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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 36 MAY 8, 2020 14 IYYAR, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Dictor qualifies for Tax Collector race Not even a lockdown could stop the campaign of Lynn Dictor, known by her radio listeners as Moira, a first-time candidate for Seminole County Tax Col- lector. Dictor, a Democrat, always intended to qualify by petition for her spot on the November 2020 ballot. But shelter-in-place orders prohibited Dictor and her field team from attending any gathering of Seminole County voters to complete Amos Ben Gershom / GPO the petition drive. President Reuven Rivlin and military chiefs wear protectives mask during the national opening ceremony for Israel’s Dictor needed 3,037 Semi- Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 27, 2020. nole County registered voters to sign her ballot petitions Lynn Dictor by the May 11 deadline. On March 1, she still needed 960 Chat”, to keep her follow- Sirens wail throughout verified signatures to meet ers motivated and keep the that requirement. But Dictor petitions flowing. was undeterred. On April 29, the team Israel at start of Memorial Day The Dictor petition team crossed the finish line with completely restructured 3,050 official, verified peti- By Marcy Oster we cannot stand alongside you at the since the founding of the state. This year, its approach to gathering tions. military cemeteries. We cannot em- one name was added—Rina Shnerb, 17, the petitions during the “I am extremely grateful JERUSALEM (JTA)—As they do brace you,” Rivlin said, addressing the who was killed while hiking with her pandemic. In the past seven for the groundswell of sup- each year, Israelis stood at attention bereaved families. “This year, we can’t father and brother in a West Bank nature weeks, respecting the new port from Seminole County, Monday for one minute as sirens wailed cry together. This year, we can’t look preserve. social distancing require- Central Florida and across throughout the country to usher in Yom into your eyes.” On Tuesday, a two-minute siren wailed ments, the Dictor petition the nation,” said Dictor. “I am Hazikaron, or Memorial Day. The ceremony’s host called on Israelis at 11 a.m., which typically kicks off me- team called, emailed, texted so heartened that Seminole What happened afterward was unlike to stand on their balconies and sing their morial ceremonies at military cemeter- and slipped the petitions County residents desper- other years, however: The official state national anthem, “Hatikvah,” at the ies throughout the country. This year, under the doormats of ately want a change, and they ceremony at the Western Wall was held conclusion of the ceremony. however, Israel’s 53 military cemeteries dozens of Seminole Coun- showed that by propelling our without an audience. That was because The ceremony remembered the 23,816 were closed and locked to prevent crowds. ty neighbors, family and campaign over its first major of the restrictions due to the coronavirus soldiers and security officers who have Bereaved families were encouraged to friends. Dictor, a former lo- hurdle. We can now focus on pandemic. died while serving in the Israel Defense visit the graves of their loved ones in cal radio personality, even bringing good stewardship Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Forces and its forerunners. Forty-two the cemeteries in the days leading up to created a daily FaceBook back to the office of Seminole Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.- names were added this year, as well as Memorial Day. LIVE segment, “Couch County Tax Collector.” Gen. Aviv Kochavi participated in the the names of 33 veterans who died of The national memorial ceremony was ceremony wearing face masks. A small wounds sustained during their service. after the siren in the military section of honor guard standing appropriately The list dates from 1860, the year in Mount Herzl cemetery, but without an socially distanced accompanied the cer- which the first Jewish neighborhood audience because of the coronavirus. JFS Challenge emony, all wearing facemasks. was established outside the Old City of On Tuesday night, the country will “This year, you are alone in your Jerusalem, known as the Yishuv. transition from sadness to joy as its rooms, listening to the echoes of their Memorial Day also remembers the citizens begin celebrations for Yom voices. We cannot come to your homes, 3,153 Israelis killed in terror attacks Haatzmaut, or Independence Day. surpasses goal Thanks to the community’s Congregation Ohev Shalom generous contributions, Jew- Congregation of Reform Hebrew Free Burial Association ish Family Services of Greater Judaism Orlando collected $18,742 and Einstein Bros. Bagels 4,930 lbs. of food in this year’s Shoppes of Maitland Restock Challenge. With The Fresh Market on N. Mills put out a call for prayer shawls every $1 and pound of food Ave By Shira Hanau director of operations at the matched $0.50 by The Weiner FreshPoint Central Florida Hebrew Free Burial Associa- Family and The Winter Park Harry Levine Insurance (JTA)—Andrew Parver’s tion in New York City, put out Wealth Group, JFS surpassed Holy Cross Young Adults phone hasn’t stopped ringing a call for donations of prayer their $10,000 match goal and Jewish Academy of Orlando since Sunday. shawls for traditional Jewish therefore raised a grand total MAGAL That’s when Parver, the burials. Less than 48 hours of $28,742. Personal Mini Storage later, he had collected 150 Although due to COVID-19 Publix Super Market at Mai- himself and pledges of hun- JFS could no longer col- tland Place dreds more to come from as lect food donations two The Rosen JCC: Jewish Com- far away as South Florida and weeks into the drive, donors munity Center of Southwest Pittsburgh. “stepped up to the challenge” Orlando “My phone yesterday by giving monetary dona- The Roth Family Jewish was nonstop—phone calls, tions. These donations made Community Center of Greater emails, WhatsApps,” Parver a big impact as they could Orlando told the Jewish Telegraphic allow JFS to buy $6 worth of Schwam-Wilcox & Associates Agency on Tuesday. “I know food for every $1 at Second Southwest Orlando Jewish rabbis have been sending this Harvest Food Bank. That Congregation out to their congregations and means that $28,742 actu- Sprouts Farmers Market at I don’t even know the rabbis.” ally translates to an impact Winter Park Corners The Hebrew Free Burial of $172,452 worth of food Temple Israel Association performs free purchasing power. Temple Shir Shalom Jewish burials for any Jew JFS Orlando would like The Tribe who dies without the funds to give a special thanks to Your support is already go- for funeral expenses. Usually their match sponsors, The ing a long way in helping the it has enough prayer shawls Weiner Family and The Central Florida community, on hand to last for months. These prayer shawls were left on Andrew Parver’s doorstep Winter Park Wealth Group, especially during these dif- But the coronavirus pan- in answer to his request for donations. as well as their community ficult times. demic in New York City has partners. caused an unprecedented four times the number it did our supplies and our reserves,” Aldi at Aloma Square Shop- spike in demand for its ser- in the same period last year. Parver said. “We’ve never had ping Center vices. Since April 1, the The group quickly ran out of anything like this.” barre3 Winter Park association has performed shawls. Certified Financial Group, 134 burials—more than “We basically exhausted Shawls on page 15A Inc. PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 Jewish Academy reschedules Broadway-style musical for Oct. 15 and sets. But a show is only And it’s all put together in a that while we may have more as good as its performers, and Broadway-style production still to endure, better days our children (many as young that anyone in the community will return. We will be with as 7 years old) just shine on would enjoy.” our friends again. We will be that stage.” Levine added, “The show with our families again. We Head of School Alan Ru- must go on! The children have will meet again.’” sonik added: “Our theater worked far too hard, having a Tickets for “Alice in Won- program, led by the very rescheduled date, no matter derland” start at $15 each and talented Eric Levine, is like how late it is or how many are available by calling the box no other elementary school challenges it presents, will office at (407) 321-8111 or by production. Our students not give the children something visiting https://www.wdpac. only sing, dance, and act, they to look forward to and reward com/theatredance. Tickets also develop important areas them for their hard work. In previously purchased for the like self-confidence, public the words of Queen Elizabeth May date will be honored for speaking, and teamwork. II: ‘We should take comfort the show. Marc Homburger Jacobs earns Eagle Scout rank

Marc Homburger Jacobs, son of Brad Jacobs and Eve Homburger, has just earned Cast members of JAO’s “Alice in Wonderland” along with show director, Eric Levine. the rank of Eagle Scout, com- pleting his Board of Review via Jewish Academy of Or- Performing Arts Center in updated version of the 1951 video conference. lando originally planned to Sanford. Disney animated classic is Since Marc’s Boy Scout present Disney’s “Alice in The audience will travel sure to delight audiences of Troop 641 meets at The Roth Wonderland” in May, however down the rabbit hole and join all ages. Family JCC, he knew he to ensure the safety of JAO’s Alice as she meanders her “We take tremendous pride wanted to give something students and community, the way through Wonderland in in our theater program, and back to this agency. Marc’s full-scale musical production, this timeless tale of courage we put a lot of TLC into each Eagle Scout Project was to starring the children of the and self-discovery. Featuring show that we do,” stated the beautify and refresh the exte- Jewish Academy of Orlando, fan-favorite songs such as show’s director, Eric Levine. rior of The Roth Family JCC will be presented one night “I’m Late,” “The Unbirth- “All the elements are there, pool’s outdoor changing area. only on Thursday, Oct. 15, at day Song,” and “Painting from the professional sound Keith Dvorchik, JCC CEO, was 7 p.m. at the Wayne Densch the Roses Red,” this freshly and lighting to the costumes the Project beneficiary. Marc would like to thank everybody who supported and encouraged him to reach his goal of Eagle Scout, as well as to invite any potential Scouts to consider Boy Scout Troop 641, based at the JCC in Maitland. Marc Homburger Jacobs Keeping things running despite the shut down The shut down hasn’t up next week will be an online social interactions ensure slowed The Jewish Federa- Cooking Demonstration as students at UCF and Rollins tion one bit. Here are a few part of the RAISE Lunch & College continue to feel that examples of what is going on Learn program. When RAISE they are part of their com- in the community: employees return to their job- munity. • The Jewish Academy of sites, they will be even better • Area synagogues and Orlando’s online school has employees than before. rabbis continue to provide been outstanding. The cur- • The Holocaust Cen- Shabbat services and learn- riculum, the teacher interac- ter hosted an incredible online ing opportunities on a weekly tion, and the special exercise interview between a mother basis. Using virtual tools, the programs throughout the and daughter. The mother spirituality and ruach makes week are providing students is a Holocaust survivor and sure Jewish life is vibrant and with a quality education along hundreds of people includ- meaningful. with fitness and fun. ing a tremendous amount • JFS Orlando and the Fed- • The Federa- of high school and middle eration are working together tion’s RAISE continues to school students attended and to ensure those with food thrive, with employees at- participated. It’s amazing the needs are taken care of. If tending weekly Lunch & reach the Holocaust Center you know of anybody who Health & Fitness Issue Learn social skills and work has, especially in these chal- needs food, please either training classes. 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By Caroline Glick certain of her victory that they are already oversaw many of HIAS’s anti-Jewish operations had been fired by the candidate. She did not referring to her as “chairman-elect.” and as such, she seems a poor candidate to lead disclose her conflict of interest to the other (JNS)—Apparently, the Conference of Presi- Lob’s selection has drawn protests because an organization that serves as the umbrella members of the committee. Instead, according dents of Major American Jewish Organizations HIAS, the organization she led from 2016- group for 53 American Jewish organizations to another source, during the nomination pro- is sensitive to criticism. 2019, is a post-Jewish organization. Its leaders and is widely seen as the most important Jew- cess the committee member harshly criticized Over the past week, it received enormous— openly support and defend anti-Semites like ish organization in America. the candidate who had fired her and played and well-deserved—flak after it announced BDS leader and Hamas supporter Linda Sar- As JNS news service reported last week, fol- an instrumental role in his disqualification. the decision of its nominating committee to sour. Sarsour, for her part, held a fundraiser lowing the announcement of Lob’s selection, Obviously, the member’s conflict of interest select former HIAS chairman Dianne Lob to for HIAS in October 2018. HIAS collaborates 17 members of organizations that are associ- should have disqualified her from committee serve as the Conference’s next chairman. In with Islamic groups that allegedly have links ated with the Conference of Presidents signed membership from the outset, and once it was what is largely viewed as a formality, the full to Hamas and terrorist activities. It also works a letter to the Conference’s leadership setting discovered, should have compelled the other Conference membership is expected to “elect” with other post-Jewish, pro-BDS groups like out numerous violations of the Conference’s committee members to disregard her claims Lob formally on Tuesday. She will be running IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace. bylaws that took place during the nominat- against the candidate. Instead, they selected unopposed in an open election that will be In short, HIAS works against, not on behalf ing committee’s deliberations. Among other the HIAS chief. held on a Zoom conference call. Conference of the interests of the American Jewish com- things, members of the Conference were given As the source close to the events explained, CEO William Daroff and his associates are so munity. As its immediate past chairman, Lob less notice than mandated by the Conference’s “Basically every Conference bylaw was bylaws to consider Lob’s nomination. They have trounced to get Lob selected. Every procedure not been able to privately vet her. was breached. If they had run a fair process, Everywhere Daroff, who played a central role in the Lob, who won by one vote, would not have nominating process, allegedly acted in breach been chosen.” of the Conference’s bylaws. AIPAC President Due to the widespread and stinging criticism Betsy Korn was a member of the nominating directed against the Conference for choosing The Hobson’s choice for president committee despite the fact that she didn’t the leader of an organization that defends meet the Conference’s criteria for committee anti-Semites and collaborates with Hamas membership. affiliates as its new leader, on Sunday, outgo- A senior conference official divulged to Israel ing Conference chairman Arthur Stark and By Mel Pearlman already indicated a backward slide on the U.S Hayom that another member of the nominat- Lob released a joint statement to Conference unambiguous position that Jerusalem is the ing committee had an acute conflict of inter- members with the surprising announcement The Jewish community in America finds capital of Israel. He has publicly announced est with one of the candidates that was