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WWW.HERITAGEFL.COM YEAR 44, NO. 49 AUGUST 7, 2020 17 AV, 5780 ORLANDO, FLORIDA SINGLE COPY 75¢ Patricia Sigman runs for state Senate By Christine DeSouza

Longwood resident Patricia R. Sigman is a Democratic candidate on the primary ballot for state Senate, Dis- trict 9. There is one opponent running against her for the seat and she is hopeful voters will turn out for the Aug. 18 primary elections to get her name on the ballot for the elections on Nov. 3. Sigman is a long-standing member of this community. She and her husband, Phil, have been affiliated with Temple Israel and also Con- gregation of Reform Judaism. Patricia Sigman “Seminole County is our home and our roots here run tive. She is a small business The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous will air from July 27 to Aug. 31, 2020 one of its award-winning documentaries deep,” she told Heritage. “The owner (Sigman & Sigman, highlighting Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews during World War II and the Holocaust. Sigman family has been here P.A. in Altamonte Springs), since the early 1960s.” a voter protection leader, Sigman, a board-certified community volunteer, and Labor & Employment lawyer with her husband, Phil, has Online movie series to feature rescuers and a civil mediator for 26 raised three children — all years, has seen all aspects of of whom attended Seminole law from the business, com- and rescued during years of Holocaust munity and personal perspec- Sigman on page 14A (JNS) — The Jewish Foundation for the to themselves and their families—to save goal was two-fold: to share stories Righteous is launching a Monday-night Jews,” said JFR executive vice president of heroism and raise awareness of movie series, from July 27 to Aug. 21, Stanlee Stahl. history during the years of the Ho- Storage center dates each week airing one of its award-winning The films focus on the heroism of locaust, when 6 million Jews, among documentaries that highlight Righteous rescuers Melpomeni Gianopoulou others, perished at the hands of Nazi from Kingdom of Judah Gentiles who saved Jews during World (Greece), airing on July 27; Master Sgt. Germany. War II and the Holocaust. Roddie Edmonds (Knoxville, Tenn.), The films have previously been The series is specifically designed for airing on Aug. 3; Krystyna Jakubowska screened in classrooms and at film fes- the group’s Facebook page in an effort (Poland), airing on Aug. 10; and Helena tivals. This is the first time they will be to educate followers on the dangers of Weglowska (Poland), airing on Aug. 17. available to the general public. anti-Semitism or hateful speech towards The page will also screen a documentary They will premiere as Facebook “Watch ethnic or religious groups. celebrating the life of Roman Kent, the Parties” on Mondays at 8 p.m. Eastern “Social-media platforms, such as Holocaust survivor and president of the Standard Time, starting July 27 and Facebook, have become a hotbed for anti- JFR on Aug. 24. running through Aug. 24. There is no Semitic rants, so we believe what better The JFR production team traveled fee to participate. place to bring education and powerful throughout Europe, Israel and North To see the films, visit https://www. stories of men and women from all walks America to interview the rescued, facebook.com/JewishFoundationForTh- of life who rose above hate—at great peril the rescuers and their families. Their eRighteous. Florida Film Festival features a short Yaniv Berman, Israel Antiquities Authority Clay figurines of women and animals found at the Armona film by ‘hometown girl’ Talia Osteen excavation site in Jerusalem, July 2020. (JNS) — In excavations BCE. The excavations revealed By Christine DeSouza under the guidance of Cantor time to show a different, in Jerusalem near the U.S. an unusually large structure Allan Robuck of Congregation more joyful side of Orthodox embassy conducted by the with 120 jar handles bearing The Central Florida Jewish Ohev Shalom. Each of the girls Judaism than the oppressive Israel Antiquities Authority, seal impressions in one of the community knew and loved eventually went their own way and grave picture that’s more more than 120 of some of the most important archeological Talia Osteen as one of the and Osteen moved to New often portrayed in the media. largest and most important collections ever uncovered as three members of the singing York, then to California, to Surprisingly, one of the collections of seal impressions part of archaeological work group Visions, which began pursue her career in the film co-stars has relatives here stamped on jars were discov- in Israel. industry. She successfully in Central Florida. Yisrael ered, revealing information Naria Sapir and Nathan starred in five national TV Dubov (sound familiar?) plays into tax collection in the pe- Ben-Ari, directors of the series, and also formed the the fiancé of Chana, the main riod of the Judean monarchs excavations on behalf of the band The Wellspring, which character of the film. Dubov some 2,700 years ago. Israel Antiquities Authority, released five albums and was cast in the role before The impressions were said: “This is one of the most composed scores for several Osteen realized his father is stamped with the letters significant discoveries from TV series. Turning her atten- Rabbi Sholom Dubov. The “LMLK” — meaning “to the the period of the Kings in Je- tion to working behind the film is featured in the Florida King” — and were written in rusalem made in recent years. camera as a writer, director, Film Festival at the Enzian on ancient Hebrew script, along At the site we excavated, there and producer, she has co- Sunday, Aug. 9 at 3:30 p.m. with the name of the ancient are signs that governmental produced and co-created a (socially distanced & masked city in the Kingdom of Judah. activity managed and distrib- feature comedy film and a Talia Osteen with limited seating), fol- The excavations are funded uted food supplies not only for TV series with her wife, Sara lowed by a Q & A with the by the Israel Land Authority a shortage, but administered Hess, a producer and writer help amplify the voices of filmmakers. This year, virtual and administrated by the Mo- agricultural surplus amassing on “Orange is the New Black.” women filmmakers. attendance is also an option. riah Jerusalem Development commodities and wealth.” Osteen has now brought Osteen said she was What makes “The Shabbos Corporation. “Evidence shows that at her love of Judaism and sto- prompted by the Powderkeg: Goy” different from other Other seals are associated this site,” they continued, rytelling together through a Fuse incubator program to movies involving Orthodox with private individuals and “taxes were collected in an comedic and cinematic lens make a comedy about a micro women is that Osteen decided bear the name of senior offi- orderly manner for agricul- in “The Shabbos Goy,” which community in Los Angeles, she needed to make the Shab- cials of the Kingdom of Judah tural produce, such as wine she wrote and directed, and and Osteen seized the op- bos goy do something funnier or wealthy individuals from and olive oil.” was produced through the portunity to do what she says than flipping a light switch. the First Temple period. highly competitive Pow- she loves best in her storytell- (You have to see the film to The administrative storage derkeg: Fuse incubator pro- ing — subvert expectations. find out what’s so shockingly center dates back to the days of gram, launched by comedy Particularly in a time where funny.) Kings Hezekiah and Manasseh filmmaker Paul Feig (“Brides- anti-Semitism is on the rise, in the eighth century to the maids,” “Ghostbusters”) to it felt to her like a prescient Osteen on page 15A middle of the seventh century PAGE 2A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 ‘He told me to call him Cube’: ZOA chief Mort Klein details his talk with Ice Cube after Farrakhan tweets

By Shira Hanau said was set up by a mutual after the CNN anchor tweeted friend he declined to name, is about Farrakhan’s propensity (JTA) — Mort Klein didn’t the latest in a series of public for hate speech, Klein said he know much about Ice Cube rapprochements between would ask Ice Cube about it. when he got on the phone with Black celebrities accused of “That’s troubling,” Klein him on Monday afternoon, but anti-Semitism and prominent said. “Please send that to me, by the end of their two-hour Jews. Earlier this month, Nick I’m not aware of this.” conversation, Klein said he Cannon sat down with a Los By Tuesday morning, he was convinced the rapper was Angeles rabbi to learn about spoke with the rapper again. not anti-Semitic. Judaism. The host of the real- Klein said Ice Cube told him In fact, the president of ity singing competition show “he deeply regrets putting that the right-wing Zionist Orga- “The Masked Singer” had out” and that he admitted to nization of America said, the made anti-Semitic comments wrongly ignoring Farrakhan’s rapper had invited Klein and on his podcast for which he anti-Semitism because of his his wife to dinner — once the later apologized. support for Farrakhan’s mes- pandemic is over. This call was different from sage of Black self-reliance. “He called me Mort,” Klein others for several reasons, in But Klein said he would not told the Jewish Telegraphic part because Klein himself be satisfied until Ice Cube put Agency. “He told me to call has been accused of making out a statement condemning him Cube.” bigoted comments, including Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism, “Strange bedfellows” would about Black people. which he hoped would hap- Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images be too mild a term to describe “Cube told me he supports pen. Ice Cube performs at the Louder Than Life Music Festival in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 28, 2019. the new relationship between condemning Black&all anti- On the earlier call, Klein the two men. semitism& I condemned all said, the two discussed Far- “All he said is I’m not a “a Jew hating, White hating, heid. Klein said Ice Cube had Ice Cube has drawn wide- racism,” he wrote in a tweet rakhan in broad terms in ad- Farrakhan follower and I Israel hating, conservative agreed that the platform was spread condemnation after describing the conversation. dition to criticism the rapper don’t support any of this,” Black hating, violence pro- “terrible,” though the rapper repeatedly tweeting anti- The pair also did not share has faced for tweeting other Klein said. moting, dangerous Soros has repeatedly tweeted his Semitic images and support a recording, as others have anti-Semitic messages and Klein said Ice Cube appreci- funded extremist group of support for the movement. for Nation of Islam leader done. But Ice Cube acknowl- images. In June, the rapper ated a story he told about how haters.” While the rapper’s long af- Louis Farrakhan, who has edged the conversation in a tweeted a picture of a mural he had been a decent athlete in Klein said he told Ice Cube finity for Farrakhan disturbed disparaged Jews over the tweet Tuesday in which he showing a group of white the Black neighborhood of his about the “horrible” Black Klein, he said he believes Ice years, including comparing praised Klein for his advocacy. men with large noses sitting youth, but when he moved to a Lives Matter platform, refer- Cube is sincere in his con- them to termites. Meanwhile, Going into the call, Klein around a card table held up white Jewish neighborhood he ring to the 2016 platform by demnation of anti-Semitism. members of a leading Jewish did not know the extent of by Black men. The mural was became an “outstanding” one. the Movement for Black Lives, He even told Klein that he group have filed complaints Ice Cube’s support for Far- removed after critics accused The two also discussed the an activist group represents supports the right of Israel to against Klein and the Zionist rakhan, including in some the artist of depicting the men Black Lives Matter movement, some groups but not the entire exist as a Jewish state, which Organization of America for recent tweets. at the table with stereotypi- according to Klein, who has Black Lives Matter move- excited the right-wing Zionist. tweets and statements they Told late Monday about a cally anti-Semitic features. called the movement “an ment. Some Jewish groups “He’s not everything I say were Islamophobic and Twitter exchange last month Klein said Ice Cube told him antisemitic, Israel hating have described the platform would want him to be,” Klein racist. in which the rapper told Jake he hadn’t realized the mural Soros funded racist extremist as anti-Semitic for accusing said. “But he’s moving in that The phone call, which Klein Tapper to “watch your mouth” was anti-Semitic. Israelophobic hate group” and Israel of genocide and apart- direction.” Thousands join 48-hour #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate Twitter boycott to protest anti-Semitism on the platform By Marcy Oster, Before going dark, Mirvis Oberman announced the panies are not doing enough wide attention — and also tions. Twitter has temporari- Penina Beede posted a letter to Twitter CEO boycott on Saturday using the to counter the spread of hate criticism that it effectively ly banned Wiley from posting Jack Dorsey calling for action hashtag #NoSafeSpaceFor- speech on their platforms. silenced the movement’s sup- and deleted his anti-Semitic (JTA) — After their vo- against anti-Semitism on the JewHate. Over the weekend, I’ll be taking part in the 48 porters at a time when their tweets after leaving them cal calls for Twitter to take platform he co-founded more hundreds if not thousands hour walk out from @Twitter voices were needed. up for nearly two days. And down rapper Wiley’s spree of than a decade ago. “Your of people declared their in- in solidarity with the Jewish That criticism also one of the United Kingdom’s anti-Semitic tweets went un- inaction amounts to complic- tention to participate. They community.” emerged in response to the most powerful politicians, answered, Jews in the United ity,” Mirvis wrote. included both Jews and non- And Sarah Brown, the non- #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate Home Secretary Priti Patel, Kingdom are taking another The protest took root Jewish allies. profit leader who is married boycott. has called on the social approach: silence. after Jewish actress Tracy- “I have been in awe of to a former prime minister, “This is so misconceived media company to explain British Jewish activists and Ann Oberman, who became the spirit, organisation and encouraged her 1 million that it almost feels deliber- the delay. their allies — including high- famous for her role on “East- mobilisation of British Jews followers to participate. “Best ate,” @MaxSparber tweeted Anti-Semitism on social profile celebrities, both Jewish Enders,” tweeted on Friday as they stood up against way to be an ally now is to join in response to Oberman’s an- media platforms has emerged and non-Jewish — are staging night that she was consid- the rising tide of antisemi- this 48 hour Twitter walkout nouncement. “We don’t fight as a pressing issue for groups a 48-hour boycott of Twitter ering abandoning Twitter tism, tearing the mask of in solidarity with the Jewish bad speech by deplatforming working to quell what is un- to protest the platform’s han- over Wiley’s two-day spree the so-called ‘antizionists, community,” she wrote. “An- ourselves.” derstood to be a global rise dling of anti-Semitic posts. of aggressively anti-Semitic not antisemites’ to prevent tisemitism is unacceptable. “Antisemitism flourishes in anti-Semitic activity. But Among the people and posts. Britain from dangerous de- So I am off for 48 hours. Hope most in places where Jews leading groups in the United organizations going silent A British activist named scent,” tweeted Einat Wilf, you are too.” are absent. Easy to be an States have lately been focus- until Wednesday are Brit- Saul Freeman approached the former member of Israel’s The effort is reminiscent ‘other’ when we’re not there,” ing on Facebook, the largest ish Chief Rabbi Ephraim Oberman with the idea of parliament. “For them: #No- of Blackout Tuesday, the day tweeted @avishaiw. “Sooo … platform, where the Anti- Mirvis and his predecessor the boycott, the Jewish News SafePlaceForJewHate.” last month in which many Gonna continue to be here. Defamation League and the Jonathan Sacks, members reported. Freeman had pre- The British singer-song- social media users responded Not walking out. And I’d ad- NAACP are in the middle of of Parliament, Israeli elected viously focused his energy writer Billy Bragg retweeted to a call to post black squares vise other Jews not to walk leading a monthlong adver- officials and leading Jewish largely on advocating against a message from a Holocaust to show their solidarity out. Sorry.” tiser boycott that appears to organizations in Canada and anti-Semitism in England’s education organization and with the Black Lives Matter The protest has already have cut into the company’s the United States. Labour Party. wrote, “Social media com- movement. That display drew yielded some concrete ac- bottom line. Israel donates third water generator to Gaza Strip (JNS) — According to the was inaugurated in Febru- director of the Arava Institute, that the quality of the drink- U.N. Trade and Development ary of this year. The second says that “water security is the ing water is the best seen in Commission, some 95 percent generator was installed at first step towards addressing the Gaza Strip in years. of Gaza’s groundwater supply the Rantisi Medical Center the environmental and natu- Watergen and the Arava is found to be unfit for con- in Gaza City two months ago. ral resource challenges that Institute are in contact with sumption. The Gaza Strip suf- The third generator was lead to destabilization in the international funding agen- fers from a water shortage in delivered on Sunday. region.” cies and have proposed a general and a drinking water The unit donated through An atmospheric water gen- plan for providing hundreds shortage in particular. this collaborative philan- erator captures the humid- of AWGs to Gaza to produce Israeli-Palestinian coop- thropic effort is the largest ity in the atmosphere and hundreds of thousands of eration, including the Wa- Watergen generator to date. transforms it into potable liters of high-quality potable tergen Company, the Arava It’s able to produce 5,000 liters water. Due to problems with water a day to help relieve the Israelis delivered a third water generator to the Gaza Strip Institute for Environmen- of water a day for the Nasser electricity in Gaza, this Water- scarcity of clean water. on July 26, 2020. tal Studies and Palestinian Medical Center in Khan You- gen unit will feature a solar- The project is part of the partners, delivered its first nis, Gaza’s second-largest panel system, as did the ones Track II Environmental Fo- tions; the Humanitarian Aid president and owner of Wa- generator, which produces hospital, which currently donated previously, so that rum funded by the European Committee of Neve Shalom- tergen, says that as the Torah clean drinking water from purchases its drinking water the generator can be operated Union. Wahat al-Salam and Friends teaches: “We must be kind to the atmosphere, to the Mu- from vendors in tankers at a during power outages. The new water generator Associations; and Richard and our neighbors, even helping nicipality of Abasan Al-Kabira prohibitively high cost. Recent water tests pro- has been funded by Jeffrey Nancy Moskowitz. them before we help others in Gaza in December 2019. It David Lehrer, executive duced by the first pilot show Abramson and his founda- Dr. Michael Mirilashvili, around the world.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 3A DNC platform will not condition US aid to Israel on sovereignty, but will seek return to Iran deal

By Jackson Richman “We believe that while Jeru- bias against Israel as one of will support their political and cratic Council of America were defeated and the final salem is a matter for final the primary factors for the economic modernization and applauded the party platform, text reflects Joe Biden and (JNS) — In a move that status negotiations, it should withdrawal. encourage efforts to reduce while the Republican Jewish Democrats’ strong support bodes well for Israel, the remain the capital of Israel, On Iran, the platform calls regional tensions. But we have Coalition faulted it. of Israel.” Democratic National Com- an undivided city accessible for “returning to mutual no interest in continuing the “From Joe Biden on down RJC spokesperson Neil mittee’s platform committee to people of all faiths.” compliance” with the 2015 blank-check era of the Trump the ticket, Democrats run- Strauss told JNS, “Democrats voted on Monday to reject This reflects the stance of Iran nuclear deal, which administration, or indulging ning on this 2020 platform can put whatever they want additional language that the presumptive Democratic the United States withdrew authoritarian impulses, in- will capture the imagination in their platform; we know, would make the party’s presidential nominee, former from in May 2018, reimpos- ternal rivalries, catastrophic and earn the votes of a decisive by their actions, what their stance on the Jewish state U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, ing sanctions lifted under proxy wars, or efforts to roll majority of Americans,” said party stands for. Joe Biden more critical. that the U.S. embassy, which it along with enacting new back political openings across DMFI president and CEO Mark has invited Bernie Sanders’ The committee voted 117- U.S. President Donald Trump financial penalties in what the region.” Mellman in a statement. “This viciously anti-Israel foreign- 34 to reject adding the word moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusa- the Trump administration has Finally, the platform states platform continues and ex- policy team onto his team. “occupation” and a condition lem in May 2018, five months called a “maximum pressure” that the Democrats will work pands upon our party’s proud Nancy Pelosi endorsed the of U.S. assistance to Israel on after recognizing Jerusalem campaign. to combat bigotry, including tradition, and Joe Biden’s long most anti-Semitic member of the Jewish state not going as Israel’s capital, should “The nuclear deal was towards Jews. history, of supporting a strong her caucus, [Minnesota Rep.] ahead with its plans to apply remain there. always meant to be the begin- “We will give hate no safe U.S.-Israel relationship.” Ilhan Omar. sovereignty to parts of the The platform expresses ning, not the end, of our di- harbor. We will never amplify “The Democratic Party “Supposedly pro-Israel West Bank, also known as opposition to “any effort to plomacy with Iran,” reads the or legitimize the voices of has always been the political groups on the left have stood Judea and Samaria. unfairly single out and dele- platform. “Democrats support bigotry, racism, misogyny, home for Jewish voters, and by and tacitly supported the The platform includes gitimize Israel, including at a comprehensive diplomatic anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, the final version of the 2020 biggest pro-BDS voices in language that expresses the United Nations or through effort to extend constraints or white supremacy,” reads Democratic Platform makes the party, [Michigan Rep.] support for the U.S.-Israel the Boycott, Divestment and on Iran’s nuclear program and the platform. “Democrats it clear just why that will Rashida Tlaib and Omar,” he relationship, a pledge to Sanctions [BDS] movement, address Iran’s other threaten- will protect and promote continue,” JDCA vice chair continued. “So they can go maintain security funding while protecting the consti- ing activities, including its the equal rights of all our Barbara Goldberg Goldman, ahead and push off the pro- for Israel and backing for tutional right of our citizens regional aggression, ballistic citizens—women, LGBTQ+ who served on the 2020 gressive wing from putting on a two-state solution “that to free speech.” missile program, and domes- people, religious minorities, Democratic Platform Stand- paper that the Democrat Party ensures Israel’s future as a However, the Democrats tic repression.” people with disabilities, Native ing Committee, told JNS. is no longer a pro-Israel party, Jewish and democratic state call for the United States to Moreover, the platform ex- Americans, and all who have Goldman went on to say but the party leadership has with recognized borders and rejoin the U.N. Human Rights presses a “need to reset our re- been discriminated against that the platform is “un- already shown the world that upholds the right of Palestin- Council, which the Trump ad- lations with our Gulf partners in too many ways and for too equivocal in its support of the Democrats have abandoned ians to live in freedom and ministration withdrew from to better advance our interests many generations.” U.S.-Israel relationship and Israel.” security in a viable state of in June 2018 with then-U.S. and values. The United States Republicans fault support the wide range of domestic The platform will be for- their own.” Ambassador to the United has an interest in helping for Tlaib, Omar policy issues of importance to mally approved by delegates Regarding the status of Je- Nations Nikki Haley citing our partners contend with Democratic Majority for Jewish voters. A small handful at next month’s Democratic rusalem, the platform states: the world body’s “chronic” legitimate security threats; we Israel and the Jewish Demo- of Israel-related amendments National Convention. Holocaust survivors launch campaign to fight Holocaust denial on Facebook By Toby Axelrod gram (owned by Facebook) because “I don’t think that Kent, the U.S.-based head of In response to the ad Seltzer said the public and Twitter. they’re intentionally getting the American Gathering of boycott, Zuckerberg and is vulnerable to distortion, BERLIN (JTA) — Joining The campaign is being it wrong.” Jewish Holocaust Survivors; Facebook Chief Operating Of- since many don’t know the a growing chorus of critical billed as the first-ever digital The Claims Conference is Charlotte Knobloch, former ficer Sheryl Sandberg agreed history. voices, Holocaust survivors campaign by survivors. Some arguing that Holocaust denial head of the Central Council to hold a Zoom meeting She was hidden in Poland have launched an inter- 50 have signed on to the proj- is intentional and therefore of Jews in Germany; and Aus- with ADL National Director as a child and was reunited national online campaign ect so far. a violation of Facebook’s chwitz survivor Eva Schloss Jonathan Greenblatt, NAACP with her mother after the criticizing Facebook CEO “People believe what they community standards. Sev- of Vienna, who lives today in President and CEO Derrick war. Seltzer is the founder Mark Zuckerberg that is see on Facebook,” Stefanie eral groups, including the London. Johnson and others on July 8. and president of the World aimed at countering Holo- Seltzer, a Polish-born survivor Anti-Defamation League, “I lost all my family. Many, Participants reportedly came Federation of Jewish Child caust denial on his social and activist, told the Jewish recently turned on the pres- many family members. There away disappointed. Survivors of the Holocaust media platform. Telegraphic Agency in a phone sure, launching a successful is no denying it!” Schloss says Zuckerberg has not yet met and Descendants. Starting Wednesday, a interview from California. advertising boycott as part in a video. with survivors to discuss the “The rise in anti-Semitism campaign sponsored by the “What happened cannot be of the “Stop Hate for Profit” “Holocaust denial is noth- matter, according to Greg and all kinds of discrimina- Conference on Jewish Mate- denied.” campaign in June. ing short of hate dialogue,” Schneider, the head of the tion is very worrying to us,” rial Claims Against Germany Pressure has grown on the The ADL has detailed large Kent says in another. Claims Conference. she said. called “There’s No Denying social media giant since Zuck- groups of Holocaust deniers It #NoDenyingIt” will upload erberg told the technology who gather on the platform. video testimony daily from website Recode in July 2018 Among those taking part CLOG-FREE GUTTERS survivors across the globe that while he found Holocaust in the campaign are Serge to social media platforms denial “deeply offensive,” he Klarsfeld, a prominent survi- OR YOUR MONEY BACK including Facebook, Insta- didn’t want to take it down vor and Nazi hunter; Roman GUARANTEED! Why is anti-Israel video part

