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by RACHEL SHERMAN Clapping hands emojis, mil- lennial pink table runners, and glittered Shabbat candles fill a colorful grid on Modern Ritual, the Jewish educational Insta- gram page run by rabbis Rena Singer and Samantha Frank. Rena and Samantha, “Sam,” are challenging stereotypes If you live in the land of Is- the Reform movement, which and calming anxieties around rael, Shavuot is a one-day hol- keeps only one). That’s not just coronavirus along the way. iday. Everywhere else it’s cele- Shavuot, either. When the two rabbinical school brated for two days (except by (Shavuot — Page 12) friends started the account in 2017, they had no idea that they were inadvertently preparing Researchers Find for prayer during a pandemic. (@Modern_Ritual/Instagram) After three years of develop- ing a virtual presence, the duo now well-equipped to meet the school at the Hebrew Union Existing Drug Effective — who named their platform new need for virtual spiritual College Jewish Institute of Re- “Modern Ritual” for accessi- support. ligion in New York City when Against Coronavirus ble traditions of Judaism — is The two were in graduate (Accessible — Page 7) US to End Waivers Allowing Foreign Firms to Work at Iranian Nuclear Sites

by JACKSON RICHMAN (JNS) — The Trump adminis- tration announced that it would end waivers that have allowed Russian, Chinese and Europe- an companies to continuously operate at Iranian nuclear facil- ities, ending the last vestiges of sanctions relief under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Lab technicians test for coronavirus. (Reuters) “The Iranian regime has con- tinued its nuclear brinkman- Scientists at the Israel In- the COVID-19 coronavirus ship by expanding proliferation stitute for Biological Research and could potentially protect sensitive activities,” U.S. Secre- (IIBR) have discovered that two against other viruses. tary of State Mike Pompeo said drugs designed to treat Gaucher Gaucher disease is the result in a statement on Wednesday. disease are effective against (Drug — Page 6) Pompeo accused Iran of The Arak nuclear plant, an Iranian 40-megawatt (thermal) heavy-water re- (Waivers — Page 6) actor. (Wikimedia Commons) HIAS and ZOA Trade Tech Giants Tell Jerusalem Day Narrative of Charges as Conference of The Capital’s Thriving Startup Ecosystem

Presidents Battle Escalates BY ELIANA RUDEE (JNS) — Long focused on act- simply HIAS), the Zionist Or- (JNS) — Despite limitations ing as the unified voice to the ganization of America (ZOA) on the typical Jerusalem Day American Jewish community, and the Committee for Accu- parades and festivities in the the Conference of Presidents of racy in Middle East Reporting face of the coronavirus out- Major American Jewish Organi- and Analysis (CAMERA). In break this year, the capital of zations is facing its biggest test a May 14 letter addressed to Israel will enjoy livestreamed yet amid an escalating dispute Conference of Presidents chair concerts, prayer services broad- among several longtime mem- Arthur Stark, HIAS issued a for- casted from the Western Wall ber organizations stemming mal complaint against ZOA and and many other web-based fes- from the selection of Dianne CAMERA for alleged violations tivities that commemorate the Lob as its next chairperson. of civil discourse. reunification of Jerusalem after The main actors are HIAS HIAS’s complaint stems from the Six-Day-War in 1967. (formerly the “Hebrew Immi- opposition by ZOA, CAMERA But in addition to the (mostly) grant Aid Society,” and now (Charges — Page 4) (Tech Giants — Page 8) Aerial view of Jerusalem on Dec. 17, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90) Bauman’s Farm Market • Size • Date • Designer Fax/Email: -

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by ELIANA RUDEE “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops(JNS )the — Onclock the to occasion save time.” of Je- rusalem Day — celebrated from May 21-22, and just weeks ahead of Israel’s proposed application of sovereignty in Judea and Sa- maria — Israel’s Christian allies took the opportunity to voice their support for a united capi- tal of Jerusalem and for Israel’s sovereignty in the Jewish state. In honor of the holiday, chair- men from Israel Allies Caucuses and ministers in Latin America Thousands of Christian evangelists wave their national flag alongside the from Uruguay, Colombia, Gua- Israeli one as they march in a parade in the center of Jerusalem, marking temala, Argentina and Surinam, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the Feast of the Tabernacles. Oct. 1, 2015. (Nati sent a congratulatory letter to Shohat/Flash90) Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, which read: “On Jerusalem Day, continue to work in our respec- Knesset Christian Allies Cau- we will celebrate not only the tive parliaments to strengthen cus, where he has developed determination of the Jewish peo- the ties between Israel and Eu- faith-based diplomacy that has ple to live in the eternal capital rope,” it read. turned into real, pro-Israel po- of Israel, but also the shared Josh Reinstein, president of litical action around the world, Judeo-Christian values that have the Israel Allies Foundation, Reinstein said that he has seen sealed the historic relations be- expressed his appreciation overwhelming support for Is- tween Latin America and Israel for the leadership of the cau- raeli sovereignty in the Jewish since November 1947, when 13 cus chairmen. “During these state among religious Christians of the then 20 Latin American times of closed borders and so- and evangelicals all around the countries voted in favor of the cial distancing, it is especial- world. creation of the State of Israel ly heart-warming to hear from “They believe in the Bible, and at the United Nations General the leadership of our caucuses that the covenant between God Assembly.” around the world regarding their and Abraham is everlasting,” European parliament members love and support for our unit- he told JNS. “They stand with and their Israel Allies Caucus ed capital Jerusalem. Notwith- modern State of Israel, where chairmen also signed a similar standing the physical distance they see the fulfillment of bibli- letter, which included a pledge between us, we will still work cal prophecy, ingathering of the to continue working to support as one to strengthen support for exiles, a barren land blooming Israel. “As legislators and mem- Israel through faith-based diplo- from desert and the nation be- bers from different European macy so that next Jerusalem Day coming a light unto the nation parliaments, we want to thank many of their capitals will be in through technology,” he con- the State of Israel for their in- Jerusalem,” he said. tinued. “Supporting the Jewish creasing cooperation, trade and Through his work with the people in the land of Israel is approach to the region. We will Israel Allies Foundation and the (Allies — Page 10) THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 3

The News in Brief … Ilhan Omar: Israel Has Too Much Influence on Trump Administration Israel, “which we ‘vanquished’ quires all of us to sit on their partners such as Israel make and ‘defeated,’ and which is own and contemplate how we discriminatory decisions on the ‘terrified’ and ‘confused,’ got here, and how we can get basis of national origin that ‘scared’ and so on and so forth, back to being what we were.” impair those companies’ com- this figure is $3,600 per month. People like Aoun and Hezbol- mercial soundness,” states the Ten times more.” lah leader Hassan Nasrallah, he measure. The Lebanese journalist concluded, “definitely do not Jewish and pro-Israel organi- continued: “I still haven’t told have the answer.” zations, including the American you that yesterday Israel regis- Jewish Committee and Stand- tered eight coronavirus-related Oklahoma Becomes WithUs, applauded the new law. patents.” 30th State to Enact “Thank you @GovStitt and While it’s true that Israel gets Anti-BDS Law the entire Oklahoma legislature international support, said Ko- for making Oklahoma the 29th teich, “We used to get interna- (JNS) — Oklahoma has be- state to take action against the tional support as well. We used come the 30th state to enact a discriminatory BDS movement. to be a respected country.” measure to combat the anti-Is- [Oklahoma state Rep. Mark Mc- US Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) hold a news conference In response to the interview- rael BDS movement. Bride] led the effort which pre- after Democrats in the US Congress moved to formally condemn President er’s interjection that “people The Oklahoma House passed vents the state from contracting Donald Trump’s attacks on four minority congresswomen on Capitol Hill in won’t like it that you talk about the bill, 75-20, back in March. with companies that boycott Washington. (ERIN SCOTT/REUTERS) [Israel] as a state. It is not a Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, goods from Israel. BDSFail,” state. It is a plundering entity,” signed it into law on May 22. tweeted the Jewish Federations by MARCY OSTER Lebanese President Koteich was dismissive, say- It declares that Israel is one of of North America. Rep. Ilhan Omar likened ing, “[Those people] never like Oklahoma’s largest trading part- “We welcome Oklahoma Gov- Saudi Arabia’s influence on the Aoun, Hezbollah anything.” ner and is a staunch U.S. ally and ernor Kevin Stitt’s signing of Trump administration to Is- ‘Not the Answer,’ “Israel has important shows it prohibits the state government legislation that prohibits Okla- rael’s, saying both countries says Lebanese on Netflix,” said Koteich. “This from entering into contracts with homa from contracting with relied in part on money to bring Journalist is soft power. We are talking entities that boycott the Jewish companies that boycott Israel,” about their preferred outcomes. about a scientific power, an eco- state, exempting contracts under said the Conference of Presi- An interview with the Lon- (MEMRI) — Since the 1960s, nomic power, a cultural power $100,000. The new law requires dents of Major American Jewish don-based Sunday Times ahead Israel has become a region- and a military power.” the contractor to submit written Organizations in a statement. of the publication of her book al powerhouse, while Leba- In the 1960s, said Koteich, verification that it is not partak- “We look forward to the re- “This Is What America Looks non has regressed to the point “Israel used to be a silly little ing in the boycott. maining states rejecting the Like: My Journey from Refugee where it is no longer a respect- country, and we were a respect- “Companies that refuse to pernicious BDS campaign in the to Congresswoman” was likely ed country, Lebanese journalist ed country. This regression re- deal with United States trade days ahead.” b to fuel tensions between Omar, and political analyst Nadim a Minnesota Democrat, and Koteich in a recent interview. supporters of Israel. “Aounism [support for Leb- “We know the amount of anese President Michel Aoun] money and influence and con- is not a political phenomenon, nection that the Saudis have it’s a disease. There is a mental with the administration is re- illness called Aounism in Leb- ally the reason that everything anon,” Koteich told Lebanon’s destructive they do is nullified,” LBC TV on Saturday. she told the newspaper. “And The only important criterion that really is no different to by which to judge the country’s what’s happening with Israel.” performance, he continued, was The story said that Omar’s the individual citizen’s share in “new approach is to pivot to the economy. Saudi Arabia so she isn’t sin- “The Lebanese citizen’s share gling out the Jews.” is $360,” said Koteich, while in Lebanese journalist Nadim Koteich. (MEMRI) Oklahoma state capitol. (Wikimedia Commons) “There’s an alarming con- nection to the really destruc- tive policies Israel is proposing and how much of it is being rubber stamped by this admin- Now friends and family around the globe istration,” she said. “And how much of it is being urged by Americans who have connec- can be part of a loved one’s service. tion and influence with this Brighton Memorial Chapel offers live funeral broadcasting administration.” Omar apologized last year for services that take place within our chapel. for a tweet in which she said “It’s all about the Benjamins All at NO CHARGE. baby,” referring to the pro-Israel lobby’s influence on lawmak- ers. Critics from both parties accused her of indulging an anti-Semitic trope that Jews buy influence. 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Page 4 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 6-Year-Old on Stroll Discovers Rare Canaanite Artifact (JNS) — An Israeli 6-year-old of honor made to commemo- dominance in the south of the out on a hike with his family rate a Canaanite battle victory country during the Canaanite before the coronavirus lock- some time in the Late Bronze period,” the Israel Antiquities down in March is credited with Age between the 12th and 15th Authority said in a statement. discovering a very rare artifact centuries BCE. According to archaeologists, attributed to the Canaanites According to archaeologists, Tel Gama may be the site of 3,500 years ago. the item comes from a period the Canaanite city of Yurza, Imri Elya was walking with in which the Egyptians ruled a mentioned in ancient Egyptian his family at at the archaeolog- Canaan divided into city-states letters and annals as the south- icalZwas site • 2x1 Tel • 020211 Gama •of DS Kibbutz governed by local kings which ernmost edge of Canaan. Re’emim near the Gaza border periodically had internal wars As a reward for finding the when he found a square clay and power conflicts. item, Imri was presented with impression of a man who ap- In investigating it, research- a certificate of good citizenship peared to be held captive by ers compared it to similar and was photographed with the The tablet discovered in March that shows a Canaanite captor controlling a another man, according to an artifacts, the most similar small tablet. b Canaanite captive. (Israel Antiquities Authority) Israeli Antiquities Authority of which was discovered in press release on Monday. 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They had pointed well-being,” wrote Katzen. zation “whose primary purpose out that HIAS has collaborated Founded in 1881 as the He- is to serve the interests of the with anti-Israel organizations brew Immigrant Aid Society, American Jewish community.” J Street and IfNotNow, and the organization played a vital ZOA claims that HIAS activities supported noted anti-Semite role throughout the 20th cen- “do not serve the Jewish com- PITTSFORD Linda Sarsour; clashed with tury in providing services for munity and conflict with the VILLAGE the Trump administration over Jewish refugees to settle in the Conference’s mission.” recent immigration policies; United States and elsewhere, Among the arguments ZOA ESTATES and might well not even be particularly after World War II makes include the fact that less permitted membership status in and the Holocaust. However, in than 1 percent of HIAS clients the Conference umbrella orga- recent decades with shrinking are Jewish; the organization Pittsford Village Estates features an attractive entrance on nization since their work with numbers of Jewish refugees, the has defended Sarsour; promotes popular Monroe Avenue. Colonial Parkway winds through a Jewish refugees had essentially organization rebranded itself as and praises “anti-Semite, Is- beautiful park-like atmosphere to French Road. dried up, with HIAS’s primary HIAS and shifted its focus “to rael opponent and terrorist The buildings, each of colonial design in perfect keeping with mission having shifted to help- protect and assist refugees of all sympathizer Rep. Ilhan Omar traditional Pittsford, are widely spaced in the quiet countryside ing refugees from Muslim and faiths and ethnicities.” (D-Minn.); and collaborates of this exclusive residential area. Every apartment enjoys a other countries. The Conference of Presidents, with the “Israel-hating, pro-BDS scenic view, and offers comfort and spaciousness with all modern conveniences. Going further, HIAS claimed established in 1955 to provide a and Hamas-affiliated CAIR,” that the Jewish News Syndicate unified voice for the American and the “terrorism-affiliated” The relaxation and graciousness of country living is everywhere apparent, yet the area is only a few minutes from the Village of (JNS), under publisher Josh Kat- Jewish community, works to Islamic Relief USA. Pittsford and the expressway to downtown Rochester, and is within zen (who also serves as exec- serve as a liaison to the U.S. Additionally, ZOA claims easy walking distance from Pittsford Plaza. utive chairman of CAMERA), president and executive branch. HIAS is opposed to cutting Your inspection is invited. has published “over 18 extreme- Its mission is “to strengthen funding to the United Nations For your added convenience, the ly negative articles about HIAS” all aspects of the U.S.-Israel Relief and Works Agency for Rental Agent is located at #3 Colonial Parkway. that have “echoed the false and relationship and to protect and Palestine Refugees (UNRWA); PITTSFORD VILLAGE ESTATES anti-Muslim claims in the ZOA/ enhance the security and digni- promotes U.N. interests over 18 Colonial Parkway • 381-3520 CAMERA campaign against ty of Jews at home and abroad.” those of the United States, Jew- Managed by the I Gordon Corporation • 546-8111 HIAS.” Removal of HIAS from the ish and Israeli interests; and “HIAS wishes to emphasize Conference “advocates and litigates to bring that the enclosed complaint In response, ZOA has issued more non-Jewish (largely Mus- FOUNDED 1924 alleges statements that were not counter-complaint alleging that lim) refugees into the U.S. from merely ‘offensive,’ but were part HIAS’s has engaged in “severe areas With anti-Semitic atti- THE JEWISH LEDGER of a vicious and public smear violations” of the Conference tudes, who are not vetted for ISSN 002165 Albert Klineman, Publisher 1924-1930 • Joseph H. Biben, Publisher 1930-1953 campaign against HIAS seek- civil-discourse statement that anti-Semitism.” Donald Wolin, Publisher, 1953-1986 ing to discredit its existence “seriously endanger ZOA and “HIAS’s actions conflict with BARBARA MORGENSTERN, Publisher and Executive Editor and its lay and professional (ZOA President) (Mort) Klein the COP’s mission, and HIAS Published weekly by The Jewish Ledger, leadership.” by, among many other things, no longer meets COP’s mem- 2535 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623 • Phone: (585) 427-2468 JNS is not a member of the calling ZOA/Klein xenophobes, bership requirement,” said the Conference of Presidents, and racists, bigots and Islamo- ZOA. “The man who stops advertisingPeriodicals toPostage save Paid moneyat Rochester, is New like York the man who stops the clock to save time.” Subscription Rate: Within Monroe County $40 per year CAMERA has no ownership or phobes, and likening ZOA/ The leadership of the Confer- Outside Monroe County/Seasonal $42 per year control over JNS. Klein to a white supremacist ence did not respond to mul- Deadline for all copy is Monday noon – prior to the Thursday publication All comments welcome. Visit us at thejewishledger.com “JNS completely rejects any synagogue shooter.” tiple requests for comment on VOL. XCVII, NO. 50 • ROCHESTER, N.Y. • MAY, 28, 2020 • SIVAN 5, 5780 attempt to restrain its exercise Additionally, ZOA also said the ongoing dispute within the of each and every freedom that they are seeking the re- organization. b “The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.” THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 5 One in Five English People Believe COVID Is a Jewish Conspiracy – Survey by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS they “couldn’t say for sure” or and ROSSELLA TERCATIN “didn’t know.” One in five English people be- Moreover, at the beginning lieve that Jews created COVID- of April, the Community Secu- 19 to collapse the economy for rity Trust, an organization that financial gain, a newly-released works to ensure the physical study by a team of researchers protection of British Jews and at the University of Oxford has monitors anti-Semitic episodes revealed. and discourse, produced a re- The finding came as part of port dedicated to “Coronavirus a wider survey in attitudes to- and the plague of anti-Semi- ward the virus and the mea- tism,” featuring several exam- sures taken to prevent its ples of threats or accusations spread, which found that there People wearing masks walk past the against Jews related to the was a strong undercurrent of Bank of England. (Reuters) pandemic that have appeared mistrust over official advice on online. the virus within the public. that they have coronavirus,” “The findings [of our study] see “Increasingly as the lock- and that politicians, for exam- are truly concerning. Rates of down has gone on the signs of ple the British Prime Minis- coronavirus conspiracy beliefs conspiracy beliefs forming has ter Boris Johnson, “have faked were higher than we anticipat- become greater,” study leader having coronavirus.” Nearly ed. Only half of the population Daniel Freeman told The Jeru- half (45.4 percent) believed to appear completely unaffected salem Post. “In the UK there some extent that “coronavirus by such ideas. Highly disturb- what has even been the setting fire is a bio-weapon developed by ing ideas were endorsed by a of mobile phone masks linked China to destroy the West.” significant minority,” Freeman to a particular coronavirus con- “The conspiracy beliefs var- told the Post. spiracy belief. We were most ied hugely in content, often “It looks like a fracture in interested to see if the conspir- contradicting each other, but if society is exposed, just as we acy beliefs led to people disre- a person believed one idea they need a collective response to garding the important public were more likely to endorse combat the virus. The coronavi- you’ve health measures to reduce the others,” Freeman highlight- rus conspiracy theories appear epidemic.” ed. “If a person blamed Jews, to have built on long-stand- A professor of Clinical Psy- they were also more likely to ing prejudices and distorted chology at Oxford, Freeman is blame Muslims, Bill Gates and ideas. Mistrust appears to have also a consultant clinical psy- pharmaceutical companies too. gone mainstream,” the profes- chologist at the Oxford Health What we are observing is most sor added, highlighting that been NHS Foundation Trust. likely a conspiracy mentality: the fact that conspiracy ideas, The Oxford Coronavirus Ex- a way of seeing the world that including those about Jews, planations, Attitudes, and Nar- is marked by antipathy to of- were most likely to be held by ratives Survey (OCEANS), was ficial or mainstream accounts young people, which is also a published in the journal Psy- or to those in higher status worrisome element. chological Medicine on Friday. positions.” The scientists will conduct It surveyed 2,500 adults who The researchers also found further research on the topic. missing! were representative of the En- that those who endorse con- “We are planning to take glish population according to spiracy theories also reported a this work forward, in particu- age, gender, region and income, lower adherence to the author- lar finding out the best ways Here’s your chance to receive on their attitudes toward the ities’ guidelines to contain the to reduce the coronavirus con- government narrative on coro- virus outbreak. spiracy beliefs and make ac- navirus and related conspiracy Regarding their demographic curate information more ef- theories between May 4 and features, they tended to be as- fective,” Freeman concluded. May 11. sociated with “higher levels of “That needs to be against a As explained in the paper, the religiosity” and a “slightly more wider backdrop of building up Weekly aSince 1924 respondents were asked to what right wing political orienta- trust again in our important extent they agreed with 48 con- tion,” as explained in the paper. institutions and reducing the spiracy statements. Covering “Coronavirus conspiracy be- sense for too many people that 52 Weeks A Year topics such as general conspir- liefs are more likely to be held they are in the margins. 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Rd. percent “agreed moderately,” most of their information about Every situation like the corona Rochester, NY 14623 4.6 percent “agreed a lot,” and coronavirus from the BBC had pandemic reinforces antisemites 2.4 percent “agreed completely,” lower levels of coronavirus in their basic view that Jews are while some 80.8 percent did not conspiracy thinking. Conspir- guilty of all the troubles in the NAME______agree with it at all. acy beliefs were more likely world. Therefore, I’m not sur- Similar figures were recorded in those who obtained their prised that with the outbreak, for conspiracy theories involv- coronavirus information from anti-Semitism is growing.” ADDRESS______ing other groups: while 80.1 friends, social media and You- “The Jewish community in percent of respondents did not Tube,” he added. Britain, and in all Europe, needs CITY, STATE, ZIP______agree with the statement “Mus- The survey comes shortly to understand that antisemitism lims are spreading the virus as after NGO Hope Not Hate pub- will only intensify as a result of an attack on Western values,” lished a similar survey of their the deep demographic change PHONE______19.9 percent did to some ex- own, conducted between Feb- that the continent is undergo- tent, including 2.4 percent who ruary and April 2020, which ing. Therefore, they must real- agreed completely. found that 13 percent of Brit- ize that the only viable and safe Or Pay By Credit Card. Call 427-2468. More than a quarter of re- ons believe that Jews have alternative is to immigrate to spondents thought that “ce- “undue control of banks,” while Israel,” he added. b lebrities are being paid to say a substantial 38 percent said © The Jerusalem Post TheJewishLedger.com Page 6 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 Israeli Cyber Chief: Drug (Continued from Page 1)

