat on or beaten up.” 2018, an increase of nearly 20% principal and law enforcement The victims could not record in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, “Of course we won’t hide our- above the previous year. officials and that “We appre- the incident: It was Shabbat on the Jewish Sabbath.” August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 7 NEWS: ‘Anti-Squad’ The other Democrat from Michigan Elissa Slotkin works across the aisle, speaks out against anti-Semitism By RON KAMPEAS JTA

ANSING — Tom Dalton could be the poster boy for Elissa Slotkin’s path to a sec- ond term and, she would Largue, to Democrats keeping the US House of Representatives.

One of nine veterans of the national security apparatus

The 67-year-old Vietnam Navy vet routinely votes Republican — but says he would not hesitate to vote for Slotkin, a Democrat, if he had the opportunity. “Seeing what’s happening today in the news, all you hear is nega- tive this and negative that, I would love to know if there’s a lot more of what I saw today,” he said, after Slotkin and the Republican in the neighboring district, Tim Walberg, thanked him for his military service at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in this central Michigan town split between their districts. “I want to thank you for being a Republican and a Democrat,” Dal- ton said, emphasizing the “you” after the duo gifted him with a ceremo- nial pin. In an interview two days later, ‘GANG OF NINE’ Slotkin told JTA that she sees bipar- tisanship as key to any success in From left: Reps. Mikie Sherrill, D-NJ, Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., on a ride Michigan, which flipped to Trump to the Russell Building on Capitol Hill, Feb. 5. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call in 2016 by a tiny margin. She was one of two Democrats en Island, an Army veteran. means working together to make pensated for the sufferings he for talking about anti-Semitism only to pick up seats in the state last year, The “Gang of Nine” contrast our constituents’ lives better.” endured from Agent Orange, an her- to court Jewish support. ousting the Republican incumbent sharply with another clique in the In Congress, Slotkin has built ties bicide US troops used in Vietnam. Said Slotkin: “We have, what I in an upset. freshman Democratic class, “the with Midwestern Republicans by She instructed Williams on how to believe is a full-on attempt by the “In my district, I have a very clear Squad” of four progressive congress- advancing Great Lakes region envi- fill in a request form.Asked if Slotkin Republican Party to grab a differ- mandate to work across the aisle,” women who include Rep. Ilhan Omar ronmental improvement bills and was attentive, Williams smiles and ent community and bring them she said.“It’s why I was sent to Wash- of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of has taken a lead in championing nods vigorously. into the fold, and I will just be very ington.” Michigan. Call the gang — whose honest, right, they are not looking “My father was a Republican security backgrounds and modera- for our votes, because we are a rel- and my mother was a Democrat,” tion form an alternative to the pro- ‘In my district, I have a very clear mandate atively small community, they are she said. “In Michigan, we always gressives who have become symbols looking for our donors, right? They fought about sports, not politics.The of divides within the Democratic Par- to work across the aisle’ are looking for our donors, and vitriol from Washington has been ty (and between the parties) — the they are trying to sway us . . .” imported in our swing state and peo- “Anti-Squad.” Although it is clear that she has ple can’t stand it. You saw how typically Democratic issues, among A few moments later,Slotkin tells not finished her sentence, the record- happy people are when people work lotkin said both her national them preventing foreign influence the crowd that she has a special ing cuts off there. together.” security past and her Jewish- in US elections and protecting pin for the spouses of Vietnam vet- “Congresswoman Slotkin should Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, is ness informed her emphasis migrants at the southern border. erans and hands it to Williams, refrain from denigrating her fellow one of nine veterans of the nation- on bipartisanship. She is already well known in who tears up. Jews by saying that they are only S“You take an oath to defend the her caucus for her attention to detail, Another veteran, Alan Caldwell, wanted for their money,” the Repub- al security apparatus who are fresh- man Democrats in Congress and constitution,” she said, as a CIA in evidence at the VFW event, billed pulled out a folder with clippings lican Jewish Coalition said. who call themselves the “Gang of employee and in Congress. “Con- as a Veterans Resource Fair.Slotkin about H.R. 303, a bill that would Slotkin said the remarks were Nine.” Three of them are Jewish: gress is the next chapter of our listened intently to Martha Williams, ensure that veterans get disability part of a broader critique of attempts Slotkin, Elaine Luria of Virginia, a national service.We pledged an oath who says her husband, who died last benefits as well as retirement pay, by Trump and the Republican par- Navy veteran, and Max Rose of Stat- to defend the constitution and that month, was never adequately com- initiated by Florida Republican Gus ty to depict Democrats as the sole Bilirakis. Slotkin asked for the purveyors of anti-Semitism.Trump, clipping to remind herself to become for example, has repeatedly called a co-sponsor. Caldwell was pleased. the party anti-Semitic and anti- “She done good!” he told a Slotkin Israel because of pronouncements, aide. criticized by lawmakers on both Slotkin’s commitment to reaching sides of the aisle, made by Omar across the aisle extended to defend- and Tlaib. ing Jews from what she called a “pre- “We need to be hyper-vigilant to cipitous rise” in anti-Semitism, she focus on anyone who is anti-Semit- said in the JTA interview. ic, and we can’t pick and choose, and “When we have a four-fold we shouldn’t let the Jewish com- increase in violent anti-Semitic munity be used as a pawn in the attacks, people being killed in Poway discussion,” Slotkin said. and Pittsburgh, when cemeteries Slotkin, meanwhile, was among are being abused and there are the Democrats who called on Omar increasing threats to institutions, to apologize for a tweet suggesting it’s important we come together in Jewish money in the form of cam- a bipartisan way and are concerned paign contributions had distorted about each and every incident of US Mideast policy. anti-Semitism, of white suprema- “Rep. Omar’s comments traffic cy,” Slotkin said. in age-old stereotypes and anti- “Where people are trying to split Semitic bias, drag down public con- Americans from each other I want versation, and are counter to our there desperately to be bipartisan- fundamental values of religious free- ship.” dom and mutual respect,” she said in a statement. n remarks recorded last week- “Elected officials must lead by ‘HYPER VIGILANT’ end at a Detroit area fundrais- example, particularly now, and car- Rep. Slotkin, D-Mich., speaks to Alan Caldwell at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Lansing, er for Jewish Democrats, Slotkin ry out their responsibility to unite Mich., July 30. Ron Kampeas I appeared to skewer Republicans rather than divide the public.” 8• INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 NEWS

2020 NEW YORK Soros hikes Lowey endorses Trump impeachment EW YORK (JTA) — Rep. month of Robert Mueller, the election spending Nita Lowey, D-NY, the special counsel into allegations of Russian influence in the 2016 twice as much as he had spent chairwoman of the pow- election who enumerated 10 pos- at this point in the campaign lead- erful US House of Repre- Nsentatives Appropriations sible instances of Trump and aides ing up to the 2016 election, Politi- obstructing justice. co reported July 31. Committee, is the latest Jewish “Former Special Counsel Robert The Hungarian-born Jewish Democrat to endorse impeaching Mueller’s investigation produced billionaire’s Democracy PAC is Donald Trump. a report that shed light on the his first involvement in the 2020 Lowey’s statement brings to 117 depths of systemic deception that election cycle. the number of Democrats endors- appears to be second nature for Soros, a longtime donor to the ing impeachment, close to half of the President and his advisors,” Democratic Party, has not and the 235-member caucus, and she said in a statement quoted does not plan to weigh in on increases the pressure on Rep. by the Journal News, a news- any of the Democratic candidates Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the speak- paper in the Lower Hudson Val- during the primary stage, accord- er, to allow the procedure to advance. ley. ing to Politico. He told the Wash- Nita Lowey Pelosi has said she does not want George Soros ington Post that doing so could Lowey’s statement on July 31 came in the wake of another Jew- to move on impeachment until sep- EW YORK (JTA) — “divide the Democratic party.” Foreign Affairs Committee, ish Democrat endorsing Trump’s arate inquiries into alleged Trump George Soros has donat- Soros eventually spent $20 mil- announced his decision last week. impeachment. Rep. Eliot Engel, D- administration improprieties are ed $5.1 million to a new lion on the 2016 race, one of the Like Engel, Lowey based her NY, the chairman of the House completed. super PAC ahead of the largest amounts for a donor in assessment on the testimony last N2020 presidential election — over either party. ARAB TOWN SHABBAT Vandals slash tires; Israeli chess prodigy sits out matches ERUSALEM (JTA) — A 14- Aviv last week declined the invi- because that match has games year-old chess prodigy from tation to play at this month’s Euro- on Yom Kippur day of atone- pro-settler graffiti Israel forfeited the opportu- pean Youth Championship in ment, the holiest day on the Jew- nity to travel for free to India Bratislava in August because it ish calendar. ERUSALEM (JTA) — The fiti spray-painted on a house read: Jand Slovakia and compete there includes games that fall on Tisha Hoffman, who won the Israel tires of 21 cars were slashed “The hill in Yitzhar, we won’t in championships because they b’Av, a day of fasting and mourn- chess championship in his age cat- and pro-settler graffiti was forget and we won’t forgive.” are scheduled to take place on Jew- ing over the destruction of the egory and has achieved a draw sprayed in an Israeli-Arab It refers to the razing by Israeli ish holidays. Temple and the exile of Israel. in a game against former world Jtown in northern Israel, the sec- authorities last week of an ille- Yair Hoffman, who attends the He also turned down October’s champion Viswanathan Anand, ond such incident last week. gal structure built on a hill near Tzviah yeshiva, or religious high World Youth Under 14, 16 and explored with the organizers the Israel police are investigating the Yitzhar Jewish settlement school, in Petah Tikva near Tel 18 Chess Championship in India possibility of giving him and his the attack as a possible hate in the northern West Bank. Jew- rivals a technical draw in the crime. ish militants refer to such inci- matches scheduled for Shab- The incident took place dents as “price tag” attacks, or bat. Hoffman pulled out when between July 30 and 31 in Jisr revenge for actions taken against this solution proved out to be az-Zarqa, north of Caesarea. Graf- settlers. ‘SECURITY’ impossible. Israel Zeira, the CEO of Bemunah, a real-estate firm Israel bars servicing many religious com- HANDICAPPED munities in Israel, has spon- sored Hoffman’s participation Spanish lawmaker in another international chess Man was shot, visit to Syria to see family mem- tournament sechduled to take bers and to conduct business may place this month in Poland, have raised a red flag. the International Irena killed over parking The Israel Security Agency told Warakomska Memorial tour- nament, which does not fall on ERUSALEM (JTA) — Two asked the man to move his car Haaretz that this is not the first time Assadi has been pre- Shabbat or any other day when online fundraising cam- over,since it was parked over two observant Jews refrain from paigns have raised more spots. The man then shot Has- vented from entering Israel for security reasons, but did not give work and other activities per- than two million shekels, or dai in front of his wife and three missible on regular days. Jover $500,000, for the wife and daughters. a reason for barring him. children of a man shot dead over Two of the daughters also have a handicap parking space. disabilities, one with muscular Ofir Hasdai, 40, was shot and dystrophy and one with cere- killed July 28 in Ramle after he bral palsy. tried to park in a handicap spot Hasdai was the family’s main Fouad Ahmad Assadi PRESIDENTS for his wife, Dikla, who has mus- breadwinner. Both online fund- Twitter cular dystrophy. ing campaigns far exceeded their Hasdai got into an argument original goals and have involved ERUSALEM (JTA) — Daroff replaces with a 74-year-old driver after he more than 11,000 donors. Israel barred entrance to a member of Spain’s rul- Hoenlein ing party who is of Pales- Jtinian descent, labeling him EW YORK (JTA) — a security threat. William Daroff was GAZA Fouad Ahmad Assadi, who named as CEO of the was born in Lebanon and is Conference of Presidents the son of Palestinian refugees, Nof Major American Jewish Orga- Palestinian gunman arrived in Israel to attend nizations. the Socialist International The news was first reported annual conference, taking by the JNS news website. shoots three Israelis place in Tel Aviv and Ramal- He will replace Malcolm Hoen- ERUSALEM (JTA) — A ly injured and released from lah in the West Bank. He was lein, who has held the position Palestinian gunman who the hospital. Their officer was supposed to lead the Spanish of executive vice chairman for crossed the border from moderately injured. delegation. the last 33 years. southern Gaza into Israel The soldier was identified as The Socialist International Daroff currently serves as Jshot and injured three Israeli Fadi Abu Salah, whose disabled represents social democratic senior vice president for public soldiers last week. brother was killed by Israeli sol- political parties from around policy and director of the Wash- The gunman was killed by oth- diers during protests in May the world. ington office of the Jewish Fed- er soldiers in the area in the ear- on the Gaza border. Assadi was stopped and erations of North America. ly Aug. 1 incident, according to The family of Lt. Hadar questioned at Ben Gurion Hoenlein, 74, announced in William Daroff the Israel Defense Forces. The Goldin, who was killed by Hamas International Airport by the February, 2018 that he would IDF said it also fired on a Hamas gunmen exactly five years ago Israel Security Agency on July step aside. He will remain with ical spectrum. The group’s pur- military post with tank fire. — two hours into a cease-fire 28. He was barred from enter- Conference to ensure a smooth pose is to provide consensus on Although the man was wear- during the 2014 Gaza War and ing Israel and returned to transition, to be of counsel and hot-button issues and in ing a Hamas uniform it is whose body is being held in Gaza Spain, work on agreed-upon projects, approaching the Executive believed he acted alone, the — has called on the Israeli gov- He told Haaretz that he has JNS reported. Branch, and in doing so tends IDF said in a statement. He also ernment not to turn over Abu lived in Spain for 40 years, and The Conference is a coalition to reflect the positions of the threw a grenade at the troops. Salah’s body until their son’s is has visited Israel several times of more than 50 Jewish organi- Israeli government in power at Two of the soldiers were light- returned. in the past. He said a recent zations from across the ideolog- the time. August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 9 NEWS: Israel’s election The secular woman Who’s who, leading a religious party what’s what Ayelet Shaked very popular on the right wing No guarantee of a coalition government By SAM SOKOL By MARCY OSTER JTA JTA

ERUSALEM — Late last month, as out with his wife, Sara. ERUSALEM — The main difference seat in April’s election. Israel prepared for yet another round between the upcoming election in Israel The United Right is polling as high as 14 of elections, Ayelet Shaked ascended to n 2012, Bennett and Shaked entered and the one last April is that a few groups seats, and has said it will support Netanyahu the leadership of the United Right, a the world of right-wing, pro-settlement of small parties have decided to join after the next election. Then its two parties Jjoint list comprising the primary factions rep- politics. That was the year that Jewish Jtogether, meaning fewer parties are running have said they will break up again. resenting the nation’s religious Zionist com- Home — a party composed of the old this time. One party left out in the cold is an extrem- munity. INational Religious Party and several small- Here’s a look at who’s running next month, ist group called Jewish Power,which has roots While women have led Israeli political par- er right-wing factions — held its first open what they stand for and what their chances in the anti-Arab views of the late Rabbi ties, none has ever risen to the pinnacle of primaries. Bennett, religiously modern Ortho- are. Meir Kahane. Because of a deal brokered by political power in a bloc representing the dox and politically hawkish, entered the Knes- Netanyahu, it was part of the religious Zion- traditionally patriarchal Orthodox communi- set in 2013 at the top of its list. Shaked took Is Benjamin Netanyahu running again? ist party last time, but didn’t join up this time. ty. its fifth seat. Polls show that it won’t get enough votes Even more remarkable, the 43-year-old By the 2015 primary Shaked, having only es. The biggest player on the right is on its own to enter Knesset. mother of two is a secular Jew from Tel finished her first term in the Knesset, was still Likud, the party that’s governed Aviv. popular enough with the party base that Israel for the past decade. It’s running Who’s running against Netanyahu? So who is Ayelet Shaked and how did she she came in second behind Bennett, estab- mostly on the record of Netanyahu, overcome decades of political tradition? lishing her position as a leader of the nation- Ywho became Israel’s longest-serving prime etanyahu’s main rival is the centrist Growing up as a middle-class child in the alist camp. In a party traditionally led by minister in July. Blue and White Party, which was Tel Aviv of the 1980s, Shaked could have been older,gray-haired men, Shaked at 39 not only Netanyahu opposes Palestinian state- formed before the last election. Like expected to develop into a left-leaning Labor was an ideological torchbearer but literally hood, supports annexing Israeli West Bank Likud, it hasn’t really changed since or Meretz voter,a proponent of two states and a fresh face: a young, stylish woman. settlements to Israel and sees Iran (and its NApril’s election. Like Likud, it’s running most- liberal policies. A stint as the country’s justice minister potential nuclear weapons program) as Israel’s ly on Netanyahu’s record. But as Shaked told The New York Times under Netanyahu further cemented her biggest threat. The difference is that Blue and White is in 2015, she experienced a personal revela- popularity. He’s put up ads showing off his bromances focusing on Netanyahu’s impending indict- tion at the age of eight when she watched With mixed success, Shaked sought to over- with right-wing leaders around the world, ment for fraud and breach of trust. They’re Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir debate an haul an activist judiciary that in her view including President Donald Trump and Russ- painting him as a petty, corrupt and divisive opponent on television: She was swayed by handcuffed the military and undermined ian strongman Vladimir Putin. leader. his nationalistic perspective. the right-wing elected government. Polls show that Likud is slated to get 30 Other than that, the party is pretty vague During their mandatory military service, She also helped pass a controversial bill seats in Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the on policy. It opposes Israeli annexation of some Israelis tend to shift to the right, at least that defined Israel as the nation-state of the upcoming election. That’s down from the 35 the West Bank, but hasn’t come out in sup- for a while, and a stint as an instructor in Jewish people. Supporters said it made an seats it won in April. port of a Palestinian state. It’s led by former the storied Golani infantry brigade helped obvious reality into law, while opponents Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Shaked strengthen her conservative politi- attacked it for prioritizing an ethnic identi- Sounds like nothing has changed Gantz and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid. cal outlook. ty over democracy. Even though Blue and White is probably “I just realized there will not be a solution Her critics say she is a threat to that democ- hings get more interesting to going to be the biggest centrist party, people right now,” she told the Times. racy. Netanyahu’s right, which has been are paying more attention to the true X-fac- Like the coalition she represents, Shaked “While Shaked was ‘polite,’ she was also a doing a lot of breaking up, getting back tor of the election: a man named Avigdor Liber- is staunchly pro-settlement and hawkish on bulldozer that would run roughshod over together and breaking up again. man, the former defense minister. defense. liberal democracy,” Tamar Zandberg, a law- TEarlier this year, there were basically two He’s a defense hawk who used to be more Although she studied computer engineer- maker representing the liberal Meretz par- parties to the right of Likud, which broke off right-wing than Netanyahu. His party,Israel ing and began her career working for Texas ty, said in a Facebook post. from each other before the last election. Beiteinu, has supported drawing Israel’s Instruments, Shaked pivoted to politics in Her attempt to remake the judiciary is “not Now,they’re reuniting.The party,called Unit- borders to leave out Arab cities and apply- 2006, going to work for then-opposition leader a misunderstanding of what democracy is, it ed Right, is staunchly pro-settlement, hawk- ing the death penalty to terrorists. Benjamin Netanyahu as his bureau chief. is a desire to destroy it and establish the Jew- ish on defense and supports infusing Israel’s His party’s base is Russian-speaking Israelis, She brought along with her the future Jew- ish state, the settlements, and Jewish suprema- culture with religious Judaism. who are mostly secular. In the April coali- ish Home party head and frequent collabo- cy instead of the state of equality.” The party’s leader,Ayelet Shaked, is some- tion negotiations, he refused to accept the rator Naftali Bennett, helping him make a In March, Shaked’s team produced a mock one to watch. She’s a secular woman at the demands of the haredi Orthodox parties, caus- similar transition from high tech to the dog- perfume ad featuring “Fascism by Ayelet head of a religious, mostly male party. That ing a deadlock. eat-dog world of Israeli parliamentary poli- Shaked” in which she posed like a model while means United Right is the only party head- This time, Liberman is the kingmaker. tics. ed by a woman. It’s a comeback of sorts for The two worked for Netanyahu for four AYELET SHAKED Shaked, who is a popular former justice WHO’S WHO years but left following a reported falling- Continued on Page 19 minister, and who did not win a Knesset Continued on Page 19