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Caschetta 1951) in the United States, and in his letters incorporated George Floyd into their mes- Turkey’s Islamist president, Recep Tayyip to friends back in Egypt, he often complained saging. Hesham Shehab and Benjamin Baird Erdogan, always looking for an opportunity to (JNS) — We Americans seem quite capable about anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiments have documented how numerous Islamists detract attention from the millions of Chris- of separating ourselves into fractious groups in America. But, as many have noted, those in one city, Chicago, “have minimized and tians killed by the Ottoman Empire that he without the help of our enemies, but that hasn’t letters also show Qutb’s own racial bigotry, as excused [their own] abhorrent behavior while hopes to resurrect, as well as from the brutali- stopped many, especially the Islamists of the when he claims, “Jazz is the American music, exploiting Floyd’s death.” ties committed by his own regime, denounced world, from using the death of George Floyd created by Negroes to satisfy their primitive Shebab’s and Baird’s research focuses on in English “the racist and fascist approach that to fuel our divides. instincts—their love of noise and their appetite the ways that pro-Palestinian activists and led to the death of George Floyd in the U.S. city U.S. Attorney General William for sexual arousal.” groups (American Muslims for Palestine, of Minneapolis as a result of torture,” adding, Barr warned on June 4, that “hackers … When Sudanese Al-Qaeda member Dr. Chicago’s Students for Justice in Palestine, “We will be monitoring the issue.” associated with foreign governments” have Jamal al-Fadl walked into the U.S. Embassy Chicago’s Mosque Foundation) “whitewash This is rich, coming from the leader of a been using Floyd’s death, “playing all sides to in Eritrea in June 1996 to turn himself in the normalization of anti-black hate within country that openly discriminates against exacerbate the violence.” and give evidence against the terrorist group, their own communities, while simultaneously Kurds. As Pinar Tremblay put it in Al-Monitor, Later that day, something alarmed the New one of his chief complaints against Osama paying lip service to the cause of racial justice “Listening to music in Kurdish or attempting Jersey Office of Homeland Security enough bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda leadership was and equality.” to speak Kurdish in the wrong neighborhood for it to tweet a warning about “fake social rampant discrimination against black African From the moment that video footage of can get one killed in Turkey.” media accounts … post[ing] content in order members, who received lower salaries and less Floyd’s death went viral, Palestinian activ- What would the response be in Turkey to a to instill fear and panic.” comprehensive health care benefits than the ists throughout the United States and abroad “Kurdish Lives Matter” movement? But for all the covert activity going on, a Arabs in the group. tried to turn the subsequent protests against At the outset of its Islamic revolution, great deal of it is out in the open for all to see. Sensing an opportunity to propagandize, police brutality into an American intifada and Iran used race to divide Americans. Among Like the looters in Minneapolis, New York Al-Qaeda released a letter on June 29 ad- Floyd himself into a shaheed (martyr). Some the hostages seized at the U.S. Embassy in and Los Angeles, who didn’t care about George dressed to “the oppressed, the vulnerable and “protesters” in American cities have displayed Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, were nine African- Floyd beyond the opportunity that his death the revolutionaries of the American people.” Palestinian flags, worn Palestinian keffiyehs Americans, all of whom were released on Nov. provided for their personal enrichment, many The letter applauds protesters and rioters and even adopted Palestinian tactics, like the 20, except for Charles Jones, who was captured Islamists in the United States and abroad have for rising up “against racists and the arrogant Molotov-cocktail-throwing Palestinian activist in the communications vault and therefore hypocritically and brazenly seized on Floyd’s White House,” and encourages them to “estab- lawyer Urooj Rahman. Likewise, Floyd’s image considered an important spy. But first they death as a stone to throw at American society lish justice with their own hands.” has been photographed throughout the Pales- were subjected to an entire day of lectures on from within their own glasshouses. Echoing bin Laden’s frequent peace offerings tinian territories, and his name has become the evils of American imperialism and then Islamists, of course, are not immune to to America, the Al-Qaeda missive offers Islam as a regular component of anti-Israel protests. paraded before reporters to read statements racist ideas. The most respected Islamist in- the cure for America’s racial strife, “because it is a In a Friday, June 12, 2020 sermon that aired and answer questions, sitting under a ban- tellectual among the Al-Qaeda-Islamic State religion which ensures that people live in freedom, on Palestine Today TV, Gaza Islamic scholar ner that read: “Oppressed blacks!! The United set is Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966), who was also dignity and peace, and doesn’t allow discrimina- Dr. Taher al-Lulu lectured his audience about States government is our common enemy.” the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential tion of any sort between white and black.” “racial discrimination imposed by Trump and One of the men, USMC Sgt. William Quarles, ideologue. Qutb spent almost four years (1948- In the United States, Islamists have also the whites.” was manipulated into saying things he later He could barely contain his glee that “for 10 regretted. days, America has been engulfed in flames. … Iran jumped hard on the George Floyd We pray to Allah that these flames will burn Pandemic of Hate the sons of Zion, America.” Floyd on page 14A By Rabbi Efrem Goldberg the most extraordinary human beings many Aish Hatorah Resources of us have ever known. Earlier this week, at the bris of Brian’s first grandson, poignantly We can either choose to divide or connect. named in his memory, Brian’s father spoke. Dividers spew hate, connectors share love. He described Brian as an amazing connector Shipley speaks People can be divided into two categories: in every direction, with his wife, with parents, connectors and dividers. grandparents, aunts and uncles above, with Jim Shipley Connectors look for commonalities, divid- siblings and cousins to his side, with children, ers focus on differences. Connectors give the nieces and nephews below, with friends, co- benefit of the doubt, dividers look to find workers, and neighbors, those to the left and fault. Connectors let things go, dividers bear to the right of him religiously and politically, You, Me and God grudges. Connectors look to compliment, with those in front or behind him in life. dividers look to criticize. Connectors feel good Leading up to his yahrzeit, I have spoken Let me put the disclaimer out first: I am no If you are a Jew by birth, chances are you through (not surprisingly) connecting, and with several of his friends of diverse back- biblical scholar — I am no expert on ancient carry some of my DNA. The Jews who emigrated dividers thrive by fostering division. grounds, lifestyles, and levels of religious Jewish history. So, this column is really in to the U.S. from Europe, when they found a Dividers spew hate, bully, call names, and observance. One of the commonalities of them the form of a few questions about belief and fellow Jew they would exclaim: “Lantzman!” practice discrimination, bias and injustice. all is each feeling that Brian was their best my own life. meaning someone from the same land — and Connectors share love, fight for equality, friend. Brian found something in everyone to I have stated before that I was raised in a they were not referring to what is now Ukraine stand up to justice, protect the vulnerable, and connect with. He was a Torah scholar who took totally non-religious environment. God, in or Poland or what is now Hungary. We were love even those they struggle to like. Dividers Torah learning and living incredibly seriously my house, was an afterthought. Outside of never welcomed in any of those places. often disguise their predilection for conflict as and connected with so many who shared that having fist fights on a daily basis when he was No, they were referring to the ancient and fighting for principles. This is a smokescreen. passion and identity. He was an athlete who growing up because he was a Jew, my father Holy Land of Israel. Holy? That meant some- Connectors have values and ideologies and are excelled in basketball, golf and running and had no other relationship with Faith. As I have thing different. That meant that it was God, genuinely principled, but they are committed could relate to so many teammates, competi- written, his father, my grandfather Abraham not Jews or the United Nations that declared to find a commonality with others who may not tors, friends and acquaintances who enjoyed Shiplacoff was an ardent Socialist. the mandate. It came not from “Man” but from share the same values and principles without playing and following sports. He was a brilliant Then, in 1948, shortly before my 18th God. That is a theological argument that has compromising what they themselves believe. physician who didn’t just provide top medical birthday, the State of Israel came into being. been going on for generations and probably Over the last few weeks, the national conver- care but paired it with outstanding human It triggered a sense of pride in my father and will continue far into the future. sation has focused on racism and more recently care, genuinely devoted to his patients and as he was with most things, he was suddenly What is not in dispute is that when the ques- on anti-Semitism and that will hopefully bring beloved by his colleagues, nurses, and staff. all in on everything Jewish. tion of “What to do with the Jews?” became a positive progress. His warm smile, contagious laugh and sin- He had vetoed my bar mitzvah. Friday night matter of serious discussion after the notorious The Talmud (Yoma 9b) tells us that the gular focus while he spoke to you could win was just the end of the week at our house. But, Dreyfus Affair in the late1890s, the world’s “top Second Temple was destroyed because of sinat anyone over, people with whom he had great suddenly, Judaism became a nationalistic, thinkers” turned attention to the largest ethnic chinam, baseless hatred. The people at that similarities and those who on the surface he historical fact to him — and therefore to the group with “no land of their own.” time observed Torah laws and performed seemed to have so little in common. rest of us. Well, the attempt to send Jews who desired mitzvot but grossly mistreated one another. I once asked Brian how he kept that posi- I guess just because of my own curiosity, I to leave the lands of their present residence They were Torah-observant dividers instead tive disposition and attitude all the time, how began a rudimentary study on the new State and move them somewhere else was at best of connectors. he got along with anyone and everyone and of Israel and its historical relationship to the ridiculous. Madagascar? Well, some years What is baseless hatred? When I dislike how he managed to be the eternal optimist Jewish People. I quickly came to realize that later that was where The Nazis wanted to put someone who believes, observes, votes, or lives no matter what reality was presenting. We the last internal government in the Land was the Jews they failed to slaughter. differently than I do, when I hate someone were walking on a golf course at the time the Jewish People. That beyond the religion The First Jewish Congress was held in Basil, who sees things differently, there seems to and he stopped, paused, and said, “I have we were indeed a PEOPLE — matter of fact for Switzerland, in 1890. Wanting to put an end be a real basis for my hatred. Then why is it been working on it since I was young.” Liv- eons before we became a religion. That I had to any argument by non-Jews as to “what to called baseless? ing with faith, he continued, seeing good in DNA shared with my peoplehood. do with the Jews?,” the Delegates simply voted We are coming up on the first yahrzeit of my There are artifacts being constantly dis- the obvious, reaffirming that we already had dear friend, Rabbi Dr. Brian Galbut z”l, one of Hate on page 15A covered that prove that we were indeed that a land of our own. A land that had no internal last indigenous people to rule the land. Years government since we left. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF HERITAGE MANAGEMENT. later at a Round Table meeting I attended, the It took another 58 years to turn that dream Arab at the Round Table talked of his peoples’ into a reality. I came late to the party. Those ✡ ✡ ✡ CENTRAL FLORIDA’S INDEPENDENT JEWISH VOICE ✡ ✡ ✡ “eternal right to the land.” The moderator, a religious Jews who longed to worship at the ISSN 0199-0721 Winner of 50 Press Awards Editor/Publisher non-Jew, quickly intercepted him with this Western Wall were generations ahead of me. Jeffrey Gaeser statement: “Nonsense! The Jews had an orga- The entire Israeli dream, fought by Irgun and

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Tevya said: “On the other hand…” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 5A Parents face impossible choices during the pandemic — we shouldn’t face school-shaming, too By Melissa Henriquez But we’re making it even not be able to make the same to read these phrases online, Schools cannot promise us are a minefield of anger and worse by shaming one an- decisions. I know they aren’t neces- they are safe, no matter how frustration — all of which is This article is part of a col- other, online and offline, As with so many other are- sarily untrue — so much is many precautions they take. understandable but can be laboration between the Jew- for whichever decision they nas, those with money to spare unknown about this virus. But In many states, including my hard to handle. ish Telegraphic Agency and make. Some examples I’ve have additional options in this also, I feel helpless, because I own, the number of cases is Be patient with yourself and Kveller about pandemic par- seen floating about in the difficult scenario, including see no other option. I love my rising. Will the safety precau- the rollercoaster of emotions enting and school reopenings. comments sections of social hiring private teachers or job and I am an equal con- tions be enough for teachers you may be feeling from one HIGHLAND VILLAGE, media: If you plan to send forming exclusive “pandemic tributor to our family income. and students? Will my first- day to the next. None of us Texas (JTA / KVELLER) — I’m your kids to school, you must pods.” Some are looking at Adding insult to injury, I’ve grader realistically be able have lived during a pandemic dubbing “school shaming” the “hate teachers” and “not care Jewish day schools or secular seen posts and articles galore to keep a mask on his face? before. Be kind to others, and new Mommy War of 2020. about their/your children’s private schools as alterna- about how parents like me (He better!) What if school ask questions with empathy. If you’re a parent of school- safety/health/well-being.” But tives. Some are choosing to who are “choosing” to send has to shut because someone You don’t know what internal aged children and you’ve if you plan to keep your kids homeschool. their kids back are “killing contracts the virus? battle they’re facing; don’t been on social media even at home, you’re a “sheep” and But for those kids plan- teachers.” I’ve read about While distance learning shame other parents or go all once in the past few weeks, “living in fear” or “you must ning to stay within the public teachers fearfully drafting may be what a family needs passive-aggressive on them. you know all about the heat- have the luxury of not needing school system, like mine, wills, or considering retiring to do for a variety of reasons, Avoid judging others — just ed and contentious back-to- to work.” there really are no good op- early, or leaving the field be- it simply did not work for because you wouldn’t make school debate that is raging Of course, none of these tions. cause they’re being asked to many families, including the same decision doesn’t fiercely. It’s one of the many things are true — parents are Here in Texas, our school sacrifice themselves in ways ours — not to mention that mean it’s wrong. Everyone truisms of the internet: No all just trying to get through year is slated to start Aug. 19. they never dreamed of. It’s all it’s a mixed bag in terms of has different circumstances matter what parents do, it this crazy time and are doing After a summer of worrying devastating. results. Many students across and different reasons for the will never be good enough what we need to do in order and wondering, we got word In our community, we the country simply don’t have choices they make. for some people. to survive. that our district is offering are fortunate that teachers access to the internet. If we We are desperate for an- As coronavirus cases There are countless articles two options for elementary- have the choice to apply for have to continue on this swers, desperate for a “right continue to rise across the and no clear answers. There aged kids: in-person or vir- a virtual position or remain path, I worry: Will my kids decision” — but honestly, country, school districts are are logical and rational and tual learning. Parents have in the classroom; no one is and others fall behind? Will there isn’t one. There’s only offering varying plans for science-based articles say- to submit their decision this being “forced” to go back. I have to quit my job in order what works for your family the fall. Some are planning ing it’s better to send kids week — and if our local mom From what I am hearing, the to help teach them? How will right now. That might change for in-person instruction; back than not because the groups on Facebook are any overwhelming majority of the our kids socialize? What if in the weeks and months some, like Los Angeles, will be benefits outweigh the risks, indication, any decision is teachers and staff are eager what if what if? ahead. But until we have a vac- online-only; others, like New and logical and rational and going to be the “wrong” one. and ready to go back to school In the end, after consider- cine, this is our new normal, York City, are for now aiming science-based articles saying Talk about Jewish guilt! with all the new precautions in ing the new safety protocols and may be for years to come. for a hybrid of both. it would be a catastrophe to My husband and I both work place — which gives me some and changes that would be in School will look different At this point, parents have send kids back and that the full-time, and our kids are go- comfort. But I’d be lying if I place at our kids’ school, we for everyone this fall. But a gazillion questions and pre- risks outweigh the benefits. ing into fourth and first grade. said I didn’t worry about the decided that we’ll be sending what we need right now, cious few answers. Our lack of “It’s a no-win scenario,” as Juggling work and remote inherent risks they face teach- our kids back to school. more than ever, is empathy. understanding of the novel my dad likes to say. learning was a real challenge ing in the age of coronavirus, Sadly, instead of seeing My wish is for parents to put coronavirus — combined with Every parent is struggling for us. The arrangement was whether they choose to be parents support each other, down the boxing gloves and heightened emotions and a to do what’s right for his semi-functional but not sus- there or not. the hate being lobbed back and agree to be a part of the solu- notable absence of leadership or her family. But now that tainable, and not something The shaming comments forth among parents seems to tion rather than contributing at every level — has seeded an COVID-19 has become so either of us would prefer to break my heart. I hate to be so much harsher than the to the problem. It’s going to all-out hate-fest among par- politicized, in the absence repeat for another school year. think that parents who work mommy wars of the past. So take a village. ents. That’s particularly true of accountable leadership, I’m anxious when I think and need our kids to learn what is a concerned parent to The views and opinions among moms, who are, more especially at the top, Ameri- about how the choice to send from actual educators are at do besides throw their hands expressed in this article are often than not, tasked with can parents of all political our kids back to school as the root of their collective up and cry? those of the author and do not overseeing their children’s stripes are simply throwing “guinea pigs” or “part of some anxiety … but that very well Don’t read any comments necessarily reflect the views education (among many, barbs at one another instead social experiment” will be may be the case, and that’s section if you don’t want your of JTA or its parent company, many other things!). of supporting those who may judged. As sick as it made me an enormous burden to bear. blood to boil, for one. They 70 Faces Media. Boycotting Twitter could backfire By Rabbi Emily Cohen checked the account, I found duct Policy prohibits hate a 48-hour “walkout” from being the tweet that broke I believe that we must stand that it had nearly half a million speech against protected Twitter under the hashtag the bird’s beak, I can’t help against anti-Semitism in all NEW YORK (JTA) — On followers. categories, including Jews, #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate. but worry that white Jews and its forms, but I also know Friday afternoon, a few hours Wiley, a Black British musi- Twitter’s actual response to At first, I considered join- their allies were more ready to that anti-Semitism is deeply before Shabbat, I found myself cian, used hateful language to problematic posts is often ing in. In a world more online speak out against Wiley than rooted in white supremacy. scrolling through Twitter articulate several conspiracy lacking. than ever before due to the against anti-Semitic white Fixating upon anti-Semitism when I stumbled upon an theories about Jews. I, along In this case, Twitter even- COVID-19 pandemic, carving people. expressed by Black people anti-Semitic rant. with many others, reported tually removed the most out space away from screens In the United Kingdom, more than that expressed by This by itself is hardly the tweets, but Twitter was egregious of the tweets but is crucial. Perhaps two days white people — including white people hurts all mar- unusual — the amount of slow to remove them. Again, did not suspend Wiley’s ac- away from the challenging prominent politicians like ginalized peoples. anti-Semitic vitriol on Twit- this is not unusual: While count. In response, some dynamics of Twitter would Jeremy Corbyn — have been A virtual “walkout” is ter is horrifying. But when I Twitter’s stated Hateful Con- British Jews issued a call for do me good and also draw spouting anti-Semitism for nothing more than perfor- attention to Twitter’s need to some years. While these mative allyship or, for Jews, up its responsiveness to hate statements have hardly gone an opportunity to break and Letters To The Editor ered to Israel. It is the Israeli speech. In that sense, the unnoticed — responses have breathe away from social improvements and advance- digital walkout’s mission is included a film about Labour media. But on a platform We are a diverse community and we welcome your one I fully support. Party anti-Semitism and suits where currency is written letters and viewpoints. The views and opinions expressed ments that are incorporated into the manufacturing of the But, of course, effective for libel resulting in formal characters, silence does not in the opinion pieces and letters published in The Heri- action is a little more com- apologies — to my knowledge speak. While it can be effec- tage are the views of the authors, and do not necessarily items purchased by Israel that are manufactured here in the plicated than that. there has not been a public call tive to cease advertising on reflect the views and opinions of The Heritage Florida First, there’s the issue for a comparable social media social media platforms, as Jewish News or its staff. The Heritage reserves the right United States. Companies like Boeing, Lockheed-Mar- of this boycott catalyzing boycott. Not for Corbyn, not many have opted to do on to edit letters for clarity, content, and accuracy. And around a Black man. Anti- for the many George Soros Facebook and Instagram respectful of lashon hara, we will not print derogatory tin and many others benefit from the introduced Israeli Semitism comes from ev- conspiracy tweets and not for this month, opting not to statements against any individual. erywhere. While perhaps it’s any of the countless instances tweet for two days does not Please limit letters to 500 words. Send letters to P.O. technology, the Israeli im- provements that are needed chance, and celebrity, that led of anti-Semitism that show up Box 300742, Fern Park, FL 32730. Or e-mail to news@ to Wiley’s particular thread on my feed every day. Twitter on page 15A orlandoheritage.com. to defend herself against the likes of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Hamas and Yemen. No it is not Israel that benefits Military assistance to Israel is from this arrangement, but it is the U.S. Military-Industrial a winning situation complex that also benefits. Remember that. Dear Editor: from other U.S.-approved Urge your representatives There seems to be a lot nations. Of the remaining and senators in Washington of misinformation and mis- funds, $3,040,000,000 is to continue to support this ar- understanding concerning designated to be used to rangement. It’s a “ no brainer” the United States govern- purchase U.S.-manufactured It’s a win-win situation. ment’s allocation of the sum military equipment. Those Laurence Morrell of $3,800,000,000 of military funds never leave the United Maitland, Fla. assistance to the State of States. In reality, it is really Editor’s note: Since writing Israel for defense purposes. the U.S. military that gets this letter, Laurence Morrell In reality, only 20 percent, the advantage. The Israeli informed Heritage that this or $760,000,000, leaves the military industrial complex bill already passed the Sen- United States. These funds does much of the research ate. 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By Penina Beede the pandemic: Craving con- his team concluded, was a gramming director. “We offering dozens of virtual “I think that probably nection and with time on monthlong online program thought to ourselves, will classes on topics ranging our direction of change will (JTA) — Israeli poetry their hands, Jews have been called “All Together Now: people pay? Because there’s from holidays to theology be mirrored by the Jewish scholar Rachel Korazim had attending online courses Jewish Ideas for this Mo- so much going on for free to basic Hebrew. (My Jewish community,” Friedman said. been thinking about cutting with intense devotion. And ment.” Assembled in less online.” Learning, like the Jewish “There will be a lot more back on travel when the coro- rather than experiencing a than six weeks and free for The answer was yes. Over Telegraphic Agency, is part of hybrid in-person and online navirus pandemic made the surge of interest in the pan- participants, the program 250 people have paid for 70 Faces Media.) Thousands institutions, organizations decision for her. demic’s early days, then wan- drew over 1,000 signups courses during two summer of people joined in. and movements. I think that “I said I really want to ing as people adjust to the on the first day it was an- sessions, more than twice And the Sephardic Jew- we’ve seen the vast economic shift my teaching to distance new normal, online learning nounced in June. By the end the number who attended ish Brotherhood of Amer- effects that [the pandemic] learning because, you know, in the Jewish community is of the first week, more than in-person classes last year. ica, which typically offers will have, and that will prob- I’m not getting any younger. expanding. 6,000 people, including some They include older adults resources on Sephardic ably lead to a number of dif- Travel is tiring,” she said she Perhaps the most salient 1,100 rabbis and 600 Jewish who might not have attended Jewish learning, as well ferent organizations working had told her husband. example is the Hartman community professionals, in person but have said that as scholarships and com- together in ways that have But Korazim soon realized Institute’s summer pro- had registered for talks and the online courses offer a munity celebrations, has a been unprecedented until that her regular appoint- gram, where Korazim usu- workshops from prominent lifeline during a time of isola- pandemic-inspired “digital now. I think there will be an ments at two leading destina- ally teaches in Jerusalem to thinkers, religious leaders tion, Israel said. academy” presenting classes acceleration of change.” tions for adult learning, the about 150 people who work in and artists like Korazim. “Our business is about like Ladino 101 and text study Indeed, more than 90% of Pardes Institute for Jewish synagogues and other Jewish This week, the last of teaching people text, and through the Sephardic lens. the respondents to surveys Studies and the Shalom institutions. She had ex- the series, the institute is teaching skills, and we said we That wouldn’t have been about My Jewish Learning’s Hartman Institute, would pected not to have anything adding opportunities for think we have a good enough possible through live events, online courses said they not happen and felt disap- to participate in this year, but participants to talk to each name that we are the text said Ethan Marcus, the would continue to take them pointed. instead an online symposium other, too. people, we are the experts at group’s communications after the pandemic ends, and Then one morning in has drawn thousands from “The thought was we teaching serious but relevant director. three-quarters said they felt March, a viral video popped around the world, many with can’t bring people to the Torah, and we think people “This has been a moonshot they had gotten as much out up on her phone of Italians no professional Jewish affili- ‘mechon,’” Friedman said, will pay for it if we put together in more ways than one, just of the classes as they would — then facing a steep death ation but a deep and abiding using the Hebrew word for a robust enough program,” he connecting people really have in person. toll — singing from their bal- interest in learning. an educational institution, said. “And we’ve been proven spread out across the world,” For Korazim, this sum- conies. Korazim felt inspired. “Our mission is to develop “so let’s bring the mechon correct.” he said. “We have partici- mer’s experience has re- Playing on the fact that the best ideas from the past,” to the people.” Hartman and Pardes are pants in Turkey, in France, solved one concern she the Hebrew word for song said Dan Friedman, the While Hartman’s pro- among the biggest names in in Argentina — we even had had about teaching online: is the same as for poem, Hartman Institute’s director gram is free, even programs Jewish learning. But other a participant in Japan. It’s whether her students could she posted on Facebook, “I of content and communica- charging a fee are seeing organizations also are en- really elevated our profile. experience the same esprit cannot sing like the Italians tions. “Sadly the Jewish significant and sustained in- countering surprising inter- “But more importantly it de corps that she has seen do, but I can teach poetry.” people over thousands of terest. The Pardes Institute, est in their online offerings. really made us rethink what take hold when they are in She invited her followers to years have had plenty of also located in Jerusalem, A conference for educa- it means to be a national com- the same room. join her for a Zoom session chances to think about crisis moved its summer learning tors called NEW-CAJE drew munity, how do we play a role “I now have a community,” that evening covering Jewish and how we deal with it, so program online and set an more than 900 participants, in people’s lives daily today.” Korazim said. “I come into women’s voices in literature. how do we get the best ideas enrollment fee of $175 for a double the typical in-person With the pandemic wear- class 20 minutes before, and Within days, more than we have and think about 10-day session and $145 for number, for a month of ses- ing on and old expectations people are talking about their 200 people were tuning in how they’re relevant to our an eight-day session. sions about innovation in about in-person contact be- flooded basement, or their for Korazim’s nightly poetry current state of things? And “We were very nervous Jewish education. coming a memory, the likeli- crumbling bridge that needs classes. Her experience of- how do we get those ideas about doing an online sum- My Jewish Learning, the hood exists that the shift to to be closed, because they fered an early indicator of to places where it will make mer program and charging nondenominational edu- online learning will endure are suffering. … My class what thus far has been a a difference?” for it,” acknowledged Alex cational website, launched even after travel and gather- is where they get to talk to lasting phenomenon during The answer, Friedman and Israel, the institute’s pro- live classes for the first time, ings become safe again. adults.” PAGE 8A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 A bipartisan protest movement is rocking Israel and growing by the week