Major Attack on Water of a buildup of certain fatty both drugs led to a significant yield similar results. substances in certain organs, reduction in the replication ca- If successful, the treatment Systems Thwarted particularly the spleen and liver pacity of the coronavirus and to could be readily obtainable causing organs to enlarge and the destruction of the infected since analogs of the specific (AP) — Israel’s national cyber can affect their function. cell. The decrease in virus rep- compounds tested have already chief Thursday officially ac- Scientists tested an analog of lication prevents further cell been studied clinically and can knowledged the country had the FDA-approved drug Cerdel- damage following infection.” be fast-tracked for public use. thwarted a major cyberattack ga, and an analog of a second Researchers noted that the The IIBR has been leading last month against its water sys- drug, Venglustat, which is cur- drugs were found to be effective Israeli efforts to develop a treat- tems, an assault widely attribut- rently in the advanced stage of against different virus strains, ment and vaccine for the coro- ed to arch-enemy Iran, calling it clinical trials, according to a including influenza and West navirus, including isolating a a “synchronized and organized statement released by the De- Nile fever. key coronavirus antibody in attack” aimed at disrupting key fense Ministry. Scientists were testing the blood taken from those who national infrastructure. The study by the IIBR found drugs on animals infected with recovered from the virus. b Follow Ynetnews on Facebook that “antiviral treatment using COVID-19 to see if they will © i24NEWS and Twitter Yigal Unna did not mention Iran directly, nor did he com- Waivers (Continued from Page 1) ment on the alleged Israeli re- Israel’s national Cyber Chief Yigal taliation two weeks later said Unna. (Chen Galili) “nuclear extortion” and said end the JCPOA-connected waiv- and that the facility can’t “be to have shut down a key Ira- that sanctions “will lead to in- ers. That is an important step decommissioned overnight.” nian port, but he said recent ed and no damage had been creased pressure on Iran and toward ending the Iran deal Robert Einhorn, who served developments have ushered in caused. But Unna’s comments further isolate the regime from once and for all and returning as the U.S. Department of State a new era of covert warfare, marked the first official detailed the international community.” the international standard to special adviser for nonprolif- ominously warning that “cyber account of what happened. Pompeo also announced ad- viewing Iran’s nuclear program eration and arms control in winter is coming.” “It is a part of some attack ditional sanctions on two of- in its reality. the Obama administration, told “Rapid is not something that over Israel and over the national ficials in Iran’s atomic energy “And that is an illicit program JNS in January that “revoking describes enough how fast and security of Israel and not for agency who are involved in the which continues to be rooted in remaining waivers would not how crazy and hectic things are financial benefit,” he said. “The development and product of a long-term ambition for nucle- mark the complete withdrawal moving forward in cyberspace attack happened but the damage centrifuges to enrich uranium. ar weapons and, therefore, the of the U.S. from the JCPOA. and I think we will remember was prevented and that is our The United States has con- idea that you would authorize The U.S. has already completely this last month and May 2020 goal and our mission. And now tinuously extended the civil- international support to legit- withdrawn. It no longer con- as a changing point in the his- we are in the middle of prepar- ian nuclear waivers under the imize that program is simply siders itself bound by any of its tory of modern cyber warfare,” ing for the next phase to come 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan outrageous particularly when commitments. he said in a video address to because it will come eventually.” of Action (JCPOA), commonly the [International Atomic En- “Sanctions against dealing CyberechLive Asia, a digital Iran hasn’t commented on known as the Iran nuclear deal, ergy Agency] is going to report with Iran’s nuclear organiza- international cyber conference. the attempted hacking and has since withdrawing from it in in the coming days about Iran’s tions are U.S. sanctions. In the “If the bad guys had succeed- played down the alleged repri- May 2018. The Trump adminis- continued breach of its safe- absence of sanctions waivers, ed in their plot we would now sal on May 9 against the Sha- tration has reimposed sanctions guards agreements by conceal- foreign entities (e.g., Chinese, be facing, in the middle of the hid Rajaee port. Mohammad lifted under it, along with en- ing nuclear material, nuclear Russian, British) cooperating Corona crisis, very big damage Rastad, head of Iran’s port and acting new financial penalties activities and nuclear sites like- with Iran’s nuclear organiza- to the civilian population and marine agency, told the semi- against the regime as part of ly connected to its past work on tions on JCPOA-mandated proj- a lack of water and even worse official ILNA news agency that what the administration has nuclear weapons.” ects (e.g., converting the Arak than that,” he added. the attack failed to infiltrate called a “maximum pressure” Regarding Bushehr, Gold- heavy water reactor) would Israel and Iran are bitter foes into the agency’s systems and campaign. berg explained that the facili- be subject to sanctions,” he The last extension, in March, ty “became active well before said. “So revoking remaining was again for another 60 days. the JCPOA. This is actually an waivers could put an end to The waivers would be re- issue that goes back decades those projects, which serve im- voked for the Arak heavy-wa- that the Bush administration portant nonproliferation goals, ter research reactor and the failed to address, and now is a and drive another nail into the Tehran Research Reactor, where reality inside Iran and is an ac- JCPOA’s coffin.” the fuel is provided by Russia, tive nuclear power plant, which Also on Wednesday, Pompeo which also removes the facili- means you have nonprolifer- announced U.S. sanctions ty’s spent fuel after it’s used in ation concerns to ensure that against Majid Agha’i and Amjad the reactor. someone is providing the fuel Sazgar, managing director of The waiver for the Bushehr nu- and taking back the fuel so the Atomic Energy Organiza- clear power plant will be extend- Iran can’t divert any of the tion of Iran, “for engaging or Shahid Rajaee Port, Iran. (Courtesy) ed for 90 days to “help ensure the spent fuel. attempting to engage in ac- safety of operations at the plant,” “You also have safety issues tivities that have materially who have engaged in years of only damaged “several private according to the memo. that if technical experts were to contributed to, or pose a risk covert battles that have includ- sector systems.” The agreement between Iran pull out, what you have is some of materially contributing to, ed high-tech hacking and cyber Israel has not officially com- and world powers has allowed sort of meltdown at the plant the proliferation of weapons of attacks. Most famously, U.S. mented on the attack against Tehran to continue its nuclear and then you have economic mass destruction.” and Israeli intelligence agencies Iran, but in an interview with program within certain limits issues for the market of urani- Agha’I, according to Pompeo, are suspected of unleashing a Israel’s Army Radio, Amos in exchange for lifting of eco- um because the United States “has also been centrally in- computer worm called Stuxnet Yadlin, a former head of mil- nomic sanctions. has a dependence on foreign volved in Iran’s uranium en- years ago in an attempt to dis- itary intelligence, said it was “The waivers are a casualty supplies of uranium, including richment centrifuge operations, rupt Iran’s nuclear program. significant. of the administration’s no-non- from Russia, threatening one and is a manager in the Atomic But Unna said the attempted “The attack displayed the sense approach toward inter- of the suppliers of U.S. nuclear Energy Organization of Iran hacking into Israel’s water sys- cyber ability of a world-pow- national legitimacy of Iran’s power plants complicates U.S. subsidiary responsible for re- tems marked the first time in er. It appears that this was a nuclear activities,” Andrea interests.” search and development of ad- modern history that “we can clear Israeli message to Iran, Stricker, a research fellow at Therefore, he continued, re- vanced centrifuges.” see something like this aiming don’t dare to touch civilian sys- the Foundation for Defense of garding the Bushehr plant, “we Finally, Pompeo said, “A to cause damage to real life and tems, the water and electricity Democracies, told JNS. “The need to have a policy discus- regime that just days ago in- not to IT or data.” systems in Israel, which were cancellation of three of the four sion on whether or not Iran voked ‘The Final Solution’ and Had Israel’s National Cyber attacked this past month. You, waivers foreshadows a likely should be allowed to retain a which regularly threatens to Directorate not detected the the Iranians, are more vulnera- U.S.-led effort to end the JCPOA working nuclear power plant in wipe Israel off the map must attack in real-time, he said chlo- ble than we are,” he said. at the UN Security Council and the future [and] whether that is never obtain a nuclear weapon. rine or other chemicals could Without discussing the attack restore international sanctions an acceptable end state.” The United States welcomes have been mixed into the water directly, Unna said the past against Iran’s nuclear program.” Goldberg added that Bushehr the international community’s source in the wrong propor- month marked a historic turn- Richard Goldberg, who served “was not in any way connected widespread condemnation of tions and resulted in a “harm- ing point in cyber warfare. as director for countering Iran’s to a nuclear-weapons capabil- the regime’s recent anti-Semitic ful and disastrous” outcome. “Cyber winter is coming and weapons of mass destruction at ity. It is, in fact, a light-water statements. The regime’s vile His office released a brief coming even faster than I sus- the White House National Secu- reactor. It is a nuclear power rhetoric only strengthens the statement after the attempt, ac- pected,” he said. “We are just rity Council under Trump, told plant that can produce nuclear international community’s re- knowledged it had been thwart- seeing the beginning.” b JNS that “It’s long overdue to energy for peaceful purposes” solve to counter its threats.” b THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 7 Stolen Hebrew, Persian Inscriptions Report: Israel Plans to Returned to Jewish Site in Iran Reject Chinese Bids to

by ALEX WINSTON Organization of Isfahan, Shah- near Falavarjan, is over 2,000 Set Up its 5G Network Two ancient Jewish inscrip- ram Amiri said Wednesday years old. tions that were stolen from that the two ancient stones The ancient cemetery of the (JNS) — Israel is likely to na’s CK Hutchison to take over the Esther Khatoon historical have both Hebrew and Persian Jews of Isfahan is situated reject Chinese bids for the Israel’s Partner Communica- complex in Iran have been inscriptions, IRNA reported. close to this complex and con- building of 5G networks in tions Company, according to a discovered and returned to the Amiri said that the Hebrew tains tombs inscribed from the the country, due to U.S. pres- report by Haaretz. Hutchison Jewish shrine, Iranian news inscription is around 1,000 2nd century AD. sure and because of security is waiting for the decision by agency IRNA reported. years old and the Persian one The major mausoleum reput- concerns, Israel’s Channel 12 Israel’s regulator. The discovery, in Falavar- is 400 years old. edly contains the tomb of the reported on Tuesday. Friedman’s message to the jan in the Isfahan Province, He added that the theft was biblical character of Serah, the This comes as U.S. Ambas- Israelis came on the same was carried out by Iranian originally reported last sum- daughter of Asher and grand- sador to Israel David Friedman day that the government an- police and the Cultural Heri- mer but the stolen items were daughter of Jacob. Jews have pressured Israeli Communica- nounced that Israeli compa- tage, Tourism and Handicraft only found 10 days ago. made pilgrimage to the ceme- tions Minister Yoaz Hendel, and ny IDE Technologies beat the Organization, an education The thieves had not moved tery for centuries. chairman of the Knesset For- Chinese firm for the tender to and research institution over- the items out of the province The discovery comes a few eign Affairs and Defense Com- build what is expected to be seeing numerous associated as they were waiting for a days after the Tomb of Esther mittee Zvi Hauser, in a meeting the world’s largest seawater museums and historical sites proper time to sell the ancient and Mordechai, one of the on Tuesday to block Chinese desalinization plant — worth throughout Iran. stones, IRNA quoted Amiri holiest Jewish sites in Iran, efforts to gain a foothold in Is- $1.5 billion — at Nahal Sorek, The head of the public rela- saying. was sabotaged by attempted rael’s 5G cellular network. near the Palmachim air base, tions office of Cultural Heri- The Esther Khatoon com- arson. b The government has to de- south of Tel Aviv. Graduation • Size • Date • Designer HOUSE tage, Handicrafts and Tourism plex, located in Pir Bakran, © The Jerusalem Post cide whether to allow the Chi- The United States has been nese to construct Israel’s 5G pressuring Israel to decrease network, and in another deal, Chinese investment in the Accessible (Continued from Page 1) whether or not to allow Chi- country. b