THE MAIN CONTENDERS From left to right, Benny Gantz, Ayelet Shaked, Avigdor Lieberman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel will hold its next elections on September 17, 2019. Getty Images / JTA Montage 10 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019

Today’sORGANIZATIONS • CELEBRATIONS Life A steep rise in Jewish homeschooling — why? By SARA IVRY JTA

EW YORK — Joey Weisberg and Molly Weingrod have four children, live in a city with a N vibrant Jewish community and believe strongly in the impor- tance of a Jewish education. But when their kids reached school age, the couple decided against enrolling their children in a Jew- ish day school — or public school, for that matter. Considerations: Finances, values, classroom pressure They’re a homeschooling family. “We just wanted to be with our kids when they were young because we knew it wasn’t going to last for- ever, and we both have had flexible work lives,” said Weingrod, a former day school teacher and adminis- trator who now teaches “mindful- ness-based” parenting classes to expectant parents. She and her family live in Philadelphia and describe their Jew- ish affiliation as “non/post-denomi- national.” We wanted our kids “to have space and time to be bored, and to follow their own interests and self-direct as much as possible, rather than being directed.” To make sure their kids have a strong Jewish background, they build it into their day alongside secular studies. Carmiya Weinraub, who has five children, decided she didn’t want her kids in public school or a Jewish day school. She discovered Every morning begins with Jew- that Rockville, Md., has a thriving Jewish homeschooling community. Carmiya Weinraub ish prayer.The kids study Torah two or three times a week, often using “People are very frustrated with places around the globe, which often secular studies, too. of female classmates. workbooks from Chabad called “Chil- the system,” said Chaya Margolin, have no local Jewish schools. “It’s a little bit fly-by-the-seat-of- Fridkis, who was herself home- dren’s Torah” and online resources director of Jewish Online School, a But the program also fields many my-pants, a little bit hit-or-miss, and schooled until college and recalls her like videos from AlephBeta.org. Chabad project that offers distance- inquiries from non-Orthodox fami- a little bit calculated,”Weinraub said. childhood as “amazing,” found a local The two older children study Mish- learning classes. “Costs are getting lies seeking alternatives to tradi- “We write thank-you notes, and that’s group of homeschoolers who encour- nah via Facetime with a cousin who’s higher and higher. Nothing has tional day schools or Hebrew schools. a rabbi. changed in 100 years between the An estimated four to eight mil- One child participates in a vir- stress of finances and learning that’s lion American children are being Bar Ilan University has 500 resources tual beit midrash class with other up to par, so we do it ourselves.” homeschooled, according to J. Allen homeschooled kids in Maryland and Over the last five years, the Weston, executive director of the and lesson plans available Pennsylvania and led by a hired Chabad program has grown from 40 National Homeschool Assn. Recent teacher. to 200 students. Many students years have seen “very explosive how they learn to write letters. We aged her to take the leap. They “There is embedded in our tradi- are the children of Chabad outreach growth,” he said. have a typewriter and they write spanned the gamut from freeform, tion a sense of that it is our respon- emissaries who live in far-flung Weston attributes the increase stories. We have games available; “unschooling” parents to families sibility to teach our to rising dissatisfaction with pub- Scrabble is how one kid learned how with home-based classrooms featur- children Torah,” lic schools’ emphasis on test prep, to spell. Our elevator is how one ing chalkboards on the walls. Weingrod said, curricula and traditional education- kid learned how to count.” Their kids appeared happy and explaining her pref- al models. thriving. erence for home- Carmiya Weinraub has five chil- here are a variety of curricu- While she loves the flexibility of schooling. dren, the eldest of whom is approach- la for Jewish homeschoolers homeschooling, Fridkis says she’s “We teach them to ing Bat Mitzvah. Weinraub decided who crave more formality.The intimidated about shouldering all swim. We teach early on she didn’t want her kids T Lookstein Center for Jewish the responsibilities for her daugh- them Torah. We in public school, where kosher and Education at Bar-Ilan University ter’s Jewish education. teach them the Sabbath restrictions would inhibit offers nearly 500 lesson plans and “As a parent, I wonder: How do I Pesach story.There’s their social life. resources used both by school edu- give my child the foundation I want this clear command- But she wasn’t excited about cators and homeschoolers. her to have to go out into the world? ment that we’re day school either, due to cost and Mindful of the growing home- How do I give her the tools?” responsible for their what she described as their racial school population, the center also Though Fridkis knows Jewish education.” and socioeconomic homogeneity.She runs the Lookstein Virtual Acade- liturgy and studied Hebrew in col- also was skeptical about day schools’ my,a project-based accredited online lege, she’s not fluent. For now, she ith the ability to endow her kids with a spir- program for middle- and high-school incorporates elements of Jewish life home- itual sense of G-d. students. into her daughter’s new daily rou- schooling Weinraub soon discovered that Parents also use iTal Am—a com- tine, from singing morning prayers W movement Rockville, Md. has a thriving Jew- puter-based Hebrew and Jewish her- to talking about the Jewish holidays. in America expand- ish homeschooling community, and itage program, the correspondence Down the road, she said, she may ing rapidly, a grow- she and her husband relocated there project from the NSW Board of Jew- hire a Hebrew tutor or an Israeli ing number of from New York City. ish Education, materials from Jew- babysitter. Jewish education- In Rockville, she says, her kids ish educational websites like “I try to in general talk to her minded families are are not quite the fish out of water Chinuch.org and even PJ Library, about what it means to be a Jew in keeping their kids they’d be in another Orthodox com- which mails free Jewish-themed the world,” Fridkis said. home. They include munity. books to homes. “We’re not having deep philosoph- parents wary of for- A former Hebrew teacher and syn- Brooklyn mom Kate Fridkis, a lay ical conversations, but I’ll talk about mal classroom set- agogue youth director, Weinraub cantor who identifies as Conserva- tikkun olam, that as Jews we want tings, families who handles Jewish studies instruction tive and works at a Reconstruc- to take care of other people.” live far from Jew- herself. After her kids master read- tionist synagogue, hadn’t really Meanwhile, both Fridkis and ish day schools or ing English, she starts them on planned on home schooling her five- her daughter are adjusting to the schools that comport Hebrew with the help of a workbook. year-old. new normal. with their religious Weinraub and her husband mod- Last fall, she and her husband “There’s something really grati- values, and parents Molly Weingrod’s four children, including her el Jewish prayer daily, use the hol- enrolled their daughter in kinder- fying and cool about being able to seeking to give their son, are homeschooled. She and her hus- idays to introduce lessons on Jewish garten at a local pluralist Jewish step out of the childhood rat race kids a Jewish edu- band wanted their kids ‘to have space and history and tradition and for one day school. But the child became and say: Okay,we’re doing math and cation without pay- time to be bored, and to follow their own inter- of their children use the same online increasingly anxious and unhappy, also it’s a beautiful day — let’s go ing parochial school ests and self-direct as much as possible, rather beit midrash program as Weingrod’s and complained about the small- outside and look at some flowers,” tuition. than being directed.’ Molly Weingrod child uses.They spearhead the kids’ ish classroom with a small number Fridkis said. August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 11

Today’sORGANIZATIONS • CELEBRATIONS Life Tisha b’Av 101: History, rituals of day of mourning By DEBORAH FINEBLUM JNS

emory and imagination:The wearing fancy clothing and jewel- two keys that unlock the Jew- ry, as well refraining from marital ish holiday of Tisha b’Av. relations. M In fact Tisha b’Av, a holi- Torah study is restricted to mourn- day many Jews are unfamiliar with, ful texts such as Lamentations is all about memory, the collective (“Eicha”) and parts of Jeremiah. Dri- memory of the Jewish people, as ving is permitted, as is work when much a family as it is a religion. necessary, but many take the day But to tap into the Jewish col- off. This year, the bulk of the holi- lective memory,we moderns need to day falls on Sunday, so it’s less of use our imagination to envision what an issue (though Sunday is a work our people experienced genera- day in Israel). tions ago. On Saturday night, Jews the world Tisha b’Av shows us how. over will read the powerful and But first, we have to disabuse our- disturbing book of Lamentations selves of what we think a holiday as it is sung to a mournful melody. is: a celebratory time filled with fam- Written by the prophet Jeremiah, ily,friends, food and festivities.Tisha it describes in horrifying detail the b’Av, on the other hand, is the sad- devastation visited on Jerusalem, dest day of the Jewish year and with including starvation, violence and good reason. even cannibalism. The ninth of Av, which this year As a gesture of mourning, many starts at sundown on Saturday,Aug. Jews sit on low chairs or on the 10, and ends the next night, and floor at nightfall and the next day which culminates a three-week peri- through midday (walk into a tradi- od of mourning when there are Worshippers gather at the Kotel for Tisha b’Av services. traditionally no weddings, haircuts TISHA B’AV or parties, is the day in the life of ended with the mass murders of the saw Ghetto to the Treblinka death (excepting dirty babies and kids), Continued on Page 19 the Jewish people when numerous Jewish community of Betar. camp begins, signaling the begin- tragedies occurred. 1095: The First Crusade, dis- ning of the end of the Jews of Poland. While not all of the following patched by Pope Urban II, killed 1994: The bombing of the AMIA events occurred on the ninth of Av 10,000 Jews in just the first month. building (Jewish community cen- itself, they all took place on or very The Crusades would wipe out many ter in Buenos Aires) kills 85 and close to that date. Jewish communities in Germany injures more than 300 others. 586 BCE: The First Temple, built and France. by King Solomon, was destroyed at 1290: The Jews of England were Traditions of the day the hands of the Babylonians in a expelled amid countless pogroms bloody siege on Jerusalem, where with untold quantities of sacred magining how our forebearers some 100,000 Jews were killed fol- books and property confiscated. must have felt during these painful lowed by a mass exile to Babylon 1492: The expulsion of the Jews times and how best to remember and Persia. from the Iberian Peninsula is com- I them? Jewish tradition provides 70 CE: The Second Temple was plete, with mass thefts of homes and a way: destroyed by the Romans under businesses, and many Jews also It begins with a 25-hour fast Titus. This time some one million killed in the process. (eschewing food and drink), in mag- Jews died from famine, war and dis- 1914: WW I begins, unleashing nitude second only to Yom Kippur, ease, and another million were a spate of violence against the from sundown on Saturday night exiled, many of them sold as slaves Jews including 400 pogroms in Hun- Aug. 10 until sunset the next day. by the Romans. gary, Ukraine, Poland and Russia. During that time, people also 133: The Bar Kochba revolt 1942: Mass deportations of more refrain from greeting each other, against the Romans in 133 CE than 265,000 Jews from the War- wearing leather shoes, bathing Hadassah to screen ‘93Queen’ Aug. 25 on female chasidic EMTs The Denver chapter of Hadas- sah will host a summer brunch accompanied by a showing of the documentary “93Queen” on Sunday, Aug. 25, 10:30 a.m. at The Court- yards at Mountain View, 8101 E. Mississippi Ave. Denver. The film is a narrative about a group of chasidic women who cre- ated an all-female ambulance ser- vice called Ezras Nashim in the Borough Park section of Brookyn, NY, home to one of the largest cha- sidic communities in America. Orthodox Jews in Borough Park use Hatzola, a volunteer emergency service. However, all Hatzolah employees are male, and in a com- munity with a strict separation of Volunteers with Ezras Nashim receive EMT training. genders, some saw the need for female EMTs. Ezas Nashim was recognized and 7636. Women in this neighborhood had honored in March 2019 by the Brook- Kosher meals are available upon to call Hatzolah if they needed an lyn Borough for the Women’s His- request. All money raised supports ambulance, but some women need- tory Month celebration. the doctor-on-call suite in the Round ing emergency medical attention Info: www.hadassh.org/events/ Building at Hadassah Medical Cen- refrained from using the service. 93queen, or call Bobbie at 303-229- ter in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel. Some women were too embarrassed to call for help, said Paula Eiselt, director of “93Queen.” The film follows the journey of lawyer Judge Ruchie Freier as she fights against attitudes in the cha- sidic community while encourag- ing her team of female EMT volunteers to build their profession- al knowledge and skills. Following the 2014 release of “93Queen,” Stern College in Man- hattan and a group in Long Island were inspired to start their own Ezras Nashim chapters. 12 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 Leisure & Entertainment PERFORMANCES • RENAISSANCE Filmmaker Duncan Tucker at Boulder JFS Reel Hope oulder Jewish Family Ser- vice will host its seventh annual fundraiser, Reel Hope Boulder,Saturday,Nov. 2, at the Boulder JCC, fea- Bturing Boulder-based screenwriter and director Duncan Tucker, who created the film, “Transamerica. A wine reception with hors d’oeu- vres will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed by a program at 8:30 p.m. “Transamerica” premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Siegessaüle Jury Prize for best film. The film went on to gar- ner two Golden Globe nominations, including a win for Felicity Huffman as best actress, and two Oscar nominations. Transamerica also won the GLAAD media award and the Equal- ity California Entertainment Award. Boulder JFS will host a screen- Duncan Tucker ing of Transamerica on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. at The Boedecker Deb Grojean, Alan Hurst, Ardee Theatre at The Dairy Arts Center. Imerman, Michelle Krajl, Lilya Reel Hope Boulder attendees are Mitelman, Meg Quiat, Heidi Schoen, encouraged to attend this screening Mark Schwartz, Gail Sloat, Barbara and bring their questions about Steinmetz, Evie Verderber, Ed Vic- the movie for Tucker to answer on tor, Rhonda Wildman, Mary Ann Benny Katz works on his latest sculpture in his studio. Noga Martin Nov. 2. Wilner and Barbara Zeidman. Committee members are Molly Information: www.jewishfamily- Bayer, Carolyn Bleicher, Jill Alyse service.org/reelhope or Cathy Sum- BRAZILIAN-BORN SCULPTOR BENNY KATZ Davis, Susan Edelman, Steven Ellis, mer, 720-749-3404. B’nai B’rith, DJCC host Aspen, via Israel golf tournament, Aug. 19 ’nai B’rith Colorado and the as singles or foursomes. By NOGA ZISOWITZ Denver Jewish Chamber of Last year’s Denver Jewish Golf Commerce will host their tournament attracted more than 70 Israel Hayom/JNS fourth annual Jewish golf golfers. tournament on Monday,Aug. “We look forward to another year sraeli artist and sculptor Benny Katz is excit- mother’s father survived the Holocaust in Europe. B19, at Green Valley Ranch Golf Club. of fun, connection and great golf,” ed about a trip he plans to take to Aspen After a year in Ashkelon, his family moved to The tournament features a day of said Bill Berger, immediate past- later this year. Kibbutz HaMa’apil in northern Israel. He remem- golf, prizes, a silent auction, network- president of B’nai B’rith. Katz is eager to see the Rocky Mountains, bers watching his father, an avid amateur artist, ing and a buffet lunch. Information: info@denverjewish- but he also wants to visit Forré Fine Art draw.As a child, Katz also loved drawing (“design- Golfers are encouraged to sign up golf.org IContemporary Gallery, where his latest work ing,” he stresses) sneakers and cars, which he has been on display since June. would imagine jumping off the Katz opens the door to the stu- paper and taking shape. After his dio he rents in a quiet moshav compulsory military service, he Jennifer Lopez and A-Rod near Ness Ziona in central Israel, You wouldn’t studied graphic design, but the con- offering a peek at a sculpture in fines of a career in graphic design ‘fall in love’ with Israel progress — a stylized, tailless buck were not for him. deer, which for now he is calling believe However, his graphics training “Male.” is very much present in his recent Sometimes, Katz says, his ideas work, which is characterized by crystallize as he plays with the mate- clean lines, curves and a mostly pri- rials. Other times, he starts with an how many mary palette — red, blue, yellow idea and then embarks on a long and black — offset by touches of process of trying to express that bright green or orange.While he no idea. steps longer spends his time sketching “It’s a process of finding solutions out designs for cars, Katz does to express the idea that’s in my use automotive paint on his sculp- head,” Katz says. go into tures due to its durability. “It’s much harder to try to express something I can picture in my mind he pieces on show in Aspen than it is to start working on some- one are part of a new direction thing and not know what it will his art has taken in the become.” past four years. In 2013, When he starts with a specific sculpture Katz had a solo show in idea, the first thing he does is make TelT Aviv. Most of the pieces he rough sketches. “I have to,” he showed — a real-size life preserv- says. “It’s the way to get closest to er made out of concrete and rebar; or uncover the vague impressions in my head.” a chain of wooden rafts loaded with packing crates; Then he uses a computer program to turn the a realistic cantaloupe with slices cut out that don’t sketch into a clean illustration. Finally, he carves quite fit back in, which Katz says represents an the components out of Styrofoam and covers immigrant’s sense of incompleteness — explored each with air-dry clay, which he sands until it themes of otherness, confusion and alienation. attains the texture of smooth plaster. After the 2013 show, Katz felt he had closed a For the sculptures that have a few parts, he uses circle and done as much conceptual work as he thin metal rods to attach the various sections. wanted to. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez visit Jerusalem as part of JLo’s He taught himself to spot-weld. His new work focuses on form, line and color. concert tour. She performed in Tel Aviv on Aug. 1 Katz makes up to nine editions of a piece. He And wit. recreates the prototype using ancient molding and “Arnold” portrays a fleshed-out stick-figure body- ERUSALEM (JTA) — Jen- Park. casting techniques, but with modern materials— builder with both arms raised in a flex, while nifer Lopez and former New Rodriguez was instantly “in love.” bubblegum pink silicon and epoxy clay, a mater- “Atlas” takes the burden of the globe off the York Yankees baseball star “What an amazing time we are ial he likes because it’s both lightweight and strong. mythical figure’s back and halves it. Alex Rodriguez, better having on our first trip to Tel Aviv! Others are more purely abstract. In a few sculp- known as “A-Rod,” didn’t have The people have been wonderful and atz was born in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In tural strokes, “Performance” (which was snatched Ja lot of time in Israel, but they have such energy,” he tweeted. 1978, when he was five, his family left up two weeks after being uncrated at Forre Fine are making the most of it. Fans reportedly flocked outside of Brazil, which was still under a military Arts) perfectly conveys a lone performer on The two — along with Rodriguez’s their hotel as they arrived, and they dictatorship. Both of his parents are of Pol- stage. two children from his first marriage, were spotted dining out in Tel Aviv. ish Jewish descent; his father’s family For now, Katz is pleased to have his work in and Lopez’s twins — were in the The concert, her first in Israel, is Karrived in South America before WW II and his the spotlight while he keeps busy in the studio. Jewish state last week for Lopez’s part of Lopez’s first international Aug. 1 concert in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon tour in seven years. August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 13