Sam Sokol Sam Sokol Eliana Barbel at the protest in Tel Aviv holding a sign that reads: “Arabs, haredim, Noam Ofer, 76, at the Black Flag protest, July 28, 2020. Ethiopians, lefties. Ohana, who is next in line?”

By Sam Sokol try’s leadership nearly six prime minister. The demon- spread anger and prompting “They want to scare us, lent exchanges with police. months since Israel recorded strations have reenergized President Reuven Rivlin to is- but this will only bring (Five protesters reportedly TEL AVIV (JTA) — Noam its first coronavirus case. those who have been calling sue a public statement declar- more people out,” she were hospitalized after be- Ofer might have been an Thousands of Israelis have out Netanyahu in recent years ing that the right to protest added, holding up a sign ing attacked, the Black Flag unlikely candidate to join been staging loud protests over his legal problems and “must not be harmed.” decrying violence against movement said, by individu- Israel’s burgeoning protest for weeks, mostly outside the what they perceive as his Ohana is “trying to cancel Arabs, haredi Orthodox, als not associated with the movement. At 76, he is older prime minister’s residence goal to weaken democratic protests and circumvent the Ethiopians and leftists, and police.) After several hours, than most of the people who in Jerusalem, but also in Tel institutions like the judiciary. law,” complained Maor, a promising to continue to the protesters drifted away have taken to the streets in Aviv and other spots across The result is a movement 25-year-old law student from protest even “if I’m arrested from the zone marked out recent weeks to protest the the country. Some com- made up of Israelis across the the coastal city of Ashdod 10 times.” for them by law enforcement government’s handling of mentators have called it the political spectrum, whose who said he had attended a Echoing a theme that and began marching down a the coronavirus crisis. He country’s largest grassroots numbers seem to be growing number of demonstrations has emerged in recent nearby road, stopping traffic also doesn’t share the po- movement since 2011, when every week. Police were brac- outside the prime minister’s American Black Lives Mat- and eventually running into litical views of many of the hundreds of thousands of ing for large rallies Thursday residence and had been “sub- ter protests that have faced a line of policemen backed up protesters. Israelis protested the cost night with the end of the ject to police violence” for en- police crackdowns, Efrat by mounted officers. But Ofer was there anyway of living. Tisha B’Av observance. gaging in civil disobedience. Safran, a 57-year-old dual Large groups of protesters on Tuesday evening march- After drawing interna- As the protests have wid- “It was brutal, they used a American-Israeli citizen eventually began making ing outside the Tel Aviv home tional praise for how he ened in focus, demonstrators water cannon against me,” he from Ramat Hasharon, their way back, trying to of Israel’s internal security efficiently imposed a strict have faced harsh crackdowns said, describing how he was carried a sign bearing the circumvent the police and minister in charge of law en- and effective lockdown, Ne- by police, who have drawn shot with a high pressure wa- slogan “Mothers Against reach Ohana’s apartment forcement, Amir Ohana, who tanyahu acknowledged ear- criticism for using water ter jet while participating in Police Violence.” building, leading to several was caught on tape pressur- lier this month to reopening cannons and tear gas. a sit-in. “I bruised my ankle. Safran said she was ready clashes during which officers ing a senior police official to Israel too soon. Cases have Many at Tuesday evening’s I couldn’t work for two days.” to protect younger protest- shoved several people, lead- ban demonstrations against risen sharply, restrictions protests, which was organized Another protester, Eliana ers from the police with her ing to renewed chants of “no Prime Minister Benjamin have been reimposed and by the anti-Netanyahu Black Barbel, showed off a large own body. to violence.” Netanyahu. unemployment is near its all- Flag movement, said they bruise on the back of her leg “We’re trying to save de- As police and protesters “He’s trying to illegally time high. Stimulus checks were incensed by Ohana’s as she described her experi- mocracy,” she said. faced off, the mounted of- shut down protests,” Ofer from the government have statement to Doron Yadid, the ence at a protest last week While the crowd protest- ficers repeatedly rode up to said. “I came because the fallen short of their promised commander of the Jerusalem that ended in violent clashes ing near Ohana’s apartment the edge of the crowd trying minister said that we’re all amount. police district — a recording with police. was overwhelmingly secular, to force its members back. on the left. I’m on the right. Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s of which was leaked in the “I was arrested on Thurs- Pinchas, 30, a haredi attorney Most of the marchers He said we are anarchists, trial on three corruption media — that he didn’t “un- day. I was hit and arrested from Bnei Brak, a largely began to walk through the but the only ones creating charges has been delayed derstand why we don’t ban” and spent the night in jail ultra-Orthodox city, said he city, snarling traffic as they anarchy are the ones around for a second time — after anti-Netanyahu protests. for protesting,” Barbel said. decided to come out because made their way through a Netanyahu.” Ohana, in his previous stint “I want to challenge the “When I was arrested, the “government corruption is series of Tel Aviv landmarks, Ofer’s perspective reflects as justice minister, shut down ruling of the court,” Ohana cops were very violent. I was dangerous to all of us, includ- including the square in front the deep and bipartisan courts amid the pandemic in said, referring to a recent sitting on the ground and ing the haredim.” of the Habima Theater and frustration that many Israelis March, effectively postponing ruling allowing the protests three riot policemen picked Tuesday night’s protest was the popular Dizengoff Center are feeling about the coun- legal proceedings against the to go ahead, generating wide- me up and took me. marked by tense but not vio- shopping mall. How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? town and were only allowed a writer. It’s why it has such “Glikl provides us with an Over the course of seven to visit from a distance. staying power and why we are unparalleled historical source, chapters, Glikl weaves togeth- “I will let any good father or reading it today.” opening a window on the daily er her views of living a Jewish mother judge for themselves The new translation — 375 life, anxieties, petty rivalries life, running a household and how we felt,” Glikl would later pages, with illustrations and and stories of folk wisdom oc- managing the family busi- write in her memoir. “My meticulous notes by Israel cupying the mental world of a ness, all of it embellished by husband, of blessed memory, Prize winner Chava Turnian- woman who bore 14 children stories and proverbs. Through stood in a corner, weeping sky, a scholar of Yiddish lit- … while partnering with her accounts of her extensive and pleading, while I stood erature and professor emerita husband in a business that travels, readers get a glimpse in a corner.” at Hebrew University — was grew from trade in second-hand of how Jewish communities In the midst of a viral pan- decades in the making. It is gemstones run by two newly- responded to historic events. demic that again is separating based on Turniansky’s 2006 wed teenagers to international Her intended audience was parents from their children, Hebrew-Yiddish version of the money lending, exchange her descendants, to whom she Bertha Pappenheim, a descendant of Glickl Hamel, poses Glikl’s poignant rendering memoir, which was originally of credit and the margins of wanted to bequeath a sense as Glikl for this portrait painted by the artist Leopold Pili- of the family’s ordeal rings written in Old Yiddish, the mercantile Court Jew society,” of their identity and family chowski. chillingly familiar. And as vernacular language among Greenblatt told JTA. history. But Turniansky has of last December, English German-speaking Ashkenazi Glikl began writing her suggested that her writer’s By Penny Schwartz young children, includ- readers can appreciate it for Jews in the early modern era. memoir about two years af- flair and literary choices ing an 8-week-old daugh- themselves thanks to the first Glikl’s writing is a rare ter the death of her husband make it clear that she sensed BOSTON (JTA) — More ter. En route to Hayyim’s new English translation in surviving memoir from this in 1689, initially as a way to a broader audience as well. than 350 years ago, a plague parents, they spent time nearly 60 years. period. Even rarer is that it console herself through sleep- In her introduction, Tur- took a deadly toll on Ham- with relatives in Hanover, Glikl’s memoir is “fast- was written by a woman, ac- less nights. She was 44 at the niansky traces the complex burg, Germany. As the High where some locals came paced, engrossing, deeply cording to Rachel Greenblatt, time and had eight unmar- publication history of Glikl’s Holidays approached, fear and to suspect their oldest compassionate and full of a cultural historian special- ried children living with her memoir. The original hand- panic set in and many of the daughter, 4-year-old Tsipor, pathos,” said Sylvia Fuks izing in the Jews of central along with a family business written version was not pre- city’s Jewish families fled. was infected. Despite their Fried, editorial director of and Eastern Europe who led a to manage. served, but two copies — one Among them were Glikl assurances that she wasn’t Brandeis University Press, the recent course on the memoir “Glikl wrote resilience,” made by a son and the other and Hayyim Hamel, suc- ill, Glikl and Hayyim were publisher of “Glikl: Memoirs sponsored by the Vilna Shul, Greenblatt said. “She turned by a grandson — were passed cessful Jewish merchants forced to banish Tsipor and 1691-1719.” “It’s an example a Jewish cultural organization to the pen for comfort and who left with their three her caregivers to another of Glikl’s remarkable skills as in Boston. self-therapy.” Plague on page 9A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 9A Scene AroundAround By Gloria Yousha — Call 407-657-9405 or [email protected] can be purchased at the following locations: ORANGE COUNTY JCC, 851 N. 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LAUDER of her family … and yes, friends! the World Jewish Congress appearing in the Jerusalem Post I’ve known Doris for more than half a century (when we were recently: just toddlers, of course! Oh shut up!) Sudoku (see page 14A for solution) “The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented She is also a proud member of our Jewish community and global crises. Hundreds of thousands have died, millions have inspite of the half century, she has never lost her fantastic been sickened and billions have been confined to their homes. sense of humor! YES, Doris is my kind of gal! Healthcare and economic systems have been stretched and strained, and many nations are facing a test the likes of which they have not encountered since 1945. Plague For many weeks now, the pandemic has disrupted our civi- From page 8A “It’s readable and it’s el- lization. Life seems to have stopped in its tracks. The whole egant,” Greenblatt said. humanity has found itself contending with a common threat down in the family for several In the past, the memoir to life as we know it. generations, eventually find- has been explored from the The Jewish people have once again found themselves at ing a publisher in the late 19th perspective of Jewish history, the forefront of the struggle against worldwide calamity. New century. women’s social history and York City has been an outsized victim of the pandemic (and Since then, it has been Glikl’s extraordinary role as now also Florida). Some of the Jewish communities have been translated into German, a savvy businesswoman, Fuks especially hard hit. Hebrew and several English Fried said. This new transla- London, too, has suffered badly, and in some of its Jewish versions. But Greenblatt says tion should broaden those communities the number of cases has been especially high. those earlier versions were perspectives while opening a The same is true in other major European cities. At a time incomplete or presented as new one — as an important when darkness seems to be descending upon the world, they biography and history, and entry into the canon of Jewish are lighting the candles of dedication, determination and love. were not true to the original literature. At the same time, we will have to find new ways to conduct our text. The new publication, she “It deserves to be there,” communal life and educate our children. The social distancing said, introduces readers to Fuks Fried said. “It’s of that we have all been compelled to undertake should become a tool Glikl’s authentic voice. caliber.” of community building and social bonding. We must ensure that Jewish life isn’t enfeebled, but empowered. A major challenge is anti-Semitism. 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Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90 Palestinians walk past a mural of George Floyd painted on a section of the security bar- The cartoon depicts what the “Justice for Black Lives” petition reads: “the knee-to-neck rier in the city of Bethlehem, on June 8, 2020. choke-hold that [Derek] Chauvin used to murder George Floyd has been used and perfect- ed to torture Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces through 72 years of ethnic cleans- pre-1967 Israel, the West Bank Voice for Peace, that accused murder with the accidental ing and dispossession.” and the Hamas-governed Israel of training U.S. law death of Eyad Hallaq, an autis- Gaza Strip. enforcement forces to abuse tic Palestinian teenager who By Dan Diker tensions by accusing Israel of proof of “institutional racism” Groups acting under the black Americans, have gone was mistaken for an armed complicity in the Floyd mur- in Israel. BLM umbrella, such as “the viral. terrorist and tragically killed (JCPA via JNS) — The der. The BDS strategy is not Ongoing demonstrations Movement for Black Lives,” Several prominent BDS by Israeli police on May 30. murder of George Floyd in new. The Jewish state has, for across the United States have championed by activists like groups, including Students U.S.-based anti-Israel groups Minneapolis triggered the some years, been recast as an reenergized the intersectional Hill, accused Israel of geno- for Justice in Palestine, also have also co-opted the Arabic most widespread racially illegitimate “white oppressor.” solidarity between those cide and apartheid in its 2016 penned a petition directly term intifada, connoting charged protests in the United BLM leader Patrisse Cullors protesting anti-black racism policy briefs. These charges linking accusations of racism armed uprising, and injected States and Europe since the drew parallels between her in America and BDS orga- were subsequently shelved in in the United States to the it into BLM protests. 1960s. International protests view of the oppression of nizations’ demands to “Free its 2020 mission statement. Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestinian terror over Floyd’s death, led by the American blacks and Palestin- Palestine from the [Jordan] Instead, M4BL watered down The “Justice for Black Lives” groups back the BDS- Black Lives Matter movement, ians in “Palestine,” referring River to the [Mediterranean] its current policy brief, noting petition reads, “the knee-to- BLM campaign have generated expressions of to pre-1967 Israel, Judea and Sea” — a clarion call to dis- that Israel contributes to the neck choke-hold that [Derek] BDS’s appropriation of BLM sympathy and support from Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. mantle the State of Israel. The “shackling of our commu- Chauvin used to murder protests has also revealed Western prime ministers, Cullors referred to Palestine BDS-BLM narrative rebrands nity.” In the same brief, M4BL George Floyd has been used the backing of Palestinian legislators, law-enforcement as “the new South Africa.” Israel as it has the United lists the BDS movement as one and perfected to torture Pal- Marxist-Leninist terror or- officials and local govern- ‘Israel as accomplice’ States: as a paradigm for of its partners. M4BL leaders estinians by Israeli occupation ganizations. For example, the ment. Prominent members and the new ‘collective white supremacy. The BDS- have not disguised their neo- forces through 72 years of Popular Front for the Libera- of the U.S. House of Repre- anti-Semitism’ BLM convergence, then, as Marxist ideological positions ethnic cleansing and dispos- tion of Palestine, a member sentatives “took a knee” in Demonstrations across the it relates to the Palestinian that prescribe the necessary session.” These accusations organization of the PLO and a historically unprecedented United States and Europe have issue, has removed the Pales- dismantling of American in- by BDS groups, though easily a terror group so designated public display of solidarity for reflected a more profound, tinian-Israeli conflict from its stitutions and the dissolution refutable by a review of Israeli by the United States and the any civil- or human-rights more worrying phenomenon territorial framework and has of the State of Israel. Cullors counter-terrorism and polic- European Union, issued a protest movement. that Steven Windmueller recast the Jewish nation-state has openly admitted that she ing policies and methods, have public statement of support. Jewish leaders have simi- has called “collective anti- as a racial issue, “apartheid” and BLM’s co-founder Alicia nonetheless become part of This tactic is not new. It also larly demonstrated solidarity. Semitism,” in which the and illegitimate by definition. Garza are “trained Marxists.” the mainstream American occurred in 2014 when the In the spirit of the 1960’s Jewish people as a whole and BLM and BDS’s participa- Hill, a professor at Temple media discourse. Ferguson violence in Missouri black-Jewish unity in the civil- their nation-state have been tion in the July 1 “Day of University, has defined both Palestinian BDS groups following the police killing of rights movement, American targeted. These BDS-led ac- Rage” demonstrations against the United States and Israel exploit U.S. racial ten- Michael Brown coincided with Jewish leaders unequivocally cusations have moved from Israel’s proposed application as examples of international sions the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. condemned the Floyd kill- the margins to occupy the of civilian law in areas of the “settler colonialism … re- Leaders and activists from At that time, Khaled Bara- ing. World Jewish Congress mainstream U.S. discourse. West Bank as part of the U.S. quiring a violent response.” both U.S.-based Palestinian kat, a member of the PFLP, President Ronald Lauder de- For example, social media has peace plan illustrate the point. Hill said during a June 2020 and other pro-Palestinian wrote in the San Francisco nounced it as a “horrific racist been flooded with claims that “Day of Rage” protesters in webinar on South African BDS groups have leveraged Bay View National Black act.” The Union for Reform Ju- Jews ran the slave trade. Brooklyn declared, “Jaffa, Youth Day: spiking tensions in the wake Newspaper, “When we see the daism issued a statement that Minister Louis Farrakhan, Haifa, and Tel Aviv — were “I’m listening to the radi- of the Floyd murder. Orga- images today in Ferguson, we read, “Black Lives Matter is a leader of the Nation of Islam stolen.” Nerdeen Kiswani, the cal calls from Palestine and nizations including the U.S. see another emerging intifada Jewish Value.” The Orthodox and an avowed anti-Semite Palestinian-American leader the radical calls from the Campaign for Palestinian in the long line of intifada and Jewish Union declared, “Rac- who has regularly traded in of “Within Our Lifetime,” a United States, and I’m super- Rights, Students for Jus- struggle that has been carried ism is not a thing of the past Nazi propaganda, has taken BDS organization, declared, energized by that. A friend of tice in Palestine, American out by Black people in the U.S. or simply a political issue. It a lead role in disseminating “We don’t wanna go just mine from Umm el-Fahm [an Muslims for Palestine, Al- and internationally.” BDS co- is a real and present danger these mendacious theories. back to our homes in Gaza Arab city in northern Israel] Awda, Samidoun Palestinian founder Omar Barghouti, a that must be met head-on.” His ideas have influenced and the West Bank. We want texted me and said, ‘I love Prisoner Solidarity Network resident of Israel, noted that Anti-Defamation League di- BLM leaders and BDS activ- all of it!” The implication is that you all are tearing shit and Within Our Lifetime he was “proud” that the PFLP rector Jonathan Greenblatt, ists. For example, BLM Los far-reaching. It renders the down.’ And I’m all like, yes, organization have exploited sits as a full member of the declared, “We stand in solidar- Angeles co-founder Melina Palestinian Israeli conflict this is exciting. And that kind frustration and anger char- BDS National Committee in ity with the Black community Abdullah, a Farrakhan aco- unsolvable and irrelevant, of reenergized solidarity … acterizing the national mood Ramallah. as they yet again are subject lyte, accused CNN of “Stand- rejecting both liberal and So now we’re talking about across the United States and The current wave of anti- to pain and suffering at the ing with a Zionist Israel that progressive approaches to the an international fight against Western Europe by accusing Semitism and Israelophobia hands of a racist and unjust murders and terrorizes the Israeli-Palestinian political settler-colonialism and impe- the Jewish state of being com- in the United States in the system.” Palestinian people.” impasse. rialism and authoritarianism, plicit in Floyd’s murder. This shadow of the Floyd murder Despite universal Jewish Farrakhan is not an ex- The BDS-BLM call to and I couldn’t be prouder and network launched the “We continues in this vein. In support for BLM, it failed ception. Linda Sarsour, a dismantle ‘white su- happier to be part of this mo- Can’t Breathe” campaign to recent years, Sarsour and to prevent a surge of anti- Palestinian American activist, premacist’ Israel ment because there’s so much demonstrate support for BLM, Hill have been prominent Semitic violence across the has regularly incited against BDS-BLM solidarity first possibility in front of us.” fusing black and Palestinian advocates of the “Israel apart- United States in the aftermath Israel’s existence as a Jew- took root in 2014 and quickly Hill also referred to Israel “resistance.” heid” libel, casting the Jewish of the Floyd murder. Jewish ish and democratic state in spread. The BLM-aligned as “’48” — to delegitimize Is- U.S.-based Palestinian BDS state as complicit in violating storeowners were assaulted; her work as a leader of the group “Dream Defenders” rael’s founding in 1948 — and organizations have also ex- the civil and human rights of Jewish-owned stores and Women’s March. Sarsour has traveled to Israel on a Palestin- described the Jewish state in ploited the protest momen- black Americans and blam- restaurants were defaced and also drawn a direct parallel ian solidarity mission in 2015, neo-Marxist terms as engag- tum. Samidoun held a “Day of ing U.S. military support of looted. Social media has been between the United States’ triggering broad condemna- ing in “state violence,” label- Rage” recently opposite what Israel for diverting govern- rife with anti-Semitic libel treatment of its black citizens tion by liberal and progressive ing Israel as “authoritarian, their event publicity poster ment funds away from black denouncing the Jewish state to Israel’s “racist” treatment Jewish groups. BLM leader totalitarian, imperialist and called the “Zionist” consul- communities. and delegitimizing Jews. In of Palestinians. She has also Patrisse Cullors and Temple colonialist.” ate in Los Angeles to protest Palestinian Israeli ter- the Fairfax neighborhood of publicly condemned Israel University professor Marc Hill and his fellow BLM and the Trump plan and “Israel’s ritorial conflict recast Los Angeles, demonstrators for American police brutality, Lamont Hill led the mission BDS activists’ dedication to Land Theft.” as a race war were heard screaming, “Kill claiming that U.S. police were together with Carmen Perez, identity politics’ universalist The BDS movement has Hill, Sarsour and their the Jews.” Synagogues were trained by their Israeli coun- a Women’s March co-chair. view of oppression thrusts long used intersectionality intersectional neo-Marxist defaced with graffiti reading, terparts. BLM activists have While in Israel, the group Israel into the middle of the arguments to cement black- fellow travelers’ goal is to “F**ck Israel,” and “Free also worked to export their visited Israeli Arab cities domestic U.S. debate. Online Palestinian solidarity in re- build a broader political base Palestine.” campaign to Israel, pointing such as Nazareth, where they petitions by various American casting Israel as the world’s for the America-Israel racist- BDS organizations have to tensions between the Ethio- underscored support for BDS organizations, including the meta-civil rights violator. It exploited simmering racial pian community and police as calling for the “liberation” of anti-Zionist group Jewish has equated George Floyd’s BDS-BLM on page 15A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 11A Anti-Semites ‘Zoombombed’ Central Florida Synagogues