Rena had two realizations: 1) For Sam, the imagery is as day! So I dug it out and boiled There was a need for engaging, important to living Jewishly as it. Yay for zero waste shank beautiful Jewish content and the text. She draws inspiration bones!” one Instagram user 2) All of the pre-teens she men- from an often-overlooked part replied. tored in Hebrew school were of the Hebrew Bible, the Book Having a space to share ex- obsessed with Instagram. of Leviticus. periences of unconventional She recruited her bestie and “There’s a really intense, spe- workarounds normalized the classmate Sam, and Modern cific dedication to aesthetics ingenuity and breach of tra- Ritual was born. They run the throughout,” Sam, 30, tells me. dition many Jews were forced account in addition to their “Ideas around God include the into this year. The comments full-time professional rabbin- concepts of splendor and beauty on the page connect people ical roles. (Rena is the incom- and uphold those values along- who, under ordinary circum- ing rabbi at Temple Sholom in side our ability to exercise good stances, might not have ever Chicago; Sam is the Rabbinic judgment and to be compas- had a dialogue, like a 35-year- Fellow at Temple Micah in D.C.) sionate.” old Hasidic mother in Williams- The pair decided that a main For Modern Ritual, that beau- burg and a 28-year-old recent goal of the account would be to ty is celebrated through visual- convert in Prospect Heights. change common associations ly satisfying spirals of tefillin But perhaps one of the big- with Judaism. (phylacteries) and shiny egg- gest perks of being a Modern “When you Google image washed challahs. “We can take Ritual follower (other than the KNOW A the word ‘rabbi,’ you will get photos that represent Judaism, feeling of solidarity in craving 600 pictures of Orthodox men,” and then that can be the jump- carbs — did I mention the chal- Rena, 28, tells me over a group ing off point to a caption that’s lah pics?) is an awareness of GRADUATE? Google Hangout with Sam. “We similarly inspiring and inviting Shabbat. Working from home want thousands of people to us to consider inner beauty and can limit our sense of time. Honor Them In The Jewish Ledger see images of a young woman resonance,” Sam says. Days bleed into nights, week- wearing Jewish ritual objects And in a pandemic, the invi- days into weekends; there is no High School Graduates and feeling proud.” tation to reflect is all the more defined start or end to the day, The page, with 14,000 fol- crucial for spiritual nourish- but Shabbat helps mark the end University Graduates lowers, is achieving that kind ment. While most organiza- of the week. Advanced Degrees of reach. tions, businesses, and syna- “Shabbat reminds us that And though their initial tar- gogues have had to find their each day is not melding into Rabbinic Ordinations get audience was teenagers, footing in a transition to virtual the next, that time is actually Other Honors most of their followers are engagement, the two-woman passing in a meaningful way,” 25-34 years old, with almost show has continued to do what Sam says. 80% identifying as women, ac- they do best: provide pastoral It also offers an opportunity PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: cording to Instagram’s audience and emotional support. to rest, to forget about produc- Graduate’s Name • Parents’ Names demographic breakdown. For Rena and Sam, Passover tivity, and to unplug. Rena says she and Sam faced became a timely opportunity “SHABBAT SHALOM FROM Hometown • School/Degree • Honors criticism in the early days. to soothe people forced to have US TO YOU,” read one caption, Skeptics would reproach their their seders alone and ease the bookended by pink flower emo- Employment/School After Graduation online Jewish content. “Isn’t fears of those who were espe- jis. “What can you do tonight/ Please include a photo as well. that vapid, doesn’t that take cially disturbed by coronavirus’ tomorrow to make Shabbat feel away from the depth?” Rena disruption to tradition. a little different from the rest of THERE IS NO FEE says older Jewish adults would “There’s just been such an the week?” often ask. intensity to this time, and sad- And though the duo wants Email Your Announcements to But the account doesn’t just ness and grief,” Sam says. “As their viewers to be safe and share stunning photographs everyone’s Passover plans had informed, they hope Modern [email protected] of the two rabbis — each in a to change, I think people really Ritual posts bring joy and light- flowing tallis, or prayer shawl needed to be seen and heard in ness to a heavy and unrelenting — frolicking in the streets of their sadness and frustration.” news cycle. SoHo. To offer a sounding board “People are totally consumed

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Numbers 1:1-4:20 BY RABBI SHLOMO RISKIN Shavuot Chief Rabbi of the City of Efrat, and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions of Israel EFRAT, Israel — The Scroll of of Naomi is in Moab, and the leaves Bethlehem (literally the a Kinsman of Elimelekh. Boaz been given in Israel the Jews Ruth contains one of the most last three chapters describe the house of bread) with his wife seems to be attracted to this may have thought that the Gen- idyllic stories in the Bible, a tale happenings of the three month and sons to seek “greener pas- comely proselyte –stranger and tiles have no place in Torah. The of “autumnal love” between a period between the barley and tures” in the idolatrous Moab. As gives her his protection. Naomi truth is the very opposite: Rav widow (Ruth) and a widower wheat harvests. Why did the happened with Father Abraham, understands that participation in Shimon ben Elazar maintains (Boaz), within the backdrop of author give so much text space Diaspora proved far more dan- Jewish eternity means having a that in the future (Days of the diaspora inter-marriage, conver- to such a small span of times? gerous (Genesis 12:10-20), the child with Jewish parentage in Messiah) the Gentiles will all sion to Judaism, and the agricul- Secondly, the midrash (Ruth two sons, Mahlon (lit. sickness) Israel; she therefore instructs convert, and Maimonides, at the tural life in ancient Israel. The Rabbah) tells us that Ruth and and Kilion (lit. destruction) Ruth to wash and anoint her- very conclusion of his Mishneh Rabbinic Sages ordained that Naomi arrive in Bethlehem at marry Hittite wives — and since self, dress in special finery, visit Torah, rules that at the End of we read this Scroll on Shavuot, the precise time of the funeral of the children follow the religion the place on the threshing floor the Days “everyone will return the Festival of Weeks, the anni- Boaz’s wife, and that Boaz died of the mother, the Israelite line of where Boaz will be spending to the true religion”, which for versary of the Torah Revelation immediately after he impregnat- Elimelekh and Naomi — seems the night at the height of the him was certainly Judaism. The at Sinai and the celebration of ed Ruth; that is how the Rabbin- to have ended! The father and harvest season, and lie down at truth is that to a partial extent the first fruits brought to the ic Sages account for the fact that his sons all die in Moab — their his feet. She also warns Ruth not the issue is in dispute between Temple in Jerusalem. And since Boaz is not mentioned in the last earlier spiritual demise express- to reveal who she is (Ruth 3:3,4). two Prophets, Isaiah (chapter 2) Shavuot is the climatic zenith of verses of the Scroll (Ruth 4:14- ing itself physically; fortunately In effect, she is suggesting that maintaining that all the nations Passover, the development of a 22), which specifically deal with one daughter-in-law clings to her Ruth tempt Boaz as Tamar had will rush to our Jerusalem Tem- newly-freed group of slaves in the birth of Oved, son to Boaz mother-in-law Naomi, converts tempted Boaz’s forbear Judah ple, declaring “Let us learn from the Sinai desert into a Torah-im- and Ruth as well as father to to Judaism (“Where you will generations earlier — and at the Jewish ways, let us walk in bued nation firmly ensconced Jesse. Why do the Sages see fit go” — to Israel — “there shall I least enter Jewish history by the Jewish paths, for from Zion in their own homeland of Israel, to sandwich these joyous verses go, where you will lodge, there bearing his child (see Genesis, will go forth Torah and the word the reasons for this special read- recounting such a significant shall I lodge,” — maintaining chapter 38). of G–d from Jerusalem” (to the ing are many: Boaz and Ruth love story between two seem- the same sexual purity as you Ruth senses that Boaz loves entire world), while the Proph- are the great — grandparents of ingly tragic deaths — without — “Your people shall be my peo- her — and so she holds out for et Micha quotes Isaiah’s words David, the Psalm-singing mili- the text itself mentioning those ple, your G-d my G-d” — Ruth higher stakes than a mere “one almost verbatim, and then con- tary hero who united the tribes deaths explicitly or even hint- 1:16), and returns to Bethlehem. night stand.” She tells him ex- cluding, “each nation will walk of Israel and first envisioned the ing at a mournful mood? And Only now — in Israel — can actly who she is, and she asks in the Name of its (individual) Holy Temple in Jerusalem, Ruth finally, can we possibly glean eternal history begin, and so that he “redeem” her by mar- G–d and we will walk in the the Moabite is Jew-by-choice from between the lines of the the next three chapters, and the riage and by restoring to her name of the Living Lord our G–d whose commitment to Torah Scroll what precisely occurred next three months, are far more Elimelekh’s previously sold forever” — ethical absolutism Judaism makes her worthy of between Boaz and Ruth during significant than the previous homestead in Israel. Ruth under- (in accordance with the Torah being the great grand-mother the night they spent together on ten years, which had almost de- stands that true eternity means demands of ethical absolutism of the prototype of the eventu- the threshing floor. What did stroyed the family line. bearing a child on your own — compassionate righteousness, al Messiah-King, and the last her mother-in-law Naomi sug- The midrash tells us that piece of land in Israel — not in moral justice, universal peace) three chapters of the story takes gest that she do — and what did Boaz’s wife has died just as the sly, but as a respected wife and ritual pluralism! place between the beginning of she do in actuality? Naomi and Ruth return — and and householder. Boaz complies, I am ready to accept either the barley harvest (just before If Shavuot is truly the Festi- that Boaz will die three months and Oved, the grandfather of view, and according to everyone Passover) and the very end of val of Redemption — and re- later. But death in itself is not King David, is born. Ruth’s com- at least the Biblical ethic will the wheat harvest (not long after demption links humanity to the tragic for Judaism: after all, mitment to Torah — the land of reign supreme. And the truth is Shavuot). I would wish to ask Eternal G-d of all eternity — the every individual must die soon- Torah, the laws of Torah, the that G–d initially blessed Abra- three questions on the Scroll period which is eternally Sab- er or later. The only relevant loving-kindness of Torah, the ham with becoming a great na- of Ruth, the answer to which bath — then the Scroll of Ruth question is to what extent the modesty of Torah — catapults tion through whom all the fam- I believe will provide an extra must deal with the eternal rather individual, when alive, partici- this convert into the center stage ilies of the earth will be blessed dimension of our understanding that the temporal. Israel is the pates in Jewish eternity. Naomi of Jewish eternity. with peace and security (Gen as to why we read this particular eternal homeland of the Jewish sends Ruth to glean the forgotten And this for a very important 12:1-3) — the Gentiles will cer- Scroll on Shavuot, the festival people — and any diaspora ex- grain and harvest the produce in reason. According to the Mi- tainly adopt our ethical outlook! which serves as harbinger to perience can only be temporal the corner of the field — agricul- drash of R. Yishmael, the rea- This is the vision of Shavuot redemption. at best and destructive at worst. tural provision which the Torah son the Torah was given at Mt. and this is why we read about Firstly, from a narrative The first chapter opens with a provides for the poor Israelites. Sinai — a desert galut — and the Righteous Proselyte Ruth on perspective: the first chapter famine in Israel, and an import- Divine Providence sent Ruth to not on Mt. Moriah in Jerusa- Shavuot! b spans the ten years the family ant personage (Elimelekh) who Boaz’s field — and Boaz was lem, is because had the Torah Shabbat Shalom

Tech Giants (Continued from Page 1) traditional celebrations occur- solutions for modern-day chal- and NGOs, have helped the city strength lies in its diverse pop- Singer noted that at least 15 Jeru- ring from May 21-22 on Jerusa- lenges posed by COVID-19. evolve and become a magnet ulation, strong medical and salem-based companies directly lem Day, Wendy Singer, execu- “This is a lesser known part for entrepreneurial activity and academic institutions, and its related to “coronatech” have con- tive director of Start Up Nation of the Jerusalem story,” Singer cutting-edge innovation. output of computer-science grad- nected to companies and health- Central, believes that the Israeli told JNS. “High-tech used to be “Jerusalem’s tech sector has uates, international identity and care institutions around the holiday can be used as a day the lesser known part of the not only grown dramatically tourist-friendly nature. Most im- world. Medved added that he has to commend the city’s lesser Israel story, but that’s changed in the past eight years, but can portantly, he said, Jerusalem seen “a lot of funds” that used to known, but no less miraculous dramatically.” serve as a model for other cities combines both past and future, steer clear from digital health and story — the story of its thriving Still, when people think about as an emerging global tech hub,” acting as an anchor that creates preferring cyber, cloud and AI tech ecosystem, built from “ba- Jerusalem, said Singer, “they said Singer. She noted that the a fertile opportunity for creativ- “rising to the occasion.” sically nothing.” think of the seat of Israel’s gov- mayor of Tulsa, Okla., recent- ity and rootedness for entrepre- Until next Jerusalem Day, According to Start Up Nation ernment, conflict, history and ly spent two hours at Start Up neurs aiming to become a part Singer predicted “more steady Central, Jerusalem has seen a culture. Why not use Jerusalem Nation Central, asking “what of its history. growth in Jerusalem, a greater 102 percent growth in the num- Day, when there is a spotlight on happened here; how did this Israel’s largest tech exit in his- presence on the world stage, and ber of city-based tech companies city, to tell the story of how this city’s tech sector [emerge], and tory was Intel’s acquisition of taking the ‘magic dust’ from a since 2012, painting a picture vibrant and on-the-word-stage how can we bring that to Tulsa?” the Jerusalem-based company complicated city and sharing of a fast-growing technology tech ecosystem was built from Mobileye for $15 billion. This that with the world.” ecosystem that includes 405 nothing.” Combining Past year another Jerusalem compa- Medved, too, declared that companies, 22 exits and total Jerusalem’s fostering of this and Future, Acting ny, Lightricks, had a $1 billion “trends are very positive” in Je- investments worth $1.6 billion, ecosystem is no accident, em- as an Anchor valuation, pointed out both Sing- rusalem. “Look at the highways, of which $233.5 million are from phasized Singer. She maintained OurCrowd founder and CEO er and Medved. the building projects in the cen- the past year. In addition to the that “building blocks” such as Is- Jon Medved related that Jeru- The two, who have collabo- ter of city, the renewal, what’s impressive 166 percent increase rael’s demographic diversity and salem is so much “in the trend” rated together along with most going on in neighborhoods, and in the field of artificial intelli- inclusion — two values highly of global innovation that it has other institutions in Jerusalem’s the nightlife before the [coro- gence, the most prominent sec- cherished by technology compa- “moved into its rightful slot as Start Up ecosystem, voiced their navirus] crisis … we’ve really tor in the city’s tech landscape is nies — as well as a connectivity a major part of Israel’s, and onto shared belief that Jerusalem’s arrived as a major part of Israel’s biotech and life science, which between world-ranked academ- the world’s, tech scene.” tech scene may come out even tech scene. You can’t ignore it provides a range of innovative ic institutions, the government He agreed that Jerusalem’s stronger after the coronavirus. anymore. It’s here.” b  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 9 Kellyanne Conway Unleashes Trumpers on Twitter Integrity Czar Yoel Roth — Over New Fact Check Policy and His Own Tweets