BusinessFINANCE • REAL ESTATE • TECHNOLOGY Update Amazon plans September Israel opening

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mazon is reportedly aim- pricing, uniform images that con- ing to open its operations form with Amazon’s rigorous in Israel ahead of the coun- requirements, and writing content,” A try’s Sept. 17 elections and according to Globes. Jewish holidays, which fall at the “Another factor is the ability to very end of September. put a website on the air on the launch date that provides a first- rate user experience in Hebrew, or else to launch a website in Hebrew language English, which will be less effec- website is tive.” preferred mazon has been increas- ing its presence in Israel recently. If the online retailer is not ready A Amazon Global Selling by then, it will likely launch in manager Rolf Kimmeyer has met November around the shopping days with executives of Israel’s Bank of Black Friday and Cyber Mon- Hapoalim. day, reported Globes. Amazon has recognized Israeli “The criteria imposed by Ama- firm iCommerce as part of Amazon’s zon US include both the number of supplier provider network, which suppliers interested in operating on consists of Amazon carefully inspect- Amazon Go store. SounderBruce/Wikimedia Commons. Amazon and their level of readiness ing and certifying to buyers as a according to criteria such as map- marketplace from which it is safe Amazon bought Israeli cloud com- lion in January, 2019. Israeli technology startup E8 Stor- ping the catalogue and diversity, to purchase. pany CloudEndure for $250 mil- Late last month Amazon acquired age. Wei is Colorado state historian The Israel Project shuts r. William Wei, PhD, pro- Colorado: A History of Persecution Israel office; DC soon fessor of history at CU, and Perseverance in the Centennial began his one-year position State, was a finalist for the 2017 Col- he nonpartisan educational D as the official State His- orado Authors’ League’s Award for group The Israel Project (TIP) torian and leader of History Col- general nonfiction. closed its office in Israel last orado’s State Historian’s Council on “As State Historian, Dr. Wei will week and is expected to do the Aug. 1. bring a fresh perspective to our T same in Washington. He succeeds noted historian and shared history, helping us tell new The pro-Israel organization saw author Dr. Tom Noel. stories and share new voices,” says a massive decline in donations in The five-person council rotates Jason Hanson, History Colorado’s recent years — from $8,696,052 in this leadership role every year on CCO, director of interpretation 2015 to $4,922,854 in 2016. Colorado’s birthday to create bet- and research and facilitator of the Last month, its CEO and presi- ter representation and reach for State Historian’s Council. dent, Josh Block, resigned. the state, amplify different perspec- “He’s been an important part of In a Facebook post, Lior Wein- tives and reinforce the collabora- History Colorado for many years, traub, former head of the project’s tive foundation of history and and with this new role will enhance Israel office, said the reason for storytelling. the depth, history and interpreta- declining support for the organiza- Before joining the State Histori- tion of our collection — both inside tion is its nonpartisan stance. an’s Council in 2018, Dr. Wei was a and outside our museum walls. He wrote, “In the last two-and-a- former History Colorado board mem- Dr. William Wei “The combination of Dr. Wei’s half years when the polarization in ber,lead advisor on History Colorado experience and commitment, along America reached new highs, we safe- Center’s “Zoom In” exhibition and share Colorado’s story with people with the other State Historian’s guarded our apolitical bipartisan Josh Block contributor to History Colorado’s outside of academics.” Council members, will help pre- middle line with all the strength Heritage Magazine. Dr. Wei, an expert on modern sent our state’s rich, complex his- possible and no compromises because He also is editor-in-chief of the Chinese history,is the senior Asian tory in ways that are relevant for we knew it was the right way to hurt in the long run.” online Colorado Encyclopedia and history specialist in his depart- Coloradans today.” serve Israel and it was the way to Weintraub told The Jerusalem has held various national and inter- ment. Dr.Wei will play a key role in guid- serve Israel-US relations.” Post that discussions have been national fellowships. Early in his academic career, he ing History Colorado as a place of “There were no buyers for any- underway about what will happen He is currently working on a book developed a professional interest belonging for all Coloradans, while thing in the middle in 2019, and TIP next, and that “there’s a chance that featuring the 100 objects from the in Asian American history and is setting the groundwork for history, as a middle organization was the the organization will have a suc- “Zoom In” exhibition. now recognized as one of the fore- community connection, inclusion and first victim of polarization in the pro- cessor. TIP has a unique mission. According to Dr. Wei, “I believe most authorities on Asian American new relationships. Israeli system in America, and to a If no one continues its work, there it is my responsibility to go beyond history in Colorado. His new role continues through large extent this is fine; there are will be a need to reinvent it. Some- the confines of higher education, to Dr. Wei’s latest book, Asians in July 31, 2020. goals for which it is worth getting thing else will need to fill the void.” BUSINESS TO BUSINESS • BUSINESS TO CONSUMER Intermountain Jewish News Advertise Rosh Hashanah 303.861.2234 Business Pull-Out September 27, 2019 Lori Aron Larry Hankin Rabbi Hillel Goldberg [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 14 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 Sports Jewish kid is Japan wrestling champ oah Leibowitz, a 12 year- in New York, and his mother, old Jewish boy who lives Mayumi Chana, is Japanese-born. in Japan, won the All Japan They have lived in Japan for N Wrestling Championship most of the last 25 years. (60 kg, age 12) on Sunday, Aug. Japan is a wrestling powerhouse 4. The championship brought and is among the leading coun- together 1,400 champion wrestlers tries in the sport. David told TPS from across Japan after they won that the Japanese style of wrestling their regional tournaments. focuses mostly on the nuances of Noah won the first match in delicate movement. This often 50 seconds, the second in 30, and works to the advantage of the the final in a brief 13 seconds. smaller wrestlers. Noah comes from a family of David described Noah as “Nat- athletes: His brother Levi, 17, is urally strong in many respects currently practicing Judo, as is his — physically,emotionally and men- sister Mia-Dina, 15. They both tally. His natural strength, com- reside in Israel, where they attend bined with the Japanese technical Israeli high schools as part of the training, created an opportunity Naale program. for some excellent wrestling.” Noah’s father, David, was born — TPS

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It works in mice; researchers say it could treat other cancers esearchers at Tel Aviv Uni- such as surgery,chemotherapy,radi- versity revealed in the Aug. ation therapy and immunothera- 5 issue of Nature Nanotech- py; but the vaccine approach, which R nology a novel nano-vac- has proven so effective against cine for melanoma, the most various viral diseases, has not mate- aggressive type of skin cancer. rialized yet against cancer,” said Their approach has so far proven study leader professor Ronit Satchi- effective in preventing the devel- Fainaro, at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine. “In our study,we have shown that Prevention it is possible to produce an effec- tive nano-vaccine against melanoma and treatment and to sensitize the immune sys- tem to immunotherapies.” opment of melanoma in mouse mod- The researchers demonstrated the els and in treating primary tumors effectiveness of the vaccine under and metastases that result from three different conditions: From left, the team that worked on the melanoma vaccine: Prof. Helena Florindo, João Conniot, melanoma. • as a preventive measure in Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro and Anna Scomparin at Tel Aviv University. Galia Tiram Melanoma develops in the skin healthy mice; cells that produce melanin, or skin • to treat a primary tumor in mice “We believe that our platform may pigment. in conjunction with immunothera- also be suitable for other types of “The war against cancer in gen- py; and cancer and that our work is a sol- eral, and melanoma in particular, • to treat tissues taken from id foundation for the development Drs. Oz has advanced over the years through patients with melanoma brain of other cancer nano-vaccines,” a variety of treatment modalities, metastases. said Satchi-Fainaro. and Roizen At Jamboree, rabbi leads 10 religions Eye protection; catheters and infections By ALAN SMASON Crescent City Jewish News By MICHAEL ROIZEN, MD, AND MEHMET OZ, MD LEN JEAN,WV — A Reform for Christian denominations. IJN columnists rabbi from Maryland is lead- ing the Faith and Beliefs pro- yman is mindful of his duties Q: We’re spending a lot more Last tip: Get more than one pair: gram at the World Scouting as a Jewish faith leader, but time at the beach and on our one for your car and one for your G he has to be open and wel- Jamboree, the first such event held boat this year. I know I should boat. That way you won’t head in the US since 1967. H coming as well as to the oth- protect my eyes, but what kind out on the water with eyes unpro- For the past two weeks, some er, larger numbers of scouts from of sunglasses should I be look- tected when you’ve left your shades 45,000 scouts representing 156 the world’s religions. ing for? in the car. That can happen easi- nations have gathered at the Sum- “What the Boy Scouts of Ameri- Danny G., Put-in-Bay, Ohio ly if it’s cloudy but the sun comes mit Bechtel Reserve here for sports, ca has allowed me to do is nothing out later. Safe boating! camping, stadium shows and cultur- short of amazing,” the rabbi said.“It A: Glad you asked, because al celebrations. gives me goose bumps and it hum- having the right sunglasses helps Q: My husband is going in for As the chair of this year’s Faith bles me. I’ve been able to represent avoid vision impairment and even spinal fusion surgery. I under- and Beliefs area, Rabbi Peter Hyman the US, the BSA and Judaism in a vision loss from cataracts and mac- stand that he’ll have a catheter is supervising all 10 participating number of fronts and a number of ular degeneration. Recently, the in place for a few days. I’ve religions — Protestantism,Won Bud- places and been relatively success- American Academy of Ophthalmol- heard they can transmit infec- dhism, Buddhism, the Catholic Rabbi Peter Hyman ful in those moments.” ogy came out with a list of tips tions. Any special precautions Church, the Orthodox Church, Alan Smason Hyman was the first BSA chair- for buying the best eye-protecting we should take? Sikhism, Islam, the Church of Jesus 24 years. man of the Messengers of Peace in shades, and we have a few of our Jane F., Austin, Texas Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Judaism Hyman said he was chosen to lead 2006, which has a huge worldwide own too. and Hinduism. this year’s faith programming Islamic component, he said. The most important feature: A: There’s not much you can do “because of the depth of my experi- As a result of that work, Hyman lenses that provide 99 to 100% pro- before surgery, but in the first ence. But also the fact that I enjoy traveled to Saudi Arabia in 2006 and tection from UVA/UVB radiation few days following surgery there 45,000 scouts — with great humility and a real was given an award by King Abdul- and screen out around 75 to 90% are several things that every pri- sense of gratitude — a good repu- lah, an event he considers one of the of visible light. mary caregiver or patient advocate represent tation in the Boy Scouts of Ameri- most significant of his life. Ophthalmologists — and many should be aware of. 156 nations ca.The senior leadership with whom times reputable retail optical shops First, a study from the Univer- I’ve had relationships over the years yman also weathered the tur- — have a UV light meter that sity of Michigan found that catheter . . . felt that I was capable of mak- bulent years when the BSA can check lenses to see just how use causes roughly 25% of hospi- Also included are the Messengers ing it work.” forbade same-sex parents and effective they are at screening tal infections.And 60 -90% of inten- of Peace, a global community ser- At this year’s World Scouting Jam- H leaders along with homo- out UV rays and light. Look for the sive care patients, plus 10-30% of vice program Hyman helped estab- boree, the chaplaincy was located in sexual scouts. That put him at E-SPF on the lens (that’s the patients outside the ICU (that would lish with funding from the late King four major camps for scout contin- odds with his own Union for Reform visual equivalent of the skin pro- apply to your husband) have uri- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. gents and a single camp for the Inter- Judaism. tection SPF provided by, say, zinc nary catheters. Researchers tried Hyman, a longtime religious national Service Team comprised BSA votes in 2013 and 2015 oxide). to determine exactly how many are leader of the Boy Scouts of Ameri- of nearly 9,000 adults from around changed those policies. On the water, polarized lenses unnecessary and why the infec- ca, is no stranger to world Jamborees, the world. Each camp was further More recently,BSA has been chal- will reduce glare so that you’ll be tion rate is as high as it is. Short which are organized by the World subdivided into four subcamps. lenged on a more sustained basis. better able to see other boaters and answer? No one knows how many Organization of the Scouting Move- In addition to a daily minimum The past few years have seen an swimmers. The good news, even are needed. But there are ways to ment, of which the BSA is a mem- of four Catholic masses in each of increasing number of accusations by inexpensive sunglasses can pro- help reduce the risk of infection. ber.This is his eighth World Scouting the subcamps, the Faith and Beliefs former scouts of sexual abuse by vide both reduced glare and full The study points out that some- Jamboree. program is responsible for an BSA volunteers and scout masters, protection from the sun’s ultravi- times communication between doc- Hyman, who has previously served exhibits area that includes all of the as well as allegations of a cover up olet rays and visible light. tors, nurses and other health care congregations in Sarasota, Fla., participating faith groups. A large by former BSA leadership. Most Other good qualities to look workers concerning use of the Beaumont, Tex. and suburban worship tent has been designated recently, attorneys for victims have for: Wraparound sunglasses, like catheter breaks down, and it Philadelphia, has only missed two for daily prayers and meditations said they plan to file a massive those found in bicycle shops, are remains in place too long. That national and world jamborees — of Muslims and Buddhists, for exam- lawsuit against BSA, with one plain- ultra-protective, keeping out every- increases the risk of complications each typically held every four years, ple. tiff saying that he hopes the suit will thing from road debris and flying from infections or irritation. So: since 1981. A Torah scroll was borrowed from bankrupt the organization. insects to those UV rays that can • Always insist that nurses aids, “The first time I was a chaplain a nearby Charleston congregation A constant, however,says Hyman, sneak past regular, flat-front sun- nurses and docs wash their hands at an international event was the for observant contingent members is BSA’s insistence that scouts and glasses. and wear a fresh pair of gloves Jamboree in [New South Wales] Aus- to hold worship services on Monday, leaders demonstrate “an obligation Sun damage also happens before touching the catheter line. tralia in 1988,” said Hyman. “It Thursday and Saturday mornings. to G-d” and subscribe to its “Decla- because light is reflected from • Every time the doc comes in, was the most moving, inspirational Observant Jewish scouts, predom- ration of Religious Principle.” the inside of the lens into your eye, ask whether the catheter should and hope-filled experience I’ve ever inantly from England, France and “Baden-Powell had a vision for the so docs recommend antireflective be changed or cleaned. had and, to this day,it remains that.” the US, were treated to a kosher world,” Hyman said, referring to coatings on sunglasses and on your • As soon as your husband can Oneg Shabbat on Friday night and Robert Baden-Powell, the British regular glasses! walk to the bathroom and up and n Eagle Scout, Hyman has a Kiddush following Shabbat wor- army officer who founded the scout- Mistakes to avoid: Don’t think down the hall, ask any attending been immersed in the Scout- ship services. ing movement in 1922. “It is not that darker-colored lenses are nec- doctor and the nurses if it’s time ing movement since his youth Kosher meals were available to unlike the vision of the world that essarily better or that, like super- for the catheter to come out. and was drawn to serve as a all observant Jewish scouts who we see presented in Jewish liturgy, star Megan Rapinoe, matching your A a world where people are connect- Jewish leader early on. requested them and special events lens color to your hair is a major Email your health and wellness He previously served as the chair- such as a central Havdalah service ed, where people get along, respect priority — although you can get questions to Dr. Oz and Dr. Roizen man of the National Jewish Com- were coordinated through the Faith each other and recognize the image blue, yellow or orange and maybe at [email protected]. mittee on Scouting for four years and Beliefs team. of G-d on the face of the person whose even purple lenses that offer great © 2019 Michael Roizen, MD and and was its National Chaplain for Sunday morning brought services eyes you are looking into.” protection. Mehmet Oz, MD 16 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 NEWS Does ‘domestic terrorism’ have teeth? Domestic terrorism is not a statutory offense, but labeling it does have consequences By BEN SALES JTA