not itself in a dilemma concerning the 2020 that he will re-open the Palestinian consulate selected; the committee member in question Glick on page 15A presidential election. On one hand, President in East Jerusalem without any preconditions Trump has been a strong ally and friend of for the Palestinian Authority returning to Israel. He understands the necessity of Israel bilateral peace negotiations with Israel. moving forward in consolidating its security Mr. Biden acknowledges that he cannot The WHO: Another position and normalizing its relationship with win the general election without the support the Sunni Arab world. of the radical left represented by the Sand- In the face of Iranian aggression and Pal- ers/Warren wing of the Democratic Party, politicized UN body estinian intransigence regarding the peace both of whom curried favor and support with negotiations, the Trump administration real- known congressional anti-Semites during By Ricki Hollander Authority or Hamas, which run the West Bank istically recognized the nuclear and security the primaries. While both have endorsed Mr. and Gaza, respectively—in the conflict itself threat posed by Iran and the implausibility of Biden, both will put extreme pressure on Mr. (JNS)—The U.N. agency responsible for in- or in the decisions it makes that compromise a two-state solution in the foreseeable future. Biden to embrace an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic ternational health, the WHO, and its director- health-care delivery. His moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem platform at the Convention in the interest of general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have Similarly, a report on Palestinian health has for all practical purposes taken the issue party unity. come increasingly under intense criticism for care, published at the end of 2017, lays the of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem off The extreme left has tried to eliminate playing dangerous partisan politics. Tedros, the blame for problems squarely on Israel, claim- the negotiating table. He has recognized Israeli Jewish participation in promoting policy po- Ethiopian microbiologist who has led the U.N. ing that “as [an] occupying power,” it “bears sovereignty over the Golan Heights and the sitions dear to most Jewish American hearts, agency since 2017, visited China in late Janu- ultimate responsibility.” forthcoming Israeli extension of sovereignty including the women’s rights for equality, ary to deferentially praise “the actions China Missing from both these documents is the over the Jewish settlements and the Jordan reproduction and freedom from sexual ha- has implemented in response to the outbreak” context of Israel’s complete withdrawal from Valley as a “fait accompli.” rassment in all its forms, and compassion for and its leaders’ “transparency” regarding the the Gaza Strip and its takeover by Hamas. These policy decisions place President undocumented refugees coronavirus epidemic. There is no discussion about the effect of Trump among the heroes of the Jewish Renais- The Jewish community has been in the But while the WHO was praising China’s Palestinian terrorism that impacts the de- sance and the historic and ongoing “Shevat forefront for more than 75 years in the fight handling of the situation, the country’s Com- livery of health care, nor of the decisions Tzion” (Return to Zion). for racial and minority equality. Yet by brand- munist authorities had censored information by their respective leadership that have an However, many of his domestic policies have ing Jews as white, advantaged, privileged, and regarding the disease’s victims, muzzling phy- impact on the delivery of health care. No not found favor with a significant majority in as oppressors, the extreme left has tried to sicians from sounding early warnings. Citizen mention of medical ambulances subverted the American Jewish community. His handling alienate and separate us from these causes. journalists reporting about the victims had by terrorists, Hamas’s rejection of essential of the immigration fiasco, his position on gun The political, economic and social problems suddenly disappeared, and American journal- medical supplies from Israel or the diversion control (I prefer the use of the word “regula- facing America after the pandemic ends (if ists were expelled from China. Publication of of resources by Hamas to benefit its terrorist tion”), his opposition to women’s reproductive it does) are gargantuan. Are these the “best academic research on the origin of the virus infrastructure; nothing about the reduction rights, climate change, the increase in anti- qualified” candidates the “two great American was subject to vetting and approval by Chinese of essential services and halting of medical Semitic and other hate crimes inspired by both political parties” can come up with? central government officials. As information shipments by the P.A. to Gaza resulting from the radical left and the radical right have not The choice facing the American Jewish continued to emerge about China’s downplay- the internecine Palestinian fighting between convinced many Jewish American citizens community in the upcoming presidential ing the extent of the COVID-19 outbreak—an it and Hamas; no discussion of the P.A.’s role that he is worthy of a second term as president. election is the most accurate and realistic action that worsened its impact in the United in delaying or suspending payments for the Further complicating support for the example of a “Hobson’s choice!” (A Hobson’s States and European countries—criticism referral of patients to medical treatment president’s re-election are his political style, choice is a choice of taking what is available mounted. outside of Gaza, or denying access to Israeli narcissism and not so subtle lust for power. If or nothing at all.) A Wall Street Journal editorial noted the hospitals to average Palestinians while al- re-elected to a second term he will no longer If you wish to comment or respond you coronavirus epidemic “has exposed the lowing senior Palestinian officials to avail have the “burden” of standing again for elec- can reach me at melpearlman322@gmail. [WHO’s] process for declaring emergencies as themselves of Israeli care. tion. com. Please do so in a rational, thoughtful, prone to politicization...” But this is not the The WHO’s refusal to address the complexi- With no other election to face, the president’s respectful and civil manner. first time that the WHO director-general has ties of the situation and all the factors that personal style, erratic behavior and off-the-cuff Mel Pearlman holds B.S. & M.S. degrees in been criticized for allowing political consid- disrupt optimal health care for Palestinians and changing policy statements, along with physics as well as a J.D. degree and initially erations to influence his actions. Nor is it the speaks to its lack of credibility on the subject. degrading his own advisors and ignoring the came to Florida in 1966 to work on the Gemini first time the WHO has used its platform for Much like the reliance on the Chinese Com- intelligence services, could morph into actions and Apollo space programs. He has practiced political purposes. munist government as a source of information and policies detrimental to our national secu- law in Central Florida since 1972. He has The WHO has long politicized the topic of on the coronavirus outbreak, the WHO relies rity and our democratic institutions. served as president of the Jewish Federation of Palestinian health care in the West Bank and on Gaza’s Health Ministry officials as a source On the other hand, a Biden presidency will be Greater Orlando; was a charter board member, the Gaza Strip. of information without regard to the fact that faced with unrelenting political pressure from first vice president and pro-bono legal coun- These territories belong to the WHO’s they are employees of a terrorist regime sworn radical and extreme left Democrats who have sel of the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Eastern Mediterranean region, made up of to Israel’s destruction, and that they are follow- embraced anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as Education Center of Central Florida, as well largely Arab and Muslim countries (unlike ing Hamas guidelines for reporting events to part of policy positions, based on utterly false as holding many other community leadership Israel, which belongs to the European region). outsiders. 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HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 PAGE 5A It’s not about life vs. money By Jonathan Rosenblum supporters that we should Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a closed, it is estimated that as from depression or anxiety. “To be concerned about Jewish Media Resources revive the economy at the professor at Stanford Medi- many as 30 percent will never Alcohol consumption has the effects of the global expense of the ‘old, unproduc- cal School, specializing in reopen. jumped 50 percent in the shutdown,” observed Heather If we ask the right ques- tive people.’” He suggested public health issues, and a And the loss of livelihoods United States, and 67 percent MacDonald of the Manhattan tions, we might get a lot closer that I was prepared to watch PhD. economist, framed the will hit our community no in Great Britain. There are re- Institute “is not to be indiffer- to the answer much sooner. thousands die to re-elect the choices much more accu- less. Many are already pan- ports of a 35 percent increase ent to human suffering; it is to I am almost never offended president. And finally, I was rately, in an interview with icked at the prospect of not be- in domestic violence. be moved by that suffering.” by criticism of anything I characterized as being more Peter Robinson, host of the ing able to feed their families. And the situation will To frame the issue as lives write. For one thing, I’m “Greek (put the old people Hoover Institution’s Uncom- The economic figures pres- be much, much worse in versus lives does not, by itself, acutely aware that there is on the mountain to die) than mon Knowledge podcast, age a potential worldwide the developing world. Bhat- dictate any particular policy usually more than one side authentically Jewish.” which has drawn over one Great Depression. The reces- tacharya, who is of Indian prescription. But it is not of an issue. Second, I’m an My column, in point of fact, million viewers: “[I]t’s not just sion of 2008, according to descent, predicts that many without implications. For ardent proponent of the clari- was written before President dollars versus lives; it’s lives Bhattacharya, led to huge of the diseases that afflicted one thing, it should inject fying power of debate. Trump ever uttered a word versus lives” numbers of people who died poorer countries in the past, a modicum of civility into But I confess to being more about reopening the economy. Twenty-six million Ameri- from “deaths of despair”— and which were being slowly the policy debates. Let us than a little irritated by a And I have no wish to have cans have filed for unemploy- from suicide, alcoholism, eliminated, will return. stop with the self-righteous private email sent to me in my 90-year-old mother—or ment benefits since the start opioid overdoses—and to an “The rise in GDP worldwide denunciations of anyone who response to my first column my “elderly” self for that of the lockdown. Most of those unprecedented decline in life has pulled billions of people dares to raise economic issues on the coronavirus. The cor- matter—left on a mountain filing never contemplated expectancy. The signs are all out of poverty and raised life as someone who “doesn’t care respondent began by accus- top to die. that they might suddenly be there that the same, or worse, expectancy everywhere,” he about people dying.” ing me of having mentioned But what I found most left without a job. When the will happen this time. observes. If that is reversed, And it should make us the economic impact of a frustrating was the framing of coronavirus hit, the economy The National Alliance on “lots and lots of lives [will skeptical of governors who prolonged shutdown because the policy choices as between was humming at near full- Mental Illness reports a 40 be] shortened unnecessarily.” claim, with great bravado, I’m in thrall to the “tropes valuing human life or valuing employment. Of the millions percent increase in calls and Poverty remains the leading of all the right-wing Trump money, i.e., the economy. of small businesses that have emails from those suffering cause of premature death. Life on page 15A Mourning all victims is right; moral equivalence is not By Jonathan S. Tobin with the pain of this day of re- Israeli and Palestinian mem- ganizers to claim to The New who died that Israel might live ceremony. Though even one membrance each in their own bers: Combatants for Peace York Times that it had been and those who died as a result such incident was too many, (JNS)—Outside of Israel, it way though they will not be and Parents Circle Families “the biggest joint Israeli- of an ongoing Palestinian examples of Israelis attacking was the alternative ceremony able to go to cemeteries, which Forum. But this year, it re- Palestinian event in history.” war aimed at the destruction Arabs in this manner are rare. that got the most coverage. are closed this year because of ceived an outpouring of sup- According to the organiz- of the only Jewish state on By contrast, Arab stoning The official commemora- the ongoing lockdown. port from American Jewish ers, the point of the event the planet. By asserting that attacks on Israelis cars— tion of Yom Hazikaron—the But outside of Israel, most groups, including the Reform is to introduce people to the there is no difference between with often similarly terrible country’s Memorial Day that of the attention was neither movement’s Union of Reform suffering that occurs on both efforts to defend and eradicate results—are commonplace. occurs the day before cel- on official efforts to remem- Judaism, J Street, the New sides of the conflict. On the Israel, organizers are likely en- While civilians have died ebrating the Jewish state’s ber the fallen nor the private Israel Fund, Peace Now, as surface, that seems hard to couraging those who want to on both sides of the conflict, Independence Day—began grief of the families. Instead, well as the openly anti-Zionist criticize. It ought to be pos- continue the conflict, rather the notion that the two sides with a one-minute siren that much of the press was report- IfNotNow and Churches for sible to empathize with all than those who want to end it. are morally equivalent fails to sounded throughout the ing about the efforts of peace Middle East Peace, an inter- those who’ve suffered losses. The most prominently take into account the fact that country and continued at the activists to essentially hijack faith Christian group that Demonstrating a common featured Palestinian speaker Palestinians who attack Israe- Western Wall, where President the nation’s day of mourning is also deeply hostile to the humanity and a kinship was Yaquab al-Rabi, whose lis target civilians, while the Reuven Rivlin and Israel De- and turn it into a day devoted Jewish state. with suffering shouldn’t be wife, Aisha, was killed as a Israel Defense Forces try hard fense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv to promoting coexistence and Indeed, it is likely that this criticized. result of his car being stoned to avoid civilian casualties Kochavi led a small ceremony mutual recognition of the foreign support helped boost But even in some of the by an Israeli teenager. The al- that are generated because that, due to the coronavirus suffering of both Israelis and the Internet audience for the heart-rending stories told Rabi family suffered a terrible terrorists use human shields. pandemic, had no audience. Palestinians. ceremony this year—increas- by both sides, it was pos- tragedy, and the perpetra- The “both sides are to Most Israelis, all too many This “Joint Memorial Day” ing from a reported 20,000 sible to discern the problem tor deserved to be severely blame” narrative also ignores of whom have lost a loved one event, which was started in tuning into the Internet to with the event. Many Israelis punished. But the irony of the way that the two societies or friend who was killed dur- 2006 by Israeli parents of the 170,000 who are supposed denounced it as more of an highlighting a Palestinian regard those who commit acts ing the country’s wars or as fallen soldiers, is organized to have watched it online via attempt to create a false moral victim of a stoning was lost a result of terrorism, will deal by two groups with both Facebook. That allowed or- equivalency between those in most press accounts of the Mourning on page 15A Stoking the flames of anti-Semitism in New York By Jonathan Feldstein Twenty-five percent? Even Jewish community much less himself to czar, unleashing an cally wrong. Of course you did The mayor had so much 10 percent? Is there any way all of it? Were the police at anti-Semitic threat. nothing wrong. Some of your to say about the funeral in I’m sure that there have in which such a threat on a fault, albeit in a good way to It’s another thing for a best friends are Jews, right? Williamsburg that he needed been no shortages of instances community living in fear of accommodate the mourning gentile mayor of a city in Thank God the czars, Nazis, three tweets back to back. of “leaders” of cities through- assault in their communities, surrounding the death of a which there has been a marked and anti-Semitic priests didn’t Here’s a thought Mr. Mayor, out the world with large Jew- on the N.Y. subway or public prominent rabbi? Were the uptick in anti-Semitism to do have Twitter accounts. Maybe rather than wasting charac- ish populations lashing out at streets should be called out police barriers placed in an so. As a leader, de Blasio failed the mayor shouldn’t either. ters on blaming “the Jewish their local Jewish community. like this in its entirety? Will inefficient way? Should this while earning the “respect” of It’s astounding that the community” (20), next time Many of these were part and Jewish New Yorkers now feel have been a learning experi- anti-Semites worldwide. mayor’s tweet still stands just blame “the Jews.” (8) parcel of warnings, if not extra threats personally, and ence rather than a lightning Forget yelling fire in a for all to see. Astounding U.S.