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Analysis … As Post-Soviet Immigration Turns 30, What Conclusions Can Be Drawn? by AMOTZ ASA-EL ultra-Orthodoxy, and embracing ‘The times spat at me, so I spat the immigrants the way biblical back at the times,” said Russian Bethlehem embraced Ruth, the poet Andrei Voznesensky, who Moabite immigrant who, like so wrestled with Soviet censors by many of our own immigrants, reciting in packed stadiums his arrived here after marrying an lines of inspiration, defiance, Israelite, ready to endure the and hope. hardships of dislocation while Something of that two-way declaring wholeheartedly “your spitting happened with his for- people shall be my people, and mer countrymen’s journey to the your G–d my G–d.” Jewish state. The 30-year war within Israel The Russian-speaking immi- is between those who realize gration was spat on by the ul- reality’s complexities and those tra-Orthodox establishment that who deny them, and between awaited it here. An estimated those who possess historical one-third of the immigrants knowledge and those who refuse were children of Jewish moth- to obtain it. ers, as Jewish law demands. The fact is that hundreds of The rest were mostly wives, thousands of non-Jews and par- children or grandchildren of tial Jews have arrived here, and Jewish men, and thus non-Jews the fact is that they arrived here according to Jewish law, but Ruth in Boaz’s field. Conversion dilemmas are now a national affair, not a personal one. (Julius Schnorr Von as products of Jewish history’s eligible immigrants according Carolsfeld/Wikipedia) worst agonies, and also as part to Israeli law. of those agonies’ cure. The caus- The result was a typically this century mainstream Israel man and woman who are not chic term that means Jewish es, size, and suddenness of this Israeli absurdity, whereby the embraced the Russian-speaking related in a way that would con- lineage. The latter’s conversion groundswell are unprecedented largest immigration in Zionist immigration that ultra-Orthodox stitute incest. process, they argue, should be in Jewish history. history was pulled in by the rabbis harassed. Also on the civic front, former different. It follows, that Jewish law’s Israeli establishment’s one part, The second conclusion is justice minister Dr. Yossi Beilin Meanwhile, the Chief Rabbin- precedents are irrelevant for our and actively rejected by its other that the public’s embrace is not suggests that the Law of Return’s ate’s rigidity has produced alter- situation, because all the con- part, the Chief Rabbinate, which enough. acceptance of a Jew’s relatives native conversion forums, from version dilemmas rabbis tackled made conversion difficult and With hundreds of thousands be taken a step forward. Looking the IDF’s Military Conversion over the centuries were personal civil marriage impossible; and unable to legally marry here, to the post-Soviet immigration’s Court to the rabbinical courts affairs, while what we now face by ultra-Orthodox lawmakers, we have a problem on multiple children, the ones who were of Giyur K’Halacha (proper con- is a national affair; all of Jewish who derailed attempts to let levels: legally, it means civic born here, received Hebrew ed- version), an organization estab- law’s precedents, that is, except these Israelis marry here, or ease inequality; strategically, it hurts ucation and served in the IDF, lished by the late Rabbi Nachum one. their conversion process. the national interest, since this Beilin suggests that Israeli law Rabinovitch. It happened the morning after This weekend, while the population’s contribution to Is- should recognize that second Deploying the kind of inven- Rome destroyed Jerusalem. With Jewish people salutes biblical rael’s economy, defense and cul- generation as Jews. tiveness that the situation de- the Temple gone, gone was also convert Ruth, as it does every ture is priceless; and morally, While Beilin’s idea is secular, mands, this organization offers the ability to convert, because Shavuot, and as the post-Soviet the wholesale humiliation of there has been equally creative a special conversion track for Halacha required that the con- immigration turns 30 — three IDF veterans by the engineers of religious thinking about con- children. vert bring an offering to the conclusions beg to be drawn. draft dodging is appalling. version. Jewish law does not require Temple. Refusing to allow con- First, The Talmud was right The third conclusion is that Modern Orthodox rabbis like a converting child to declare version’s disappearance, and un- to rule that “a decree should the change all this begs must Shlomo Riskin and Haim Druck- that he or she will be an ob- derstanding the historic perma- not be imposed on the public if come from below, because the man say partially Jewish immi- servant Jew. That deprives ul- nence of the Temple’s absence, the public cannot abide by it” politicians who should deliver grants, as products of Jewish tra-Orthodoxy of its most potent Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakai ruled (Avoda Zara 36a). As has hap- it from above are too cowardly history’s tragedies, should un- ammunition, which is to hassle that conversion will take place pened repeatedly over the last to do what must be done. Fortu- dergo an easier conversion. converts with knowledge tests without the offering. two centuries, ultra-Orthodox nately, there is a lot happening Unlike ultra-Orthodox rabbis, of Orthodoxy’s numerous rules In other words, that reformist rabbis’ ignoring of reality has re- below, and it is what will shape who don’t care that a semi-Jew- and norms, and with vows to sage understood that the law sulted in reality ignoring them. the future. ish immigrant may be such be- observe them. must respect history’s transi- In the 19th century millions One idea, formulated by He- cause he is a product of Soviet Added up with the Rus- tions rather than deny them. Un- ignored rabbinical bans on im- brew University jurist Ruth Ga- and czarist anti-Semitism, these sian-speaking immigration’s fortunately, ultra-Orthodoxy and migration to America. In the vison and Rabbi Yaakov Medan, rabbis (Riskin et al.) distinguish social acceptance, the anti-Rab- the Rabbinate that it controls 20th century millions of Jews head of Yeshivat Har Etzion, is between converts without Jew- binate initiatives surrounding don’t understand this. Fortunate- built the state that ultra-Ortho- that Israel allow and register ish backgrounds and those who their conversion mean that ly, the rest of us do. b dox rabbis deemed profane. And marriages between any unwed are from “zera Yisrael,” a hala- mainstream Israel is overruling © The Jerusalem Post

Allies (Continued from Page 2) not just a political issue, but a many supporters causing their without Christian support Is- “Today, there is a new, pow- international law, as well as by biblical issue. They see this as a policies to become more pro-Is- rael wouldn’t have such a ro- erful phenomenon of an expan- virtue of their biblical heritage religious imperative.” rael — from the United States’ bust international standing. In sion of pro-Israel support to Latin here,” explained Parsons. “But The 1,000 members of par- Republican Party, to the Chris- America, we have Jewish and America, Asia and Africa,” said we respect Israel as a democ- liament in the caucus network tian bloc of African countries, Christian support — a stacked Parsons. racy, and whatever the Israeli span 42 countries, noted Rein- and to Brazil, whose President deck — but in places like the Ahead of Israel’s proposed ap- people ultimately decide on the stein, and are “strong” on is- Jair Bolsonaro is a staunchly Philippines, without Christians, plication of sovereignty of Judea annexation issue, we will stand sues about Jerusalem as Israel’s Bible-believing Christian, as are Israel wouldn’t have support.” and Samaria, Parsons noted that by them.” undivided capital; the reloca- a third of all Brazilians. “while there does seem to be a A “vast majority of Bible-be- tion of embassies to Jerusalem; “In Guatemala,” he added, ‘We Respect Israel lot of opposition to it, Israel has a lieving Christians,” he added, recognizing sovereignty in Isra- “the embassy was moved to as a Democracy’ lot of Christian Zionist allies who “especially those who have visit- el, including the Golan Heights; Jerusalem because of the Chris- David Parsons, vice president will support Israel’s decision.” ed Judea and Samaria, and have combating Iranian terror; and tian base of supporters who of the International Christian Em- “I believe we have a good read seen the real peace between Jews fighting BDS legislation and stand with Israel.” bassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) agreed, here in Jerusalem on how most and Arabs that live there, think other anti-Zionist movements. “Faith-based diplomacy is saying “Christian support for Is- evangelical Christian leaders it’s the right thing to do and are Bible-believing Christians all the most important weapon rael has been passed like a torch worldwide feel about this issue. anxiously waiting to see the area over the world, he said, are we have in our arsenal today,” among Western countries from They believe in Israel’s solid under Jewish control, as it is the among Israel’s most important emphasized Reinstein. “In one generation to the next since claim and right of sovereignty heartland of Israel as it has been diplomatic relationships, with areas with almost no Jews, Israel’s rebirth in 1948.” to their historic homeland under for 3,000 years.” b  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 11 Tikkun Leyl Shavuot to Help You Celebrate The Holiday — Wherever You Are by PAULA JACOBS community, the shift online 28th Pre-recorded segments This year, the Reform Move- ginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT. An often-overlooked spring means you can participate in will be available during the ment has come together to Moishe House — The holiday, Shavuot commemo- tikkunim around the country, week leading up to Shavuot create a variety of digital expe- first-ever Moishe House Global rates the moment when God mixing and matching classes for those who wish to learn riences — including discussion, Shavuot Festival will spread gave the Torah to the Jewish from rabbis, thinkers, writers, but not on the holiday. Classes music, prayer, and poetry — across continents, over a 25- people. For generations, Jews and performers. will be taught by leading rabbis designed to resonate with all hour period from Friday, May have celebrated with com- Wondering how to get start- from across the U.S., Canada, types of Torah learners and to 29 through Saturday, May 30. munal Torah study sessions, ed? Here are tikkunim you can and Latin America. Topics in- help the observance of Shavuot This event will feature interac- called “Tikkun Leyl Shavuot,” attend without leaving home. clude “The Torah of Stream- from home or with a congrega- tive programming and casual that last long into the night, Rabbinical Assembly — The ing,” “Coming out of Isolation: tion. This four-hour evening of TED Talks on topics such as often until dawn. Because of Conservative movement’s Rab- Lessons from the Solitude of online learning, music, prayer, “Jewish Sexuality and the Myth coronavirus, most tikkun- binical Assembly will host a Revelation,” and the “Secret and poetry with Reform rabbis, of a Judeo-Christian Sex Ethic” im are taking place virtually 12-hour livestreamed event for Meaning of the Adam and Eve cantors, and professors from and “What Podcasts Can Teach this year. Although you can’t coast to coast learning, starting Stor y.” Hebrew Union College will take Us About Jewish Values.” b gather with your synagogue 9pm EDT on Thursday, May Union of Reform Judaism — place on Thursday, May 28, be- © Forward, reprinted with authorization. Holiday Recipes

Citrus Salmon En Papillote Breakfast Cheesecake

2 tablespoons olive oil 1 pound farmer cheese 1 teaspoon fresh 1 1/2 cups sour cream tarragon, minced 1 8 oz container whipped 2 cloves garlic, minced cream cheese 1 teaspoon orange peel 6 eggs, separated 1 teaspoon lemon peel 1/4 cup orange juice 1 teaspoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar 1 tablespoon orange juice 1 1/2 cups sugar, divided 1 red onion, sliced 3 9’ round graham into thin rings cracker pie shells 4 4-oz salmon fillets 3 tablespoons flour, heaping 4 oranges slices 4 lemon slices Sour Cream Topping Note: Other citrus fruits, such as lime and grapefruit will also work well. sheet of parchment. string s parchment paper looks 1 1/2 cups sour cream Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place a piece of salmon on each like a small sack. 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar In a small bowl, mix olive oil, tar- bed of onions. Spread each piece of Place packets on baking sheet 1 tablespoon sugar cheesecakes should be slightly ragon, garlic, orange peel, lemon salmon with orange peel mixture, and bake for 17 to 20 minutes. golden on the edges. peel, brown sugar, and orange juice. then place an orange and lemon Cut open the packets (they’ll Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To prepare topping, combine Cut 4 squares of parchment slice on top of each fillet. be hot and steamy) and put each In a large bowl, using a spoon, sour cream and sugars. paper, each 12 x 12 inches. Place Pull all sides of parchment paper salmon stack on a plate. m mix farmer cheese, sour cream, Remove cheesecakes from oven sliced onions in the center of each up to form a bundle. Tie with ©Jewish Holidays Cookbook and cream cheese. Add egg yolks, and let cool 5 minutes. When still orange juice, vanilla sugar, and 3/4 warm, divide the sour cream top- cup sugar. Mix until incorporated. ping between the 3 cheese- cakes. Strawberry-Goat Cheese Salad Add flour. With the back of a spoon, starting In a mixer, beat egg whites until from the center, swirl the topping 4 ounces goat cheese stiff peaks form. Gradually add the across the top until it covers the 2 ripe strawberries, stems remaining 3/4 cup sugar. entire cake. removed, halved Fold beaten whites into the If serving for dessert, you can alter- 2 teaspoons white cheese mixture. Divide filling be- natively drizzle with dulce de leche, wine vinegar or apple tween the 3 pie shells caramel, or desired topping. m cider vinegar Bake for 40 minutes. The © Fresh & Easy/Leah Schapira 2 tablespoons extra- virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons honey Cheese Puff Souffle 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon water 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt 12 slices buttered bread, Cut crusts off bread and place 1/4 teaspoon freshly preferably challah enough bread in pan to cover bot- ground black pepper 3 cups grated sharp tom. Cover this with cheese, then 3 ounces spring mix or cheddar cheese broccoli, bread, cheese for 2 layers mesclun lettuce leaves cessor fitted with the metal “S” Set aside. 1 pound fresh or 2 packages (or until used up). Mix together rest Handful glazed walnuts blade or in a quart-sized container Place the salad greens into a frozen broccoli, optional of ingredients and pour over layers. 6 strawberries, stems with an immersion blender, process large bowl. Drizzle with dressing 1 1/2 teaspoons dry mustard Let stand overnight in refrigerator. removed, quartered the goat cheese, 2 strawberries, to taste. Toss. Arrange the walnuts 6 eggs, well beaten Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 min- vinegar, olive oil, honey, water, salt, and strawberries over the salad. m 6 cups milk utes, in a 9 x 13 greased pan. m In the container of a food pro- and pepper. Pulse until creamy. © Kosher by Design/Susie Fishbein 1 1/2 teaspoons salt © Hadassa Cookbook/Ruth Salesin