L PASO — Before he killed legislation acknowledge that other at least 22 people at a Wal- laws (like federal hate crimes law) mart on the southern border, allow authorities to pursue home- the gunman in El Paso post- grown extremists. But they say a Eed a white supremacist manifesto specific federal domestic terrorism on the fringe social network 8chan law will give the government more denouncing a “Hispanic invasion resources to fight domestic terror of Texas.” and allow for more accurate record- The US Justice Dept. announced keeping. that it would treat the shooting as A bill introduced in March by a “domestic terrorist case.” US Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would “It appears to be designed to intim- “require the Federal Government to idate a civilian population,” US Attor- take steps to prevent domestic ter- ney John Bash said at a news rorism.” conference Sunday,Aug. 4, referring A 2017 report by the Government to the shooter’s motives. “And we’re Accountability Office found that 73% going to do what we do to terror- of extremist murders since 9/11 came ists in this country, which is deliv- from far-right groups, with the er swift and certain justice.” remaining 27% from radical Islam- Most mass shootings do not in ic extremism. themselves meet the criteria of a “With enactment of a federal domestic terrorist act, and there is domestic terrorism offense would no law under which one can be come a bigger budget and more charged for domestic terrorism, as ON THE SCENE resources for preventing attacks like there is for international terror- Armed police officers gather next to an FBI armored vehicle at the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, the assault on the Tree of Life Syn- ism. Such a bill has been introduced Texas, Aug. 3. The shooter who killed at least 22 people there is being investigated as a domes- agogue,” Mary McCord, a former in Congress. tic terrorist. Joel Angel Juarez/AFP/Getty Images senior Justice Department official The Trump administration has and now a law professor at George- been criticized for diverting resources ties Network, which coordinates focused on domestic terrorism analy- ment agencies had the means and town University,wrote in the online from investigating far-right extrem- security for Jewish institutions. sis within its Office of Intelligence will to track domestic terrorism, par- publication Lawfare following the ism. On Monday, Trump said dur- “Being able to identify individu- and Analysis. ticularly white supremacists. Pittsburgh massacre last year. ing a White House address that als as domestic terrorists and inves- Critics said it showed a reticence “The crimes Robert Bowers is the FBI should receive “whatever tigate them through that lens is to take such movements seriously, Why are some people saying alleged to have committed are crimes they need” to investigate hate crimes important in recognizing a prob- while the administration and its the government should do more? of terrorism, and they should be pros- and domestic terrorism. lem and seeking to address it.” defenders said existing govern- Advocates of domestic terrorism ecuted that way.” Here’s what domestic terrorism Oren Segal, the director of the is, what it means for the shooter and ADL’s center on extremism, added why some people are calling for new that there are concrete effects of the legislation to protect against it. domestic terrorism designation. It allows a suspect to be charged, for Rep. Cummings’ program builds bridges What is domestic terrorism? example, for committing federal hate The FBI defines domestic terror- crimes if the state doesn’t have a between Jews, African Americans, Israel ism as acts committed by people who hate crimes law. are linked to or inspired by “US- based movements that espouse How does the government CUMMINGS eration of Baltimore. Its director, ed” to refer to the district was “very extremist ideologies of a political, fight domestic terrorism? From Page 1 Kathleen St. Villier Hill, declined a disrespectful.” religious, social, racial, or environ- It doesn’t, at least as a category request for comment by JTA. Scott, 35, traveled to Israel as part mental nature.” unto itself. communities that aren’t very close There are three main components of the program in 2001. Scott, who International terrorism, by con- While there is a government def- together who can support each oth- to the program: leadership devel- now serves as vice chair of its board, trast, is “associated with designat- inition of domestic terrorism, there’s er during tough times.” opment, a trip to Israel and com- was so touched by learning about ed foreign terrorist organizations or no law that specifically addresses it. She is one of more than 200 munity service. Jewish and Israeli culture that he nations.” So while shooters like the one in graduates of the Elijah Cummings Fellows attend workshops on a still continues to great most people The key here is not where the ter- El Paso can be charged for murder, Youth Leadership Program in Israel. range of topics from life manage- he comes across with a Hebrew greet- rorist is from, but where their move- weapons possession or hate crimes, The fellowship, which celebrates ment skills and activism to black- ing: shalom. ment is from. So, for example, even they cannot be charged for domes- its 20th anniversary this year, was Jewish relations and Holocaust “I love everything about Israel, though one of the 2015 San Bernardi- tic terrorism. founded by the African American remembrance. They also meet with really,” he said.“The conflict, no, but no shooters was a US citizen, the James Fields, who killed a counter- lawmaker to bridge gaps between local and national politicians. there’s a lot of things to love about FBI still classified it as an inter- protester at the 2017 Charlottesville the Jewish and black communities After the first year, fellows trav- Israel.” national terror attack because they rally, also was investigated as a in his Baltimore district. Every year el to Israel, where they stay for For Scott, the program was just were inspired by foreign terror domestic terrorist. He pleaded guilty about a dozen teens participate in almost a month at Yemin Orde, a the beginning in his journey of learn- groups, specifically Islamist extrem- to hate crimes, not domestic ter- the program. youth village near Haifa.There, they ing about Judaism. ists. rorism, and is serving a life sentence. In recent tweet attacking Cum- work with Israeli teens from diverse “It really opened my eyes to his- There is a law against interna- mings, President Donald Trump backgrounds, volunteer and tour the tory,” he said. Why does it matter? tional terrorism, which is linked to referred to his majority-black dis- country. “I learned about the struggles of Extremism and security experts a list of designated foreign terror- trict as “a disgusting, rat and rodent Upon returning, fellows speak the Jewish community a lot more said calling the shooter a terrorist ist groups.The law carries penalties infested mess.” about issues of diversity and men- and how there were parallels to has symbolic value. Since the Sept. and affords tools to authorities like Local leaders, including Jews, tor middle school students in their the African American community, 11 attacks, the US government has the opportunity to surveil suspects. leaped to the defense of the con- home community. and from there, that peaked my engaged in an extensive and coor- There is no such list of designated gressman and their admittedly trou- interest.” dinated fight against Islamist ter- groups for domestic terrorism. bled city. or many the trip to Israel is After the program, Scott, who grew rorism. Calling the El Paso shooter Segal said that those who are Some cited the Israel program the first time they travel up Catholic, continued to learn about a terrorist, experts say, attaches linked to a foreign terror group as an example of what he has done outside the country. Judaism and today he feels such a the same significance and urgency can be investigated even before they for the community. That was the case for Michae- draw to the religion that he is con- Flangelo Hayes, who participated in sidering converting. to white supremacist attacks at home. commit an attack. Because there is “Calling it domestic terrorism, no such domestic list, law enforce- ummings often speaks high- the program in 2010-2012. Hayes’ Though that result is not typi- while it doesn’t change the reality ment has a harder time investigat- ly about ties between Jews grandfather is Jewish, so he was cal, the program does challenge par- of the lives lost or the individuals ing people who post white and African Americans. already somewhat familiar with the ticipants’ perspectives in many ways. injured, symbolically it is an impor- supremacist rhetoric online. “I want to send a message religion, but he said the program David Cuthrell, Aaliyah’s cousin, tant one,” said Michael Masters, the Cthat we cannot as African Ameri- taught him more about Israel. said the program opened his eyes Earlier this year, the Dept. of director of the Secure Communi- Homeland Security closed the unit cans progress without coalitions, and Being exposed to another country to a new world view. our greatest coalition partner has motivated the 24-year-old to learn “The biggest thing I would say I been the Jewish people in America,” about the world and ultimately go took away from the program would he recently told WBALTV 11 in an on to major in international rela- be a sense of connectedness,” said interview about the 20th anniver- tions in college. Cuthrell, 20. Mass shooting thwarted sary of his program. “That changed my whole per- “Even though [there are] differ- THWARTS other members, including at least For Cuthrell, the program even spective,” he told JTA. ent cultures and different people From Page 1 one other college student. changed her social circle. Today, Hayes also criticized Trump’s com- all around the world, [and] we all A 6.6-pound bomb filled with met- many of her friends are Jewish. ments about his district, though he have our differences, we still have bings, purchase weaponry, and find al fragments that was to be used If she hadn’t been on the program, did concede that many people live many base similarities.” and recruit additional operatives for in a bomb attack also was discov- she said,“I wouldn’t be able to relate in poverty. Aaliyah said meeting with Jew- terrorist activities,” the agency, ered. The metal fragments would to them. And that’s kind of how I “I don’t agree with what Presi- ish teens helped challenge stereo- also known as the Shin Bet, said have caused more serious injury to ended up talking to them: talking dent Trump said and his comments,” types held by both groups. in a statement Aug. 6. victims. about this program.” he said, “but one thing I do [know] “When you work together side The agency arrested a member The investigation and arrest of The program operates under and is that there’s a lot of destitute by side,” she said, “a program like of the cell, a college student at the the cell was a joint operation with receives support from the Baltimore conditions in Baltimore city.” this makes the opportunity to break Polytechnic College in Hebron, in the Israel Defense Forces and the Jewish Council, which is an agency Another graduate, Samuel Scott, those stigmas and really know a per- June, which led to the arrest of Israel Police. ■ of The Associated, the Jewish fed- said that the use of the term “infest- son.” ■ August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 17 NEWS: Jewish Dems in Michigan

Confounded over Tlaib Sight Detroit Dems think she’s vulnerable, and they could do better unseen DETROIT ed against surefire winners, because are in Turkey and Iraq, because of The leader also said that while From Page 1 losing would embarrass the pro- shared concerns about Islamist the embassy move and the Golan SIGHT Israel community. Tlaib is seen as extremism as well as Trump’s immi- recognition were welcome, Trump’s From Page 1 beatable. She (barely) won a primary gration restrictions. isolationism and the diminishment the ultimate goal of unseating Don- in a majority-black district, against There was ongoing work with local of US influence were in the long run (Musar) literature, going back ald Trump. several black candidates. Muslims, despite the radicaliza- bad for Israel. to the biblical matriarch Leah, The thinking in the room was that tion of some Shiites since the rise The week I was in Detroit there who, upon the birth of her he rhetorical bloodletting at the African American community in in the 1980s of Hezbollah in were a number of events reflecting fourth son, exclaimed, “This the Fox Theatre, and the the 13th will coalesce around a Lebanon. (A Dearborn restaurateur Jewish anxieties about Trump. On time, I shall give thanks to the looming battle ahead of single candidate — likely Jones — in 2006 was indicted for funneling July 28, there was the launch of a L-rd.” Gratitude received a November, 2020, is deeply and that candidate would draw pro- money to the terrorist group.) “Michigan Jewish Democratic Cau- seminal boost with the Jewish Tunsettling this community of over Israel support. cus,” aimed at rallying support to reorientation on ethics begun 70,000 Jews. It’s not just Tlaib — flip the state, which went for Trump by Rabbi Israel Salanter in Hy Safran and David Kurzmann Tlaib is not the there’s Debbie Dingell by a tiny margin in 2016. 19th-century Lithuania. His of the local Jewish federation set Democratic Party On Aug. 1, more than a dozen rab- Musar movement spread up for me a roundtable with a diverse laib is an Arab American who bis spanning the religious spectrum across Eastern Europe. It was array of major donors, lay and pro- utside the room, progressives does not represent the dis- were to meet at Temple Beth El in virtually wiped out in the Holo- fessional leaders, and others who were more sanguine about trict where most Detroit area Bloomfield Hills to discuss “the cri- caust but in recent decades has have been deeply involved in the the influence of Tlaib and Arab Americans reside.That sis on our southern border,” accord- enjoyed a modest revival in the others on the party. Twould be the 12th, where Debbie ing to a flyer. Israel and the US. community. OHalie Soifer, who directs the Dingell is the congresswoman. Peo- That kind of action irked Marty Rabbi Salanter asked diffi- It was a true gathering of Michi- ganders: The exchange I witnessed Jewish Democratic Council of Amer- ple around the table said Dingell, Adelman, the retired law professor cult questions, such as why a was tough, loving and candid, deliv- ica, met with me after the debates once seen as pro-Israel among and a Trump supporter. He saw it Jew might recoil at the thought ered in broad Midwestern cadences. and said she was planning to mount donors, is under pressure in her dis- as needlessly taking on the presi- of eating non-kosher food yet (The round table took place in Jew- a campaign questioning the reflex- trict to line up with Tlaib, and Lis dent whom he described as the most hardly look askance at dis- ish federation offices in suburban pro-Israel and most pro-Jewish in honesty in business. He taught Bloomfield Hills, but everyone spoke his lifetime. more by example than by in a personal capacity and not on I was told that pro-Israel folks were socking “Trump is not targeting minori- preachment. One evening he behalf of any group.) ties,” he said. “What’s going on is appeared in a European shtetl The picture emerged of a com- away money to target Tlaib shameful.” and slept in the hekdesh, a kind munity stuck between a rock and Instead, he said, the real threat of poor house for vagrants and a hard place, grappling with a pres- was from the left. He was critical beggars. It was ill kept. The ident that most Jewish voters dis- ive “both-sidesism” in the established and others described frustrating of the pushback Trump got from next morning the eminent rab- like and a Democratic Party that community, which seems to fret meetings they have had with her. Jewish groups for telling the Squad bi appeared in the synagogue appears increasingly driven by its equally about Trump and figures Dingell was among 17 Democrats to “go back” to their countries of for morning prayers, where- Israel-critical left wing. Locally, a like Tlaib. who voted last month against a non- origin. upon the town’s upper crust large Muslim-American communi- “There is a fundamental and binding resolution condemning the Chandler’s eyes widened. Tlaib was horrified to learn where ty’s sympathies often extend to critically important difference boycott Israel movement that over- was a “native-born American,” she he had spent the night. It did Israel’s regional rivals and enemies. between the small number of voic- whelmingly passed in the House. said. not reflect well on them. They Only one of the 14 participants, es on the left whose views on Israel In June, month she cosponsored a “We’ve heard it as Jews,” said urged on him their finest hos- a pro-Israel lay leader, would not are outside the mainstream, and the bill that would bar Israel from using Lis. pitality. He stoutly refused — be identified, but I was permitted virulent anti-Semites and racists on US military aid to detain Palestin- Adelman retreated — a little. unless they repaired the to quote that person on background. the right who pose a grave danger ian minors. “I’m not going to defend every hekdesh, cleaning it up and I spoke to others around the city to the Jewish and other minority The likelihood is that pro-Israel statement,” he said. supplying ample board and as well. Here are some takeaways. communities, the devastating result money for Dingell will disappear, basic comforts for the poor. of which we saw in Pittsburgh and but because she is popular and The right will be heard Such incidents in Rabbi Rep. Rashida Tlaib must go Poway,” Soifer, a Michigander, said unlikely to face a serious primary, Salanter’s life were legion, and afterward in an email, referring to there’s no talk of actively opposing hat’s the kind of impasse that made him a legend as an exem- t the Jewish federation round the deadly synagogue attacks. her. led to the establishment, after plar of ethics and compas- table, there was a consensus: Tom Perez, the chairman of the “There’s been a Dingell in her dis- the 2016 election, of the sion. The Palestinian-American Democratic National Committee, trict since before I was born,” said Michigan Jewish Action He taught that among the told me after the debates that he’s Marty Adelman, a retired law pro- TCouncil, a conservative group. seminal causes of ethical lapse freshman in the 13th Dis- Atrict has got to go. not worried. fessor who was vocal in his sup- I met with three of its members was ingratitude. As one of “We in this community will go “You look at the polling, Jewish port for Trump. “And I’m 82.” at the suburban home of the group’s his disciples put it,“Man views against Rashida Tlaib,” said Lisa support for Democrats is very, very Adelman was not exaggerating. blogger Harry Onickel.Also present the radiance of nature in a Lis, a philanthropist who is also a strong,” he said. “There’s a direct Dingell’s late husband is John Din- were Dorene Weisberg and Ed Kohl. mass of colors. Should this not contributor to Democratic candi- causal link because [Trump’s] gell, who held the district since 1955. They described a sense of being give him endless joy? Yet, it dates, and who otherwise during the rhetoric and acts of hate crimes His predecessor was his father,John frozen out of the communal con- does not delight him. ...G-d roundtable was vocal in her criti- and we all know that the Jewish Dingell Sr.,who was elected in 1932. versation. Kohl, like Adelman, was bestowed upon man all the cism of President Donald Trump. community historically has been one especially incensed when the Jew- senses and perfected him from There were nods around the table. of the most frequent victims of What do you do ish community came to the defense the day of his birth.Therefore, I was told that there had already hate crimes . . . Jewish voters get about Trump? of “the Squad” after Trump’s “go man does not appreciate G-d’s been outreach to Brenda Jones, it.” back” attacks. charity.” If one takes life for the Detroit City Council president Rabbi Alpert, who was not part he bulk of the roundtable con- “We told them you are not the granted, it is easy to slip into whom Tlaib defeated in last year’s of the roundtable, told me that versation might have taken spokespeople for the Jewish com- exploitation of others, and even primary, and who is considering taking aim at Tlaib would be cata- place at any federation get- munity,you are spokesmen for some into cruelty or at least indif- another run. strophic for Jewish community rela- together: how to reconcile the of the Jewish people,” he said. ference. If G-d’s charity is unap- tions, and for the issue that more TJewish majority’s dislike Trump with Weisberg said that the group preciated, why should people I was also told that pro-Israel folks were already socking away money than any other keeps Jewish com- support for moves widey seen as pro- networks locally and nationally with be treated charitably or hon- to target Tlaib. munity leaders awake: keeping Israel, including moving the US other conservative groups to advance estly? Gratitude goes a long Tlaib is one of just two House younger Jews engaged. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing a conservative pro-Israel agenda, way toward engendering gra- members who back the boycott Israel “It’s not about Rashida,” said Israeli sovereignty over the Golan and that it draws more than a ciousness and integrity. movement, and the only one to have Alpert, who works closely with Tlaib Heights and cutting funding to a hundred people to its meetings. A Rabbi Salanter taught:“Man suggested that Israel should not exist and Andy Levin — the Jewish Demo- corrupt UNWRA. flyer for its annual event, next has the power of foresight, but as a Jewish state. crat whose 9th District abuts Tlaib’s “The hatred and vitriol coming month, reads: “Jews have been the smallest coin blinds him.” For many around the table, Tlaib — on social justice issues like water out of DC are trickling down, caus- maligned for being conservative and Temptation never ceases. Grat- and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (the access, transit, workers’ rights and ing anti-Semitism to be more vocal have had to hide their perspective itude alone cannot replace the other Israel boycott backer, but foreclosures.We met at a DNC cock- and accepted,” said Nanci Rands, a from the public square.” hard work of self-critique nor who backs Israel’s existence as a tail event. realtor and lay leader for the Amer- I met Allan Gale, who retired sev- defeat the tricks of self-decep- Jewish state), are the sharp edge “It’s about Jews making alliances ican Jewish Committee. eral years ago as the JCRC direc- tion.There is no single method of a threat to the party that they with communities of color, and not Alicia Chandler, who is the inter- tor. He told me that in retirement for unifying personal piety and otherwise favor: the Democrats. getting distracted by differences of im director of the Jewish Commu- he sought out a discussion group, ethical responsibility.But grat- The pro-Israel lay leader described opinion” when one agrees “80-90%” nity Relations Council (which in and had heard of two of them for itude is both the starting and the “intersectionality” advanced by on the issues with Tlaib, she said. Detroit is partnered with the Amer- Jewish retirees, both meeting week- the end point of the religious “the Squad,” the quartet of fresh- The congresswoman, Alpert said, ican Jewish Committee) noted the ly at the JCC: one for Trump sup- life. In showing people that man progressive congresswomen has the support of Jewish young peo- proliferation of anti-Semitic flyers porters, one against. He opted to they are given more than they composed of Tlaib, Omar, Alexan- ple moving back into Detroit from in the area. attend neither, finding the idea of can possibly repay, from blaz- dria Ocasio-Cortez of New York the suburbs. “We will be losing the Rands said she had spoken to par- sitting in with politically siloed ing colors to the glories of the and Ayanna Pressley of Massachu- next generation of Jews. To think ticipants in the AJC’s project inter- groups to be boring. intellect, gratitude buoys the setts, as the flip side of Trump.“Post- we would spend energy to bring change program, which brings young A sense of regret over such polar- human spirit and becomes factual,” the leader called them, her down is deranged.” leaders around the globe to Israel, ization infused the roundtable meet- its own reward. Gratitude saying they,like Trump, rely on racial The roundtable too was proud of who said Trump was diminishing ing. can show people that their ori- identity politics instead of policy. their relations with the communi- US influence. “If you look at our federation, we’ve gin is in G-d, Who beckons “The weaker one is and the dark- ty at large. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, The unnamed pro-Israel lay lead- worked exceedingly well together,” not only from within human er one is” determines who is “in in whose 14th District the majori- ers said Trump’s his attacks on said David Kramer, a lawyer whose need, and only from within the the right,” the lay leader said of ty of the Jewish community lives, “the Squad” and more recently his family is deeply involved in the Torah, but everywhere in this the Squad, an “anti-intellectual” pos- in June helped launch the congres- belittling of Baltimore, a majority- federation and Democratic politics. spectacular world, as I now see. The whole world has ture that bodes ill for Jews and sional black-Jewish caucus. There black city, and its African Ameri- “That’s what scares me the most. ■ Israel. was a natural alliance with the can congressman, Elijah Cummings, If the feeling becomes, ‘There’s a become my synagogue. Pro-Israel money is rarely direct- Chaldean community, whose roots were stoking racial bias. right and a wrong . . .’” ■ 18 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019