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Fiddler on the Roof Poland for New York in 1936; jewishorlando.com; Shabbat services: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. and 10 minutes before sunset; Now, however, with our music began to play as one her Jewish hometown was Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday, 8:15 a.m. calendars cleared because of the participant screens later destroyed by the Nazi Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts (O), 1190 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach, of the coronavirus, we tried filled with a black-and-white invasion. My husband and services on Zoom one Friday caricature of a person with a I felt lucky to raise our kids 321-777-2770. night when we were stuck at big nose. My boys looked at in a liberal town that closed Congregation Ahavas Yisrael/Chabad (O), 708 Lake Howell Rd., Maitland, 407-644- home. 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Congregation Beth Am (C), 3899 Sand Lake Road, Longwood, 407-862-3505; www. with no commute, showers then crudely suggesting it was We were silent, watching congbetham.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. or dressing up required, how an orgy instead. We watched the rabbi. He apologized and hard could it be to gather my helplessly, trying to process said this was a risk of meet- Congregation Beth El (C), 2185 Meadowlane Ave., West Melbourne, 321-779-0740; crew in front of the computer? what was happening and ing over Zoom and also the Shabbat services, 1st & 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.; 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. It turns out my family of prepare for what might hap- exact reason we needed to Congregation Beth Emeth (R), 2205 Blue Sapphire Circle, Orlando, 407-222-6393; five still couldn’t arrive on pen next. This scary sensory be together. We continued Shabbat service: monthly, 8 p.m. time for services. When our overload unfolded in a matter the service with even greater rabbi virtually welcomed us of seconds. It felt like time was intention. Congregation Beth Israel (Rec), Collins Resource Center, Suite 303, 9401 S.R. 200, on Zoom, only my 5-year old moving in slow motion. Ryan, my oldest son, helped Ocala, 352-237-8277; bethisraelocala.org; Shabbat service, second Friday of the month, 8 p.m. sat with me at our kitchen Our little, liberal congrega- my husband and I explain the Congregation Beth Sholom (R-C), 315 North 13th St., Leesburg, 352-326-3692; www. tion of 600 families had been meaning of the swastika sym- counter. Her 10- and 13-year- bethsholomflorida.org; schedule of services on website. old brothers were busy — one “Zoombombed.” An outsider bol to his siblings and why it hoverboarding outside, one — perhaps a bored prankster was so serious and offensive. Congregation Beth Shalom (Progressive Conservative), Orange City congregation working on a Minecraft realm or possibly an extremist hack- “That was so rude,” my holds services at 1308 E. Normandy Blvd., Deltona; 386-804-8283; www.mybethshalom. online. Both begged for a few er — somehow accessed the daughter repeated. “I can’t com; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. more minutes. My husband annotating, audio and chat believe they did that.” Also: Congregation B’nai Torah (C), 403 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 32174, 386-672-1174; was detained with a neigh- features of our Zoom session “We should do something bor, who came over wearing to share hateful messages. back to them.” www.mybnaitorah.com; Shabbat services: Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. a mask and gloves to help us As the pandemic has forced “Some people think it’s Congregation Chabad Lubavitch of Greater Daytona (O), 1079 W. Granada Blvd., dispose of a chipmunk stuck in organizations worldwide to better to react to hate with Ormond Beach, 386-672-9300; Shabbat services Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. our garden netting. Even my move to videoconferencing, love,” I told her, remembering in-laws texted that they’d be Zoombombing has become how NASCAR driver Bubba Congregation of Reform Judaism (R), 928 Malone Dr., Orlando, 407-645-0444; late because their dog, Daisy, frighteningly rampant. In Wallace reacted to President www.crjorlando.org: Shabbat services, 7 p.m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fridays; 6 p.m., 4th and 5th had run off. April, for example, hackers Trump’s recent disparaging Fridays; Saturday: 10 a.m. The oven timer beeped: hijacked a Massachusetts high tweet by tweeting back “love Congregation Mateh Chaim (R), P.O. Box 060847, Palm Bay, 32906, 321-768-6722. The challahs were ready. I’d school’s AP Chinese class with over hate every day.” Though forgotten the second egg three minutes of racist mes- we’ve discussed bullying at Congregation Ohev Shalom (C), 613 Concourse Parkway South, Maitland, 407-298- wash for that golden-brown sages and images. Alcoholics home, this was the first time 4650; www.ohevshalom.org; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. shine, but they looked fine. Anonymous meetings have we discussed hate crimes. I Congregation Shalom Aleichem (R), 3501 Oak Pointe Blvd., Kissimmee, 407-935- Our cantor guided me back been interrupted with por- imagined those neon swas- 0064; www.shalomaleichem.com; Shabbat service, 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month, 8 p.m. to the screen with the Mi She- nography and videos of people tikas illustrating the entry berach, the prayer for healing. drinking. Holocaust survivors for hate crime in the diction- Congregation Shomer Ysrael (C), 5382 Hoffner Ave., Orlando, 407-227-1258, call for I concentrated my prayer on about to speak during the ary of my little ones’ minds, services and holiday schedules. a 41-year old friend who was Embassy of Israel in Berlin’s a glossary that has been Congregation Sinai (C/R), 1200 West Broad Street, Groveland; 352-243-5353; congre- recovering from a stroke. My Holocaust Remembrance recently bursting with new gation-sinai.org; services: every Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Shabbat Service evert Saturday, 10 a.m. husband came in, nauseous event were preempted with terms like pandemic, social over what had transpired with pictures of Hitler and anti- distancing, police brutality Orlando Torah Center (O), 8591 Banyan Blvd., Orlando; 347-456-6485; Shacharis- the chipmunk. We chanted Semitic chants. and chokeholds. Shabbos 9 a.m.; Mon.—Thurs. 6:45 a.m.; Sun. and Legal Holidays 8 a.m.; Mincha/Maariv the Shema. My boys joined Both the FBI and Anti- Amid all these horrors, Please call for times. us. Then — ding-dong — our Defamation League issued who would think to target Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation/Ohalei Rivka (C), 11200 S. Apopka- favorite Peruvian chicken din- warnings and guidance for our sweet, guitar-strumming Vineland Rd., Orlando, 407-239-5444; Shabbat service, Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m. ner was delivered to the door. securing virtual meetings mensch of a rabbi and a con- In came the food, out came from hijacking, including gregation that always signed Temple Beth El (R) / Temple Israel (C), 579 N. Nova Rd., Ormond Beach, 386-675- the Clorox wipes to disinfect using private Zoom links, the Shema in American Sign 6615 / 386-252-3097; Friday Shabbat Service 7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. the containers. passwords, and disabling the Language? Temple Beth Shalom (R), P.O. Box 031233, Winter Haven, 813-324-2882. Yes, you can have fries. No, annotate and share screen We’d almost skipped ser- you can’t have the challah yet. features. Taking these extra vices that Friday night. There Temple Beth Shalom (C), 40 Wellington Drive, Palm Coast, 386-445-3006; Shabbat I shushed everyone a lot. Just measures comes with costs, was so much commotion in service, Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. sit here, I pleaded. It’s just however — for example, com- my home that I nearly threw Temple Beth Sholom (C), 5995 N. Wickham Rd. Melbourne, 321-254-6333; www. plicating access would make up my hands and decided not an hour. mytbs.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Minyan, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.; Finally we made it to the attending Zoom services more to bother. While I can’t say Mourner’s Kaddish. We each difficult for less tech-savvy I’m glad we were there, I’m Thursday, 10:00 a.m. rose from our stools, giving members, while muting par- certain this harrowing expe- Temple Beth Shalom (R), 1109 N.E. 8th Ave., Ocala, 352-629-3587; Shabbat services: the congregation a view of ticipants would eliminate our rience deepened my family’s Friday, 8 p.m.; Torah study: Saturday, 10:00 a.m. my stomach and the top of singing together. conversations about injustice Temple B’nai Darom (R), 49 Banyan Course, Ocala, 352-624-0380; Friday Services 8 p.m. my little one’s head. My kids Fortunately, our rabbi acted stilled, respectful, as we’d said quickly to close his shared Shabbat on page 13A Temple Israel (C), 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 407-647-3055; www.tiflorida.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday 9:00 a.m. Temple Israel (R), 7350 Lake Andrew Drive, Melbourne, 321-631-9494. Temple Israel of DeLand (R), 1001 E. New York Ave., DeLand, 386-736-1646; www. OBITUARY templeisraelofdeland.org; Friday Shabbat service, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m. followed by Torah study. RENEE MOSS ministrator by such institu- her son, Steven Moss of Louis- Temple Shalom (formerly New Jewish Congregation) (R), 13563 Country Road tions as Albert Einstein Col- ville, Colorado; his wife, Alice 101, Oxford, 352-748-1800; www.templeshalomcentralfl.org; Shabbat services: Friday, 7 Renee Moss, age 93, passed lege of Medicine and Harvard Lerley: their children, Noah away on July 27, 2020, at and Tufts Universities. Her Moss (and his son, Atticus) p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 9:30 a.m. Lake Mary Health and Re- husband of 68 years, War- and Emma Lewallen (and Temple Shalom of Deltona (R/C), 1785 Elkcam Blvd., Deltona, 386-789-2202; www. hab Center. She was born in ren Moss, died in 2015. They her husband, Lance, and her shalomdeltona.org; Shabbat service; Saturday: 10 a.m. Brooklyn, New York, on April were active in the 39ers Club son, Landon); her son-in-law, Temple Shir Shalom (R) Services held at Temple Israel, 50 S. Moss Rd., Winter Springs, 17, 1927, to the late Max and of the Jewish Community Larry Gutter and his wife, Molly Fischer. Mrs. Moss was Center of Greater Orlando. Debbie Meitin, of Altamonte 407-366-3556, www.templeshirshalom.org; Shabbat services: three Fridays each month, a graduate of City College of After raising their children Springs, Fla.; Larry’s daugh- 7:30 p.m. New York with a degree in in Mount Vernon, N.Y., they ter, Amy Darrah, of Juneau, Traditional Congregation of Mount Dora (T) Mount Dora, 352-735-4774; www. accounting. She utilized her moved to New Rochelle, N.Y.; Alaska; and Amy’s four sons tcomd.org; Shabbat services: Saturday, 9:30 a.m. sharp. expertise primarily in the Taunton, Massachusetts; and — Anthony, Tiberius, Orion, health care field, employed to Orlando in 2000. and Odin. She was predeased (R) Reform (C) Conservative (O) Orthodox (Rec) Reconstructionist (T) Mehitsa for decades as a Grants Ad- Renee Moss is survived by by her daughter, Ellen Gutter. PAGE 12A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 Collapse of the PA could provide ‘brighter future’ for Palestinians By Ariel Ben Solomon generation of leaders can The U.N. envoy to the take over. Middle East warned recent- (JNS) — Despite U.S. According to Harold ly that the P.A. is at risk of President Donald Trump’s Rhode, a longtime former “total collapse” because of release of the “Peace to adviser on Islamic affairs the coronavirus outbreak. Prosperity” Mideast plan within the U.S. Defense “May salary payments earlier this year to help Department’s Office of Net were delayed due to an 80 resolved issues associated Assessment, the collapse percent reduction in Pales- with the decades-long con- of the P.A. “may present an tinian revenues,” Nikolay flict between Israelis and opportunity for the Pales- Mladenov warned the U.N. Palestinians, it remains tinians for a brighter future Security Council. “It is clear that no negotiations with less oppressive and unclear whether the Pales- between the two parties younger leadership.” tinian government will have are on the horizon amid a Its breakdown might not sufficient resources to make Palestinian boycott of the change much on the secu- any future salary payments Trump administration. rity front, he acknowledged, or, indeed, to continue to Given this and the ongo- since Israel is the only power carry out its governing ing discussion of Israel’s that can maintain law and functions in the coming imminent move to apply order in Judea and Samaria. months.” sovereignty over Judea and In fact, he added, “the Pal- The P.A.’s economy min- Samaria, questions are be- estinians themselves prefer ister, Kahled Al-Osaily, de- ing raised over the viability Israeli rule.” nied that it was on the verge of Palestinian Authority, The leadership of the of a financial collapse and especially as Palestinian Palestinians should be clan- that it could borrow from Flash90 and family-based since this other banks to cover neces- leader Mahmoud Abbas, 84, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas during a tour in the West Bank city of is the way things are decided sary expenses. has once again threatened to Ramallah on May 15, 2020. cut off security cooperation on the ground, said Rhode. At the same time, it ap- with Israel over the move. “The P.A.-appointed leaders pears that the P.A. is crack- part of the Oslo Accords of the validity of all the as- Iran and Turkey will ‘con- While some in both the are outsiders. As the locals ing down on dissent, with between the Palestine Lib- sumptions that led to the tinue to meddle’ Israeli and U.S. govern- say, most of the foreign Palestinians who support eration Organization (PLO) concept,” he continued. Now the P.A.’s weakness ments fear the collapse of funds are skimmed off the sovereignty being arrested. and Israel, the P.A. was “The concept was that Israel has become its leverage, as- the P.A., former senior U.S. top by the thugs that rule For example, it has detained originally set up as five- can more effectively and re- serted Wurmser, explaining officials tell JNS that Israel over them, and the people some Palestinians who told year interim body to govern liably suppress Palestinian that essentially it has created should promote the end of actually get next to nothing Israeli TV journalist Zvi parts of the West Bank and violence if done through a a hostage situation where it the entity so that a new of all this aid.” Yehezkeli that they sup- Gaza Strip. Palestinian organization, holds a gun to its own head port Israel’s plan to apply However, as negotiations and none was seen to be to force Israel, the United sovereignty in parts of Judea between the Israelis and more ‘authentic’ than the States and Europe to give and Samaria, Yechezkeli Palestinians faltered and PLO.” ever more. and a relative of one of the eventually broke due in the While it’s not in the inter- In other words, the P.A. detainees told AFP. late 1990s and early 2000s est of Abbas and his cronies leadership used its position Yechezkeli’s conversa- as a result of growing terror- to end the P.A. because of as a weak power against tions revealed a large chasm ism and the Second Intifada, the funds gained from cor- Israel, and then received Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman between what P.A. leaders it has continued to serve as ruption and other luxuries, international support and does most anything say and what residents re- a quasi-governmental body. Rhode noted that Abbas funding to keep it function- ally feel. As he explained, Since the Palestinian terror continues to cooperate on ing. But in the end, the P.A. Ricardo Torres — Handyman “the understanding that group Hamas took control security and other matters cooperated with its domestic this is an opportunity for a of the Gaza Strip in 2006, with Israel because he real- rival, Hamas, against Israel. 407-221-5482 different life extracts from the P.A. has largely been izes that it’s in his interest From the start, the P.A. be- Available in Central Florida Area • References Available the gut things once heard limited to the West Bank to do so — and keeps him came the enabler of Hamas, only behind closed doors, under Abbas’s leader. in power. said Wurmser, explaining very quietly.” David Wurmser, who Many Palestinians “like that “in part, this was di- One Palestinian woman served as a senior adviser the Israeli soldiers at the rect, and in part, it was as speaking to the reporter by on the Middle East to for- road blocks, who at least a foil to demand ever more phone estimated that in her mer U.S. Vice President treat them with dignity,” concessions while forcing village, about 80 percent of Dick Cheney and has since said Rhode, adding that “the indulgence of ever more people would prefer Israeli founded the Delphi Global P.A. humiliates them and incitement, arming, and citizenship and 20 percent Analysis Group, said: “The demands bribes.” ultimately violence.” want it but would not say so P.A. is ultimately a fossil Israel at first thought At the same time, “the publicly, according to the of a concept shaped in the that the PLO — and later, PLO/PA cannot pursue a report posted on Channel 1990s under very different the P.A. — would be able final resolution to the con- 13 earlier this month. circumstances.” to keep a lid on Palestinian flict since its essence and ‘A fossil of a concept’ “One must engage in a violence for them, but this authenticity is anchored to Established in 1994 as fundamental examination assumption ended up being its founding legitimacy.” erroneous. Therefore, he said, the P.A. “The price Israel was does not want a solution, but asked and expected to pay is exacting cooperation at for subcontracting the a great price, all the while suppression of Palestinian appeasing Hamas and other violence was to accede to violent groups. a key Palestinian demand Meanwhile, both Iran of statehood, which within and Turkey are investing limits seemed at the time to in growing support among be a tolerable price to pay,” the Palestinians. Iran has said Wurmser. long backed Hamas and The P.A. was created as Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a way station on the road while Turkey is investing in to statehood, ostensibly as a new Islamic Center near a revocable concession if it the Temple Mount. turned sour, he explained, “Absent an Israeli plan to adding that it was unimag- boost a new local Palestin- inably the weak Palestinian ian leadership, countries leadership—boxed in by such as Iran and Turkey Jordan and Israel — that will continue to meddle would be deterred from act- and emphasize the failure ing violently against Israel. of secular Arab nationalism The key assumption was that is weak and corrupt, that “the P.A. in its weak- and instead promotes its own ness could be used as a leadership that serves their vehicle for Israel’s security purposes,” stated Wurmser. structures to control the As such, he concluded, the Palestinians because its Jewish state must take the weakness left it beholden initiative if the P.A. collapses to Israel, and its authentic- and prevent growing Islamist ity was what Israel needed proxies in the Palestinian as cover.” areas: In essence, “Israel’s However, this assumption marriage to the P.A. now ended up not turning out as blocks Israel from making planned since the Palestin- a new strategic initiative to ian leadership wound up counter the dangerous rise abetting terrorism against of Iranian- and Turkish- Israel. supported groups.” HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 13A Weekly roundup of world briefs