Lemon Ricotta Fritters 2 1/2 teaspoons pure thoroughly combine. In a medium en spoon in the hot oil. If small on the inside. Yield: 24 vanilla extract bowl, combine the flour, salt, bak- bubbles form around the spoon Use a slotted spoon or metal spi- 4-6 cups canola oil, for frying ing powder and lemon zest; whisk immediately, the oil is hot enough. der to remove the fritters and any 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup powdered sugar to thoroughly combine. When the oil has come to tem- excess oil, then transfer to paper 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1-cup jam or jelly Pour the dry ingredients into the perature, use a No. 40 cookie scoop towels to drain. 4 teaspoons baking powder wet ingredients and stir with a spoon (2 tablespoons) to carefully scoop Dust with powdered sugar. 2 teaspoons lemon zest Heat the oil in a large pot on until the batter just comes together the batter into the hot oil without In a small pan, heat the jam or 4 eggs medium heat until it reaches 365 F. and there are no lumps of flour. crowding the pan. jelly until it becomes liquid, then 1/3 cup granulated sugar In the meantime, in a large If you don’t have a candy ther- Cook for about 2-3 minutes transfer to a serving bowl. Serve 2 cups whole milk bowl combine the eggs, ricotta, mometer, you can check if the oil per side until deep golden brown. immediately for best results. m ricotta cheese sugar and vanilla extract. Whisk to is hot enough by placing a wood- Check the first fritter for doneness © The Nosher/Leanne Shor Page 12 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 Judge Rules East Ramapo School District Disenfranchised Black and Latino Voters by ARI FELDMAN Jewish population was able to and Latino, 98 percent of pri- A federal judge ruled that a vote as a bloc. In that way, the vate school students are white majority-Orthodox school board Jewish community organized to — “race and policy cannot be in the suburbs of New York City maintain a majority on the school isolated” in the district. violated the Voting Rights Act board and privilege the needs of “This is not to say that the and ordered it to adopt a new, their own private schools over the white bloc voters harbor con- ward-based voting system before racially diverse public schools. scious racial animus,” she wrote. its next election in order to foster “For too long, black and Latino “But if we assume that the white more equitable representation be- voters in the District have been ‘private school community’ tween the community’s Jewish, frustrated in that most fundamen- votes as it does to reduce taxes, Black and Latino populations. tal and precious endeavor,” wrote it would deny reality to pretend Judge Cathy Seibel of New Seibel, who also ordered that the that its members were unaware York’s Southern District found in defendants pay the plaintiffs’ fees that the students to be negatively an almost total defeat for the East — a sum that Perry Grossman, gation over the district, which not require her to do so in order affected by their votes are over- Ramapo Central School District a lawyer who represented the includes the rapidly growing Or- to rule against the District: Plain- whelmingly children of color.” that its at-large method of voting NAACP in the case, estimated thodox enclaves of Monsey and tiffs in Voting Rights Act cases The NAACP also alleged that disenfranchised Black and Latino would be at least $4 million, on New Square in New York’s Rock- do not have to prove intent when the Orthodox community em- voters, who claimed in a lawsuit top of millions they’ll pay in their land County. 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The News in Brief … Court Rules Netanyahu Exempt from Appearance at Next Hearing courtroom Netanyahu made a weekend. his prayer from their property speech protesting his innocence A man using a loudspeaker without their authorization. and accusing law enforcement at the Jaffari Center, a Shia However, they offered no direct and the state prosecution of mosque in Thornhill, recited comment regarding the sub- joining forces with the left-wing the Islamic call to prayer and stance of his remarks. media to topple not only him instructed followers to boycott Since March 3, all ISIJ of To- in particular, but the country’s “all the Zionist businesses,” ronto centers have been closed right-wing camp in general. claiming that it is “illegal” and due to the coronavirus pan- “For more than a decade, the “forbidden” for Muslims to do demic. left has failed to accomplish business with “Zionists.” In a letter written to Jaffari this at the ballot box,” he said. He also said the mosque and Centre vice president Shafiq “So in the last few years, they its followers stood with him Ebrahim, FSWC called on the found a new trick.” against the “illegitimate Zionist mosque to make a clear pub- During the arraignment hear- regime,” the “betrayal of the lic statement that the remarks ing, demonstrations on behalf holy land” and “whatever kind broadcast from their property of and against Netanyahu were of evil things they [the Jews/ were unacceptable. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arraignment hearing at the held outside the courthouse. Zionists] do.” “We are asking you to public- Jerusalem District Court on May 24. (Amit Shabi/POOL) The eight-minute video ly denounce this man’s words Jewish Group Calls shared on social media is called as well as his effort to defame (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minis- overseeing Netanyahu’s trial, at on Toronto Mosque “Jaffari center Athan/Nakba 72 our community and yours with ter Benjamin Netanyahu will the conclusion of the 50-min- to Denounce Anti- catastrophe anniversary. Pray- his vile and anti-Semitic mes- not have to attend the next ses- ute arraignment hearing, during ing for corona vaccine & free sage,” wrote FSWC. “We hope sion of his trial on July 19, the which Netanyahu pleaded in- Semitic ‘Prayers’ Palestine.” you will join us in sending a Jerusalem District Court ruled nocent to the charges of fraud, (JNS) — Friends of Simon In a statement released on clear message that hate will on Sunday. bribery and breach of trust. Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) on Sunday, the Islamic Shia Ithna not be tolerated by our commu- The ruling was handed down Dates for subsequent hear- Tuesday called on a Toronto-ar- Asheri Jamaat (ISIJ) of Toron- nities and has no place in our by Jerusalem District Court ings have yet to be determined, ea mosque to publicly denounce to, a charitable organization countr y.” judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman, according to media reports. anti-Semitic remarks broad- that operates the Jaffari Center, Thornhill is known for its the head of the three-judge panel Moments before entering the casted on its property over the stated that the man broadcast large Jewish population. b Legal Notices …

NOTICE OF FORMATION Company upon whom process against it 2020. Office Location: County of Monroe. and a copy shall be mailed to 1657 East (SSNY) on April 16, 2020. Office location: RL STEIN HOLDINGS LLC (the “LLC”) may be served, and a copy shall be mailed Principal Business Location: 613 Pittsford Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Its purpose 142 W. Sawyer Place, Rochester, New York filed Articles of Organization with the to 1169 Winton Road South, Rochester, NY Victor Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. is any lawful business. 14619, Monroe County. SSNY designat- New York Department of State on FEB- 14618. Its purpose is any lawful business. Purpose: to practice the profession of Notice of Formation of ed as agent of LLC upon whom process RUARY 11, 2020. Its office is located in Nurse Practitioner in Pediatrics and Psychi- LEGAL NOTICE Limited Liability Company against it may be served. SSNY shall mail MONROE County. The Secretary of State atry. The Secretary of State of the State of Notice of Formation of 492 Westside, 1. Name of Limited Liability Company copy of process to 142 W. Sawyer Place, has been designated as agent of the Com- New York has been designated as agent is DWELL ROCHESTER LLC. 2. Articles Rochester, New York 14619. Purpose: to pany upon whom process against it may LLC a domestic Limited Liability Company of the LLC upon whom process against it of Organization were filed by Depart- be served and a copy of any process shall (LLC). Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY engage in any lawful act or activity. may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of ment of State of New York on APRIL 21, be mailed to THE LLC, 1283 CONIFER COVE October 22, 2004. Office location: 394 any process to: 613 Pittsford Victor Road, 2020. 3. County of Office: Monroe. 4. The NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LANE, WEBSTER, NY 14580. The purpose of Bromley Road, Churchville, New York Pittsford, New York 14534 Company does not have a specific date of ZENITH INDUSTRIES, LLC the Company is any lawful purpose. 14428. SSNY is designated agent upon whom process against the LLC may be NOTICE OF FORMATION dissolution. 5. The Secretary of State has Zenith Industries, LLC filed Articles NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any Notice of formation of limited liability been designated as agent upon whom of Organization with NYS on 4/28/2020. Notice of formation of limited liabil- process to The Company 394 Bromley company (LLC) L4-Linden Long Lake process against the Company may be (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, served. The address to which process shall ity company. Name: Roxbury DB LLC Road, Churchville, New York 14428 COUN- Legacy Property, LLC. Articles of Orga- NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been be mailed: 1930 E. MAIN STREET, ROCH- (the Company). Articles of Organization TY OF FORMATION: Monroe PURPOSE: To nization filed with the Secretary of State designated as agent upon whom process filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) ESTER, NEW YORK 14609. 6. Purpose: Any engage in any lawful act or activity. of the State of New York (SSNY) on April against it may be served and a copy of any on 03/18/20. NY office location: Monroe lawful activity. 16, 2020. Office location: Monroe County. process will be mailed to the LLC, 4 Au- County. SSNY is designated as agent upon NOTICE OF FORMATION SSNY designated as agent upon whom NOTICE OF APPLICATION whom process against the Company may JAHREAL & SONS, LLC filed Articles tumn View Estates, Rochester, NY 14622. process against it may be served. Address FOR AUTHORITY be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any of Organization on 04/14/2020. Its office is (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Riedman Properties Elmira, LLC such process to: c/o the Company, 11 located in Monroe County. JERRELL DIXON to which SSNY shall mail a copy of process has been designated as agent of the com- is 10 Hidden Creek Circle, Pittsford, NY (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary Notice of Formation of Limited Roxbury Lane, Pittsford, New York 14534. Liability Company (“LLC”) The Company is to be managed by one pany upon whom process against it may 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. of State (NYSS): 4/23/20. LLC organized in or more managers. No members of the be served and a copy of any process shall DE 12/20/19. NY office location: Monroe Name: 892 North Clinton Avenue, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF County. NYSS designated as agent of LLC Company shall be liable in their capacity be mailed 95 HILLTOP RD ROCHESTER, NY LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with 14616. The purpose of the company is any upon whom process against it may be the Secretary of State with the State of as members of the Company for debts, Notice of formation of limited liabil- obligations or liabilities of the Company. and all lawful activities. served. NYSS shall mail copy of process c/o New York (“SSNY”) on: April 17, 2020. ity company (LLC). Name: Elementum The LLC, 45 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604. No member of the Company, solely by rea- Office Location: County of: Monroe. Prin- NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Funding LLC. Articles of Organization Address of office maintained in jurisdic- son of being a member, is an agent of the LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY filed with Secretary of State of New York cipal Business Location: 81 Brookscrest Company for the purpose of its business, tion of formation: 1675 South State St, Ste Notice of formation of limited liabil- (SSNY) on April 21, 2020. New York office Way, Rochester, New York 14611. Purpose: and no member shall have the authority B, Dover, DE 19901. Copy of Certificate of ity company (LLC). Name: Readmount location: Monroe County. Principal busi- any and all lawful act or activity. The to act for the Company solely by virtue Formation on file with DE Dept. of State, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with ness location: 200 Kilbourn Road, Roches- Secretary of State of the State of New of being a member. Purpose/character of 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on ter, New York 14618. SSNY is designated the Company: any and all lawful activities. Purpose: Any purpose. York has been designated as agent of the April 20, 2020. New York office location: as agent upon whom process against the LLC upon whom process against it may NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF FORMATION Monroe County. SSNY is designated as LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any agent upon whom process against the LLC BEAVER CAMP HARRIS LLC 5110 COUNTY ROAD 11, LLC has filed of any such process to: 200 Kilbourn Road, process to: 81 Brookscrest Way, Rochester, Articles of Organization with the Secretary may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of Rochester, New York 14618. LLC is to be Beaver Camp Harris LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on April 21, New York 14611 of State on April 03, 2020. Its office is lo- any such process to: 15 Emerald Hill Circle, managed by one or more members. LLC is 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe cated in Monroe County. The Secretary of Fairport, NY 14450. LLC is to be managed organized to engage in any lawful act or NOTICE OF FORMATION County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon by one or more members. LLC is organized activity for which limited liability compa- 441 EAST LLC has filed Articles of to engage in any lawful act or activity for State has been designated as its agent whom process against it may be served nies may be organized under the Limited Organization with the Secretary of State and a copy of any process will be mailed which limited liability companies may and the post office address to which the Liability Company Law. on April 29, 2020. Its office is located in to The LLC, 14 Horizon Hill, Fairport, New be organized under the Limited Liability Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any York 14450. The purpose of the LLC is any Company Law. NOTICE OF FORMATION process against it is: the LLC, 49 Pickford Monroe County. The Secretary of State IMAGINATION HEADQUARTERS LLC Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. (3) Purpose: has been designated as agent upon whom lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION has filed Articles of Organization with the Any lawful purpose. process against it may be served and a Notice of Formation of BRW of Perinton HC LLC has filed Secretary of State on April 21, 2020. Its copy of any process will be mailed to The IV HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Organization with the Secretary NOTICE OF FORMATION OF office is located in Monroe County. The LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on of State (SOS) on 4/20/20. Its office is locat- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Secretary of State has been designated as 01/22/2020. Office location: Monroe ed in Monroe County. The SOS has been Sterling Ventures, LLC filed Articles Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of agent upon whom process against it may County. SSNY has been designated as designated as agent upon whom process of Organization with the NY Department the LLC is any lawful activity. be served and a copy of any process will of State on 4/15/2020. Its office is located agent upon whom process against may against it may be served and a copy of any NOTICE OF FORMATION be served. SSNY shall mail process to: process will be mailed to The LLC, 45 East be mailed to The LLC, 230 Coldwater Road, in Monroe County. The Secretary of State FREDORA LLC has filed Articles of IV HOLDINGS LLC, 81 PARK ACRE RD., Ave, Rochester, NY 14604. The purpose of Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose of the is designated as agent of the Company PITTSFORD, NEW YORK, 14534. All lawful the LLC is any lawful activity. LLC is any lawful activity. upon whom process against it may be Organization with the Secretary of State served, and a copy shall be mailed to 1657 on April 29, 2020. Its office is located in activities. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Notice of Formation of East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610. Its pur- Monroe County. The Secretary of State Professional Service Limited LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NOTICE OF FORMATION OF pose is any lawful business. has been designated as agent upon whom LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Liability Company (“PLLC”) Fayette Manlius, LLC filed Articles of process against it may be served and a Jack Thomas Lawn Care, LLC filed Name: Zendi Moldenhauer Nurse Organization with the NY Department of LEGAL NOTICE Articles of Organization with the NY De- Practitioner in Pediatrics and Psy- State on 4/14/2020. Its office is located in Notice of formation of limited liability copy of any process will be mailed to The partment of State on 4/3/2020. Its office is chiatry, PLLC. Articles of Organization Monroe County. The Secretary of State is company (LLC) Sol Green Energy LLC. LLC, 1080 Pittsford Victor Road, Suite 200, located in Monroe County. The Secretary filed with the Secretary of State with the designated as agent of the Company upon Articles of Organization filed with the Sec- Pittsford, New York 14534. The purpose of of State is designated as agent of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on: March 25, whom process against it may be served, retary of State of the State of New York the LLC is any lawful activity. Page 14 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 Legal Notices … Candle Lighting LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF to which the Secretary of State shall mail County of: Monroe. Principal Business FORMATION OF LIMITED a copy of any process against it is: the LLC, Location: 1 S. Washington Street, Ste 130, LIABILITY COMPANY: 205 Indigo Creek Drive, Rochester, NY Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: any May 29, 8:22 — June 5, 8:28 The name of the Limited Liability Com- 14626. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary pany is MCA Gravel Road LLC. The of State of the State of New York has NOTICE Articles of Organization were filed with been designated as agent of the LLC upon the New York Secretary of State on April Not. of Form. of Hobbes Homes LLC, whom process against it may be served. Thursday, May 28 — Thursday, June 4 29, 2020. The office of the Company is Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: 1 located in the County of Monroe, State 05/01/2020. Office location: Monroe S. Washington Street, Ste 130, Rochester, of New York. The New York Secretary County. SSNY designated as agent of New York 14614 RELIGIOUS SERVICES of State is designated as the agent of LLC upon whom process against it may the Company upon whom process in be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Most religious services have been canceled any action or proceeding against it may process to LLC. 2101 Westfall Road, Roch- LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY be served, and the address to which the ester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful Notice of formation of limited liability due to the Pandemic crisis. Please refer to Secretary of State shall mail a copy of pro- purpose. company (LLC). Name: Connextions LLC. your syagogue’s website for information about cess in any action or proceeding against Articles of Organization filed with Secre- NOTICE OF FORMATION OF tary of State of New York (SSNY) on May the Company served upon him or her is LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY online services and events. 25 Chase View Road, Fairport, New York 8, 2020. New York office location: Monroe (Under Section 206 of the Limited Lia- County. Principal business location: 8 14450. The purpose of the business is any bility Company Law) 1. The name of the Temple B’rith Kodesh • tbk.org lawful business. Whitestone Lane, Rochester, New York 2131 Elmwood Ave. 244-7060 limited liability company is Arc at Union, 14618. SSNY is designated as agent upon LEGAL NOTICE: NOTICE OF LLC (the “Company”). 2. The Articles of whom process against the LLC may be Temple Beth El, Geneva • bethelgeneva.org FORMATION OF LIMITED Organization of the Company were filed served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such LIABILITY COMPANY: with the Secretary of State of the State of process to: 8 Whitestone Lane, Rochester, 755 S. Main St. (315) 789-2945 The name of the Limited Liability Com- New York on May 4, 2020. 3. The office New York 14618. LLC is to be managed by Temple Emanu-El • emanuelrochester.org pany is MCA Wash LLC. The Articles of of the Company within the State of New one or more members. LLC is organized Organization were filed with the New York is in the County of Monroe. 4. The to engage in any lawful act or activity 2956 St. Paul Blvd. 266-1978 Secretary of State of the State of New York Secretary of State on April 29, 2020. for which limited liability companies may Temple Emanu-El Batavia The office of the Company is located in York is hereby designated as agent of the be organized under the Limited Liability Company for the purpose of service of the County of Monroe, State of New York. Company Law. REFORM facebook.com/TempleEmanuElBatavia The New York Secretary of State is desig- process. The address to which the Secre- 124 Bank St., Batavia 343-7027 nated as the agent of the Company upon tary of State shall mail a copy of any pro- NOTICE OF FORMATION OF EME whom process in any action or proceeding cess against the Company serviced upon PROPERTY VENTURES LLC Congregation Etz Chaim • congregationetzchaim.org against it may be served, and the address him or her is 1000 University Avenue, EME Property Ventures LLC filed 2 Mountain Rise, Fairport 223-5344 to which the Secretary of State shall mail Suite 500, Rochester, New York 14607. 5. Articles of Organization with NYS on a copy of process in any action or proceed- The character and purpose of the business 5/7/2020. (1) Its principal office is in Mon- Temple Sinai • tsinai.org ing against the Company served upon him of the Company shall be real estate devel- roe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of State 363 Penfield Rd. 381-6890 or her is 25 Chase View Road, Fairport, opment and any other purpose permitted has been designated as agent upon whom New York 14450. The purpose of the by New York law. process against it may be served and a Congregation Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel copy of any process will be mailed to business is any lawful business. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF bhbirochester.org • 1369 East Ave. 244-2060 LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY the LLC, 1085 Gravel Road, Webster, NY NOTICE OF FILING OF 14580. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY (Under Section 206 of the Limited Lia- Temple Beth Am • bethamrochester.org OF TWO YELLOW CARS, LLC bility Company Law) 1. The name of the NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION 2131Elmwood Avenue, Entrance A 334-4855 Name: Two Yellow Cars, LLC (LLC). limited liability company is Arc at Union Notice of formation of limited liability Temple Beth David • tbdrochester.org Authority filed with NY Secretary of State Managing Member, LLC (the “Compa- company. Name: E & J Elite Properties (SSNY): 04/08/20. LLC organized in Dela- ny”). 2. The Articles of Organization of LLC (the Company). Articles of Organiza- 2131Elmwood Avenue, 266-3223 ware: 04/06/20. NY office location: On- the Company were filed with the Secre- tion filed with Secretary of State of NY CONSERVATIVE Temple Beth El • tberochester.org tario County. SSNY designated as agent tary of State of the State of New York on (SSNY) on 04/30/20. NY office location: of LLC upon whom process against it may May 4, 2020. 3. The office of the Company Monroe County. SSNY is designated as 139 Winton Rd. South 473-1770 be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process within the State of New York is in the agent upon whom process against the Chabad Lubavitch • chabadrochester.com to The LLC, 468 South Pearl St., Suite A, County of Monroe. 4. The Secretary of Company may be served. SSNY shall mail Canandaigua, NY 14424. Address of office State of the State of New York is hereby a copy of any such process to: c/o the 1037 Winton Rd. South 271-0330 maintained in jurisdiction of formation: designated as agent of the Company for Company, 465 W Commercial Street, East Congregation Beth Hakneses Hachodosh 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, the purpose of service of process. The ad- Rochester, New York 14445. The Company Delaware 19901. Copy of Certificate of dress to which the Secretary of State shall is to be managed by one or more manag- congbhh.org • 19 St. Regis Dr. North 406-7561 Formation on file with Delaware Secre- mail a copy of any process against the ers. No members of the Company shall Congregation Beth Sholom tary of State, 401 Federal Street, Suite Company serviced upon him or her is 1000 be liable in their capacity as members of 4, Dover, Delaware 19901. Purpose: Any University Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester, the Company for debts, obligations or bethsholomrochester.org • 1161 Monroe Ave. 473-1625 lawful purpose. New York 14607. 5. The character and liabilities of the Company. No member of ORTHODOX purpose of the business of the Company the Company, solely by reason of being Congregation Light of Israel (Sephardic) Obsidian Manufacturing LLC filed shall be to act as managing member or a member, is an agent of the Company lightofisrael.org • 1675 Monroe Ave. 271-5690 Articles of Organization with the NY general partner of an entity that will for the purpose of its business, and no Department of State on April 10, 2020. own real estate and any other purpose member shall have the authority to act Ohel Avraham • ohelavraham.net Its office is located in Monroe County. The permitted by New York law. for the Company solely by virtue of being Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 389-2525 Secretary of State has been designated NOTICE OF FORMATION OF a member. Purpose/character of the Com- OTHER as agent of the Company upon whom pany: any and all lawful activities. process against it may be served, and a LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY copy of any process shall be mailed to 777 (1) Name: D&S 441 East LLC (the NOTICE OF FORMATION AMDG The Company is to be managed by one of State of the State of New York has Edgewood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organization of the SMITH FAMILY, LLC or more managers. No members of the been designated as agent of the LLC upon The purpose of the Company is any lawful LLC were filed with the Secretary of State AMDG Smith Family, LLC filed Ar- Company shall be liable in their capacity whom process against it may be served. NY (“SSNY”) on May 1, 2020 (3) Its office business. ticles of Organization with the NY De- as members of the Company for debts, SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: location is to be in Monroe County, State partment of State on April 27, 2020. Its obligations or liabilities of the Company. 88 Mont Morency Drive, Rochester, New 7209CORD32 LLC filed Articles of of New York. (4) The SSNY has been des- office is located in Monroe County. The No member of the Company, solely by York 14612 Organization with the NY Department of ignated as agent of the LLC upon whom Secretary of State has been designated reason of being a member, is an agent State on April 10, 2020. Its office is located process against it may be served. The post as agent of the Company upon whom of the Company for the purpose of its NOTICE OF FORMATION OF in Monroe County. The Secretary of State office address to which the SSNY shall process against it may be served, and a business, and no member shall have the MELROC HEALTH, LLC has been designated as agent of the mail a copy of any process against the copy of any process shall be mailed to 858 authority to act for the Company solely Melroc Health, LLC filed Articles of Company upon whom process against it LLC is: 490 Claybourne Road, Rochester, Allens Creek Road, Rochester, New York by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ Organization with NYS on 5/11/2020. (1) may be served, and a copy of any process NY 14618 (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or 14618. The purpose of the Company is any character of the Company: any and all Its principal office is in Monroe County, shall be mailed to 777 Edgewood Avenue, activity. lawful business. lawful activities. Rochester, NY 14618. The purpose of the NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been NOTICE OF FORMATION OF NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Notice of Formation: MAXIMUM Company is any lawful business. LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY designated as agent upon whom process Notice of formation of limited liability CUSTOM CLEANING LLC against it may be served and a copy of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 777 (1) Name: Belle Hollow Farms Syrup company. Name: IBH Outfitters LLC Articles of Organization filed with the PANORAMA PROPERTIES, LLC any process will be mailed to the LLC, c/o LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organi- (the Company). Articles of Organization New York Department of State on May Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 1900 Bausch 777 Panorama Properties, LLC filed zation of the LLC were filed with the filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) 11,2020. Its office is located in Monroe Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on April & Lomb Place, Rochester, NY 14604. (3) Articles of Organization with NYS on on 04/14/20. NY office location: Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been 23, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in September 17, 2014. (1) Its principal office County. SSNY is designated as agent upon designated as agent upon whom process Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Monroe County, State of New York. (4) is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The whom process against the Company may against the Company may be served. The SSNY has been designated as agent NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Secretary of State has been designated as be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Carl of the LLC upon whom process against it ROCKET EQUIPMENT, LLC its agent and the post office address to such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Forty SOLE MBR 5546 W RIDGE RD SPEN- which the Secretary of State shall mail a may be served. The post office address to Rocket Equipment, LLC filed Articles Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. CERPORT, NY 14559. The purpose of the copy of any process against it is: the LLC, which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any The Company is to be managed by one Company is any lawful activity. of Organization with NYS on 5/12/2020. 1001 Lexington Avenue, Rochester, NY process against the LLC is: 335 St. Joseph or more managers. No members of the (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, 14606. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Street, Rochester, NY 14617 (5) Purpose: Company shall be liable in their capacity NOTICE OF FORMATION NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been Any lawful act or activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION OF as members of the Company for debts, Notice of formation of limited liability designated as agent upon whom process ONSITE READY MIX LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION OF obligations or liabilities of the Company. company (LLC) Happy Place Down Time, against it may be served and a copy of Onsite Ready Mix LLC filed Articles LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY No member of the Company, solely by LLC. Articles of Organization filed with any process will be mailed to the LLC, the Secretary of State of the State of New of Organization with NYS on April 30, (1) Name: 948 Culver LLC (the “LLC”). reason of being a member, is an agent 4 Autumn View Estates, Rochester, NY of the Company for the purpose of its York (SSNY) on May 7, 2020. Office loca- 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe (2) Articles of Organization of the LLC 14622. (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. County, New York. (2) The Secretary of were filed with the Secretary of State NY business, and no member shall have the tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as State has been designated as its agent (“SSNY”) on April 17, 2020. (3) Its office authority to act for the Company solely agent upon whom process against it may NOTICE OF FORMATION OF and the post office address to which the location is to be in Monroe County, State by virtue of being a member. Purpose/ be served. Address to which SSNY shall Denson Transport LLC character of the Company: any and all mail a copy of process is 105 Pen Creek Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any of NY. (4) The SSNY has been designated Denson Transport LLC filed Articles lawful activities. Drive, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any process against it is: the LLC, 388 Mason as agent of the LLC upon whom process of Organization with NYS on 05/11/2020. against it may be served. The post office lawful purpose. Road, Fairport, NY 14450. (3) Purpose: Any NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION Its principal office is in Monroe County, address to which the SSNY shall mail a lawful purpose. Notice of formation of limited liability Notice of Formation of Limited copy of any process against the LLC is: P.O. New York. The principal business location company. Name: FSI DB Holdings LLC Liability Company (“LLC”) NOTICE OF FORMATION Box 10785, Rochester, New York 14609. is 125 Barclay Ct Rochester NY 14612. The OF GREENLIGHT-LECHASE (the Company). Articles of Organization Name: JZ Brothers LLC. Articles of (5) Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Secretary of State has been designated CONSTRUCTION, LLC filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) Organization filed with the Secretary as its agent and the post office address Greenlight-LeChase Construction, Notice of Formation of Limited on 03/18/20. NY office location: Monroe of State with the State of New York LLC filed Articles of Organization with Liability Company (“LLC”) County. SSNY is designated as agent upon (“SSNY”) on: May 13, 2020. Office Loca- to which the Secretary of State shall mail NYS on April 27, 2020. (1) Its principal Name: Invessent, LLC. Articles of whom process against the Company may tion: County of: Monroe. Principal Busi- a copy of any process against it is c/o office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) Organization filed with the Secretary be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any ness Location: 88 Mont Morency Drive, Denson Transport LLC 125 Barclay Ct The Secretary of State has been designat- of State with the State of New York such process to: c/o the Company, 90 Rochester, New York 14612. Purpose: any Rochester NY 14612. Purpose: Any lawful ed as its agent and the post office address (“SSNY”) on: May 7, 2020. Office Location: Goodway Drive, Rochester, NY 14614. and all lawful act or activity. The Secretary purpose.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 15