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E-mail: [email protected] 135334 2009 Volkswagen Jetta 019325 Denver, Colorado 80202 Date of Lien being foreclosed: May 14, 2018 NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION E-mail: [email protected] 134313 2004 Hyundai Sonata 061377 Plaintiff: RODNEY HOPFE, Date of Recording of Lien being foreclosed: May PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. First Publication: July 26, 2019 Date of Publication: August 9, 2019 v. 15, 2018 Case No. 2019PR30780 Second Publication: August 2, 2019 Published: Intermountain Jewish News Defendant: 2019 STOUT DEVELOPMENT, LLC, a County of Recording: Denver In the Matter of the Estate of Last Publication: August 9, 2019 Colorado limited liability company. Recording Information: 2018057008 STAN PLATOVSEK, Deceased. Published: Intermountain Jewish News Case Number: 2018CV34531 Original Principal Balance of the secured indebt- All persons having claims against the above-named NOTICE OF SALE BY Div.: 368 Ctrm.: edness: $2,403.84 estate are required to present them to the Person- INTERCEPTOR TOWING & RECOVERY LLC NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF P.O. Box 764, Westminster CO 80030. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Under the Order, al Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO indebtedness as May 1, 2019: $16,671.38 the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before Phone: 720-291-3878 Summary Judgment, and Decree of Foreclosure Amount of Judgment entered April 25, 2019: CASE NO: 2018CV32163 DIV./CTRM.: 424 The following individuals are hereby notified that their entered on May 21, 2019, I am ordered to sell December 2, 2019, or the claims may be forever Plaintiff: THE PARKFIELD MASTER OWNERS $15,333.21 barred. vehicle will be sold at INTERCEPTOR TOWING & certain real property, as follows: Description of property to be foreclosed: ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit cor- RECOVERY L.L.C., P.O. BOX 764, Westminster, Original Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor Rodney Hopfe STEPHANIE OWENS poration CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 7, BUILDING NO. A, LAKE Personal Representative CO 80030: Original Defendant/Judgment Debtor 2019 Stout SHALET, A CONDOMINIUM IN ACCORDANCE WITH v. YEAR/MAKE/MODEL VIN # Development, LLC c/o M. Lisa Clore, Esq. Defendants: ELIAS GUZMAN; SONIA ALVAREZ THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON JULY 6, 1982 10911 E. Progress Ave. GMC Sierra- White- 528088 Date of Transcript of Judgment June 4, 2019 IN BOOK 2614 AT PAGE 412, AND ANY AND ALL MENDEZ; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGIS- 1953 Dodge Royal- Gray 737389 Date of Recording of Transcript of Judgment June Englewood, CO 80111 TRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; UNITED CAPITAL AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND CONDOMINIUM M. Lisa Clore, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 40302 Date of Publication: August 9, 2019 10, 2019 MAP RECORDED ON JULY 6, 1982 IN BOOK 22 MORTGAGE CORPORATION; WELLS FARGO Published: Intermountain Jewish News County of Recording of Transcript of Judgment Attorney for the Personal Representative BANK, N.A.; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; PORT- AT PAGE 16, OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF LISA CLORE, LLC City and County of Denver DENVER RECORDS, CITY AND COUNTY OF DEN- FOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES LLC; STEVE Reception No. for Transcript of Judgment 10911 E. Progress Ave. NOTICE OF SALE VER, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known as: 8100 ELLINGTON, as the Denver County Treasurer; 2019073191 Englewood, CO 80111 The following individuals are hereby notified that their W. Quincy Avenue, #A-7, Denver, CO 80123. and DEBRA JOHNSON as the Denver County Date of Recording of Notice of Lis Pendens Janu- Phone Number: 720.457.4451 vehicles are to be sold at COLORADO AUTO RECOV- THE PROPERTY TO BE FORECLOSED AND Public Trustee ary 22, 2019 E-mail: [email protected] ERY, INC., 281 E. 55th Ave, Denver CO 80216, DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE County of Recording of Notice of Lis Pendens First Publication: August 2, 2019 720-400-9995. CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN. This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding City and County of Denver Second Publication: August 9, 2019 YEAR/MAKE/MODEL VIN # THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE has been commenced through the office of the under- Reception No. for Notice of Lis Pendens Last Publication: August 16, 2019 2015 Jeep Cherokee – 593070 A FIRST LIEN. signed Sheriff pursuant to a Court Order and 2019007038 Published: Intermountain Jewish News 2019 Home Trailer – 2222AA The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as Decree dated January 30, 2019, and C.R.S. §§ 38- Original Jurisdiction for Motion for Summary 38-101 to 401, by the Parkfield Master Owners Asso- 2009 Toyota Prius – 834784 Judgment The District Court for the City and follows: failure to make payments on said indebt- NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION ciation, Inc., the current holder of a lien recorded with 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt - 253522 County of Denver, Case No. 2018CV34531 edness when the same were due and owing. PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. the City and County of Denver Clerk and Recorder 2004 Acura TSX - 007852 Date of Order, Summary Judgment, and Decree of NOTICE OF SALE Case No. 2019PR30829 on May 29, 2018, at Reception No. 2018062906. The 2004 Chevrolet Tahoe - 151753 Foreclosure May 21, 2018 THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I In the Matter of the Estate of judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Date of Publication: August 9, 2019 Date of Recording of Order, Summary Judgment, will, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., on September 5th, BRIAN KEITH PROCTOR also known as Master Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Published: Intermountain Jewish News and Decree of Foreclosure June 6, 2019 2019, at the front steps of the Denver City and BRIAN K. PROCTOR, Deceased. Restrictions for Parkfield Residential recorded with County of Recording for Order, Summary Judg- County Building, 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, All persons having claims against the above-named the Denver County Clerk and Recorder on May 26, PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION ment, and Decree of Foreclosure City and County CO 80202, to sell to the highest and best bidder, estate are required to present them to the Person- 1998, in Reception No. 9800078624 (“Declara- FOR CHANGE OF NAME of Denver the said real property described above, and all al Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of tion”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, estab- Case No. 19C01540 Reception No. for Order, Summary Judgment, and interest of said Grantor and the heirs and assigns the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before lish a lien for the benefit of the Parkfield Master Courtroom 175 Decree of Foreclosure 2019071566 of said Grantor, for the purpose of paying the December 2, 2019, or the claims may be forever Owners Association, Inc. - THE LIEN BEING Public Notice is given on 7/26/2019 that a Petition Judgment Amount $895,411.18 judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver barred. FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed Description of property to be foreclosed is the to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as KAYLENE MCCRUM THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS with the Denver County Court. land situated in the City and County of Denver, provided by law. Personal Representative – against the property legally described as follows: The Petition requests that the name of JAMES State of Colorado, in which 2019 Stout Develop- If the borrower believes that a lender or servicer 2761 S. Pearl St. Lot 17, Block 4, Parkfield Filing No. 8, City and Coun- DECKLAN MILLER-MCGEE be changed to ment, LLC may have an interest: Lots 21 and 22, has violated the requirements for a single point of Englewood, CO 80113 ty of Denver, State of Colorado. Also known by street DECKLAN MILLER MCGEE. Block 125, East Denver, City and County of Den- contact in C.R.S. 38-38-103.1 or the prohibition KEVIN L. EHLERS, Atty. Reg. #: 11269 and number as: 4879 Joplin Court, Denver, CO 80239 Clerk of the Court ver. Also known as 2019 Stout Street, Denver, on dual tracking in C.R.S. 38-38-103.2, the bor- Attorney for the Personal Representative You may have an interest in the real property being First Publication: August 2, 2019 Colorado 80205 (the “Property”). rower may file a complaint with the Colorado KEVIN EHLERS LAW, P.C. foreclosed, or have certain rights or suffer certain lia- Second Publication: August 9, 2019 attorney general at the Colorado Department of 13976 West Bowles Avenue, Suite 202 THE LIEN MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN bilities or loss of your interest in the subject prop- Last Publication: August 16, 2019 The action required by the Order, Summary Judg- Law, Ralph L. Carr Judicial Building, 1300 Broad- Littleton, Colorado 80127 erty as a result of said foreclosure. You may have Published: Intermountain Jewish News ment, and Decree of Foreclosure has been violated way, 10th Floor, Denver, CO 80203, 720-508- Phone Number: 303-974-6995 the right to redeem the real property or you may have as follows: Failure to make payment to Rodney Hopfe 6000; the CFPB, FAX Number: 303-974-6984 http://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/; the right to cure a default under the instrument under the promissory note dated August 25, 2017 E-mail: [email protected] NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION CFPB, PO Box 2900, Clinton IA 52733-2900 (855) being foreclosed. The lien being foreclosed may as secured by the deed of trust on the Property First Publication: August 2, 2019 PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. 411-2372 or both, but the filing of a complaint will not be a first lien. In this regard, you may desire recorded with the Clerk and Recorder’s Office for Second Publication: August 9, 2019 Case No. 2019PR30790 not stop the foreclosure process. and are advised to consult with your own private the City and County of Denver at reception number Last Publication: August 16, 2019 In the Matter of the Estate of NOTICE OF RIGHTS attorney. 2017113091. Published: Intermountain Jewish News JAMES S. MILLER AKA JAMES MILLER AKA YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL Further, you are advised that the parties liable NOTICE OF SALE JIM MILLER, Deceased. PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE thereon, the owner of the property described THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I All persons having claims against the above-named CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILI- NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION above, or those with an interest in the subject will, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., October 3, 2019, on estate are required to present them to the Person- TIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO LAW AS A PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. property, may take appropriate and timely action the front steps of the Denver City and County al Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY Case No. 2019PR030481 under Colorado statutes, certain sections of which Building, 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL In the Matter of the Estate of are attached hereto. 80202, sell to the highest and best bidder, the November 26, 2019, or the claims may be forever PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO JOSEPH VALDEZ, Deceased. In order to be entitled to take advantage of any rights said real property described above, and all inter- barred. CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE LIEN BEING All persons having claims against the above-named provided for under Colorado law, you must strictly est of said Defendant and the assigns of said JOHN MELLOTT FORECLOSED. A COPY OF THE STATUTES estate are required to present them to the Person- comply and adhere to the provisions of the law. Defendant therein, for the purpose of paying the Personal Representative WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS ARE al Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of Further, you are advised that the attached Col- judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver 280 E. 20th Ave. ATTACHED HERETO. the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before orado statutes merely set forth the applicable por- to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as Denver, CO 80205 The name, address and telephone number of December 10, 2019, or the claims may be forever tions of Colorado statutory law relating to curative provided by law. For information regarding the ROBERT WIEGAND II, Atty. Reg. #7463 each of the attorneys representing the holder of barred. and redemption rights; therefore, you should read sale contact 720-865-9556. KIMBERLY J. RAEMDONCK, Atty. Reg. #44880 the evidence of the debt is as follows: MEGGIN RUTHERFORD and review all the applicable statutes and laws in NOTICE OF RIGHTS Attorneys for the Personal Representative Gina C. Botti, Esq. Personal Representative order to determine the requisite procedures and YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL WIEGAND-ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS, LLC Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP 8795 Ralston Road, Ste 113 provisions which control your rights in the subject PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED OR HAVE CER- 280 East 20th Avenue 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Arvada, CO 80002 property. TAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES Denver, CO 80205-3148 Littleton, CO 80127 MEGGIN RUTHERFORD, Atty. Reg. #: 41341 The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A Phone No.: 303-741-6410 303-863-1870 EMILY BRIGHT HAYES, Atty. Reg. #: 40321 10:00 a.m. on September 19, 2019 on the front RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY WISH Fax No.: 303-741-6512 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT Attorney for the Personal Representative steps of the Denver City and County Building, TO SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR OWN ATTOR- E-mail: [email protected] AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE The Rutherford Law Center, LLC located at: 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO NEY CONCERNING YOUR RIGHTS IN RELA- [email protected] USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. 8795 Ralston Road #113C 80202., telephone (720) 865-9556. At the sale, the TION TO THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING. First Publication: July 26, 2019 BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR Arvada, COlorado 80002 Sheriff will sell the real property described above, YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID Second Publication: August 2, 2019 CERTIFIED FUNDS PAYABLE TO THE REG- Phone: 303-431-0415 and the improvements thereon, to the highest bid- REAL PROPERTY, OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT Last Publication: August 9, 2019 ISTRY OF THE DENVER DISTRICT COURT. Fax: 303-484-4888 der. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE LIEN BEING Published: Intermountain Jewish News DATED: June 12, 2019 Email: [email protected] possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real FORECLOSED. INTENT TO CURE DEFAULT, OR Patrick Firman, Sheriff Email: [email protected] property in connection with this sale. REDEMPTION, AS PROVIDED BY LAW, MUST City and County of Denver, Colorado First Publication: August 9, 2019 IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER BE DIRECTED TO OR CONDUCTED AT THE DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF District Court, Denver County, Colorado By: Deputy Sheriff Sergeant Line Second Publication: August 16, 2019 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202 OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF FOR THE CITY AND Attorneys for Plaintiff: Last Publication: August 23, 2019 INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO. TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED In re the Parental Responsibilities concerning: WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Published: Intermountain Jewish News Ashly Fernanda Vasquez Rodriguez The name, address, telephone number and bar Gina C. Botti #42005 BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR registration number of the attorneys representing the CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR Petitioner: Cindy Aurora Vasquez Rodriguez Address: 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300, NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION holder of the evidence of debt are: HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE. Respondent: Pedro Hernandez Littleton, CO 80127 PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Attorneys for Plaintiff: All telephone inquiries for information should be direct- Case Number: 19DR30503 Phone Number: (303) 863-1870 Case No. 2019PR30796 S. Kent Karber, #15084 ed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at (720) Division 331 First Publication: July 12, 2019 In the Matter of the Estate of Timothy W. Gordon, #30544 865-9556. The name, address and telephone num- Summons For Allocation Of Parental Responsi- Last Publication: August 9, 2019 ZELMA IRENE RAY, a/k/a, ZELMA I. RAY, Kevin C. McAdam, #42254 ber of the attorney representing the legal owner of bilities Published: Intermountain Jewish News Deceased. Holland & Hart LLP the above described lien is: K. Christian Webert, To the Respondent named above this Summons All persons having claims against the above-named 555 17th Street #43739, Moeller Graf, P.C., 385 Inverness Parkway, serves as a notice to appear in this case. estate are required to present them to the Person- P.O. Box 8749 Englewood, CO 80112, telephone (720) 279-2568. If you were served in the State of Colorado, you al Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of Denver, CO 80202 Date: 06/26/2019 Patrick Firman, Sheriff must file your Response with the clerk of this the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before (303) 295-8000 City and County of Denver, Colorado Court within 21 days after this Summons is November 26, 2019, or the claims may be forever THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT By: Deputy Sheriff Sergeant T. Havens served on you to participate in this action. barred. AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE First Publication: July 26, 2019 If you were served outside of the State of Colorado EARLENE EDWARDS or you were served by publication, you must file USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Like us Last Publication: August 23, 2019 Dated on June 28, 2019 Personal Representative Published: Intermountain Jewish News your Response with the clerk of this Court within 2880 Niagara Street 35 days after this Summons is served on you to Patrick Firman, Sheriff Denver, Colorado 80207 participate in this action. City and County of Denver, Colorado MICHAEL L. GILBERT, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 3296 The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order By: Deputy Sheriff Sergeant T. Havens Attorney for the Personal Representative addressing issues involving the children such as, Telephone: 303-295-8000 on Michael L. Gilbert, Attorney At Law, P.C. child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, Facsimile: 303-295-8261 501 South Cherry Street, Suite 610 Call Seiji to place (decision-making and parenting time), attorney E-mail: [email protected] Glendale, CO 80246 fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdic- [email protected] First Publication: July 26, 2019 tion. 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Ayelet Shaked is the only CLASSIFIEDS woman leading a party CALL 303-861-2234 SERVICES 3 lines or less, minimum charge Caregiver with 26 years experience. CNA, $18. $4.50 for each additional line; References, Reliable, Passionate & AYELET SHAKED Zionist ultra-Orthodox, comprises “A lot of people see it as a para- $1 extra for each line centered in Genuine. Please call 720-808-8840. From Page 9 only about 12-15% of the national dox,” the source said.“You see this Boldface and/or CAPS religious community. secular woman from Tel Aviv as $4.50 for a 3 pt. border a narrator taunted her liberal crit- Sheleg said that the traditional- the head of a list by and large filled DEADLINE: Tuesday 11:00 AM prior WANTED ics. ist Chardal sector doesn’t repre- with religious Zionists, but if you to Friday publication Whatever it takes to win. sent the mainstream. Shaked got an speak to each and every one of To avoid typographical errors: opening, he said, once the average these people you’ll see they have SEEKING children’s literature. Books oth her effectiveness as a voter, rather than the rabbis and a great deal of respect for her and, Please submit your classified by gathering dust — but too heavy to fax (303-832-6942), e-mail shift to Goodwill? If you have children’s politician and Jewish Home’s older generation of religiously con- if anything, feel more comfortable ([email protected]) or US mail. move toward open primaries servative activists, could vote for with her at No. 1 than many of chapter books in your home, contact The IJN is not responsible for me to collect them. Anything I don’t helped Shaked advance in the party leaders. the alternatives.” typographical errors if classified is Breligious sector, according to Yair “The answer depends on who keep will be donated. Contact submitted by phone. Sheleg, who researches the religious you ask, but Ayelet Shaked seems onversations with people [email protected]. Zionist sector at the Israel Democ- to have a good deal of acceptance close to Shaked painted a racy Institute. across much of the national religious picture of a woman will- But after Netanyahu failed to After tough negotiations, Jewish In many ways, he said, its fol- sector,” agreed Yehoshua Oz, senior ing to listen to the unique ide- build a governing coalition and Home leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz adviser at the Jerusalem Institute Cological needs and demands of her lowers consider the nationalist aspect new elections were called, Bennett stepped aside. of religious Zionism — settling all for Strategy and Security. constituents, and respect their unique and Shaked threw themselves into “We agreed that out of national of biblical Israel, asserting Israel’s “Of course, the national religious sensibilities. For instance, while rebuilding the right-wing coalition responsibility and concern for a right Jewish character — as more fun- camp is far more complex than some she is not personally religious, they had abandoned. wing government and the reli- damental than the religious aspect. assume,” he continued, citing a 2014 Shaked makes a point of not giving Despite opposition from the gious-Zionist [community] Ayelet Many leaders in the community “can Israel Democracy Institute study interviews on Shabbat or publicly national religious sector’s more con- will head” the United Right, Peretz live with Shaked as the leader showing that “21% of Israelis iden- eating in non-kosher restaurants. servative quarters (one prominent explained in a tweet. because she brings many more vot- tify as part of the national-reli- Shaked “believes in [creating] con- rabbi publicly asserted that “the com- Shaked’s ascent seems to work- ers” than other politicians. gious sector, and that group has a nections and quiet and thorough plex world of politics is no place” ing its magic for the right: A recent “They are nationalists.They want lot of variety in their views and work behind the scenes,” another for a woman), polling showed she poll shows the United Right win- a right-wing camp to win in the elec- beliefs across a number of issues. source who used to work closely with was the most popular of the candi- ning 12-13 seats in the next Knes- tions and if a secular woman can “What does seem to unite the Shaked told JTA. dates to lead the new reunited right. set. ■ bring these results, so let it be a national religious are political issues, “Although Ayelet is secular in secular woman in the leadership,” such as considering themselves right- her personal life, she has great Sheleg said, adding that since the of-center and believing the Law of respect for Judaism and rabbis, Tisha b’Av 101 United Right is technically a bloc Return should [extend citizenship and she has fought for these val- and not a united party, it is easier only] to those who are Jewish accord- ues, certainly in the context of the TISHA B’AV of the summer is all about cele- for many Orthodox politicians to see ing to Jewish law,” or Halacha, he settlement of the Land of Israel.” From Page 11 brating the joys of being Jewish,” Shaked’s role in pragmatic terms. said. After the Knesset elections last adds the rabbi. “This is one day we After all, they retain control of Shaked declined an interview with April, however, Shaked’s star tional synagogue during evening or spend remembering our people’s their factions. JTA. But one source close to Shaked’s appeared to be falling. She and Ben- morning services, and you’ll see the tragedies.” The more moderate religious inner circle agreed with Sheleg, say- nett had split off from Jewish Home rabbi and most everyone else on or But for those not at a Jewish sleep- sectors of Israeli society have increas- ing that Shaked is “very focused and to form the New Right party, a sec- near the floor.) away camp or in Jerusalem for the ingly supported a greater role for productive,” and worked hard to ular-religious-nationalist faction. If planning to be in Israel for the holiday, learning the ins and outs women in national life. A more tra- become “a consensus figure between It failed to pass the electoral thresh- holiday,you may wish to join the thou- of Tisha b’Av is as close as your ditionalist faction called Chardal, or the parties” in her political camp. old and gain seats in the parliament. sands expected at Women in Green’s laptop. 25th annual Tisha b’Av Walk around One destination is Rabbi Mark the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. Melamut’s video for Bambam which, Meeting in Independence Park on in only four minutes, offers an Agron Street at 9:30 p.m. on Satur- overview and understanding of both Who’s who, what’s what day night for a reading of “Eicha” and the somberness of holiday, and its a film, the group will then circle the ultimate message of hope and WHO’S WHO in the party primary.Then he allied er again, after breaking up for the Old City en route to Lion’s Gate for redemption. From Page 9 with a center-right party called Gesh- last election. The Arab Joint List speeches by the likes of former Another is a collection of videos er,which focuses on economic issues. won 13 seats in the 2015 election, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. on everything you could possibly His main goal is to freeze out the Labor is polling at a paltry six seats. but after splitting up into two fac- “As the bride who surrounds her want to know about the holiday at Orthodox parties, so he plans to So Barak created a new center- tions, they won a total of 10 seats groom under the chuppah, the peo- one place on the Chabad.org web- use his party to force a unity gov- left party. He immediately began representing Arab-Israelis in April. ple of Israel surround the Temple site. ernment between Likud and Blue trying to unite the left wing and end- The parties hope that the alliance Mount,” says Nadia Matar, a walk A third candidate: Several Tisha and White.A recent poll showed half ed up merging with the far-left will increase Arab voter turnout this organizer.“On this night, we express b’Av videos offered by Alpha Beta. of Israelis want that as well. Meretz Party and Stav Shaffir, a time around. our longing for the place which It’s also important to remember The problem is that the two big dynamic young lawmaker who left On Aug.1, Joint List head Ayman was destroyed on Tisha b’Av—a place that when we grieve over the parties have spent months demo- the Labor Party. Odeh said he would not rule out join- we are waiting to rebuild.” destruction of the two Temples, we nizing each other, and Blue and Barak took a modest 10th place ing a government led by Gantz, need to realize “we’re not mourn- White has vowed not to join a coali- in the new party, which is called but it’s not likely that Gantz would ‘Remember the destructions ing a piece of property that’s been tion with Netanyahu, though it the Democratic Camp, meaning it invite him to join, because Arab- of the Jewish people’ destroyed, we’re mourning the Tem- would join with Likud if Netanyahu would have to win 10 seats for him Israeli parties never sit in Israeli ples as the direct presence of G-d were somehow forced out. to earn a place in the legislature. governing coalitions and usually dis- ow to convey this message to in the world and G-d’s attributes It could be that he needed to agree with both the Israeli Jewish a new generation? of wisdom, understanding, kindness, What about the Israeli left? lower his profile after being linked left and right. Out at Camp Ramah in peace, justice and truth.” to convicted US pedophile Jeffrey the Rockies, they understand So says Rabbi David Aaron, dean hey’re not doing so well. The Epstein. Anyone else? H that Tisha b’Av is the only Jewish of Isralight and author of such books last time Israel’s left won The Democratic Camp is polling holiday that falls in the summer.“So as The G-d-Powered Life and The an election was 20 years ago, at seven to nine seats, which is a Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut Party, a we use it as a day to build our Secret Life of G-d. “When the Tem- in 1999. And this year, the better showing than Meretz alone quasi-libertarian and nationalist campers’ Jewish identity,” says direc- ple was destroyed, the presence of Tman who won that election came out had in April. party, captured the attention of tor Rabbi Eliav Bock. “We remem- Absolute Good left the world, and of retirement to unseat Netanyahu. Both parties support a Palestin- young people who support the legal- ber all the destructions of the Jewish that’s really what we’re mourn- His name is Ehud Barak. ian state, oppose settlement annex- ization of marijuana. It polled at people, including the Holocaust and ing.” Barak used to run Labor, a par- ation, are left-wing economically and up to seven seats ahead of April’s the Israeli soldiers who died defend- Which leaves the job up to us, says ty that dominated Israeli politics staunchly oppose Netanyahu. But election, but failed to make it into ing the land of Israel.” the rabbi.“In the absence of the holy back in the day. But Labor has had altogether they’ll make up just a Knesset. This time, it’s running on To bring that message home, after Temple, we need to recreate this con- a tough summer. Its leader Amir fraction of the Knesset. its own again. Feiglin said he would reading Eicha at night, the next day nection ourselves. As Rav Kuk said, Peretz, who is 67 years old, defeat- Also on the left, Israel’s four main support Netanyahu for prime min- ■ Israelis on staff read the names of ‘If we lost the Second Temple because ed two candidates in their thirties Arab political parties will join togeth- ister. soldiers among their families and of the senseless hate we had for each friends who gave their lives in Israel’s other, the only thing that can fix it wars over the years. is senseless love.’ Many of the campers opt to fast “Only then will the Temple will Liberman: Draft haredim, or no gov’t and wear canvas shoes. “The rest be rebuilt.” ■ ERUSALEM (JTA) — Yisrael wanted to soften the text of the law, and we won’t give up an inch Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liber- law, but Liberman insisted he in the law after Sept. 17 either.” man reiterated his demand would not join the government Although his right-wing party for the passage of a haredi unless the law was passed in its won only five seats in the 120-seat 30’ x 40’ x 10’ Built on your level site JOrthodox draft bill on Aug. 7. current form. Knesset in April’s vote, it was (Image does not depict the dimensions of the special) His insistence on the measure “We didn’t give up on the enlist- enough to deny Netanyahu the 61- $ several months ago had caused ment law,not before the April elec- seat majority he needed to form 26,000 coalition negotiations to collapse, tions, not during the campaign and a government. (2) 3’ x 3’ Windows (2) 10’ x 8’ OVH Doors 12” Overhangs forcing new elections now sched- not after the elections,” the Times The latest polls show Liberman (1) 3’ x 6’ Entry Door 4’ Wainsco ng 4” Concrete uled for Sept. 17. of Israel reported Liberman as say- doubling that showing and enter- ঞ The draft law obligates haredi ing on Wednesday. ing the Knesset with 10 mandates, NE and Western IA Eastern CO Orthodox men to participate in “We didn’t join the government even as the balance between the 402-426-5022 970-230-2052 Israel’s mandatory military draft. because we refused to give up a left and right-wing blocs remains www.GingerichStructures.com Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, parties single comma or letter in the relatively stable. S TRUCTURES 20 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 NEWS OBITUARIES Colleen Primock Rob Gloster Lisa Klumb Harold Prince US Senators to Colleen “Col- Rob Gloster, a Funeral ser- REYK- ly” Primock of sportswriter, vices for Lisa JAVIK (JTA) Greenwood Vil- reporter and Michelle Klumb, — Broadway Poland: Holocaust lage died on July editor, most a native Den- producer and 28, 2019, the day recently associ- verite who director restitution a must after she cele- ated with J. The worked as a Harold “Hal” brated her 83rd Jewish News medical profes- Prince, who birthday with of Northern sional, took brought “Fid- ARSAW (JTA) — A let- most of her lov- California place Aug. 1 at dler on the ter signed by 88 US sen- ing family. passed away Mt. Nebo Ceme- Roof” to the ators, including those A memorial April 9, 2019 tery. Rabbi stage, has running for president, service was held after a long bat- Richard Rheins died at the Wcalls on Secretary of State Mike Aug. 2 at Feldman Chapel followed by tle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62. officiated at services for Ms. Klumb age of 91. inurnment at Emanuel Cemetery. Gloster landed interviews with Jew- who passed away July 28 in Granby,Colo. Prince, whose credits also include Pompeo to take urgent action on Born in Amboy,Ill., Mrs. Primock moved ish celebrities, anti-Zionist activists who Feldman Mortuary made the arrange- “West Side Story,” “Damn Yankees,” the restitution of the property of to Denver in 1959 when she met and seldom spoke to Jewish reporters and ments. “The Phantom of the Opera,” Cabaret,” Holocaust victims left in fell in love with her late husband, Joe Pri- anti-Semitic white nationalists and Holo- She died unexpectedly while work- “Company” and “Sweeney Todd,” died Poland. mock, who ran Broadway Furniture after caust deniers. ing as a camp nurse with her sister Traci on July 31, after what his publicist The letter notes that survivors his father retired. “Rob was the consummate newsman,” at Adam’s Camp in Granby, Colo., a called a brief illness, in Reykjavik, She was described by her family as “a J. editor Sue Fishkoff said in that program for special needs children and Iceland. and their families have “found it wonderful mother, adored sister, loving newspaper’s obituary.“For someone who adults, her family said. Broadway theaters dimmed their nearly impossible” to reclaim or grandmother and cherished friend.” did not suffer fools gladly, and who was Born Sept. 7, 1984 in Denver. Ms. lights for one minute on July 31 in trib- seek compensation for property Mrs. Primock is survived by her daugh- unafraid to tackle the most difficult Klumb earned a Bachelor of Science in ute to Prince. nationalized in Poland after WW ters, Beth Primock and Michelle Primock story or ornery interview subject, he was Nursing degree and was designated as Prince received a record 21 Tony II, and urges restitution legislation Weiss; sisters Joan Kellen and Mary amazingly optimistic. He cared deeply a Registered Nurse. She worked as an Awards, and was a recipient of a in Poland. Ann (Rich) Mikos; brother Tony (Philis about the people around him and about orthopedic nurse and operating room cir- Kennedy Center Honor.Two of his Tonys Sweeney) Kellen; and grandchildren Tay- the world in general.” culator and, most recently, as a nurse were special awards. In 1972 he received The bipartisan letter was spear- lor Weiss and Jordan Weiss. She was A 1981 graduate of Northwestern Uni- in pre- and post-op in a local surgery a special Tony when “Fiddler” became headed by two senators — Tam- preceded in death by her brother Dan versity with a journalism degree, the center. the then-longest running musical, my Baldwin, D-Wis., and Marco Kellen. New York native first wrote obituaries “Lisa loved reading, movies and espe- and in 1974 he received one for the Rubio, R-Fla. The family requests that memorial con- for a newspaper in Oklahoma and then cially musical theater,” her family said. revival of “Candide.” Rubio also is responsible for work tributions be made to the Make-A-Wish went to work for United Press Interna- “Family was her priority, as were her His production of “Phantom of the Foundation, Children’s Hospital Foun- tional, assigned to bureaus in New dogs, Pumba and Nala.” Opera” currently is the longest-running on S. 447, called Justice for Uncom- dation or Judaism Your Way. Orleans, Washington and Europe. He lat- Ms. Klumb is survived by her parents, musical. pensated Survivors Today,or JUST, er worked for the Associated Press out Lorie and Will Klumb of Englewood; He collaborated with Broadway which was approved by Congress of Barcelona, Paris and London. her twin sister Traci Klumb of Engle- giants including George Abbott, Jerome one year ago. He covered 11 Olympics, the NBA wood; aunts and uncles Bob Bohm and Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Gideon Taylor, chair of operations Correction finals, World Series and US Open. His Linda Taconis of Satellite Beach, Fla., Stephen Sondheim in some of their at the World Jewish Restitution last piece of journalism, filed two days Rick and Lori Bohm of Hastings-on-Hud- greatest undertakings. In last week’s obituary for Norman before his death, was AP coverage of a son, NY, Odette and Dave Kleidon of “Prince of Broadway,” a musical Organization, said that survivors Drucker, mention was omitted of his San Francisco Giants baseball game in Westminster, George Klumb of Sono- retrospective of his career, made its of the Holocaust, Jews and non- son-in-law,Michael Bloom, of Denver.The San Francisco. ma, Calif. and John and Pam Klumb of Broadway debut in August, 2017, Jews, “have waited too long for IJN regrets the omission and corrects it He came to work for J. in 2016, ini- Golden; and cousins Allie and Daniel after opening in Tokyo in 2015. Poland to pass legislation to address here. tially as a news editor and later as senior Bohm, Alex and Tina Kleidon and Syd- Prince was born in New York City property first taken by the Nazis writer. ney and Tyler Klumb. She was the grand- in 1928. In his 1974 memoir Contra- and then nationalized by the Pol- An accomplished cellist, he also wrote daughter of the late Bill and Betty Klumb dictions, he described his parents as numerous stories about the arts. and the late Jack and Liz Bohm. “privileged, upper-middle lower rich- ish Communist regime.” To place an Gloster is survived by his wife, Sharon, The family suggests that memorial class” German Jews whose families had In February, Pompeo called on of Mountain View,Calif.; daughters Talia contributions be made to Adam’s Camp immigrated soon after the Civil War. the Polish authorities to adopt a OBITUARY NOTICE and Daniela; his sister Sue D’Ver, and Colorado, 6767 S. Spruce St., Centenni- He is survived by his wife of 56 years, law allowing the restitution of in the mother Muriel Gloster, both of New York. al, CO 80112; the Denver Dumb Friends Judy Chaplin; a daughter,Daisy Prince; private property taken away from Donations may be made to the Pan- League; or the charity of choice. a son, Charles Prince; and three grand- Jews during the war. INTERMOUNTAIN creatic Cancer Action Network. children. JEWISH NEWS® Call Andrea Jacobs at (303) 861-2234 Brazil plans Holocaust museum in ‘Solomon’s Temple’ or fill out the form at AO PAULO (JTA) — The Paulo, Brazil — a $300 million repli- Brazilian Jewish leaders have not eration, told JTA: www.ijn.com/contact largest church building in ca of the most revered house of commented on the proposed muse- “Holocaust education must be a South America’s most popu- worship in the Torah. um. However, they have generally permanent priority,even more so as lous city will feature a muse- The church said in a statement taken a relaxed approach to the anti-Semitism and other prejudices Due to space constrictions, Sum dedicated to remembering that the project is in the initial phase Solomon’s Temple, which opened are growing worldwide.A well-curat- editing of copy is necessary. Holocaust victims. of consultation with Jewish com- in 2014. ed museum like this can help in munity leaders, the Estadao news- Fernando Lottenberg, president the mission of keeping alive the There is no charge for a The Universal Church of the King- dom of G-d will build a Holocaust paper first reported this week. of the Brazilian Israelite Confed- memory of Nazi extermination.” standard obituary. museum within its 10,000-seat Solomon’s Temple complex in Sao Comedy club owner stabbed to death EW YORK (JTA) — A Jew- The woman’s boyfriend, Joseph D. ly more than a year ago, a family 83 ish comedy club owner and Porter, 27, of Elizabeth, NJ, was friend told NJ Advance Media. She the family’s nanny were arrested in connection with the was in the US to learn English. stabbed to death in a sub- deaths and later charged with two The family reportedly moved in Nurban New Jersey neighborhood. counts of murder. to the home 18 months ago, after David Kimowitz, 40, owner of The He reportedly was upset because renovating it. Stand comedy club in New York City, Bermudez-Rodriguez wanted to There had been only 15 homicides was found dead on Aug. 3 in his sub- break up with him and used the key in Maplewood, a town of about 25,000 urban Maplewood home.The au pair, she had given him to enter the home people, over the past three decades, Karen Bermudez-Rodriguez, 26, was where he allegedly killed Kimowitz. The New York Times reported, cit- found dead on the street outside the He was arrested at Newark Lib- ing state and federal authorities. home, The New York Times report- erty International Airport before he Several comedians took to social ed. could board a flight to Cancun, Mex- media to mourn Kimowitz’s death, ico, according to court documents. whose funeral was scheduled for Kimowitz’s wife, Laura, and two Thursday,Aug. 8, at Bernheim-Apter- pre-school age daughters were not Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Where you can find the at home at the time of the Satur- Chapel in Livingston, NJ. Rachel day morning murders. Feinstein remembered him as “such INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS Bermudez-Rodriguez was a stu- a kind and spirited person. He was dent from Colombia who started always so joyous and silly and warm. babysitting for the Kimowitz fami- Such a gift to our community.”