-born and educated triggers, for violent pogroms. at Jewish institutions, for rod for de Blasio’s vitriol? crowded theater, de Blasio lit and repugnant. That’s not Jonathan Feldstein immigrat- Nevertheless, its shocking to which the mayor has done a If de Blasio felt the entire the match and poured gallons leadership, that’s cowardice. ed to Israel in 2004. Through- see Mayor Bill de Blasio of New poor job providing protection? Jewish community was at of flammable material on the Not that he can put the ge- out his life and career, he has York City, the city with the There must have been a mil- fault, he could have made flames, and then went to sleep. nie back in the bottle. He’s fellowshipped with Christian largest number of Jews, do so. lion other ways that Mayor de many more calls, sent our When he woke up he said he unleashed another cause supporters of Israel and shares de Blasio’s recent tweet, Blasio, as a purported leader, emails, or hosted a Zoom call, had no regrets, and apologized for anti-Semites worldwide experiences of living as an Or- calling out “the Jewish com- could have addressed this. inviting all Jewish leaders to “IF” anyone was offended. Mr. to blame the Jews. Should thodox Jew in Israel. He writes munity” because of a large Did he have any right to take be part of the solution rather Mayor, that’s not leadership. he have consulted someone a regular column for Standing funeral gathering in largely to twitter and castigate the than being the object of his That’s the lame way of taking for dipping his toes in the With Israel at charismanews. ultra-Orthodox Williams- entire Jewish community? invective. Instead, the mayor the low road to appear to be deep end by tagging on to com and other prominent burg, is a repugnant anti- Rather than doing so, should employed a vulgar way to sincere but really not have the infamous blood libel web sites. He can be reached Semitic act that must be called he have visited Williamsburg blame all New York’s Jews. Of the humility to acknowledge against Jews for infecting at firstpersonisrael@gmail. out and never accepted. and held urgent meetings course, like the coronavirus, you did something horrifi- people with disease? com. For a mayor who views with Jewish leaders there, or the anti-Semitism that he himself as “progressive,” by anywhere else, in which he unleashed does not stay local intoning such a threat in felt people were violating poli- in New York City, but expands broad strokes, he’s gone down cies of social distancing and at epidemic rates to other the path that would make re- safety? If he was too busy, he Jewish communities in the gressive anti-Semites proud. could have just made several New York area and beyond. Is de Blasio an anti-Semite? I phone calls. He could have It’s as if he’s opened up jars of don’t know. But his behavior plastered Jewish communities the anti-Semitism virus and is, without a doubt. with notices to avoid large infected millions. Surely, if he were to have gatherings, even in Yiddish. It’s one thing when Jews replaced “Jewish” with any When de Blasio made his argue, debate, and even point other religious or ethnic intemperate tweet, did he fingers internally at other group in his tweet, the storm know that there was coordina- members of the Jewish com- that he would have created tion between the community munity. That’s especially the would have ended his tenure. in Williamsburg and the NYC case now, when some perceive New York City is home police to enable the funeral that others are engaged in to about a million Jews, a procession and keep it within a chilul hashem, a desecra- diverse community of all safety and social distancing tion of God’s name. That’s backgrounds religiously and limitations? Should that have valid. The mayor could have politically. Did a million Jews factored into his making such employed the help of other violate his social distancing a brash public statement, Jewish communal leaders. standards? Half of them? blaming any element of the Rather, the mayor “elevated” PAGE 6A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020

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They were By Ed Borowsky to Czechoslovakia where he farmers from Minsk also, and obtained a plane ticket to Ar- together the Wittensteins and Dr. Bernard Kahn is one of gentina. Once he established Shaders fled the city in hopes the 36 percent who call them- himself, he sent passage for of finding land that they could selves native Floridians. Born his entire family on a freighter homestead down south. They Dr. Bernie Kahn standing in front of his dental practice. in Orlando in 1951, Bernie that stopped in Baltimore, ultimately came to Sanford by has lived and worked in the Maryland. Richard Kahn flew boat and took the train to Or- father, Wolf, enlisted into the prisoners who were being held she went to work for Orange Orlando area his entire life from Argentina to Baltimore lando where they managed to Army/Airforce at age 18. At in Leesburg, Florida. He was Memorial Hospital as their and has seen the growth of where he was reunited with his acquire land to establish their that time the Army/Airforce passed off as a captured Ger- first nutritionist.” Orlando first hand. family. Bernie’s father, Wolf dairy farm. This was around was a combined entity, which man submariner and would Wolf was an artist. One of His family came from Kahn, was 14 years old when the year 1912. Not only did didn’t separate until 1947 after mingle with the prisoners his first jobs after the war was Germany. His grandfather, he got off the boat with his they raise dairy cows but they the National Security Act had where he would extract intel- for Sears Roebuck in down- Richard Kahn, was a man of mother to rejoin his father. On planted orange trees in a grove passed. The act restructured ligence from the POWs. town Orlando. He then went “means,” who held multiple the boat were his two uncles, that went from the western the United States military to “In 1943 my father went to work for Ferelli’s Jewelery doctorates in economics, grandmother, aunts, uncles shores of Lake Silver to Or- a form that still stands today. to USO party where he met store and began applying his history and law. Around 1934, and cousins. ange Blossom Trail. Bernie’s Wolf did his basic training Tybell (Tybe) Wittenstien and creativity to jewelry designs. when he spoke out against the “My grandfather was quite brother-in-law, Ben Shader, in Miami and then was sta- as they say the rest is history,” He eventually purchased a Nazi regime, he was arrested a prolific man,” said Bernie. had a farm on the other side tioned in the Army/Airforce Bernie shared. jewelry store, which became and thrown into prison. In “He was renown in the field of OBT where WKMG televi- base that is now Baldwin “My mother went to Florida Wolf’s Jewelry on Church prison he faked a heart attack, of economics and he went to sion station is located. They Park. Because Wolf spoke State University where she Street. managing to escape from the work for the United States eventually opened a business fluent German, he became studied nutrition. She did “They moved to Pine Street ambulance that was trans- government for the Depart- called College Park Dairy. a counter espionage officer, her residency in her field in where my father operated a porting him to the hospital. ment of Interior. He pretty When the Japanese at- where he would be introduced Philadelphia and when she From there he made his way much was responsible for the tacked Pearl Harbor, Bernie’s to the German submariner returned home to Orlando Kahn on page 15A PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 Arab Israelis fear that Ramadan could bring a coronavirus surge By Shira Rubin Arab community—but that’s local chicken slaughterhouse. likely a modest number, as The town’s first coronavirus- TEL AVIV (JTA)—On Fri- it does not include mixed related death was reported day, the first day of Ramadan, Jewish-Arab cities or eastern on Sunday. the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jeru- Jerusalem, which is home to The likelihood of infection salem was virtually empty. A more than 350,000 Arabs. within an extended family handful of masked worship- The Purim holiday, which is particularly acute among pers kneeling on prayer rugs, brings Jewish communities Arabs, who live alongside distanced several feet apart together for a night of feast- several generations within a from one another, listened to ing and partying, has been single household, especially an imam who stood atop an identified as a key spreader in traditional villages. A report 18-foot wooden pulpit. of the virus among Jews by the Israeli Health Ministry “We ask God to have mercy around the world. It took found that in the northern on us and all of humanity and place in early March, just cities of Umm al-Fahm and to save us from this lethal as the COVID-19 virus was Jisr al-Zarqa, 78 percent of pandemic,” the imam said. picking up speed. confirmed coronavirus cases The ban on mass com- Prime Minister Benjamin were within the same family, munal prayer in Israel and Netanyahu used that evidence while smaller communities the Palestinian territories is as justification for locking like Bir al-Maksur and Maghar among the sobering restric- down the country on the eve found 100 percent of the cases tions accompanying Islam’s of Passover earlier this month. within the same family. holiest month, during which “On Purim, the virus Thabet Abu Rass, a resident Muslims fast during daylight spread. I’m telling you now of the central village of Qa- hours and typically pray, feast clearly, Pesach will be not be lansuwa in central Israel and Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 and socialize with extended Purim. Every family will do the co-executive director of A Palestinian family in Gaza wearing protective masks prays on the first night of Ra- families at night. Israel’s Pesach with their immediate Abraham Initiatives, an NGO madan in their home because of the closure of mosques due to coronavirus restrictions, emergency coronavirus mea- family,” Netanyahu said. that promotes Jewish-Arab April 23, 2020. sures have closed mosques, A “war room” in the north- partnerships, has applauded shuttered shops and imple- ern Arab town of Shfaram some government initiatives. his 75-year-old neighbor, a we are not ready to deal with dren don’t own the computers mented nighttime curfews in hosts daily discussions be- In a Facebook campaign, he retired teacher who has gone this kind of crisis, our local needed for remote learning. many Muslim-majority cities. tween the Committee of Arab praised the official Israeli to the mosque five times a municipalities are not strong Despite the challenges, Abu But many of Israel’s 1.5 Mayors and Ayman Sayyaf, directive for all stores, except day on a regular basis and enough and don’t have the Rass thinks this time could million Arab citizens say it’s head of the Interior Ministry’s for pharmacies, in Muslim- had not yet received updates experience.” lead to increased cooperation nowhere near enough. Ahead Coronavirus Directorate for majority towns to remain about the ban on communal Since the coronavirus between Arabs and the Israeli of the monthlong holiday, a the Arab population. Follow- closed from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. prayer during Ramadan. lockdown began last month, government. period during which families ing a meeting of Netanyahu throughout the month of “Jews, in large part, were domestic violence has risen “Arabs are knocking on often celebrate together in and municipal leaders from Ramadan. in the army, they live an in the Arab community and the doors of the country, the dozens or hundreds, most large Arab towns, the minis- But Abu Rass said that as emergency life because of many children have also struggling for equality and Arab-Israeli towns and vil- try announced on Thursday Israel loosens its restrictions the wars,” Abu Rass said. “We stopped receiving education, integration,” he said. “This is lages fear a coronavirus peak that Israel would distribute in the coming weeks, it could are not serving in the army, as a third of Arab-Israeli chil- an opportunity to build trust.” is still ahead—and some are an emergency aid package exacerbate an already sim- making an unprecedented of 55 million shekels (about mering restlessness among plea for more government $15.6 million, including Muslims who are entering intervention. 