The News in Brief … Florida State Primary Opponent of Jewish Candidate Takes Anti-Semitic Pot Shots indecent behavior. ever been, under investigation made a subsequent statement Saying a Republican Jewish One post on the site was doc- by the FBI or FDLE for any- in which she wrote, “It was politician in Florida is a pest tored to steal Lober’s identity thing, and FDLE has made a wrong to pull it since this is a who must be ‘exterminated’ and make it appear that he was statement to that effect. public page. … We were also reflects either staggering ig- behind the page. Lober filed a Burns eventually admitted wrong to state ‘anti-Semitism norance of history or a will- police report with the Brevard that he was behind the website. will not be tolerated.’ That was ingness to traffic in the worst County Sheriff regarding his On March 24, Adkins filed too strong. People must be free kind of hate. Either way, it is stolen identity. Neither Lober her candidacy against Fine in to say what they wish. I also unacceptable,” tweeted Florida nor Fine knew who was behind the Aug. 18 Republican prima- wrote a personal note to Gary House Speaker-Designate Chris the page. ry, stating her reason for doing Ragsdale and we will put back Sprowls. On Oct. 10, Fine began receiv- so was that Fine’s constituency his anti-Semitic post.” Fine told JNS on Tuesday that Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.). (Twitter) ing threatening text messages deserved “a good Christian,” an Last week, Adkins referred the anti-Semitism he’s faced from a local cell-phone number apparent jab at Fine’s Jewish to Fine as a “pest that must be from the Adkins campaign has BY JACKSON RICHMAN he did not recognize. The texts identity. exterminated.” been the worst “as an adult be- (JNS) — A Republican pri- included “[Your week] is about In what has been perceived On her personal page on May cause it’s so overt.” mary opponent of a sitting to get worse,” “You should be as anti-Semitic undertones, she 21, Adkins referred to Fine as He said he has spoken to Florida state representative has careful where you park your has distributed buttons that “Satanic.” Shane Strum, chief of staff to been accused of engaging in car,” “Fat ass piece of s***,” read “Vote your faith” and has Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republi- anti-Semitism against the in- “Fake ass Jew,” “You ain’t a Jew described her campaign as ‘Beyond the pale’ can. Fine declined to elaborate cumbent, who is Jewish. you just Jew-ish.” “The Church against the Ca- Two days earlier, Florida state on the conversation, though Randy Fine, who represents These messages were for- sino,” an apparent reference to legislative leaders condemned Fine noted that “he didn’t think the Sunshine State’s 53rd dis- warded to House Sergeant-at- Fine’s background as a former Adkins for her “not-so-fine” [the anti-Semitism] was okay, trict and is the only Jewish Arms Russell Hosford, who de- gambling-industry executive campaign rhetoric against the that’s for sure.” Republican in the state legisla- termined they should be given and to the anti-Semitic trope la- state legislator. DeSantis spokesperson Cody ture, has faced ethnic attacks to the Florida Department of beling Jews as money-grabbers. “Outright lying about your McCloud told JNS, “Governor by economist Marcie Adkins Law Enforcement (FDLE). He On May 6, Adkins shared an opponent and harassing their DeSantis has clearly stated that and a political consultant for was particularly concerned article Burns had posted on family is beyond the pale and anti-Semitism will not be toler- her campaign, Robert Burns. about the unsolicited references “The Space Coast Rocket.” The Ms. Adkins and her campaign ated in Florida, which is why he In March 2019, a fake Face- to Fine’s religion. post elicited numerous nasty should be ashamed,” said Flor- signed the bipartisan, anti-Sem- book page was created called Fine had no idea who sent the comments including one that ida House Speaker José Oliva. itism HB 741 into law that was “Randy Fine Not So Fine,” messages to him. stated “Send him back to Is- “Compounding such outra- sponsored by Representative trafficking in almost daily un- On Feb. 4, a headline ap- rael” by a user named Gary geous behavior by turning Randy Fine. When the gover- verified allegations against peared on a fake media site Ragsdale. a blind eye to anti-Semitism nor’s chief of staff spoke with him, including an anti-Semit- called “The Space Coast Rock- Adkins apparently received and bigotry on social media Representative Fine regarding ic meme of Fine and Brevard et” that read “Graphic Detail of criticism by a number of Jews sites you control only further these offensive remarks, it was County Commission chair Tres Holton Providing Prosti- and removed the comment, but demonstrates why voters should made clear that bigotry and rac- Bryan Lober, the only other tution to Officials-Randy Fine then received pressure from keep Representative Fine.” ism has no place in our state— elected Jew at the county level, Named Twice by FBI/FDLE.” folks who claimed they were “Marcie Adkins’ anti-Semitic the most Israel-friendly state in depicted as insects engaged in Fine is not now, nor has he promoting “free speech” and dog whistling is unacceptable. the nation.” b Legal Notices …