EAST: Kavod Senior Life, 22 S. Adams Street • East Side Kosher Deli, Inc., 499 S. Elm Czechia: Obscenities etched Street • Jewish Community Center, 350 S. Dahlia Street • Pete’s Fruits and Vegetables, 5600 E. Cedar Avenue • Rose Medical Center, Gift Shop • Tattered Cover Bookstore, 2526 E. Colfax Avenue • Zaidy’s Deli, 121 Adams Street on smashed headstones SOUTH (of Alameda): Bagel Deli, 6439 E. Hampden Avenue • Bagel Store, RAGUE (JTA) — A Jewish petrators also drew male genitals 942 S. Monaco Parkway • JEWISHColorado, 400 S. Colorado Boulevard • King Soopers, cemetery was vandalized in on one headstone and a smiley 890 S. Monaco Parkway and 4910 S. Yosemite Street • New York Deli News, 7105 E. a village in the Czech Repub- face on another, the Coordination Hampden Avenue lic, where unidentified per- Forum For Countering Antisemitism Ppetrators smashed at least one reported on its website July 31. 1725 Sheridan Boulevard headstone and etched obscene draw- Anti-Semitic violence and van- WEST: King Soopers, ings on several others. dalism is commonplace across East- Police have no suspects in custody ern Europe but relatively rare in the DOWNTOWN: Colorado Press Association, 1120 Lincoln Street #912 • INTERMOUNTAIN in connection with last month’s inci- Czech Republic. JEWISH NEWS®, 1177 N. Grant Street, Suite 200 • Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street dent in Osoblaha in a northeast- Polls conducted in that country ern district of the Central European consistently suggest that anti-Semit- BOULDER: Boulder JCC, 3800 Kalmia Avenue country. ic sentiments are significantly less In addition to toppling and smash- prevalent there than in neighbor- ing at least one headstone, the per- ing countries. August 9, 2019 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • 21 SYNAGOGUE DIRECTORY SHUL ACTIVITIES