30 million shekels in food their third month of lock- Orlando Senior Help Desk “The Israeli government coupons) to 73 Arab local down. can’t leave our villages in a authorities. There is also the economic state of chaos,” said Mudar “We want, first and fore- angle: Studies show that about Yunes, who heads the lo- most, to safeguard your lives,” half of all Arab Israelis live coronavirus information cal council in the northern Netanyahu said Friday in a under the poverty line and all Arab-Israeli town of Arara and Ramadan video tweet. “For have a lower life expectancy chairs the association of Arab the sake of saving your lives than their Jewish neighbors. local councils. and for the sake of your loved With the long-term risks Out of desperate worry that ones, and for your and every- in mind, Hanady Azoni, a the coronavirus will ravage one’s future, celebrate with bakery owner in the central Arab towns over the next your nuclear family, and only Arab town of Jaljuliya, said month, he has been asking with them.” that most of his neighbors are for help from bodies normally Testing is sparse, but social committed to social distanc- regarded in his town with contact is not ing over the holiday. suspicion: the Israeli police Testing, however, remains “The feelings this year are and the army. few and far between, with only strange, there’s tons of disap- Yunes is petitioning for a handful of mobile clinics pointment and frustration,” more patrol cars, more Home dispersed throughout Arab Azoni said. “But the month Front Command soldiers to areas. of Ramadan is important to deliver groceries to the elderly, “Our estimations show us as a month of worship and and other forms of manpower that we have fewer infections prayer and fasting, more than to break up large and poten- than in the Jewish sector, but any business.” tially dangerous Ramadan I hope we’re not deluding our- “We are not ready to deal gatherings. selves,” Mamoun Abd Alhay, with this kind of crisis” “We don’t want them com- the mayor of the Arab town Muslim community and ing in just when we have of Tira, told Channel 12 News religious leaders have taken protests, with violence, but in early April. “Either way, it upon themselves to inten- to come in and make order,” the number of tests needs to sify restrictions in the hope Yunes said. “There are law- be significantly increased in of discouraging people from breakers, who need to be taken order to find out what’s really congregating. Since March, care of.” going on.” the Muslim Islamic authori- The Purim example Since a reported leveling ties have made the “painful” The pandemic hit Arab- off of cases in recent days, decision to keep the gates of Israeli cities and towns some Israel has launched an exit the Al-Aqsa Mosque closed to three weeks later than the strategy. But as drive-thru worshippers, according to a rest of Israel, and it remains testing sites are only arriv- statement by the Jerusalem relatively contained there for ing now in Arab towns, new Waqf, which oversees manage- Viewers to www.orlandoseniorhelpdesk.org will find these helpful links for information now, according to government epicenters of contagion are ment of the compound. The about the coronavirus. data. Israel in total has report- emerging. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and ed more than 15,400 cases of Among them is Deir Al- the Palestinian territories, By Penny D’Agostino easy connections to every- in Central Florida. For the last COVID-19 and 202 deaths. assad, an impoverished vil- Muhammad Hussein, advised thing she was looking for, six years, The Orlando Senior There are 809 confirmed cases lage in the Galilee. The first against the public sighting of Margie had been wonder- and then some. Help Desk has been offering among the Arab population, transmission there is believed the crescent moon, which is ing if there was a shelter-at- During this time of con- free advice and guidance in according to the emergency to have come from a rabbi and used to estimate the start of home order in her county. fusion, the Orlando Senior Seminole, Orange, and now committee monitoring the kosher supervisor who worked the holy month. She didn’t really use the Help Desk, sponsored by Osceola, Lake, Marion and coronavirus crisis in Israel’s alongside village residents in a Via WhatsApp groups, com- computer very much, but her The Jewish Pavilion, is Sumter counties. munities are rolling out piece- daughter had recommended there to help. You can now Recently, staff of the Or- meal campaigns to get news she look at the Orlando Senior find information, helpful lando Senior Help Desk has updates and instructions, Help Desk’s website when links, stories and articles been able to help seniors and and organize food deliveries she was looking for some regarding the COVID-19 their families from across the to those who must go into assistance for her husband coronavirus at www.orlan- United States to find elder- quarantine. But with often who had recently been ill. doseniorhelpdesk.org . 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Burton Lane I read this in the World Jewish Congress digest and found OSCEOLA COUNTY it super-interesting so I pass it along: Shout-Out... Cindy M. Rothfield, P.A., 822 W. Bryan St., Kissimmee • Most “Bolivia has one of the smallest Jewish communities in This is just a thought of mine: Publix Supermarkets • Verandah Place Realty, 504 Celebration Latin America, with approximately 400 members, most of This past Passover, reading from the Haggadah of our Ave., Celebration • All Winn Dixie Supermarkets • St. Cloud whom live in La Paz. miraculous Exodus from Egypt, why wasn’t Moses ever men- City Hall, 1300 9th St, St. Cloud • St. Cloud Library, 810 13th The Jewish presence in Bolivia dates back to the period of tioned? He was the most important part of the story as he led St, St. Cloud • Southern Oaks, 3865 Old Canoe Creek Rd, St. Spanish conquest and colonization that started in the early our people out of Egypt and into the promised land of Israel. 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Moshe was talking to his psychiatrist. “I had a weird Kissimmee • Barnies, 3236 John Young Pwy, Kissimmee • In 1905, a small number of Russian Jews settled in Bolivia, dream recently,” he says. “I saw my mother but then I no- Reily’s Gourmet Coffee, 3831 Vine St, Kissimmee • Shalom followed by some Argentinian Jews. ticed she had your face. I found this so worrying that I im- Aleichem, 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd, Kissimmee • Books-A-Million, The rise of Nazism in Germany led to a significant growth of mediately awoke and couldn’t get back to sleep. I just stayed 2605 W. Osceola Pwy (522), Kissimmee • Lower East Side Deli, Jews in Bolivia, including 12,000 German Jewish immigrants. there thinking about it until 7 a.m. I got up, made myself a 8548 Palm Parkway, Lake Buena Eventually, many moved on to Argentina, the United States, slice of toast and some coffee and came straight here. Can Chile and Uruguay. Bolivia served as a transit route for them you please help me explain the meaning of my dream?” and kept them safe! The psychiatrist kept silent for some time, then said, “One slice Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) What future?... of toast and coffee? Do you call that a breakfast?” With pandemics like this coronavirus and a rise in anti- (Oy vay! Sounds like a Jewish mom to me!) Hillel International lays off or furloughs 20 percent of staff amid coronavirus uncertainty

By Shira Hanau The group’s top official for approximately 7,000 col- benefits during the length explained the decision in lege students each summer, of their absence. Lehman (JTA)—With many of the email. but the free 10-day identity also said that Hillel’s senior its normal activities inter- “Major areas of our ac- journeys have been called leadership team would be rupted because of the coro- tivities and operations have off through at least June taking a voluntary salary navirus pandemic, Hillel been disrupted; and the and are unlikely to happen reduction. International, the umbrella far-reaching financial im- with the same frequency or Matthew Berger, a spokes- organization for centers plications of the pandemic enrollment in the coming man for Hillel International, for Jewish student life on are negatively impacting year, if at all. confirmed the layoffs and college campuses around our current fiscal year re- Staffers at the D.C. head- furloughs in a statement the world, has laid off or sults and producing a very quarters also support in- to the Jewish Telegraphic furloughed 30 positions at challenging and uncertain person programs run by Agency but said the group its Washington, D.C., head- fundraising and financial campus Hillels, many of would continue to be able to quarters—over 20 percent outlook for the future,” which have been canceled serve students even as their of its workforce. wrote Adam Lehman, Hillel or moved online as a result colleges have shifted online. The cuts were made last International’s president of the pandemic. “We have taken numer- week, according to an email and CEO. In the email, Lehman said ous steps to support the announcement sent Friday to The organization did not the affected employees would professionals impacted by Hillel staffers across the coun- disclose which staff posi- be employed “for the next these changes, and we’re try. There are approximately tions were eliminated and several weeks” and that those confident these moves will 1,000 employees at Hillels which were furloughed, who were laid off would re- best position us to continue around the world, most of but the nearly 100-year- ceive a “generous severance supporting Hillels across which operate as independent old group operates some package,” as well as a stipend our movement and to serv- organizations but work with activities that are not pos- to defray health expenses and ing students, who will need Hillel International on fun- sible during the pandemic. support in seeking new jobs. us more than ever in the draising, talent recruitment Hillel International runs Furloughed employees will weeks and months to come,” and program support. Birthright trips to Israel continue to receive health said Berger. PAGE 10A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 NY police knew an Orthodox rabbi’s Brooklyn funeral was happening—hundreds still showed up By Shira Hanau ing summonses to those who whether the police could have a spokeswoman declined to Yet, the confusion and chaos brought trucks with barri- gather in large groups. done more to stop the public comment beyond Shea’s re- led to scenes of large crowds. ers/tower lights to close off (JTA)—The images were Jewish leaders and others procession before the crowd marks at the news conference. We understand Mayor Bill Bedford Avenue and the sur- striking, the mayor had strong said the mayor used language grew into the hundreds or In a statement distributed de Blasio’s frustration and rounding area. It’s the @NYC- words and the backlash was that singled out the entire thousands. to reporters, Jacob Mertz, a his speaking out against the Mayor’s Dept who originally swift. Jewish community, which by Police Commissioner Der- spokesman for the congre- gathering. As said, we thought approved it before deciding to On Tuesday night, hun- and large has complied with mot Shea acknowledged at a gation that organized the that the procession will be in take it back,” the tweet said. dreds of Orthodox Jews gath- social distancing guidelines. news conference Wednesday funeral, said organizers had accordance with the rules, and Videos posted to Twitter ered for a rabbi’s funeral in On Wednesday, de Blasio that members of his depart- the streets closed for the we apologize that it turned out showed police telling mourn- Brooklyn, showing apparent stood by his warnings of police ment were in contact with funeral to allow mourners to otherwise.” ers over a loudspeaker to move disregard of public social action against social distanc- Hasidic community leaders participate while following Mertz did not address off the street and onto the distancing guidelines. New ing violators but expressed to discuss “what to expect at social distancing guidelines. whether the NYPD was in- sidewalk. York City Mayor Bill de Blasio remorse over the tone of his that location” ahead of the “Unfortunately, this didn’t volved in the street closures, “Everybody go home, it issued a tweet in which he tweets. funeral. That contact, he said, pan out, and NYPD had to but a City Hall spokeswoman is finished, there’s going to addressed “the Jewish com- “I regret if the way I said came “within minutes” of the disperse the crowds,” the told the New York Post on be traffic coming down the munity,” saying “the time it in any way gave people the rabbi’s death. statement said. “We shall Wednesday that no permits street,” a police officer said for warnings has passed” and feeling of being treated the Asked for further detail on note that everyone followed were issued for the funeral. in one video posted by Reuven announcing that the police wrong way,” he said. the plans made by the police the police officers’ orders and David Greenfield, a former Blau, a reporter for the local would be arresting or issu- Some are questioning with local community leaders, the vast majority wore masks. City Council member and outlet The City. CEO of the Metropolitan Another video posted by Council on Jewish Poverty, Blau showed police barriers said in a tweet that the police in the background, suggesting “wanted to work with the that officers had helped close chasidic synagogue out of off the street for the funeral. respect for their revered (and The evening funeral, which well-known) late Rabbi so they was organized hastily in ac- literally barricaded streets for cordance with Jewish custom this ‘socially distant funeral.’” after Rabbi Chaim Mertz died “The Chasidic synagogue on Tuesday afternoon, was wanted to honor their saintly publicized in a poster made by rabbi so they came up with the rabbi’s synagogue, Tolath a misguided scheme for an Yaakov. outdoor ‘socially distant’ The poster included a map public funeral. They were so of the funeral route on Bed- convinced they could pull ford Avenue in Williamsburg this off they coordinated with and advised mourners that NYPD and even handed out anyone attending the funeral masks.” must wear a mask and stay 6 JEWISH CAPITAL ALLIANCE One Twitter account called feet apart from others. The Satmar Headquarters, but directive to wear masks was OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, INC. not known to be affiliated repeated by the Williamsburg with any official organ of the Shomrim, a local patrol group Satmar Hasidic community run by Hasidic Jews, though 1151 Orange Avenue in Williamsburg, said police videos from the scene clearly had approved the funeral show some people without Suite 200 and helped coordinate the masks and within the pro- procession. scribed 6 feet. Winter Park, Florida 32789 “This Funeral was origi- “Everyone on the street nally approved and actually should have a mask,” a Shom- organized by @NYPDnews rim member said in a video March 29, 2020 2 hours b4 it started, PD from before the funeral. Jewish Capital Alliance of Central Florida, Inc., is painfully aware Germany to of the economic and operational challenges facing our Jewish institutional colleagues in Orlando. Therefore, JCA is reaching ban Hezbollah out to our Jewish community to advise: Arthur Stark, Chair, Wil- on its hands, Hezbollah con- liam Daroff, CEO, and Mal- ducts criminal operations colm Hoenlein, vice chair of in the Middle East, Europe, the Conference of Presidents Latin America, and elsewhere WE ARE HERE TO HELP! of Major American Jewish to finance its terror activities Organizations, issued the around the world. 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ANNETTE KAHAN Due to the coronavirus, and laughter to hundreds of BRENER a private family graveside children. Orlando Weekday Morning Minyan (Conservative/Egalitarian), services Monday- Annette Kahan Brener, service was held with Rabbi On April 12,1997, in Orlan- Friday 7:45 a.m. (9 a.m.—national holidays); 2nd floor Chapel—Jewish Academy of Orlando; age 93, of Oviedo, passed Arnold Siegel of Jewish Family do, Scott married the former 851 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland. For information call 407-298-4650. away peacefully on Thursday, Services officiating. Tracy D. Goldman, his wife of Celebration Jewish Congregation (R), services and holiday schedules shown at www. April 23, 2020, at Adven- Arrangements entrusted to 23 years who survives him. JewishCelebration.org; 407-479-8377. tHealth Hospice in Altamonte Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- Scott was the proud father Springs. A Brooklyn, N.Y., pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL of his son and daughter, An- Chabad Lubavitch of North Orlando (O), 1701 Markham Woods Road, Longwood, native, she was born on Feb. 32810, 407-599-1180, www. thony and Angelina Rosenfeld. 407-636-5994, www.jewishorlando.com; services: Friday 7:00 p.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m. 17,1927, to the late Philip and bethshalommemorialchapel. Additionally, he is survived Chabad of Altamonte Springs (O), 414 Spring Valley Lane, Altamonte Springs, 407- Ester Flug Kahan. Annette com. by his mother, Madelyne. He 280-0535; www.jewishaltamonte.com. was a high school graduate, was predeceased by his father, and for many years owned and SCOTT HENRY Howard, on Feb. 6, 2019. Chabad of South Orlando (O), 7347 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, 407-354-3660; www. operated a motel in the Po- ROSENFELD A memorial service was jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; conos with her late husband, Scott Henry Rosenfeld, held with Rabbi Rick Sherwin Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. Michael. Annette and Michael age 44, of Apopka, passed officiating. Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, were married on July 12, 1970, away on Monday, April In memory of Scott H. in Brookliyn and were married 27, 2020, at AdventHealth Rosefeld, the family requests 321-777-2770. for 47 years when he passed Apopka. A native of Islip, contributions to Wesley Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- away in 2017. New York, Scott was born on House—Conch Republic 2500; www.chabadorlando.org; services: Sunday, 9 a.m.; Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.; Shabbat Annette is survived by her June 30, 1975 to Madelyne Funds, 1304 Truman Ave., services: Friday, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Family service, 4th Friday of the month. daughters, Carol and Fran; Shankman Rosenfeld and Key West, FL 33040. her grandchildren—Shosha- the late Howard Rosenfeld. Arrangements entrusted to Congregation Bet Chaim (R), 181 E. Mitchell Hammock, Oviedo, 407-830-7211; www. na, Eric, Jason, and Jillian; and Scott was a high school Beth Shalom Memorial Cha- betchaim.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m. her great-grandchildren— graduate and attended col- pel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. Mark, Aaron, Sara, Jayce, Eric, lege. He was a widely known 32810, 407-599-1180, www. congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. Jasper, Landon, and one more clown in the entertainment bethshalommemorialchapel. great-grandchild on the way. industry, bringing happiness com. Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; Biden plans for increased Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. protections for Jews and others Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. By Ron Kampeas identify an appropriate fund- for the presidency, likened bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. ing allocation,” said the plan the plan in his statement to Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation WASHINGTON (JTA)— attached to Biden’s statement. his proposals to reduce gun holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. Former Vice President Joe The plan’s second point violence should he be elected. com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Biden marked the one-year would make prosecuting He also said President Trump anniversary of the deadly hate crimes a priority for bore responsibility for the Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; shooting at a synagogue in the Justice Department and spike in violent attacks. www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. Poway, California, with a would seek legislation that “He has fanned the flames Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., proposal to add protections increases penalties for attacks of bigotry and racism for Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. for Jews and other targets of on religious institutions. Hate political gain, and made a hate attacks. crime legislation already in- moral equivalence between Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; “These are acts of terror- creases penalties for crimes those perpetuating hate in our www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th ism, plain and simple,” Biden committed with a motive of country, and those standing Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. said Monday in a statement racism or prejudice. against it,” Biden said. Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. to the Jewish Telegraphic The third point is a proposal Trump equivocated in con- Agency. “They are bound to- to convene faith communities demning the neo-Nazi per- Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- gether by the common thread to consider “whole of society” petrators of deadly violence 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. of perpetrators using fear reforms that would address in Charlottesville, Virginia Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- and violence to undermine hate attacks, including im- in 2017, but has since con- 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. individuals’ ability to freely proving information sharing demned anti-Semitism. His exercise their faith.” among law enforcement agen- administration has rolled back Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for Biden’s three-point plan cies, improving mental health programs tracking white su- services and holiday schedules. would increase the $90 mil- care as a means of inhibiting premacists and then restored Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- lion the Department of Home- the violence and demanding some of them. gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. land Security now hands out that “social media and tech- Trump last year signed for securing nonprofit institu- nology platforms do more an executive order tackling Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- tions by “multiples.” to root out toxic extremist anti-Semitism, but it has Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv “Upon taking office, Biden content.” been employed since then Please call for times. 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Last year’s recipi- Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman ent was Dick Weiner. Former Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. does most anything recipients have included shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Stuart Farb (2010)), Burt Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, Chasnov (2008), and Bob Yarmuth (2004). Ricardo Torres 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, According to Gaeser, “Each 7:30 p.m. recipient chose their own Handyman Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. path, but made considerable tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. and long-lasting contribu- tions to the Jewish commu- 407-221-5482 (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa nity. Nominees for the 2020 Available in Central Florida Area • References Available PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 As the sexual assault claim against Joe Biden builds, some Jewish women wonder whether he deserves their support Jewish Women for Joe, said of Reade had less specific rec- health, well-being, equality, Strausberg, who teaches at she was waiting out the latest ollections of Reade describing economic equality, every- Hadar, a New York-based in- Biden allegations to see if they an incident or spoke anony- thing that will keep women stitution for Jewish study, said had legs. mously. safe and alive—Joe Biden is that in the modern context, “We definitely feel that Biden’s campaign continues a leader on that,” she told the the type of person in ques- women must be taken se- to categorically deny Reade’s Jewish Telegraphic Agency. tion is key: One could seek riously and listened to,” claim, adding that “women Biden’s record with women truth from a scientist who has Schonfeld, formerly CEO of have a right to be heard—and is not unblemished. Feminists transgressed, but probably not her movement’s Rabbinical heard respectfully,” but also still criticize his handling of from a rabbi. Assembly umbrella group, that the allegations “should the 1991 Thomas hearings, That question becomes said in an interview. But she also be diligently reviewed by which he chaired, saying that more confounding with a added that allegations “have an independent press.” he did not protect Anita Hill, politician. to be investigated,” and “at Halpern, 23, said in an Thomas’ accuser. Last year “It’s a tough question, they the moment the means of interview that she would he apologized after multiple are governing but also serving investigation happens to be vote for Biden to oust Trump women, including, Reade, as moral leaders,” she said through the media.” “if that’s what it takes,” but accused him of unwanted without commenting directly “We are following the cred- she wanted a more honest touching. on the Biden allegations. ible media investigation and accounting from Biden and “As someone who has Some feminists are wary of the analyses of people who his supporters. enthusiastically volunteered the allegations because they are investigative journalists. “The problem for the Biden for both Obama and Clinton, seem to have been instrumen- [Reade’s] story as we currently campaign is not that women I’m not yet at a point where talized by Trump defenders understand it has a lot of are uplifting these increasing- I feel comfortable actively to neutralize the allegations problems,” she said. ly well-sourced allegations, campaigning for Biden,” said against the president. Schonfeld mentioned a the problem is that Biden Michaela Brown, 25, a rabbini- “The one thing I have little column by Ruth Marcus, may have committed sexual cal student at Hebrew College doubt about is the bad faith Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images a Jewish Washington Post assault,” she said. “There is in Boston. “If it appears that of those using this strange, Joe Biden arrives at a media event in Wilmington, Del., opinion writer who wrote a a difference between being the Biden campaign begins sad story to hector feminists March 12, 2020. book about the sexual assault willing to support Biden in to take steps towards appro- into pretending to a certainty By Ron Kampeas Two weeks ago, Goldberg allegations in 2018 against a general election against priately, honestly addressing they have no reason to feel,” concluded a column about then-Supreme Court nomi- Trump, and even to campaign his alleged history of sexual Goldberg said in her New York WASHINGTON (JTA)— Reade by saying that she had nee Brett Kavanaugh. for him—which I am willing violence and harassment, I Times column. Monday was supposed to have “doubt about Biden and doubt “My gut says that what to do if necessary—and writ- will reconsider.” Katie Halper, the Jewish been a good news day for Joe about the charges against Reade alleges did not hap- ing glowing articles about his Evangelical Christians podcaster who first aired Biden: The venerable New him.” pen,” Marcus wrote two weeks character and supporting him back Trump because they see Reade’s allegations, said keep- York congresswoman Nita Jewish feminists, includ- ago. “My head instructs that specifically from the position him as a vehicle that advances ing Reade at arm’s length as Lowey convened hundreds ing those who for years have it is within the realm of pos- of being a Jewish woman and their moral priorities, includ- a means of electing Biden is of women on a phone call to been active in exposing sexual sibility, and fairness requires feminist.” ing restrictions on abortion “shameful.” launch a new group, Jewish impropriety in the Jewish acknowledging that.” Lowey, the New York Demo- and loosening strictures on “Tara wants Biden to Women for Joe. organizational context, were Marcus listed inconsisten- crat who is retiring this year church activism in public step down, understandably, The timing, though, was bowled over by the revelation, cies in Reade’s story as she and 30 years ago helped lead life. He does not need to be as do others who see him not auspicious. The same day, too. In one private Facebook has told it over the years the charge against the confir- a model of morality himself, as a disastrous candidate,” Business Insider published chat launched to discuss a and, at the time her article mation to the Supreme Court they argue. Halper, who backed Biden’s the first on-the-record cor- forthcoming book on Jewish was published, the lack of of Clarence Thomas, who was Rabbi Avi Strausberg, who rival Bernie Sanders in the roboration of a sexual assault thinking that includes writ- corroborating evidence. On accused of sexual harassment, has conducted sessions for primaries, wrote last week claim leveled in March by ings by confessed predators, Wednesday evening, Marcus did not return a request for Jewish officials in Washing- in the Guardian. “Others Tara Reade, an aide to Biden the Biden allegations super- considered the new evidence comment. ton on moral behavior in a wish Tara had been listened in 1992-93. seded everything on Monday. and said Biden “needs to an- Biden as a senator and then political setting, said that to before Biden was the last That landed like a bomb- Avigayil Halpern, a rab- swer the legitimate questions as vice president to Barack distinction might not apply man standing, but now see shell for the feminists and oth- binical student in New York, about the allegations.” Obama was closely identified in Jewish theology. no alternative. Both positions ers who hope to oust President posed the question on Twitter: In the Business Insider with some of the key feminist Should one seek moral are understandable and nei- Donald Trump in November. “I’m hoping that the newly story posted Monday, Lynda gains of Lowey’s generation, leadership from a pure figure, ther should be shamed. But “This is the most persuasive launched @JewishWomen- LaCasse, a neighbor of Reade’s helping to author the Violence or should one be able to learn what is shameful is ignoring corroborating evidence that 4Joe will react swiftly to in the mid-1990s, recalled Against Women Act and ad- from an impure figure while or belittling Tara because it’s has come out so far,” Michelle these increasingly compelling her describing the assault vance equal pay initiatives. employing one’s own sense politically inconvenient to Goldberg, a liberal opinion allegations of sexual assault.” at the time with the same For Schonfeld, that makes of morality to distinguish the grapple with her story. columnist for The New York Julie Schonfeld, the Con- details Reade first described backing him a no-brainer. good from the bad? Talmudic “We are in an excruciating Times, said on Twitter. “What servative rabbi who was one of in March. Prior to LaCasse “We are looking at every is- figures grapple with both situation with no easy solu- a nightmare.” the founders of the grassroots speaking out, other associates sue that is a threat to women’s paths, she said. tions.” Hillel International and BBYO to offer virtual college visits for high school seniors (JNS)—In a first-of-its- school seniors with current they are considering join- and fear, one of the most of the Anita M. Perlman that can last a lifetime. kind partnership, Hillel college students for virtual ing. important things we can do Women’s Leadership Ini- Though visits to campus may International, the largest campus visits and question- Many of these campus for the class of 2024 is to tiative at BBYO, said “we have been canceled, this is the Jewish campus organiza- and-answer sessions so visits are also open to parents give them a chance to meet know we’ve been successful next best opportunity for our tion, and BBYO, the Jewish prospective and accepted and high school juniors who and hear from members of cultivating BBYO teens’ Jew- teens to experience what the teen movement, are con- students can get to know are exploring college options. campus communities,” said ish identity when they start future has in store over the necting graduating high the campus communities “In this time of uncertainty Mimi Kravetz, chief experi- seeking opportunities to next four years and beyond.” ence officer at Hillel Inter- engage Jewishly on campus. Amanda Gorsky, class national. “Working together Partnering with Hillel in of 2022 at the University with BBYO allows us to create this way allows BBYO teens of Delaware and an active real, personal connections for to meet future classmates, member of Hillel there, said Seeking Jewish Gestational Carrier teens as they become a part understand what’s waiting “as someone who had some of Hillel,” she continued. “Ne- for them on campus and ask difficulty adjusting to college MUST be able to provide proof of religion. If GC is cessity has been the mother important questions to help life, Hillel was always there for of this new approach, but we them commit to a college or me and truly gave me a place married, must be married to non-Jewish spouse. hope that this partnership university. where I feel comfortable and creates a pathway for young She added that “in a time free to be myself, so it feels Single, divorced or widowed is fine. Jews to move between com- where social distancing is the great to have the chance to munities for years to come.” norm, these virtual sessions give back to the community Minimum of 1 prior full-term pregnancy. You should Rebecca Cohen, director allow for social connection that helped me so much.” What is equally beneficial, be 21-40 yrs old, & have a strong support system. say organizers, is the face- to-face meetings that take Healthy, kind, communicative & understanding. place online. Ian Hammer, a high school Reproductive Possibilities is an agency that has junior from Kansas City and Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements “BBYO On-Demand” editor- helped to create families for over 2 decades, contact Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets in-chief, said, “Many of us Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads planned our spring-break us to find out more & join us in a wonderful journey. 