Notice of formation of copy of any process against it is: the LLC, 5 shall mail to principal location at: 266 Col- of Organization filed with the Secretary to the LLC, 3375 Brighton Henrietta TL Giannuzzi Masonry LLC Pipers Meadow Trail, Penfield, NY 14526. lamer Road, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: of State of the State of New York (SSNY) Rd., Rochester, NY 14623. (3) Purpose: Any Giannuzzi Masonry LLC filed Articles (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. any lawful. on May 19, 2020. Office location: Monroe lawful purpose. of Oganization with NYS on March 11th County. SSNY designated as agent upon NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 2020. Its principal office is in Monroe NOTICE OF FORMATION OF whom process against it may be served. County, New York. The principal business BAYFRONT EQUIPMENT LLC Sympatica Rx, LLC filed Articles of SAGINAW DISTRIBUTORS LLC Organization with Sec. of State (SSNY) on Address to which SSNY shall mail a copy location is 190 Bailey road, Hilton N.Y. Bayfront Equipment LLC filed Arti- Saginaw Distributors LLC filed March 2, 2020. Office location: Monroe of process is 2481 Huber Road, Fairport, 14468. The secretary of state has been cles of Organization with NYS on May 19, Articles of Organization with NYS on County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful purpose. designated as its agent and the post office 2020. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe 4/14/2020. (1) Its principal office is in upon whom process against it may be address to which the Secretary of State NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of County, New York. (2) The Secretary of served. SSNY shall mail copy of process shall mail a copy of any process against LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY State has been designated as agent upon State has been designated as its agent to 69 Cascade Drive, Suite 307, Rochester, it is c/o Giannuzzi Masonry, 190 Bailey (1) Name: Clover Park Properties, whom process against it may be served and the post office address to which the New York 14614. Purpose: any lawful road, Hilton N.Y. 14468. Purpose: Any LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organi- Secretary of State shall mail a copy of activity. and a copy of any process will be mailed lawful purpose zation of the LLC were filed with the any process against it is: the LLC, 5 Pipers to the LLC, 1425 Jefferson Road, Suite 9, NOTICE OF FORMATION Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on May NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Meadow Trail, Penfield, NY 14526. (3) Rochester, NY 14623. (3) Purpose: Any Cirrus Manor Residential Center, 14, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in PROFESSIONAL LIMITED Purpose: Any lawful purpose. lawful purpose. LLC filed Articles of Organization with Monroe County, State of New York. (4) LIABILITY COMPANY NOTICE OF FORMATION You Centered Neurology, PLLC filed NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Sec. of State (SSNY) on April 27, 2020. The SSNY has been designated as agent Office location: Monroe County. SSNY CLASSIC CAR CONVERSIONS, LLC Articles of Organization with the NY BAYFRONT MARINA LLC of the LLC upon whom process against designated as agent of LLC upon whom Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y Department of State on May 5, 2020. Its Bayfront Marina LLC filed Articles of it may be served. The post office address process against it may be served. SSNY of State (SSNY) on 04/20/2020. Office loca- office is located in Monroe County. The Organization with NYS on May 19, 2020. to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of shall mail copy of process to 69 Cascade tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as Secretary of State has been designated (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, any process against the LLC is: 415 Park Drive, Suite 307, Rochester, New York agent of LLC upon whom process against as agent of the Company upon whom New York. (2) The Secretary of State has Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 (5) Purpose: 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process against it may be served, and a been designated as its agent and the post Any lawful act or activity. copy of any process served upon him or NOTICE OF FORMATION process to c/o the Company, 48 Bromley office address to which the Secretary of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF her shall be mailed to 35 Atkinson Street, Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. State shall mail a copy of any process Cirrus Realty Holdings, LLC filed LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Rochester, NY 14608. The profession to be Articles of Organization with Sec. of State against it is: the LLC, 5 Pipers Meadow (1) Name: Georger Family Cottage NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A LI- practiced is medicine. (SSNY) on April 27, 2020. Office loca- Trail, Penfield, NY 14526. (3) Purpose: Any CENSE, NUMBER 3165468 FOR WINE, tion: Monroe County. SSNY designated as LLC (the “LLC”). (2) Articles of Organi- NOTICE OF FORMATION lawful purpose. BEER AND CIDER HAS BEEN APPLIED FOR agent of LLC upon whom process against zation of the LLC were filed with the OF DONCOR, LLC Secretary of State NY (“SSNY”) on May BY MARU SUSHI & RAMEN BAR INC. TO NOTICE OF FORMATION it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of Doncor, LLC filed Articles of Orga- SELL WINE, BEER AND CIDER AT RETAIL OF BENPAL LLC process to 69 Cascade Drive, Suite 307, 14, 2020 (3) Its office location is to be in nization with NYS on 9/27/2013. (1) Its Monroe County, State of New York. (4) IN A RESTAURANT UNDER THE ALCOHOL- BenPal LLC filed Articles of Organi- Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: any principal office is in Monroe County, lawful activity. The SSNY has been designated as agent IC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW AT 274 N zation with NYS on May 14, 2020. (1) NY. (2) The Secretary of State has been of the LLC upon whom process against GOODMAN ST., UNIT B123, ROCHESTER, Its principal office is in Monroe County, NOTICE OF FORMATION designated as agent upon whom process it may be served. The post office address NY 14607 FOR ON PREMISES CONSUMP- against it may be served and a copy of any New York. (2) The Secretary of State has Notice of formation of limited liability to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of TION. process will be mailed to the LLC, 63 North company (LLC) Bloss Mountain Part- been designated as its agent and the post any process against the LLC is: 90 Rumson Country Club Drive, Rochester, NY 14610. ners, LLC. Articles of Organization filed NOTICE OF FORMATION OF office address to which the Secretary of Road, Rochester, NY 14612 (5) Purpose: (3) Purpose: Any lawful purpose. with the Secretary of State of the State of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY State shall mail a copy of any process Any lawful act or activity. against it is: the LLC, 593 Broad Street, New York (SSNY) on May 19, 2020. Office Sundance Parkway New Braunfels NOTICE OF FORMATION OF location: Monroe County. SSNY designat- BAYFRONT CONSTRUCTION Rochester, NY 14608. (3) Purpose: Any NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DAN TX LLC filed Articles of Organization with ed as agent upon whom process against SERVICES LLC CREEK ASSOCIATES LLC the NY Department of State on 5/13/2020. lawful purpose. it may be served. Address to which SSNY Bayfront Construction Services LLC DAN Creek Associates LLC filed Its office is located in Monroe County. The shall mail a copy of process is 16 Hedge filed Articles of Organization with NYS Notice of Formation of TL Articles of Organization with NYS on Secretary of State is designated as agent Property Management, LLC Wood Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: 5/19/2020. (1) Its principal office is in of the Company upon whom process on May 19, 2020. (1) Its principal office any lawful purpose. is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The TL Property Management, LLC, ar- Monroe County, NY. (2) The Secretary of against it may be served, and a copy shall Secretary of State has been designated as ticles of organization filed with SSNY on NOTICE OF FORMATION State has been designated as agent upon be mailed to 600 East Avenue, Suite 200, its agent and the post office address to May 18, 2020. Office: Monroe County. Notice of formation of limited liability whom process against it may be served Rochester, NY 14607. Its purpose is any which the Secretary of State shall mail a SSNY designated as agent for process & company (LLC) DLM Huber, LLC. Articles and a copy of any process will be mailed lawful business. Page 16 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020

Hate … Anti-Semitism Examined as a Social Virus in New PBS Documentary by LAURA PAULL internet — it goes viral, in that then heads to North Carolina, tion and perspective. This list my-winning “A Yiddish World (J. The Jewish News of sense,” director-producer An- where he engages with Russell includes former President Bill Remembered” in 2002 (a look at Northern California) — Any drew Goldberg told J. recently. Walker, an open racist and an- Clinton, former British Prime the world of Eastern European person who follows the news “But illness as a metaphor for ti-Semite who got 37% of his Minister Tony Blair, Holocaust Jews before the Holocaust) to knows that anti-Semitism is on anti-Semitism has been used for district’s vote when he ran for historian Deborah Lipstadt, a well-received documentary the rise around the world. As it a long time.” the state House of Representa- and journalists Fareed Zakaria, about the Armenian genocide. has spread, so has our insight The film, which was in the- tives in 2018. George Will and Yair Rosenberg He also wrote, produced and that this is a hatred with many aters briefly in February, opens Other segments examine of Tablet. directed “Anti-Semitism in the faces, a many-headed monster with a black-and-white anima- state-sponsored anti-Semitism in “Anti-Semitism is a conspir- 21st Century: The Resurgence,” fed by myths about Jews that tion of what looks to be virus Hungary under the government acy theory,” Lipstadt says of which covered the history of will not die. cell activity under a microscope. of Prime Minister Viktor Orban; the penchant for anti-Semites anti-Semitism in Europe. It aired Its more violent manifesta- “It started long ago … with a the rise of anti-Semitism in En- to blame Jews for just about on PBS in 2017. tions — defacements of Jew- lie about the Jew,” the voiceover gland within the leftist Labour everything based on “the no- In the British segment of ish cemeteries, street attacks, by actress Julianna Margulies Party under past leader Jeremy tion that there are forces more “Viral,” Goldberg visits Paul armed assaults on Jewish insti- explains. “The lie said the Jew Corbyn; and beliefs about Jews powerful than you.” Marmot, an English cousin tutions — are often referred to was evil … conspiring … the among some North African im- Based on his own experiences whom he had never met. Marnot as “outbreaks,” as if anti-Semi- enemy of G—d. The lie evolved migrants in France. In the latter as a former white supremacist, recounts how, after a lifetime as tism were a disease. Indeed, the and spread like a virus … and case, those beliefs have con- Arno Michael agrees. a leftist British Jew, he tore up phrase “virulent anti-Semitism” still does. Many don’t know joined with growing disaffection “If I’m looking to recruit, I’m his Labour Party membership is often used to describe the they’re infected. Others don’t with global capitalism among going to look for white kids who card when Corbyn was chosen manifold expressions of that ide- care. Some define themselves the French Left, resulting in an have something going wrong in as its leader in 2015. Critiques ology. And as with a contagious by it. The virus has endured for atmosphere harshly inhospitable their life … and find a way to of Israeli policy are acceptable to disease, humanity must marshal so long and spread so far be- to French Jews. blame that on the Jews,” he says most British Jews, he says, but all its informational resources to cause of its power to adapt and Goldberg travels to each of in the documentary. Corbyn enabled criticism that have any hope of defeating it. deceive. Of its thousands of mu- these locales to interview vic- But after 90 minutes of ex- crossed over into anti-Jewish That is the concept of “Viral: tations, this is the story of four.” tims, witnesses, anti-Semites amination, one is left with the sentiment. Antisemitism in Four Muta- The film then launches into and experts — with his low-key, sense that the film has but Meanwhile, on our shores, tions,” a probing new docu- the first of four segments, look- seemingly neutral style eliciting skimmed the surface of a bot- Goldberg, who lost extended mentary making its television ing at the American strain. In inside knowledge, alarm and, tomless black hole. family members in the Holo- premiere May 26 on PBS. Pittsburgh, Goldberg examines sometimes, acute pain. Goldberg, 52, has pursued the caust, takes note of how an- “Our thought was that much the significance of the assault A number of commentators subject of prejudice through- ti-Semitism in the U.S. has been of anti-Semitism spreads on the on the Tree of Life synagogue, are called upon to add informa- out his career, from his Em- (Social Virus — Page 19)

Culture … Bob Dylan’s 10 Most Jewish Songs by SETH ROGOVOY stone of Dylan’s live performances to While Bob Dylan has, throughout his this day, may be best known in its Jimi life and career, engaged in all sorts of Hendrix version, but its narrative and mythologizing and playful biographical imagery are basically a rearrangement falsification, it has never been in the of material cribbed from Isaiah 21. service of denying his heritage. “Forever Young” Dylan poetically This son of a middle-class appliance rewrites a father’s blessing over his salesman from the Upper Midwest, children at the Sabbath table, invoking who grew up with a Yiddish-speaking the story of Jacob (“May you build grandmother down the hallway in an a ladder to the stars / And climb on extended Jewish family that was at the every rung”) to connect it to his own nexus of Jewish life in Hibbing, Minn. youngest son, who would grow up to be — mom was president of the local Ha- a rock star, outselling even his father. dassah, and dad was president of B’nai “Highway 61 Revisited” A midrashic B’rith — wound up making several retelling of the sacrifice of Isaac (“Oh, trips to Israel in the late-1960s and ’70s G—d said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son!’ (during one visit, he even began the / Abe says, ‘Man, you must be puttin’ application process for moving his fam- me on”) by the son of Abe Zimmerman, ily to a kibbutz). He sent his children who was born just a few miles from to the same Jewish summer camp in (Chris wood/Express/Getty) U.S. Highway 61. Wisconsin that he attended for four or “Gotta Serve Somebody” The Gram- five summers as a teenager. you, Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman) portedly included private studies with my Award-winning centerpiece of, and By the time he arrived in New York probably the best-known Jewish song various rabbis, often from the Chabad hit single from, his first so-called born City’s Greenwich Village 51 years ago, in the world. Throughout his career, movement. A cursory review of songs again album could easily be seen as a he intended to make a name for himself his songs have been peppered with from the past 50 years turns up many tribute to Jewish mothers everywhere. on the folk scene — and that name was biblical allusions and paraphrases and tunes that are inflected with varying (It also alludes to Joshua 24:14-15.) Dylan, not Zimmerman (the name is informed by Jewish themes and con- degrees of Yiddishkeit. “Neighborhood Bully” Dylan warms German and not Jewish, anyway, al- cepts. How much of this is the result “Talkin’ Hava Nagilah Blues” Fresh the cockles of the most rabid, right- though his forebears were from Russia), of a conscious effort on Dylan’s part off the boat (okay, the car) from Min- wing Zionist, positing Jewish history and Bob fashioned himself a latter-day to address these issues, and how much nesota, the 20-year-old Dylan made this and the State of Israel like some rock Woody Guthrie (as it turns out, Guthrie is simply the result of magpie tenden- novelty in which he struggles to pro- ’n’ roll Vladimir Jabotinsky. himself had a whole secret Jewish side cies that see him draw variously from nounce the words before letting loose “Everything Is Broken” Swamp-rock to his work, born of his close relation- Shakespeare, French symbolism, movie with a yodel, a staple of his Greenwich meets Lurianic Kabbalah. ship with his mother-in-law, Yiddish dialogue, blues clichés and even ob- Village folk-club gigs. “Blowin’ in the Wind” Perhaps his poet Aliza Greenblatt). scure Japanese yakuza novels? Well, “With G—d on Our Side” Years before best-known anthem, the song that made So while Dylan didn’t exactly grow only Dylan can answer that — and even “Schindler’s List,” Dylan takes to task him a household name, it is a litany of up to be Shlomo Carlebach, the happy, then, probably not. “the Germans” for having “murdered unanswered, unanswerable questions. guitar-strumming Hasid, he never Still, based on the evidence of the 6 million… in the ovens they fried” in What could be more Jewish? b strayed too far from his roots, nor did songs themselves, Dylan was actually this 1963 protest song. Seth Rogovoy is the author of “Bob he deny them. One of his earliest orig- paying attention in the Hebrew classes “New Morning” Nu, morning? Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet” (Scribner, inal numbers, in fact, was a parody of leading up to his bar mitzvah, and also “All Along the Watchtower” The 1967 2009). “Hava Nagilah,” then and now (thank in his adult life, which has at times re- song, which continues to be a corner- ©Forward. Reprinted with authorization.  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 17

Analysis … Demonstrating Against the Forces of Condescension by RUTHIE BLUM to the contrary, the chattering (JNS) — Hundreds of dem- classes in the press, academia onstrators gathered outside the and, of course, the courts have Jerusalem District Court on been on an endless campaign to Sunday afternoon to express delegitimize the right. their support for Israeli Prime It’s nothing new. When the Minister Benjamin Netanya- late Menachem Begin became hu during his arraignment. It prime minister in 1977 — was the first hearing of a trial thus ending the long-standing that his champions had hoped Mapai-turned-Labor rule of the would never materialize, and “founding fathers” of the state that his enemies had spent the — the outcry on the left was past four years pressing for and loud and hysterical. That the salivating over. right dared to “usurp” their The latter also turned out at throne was too much for them the courthouse, mainly to gloat. to bear. But a greater number preferred Labeling him a terrorist for to hold their anti-Netanyahu having commanded the Irgun festival —replete with cham- and comparing him to Italian pagne and blessings of l’chaim fascist Benito Mussolini for his — in front of his official resi- crowd-rousing oratory, the Is- dence on Balfour Street, a mere raeli intelligentsia proceeded to Right-wing activists demonstrate outside the District Court in Jerusalem in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Net- mile-and-a-half away. go after his supporters. Many of anyahu, who’s trial on criminal allegations of bribery, fraud and breach of trust is set to start today. May 24. (Yonatan Finally, after four years of Sindel/Flash90) these were Mizrahim — immi- investigations into the activi- grants from North Africa, who ties of their nemesis, they were by the judicial system, Net- litical spectrum highly doubt. ic was so popular that polls felt disenfranchised socially by getting their wish: that the lon- anyahu still holds the reins of Having a mish mosh of con- showed him winning by a land- their snobby Ashkenazi (Euro- gest-serving prime minister in the executive branch. In fact, flicting ideologies in a “unity” slide in the event of another pean) counterparts. Israeli history, whom they’ve after three rounds of Knesset coalition will do that. election. One key ideological differ- been unable to beat at the bal- elections, he remains the lead- On the other hand, most Is- This only partially explains ence between them was that lot box, will end his career in er of the largest party and will raelis dreaded the thought of why people of all ages, eth- the former hailed from and fled disgrace, if not in jail. continue to be at the helm — a fourth election, partly due to nic backgrounds and socioeco- Muslim-majority Arab coun- But their schadenfreude may in accordance with the coali- woes born of the coronavirus nomic levels from around the tries, and as a result harbored be short-lived — whatever fate tion agreement that he signed crisis, and —perhaps even more country came out in droves on little faith in the possibility of befalls Netanyahu at the hands with Blue and White chairman importantly — because nobody Sunday to chant pro-Netanyahu peace with the Palestinians. of the panel of three judges, Benny Gantz late last month — believed that another round of and anti-left-wing slogans, in The latter looked down on this hand-picked for the purpose of for the next 18 months. If the voting would yield different addition to spewing vitriol at as a “primitive” worldview. kicking him when he’s up. government lasts until then, results. the judicial system. Though many have attributed Indeed, in spite of all the me- that is, which is something that Ironically, Netanyahu’s han- Protestations on the part of this air of superiority as stem- dia’s mudslinging and targeting voters on both sides of the po- dling of the COVID-19 pandem- those out to oust Netanyahu (Condescension — Page 19)