Remains of 286 Jewish She said she was not a thermal test, which detects have no place in our organiza- Muhammad, 68, is a civil word in much of America, Holocaust victims un- Nazi, but was also seen in a the virus in a heated saliva tion. We are appalled by the rights figure and local Nation religion and religious institu- covered in 2 basements photo making the Heil Hitler sample within 30 minutes; hateful comments he made of Islam leader who often tions are their enemy.” in Ukraine Nazi salute. The woman also and a Rapid Diagnostics and unreservedly condemn praises Louis Farrakhan, While the majority of By Marcy Oster displayed her middle finger at polyamino acids test, which all forms of discrimination, who has called Jews “blood- American Jews vote for (JTA) — The remains of fellow shoppers. detects specific virus proteins including anti-Semitism,” suckers” and “termites,” Democrats, the Orthodox 286 Jews who were murdered A video of the couple was in a saliva sample. the statement also said. the news website Billy Penn community has increasingly during the Holocaust were posted on Facebook by a local The delegation, which flew “We are fully committed to reported. He had previously favored Republican candi- found in two basements in a resident, Raphaela Mueller. on two separate aircraft, also reviewing our processes for posted criticism of the back- dates in recent years. The Pew town in southwest Ukraine. She wrote in her post that brought with them cutting- screening trustees and senior lash that Cannon, Jackson Research Center’s 2013 sur- The remains, mostly wom- “I was born and raised in edge equipment to help the executives’ social media posts and others have faced after vey of American Jews found en and children, will be buried Germany, and I grew up Indian authorities combat to ensure that this will not posting anti-Semitic content that 64% of ultra-Orthodox in a mass grave in the ancient hearing about my great- the spread and effects of happen again.” on social media. Jews considered themselves Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, grandmother who fought COVID-19, including venti- Khalifa, who launched The Jewish Federation to be politically conservative. Ynet reported. in the underground against lators. the organization’s Australia of Greater Philadelphia in Kamenetsky, who heads The town had an organized the first wave of Nazis in the News outlets covering office and was one of five a statement calling on the the Talmudical Yeshiva of Jewish community for about 1930s and 40s. “Let me make Israel found, again, trustees, made the posts in NAACP to remove Muham- Philadelphia and sits on the 500 years before the Nazis this abundantly clear once to have run ‘deepfake’ 2014 and 2015. They which mad from his position “im- rabbinical advisory board of captured it in 1941 and be- and for all: The Swastika is op-eds reportedly also said called mediately,” said that Muham- Agudath Israel, an organiza- gan systematically killing its a hate symbol and you do By Marcy Oster Palestinian terror group mad “intentionally initiated tion representing the haredi Jews, according to the Yad not fly the flag, you do not (JTA) — For the second Hamas “the purest resistance the spread of anti-Semitism Orthodox, had encouraged Vashem website. wear the symbol anywhere time in a month, news movement in modern histo- on his Facebook page. This his students to vote for On May 15, 1942, Nazi on your body, you do not use outlets reporting on Israel ry,” and said Egypt’s president vile behavior from a civic Trump in 2016, too, accord- troops and Ukrainian mili- or defend this symbol, ever. and the Jewish community was a “Zionist pimp.” leader is incredibly danger- ing to the Orthodox news tary police locked the 286 End of story.” were found to have published “Khalifa has acknowledged ous for Jewish communities site Matzav.com. At the time, Jews in the cellars and suf- The post has had 1.6 mil- opinion pieces by fictitious that these posts were unac- across the world.” Kamenetsky told the Israeli focated them. lion views on Facebook and authors. ceptable and has apologized “It is inconceivable that publication Yated Ne’eman After World War II, the has been shared 2.4 million Publications including for falling short of the strict a person who theoretically that those who were not hon- bodies were left in place in the times as of Monday morning. Israel National News, The standards expected by our works to uphold civil rights est would not enjoy success cellars with a sign indicating Police issued the couple Jerusalem Post, The Alge- code of conduct,” the char- would engage in such blatant in the long term, referring to that they were Nazi victims. trespass notices, the newspa- meiner and the Times of ity organization said in its hate. To defend the anti- Hillary Clinton, according to The ruined house above them per reported, and they were Israel published pieces by a statement. Semitic rhetoric of others is Yeshiva World News. eventually covered the cellars warned that they would be writer identified as Oliver The organization, which bad enough, but to post viru- Minnesota Republicans with a heap of rubble and arrested if they returned. Taylor, who does not appear to provides humanitarian sup- lently anti-Jewish symbols acknowledge board an outdoor market operated Walmart officials said they exist, according to a Reuters port in dozens of countries, and conspiracy theories is member posted meme over the area for many years, are banned from visiting any report this week. receives more than $765 mil- simply unacceptable,” Shira comparing mask man- according Ynet. Walmart facility for at least a Rather than being a real lion a year from the United Goodman, ADL Philadelphia date to Holocaust’s yel- Rabbi Alexander Fein- year, FOX 9 reported. person, Taylor appears to States and from British taxes, regional director, said in a low star gold, of the Khmelnytsky Walmart maintains a mask be a “deepfake,” or a hyper- according to the London- statement that noted the By Marcy Oster and Ternopil districts in policy in all of its stores; the realistic forgery, created in based Jewish News. ADL’s longstanding collabo- (JTA) — The Minnesota Ukraine, told Ynet that his policy went into effect last part to criticize a London The British Charity Com- ration with the NAACP. Republican Party acknowl- community waged a six-year week. academic, Mazen Masri, who mission told the Jewish Muhammad’s post was edged that a Wabasha County legal battle with the property High-level Israeli dele- was involved in bringing a News that it has opened a taken down amid the back- board member posted a meme owner to search the cellars. gation in India for mass lawsuit against an Israeli compliance case against the lash, and he said in a state- on Facebook comparing the Though the community lost testing of COVID-19 surveillance company, Re- Islamic Relief Worldwide ment that he had not known requirement to wear masks in the courts, it eventually technology uters concluded after an organization, and said that the image before sharing it. during the coronavirus to reached an agreement with (JNS) — A high-level investigation. the charity is cooperating “I was not familiar with the yellow stars that Jews the landowner, according to interministerial delegation Some of the publications with the investigation. the image at the bottom of were forced to wear during the report. Some of the bodies of Israeli experts arrived in that ran pieces by “Taylor” Philadelphia NAACP the post,” he said in his state- the Holocaust. were discovered in 2019, and New Delhi to test four new have since removed them, head faces calls to re- ment, which the Philadelphia The Republican Party of the rest were found about two technologies for the rapid while others have left the sign after briefly post- Inquirer reported. “I was Wabasha County originally weeks ago. diagnosis of coronavirus, the pieces online with editor’s ing anti-Semitic meme responding to the individuals said that its Facebook page Feingold said a park will Defense Ministry announced. notes. on Facebook not able to speak out. I have had been hacked and removed be established in memory of The delegation, led by The Daily Beast earlier By Marcy Oster worked with many in the city the image on Monday. the victims near the site of Israeli Ambassador to India this month reported that 46 (JTA) — Jewish groups over the years. I would be The board member has re- the massacre. Ron Malka, includes repre- conservative news outlets, in Philadelphia have called happy to have a discussion signed, effective immediately, Couple wearing swas- sentatives from the Defense, including some reporting for the firing of the head of with other leaders to better Minnesota Republican Party tika masks at Walmart Foreign and Health minis- on the Jewish community, the local NAACP, Rodney understand our history.” Chairwoman Jennifer Carna- in Minnesota confronted tries, as well as from the Israel were duped into publishing Muhammad, who posted a Leading Orthodox rabbi han said Tuesday evening. by other shoppers Defense Forces and various Middle East “hot takes” by 19 known anti-Semitic meme endorses Donald Trump The member was not named. By Marcy Oster industries involved in the nonexistent authors as part of on his public Facebook page. for reelection “We are saddened by the (JTA) — A couple wearing development of diagnostic a massive propaganda cam- The meme, known as By Shira Hanau vitriolic post and hope as we swastika masks at a Walmart solutions. paign that appears to have “the Happy Merchant,” is (JTA) — Rabbi Shmuel move forward that Repub- in Minnesota were banned “The cooperation between started in July 2019. an anti-Semitic image used Kamenetsky, a major leader licans and Democrats alike from entering any other Israel and India will enable Trustee of Britain’s by extremists that the Anti- of the U.S. haredi Orthodox will maintain the highest Walmart facility for a year. the delegation and its Indian largest Muslim charity Defamation League says is community, said his followers level of integrity, respect, and The man and woman, who counterparts to collect tens of resigns over anti-Semit- commonly used by white should vote for Donald Trump sensitivity,” Carrahan said in have not been named in news thousands of samples in just ic Facebook posts supremacists. The meme in November. a statement posted on Twitter. reports, were filmed Saturday 10 days and analyze them us- By Marcy Oster on Muhammad’s Facebook The reason? Gratitude. “The Wabasha County Board afternoon as they checked ing computer systems based (JTA) — A trustee for Brit- page included photos of Ice “Yes, I think people should and MN GOP apologizes for out their purchases and were on artificial intelligence,” ain’s largest Muslim charity Cube, DeSean Jackson and vote for him. He’s done a good this disappointing post.” confronted by other shoppers the Defense Ministry stated. resigned after Facebook posts Nick Cannon, Black celeb- job. It’s ‘hakaras hatov,’” he The state of Minnesota has at the store in Marshall, the “This massive sampling will came to light in which he rities who recently posted told Mishpacha, a weekly a mandatory mask ordinance Minneapolis Star-Tribune shorten processes and ad- called Jews the “grandchil- anti-Semitic comments on magazine aimed at an Ortho- in effect. reported. vance the approval of effective dren of monkeys and pigs.” social media, and the quote dox Jewish audience, using The meme shows an elderly They appeared to be pro- technology.” The Times of London “To learn who rules over you, the Hebrew words for grati- man wearing a yellow Star testing the state’s manda- The four technologies to first reported the posts by simply find out who you are tude. The 95-year-old rabbi of David badge pinned to tory mask ordinance, which be tested include the Vocalis Heshmat Khalifa, who sat not allowed to criticize,” said it would be “worrisome” his chest facing down a Nazi requires the wearing of a online voice test to identify on the Board of Trustees of falsely attributed to French if the president loses, citing officer. mask in public spaces. changes in the respira- Islamic Relief Worldwide. The philosopher Voltaire, but rising secularism as a threat. “Just put on the star and “If you vote for Biden, tory system; the Tera Group organization announced in a which originated with Kevin “You see the matzav [situ- quit complaining, it’s really you’re going to be living in breathalyzer test, which statement later on Friday that Strom, an American neo- ation], the anarchy … it’s not that hard,” its caption Nazi Germany,” the woman detects the virus using tera- Khalifa had resigned. Nazi. (Jackson and Cannon frightening,” Kamenetsky said. “Just put on the mask said. hertz waves; the Kidod iso- “These (offensive views) have both apologized.) said. “God has become a dirty and stop complaining.” Shabbat From page 11A the message of Tikkun Olam I’d keep my kids in Hebrew Witnessing such hate advocates repairing the world with crusts ranging from the even more poignant.” school and whether I thought strengthened my resolve to and ridding it of intolerance. It lightest flax to nearly coffee- and our commitment to fight- I think that’s why we tuition should be reduced. keep my family connected to won’t be perfect but, as it turns ground brown. We ended by ing it. showed up for services in I had to consider it: Sunday our local Jewish community. out, nothing is in a pandemic. singing the Traveler’s Prayer, Soon after the service, the quarantine more than we ever school in April and May was I’ll keep paying our temple If there’s a silver lining, I Tefilat Haderech. Usually temple’s board of directors did in person. Even if late or awkward and clumsy on dues and religious school know I won’t miss carpooling we embrace arm-in-arm in sent out an email. They noti- distracted, we helped keep our Zoom, with repeated requests tuition. I understand that or worrying about my kids’ the sanctuary. My family of fied us that they contacted the community strong. Despite to mute yourself and unmute building maintenance costs physical safety like I did when five swayed in our kitchen police and Anti-Defamation wearing workout clothes and yourself. Hallie’s kindergarten don’t change because of a I dropped them off after the together as a cacophony of League, and would improve ponytails, we were there, peer- class mostly listened to their pandemic. I don’t want the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree voices took over Zoom. May security measures for our ing into each other’s hearts teacher read stories. Noah’s board to have to consider re- of Life synagogue. we be blessed as we go on virtual gatherings. The email and homes to find connection. fourth grade class barely ducing teacher, staff or clergy On Friday night, when the our way. May we be guided also keenly noted that “as this In the last few weeks, as touched the Hebrew cur- salaries. service ended, congregants in peace. May we be blessed pandemic continues, it is even rumors have circulated that riculum. My kids need Jewish friends lit candles in their homes. with health and joy. May this more important than ever to High Holidays services and If I was on the fence, be- and teachers, even if they As the Zoom screen scanned be our blessing, amen. join together as a community religious school will be online ing Zoombombed strangely only see each other on Zoom. from family to family, we This story originally ap- and tonight’s incident makes this fall, friends asked whether helped me pick a side. They need leadership that could see everyone’s challahs, peared on Kveller. PAGE 14A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 Zach Banner tries challah and (spoiler) he loves it By Marcy Oster Washington; Los Angeles; movement,” Banner tweeted and Guam. in a video on July 15. “This (JTA) — Zach Banner of So he was profoundly grate- is gonna be my first time the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steel- ful when he heard that four eating challah bread and I’m ers now knows what challah sisters in NewsJersey who call so excited. God Bless. Thank tastes like — and he can say themselves the Challah Back you, ladies!” the word properly. Girls announced that they On Tuesday, Banner tweet- With “a little phleghm,” would donate 50 percent of ed a video of himself making the offensive lineman said their proceeds for a week from his challah-tasting debut. He in a tweeted video of himself July 13, and some challah, to showed a preference for the this week. the foundation. coffee crumb version. In a recent interview, Ban- Since early June, the sisters “That is fire, wow!” he ner said that after he posted have been baking and deliver- exclaimed. tweets and videos embracing ing the bread and donating He said it had been a long the Jewish community amid a portion of the proceeds to time since he had eaten any the anti-Semitism furor in- social justice groups, The carbs or sugar. volving fellow NFLer DeSean Los Angeles Jewish Journal Along with learning the Jackson, he has received an reported. They bake in their correct pronunciation of outpouring of love — includ- own kitchen and say they use challah, Banner now knows ing the delivery of loaves of all kosher ingredients. to omit the word bread after- challah. “These incredible women ward — it’s redundant. That affection has also have used their passion and Responses to his tweet in- Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Zach Banner tries challah for the first time. included donations to his love to raise money for a lot cluded the suggestion that he B3 Foundation, which sup- of organizations, especially try gefilte fish and matzah ball calling it “the reason we all the way, are diehard Steelers Journal, driving seven hours ports children academically the ones who are support- soup. Someone also warned have trust issues.” fans and have season tick- each way to attend every home and athletically in Tacoma, ing the Black Lives Matter him away from raisin challah, The Challah Back Girls, by ets, according to the Jewish game. Sigman From page 1A fighting for and enforcing civil truth is, if the people are healthcare costs under con- In her endorsement, Sena- “It’s time to overhaul Flor- rights laws for people who’ve going to move forward, it’s trol, bring money and jobs tor Linda Stewart stated, “We ida’s unemployment benefits County Public Schools, as well been mistreated because of up to us — all of us, working to Florida. need more women in office system so that it serves as as the JCC pre-school and JCC their age, race, sex or dis- together. And I’m ready and “Access to affordable who will … work to protect the safety net it is supposed summer camps. ability; whistleblowers fired honored to stand up by your healthcare should be a right and preserve our environ- to be for our working people Sigman started her legal just for doing the right thing; side and fight that good fight for every Floridian. Patricia ment ….” and working families. And career at the Orlando law people who’ve been sexually for the people.” Sigman has my endorsement When it comes to gun when small businesses need firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, harassed or abused; people Sigman’s top priorities because she will do all that is control, Sigman believes to lay off workers, they will Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A., whose big employers didn’t as a senator include quality possible to expand Medicaid in implementing “common know their workers will get and in 1993 opened her law pay them what was promised public education, affordable and expand access to health- sense” solutions such as the benefits they need,” Sig- firm, Sigman & Sigman, P.A., after they did the work; people healthcare, protecting the care for Florida’s working universal background checks. man said. which has a “Best Law Firms” who’ve been denied their environment, preventing gun families,” said Senator Oscar “We need to do more to Another concern for Florid- in Florida Tier 1 ranking in unemployment benefits; and violence, and fixing Florida’s Braynon. ensure our freedom and the ians, especially this year, is U.S. News and World Report. others who need help. broken unemployment sys- With all the confusion freedom of those we love to voter rights. As a volunteer, Sigman has twice been named “And through it all, what tem. about the corona virus, Sig- go to school and public places Sigman has led the Florida Best Lawyers in America’s I’ve really been doing is “Quality public education man took the initiative and without the threat of gun Democratic Party’s voter “Lawyer of the Year” for standing up for the people. is the basic building block invited four local medical doc- violence,” she stated. protection efforts in Seminole Individuals in Employment And that’s why I’m running to success for the children of tors to share their knowledge Florida’s unemployment County for 15 years by recruit- Law as published in Orlando for Florida Senate District Florida and for our businesses about the virus in a zoom benefits are the second lowest ing, organizing and training Magazine, and she was voted 9 — because it’s time our that need the workforce of forum hosted by Kristine in the country. Sigman sees other volunteers. #1 “Best of the Bar” in Orlando government put the people tomorrow. Supporting our Morris Kraus, titled “What Are that Florida’s benefits are too Senator Perry Thurston Business Journal’s first Best of first — in the workplace, in public schools also supports Doctors Telling Their Families small to put food on a family’s endorsed Sigman and stated, the Bar competition. the classroom, in the hospital our businesses, our families, and Friends about Covid-19 table and keep a roof over “The people of Florida de- Why does Sigman want to waiting room, in the halls our economy, and our nation,” and School Reopening?” their heads when a worker serve free and fair elections run for Florida Senate? of our capitol and the laws Sigman states on her website, The forum can be seen gets laid off. that guarantee their voices “For over 25 years, I’ve been we make there. Because the patriciasigman.com. Having on Sigman’s Facebook page, Sigman’s job has been to are heard at the ballot box. raised three children who https://www.facebook.com/ fight on behalf of her clients I’m endorsing Patricia be-