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[email protected] United Hebrew Center...... 719-544-9897 Maariv followed by Eicha, 9:05 p.m. Video fol- 10 a.m. Mincha, 6:45 p.m. Shabbat ends, 8:53 Chabad of NW Metro Denver. . . 303-429-5177 106 W. 15th St., Pueblo, CO 81003 lows. Sunday, Shacharis, no tallis and tefillin, 9 p.m. 4505 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, CO 80031 . . . www.thechabadhouse.com Gerald Rosenblatt, Pres. a.m. Mid-day, 1:04 p.m. Early Mincha, 1:45 p.m. Rabbi Benjy Brackman...... [email protected] TISHA B’AV — Saturday, fast begins 8:02 Videos, 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Mincha with tallis and Chabad of South Metro Denver . 303-792-7222 COLORADO SPRINGS p.m. Maariv and Eicha, 9 p.m. Sunday, Shachar- tefillin, 7:20 p.m. Maariv, 8:25 p.m. Fast ends, 9950 Lone Tree Pkwy., Lone Tree, CO 80124 . . . [email protected] Air Force Academy ...... 719-333-2636 it and Kinnot, 8:30 a.m. Family art project, www.DenverJewishCenter.com Rabbis Avraham Mintz, Meir Simon 8:43 p.m. 2348 Sijan Dr., Suite 100, USAF Academy, CO 80840 10:15 a.m. Film and discussion, 5:45 p.m. Min- Congregation B’nai Torah . . . . . 303-552-0498 Chaplain Rabbi Michael Bram WEEKDAYS — Mon., Wed., 6:45 p.m. Tues., 3990 W. 74th Ave., Westminster, CO 80030 . . www.bnai-torah-colorado.org cha-Maariv, 7:40 p.m. Havdalah, 8:43 p.m. Chabad Southern Colorado . . . . 719-634-2345 Fri., 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. Mincha, Sun.-Thurs., Rabbi Boaz Heilman ...... [email protected] 6616a Delmonico Dr., Colo. Spgs., CO 80919www.thejewishflame.com WEEKDAYS — Shacharit, Mon., Thurs., 6:30 6:20 p.m. DAT Minyan ...... 720-941-0479 Rabbi Moshe Liberow . . . . [email protected] a.m. Tues., Wed., Fri., 6:45 a.m. Mincha, Sun.- 6825 E. Alameda Ave., Denver, CO 80224 ...... Temple Beit Torah ...... 719-573-0841 Thurs., 6:25 p.m. Rabbi Joseph Friedman. Mark Raphaely, Pres...... 522 E. Madison St., Colo. Spgs., CO 80907 . www.beit-torah.org [email protected] ...... www.datminyan.org Rabbi Steve Kaye, Jeff Ader, Admin...... [email protected] Bais Menachem East Denver Orthodox Synagogue . . . 303-322-7943 Temple Shalom ...... 719-634-5311 400 S. Holly St. • (303) 329-0213 198 S. Holly, Denver, CO 80246.. . www.edosdenver.org 1523 E. Monument St., Colo. Spgs., CO 80909 East Denver Rabbi Daniel Rapp. Craig Schottenstein, Pres. Rabbi Jay Sherwood. Daniel Schnee, Pres.www.templeshalom.com Rabbi Yisroel Engel Orthodox Synagogue ...... [email protected] Orthodox congregation. Hebrew Educational Alliance (HEA) . . 303-758-9400 MONTANA 198 S. Holly St. • (303) 322-7943 FRIDAY, EREV SHABBOS — Candlelighting, 3600 S. Ivanhoe St., Denver, CO 80237 . . www.headenver.org Aitz Chaim...... 406-322-2705 Rabbi Daniel Rapp Rabbis Bruce Dollin, Salomon Gruenwald 525 Central Ave., Ste. 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Mon., Thurs., 6:30 11100 East Mississippi Ave., Aurora, CO 80012 Rabbi Chaim Bruk ...... [email protected] a.m. Tues., Wed., Fri., 6:45 a.m. Mincha, Sun.- WEEKDAYS — Shacharit, Mon., Thurs., 6:30 Rabbi David Araiev. Ruben Bachayev, Pres. Glacier Jewish Community . . . . 406-261-4830 Thurs., 7:40 p.m. a.m. Tues., Wed., Fri., 6:45 a.m. Mincha, Sun.- Rodef Shalom ...... 303-399-0035 PO Box 615, Kalispell, MT 59903 Thurs., 7:50 p.m. 450 S. Kearney St., Denver, CO 80224 . . . www.rodef-shalom.org Rabbi Francine Roston Rabbi Rachel Kobrin. Cantor Dr. Saul Rosenthal. Har Shalom ...... 406-549-9595 Chandra Rosenthal, Pres. . . [email protected] POB 3715, Missoula, MT 59806-3715 . www.Har-Shalom.org Shalom Al Yisrael ...... 303-399-3059 David Cox, Pres...... [email protected] 694 S. Flamingo Ct., Denver, CO 80246 . www.rabbihenochdov.com Rabbi Howard Hoffman NEW MEXICO CALENDAR Tehilat Hashem (WCRJ) ...... 303-399-8917 Beit Tikva...... 505-820-2991 295 S. Locust St., Denver, CO 80224 POB 24094, Santa Fe, NM 87502 www.beittikvasantafe.org Rabbi Aharon Sirota. Barry Karp, Pres. Rabbi Martin W. Levy. Cantor Ephraim A. Herrera August 9 - August 17 Temple Emanuel ...... 303-388-4013 Susan Katz, Pres...... [email protected] 51 Grape St., Denver, CO 80220. . . www.congregationemanuel.com B’nai Shalom Havurah ...... 505-737-2878 8 Av - 16 Av Rabbis Joe Black, Emily Hyatt, Eliot Baskin, Cantor Elizabeth Sacks 810 Dillion Lane, Taos, NM 87571 . . . . Bette Myerson, Pres. Mark Idelberg, Pres. . . . [email protected] Chabad Jewish Center of Santa Fe . . . 505-983-2000 Friday, August 9, 2019 Saturday, August 17, 2019 Temple Micah ...... 303-388-4239 230 W. Manhattan Ave., Santa Fe, NM 87501 . . . . www.chabadsantafe.com Light Shabbat candles (Denver): 7:46 p.m. Shabbat ends (Denver): 8:40 p.m. 5209 Montview Blvd., Denver, CO 80207 . . www.micahdenver.org Rabbi Berl Levertov, director. . [email protected] Light Shabbat candles (Boulder): 7:48 p.m. Shabbat ends (Boulder): 8:42 p.m. Rabbi Adam Morris. Matt Cohen, Pres. Chabad of New Mexico ...... 505-880-1181 Light Shabbat candles (Aspen): 7:52 p.m. Shabbat ends (Aspen): 8:46 p.m. Temple Sinai ...... 303-759-1827 4000 San Pedro NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110. . . www.ChabadNM.org Torah portion: Devarim Shabbat Nachamu 3509 S. Glencoe, Denver, CO 80237 Rabbi Chaim Schmukler Pentateuch: Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22 Rabbis Richard Rheins, Jordy Cohen Chabad of Las Cruces ...... 575-524-1330 Prophet: Isaiah 1:1-27 ORNING TIME LIMIT FOR RECITATION OF Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, emeritus. Lawrence Jacobson, Pres. M 2907 E. Idaho Ave., Las Cruces, NM 88011 . . www.ChabadLC.org SHEMA YISROEL Zera Abraham ...... 303-825-7517 Congregation Albert ...... 505-883-1818 Saturday, August 10, 2019 (sof zeman keriat shema, GRA) 1560 Winona Ct., Denver, CO 80204 Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld, David Janik, Pres. Rabbi Tzvi Steinberg. Chaim Abrams, Pres. Shabbat ends (Denver): 8:48 p.m. 9:35 A.M.-9:38 A.M. [email protected] Shabbat ends (Boulder): 8:51 p.m. BOULDER Congregation B’nai Israel . . . . . 505-266-0155 Shabbat ends (Aspen): 8:55 p.m. DAILY TALMUD SCHEDULE 4401 Indian School Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 . www.bnaiisrael-nm.org Erev Tisha b’Av Sat.-Fri. Temurah, 22-29 Adventure Rabbi ...... 303-417-6200 Ellyn Finstion, Pres...... [email protected] 5353 Manhattan Circle, Ste. 103, Boulder, CO 80303. www.adventurerabbi.org Shabbat Chazon Kol BeRamah ...... 505-216-6136 Rabbi Jamie Korngold . . . . [email protected] ERUV HOTLINES 1409 Luisa St., Ste. A, Santa Fe, NM 87505 . . www.kolberamah.org Bonai Shalom ...... 303-442-6605 Sunday, August 11, 2019 EAST SIDE ERUV: Rabbi Ron Wittenstein. Dr. Daniel Israel, Pres. . [email protected] 1527 Cherryvale Rd., Boulder, CO 80303 . . www.bonaishalom.org Tisha b’Av (303) 836-3788 Los Alamos Jewish Center . . . . 505-662-2140 Rabbi Marc Soloway. Alon Yonatan, Pres. WEST SIDE ERUV: Boulder County Ctr. for Judaism. . 303-494-1638 2400 Cannon Rd., Los Alamos, NM 87544 Rachel Adler, Pres ...... www.lajc.org Friday, August 16, 2019 (303) 767-3788 4900 Sioux Dr., Boulder, CO 80303 . . . . . www.boulderjudaism.org Light Shabbat candles (Denver): 7:37 p.m. SOUTHEAST ERUV: Nahalat Shalom ...... 505-343-8227 Rabbi Pesach Scheiner . [email protected] Light Shabbat candles (Boulder): 7:39 p.m. (303) 220-7200, EXT. 5803 3606 Rio Grande Blvd., NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107 Chabad at CU ...... 303-444-2775 Light Shabbat candles (Aspen): 7:43 p.m. 718 14th St., Boulder, CO 80302 . . www.jewishcu.com ...... www.nahalatshalom.org Tu b’Av Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm ...... [email protected] Rio Rancho Jewish Center ...... 505-892-8511 Congregation Nevei Kodesh . . . 303-443-4567 2009 Grande Blvd., Rio Rancho, NM 87124 . www.riorjc.org 1925 Glenwood Dr., Boulder, CO 80304. . www.neveikodesh.org Temple Beth El ...... 505-524-3380 Rabbi Sarah Bracha Gershuny [email protected] 3980 Sonoma Springs Ave., Las Cruces, 88011www.tbelc.org Har HaShem ...... 303-499-7077 Rabbi Lawrence Karol. Ellen Torres, Pres. . . . [email protected] 3950 Baseline Rd., Boulder, CO 80303 . . . www.harhashem.org Temple Beth El of Carlsbad . . . 575-885-3699 Vilnius synagogue temporarily Rabbi Fred Greene. Greg Frost, Pres. 1002 Pate Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220 Bill Kingston, Pres. Kehillat Orot Yisrael Temple Beth Shalom ...... 505-982-1376 PO Box 20762, Boulder CO 80301. . . [email protected] 205 E. Barcelona Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87501 Pardes Levavot ...... 303-563-2110 Rabbi Neil Amswych. Ken Warner, Ethel Hess, Co-Pres. closes due to security issues 7077 Harvest Rd., Boulder CO 80301 . . www.pardeslevavot.org Rabbis Victor & Nadya Gross . . . [email protected] UTAH ILNIUS (JTA) Simasius ordered the COLORADO Brith Sholem ...... 801-392-7688 — The Jewish removal of a controver- 2750 Grant Ave., Ogden, UT 84401 community of sial plaque in central Aspen Jewish Congregation . . . 970-925-8245 Jaques Behar, Pres...... www.brithsholem.org Aspen Chapel, 0077 Meadowood Dr., Aspen, CO 81611 Lithuania tem- Vilnius that honored Rabbi Emily Segal...... www.jewishaspen.com Chabad of Utah ...... 801-467-7777 Vporarily closed the only Jonas Noreika, a col- Beth Israel Congregation...... 970-353-0869 1760 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 POB 867, Greeley, CO 80632...... Rabbi Sara Gilbert Rabbi Benny Zippel...... www.chabadutah.org functioning synagogue laborator with Nazi Naomi Johnson, Laura Manuel, Co-Pres Chavurah B’Yachad ...... 801-325-4539 of the capital Vilnius, authorities, allegedly ...... www.bethisraelcolorado.org PO Box 9115, Salt Lake City, UT 84109-9115 citing security issues also in the murder of B’nai Butte Congregation . . . . . 970-349-7742 Ben Luks-Morgan, Pres...... www.cbyachad.org PO Box 2537, Crested Butte, CO 81224 . www.bnaibutte.com Congregation Kol Ami ...... 801-484-1501 that may be connect- local Jews, who is cel- ...... [email protected] 2425 E. Heritage Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84109 ed to a debate about ebrated posthumously B’nai Vail ...... 970-477-2992 Rabbi Samuel Spector. Boaz Markewitz, Pres. . www.conkolami.org the honoring of Nazi in Lithuania as a hero Vail Interfaith Chapel, 19 Vail Rd. Vail, CO 81657. . www.bnaivail.org Chabad of Park City ...... 801-553-4196 Rabbi Joel Newman., Sharon Kushner, Pres [email protected] 1327 Park Ave., Park City, UT 84060 collaborators. for fighting commu- Chabad Jewish Center of Longmont . . . 303-678-7595 Rabbi Yudi Steiger ...... www.jewishparkcity.com “The Lithuanian nism. 1053 Neon Forest Circle, Longmont, CO 80504. . . . .JewishLongmont.com Temple Har Shalom ...... 435-649-2276 Jewish community has The municipality Rabbi Yakov Borenstein . . . [email protected] 3700 N. Brookside Ct., Park City. . www.templeharshalom.com received threatening last month also voted Chabad of Aspen ...... 970-544-3770 Rabbi David Levinsky, Miriam Eatchel, Pres. 435 W. Main St., Aspen, CO 81611. . . . www.jccaspen.com telephone calls and letters in recent days,” to rename a street that had been named Rabbi Mendel Mintz ...... [email protected] WYOMING Faina Kukliansky, the chairwoman of the for another collaborator,Kazys Skirpa, who Chabad of Northern CO ...... 970-407-1613 Chabad of Wyoming ...... 307-462-0847 community, wrote in a statement Tuesday, called for Jews to be driven out of Lithua- 1121 W. Prospect Rd., Ft. Collins, CO 80525 ...... www.jewishnco.com POB 9818, Jackson, WY . . . . . www.JewishWyoming.org Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik...... [email protected] Rabbi Zalman Mendelsohn . [email protected] Aug. 6. nia. The decisions provoked protests and Chabad of Vail ...... 970-476-7887 Jackson Hole Jewish Community . . 307-734-4754 It was a “painful but unavoidable deci- outrage in nationalist circles. 450 E. Lionshead Circle, Vail, CO 81657 . www.jewishvail.com Rabbi Dovid Mintz...... [email protected] PO Box 10667, Jackson, WY 83002 . . www.jhjewishcommunity.org sion” to close Choral Synagogue in Vilnius Anti-Semitic attacks are very rare in Har Mishpacha ...... 970-457-4270 Laramie Jewish Community Center. . . . 307-760-9275 along with the headquarters of the Jewish Lithuania. PO Box 776106, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 . . www.harmishpacha.org POB 202, Laramie, WY 82073 community, which is also a Jewish com- The Choral Synagogue has been at the Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman, Joella West, Pres. www.laramiejewishcommunitycenter.org . . Laurie Richmon, Pres. Har Shalom (Durango) ...... 970-375-0613 Mount Sinai Synagogue ...... 307-634-3052 munity center. center of several controversies and fights 2537 County Road 203, POB 9199, Durango, CO 81302-9199 2610 Pioneer Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82001 . . www.mtsinaicheyenne.org The shutdowns are without precedent between Kukliansky’s community and the Lisa Smith, spiritual leader . . . www.harshalomdurango.org Rabbi Larry Moldo. Dave Lerner, Pres. in Lithuania since its independence from Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the country, Har Shalom (Ft. Collins)...... 970-223-5191 Temple Beth El ...... 307-237-2330 725 W. Drake Rd., Ft. Collins, CO 80526. . www.congregationharshalom.org 4105 S. Poplar; mailing: POB 50933, Casper, WY 82605-0933 Russia in 1990. Rabbi Sholem Ber Krinsky, and his con- Rabbi Sally Finestone . . . . [email protected] Sam Wiseman, Gen. Sec...... www.jewishcasper.org Last month Vilnius Mayor Remigijus gregants. 22 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 SHMOOS COLUMN