America’s Institutions … Will the Movements Survive the Pandemic? (JNS) — It sounds like a good nouncing that it was cutting ant are the cultural differenc- of American culture led to the the strong differences among business plan. With American 20 percent of its staff last week es between congregations that Renewal movement. Jews that center on doctrine and Jewish religious denominations and with the other movements produce very different practices With each new stream came practice. facing agonizing budget deci- also facing hard times, talk of and traditions. diversity, as synagogues arose With Reform and Conserva- sions in the coming year as a consolidation is hardly out of These movements came into out of desires for particular tive congregants almost univer- result of the financial losses the question or even out of place. existence as a result of a need approaches to services — with sally not as observant as their they are all suffering in the That conversation was ac- to create new institutions that some using their own prayer religious leaders, coupled with wake of coronavirus shut- celerated by the Conservative served populations no longer books — or as a by-product the impulse to make services downs, perhaps the most log- movement’s decision to allow satisfied with what they could of the way local institutions more inclusive to accommodate ical solution to their problems the streaming of services on get elsewhere. played a part in broader cultur- non-Jewish spouses and family is for the liberal denominations the Internet as a response to In the mid-19 century, dis- al and political developments. members, the trend in which to merge. the pandemic. That naturally satisfaction with Orthodoxy Yet the forces pushing liberal the non-Orthodox movements If more people are thinking the led some to question wheth- and a desire for a more liberal movements together existed have come to resemble each unthinkable these days, it’s hard- er, now that the Conservatives approach to Judaism, as well as before the pandemic. As devas- other more will only be acceler- ly surprising. At one time, the were relaxing more of their one more rooted in American tating as the toll of the corona- ated by the impact of financial mighty institutions of non-Or- Shabbat practices to allow tech- culture, led to the formation of virus has been on institutions, hardships. thodox Judaism in the United nology to keep congregations the Reform movement. In the the changing demography of And with “Jews of no reli- States thought of themselves as together, if there is any real 1880s, the sense that Reform American Jewish life is a far gion” — as the seminal 2013 unique and irreplaceable. No difference between that centrist had gone too far in throwing more important game-changer. Pew Research Institute study of longer. In a moment in history denomination and its more lib- out Jewish religious law and On a local level, this has al- Jewish Americans termed them when everything familiar about eral counterpart. tradition was behind the forma- ready resulted in Reform and — being the fastest-growing our lives has been tossed aside or The answer from many in tion of Conservative Judaism, Conservative synagogues pool- slice of Jewish demography, de- turned inside out by the pandem- the Conservative movement which tried to mix respect for ing their resources to create a clining rates of affiliation with ic, speculation about possible is that much separates them halachah with modernity. In single religious school in some synagogues, no matter what mergers between Reform and from Reform, let alone the more the 20th century, Reconstruc- areas. Population shifts have their brand might be, are also Conservative Judaism, as well radical Reconstructionist and tionism arose from Rabbi Mor- led to the closure or consoli- going to continue. as the smaller Reconstructionist Renewal movements. Disagree- decai Kaplan’s theories about dation of synagogues in many It is highly unlikely that there and Renewal movements, is no ments on intermarriage — the Judaism as a civilization. It urban and suburban areas will be any formal merger of longer something too outlandish Conservative movement still grew as a response to a need for within denominational lines. movements in spite of the fi- to even consider. refuses to allow their rabbis to what it called “post-halachic” And, as has happened in the nancial pressures that might Indeed, with the Union of officiate at ceremonies where Judaism. In the late 20th centu- past, in places where there are impel the idea to be consid- Reform Judaism — the central both parties are not Jewish — ry, the need for a more spiritual not enough Jews left to support ered. Too much divides them organ of the country’s largest remain an obstacle to any talk approach that was consonant multiple synagogues, one will in terms of their traditions and Jewish denomination — an- about mergers. Just as import- with the “New Age” zeitgeist have to serve everyone, despite (Movements — Page 19) Page 18 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020

The News in Brief … Iran’s President Approves Ban on Use of All Israeli Products

Iranian leader’s depiction of the “final solution” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Reuters)

Iranian President Hassan Arabs, and two Orthodox Jews Welt reported an outbreak of orating someone who at least Museum Claudio Abruch and Rouhani on Tuesday approved in Jerusalem under a headline Islamic-animated antisemitism sympathizes with this ideolo- the Simon Wiesenthal Center the order banning the use of that included the phrase “the was registered as right-wing gy,” Ronen wrote in Spanish on in Argentina. any Israeli products in the final solution.” Nazi Germany extremism. According to the Twitter. But the Delegación de Asocia- country. used the phrase “final solution” report, “the Islamic share of an- Carrillo’s grandson, Ramon ciones Israelitas Argentinas, an The move comes after the Ira- to describe its plan for the Holo- tisemitic offenses is clearly un- Carrillo, hit back at the ambas- umbrella group of Jewish orga- nian parliament voted in favor caust, in which its forces killed der-counted in police statistics.” sador’s comments, sharing on nizations in the country, issued of a legislation prohibiting the 6 million Jews in World War II. ©The Jerusalem Post Twitter a photo of a gift given a lukewarm response, saying use of Israeli-made goods last ©Ynetnews.com to his grandfather in 1954 by only that as long as the decision week. Fury as Nazi Israel’s then-health minister had not been officially released, The ban includes technology, More than 2,000 Supporter Appears Yosef Serlin. they would would wait before such as computer hardware Antisemitic Crimes on Argentina’s Carillo was also Argentina’s commenting on the issue. and software, and was passed in Germany, health minister at the time. The Simon Wiesenthal Cen- unanimously by Iranian law- Newest Banknote “I would love to know what ter did condemn the decision, makers last week, Fars News Highest Rate by ITAMAR EICHNER you have to say about it,” the however. Agency reported. Since 2001 Argentina’s Jewish commu- younger Carillo wrote. “In addition to being a fan The legislation’s aim is to by BENJAMIN WEINTHAL nity has expressed outrage at British Ambassador to Argen- of Hitler, Carrillo also provid- apparently “confront the hos- (BERLIN) — Antisemitic the decision to print a banknote tina Mark Kent also expressed ed shelter to a Nazi physician tile acts of the Zionist regime crime was at its highest since bearing the likeness of a doctor his outrage at the decision to from Buchenwald [concentra- against peace and security.” 2001 in Germany, authorities who expressed support for Nazi put Carillo on a banknote. tion camp in Germany] and According to the new law, announced on Wednesday, with ideology and even backed Josef “Nazism was the greatest evil allowed him to continue exper- any cooperation with Israel, in- more than 2,000 crimes target- Mengele’s experiments on Jew- of the 20th century,” he wrote iments on homosexuals. We cluding use of its products, will ing Jews in 2019. The number of ish prisoners in Auschwitz. on Twitter. “It led to the Holo- vehemently reject the choice of be considered an “act against antisemitic crimes in 2019 was Fueled by an economic cri- caust. The death of millions of such a figure, who would tar- G—d.” 13% higher than it was in 2018. sis and the rise in the dollar innocents. We should not com- nish Argentina with his image Last week, Iran’s Supreme The Berlin paper Tagesspie- exchange rate, the Argentine memorate anyone who partici- on its largest bill.” Leader Ayatollah Ali Khame- gel reported, “most offenses government has began printing pated in this terrible episode.” Argentine government of- nei called Israel a “cancerous against Jews are assigned to new banknotes showing sever- Sergio Pickholz, head of the ficials confirmed that the tumor” that “will undoubtedly right-wing offenders. The most al influential people from the Zionist Organization of Argenti- banknotes had been printed be uprooted and destroyed” in brutal attack was the attack country’s history. na, also joined the opposition to with the likeness of Carrillo. an annual speech in support of by Stephan Balliet on the syn- One of the notes, a new bill the move, along with the hon- The bills are due out in June. the Palestinians. agogue in Halle in October. worth 5,000 pesos (approx. orary president of the Holocaust ©Ynetnews.com ”The Zionist regime is a dead- Balliet tried unsuccessfully to $75), shows the image of Dr. ly, cancerous growth and a det- open the door to the fully occu- Ramon Carrillo, a renowned riment to this region,” Khame- pied synagogue and then, in his doctor of sanitation also known nei said. “It will undoubtedly anger, killed two passersby.” for his support of the Nazis and be uprooted and destroyed.” The neo-Nazi Balliet was Mengele’s brutal experiments. Khamenei also compared Is- wedded to an antisemitic world Carrillo’s inclusion on the rael to the coronavirus during view that included the “Zi- bill caused uproar among the the speech, while saying his onist-occupied government” Argentine Jewish community, anti-Israeli views were not an- theory. anger shared by Israel’s am- ti-Semitic. Germany’s statistical data bassador to the country Galit However, in the days running about the causes of antisemi- Ronen. up to Friday, his office released tism have faced criticism over “When we say ‘never again’ a cartoon graphic showing the years. in reference to the Holocaust, smiling Iranian-backed forces, In 2017, German paper Die there is no point in commem- Argentina’s new 5,000 pesos bill featuring Dr. Ramon Carrillo

Flowers and candles are seen outside the synagogue in Halle, Germany October 10, 2019, after two people were Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (AP, Office of the Irani- The gift given to Carrillo from Israeli Health Minister Joseph Serlin in 1954. killed in a shooting. (REUTERS/FABRIZIO BENSCH) an Presidency) (Twitter)  THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020 • Page 19 Initiative Aims to Financially Aid Jews of Color

by CELIA JEAN daily to pay bills and put food inability to obtain basic neces- As the COVID-19 pandemic on the table. And we are com- sities as a result of the COVID- has brought financial havoc mitted to both inviting appli- 19 crisis. These funds must be among economies and commu- cations and disbursing funds used for necessities such as rent nities across the world, a new in ways that are transparent or mortgage payment; transpor- COVID-19 relief fund has been and reflect a welcoming envi- tation to work or medical ap- set up by a the new Jews of ronment for Jews of color,” she pointments; utilities; groceries; Color Field Building Initiative, added. medical bills; or funeral and which aims to help “vulnera- Eligible applicants are people burial expenses. ble” individuals in the US af- of color in the Jewish commu- The fund is not a first come- fected during this period. nity living in the US, including first first-served basis. Instead, “Systemic racism is ampli- those who self-identify as Jew- the initiative reviews applica- fying the impact of COVID-19 ish; those who work or have tions in batches. When funds on Jews of color and all people worked for a Jewish communal are available, qualified applica- of color in the US,” the initia- organization; and those who tions will be funded. tive’s executive director Ilana are affiliated with organiza- “Existing funding support Kaufman said in a statement. tions in the Jewish community. systems are not necessarily “We need to get funds into Funding will be in the range operating in equitable ways,” the hands of the most vulner- of $250-$2,500 and is for indi- Kaufman explained. b MEN’S section during Monday morning services at the Hatikva Synagogue. able, many of whom struggle viduals facing hardship and an ©The Jerusalem Post (CARMEL MADASHAHI)

Condescension (Continued from Page 17) ming from a fairer complexion, tion, his political foes dismissed having the opposite of the in- True, they were thumbing answer the question of why the divide existed more along his base as ill-bred sheep. The tended effect, the left changed their noses at the prosecutors, they made such an effort to class lines than racial ones. same dismissive approach is its course. Pretending not to the police and the press for show up — in uncomfortable Begin, an erudite Ashke- employed today in relation to have contempt for Likud voters, hounding Netanyahu with surgical masks, no less — and nazi, was having none of it. He those who back Netanyahu, it aimed all its arrows at Net- charges that they deem bogus. protest. No, the reason that Ho- warmly embraced the support whether they are Mizrahim, anyahu by creating the “any- As he has pointed out and they locaust survivors and teenagers of the Mizrahim, whose posi- Ashkenazim or a mixture of body but Bibi” camp. agree, the idea that he commit- came together with cab drivers tions he respected. The feeling both, which most Israelis are Vilifying the man and not ted bribery, fraud and breach and teachers to wave placards was mutual. For them, he rep- by now. Siding with Likud sup- his followers was a neat trick. of trust in order to obtain fa- and make their voices heard resented a tough leader who re- posedly is tantamount to lack- It was even quite successful, as vorable media coverage is be- was not solely to bolster Bibi. fused to kowtow to anti-Semites ing nuance of thought, being Gantz’s meteoric rise illustrates. yond ludicrous, especially in It was also an act of defiant — a proud Jew who believed swayed by slogans rather than But it went too far, as the left’s his particular case. And the self-assertion against the forces in Jewish power and rejected independently contemplating machinations often do. fact that he received gifts from of condescension. b dhimmitude (second-class sta- complex issues and weighing This brings us back to the rich acquaintances is negligi- Ruthie Blum is an Israel-based tus) in any form. their consequences. demonstrators who descended ble, maybe deserving of a fine, journalist and author of “To Unable to attack Begin for Realizing that this attitude en masse on the courthouse at most. Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, lacking class, culture or educa- towards the hapless herd was this week. This, however, doesn’t fully Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring.’ ”

Social Virus (Continued from Page 16) getting worse over the past fewer Holocaust survivors are at something or were rejected, dozen years. By the time 11 Jews around to give firsthand tes- right away it was somehow a were gunned down in October timony about how unchecked Jew’s fault. They owned the 2018 in a synagogue in Pitts- anti-Semitism branches off into world.” burgh — “the most anti-Semitic utter horror. A final word is given to the act I’d seen in this country in In the France portion of widow of Philippe Braham, one my two decades as a journal- “Viral,” Goldberg interviews a of four French Jews killed in ist,” he said — this film project brother of the shooter in the 2015 the attack on Hyper Cacher, a was already underway. In his assault on the Hyper Cacher ko- kosher supermarket in Paris. view, anti-Jewish sentiment in sher grocery in Paris. Asked to “We don’t walk in the streets the non-Jewish world is always describe the motivations of his easily like we used to,” she says. “only a couple of centimeters jihadist brother, Abdel Ghani “I won’t let my sons wear the below the surface” at any given Merah describes the North Af- kippah. I won’t say their names time, though social forces may rican immigrant milieu of their out loud.” push it down. parents, who brought to France Valerie Braham then adds: “The biggest mute button on a post-colonial belief that West- “For me it’s just pointless hatred anti-Semitism was the Holocaust ern nations, Israel and global of the Jews. There are no real itself,” he said, adding that it Jewry were allied against the reasons.” led to “better behavior” toward Arab world. For those who see it, will this Jews in most of the Western “Hatred of Jews was legiti- film provide some kind of vac- world for more than 50 years. mate in my parents’ eyes,” he cine, so to speak, against an- In “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations,” Rabbi Elisar Admon shows the “And the precursor [to those says, while distancing himself ti-Semitism? hole where a bullet pierced his prayer book during the Tree of Life syna- prejudices surfacing] is societ- from that view (in fact, he has That is the perennial hope — gogue shooting in Pittsburgh. “It went right through the word for G—d,” ies becoming more polarized.” committed his life to countering the panacea we are all waiting he said. (PBS) Another factor, he said, is that anti-Semitism). “If they failed for. b

Movements (Continued from Page 17) culture. peoplehood that existed at the premature. Moreover, the tri- way to know for sure the shape onism, that will undermine While the faux optimism that core of the formation of the umphalism that emanates from or the direction of the insti- both Jewish unity and the mocks talk of the “ever-dying” major movements. the Orthodox world often gives tutions that will survive, al- ability of the community to American Jew should be dis- The contrast between a de- short shrift to the way both beit on a smaller scale. And preserve itself. missed, the notion that the mographically growing Or- Reform and Conservative Ju- there is good reason to worry But those fears notwithstand- seminaries, synagogues and thodox sector and a declin- daism helped create a powerful about whether the surviving ing, no one should underesti- other Jewish forums are no ing non-Orthodox world can’t philanthropic community on structures will be as focused mate the ability of Jews to adapt longer capable of producing a be denied. But the idea that which they are also dependent. on nurturing the essentials of and evolve, even if what follows vibrant intellectual ferment is Orthodoxy is rapidly replac- The pandemic has speeded Jewish peoplehood and con- may be as strange to us as the false. The question is whether ing Reform and Conservative up the winnowing of Amer- nections with Israel as they American Jewish world of today that will be infused with the Judaism as the main Jewish ican Jewish life that was al- should be. If only Orthodoxy would be to those who came same strong sense of Jewish address for American is still ready in motion. There’s no remains comfortable with Zi- before us. b Page 20 • THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May, 28, 2020