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 were in the Seminole County SigmanForSenate. for their unemployment ben- cause her work as a voter E A R L A D D E D U R L school system, she knows Sigman is passionate about efits, and stated that Florida’s protection attorney gives her 13 14 15 what the public schools need protecting our unique en- unemployment benefits sys- the unique perspective we B R E I T E E U P N O A throughout the state. Sigman vironment. Her husband tem is broken — the pandemic need in the Florida Senate 16 17 18 B E E K E E P E R S L I P was an active volunteer for six grew up on Lake Orienta in proved that. as we move into redistricting 19 20 21 years for the Lake Mary High Altamonte Springs. Over the “Both small businesses and next year.” S A L E M P R O Y I D S School Band Boosters Asso- years, the lake has gone from workers are united in their In conclusion, Sigman told 22 23 24 25 ciation, serving as president a clear lake to a polluted lake distress that the benefits Heritage, “I’ve been fighting N E O P S A K 26 27 28 29 30 31 from 2014-2016. then gradually becoming they believed would be there for the people of Central T H E T H R E E W E E K S “Let’s fully fund our public clean again through the re- for them during their time of Florida for decades, and I have 32 33 34 schools, reverse the damage growth of natural vegetation. need are not being provided,” the skills, knowledge, educa- L E A D I O U A L L I N done by the culture of cor- She would like to institute she said. tion, preparation and passion 35 36 37 38 I S M D O U B L Y I T A ruption in Tallahassee, and smart growth management, “As a fellow small business to serve the people of Senate 39 40 41 42 invest in Florida’s future,” and take action on climate owner, Patricia knows the District 9 and Florida from day A S A R A S I A D E E P said Sigman on her website. change. challenges that come with 1 in the Florida Senate. I’m 43 44 45 “Patricia has my endorse- “Instead of protecting making payroll and what it ready to win Senate District M A C C A B E E B E E R S ment for Senate District 9 our environment and clean takes to be successful. We 9 against Jason Brodeur in 46 47 H A T E S A B because she understands that water, Tallahassee rolled need more people with that November and ready to do an 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 putting our public schools back common sense growth real world experience in the outstanding job as a public M A P S I M P R E N E W first is essential to ensuring a management laws, gave big Florida Senate and I cannot servant for this community.” 57 58 59 I R E F R E E S P E E C H brighter future for all Florid- corporations the green light wait to have Patricia on the Sigman would like to know 60 61 62 ians,” Betty Castor, former to pollute, and refused to frontlines as our state recov- what issues matter to Florida N I L O U T T A R I T E Florida Education Commis- ban the dangerous practice ers from this pandemic,” said voters and wants to hear from 63 64 65 sioner. of fracking in Florida. We Senator Annette Taddeo in her you. She has a page on her I D A E T Z E L S L O W Another area of concern must implement solutions to endorsement of Sigman. website, https://patriciasig- for Sigman is affordable deal with the more powerful Even before the pandemic, man.com/priorities-survey, healthcare. hurricanes and the effects of Floridians who qualified for where voters can address “Healthcare costs are high sea level rise due to climate the benefits and applied for their concerns, and welcomes and they keep rising. We can change that are now a part of them, ended up waiting an any questions or comments fix that. And we will,” said daily life for many Floridians,” unnecessarily long time — or submitted to her via email, pa- Sigman. She plans to get Sigman stated. were denied — their benefits. [email protected]. Floyd From page 4A Iranian nation [is now] being Iran, Turkey, the Palestinian Palestinian who dares to cross heard from the mouths of the territories and, indeed, in Hamas or the PLO. bandwagon, so it comes as no Americans themselves: Death every Islamist society where A.J. Caschetta is a Gins- surprise that it held a tasteless to America!” dictators and theocrats rule, burg-Milstein fellow at the cartoon contest (the “I can’t What country will lecture Americans can settle our Middle East Forum and a breathe exhibit”) and gave us next about America’s “sys- disputes rationally, in discus- principal lecturer at the Floyd (who was not a Muslim) temic racism”? Perhaps, from sions, even arguments, and Rochester Institute of Tech- the Soleimani treatment by its seat on the United Nations ultimately in elections, rather nology. portraying him as a Shi’ite Human Rights Council, it than in the streets. The views and opinions saint. will be Mauritania, the last In spite of its flaws, our expressed in this article are In a June 19 sermon in country on earth to abolish system is the envy of the world. those of the author and do Iran’s Fars province, Ayatollah slavery, but where slavery Just ask any anti-Khamenei not necessarily reflect the Lotfollah Dezhkam boast- still persists. protester, or any independent views of Heritage Florida ed that the “shout of the Unlike those who live in journalist in Turkey, or any Jewish News. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 15A directly subverts Hollywood The Wellspring, and went on Osteen stereotypes of Orthodoxy is tour together. From page 1A in the way it depicts women’s Osteen learned from Rosen- sexuality. blatt the importance of a “The Shabbos Goy” is a “I want to invert the expec- Shabbos goy, and it intrigued seven-minute snapshot of tation that frum or Orthodox her. the silliness that can ensue Jews are not as sexual as ev- In the JTA review, the film is when tradition and modernity erybody else,” Osteen told JTA. described as “a fast-paced tour live side by side and bump up “It is supposed to be a nod to of the Jewish neighborhood of against each other in awkward the fact that there’s more to Pico Robertson, where Chana ways,” said writer Shira Hanau Orthodox women than what (played by Milana Vayntrub) of the Jewish Telegraphic we might think of.” struggles to find someone who Agency. Osteen isn’t Orthodox, she isn’t Jewish who can help.” Osteen meant to have a co- and Hess send their son to a Eventually she finds a Black medic approach to Orthodoxy Jewish preschool and go to man who agrees to be the and wanted to show a different Ikar, a nondenominational Shabbos goy but questions side that normally isn’t seen. synagogue in West Los An- her assumption that he is not Orlando native Yisrael Dubov on the left plays Chana’s fiancé in Talia Osteen’s short “The darker sides of the geles. Jewish. Another bit of a twist film “The Shabbos Goy.” Orthodox world deserve to According to JTA, it was to the plot. “It turns out, but it be highlighted,” she told Osteen’s Orthodox friends reminds us of the timely reflec- people on set who had a strong “The Shabbos Goy,” with Feig response from Orthodox JTA, “as they have been in who helped inspire the idea tion and soul searching many familiarity with Orthodoxy. and his production company viewers. “But that makes me the 2017 film ‘Disobedience,’ for the short. are undertaking in regards to Even the music, composed producing. very happy.” which starred Rachel McAd- In 2009, Osteen met Dov diversity within and allyship by Osteen and Rosenblatt, is However the story contin- The Enzian is located at ams as a closeted Orthodox Rosenblatt, a Modern Or- between the Jewish community based on a traditional niggun, ues, Osteen is gratified by the 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Mai- lesbian, or ‘Unorthodox,’ the thodox musician who was and other minority communi- a wordless melody, adapted to positive feedback from Jews tland. For information, call story of a woman who leaves looking to get his music into ties,” Osteen told Heritage. suit the arc of the script. and non-Jews alike, but espe- 407-629-1088. Hasidic Williamsburg behind film and television scores. The The film makes a clear ef- Osteen is currently de- cially from Orthodox viewers. Portions of a JTA article for Berlin.” two began writing songs, and fort to get the details accurate veloping a feature film and “I wasn’t sure which way written by Shira Hanau are Where the movie most in 2010, they started a band, and was helped by having possible TV series based on it would go,” she said of the included in this article. Hate From page 4A hate the yetzer hara, the evil went to hell and back not walking, turned to the huge to use the word hate more For Rav Kook, ahavat chi- inclination that’s in them, once, but twice. He survived group of teenagers walking judiciously, thoughtfully, nam was not just a theoretical others, feeling happy, hopeful and you love the goodness both the Warsaw Ghetto and with him, and without hesi- and appropriately. You don’t idea. There are countless sto- and positive are all choices, that is concealed in them, Majdanek. I had the honor of tating said, “No, I don’t hate hate your least favorite food ries of Rav Kook’s profound they are not feelings. It isn’t which is a spark of Godliness.” twice accompanying him to them. I don’t hate anyone. I or the hot weather, or when love for all Jews, even or easy but we can choose to be Any hatred directed toward Poland as he took hundreds greatly dislike, I condemn, I your internet is slow or the especially those far removed positive, choose to be faithful a person is considered base- of teenagers to those places criticize, and I will confront person you are waiting for is from a Torah lifestyle. When and choose to be connectors, less on its face because it on March of the Living. As we what I think is wrong, but I running late. Above all, you questioned why he loved such not dividers. rejects and ignores the core walked through Majdanek, a will never use the word hate. can never and should never Jews, he would respond, “Bet- The Torah endorses loving and base of the person, the well-preserved concentration I don’t hate, because hate is hate people, even when you ter I should err on the side of people, “v’ahavta l’reiacha ka- image of God with which we camp, Norman identified to what started it all.” reject what they are saying baseless love than I should mocha — love your neighbor can find connection or com- the teenagers his former bar- What should be a power- or doing. err on the side of baseless like yourself.” On the other monality. That doesn’t mean racks, showed them where ful and jarring word, hate, Rav Avraham Yitzchak hatred.” hand, it condones hating evil, we don’t confront, debate the daily lineup took place, has lost its meaning and Ha’Cohen Kook (Orot Ha- If we want this mourning “ohavei Hashem sin’u rah — and challenge the ideas and and detailed the horrific impact because of its over- Kodesh vol. III, p. 324) to end, we need to be more Lovers of God hate evil.” How actions in people that we can- things he witnessed. At one use. “Hater” is sometimes famously wrote that there is like Brian and Rav Kook. do we reconcile these two not tolerate; it means we love point, one of the teenagers used to describe someone only one antidote to baseless Choose to connect instead imperatives? Rav Shneur people, even when we reject asked him, “Do you hate the who simply objects to some- hatred. “If we were destroyed, of divide, choose to live with Zalman of Liadi, the founder and can’t love something they Poles and the Germans for thing. In this period of the and the world with us, due to baseless love over baseless of Chabad, write in his Tanya say, think, or do. what they did, do you hate three weeks in which we are baseless hatred, then we shall hatred. (32): “It is a mitzvah to hate Hating Germans those countries today?” working to repair the dam- rebuild ourselves, and the Rabbi Efrem Goldberg is them, and it is a mitzvah to Norman Frajman is one In a moment I will never age from baseless hatred, world with us, with baseless the rabbi of the Boca Raton love them. Both are true. You of very few individuals who forget, Norman stopped let’s make a concerted effort love —ahavat chinam.” Synagogue. Twitter From page 5A platform. If Jews and their al- tweets? Why not ask support- speech against all protected Facebook and Twitter. Rest who face hate, online and in lies want Twitter to pay more ers to retweet posts by Jews categories? matters. the streets. offer a visual or financial in- attention to anti-Semitism, — particularly marginalized I would never be one But I am under no delu- The views and opinions centive to Twitter to change and to actually enforce its folks like Jews of color — in to argue against taking a sions: To combat anti-Semi- expressed in this article are its ways. stated Hateful Conduct order to draw attention to break from social media. tism, we must not stay silent. those of the author and do not Tweeting and retweeting Policy, why not ask sup- our community? Better yet, On Shabbat, from candle We must speak out, tweet, necessarily reflect the views is the most effective method porters to spend time each why not ask everyone to lighting to Havdalah, I retweet and report — not of JTA or its parent company, of promoting a cause on the day reporting anti-Semitic commit to reporting hate stay away from Instagram, just for ourselves, but for all 70 Faces Media. BDS-BLM From page 10A Implications for Israel and course demands that Ameri- Sarsour applauded Beinart’s colonialism.” This assault progressive and liberal Jew- the Jewish Diaspora can Jews sacrifice their liberal recent disavowal of Israel. She against the historical and ish communities since the colonialist narrative. Hill BDS-BLM intersectional- and progressive worldviews. praised Beinart for legitimiz- international legal legitimacy end of the Holocaust and the has called for “rebellion,” ity, as the face of the current Traditional Jewish affilia- ing Palestinian rejectionism of the nation-state of the Jew- establishment of the State of “revolution” and “resis- deepening identity-politics tions accept the existence of of Jewish sovereignty, saying, ish people also delegitimizes, Israel in 1948. tance” against the American phenomenon in the United the Jewish state, yet they “Maybe Zionists will listen to criminalizes and dehuman- Dan Diker is a foreign- government and its institu- States, mobilizes racial mi- are deemed unacceptable by one of their own. Peter has izes Diaspora Jews by exten- policy fellow at the Jerusalem tions in the wake of Floyd’s norities against what they this more extreme, unforgiv- evolved over the years, and I sion. According to the BDS- Center for Public Affairs and death. Similarly, BDS leader see as a white-supremacist ing American dialogue. The welcome his evolution.” BLM narrative, any Jew who a research fellow at the Inter- professor Hatem Bazian of established order they seek to refusal of the 2018 intersec- This Israel “cancellation” supports Israel’s existence national Institute for Counter- UC Berkeley, founder of Stu- replace. In parallel, the BDS tional Women’s March to discourse is a dangerous is automatically branded a Terrorism at IDC Herzliya. dents for Justice in Palestine, and BLM movements share allow Jewish progressive Zion- development for Diaspora “racist robber of Palestinian The author thanks JCPA has called for an intifada in a vision for the replacement ist women to march despite Jews because it positions land.” If left unchallenged researcher Tirza Shorr for America. of Israel, which they see as their unequivocal support Israel, not as a solution to and uncorrected, this in- her invaluable assistance in Hill’s infamous “from the an extension of the white for women’s rights serves as anti-Semitism, but rather creasingly mainstreamed and the preparation of this article. river to the sea” speech at United States—inherently a case in point. as a primary cause of anti- radicalized narrative poses This article was first pub- the United Nations on Nov. unjust, racist and illegal. In These attitudes have begun Semitism. The BDS-BLM one of the gravest dangers to lished by the Jerusalem Cen- 28, 2018, underscored his this view, Israel is the result to penetrate some progressive alignment also erases Jewish the American and European ter for Public Affairs. goal of international solidar- of a historical sin—an error Jewish circles. In July 2020, indigeneity in the Middle East ity for the radical and racial that can be corrected only Peter Beinart, former editor and Israel’s 3,000-year-old “Ferguson-to-Palestine” link- by Israel’s replacement by of the liberal New Republic, Jewish history in the Holy age. Hill has employed classic Palestine. authored an opinion piece Land. In short, it spawns a Marxist nomenclature against This deepens the chal- titled, “I No Longer Believe political replacement theol- To Publish Legal Notices Israel: “colonialist,” “imperi- lenge to Israel and American in a Jewish State,” which ogy that Palestinian activists alist,” “fascist” and “racist,” Jewry posed by BDS, BLM appeared on the first page have been propagating for For Orange, Osceola, Seminole forming the basis for the and Antifa, who demand the of the international edition years, claiming to be the apartheid libel against Israel, dismantling of the United of The New York Times. This descendants of the original and Volusia Counties, most recently in a webinar States and Israel and their was a truncated version of Canaanites, charging the Jews after the Floyd murder, along rebuilding from the ground an 8,000-word treatise that stole “Al-Quds” (Jerusalem) Call with Palestinian and South up. The rebranding of Israel appeared in Jewish Currents, from them, and denying that African anti-Israel activists. as a white supremacist entity where Beinart today serves the Al-Aqsa mosque was built Heritage Florida Jewish News Similarly, IfNotNow, a Jew- also categorizes Diaspora as a senior editor. Beinart’s on the remains of the Jewish ish anti-Zionist organization, Jews as “white supremacists” denunciation of Israel as the Temple. at 407-834-8787 recently tweeted an article en- by extension, unless they dis- nation-state of the Jewish This inversion of history is couraging solidarity between avow Israel as a centerpiece people places him in the a necessary reconstruction to or Email the BDS and BLM movements, of their American Jewish same ideological orbit as Hill, anchor the allegations against in the shadow of the Floyd identity. Sarsour and the BLM-BDS Israel of “white supremacism, [email protected] killing. This new radicalized dis- movements. Israel adversary imperialism and settler- PAGE 16A HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 Seth Rogen says Israel ‘doesn’t make sense’ and opens up about his Jewish identity in interview with Marc Maron By Gabe Friedman “WTF” podcast on Monday: conversation with Seth to cultural Jewishness to “If you don’t like Jews, you’re Rogen touched on just sitting shiva. (JTA) — Marc Maron gonna get triggered.” about every general aspect But a second warning came warned listeners at the begin- It was a fair disclaimer, of modern Jewish identity, part of the way through the ning of the latest episode of his given that his hour-long from Jewish summer camp episode, as the conversation turned to Israel. “We’re gonna piss off a bunch of Jews,” Maron said. Rogen, who grew up attend- ing Jewish schools and Jewish Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel camp in Vancouver, said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” and questioned Proudly Serving Our Community why the state should exist. Maron, who often references For Over 35 Years his Jewishness in his standup comedy material, concurred. Rogen: To me it just seems L’dor v’dor ... an antiquated thought pro- cess. If it is for religious From Generation to Generation reasons, I don’t agree with it, Roy Rochlin/Getty Images because I think religion is silly. Seth Rogen at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Feb. If it is for truly the preserva- 29, 2020 in New York City. • Traditional Jewish Funerals tion of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you York in 1919 and wakes up Maron: The shiva thing is don’t keep something you’re 100 years later. really kind of powerful … • Non-Traditional Services trying to preserve all in one Here’s some of what else Rogen: It puts you to work, place — especially when that they discussed: and it forces you to do stuff, • Interstate Shipping place is proven to be pretty On “tough” Jews and it forces you to confront volatile, you know? “I’m trying Rogen: My grandfather was it, and it forces you to be to keep all these things safe, a plumber. I come from a line around people and talk to • Pre-Arranged Funerals I’m gonna put them in my of like very tough blue collar people and … blender and hope that that’s Jews as well. My grandfather Maron: Eat, it forces you Shalom Assurance Plan the best place … that’ll do played professional football in to eat. it.” It doesn’t make sense to Canada and he was a plumber Rogen: It forces you to eat, • Headstones, Grave Markers me. And I also think that as a … my great-grandfather from and drink, and it is religion. Jewish person I was fed a huge the other side was a mailman, It was one of those things amount of lies about Israel my and they were tough! And that where I was like, “Oh this is entire life! They never tell you was a lot of actually where like a very useful tool that 407-599-1180 that — oh by the way, there the idea for the movie came religion has created around were people there. They make from. Simon Rich, the writer, a very painful thing and a lot it seem like it was just like was like, “I was looking at an of thought was put into this” 640 Lee Road • Orlando, Florida sitting there, like the f**king old picture of my grandfather … As silly as Noah’s Ark is, door’s open! … They forget to when he was my age, and I this is not silly, this is actually include the fact to every young couldn’t help but think if we like a very well thought out, W.E. “Manny” Adams, LFD Jewish person. knew each other he would practical protocol to do after Maron: I get frightened to f***ing hate my guts, and someone dies, whether you Samuel P. (Sammy) Goldstein, Exec. Director talk about it. probably beat the living shit believe in it or not. Rogen: I’m afraid of Jews! out of me”… And my grand- On anti-Semitism I’m 100 percent afraid of Jews. father, they were nice to me, Rogen: I remember my dad The entire conversation but you could tell, like, he frankly telling me “People www.bethshalommemorialchapel.com was what Maron called “the thought I was soft. hate Jews. Just be aware of most Jewy talk” he has had Maron: I’ve always had a that. They just do.” And it’s on his popular podcast, which theory about it, that there’s honestly something that I has aired over 1,100 episodes. the stocky sort of proletariat am so glad was instilled in me Rogen was on the show to peasant Jew, and then there’s from a young age, because if discuss his upcoming film the composer Jew, the math it wasn’t, I would constantly “An American Pickle,” about Jew. And I’m definitely not a be shocked at how much a Jewish immigrant who falls math Jew, and I don’t think motherf***ers hate Jews, into a vat of pickles in New you are either … because they do! It is perva- On dating and marrying sive and it is prevalent and it fellow Jews is, to many Jewish people, so Rogen: I would have been confounding that they don’t totally happy marrying a assume it’s true … I’ve tried non-Jewish person, it’s only to put a lot of thought into coincidental that [his wife why it’s happened … People Lauren Miller] is Jewish, and obviously hate people who do it really bothers her when I say not look like them. … I think that. She wants her Judaism to people also have a weird fear have some value to me, even of people who look like them though it doesn’t, in any way, but do not believe the same shape or form. thing they do fundamentally. Maron: I don’t know if you On how the “American would know if that’s true. I bet Pickle” movie came to be you wouldn’t be great with a Rogen: [Simon Rich] en- non-Jew. visioned it as a movie with Rogen: Yeah, maybe, I’d me … The first time I hosted be OK. “Saturday Night Live” was his Maron: Yeah you’d probably first episode as a writer on be OK, but there’s not the — I “Saturday Night Live,” and was married to a Jew and that we were both much younger didn’t work out, and then I was than everybody else that was married to a non-Jew and that there at the time … So we didn’t work out either … kind of bonded, and then the Rogen: There’s a familiarity short story came out, and I think too that … but also, I a lot of people liked it but I found myself being a real nov- think people saw it and maybe elty to some of the non-Jewish thought it was too weird to be women I dated, like it was “Oh a movie. But I talked to him wow” — like they had never about it and he was like, “I pic- been around a funny person ture it as a movie and I picture before in their entire life … I’m it with you, and I picture you no funnier than your average playing both characters … Jewish person’s uncle is. and it took me a long time to On the power of shiva wrap my head around whether Rogen: As I get older, I that was a terrible idea or appreciate that religion, you not … It was a hard movie to know, specifically revolving crack, the tone is weird and around death, like Judaism it’s something that I wanted has a lot of protocol that is to spend a lot of time making helpful. sure we got right. Back to School