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We are By Cnaan Liphshiz government passed emer- of musicians from the Jew- participation in the ceremony cases of COVID-19 and 524 forced to conclude that Ms. (JTA)—Three men who gency regulations to allow ish Amsterdam Chamber sponsored by Combatants deaths. Spielman has a personal ven- placed a wreath at a Holocaust security services to track the Ensemble. They played in an for Peace and Parents Circle, The first image of Seth detta against our school which monument in Belgium were cellphones of coronavirus empty hall while observing this year on Zoom, which Rogen as a Jewish pickle we find deeply troubling.” charged with violating the patients. Attorney General social distancing protocols. included a record 200,000 maker is extremely his- So what did the school find country’s emergency mea- Avichai Mandelbilt had ap- The setup used the empty participants. torically accurate objectionable? sures to stop the spread of the proved the move. hall as background to haunt- “Shame on you for financ- By Gabe Friedman It blanked out a picture of coronavirus. In late March, the Supreme ing effect: The musicians ing a disgrace in the holiest (JTA)—The Seth Rogen Queen Elizabeth I dancing The men, including a City Court lifted an injunction are facing the camera with day of the Israeli calendar!” Jewish immigrant pickle with Robert Dudley, who was Council member from the against the practice and their backs to the red velvet- Yair Netanyahu said. “We have movie is still happening, and a suitor. It also neglected to town of Boortmeerbeek, were agreed to allow the surveil- upholstered seats. one day in a year to remember we now have some striking teach about her father King notified of a police investiga- lance by the Israel Security The tracks, which Mehler our fallen soldiers! And you photo evidence. Henry VIII’s complicated tion against them last week Agency after the Knesset con- has shared online, include destroy it with a ‘memorial’ If you missed the news from marital life as well as the ac- after laying a wreath on April vened and formed committees an instrumental rendition of to Palestinian terrorists! EU a year and a half ago, Rogen cusation of adultery against 19 at a local monument com- that would allow for oversight. “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national is an enemy of Israel, and an plays a Jewish immigrant in Anne Boleyn. memorating the 1943 hijack- The justices then also said anthem, and the melancholic enemy to all European Chris- 1920s New York City who gets The school, which receives ing by resistance fighters of a that if the parliament does song “Mishehu,” or “Some- tian countries! Schengen trapped inside a pickle vat for a state funding, was downgrad- train transporting Jews from not introduce legislation in one,” written by Matti Caspi, zone is dead and soon your century in the upcoming film ed to inadequate by Ofsted two Belgium to be murdered at the coming weeks allowing for Israel’s Memorial Day, evil globalist organization “An American Pickle.” years ago over censorship of Auschwitz. such surveillance, it would which symbolically precedes will be too, and Europe will On Monday, Rogen posted textbooks. But a follow-up On Friday, Belgium lifted again place an injunction on the nation’s Independence return to be free, democratic a photo of his character, inspection earlier this year some restrictions on move- the practice. Day. and Christian!” Herschel Greenbaum, on In- found that it met the require- ment, ending its lockdown. Israel’s population grows “Performing in the main The Schengen zone com- stagram—and the historical ments of the national history But gatherings and celebra- slightly to nearly 9.2 hall of the Concertgebouw is prises 26 European states that accuracy is shocking. Rogen curriculum, according to the tions are still prohibited, lead- million on eve of Inde- an honor reserved to few pro- have officially abolished all points out that it’s an “actual report. ing to the police action against pendence Day fessional musicians, and more passport and all other types Tin Type photo,” meaning it Spielman was asked to de- the three men, who are all By Marcy Oster so, that they have allowed us of border control at their was taken with a device of the fend the criticisms she made of members of the National JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- to record parts of our canceled mutual borders, and includes kind used from the 1800s into the Hackney borough school Combatants Organization rael’s population stands at concert,” Mehler, 54, told the Austria, Belgium, the Czech the early 20th century. in a report submitted to Ofsted of Belgium, the Belga news nearly 9.2 million on the eve Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Republic, France, Germany, The beard, the hat and in January, according to the agency reported. of its Independence Day, grow- Israel sending some kids Norway, Poland, Portugal and the shading produced in the Daily Mail. The councilman, Michel ing by some 171,000 people, back to school as coro- Switzerland. tintype transport the viewer According to the report, the Baert, protested the police or 1.9 percent. navirus cases drop Netanyahu, who lives with back to the early 20th century students were not allowed to action against him and his The Central Bureau of Sta- By Marcy Oster his parents in the official Lower East Side. visit the Tate modern art gal- fellow activists. tistics released the figures on JERUSALEM (JTA)—Is- prime minister’s residence The other news about the lery because works exhibited “This was not, and should Sunday. Israel’s Independence raeli children in kindergarten and receives personal secu- film from Monday is that it will there, including by Pablo not be treated as, an illegal Day, or Yom Haatzmaut, was through third grade will rity, has stirred controversy now be released through HBO Picasso and Henri Matisse, party,” he told Belga. “This celebrated on Tuesday evening return to the classroom with previous posts on social Max, not in theaters, at a date were considered too explicit. was an essential action out and Wednesday. beginning Sunday—if their media. to be determined—because The school also redacted parts of respect for the resistance Some 74 percent of the country doesn’t see a sig- Last week he tweeted who is going to a movie theater of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sher- fighters, Holocaust victims population is Jewish and 21 nificant rise in the number an apparent death threat for the foreseeable future? lock Holmes novels, according and family members.” percent is Arab, according to of coronavirus cases. against “old people” protest- London haredi Orthodox to the report. Baert also said that the the report. The plan, approved Monday ing the establishment of a school redacted history Israeli hospital partners three commemorators wore The population of Israel by a panel of Cabinet members national unity government, books to cover up Brit- with National Institutes face masks, kept distance was 806,000 at the time of the from the relevant ministries which will be led for 18 ish monarchs’ immodest of Health to study and and limited the action to only establishment of the state in and the Prime Minister’s months by his father, Ben- behavior combat the coronavirus three people to avoid violating 1948, according to the statis- Office, will require final gov- jamin, saying he hopes the By Marcy Oster By Marcy Oster the emergency measures. tics bureau. ernment consent. A review gathering spread coronavi- (JTA)—A haredi Orthodox JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Michael Freilich, a Jewish Since last year, some of the situation and a vote is rus to the left-wing demon- girls high school in London hospital in Israel is partnering lawmaker for the New Flemish 180,000 babies were born expected Friday. strators. He later deleted the redacted history books to with the National Institutes of Alliance party, also protested and 44,000 people died. In Israel has seen the number post and the prime minister cover up what it considers the Health to study and combat the action against the activists addition, 32,000 immigrants of daily cases decline in recent distanced himself from his immodest behavior of British COVID-19. and offered to pay any fines or have arrived in the country. days. son’s comment. monarchs. The Sheba Medical Center legal fees imposed on them in By 2040, Israel’s population On Sunday, the country In 2018, Facebook blocked At a hearing on the Yesodey at Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, connection to it. is estimated to reach 13.2 allowed the opening of many his account after he shared Hatorah Senior Girls’ School, said it signed an “emergency More than 100 Jews were million, and by Israel’s 100th non-essential businesses, content banned by the plat- a government school stan- agreement” with the Mary- saved in the Boortmeerbeek Independence Day in 2048 including retail stores not form that called for avenging dards inspector said that an land-based NIH to conduct train hijacking, known also the population is estimated located in malls and hair- the deaths of Israelis killed entire chapter of a textbook applied scientific and clinical as the German 20th Transport at 15.2 million. dressers. in recent days by Palestinian had been glued together. research for treatments in action. Meanwhile, according to Under the school plan, terrorists. “It wasn’t a question of an effort to end the global Israel’s tracking of coro- the data, there are nearly first- through third-graders Jewish hotel in Poland an image, this was an entire coronavirus pandemic. navirus carriers is out 950,000 children under the will attend classes five days a offers free rooms to chunk of history,” Amanda Sheba will supply the NIH’s unless Knesset makes it age of 4 living in Israel and week, for five hours a day, with doctors wary of exposing Spielman, the chief inspector Vaccine Research Center with a law 50,000 people aged 90 and only 15 students per class. their families to corona- of the Office for Standards in blood samples, plasma and By Marcy Oster over. Children up to age 14 Desks will be placed six feet virus germs Education, Children’s Ser- the COVID-19 virus itself JERUSALEM (JTA)—Cell- make up 28 percent of the apart and students will not By Katarzyna Markusz vices and Skills, or Ofsted, from infected patients in phone tracking of confirmed population. be permitted to touch each WARSAW (JTA)—The Ho- told the parliamentary edu- Israel, as well as all relevant carriers of coronavirus in Israel’s Independence other. Staff and children in tel Ilan in Lublin, a city in cation select committee on information, through a series Israel can only continue if the Day gets first celebra- second and third grade must central Poland, is offering 60 Monday, the Jewish Chronicle of clinical trials the hospital Knesset initiates legislation to tion at the Dutch royal wear face masks. rooms for free to health care reported. is conducting on treatments allow it, the nation’s Supreme concert hall—without a Preschools and kindergar- professionals busy battling The school responded in from global pharmaceutical Court ruled. crowd tens will open three days a the coronavirus, at times for an email to JTA on Tuesday. companies, as well as its own A three-judge panel on By Cnaan Liphshiz week with a limited number exhaustive stretches. “The manner in which Ms. experimental treatments. Sunday said the government AMSTERDAM (JTA)—This of kids per classroom. Breakfast is included, said Spielman picks on our school “This is an important could extend the practice for year was supposed to be the Israeli schools have been Agnieszka Kolibska, the hotel during almost every high achievement for Sheba, as the next few weeks as long as first time that Israel’s Inde- closed since mid-March. manager. It’s the only hotel in profile interview and meeting we engage with and assist it introduces legislation this pendence Day was celebrated Students have been attending the city offering free rooms is tantamount to bullying and the NIH, the most impor- week and takes action on it. in a public concert at the classes via distance learn- for doctors. harassment,” a spokesman, tant research center in the The ruling came in re- main royal concert hall in the ing with varying degrees of Some don’t want to go home Matthew Owen, wrote. “It world, in finding the proper sponse to petitions filed Netherlands. success. right away and be in close is intimidating to our staff, treatments and eventually against the practice by rights Planned for April 28 at the As of Tuesday night there contact with family members parents and pupils and only a vaccine that will rid the groups who say that it in- main hall of the 134-year- were 208 deaths and 15,589 after a shift working closely attempts to embarrass our world of this pandemic and fringes on civil liberties and old Royal Concertgebouw in confirmed COVID-19 cases with coronavirus patients. school. Having recently lost save millions of lives in the personal freedom. Amsterdam, the concert was in the country. “We are glad that as a hotel our principal, Rabbi Pinter, process,” Dror Harats, chair The Israel Security Agency, to feature well-known artists Netanyahu’s son calls and the local Jewish commu- who passed away from the of the Research and Develop- or Shin Bet, for nearly two including Shuly Nathan play- for return of a ‘free, nity we can support health Coronavirus, our school is in ment Division at Sheba, said months has been using cell- ing her iconic “Jerusalem of democratic and Chris- care in these hard times,” mourning and we are looking in a statement. phone and credit card data Gold” before an expected sell- tian’ Europe Kolibska said. to rebuild.” On Sunday, a nurse who to retroactively track the out crowd of 2,000 spectators. By Marcy Oster The hotel is located in the The school’s founding prin- worked at Sheba for 46 years movement of people who test The event was canceled JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yair building of what was formerly cipal, Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, died of the coronavirus, the positive for the coronavirus. because of the coronavirus, Netanyahu, a son of the Israeli one of the largest yeshivas in died of the coronavirus earlier first Israeli medical profes- The aim is to find where the yet Israel’s 72nd birthday prime minister, called for the the world, founded by Rabbi this month. sional to die in the pandemic. infected person had been was still celebrated at the return of a “free, democratic Meir Yehuda Shapiro in 1930. Owen went on: “It is truly Suzy Levi, 65, became ill and who he or she came into Concertgebouw thanks to the and Christian” Europe in a The building now belongs to astonishing that Ms. Spielman with the coronavirus a month contact with in order to stem determination of the concert’s tweet that criticized a joint the Warsaw Jewish Commu- again used the opportunity for ago, and was on a ventilator for the spread of the virus. producer, Barry Mehler, who Israeli-Palestinian memorial nity organization. dialogue and collaboration, to 28 days before she died, The The law allowing the prac- also produces the annual ceremony for Israel’s Memo- Elsewhere, in Warsaw, the further torment and harass Times of Israel reported. The tice should have an end date, Hanukkah concert at the hall. rial Day. Jewish Theater donated a our school. Sheba staff held a moment of the court said, saying that Mehler, a U.S.