David and Estelle, both in their mid-60s, have been eat- Girl power Crossword Puzzle By Kathi Handler ing healthy organic foods for over 10 years, mainly at Estelle’s insistence. She also makes sure they go to fitness classes regularly so they can live another 20 years. But sometimes things don’t work out as planned. One afternoon after yoga, they are driving down the highway when a truck plows into their sports car. In an instant, David and Estelle find themselves in Heav- en. A very nice angel escorts them to a beautiful house furnished in gold and fine silks. Their favorite clothes are in the clos- ets, and the kitchen is fully stocked. “Not bad,” David whistles. “But how much is all this going to cost? We’re not made of mon- ey, you know.” “Nothing,” the angel says. Girl Scout Troop 4400 is gearing up for its second year. Last school “This is your reward in Heav- year, the girls went on many adventures, including hiking, snow tub- en.” ing, Spider Monkey and archery. They learned about STEAM, social, Across 71. Israeli city 33. Sarah once David, an avid golfer, looks environmental, financial, outdoors and community building skills. out the large windows and 1. Playwright Elmer Down 35. Sellers or Lorre The troop welcomes all girls, grades K-5. Meetings will take place on 5. Scout 1. Removed 37. Lepke Buchalter notices an extraordinary 18-hole Tuesdays at DAT, 4-5:30 p.m. Information: Jenna, denverjewish- 10. Ein Gedi et al 2. __ Kaminska, org. golf course. “So what are the [email protected]. Clockwise, from front center: Eliana Menkis, 14. Pagan deity Yiddish actress 38. Hungarian green fees?” he asks guardedly. Orly Horowitz, Keren Gitler, Emma Loewenthal, Emunah Zalkin, Keira 15. Angel of Death 3. Like the afikoman sculptor “This is Heaven,” the angel path 4. King of Israel 39. Use for Tzedakah Basch, Shoshana Reiss, Emmy Horowitz, Avrah Golombek, Batya 16. Hearts on Rosh 5. “Your Show of 42. Zaftig (Eng) says.“You can play for free every Ohr Estreicher, Eliana Wilkin, Ahuva Zalesch, Nechama Rubin, day.” Hashanah Shows”, host 44. Read at the Troop Leader Rachel Rubin. 17. Boxer “Dangerous” 6. Capp’s L’il creation unveiling “Can you believe this, Estelle?” __ Rosenblatt 7. Airport locale 47. Often to Nelly David exclaims. “It’s perfect!” “Not unless you want to,” the angel ed in the 1970s. A third-generation 18. Next year in 8. First lady Sachs Then the angel takes them to says. “You’ll never have to worry Denver native, David graduated Jerusalem! 9. 2nd Century 48. Schmaltz (Eng) the clubhouse, where a lavish buf- about your cholesterol, blood pres- Cherry Creek High and earned a 19. Son of Gad rebbitsin 49. Heidi Fleiss fet lunch is waiting for them. sure or anything like that again.” degree in business and accounting 20. Elected 10. Practice for Baer 50. Moses on the Suddenly David becomes enraged from Chapman College. He married 22. Imitate Bar 11. Adar festival mount “Look at this,” David drools. Kochba 12. Made aliyah 51. Havdalah must “Steaks, exotic desserts, fine wine and stares at Estelle. Andrea Witkin on Sept. 1, 1991. 24. Imitate 13. Pesach dinner 53. “Annie Hall” and everything in between — and “What’s the matter, honey?” she 26. Newswoman, __ 21. Zaftig (Eng) director we can eat as much as we want!” asks. Walters 23. Need for latke chef 56. Solomon’s digs “Don’t even ask,” the angel smiles. “I’ll tell you what’s the matter,” 29. “Sea” to Wiesel 24. Former Minister of 58. Idina Menzel, voice “It’s all free.” he fumes.“If it weren’t for your taste- 30. Bedouin Defense of “Queen __” less bran flakes, tiny food portions 32. First Temple 25. Salk’s vaccine 61. Cost of entry “But there are no low-fat or low- condition target 62. That Geller feller cholesterol selections,” Estelle and yucky alcohol-free kiddush, 34. Island of entry 27. Golani or Givati 64. 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Uzi Chandler, Raeann and Ed Lam- 54. Lulav has two pert, Herb Glasser, Bob David- 55. Lady golfer son, Sherrie and Les Davidson, 57. Biblical outcast Barry and Diane Samet, Eileen 59. Macher Naiman,Scott,Barbara and Traci 60. Israeli city 63. Ancestry a Hailpern, Sheila Heller, Myrna 66. Diarist Frank h and Mel Engbar,Dr. Floyd B. Rus- 67. Former PM rs sak, Stan and Liz Wolfson, Rab- 68. Mt Hermon a bi Rick Rheins, Ron Sherman . powder P . . This week’s 69. Shamsky’s team ht mystery lady is 70. “Die Lorelei”, poet ig not such a mys- ns tery; she’s quite i well known. IAC is conducting a survey to deter- a huge success for the Lion Species Professionally, mine demand. Particpate at Survival Plan, which ensures she is responsi- https://forms.gle/1vGNYpTrxTpwk5t healthy, genetically diverse popu- ble for raising L7. lations of lions in zoos. funds for a ••• ••• senior living DENVER CHAMBER of Com- THE DEADLINE for applica- facility. Shown merce’s women’s networking break- tions for ADL’s Glass Leadership INTERMOUNTAIN in this 20-year- fast is scheduled for Wednesday,Aug. Institute has been extended to ® old photo, she Guess Who? 14, 7:30-8:30 a.m. in the HEA’s Aug. 12. GLI is for young profession- JEWISH NEWS shares her first name with the late library. als who meet with ADL experts Miss Storm of “My Little Margie” ••• monthly, and participate in the fame. Her three-syllable last name COLORADO HEBREW Chorale National Leaderhip Summit in begins with a rhyme for bald and presents “A Celebration of Leonard Washington, DC. Information: Asha concludes with the Colorado Rock- Bernstein at 101,” Monday, Aug. Holsopple, aholsopple@adl or 720- ies’ purple mascot. Easy enough? 19, 7 p.m., at the HEA. 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what had become of this human who are far away. child, the utter inhumanity and Yes, those photos are brutal.While abandonment of it all, a child lying I cannot remember a time in my helpless, so alone, his humanity life when the Jewish photos were View from reduced to potential bird prey. The not part of all this, as they form part photo, so visceral, told a horrible sto- of the layers of my soul, I can still ry, a colossal failure of humanity remember the first time seeing some that no words could ever describe. of those wrenching photos above, In a single photo, a conversation and the tears that welled up in my CENTRAL PARK — an accusation about African eyes: the African boy, the buzzard, hunger and the searing plight of Oklahoma, 9/11, the Syrian tod- African children — was spoken. dler, the Yemeni girl. As a result of this Pulitzer win- They jolted me into personally tehilla.r.goldberg ning photo, and the tragic suicide wanting to go to those tents or by ijn columnist of the photographer, and the after- clinics in Africa, in Syria and in math — the controversy about the Yemen. role of a photojournalist, whether to It’s not easy to look at or listen intervene in tragedy or rather to these pictures, to visually con- Listen to these pictures remain behind the lens as an observ- front their pain. I never went, but er and storyteller — much attention those images have remained with hen words fail, there are pho- The other night I thought to ful eyes; the malnourished, collapsed, has been given to iconic photos of me. tos. Hence the famous adage, myself, what are the top ten most little African boy, in child’s pose, on this nature. W “a picture is worth a thou- famous photos I could think of? These the ground, a bird staring in the Indeed, they are soul-searing. his week, at Shabbat’s close, sand words.” Sometimes, if the emo- are the ones that came mind: background (known as Starving when you read the very evoca- tional content is so sensitive or The ever so innocent but also Child and Vulture or Struggling Girl he act of a photographer nar- T tive language that Jeremiah complex, a powerful image can con- terror-stricken Warsaw Ghetto boy or Vulture and the Little Girl, only rowly focusing in on the suf- verbally paints in Eicha; of the aban- vey the essence of the matter more in his little black coat as his hands years later to be identified as a boy); T fering of the subject actually donment and pain of Jerusalem and than any eloquent prose or poetry. are raised in surrender while a clus- the man jumping from the Twin Tow- widens the world’s understanding the fall of the Jewish people into And sometimes, when prose or ter of grown-ups envelops him; the ers on 9/11, who could have been and our G-d-given cameras, our eyes. the clutches of exile, of the desper- poetry is articulated with such post WW II photo of a sailor kiss- mistaken for a flying bird; the entire While those of us going about ate starvation of the children and perfect visceral eloquence, it paints ing a nurse in Times Square and the archive of Roman Vishniac’s haunt- our lives in Western countries, the wrenching choices of their moth- a powerful picture in the mind’s eye. joy of war’s end that it exudes; the ing pre-Holocaust images; the fire- blessed enough not to have to cope ers; when you read of “Ani Hagev- The writing is so evocative that it American flag raised atop a moun- fighter at the Oklahoma bombing with these struggles, these pho- er, I am the Man,” the third and is as though visual frame after visu- tain by US Marines during a defin- scene holding a bloodied limp baby tographs shake our consciousness central chapter of the Book of al frame is passing before your ing WW II battle on the island of in his arms; the tiny Syrian boy dead from our illusory perception of the Lamentations — an emotional and very eyes. Iwo Jima; the three Israeli para- on the shores of a beach; and just world’s prosperity and security. graphic microcosmic experience of That is how I feel about Eicha, troopers standing in front of the last year, in black and white, the The photographer,as proxy for those one man, reflecting the collective, the Scroll of Lamentations, chant- Wailing Wall, their faces raised beautiful little Yemeni girl starv- voiceless who are devastated by war the Jewish People, you can imag- ed in its elegiac melody, as well as toward it with what seemed like mil- ing to death. and suffering and atrocities, comes ine in your mind’s eye, frame by the Kinot, the dirges and eulogies lennia of Jewish history, tears, and Afterward, when I looked up what and stops us in our tracks, forcing frame, some of those written images recited following Eicha on Tisha b’Av. longing, all lodged in their youth- the most famous or influential pho- us to confront the suffering of those as frozen photographs in time. tos of all time were, I was reminded of a few others I had known of but which had not immediately come to mind: one from the D-Day invasion in Nor- mandy and one from Vietnam. I hadn’t known of the rest. But each in their own way, like those on the list above, were iconic photos — mostly,difficult photos, photos that made you confront pain and violence like nothing else can.

remember the controversy of the photo of the African I child and the bird. As a uni- versity student in New York when it was first published in The New York Times,I was immediately aware of the pho- to, even before it was reprint- ed and became a subject of photo-journalism ethics. There was something so desperately desolate about that photo; of a child so alone in a vast open field, only in the presence a watchful bird seeming to wait for the child do die in order to be eaten; something about the A boy surrenders in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Wikipedia stark system of nature, and Starving Child and Vulture, by Kevin Carter, 1993 Time Magazine

which means that we should give account the vast complexities and

others the benefit of the doubt when inconsistencies of being human; evaluating their behavior and try to the challenges of being multifaceted

view them with compassion, under- and complicated. It is our respon- Reflections standing and kindness. sibility to look at the multiplicity Reflections Great advice that is easier said of qualities — the kindheartedness than done. For while I might be as well as the thoughtlessness, the able to imagine the reasons why generosity and the meanness, the a young woman would choose to stability and the insecurities, in order mark her beautiful body with what to truly understand another human looks to me like a blurry newspa- being. per comic strip, my initial assess- We must come from a place of ment may limit me more than it inner peace, or shalom, which also amy.lederman will limit her. means wholeness, when we judge by ijn columnist Before I go further, let me clari- others wholly. For it is wholeness fy that the Torah strictly prohibits that we ultimately seek in our own the making of tattoos on one’s body. lives. Leviticus 19:28 states:“You shall not What I learned from this lady etch a tattoo on yourselves.” may have seen a woman covered This prohibition applies to all tat- in tattoos, but I also saw a ten- he walked over to the swim- beautiful body? (I apologize to my evaluate them as “less than, not as toos besides those made for med- I der, attentive mother loving her ming pool with the baby held kids and everyone I know with a good as, or not worthy of” our time, ical purposes, such as to guide a baby, keeping him safe and happy. S lovingly in her arms. She was butterfly or motif imprinted on their attention or respect. surgeon making an incision. But And in that moment by the pool I laughing and making silly faces; ankle or shoulder blade for having The irony of this instinct is that in that moment at the swimming realized that it is up to me to view the baby clearly delighted and this thought, but it’s the truth.) it serves to limit us in ways we pool, that was not what was fore- these seemingly disparate incon- entranced with her antics. A mater- I know it’s only human to make may never intend. In saying “no” most in my mind. gruities without judging “the book nal warmth spread over me like a assumptions about others based to the way a person chooses to Putting aside for the moment by its cover.” soft blanket. on what we know or think we know dress or the way they live, we not the halachic prohibition against tat- Jewish tradition wisely recognizes At first I thought she was wear- to be true. We instinctively assess only invalidate their choice or toos, I turn to the Talmud which pro- that we all have the tendency to pass ing a shirt over her bathing suit. them based on how they look, speak lifestyle, we limit our own ability vides a practical insight about judgment on others without fully But then I realized that the dark and present themselves; their over- to expand our minds and hearts to “judging everyone favorably.”A prop- understanding their background, or pictures, symbols and quotes, all appearance dictating our impres- ways of being that depart from our er Hebrew translation is actually the physical, psychological, social or swirling up and down her toned sions which often become intractable own. “Judge the whole of a person favor- financial realities that motivate them arms, were not made of cloth. She and difficult to alter. ably” (Pirkei Avot 1:6). to act. That is why the sagely words was wearing a jacket of tattoos.And When others diverge from what ewish tradition has much to say We are required to stop and look of Rabbi Hillel spoken some 2,000 all of a sudden, my mommy radar we conceive of as the norm, when about judging others. Leviti- at the entire person in their whole- years ago still ring true today: “Do went off. they exceed the boundaries of main- J cus 19:15 states: “With right- ness before making judgments about not judge another person until you What mother would do that to her stream or acceptable, we often eousness shall you judge your fellow,” them. We are asked to take into have reached his place.” 24 • INTERMOUNTAIN JEWISH NEWS • August 9, 2019 Editorial MASS SHOOTINGS, CAUSES AND CURES All of the above — and then some How does our country cure this is not absolute, red flag laws show and indifference to his opponents. Obviously,a complex social problem wicked and eviscerating rampage? that the Second Amendment is not Polarizing rhetoric on all sides is given to no single answer. absolute. The Second Amendment counterproductive. Partisans and policymakers will is not, in the telling phrase of the • White supremacism. This, too, choose their apodictic cure, based Wall Street Journal, a “suicide • Social media. The mass shoot- emerges as a pattern, though hard- on their apodictic cause. pact.” er in El Paso apparently posted a ly a universal pattern, among mass manifesto on social media, and shooters. Clearly, the more this Among the choices: Regarding the Fourth Amend- responded to a manifesto posted ear- ideology can be marginalized, such ment: Reg flag laws that are writ- lier by the mass shooter in New as being cut out of social media, • guns ten without appropriate safeguards Zealand. On social media and mass the better.People who tweet or click against arbitrary search and seizure shootings, we offer this observation: on supremacist messages number • mental health will, and should, be shut down by in the hundreds of thousands.There the courts. Nothing, repeat nothing, in the is no way that the FBI can moni- • inflammatory public speech First Amendment requires, in law tor all of these supremacists, DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION:The mas- or in spirit, any private medium, although other countries seem to do • social media sive deinstitutionalization of people including any social medium, to pro- a much better job at thwarting mass with mental health issues has con- vide “free speech” to anyone. The shootings or terrorist attacks. The • prior mass shootings tributed to mass shootings.As a broad First Amendment guarantees one FBI failed before 9/11 to detect public policy, the deinstitutionaliza- individual the right to say whatev- Islamic terrorists and has failed • alienation tion of people with mental illness er he wants without government many times since to detect domes- must be revisited (which, paren- interference; it does not require any tic terrorists. That being said, it • white supremacism thetically, would alleviate home- other individual or any private medi- remains necessary to shut down the lessness). However, to go to the um to provide a platform for that supremacist sites or, when that is • hate. opposite extreme and merely to individual. The free speech guar- not possible, to outargue them. confine people between four walls anteed to an individual, or an indi- We do not believe that any sin- without appropriate psychiatric treat- vidual medium, includes the right But it is not just social media.The gle one of these proposed causes can ment is also a drastic failing (which, not to state or disseminate anyone next time that neo-Nazis decide to alone, or even preponderantly, paranthetically,is a current practice). else’s speech, digitally or other- march, how about totally ignoring explain mass shootings. At best, wise. For if anyone or any medium them, rather than broadcasting we would say “all of the above,” BACKGROUND CHECKS: People say, were required to disseminate cer- every wrinkle in their ideology and even that doesn’t cover it. “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” tain speech, that would be the gov- and activity via NPR, the politician’s Precisely. Because it is people who ernment interference prohibited lectern, the newspaper headline, the Which means that the solution kill, potential killers must be stopped by the First Amendment.That would website, etc.? The more white has to be multi-pronged. It is destruc- before they acquire a gun — via uni- be a restriction on the individual’s supremacism is denounced, the more tive of the search for a real solu- versal background checks. or the individual medium’s own free it grows. tion to obsess on any single speech. There is no violation, in possibility. We should focus on all • Inflammatory public speech. law or in spirit, of free speech when • Hate.This is not necessarily the of them: The idea that President Trump a social medium or any other plat- same as white supremacism, or “pulled the trigger” in El Paso,Texas form bans any speech, however inno- Islamic extremism, or anti-Semi- • Guns. This country has six is absurd on its face, as mass shoot- cent or incendiary. Bottom line: No tism, or anti-immigrant sentiment. times as many guns per capita as ings occurred on the watches of Pres- social media are required to dissem- Each mass shooting coarsens soci- most European countries. That idents Obama, Bush and Clinton. inate anyone’s speech. It is time, ety a little bit more. Even if a number includes military weapons That said, the idea that President once and for all, for all social media potential mass shooter is not infect- — a favorite of mass shooters — Trump’s inflammatory, insulting, to exercise their own free speech ed by a specific ideology of hatred, in civilian hands. The idea that guns gratuitous rhetoric plays no role in by banning all hate speech, and, in parts of society itself carry and legit- in this country play no role in mass the development of an indifference defining hate speech, erring on the imate a certain dehumanization. shootings is absurd on its face. to human life within our culture is side of caution. Equally, the idea that if the num- absurd on its face. As viscerally understandable as ber of guns were radically reduced • Prior mass shootings. Sin begets it is to witness another mass shoot- mass shootings would cease entire- Extremes mirror extremes.Trump, sin, as Ethics of the Fathers put it ing (or two in a row) and wish for ly is absurd on its face. meet Colorado’s Mike Johnson. In 2,000 years ago. Besides the need a “solution,” for politicians to “do the aftermath of the El Paso and to prevent mass shooting intrinsi- something,” an exclusive or predom- • Mental health.Virtually all peo- Dayton shootings, Johnson, a Col- cally, they need to be prevented so inant focus on whichever cause of ple with a mental illness are harm- ordado Democratic candidate for the as to reduce the copy cat incentive mass shootings one chooses is no less. That said, the lack of mental US Senate, said, “You either stand for the next potential shooter. answer. There is no simple answer. health in some mass shooters, such with the white nationalist holding But there are answers. There are as the Aurora theater shooter, was an AR-15 or you stand with the moth- • Alienation. There is no univer- many things that we can and must a predominant factor. This raises er of a two-year-old who is shield- sal pattern in the character of do, as outlined above. Needless to three issues: Red flag laws, dein- ing her children from that AR-15.” mass shooters. But there is a pat- say, there is also prayer, and con- stitutionalization of people with men- As strongly as we disagree with those tern to many of them: young, white, templation as to what other caus- tal illness, and background checks. who oppose stiffer guns laws, John- male, alienated people — by “alien- es may be at play.As it says in Ethics son’s statement is inflammatory and ated” we mean people almost all of of the Fathers, the day is short and RED FLAG:We are proud of the Col- insulting in attributing malice whose existence is spent online. the work is long. orado law that will block or seize guns from the mentally unstable. We support President Trump’s call for red flag laws nationwide.

Their oppenents call these laws unconstitutional, an assault on the Second or the Fourth Amendment. Regarding the Second Amendment: Would the opponents say that if a police officer faces a person point- ing a gun at someone else, the offi- cer has no right to intervene because that would deny the gun-pointer’s Second Amendment rights? This is absurd on its face. So is the idea that it is wrong to deny an unstable, men- tally ill person the right to possess a gun. Just as the denial of the right to shout “fire” in a crowded theater shows that the First Amendment