2020 PAGE 2B HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 SOJC is excited to begin a Religious School year like no other

our already hugely successful “The teachers have under- “We had over two dozen through seventh grades also “Our students develop a school community and cur- gone extensive training in us- students continuing their meet on Wednesdays from high level of comfort with riculum into one focused on ing streaming technology to Hebrew education over the 5:30-7:30 p.m. The Hebrew Jewish religious practices adapting to our post-COVID make sure that the students summer,” said Rabbi Krublit. High School class with Rabbi and prayer,” says Ramsay. reality,” said Rabbi Orrin will remain engaged in and He continued, “This had the Krublit will meet on Tuesday “By the time our students Krublit. The school, led by excited about religious school benefit not only of helping nights. The school will begin reach the age of bar orbat Cantor Doug Ramsay and for this upcoming year,” said them with their language the year virtually and hopes mitzvah, everyone in our Rabbi Krublit, has put in a Cantor Ramsay. “One of the skills but also helped train to transition to a mixed vir- congregational family is lot of time and energy over really unique things that our teachers for the “virtual tual and in person sessions kvelling and visitors marvel the summer to make sure we’re offering here is a full reality” we’re going to be at some point after the High over how our capable young that this upcoming year will time, regularly scheduled, working with this fall. Our Holy Days. Students in all people lead services, read be an even better experience virtual religious school, but deepest hope is that we will grades learn Hebrew, Torah, Torah, chant Haftarot, and for its students after pivot- without having kids sit in soon be able to welcome Jewish holidays, customs, deliver insightful Divrei ing late last year to become front of their screens for three everyone back to the syna- community, ethics and what Torah. Better yet, our stu- a virtual school. straight hours.” gogue, in person, in a safe and it means to be Jewish, all dents continue to do these Last year SOJC imple- The school also imple- loving environment.” taught through the lens of things even after their Bar mented a new curriculum mented a teamwork and self- Boasting more than 100 Jewish values. or Bat Mitzvah through our centered on learning the motivating based Hebrew students in its pre-kinder- “Perhaps as important as Cantorial Corps, Kadima, Rabbi Orrin Krublit Jewish beliefs, traditions, and education program in 2019, garten through Hebrew High gaining Judaic knowledge, and USY youth groups. All holidays, instilling a love and called Aleph-Beit Kovesh, the School classes, the SOJC the students also have a this is a result of the love and A radically different new commitment to Israel, and Hebrew Alphabet Conqueror, Religious School has been chance to interact with commitment to Judaism that school year is about to begin, teaching how to behave ethi- or ABK. SOJC actually con- leading Jewish education in other Jewish children in a they have developed during and the Southwest Orlando cally and morally. All of these tinued this Hebrew program South Orlando since 1991. caring, nurturing, and at their fulfilling and rewarding Jewish Congregation, located topics were taught through over the summer, for free, for The school proudly employs the beginning of this year, religious school experience.” at 11200 S. Apopka-Vineland the lens of different Jewish all of its students who wanted a qualified teacher for each virtual environment,” says Jodi Abrache, a member of Road (2 miles from Down- values, Midot, as students to take advantage to continue grade level, pre-K through Cantor Doug Ramsay, who the SOJC Board of Directors town Disney and next door studied examples of where their work on their Hebrew seven, as well as the Hebrew continues his work with and Co-Chair of the Educa- to the Rosen JCC), can’t wait different Midot were to be skills. With over 15 teachers High School class taught by the school teaching t’filah, tion committee, summarized to virtually greet the many found in every aspect of the and volunteers helping out, Rabbi Orrin Krublit in con- training the students to lead everyone’s excitement for returning faces and new Jewish religion. This year, the students were able to cert with JTEN (Jewish Teen the congregation in Shabbat the start of the school year students. that same curriculum has continue to receive one-on- Education Network). services. Cantor Ramsay has when she exclaimed, “We look “This summer has been a been further refined and en- one guidance and attention All grades (pre-K through been involved in SOJC’s reli- forward to another fantastic wonderful opportunity for hanced to work with a virtual as they trained their Hebrew seventh) meet on Sundays gious school daily operations year of learning and fun for growth and transformation of based student population. knowledge. from 9 a.m. to noon, and third since 1997. our children at SOJC!” From students to leaders: How today’s youth are preparing for the future the health of the local envi- invaluable life skills but and throughout the year ronment, the importance of they’re also having a great members spend ample time agriculture is boundless. time while doing it. coordinating various fund- But for agriculture to “These programs were raising campaigns to benefit continue to advance, it’s es- designed to be a fun and their communities. sential to educate and inspire effective way for students Recognition young minds, invest in the to explore a critically impor- Participating in youth next generation, and turn tant industry,” said Reiter. agricultural organizations today’s youth into tomorrow’s “Aside from learning about means being surrounded by agricultural leaders. responsibility and leadership, a variety of adult role models. That’s where youth agricul- members also have the ability Throughout the year, mem- tural organizations come in. to form strong, long-lasting bers attend events and meet According to Phil Reiter, relationships with peers that executives from some of the vice president of marketing share similar interests and country’s top corporations, at Tractor Supply Company, passions.” through which many mem- the nation’s largest rural Through involvement in bers form connections and lifestyle retailer and a long- youth agricultural programs, receive recognition for their time supporter of AG-centric students can look forward to hard work. (BPT) — You don’t have to vital role both play within understand the value of the programs like 4-H and FFA, the following: Tractor Supply frequently grow crops or raise livestock society, nor do you have to farmers and ranchers that members of these organiza- Good Friends recognizes individuals who in order to understand the reside in rural America to do. From the food we eat to tions are not only learning Agricultural organizations have displayed exemplary give students the opportunity service and commitment to to be actively engaged in proj- their community. Last year, ects and events that involve the retailer presented dozens socializing with friends and of hardworking 4-H and FFA meeting new people from members with commemo- across the country. From rative certificates during attending local fairs to com- special ceremonies at state peting in contests and career and county fairs. development events, mem- From June 8 to October bers have the opportunity 22, the company will send its to travel and work alongside Mobile Fair Tour to 19 fairs classmates that have similar across the country where they interests as them. will continue to acknowledge Growing Confidence members of both organiza- Group meetings provide a tions. This year, honorees fun setting for members to have been selected as win- Virtual Meet First Day interact with both peers and ners of Tractor Supply’s first of School adults. Throughout the year ever “Great Neighbor” Essay & Greet and during fair season, mem- Contest, which encouraged Wednesday, Sunday, bers are often required to ad- 4-H and FFA youth to sub- August 16 dress large crowds. Whether mit a short essay detailing August 12 it’s presenting animals to a how their participation in 5-6:30 p.m. 9 a.m. panel of judges or giving a these organizations has em- speech, high-pressure situa- powered them to be a better tions like these teach students neighbor. Meitin Alliance for Growth and Learning (MAGAL) is a collaborative Religious School for about preparation, poise and Tractor Supply’s Mobile public speaking. Fair Tour will offer visitors Conservative and Reform Jewish families from Temple Israel (tiflorida.org), Temple Shir Leadership Opportuni- the “Out Here” experi- Shalom (templeshirshalom.org), and Congregation Beth Am (congbetham.org). ties ence. Attendees will have Both 4-H and FFA focus the opportunity to lasso a on empowering young people “runaway pig,” test their We are committed to keeping students safe and engaged while continuing to learn. to take on leadership posi- strength on the high striker Sunday K-7 classes will begin virtually while Wednesdays will include socially tions within their respective bell-ringing game, and at- distanced, face-to-face learning for students in grades 3-7. New this year are “chugim” organizations. While in FFA, tend the special recognition members elect their own of- ceremonies. (electives) on a variety of interesting topics. MAGAL is the Hebrew word for circle and a ficers and are responsible for To stay up to date on the symbol of oneness. Learn more about how your family can become part of our circle! planning and conducting ac- tour or learn more about the tivities throughout the year. interactive experience, follow Civic Responsibility Tractor Supply Company on Winter Springs 407-647-3055 Giving back is a primary Facebook and visit www. component of 4-H and FFA, TractorSupply.com/FairTour. MAGAL • 50 S. Moss Road • • HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 3B MAGAL initiates ‘hybrid model’ to start out the school year MAGAL, the Meitin Alli- tific information, and Semi- staggered in order to pro- have been redesigned to allow ance for Growth and Learn- nole and Orange county vide manageable session for generous social distancing ing, is proudly entering its school decisions, MAGAL length for the students. while still letting this age 5th year in the greater Or- will begin 2020 with a hybrid In addition to Judaica and group experience valuable lando community. MAGAL model, and transition to “in- Hebrew sessions, students time together with their peers. was created by Temple Shir person” classes when it is safe will also have valuable time All students will be given Shalom (Reform) and Temple to do so. The school year will with Rabbi Joshua Neely clear instructions for home Israel (Conservative) to bring begin with a special “drive-in” (Temple Israel) and Cantor study between classes to together Jewish students from Aug. 16 for all the families. Kim Singer (Temple Shir supplement the screen time. a broad spectrum of back- Songs, games and treats will Shalom) to experience the These learning projects will grounds in order to have their accompany the sounding of treasures of Jewish wisdom have shared themes for the diversity enrich their learn- the shofar to herald the start and culture. New this year: whole school but also specific ing. 2020 will be the second of a new year. This in-person, Since online learning af- components for age appropri- year that Congregation Beth but socially distant event, fords new opportunities for ate learning. Am (Conservative) will also be will give everyone a much- engagement, MAGAL will be MAGAL will follow these a partner in the alliance. This needed chance to form and offering a rotating selection changes and make adjust- collaboration was designed to strengthen the bonds that of Chugim (electives) that ments as necessary to ensure magnify the quality of Jewish bring us together. will take advantage of the the quality of education. If you education for the children of Rabbi Joshua Neely Cantor Kim Singer Regular Sunday classes flexibility of the technology. have questions or comments all the congregations. MA- begin on Aug. 23. School Older students will be about any of these procedures, GAL’s years of cooperation challenges of the 2020-2021 puts them in a solid position hours will run from 9 a.m. able to come into school on please don’t hesitate to be in and creative thinking have school year. At times such as to overcome any obstacles. to 12:30 p.m., but individual Wednesdays for face-to-face touch with Rabbi Joshua Neely prepared it for the unique these, their stable partnership Considering current scien- class meeting times will be learning. Classroom spaces or Cantor Kim Singer. Want your kid to excel in college? After high school, try a break in Israel

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Tech whiz Asher Dale, second from right, hikes with friends in the Negev Desert during the founder of the American are selected to participate in this kind of knowledge or his gap year in Israel. Gap Year Association, an a special leadership training tools, and you see at the end Oregon-based nonprofit that track that grooms them to of the program how they be- By Ben Harris the present, as cliche as it provider of gap year experi- promotes gap years. About assume positions of Jewish come confident,” said Dotan sounds. It was kind of big ences in Israel. Since its 40,000 Americans take gap leadership in their home Tamir, Big Idea’s founder Within months of gradu- for me.” founding, Masa has brought years annually, and the communities. and CEO. “They stand on ating from a Jewish high That kind of personal more than 150,000 Jews to average yearly growth rate But for many Americans, the stage presenting their school near Boston in 2017, development is one of the Israel from over 60 coun- clocks in at 23 percent over career development oppor- app that they developed Asher Dale had an internship major selling points of gap tries. The organization helps the past 10 years, according tunities in Israel’s fabled and speak with so much that he “absolutely loved” at years, defined as a semes- match young Jews with an to the association. startup culture is the biggest confidence on things that Forter, an Israeli technology ter or more of experien- array of programs run by a “In our country, the draw of a gap year in Israel. they had no clue about just startup that sells online tial learning usually taken large network of providers running joke is that most “Israeli culture allows you five months ago.” fraud protection services. between high school and and provides $40 million students take a gap year: It’s to be a talent regardless of For Dale, the experience The company, which pro- college. in scholarships each year called their freshman year of your title or experience,” effected a significant shift cesses more than $50 billion Proponents of gap years to help subsidize the costs. college,” Knight said. “Most Avisar Ben Horin said. “It’s in his career goals. A self- in transactions annually for point to data suggesting that Gap years in Israel long people laugh when they hear just about what you can do. described “ambitious kid,” a global network of retailers, gap year students perform have been a rite of passage that, but the reality is there’s If you’re good at what you’re Dale as a high school student was growing rapidly and better in college and exhibit among Orthodox Jews, at least as much educational doing, you find yourself aspired to found a company the 18-year-old Dale was in greater academic motivation with some religious high value, potentially at a much more and more in the center and become a billionaire the thick of it. He regularly and higher reported levels schools sending upward of lesser cost, by taking a qual- of things. It’s a sink-or-swim “like Steve Jobs.” He even put in 10-hour days dur- of job satisfaction. But it’s 90 percent of their gradu- ity gap year.” experience. You’re not go- released a mobile app on ing his four months at the the potential for personal ates to study in Israel for a Masa’s program offerings ing to find yourself making Apple’s app store while still company’s Tel Aviv offices growth and enhanced self- year, typically at religious cover a vast range of pos- copies.” a senior in high school. and worked on two major knowledge that is often seminaries. But the trend sible gap year experiences. One of Masa’s offerings is By the end of his time software products. touted above all else. is also catching fire beyond Participants can experience a gap year run by Big Idea, a in Israel, Dale had come to For the aspiring computer “It’s a unique opportunity the Orthodox world. Israeli army life, work in 12-year-old Israel company realize that success in the scientist who had decided to to look into themselves,” “It’s a growing phenom- development towns helping that began as a technology technology world wasn’t the put off college for a year to said Liran Avisar Ben Ho- enon in America,” said to close achievement gaps summer camp for teens. only thing he cared about. spend a “gap year” in Israel, rin, the CEO of Masa Israel Shalom Elcott, Masa’s North between native Israelis Big Idea’s program begins “I want to start a company it was a dream job. Journey, which annually American CEO. “More and and recent immigrants, or with a four-month training that would actually do good But that was hardly the brings some 12,000 young more parents are realizing pursue college credit from course in computer coding for the world,” he said. “I’m highlight of Dale’s time in Jews from around the world that our children today, more academically oriented or graphic design in the much more focused on Israel. Rather, he says, the to Israel for a wide variety they’re graduating college, programs. Others work in southern Israeli city of Beer- relationships, my family, highlight was the personal of gap year experiences. they’re getting degrees and hospitals, volunteer with sheba, followed by a month friends, having a really posi- transformation he saw in “You’re going to grow up they’re not exactly sure Israel’s emergency medical of applying that knowledge tive experience in college, himself over the course of and mature significantly, where to go. Or they’re services, such as Magen Da- to build a technology solu- and kind of more living a year spent living abroad. understand what you care finishing high school, they vid Adom, or teach English. tion for an Israeli nonprofit. where I am and not always “I’ve always been so am- about and what you want have the pressure of applying The participants live inde- For participants who choose being stuck in the future.” bitious and so focused on to do, and come back home to colleges, but they’re not pendently, typically in apart- Big Idea’s full nine-month This article was sponsored my future,” said Dale, now with skills that you’re not really sure about what they ments with others in the program, this is followed by by and produced in partner- 19 and a computer science going to get in college.” want to study or exactly what programs. They are exposed an internship with an Israeli ship with Masa Israel Jour- major at the University of Founded in 2004 as a their path is.” to Israel generally through technology company. ney, a leader in immersive Illinois. “But over my gap joint venture by the Jewish In fact, academic burn- tours of the country and oth- “A lot of them come with international experiences in year I realized that’s not all Agency for Israel and the out is the principal reason er educational opportuni- no experience of living away Israel for adults ages 18-30. that life is about. Life is so Israeli Prime Minister’s cited for taking a gap year, ties. Several hundred of the from home, with no real vi- This article was produced by much more about living in Office, Masa is the leading according to Ethan Knight, 12,000 annual participants sion of what can they do with JTA’s native content team. PAGE 4B HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 COS: Changing how we do it but not what we do In this time of COVID, Hebrew school will be that our families, teachers 9:30 and 3rd-7th Sunday and for families with Preschool Congregation Ohev Shalom virtual for the start of the and Madrichim are safe and Wednesday beginning at 4:30. through 2nd grade will re- staff and leadership have been year and will be evaluated that is why we are beginning Second grade has an option sume on Wednesday a month working diligently to be able regularly. “We know that the year virtually,” said Amy to attend Wednesdays as well. beginning in September. to offer the same quality Jew- face-to-face learning is ideal Geboff, director of Youth and The Pk and K classes will be COS Youth groups will be ish education, programs and not just for skill mastery but Family Education. offered as an enrichment class offering a variety of programs services virtually. We are not equally important for social While school is virtual, called “Shalom Chaverim” and events. Some will be vir- changing what we do only how connection to build com- classes for grades 1 and 2 twice a month rather than tual, some in the building at we do it. munity. We need to ensure are Sunday beginning at the weekly classes. This age limited capacity and some out- group is not as proficient at doors when weather permits. being on screens. Each class Plans are underway for a session will stand on its own. full array of programs and Participants can register for activities for the month of each class as fits their sched- Elul, the month we gear up ule. There will be circle time, to the High Holidays, through art, movement, story, Hebrew the end of the holidays. There letters and words of the day. will be something for everyone The Hebrew school pro- to renew, reflect, reconnect. gram will be on Zoom. Teach- There will be baking, Rosh Amy Geboff ers are planning for small Hashanah Seder, Shofar blow- group learning opportuni- ing opportunity, Tashlich. Kline. You may not know their ties in break out rooms so On Sept. 24 will be master names, but you probably know that students can received storyteller Amy Kohan via their songs. The service will be focused attention, have op- zoom with an interactive story interactive, uplifting, melodic portunity for collaborating about the holiday season. and meaningful for all ages. and “chvreuta” study as well On the second day of Rosh For more information as connecting with friends. Hashanah there will be a about Congregation Ohev Madrichim are being trained preschool family service at Shalom, Hebrew school, to be able to facilitate some of 9:30 with Nina Fine on zoom Youth programs and all the small groups with adult and at 10:30 a very special programs and services, go to staff checking in on them. Family service. The service the website www.ohevshalom. COS will continue to offer is called Shirat Haruach. It org, Congregation Ohev Sha- programs for young fami- is a service created and led lom and Ohev Shalom Youth lies including Mishpacha by popular Jewish song lead- and Family facebook pages Sheli, Shabbatlettes and ers and artists Rick Recht, or call the synagogue at 407- Shirei Shabbat. Kibbutz Ohev Josh Warshowsky and Eliana 298-4650. School starts Aug. 17 in person and remotely at JAO Jewish Academy of Orlando will begin the 2020-21 school year on Monday, Aug. 17. The school will offer in-person learning with precautions in place as well as remote learning. “For many of our families, it was crucial to have a safe, in-person school experience Preparing A Future With No Limits. for their children,” said Head of School Alan Rusonik. “I am grateful to offer the safety precautions we have in place to minimize risk.” In order to ensure the safest possible learning environ- ment, the school has put in place a multi-layer approach classroom playing together at lando serves central Florida to mitigating risk. These strat- a time. The playground will students of all faiths from egies will include, but are not be cleaned between sessions. transitional kindergarten limited to, screening, moni- Several classes will be held through fifth grade. The toring and testing students outside. school delivers a whole-child and faculty, using a unique The numbers of students education fostering academic and state of the art ultraviolet enrolling their children at JAO excellence and character disinfection technology, hand toward the start of school has education rooted in Jewish washing, smaller class sizes, increased as many parents values. Jewish Academy of social distancing, wearing are looking for the safest op- Orlando is accredited by the facemasks, frequent disinfec- tion for their children. While Florida Council of Indepen- tion and limiting interactions the school is still enrolling dent Schools. of students. students, because the class To learn more about Jew- The in-person experience sizes must be limited, only a ish Academy of Orlando, will consist of small class sizes few spots remain. please visit: jewishacademy- with desks spaced apart and Rusonik added, “We look orlando.org or follow the reduced interaction outside forward to starting another school on Facebook https:// of homeroom classes. Stu- year of learning and growing facebook.com/JewishAcad- dents will continue to receive when school resumes in Au- emyOrlando. their specials such as art, PE, gust. 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Jewish students, Orlando is not just a place Aug. 21 — Championing In this learning event, can be especially difficult to be, it is also home to one of the highest the Unheard: Addressing participants are encouraged when a relative or good friend ranked Hillels in the nation. We are here to Racial Inequity to take a “hard look” within holds views vastly different serve as a home away from home for our Join in a panel discussion, ourselves, examining both from your own. Often times, moderated by Monica May to bias and internalized oppres- it is our own fears that hold Jewish students, helping them live, learn, hear how Civil Rights attorney sion. Rachel Luce-Hitt will us back. Jenny will help us connect and succeed. Cecile Scoon and Chris King, guide participants through identify how our fears play For more information or to set up a founder and CEO of Elevation this inner work. into our actions and reactions personal tour, please contact Jacqui McGrail Scholars Program, saw a need Sept. 14 — Building and how we can rewire some within their communities and Emotional Bravery of our thoughts. at [email protected]. took action. Join us for this live, online For more information on Sept. 2 — Implicit Bias virtual event featuring Jenny the Strategies for Action New Title: The Inner Susser. Many of us are unsure events, contact the Holocaust Work of Bias and Op- about how to approach dif- Center at 407-628-0555 or pression ficult conversations and this visit holocaustedu.org. PAGE 6B HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 Are families fleeing Jewish day schools? Far from it, but it’s complicated.