-born profes- Netanyahu’s post on Tues- hundred sewn masks to the “We are also astonished silence on Monday morning “effort must be made to find sional singer and cantor who day, Yom Hazikaron in Israel, city’s Social Welfare Center. that Ms. Spielman felt the to honor her. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 Reacting to packed Orthodox funeral, New York City mayor warns ‘the Jewish community’ and faces swift backlash By Philissa Cramer The second message drew term for a desecration of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic town tion and at-home deaths, and for that we apologize to all swift criticism from Jews and God’s name. “He is physically north of the city. “Two wrongs some prominent community Jewish people.” (JTA)—New York City May- others who said de Blasio had endangering everyone else. don’t make a right, but only leaders have fallen victim to Six minutes after the tweet or Bill de Blasio drew fierce unfairly targeted New York Knowingly.” one wrong makes the news the virus. that ignited the firestorm, de criticism late Tuesday after Jews, the majority of whom Some noted that the mayor and the condemnation of The synagogue of the Blasio posted a final message he singled out “the Jewish are following distancing had not responded similarly politicians.” rabbi being mourned, Kahal about the night’s events, community” in a trio of tweets rules. Critics said de Blasio earlier Tuesday when New And some of de Blasio’s Tolath Yakov, issued a state- this one addressing social announcing that he had ran the risk of inflaming anti- Yorkers gathered in parks detractors on the political ment overnight saying that distancing violators broadly instructed his police depart- Semitism just months after a to watch military planes fly right used the tweet as an it regretted both what had and explicitly not singling any ment to fine or even arrest spate of violent attacks on Jews over the city in a show of sup- opportunity to score points happened at the funeral and population out. social distancing violators. in the city and at a time when port for city workers. Others against him. Texas Sen. Ted afterwards, according to a “We have lost so many De Blasio was responding the Orthodox community is pointed to the mayor’s own Cruz and FOX News commen- Twitter account that dis- these last two months + I to a funeral that had drawn mourning many of its own habit of walking in Brooklyn’s tator Laura Ingraham were tributes news about Hasidic understand the instinct to hundreds of Orthodox Jews losses from the coronavirus Prospect Park, where crowds among the national figures Williamsburg. gather to mourn. But large to the streets of Williamsburg, pandemic. sometimes gather on sunny who criticized the progressive “We understand Mayor Bill gatherings will only lead to Brooklyn, to mourn a rabbi “Mr. Mayor, your words days in spite of social distanc- mayor’s message. de Blasio’s frustration and his more deaths + more families who died of the coronavirus. are unacceptable,” tweeted ing guidelines. The episode comes as New speaking out about the gath- in mourning,” he wrote. “We Pictures of the funeral pro- Kalman Yeger, an Orthodox “The Blue Angels flyover in York City’s Orthodox popula- ering,” said the synagogue’s will not allow this. I have cession, first shared by Reuven Jewish member of the New NY City today was beautiful, tion reels from the corona- secretary. “We thought that instructed the NYPD to have Blau, a reporter for The CITY, York City Council. “To but I didn’t see any outrage virus, which has ricocheted the procession will be in ac- one standard for this whole showed streets densely packed condemn our entire com- over the lack of social distanc- through Hasidic neighbor- cordance with the rules, and city: zero tolerance.” with mourners who were munity over one group of ing. That reaction is reserved hoods in Williamsburg, we apologize that it turned As angry responses to the later dispersed by city police people is something you for Jewish weddings & funer- Crown Heights and Borough out otherwise. It also hurts previous tweet continued to officers. The synagogue of the would not do to any other als,” tweeted Joel Petlin, who Park. Those neighborhoods that this led to singling out flow in, that message drew rabbi who died, Chaim Mertz, ethnic group, and I know runs the school district in have had high rates of infec- the Jewish community, and few reactions. later released a statement say- you long enough to know ing it had expected mourners that you know this.” to follow social distancing The head of the Anti- rules and regretted that they Defamation League sound- When did elderly people had not. ed a similar note. “Hey @ “Something absolutely NYCMayor, there are 1mil+ unacceptable happened in Jewish people in #NYC,” Williamsburg tonite: a large CEO Jonathan Greenblatt like me become disposable? funeral gathering in the tweeted. “The few who don’t care, the appropriate political middle of this pandemic,” social distance should be response to an extreme emer- de Blasio tweeted. “When I called out—but generalizing gency and the nature of our heard, I went there myself against the whole population global world. to ensure the crowd was dis- is outrageous especially when But no less important is the persed. And what I saw WILL so many are scapegoating question of the very nature NOT be tolerated so long as we Jews. This erodes the very of our society and its values. are fighting the Coronavirus.” unity our city needs now more What lack within us gave A second tweet followed than ever.” rise to the discussion of the immediately afterward: “My Some of de Blasio’s critics disposability of the elderly? message to the Jewish com- acknowledged that the large This crisis has exposed a munity, and all communi- crowd at the funeral had been materialistic calculus, a ties, is this simple: the time a mistake. David Hazony, a coarsening of society’s dis- for warnings has passed. I prominent Israeli-American course since the dismissal of have instructed the NYPD to writer, criticized the mayor the religious sensibility that proceed immediately to sum- but noted that “any rabbi built our system of values mons or even arrest those who who doesn’t ban gatherings and ethics over millennia of gather in large groups. This is in middle of a pandemic is not civilization. about stopping this disease just a hilul hashem,” Hazony If we have, indeed, entered a and saving lives. Period.” tweeted, using the Hebrew post-Christian, post-religious society, a trauma such as the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 current one reveals its conse- A D A R S F A N S T E S S 14 15 16 quences. I would argue that J U D E A O N A N I N T O we have seen the underbelly of 17 18 19 Antonio Masiello/Getty Images a society that has forgotten its C A L I F O R N I A S T E M An elderly man leaves a metro station in Rome during a test scenario amid the corona- 20 21 roots, no longer has a strong N E W H A M P S H I R E virus pandemic, April 27, 2020. set of values and does not 22 23 24 25 26 understand the importance J C C S L E S P L A C I D 27 28 29 30 By Paul Socken “saving Grandma” only after women as well not to abandon of honoring all life. If ever A H A U S S R E Y E L A weighing the pros and cons the elderly when their “use” there was a time to rethink 31 32 33 34 as if it were an accounting is no longer manifest. the journey we have taken as G A L A S H A R P R E Y TORONTO (JTA)—The 35 36 37 38 coronavirus pandemic of problem. Others have said It is heartbreaking to see a society and recalculate our T E N N E S S E E 2020 is shaking the world in that the elderly should sacri- so many deaths due to the direction, it is now. 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 fice themselves for the good virus and the personal stories What an irony it would L I C E E O N S A R A H disturbing ways. 47 48 49 50 51 As someone who is no lon- of the country. associated with those losses. be if we learned to preserve A N A W W W B L T E L M ger young, I find one aspect But this is not the Jewish In many countries, a large physical life infinitely better 52 53 54 55 attitude. Psalm 92 proclaims proportion of the dead are than previous generations M C N E I L T R E B B Y O of the crisis to be particularly 56 57 58 unnerving: the attitude to- that “in old age [the righ- in nursing homes where the only to abandon their more P E N N S Y L V A N I A ward the elderly. teous] still produce fruit, they elderly are warehoused with sophisticated search for truth 59 60 61 62 63 are full of sap and freshness.” inadequate staffing and medi- and meaning in life. O N O R W A S H I N G T O N The media is filled with 64 65 66 stories about the problem In his Mishneh Torah, the cal care. In Canada, otherwise What will it profit us to O S L O E L E M N E E D Y represented by the elderly. great philosopher and doc- a deeply caring society, over reestablish our economy, 67 68 69 tor Maimonides states that half the deaths have been in restructure our health care N E I L D O T S S L E E T What will happen if there aren’t enough respirators for “even a young scholar should nursing homes where revela- and solve our global problems everyone? Should the elderly, rise before an old man distin- tions of what goes on behind if we ignore the human issues who have lived their lives long guished in age.” In “Guide for the doors of those institutions that underpin it all? What is enough, have the same right the Perplexed,” he writes that have shocked the nation. We the purpose of life if we fail to to medical care as young “with the ancient is wisdom.” can and we must do better see the humanity in everyone people who have their whole I always thought that the than this for the elderly and around us? lives ahead of them? psalmist’s plea “Do not cast for everyone. The views and opinions There are cold, calculating me off in old age; when my When this crisis is finally expressed in this article are cost-benefit analyses associ- strength fails, do not forsake over, and a semblance of nor- those of the author and do not ated with this grim reaper me” was addressed to God. malcy resumes, we will need necessarily reflect the views scenario. One columnist Now I understand that it is an to answer many questions of JTA or its parent company, came down on the side of appeal to our fellow men and about the economy, health 70 Faces Media.

To Publish Legal Notices For Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties, Call Heritage Florida Jewish News at 407-834-8787 or Email [email protected] HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 PAGE 15A Facebook page, using the He- With over 350 shawls col- in line with Orthodox custom. find old shawls that belonged because of its sentimental Shawls brew word for prayer shawls. lected already, Parver isn’t “For thousands of years, to parents or grandparents. value, but was prepared to From page 1A The donations started quite sure how many more Jews have been buried the “Each tallis tells a story,” let it go after hearing about pouring in immediately. to expect. But with calls from same way—plain shrouds, Parver said. “Somebody wore the need. So on Sunday, Parver send By Sunday night, Parver across the country continuing plain pine box,” Parver said, that tallis in shul, somebody Parver sees the outpour- out the word on an email list had picked up about 100 to come in, he’s sure there are adding that it’s a way of “con- shed tears while wearing that ing of donations as another for the Jewish community in shawls from homes in his more on the way. He’s also sure necting to our ancestors.” tallis, praying for something way people are helping where Teaneck, New Jersey. The next area and found another 50 left the need will continue to grow. The association typically that was important at that they can at a time when leav- morning he posted an appeal on the doorstep of his home. Traditional Jewish burial receives donations of shawls stage of life.” ing the house is a dangerous on Facebook. Another 10 people volunteered customs dictate that men are at a steady pace year round. Some of the calls he’s proposition. “Do you have any old Tall- their homes in New York, dressed in white shrouds and They come from synagogues received have hinted at the “This is just a very tangible eisim, regardless of condition, New Jersey and Baltimore as wrapped in a shawl before they that close down or people who emotional connection people method for people to connect that you can donate to Hebrew drop-off points for donations, are interred in a Jewish cem- buy new ones after an older feel to their shawls. One rabbi and give back more good into Free Burial Association?” he thus far collecting at least 200 etery. The association does not shawl wears out. Sometimes told Parver that he had held the world when we need it,” wrote on the association’s prayer shawls. dress women in prayer shawls, they come from people who on to an old shawl for years he said. Glick From page 4A budged from their determina- deny American Jews their civil Last week, to calm con- tion of “chairman-elect.” a hostile takeover by radical tion to install Lob as the next right to express their support cerned Jewish leaders and Obviously, the bylaws can be activists who oppose the views that the Conference had chairman. They will not ac- for Israel and their opposition donors, Conference officials changed at the drop of a hat. of 95 percent of American Jews changed its bylaws. Under the knowledge the bylaw breaches to anti-Semites and terrorist argued that even if Lob wants There is a way to resolve and seek to transform the new bylaws, Lob will serve as endemic to the nomination organizations, will now be the to transform the Conference this situation. Conference Conference into an anti-Israel, “chairman-elect” under Stark process that selected her. head of the most important into a HIAS knockoff, she members can transform the post-Jewish pressure group. for the coming year. In April Instead, they have decided American Jewish organiza- won’t be able to. The Confer- formality of the vote on Tues- Barring such action, however, 2021, she will be inaugurated to neutralize the criticism tion in the United States. ence’s bylaws, they explained, day into an actual election and the chance of saving the Con- to serve as chairman. by laying low for a year. Lob will undoubtedly go require the leaders of the vote against Lob. In so doing, ference from the post-Jewish On the face of things, the They assume that within on a “listening tour,” and executive committee to act they would send the entire ap- Left will effectively disappear. surprising move seems like a a few months, people will make everyone feel that they within the consensus of the pointment process back to the Caroline Glick is an award- concession to the many Jewish grow used to the idea that are being heard. And then, Conference’s members. This nominations committee for winning columnist and au- groups and activists who vocif- a woman, who led an orga- beginning in April 2021, she position is exposed as a lie by another—more legitimate— thor of “The Israeli Solution: erously oppose Lob’s selection. nization that abandoned its will allow her allies on the the speed with which Stark round of deliberations and A One-State Plan for Peace in But upon reflection, it is no Jewish identity officially in post-Jewish left to control and Lob oversaw a radical votes. If this happens, there the Middle East.” such thing. Stark, Daroff, Lob 2014 and works openly with the Conference, just as they change of the Conference’s is a chance the Conference of This article first appeared and their associates have not political activists that seek to control HIAS. bylaws to create a new posi- Presidents will save itself from in Israel Hayom. Life From page 5A the number of cases to prevent tion, and that has been woe- being deferred because of the But even within New York down, or ending it for those a collapse of the health