March, while public schools in whether and when they will Lorch hopes his school may the area adjusted more slowly. return is unclear. be granted a waiver, but the “We didn’t have to go Beit Rabban, a nonde- situation remains fluid. through a whole hierarchy nominational K-6 school in “Everything is a little up in of structures of 10 schools Manhattan, also is bracing for the air,” Lorch said. in the district to make sure a decline in enrollment this Efforts to reopen have been we could make it happen,” fall from the more than 140 strained as well by mount- Kushnir said. students it had anticipated, ing economic concerns. At Now her school is plan- according to a recent report Kadima, the reopening plan ning on full-time in-person in Tablet. The school’s direc- has required hiring more instruction this fall, and tor said she was most nervous custodial staff to keep the families are flocking to it. about the effect of families facility sanitized, improving The school is holding an event moving out of the city. the ventilation system and for 35 prospective families Luria Academy in Brooklyn installing various types of next week, and Kushnir an- also anticipates a dip from the protective equipment — all ticipates as many as five to 10 320 it expected prior to the while coping with a 30% in- could wind up enrolling their pandemic even as it ramps up crease in requests for tuition children. its search for additional space assistance. In Brooklyn, the Hannah to permit the necessary social At Adat Ari El, a K-6 day Senesh Community Day distancing. school in Los Angeles, ad- The Hannah Senesh school in Brooklyn expects enrollment to hold steady or increase School is also fielding inqui- “It is my sense that most ministrators are installing slightly in the fall of 2020. ries but may not be able to day schools are down in the 360-degree, voice-activated accommodate everyone who city,” said Amanda Pogany, Owl Pro cameras (retail price: By Ben Harris from elsewhere to escape the uneven, with many schools in wants to attend. The K-8 Luria’s head of school. $999) in every classroom to fa- pandemic — one prospective the New York City area, where school is planning to reopen Some schools are better cilitate virtual learning, along (JTA) — In the last aca- family called Lavine from most day school students live, in the fall with full-time in- positioned than others to with Plexiglas barriers and demic year, Syracuse Hebrew Brooklyn after overhearing contending with enrollment person learning for younger weather the crisis. other protective equipment. Day School had a grand total of someone in their apartment declines. And continued un- students and a blend of in- In New Rochelle, just north Meanwhile, the school is fac- 34 students enrolled in grades building say they were moving certainty about whether and person and online learning of New York City, Deganit ing “skyrocketing” requests K-6, down from a high-water to Syracuse. But most of the how schools can safely open for older ones. Ronen said she expects in- for tuition assistance that mark of 165 students decades interest is local. means much could change Head of School Nicole Nash creased enrollment at West- Sarah Schultz, the interim ago. “My phone is ringing ev- between now and the start of said she’s had inquiries for chester Torah Academy. The head of school, said it won’t The 60-year-old school in ery day with questions from classes, in most places next every grade level, but doesn’t Modern Orthodox day school be able to fully meet. central New York, the only prospective families,” Lavine month. expect to be able to accom- has incorporated online learn- “Every day we have meet- Jewish day school for 75 said. “And the reason for that Bernstein said the trend modate them all given space ing since it opened in 2013 and ings about this to figure out miles, has seen its fortunes is the public schools are still of increased interest seemed limitations. As it is, the school boasts a relatively low price what we can do,” Schultz said. sink along with those of its trying to figure out what they particularly strong in sub- intends to use every inch of tag as a result — a potential “We are still a community and city. Once an industrial hub, are going to do.” urban communities, where available floor space, includ- boon for newly cash-strapped we want to stand behind our Syracuse has declined in Lavine’s experience paral- families have stayed put and ing the gym, library and art families for whom public families and be there for our population from a peak of lels that of many day schools in some places seen that their room to accommodate an schools may not feel like an families in this time of dire 220,000 in 1950 to just over this year. Far from facing dev- local public schools were not anticipated increase in enroll- option. need. But we can only do so 142,000 today. astating enrollment declines, able to pivot to online learn- ment from the 220 students In Los Angeles, where much.” But with the city’s public some Jewish day schools are ing as quickly as nearby day who attended last year. public schools are going to In Syracuse, that’s less of schools signaling that they finding that the pandemic is schools. “At a minimum we’ll hold be entirely online when the a concern. Enrollment was are unlikely to reopen for full- bringing them new students “Some of the contrasts steady, but I anticipate some school year commences in already so low that the school time in-person instruction in — particularly if their facili- that people are experiencing incremental growth,” Nash August, the Kadima Day can accommodate many more the fall, Syracuse Hebrew Day ties enable them to space out between Jewish day schools said. School was hoping to see a students without taking on School is anticipating its first students sufficiently to permit and other schools, including Like Hannah Senesh, other 10% jump in enrollment in significantly expanded costs. major bump in enrollment in a full five-day schedule. public schools, is happening Jewish schools in New York the fall. With just 250 students The bigger question is wheth- memory. “We are picking [that] up in wealthier areas,” he said. City have seen increased inter- and a large campus, the school er the school can sustain the Its head of school, Laura in a lot of places,” said Paul “What they’ve managed to est as it became clear that the was confident it could safely enrollment bump once things Lavine, told the Jewish Tele- Bernstein, CEO of the Jewish offer is nothing like what Jew- city’s public schools will not open on a full-time basis while return to normal. graphic Agency that the day school network Prizmah. ish day schools have offered.” be opening with a full-time maintaining 6 feet of distance “Recruitment isn’t just school expects as much as a “There’s a lot of interest from That’s one factor that Lena in-person schedule this fall. for all students. recruitment,” Lavine said. 40% increase in enrollment students at other schools. Kushnir, head of school at Sol- But the schools also have But that plan was thrown “It’s about retention. We are in the fall, when it plans to Jewish day schools of course omon Schechter Day School been coping with the loss of into disarray earlier this mindful that once things open full-time for in-person are doing their best to ac- of Metropolitan Chicago, said families who left the city to es- month after Gov. Gavin open up, there’s a vaccine, instruction with mandatory commodate the interest they she thought had driven “in- cape the pandemic. Hundreds Newsom announced that you might find some of these mask wearing and social dis- are receiving, but it won’t sane” levels of interest from of thousands of New Yorkers the pandemic remains too families returning to public tancing requirements. always be possible given all new families. The school of- have vacated their homes in severe to permit in-person school. Our job is to continue Some of that is driven by the restraints.” fered full-day online instruc- recent months, often from instruction in Los Angeles. to offer a superb education.” families that have relocated But the enrollment surge is tion within days of closing in wealthier neighborhoods, and Now, Head of School Steven How school enriches both teacher and student By Marilyn Shapiro During and after the cer- I have learned about de- the pain of his injuries, a in high school. Returning to Don’t listen,” she advised me. emony, there were laughter, termination. Two and a half long commute from Know to our program at the age of I have learned about compas- As Florida and the rest of tears, and the inevitable years ago, Michael was lying Albany, and family responsi- 30, he was convinced that sion. On the days that I was the country navigates the thanks that we teachers re- in a hospital bed, recovering bilities, Michael came every he would barely complete tired and ‘soul weary,’ as one upcoming school year, I am ceive from our students for from a construction accident day, motivated, determined, my course. “I don’t think I of my perceptive students said, sharing an article reflecting the time we spent with them that nearly killed him and and optimistic that he would deserve to pass,” he said. “I the students cared about me. my own experience teaching in the classroom. My college ended his career. Rather than reach his goal. That same am not sure if I am smart “Get some sleep Marilyn. We a college preparation course preparation students thanked cursing the powers that be, he determination will serve enough to handle college.” can wait for our papers.” 27 years ago. me for guiding them through decided, 20 years after finish- him well at Hudson Valley His final essay belied his own I also saw their compassion May 28, 1993, was gradua- their term papers, helping ing high school, to rebuild Community College come belief. His piece on what was for each other: the student tion day at the Capital District them improve their study his life by pursuing a college September. needed to succeed in college groups, the impromptu tu- Educational Opportunity skills, and making sense out degree. I have learned about cour- was nearly letter perfect and toring, the support that gave Center, a division of Hudson of difficult reading passages. “I’ve always believed that age. Sharon is a recovering showcased the progress he each other either in learning Valley Community College What my students don’t real- God never closes a door agoraphobiac, a woman afraid had made that semester. “You how to use the computer or which offers a wide range ize is that I, as an adult edu- without opening a window,” to leave the shelter of her deserved this A. You can suc- in keeping up spirits when of programs and education- cator, have learned as much Michael wrote in one of his home. The first day of class, ceed in college,” I wrote on someone failed a test. ally and economically disad- from them as they learned essays. His window was go- she learned that an oral his paper. The students have given vantaged adults. from me. ing back to school. Despite presentation was a require- I have learned to be tough. of themselves: a perspective ment of the course. She was Carol, a recovering addict comment, a good argument, terrified. Coming to school who spent time as a home- a family story or anecdote, a was enough of a challenge; less person on the streets of journal entry letting me know speaking in front of a class Albany, and who was repeating they are enjoying may class. I was nearly impossible. The my course after failing in the read essays about a very spe- last week of class, however, her fall, thanked me for taking off cial Christmas, a child’s birth, Construction, Remodels, Additions, Handyman face white but determined, her points every time she turned a grandmother’s death, home- does most anything hands gripping the podium for in a paper late. “It is important less families in bus depots, and emotional and physical sup- for me to take responsibility numerous stories of recover. port, Sharon gave her speech when I fail.” She also advised I have been given much Ricardo Torres — Handyman to her supportive classmates. me to stop listening to the more. They have shared When she finished, the class recovering addicts’ sob stories something of their lives. As 407-221-5482 broke into spontaneous ap- and start coming down hard a result, they have enriched plause. on them for not completing me as both a teacher and a Available in Central Florida Area • References Available I have learned about prog- assignments. “We know how person. For this, I thank each ress. Carmen was a D student to bulls**t you, Marilyn. one of them. HERITAGE FLORIDA JEWISH NEWS, AUGUST 7, 2020 PAGE 7B Switch blades, snakes, ‘Second Hand Rose’ — All part of my life as an adult education teacher By Marilyn Shapiro advantaged adults. My first Despite the less than ideal involved Don, a man in his but I remember our long “Adverbial conjunctions are assignments were teaching conditions, the smoke, and mid 30s who was enrolled in conversations about her life so much fun!” (He suggested Despite outstanding grades courses to prepare students the occasional switchblade, my GED preparation class. and its contrast with mine. I get a life.) The time I had to for my student teaching, I to take the national General I fell in love with teaching When his practice GED scores And then there were mo- explain to a young Vietnamese crashed and burned in the real Educational Development adults. Most were willing came back, I shared with him ments that still make me student what it meant when classroom. My age (22), ideal- tests, which, when passed, to return to school because the good news that he did chuckle. Jose was enrolled his American girlfriend sug- ism, and poor disciplinary provided the graduates a high they wanted to complete the exceptionally well and that in my HSE class, and each gested they “play house.” Or skills resulted in my leaving school equivalency diploma. education that was upended he would have no difficulty day he would come in with a the time I promised my college my first teaching position. A On the first day, I faced by pregnancies, family situ- passing the actual exam. To children’s metal lunch box. prep students that I would sing year later, armed with a newly a class of 15 students who ations, or just dropping out. my dismay, Don immediately After a break, I returned to for them if they all got their completed master’s degree in were working independently Along with the academic burst into tears. When I asked class to see Jose crawling on essays in on time. They com- reading, I accepted a position in GED books. Mary, a Black courses, the CDEOC also what I had said that upset the ground. plied, and as promised I sang as an adult education instruc- woman in her early 20s, took offered vocational programs him, he responded, “Marilyn, “What are you doing, Jose?” my own a cappella rendition tor at the Capital District her seat and calmly laid out in business, cosmetology, I am just crying for joy. For I asked. of “Second Hand Rose.” After Educational Opportunity her tools: a pen, a notepad, and building trades, and welding my entire life, everyone has “I lost my boaah,” he told I finished, the students told Center, a division of Hudson a switchblade. What? Muster- (culinary arts and nursing as- told me that I’m a failure, a me in his strong Hispanic me I was very courageous. Valley Community College. ing my calmest voice, I asked sistant programs were added loser, a dummy. You are the accent. Not melodious. Courageous. In contrast to the pre- her to put away the weapon. later). Once they passed the first person who ever said I “Your ball?” I asked. “Why In 2000, I left the classroom dominantly white suburban She did, and, as I found out GED, they then learned a could succeed.” Two months are you playing with a ball?” to take an administrative high school I had left, the later from the veteran teach- trade. The CDEOC also of- later, Don received word that “No, no! My boaah,” he position. As the coordinator CDEOC was located in Troy, ers, I had passed the test. fered a college preparation he passed the exam on the said. A second later he yelled, of program development and New York’s inner city. Housed As this was adult education course that provided a feeder first try. “I found it!” research, my work involved in a group of modular build- and way before laws banning into HVCC. Another student who left Jose stood up holding a grant writing and data man- ings in the shadow of Clem- public smoking took effect, Over the next 25 years, a footprint on my heart five-foot long boa constrictor. agement. But the favorite ente Latham Concrete, the many of my students were I personally witnessed the was Elmira. As a Muslim “That’s not a ball!” I said. part of the job was handling classrooms were joined by a allowed to smoke in the class- magic of the CDEOC. My pharmacist in Sudan, she “That’s a BOA!” the CDEOC’s public relations. wooden passageway that was room. I taught in a cloud of teaching assignments ex- had given needed drugs to “Yes, that is what I said. Over the next few years, I covered with snow and ice in nicotine. I had classes morn- panded to college prep as well Christian friends, illegal in Boaah.” put together three brochures the winter. ings and afternoons three as a study skills instructor for her country. She and her “You’re not supposed to highlighting the student The mission of the CDEOC days a week, and afternoons the vocational programs. I infant son were sent to a have snakes in the classroom!” success stories. I may have was to provide academic and and evenings the remaining found joy in all of them. prison that had little food I yelled. physically left the classroom, vocational training to dis- two days. One of my favorite stories and water and a hole in the “It’s not in the rulebooks,” but my heart was still there. ground for a bathroom. She he retorted. Marilyn Cohen Shapiro, a somehow escaped and fled He was right. So he had resident of Kissimmee, Fla., across the desert with a been bringing his “boah” to is a regular contributor to the Increasing access to computer group of Bedouins. Once she school every day so he could (Capital Region N.Y.) Jewish got to Egypt, she and her son feed it every three hours. By World and the Orlando Heri- were able to get passage to the next week, “Only service tage Florida Jewish News. She Albany, New York, where she animals allowed” was in the is the author of two compila- science education for students joined her husband and other rulebooks. tions of her stories, “There (BPT) — For today’s stu- Engineer provides 2,000 lege scholarship - $10,000 per children. She completed the I cherish memories of Goes My Heart” (2016) and dents, learning how to code schools across the country year. For many students, this CDEOC’s ESOL and college other encounters: The day “Tikkun Olam” (2018). Both is becoming just as important (totaling about 100,000 stu- financial aid is the catalyst prep program and enrolled I woke a student up in the books available in paperback as learning how to read. The dents) with Intro to Computer that allows them to pursue in HVCC’s computer technol- middle of my grammar les- and e-book format on Ama- Bureau of Labor Statistics Science and AP Computer Sci- post-secondary education ogy program. We lost touch son. “How can you fall asleep zon. Her blog is theregoes- says computer science is the ence classes through trusted and a career in computer after her college graduation, during semicolons?” I asked. myheart.me. fastest growing profession curriculum providers. All science. “This scholarship within the science, technol- students participating in this is very important because it ogy, engineering and math program also receive a free means when I go to college, field. They also project that, by membership to AWS Educate, I won’t have to constantly 2020, there will be 1.4 million which provides them with free worry about money,” said computer science-related jobs access to computing power in scholarship recipient Leo Jean available and only 400,000 the AWS Cloud for their cod- Baptiste, from Orange High computer science graduates ing projects, and content to School in Orange, New Jersey. with the skills to apply for learn about cloud computing. Internship: those jobs. Jennifer Tulipano, a teacher Amazon Future Engineer Historically, access to who is using the course in also offers the 100 scholarship We are not changing what we do, just how we do it! computer science education her classroom at Monsignor recipients a guaranteed, paid and skills training has been Scanlan High School in the summer internship after their COS Hebrew School will be virtual for the beginning of the school year. absent in the curriculum for Bronx says, “It’s exciting to see first year of college. Interns Opening day “Maskerade” Sunday, August 16 at 10 a.m. Drive into the many underrepresented and the significant increase in my partner closely with a techni- parking lot, pick up books, say hi to teachers and Madrichim and then underserved communities, students’ creativity, logical cal mentor and manager, as despite research showing that thinking skills and confidence well as their fellow interns, park for a parking lot welcome to the year and to Rosh Chodesh Elul. exposure to these subjects at levels, since learning to code, to innovate and create. Hebrew school is for grades 1-7. While we are virtual Sundays at 9:30 a young age makes students and there is no doubt in my “I not only witnessed but more likely to pursue comput- mind that we have paved the was immersed in what it’s and Wednesdays at 4:30. er science in college. The new way for them to head down like to be a software develop- childhood-to-career program, very successful career paths ment engineer,” explained NEW for PK and K: “Shalom Chaverim” while we are virtual. Each class Amazon Future Engineer, is in the field of computer Nari Johnson, a sophomore will be based around a theme and include Hebrew letter and word of working to change that with science. I truly believe our at Harvard University study- the week, movement, story, craft and more. Register for the entire a four-step process to ensure students, particularly our ing computer science. “I left semester or register for the class you are able to attend. 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The program provides especially meaningful to me.” toward families with children in preschool through grade 2.

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Students and staff of Orlando Torah Academy 2019-2020 school year. By Rabbi Avraham spending the last few months the school locally from Dr. an in-person and an online procedures have been crafted been remarkable. It is a testa- Wachsman of the last school year dis- Phillips and Winter Park and digital distance-learning to help ensure that all staff and ment to the warm and talented Orlando Torah tance learning, the children families that have relocated experience called Virtual/In students, from our preschool staff of OTA and the positive Academy Dean are eager to get back to from Israel, New Jersey, New Person. To prepare for both toddlers up to our eighth grad- learning experience for our school, be with their friends York and Pennsylvania. options, OTA has invested in ers feel safe and have a positive students. To find out if OTA Orlando Torah Academy is and begin another year of It’s been a busy summer added technology, expanded learning environment. is the right choice for your excited to begin its 11th year learning and growth. OTA on the OTA campus. For this classrooms, purchased new Beginning with just 12 family please email office@ with double-digit growth is also thrilled to welcome year, OTA is offering its dual- furniture, hired new staff and children in 2010, OTA’s growth orlandotorah.com and come and over 100 students. After all the new families joining curriculum program as both so much more. Protocols and over the past decade has truly take a tour. Getting back to school and afterschool care at The Roth Family JCC

Early Childhood other and the entire ECLC an academic support staff The JCC’s afterschool The Richard S. Adler Early remains in their secure wing. member to help them with program under the direction Childhood Center begins its There are limited spaces avail- their virtual program. This of Kacie Zemel DeMartin re- academic year on Monday able. For more information, is not a school but childcare mains one of the best in town. Aug. 10, 2020. Children from contact Melissa Youngblood with an academic focus. We You can bring your child after ages 6 weeks through Pre-K at [email protected]. follow your child’s academic the school day ends as early as may attend. Following the Academic Enrichment@ program and provide care 3 p.m. and they will get help guidance of the Sheva Learn- The J until 4 p.m. You can drop your with homework as well as so- ing Institute, the Reggio-in- For those families choos- child off earlier or keep them cially distanced activities un- spired program focuses on the ing K-12 options such as at the JCC until 6 p.m. for an til 6 p.m. In addition, we are needs of the individual child LaunchEd, Seminole Con- additional cost. All of the JCC’s offering enrichment classes and provides a nurturing, nect, Orange County Vir- Covid safety measures are fol- for an additional fee such as developmentally appropriate tual School, Seminole County lowed. For more information piano lessons, Bricks 4 Kids, environment for children to Virtual School or Florida go to http://visit.orlandojcc. chess lessons, karate, cheer, learn and grow. Due to Covid Virtual School, the JCC’s new org/enrich or contact Tara yoga, dance, and the JCC’s Children having fun at the Richard S. Adler Early Child- safety measures, children are Academic Enrichment@The Harris, Director of Academic swim program. Depending hood Center. dropped off and picked up J may be what you are look- Enrichment @ The J at tarah@ on demand, transportation outside of the JCC. Classes ing for. Children are in pods orlandojcc.org. may be available from your for an additional fee. For Robin Merkel at registrar@ are kept separate from each of no more than eight with Afterschool program child’s school to the JCC more information, contact orlandojcc.org. Dynamic Jewish life at Stetson continues to flourish despite a virus By Sam Friedman Perhaps it is the start of a Libby was the first female and ish families seeking private in a beautiful house that en- Hillel Director, new president at Stetson Uni- first non-Southern Baptist higher education. Jews at gaged the highest percentage Stetson University versity? As many of you know minister to lead the Univer- Stetson now have access to of Jewish students in the state. on July 1, President Libby of- sity (she’s a nice Jewish girl Kosher food on campus, a Maybe it’s the influx of Jew- I know there will be some- ficially became Stetson presi- from Brooklyn!), and during Jewish studies minor (led ish students choosing Stetson thing different about the dent emerita and chancellor, her tenure, Stetson saw an by a world renowned expert as their home for the next four upcoming school year, but I and Dr. Christopher Roellke increase in Jewish life on in the Holocaust, Dr. Eric years? For all of the reasons just … can’t … put … my … became the 10th president campus that positions us as Kurlander), and a thriving listed above, Stetson has seen finger … on … it … of Stetson University. Dr. a leading institution for Jew- Hillel community centered a steady increase in Jewish applicants and incoming stu- dents. During the 2019-2020 school year Stetson hosted Jewish high school students and their families from across the country. We welcomed students from South Florida, Steven Rosenberg, M.D. Georgia, the northeast, and as Carlos M. Jacinto, M.D. far as California and British Harleen Anderson, M.D. Columbia. If you’re looking Sam Friedman for a Jewish home on a beauti- ful campus near the beach, I to date to the AIPAC Policy have a green shirt with your Conference. It could be the Treating patients in Central Florida for over 25 Years name on it. excitement due to our profes- Treating Allergic Diseases of the Ears, Nose & Throat It may be that the word sors who have gone to Israel, has gotten out about the op- the open displays of Jewish Our physicians are Board Certified portunities to engage in all pride on campus, or the fact Allergy, Asthma & Immunology aspects of Jewish life? Last that Stetson has no BDS or & year we reestablished the anti-Israel activity. Board Certified Pediatrics Malka Altman Lecture series Just don’t tell me that this and hosted Julie Salomon who year will be different because shared with us the process of the coronavirus. It will, of researching and writing and we will adjust, but the her book, “An Innocent By- parts of Jewish Stetson that stander: The Killing of Leon matter — the community, the

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