care fully lacking. Only now are exclusive focus on COVID-19 State, circumstances vary so not at high risk, is perfectly to be prepared to spend any system, not to eliminate the the first studies being done of virus. Hospital admissions in greatly as to require different consistent with retaining a amount of money “to save just coronavirus. That has been how widespread are coronavi- the UK for the first 14 weeks guidelines. New York City’s great deal of social distanc- one life.” Besides inflicting achieved. rus antibodies among those of this year, for instance, were rate of death per 100,000 is ing, such as wearing masks untold suffering and thou- That goal of 100 percent who are asymptomatic. Yet down nearly 40 percent from nearly 25 times higher than and limiting the number of sands of premature deaths, safety reflects not an exqui- without that information, we the preceding year, and that 39 upstate counties. And customers in a store. I, for the goal is unattainable. It site sensitivity but a total are clueless as to the lethality drop has been accompanied so too are their respective one, cannot presently imagine would require a safe and effec- lack of empathy. If you are a of the virus. All the studies by a sharp spike in overall economies different. New myself ever getting on an air- tive vaccine—which could be journalist, who works from to date show the number of deaths. The British cabinet York City is a financial and plane again without a mask. 18 months away, if ever—or home, or Speaker Nancy cases of coronavirus to be at was told that up to 150,000 entertainment center. It will We will not soon be return- the development of herd im- Pelosi, whose two top-of-the least an order of magnitude avoidable non-COVID-19 revive. The upstate economy ing to our old world, as if munity. And the latter cannot line refrigerators are laden higher, and therefore the deaths may result from de- is almost entirely based on awakening from a nightmare. develop during a shutdown, with expensive ice cream, the rate of fatality to be that ferred procedures. small businesses that cannot But if we ask the right ques- especially when the youngest shutdown is no big deal. Not much less. Balancing should entail far survive months of no income. tions, we might get a lot closer and least likely to be adversely so if you are an out-of-work A proper balancing would more nuanced policies. There Once gone, many of them will much sooner. affected are locked up at home. truck driver or a laid-off include many unintended can be no blanket policy for not return. Jonathan Rosenblum is a The models upon which the middle manager. consequences now being New York, which accounts for And finally, balancing re- columnist for the Jerusalem lockdowns were predicated No balancing can take ignored, such as medical over 40 percent of deaths na- minds us that our choices are Post and Israeli director of were designed to spread out place without good informa- procedures and screenings tionwide, and El Paso, Texas. not binary. Ending the shut- Am Echad. Mourning From page 5A age boys several weeks before- who maim and kill Israelis the large Israeli peace move- estinians and Israelis earlier tims of senseless violence, be hand, who were kidnapped by in terror attacks continue to ment and the almost non- this month was arrested by they Jews, Arabs or any other of terrorism. The teenager Palestinians while walking receive pensions and salaries existent Palestinian peace Hamas and hasn’t been seen people. But we should be wary held responsible for Aisha al- home from school. from the P.A. as a reward for movement is telling. Pal- alive since then. The fact of efforts to establish a false Rabi’s death was prosecuted. By contrast, the Palestinian their crimes. estinians consider their that he was turned in by a analogy between those who The same is true of three Authority continues to honor No one has the right to compatriots who support Palestinian journalist who died to save Jewish lives and Israelis (serving long prison terrorists. Just last week, its tell any Israeli family how to dialogue with Israel as “trai- has worked for Amnesty In- those whose purpose was to sentences for their crime leader, Mahmoud Abbas, and honor its loved ones, and if tors” working to “normalize” ternational makes it all the spill Jewish blood. and held in contempt by the his Fatah movement honored some reach out to bereaved the Jewish state (and terror- more obvious that there is Jonathan S. Tobin is editor country) who murdered a the perpetrators of the Mu- Palestinian families in the ists are “martyrs” dying for no comparison between the in chief of JNS—Jewish News Palestinian boy in July 2014 nich Olympic massacre on the hope of promoting peace, we the cause). The Gaza resident way the two societies think Syndicate. Follow him on in revenge for the gruesome anniversaries of their deaths. must all hope they succeed. who organized a cooperative about peace. Twitter at: @jonathans_to- murder of three Israeli teen- Similarly, those Palestinians But the contrast between Zoom meeting between Pal- We should mourn all vic- bin. Kahn From page 7A he was included on many of own about a year later. My first was an International Board My grandparents founded He continued, “I’m amazed their projects. He represented solo practice was in downtown member. Ohev Shalom and my parents at the amount of Israelis that very successful business that Disney in their negotiations in Orlando on Magnolia Avenue “Living as long as one has Temple Israel. The Jewish are living in the area, and I eventually got into the en- the Orient and France. for approximately five years in the Orlando area, I have community today is spread appreciate the contributions graving industry and trophies. “I had a free pass to Disney until I purchased the building seen the growth and develop- out and is more diverse today they’ve made to Orlando Jew- He acquired Martin Marietta growing up and I enjoyed I’m now in, which I opened in ment that came with Disney. than it was then.” ish culture.” as an account where he en- many afternoons and evening 1985 called Dental Associates graved devices that are now with friends at the park.” of Maitland. My practice is somewhere in space.” Bernie graduated from located across from the Jew- In 1969, Wolf’s business Edgewater High School and ish Community Center, and hooked up with Disney and went to Florida State Univer- is geared toward facial pain, when they opened the park in sity in Tallahassee where he therapy and restoration.” 1971 Wolf became the jeweler received his undergraduate Bernie has been active for Disney. His main office degree in micro-biology/pre- in the American Dental As- moved to the Contemporary dentistry. He then attended sociation since 1977 as well Hotel called “Kingdom Jew- Emory University in Atlanta, as serving in many positions els.” He had a jewelry store where he graduated from with the Florida Dental As- Custom Printing Invitations & Announcements in Hawaiian Village and then dental school. sociation and the Central Digital & Offset Printing Brochures & Booklets later in downtown Disney. He met his first wife District Dental Association. Eventually Wolf opened two through friends at Camp He’s actively involved in the Direct Mail Services Forms & Letterheads more stores, one was on their Bluestar, N.C., and had two Dental Society of Greater Envelopes Business Cards ship, the Queen Elizabeth, and sons, Aaron and Philliip. Orlando serving as past presi- another opened at Disney in About two years after his dent among many other roles Anaheim, California. divorce, he met Valarie Cad- within these organizations. 407-767-7110 “Anything that came wallader, to whom he was Bernie also has been active through Disney that related married for 32 years. Valarie with the Alpha Omega Inter- 205 North Street • Longwood, FL 32750 to precious stones and met- passed away recently. national Dental Fraternity www.elegantprinting.net als, my father was involved “Out of dental school I had and has held many positions in. The executives at Disney an associate-ship with How- over the years. Today he’s on Bring in this ad and receive 18% Discount held him in high regard and ard Oser. I went out on my the foundation board and PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, MAY 8, 2020 No time for a breather: A nurse’s account of Israel’s first coronavirus death and life inside a COVID-19 ward By Ruth Ebenstein Gemara reached for the special kit, which included JERUSALEM (JTA)—Near- two bags and four pages of ly six weeks have passed since instructions. Arie Even, an 88-year-old Preparing a body for Jew- Holocaust survivor, died of ish burial is habitually the the coronavirus. domain of the chevra kadisha, It happened at the end of Hebrew for “holy society.” The Shabbat dinner on a Friday ritual act of purification is night in March at the Shaare known as tahara, which is car- Zedek Medical Center in ried out by individuals trained Jerusalem. to care for the body in an Even drew headlines as age-old process of traditional Israel’s first COVID-19 fatality. cleansing. Men care for men; As of Thursday, the coronavi- women care for women. It is rus death count in the country said that the body is treated had risen to 222. There have as a vessel for holiness. been almost 16,000 confirmed The specific rituals for care cases. of the dead are generally rel- For Rachel Gemara, 33, the egated to the private domain. memory of Even has not lost The body is washed thrice in its charge. It’s stark and raw, a constant stream of warm and may stay that way for a water or ritually immersed long time to come. in a body of water before it is She was the veteran nurse dressed in “tachrichim,” a tra- on call that night monitor- ditional Jewish burial shroud ing Even’s breathing when of simple white intended to be he had a heart arrhythmia a cocoon of sheets. Silence fills in Keter Alef, the hospital’s the room, save the recitation first popup unit created for of psalms and prayers. The de- Rachel Gemara celebrates Passover at Shaare Zedek corona patients. The monitor ceased is addressed by name. hospital. Shaare Zedek staffers feature photos of themselves on sounded a long solemn beep, Gemara had spent 10 years their protective suits. and the doctors raced to don in an oncology ward where wrapped a body? 100 times? Even’s body, her eyes stung their gear and care for him. most of the patients are at 200 times?” she said. with tears. He reminded atypical holiness. But holiness the responsibility felt heavy, Gemara watched Even gasp the severe stage 4 and ap- But wrapping a body in a Gemara of her grandparents, nonetheless. unyielding. and wheeze his last breaths on proximately 30 percent are special bag and cleaning it Saba Dov, 96, and Savta When she was done, she Fortunately the rate of in- the screen as his grip on life terminal. She had invested to avert endangering those Miriam, 90. Like Even, they replicated a custom of the coming patients has slowed. slackened. She felt the tears emotionally in making their with whom it would come were Holocaust survivors burial society: appealing to With cautious optimism, stream from her eyes. Two end-of-life meaningful and into contact until burial? That from Hungary and spoke with the body for forgiveness if Shaare Zedek closed Keter patients in the isolated coro- caring for them when they was a first. the same accent. any distress was caused in Hey on April 23 and Keter Bet navirus ward raced to Even’s passed on. Even more piercing was “He was familiar,” she re- the preparation. Inaudibly on April 26. Keter Alef shut- bedside, placed their hands By nature, Gemara gravi- the knowledge that she’d be membered recently, her voice and with reverence, she tered on April 30. Things were on his eyes and recited the tated to the demanding. the last one to identify and shaking with emotion. whispered: starting to open up. Shema, the Jewish declaration Right out of nursing school, care for him. That, too, was Even had escaped the Nazis “Arie, I’m sorry for how we But the ache of losing Even of faith. Even had passed away. she had advocated to work in uncharted territory. by hiding with his mother were required to handle your lingered. Gemara understood that oncology. That same drive On that Friday in March, and brother in a countryside body. We did our best to pre- Then it was bookended by she and the other nurse on call prompted her to volunteer for Gemara slipped out of the basement, helped by the serve your dignity and respect hope. would have the inauspicious the not-yet-formulated unit hospital into the parking renowned Swedish diplomat you in the current circum- On the evening of April 23, a responsibility of being the first for coronavirus patients in late lot and stepped into a white Raoul Wallenberg. Even had stances... It was a tremendous tall man with glasses knocked ones in Israel to wrap the body February, as a text circulated hazmat suit, then zipped it survived multiple heart at- honor to care for you in your his glove-covered hand on the of someone who died of the in the hospital calling for staff up. She pulled her long hair tacks and surgeries, even fled final days. You’ve touched nurse’s station. Gemara’s face virus over fears of contagion. members to sign up. into a ponytail, put on an a cholera epidemic in Spain. my heart, the staff, and the beamed. It was her patient, ad- Because the resilient patho- Gemara’s knack for com- N95 mask, two sets of blue He had four grandchildren patients that surrounded you. mitted three weeks prior with gen remains in a decedent passionate care meant that sanitized gloves, face shield and 18 grandchildren. A I know your life will inspire severe respiratory distress, too and could be expelled in bodily she instinctively knew what and hood, and slipped booties great-grandchild was born. the rest of ‘Am Yisrael’ [the weak to get out of bed. fluid when the body is moved, to do when a patient passed over pink Nikes. Cuffs secured. He had lost his wife of 50 Jewish people] as well. Go to The 51-year-old with no this involved implementing a away. She also had consider- It took 10 minutes to don years, Yona, in 2012. your resting place in peace. prior medical conditions had protective protocol drafted by able experience with patients the protective gear. Then she When Even had teetered in Look out for us from above.” stopped breathing on her the Israeli Ministry of Health postmortem. buzzed into the unit. to the hospital on his weath- The following evening, watch. As she revisited that just eight days earlier. “How many times had I As she started to care for ered brown cane five days Even was buried by members night, her voice caught. earlier, his skin pale and hair of the chevra kadisha wearing “At 2 a.m. I was inside the matted, he was short of breath, biohazard suits, with only his unit, in full protective gear, chest rising. His eyes took in youngest child able to attend. the rest of the staff far away QUALITY & VALUE the room grimly. Jewish end-of-life rituals had in the headquarters,” Gemara On Monday, Even had asked to be secondary to safeguard- recalled. “He asked me to help Gemara to help him call his ing the living. him out of bed, and as I slowly family members to say good- As the pandemic continues, helped him sit down, he sud- YOU CAN bye. By Friday night, he was so does grappling with end- denly slumped his head, his rapidly deteriorating. of-life customs and practices. eyes rolled back and he com- That evening was Gemara’s Tahara was suspended, then pletely lost consciousness. seventh day in the unit, permitted. “I was alone and terrified. TRUST her fifth shift there. On the The coronavirus has His life was in my hands, and GUARANTEED! corona-compressed calendar, blurred other kinds of lines: every second counted. I leaped time seemed to stretch and Patients care for other pa- to grab a 100-percent oxygen contract. tients in a closed-off ward facemask from the crash cart Gemara is a Modern Or- while medical staff observes and connected him immedi- thodox Jew, the daughter of from afar. Doctors and nurses ately to the maximum amount THE BUTCHER’S BUNDLE + 4 MORE a rabbi. Born in Israel, she are suited head to toe, their of oxygen. Thank heavens he 4 (5 oz.) 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